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In hopes of growing county law enforcement to match a growing population, Sheriff L.C. Knight begged Dorchester County officials for nearly half a million dollars more in the 2014-2015 fiscal year at a county budget retreat April 10.
We are in a danger zone as far as Im concerned, Knight said. I dont care who the sheriff is, he could be Superman, he would still be in here asking for money.
The Sheriffs presentation was given to Dorchester County Council and other county officials at the Capital Improvement Planning Retreat detailing the offices current operations and where it needs improvement. The retreat was held at the Dorchester County EMS building in Summerville.
As youll see as we go through the presentation, our office is way behind in growth of the county, which makes it harder and harder to do our jobs, the sheriff said. I want this, but I feel like as a manager at the Sheriffs Office, we need this.
Im here begging and asking you to please give us some consideration.
His requests for funding centered mostly on personnel.
For the 2014-2015 fiscal year, the Sheriffs Office requested $448,769 in funds to hire 23 new employees and upgrade nine current employees from part time to full time positions. The estimate includes salary and benefits.
Specifically, DCSO is requesting funding for two new dispatchers, four new deputies, 10 new officers to staff the new jail, and new administrative employees, as well as an upgrade for nine part time court officers to full time.
Sheriff Knight said his request was modest compared to what the office should ideally have. He gave particular emphasis to hiring more dispatchers, who he described as the bloodline of emergency operations for the entire county and many of the municipalities.
He also emphasized that the county needs to budget sufficient funds for staffing at the new jail now so the facility can be used to full capacity when its built.
Many of his other staffing requests, including upgrading the part time court positions to full time, was in an attempt to save money, he said, which will eliminate the overtime compensations the county is paying.
He used a comparison of statistics between DCSO and Summerville Police Department to help give the council perspective.
According to the data presented, SPD serves 40,000 people in 20 square miles and has 10 to 12 officers on duty each shift. DCSO serves the entire county population, spanning 530 square miles, and has 13 officers on duty per shift.
I hope this is a kind of reality check, the sheriff said.
Knight did present good news DCSO has received $2.6 million in grants over the past five years, a trend the office hopes to continue.
But the grants are not enough, and the presentation left county councilmembers wondering where the extra funds could come from.
I think were missing a lot of revenue, said Councilman Larry Hargett. Were dispatching for Ridgeville and Harleyville [police departments], why are they not helping to pay for that?
More emergency services funding issues came to light during the remainder of the budget retreat: there is an estimated funding gap of $3 million for the new jail, the dispatch center needs a $913,613 upgrade to its 12-year-old system, the fire department is requesting a new vehicle to respond to medical calls so the fire trucks dont need to be used as frequently, and the county wants to purchase a $60,000 emergency notification system to assist in keeping the public informed during emergencies like the ice storms this winter.
With budgetary restraints pulling the county in several different directions, Chief Financial Officer Justin Powell advised Council to use multiple funding options pay-as-you-go financing, general obligation bonds and lease-purchasing financing to pay for all of the expenses.
The retreat was the last planning workshop before the budget is presented for first reading at the May 5 County Council meeting.
Two more budget retreats will take place before the budget is passed, on May 8 and May 29.
Council will hear budget presentations from multiple constituencies, including both school districts, Dorchester Seniors Inc. and the library, on May 19 and 27 in Summerville and St. George, respectively. Afterward, on both dates in both locations, public hearings on the budget will be held.
The council will hear the third and final reading of the 2014-2015 fiscal year budget on June 2.
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More than 750,000 copies sold
A New York Times bestseller
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Nudge is about choices—how we make them and how we can make better ones. Drawing on decades of research in the fields of behavioral science and economics, authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein offer a new perspective on preventing the countless mistakes we make—ill-advised personal investments, consumption of unhealthy foods, neglect of our natural resources—and show us how sensible "choice architecture" can successfully nudge people toward the best decisions. In the tradition of The Tipping Point and Freakonomics, Nudge is straightforward, informative, and entertaining—a must-read for anyone interested in our individual and collective well-being.
"[An] utterly brilliant book. . . . Nudge won't nudge you-it will knock you off your feet." —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
"Nudge is as important a book as any I've read in perhaps twenty years. It is a book that people interested in any aspect of public policy should read. It is a book that people interested in politics should read. It is a book that people interested in ideas about human freedom should read. It is a book that people interested in promoting human welfare should read. If you're not interested in any of these topics, you can read something else." —Barry Schwartz, The American Prospect
"This book is terrific. It will change the way you think, not only about the world around you and some of its bigger problems, but also about yourself." —Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball
A: No, there is nothing wrong with us, we are just human and fallible. We have to make thousands of decisions every day, from what to wear in the morning to which article to read first in the newspaper, and we cope with this complexity by devising mental shortcuts. Some of the most exciting research over the last decades shows that while these shortcuts work well most of the time, they can also lead us astray. As a result, we make terrible mistakes about how health, our money, and our happiness. And because we are so busy, we can be manipulated by seemingly tiny changes in the way our options are described or "framed." You're much more likely to to choose to have an operation if you're told that "90 percent survive" than if you're told "10 percent die," even though the two statements mean the same thing! Since the frame influences the choice, it acts as what we call a "nudge."
Q: What are some of the situations where nudges can make a difference?
A: Well, to name just a few: better investments for everyone, more savings for retirement, less obesity, more charitable giving, a cleaner planet, and an improved educational system. We could easily make people both wealthier and healthier by devising friendlier choice environments.
Q: Can you describe a nudge that is now being used successfully?
A: All over the country, companies are adopting the Save More Tomorrow program. Firms offer employees who are not saving very much the option of joining a program in which their saving rates are automatically increased whenever they get a raise. This plan has more than tripled saving rates in some firms, and is now offered by thousands of employers. Here's an intriguing possibility: If you want to increase charitable giving, and help people who need help, consider asking people if they'd like to join a Give More Tomorrow Plan.
Q: You are very adamant about allowing people to have choice, even though they may make bad ones. But if we know what's best for people, why just nudge? Why not push and shove?
A: Government is fallible! Those who shape our decisions can overreach or make mistakes, and freedom of choice is a key safeguard. One of our goals in writing this book is to show that it is possible to help people make better choices while retaining or even expand freedom. If people have their own ideas about what to eat and drink, and how to invest their money, they should be allowed to take their own path.
Q: Some of your proposals seem to be "liberal" and others "conservative." Does this book come from the left or the right?
A: Neither. We respect freedom, but we also think that it is possible to help people. In our highly polarized society, we can make great progress by working in the gaping hole between the left and the right. We like to think of our positions as "radically moderate" – and of our basic framework as something you've never seen before.
Table of Contents
Part I: Humans and Econs
1. Biases and Blunders
2. Resisting Temptation
3. Following the Herd
4.When Do We Need a Nudge?
5. Choice Architecture
Part II: Money
6. Save More Tomorrow
7. Naive Investing
8. Credit Markets
9. Privatizing Social Security: Smorgasbord Style
Part III: Health
10. Prescription Drugs: Part D for Daunting
11. How to Increase Organ Donations
12. Saving the Planet
Part IV: Freedom
13. Improving School Choices
14. Should Patients Be Forced to Buy Lottery Tickets?
15. Privatizing Marriage
Part V: Extensions and Objections
16. A Dozen Nudges
17. Objections
18. The Real Third Way
19. Bonus Chapter: Twenty More Nudges
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Good heavens. It's the pope. Now if he can manage it, having just celebrated 60 years as a priest, you and I can do it. Check out Vatican Twitter.
It's believed that another famous octogenarian already is quite at ease with today's devices, technologies and social networks. And you thought she had only a spare pair of white gloves in her handbag.
But seriously, we are all called to spread the Good News. Jesus sought out people and went where he knew he would find them. So did his followers, as we all know from the Acts of the Apostles. We, the Church of 2011, need to do likewise, especially if we want to reach emerging Catholics (between 18 and 30 years of age) and young Catholics (up to age 40). We must use their networks of choice.
We also need to keep our websites engaging and updated. Nothing turns away a visitors like "same old same old." Our wise friend, Father James Martin, SJ, has a really challenging article in America on this and other web-related issues. Here it is.
Finally, deepest gratitude to all who attended and worked hard at our second annual New York Catholic Bible Summit last Saturday. It was a marvelous day with superb speakers and a beautiful liturgy. Thank you to all who made it such a great success, including our sponsors from the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, the American Bible Society and Fordham University. Special thanks to my co-chair, Oscar Cruz, director of Adult Catechesis and the Catechumenate, and to Daysi Guevara, our peerless registrar. Onward to Bible Summit III next June.
Happy Independence Day from your friends in the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office.
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When it comes to saving Chrysler, the cost of trying to revive the troubled company may be a painful one, but it's one that the Obama administration believes is essential to keeping the economy from a deeper plunge. Chrysler recently declared bankruptcy. Under the new plan, majority bondholders (mostly banks) will receive a major equity stake, as will the UAW, reportedly. The minority bondholders who wanted a sweeter deal than either the unions or the majority bondholders will likely see their debt holdings wiped out.
Chrysler will emerge in a month or two from the Chapter 11 protection, and will try to continue its turn-around. The first step will be the formal commencement of its partnership with Italian automaker Fiat SpA. In order to try to make sure that the tie-up succeeds, the government is reportedly giving the pair a big gift -- reportedly forgiving Chrysler's $7.5B USD in loans.
Robert Manzo of Capstone Advisory Group first broke news when he suggested that he had knowledge of the talks and believed that the government would release Chrysler of its financial obligations. A $4 billion bridge loan was given to Chrysler in the closing days of the Bush administration, a $300 million fee on that loan, and the $3.2 billion in financing approved last week by the Obama administration to help Chrysler tackle bankruptcy. A source in the Obama administration confirmed that Chrysler won't be repaying the loans.
In total, the forgiven debt will equate to approximately $24.50 per U.S. resident (or somewhat more per taxpaying citizen). The government does hope to recover some of the bridge loan funding from Chrysler Financial, but it won't bother Chrysler about repayment. Taxpayers do get an equity stake out of the deal, though -- 8 percent of Chrysler. The government is counting on that equity stake to help repay taxpayers.
States the administration source, "The reality now is that the face value [of the $4 billion bridge loan] will be written off in the bankruptcy process. While we do not expect a recovery of these funds, we are comfortable that in the totality of the arrangement, the Treasury and the American taxpayer are being fairly compensated."
The Canadian government will similarly forgive $900M USD in bankruptcy funding it is giving to Chrysler. The U.S. government still expects Chrysler to repay the $4.7B USD loan it plans to give the company when it exits bankruptcy. Chrysler has said it will also need $1.5B USD in additional funding by June 30, 2010.
Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a vocal opponent of the original Bush administration bailout states, "I've known for sometime that with the capital structure of the company and the situation it was in, we would not be paid back. There were several secured lenders ahead of us, and they're not getting most of their money."
Meanwhile the government mulls over the problem of GM. GM has been loaned $15.4B USD, thus far. And with a possible bankruptcy filing looming, it may need even more funding to guide it through bankruptcy. It similarly is unlikely to be able to repay its debt obligations, and these obligations will far eclipse those of Chrysler and will likely pose an even greater headache to Chrysler.
quote: I'm not for anyone, but c'mon. Bush signed into law to give $700 billion to banks. What Obama did was give 12 billion to Chrysler to survive. 12 vs. 700 billion is 1.7%. You hate Obama for 1.7%? Besides, weren't they taking it from the 700 billion anyhow?
quote: Wake up people. The economy needs 3% growth every year to survive. And the next years 3% is more than last years, since it is a new total. Which means the economy needs to grow exponentially. If you think this is something a particular form of political theory can solve, you are wrong.
quote: When gas prices drop +50% because speculators were wrong about predicting the future cost of gas while demand only fell around 10%, something should go off in your head that this economy and how the system works is all bull s---.
quote: "So, what do you propose to do about it?"
quote: Uh, I have no f---ing clue.


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Re-live the excitement of one of Vanderbilt's all-time greatest wins! The Commodores snapped the nation's longest winning streak by upsetting the top-ranked Gators 83-70 after they finally fell into a hole they couldn't dig themselves out of. The Commodores won for the seventh time in nine games by beating the nation's best shooting team at its own game, outshooting the Gators 57.1 percent to 44 percent from the field.
*PLEASE NOTE: This is not the CBS television broadcast of the game. This is the feed taken directly from the video board at Memorial Gymnasium. The audio play-by-play is from the Vanderbilt ISP Sports Network with Joe Fisher, the Voice of the Commodores.


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The Elder Scrolls IV Review
Oblivion will consume you. It'll consume your life, your performance at work will suffer and you might not see friends in weeks.
When Oblivion was released, we at Pro-G were faced with a tough decision. Suck it up and suffer from insomnia for a few days, complete as much of the game as humanely possible, and publish this review alongside all of the others, or, suck it up and suffer from insomnia for a few weeks, explore every nook and cranny Oblivion has to offer, finish all of the guild quests, the main quest, fetch all of those damn Nirnroot plants, and provide our readers with the most complete and comprehensive review yet. Well, we obviously chose the latter, and for good reason.
After spending 133 hours in Cyrodiil, I'd like to think I've seen the vast majority of what the game has to offer, but each time I pop in the game I see something that I haven't seen before - and in the process, my review score has fluctuated between a nine, a ten and even an eight following a glitch or two. Heck, my score's fluctuated more times than I died fighting the first boss in Ninja Gaiden. But enough with the ranting; all you need to know is this: if you haven't bought Oblivion yet, you better have a damn good reason.
The sequel to 2002's Morrowind is such a remarkable accomplishment, not even because of its vast plains, seemingly endless amount of quests, and polished mechanics, but because it's equally accessible to both hardcore and casual gamers. You don't have to devote your life to Oblivion to truly enjoy it, and for those who don't want to pump in the hours, the main storyline can be completed in relatively few hours. However, once you've created your character and exited the sewers, you likely won't touch the main quest for quite some time.
The story begins with your character, for reasons unknown, waking up behind bars. Soon after, you're greeted by the Emperor himself (voiced by Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame) who warns you of his dire situation and uses a secret passage within your cell as an escape route. Eventually the Emperor is ambushed by a group of marauders, leaving it up to you to restore the rightful ruler to the throne and once again bring peace to Cyrodiil.
'Class selection is the single most important aspect of your character's creation...'
Though not as engaging, or nearly as slow-going as Morrowind's story, Oblivion still holds a strong narrative, despite the fact that the main quest takes a back seat to nearly everything else in the game. But before you can even think of exploring Cyrodiil, you've got to create your character. Oblivion's character creation system goes way beyond simply choosing a pre-made skin and class, as you can tweak just about every aesthetic feature of your character model. You'll also have to choose your race, with each of the 10 having its own strengths and weaknesses, and depending on how you plan to play the game, one class might be better suited for you than the others. If you're going to hack and slash your way through Cyrodiil, you might want to consider being a Redguard. On the other hand, if you're a magic lover, the High Elf class might be just right.
So you've picked your race, spent the better portion of the day tweaking the look of your character, now what? It's time to pick a class. In an interesting twist, the game actually recommends a class for you based on the way you played the opening prologue, though oddly enough, the King's guard recommended that I choose a magic class, despite that fact that I hadn't used a single ounce of Magicka.
Class selection is the single most important aspect of your character's creation as it not only determines how the game is played, but how easy it is to level up. Like Morrowind, players have to choose a set number of major skills and a set number of minor skills. Each skill increases in power the more you use it, and while it's important to increase your minor skills, it's the major skills that level up your character. You have a total of seven major skills to choose from, whether it be Restoration (a definite must no matter what class), Blade (equally important) or Mercantile (not so vital). For every ten points gained, spread across your seven major skills, your character will level up. As you continue to use these skills, they'll level up as well, allowing you to cast more powerful spells, strike more powerful blows and so forth. However, unlike Morrowind, when your character levels up so do your enemies, with the exception of a few lower level creatures.
Initially, when travelling through Cyrodiil's landscape, you'll be attacked by the occasional rat or wolf, but as your level increases, more difficult enemies begin to appear. By the time you're at level 20 you'll be fighting Ogres, Trolls, Spriggans, Will-O-The-Wisps and plenty of powerful Necromancers. While I'm a classic RPG purist, and would usually love to be able to level up my character to be able to kick some serious Daedric ass with a single blow from my Umbra sword, having enemies level up with you actually makes a whole lot of sense. In Morrowind, if you ventured to certain areas of the map too early on in your journey, you'd face some of the game's toughest denizens. In Oblivion, you're encouraged to explore without having to fear the dreaded 'reload previous save' screen over and over again after groups of Frost Atronachs, Dremora Lords, and Spider Daedra's decide to ambush your level 3 character. The system works well, but it can also be a pain in the royal behind for players who like to level up quite a bit before embarking on the main quest.
I'll give you an example. Say you level up your character to 12 before entering the first Oblivion gate at Kvatch. You decide to give that quest a shot, but as soon as you enter the gate you're greeted by a group of the horribly annoying Clannfear (they seem to knock you back whether you have 100 points of Agility or not), followed by Flame Atronachs galore. If you haven't evenly levelled up your character, especially if you've chosen a race or class with a natural affinity to magic, you could be in for a serious walloping. In fact, whether you want to be strictly a fighter or deal specifically in magic, it becomes apparent early on that no matter what class you are, your character stats need to be somewhat evenly distributed otherwise the game can become painstakingly hard. Thankfully Bethesda was kind enough to include a difficulty slider, so if you find yourself in a jam, you can adjust the slider accordingly. Or, if you're still stuck, you could always move on to the hundreds of other quests.


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UNIVERSITY PARK (AP) - Penn State coach Bill O'Brien has earned his third recognition in as many days as a finalist for a national coaching honor with his selection as one of three candidates for the 2012 Maxwell Football Club's Collegiate Coach of the Year.
Earlier this week, O'Brien was named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year. He also is on the Watch List for the Bear Bryant National Coach of the Year.
The first-year Nittany Lion mentor last week was named the Big Ten's Dave McClain Coach of the Year (media) and Hayes-Schembechler Coach of the Year (coaches). He was just the seventh first-year head coach to earn the Big Ten-Dave McClain Coach of the Year in the 41 years it has been awarded.
O'Brien is joined as a finalist for the MFC Collegiate Coach of the Year Award by: Brian Kelly (Notre Dame) and Bill Snyder (Kansas State).
Voting is underway for the finalist selection for the MFC Collegiate Coach of the Year. Eligible voters include, NCAA Bowl Subdivision Head Coaches and Football Sports Information Directors, Maxwell Football Club members and selected national media. The announcement of the winner will be made on December 19 and the award will be formally presented at the 76th Maxwell Awards Gala on March 1, 2012 at the Harrah's Entertainment Resort in Atlantic City.
At the March 1 Awards Gala, the Maxwell Football Club also will present its Thomas Brookshier Spirit Award to the 2012 Penn State football seniors in recognition of their commitment, leadership and outstanding effort during this season.
Named Penn State's 15th head football coach on January 6, 2012, O'Brien led the Nittany Lions to victories in eight of their final 10 games, earning an 8-4 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Big Ten, with the only losses coming to division winners Ohio State and Nebraska.
O'Brien's eight wins are the most by a first-year Penn State coach in the 126 years of the program.


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I'm a little worried. If you watch "The Good Wife" on Sunday nights – or on your DVR – you should be, too.
When you peruse all the "cancel or renew" tip sheets on the Web devoted to keeping daily, sometimes hourly, watch on the fates of network TV shows, you'll find "The Good Wife," somewhat incredibly, listed on something cheerily called "the bubble" – a misleadingly fizzy word for TV shows that are dangling over a cliff and poised to fall.
It's up there with "The Mentalist" and "CSI: NY." At least one of them, it's said, has to go to make way for what's coming next season on CBS. If an upcoming show called "Golden Boy" (of which more at another date) is a hit, two might even have to go.
So today's game is called "What I'd Do If I Were CBS Honcho Les Moonves." Come, play along with me.
It seems to me that a fully functional TV network wouldn't just keep all three shows, it would put on permanent furlough anyone even mentioning aloud the possibility of consigning "The Good Wife" to oblivion.
I've been saying for quite a few years now that if you look at the full length and breadth of cable television, we are clearly living in a second Golden Age of television. Precious few conventional network shows, on the other hand, have been among those adding to the shine of this particular Golden Age.
"The Good Wife" is one of them. It may not be on the Olympian prime-time level that "The West Wing" once occupied, but it's not all that far from it.
It's a show you don't cancel until the cast needs walkers to get around the set and its child actors have gone to grad school (if they aren't already having kids of their own). Yes, I suppose it might also be bubbleable if the quality falls so precipitously that the cast was afraid to come to work without shin guards and kneepads. But that hasn't come close to happening.
If there are any weaknesses at all in the show's metric profile (i.e., its ratings), consider this an illustrative example of the place where numbers become totally inadequate.
I submit that no metric reading that's even vaguely accurate has been possible for the last three months.
For one thing, the competition – especially on cable – has been too stiff. I've been putting "The Good Wife" on my DVR for months now and catching up later.
For another thing, CBS' Sunday schedule is utterly unreadable in any coherent numbers game. Football has knocked "60 Minutes" regularly into the next time slot, thereby doing the same to "The Amazing Race" (or "Undercover Boss") and then "The Good Wife."
Plus, the monumental incompatibility of those shows when put together is absurd. For all the popularity of each, none of them is a natural lead-in for the next. Only "The Good Wife" and "The Mentalist" go together with any common sense.
Every show, then, has to fly on its own merit and fan base. In the case of "The Good Wife," its ridiculous incompatibility with all of its lead-ins, has made it an orphan – one with a big trust fund, perhaps, but still an orphan.
And that is a grotesquely foolish thing to do to a television show that is this good. It is also an illustration, as I've said, of where ratings begin to become useless. You can't get an intelligent rating on a show like "The Good Wife" when its audiences are so often pushed and pulled and conflicted.
The subject of what will renew and what will be canceled is best illuminated by the shows that have already been canceled or are likely to be.
Canceled already are "666 Park Ave.," "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt.23," "Last Resort," "Made in Jersey," "Partners," "Emily Owens, M.D." "Ben and Kate," "The Mob Doctor," "Animal Practice," and, apparently, "Do No Harm."
Likely to go, it's speculated, are "Happy Endings," "Vegas," "1600 Penn," "Deception," and "Up All Night."
In that whole combined list, I'd only regret the disappearance of "Vegas" (what can I say, I liked the cast). Nor would it be bad to have a show co-created by Nicholas Pileggi (whose wife Nora Ephron so unexpectedly died last year). I'm a bit sorry, too, that ABC's "Last Resort" couldn't get a viable audience.
Its premise – a rogue nuclear sub that became its own unpredictable nuclear power under the sea – was fascinating and the show was competently done.
"Deception" remains watchable, if never close to good.
The rest is either garbage that I made the mistake of sampling once or twice, or garbage that I wouldn't touch in a hazmat suit.
And that's where the game of "Let's Pretend to Be Les Moonves" gets interesting.
That's an awful lot of garbage from all four broadcast networks. Other TV shows, remember, were canceled to make room for it all.
Television, then, is a viciously heedless and wasteful business. It gobbles up huge pots of money and, even worse, extremely talented people and throws them into high-risk situations where they're all expendable.
The very idea that, say, "The Good Wife" could be endangered because something like CBS' next "Made in Jersey" needs a 60-minute berth on the schedule is obscene, no matter how much money might be made because of differing contractual arrangements. That is clearly throwing the baby out with the bath water.
And that, all too often, is what TV does.
As a business, it often disposes of whole orphanages, just for the water rights to a desert. (All right, I carried that metaphor too far.)
"The Good Wife" is simply not an expendable show. It has been, from the beginning, a minor miracle in which a show that spun off from the Eliot Spitzer debacle proved to be so well-cast and so smart and well-performed that it was almost too good for any award they could possibly give it. (You can almost picture midlevel network executives thinking that no show that smart should even be allowed in prime time.)
Consider the landscape of current television. "Scandal," in a matter of mere weeks, has frantically concocted an assassination attempt on a president, revealed his election to be the result of Ohio voter fraud, watched him saunter back into the White House, caught his assailant and then watched the Prez declare his intention to divorce the first lady – until, that is, she had their baby, in which case he was by her side in the delivery room encouraging her to push with every contraction.
On "The Good Wife," Alicia's husband has spent a season-plus running for governor. Despite their problems – and his philandering reputation – she showed up one day for a quick nooner on his campaign bus.
When his campaign director came to the door for a meeting, she emerged from the bus in disarray and, with a wicked smile, assured him "it's just the wife."
As enjoyable as "Scandal's" breathless careening has been to watch, I'd gladly trade the whole show thus far for that tiny little moment on "The Good Wife."
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The first FOSDEM Legal Issues DevRoom
For FOSDEM 2012, held last weekend in Brussels, I had the privilege of co-organizing (with Tom Marble, Karen Sandler, and Bradley Kuhn) the first-ever DevRoom track devoted to discussion of legal issues relating to free/libre/open source software. With several thousand attendees and hundreds of sessions, FOSDEM is one of the largest FLOSS conferences in the world, and surely the largest in Europe. This makes it all the more remarkable that FOSDEM is a free-admission, non-commercial community event, organized and administered entirely by volunteers.
The idea of a Legal DevRoom being untested, FOSDEM's organizers gave us a single day and a relatively small room. Our basic goal was to
distinguish our track from similar ones at other FLOSS conferences, by avoiding introductory material and focusing exclusively on advanced legal and related policy topics. We were pleasantly surprised to have received so many good talk proposals. As it turned out, our 75-person room was filled to capacity for nearly all the talks, and I am told that typically as many as 20 people had to be turned away from individual sessions.
The DevRoom opened with a presentation by Philippe Laurent on how various European courts have dealt with open source and open content licenses in specific cases (a number of which involved audience member Harald Welte as plaintiff).
Next up was Ambjörn Elder, who led a very interesting discussion on the political techniques used by free software advocates to try to influence government policy, and how these efforts might be made more effective through application of approaches used by parallel activist movements.
The inclement weather kept Armijn Hemel from arriving in Brussels for his scheduled talk on tracing build processes to identify a binary's sources. Karen and Bradley stepped in and gave an impromptu presentation on the role of fiscal sponsorship nonprofit organizations in free software.
Dave Neary then gave a lively talk discussing a number of historical examples of gray areas in free software licensing, particulary those associated with combinations of works under distinct licenses. As Dave's examples illustrated, more often than not the answer to interesting legal questions in free software is "maybe."
Allison Randal reviewed the legal history of free software, arguing that free software had moved from a 1960s-inspired emphasis on decentralization and individualism to greater use of formal legal structures (such as project-specific foundations and fiscal sponsorship organizations, along with more carefully-drafted licenses and contributor agreements). Recently, she noted, there seems to have been a swing back to decentralized individualism. I understood Allison to be suggesting that the recent trend represents a failure to remember the historical crises that had led to a perceived need for greater legal formality.
The brilliant Michael Meeks followed with a discussion of the problems that copyright assignment can cause for free software project communities. This was the first time I had met Michael in person; his statements on this subject have greatly influenced my own opinions on the dubious value of maximalist contributor agreements.
Loïc Dachary gave a talk explaining how commercial entities can ethically enforce the GPL without resorting to the notorious and, some would say, corrupt business practices of the former MySQL AB.
John Sullivan and I then gave successive talks that were motivated by recent claims, principally made by Matthew Aslett, that the GPL license family is in decline. John pointed out that such claims rely on data and statistics that are obscure and are likely based on questionable assumptions. For example, it is not clear whether programs of vastly different sizes are treated equally by those attempting to demonstrate a shift away from copyleft. John then discussed the results of his own analysis of the licensing of Debian packages, which suggests increased rather than decreased use of the GPL family.
My talk was rather different (for one thing, it relied on a fair amount of humor, including some good-natured trolling of Bradley). While I am not sure whether Aslett has spotted an accurate trend, much of what I have observed recently from my vantage point as Red Hat open source licensing counsel is consistent with a shift in favor of permissive licensing. Even if such a trend is illusory, there are various historical and economic reasons why we should expect it to have occurred, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the GPL. I concluded with some suggestions for how strong copyleft could be revived by those who support its policy goals and ethical underpinnings.
The DevRoom then featured two panels. One, which I moderated, discussed the implications of the rise of so-called app stores for free software, and included Giovanni Battista Gallus and Hugo Roy along with Bradley as panelists. The other was a discussion on the current state of the patent legal landscape, moderated by Karen, with Deb Nicholson, Ciarán O'Riordan and Benjamin Henrion as panelists.
The DevRoom closed with a talk by Mike Linksvayer that tied the drafting of the 4.0 versions of the Creative Commons license suite to broader public policy issues. Mike noted that we face a challenge larger than that of drafting voluntary public licenses, namely that of winning a greater share of public opinion for the view that software freedom is an important social good. He talked about some of the main ideas being discussed by those engaged in the redrafting of the Creative Commons licenses (how to deal with DRM, sui generis database rights, moral rights, and the nonfree NC and ND members of the CC suite; whether to expand or clarify copyleft scope; and whether CC licenses should have a source requirement like the GPL).
Most of the talks were recorded, and (if the audio quality is sufficiently good) are expected to be presented on future episodes of Bradley and Karen's Free as in Freedom podcast. The Legal Issues DevRoom was a great success, and I look forward to helping plan next year's instance of it. I conclude this report by acknowledging our debt to Tom Marble. The DevRoom would never have gotten off the ground or proceeded to flawless execution without Tom's ideas, guidance, and careful planning.
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It was great session, I was there.
... to be a fly on the wall at that meeting of the minds :)
Looking forward to the podcasts
I found it offensive how the Americans behaved like they owned the place and demonstrated little respect. It was a bit strange that these American law hippies occupied Fosdem and treated people in a very disrespectful manner. We would never dare to go to Boston and do what they did in Brussels.
I agree, to a certain extent. I found the FSF dogmatism to be unhelpful. There were several politically-correct speeches whose presenters were beyond challenge. Maybe next year the room will have a few more Europeans? Maybe even some involved in arranging it?
It was strange to have a complete devroom at FOSDEM organised by Americans.
I count 9 EUians and 9 USians among the names on http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom (but 1 of the EUians did not make it, and indeed all 4 organizers are USians).
I was there the entire time except for the opening. I missed the "behaved like they owned the place" feeling, but maybe I'm imperceptive or even was a small part of the problem (I was the last speaker, and a USian). Examples?
I think almost all of the speakers are more aligned with "free software" than "open source" (which I consider a hairsplitting divide anyway) but FSF dogmatism? Several of the talks contained significant criticism of the FSF.
It might be a reference to people being refused access, although with hit-and-run commenters it'll always be impossible to know.
I couldn't get in to your talk; the queue extended all down the stairs and round the corridor. I was rather surprised at the small the room was. I knew that it would be very rammed solid, and so it was.
Only a guess, but perhaps the comment author took issue with the common assumption that US jurisdiction applies? I know, for example, that in my talk I mentioned a US precedent on the copyrightability of collected information, and it was pointed out to me that that only applies in the US, and that Europe has a collection of database protection laws. Similarly, trademark protection, and who can be an interested party in a copyright infringement law-suit, work differently in different jurisdictions.
So perhaps the comment author felt there was too much "this is how it works in the US" going on? I certainly didn't have that impression, but I suppose it's possible.
wow this is real heaven for those guys who working in legal field, Michael Meeks's speech is really great and inspiring.


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on February 22, 2013 - 11:53 PM
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker named three new members to the seven-member Lockport Planning Board this week.
Tucker, filling vacancies caused by resignations, appointed Jeff Tracy of Cherry Street, Terry K. Harmon of Regent Street and Linda S. Roth of Locust Street to serve terms that run through Oct. 14, 2015.
Tracy, who headed the committee that helped create the city's new garbage and recycling program, replaces Brian Bower, who handed in his resignation Nov. 1 but agreed to serve until a replacement was found. Tracy's mother, Sheila, is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Harmon replaces veteran member Howard Luff, who stepped down Feb. 8, and Roth takes the seat formerly held by Michael Worthington, who resigned last year.


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"I hope that George doesn't keep you up. He's at his most vocal at 3 a.m., as you may have noticed," Prince William told his hosts Thursday at a state dinner at the governor general's residence, where he and wife Kate have been staying with their 8-month-old son.
"I swear I heard him doing the haka this morning," William joked to the 200 guests, referring to the aggressive war dance made famous by the country's All Blacks rugby team before games.
Perhaps that's fitting, William added. "He's a bonny lad, and you'll be pleased to know that he's currently preparing for life as a [rugby player]."
The governor general, Sir Jerry Mateparae, welcomed the couple in a warm speech before dinner but admitted that "the prestige goes to Prince George … There has been a hubbub of delight from New Zealanders."
The feeling was mutual. "I cannot tell you how happy I am to be back here in God's Own Country, as I have learned to call it, and this time with my wife and son," William said.
Praising the country for its "warmheartedness, generosity, neighborliness, openness, an instinctive sense of justice and freedom," William unveiled a new portrait of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, by the young New Zealand artist Nick Cuthel.
Kate, 31, who has been working local fashions into her wardrobe since her arrival, wore a bespoke black Jenny Packham dress which had been hand-stitched with silver beading in a pattern representing New Zealand's national emblem.
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A Day in BlenheimEarlier in the day, the Duke and Duchess visited Blenheim on New Zealand's South Island, where they accepted cuddly toys and clothes for George, who stayed behind in Wellington.
"We asked her about Prince George, and she said she would have taken him everywhere but he would have been a bit noisy," a local girl named Lilah told PEOPLE.
The couple were in town to lay a wreath as part of New Zealand's build-up to Anzac Day of military remembrance later this month, but spent half an hour shaking hands and chatting with people who had waited hours to see them.
They also visited an aircraft museum, where William, a former Royal Air Force pilot, climbed into a vintage airplane – with Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson filming the whole thing on his iPhone.
"Perfect. Fine by me. Start her up," William joked as he surveyed the ancient controls. "Now, how to get out of this without getting smacked on the head?"
Jackson gave the royals a tour of the museum, where he has collected World War I uniforms and memorabilia and 30 vintage aircraft, presented amid stunning re-enactments of battle scenes designed by film-set artists.
Jackson gave William and Kate a personal memento of their visit: a replica of a World War I pilot's hip flask. And for George? A replica of a vintage flying helmet. "We'll give this to him when he's older," William said.


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It's a different world on Clouter Creek than what we're used to.
First, how to get there. Entry onto the 1,400-acre area underneath the I-526 bridge is by boat. You follow the upper harbor of the Cooper River, saluting the adjacent Ravenel Bridge and waving to Daniel Island and North Charleston.
Dock at Clouter Creek where a late-model Jeep Grand Cherokee awaits. Dried mud and dust claim the floorboards. The interior roof is stripped. Red warning lights flash on the dashboard, highlighting the cracked windshield and who-knows-what's-wrong-with-the engine. The bumpers are handmade and missing some bolts, so a bumpy ride always has a soundtrack. Alignment is most definitely an issue, as the car slides around an Army Corps of Engineers Charleston District-type playground of dirt, weeds and quicksand-like silt.
Somehow the quick-to-laugh engineers haven't named the vehicle with an odometer approaching 300,000 miles.
Two Tuesdays ago on Clouter Creek had plenty of misfit characters too. Reporters, engineers, a commander and a slew of regular helping hands toured the area that so many people point at while driving on I-526 but don't know what it is.
The answer: it's called the Clouter Creek disposal area. It's a 12-mile drive around an expansive dike system. The creek can contain dredge spoils for about 20 years.
Workers joke a movie depicting a barren war zone could be filmed in the dry locations. An excavator moves up and down a site by taking large blocks for his machine to be on, in order to prevent sinking. With the excavator bucket, he meticuously picks up one end of one of the blocks – measuring about 20 feet long and a few feet wide – and moves it from the end where he's already worked to the end he's working toward.
"The folks maintaining the disposal areas – that's an art," Lt. Col. Edward Chamberlayne, commander and District of Charleston engineer, said. "That's an art that very few people know how to do."
Chamberlayne said the disposal area is vital to the Charleston Harbor deepening project, which plans to increase the depth of the shipping channel.
But all those efforts could be thwarted by impending government spending cuts, commonly referred to as sequestration. Chamberlayne said the district gets $18-20 million a year from an appropriation from Congress to maintain the Harbor and other projects.
He's not sure of the direct impact to Charleston, but the Civil Works budget could be reduced by five percent. "There's some concern," he said. "If we have the effects of sequestration on our customer's budgets, that's how I'm funded. I'm not funded by the Army. Although I'm in an Army outfit here, I'm not funded by the Army. I'm funded by the projects we do for our customers."
The other pressing issue is furloughs, an unpaid leave for employees. Depending on the gravity of reductions, employees may only get paid for four days of work per week instead of five. "That's really tough for our district," Chamberlayne said. "If this doesn't get resolved going into late April, we could have to furlough up to 250 employees working for the Charleston District."
Chamberlayne couldn't place one over the other in terms of impact. "We're concerned about both. It limits my funding that we get through customers or my appropriation through Congress," he said. "But it also limits my time. I have less hours in a week that I can spend on projects that we're responsible for, so it's a double whammy."
Is this the biggest financial crunch he's ever faced?
"Certainly in a long time," he said. "There's a lot of projects that we have underway that will be impacted."
If the cuts are made, the district will prioritize projects into categories based on criteria such as necessity and current funding. "Certain things will be delayed or will happen slower. And then some activities we'll just have to cancel altogether," he said. "We're going to have to do less with less...It's the work in the future that we're most concerned with."
Chamberlayne maintained the importance of the Charleston Harbor deepening project, but said it's not invincible to spending cuts. "There's a potential for it to be delayed, because I do not have the ability to work full 40-hour weeks and overtime with those individuals (assigned to work the project)," he said. "That's what the schedule was based upon. It was a very aggressive schedule to get as much done as quickly as possible.
"We'll do everything we can not to slow the study but my options are being really limited."
Although the creek's unofficial mascot, the Jeep, is fondly referred to, Chamberlayne and other engineers hope it's not a metaphor for future Charleston District operations. The Jeep has been doing "less with less" for quite a while.
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NIAGARA FALLS – A woman told police early Tuesday morning that someone fired shots at her 92nd Street house.
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Police responding to the call just before 12:30 a.m. in the 600 block of 92nd Street found that some type of small-caliber bullet or BB had gone through the bedroom window's screen, two glass windows and a curtain shade, then into the drywall. Damage was listed at $310.
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George R. Savine, 93, Altoona, died Monday at Van Zandt VA Medical Center after an extended illness.
He was born in Altoona, son of Michael and Antonia (Martino) Savine. He married Nan L. Savine in 1945 in Cumberland, Md., and she died March 28, 2009.
Surviving are a son, John of Pittsburgh; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Hilda Centebene in California; and a brother, Ronald and wife, Joan, of Altoona.
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George attended Altoona High School. He served in the U.S. Army as a corporal during WWII, where he was wounded in battle in the European Theater. He retired from Conrail after 41 years of service, and he was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church and the American Legion.
George enjoyed golfing and trips to the beach.
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The newest chaplain at Roswell Park Cancer Institute speaks two languages, but when it comes to the spiritual needs of patients he can talk in terms of many different faiths.
"Roswell is a place with so many different flowers, it's very interesting," says Pastor Reninger Flores. "Most of the population are Christians, but I've also had the opportunity to find people who are Hindus, Muslims, those with Native American philosophies.
"I have to center my conversation in what they believe. As a chaplain, I have to fulfill their needs, not my needs."
Flores ministers to his new flock in English or Spanish. He cut his pastoral teeth in his native Peru, moved to Jamaica, N.Y., in 1992 to become upstate representative for the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and got training in clinical pastoral education at Sisters Hospital, as well as McAuley Residence in Kenmore, after he and his family moved to Western New York in 2005.
He started working at Roswell Park about 2½ months ago and is one of three part-time chaplains at the 133-bed regional cancer center.
You've been in different settings. What are some of the common concerns people have?
Every setting has their own kind of environment, but a common thing I find in every place is a person, the human being, is the same. 'Hope' is a word that I share in every place. … As a chaplain, if I can create in this person who is crying, who is in pain, who is angry against everything a little hope, I did my job.
People need to know this is not the end. If they have a heart attack, kidney problems or any kind of problems, they have to keep working. Don't give up. Words like this usually help.
How has your approach to tending to the sick and dying changed over time?
As a pastor, we have training. We know everything about theology, maybe some kind of psychology, too. But when I started taking clinical pastoral education, I discovered another dimension of being a pastor. It's not just about sharing with your parishioners or members of your church. Now you have to deal with different faiths and more broad things. I love these things.
How will your religious background impact the way you minister as a chaplain at Roswell?
When I see a person who is in a bed, who's facing Stage IV cancer, for me, this is not a member of a church, it's a person who needs my presence. I don't have an agenda in my pocket. I'm not going to pray with him [first]. I'm not going to give counsel. I have to visit the person and then, after a conversation, I have my conclusion.
Two weeks ago, a patient invited me to sit down. He started telling me about his life as a fisherman, as a traveler in the world. As a chaplain, this is my reason to be there – listening.
Talk about the Hindu family you met a few weeks ago.
People love when I ask them, "Please tell me about your faith." We have in our materials prayers for the Hinduism community. I asked them, "Can I pray for you?," and they said, "Please, go ahead."
Here, when I read a prayer, you can see the faces changing. Happiness. This is the way we work here. The opportunities to interact with different communities of faith is so huge, and also we have the resources for different communities.
It can be a strain for anyone to deal with serious health issues. How much more difficult can that be for someone who has a language barrier and how might you be able to help at Roswell?
To speak of spiritual concerns, especially for the Hispanic community, they are very confidential. They don't want to share much about their beliefs with other people. But when they see you speaking their language, they open their heart. If they're angry with God, we can talk with them, pray with them, sing with them. Speaking their own language opens the heart of the patients. They have more channels to get through a situation.
What should families know as they begin to deal with such a challenging time, especially when it comes to faith?
The first thing they need to understand is they have help here. They are not alone. They're not in a place where the patient or the family are strangers. As a worker, I feel like part of a family here. Just the first day here, they said, 'You work with us.' I'm a chaplain who wants to work with you. How can I help you now?
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In antebellum times, what is now Allendale County served as the home for numerous plantations that took advantage of the Savannah River to ship produce to markets in Savannah and Augusta. Most of those plantations were burned in Gen. William T. Sherman's march through South Carolina during the last days of the Civil War.
Many say the area's economy never recovered, other than for a time between World War II and the 1970s when the town served as a way station for people driving north or south on U.S. Highway 301.
The county came into existence in 1919, carved out of Barnwell and Hampton counties. It is one of 11 counties created after the state's 1895 constitution made it relatively easy to draw new county lines.
From a practical point of view, smaller counties shortened the distances many people had to travel to get to the county seat. But many historians believe the county's creation was political, to dilute Charleston's power.
At that time, each county got its own all-powerful senator, regardless of population. That lasted until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when a series of federal court rulings invalidated the state's provisions for one senator and at least one House member for each county. The courts ruled the practice a violation of one man, one vote, and by the mid-1970s the state adopted home-rule, giving local government real power.
The 11 counties created after the 1895 constitution are among the 26 that struggle today with disparities in education, health and economic opportunity. Six of those counties have populations of 25,000 or less and little industry, making it difficult to raise tax money for schools or the sewer and water systems necessary to lure industry.
A December 2011 state Commerce Department study shows that Allendale County has attempted to do what it can to pay for its schools. The county approved one of the state's highest school tax rates on property.
But that's nowhere near enough to pay for the schools. As a result, the county relies on the state and federal government for more than 70 percent of its school budget.
Most school districts in the I-95 Corridor and the Mill Crescent rely on federal and state money to compensate for small tax bases. Many of those counties lack people and businesses to tax, and much of the land is in farms or timber, for which state law allows a much lower property tax rate.
Harold McClain, Allendale's recently removed school superintendent, believes the hard-luck county deserves even more state money to reach equity with better-off school districts. He praises Gov. Nikki Haley's attempt to raise donations for a track, but says the schools need more and consistent state support, not charity.
Although no longer superintendent, he hopes a decision on a lawsuit before the state Supreme Court will force the state to provide much more help for Allendale and other struggling, high-poverty school districts.
Allendale School Board Chairwoman Wilda Robinson, who was elected to the board late last year, offered little explanation for McClain's removal, saying, "I'm not obligated to go into detail." She explained only that the board wanted to move in a "new direction that will allow us to see better performance and better achievement."
On Thursday, McClain expressed shock at his removal and said "I have no idea" why the board took that action. "I am truly amazed... The district was poised to move forward in a positive way that we have not seen in 20 years."
Poverty remains the overarching problem for South Carolina's K-12 public education system. Studies show that children of poverty generally achieve at lower levels than children from higher-income families. The reasons are many, but high on the list are lack of exposure to reading and other academic stimulation.
Census figures show that 16 percent of South Carolinians and 28 percent of the state's children live below the poverty line of about $23,000 for a family of four.
The rate of student poverty in the state's public schools runs far higher, largely because it is calculated by the number of students who get free or reduced lunches. Children qualify for free lunches if their family income is up to 130 percent of the poverty level, and for reduced lunches if family income is less than 185 percent above the poverty line.
Just four of the state's 83 school districts show student poverty rates below 50 percent. And almost 40 percent of the districts list student poverty rates greater than 80 percent.
White flight from public schools, after racial segregation was outlawed, holds some of the blame for the high poverty rate, especially in the Mill Crescent and I-95 Corridor. Whites have not returned in significant numbers to many predominantly poor and black South Carolina school districts, enrolling instead in other public districts or private schools.
That, in turn, deprives the poor schools of generally higher-performing students and better-off parents with a vested interest in supporting public K-12 education.
State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais has said poverty does not have to be a predictor of poor academic performance. But many of the state's school districts in the I-95 Corridor and the Mill Crescent face the double hurdle of daunting student poverty and lacking tax bases.
During his two-terms from 1979-1987, former Gov. Dick Riley pushed through a major improvement in how much the state puts up for K-12 public schools. The Greenville lawyer and former Secretary of Education during the Clinton administration said the state has since shirked its duty to educate its children.
Last month, in her State of the State address Haley called on the Legislature to join with her in looking for ways to improve the quality of K-12 education, especially in poor school districts, which don't have the money to do what is needed. However, she offered no specifics.
More money for public schools, and poor ones in particular, would require the Legislature to adopt a dramatically different priority.
Between 2007 and 2012, the state slashed the money it provided districts as a "base student cost" by more than 20 percent, according to data prepared by the Southern Education Foundation, which works to improve education of low-income and minority students.
Riley said such cuts show "state leaders don't understand their responsibility for education."
"The focus is not on the central purpose of the state, and that is one of the central problems of the state," he said.
Joe Siren was a revered debate-team coach at Allendale-Fairfax High School who took his team to far-reaching competitions.×
As the longtime coach of the debate team at Allendale-Fairfax High School, Joe Siren challenged and motivated his students to achieve beyond what they thought they could.×
A few years ago, Harold McClain decided he'd try to turn around the struggling Allendale County School District. The then state education troubleshooter became superintendent and set about to stabilize teacher turnover and to turn a culture of failure into one of success. But lack of money remains a critical issue, and he hopes the state will do more for his and other high-poverty schools. (Tyrone Walker/Staff)×
Sheila Leath, principal of Allendale Elementary School, said her teachers work hard to help children overcome the obstacles of poverty with a focus on reading. And they do what they can to keep the 1956 building bright, but she can't stop the rain, which still leaks through numerous patches on the roof.×
When Interstate 95 opened, it drew most north-south traffic away from U.S. Highway 301, and killed the motels, restaurants and gas stations that served as way-stops for motorists. Today, Allendale struggles with a lack of jobs.×
Ivy Pelzer (left) talks in the shade with her friend Sheritta Myers as Myers waits for her sons school bus."I cut hair and try to do a little here and there to make money. Its hard with out transportation to get a job" said Myers. (Grace Beahm/postandcourier.com)×


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Recent MIT alums Justin Bullock '14 (Detroit, Mich.) and Jaclyn Konopka '14 (Novi, Mich.), who competed for the men's and women's track and field teams, were both awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, a grant worth $7,500 for postgraduate study.
Bullock ran cross-country and track for four years and was an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award Finalist this past spring. He won the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) 1,500m in 2013 and 2014. On December 1, 2012, Bullock placed third in the 3,000m at the Jay Carisella Track and Field Invitational with a time of 8:19.12, breaking the MIT varsity record of 8:20:69 set by Ben Schmeckpeper '05 in 2005.
Off the track, Bullock majored in chemical engineering with a concentration in Spanish language and literature. He has done research in two labs, co-authored a paper and volunteered at a hospital in Mexico.
Konopka concluded her four-year career with back-to-back Academic All-America honors and as a varsity record holder in the heptathlon, pentathlon and high jump. She was an NCAA qualifier in the 100m hurdles, pentathlon and 4x100. She earned NEWMAC All-Conference honors in the 100m hurdles and Academic All-Conference accolades this past season.
A brain and cognitive sciences major with a minor in biology, Konopka was awarded the Walle J.H. Nauta Award for Outstanding Research earlier this year, but also researched in the Nedivi Lab where she was an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Research in 2013, the Early Childhood Cognition Lab, Fee Lab and the Sekiguchi Lab at University of Michigan. She was also the president of Brain Trust and co-authored a paper.
Bullock will begin a five-year MD-MPH (master of public health) program at the University of California at San Francisco, while Konopka will attend Stanford University School of Medicine.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship program provides up 174 scholarships to student-athletes, 87 for men and 87 for women. The scholarships are awarded to 29 male and 29 female student-athletes at the end of each sports season that excel academically and athletically, and are in their final year of intercollegiate athletic competition. Candidates for the scholarship are nominated by their school's faculty athletics representative, screened by regional selection committees and then selected by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.