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CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE, 811 Front St., Lahaina, 661-4855
Thursday (tonight): Mark Burnett. Friday: Harry Troupe. Saturday: Scottie Rotten. Sunday: Mark Burnett. Monday and Tuesday: Scottie Rotten. Wednesday: Mark Burnett.
DAVID PAUL'S ISLAND GRILL, 900 Front St., Lahaina, 662-3000
Sunday and Monday: David Wolfe, 6 to 8 p.m.
DUKE'S BEACH HOUSE, 130 Kai Malina Parkway, Kaanapali, 662-2900
Thursday (tonight): Ben Deleon, 3 to 5 p.m.; Garrett Probst, Peter Daquino, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday: Brother Noland CD release party, 5 to 7 p.m., no cover. Saturday: Tim Osborne, 3 to 5 p.m.; Damon & Ron Oversize Productions, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday: Fausto Allosdo, 3 to 5 p.m.; Damon Furlow and Tim Osborn, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday: Brian Haa, 3 to 5 p.m.; Eddie Sabala and Alika Nakaoka, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday: Ben Deleon, 3 to 5 p.m.; Eddie and Alika, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday: Brian Haa, 3 to 5 p.m.; Daniel Querubin and Kahala Greig, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Hula shows each night at 6:30 p.m.
HARD ROCK CAFE MAUI, 900 Front St., Lahaina, 667-7400
Friday: Evan Shulman, 6 to 9 p.m., DJ's Kurt and Trvr, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday: Blues Spirit of Maui, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; The House Shakers, 8 to 11 p.m. Sunday: R.E. Metoyer's Blues, Rock & Soul Revue, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
HULA GRILL, 2435 Kaanapali Parkway, Building P, Kaanapali, 667-6636
During the daytime, musicians play in two hour sets. Evenings, it's longer. Thursday (today): Ernest Pua'a, 11 a.m.; Alika Naka'oka, 1:30 p.m.; Kaniala Masoe, 4 p.m.; Kulewa, 6:30 p.m. Friday: Kawika Lum Ho, 11 a.m.; Kaniala Masoe, 1:30 p.m.; The group "1810," 4 p.m.; Kawika, Roy and Albert, 6:30 p.m. Saturday: Kawika Lum Ho, 11 a.m., Ron/Ikaika/Damon, 1:30 p.m.; "1810," 4 p.m.; Derrick and Damon, 6:30 p.m. Sunday: Kawika Lum Ho, 11 a.m.; Glenn, 1:30 p.m.; "1810," 4 p.m.; Derrick Sebastian Trio, 7 p.m. Monday: Ernest Pua'a, 11 a.m.; Kawika Lum Ho, 1:30 p.m.; Armadillo and Derek, 4 p.m.; Derrick Sebastian and Josh Kahula, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Kawika Lum Ho, 11 a.m.; Jarrett Roback and Junior Lacuesta 1:30 p.m.; Damon and Danyel Alana, 4 p.m.; Wili Pohaku and Peter DeAquino, 7 p.m. Wednesday: Ernest Pua'a, 11:30 a.m.; Kaniala Masoe, 1:30 p.m.; Peter DeAquino, 4 p.m.; Ernest Pua'a and Friends, 7 p.m.
KA'ANAPALI BEACH CLUB'S OHANA BAR & GRILL, 104 Kaanapali Shores Place, Kaanapali, 661-2000.
Thursday (tonight), Saturday, Sunday and Monday: Live music, 6 to 9 p.m.
KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE, 136 Dickenson St., Lahaina, 667-5555
Friday and Saturday: Karaoke and dancing with Auntie Toddy Lilikoi, 9:30 p.m. to closing.
LAHAINA PIZZA CO., 730 Front St., Lahaina, 661-0700
Thursday (tonight) and Friday: John Kane, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
LEILANI'S ON THE BEACH, 2435 Kaanapali Parkway, Kaanapali, 661-4495
Thursday (tonight): Jarret and Wilson. Friday: JD and friends. Saturday: JD and Harry. Sunday: Merv Oana. Music from 3 to 5 p.m.
LONGHI'S LAHAINA, 888 Front St., Lahaina, 667-2288
Thursday: Sounds of Addiction. Sunday: Two Cats: Brian Cuomo and Marve Blue, 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday: Late Night Happy Hour with Johnny Ringo, 9 to 11 p.m., no cover.
LULU'S LAHAINA, Lahaina Cannery Mall, 1221 Honoapiilani Highway, 661-0808.
Thursday (tonight): Classic rock with Howard Ahia, 6 to 8 p.m.; Krazy Karaoke with Troy, 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Saturday: All Access Productions X-clusive Saturday Nights with DJ Money Mike and go-go dancers, 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday: Service industry, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; All access DJ's, 10 p.m. to close, no cover. Tueday: Fierce, alternative night with DJ?Blast &?"That Chilltown Sound," 9:45 p.m. to 1:45 a.m, $5 cover. Wednesday: Kenny Roberts, 6 to 9 p.m., no cover; Open mic night hosted by Red and Catfish, 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
MAUI BREWING CO., 4405 Honoapiilani Highway, Kahana, 669-3474
Saturday: Live music, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Wednesday: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
MERRIMAN'S KAPALUA, 1 Bay Drive, Kapalua, 669-6400
Monday: Phil and Angela Benoit, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday: David Choy, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, Ranga Pae, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
MOOSE MCGILLYCUDDY'S, 844 Front St., Lahaina, 667-7758
Thursday (tonight): Live music. Friday and Saturday: DJ Hurricane, $1 cover on Saturday. Sunday and Monday: Live music. Tuesday: DJ2, $1 cover. Wednesday: Live music. Music from 9 p.m. to closing.
NAPILI KAI BEACH RESORT, 5900 Lower Honoapiilani Road, Napili, 669-3858
Wednesday: George Kahumoku Jr.'s Slack Key Show Masters of Hawaiian Music, featuring different music legends weekly in the Pavilion, 7:30 p.m.; Sea House Restaurant dinner plus show, 5:30 p.m.
PINEAPPLE GRILL, Bay Golf Course, Kapalua Resort, 669-9600
Thursday: Jawaiian music by Damien Awai. Friday: Scotty Rotten Ocean Beach Party. Saturday: Jazz on the Green. Music from 7 to 10 p.m.
PIONEER INN, 658 Wharf St., Lahaina, 661-3636
Thursday (tonight): Greg diPiazza with Alana Cini, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday: Ah-Tim Elenicki, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday: JD on the Rocks, 5 to 8 p.m.
SANSEI SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & SUSHI BAR, 600 Office Road, Kapalua, 669-6286
Thursday (tonight) and Friday: Karaoke, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday: Live music.
SEA HOUSE RESTAURANT, Napili Kai Beach Resort, 5900 Lower Honoapilani Road, 669-6271
Thursday and Friday: Kincaid Kupahu. Saturday: Coelho Morrison. Sunday and Monday: Andrew Kaina. Tuesday and Wednesday: Albert Kaina. Music from 7 to 9 p.m.
TIMBA, 505 Front St., Lahaina, 661-9873
Thursday (tonight): House of Reggae, 9:45 p.m. Friday: "We Love Timba Fridays," DJ music and dancing, 9:45 p.m. Saturday: Spun Out Saturdays, local and international DJs, doors open at 9 p.m., no cover before 10. Call for covers and special events.
AMBROSIA, 1913 S. Kihei Road, 891-1011
Thursday (tonight): Jamie Gallo live, 7 p.m.; Old School Night with DJ Del So. Friday: Freakin' Fun Fridays with DJ Mats. Saturday: Sunrize Saturdaze with DJ Decka. Sunday: Sunday Night Fever with DJ CIA. Monday: Live music. Tuesday: Beat Down with DJ Astro Raph. Wednesday: Maui's HIU-5 Nite with DJ Del Sol and DJ CIA. Music starts at 10 p.m.
BEACH BUMS BAR AND GRILL, 300 Maalaea Road, 243-2286
All musicians play from 5 to 8 p.m.
Monday, Kenny Roberts; Tuesday: Randall Rospond,; Wednesday: Mark Burnett; Thursdays Kenny Roberts; Friday Tom Cherry and Mike Finkiewicz; Saturday Kenny Roberts; Sunday, Mark Burnett.
BUZZ'S WHARF RESTAURANT, Ma'alaea Bay Harbor, Maalea, 244-5426
Thursday (tonight): Kanikapila Thursday with Glen Costa, 4 to 7:30 p.m.
CAPISCHE? Hotel Wailea, 555 Kaukahi St., 879-2224
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Mark Johnstone, 7 to 10 p.m.
KAHALE'S BEACH CLUB, 36 Keala Place, Kihei, 875-7711
Thursday (tonight): Crunch Pups. Friday: Kenny Roberts. Saturday: 8 Track Players. Sunday: The John Grover Band. Monday: Kawika. Tuesday: Da Ha-Y-Ns. Wednesday: The Edge. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.
KAMAOLE POOLSIDE CAFE at Maui Coast Hotel, 2259 S, Kihei Road, 874-6284
Thursday (tonight): Kawika Lum Ho, Friday: Girls Night Out with Gina Martinelli. Saturday: Ron Shadian and Friends. Sunday: Kenny Roberts. Monday: Music by Rama. Tuesday: Mike and Mark. Wednesday: Steve Sargenti. Music from 6 to 9 p.m.
LIFE'S A BEACH, 1913 S. Kihei Road, 891-8010
Thursday (tonight): Junior Lacuesta, 4 to 8 p.m.; Rampage, 9 p.m. to close. Friday: Rick Glencross, 4 to 8 p.m.; Dat Guyz, 9 p.m. to close. Saturday: Ryan Robinson, 4 to 8 p.m.; Super Dub Tribe, 9 p.m. to close. Sunday: Karaoke industry night, 8 p.m. to close. Monday: Jacob of the Allliez; karaoke, 8 p.m. to close. Tuesday: Rick Glencross, 4 to 8 p.m.; Dollar Taco Tuesday and music videos with DJ Daizy, 9 p.m. to close. Wednesday: Rick Glencross, 4 to 8 p.m.; open mic, 9 p.m. to close.
LULU'S KIHEI, 1945-H S. Kihei Road, 879-9944
Thursday (tonight): Salsa with Neto and Barbara, 8 to 11 p.m.; DJ Nexus, 11 p.m. to close. Friday: Live band, 7:30 p.m.; DJ music, 11 p.m. to close. Saturday: Live band, 8 p.m.; DJ music, 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday: Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Sebrina Barron, 7 to 9 p.m.
MONKEYPOD KITCHEN, 10 Wailea Gateway Place, Unit B-201, Kihei, 891-2322
Thursday (tonight): Tom Cherry and Mike Finkiewitz 7 to 9 p.m. Friday: Wolf, 3 to 5 p.m.; Alika 7 to 9 p.m.. Saturday: Barefoot Minded, 3 to 5 p.m.; Erin Smith, 7 to 9 p.m.. Sunday: Alika, 3 to 5 p.m.; Kilohana, 7 to 9 p.m.. Monday: Tarvin and Mitch, 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday: Kilohana. Wednesday: Jaret and Wilson, from 7 to 9 p.m.
MULLIGAN'S ON THE BLUE, 100 Kaukahi St., Wailea, 874-1131
Thursday (tonight): Victoria Holman, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; pub quiz night, 9:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday: Sebrina Barron, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday: The Sirens, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday: The Celtic Tigers, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday: Joel?Katz, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday: Magician/Comedian Brenton Keith, 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday: Willie K Dinner and Show, 7 to 9 p.m., $65 per person.
OCEANS BEACH BAR AND GRILL, 1819 S. Kihei Road, 891-2414
Thursday (tonight): Salsa music with Nieto and Barbara, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday: Bottoms Up Fridays with Next Level Entertainment, 10 p.m., no cover. Saturday: Junebug Slim and Assault Squad Riderz and more, 10 p.m.
PITA PARADISE WAILEA, 34 Wailea Gateway Place, Wailea, 879-7177
Friday: David Wolf rotates weeks with Belly Dancer Isa Inca, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday: David Wolf rotates weeks with Flamenco. Sunday: Phil and Angela Benoit, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
SANSEI SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & SUSHI BAR, Kihei Town Center, 879-0004
Thursday (tonight) to Saturday: Karaoke, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
SOUTH SHORE TIKI LOUNGE, 1913-J S. Kihei Road, 874-6444
Thursday (tonight): Erin Smith, 4 p.m.; DJ Slackin, 10 p.m. Friday: Randall Rospond, 4 p.m.; DJ Gemini with CJ Ynot, 10 p.m. Saturday: Tom Conway, 4 p.m.; DJ LX, 10 p.m. Sunday: Viva La Rumba, 4 p.m.; Kanoa, 10 p.m. Monday: Kanoa, 4 p.m.; DJ Blast, 10 p.m. Tuesday: Sebrina Barron, 4 p.m.; DJ LX, 10 p.m. Wednesday: Mark Johnstone, 4 p.m.; Ladies Night with ADD Twins, 10 p.m.
SPORTS PAGE GRILL & BAR, 2411 S. Kihei Road, No. B4, Kihei, 879-0602
Sunday: Jordan and Gordon, 9 p.m. to midnight, no cover.
STELLA BLUES CAFE, 1279 S. Kihei Road, 874-3779
Friday: Stella's Supper Club with Hapa, 6 p.m., $60; show only, 7:30 p.m., $30. Saturday: Late night MC show.
Three's Bar & Grill, 1945G S. Kihei Road, 879-3133
Thursday (tonight): Open mic night, 9 p.m. Friday: Fire and Ice with Icelandic DJ?HaffiHaff, 10 p.m., no cover. Saturday: Maui Underground, 10 p.m., no cover. Sunday: Acoustic sessions with Chad Kaya, 9 p.m., no cover. Wednesday: Blues with the House Shakers, 8:30 p.m.
TOMMY BAHAMA RESTAURANT BAR, The Shops at Wailea, 875-9983
Thursday (tonight): Cyrus Clark. Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Howard Ahia. Monday: Greg Di Piazza. Tuesday: Jamie Lawrence. Wednesday: Merv Oana. Music from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
CAFE O'LEI, 1333 Maui Lani Parkway, Kahului, 877-0073
Thursday (tonight): Reiko Fukino, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday: Phil and Angela Benoit, 5:30 to 8 p.m.
CARY & EDDIE'S HIDEAWAY, 500 N. Puunene Ave., Kahului, 873-6555
Thursday (tonight), Friday and Saturday: Piano with Francois, 6 p.m. to closing. Sunday: Guitar with Fausto, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; piano with Francois, 6 p.m. to closing. Tuesday: Piano with Francois, 6 p.m. to closing. Wednesday: Fausto, 6 to 8 p.m.
KAHULUI ALE HOUSE, 355 E. Kamehameha Ave., Kahului, 877-9001
Thursday (tonight): Pi'ilani Arias, 5 to 9 p.m. Friday: Bradda Francis, 4 to 8 p.m.; Special band event "Innavision Fundraiser", 9 p.m., $10 cover. Saturday: Flashback Saturday dance party with DJ Z, 9:30 p.m., no cover. Sunday: Skool Night Club (Hip Hop) with DJ?Jamn, no cover. Monday: Clay Mortensen Trio, 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday: Pi'ilani?Arias, 5 to 8 p.m.; Bad Kitty, 8:30 p.m. to midnight. Wednesday: Teri Garrison, 4 to 8 p.m.; free karaoke with Bradda Francis.
STEEL HORSE SALOON, 1234 Lower Main St., Wailuku, 243-2206
Thursday (tonight): Bike Night, music by Kawika Ortiz. Friday: "I Want Candy," 8:30 p.m., no cover. Saturday: Andy Kaina and the Kaina Kountry Band, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
.CAFE DES AMIS, 42 Baldwin Ave., Paia, 579-6323
Call for music schedule
CHARLEY'S RESTAURANT, 142 Hana Highway, Paia, 579-8085
Thursday (tonight): Charley's Dinner Music Showcase with Samuel David Rucker, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., no cover. Friday: The Kryptones featuring Dani Girl, 10 p.m., $10. Purchase tickets online and receive VIP entrance. Saturday: The Maui Pranksters Grateful Dead Tribute Bank, 10 p.m., $10. Tuesday: Charley's Dinner Music Showcase with Eric Dotterer and Jonathan Drexter, 6:30-9 p.m., no cover.
HANA HOU CAFE, 810 Haiku Road, Haiku, 575-2661
Thursday (tonight): Toby and Friends. Friday: Steve Sargenti and Tom Conway. Saturday: Rick Scheideman. Monday: Hula Honeys. Tuesday: Hipnautical. Wednesday: Dorothy Betz, Les Adam and Vince Esquire. Music from 6 to 9 p.m. unless noted.
LILIKOI GRILL, 810 Kokomo Rd., Ste. 186, Haiku, 575-7899
Thursday through Sunday: Live music, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Monday: Open mic night, 6 to 10 p.m.
LOCAL MOCHA CAFE, 81 Makawao Ave., No. 114, Makawao, 573-2859
Thursday (tonight): Open mic night, 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Saturday: Live music, 6 to 8 p.m.
MAKAWAO STEAK HOUSE, 3612 Baldwin Ave., Makawao, 572-8711
Tuesday and Thursday (tonight): Clarence Kahaikupuna, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, Ray Gooliak 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday: Randall Rospond, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
MOANA BAKERY & CAFE, 71 Baldwin Ave., Paia 579-9999
Thursday (tonight): Phil and Angela Benoit, 7 to 9 p.m. Monday: Open mic, 6 to 9 p.m.
STOPWATCH SPORTS BAR AND GRILL,1127 Makawao Ave., Makawao, 572-1380
Friday: Randall Rospond Trio and guests, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., $4 cover. Saturday and Wednesday: Karaoke with Pearl Rose, 9 p.m. to midnight, no cover.


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S.C. Rep. Jim Merrill did not report the income he took from special-interest groups on the public disclosures he filed with the state.
He didn't have to.
That's because the state's income reporting laws allow officials to shroud business deals and connections they don't want the public to discover.
S.C. law says officials must report only the source and amount of income "of substantial monetary value received from a governmental entity" on their statements of economic interest.
In addition to government income, officials are supposed to report gifts and business interests, but few actually do. Even a member of the S.C. House Ethics Committee staff in an interview last week acknowledged that fact.
Officials also have to report money they take from lobbyist principals, or groups that lobby at the Statehouse — but only if those entities pay them directly. The principals have found ways around that. The S.C. Association of Realtors, for example, paid Merrill through its political action committee.
National watchdogs gave the weak laws failing grades in a national report released this year that judged legislative accountability.
Bob Stern, a national expert in government ethics, said the soft requirements are unusual. Most states require legislators to list all their income sources, Stern said.
"In South Carolina, you're not getting a full disclosure of what's going on," said Stern, former administrator at the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws. "The public needs to know how money influences decisions."
Caitlin Ginley, a writer and spokeswoman at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news group based in Washington, said other states mandate full disclosure of all income sources.
"Even stocks and investments, a whole range," Ginley said. "In states where the laws aren't strong, things fall through the cracks. There are relationships that are not revealed to the public."
Cathy Hazelwood, general counsel for the State Ethics Commission, described South Carolina's lax requirements during an interview with the Center for Public Integrity and its collaborators last year.
The forms require "absolutely nothing compared to other states," Hazelwood said in an interview that became part of the national state accountability report. A lawmaker's statement is "not a true asset disclosure" because any income beyond state pay is reported on a voluntary basis, she said in the State Integrity Investigation report.
The Ethics Commission "does not have the staff to enforce or investigate" omissions or violations in income and gift disclosures submitted by lawmakers and "will not set up stings," Hazelwood said in the report.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has faced scrutiny this year for alleged omissions and misstatements in the economic interest statements she filed while serving as a House member representing Lexington County.
Republican activist John Rainey filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee in March, alleging that Haley made "false and misleading public disclosures that failed to give accurate, full, and complete information to the public as required by law."
It continues: The "plaintiff and the citizens of South Carolina had no opportunity to discover Haley's conduct because she habitually failed to make a full and complete disclosure in her annual Statements of Economic Interest. These omissions include failing to disclose income" from engineering firm Wilbur Smith and Associates and misstating her employer as Lexington Medical Center Foundation when it was the hospital itself, according to the complaint.
The hospital sought state approval for a new cardiac center at the time. It eventually received that approval. The engineering firm wanted state contracts, and it too had success.
Haley's attorneys deny any wrongdoing.
Although the governor now faces scrutiny for her business deals, she once railed against legislative secrecy. She addressed the topic in her book, "Can't Is Not an Option," which was released in April.
"Members weren't required to disclose whom they worked for in their day jobs," Haley wrote. "I thought that was wrong. It breeds conflicts of interest. The people deserved to know who paid us."
She continued: "Once they see who is paying their legislators, I said, people will start to understand why policy moves the way it does in Columbia."
Last week, a Haley spokesman said the excerpt "is entirely consistent with where the governor has always been on the issue of income disclosure."
"Then-State Rep. Haley disclosed everything she was supposed to when it comes to sources of her income," Rob Godfrey said in a statement.
Godfrey said the governor believes "state law should be made stronger and that every legislator should be required to disclose all of their income sources, which they are not presently required to do."
Like Haley, Merrill also faces criticism of his business relationships with special interests such as the Realtors.
"These are the types of relationships those laws expose," Ginley said, referring to other states' stricter income reporting requirements.
The rules also would shine a light on the low-key consulting groups legislators set up to handle work obtained through their political connections. Merrill's Geechie Communications fits that category.
"They don't advertise themselves, have no list of staff, no websites — it's hard to find out they even exist in the first place," Ginley said. Maintaining consulting firms are "an opaque way of funneling money from a special interest to a candidate," she said.
J. Michael Bitzer, a political science professor at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., called it a "sneaking around the back-door approach."
Nationally, Idaho, Michigan and Vermont have no income reporting requirements, Ginley said. South Carolina's rules are lax, but the minimal requirements put its disclosures a step above those three, she said.
Reach Renee Dudley at 937-5550 or on Twitter at @renee_dudley.

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In the first teleconference of Myeloma Awareness Month 2011, Beth Faiman, a member of the IMF Nurse Leadership Board, discusses how to manage myeloma and novel agent side effects such as neuropathy, hypercalcemia, and venous thromboembolic events.
Click here to listen to a recording of the teleconference.
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The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook, published in 2011, is the companion workbook to Steven Apfelbaum's Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land. This workbook describes more fully the planning tools and techniques outlined in the book and offers a wealth of specific resources, including worksheets and spreadsheets to help you de... read more
For more information on policies, guidelines and definitions—or if you are interested in more information about SER's Science & Policy Working Group, please contact Jim Harris, Chair. Click here to download as a PDF file.
Policies 1 through 9 were published in Restoration Ecology1(3): 206-207, 1993.
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SER-IUCN: Partnership for Ecological Restoration Worldwide
In March 2003, a team from SER International traveled to Taman Negara, Malaysia, to meet with members of the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM). The purpose of this meeting was to determine how our two organizations can work together to benefit restoration efforts... read more
The following NGOs, academic institutions, and government agencies have adopted the SER Primer's definition of ecological restoration: Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
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Introduction to Restoration Ecology, published in 2011, provides a framework that can be used to guide restoration decisions anywhere on the globe, both now and in the future. The text is organized around a restoration process that has been tested and revised by the authors in their restoration ecology courses taught at the Un... read more
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Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems, published in 2004, presents the approach used by the researchers to study and understand riparian areas in the Great Basin region. It summarizes the current state of knowledge about those areas and provides insights into the use of the information generated by the project for the restoration and management o... read more
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on April 23, 2013 - 11:26 PM
, updated April 24, 2013 at 6:30 AM
Unions, companies that bid on contracts with the district, school employees, political leaders and others poured more than $250,000 into Buffalo School Board candidates' campaigns during the last two election cycles, a Buffalo News analysis shows.
But many of those donations are all but hidden from voters, due in part to an archaic finance reporting system handled almost entirely on paper – and in part to candidates who ignore the state law requiring them to reveal who donated to them and interest groups who ignore the law requiring them to disclose how much they spent to independently promote a candidate.
The News found several instances in which the state law designed to ensure transparency was blatantly ignored:
• Four years ago, when Christopher L. Jacobs ran for re-election to the Buffalo School Board, he raised $52,000 for his campaign – and did not disclose the identity of a single contributor, as state law requires.
• The same year, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership spent more than $26,000 on behalf of Jacobs and two other board members – even though the business group could legally spend no more than $25 per candidate.
• The following year, a downstate education reform group made its first foray into Buffalo School Board elections, spending $50,000 to promote a few candidates, by its own account. Not only did Education Reform Now ignore the $25 limit, but there's no record of the group ever reporting its expenditures.
• The Buffalo Teachers Federation spent more than $13,000 in 2009 and 2010 to help get its favored candidates elected – but it's likely the actual figure is much higher than that, due to ambiguities in some of the reporting, coupled with omissions in various candidates' reporting.
With six of the nine Buffalo seats up for grabs this year, significant sums of money are expected to pour in again in the next two weeks leading up to the May 7 election. So far, signs indicate compliance with state law is as spotty as ever.
In the first round of required disclosures, two of the original 14 candidates submitted nothing. Another two filed paperwork but did not detail their donations. Another filed detailed paperwork but missed the deadline.
State education law requires candidates to disclose the name and address of each person or group that gave them money, along with the amount of each donation.
"The idea is for the public to be able to assess the degree to which elected officials and candidates are influenced by campaign dollars," said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog group.
There's no limit on how much anyone can give to a candidate.
But when any individual or group spends money on behalf of a candidate without the candidate's approval, such as the Partnership' helping Jacobs, a $25 maximum kicks in, and the person or group spending the money is responsible for disclosing it to the state.
Lerner was surprised to learn that School Board candidates' disclosures are not available online.
"The whole point of disclosure is for the public to access the disclosures. Our election information should be at least as accessible as movie time schedules," she added.
The News did its analysis by first compiling a database of contributions to candidates in 2009 and 2010. That required obtaining paper financial disclosure statements from Albany, cross-referencing them with files in City Hall and cross-referencing both of those with electronic reports disclosing contributions from political action committees.
Failure to itemize
Each Buffalo School Board member is paid $5,000 a year – but most board members raise at least that much trying to get elected.
Nobody in recent history has spent more than Jacobs, when he ran for re-election to the School Board in 2009.
He kicked in more than $17,000 of his own money – and raised more than $52,000 for his race.
"I wanted to be independent of the unions," he said. "When you do that and you don't have the resources that they provide, it takes a lot to independently get the word out."
Members of Jacobs' family donated a total of more than $4,000.
Nearly $30,000 more came from more than 400 other contributors. Among them: several City Hall staffers, including James Kane, the longtime chief of staff in the school district; a number of companies, including Ciminelli Development and Lamparelli Construction; many local political figures, including Grassroots leader Maurice Garner and former County Comptroller Nancy Naples-O'Neill; and an assortment of people active with local charter schools.
But when Jacobs filed his disclosures, the only contribution he detailed out of the $53,950 he raised was a $100 check from Citizen Action, an advocacy group with ties to the teachers union.
And then a local attorney working with a union-supported candidate filed a lawsuit to compel Jacobs to disclose his contributors.
"A huge amount of money was being spent, obviously. There were these wonderful multi-colored fliers going around. They were easily a dollar a pop," said Peter Reese. "We wanted disclosure."
In September – four months after the election – a State Supreme Court justice ruled in the case, ordering Jacobs to disclose who gave him money. In October, Jacobs submitted a list.
"We became aware through the lawsuit that you have to itemize for everything," Jacobs said. "I was not aware of that. I filed the disclosures as directed from the instructions given by the Board of Education."
Candidates can obtain instructions on filing their financial disclosures from the Board of Education or the Erie County Board of Elections. The instructions are identical from both places.
And those instructions have, in fact, for years directed candidates to itemize their expenditures – but said nothing about itemizing their donations.
Elections Commissioner Dennis Ward said the Board of Elections prepared the instructions years ago and updates them every year. He was not aware that the law requires disclosure of donations, he said when he was initially contacted by The Buffalo News.
"If that's what the law is, then they have to report it," Ward said. "If that's what it is, then it's a mistake. We should mimic whatever's in the statute."
On Tuesday, after his initial conversation with The News, Ward said that the Board of Elections has now updated information it provides School Board candidates, indicating that they need to disclose donations and expenditures.
A $25 limit
The Buffalo Niagara Partnership, under the moniker Buffalo Students First, in 2009 spent more than $26,000 on behalf of Jacobs, Catherine Collins and Florence Johnson – independent of the candidates, the group said.
A.J. Wright, the Partnership's manager of government affairs, said the group is now aware of the $25 limit and "plans to do things differently" this year, possibly by donating money directly to the candidates.
In 2010, a national group based in New York City, Democrats for Education Reform, took an interest in Buffalo's School Board race. The group's executive director, Joe Williams, told The News at the time that his group planned to spend $50,000 on behalf of Jason McCarthy, Philip Lomax and Kinzer Pointer. Other sources later said the group also backed Vivian Evans.
Not only did the group apparently ignore the $25 per candidate limit, but it also never filed any disclosure report, local and state records show.
A spokesman for Democrats for Education Reform said the group had no comment at this time.
Union's contributions
The Buffalo Teachers Federation has historically been the most consistent force in the city's School Board elections.
What's not so clear is how much the union actually spends.
Only two candidates in 2010 – Ralph Hernandez and Patricia Devis – reported getting any money from the union. In 2009, Devis was the only candidate to report financial help. Between the two, the union spent $12,932 in those two years.
Each of those years, the union endorsed a full slate of candidates, but none of the other candidates reported any financial help from the union.
But the union disclosed additional donations in a separate reporting system that's required of political action committees. Among them: $1,000 to John Licata and $800 to Bryon McIntyre in 2009.
Other expenditures by the BTF – such as money paid to local printers around the time of the election – appear likely to be related to the School Board race in a given year, but the reporting system does not require the union to indicate whether it is.
Buffalo News Analysis
• In 2009, Christopher Jacobs raised $52,000 for his re-election campaign but only detailed one contribution of $100.
• The same year, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership spent more than $26,000 on behalf of three board members, even though the legal limit was $25 per candidate.
• In 2010, Democrats for Education Reform, a downstate group, spent $50,000 to promote a few candidates, ignoring the $25 limit and failing to report any of its expenditures.
• Only two candidates in 2009 and 2012 reported getting financial help – a total of $12,932 – from the BTF, but it's likely the actual figure the union spent was much higher due to ambiguities in some of the reporting and omissions in other candidates' reporting.
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Speaking for a living has taken me all over the world. I love seeing all the unique places and wonderful people. The only problem is I have to go through the airports of the world to do it.
I guess it's not so much the airport as the way that airport treats my one piece of critical baggage–my wheelchair.
It's always scary to get off the plane to see what condition I am going to find my chair in. (For those who wonder how I travel on an airplane, see below.)
I've had it come off the plane with too many pieces and not enough pieces. It's come bent frames, bent wheels, bent backs and lost batteries (to name a few)–and when it does, I "get" to deal with the people in baggage claim because their people treated my $20,000.00 wheelchair like a $2.00 rag doll.
Then, after waiting in line, and processing my claim it still goes on. Kinda like the time when Delta lost my chair, and after going through all the paperwork, they told me that I couldn't take the Delta wheelchair with me. I spent literally 15 plus minutes trying to explain to the Delta rep. that I wasn't real effective without any wheelchair at all. (At one point I wondered if I was going to have to crawl to the hotel on my elbows!) But, in the end, just like everything else, things eventually work out and you move on to the next adventure.
However, all this experience made me appreciate Dave Carroll's plight even more. The trilogy below gave me a good laugh. It's a healthy piece of the lighter side. If you don't have the time, you don't have to watch all three. The first is great all on it's own. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
PS. When I get on a plane, they "gate check" my wheelchair, and I drive my chair right up to the entrance of the plane. Once there, the airlines provide a couple of guys (hopefully guys–I've had two women over 50 show up before, and to say it was interesting is an understatement) to lift me from my chair onto a little "aisle chair". It's called an aisle chair because it's thin enough to travel up and down the aisles on an airplane. (See….the guys at the airlines figured that one out.) Once on the aisle chair, they take my through the plane and lift me into a regular seat on the plane.


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To many of us, 27 is still young. In the music business, it might feel like something closer to middle age (with apologies to Janis and Mssrs. Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Jim Morrison, etc., etc.).
For Robby Overfield, it�s the perfect age to take his music career to the proverbial next level.
�It�s called �The Breaks� because that�s what I�ve been trying to catch my whole life,� Overfield said of his new EP, which he�ll debut Saturday night at the Henry Strater Theatre. �I�m also luckier than anyone I�ve ever known, because I can sing and I�d probably be half the person I am if I didn�t have that ability.�
The Detroit-area native has lived here for about six years and has immersed himself in the community in many ways. He�s become one of the busiest and most booked performers at local venues and also is active in a host of sports. His day job as sports director for the Stillwater Foundation is a position that allows him to mentor kids in both of his own passions. Stillwateris a Durango-based nonprofit that teaches people music and sports. He�ll donate a portion of ticket sales from Saturday show as well as CD sales to the foundation.
�It�s kind of a perfect job if you have to have a job,� he said.
But if �The Breaks� finds its way into the right hands � or ears � day jobs may soon be a thing of the past for Overfield. Durango is a town full of musicians with above-average talent, but Overfield has one instrument that none of his peers can match � a serious set of pipes. It�s one of the great intangibles of music, and there�s no substitute for a powerful and unique voice.It sets Overfield apart from the field. It�s at a lower register than most rock and blues singers but doesn�t quite dip into the baritone/bass range.
�I noticed at an early age that I can sing, and I�ve always thought of the voice as an instrument. That�s how I convey my music,� Overfield said.
All vocals on all six tracks of �The Breaks� are Overfield, expertly layered by Scott Smith at his Scooter�s Place studios. He had a lot of help on the record outside of Smith�s technical wizardry. In addition to Overfield�s guitar, Zack Jones played saxophone, Oregonian Ben Scharf provided the keyboards, and Mary Elizabeth Holby came from Quebec to play violin on �Northbound Gospel Train.�
�Each guest was on a track for a specific reason,� Overfield said.
For his core group, which often performs as the Robby Overfield Trio, he is joined by Neil Hemphill on drums and Jesse Ogle on bass.(Dave Rodriguez was the in-studio drummer for �The Breaks.�) In Ogle, with whom he also works at Stillwater, Overfield found his creative complement as well as one of his closest friends.
�And Jesse�s the best bass player I�ve ever met,� he said.
Overfield and his band have been branching out and receiving good press coverage in competitive music towns like Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Flagstaff, Ariz. �The Breaks� is the band�s first opportunity to spread the word further. It�s a high-quality sample that combines quality musicianship with personal and genuine songwriting in a professional package.
�It gives people a taste of what�s to come down the road,� he said. �I look at my life and this town as an opportunity, and I can�t wait to see what�s next. A lot of people are afraid of the future but I embrace it.�


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In a revealing new memoir, Remembering Whitney (Harper Collins), Cissy, 79, writes candidly about her daughter's severe drug problems and the downward spiral that led to her death by drowning in a hotel bathtub with traces of cocaine still in her system.
"She started partying and she didn't really know how to stop," says Cissy. "I used to wonder what she was doing at night, where she was."
But when she tried to contact her, Whitney often didn't return her call.
"Whitney hid from me," says Cissy. And when she did see her, she was often afraid to confront her daughter. Shocked at her skeletal appearance at the Michael Jackson tribute concert in 2001, she never expressed concern.
"What was the point?" she asks. "I didn't want her to run completely away from me."
She doesn't believe former husband Bobby Brown was the cause.
Cissy also writes for the first time about her daughter's relationship with former assistant Robyn Crawford, who became her creative director.
"I just didn't want her with my daughter," she says. "I know nothing about a romantic relationship. That's what everybody said but they didn't know either."
She admits, Crawford "cared for her" and reveals for the first time that she was the first one to come tell her Whitney had a drug problem.
Cissy is still tormented by her daughter's sudden death. "I'm angry she died alone, in those conditions," she says. "I'm still mad about that."
Still, she hopes her book will remind people "what a good person she was. I want people to know the truth about her, how she really was."


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In church on Palm Sunday, as I was listening to Luke's version of the Passion, it was difficult not to notice the irony of Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem and how he heard the Hosannas from the people. Just a few days later, he was abandoned by most of them. But not all.
As Jesus carried his cross to his place of execution, Luke notes that he stopped to speak to some weeping Jerusalem women. This reminded me that women played key roles in the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus…and that they were loyal when many others disappeared. There are so many examples in the four gospels.
Later in his account of Jesus' death and resurrection, Luke mentions women observing the centurion saying, "Certainly this man was innocent." Women followed Joseph of Arimathea, who removed Jesus' body from the cross and laid it in the tomb. They made plans to return and anoint the body. When they did come back, "on the first day of the week," they discovered that he had risen, as he said he would. These women, who included Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary the mother of James, told Jesus' followers, including the remaining eleven apostles, but no one believed them. Only Peter got up and ran to the tomb.
Mark's Gospel mentions the presence of Jesus' mother, and of Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and Joses, and an additional woman, Salome. "There were also many other woman who had come up with him from Jerusalem," this gospel writer reports. Mark also mentions that Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection, but that when she tried to tell the others, nobody believed her.
Matthew tells an even more exciting story. He puts Mary Magdalene and another Mary at the tomb when the angel of the Lord rolled the stone away from the mouth of Jesus' tomb.
Finally, the gospel of John tells of Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb and how she ran to get Peter and "the disciple whom Jesus loved." The men rushed to the tomb and discovered that indeed Jesus was no longer there. Then they returned to their homes.
But not Mary Magdalene. She stood there weeping, then peered into the empty tomb and saw the angels. When they asked why she was crying, she said. "They have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him." Then she turned to see Jesus, whom she did not initially recognize. But when she did understand, this great woman rushed to tell the other disciples, "I have seen the Lord."
Just imagine how that little band of Jesus' female friends felt watching almost everyone abandoning him. And yet something in them kept them nearby. Even after his death, they went about caring for his body. Maybe they held a tiny flame of faith that he would rise as he had promised. In any event, they stayed close. That flame of faith may have burned high and it may have burned low, but the flame never went out. And their faith was rewarded.
The women did not abandon the Lord. The women held on. The women were the first to learn and spread the good news of the Resurrection. That's something to think about these days.
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Patricia McDonald Massey and John Boyd Hoke, of Williamsburg, Va., were married on May 26, 2012. The wedding ceremony was held at Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church in Blowing Rock, N.C., at 4 p.m. The Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan, headmaster at St. James School, Md., and the Rev. Dr. Charles McDonald Coffey III, grandfather of the bride, officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Betsy Coffey Massey, of Laurinburg, N.C. The bride attends The College of William & Mary's Mason School of Business, where she will receive her MBA in 2013. She graduated cum laude with a BA in anthropology from Davidson College in 2007, where she was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award. This summer, she is employed with Deloitte Consulting in Washington, D.C.
The groom is the son of Mrs. Michele Kisner Hoke, of Martinsburg and the late Mr. John B. Hoke Jr. The groom attends The College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law, where he is the senior notes editor of the William & Mary Law Review, and where he will receive his J.D. in 2013. In 2007, he received a BA with Honors in history from Davidson College. This summer, the groom is working for McGuireWoods LLP in Charlotte, N.C., and Smith Anderson LLP in Raleigh, N.C.
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Patricia McDonald Massey and John Boyd Hoke
The bride was escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents. She wore her mother's ivory silk wedding gown and cathedral-length veil, to which antique lace and pearls were added by hand by the bride's grandmother, Ann Massey. She also wore her late grandmother Ruth Coffey's strand of pearls. The bride's family and friends designed the bouquets from locally grown flowers.
The bride's sister, Hannah Rose Massey, of Washington, D.C., was the maid of honor, and the best man was Gagan Gupta of London, U.K. Bridesmaids included Dr. Katherine Ansley, of Dallas, Texas; Anna Coffey, of Washington, D.C.; Sarah Coffey, of Seattle, Wash.; Elizabeth Henry, of Little Rock, Ark.; Laura Pepper, of Chicago, Ill.; and Ashley Raba, of Arlington, Va. Groomsmen were Taylor Ansley, of Dallas; Peter Coffey, of Washington, D.C.; Luke Hilton, of Charlottesville, Va.; Matthew Marriott, of Washington, D.C.; Jarred Taylor, of Williamsburg, Va.; and Troy Townsend, of Davis, Calif. Attendants were Erika Larson and Molly Wilson, both of Washington, D.C. Readers included Katherine Hester, of Durham, N.C., Emily Presley, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Henry van Wagenberg, of Fort Collins, Colo. Vocalists were Heather Honeycutt, of Nashville, Tenn., and Chris McCain, of Atlanta, Ga.
Following the ceremony, guests enjoyed a southern BBQ feast and danced to the Toni Naples Band at an outdoor reception at Thunder Hill, private property owned by the bride's family and bordering the Blue Ridge Parkway. A rehearsal dinner was hosted by the groom's mother at a private residence in Blowing Rock, N.C., on May 25.
The bride and groom met at Davidson College and will reside in Williamsburg, Va.


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Goose Creek The holes were marked with yellow flags and dowels indicating the trajectories that 18 bullets took when they peppered the car early Tuesday.
Three of the four people inside suffered gunshot or shrapnel wounds during the 2 a.m. attack as the Nissan Maxima sat at the intersection of Red Bank Road and Howe Hall Road.
Two young women who were sitting in the back seats, where most of the gunfire was targeted, suffered major wounds, according to an incident report from the Goose Creek Police Department.
But much about what occurred remained unknown after investigators examined the car, which was parked at police headquarters. Capt. John Grainger said that they had no suspects, but that the victims might not be telling police the whole story.
The victims said they had left Club Pluto at 1230 Red Bank Road when someone drove up to them and opened fire. That story resembles two other shootings in the past four months in which motorists reported being shot at after leaving the club.
No arrests have been made in any of the incidents.
Capt. Rick Ollic of the Berkeley County Sheriffs Office, which has jurisdiction over the business location, said his agency is working with Goose Creek detectives to determine whether the shootings are linked.
Were reviewing our cases to see if theyre in any way connected, Ollic said. Were trying to figure out whats going on there, too.
Grainger said 21-year-old Brittany Sharee Middleton of Fort Johnson Road on James Island was the most critically hurt in Tuesdays gunfire. Her chest wound required surgery, but her condition was not known Tuesday afternoon.
The police report also indicated that Jaytee Clavousea Bright, 19, of Gwinnett Street in North Charleston was shot and might have had internal bleeding.
Andre Alphaes Seabrook, a 26-year-old resident of Apartment Boulevard in North Charleston, who is on probation for possessing cocaine, suffered a minor injury before he drove the car to Trident Medical Center after the shooting.
Touvaruss Antrail Jones, 20, of Norden Street in North Charleston, who was not hurt as he sat in the front passenger seat, told police that his companions had just left Club Pluto when he heard gunfire, the report stated. He didnt know who was shooting.
Hours later, little activity along Red Bank Road hinted at the chaos earlier in the morning. Two police cars were parked in the median on either side of the Howe Hall Road intersection.
At the nightclub, a man emerged and shooed away a reporter. He declined to reveal his identity and said that his club had no name. The facade of the establishment, which is in the Creek Bank Plaza, features no sign other than one indicating its entrance.
Its a private club, the man said. Everybody who comes here, we know. We dont have any problems like that.
But the club has been labeled as the source of several instances of violence.
In October, a 55-year-old photographer at the club said he was driving home on NAD Road when a vehicle sped up and one of its occupants opened fire. Alvin Jenkins was shot in the buttocks as he reached for his own gun.
As was the case in Tuesdays shooting, Jenkins drove himself to Trident Medical Center.
Then in early December, two motorists exchanged gunfire on Red Bank Road before one of them wrecked at Henry E. Brown Jr. Boulevard. The man told the Sheriffs Office that he had just left Club Pluto when someone pulled up and started shooting. He escaped injury.
In the street, deputies found 11 shell casings from a 9 mm handgun and a bullet hole in the awning of a Circle K.
The gunfire has been cause for concern among business owners, workers and residents in this corridor lined with gas stations, bars and Goose Creek High School.
Across the street from the club at Merlys Pub, owner Merly Thompson said she tries to run a peaceful business where patrons can down a beer and shoot a game of pool. She closed up shop just after midnight Monday and was asleep when the commotion erupted.
Thompson said she would rather focus on her bars pool team, which recently competed in Las Vegas, than on fretting about violence.
Bullets are flying, and I dont know whats going on, she said. Safety is more important than making a few bucks.
Jesus Reyes, 44, who lives on nearby Plainfield Avenue, said he trusts the neighborhood he has called home for a decade, but not the outsiders who hang out in some of the bars.
They come out and shoot at cars, but they miss, Reyes said. Someone in one of these homes could get shot.
Mung T. Bui, who works at a laundry facility in the same plaza as the club, said shes seen blood and glass in the parking lot but has never witnessed violence.
She said she typically finishes her work shift before patrons start pouring into the club late in the evening.
They have no name, no sign, no nothing, she said of the club. I dont know what goes on over there.
Reach Andrew Knapp at 937-5414 or twitter.com/offlede.
ANDREW KNAPP/STAFF Bullet holes are visible in a Nissan Maxima after it was examined at the Goose Creek Police Department on Tuesday. Police said the car was shot 18 times early Tuesday on Red Bank Road at Howe Hall Road, wounding three of the four people inside.×


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Sherry Cusumano and Sr. Corporal Herb Cotner
Ask a Cop is a new occasional column produced by NAMI's CIT Center, answering common questions about law enforcement and mental health issues. The column is an opportunity to learn about the law enforcement officer's perspective on how officers, providers and individuals and families affected by mental illness can work together to improve crisis responses. To ask a question, please email email@example.com with the subject line "Ask a Cop." Please note that we will not be able to answer all questions or to discuss individual legal cases.
Contributors: Sr. Corporal Herb Cotner is a 25 year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. He has served Dallas PD as a CIT officer and is the department's Crisis Intervention Mental Health Liaison. Sr. Corporal Cotner is also the Vice President of NAMI Dallas.
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Family members and the community at-large were unprepared to help these individuals living with serious mental illness with their complex needs. Those struggles at times have become frightening and even unsafe for those not trained to identify and appropriately respond to a mental health crisis. Those are the times when people call 911 out of a concern for the safety of themselves and their loved ones. Law enforcement is now part of the treatment team since they are frequently the first responders. Law enforcement agencies are responsible for providing for a safe community for our citizens and are required to respond when they receive a call for assistance. In the absence of 24/7 crisis mental health services, law enforcement are required to respond to calls for assistance.
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We all know that sometimes, in spite of our best efforts, situations can escalate into a crisis; everyone should have a crisis procedure carefully prepared and documented ahead of time. NAMI's Family-to-Family course includes a section which contains a "Crisis File" that can be used to prepare for such emergencies. Many NAMI Affiliates have published crisis procedures that they give to their members to assist them in their preparation for those times when a crisis can't be prevented. Every time a crisis is prevented through proactive intervention and assistance, it reduces the likelihood of contact with law enforcement and an arrest. Every time that an individual goes in to a crisis, the odds of an assault, injury or arrest are increased. Through crisis intervention team (CIT) training, many law enforcement agencies are doing their part to decrease the odds of such events happening. When an assault does occur, most jurisdictions require officers to arrest an individual, in compliance with family violence laws.


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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeChristopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike follows the story of three siblings. Vanya and Sonia have never left the confines of their childhood home in Bucks County, PA, while their sister Masha has been gallivanting around the world as a successful actress. A surprise visit from Masha and her 20-something boy toy, Spike, throws the normally quiet household into utter upheaval as its residents and visitors are swept up in an intoxicating mixture of lust, rivalry, regret, and the sudden possibility of escape.08/19/2014 - 08/23/2014Location: Johnstown Flood Museum, 304 Washington St. Johnstown, PAwebsite
Paul Jacobs, organWestminster's Music & Arts Series presents concert organist Paul Jacobs in a return to the sanctuary where he performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach in at age 23 to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. A native of Washington, PA, Jacobs is chair of the organ department at the Juilliard School of Music.08/22/2014Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2040 Washington Rd, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
An Evening with Edward ParksNew York opera sensation Edward Parks comes home to Indiana, PA to share an evening of song. Proceeds benefit the Indian County Competition for Young Musicians.08/23/2014Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Indiana Senior High School, 450 N 5th St, Indiana, PAwebsite
Shadyside…The Art Festival on Walnut StreetThe 17th Annual Shadyside…The Art Festival on Walnut Street produced by Howard Alan Events and hosted by the Shadyside Chamber of Commerce features 200 artists from 30 different states and live music.08/23/2014 - 08/24/201408/23 - 10 am – 7 pm08/24 - 10 am – 5 pmLocation: Walnut St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Gene Kelly Birthday CelebrationThis pay-what-you-can event — celebrating Kelly's 102nd birthday — features complimentary cake, ice cream, and a screening of the award-winning 1952 film Singin'in the Rain starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. Period costumes with umbrellas encouraged.08/23/2014Time: 2:00 - 5:00 pmKelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
World Kaleidoscope presents Geese in the BogGeese in the Bog are four musicians who collectively have decades of experience playing in the true Irish tradition on button accordion, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and guitar. Free admission.08/24/2014Time: 2:00 pmCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Pittsburgh New Works FestivalThe festival presents 18 new one-act plays begins with staged readings on Aug. 24 & 31st, then four weeks of staged triple-bills. Visit web site for details.08/24/2014 - 09/28/2014Location: Off the Wall Theater, 25 W Main St, Carnegie, PAwebsite
Pittsburgh Brass ProjectThis chamber ensemble of River City Brass members will perform Haines: Toccata, Blacher: Divertimento, Pilss: Sonata, Eccles: Sonata, Poulenc: Trio, Bernstein: Brass Music, and more.08/24/2014Time: 3:00 pmLocation: Trinity Cathedral, 322 Sixth Av, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The Incline Village/Crystal Bay Republican Women's Club is hosting a Candidate's Night on Wednesday, April 11th, at 5 p.m., at the Chateau in Incline Village.
There will be appetizers and a no host bar from 5-6 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 6 p.m.
The club has invited all the candidates who are running in the June 12 primary in Nevada — from U.S. Senate, Congress, State Assembly, Washoe County Commission, IVGID Trustees, Incline Justice of the Peace, State Board of Education, Regent from the University of Nevada, and the School District.
Below is the list of registered GOP candidates invited:
• U.S. Senate: Dean Heller
• Congressional District 2: Mark Amodei
• State Assembly District 26: Randy Kirner
• Washoe County Commission District 1: Marsha Berkbigler
• IVGID trustee: Tim Callicrate, George Del Carlo, Bea Epstein, Jim Smith. Frank Wright
• North Lake Tahoe Fire District director: Wayne Fischer, Chris May, Dale Smith, Paul Zahler
• Incline Justice of the Peace: E. Alan Tiras
• State Board of Education District 2: Dave Cook, Adrianna Fralick
• University of Nevada, Reno, Regent: Rick Trachok
• School District Trustee, District A: Dale Richardson, Lisa Ruggerio
Each candidate will get to talk for 3 minutes and then answer a couple of questions. The meeting is open to the public, but only registered GOP candidates can speak.
According to a press release, the club's mission is to elect Republicans at the local, state and national level.
Cost is $25 per person. RSVP to Kathi Congistre, 775-831-4360 or Donna Kwachak, 775-833-2788, by April 5.
Residents interested in more information about the evening can contact Steve and Denise Ause at 775-831-1963.


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Editor's Note: This is the last in a three-part series of stories in Arts & Travel about Charleston's creative community and its efforts to stimulate artistic and economic activity in the area.
Unshakable in its concrete and brick heft, the building stands among the overgrown weeds on the isolated stretch of upper Meeting Street, where the peninsula narrows and seems to exist primarily to shuttle vehicular traffic between Charleston and North Charleston.
This Neck Area once was a hub of local industry, but that kind of economic activity faded years ago, leaving behind the toxic soil. Lately, though, the upper reaches of the city have issued whiffs of potential that whet the appetites of the city's hungry urban pioneers.
They have their eye on this part of town, and on that building, 1600 Meeting Street, which soon could become an iconic centerpiece of Charleston's new creative economy.
Lindsay Nevin certainly hopes so. He bought the 12,000-square-foot structure and its two ancillary 2,500-square-foot outbuildings in mid-2011 after several years of dreaming, infatuation and false starts.
Now, he and his wife, Kate, are tapping into a creative community that appears to be gaining a critical mass, and they intend to transform 1600 Meeting Street into a colony of artsy entrepreneurs that, in turn, can expand the city's economic reach and influence.
They can do so unrestricted by the usual historical encumbrances: No special renovation permits are needed, no oversight by the Board of Architectural Review.
"This is the last frontier of the Charleston peninsula," Nevin said. "We have an opportunity to do something up here that's different from the rest of the city."
An idea is born
It certainly is a different landscape: expansive, dusty, post-industrial.
Southeast of the historic Magnolia Cemetery is Morrison Drive with its multiplying restaurants, gallery spaces and retailers.
On the other side of Magnolia is a sort of no-man's land, though one finds a smattering of small businesses and a couple of churches.
Also there is 1600 Meeting Street, a building impossible to overlook with its wrap-around porches, three stories and solid demeanor.
"The initial attraction was the building itself," Nevin said.
Five years ago, he tried to buy it, but the transaction fell through. It was just as well, he said. He wasn't exactly sure what he wanted to do with the place back then, and, anyway, the global economy was about to endure a severe pummeling, one that would lower the price of the property.
In 2010, the Charleston Creative Parliament, an affiliation of creative types, published an assessment of the Charleston area's "creative economy" that counted up the workforce and economic impact.
The report concluded that 27,000 creative jobs generated $1.4 billion in revenue, that "creative industries" were a major employer, and that the creative economy offered wages somewhat higher than the average hourly wage in the metropolitan area.
"That was when the light bulb went off," Nevin said.
The building had been built by Exxon in 1926 as offices for its employees at what was once a bulk terminal transfer site, where fuel was pumped to local industry. But it occurred to Nevin that 1600 Meeting really was meant for another purpose: to house creative entrepreneurs who, because of this clustering of the like-minded, might be especially creative and especially entrepreneurial. They might collaborate. They might inspire one another.
"At about the same time, the broker called back saying the issues (that had prevented the first sale attempt) were resolved," Nevin said.
In recent months, he's been working with Exxon and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to arrange for the removal of the top layers of dirt on the site that are tainted by the past. The project should take about two weeks and likely will start by the beginning of June. Then comes the renovation.
The building is structurally sound, Nevin said. It just needs a good cleaning and build-out. The existing interior layout will not change. A couple of nonweight-bearing walls will come down to create two large loft spaces that accommodate anchor tenants. Natural light is abundant.
The cheap floor tile will get scraped off and the concrete underneath will be buffed to a shine, adding a contemporary industrial feel. The duct work will be exposed. A lounge area and general meeting room by the front door will be available to all.
Word of mouth already has buzzed about Charleston's creative community, and a dozen or so potential tenants — artists, artisans and entrepreneurs — have signed letters of intent. The building likely will house an interior design company, a nonprofit or two, a tech company, clothing designer, masseuse, photographer and architect.
A group called Enough Pie, which spun out from the 1600 Meeting Street concept and includes Kate Nevin on its board, will be located there. Enough Pie is working to stimulate the growth of the creative community in this part of the city.
Shifting borders
Cortney Bishop Design will occupy one of the outbuildings.
Bishop said a lot of the creative types are looking to get out of downtown, where traffic, congestion and high rents have a tendency to impede their success.
"We need space and light and creative energy," she said. And that can be achieved, in part, by bringing people together and fostering collaboration.
The tenants of 1600 Meeting Street will work together by day, but they also will sip cocktails together after hours, they will socialize together, they will talk.
Bishop came to Charleston from Knoxville, Tenn., first in 2002 but couldn't establish her footing.
"It was very, very difficult to find a job, and I had to leave," she said. Things are different now. "There's just been a complete turnaround mentally."
The creative entrepreneurs are achieving a critical mass, she said. And one sees the effects in certain metropolitan pockets such as Park Circle, which she called the Brooklyn of Charleston.
The recent redevelopment of the upper peninsula indicates how the city's unofficial commercial border has shifted toward the actual municipal border, Bishop said. And this in turn suggests that a broader linkage is possible between clusters of creative communities throughout the region.
Cortney Bishop Design will relocate in October, Bishop hopes, from its current Princess Street location downtown. The new studio will not be a traditional showroom, she said. "I have in mind a work-in-progress space," an inviting room in which people can see her small staff in action, designing furniture, fabrics and accessories.
"Room to dream and room to grow, that's what we're really interested in," Bishop said. "We will definitely try to promote the people we love."
Food and more
Tara Derr Webb and her husband, Leighton Webb, have developed a new restaurant concept that will take shape at 1600 Meeting Street. Their enterprise is called the Farmbar and it's a combo food establishment, retail operation and club.
The Webbs are renovating a 1949 Spartan trailer that will be installed on a small lot on the property, along with a 30-foot-long communal oak table, huge outdoor grill, two shipping containers transformed into retail space and a few other accoutrements, Tara Derr Webb said.
Fresh seafood will come from Bull's Bay. GrowFood Carolina will provide sourced produce and meats from local farmers.
The project is the result of an ambitious life-change. The Webbs, quintessentially urban, former residents of London and Los Angeles, relocated recently to their Deux Puces farm in Awendaw, where they grow vegetables and enjoy milking their goats. One of the animals, Mavis, has become a mascot.
The Spartan trailer will feature a small, fixed, daily menu, but the project also will offer regular "pop-ups," or impromptu eating events, at 1600 Meeting Street and elsewhere.
Interested in buying linens or crafts? Check out the shop in one of the containers. Looking for local produce or fine periodicals? To the container you should go. Organic cheese? Check. Wines from Bonny Doon? Yup. Goat milk soap? Of course.
The enterprise also will feature the work of emerging and established local artists. The whole thing is not at all like a food stand or standard retail operation. It's carefully "curated," Derr Webb, said.
The idea had been brewing for six years, and the Webbs had been considering the upper peninsula already. They had driven by 1600 Meeting Street purposefully, transfixed by the potential of the place, Derr Webb said.
When they encountered Lindsay and Kate Nevin at a Pecha Kucha event three years ago, Lindsay was describing his plans for the big brick building in the weeds and, well, that was it, the Webbs were hooked.
"Their vision just spoke to me," Derr Webb said. "Finally, an opportunity to work with true collaborators!"
She is not shy about calling this initiative part of a "movement" and encouraging Charleston area residents to join it. This is likely to be an impetus for additional creative entrepreneurship, she said.
"Hopefully, in the long term, it will create more integrated diversity," she said. "It will bring (the area) back to life in a very thoughtful and respectful way."
'The way people work'
Lindsay Nevin, who runs a comprehensive real estate company called Flyway, is in a good position to renovate and manage 1600 Meeting Street.
The building likely will host an art show produced by Enough Pie before the renovation begins this summer. Then all those letters of intent will become actual leases, and the building's tenants will establish the first creative colony on the city's upper peninsula.
Tenant artists will display their work on the walls. Four Barrel coffee, imported from San Francisco, sold by the Farmbar and sweetened with local honey, will provide the necessary caffeine. And this clustering of creative types will engender the de-velopment of other good ideas. Or at least make for a pretty fun work environment.
"The way people work is continuing to change," Nevin said. "And we feel this is just part of that evolution."
Reach Adam Parker at 937-5902. Follow him at www.facebook.com/aparkerwriter.
Lindsay Nevin of Flyway purchased 1600 Meeting Street and hopes to populate it with creative entrepreneurs.×
The Webbs' Spartan trailer at rest on Deux Puces Farm.×
The Farmbar's Tara Derr Webb and baby goat Hushpuppy.×
The entrance into 1600 Meeting Street that is now under new ownership.×
Lindsay Nevin at the 1600 Meeting Street building.×
Lindsay Nevin purchased 1600 Meeting Street — the main building (pictured) and two smaller outbuildings — with the intention of renovating the complex and turning it into a hub of creative activity and entrepreneurship.×
Lindsay Nevin looks over the interior of 1600 Meeting Street, which will be renovated.×


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Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! The first true taste of winter arrived for parts of the viewing area on Sunday. Wet snow blanketed western and northern counties Sunday morning providing the first measurable snow to many in nearly 280 days! In this blog we look at the locations that recorded snow, and others still waiting for measurable snow.
To track the rain, mix, or snow anywhere just click on our interactive radar here.
Let's start with the first snowman photo I have seen this winter season! The wet-sticky snow in Slinger was perfect for the Grotenhuis family to make this snowman.
Again northern and western counties will continue to be the favored location Sunday afternoon and evening. The photo below shows a winter wonderland in Beaver Dam, thank you to Lana Raffensperger for sharing!
Areas well inland will continue to be favored for snow throughout Sunday. The forecast snowfall graphic below shows the highest totals in northern and western locations, with little to no snow accumulation expected near Lake Michigan through Waukesha and Walworth counties. Even locations in the 1"-2" band that clip Waukesha, Jefferson, Ozaukee, and Rock counties may see less than 1" of snow. Determining the rain/snow line in these situations is tough to say the least, but this is a good estimate.
As colder air wraps in to the departing storm system snow showers and flurries will be likely Sunday night into Monday. The RPM computer model forecast shows snow showers across southern Wisconsin around 9am Monday morning. A light dusting of snow is possible in a few spots.
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