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Charleston County, South Carolina Genealogy
United States South Carolina Charleston County
|Charleston County, South Carolina
Location in the state of South Carolina
Location of South Carolina in the U.S.
|County Seat
Quick Dates
Charleston County's civil records start the following years:
Note: City of Charleston birth and death records begin earlier. See Charleston County, South Carolina Vital Records.
County Courthouse
Charleston County Courthouse
4050 Bridgeview Drive
North Charleston, SC 29405
Phone: 843-740-0801
Charleston County Probate Court
100 Broad St., Suite 381
Charleston, SC 29401-5030
Phone: 843-958-4030
Charleston County Register Mesne Conveyance
101 Meeting St.
Charleston, SC 29401-2249
Phone: 843-958-4800
Charleston County Clerk of Court
100 Broad St., Suite 106
Charleston, SC 29401-2258
Phone: 843-958-5000
Historical FactsJudicial District. Charleston County is the home to the city of Charleston (originally Charles Towne) which was first settled in 1670 by British and Africans from the Caribbean island of Barbados. Charleston was originally named in honor of King Charles II of England (1630-1685).[1]
Learn more about the history of Charleston County from the South Carolina State Library or from Carolana.com.
Parent County/Boundary Changes
- 1769 - Charleston District created as one of seven original districts.
- 1785 - Charleston divided into Berkeley, Bartholomews, Charleston, Colleton, Marion, and Washington Counties, which never became functional.
- 1800 - Non-functional counties of Berkeley, Barhtolomews, Charleston, Colleton, Marion, and Washington were abolished and Charleston returned to its status as a district. Colleton District created from Charleston (covering different boundaries than the non-functional Colleton County).
- 1868 - Charleston and all other districts became counties.
- 1882 - Berkeley created from Charleston County.
- 1893 - Charleston gained from Berkeley County.
- 1911 - Charleston gained from Colleton County.
- 1921 - Charleston gained from Berkeley and Dorchester Counties.
- 1975 - Colleton gained from Charleston County.
- 1987 - Colleton gained from Charleston County.
For more information as well as maps of Charleston County through time, see the South Carolina State Archives or South Carolina County Maps and Atlases.
County Seat
The county seat of Charleston County is Charleston (originally Charles Town) which was founded in 1670 and is the oldest settlement in South Carolina.[2]
County Pronunciation
Variant Spellings
- Charles Town
Record Loss
Official negligence in the 1830s destroyed a large quantity of loose records of the court of general sessions. Northern "tourists," many of whom were members of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's congregation from Brooklyn, New York, looted other material from both public and private repositories in Charleston in April 1865. Loose probate papers were apparently destroyed in Columbia in February 1865.
The preceding list of places includes incorporated cities and towns, unincorporated towns and communities, and place names that may have been used in family histories. Some have well-organized records and even have web sites. Some are simply social communities with no official records, but which may be referenced in small-town newspapers. The list is provided to help researchers identify localities within the county. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.
- ↑ "List of counties in South Carolina," Wikipedia. [http://www.charleston-sc.com/history/%7C"Charleston and Charleston County History"
- ↑ South Carolina State Library, "Charleston County" (http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/charleston-county : accessed 13 Apr 2011).
- ↑ Voice of Phillip Stalvey, resident of Myrtle Beach, S.C. (2011).


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San Francisco Marriott Marquis
780 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
0.6 km from
Location No swimming pool
Really nice lobby, rooms where clean The wifi wasn't free, they charged you to use a computer for $.40 per minute. I really needed a workstation. No hot tube or pool for $400 per night. Will not go back.
They tried to steal my luggage when I first came in, took them over 4 hours to bring my stuff up. I said enough of this bs and went to go down myself and get all my stuff to find it hiding in a room away from everyone else while the guy at the front was telling me "it'll be there shortly were a little backed up". Then to top it all off I find $35 of charges from the hotel of stuff I never used. I've never been so disrespected by a hotel in my life. Shady workers I highly recommend you don't stay here.
The room was clean, the bed was amazing, location was walking distance to all things downtown, I felt safe with my young son, easy express checkout. No room service, for the money we spent I would've liked to see a free breakfast, the cost of parking is insane (it is SF though), no pool.
Hotel was clean We booked a room for two night with a king size bed upon arrival we were not told they didn't have a room for us instead sent us to a room with double beds wouldn't accommodate us claiming they had "no more rooms available "... next day had issues relocating our luggage to next room. Parking was absurd $70 dollars a night ?? Overrated
The value for the money is really good! It was clean, spacious, well decorated. We ensured to get two beds in the bedroom and we got them!
Great location great front desk people beautiful view Drink left in room from previous occupant
The location A 4 star Marriott hotel without room service? In San Francisco? Get your act together. What a dated American hospitality company. Will not stay there again and would not recommend this hotel to anyone
Location is excellent. Big hotel where you get lost. Looks and feel old, needs a major renovation.
Staff was not accommodating for what was promised. Staff was also rude.
No free wifi and same type of breakfast everyday
We enjoyed the Marriott Marquis hotel very much , but the valet only parking is a bit spends. Thank goodness there is another parking garage one block over. Y
Great location Restaurant can be improved, i. e. choice & prices slightly too high
View was great, staff was very friendly, and room was very clean. $58 for over night parking is outrageous, because of that I will not stay here again. Also, $20 for wifi? For the price you're paying that should definitely be included. We had to ask twice for a crib to be sent up to the room, that was a little disappointing when I had two small children to get to bed upon arrival. Also would have been nice to have a mini fridge included in the room. When traveling with kids it's very convenient to have a fridge to store their milk, snacks, etc
I loved the view and staff was extremely friendly and the location great. Bed was very comfortable and and room was nice and clean. Mabye a lil upgrade on the appliances other than that it was great. I think for the resort fee it should have came with a little more amenities.
You had to pay for WiFi and the restaurant had a very limited menu.
Location staff and cleanliness No room service or mini bar
The room they put us in was very small. There was no refrigerator, no microwave, nothing that would make the stay comfortable or say luxury. Plus the parking cost and facilities fees are ridiculously high.
location - Pressured toliet caused loud, frequent rattling sounding like a fire alarm in the middle of the night. I told management and they don't/couldn't fix it . - $38 per night "resort fee" for no real services. A true rip off.
Location. Proximity to public transportation. Doors, fixtures show age, wear and tear. Facilities fee (which I assume were adjusted for SPG Platinum members)
Comfortable and clean. Good location No room service
We had a view even from the 9th floor. Very clean and cozy. Staff was really kind. No mini fridge :(
Location was nice for exploring the city. Room was clean/comfortable. NO INTERNET at this hotel... In the modern age, it's ridiculous that wifi/high speed internet is not included in the cost of the hotel when you purchase ahead of time. On top of that, I asked about wifi when I was checking in, and the lady told me we could get internet with an OPTIONAL ~$35 PER night fee, that included internet and other services like bike rentals. We didn't want to spend this, so it made sense that I couldn't connect to any wifi from my hotel room. When I checked out, they said they had charged us for the fee, and that it was required, despite the fact that we'd never connected to the internet. Outrageous that this wasn't just in the price of the hotel from the getgo... Don't bother with this place until they get with the modern age.
Poor accommodations. Rude staff.
The room stunk! For $600 get some air freshener.
I hosted a bachelorette party at the Intercontinental and it was great!! The staff was very accommodating and helped us with making sure all the girls were taken care of. The rooms were beautiful and spacious, and the hotel was extremely spacious. There was a "bouncer" type employee at night who gave me and the girls staying at the hotel a hard time. He required every girl to have a key in their hand to get in, even though we just had one person per room have a key because we didn't think it was necessary. He was extremely rude and borderline harassing.
I liked how the staff was really attentive. Rooms clean, everyine real proffesional. I didnt like the fact that when u drive in to check in they dont tell u that the charge for parking is 65$ . Also that the water thats in the room thats bottled i didnt know they would charge me 8:50$ for it. Ridiculous! I seen when i checkd out!
Luxury accommodations. Very friendly and helpful staff. Valet parking fee is crazy high!
Appreciated the staff the location and the lounge/restaurant. The room was great with a nice view each morning ....
Given a corner room even though I booked via Kayak Provided with slippers Room was spacious and TV was large - guess is 55" Gym was well equipped but didn't have time to use it Easter bunny was on duty and there was a tableful of candy for the young and not so young - I didn't have any but still appreciated the effort Bathroom short on racks to hang towels Shower head water flow too wimpy Bathroom scale low on battery
Comfortable bed, clean facilities Check out was at 12:00pm as normal but was woken up by maid knocking on door at 9:15am. Charged my credit card $100.00 more than what was on invoice when I checked out. To be refunded within 5days or so supposedly....... It would have been nice to know beforehand.
Awesome views of AT&T Park and the Bay. Front desk agent was great.
Great hotel and staff. They treated us perfectly. I would absolutely stay here again. No complaints as all. The location for us was a bit too close to some seedy areas of town. No problem, but you need to be careful which way you walk.
good fittings and decor
The room and hotel are beautiful. We had a beautiful view of the city and Yerba Buena Gardens. The service is impeccable. Very comfortable bed and quiet rooms.
People extremely helpful room service wasn't up to par, maybe because it was Valentines weekend.
Service was excellent. Room service perfect. Bar outstanding. Concierge service spot on. Nothing
Very friendly staff, great service. The access to Equinox is fabulous! Prime, prime location--the best!! In-room dining is awful. I had breakfast twice, and was severely disappointed at the outrageous price for the poor, poor quality of every aspect of the food--coffee is burnt and thick like mud, toast burnt, side vegetables unbelievably expensive with NO quality. The fresh orange juice is good. And that's it. Otherwise, the hotel is just wonderful.
Nice rooms. Polite staff. Nice bathrooms. Everything worked without an issue. At Reservation, called the 800 number. I was told they only had two suites available. No rooms. Two minutes later, I went on Kayak and booked two rooms with no issue. Service was in no way exceptional. It was a little irritating that bell desk couldn't get cab. Food/bar is terrible Surcharge for internet access is ludicrous
Amazing service and experience! We we're there for our honeymoon and loved every moment. The staff went out of there way to help us.
Good arrival and wait staff were both friendly and efficient. The door man was great and the team inside were extremely helpful. I have stayed in other SF hotels in the past and Hotel Zelos is a nice addition to the city. City hotel rooms can sometimes be small but the rooms at Zelos are very spacious! I also would like to say thank you for an overall smooth and fun experience! From booking on line with Kayak to speaking directly with the hotel, to checking in & out, everyone was super friendly and consistently would go out of their way to be helpful. Mixed message on parking After speaking with associates on two separate occasions. Then the confusion in the garage, mind you I thought I lost my ticket to return however I unpacked it when I arrived back home this evening. There was a problem between the hand written sign in log from the valet and the printed report from the front desk and the hotel's portion of valet claim check system also did not work. I retrieved my vehicle because I brought the only two matching keys and I have matching handmade key chains attached. Breakfast table with two nice chairs rather than a rolling office chair. That was weird. But it was also SF PRIDE weekend so who cares!
The location of the hotel was excellent. There were many nice dining, shopping and entertainment options very close by. It is also very close to a BART station so getting there from the airport is very easy. San Francisco is a surprisingly easy city to drive in as well, though parking is very expensive. Though the bed was very comfortable, it was a bit squeaky. Also, being on Market street means that there is a bit of noise but it's not excessive.
The Palomar was clean, quiet and comfortable and in a great location. The woman working in the evening checking in guests needs more training. Either that or maybe she was having a bad night.
Close to everything in Union Square, clean and nice-looking inside. ...but that translates to a little over $300 a night, which isn't really worth it. Avoid it during the conventions in town.
Windows face directly into office building just 10ft away. People in the office can see directly into your room
The service at the San Francisco Palomar was excellent. The front desk staff and doormen deserve top marks. They were helpful in every circumstance from procuring a taxi to giving directions or making suggestions regarding nearby attractions and walking distances. The hotel was clean, the restaurant was superb....fantastic breakfast! And the wait staff was superior. We would stay here again in a heartbeat and look forward to that happening in the near future. Hats off to the Palomar staff!!!!!!!
The location was great and my room was quiet. There was a bit of mildew odor in the bathroom. If not for that I would have given an excellent rating, instead of good, for my stay.
Had a great time friendly staff great restaurant That nobody answered the phone at the restaurant for me to make a reservation fri night
The Palomar is in a great location, the staff is very friendly, and the rooms are nicely decorated. Beds are OK. Restaurant (Bad Habit?) onsite had a nice quality breakfast which was pretty reasonable.
Room was great. But we were placed next to the ice machine....the wall there sounded paper thin throughout the night as guest needed ice. Being stuck next to an ice machine at 2 am
Front desk personnel and bell service were exceptionally helpful. Rooms were nicely appointed - largest TV I've ever had in a hotel room. Central location right at Powell St. BART Station allowed me to get there quickly from Oakland Airport.
The staff was very friendly. The driver to the airport (George in the Towncar) was very courteous. Need a coffee maker in room. Not a deal breaker though of course.
Being charged $60 to valet a car in unacceptable
I loved the staff! They were nice and very friendly! I also liked how we were able to communicate through texting and they replied very quickly. I asked for more conditioner for our stay, but we didn't get any extra. I also didn't like how there wasn't room for water or food in our fridge, but overall I loved this place! Definitely booking a room at the W in the future!
Rooms have an awesome view of the city, very modern decor, and comfortable beds. I've only ever stayed here on business, but this is an impressive hotel with impressive rooms if you don't want to spend a thousand bucks a night at the Fairmont.
Great centrally located property. Rooms were very zen, beds super comfy and lots of cool little details that made the stay pleasant. Staff was hit or miss. I get that they want to create a chic vibe but a smile wouldn't kill anyone. Did get the requested high floor room with some semblance of a view.... granted our flight arrived at 5pm on a holiday weekend makes sense why they couldn't accommodate that request.
Liked the decor and comfort of the room Phones are not answered in time
The view Carpet was very dirty, stained, there was not enough space in the room and pictures online were deceiving. The air conditioning was not working including the fan, the room felt warm even when the air conditioning showed a lower temperature. Very Noisy. Staff was not helpful when asked to move to a bigger room.
Very poor service. A fraudulent charge from the restaurant was added to my room charge. When I brought this to the attention of the staff, they became very accusatory and combative. Very, very disappointing!
Great location. The staff were very very friendly. The ambience was hip. The room, although had no view was very well decorated and filled to the brim with mini bar treats. The price, although not cheap, was probably one of the better in the areas for a clean non-scary establishment. I would stay here again! $63 for parking!!! Youch! That's probably standard in the city. Your $300 a night room just went up to almost $400.
Rooms are small and efficient; be prepared. Bed was comfortable. Hall bathroom was difficult to enter; the door got in the way. I remember waking up to some noise around 6am, but perhaps that's unavoidable in this location?
Nice interior and nice rooms. Great coffee and free internet. I did not know that there is not a bathroom/shower in the suites, but rather down the hall. However, this isn't a big deal and I got a good value Shared toilet/shower
Great location near Downtown BART stations and Moscone Center. The room that I had this time had the sink located outside of the bathroom, near the bed and desk.
If you don't mind the shared bathrooms, The Mosser is a superb place to stay and it's right in the heart of San Francisco. Best of all, it's a great value especially for a European style hotel at a prime location! Very friendly staff and we felt very comfortable during our 5-night stay.
I liked the location. I didn't like the bathroom/ shower located in the hall way that was basically too small to use. I barely fit on their bed in the original room. I upgraded to get my own bathroom and shower for $50 extra and this out me right over 4th street. Where it was so loud (even with both windows shut) and so bright from other lights (even with the blinds closed). The bed was as hard as a rock and oh yeah, let's not forget $49 a night to park your car at their hotel that you just spent $180 a night for and won't be able to sleep anyways.
The location is really nice and the cleanliness were very good. The wall is very thin. The couples' voices who were staying next door were heard till late evening.
Location Price Staff No amenities Bathroom didn't have a fan; instead, had a window that opened onto an adjacent room's bathroom window Ceiling fan was haunted
The location was the only thing great about this hotel. Having to share a bathroom and restroom with the entire floor. The bathroom on my floor didn't work so I had to use another floor. No real breakfast offered and parking rates were too much. Parked one block away for half the price.
Overall cleanliness and facilities were good We told the concierge we were on vacation and wanted some ideas on how to spend our time in San Francisco and he told us to "go see a movie". No help at all
Inexpensive compared to the other options. There qas a fight for the shared bathroim in the middle of the night that woke me and it was noisy from the street outside.
It feels refreshing as soon as you walk in the room. Everything is clean and the beds are amazing. The only thing I can say is wish they had a little mini fridge in the room.
Location across from Marriot and a bit cheaper Tiny tiny rooms and shard showers not bad at all but shard showers
The breakfast and the lobby were good The room and bathroom were not upto the mark for the price.
First off, let me start by saying if it were just my husband and I the things that bothered me would not have been such a big deal. But travelling with small children changes things. The neighbors were so loud they woke my kids up multiple times. Security came and they did turn off music but continued to yell and keep on until 3am. The pool is tiny and not how it appears in pictures and because there is no one there and it is tucked out of the way from staff when another family showed up and their terror children wrecked shop there was no one there to help. Its $65 to overnight park your car, which is high even for the city. The breakfast buffet was $25 a person, even worse was the continental breakfast was $18 for bagels and coffee whichbis absurd. Just overall over priced for what you get.
Very friendly and attentive staff at all levels. They went above and beyond for some of our requests. Food at the onsite restaurant was delicious though a bit pricey. Location was a bit dirty with a lot of construction and older run down buildings around. Lots of noise from the major road behind hotel came through the closed windows as if they were open. Parking was over the top! $60/day!!
Staff was very friendly and accommodating, very quiet rooms and I felt very comfortable using the facilities. The beds were very comfortable and we had ample space. Great stay overall.
The staff, location and facilities. Nothing
The staff was very accommodating for my elderly parent's needs.
We were a group of five girls and this hotel stay was great! Room is spacious, beds comfy. No complains. Pool is small
Great location, near water front, business district and tourism venues. Location was accessible via public transportation: Bart, CalTrain King At station approx mile or less away. In house Starbucks Coffee and restaurant. Utilized fitness facility, clean and mix of Dumbbells and aerobic equipment. Encountered negative experience with guests on our floor using Marijuana, hallway and elevator on or floor. It reaked of the odor during the Second day or our stay. A bit of loud partying on our floor as well. We notified the desk a few times (they offered to give us another room), but apparently they weren't able to locate the source. Disappointed that errant "Spring Breaker kids" ruined an otherwise pleasant experience. FYI we were traveling for leisure, and had our 8 he old son with us. Not the environment you'd want a child exposed to.
Good Location. Overall everything was alright. Nothing too wonderful, but nothing too critical. The lobby was fancy, but rooms werent wonderful. Not the friendliest staff. I found it strange that when I called for a bandaid, the front desk tried to sell one to me. I have been to other hotels, including Courtyard's, where they will just deliver something small like a bandaid to you if you need it. I even recall needing feminine products and they were sent to me. Considering the price of the hotel, and the parking ($59/night!), you would think a simple request like that would have been fulfilled.
It was a perfect location to see the Embarcadero and the ballgame...a good center for traveling around town. It was even a short walk to China Town, No breakfast menu...just buffet in the AM...too much food, too high of a price.
Easy walk from the Bart after coming in from SFO. No uphil climb with cases like we had when we stayed in union square. The larger room allowed us to have all 3 kids in the room so no second room. The walk to union square took less than 5 minutes and easy walk to transport to get all over the city. Would definitely stay here again. Breakfast was really expensive. Kids would never have eaten $21 worth of food. There is a Starbucks in the lobby though and lots of breakfast places enroute to union square. The crepe food truck on the corner was delicious. Only other complaint would be that the shower pressure was low when other rooms were using. Why no pressure regulators Marriott?


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Wednesday, 31 October, 2001, 19:50 GMT
French ski champion dies
Reigning super-G ski champion Regine Cavagnoud has died in hospital, two days after a high-speed training crash.
Cavagnoud suffered severe brain injuries when she collided with German ski coach Markus Anwander on an Austrian glacier on Monday.
The 31-year-old had been in an induced coma and breathing only with the aid of a respirator since the accident.
On Wednesday doctors took the decision to turn off her life support machine and she was surrounded by her family when she died.
Dr Wolfgang Koller, the head of the trauma intensive care unit at the Innsbruck University Clinic, said on Wednesday: "We made final examinations that made it very clear that the brain of Regine Cavagnoud was not working at all."
Her death has led to mourning throughout France, with spectators at sporting events paying their respects to the skiier.
A minute's silence was observed before the match between Fabrice Santoro and Hicham Arazi at the Paris Masters tennis tournament.
And the tribute will be repeated before the Champions League match between Lille and Manchester United on Wednesday night.
French President Jacques Chirac has sent a letter of condolence to her parents.
He said: "French sport has lost one of its great champions today.
Formal investigation
"Regine has made her mark on world skiing with her boundless generosity and her outstanding courage in the face of adversity."
Cavagnoud suffered heart failure on the slopes after colliding with the trainer at about 62 mph (100 kph) on the Pitz Valley glacier in Tyrol.
Paramedics managed to revive her and she underwent four hours of emergency surgery to her brain, rib-cage and liver.
But her condition failed to improve and doctors on Tuesday ruled out further surgery.
Anwander, 40, was also in a critical condition but stable in Innsbruck hospital's intensive care ward after the crash.
Prosecutors have opened a formal investigation into the cause of the crash.
'Outstanding courage'
French women's Alpine ski team chief Jean-Philippe Vuillet said: "The German trainer should have received a radio signal informing him that the French skier was going down."
"For some reason, he apparently did not get that signal.
"We tried to wave to him to let him know that she was coming.
"She did not go off track and when the crash happened she just could not see him."
The skier had just returned from injury and grabbed a surprise third place in the World Cup giant slalom at Soelden on Saturday.
Tributes to ski champion Regine Cavagnoud
A life on the edge
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The 2011 SPLOST would provide the recreation department with $1 million to repair and upgrade various parks. The board of the Newton County Recreation Commission recently approved a list of proposed repairs:
Stone Road Complex, 50 Stone Road, Oxford (14.5 acres, built in 1989)
- Fencing/Dugouts, $150,000
- Upgrade Restrooms/Concessions, $75,000
- Irrigation, $15,000
City Pond Complex, 12209 Williams St., Covington (80 acres, built in 1978)
- Fencing, $200,000
- Rebuild Football/Concession Restrooms, $165,000
- T-League Concession Restrooms, $50,000
Turner Lake Complex, 6185 Turner Lake Road, Covington (158 acres, built in 1998)
- New HVAC Controls, $45,000
- Replace Fencing on Softball Fields, $145,000
Louise Fowler Park, 11575 Covington ByPass Road, Covington (1 acre, built in 1996)
- Restripe Basketball/Tennis Courts, $20,000
Beaver Park, Ga. Highway 213, Mansfield (built in 1996)
- Metal Pavilion, $50,000
- Resurface Tennis Courts, $10,000
Architect Fees/Contingency - $75,000
$7 million expansion to judicial center
The SPLOST is also devoting $7 million to the expansion of the Newton County Judicial Center, which the county's court system and many of its public records.
The judicial center was built in 1998 and was designed to last for 15 years until 2013. Chairman Kathy Morgan said the county's population growth outpaced projections and the building is already at capacity, meaning there is not enough office space nor enough room for keeping records.
Because no projects are being bonded, a judicial center expansion would not start until enough has money been collected in SPLOST, around 5 years from now.
"We will continue to manage in the space provided. We do believe they can continue to function albeit tightly until year six, we do not think they can manage beyond that timeframe," Morgan said in an e-mail.
According to the county's 2011 SPLOST fact sheet, state law requires judges, attorney and other officials to be housed in a building with special safety requirements that prevent harm from members of the public. The judicial center houses the Newton County Superior Court, District Attorneys, Juvenile Court, Probate Court and Magistrate Court.
Morgan said the size of the expansion has not been finalized, but she expected an expansion to add about 40-50 percent more space than currently exists.
According to the Newton County Tax Assessor's Web site, the size of the three-story judicial center is nearly 24,000 square feet.
In addition to a judicial center expansion, the SPLOST would provide $500,000 to move juvenile court to a separate facility to allow it more affectively run its six base programs, including drug court, truancy court and the education, life skills and abstinence-based REACH (Redirect and Educate youth on Abstinence, Choice and Healthy education) program.
Morgan said the programs are currently run out of several leased facilities throughout the county. She said a single location would allow for more cost effective management of the programs.
The most discussed location for a move is the former R.L. Cousins High School complex located on Geiger Street in Covington. The county would lease out the space. The $500,000 would pay for renovations to the space (estimated at about $270,000), technological upgrades and other associated work.


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by Jon Christian Ryter
It's been more than obvious since the first day of 43's Administration that there were, and still are, three separate presidential advisory teams working in the Executive Branch. First, there are a handful of 41's advisors in key State Department slots. That group is headed by former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell. Powell hand-picked these loyal underlings and had them slotted before '43' realized what was happening at Foggy Bottom just off Constitution Avenue eight blocks from the White House. While claiming to be merely the 'father of President 43', '41' wields a terrific punch in the Oval Office or at least People's Republic of China thinks so. When '43' began talking about building a missile shield defense system, the Chinese and Russians didn't run to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue screaming not fair!' They subtracted 'two' and ran to Kennebunkport, Maine. So did their lobbyist, Henry Kissinger. The message to keep '43' in line was delivered to '41' in Kennebunkport.
After September 11 when all America, the liberal media included, wanted a thousand oil barrels full of Islamic blood, and the head of Osama bin Laden spiked on the city gate for all the world to see, in retaliation for the World Trade Center and the Pentagon attacks, Secretary of State Colin Powell wanted to refer the matter to the United Nations. General Powell believed we should allow the 'international community' to resolve the matter with the Muslims. If Powell had his way, the UN, which is now largely controlled by Muslims, would have been delegated the authority to invoke 'sanctions' against the Taliban. Powell, you will recall, convinced '41' that going 'for the kill' with Saddam Hussein would not be good for the Mideast. Powell was the agent behind the idea of sanctions there, too. (It's pointless to level sanctions against a nation since sanctions are never felt by the ruling class of that nation, they are felt first by the poorest members of that society and then they trickle upward to whatever middle class exists.)
When President Bill Clinton left the White House on January 20, 2001 (with badly bruised fingertips that were injured from a death grip on the Oval Office door jam as Clinton used every legal and extra-legal ploy he could think of to hold office beyond Jan. 20), he used the liberal media to make it appear as though he was gracefully surrendering his high office to his successor. When Slick Willy vacated the White House, he left close to 3,000 key staffers and party loyalists behind to infiltrate the bureaucracy. To make certain he could still control the affairs of State after he left office, Clinton buried his most trusted staffers into key mid- to high-level non-political career job slots in Justice, State, Commerce, Labor, Education, Treasury, Energy, and Health and Human Services. Forty-three key appointees went to FEMA. In most cases those left behind now fill sub-department head positions and have become the key advisors to 43's cabinet heads. In other words, much of the advise reaching Bush's ear comes either from Kennebunkport or New York, and that advise is usually at odds with 43's inner circle advisers: Vice President Dick Cheney, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Gov. Tom Ridge, John Ashcroft, Andrew Card and Donald Rumsfeld the colorful Secretary of Defense whose press conferences on Fox News carry higher Neilson ratings than half of the prime time network programs. Confidential Bush Administration information leaks to the media like water through a sieve. Embarrassing the Bush Administration is part of the job of the Clinton carryovers who are now institutionalized within the bureaucracy and cannot be fired. The latest embarrassing flap concerns an internal argument over whether the al Qaeda detainees housed at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are P.O.W.s or are criminal detainees. The view of 43's inner circle is that the al Qaeda fighters are not, and never were, regular army soldiers entitled to be called prisoners of war. They are terrorists and they have always been terrorists. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yet the senior-most military-experienced presidential advisor, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell, argued in an internal memo to 43 that the al Qaeda fighters are not detainees but are, in reality, prisoners of war under the terms of the Geneva Convention. In a four page memo White House Special Counsel Al Gonzales told the President that Powell requested 43 to consider his January 18 decision that detainees do not qualify for POW status under the Geneva Convention. Gonzales' note to Bush said: "The Secretary of State has requested that you reconsider the decision...Specifically, he has asked that you conclude that GPW (Geneva Convention II on the Treatment of Prisoners) does apply to both al Qaeda and the Taliban...I understand, however, that he would agree that al Qaeda and Taliban fighters could be determined not to be prisoners of war, but only on a case-by-case basis, following individual hearings before a military board."
After the memo was leaked, causing an Administration that appears to be internally divided on a key issue considerable embarrassment, the White House belatedly initiated damage control. Sean McCormick, chief spokesman for the National Security Council issued a statement on Saturday saying that "...All of the president's advisors, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, agree they are not POWs."
The State Department, which since January 20, 2001 has not hesitated to give its view on any subject without first determining the position of the Oval Office, was surprisingly silent, declining to comment on the substance of the leaked memo. McCormick declared that the leaked memo was merely a 'draft' that did not accurately reflect Powell's position on the detainees. "...Powell's position," he argued to the media, "is that they are not POWs," insisting that Powell has consistently held that view. Yet the 'draft memo' shows a considerable amount of disagreement between the State Department and the Oval Office on this issue. McCormick said that the final version of the disputed memo (which was never released to the media) reflects a unified consensus with the president's position.
Skeptical reporters asked McCormick how such 'inaccuracies' were included in the first draft of the memo if Powell stood in accord with the President's views. McCormick replied that it was a misunderstanding between lawyers. Under the Geneva Convention there is a section that deals with combatants who are not regular army troops. It is now being argued by the White House that Powell's position is that the al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in custody should be viewed as non-army combatants under the terms of the Geneva Convention, not that he felt they should be classified as POWs. McCormick was grabbing at nonexistent straws since the version that was leaked to the media was the same memo that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice distributed to senior Administration officials on Friday, Jan. 25, asking them to respond by 11 a.m. on Saturday. There may have been another memo issued by the National Security Council to the President, Vice President and senior staff after each had an opportunity to assess the views expressed in the Jan. 25 memo concerning whether or not to 'upgrade' the detainees status to 'prisoner of war'.
Clearly, what was going on behind the scenes was a battle of the lawyers. This is not the first time this has happened since September 11, and it is not the first time it has had adverse affects on the Bush Administration. In October, you will recall, Gen. Tommy Franks' special ops people located Muhammed Atef, Osama bin Laden's number two man. However, before he could launch a missile and bomb strike to take Atef out, an argument ensued between lawyers for the State Department, Defense Department, National Security Council, the Justice Department and eventually the Solicitor General. As they argued whether striking Atef could be construed by the liberals in the Senate as the assassination of a national leader, Atef vanished. Atef, who was related to bin Laden by marriage, was later killed in another bomb strike. The difference in the bomb run that ultimately killed him and the planned attack in October was that when he was finally killed, Atef was the random victim in a bombing attack. In October, he was specifically targeted.
In October it was the State Department which stopped the attack claiming it would open the White House to charges that it had authorized the assassination of a national leader. (And under current UN guidelines, that was a possibility.) Now the State Department is, for the same reasons, attempting to classify the captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters as 'covered' combatants under the protective umbrella of the Geneva Convention.
What is most disturbing at Powell's attempts to force Bush to reconsider the White House position is that his 'allies' in this endeavor are [1] the liberal international media that is currently slamming the Bush Administration's 'care' of the detainees, arguing that they are suffering inhumane treatment because they are 'housed' out-of-doors, [2] the heads of the Islamic nations in the Mideast who don't want the U.S. Marines and the National Security Council to have unbridled access to the 158 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters who are being held at Gitmo, and [3] the socialist liberals in the Congress of the United States that need to tarnish 43's war record as they attempt to blame the current economic recession of Bush's tax cut in preparation for the midterm elections which will be held in November. At stake in November is control of both the House and Senate. If the detainees are classified as prisoners of war instead of terrorist detainees, then the United States military is greatly limited in the methods they may use to question them and the detainees can answer by providing only their names and ranks, if any. In addition, since they are Islamic, the American government would be forced to allow members of the Red Crescent (the Muslim equivalent to the Red Cross) to visit and examine the containment facilities. The biggest problem with that is that the Red Crescent is one of the Islamic charities that has been caught financing terrorism, and is a conduit that has been used to funnel money to the al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Furthermore, if the detainees are classified as POWs, they must be able to mingle freely together in a compound. The problem with that at Gitmo is that the detainees, restricted as they are in separate 8' X 8' cubicles, are already forming a leadership hierarchy and command structure. Clearly since most of these fighters have pledged suicide, if they were confined in a common area, there is no doubt they would attempt to overpower their armed guards in order to kill them before they themselves were killed.
If the al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are classified as terrorist detainees, they may be treated as criminals and questioned repeatedly not only by the military but by NSA officials, the CIA and the FBI. There is much more at stake here than the treatment the detainees are getting at Club Gitmo.
At stake here is how much authority the international community has over the sovereign affairs of the United States of America. Powell knows that. So does 43. And, so does 41 who believed in the New World Order so much that he was willing to surrender America's external sovereign rights (its right to control its own international diplomacy without interference from the European Union and the transnationalist industrialists and bankers who need to maintain a smooth working rapport with the oil patch in the Mideast), believing that all of the economic and political problems in the world would be solved with world government.
Powell, who was offered a shot at the Oval Office by the Bilderbergers in 1999 when George W. Bush seemed to be wavering about throwing his own hat in the ring, is clearly in bed with the globalists. Every decision he has made since becoming Secretary of State has been based on the utopian ideals of the New World Order. And most of those decisions appear to be at odds with 43's inner circle. Powell has clashed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at least twice on policy matters dealing with the War on Terrorism and has lost both arguments.
There should not be any public division at the senior level of any President's administration, particularly when that division weighs America's right to make sovereign decisions concerning its internal security without kowtowing to the international consensus of transnationalists with a monetary interest in manipulating political policy.
It's time for Colin Powell to go.
Jon Christian Ryter is a former newspaper reporter with the Parkesburg, WV Sentinel. Ryter also wrote a syndicated column, "Answers from the Bible" which was followed each week by over a half million fans of his work. Today, Ryter works for The Washington Times as an advertising executive where he he now interacts with most of the notable conservative advocacy groups in the United States, as well as some of the nation's brightest conservative legislators. Author of the baffled Christian's handbook "Prince Albert: Prophet of Utopia" website: www.jonchristianryter.comold website: http://www.aol.com/baffauthor/jonchristianryter.html His latest book "Whatever Happened To America?" can be purchased from WorldNetDaily's on line store front, or Walter Publishing: 1-800-955-0116


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Many retirees are making their way back into the office because they want to work, boost their retirement incomes, or balance the fulfillment of holding a part-time job with the flexibility of semi-retired status. However, when people retire because of a disability, they are only eligible for benefits because they are unable to work. Nonetheless, NorthJersey.com tells the story of a man who was discovered working as a police officer in Georgia despite collecting more than $321,000 in disability pension payments after retiring from a police department in New Jersey. (Unlike many baby boomers, this man's plan to work through his retirement went bust.)
The story states that this man served as an officer at a northern New Jersey police department for nearly ten years. (So this was not a rookie mistake.) He retired by obtaining ordinary disability retirement, which he received by substantiating that medical and stress-related conditions left him totally and permanently disabled and thus unable to work. Upon retiring, he moved his family to Georgia, and about one year after his disability was approved, he started a succession of desk jobs in sheriff's offices throughout the southern state. (Reportedly, he thought desk jobs did not count as work.) He even reportedly applied to work as a special agent with the South Georgia Drug Task Force just four days after his New Jersey disability pension came through.
The fraudulent flatfoot received his disability pension over the course of more than seven years, collecting about $3,614 per month from the New Jersey Police and Firemen's Retirement System, totaling $321,008 over the course of his conspiracy, in addition to his regular salary as an officer in Georgia. The state Division of Pensions and Benefits discovered that the former New Jersey policeman was working in Georgia through an anonymous tip. (Kudos to whomever blew the whistle.) With his pension under review, the officer lied to his psychological evaluator, stating that he had barely worked since he began collecting his disability pension. In fact, the story details that had been employed for all but five months since he began working in Georgia. He claimed to have taken the positions in Georgia because of a financial predicament, and that he disclosed to all of his employers that he was accepting a New Jersey pension. (Then why lie when he got caught? Cue the theme from 'Dragnet.')
Although this former pension collector already repaid $100,000, that evidently did little to earn favor from the judge. With a plea of guilty to third-degree theft by deception, the 44-year-old man was sentenced to serve 364 days in county jail and to pay $321,008 in restitution. He was also permanently barred from public employment in the state of New Jersey. (APB to all other the states – make sure you are paying attention)
This former police officer stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a pension fund meant for fellow retirees who spent their careers serving the New Jersey public. Unfortunately, this man spent the last few years of his career serving his pocketbook. Let his verdict be a warning for people looking to make money off of public pensions – it's a bad beat.
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ORSP holds technical forums quarterly to foster learning of OR and its applications. These are open to members, student chapters, and anyone with an interest in OR. Past topics have included, among others, OR and supply chain management, energy, organizational management, sustainable development, environment, food supply, traffic issues.
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April 2008 Forum
"OR Successes and Struggles in the Real World"
Entitled Operations Research in the Real World, the first 2008 Technical Forum was held last April 19 in cooperation with Ateneo de Manila University. On hand to welcome the participants was the chair of the Quantitative Methods and Information Technology at the John Gokongwei School of Management of the ADMU, Angelo Ramon Tanchoco. ORSP members, guests, and members from the seven student chapters filled the Escaler Hall of Science Education Complex to learn from the discussions of noted OR practitioners and academicians who gathered for the event.
Introduced by Board Director Malu de Guzman-U was first speaker Norman Lapid, Management Associate of the Operations and Technology Department at the Citi Markets and Banking group of Citibank, who talked on Testing the Implications of Product Line Expansion on a Conveyor Loading System using Simulation. He tackled the importance of considering how new product introductions must not only be analyzed from the marketing angle but also from the perspective of how it can utilize or complement existing logistical and operational systems. To do this, Lapid presented a dynamic animated simulation model with user-adjustable model parameters developed for a cement company. He showed how the use of a modeling software provided the logistics team with a practical and reusable OR tool for testing, viewing, and presenting to management a wide range of loading and product switching policies given their large set of uncertain and changing operational constraints.
With an interesting title, OR: The Secret Ingredient to Enterprise Decision Making (Why OR is the hidden key to making informed decisions with less risk and better outcomes), Jonathan Catane, Principal Consultant for Manufacturing of SAS Philippines shared how various enterprises all over the world select decision variables to achieve their objectives while obeying constraints through the use of OR. He cited the importance of sorting through all factors and information available in order to identify strategies that will produce success for business initiatives of the entire organization. He gave examples of how companies ensure that planned strategies optimize: resource allocation and management; production and inventory planning; product mix and blending; staffing allocations; distribution, routing, scheduling and traffic flow; supply chain management and optimization' capital budgeting, asset allocation and portfolio selection; and identification of the best customer-offer-channel combinations given budgets and other constraints. He also introduced to the audience the OR tools available for doing all these through analytical business solutions from the SAS software.
Their talks were followed by a lively open forum that among others, suggested some extensions of the model presented by Lapid as well as queries directed at Catane about the implementation experiences of the SAS users of OR.
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Panel on OR Consulting:
Sharing Successes and Struggles
Those who wanted to hear more about the OR implementation experiences were not disappointed as the session that followed dealt exactly with this area. Entitled OR Consulting: Sharing Successes and Struggles, the panel was moderated by current International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) President, Elise del Rosario. In her words, the panel is composed of distinguished OR practitioners whose collective internal and external consulting experience in OR total one hundred years.
Angelo Ramon Tanchoco started off the panel by citing how soft systems methodologies can help structure and diagnose the problems that clients bring to the consultant. Echoed by all the succeeding speakers, availability of data for use was singled out as the major problem faced by the OR consultant working in the Philippines. He also touched on the task of every consultant to educate but not alienate the client who may not be familiar with OR.
Internal consulting experiences were shared by the next speaker, Rex Robielos, Section Manager of Operations Research Group at Analog Devices General Trias and a Faculty Member of the School of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Mapua Institute of Technology. He shared how the OR Department at ADGT, despite being a little bit over a year, has earned a reputation in the company such that important projects are being sent to the OR group for validation. He cited having a breakthrough project in an environment with 800 machines, 3000 employees and 5000 skus to optimize helped a lot in achieving this stature. He credits this success to four key success factors: top management support, having the right analysts around, the availability of resources and data.
Next to speak was Agnes Perez, OR manager of what could be considered an OR institution in the Philippines. The history shared by the speaker of the 37-year old OR group within San Miguel Corporation was rich with lessons from which other internal OR can benefit. Among other aspects, Perez touched on the advantage of an internal OR consulting group and the importance of an organizational location of an OR group that:allows access to senior management-sponsored projects; enables a system view of issues; and enables critical-mass staffing levels. She mentioned threats to group survival that include: poor marketing of services, competition form other resources, and staff reduction pressures.
Other experiences of an internal OR group were shared by the current Operations Research Manager of KFC – Mr. Donut Philippines, Marlene Gutierrez. While emphasizing key ingredients for a successful OR applications to include executive level support availability of data and IT support, she also highlighted the importance of an articulate, confident and competent OR consultant. She related the success of a project that resulted in savings as well as a project that resulted in valuable lessons for use in succeeding projects.
Armed with his wealth of experience on external OR consulting, past ORSP President, Vicente Reventar III gave tips on harnessing the valuable free resource in the internet that is available for use by every OR consultant. Armed with his experience as SVP of Pag-ibig and President of SVI Technologies, Reventar successfully provided OR consulting services to companies without internal OR groups. His two main messages to the audience are ways to be more effective when presenting results to senior management and to utilize open-source software and OR optimization servers (ASP).
The Vice Chairperson of the Department of Industrial Engineering at De La Salle University-Manila, Bryan Gobaco then drew on his experience working with large-scale models to warn OR consultants about the pitfalls of non-linearities, a large number of integer variables, the need for enormous amounts of data, and the dangers of promising the client what cannot be delivered. He then concluded that one of the main factors that could lead to a sustained and consistent use of OR is when the models could be embedded into decision support systems that could be deployed for use in organizations.
This was in turn, dealt with in full by the next speaker Alexander Hipolito, qualified by more than 10 years experience in supply chain consulting and solution implementation using SAP APO, i2, as well as specialized Optimization technologies such as CPLEX and Xpress-MP. After explaining the capabilities of supply chain software with embedded OR solutions, he went into the lessons learned, opportunities to explore as well as threats to defend against. He suggests building end-user expertise in interpreting optimizer results as a key to success in this area.
It can be said that the speakers, who all happened to be past or present ORSP Board members, catered to the whole audience, as they addressed questions relevant to practitioners who may have faced similar challenges, enlightened academicians whose main interest is to make classroom lessons more relevant to actual practice, as well as encouraged (or maybe discouraged?) students who are contemplating on careers in OR consulting. It was therefore no wonder that people stayed on even as the discussion went past the scheduled end by two hours! This is the reason why instead of giving her talk, E. del Rosario summarized the proceedings and turned over the floor to ORSP President Alleli Domingo who gave out tokens for the speakers and bid the participants goodbye, at least for this forum.
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November 2007 Forum
OR in Organizational Management is Alive and Well!
Highlighting the important role of Operations Research in the three essential functions of organizations, the last ORSP forum for 2007 focused on the use of OR in marketing, finance and operations. The Operations Management Forum was held on Saturday, November 10, 2007, at the National Engineering Center Audio Visual Room in UP Diliman, Quezon City.
Drawing on his extensive experience with the banking sector, Vic Reventar talked about the use of OR in finance. A professor of the Department of Quantitative Management and Information Technology at John Gokongwei School of Management of ADMU, showed the current state of OR applications in the Philippine local banking and financial landscape. He discussed the evolution of mathematical modeling methods that have been used to model the portfolio allocation problem and the representation of the asset-liability models in both banking and insurance companies with the help of examples. He also presented the problems and challenges of making OR applications pervasive in this important segment of the Philippine economy.
Operations management use of OR was shown through a specific application at the KFC by Marlene Gutierrez, Central Planning Manager of KFC-Mister Donut Philippines and part-time lecturer in Industrial Engineering-OR department in the College of Engineering at the UP Diliman. She demonstrated the power of simulation in giving their company the ability to try out approaches and test ideas for improving the speed of their service, not just at the counter, but at the backroom. A pilot store was modeled, with layout taken into consideration. She showed how a simulation model was able to clarify some questions on operational procedures which resulted in the reduction of management requirement, the validation of process flow, the recognition of the need for re-layout of some areas at the backroom, and the revision of batch sizing based on lean or peak periods. The talk not only gave a very vivid picture of the processes in the kitchen but also got many in the audience thinking about dropping by KFC to test their speed of service and have a bite of their chicken.
Professor Purba Rao, a Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, who teaches Advanced Topics in Marketing Research (among others) at the Asian Institute of Management, talked about the widespread applications of predictive modeling in management, such as in identifying customer segments with the highest future sales potential, who will be the most profitable customers, and those who are likely to purchase, again and who would spend the most. She identified three approaches in predictive modeling, namely: heuristic approach, statistical approach and data mining. She used very colorful predictive modeling examples culled from her work both in the Philippines and in India.
It was a well-attended forum. The number of walk-in participants saw the organizers trying to fit in 20% more than the capacity of the Audi Visual Room The three speakers gave the audience an OR tour, as it were, from banking and finance, to food service and on to beauty salons.
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July 2007 Forum
Environmental Issues Discussed at Natural Resources Management Forum
In recognition of pressing environmental issues, ORSP selected Natural Resources Management as the theme of its Technical Forum held on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at the Audio-Visual room of the NEC at the UP Diliman campus. Conducted in cooperation with the National Engineering Center, it featured respected authorities from the government and the academic community.
Environmental Education and Information Division Chief of the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and chair of the Sub-Committee on Information and Education of the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development Elenida del Rosario-Basug discussed government education efforts in her presentation entitled "The National Environmental Education Plan (NEEAP) for Sustainable Development." She introduced the NEEAP vision for environmentally-literate and proactive citizenry imbued with a sense of responsibility to care, protect and enhance environmental quality. She discussed how this vision requires educating all Filipinos from their earliest years both at home and in school, and the accompanying effort in curriculum and educational resources development, conferences, community involvement, and social advocacy. Status of the efforts was also tackled.
Taking off from this discussion, the next speaker, ORSP President Alleli Domingo, related how OR education has responded to the environmental management challenge through several examples. She introduced "Earth-keeping Awareness thru Operations Research Models," with an award-winning song which reminds us that we are all "earth-keepers" and as such, are accountable for the proper use and preservation of the natural resources that have been given to us. She then discussed the role of quantitative reasoning in enabling people to think broadly and across disciplines.
The usual applications of OR in the minimization of costs and maximization of profits must be expanded to evaluate economic gains against the standard of long-term sustainability. She presented a survey of mathematical models that take their cue from nature, notably, ant colonies and flights of sea gulls. She also shared teaching practices that stir consciousness of students as earth-keepers.
Dr. Diomedes Racelis' presentation on"Simulation Modeling Applications in Reforestation in the Philippines" caught everyone's attention with the projection that if deforestation continues at its current rate, old-growth forests will disappear in ten years. An Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources in UP Los Baños and recipient of UPLB Outstanding Teacher Award for Physical and Mathematical Sciences as well as the UPLB College of Forestry Outstanding Teacher Award, he discussed how simulation has been, and may be used in modeling the numerous and oftentimes conflicting considerations (geographical, economic, political, etc.) in forestry. He went into the details of a simulation model that helps optimize reforestation efforts. He ended by citing the advantages and disadvantages of using simulation modeling, and identified the major contributions of these models in the reforestation efforts.
After the snack, the audience was all set for another informative presentation on soft systems methodology as used in "Platforms & Terraces: Bridging Participation and Geographic Information Systems in Watershed Management with the Ifugaos" for presentation by Dr. Rhodora Gonzalez, Chairperson of the Department of Geodetic Engineering, Director of the Training Center for Applied Geodesy and Photogrammetry at UP Diliman. Lightning struck, and it knocked out the power at the Auditorium. After some minutes of waiting, the organizers thought it optimal to re-schedule the presentation for the next forum. The speaker graciously accepted the organizers' apologies with a promise to be at the next forum.
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Pumpkin-Leek Soup
This supremely autumnal soup has such a velvety texture, you'd never know there isn't an ounce of cream in the recipe. Though a type of onion, leeks add a flavor that's a bit milder and sweeter than its counterparts. For a vegetarian version, simply swap the chicken broth for vegetable.
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A Decomposition of Ricardian Trade Gains
Teaching trade patterns and trade gains under the Ricardian trade model is one of the most difficult tasks for teachers of international economics. We propose that the utilization of both the PPF and a labor market graph makes the understanding of Ricardian trade gains much easier.
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- Jones, Ronald W., 2010. "Art works in international trade theory," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 64-74, January.
- Krugman, Paul R, 1993. "What Do Undergrads Need to Know about Trade?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(2), pages 23-26, May.
- Andrea Maneschi, 1998. "Comparative Advantage in International Trade," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 856.
- Richard Arena, 2002. "Introduction," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 112(5), pages 627-633.
- Ronald W. Jones, 1995. "The Discipline of International Trade," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 131(III), pages 273-288, September.
- Frank Dietrich & Hartmut Kliemt & Michael Imhoff, 2002. "Introduction," Homo Oeconomicus, Institute of SocioEconomics, vol. 19, pages 7-8.
- Maneschi, Andrea, 1998. "Comparative Advantage with and without Gains from Trade," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 6(1), pages 120-128, February.
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Re: st: Comparison of coefficients across groups
Richard Williams <email@example.com>
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Re: st: Comparison of coefficients across groups
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:34:03 -0500
At 10:48 AM 3/9/2012, Alina Rusakova wrote:
Dear all,
I use -suest- in order to compare probit coefficients across groups
and the results suggest that there are no significant differences in
a variable of interest across groups. However, a coefficient is
significant in one group and it is not significant in another group.
Given that this coefficient does not vary across groups, how can I
iterpret the results? Can I infer that the variable of interest is
important only for one, but not for another group?
There are any number of issues here.
First, group comparisons involving probit and logit coefficients are
potentially problematic in the first place. See
and the sources it cites.
Second, to say that an effect is statistically insignificant is not
the same as saying it is 0. It just means that you can't rule out 0
as a possible value. You also can't rule out the variable having even
larger effects than those estimated.
Richard Williams, Notre Dame Dept of Sociology
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Two Arrests at Capitol Gun Rally
Two people were arrested at a demonstration sponsored by the same group that staged an open-carry protest at the Alamo. About a dozen people turned out for the protest in front of the state capitol.
Both men were said to be carrying antique pistols, said to be black-powder revolver made before 1899. The men were charged with criminal trespass, and refused to identify themselves to authorities.
The rally was sponsored by Open Carry Texas; their leaders tell the Associated Press their members did not provoke DPS officers and were within their legal rights to carry the guns.
Open Carry Texas also organized last week's "Come and Take It San Antonio!" rally at the Alamo; intended to draw attention to a right Texans already have - to carry long arms publicly as long as they don't do it in a menacing manner.
(Associated Press contributed to this article)


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Motorists using the Cross City Tunnel will pay a $3.50 toll each way - and are likely to be charged $1.60 on top of every trip if they don't have an electronic tag.
Market researchers revealed to select motorists at focus groups this week that Sydney's first e-tag-only road could be opened by the end of next month - and, as expected, casual users who choose not to buy an e-tag face the biggest payments.
More sessions are planned as the tunnel's backers finesse how to market the new toll arrangements, which will jolt those motorists who favour coin-operated booths.
It became evident that electronic tags, which are used on average by about two-thirds of all motorists, will be marketed heavily, not least because of the administrative burden posed by users of coin-operated booths.
The State Government is planning to make the Sydney Harbour Tunnel cashless about the same time as the tunnel is opened.
It was suggested at the focus groups that large signs, reading "No Toll Booth" could be installed at the eastern and western entrances to the tunnel.
A recent NRMA survey indicated 41 per cent of rural motorists, those likely to be caught by the casual user charge, were not aware of electronic tolling.
Although the motorway's contract stipulated the toll had to be set at $2.50, that amount was calculated in 1999 terms. The actual figure has not been revealed.
The $3.50 price being marketed to the focus groups is commensurate with other Sydney toll roads. The M4 is the cheapest toll road at $2.20, with a government-backed cash refund for registered motorists which costs more than $50 million each year.
The Eastern Distributor is the most expensive road at $4. The 40-kilometre Westlink M7, to be opened late next year, will have its toll capped at $5, but in 2000 terms. On the Melbourne CityLink, the world's first e-tag-only road, casual users can buy a 24-hour pass, giving unlimited access for $9.95.
Last night, a spokesman for the Roads and Traffic Authority, Paul Willoughby, said the toll price and opening date of the Cross City Tunnel have not been finalised.
"With this being Sydney's first fully electronic motorway, a significant community awareness program is required to provide information about the new arrangements that will be in place," he said.
When opened, the tunnel will bypass up to 18 sets of traffic lights, promising reduced CBD vehicle congestion, and cutting to two minutes the average 22-minute cross-city journey.
More than 90,000 vehicles are expected to pass through the tunnel every day.
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Carnival Triumph - Western Caribbean: Carnival Triumph Cruise Review by Felicia
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Carnival Triumph - Western Caribbean
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
Our itinerary changed as well. Our first stop was on Wednesday in Grand Cayman and Thursday in Cozumel.
MONDAY - EMBARKATION DAY The embarkation was a complete and utter disaster! The agents looked like a bunch of chickens without heads running around and screaming at everyone. I arrived at 12:30pm and stood in line for about 15 minutes then after checking in stood in another quick line to get your S/S card and then you were directed by one of these chickens w/o heads to sit down in a row of chairs until your row was called to stand in line and take a picture and then to More proceed to the security check point which only had ONE - yes - ONE X-Ray machine with about 7 different TSA people standing around it (???). I really felt that the whole process needed a little more organization to it. I also forgot to mention that while I was standing in line the lights went out and the AC turned off for about 10 minutes and the room just got completely HEATED! Everyone was sweating buckets! Anyway, back to embarkation....Once we got through all of this we walked up the ramps and finally crossed the threshold of the beauty that is the Triumph, where our pictures were taken with our S/S card and we were finally inside! All in all this took about 1 hour from first arriving to walking through the door of our cabin.
We had an 8A category Cabin #6280(balcony). The room was fantastic! We had more than enough space to put our belongings.
We spent the entire day exploring the boat and of course starting our drinking fest! The boat is an absolute beauty!! We met our cabin steward and immediately tipped him $20. I was going to continue to tip him throughout the week, but I felt that he didn't do anything out of his way to take care of his. He would just make the beds and fix the towels. He never cleaned the counter tops...I had to do it, and my other friends received items in their room that we never got. So I was dissatisfied with him. We also went straight to the spa and made reservations for our massages. I did find the massages to be a little pricier than what I remember them to be on the Norwegian Sky. My boyfriend and I opted for a couples massage for Friday (more on that later). They were also offering free facials and massages to people who would volunteer to be their models for other people to watch. I personally didn't want to do it just because I don't want people staring at my imperfections on my face and body.
The first night was open seating and we had dinner in the Paris dining room. Can I just say that the food on this ship was absolutely SUPERB! Everything was so tasty. After dinner we went to the Oxford lounge and continued our drinking and having a good time. After their we went to the Hollywood dance club where the DJ was playing some disco and 80's music. I really wanted to do the Bingo, but my friends kept shrugging me off (More on that later). We basically drank the night away until about 2:00 am and went to bed. We ordered room service and went to bed. The ham and cheese sandwich was really good, it came with chips. There was also a pb&j sandwich that my boyfriend had.
TUESDAY We woke up early so that we could make it to the open seating breakfast in the Paris dining room. This was pretty much the norm for every morning except Thursday. I had the Carnival express breakfast with a side of hash browns and some pancakes or French toast. DELICIOUS!!! After breakfast we spent the day exploring and checking out the shops. I bought a pair of earrings and a necklace for 49.99. We continued our drinking of course and most of the day was spent exploring. We really didn't layout by the pool that day at all. I had signed up for a spinning class at 4:00pm. Only three people showed up, but I felt good afterwards...the instructor was great. After the spinning I returned to my cabin and prepared for formal night. We went to the captain's party in the Hollywood dance club...but it was also in some of the other lounges close by. Their were free drinks and hor'duerves. Promptly at 8:15 we went to the Paris dining room and sat down for some Lobster and Prime Rib...yes I ordered both! And they were both GREAT!!!!! Afterwards we spent the night having shots and partying in the Hollywood disco until about 3:30 am.
WEDNESDAY Needless to say I awoke this day exhausted!!! We arrived in Grand Cayman at about 10:00 am. We woke up early to have breakfast in the Paris dining room and then we went to meet with our tour at one of the lounges. Our tour left at 10:30 but because there were so many ships docked our tour left about an hour late from the ship which you have to catch a tender and then another hour from the pier area. We did the stingray city tour and snorkeling. It really messed up our day because by the time we got back it was already 3:45 and the last tender left at 4:45pm. The stingray city tour was fantastic. These little and big creatures are so amazing and docile. They just swim right up to you and sometime they flap their wings on your back or through your legs. They tell you not to pick up your feet because if you do step on them you will get stung. The boat operators would just swim right up and hug them like teddy bears and give them kisses and they would give kisses back. I was a bit terrified at first....but I eased into them. I also fed the, which was a really strange sensation b/c they suck food in. Their mouth is like 7 vacuum cleaners at once....so it was odd...I only fed them once.
We took pictures with the stingrays and then boarded the boat. Then they took us to a reef close by and we had a about 30 minutes of snorkeling time...the reef wasn't all that. We returned to the pier area and had just enough time to go eat at a nearby restaurant and try some turtle....DELICIOUS!!!! We bought some rum cake and a shot glass and sprinted for the tenders!
We got back to the cabin took a nap....woke up got dressed and went to eat dinner at the dining room once again. The food continued to be great...after dinner we went to play bingo in the Rome lounge .... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...I WON $400...I would have won the whole jackpot but the lady was going so fast that by the time I realized that I had bingo another woman had stood up....I had paid for two cards...so it was a lot to keep track of. After that we stayed for the magic show which was fantastic. Your typical Las Vegas type show....we were completely amazed with all of the tricks and the dancers were beautiful and did such a great job. I highly recommend the show. After the magic show we continued on to the club and had a WILD night! Once again retired at 3:30 am.
THURSDAY We arrived in Cozumel promptly at 11:00 am. This day we opted for the Lido deck breakfast which allowed us to get up a little later. After breakfast we went on shore. As soon as you walk off the boat there are some Aztecs and typical ladies dressed in Mexican wear taking pictures with you and the Carnival photogs. A short walk after that are the duty free stores where there was everything from Vanilla to coffee liquor and perfumes and makeup. It was a field day for me......as I am known as the shopping queen.
We took a cab to Playa Sol...which is now called Playa Mia...and spent the day there. It was a little to crowded...but it was a nice beach. There is a party boat that leaves from there. You can also rent canoes and paddle boats which are included in your entrance fee. The wave runners and banana boats are separate. The wave runners were very expensive in my opinion. They charged $51.00 for 30 minutes $100 for an hour....the banana boats were about $12.00 per person I believe. They also offered massages on the premises....which I thought was excellent but I didn't get a chance to try them out. They also had hammocks in the shade and a small pool that was full to capacity with kids! So imagine how warm that pool was. You could also order food from waiters along the beach or you could go to the pavilion and have food from a buffet....depending on your fee it may or may not have been included. We opted to pay the $31.00 per person which included the drinks....only domestic drinks. There was a tiny zoo with some monkeys and a couple of interesting animals. We took a cab back to the boat to shower and change. For dinner we went to Carlos N' Charlies and pigged out on their food. It was DELICIOUS! We had shots galore and the environment there is just crazy and fun! We walked around after dinner a little to the nearby shops and the mall before heading back to the boat. We did our usual ritual of going to the club and drinking up a storm.
FRIDAY The last day! I woke up feeling so sad but nonetheless decided to make the most of our last day. We had breakfast at the Paris dining room...as always it was delicious. Afterwards we went to the pool and rode the slide...which was fun but it got a little scary at the end and when you get to the bottom be prepared for the large amount of slat water that you swallow and goes up your nose. After spending the morning and afternoon at the pool my SO and I had scheduled a couples massage at 4:00PM. They take you into separate locker rooms and ask you to take your clothes off and put a towel around your body. Each of our massage ladies came to get us and had us fill out some papers in regards to our health. After that was squared away my SO and I met up in the massage room where two tables were laid out and we got on them. The massage began and it was so great! The only bad side to is that at the end they try to push their products on you while you are endorphined out......luckily I was expecting this and was already prepared to say no problem....however my SO ended up buying an eyemask for $50.00. He learned his lesson. For our last evening we went to eat dinner and then to the comedy show which was absolutely hilarious again. Shortly after it was time to pack and finish off the night.
The next morning they give you an option if you are a US citizen you have a time period between 7:30 and 8:20 to walk off the boat if you are able to carry your own bags....so if you choose this option you do not have to leave your bags out at night....if not debarkation begins at 9:45 for everyone else. There is breakfast in the restaurants until 9:00 and the Lido until 9:30am. The debarkation went really fast and before you know it you were zipped off to reality once again!
I Loved the Triumph and with our 50% discount we are planning a cruise on the brand new Valor! I can't wait! Less
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"The opening of a trapdoor and the sudden snap of a hangman's noose at dawn yesterday brought an extraordinary end to a political era in Iraq." -- Opening line from The Guardian's report of the execution of Saddam, Dec. 31, 2006
"Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening the trap door beneath her fellow Democrat." -- Bob Herbert of the NYT, Confronting the Kitchen Sink, March 8, 2008 [emphasis added in both citations].
When Bill O'Reilly, in an impromptu response to a phone caller's question, said that he didn't want to "lynch" Michelle Obama, critics on the left from Media Matters to Keith Olbermann were outraged. Star Jones condemned O'Reilly's statement as "racist, unacceptable and inappropriate on every level."
When Kelly Tilghman of The Golf Channel thought she was being funny when she said the only way for competitors to stop Tiger Woods would be to "lynch him," Al Sharpton threatened to picket her employer unless she were fired. Tilghman wound up serving a two-week suspension.
So how will people -- from Hillary Clinton to the guardians of political correctness -- react to Bob Herbert's line? Are hanging metaphors suddenly acceptable when used by pundits of the left? Will Herbert claim he used the trap door image only to suggest that Hillary wants to make Obama suddenly disappear? What if a conservative pundit had said he'd like to open a trap door beneath Obama? Odds his explanation along such lines would be accepted on the left?
Upon further reflection, it's hard to see Herbert's use of the trap door metaphor as standing for the relatively innocous notion of making someone suddenly disappear rather than the more sinister hanging one.
Consider the context in which Herbert used it:
More serious was Senator Clinton's assertion that she was qualified to be commander in chief, and that John McCain had also "certainly" crossed that "threshold," but that the jury was still out on Mr. Obama.
In other words, if a choice on national security had to be made today between Senators Obama and McCain, voters — according to Mrs. Clinton's logic — should choose Senator McCain.
That is a low thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to do to a rival in a party primary. Can you imagine John McCain saying that Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney or even the guitar-strumming Mike Huckabee might be less qualified than Hillary Clinton to be commander in chief? It couldn't happen.
But Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening the trap door beneath her fellow Democrat.
So Herbert says that Hillary has done a "low thing" by suggesting Obama is unfit as Commander in Chief, and that that this constitutes "opening the trap door" beneath him. But Clinton's accusation is not something that could possibly make Obama suddenly disappear. No one doubts that Obama, with a virtually insurmountable lead among elected delegates, will remain in the campaign to the convention. So it's difficult to see Herbert's comment as meaning other than that Hillary intended to do Obama serious harm.


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Ha Noi, 13 November - As part of a series of policy advocacy events and dialogues focused on discussing issues relating to young people and the post 2015 development agenda, the UN in Viet Nam, together with the Youth Union, organized a youth forum on 13 November.
The aim of the event was to help young people get their voices heard when planning for the implementation of the National Youth Development Strategy 2011-2020.
Viet Nam youth widely represented
The National Youth Forum gathered together about 100 youth representatives from across Viet Nam, representing diverse groups of young people, such as youngsters from high schools, universities, industrial zones, rural areas, and ethnic minorities, youth in the armed forces and youth union officials from Hanoi and Hai Phong, as well as Ben Tre, Ninh Thuan, Hai Duong, Hoa Binh and Phu Tho provinces. Besides young people, the forum was also attended by leaders and representatives from the concerned line ministries, the Youth Union and several UN agencies.
How to make youth policies work
The Forum featured interactive discussions on how young people can make a meaningful contribution to the implementation of youth policies, as well as what they see as important development issues for Viet Nam when the MDGs expire in 2015.
Young people can make a difference
During the Forum, the discussions focused on four themes: health, education, employment and youth perspectives in multi-sectoral coordination of youth affairs. Young participants called for better access to health, education and employment, and stressed the need for better quality and equality of the services. Besides these messages to leaders, there was also focus on the role of young people themselves as change agents. With adequate life skills and supporting attitudes, young people feel they can be the champions of their own lives.
What's next?
The recommendations made by the youth participants will be used on 28 November when the Ministry of Home Affairs will organize a high-level "National conference on a multi-sectoral response to the implementation of Vietnamese Youth Development Strategy 2011-2020".
At the end of the day, Ms. Mandeep K. O'Brien, UNFPA Representative a.i. in Viet Nam, on behalf of the UN in Viet Nam, voiced that: "Thinking forward, we will share the voices of young people to high-level leaders at the 28 November conference. But I would also like to think beyond that, with hopes that this dialogue will keep ongoing, perhaps in the form of an institutionalized mechanism to have young people heard in the matters that concern them."
Learn more?
Read through this testimony of young migrant workers and watch the videos below.
There is also a video showing young people's opinion on the future they want recorded that same day.
Or watch the video showing children's views, recorded on 19 January 2013.
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- Additional investments in family planning would save developing countries more than $11 billion a year