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CORNING, N.Y. (AP) — The chief executive and chairman of Corning Inc. saw his pay package rise by 19.6 percent last year, as the specialty glassmaker benefited from surging demand for ultra-thin glass used in television monitors, smart phones and touch-screen tablets.
Wendell Weeks, 51, received total compensation valued at $9.35 million in 2010, up from $7.82 million the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of a proxy statement filed Monday.
His base salary of $1.07 million rose 3.8 percent from the previous year. But his combined performance-based cash bonus and stock and options awards jumped 22.6 percent to $7.85 million, from $6.4 million in 2009.
Weeks became CEO in April 2005. He succeeded James Houghton, the patriarch of the company that his great-great-grandfather founded in 1851.
Weeks' pay package included a performance-based cash bonus of $6.72 million, and options awards valued at $1.13 million. It also comprised $429,114 in perquisites, or "perks," up 12.2 percent from 2009. They included a retirement plan contribution totaling $178,715; $149,296 for home and personal security; and $85,241 for the personal use of company aircraft.
Weeks earned a performance-based annual cash bonus of $2.2 million in 2010 and a $4.5 million long-term incentive award to be paid in 2013. His 2009 compensation was restated from $10.8 million to $7.8 million because it included a $3 million performance bonus that had not yet been achieved.
Corning's net income surged 77 percent last year to $3.56 billion from $2 billion in 2009. Revenue climbed 23 percent to $6.6 billion from $5.4 billion. It expects its annual sales to grow to $10 billion by 2014.
The Associated Press formula is designed to isolate the value the company's board placed on the executive's total compensation package during the last fiscal year. It includes salary, bonus, performance-related bonuses, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, making the AP total different in most cases than the total reported by companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Corning is the world's largest maker of liquid-crystal-display glass for flat-screen televisions and computers, accounting for more than 60 percent of the market. LCD glass is its biggest business by far. Corning also makes ceramic auto-pollution filters and is the world's largest producer of optical fiber and cable. It employs 26,000 people.
Corning shares edged up 1 cent in 2010 to finish at $19.32. The stock was up 6 cents Monday afternoon at $21.37.


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Arc Angles: Optimizing Tonearm Geometry Page 5
Far better is the two-point protractor (fig.9). Usually, this exploits the fact that there are two zero-tracking-error radii across the disc, and that these are independent of arm length. The latter factor is vital, as it makes the two-point protractor a universal device. In use, the stylus is placed first at one zero-tracking-error radius, then the other, and the overhang and offset adjusted systematically until the cartridge sides align with the setting lines at both points. It is fiddlier than the single-point protractor and requires a little thought from its user, but it has at least the potential for setting both overhang and offset at their optimum values.
Of course, this assumes that the two zero-tracking-error radii are correctly chosen, which often is not the case. If you have a two-point protractor, check them carefully with an accurate ruler. For a modulated-groove-radius range of 56146.3mm, they should be at 61.6 and 118.4mm; or, for 58146.3mm, at 63.6 and 119.6mm. If you don't have a two-point protractor, or you do but it has the wrong zero-tracking-error radii, a Windows utility called ArmGeometer, available from the freeware page of my website, will draw a two-point protractor for you, and perform other alignment calculations besides.
The two-point alignment protractor is an excellent deviceor would be if only it were easier to set cartridge offset more accurately than is generally the case. Many pickup arms' headshells obscure the cartridge sides, and we have even been regaled on occasions with cartridges having nonstraight, nonparallel sides, and even circular cross sections. As a result, accurately setting the offset is usually the biggest challenge in achieving optimum alignment.
Decades ago, I suggested a simple solution that fell on deaf ears. If I ruled the world, every pickup cartridge would be supplied with a simple, lightweight, clip-on device that, while allowing the stylus to be placed accurately on an alignment protractor, would project long straight edges, parallel to the cartridge front-back axis, to either side of the headshell, where they could be easily checked against long setting lines. If widely adopted, this one innovation would do more for the cause of accurate arm/cartridge alignment than a whole host of costly aftermarket alignment tools, which, whatever their accuracy (an issue I don't intend to get into), will only ever be deployed by a minority of LP users.
Of course, we depend in all this on the generator mechanism within the cartridge being very accurately aligned within the cartridge bodybut then, all alignment devices presume that. Whether this trusting assumption is justified is not something I have ever seen investigated, and it wouldn't be an easy job. But the findings would make very interesting reading.
The surest way to achieve accurate arm/cartridge alignment would be to measure cartridge second-harmonic distortion vs groove radius. Curve-fitting software could then analyze the result and specify the required overhang and offset adjustments. This wouldn't just require special software: a special test disc would also be necessary, with an assurance that it had been cut with a meticulously aligned cutting head. Although software is available (Adjust+ from www.adjustplus.de) that assists cartridge-azimuth alignment and has various other features, it doesn't help with overhang and offset adjustment. Even if you'd be prepared to go to all this trouble, don't hold your breath.
Optimal or Not?
In all that has gone before, we have assumed that the Löfgren-Baerwald approach of minimizing the maximum LTE distortion across the modulated extent of the groove is indeed the optimal one. But there is good reason to suppose that it isn't, because lateral-tracking-error distortion is only one form of distortion afflicting vinyl-disc replay. Another source of distortion is tracing error, caused by the replay stylus being unable to follow the same path through the groove as the cutting stylus. In large part this is a function of the shape of the replay stylus, and depends critically on groove curvature. Because of this, tracing distortion worsens toward the end of a record side, as the waveform cut into the disc bunches up.
Although tracking-error and tracing-error distortions are different, there is clearly a case for supposing that, as tracing error increases toward the end of the side, tracking error should decrease. In this case, the optimal arm/cartridge alignment might be one that results in a distortion-vs-groove-radius curve like that in fig.10. But as tracing error differs according to stylus type, this approach also suggests that arm/cartridge alignment should vary accordingly, with a bigger disparity from the conventional alignment for a conical stylus than a line-contact stylus. The concept of a single "right" alignment would then be redundant.
I'm not aware of anyone having experimented with this approach, but if someone out there has, I'd be very interested to hear of their findings. As already alluded to, Löfgren suggested an alternative alignment in his 1938 paper, which Dennes calls Löfgren B, but its raison d'être is different. It gives the result shown in fig.11, from which you can see that it lowers distortion over the middle portion of the disc at the expense of higher distortion toward either groove extreme, particularly the end of the disc sidean approach that just doesn't make sense to me.
But I expect Löfgren would be amused to know that, more than 70 years after the publication of his paper, we still agonize over this issue.

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'Hannibal' Cast Contracts Expire, Complicating Revival Possibilities
Posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 by Russ Fischer
It is probably too much to expect that a streaming service will swoop in to save Hannibal. We know Netflix is out, thanks to deals with other companies. Amazon already has streaming rights to the first three seasons (the first two are streaming now, the third eventually will be, after broadcast) seems like the most likely home. In fact, that Amazon deal may make Amazon nearly the only possible contender. And with NBC out of the picture, even that deal will be complicated.
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Ranbaxy drops nearly 3% on recall of Atorvastatin from US
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Ranbaxy Laboratories, one of the leading pharma players, plunged nearly 3% on Friday after it has recalled Atorvastatin from the USA market. This will cause temporary disruption to that market of this product, it said.
''The investigation with regard to the same of this issue is expected to be completed within two weeks and thereafter the company expects to resume supplies,'' the company said. Shares ofthe companyare trading at Rs 498, down Rs 14.7, or 2.87% at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Friday at 1:22 p.m.The scrip has touched an intra-day high of Rs 514.95 and low of Rs 495.60. The total volume of shares traded at the BSE is 113,773.In the earlier session, the shares declined 0.92%, or Rs 4.75, at Rs 512.70. Currently, the stock is trading down 13.89% from its 52-week high of Rs 578.30 and above 35.88% over the 52-week low of Rs 366.50.Share Price Movement Period Pricein Rs Gain/(Loss) in Rs in % 1 Week 521.35 (8.65) (1.66) 1 Month 540.00 (27.30) (5.06) 3 Months 549.80 (37.10) (6.75) 6 Months 530.30 (17.60) (3.32) 1 Year 428.95 83.75 19.52 Note: Based on previous day closing price.
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State police in York County have taken an escaped prisoner into custody in Hopewell Township, York County.
The sister of Kenneth Farrell, 29, told News 8 she called police Monday morning in connection with stolen prescription drugs.
When officers arrived, they learned Farrell was wanted on Maryland warrants for burglary and theft.
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2007-12-05 | So this is goodbye - HMS dies a pleasant death
Like with breaking up, I wish I had something smart to say. Actually, I just wish I had anything to say.
Facing the truth is not always pleasant. But it has to be done.
I faced the truth. At least I hope I did.
I need to get away from music for a while. I need to explore somthing new. I have a couple of movies I always wanted to see. There are a few cities longing for me.
Not that HMS has been taking to much time. It's just always been there, asking for something. Like a black hole.
HMS died in it's sleep.
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Former Miss USA Rima Fakih may be adding an unfortunate new title to her roster: defendant.
Fakih, 26, who captured the Miss USA crown in 2010, is facing drunken driving charges after a weekend arrest in Highland Park, Mich.
Fakih Tweeted on Saturday: "Let's clear things up now. ... I'm NOT in Michigan and I'm NOT in jail! Wrong Fakih." But the post has since been removed, and on Sunday her attorney Doraid Elder confirmed the arrest.
Elder had few details of the arrest but said Fakih's record "has not a single blemish," adding that the beauty queen is "very saddened and very apologetic for the situation that she's in right now."
In May 2010 Fakih became the first Miss Michigan to win the Miss USA title since 1993 and the first Arab American ever to win the pageant. She competed for Miss Universe later that year but lost.
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A Q School Tale - Richard Lee
The saying goes that "Q School is about stories," and one of them in 2011 has to be the pep talk Richard H. Lee received from his wife after a fourth-round 78 during the six-round grind in early December in La Quinta, Calif.
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"I was pretty bummed out," said Lee, who appeared to have fallen out of contention in the 160-man field after the 6-over score put him at 2-over for the tournament with two rounds left. "When I shot 78 I almost started to believe I had no chance. My wife said, 'I believe in miracles . . . It's not over until it's over.' "
Christine Lee, the woman Lee married when he was only 18, turned out to be correct. "She's the one who kept me in it," he said after attending a two-day PGA Tour orientation program for rookies the week following Q School.
Lee bounced back to shoot 65 on Sunday and followed that with a final-round 68 on Monday. After carding a 1-over 37 on his front nine - the back nine at the PGA West Stadium Course, Lee fired an eagle and three birdies on his final five holes for a 5-under 31 on the inward half.
Lee eagled the par-5 fifth hole (his 14th), then sank a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-3 sixth. "That's when I told myself, 'I might have a chance.' "
The feeling was reinforced when camera crews showed up on the next hole. "I figured I've got to be close," he recalled.
Lee, who said he was "getting in the zone," didn't seek specifics of where he stood in the field and just concentrated on each shot. After sinking an 8-footer on the 18th for his final birdie, he was told he had qualified for his PGA Tour card but had to ask in the scoring tent, "What did I shoot?"
The answer was 68, which put him into a tie for 24th. Because the top-25 finishers and ties get Tour cards, the three golfers who tied a stroke behind him at 424 also wound up smiling. Lee's victory celebration included hugs with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, Israella.
Last year, the ex-Washington Husky missed getting his card by a stroke. He played this year on the Nationwide Tour and calls falling short at the 2010 Q School "a blessing in disguise."
"Last year, I don't think I would have been ready for the big tour," he admitted. He said the year on the Nationwide Tour taught him things on and off the course, including travel skills. "I'm not scared or nervous about it," he said of the PGA Tour. "I'm ready for it."
Lee's route to the PGA Tour as a Q School graduate is less convoluted than his route to becoming a Washington Husky. Obsessed with golf, he dropped out of Newport High School in Bellevue, Wash., as a sophomore and went to the Philippines to train under a friend on the Asian Tour.
But after two years, he was homesick. "I missed home, missed school, missed my friends," he said.
He returned home but had fallen behind in school. His former classmates were no longer his classmates. He dropped out and successfully pursued a GED (high-school equivalency certificate) and played golf for Bellevue College (formerly Bellevue Community College).
With performances such as a third-round 62 that propelled him to victory in the 2008 Washington State Amateur at Moses Pointe outside Moses Lake, it was obvious that the 5-foot-9, 170-pounder had the distance and touch to be a top-level college golfer right away.
He played two seasons for the Huskies, earning All-America honors in 2010 and playing on two Pac-10 championship teams. Lee sank the winning putt for the Huskies' 2010 conference championship and was the regional medalist at the 2010 NCAA Championships. But he was overshadowed by teammate Nick Taylor, who won the Ben Hogan Award, college golf's version of the Heisman Trophy.
The 24-year-old Lee is now a resident of Scottsdale. He finished 37th on the Nationwide Tour money list this year, earning $143,243. Fans sometimes confuse him with Richard T. Lee, a Canadian from Vancouver, B.C., who is best known for qualifying for the 2007 U.S. Open when he was only 16.
The ex-Husky, who got a degree in Sociology at the UW, was runner-up in a Nationwide tournament in Mexico and had six other top-25 finishes this year. The top-25 players on the final money list "graduate" to the PGA Tour. With that door closed, Lee entered through the other door - PGA Tour Qualifying School - but only after what he calls "a roller-coaster week."
Q School is misnamed because it has nothing to do with schooling. The name refers to the era many decades ago when it was actually part of a "school" where players sat in classes and heard lectures on rules, etiquette and teaching techniques.
In his "Tales from Q School," author John Feinstein wrote: "The argument can be made that there are more legendary tales attached to the PGA Tour's Qualifying School than to any other event in golf. This may explain why players refer to it as the fifth major."
Feinstein also wrote: "Q School is not a place anyone wants to go back to, but most players will tell you they're glad they had the experience at least once." He quotes Steve Pate as saying, "Have you ever encountered a player who told you he didn't have a Q School story?"
Lee certainly now has one.
Craig Smith (aka "Sideline Smitty") is a retired Seattle Times sportswriter and was at the newspaper for 32 years. Golf was among his beats from 1995 until he retired in December 2008. His interest in golf started in the mid-1950s when he caddied at Inglewood Country Club in Kenmore, Wash. After graduating from Bothell High School, he attended the University of Washington where he became editor of the UW Daily and graduated in journalism. After a stint in the domestic Peace Corps (VISTA - Volunteers In Service to America), he worked as a reporter for the Charleston, W. Va. Gazette, Seattle P-I, Associated Press, Fairbanks News-Miner (where he switched from news to sports) and the Seattle Times. He lives in Kirkland, Wash. He and his wife, Julie, have two adult sons and a spoiled Springer spaniel named "Buck."
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NVIDIA Announces Tegra 4i Processor, Aiming To Make 1080p And LTE Affordable
NVIDIA came to play today, in a day that will be filled with announcements, by letting their Tegra 4i and i500 modem out of the bag officially. The NVIDIA i500 modem was previewed at CES and officially announced today, but the Tegra 4i is the real potential game changer. The Tegra 4i will be NVIDIA's first integrated Tegra LTE processor and is… Read more


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National Science Foundation, USC film school partner
The National Science Foundation and USC's School of Cinematic Arts have launched a partnership aimed at improving the relationship between science and showbiz.
The Creative Science Studio will begin operations in the fall at the USC film school. Partnership was announced in San Diego at the annual meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. Theme of the confab was "Bridging Science and Society."
Film school dean Elizabeth M. Daley and NSF director Arden Bement disclosed details at the confab, accompanied by director-producer Ron Howard, Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, National Science Board vice chair Patricia Galloway and Kalpen Modi, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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A Spring Equinox Ritual
A typescript of an early Spring Equinox ritual has survived, taped inside one of Ronald White's notebooks. It is most likely the ritual that was composed for the Regency's first Spring Equinox meeting, in 1967. It was certainly composed no later than 1968, since after that date, the Regency rituals were held in the open air (except for the Candlemas ritual).
The ritual is similar to the Spring Equinox ritual described in the New Pagan's Handbook, but there are some significant differences.
The typescript includes an invocation to the Goddess, which was delivered by the women.
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More Notes on Yule
I shall not be able to post anything this coming Wednesday, owing to pressure of work. I hope to be able to post more material next Sunday, 7th December.
When I posted the Christmas Play last week I noted that it was headed with a '3', and commented that pages 1 and 2 were lost. It turns out I was wrong: looking at a couple of pages headed 'The Midwinter Festival of Yule', I discovered that the second page was numbered '2', and that the last paragraph mentions the Christmas play in a way that makes it clear that this short essay is intended as an introduction to it.
These sheets are a carbon copy. At one point a passage a couple of lines long has been overtyped on the master copy, and part of this cannot be deciphered.
As I said in my comments on the Christmas Play, I think this material shows Chalky at quite an early stage of working out his system.
The Midwinter Festival of Yule
J. G. Frazer in The Golden Bough notes the pagan origin of Christmas: "It was a custom of the heathen to celebrate on the 25th December the birthday of the sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. Accordingly when the doctors of the Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival, they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be solemnised on that day … Augustine exhorts his Christian brethren not to celebrate that solemn day like the heathen on account of the sun, but on account of him who made the sun." (p. 472). Frazer argues (pp. 833 & 842) "If the heathen of ancient Europe celebrated, as we have good reason to believe, the season of Midsummer with a great festival of fire, of which the traces have survived in many places, it is natural to suppose that they should also have observed with similar rites the corresponding season of Midwinter; for Midsummer and Midwinter, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, are the two great turning points in the sun's apparent course through the sky, and from the standpoint of primitive man nothing might seem more appropriate than to kindle fires on earth at the two moments when the fire and heat of the great luminary in heaven begin to wane or to wax … Indeed with respect to Midwinter celebration of Christmas we are left to conjecture; we know from the express testimony of the ancients that it was instituted by the church to supersede an old heathen festival of the birth of the sun, which was apparently conceived to be born again on the shortest day of the year, after which his light and heat were seen to grow till they attained their full maturity at Midsummer … In modern Christendom the ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice appears to survive, or to have survived down to recent years, in the old custom of the Yule log."
But there are other elements to this pagan festival which are not fully drawn out by Frazer who mentions the general and widespread worship of the sacred oak but fails to pursue the question of why the Yule log is invariably oak.
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Chalky seems to have winnowed his early papers fairly thoroughly, and not a lot has survived. I conclude therefore that what remains is material to which he attached some value. This 'Christmas Play' is a carbon copy on a single sheet headed '3.'. Sheets 1 and 2 have not turned up.
The use of the word 'Christmas' in place of 'Yule' indicates that this is a very early attempt by Chalky to devise a seasonal ritual. It is not known whether it was ever performed.
The words to the song 'Lord of the Dance' were written by Sydney Carter in 1963 to a traditional Shaker hymn tune. It became extremely popular quite quickly, and was widely used, for instance, in school assemblies. Chalky was fond of this hymn, and it was sung at his funeral in its original, Christian form.
A Christmas Play
Part One is solemn:
The oak king dressed in oak leaves is beaten with holly clubs. A branch is chopped down (the beheading) and carried to the fireplace which should have bright (paper) flames. A wren (Bran's sparrow) flies out of the oak and hides in an ivy bush. A robin flies out of the holly tree and chases the wren.


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Elizabeth has worked in the administration of the Seminary since 2003.
Her daily Seminary work entails inscriptions, archives, keeping records, photocopying and running the library. Besides being active in her local church in leading worship, she oversees the children's work and the young people and she believes that what she does in the SEB is a ministry given to her by the Lord 'in order to serve. God has given me a certain trust as other Christians come to study. They share not only their experiences but their problems and I counsel them. Even unbelievers come and I share the Gospel of Christ with them. Some have gone as a result to my church'.
Her church is Casa de Oracion (House of Prayer) Baptist Church in Tacna and she came to faith when eleven years of age. Elizabeth's real decision to follow the Lord, she confesses, happened on the 1st December 1995 while studying in university in Tacna. She studied Mathematics and Physics and graduated in 1998 with a degree of Bachelor of Education.
Elizabeth is a graduate of both the Seminary and of the University of Wales, lampeter (Postgraduate Diploma in Theology), Elizabeth successfully completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Theology through the University of Wales and her Master of Arts degree in Theology in the University of Chester in 2011.
Elizabeth was born in Tacna in 1975. Her parents are Marcelino and Jovita and she has an older sister called Janet and younger brothers Freddy, Julie, Jakelin and Joel.
Elizabeth has enjoyed her studies in the newly formed SEB from 2000 onwards and her more-than ten years in her post in the SEB. She has felt it a privilege to teach in the women's course in the SEB. Life is busy for Elizabeth as she helps at every level in her own Baptist denomination in Tacna, all the way from her local church to the administrative level of the 12 Iglesias Unidas Bautistas (The United Baptist Churches) of Tacna. Youth ministry, discipleship training and music are her main areas of responsibility. The churches are growing and she loves to work with her own brother Freddy Omar in mobilising and training leaders to evangelize.
Elizabeth states: 'God opened the door for me and I did not know what more he had in store for me. He continued to open other doors for me both in my church and in the SEB. I am so grateful to the Lord and for the help that came from his people. God always has plans for us and it is incredible to see how he works. He has led me into his service both here and in my church. I cannot wait to see what more he has planned for me ahead'.
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IT IS a terrible irony that both the spending at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla residence and the details of how the R206m was spent is being kept secret under an apartheid-era statute that survives on the statute book of a democratic South Africa.
It is reminiscent of how Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe used pre-independence emergency laws to silence political opposition to his rule.
Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe, State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa clearly meant for their news conference last weekend to lay to rest the matter of spending on Mr Zuma's private home. Instead it has raised a furious response from across the spectrum, including the African National Congress's alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).
By invoking the National Key Points Act for the secrecy around the security upgrade on the property, they might have created still more problems for the president.
The Right2Know campaign says of this law: "The National Key Points Act provides wide-ranging and seldom-scrutinised powers to the minister of police to arbitrarily declare all sorts of places — from the president's home to the Durban harbour — as national key points where constitutional rights to freedom of expression and access to information are all severely restricted or no longer apply.
"The Right2Know Campaign believes that in all probability this law is unconstitutional and has provided too much cover to politicians and officials who want to abuse 'national security' imperatives to protect themselves and their actions from public scrutiny.
"In fact, the law has been so widely and secretly employed since 1994 that it is virtually impossible for the general public to know which places have been declared national key points. The practical effect of this is that the full list of key points has itself become a secret!"
Another key issue relating to the act, identified by Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko, is that section 3 of the Act stipulates that the homeowner is liable for the cost of any security upgrade. It provides that the ministers of police and defence determine how much is to be paid back to the state.
She said: "In light of the now confirmed excessive expenditure of R206m on his private residence in Nkandla, with some R71m being for security alone, it is essential that the government move quickly to prove to South Africa that they will not treat Zuma differently under the law."
The news conference has also spawned a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to get at the report of Nxesi's task team that investigated the security upgrade.
Nxesi said the report would not be made public but would be supplied to law enforcement agencies to investigate possible criminal acts in the procurement process at Nkandla.
Should the application be refused, as is most likely, court action could follow to force the minister to release the report. Given the huge amount of public money involved, the courts could take a dim view of Mr Nxesi keeping the report under wraps.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela and auditor-general Terence Nombembe are also still busy with investigations into the Nkandla spending. Madonsela's investigation is expected within a few months.
Advocate Paul Hoffman, from the Institute of Accountability in Southern Africa, noted that the news conference indicated only junior officials would be held to account.
"Now that we know there were irregularities and can see that it's obvious that operational requirements of over R100m need explaining, it is appropriate to allow the public protector the time and resources to objectively investigate what went on in Nkandla," he said.
Right2Know also observed that in 2006 "the Department of Public Works used the (the National Key Points) Act to prevent information from being disclosed to the public about an alleged R90m wall around then President Thabo Mbeki's official residence in Pretoria".
"However," Right2Know said, "the National Key Points Act has been used to prevent accountability in the private sector as well: for example, activists in Durban have a long-running struggle to get information from the Engen Refinery in south Durban — although there are many concerns about the environmental risks posed by the refinery, its status as a national key point has been used to block requests for information, and photographers trying to document environmental hazards at the site have been chased away."
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Mazher Mahmood
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Mazher Mahmood (born 22 March 1963) is an undercover reporter for the British tabloid press. He spent 20 years working for the News of the World (and for The Sunday Times)[1] during which time he was responsible for numerous investigations,[2] including a reputed 94 that led to convictions.[3] Later, from its foundation in 2012, he worked for the The Sun on Sunday, successor to the News of the World.
He won Reporter of the Year again in 2011, as well as Scoop of the Year, for an investigation of cricket match-fixing. He also picked up the Sports Journalists' Association award in 2011 for the same story.
In July 2014, Mahmood was suspended from The Sun on Sunday after a trial collapsed against former X Factor judge and singer Tulisa Contostavlos with concerns voiced by a judge that Mahmood may have perjured himself. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently announced its intention to review more than 30 criminal trials in which he gave evidence.[4]
Mahmood became known popularly as the "fake sheikh" because he has often posed as a sheikh in the course of his investigations. In addition to numerous highly regarded public interest investigations, he has attracted allegations of breaking the law without any clear public interest justification, including several episodes in which he has been accused of entrapment.[5]
In September 2008, he wrote a book entitled Confessions of a Fake Sheik [sic] – The King of the Sting Reveals All.[2]
Despite his efforts at keeping his appearance secret, several news organisations have published photos of him, including BBC News,[6] The Guardian,[7] and the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet.[8]
- 1 Background and career
- 2 Political subjects
- 3 September 2004 terrorist plot
- 4 Sports celebrity subjects
- 5 Royal targets
- 6 Drugs
- 7 Criticism
- 8 CPS probe
- 9 Awards
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Background and career[edit]
Mazher Mahmood was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, on 22 March 1963, the second of two sons of Sultan and Shamim Mahmood, journalists from Pakistan who came to Britain three years earlier.[9]
Mahmood first gained employment as a journalist at the age of 18, exposing family friends who sold pirate videos. This gained him two weeks work at the News of the World, after which he started freelancing at the Sunday People. In 1984, while trying with fellow journalist Roger Insall to expose a vice-ring at the Metropole Hotel at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, he first used the sheikh disguise when inviting prostitutes to a hotel room.[10]
Mahmood then worked for The Sunday Times, which according to the International Herald Tribune he joined in 1989. A managing editor at that time, Roy Greenslade, later alleged that he was dismissed for trying to cover up a mistake.[9][11][12] Mahmood has consistently disputed Greenslade's version of events. Mahmood then briefly worked as a producer on David Frost's TV-am programme,[9] before joining the News of the World in 1991.[2]
Mahmood maintains high levels of secrecy, and says he rarely goes into the News International offices. It is said that written into his contract is a clause stating that his photograph would not be published. When featured in images that accompany his stories, he has been represented with a silhouette next to his byline.[13]
In addition to his "Fake Sheikh" persona, Mahmood has used the identity of businessman Sam Fernando.[14] He is reputed to be accompanied on occasions by a bodyguard, said to be his second cousin Mahmood Qureshi, who has posed as businessman Pervaiz Khan.[15] Conrad Brown, the son of former NoW reporter Gerry Brown, operates the concealed video cameras and microphones.[16]
Political subjects[edit]
George Galloway[edit]
On 30 March 2006 Respect politician George Galloway said that Mahmood, using his "fake sheikh" disguise and working for the News of the World, attempted to trap him in an sting operation at a meeting in the Dorchester Hotel with businessmen from the middle east.[17] Galloway said he had put off the meeting for several weeks and was suspicious from the beginning. Of the men, he wrote on his website that "neither of the two looked at all like an Islamist (which is what they later claimed to be); neither had a beard".[18]
Galloway said that Mahmood tried but failed to implicate him in illegal party funding, and to agree with antisemitic statements.[19][20] The News of the World admitted their journalist had been present, but asserted that he had involved in "wholly legitimate inquiries."[21] Mahmood himself denied the use of antisemitic comments.[21] Media commentator Roy Greenslade accused Mahmood and the NOtW, in its use of "subterfuge", of adopting practices which "debase journalism."[22]
Galloway wrote to Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner and Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons about the incident. He also released photographs of Mahmood on the internet, distributed the images to other MPs and the Royal family,[23] and revealed other aspects of Mahmood's activities.[20][24] The News of the World lost a High Court action to prevent publication of photographs of Mahmood.[25]
In his letter to the Speaker's office, Galloway also claimed that Mahmood had in the past deceived Diane Abbott and had sought a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn, both also prominent anti-war MPs.[26][27]
The News of the World tried to secure a High Court injunction preventing publication of photographs of Mahmood, even on weblogs, but were granted only a temporary injunction, which expired on 7 April 2006.[28]
Other politicians featured in Mahmood's investigations included Minister David Mellor, who had resigned following an affair and the revelation of the unwise acceptance of the gift of a holiday,[29] and Environment Minister Tim Yeo who was revealed to have fathered a child outside his marriage.[30]
He has repeatedly entered the UK using fake passports to highlight allegedly lax immigration rules. Corrupt Home Office officials and police officers; solicitors and crooked doctors have also been targets.[10]
September 2004 terrorist plot[edit]
In September 2004, he posed as a Muslim extremist to "expose" three men who were trying to buy radioactive material for a suspected Muslim terrorist group seeking to carry out attacks in the United Kingdom. However, the men were later found not guilty following a trial at the Old Bailey, with the judge criticising the News of the World for not checking the credibility of the story.[31][32]
Sports celebrity subjects[edit]
Mahmood won the "Reporter of the Year" award in 1999 for his exposé of Newcastle United bosses Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall, who mocked fans and branded Geordie women "dogs" after taking Mahmood, posing as the sheikh, to a brothel in Marbella.[33]
Footballer John Fashanu was exposed for match fixing. Fashanu offered to fix matches for Mahmood and took a cash deposit. Fashanu claimed that he knew about the sting all along and was only appearing to be corrupt so as to gather evidence for the police.[34]
In January 2006, Mahmood met England head coach Sven-Göran Eriksson, posing as a businessman interested in opening a sports academy. Eriksson, however, asked him to take over Aston Villa F.C., and revealed that he intended to leave England after the World Cup to become Aston Villa manager, and that he would approach David Beckham from Real Madrid to become captain. On 23 January, the Football Association announced that Eriksson would leave his job after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and it was thought that the News of the World allegations played a part in this decision.[35] This was later denied by both parties, with Eriksson explaining that there was a prior arrangement to terminate his contract immediately after the World Cup.
In May 2010, Mahmood exposed World Snooker Champion John Higgins and his agent Pat Mooney for apparently agreeing to fix the outcome of future individual frames which would not necessarily alter the course of a match. Meeting in a hotel room in Kiev, Ukraine, on the morning of Friday 30 April, where Higgins and his manager had travelled after his exit from the 2010 World Championship, to ostensibly meet the undercover News of the World team the newspaper described as men posing as businessmen interested in organising a series of events linked to the World Series of Snooker. On video, Higgins and Mooney discussed how to throw frames. On the publication of the story on Sunday 2 May, Barry Hearn, Chairman of the WPBSA, immediately suspended Higgins from WPBSA tournaments, promising a full investigation, stating "Those responsible, if proved, will be dealt with in a very harsh and brutal way. People have a right to see pure sport – that's what I want snooker to be." Mooney resigned from his post as director of the WPBSA and was later banned from snooker management for life, following an investigation and judgement, which also resulted in John Higgins being awarded a ban and large fine.. Explaining "it is not enough to just have integrity in such a position you must also be seen to have integrity" he explained further that "this was not possible given the manner in which this allegation has been reported"[36] Higgins subsequently issued a statement denying he had ever been involved in match fixing, and said of the meeting, "I didn't know if this was the Russian mafia or who we were dealing with. At that stage I felt the best course of action was just to play along with these guys and get out of Russia".[37] Mooney also said "we were genuinely in fear for our safety".[38]
Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy[edit]
Mahmood's name came under the limelight once again when, in August 2010, he posed as an Indian businessman to expose a cricket bookie by the name of Mazhar Majeed who claimed Pakistani cricketers Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal had committed spot-fixing during Pakistan's 2010 tour of England; the team was accused of deliberately bowling three no-balls, in an incident that veteran Richie Benaud described as the most distressing revelation in his 52 years of watching cricket.[39]
Royal targets[edit]
Mahmood's targets include various society figures, including Sophie, Countess of Wessex, in 2001[40] and more recently Sarah, Duchess of York, in 2010.[41]
Mahmood reported the revelations that John Alford was supplying cocaine, for which he was imprisoned. Alford claimed entrapment and demanded Mahmood's arrest. The trial judge observed that "entrapment had clearly played a significant part in what he did, but greed had also been a major factor."[42] However, when Alford appealed to the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights, the appeals were rejected.
Mahmood's methods have often been criticised. In addition to Greenslade's campaign, politician George Galloway also sought to challenge him,[10][16][43] while some lawyers have complained that Mahmood has sometimes broken the law without clear public interest justification.[13]
In 1999, after a Mahmood investigation exposed the Earl of Hardwicke and another man as drug dealers,[44] the jury sent a note to the judge explaining that they had reached their decision to convict the two men with great reluctance. They said that they would have acquitted the defendants if the law had enabled them to take into account Mahmood's "extreme provocation" of them to sell him cocaine. The judge agreed and passed suspended sentences.[14][16]
Mahmood's only face-to-face televised interview was in 2008 with the BBC's Emily Maitlis on The Andrew Marr Show.[45]
Plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham[edit]
In 2003, Mahmood was responsible for reporting an alleged plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham to the police. The subsequent trial collapsed after it emerged that Mahmood's main informant, Florim Gashi had been paid £10,000 and could not be considered a reliable witness, and was later deported from the UK.[46][47] Judge Simon Smith referred the News of the World's role in the affair to the Attorney General.[16] One of the men involved later sued the News of the World for libel and won. The News of the World issued an apology and paid libel costs.[48][49]
Dirty bomb[edit]
In 2004, Mahmood led an investigation into exposing the creation of a dirty bomb through the supply of the fictitious substance red mercury to three men from a supposed terrorist group. Mahmood was registered as an informant for the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch during the story, which led to a criminal case prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service. The case, signed off by the Attorney General, collapsed in July 2006.[10]
Tulisa Contostavlos[edit]
On 21 July 2014 the trial of the R&B singer-songwriter and former X-Factor Judge Tulisa Contostavlos, brought about by a Mahmood drugs sting operation, collapsed.
Jeremy Dein QC, for the defence, accused Mahmood of active duplicity in some stories. To support this he called a former Mahmood associate, Florim Gashi, who told the court he helped the reporter "make up stories for his newspaper".[50]
Judge Alistair McCreath told Southwark Crown Court he thought prosecution witness Mazher Mahmood had lied in giving evidence. Explaining his decision to halt the trial Judge McCreath said: "Where there has been some aspect of the investigation or prosecution of a crime which is tainted in some way by serious misconduct to the point that the integrity of the court would be compromised by allowing the trial to go ahead, in that sense the court would be seen to be sanctioning or colluding in that sort of behaviour, then the court has no alternative but to say 'This case must go no further'."[51] The Sun on Sunday announced that Mahmood had been suspended. Mazher Mahmood posed as a film producer to Ms. Contostavlos offering her a £3.5 million deal to star in a Bollywood/ Hollywood film about a girl from the ghetto trying to become a R&B star. Mr Mahmood went to extreme lengths to entrap Ms.Contostavlos.[52]
Panorama Investigation[edit]
Mahmood was the subject of a controversial BBC television Panorama investigation. The Fake Sheikh Exposed, broadcast on 12 November 2014, was presented by John Sweeney and produced by Meirion Jones and Owen Phillips.[53] The programme aired despite legal efforts by Mahmood to prevent recent pictures of himself being shown, and a request from the Attorney General to stop the broadcast.[54] The programme included allegations that Mahmood's methods included payments to third parties who procured the drugs that his targets would later be exposed as supplying, and that he made offers of scarcely believable career opportunities to targets with no recent history of drug misuse, who were then pressured to obtain him cocaine.
The programme also included unseen footage of Mahmood rehearsing with a known drug dealer for the entrapment of former Page 3 model Emma Morgan. Referring to Judge McCreath's comments, a former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said: "The fact that somebody who has been accused by a judge of apparently of not telling the truth may be instrumental in those convictions would certainly be a reason to look at those convictions again and to examine them to see whether they are safe."[55]
The programme also revisited the collapse of the Victoria Beckham kidnap plot, re-interviewing witness Florim Gashi, who worked with Mazher Mahmood on several occasions and who was on the payroll of the News of the World. Gashi claimed Mazher Mahmood was complicit with him in inventing the kidnapping plot. The collapse of the case was so troubling to the presiding judge that it was referred it to the then Attorney General Lord Goldsmith who stated, "If a trial collapses, and it collapses because of the alleged wrong doing of a witness, that's a real issue for me". After taking legal advice on whether criminal charges could be made, Lord Goldsmith stated "I have explored every possible avenue for dealing with this, what I saw was a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, and each avenue had turned out to be a blank".
CPS probe[edit]
On 4 December 2014, the CPS probed 25 cases where reporter, "Fake Sheikh" Mazher Mahmood, gave evidence.[56]
On 29 September 2015, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Mahmood and his former driver Alan Smith had been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The alleged offences concern evidence given in the trial of singer Tulisa Contostavlos. The pair will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court.[57] He appeared in court on 20 November 2015.[58]
The prosecution of Mazher Mahmood and his former driver Alan Smith started on 21st September 2016 at the Old Bailey, with both men denying the charge of conspiring and intending to pervert the course of justice.[59]
Mahmood has won various newspaper awards, including British Press Awards "Reporter of the Year" 1999 for his exposé of Newcastle United directors.[33] At the awards ceremony, a figure dressed as a sheikh collected the award, and then revealed himself to be Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun.[13]
He won Reporter of the Year again in 2011, as well as Scoop of the Year, for an investigation of cricket match-fixing. He also picked up the Sports Journalists' Association award in 2011 for the same story.
In January 2013, Mahmood was nominated for the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards.[60]
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Bishop William McAlilly, B.A. 1978
Bishop McAlilly has served as a pastor at small and large churches, led mission trips to foreign countries, worked with teens, mentored clergy, and developed new congregations. His appointments have included St. Marks United Methodist Church in Madison (1994-2000) where the congregation doubled its membership and built a new sanctuary and office addition and First United Methodist Church in Tupelo (2000-2006) where the Helping Hands Ministry expanded its reach to 5,000 people annually and the congregation worked with Trinity United Methodist Church in Marks to create Delta Mission Partnership in Lambert. He most recently served as district superintendent of the Seashore District of the Mississippi Conference and was a key leader in rebuilding churches and homes on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. He was elected a bishop of the UMC Conference in July 2012.
Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster, B.A. 1970
Master of Divinity & Doctor of Ministry
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Bishop Goodpaster served appointments in Vaiden, Indianola, Clarksdale, Como, Oxford, Meridian, and Tupelo, including superintendant of the Tupelo District, before his election to the episcopacy in 2000 and assignment to the Alabama-West Florida Area. He has served on the General Commission on Church and Society, the Southeastern Jurisdiction Association of Board Chairs and Registrars, the General Commission on Religion and Race, Methodist Healthcare Inc., and the Theological Schools Review Committee. He is the author of Like a Breath of Fresh Air, a collection of sermons for Pentecost.
Bishop Goodpaster hopes to unite "knowledge and vital piety" as a means of equipping persons with dynamic faith, strong core values, and vigorous intellect for leadership in both the church and the world for the 21st century.
Bishop Mary Ann McDonald Swenson, B.A. 1969
Doctor of Ministry, Claremont School of Theology
After serving as youth director at St. Luke's and Capitol Street in Jackson, Bishop Swenson pastored churches in California, Vancouver, and Washington, and superintendant of the Puget Sound District, including congregations north of Seattle. She served on the boards of Global Ministries and Discipleship. She was elected to the episcopacy in 1992 and assigned to the Denver Area with oversight of 400 congregations in the west. In 2000, she was assigned to the Los Angeles area with oversight for California-Pacific Annual Conference, the territory of Guam and Saipan, and the Korean Mission. She serves on the General Committee on Finance and Administration and is a director of the Center for JustPeace.
Bishop Swenson pursues the dream of leading the church to become a more inclusive community, justice seeking, and more perfect in love of God and neighbor.
Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker, B.A. 1970
Master of Divinity, Candler School of Theology
Bishop Whitaker served Spring Ridge in Jackson before transferring to the Virginia Conference, where he was pastor of rural, small town, suburban, and center city churches. As an elder, he served on the Board of Discipleship, Board of Global Ministries and chaired the Division of Elders of the Board of Ordained Ministry in the Virginia Conference. He was superintendant of the Norfolk District when he was elected to the episcopacy in 2001. He has written articles for The Christian Century, Circuit Rider, Lectionary Homiletics and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
A student of patristics and history of the early church, Bishop Whitaker is interested in recovering the living tradition of the Christian church for equipping the contemporary church to fulfill its mission in a pluralistic and secularized society.
Bishop Clay F. Lee, B.A. 1951
Bachelor of Divinity, Candler School of Theology
Bishop Lee served appointments in Unity, Jackson (Capitol Street and Leavell Woods), Raymond, Quitman, and Philadelphia: Executive Director of the Mississippi Conference Council on Ministries and superintendent of the Brookhaven District before his 12-year tenure at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church in Jackson. He was elected Bishop in 1988 and assigned to the Holston Conference. He chaired the Board of Pensions and Health Benefits, Benefits 2000 Task Force, Joint Committee on Communications, Appalachian Development Committee and the Southeastern Jurisdiction College of Bishops. He is the author of Jesus Never Said Everyone Was Lovable, based on a series of sermons broadcast on The Protestant Hour. He was Bishop in Residence at Galloway from 1996-2000 and is currently Bishop in residence at Millsaps.
Bishop Homer Ellis Finger, Jr., B.A. 1937
Bachelor of Divinity, Yale University Divinity School
Bishop Finger served appointments in Coldwater, the United States Navy, and Oxford and was President of Millsaps College from 1952 to 1964. In 1964 he was elected to the episcopacy assigned to the Nashville area, which included the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences until 1976 and the Holston Conference from 1976-1984. During his tenure as Bishop he chaired the United Methodist Commission on Chaplains and Related Ministries, Scarritt College trustees, the Committee on Confirmation Resources, Executive Committee of the World Methodist Council, and General Council on Finance and Administration. He was a member of the Board of Christian Social Concerns, Methodist Corporation, Committee on Communications, executive committee of the Council of Bishops, and chaired the Council of Bishops in 1981-82.
Bishop Roy C. Clark, B.A. 1941
Bachelor of Divinity, Yale University Divinity School
Bishop Clark served appointments in Pascagoula, Wesson, Centerville, Forest, Jackson (Capitol Street), Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., before being elected to the episcopacy in 1980, where he served the Columbia, S.C., Area. He has served as adjunct faculty at Memphis Theological School and Vanderbilt University. His episcopal duties have included service on the General Board of Global Ministries, President of the United Methodist Committee on Relief, and trustee of the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation. He is author of Expect a Miracle and has written articles for United Methodist curriculum and Disciple Resources.
Bishop Joel D. McDavid, B.A. 1941 (1916-2003)
Bachelor of Divinity, Candler School of Theology
Bishop McDavid served pastorates in Grand Bay Circuit, Toulminville, Auburn, Montgomery and Dauphin Way, Alabama, until his election as a Bishop in 1972. During his 12 years as an active bishop, he served the Florida and North Georgia Conferences. In his retirement, he taught at Candler School of Theology until becoming Bishop in Residence at Dauphin Way United Methodist Church. He served on the General Boards of Global Missions, Ministries, Discipleship and Higher Education.
Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, B.A. 1914 (1892-1993)
Master of Arts, Princeton University
Bishop Harmon served a brief time in the chaplaincy of the U.S. Army in World War I, followed by appointments in the Baltimore Conference. In 1940, he was elected Book Editor of the re-united Methodist Churches, editing official documents of the Church, Abingdon Press, the journal Religion in Life and The Interpreter's Bible. He was elected a Bishop in 1956 and served the Charlotte Area and the South Carolina Conference. He later administered the North Alabama and Kentucky Conferences. Following his retirement, he edited the Encyclopedia of World Methodism, published in 1974, and was visiting professor in the Candler School of Theology. He authored numerous books, including Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette, The Organization of the Methodist Church, The Rites and Ritual of Episcopal Methodism, and served on the commission to produce both the 1934 and the 1964 Methodist Hymnal. He was the baccalaureate speaker for the 75th anniversary of his graduating class at Millsaps.


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The prospect of delaying construction on the new Chicora School of Communications building didn't sit well with parent Kenneth Settles.
Potentially affected
The following are the construction projects that Charleston County school leaders suggested potentially postponing to solve a temporary cash-flow shortfall that will happen in 2015.
Option 1: Chicora School of Communications and North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary delayed six months, and Emergency Operations Center, Murray-LaSaine Elementary, Angel Oak Elementary and James Island Charter High deferred 12 months. Would generate $3.3 million cushion.
Option 2: Laing Middle deferred 12 months. Would generate $6.9 million cushion.
Option 3: Chicora School of Communications and Angel Oak Elementary delayed 12 months. Would generate $1.6 million cushion.
Source: Charleston County School District
The school building where his seven children spent their elementary years has dealt with everything from mold to floods to rodents, he said.
"The kids in this community always seem to be put on the back burner," he said. "It's time they get something."
Chicora is one of seven building projects that potentially could be delayed because of a cash-flow problem. The 2010-16 capital budget for Charleston County School District is funded by a 1 percent sales tax hikethat voters approved in 2010.
The sales tax will generate enough money to cover the bulk of its planned construction, but officials are projecting their expenses will outpace the money raised by the tax within two years.
District leaders have been trying to figure out how to cover that $16.8 million temporary cash flow gap, and they told the board last week that one option could be pushing back the timeline for planned projects. In addition to Chicora Elementary, other possibilities presented included: North Charleston Creative Arts Elementary, Murray-LaSaine Elementary, Angel Oak Elementary, James Island Charter High, Laing Middle or an emergency operations center for the district.
"Perhaps in three months, we'll find a solution," said Mike Bobby, the district's chief of finance, operations and human resources, told the board. "Right now, we don't have another solution."
Potential delays
Charleston school leaders are monitoring the revenue generated by the six-year sales tax. The length of the recession, as well as initial difficulty collecting the tax revenue, caused the district to fall short of its original revenue projections, and the district based the timeline for construction in part on when that money would be available.
Construction costs are expected to exceed available funds in December 2014, when the district also will have maximized its constitutionally limited ability to borrow funds. The cash-flow problem will last from then through December 2015.
Bobby said the board will be asked to make a decision in September or October about how to handle the situation.
"Those decisions can't wait until the last minute to make them," he said. "We have two or three months to let it settle and think through the ramifications."
After hearing the news, board members made it clear they didn't want to postpone building.
"We're looking for creative solutions on how to do this," said board member Chris Fraser, who is president of a commercial real estate brokerage firm. "We're going to work through it."
That might mean cobbling together funds from a couple of sources, or delaying maintenance or other purchases, he said. The board doesn't want to push any project back, Fraser said.
Conservative projections
Funding construction with sales tax meant the school district had to project how much would be raised and when it would receive the money.
The district projected the tax could raise anywhere from $435 million to $483 million. Collections are on track to reach $440 million for the life of the six-year tax. The district has collected $148 million through May 2013.
That means the district will not be able to do some construction work that had been proposed. The district deliberately created a longer list of projects in case it received more collections than anticipated, so this shouldn't be a surprise, Bobby said.
"We knew we would not satisfy every project on the list," he said.
The district won't have enough money to do seismic evaluations of six schools, including West Ashley middle schools and Garrett Academy, or the advanced design for Dunston Elementary. It also will lack funding to do improvements to athletic facilities, such as improving downtown Stoney Field or adding state-of-the-art weight rooms and equipment storage facilities.
Bill Lewis, the district's chief operating officer who oversees its school construction projects, said he's trying to see what can be done on those projects without funding. For example, he said the district might be able to forgo seismic evaluations and instead simply rebuild or renovate those schools in a future building program, and the district has been meeting with local officials about Stoney Field.
Other projects, such as obtaining land in Carolina Bay in West Ashley or in Ingleside in North Charleston, happened without money exchanging hands, he said.
"We're still trying to position the district for the next building program," he said.
Going forward
Educators, students and parents, such as Settles, are eagerly waiting for the new school buildings to come online, and any delay likely would be met with resistance.
The former school building Chicora School of Communications was in such bad shape that the school relocated in the middle of the 2011-12 school year to a temporary site.
Settles said students deserve a new building. He hears children, including his fifth-grade daughter, getting excited about the new school, and putting them on hold another year wouldn't be right.
"They've waited long enough," he said. "If anything, it should be finished sooner."
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Hey, this is my submission for the diablo contest. I just want some feedback/critique before I actually submit it because I'm worried it needs more detail and is too flat. I suck at painting so any suggestions on how to make it stand out more would be cool.
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I actually really like the simplicity of it and I like the color palette of the first one, it's very similar to what I've submitted actually. I also like that this is very different in tone than the majority of the submissions with this very peaceful meditative pose. I don't know if that will count for or against you though, good luck.
@thestray Thanks man, here's to hoping it helps hah.
p.s. your work is great
This is Good… Its a different approach/appeal and different from the other entries. Don't you want to add some grunge effects on it?... may be im not used to solid colors but it is good! :) Good luck!
@waldy Hey thanks, maybe some texture or grunge texture would help. I'll try it out before I submit.
nice work man, it's simple but it looks neat at the tee, the placement is also good, + 1.. support my entry too man, The Lord Of Terror's Power
I don't think it needs grunge, I don't know why people think a tee HAS to have some grunge now. There's nothing wrong with artwork that is clean, in my opinion. I'd personally like to see less gratuitous grunge effects on tees, and more just really smart design and composition and well done illustration. The grungification (if I can invent a word) starts to have a generic feel when it's don't so often and so frivolously.
Yeah I ended up not going with any grunge actually. I tried some halftone shading though. Thanks for sharing your insight man. You can check it here if you like: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/232619
Genius move how you kept it very clean and calming. It is perfect for the serene / peaceful subject matter that you have. For me you didnt had to change anything at all. this works perfectly in my book.


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Posted on Sunday 5 November 2006
From "World Map Drawn in a Fool's Head." Ca. 1590. [Larger] Ptolemaic projection (otherwise known as an equidistant conic projection) onto the face of a clown. Maker, date and place of publication are unknown. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
This startling and disturbing image is one of the enigmas of cartographic history. The artist, date and place of publication are all unknown, and one can only guess at its purpose. The geography of the map strongly resembles that of the world maps of Ortelius published in the 1580s, giving a tentative date of c. 1590. This is the earliest known use of the world map in a visual joke. Its central visual metaphor is the universality of human folly and various mottoes around the map reinforce that theme. The panel of the left says: "Democritus laughed at it [i.e. the world], Heraclitus wept over it, Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it." Although Epichtonius Cosmopolites appears to be the author's or artist's name, it translates roughly as "Everyman," leaving the mapmaker's true identity hidden.
A strong legacy of the theme of the Fool exists in literature and popular art from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. The Fool was licensed to break rules, speak painful truths and mock power and pretension, and the grotesque shape he bore was a kind of living punishment. This frame of reference would have been quite familiar to the audience of this engraving in the 1590s. And people would have recognized in this map a radical visual interpretation of the Fool's role: it is now the whole world that takes on the Fool's costume, thus forcing the viewer to confront the possibility that the entire created order is irrational, alien and threatening.— The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps by Peter Whitfield (1994, p. 78-79). Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco.


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Dude Age of conan is so cool! I made a female guardian and took her top off.
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The Chestnut Hill Academy English teacher walks with a looping gait that fits his strapping frame. His blue eyes penetrate behind wire frames. His skin, the color of bleached almonds, is lighter than the khakis most of his seventh graders wear.
His kinky, ponytailed locks snake down his back, making him resemble a younger, hipper Kelsey Grammer.
He speaks with no hint of cultural affect that would give him away one way or the other.
Iain Haley Pollock is one of those racially ambiguous people we increasingly see more of every day, yet who the more curious among us still ask, "What are you?"