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On Sunday, we introduced you to Jan Hicks – a two-time breast cancer survivor. As a registered nurse and case manager for Springs Memorial Hospital, Hicks is all too familiar with cancer's impact on those diagnosed with the devastating disease and their loved ones.
The recent Lancaster County Board of Zoning Appeals vote to overturn the county decision on the nonconforming-use status of Thomas Concrete left us scratching our heads.
What looked like a simple case of a plant losing its grandfathered status, and thus its right to operate, got a lot more complicated at the Oct. 11 BZA hearing.
It has been a whale of a season for Lancaster High School junior swimmer Jory Pettit.
Pettit capped the 2011 swim campaign with an individual state crown in the 50-yard freestyle at the recent Class AAAA state swim meet.
Pettit brilliantly topped a tough field, edging Byrnes High School's Alex Wood by a slim margin.
Pettit's winning 21.47 was the result of a fast finish. Wood, who won the 100-yard freestyle state crown, was a close second in 21.61.
If you travel early mornings on White Street during the work week, you can see them. Dawn has barely faded and they're already lined up, waiting for the doors to open to the S.C. Employment Security Commission.
Chronic and increasing unemployment. Home foreclosures. Loss of health insurance. More homeless families. All of these factors paint a bleak economic picture. But this is not a startling revelation. We're all fully aware of our economic conditions. But some recently released data does reveal some startling statistics.
According to the 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the U.S. Census, the economy is having a negative impact on the most vulnerable of society – children.
If you have the misfortune of experiencing a life-threatening ordeal like a heart attack or stroke, you do have the good fortune of having a quality hospital nearby to help save your life.
Doug Arbour, chief executive officer of Springs Memorial Hospital in Lancaster, is living proof.
On a night in mid-May, Arbour awoke with what he thought was indigestion.
It wasn't. It was worse, much worse. In this case a massive heart attack.
The town of Kershaw has taken the first step on the trail.
The trail, in this case, is the Carolina Thread Trail, which will feature greenways and other natural sites throughout 15 counties in the Carolinas.
Kershaw and other area entities have pledged their support in theory, but Kershaw's latest backing of the master plan means the chance for funding that will go for the creation, or enhancement of pathways here.
In this day of "going green," it's a natural move now and for our future.
The Performing Arts Series has been a popular event at the University of South Carolina Lancaster's Bundy Auditorium.
Few can find little to complain about in the events, which have featured quality entertainment here sponsored by See Lancaster, SC, which oversees the PAS.
"The complaint I hear almost daily is the cost of tickets," said Jimola Wade, who manages the Performing Arts Series. "Our community has spoken and I want them to know that I'm listening. I can't change things overnight, but I'm working hard at it."
It's almost show time for the sixth annual Fall into Fun festival in Indian Land.
Saturday's festival at Indian Land Middle School promises to be a lot of fun for everyone from toddlers to teens and older folks, all for a good cause.
This year's event will raise funds for the Indian Land Rotary Club's local projects, such as Del Webb Library programs, school media center materials, dictionaries for IL third-graders, scholarships for local students and more. You can do your part by coming to the festival.
Caregivers play a special role in the lives of the ones they tend to each day.
Their tasks and challenges are great, sometimes outweighing the needed thanks.
That's why those dedicated folks are special.
Recently a Lancaster caregiver, Karen Hoffman, was honored for her work as a caring caregiver.
Hoffman was presented the local Family Caregiver of the Year Award, an annual honor given by Homewatch Caregivers, which is an international provider of full-service home care, and co-sponsored by the National Family Caregivers Association.
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A recent article by my colleague Joe Schoenmann in the Las Vegas Sun discussed a few Zappos employees feeling uneasy about their new Downtown digs. The first 200 of what will eventually be nearly 2,000 employees have moved from the suburbs to Downtown, and a photo accompanying the story showed employees walking to the parking garage, in daylight, with a security escort. At Preview Thursday last week, everyone snickered about needing a security detail.
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Here's the fear, aside from the annoying ironic mustaches and skinny jeans that come with gentrification: The poor people who lived in the neighborhood for years or even generations get pushed out. While understandable, that fear is a little overblown. To begin with, terrible "urban renewal" projects and freeway construction in the post-war era displaced far more people than gentrification ever has.
Next, Lance Freeman of Columbia University compiled data that blew up the whole idea, showing that poor people in gentrifying neighborhoods are less likely to move than poor people in non-gentrifying neighborhoods. As the New York Observer noted, wouldn't you like to stay in an improving neighborhood?
Finally, Brookings-Mountain West Director Robert Lang, who in the 1990s correctly predicted the re-emergence of cities, notes that unlike San Francisco or New York City or Boston, Las Vegas doesn't have a large stable of white-collar workers to push up rents. Let's remember that many of the Zappos crew work in the call center. Unless and until Las Vegas has more people with college degrees, i.e., people with more money, landlords won't be able to command the rents of those other cities and thereby push out lower-income residents.
Finally, if we have to choose between an empty and depressing Downtown and gentrification, I think we'd choose the latter. Don't worry, by the time they open a J. Crew store on the first floor of the Ogden, there'll be some other neighborhood—perhaps farther east on Fremont around the Huntridge—that will be the cheap, up-and-coming cool place to be. I'll buy you a PBR.


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Thirteen years, two radical activist all-stars-one conversation. Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama spent over a decade conversing intimately about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their overlapping experiences.
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING offers the gift of these two remarkable women�s lives, sharing the pair�s recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film�s unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women�s and gay liberation movements, to today�s campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama�s cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations.
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Over the past two decades, Philadelphia has become one of the country's leading regional theater cities.
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The story of the Younger family's plans to use an inheritance to move out of an overcrowded Chicago tenement to a single-family house touches many bases. Family loyalty, the desire to get ahead, society's prejudices, greed and honesty all come into play as the Youngers, who are black, buy in all-white Clybourne Park. Since the play takes place in what is described as "sometime between World War II and the present," the racist response of the community into which they are moving is predictable and frightening.
Director Walter Dallas' splendid production features the invaluable Joilet F. Harris, a Germantown resident, as Lena Younger, the family matriarch whose inheritance came from her late husband, a hard-working laborer who gave all he had to support his family.
As Walter Lee Younger, Lena's son whose dreams overcome his common sense, U.R. (he just uses his initials) is not as strong or as convincing as his character demands. He never really seems to be the driven, self-centered egoist that Hansberry has created.
The rest of the company — especially Nikki E. Walker as Walter Lee's wife and Leonard C. Haas as the representative of Clybourne Park's so-called "welcoming Committee" — is very good. The Arden's production benefits greatly from Daniel Conway's crowded apartment set, Alison Roberts' period costumes and F, Mitchell Dana's moody lighting.
What stands out most, thanks to Walter Dallas, Joilet Harris et al, is just what a great play "A Raisin in the Sun" is. It is as relevant and moving today as it was when it first appeared on Broadway 53 years ago.
For tickets, call 215-922-1122 or visit www.ardentheatre.org
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Horton Foote's gentle "The Trip to Bountiful" is a sensitive and human play about what constitutes home. This gentle play is being given a very decent production through April 7 at People's Light and Theatre in Malvern.
Carrie Watts (the inestimable Carla Belver) has been living with her son Ludie (William Zielinski) and daughter-in-law Jessie Mae (the appropriately shrewish Teri Lamm) in a small apartment in Houston, far from Carrie and Ludie's roots in Bountiful, a small town on the Gulf of Mexico.
Carrie wants desperately to return to Bountiful for one last visit. Jessie Mae doesn't want her to go, primarily because she'd rather use the government pension check Carrie gets each month to go the beauty parlor and the drugstore to have Cokes with her friends.
Jessie Mae is unspeakably mean to her mother-in-law. Ludie does very little to reduce the household tensions. So it is no surprise when Carrie heads off to Bountiful, something she's done before but has always been caught before she can get out of Houston. This time she makes it.
Her journey, her feelings and the peace, which she describes as "dignity and strength," when she finally gets back to her beloved town are extremely moving.
Abigail Adams has directed the People's Light production in an almost too leisurely fashion, not only capturing the nature of the piece, which is good, but on occasion dampening the real feelings the actors reveal.
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A judge will now decide the fate of Broomfield's embattled election.
Lawyers on Tuesday morning wrapped up closing arguments in the two-day trial that focused on how ballots were handled, counted sorted and stored during and after the election. The trial is the result of a challenge to the election brought by pro-fracking group Broomfield Balanced Energy Coalition and Tom Cave, a member of pro-fracking group It's Our Broomfield, Too.
The Nov. 5 election has been mired in controversy since a five-year ban on fracking passed by just 20 votes.
The ban, Question 300, was put on the ballot after grassroots group Our Broomfield collected enough signatures to have it appear. Our Broomfield has said more research must be done on the potential health impacts of fracking and the five-year ban offers more time for that research to take place.
The challenge and trial are the extension of the battle to win over voters that began long before residents went to the polls.
Plaintiffs in the election challenge case want Melonakis to declare Question 300 that did not pass because of numerous election flaws. Broomfield, which wants the judge to declare that the election results are valid, said the razor-thin outcome was the result of a close election, not flaws in the election.
It is not known when Judge Chris Melonakis will rule on the case, but said he had "a lot to think about.
Tuesday morning, closing arguments focused on the fate of a handful of ballots.
Plaintiffs argued Broomfield mishandled at least 20 ballots that were either counted illegally or not counted when they should have been. Some of those ballots in question include military and overseas ballots and ballot envelopes that were delivered from Adams County and were not counted because Broomfield did not receive the envelopes before the deadline of 7 p.m. Nov. 5.
Broomfield attorney Bill Tuthill said Broomfield did miscount 10 ballots because of residency mix-ups. Of those 10, three voters had not lived in Broomfield long enough to vote on Question 300, but their votes on the question were accidentally counted, he said.
Another six voters were eligible to vote on Question 300, but their votes were not counted because election workers believed they had not lived in Broomfield long enough.
An additional voter changed her name, but Broomfield did not update that information in time. Her vote was not counted, because her signature did not match the name on the ballot.
The plaintiffs must prove that at least 20 ballots were wrongly counted in order for Melonakis to rule the election invalid.
Cave, one of the plaintiffs, said the election challenge is meant to look not only at specific ballots, but at the overall process Broomfield used to conduct the election. He hopes the trial will help create a better elections process in Broomfield.
"We have made a strong case that we have a chaotic process, and that Broomfield was inconsistent in dealing with these ballots," he said.
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Tuthill said Broomfield plans to update and improve its elections process, regardless of the outcome of the trial. A study planned of the election process is planned, but city officials have delayed its start as they await the outcome of the trial.
Melonakis congratulated both sides for their engagement in an important issue. He also commended Broomfield residents for taking such an active role in advocating for their position and participating in the process by voting, volunteering as election watchers and staying involved throughout the court process.
"This is a hotly contested election, and obviously the vote counting is chaotic," he said. "The bottom line is, people invested in this issue have represented and participated in the electoral process and created chaos. That's a good thing. Democracy is chaos."


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Six Nations
"Keep pressure off Biggar" begs Howley
ESPN Staff
January 31, 2013
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Wales coach Rob Howley has attempted to take his fly-half Dan Biggar out of the firing line by telling the nation's media and press to "keep the pressure off" him.
The Ospreys' No.10 will win only his 12th cap against Ireland at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday after pipping Perpignan's James Hook to the spot vacated by the injured Scarlets playmaker Rhys Priestland.
Howley is wary of the pressure that comes with wearing the Wales No.10 shirt, especially having seen Priestland have to seek professional help from a sports psychologist after struggling to deal with criticism of his performances in the autumn internationals, and is keen to prevent a repeat.
"I think it's important that he (Biggar) gets an opportunity and please can you keep the pressure off him," said Howley after announcing his side for the Cardiff opener. "All our 10s that have played the game, we've seen what's happened over recent times when the No.10 in Wales [has come under pressure] - and it's important that he's given the chance to develop.
"It's a big game for Dan. Obviously he understands that, but [because of] our Welsh culture and the way we talk about our 10s, it's important that Dan is given an opportunity and a chance and he'll certainly be given a chance from the Welsh management. He understands there's competition with James (Hook), but it's a big starting game for Dan and he's been exceptional this week."
Despite his limited international experience, Howley is confident that Biggar can step up to the challenge and said that he has progressed hugely in the past year. "He's a key player and we'll support [him] in everything which we ask him to do," said Howley. "Dan has matured over the last 12 months and he's been continually knocking on the door and we've given him honest feedback in terms of his game management and his running threat and his kicking game.
"And I think from Dan's perspective, I think turning up on Saturday being confident, going out and playing the game as he sees it [are important]. I think that he's got a pretty potent backline to try and get into the game and the game management, and when to bring them into the game and when to kick for field position and when to run. They're the questions that Dan has to answer on Saturday. But it's important that he gets the time."
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NEWPORT BEACH — The last time Estancia and Newport Harbor played each other in a high school boys' basketball game, their current head coaches were assistants. One team also only suited up eight players.
That team was Estancia, and with a depleted roster last season, it had enough to come back and beat the Sailors for the second straight season.
The Eagles brought nine players to Newport Harbor on Saturday. The extra body didn't help them rally against the Sailors again.
A day after suffering a heartbreaking loss at the buzzer in a Sunset League opener at home, the Sailors bounced back. They returned to the same gym and blew out the Eagles, 67-45, in a nonleague game.
Newport Harbor took care of business, despite sitting two of its regular starters (Kevin Rakestraw and Nic Sargeant) for the first part of the first quarter. Coach Bob Torribio said the reason why Rakestraw and Sargeant didn't start was due to them missing the Sailors' morning session because of a prior commitment.
"Obviously [Friday] night was a tough one for us," said Torribio, referring to the 67-65 setback against Edison. "But we knew our guys, if they're anything, they're competitive. They're young guys, but we expect these guys to compete.
"If we didn't play hard tonight, we knew were going to have a tough battle."
The Sailors (9-8) never trailed in the contest.
Once Torribio brought in Rakestraw, a 7-footer, the Sailors surged ahead. In the final minute of the opening quarter, the senior center dunked and scored in the paint, giving Newport Harbor a 20-8 lead.
At halftime, the Sailors led, 39-21. Most of their offensive production came after offensive rebounds against an undersized Estancia team.
Rakestraw's size created problems for the Eagles and he finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds, five on the offensive end, and four blocks. He turned things around after recording a season-low four points the previous night.
The Eagles never shied away from attacking the basket, even when Rakestraw patrolled the paint. Ben Beck drove hard a handful of times, usually drawing contact to send him to the free-throw line, where he scored seven of his team-high 17 points.
The shots at the charity stripe didn't always fall for Estancia, which converted only 11 of 21 free throws. The Eagles also struggled from everywhere else, missing all 11 of their three-pointers and making just 16 of 56 shots.
Carlos Beltran, the Eagles' interim coach, had a lengthy talk with his players afterward. The Eagles (4-12) have dropped five of six games, not a good time to be reeling.
Next for Estancia is an Orange Coast League opener at home against Costa Mesa (4-11) on Wednesday. The Eagles finished with the league's No. 2 playoff berth last season, but they had a legitimate scoring threat back then in Rashad Davis, a 6-7 senior.
They can't just dump the ball down low and expect production these days. The Sailors can afford to do so with Rakestraw, and if teams collapse on their big man, they have players like Robbie Rettig and Sargeant that can hit outside shots.
Rettig led the Sailors against the Eagles, scoring 12 of his game-high 20 points in the second quarter. Caleb O'Neil came off the bench and contributed 10 points.
The Sailors will need balance scoring come Wednesday, when they return to Sunset League action against Fountain Valley.
"Everybody is calling them the league favorites right now," Torribio said of the Barons, who are 13-4 overall. "They're 1-0 [in league]. We're 0-1 [in league]. Despite a tough loss [Friday] night, with a good effort next Wednesday, we can be right back in the hunt."
Newport Harbor 67, Estancia 45
Estancia 8 – 13 – 11 – 13 — 45
Newport 20 – 19 – 9 – 19 — 67
E – Beck 17, Mendoza 10, Ponce 4, Stillman 4, Jarmacz 4, Fackler 2, Harry 2, Jelks 2.
NH – Rettig 20, Rakestraw 15, O'Neil 10, Sargeant 5, Wade 5, Okey 4, Bockrath 3, Robbs 2, G. Davis 2, C. Davis 1.
3-pt. goals – Sargeant 1, Bockrath 1, Rettig 1, O'Neil 1.
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by Lou Mancinelli
The idea started with a good pair of blue jeans. After working along the Avenue for more than 30 years at stores in fashion, design, retail and more, longtime local resident Bitsy Rhoda (nee Wheeler) opened Style Camp on March 27 with her daughter, Natalie, at 8232 Germantown Ave.
A grand opening is scheduled for May 10.
"That's how our vision started," said Rhoda, who turned 57 last Friday, "with a pair of jeans and going from there … I wanted to open a store that was like my house but had clothes in it too."
The pair hopes to hone in on the denim niche with their homey and colorful boutique located near the intersection of Germantown and Southampton Avenues, across the street from the Chestnut Hill Hotel. In addition to what they deem a worthy pair of jeans, the duo has added to their inventory the rest of the outfit, meaning shirts and accessories, as well as jewelry, home products, candles and more.
"I've taken a little piece of Chestnut Hill from all the places I worked for," said Rhoda. The list includes restaurants, furniture stores and the aforementioned fashion world.
Those experiences provided the confidence she needed to open her own store. She wants the store to be a meeting place for friends and neighbors as much as a retail location that offers quality products unique to the store.
"People can come to this store and see me, and they can see my daughter's identity and what we love," said Rhoda, a mother of three children who all attended the J.S. Jenks School.
Her daughter's fashion sensibility will help steer Style Camp's aesthetic selection. Natalie, 28, studied fashion design at Philadelphia University. She interned in New York City while she was a student and moved there after she graduated in 2007. In New York she worked in jewelry design and in 2009 returned to Philadelphia and started designing jewelry for the seller Free People.
"We really wanted to just mix together everything we love," said Natalie, who lives in the Fairmount neighborhood, teaches fashion, drawing and design at the Moore College of Art, and strings together various freelance design jobs in addition to her work as a server and stints on the floor at Style Camp. "It's like a store version of ourselves."
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Mrs. Rhoda first moved to Chestnut Hill in 1977. She had graduated from Jenkintown High School three years earlier and moved when she found work along the avenue at Serendipity, a fashion boutique.
In 1981 she married David Rhoda, whose father taught at Chestnut Hill Academy. David, who is in construction management (he built the counter in Style Camp), also attended CHA, as did the couple's son, Will, now 24 (Upper School, that is). A second son, Jake, is now 27. The newlyweds moved to Wyndmoor for two years before deciding to return to Chestnut Hill.
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Opinion: Defense Budget: Scalpel vs. The Ax
Hoover Institution research fellow Kori Schake on how to surgically cut the defense budget to the minimize damage. Photos: Getty Images
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ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) - American Jason Dufner erased memories of his stunning late collapse two years ago when he clinched his first major title by two shots in the 95th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club on Sunday.
One stroke behind playing partner Jim Furyk overnight, the ultra-laidback Dufner produced some scintillating approach play on the way to a two-under-par 68 and a 10-under total of 268 on the challenging East Course.
The 36-year-old Dufner seized control with three birdies on the front nine and shut the door on his rivals with a steely display of safety-first golf over the difficult closing stretch.
A stunning approach to a foot at the par-four 16th earned him his fourth birdie of the day and he could afford the luxury of bogeys at 17 and 18, two of the toughest holes on the course, as he secured his third victory on the PGA Tour.
After putting out on the 18th green, Dufner retrieved his ball from the hole before lifting both arms waist-high in celebration with his eyes closed.
He was warmly embraced by his wife Amanda just off the green, followed by his good friend Keegan Bradley, the 2011 champion.
Dufner had lost out in a playoff to Bradley for that title at Atlanta Athletic Club where he had led by five strokes in regulation while playing the fourth-last hole.
"It's been a tough day, a long day," Dufner said after being presented with the coveted Wanamaker Trophy which he hoisted high before kissing it.
"It's a tough golf course and it probably hasn't hit me yet. To come back from a couple of years ago in this championship when I lost to Keegan in the playoff, to win feels really, really good.
"The last two holes were a little unfortunate. I wish I could've closed out with no bogeys but I am happy to get the job done. It's a big step for my career."
Former U.S. Open champion Furyk, bidding at the age of 43 to win his first major crown in a decade, signed off with a 71 to finish alone in second place after struggling off the tee for much of a sun-splashed afternoon.
Henrik Stenson, aiming to become the first Swedish man to land one of golf's elite titles, closed with a 70 and a seven-under tally, one stroke better than compatriot Jonas Blixt (70).
Tiger Woods, seeking to end a five-year title drought at the majors, ended a forgettable week at Oak Hill with a 70 to finish halfway down the leaderboard at four-over 284.
The year's final major shaped up as a two-horse race for much of a warm, sunny afternoon at Oak Hill as Dufner and Furyk dueled for the lead.
Dufner drew level at the top when sank a five-foot birdie putt at the par-five fourth, then briefly claimed the outright lead after hitting a brilliant approach that spun back to two feet at the tricky par-four fifth to set up a tap-in birdie.
However, Furyk immediately rejoined Dufner at the top when he drained a slick, 35-footer to birdie the par-three sixth and both players parred the seventh, despite ending up in the left rough.
Dufner then countered with another brilliant approach, this time a sand wedge to a foot at the par-four eighth, to reclaim the outright lead at 11 under.
While Furyk bogeyed the ninth after missing the green to the right with his approach and hitting a poor chip to 15 feet, Dufner sank a clutch eight-footer to salvage par after ending up in rough off the tee and take a two-shot lead into the back nine.
Dufner missed a series of birdie putts from 10-foot range and just beyond early on the back nine as he continued to hit greens in regulation before he and Furyk each birdied the 16th.
As the shadows lengthened on a glorious, sun-splashed evening at Oak Hill, Dufner maintained his two-shot cushion as he and Furyk both finished bogey-bogey.
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Section 324.30310SectionRegulation by local unit of government of wetland less than 2 acres; revaluation for assessment purposes; protest and appeal; judicial review; right to initiate proceedings not limited by section. Section 324.30311SectionPermit for activity listed in MCL 324.30304; approval conditioned on certain determinations; criteria; findings of necessity; criteria for determining unacceptable disruption to aquatic resources; additional showing; feasible and prudent alternatives; determination of unreasonable costs. Section 324.30311aSectionGuideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or form with instructions; effect. Section 324.30311bSectionPermit; validity; duration; conditions. Section 324.30311dSectionCompensatory wetland mitigation; methods; submission of mitigation plan; financial assurance. Section 324.30312SectionMinor project categories of activities; general permit for category of activities; notice and public hearing; determinations; requirements and standards; duration of general permit; determination of more than minimal adverse effects; coordination of general permit and minor project categories; conversion to blueberry farming or certain other agriculture. Section 324.30312bSectionRepealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012. Section 324.30312dSectionEcologically responsible voluntary wetland restoration and enhancement projects; blueberry production assistance program. Section 324.30312d.amendedSectionBlueberry production assistance program. Section 324.30312f.addedSectionVoluntary wetland restoration program; permit applications; exceptions; eligible applicants; review and approval process; joint agency restoration committee; qualified activities; applicability to former wetlands. Section 324.30313SectionGrounds for revocation or modification of general permit; grounds for termination or modification for cause of general permit. Section 324.30313bSectionMinor permit revisions. Section 324.30314SectionInformation required to obtain compliance with part; entering on premises. Section 324.30315SectionViolation; order requiring compliance; civil action. Section 324.30316SectionCivil action; commencement; request; venue; jurisdiction; violations; penalties; restoration of wetland. Section 324.30317SectionDisposition of fees and civil fines; expenditures; report. Section 324.30318SectionRevaluation of property for assessment purposes. Section 324.30319SectionRules; hearing; judicial review; proceedings to protect wetland owner's rights. Section 324.30320SectionInventories of wetland; use; updating; maps, ground surveys, and descriptions as public documents; availability and cost of aerial photographs and satellite telemetry data reproduction to county register of deeds. Section 324.30321SectionBasis and filing of preliminary inventory of wetland; hearing in state planning and development region; notice; issuance and distribution of final inventory; legislators to receive inventories; assessment of property; report; determination; agricultural drain; culvert, ditch, or channel; reassessment; fee; providing copy of delineation forms. Section 324.30322SectionNotice to owners of record of change in status of property. Section 324.30323SectionLegal rights or authority not abrogated; action to determine if property taken without just compensation; court order; limitation on value of property. Section 324.30325SectionRepealed. 2013, Act 98, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2013. Section 324.30327SectionCertifications by department under federal water pollution control act. Section 324.30328SectionApplicability to "navigable waters" and "waters of the United States" as defined under federal law. Section 324.30329SectionRepealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Apr. 1, 2013.


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It was a Back Bay Bacchanal, a party unlike anything since 1918.
Six months after Shelter in Place, the city of Boston invites the world to celebrate a victory of team over self. Boston Strong, at least a variation of the theme, hit a crescendo Wednesday night on the Fenway lawn, the town common of 2013.
These Red Sox, the motley crew that left Fort Myers begging, "Please don't hate us,'' completed the ultimate redemption song, thrashing the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in the sixth and final game of the 2013 World Series. The Brotherhood of the Beard are World Champions for the third time this century, worthy progeny of the 20th century Sox, who won five of the first 15 Series back in the days when Babe Ruth was a fuzzy-faced lefthanded orphan from Baltimore.
Nobody saw this coming. Nobody. After the worst season in 47 years — the Bobby Valentine clown show of 2012 — Sox general manager Ben Cherington and new field manger John Farrell made the Red Sox relevant and good again. The 2013 Sox dusted the field in the American League East, then blew past the Tampa Bays Rays, the Detroit Tigers, and the estimable Cardinals in an 11-5 postseason onslaught. The Sox were dominant. In the 2013 playoffs they bested aces Matt Moore, David Price, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Anibal Sanchez, Adam Wainwright, and Michael Wacha.
And so Boston has its eighth championship parade since 2002, and outgoing mayor Thomas Menino will be on a duck boat, which is scheduled to roll down Boylston Street, past the places where the bombs exploded on Marathon Monday, April 15. It is the ultimate civic comeback story.
"I go back to our players understanding their place in this city,'' manger John Farrell said. "They kind of, for lack of a better way to describe it, they get it. They get that there's, I think, a civic responsibility that we have wearing this uniform, particularly here in Boston. And it became a connection . . . I'm sure that everybody in our uniform, whether they are here going forward or elsewhere, they'll look back on the events that took place and the way things unfolded as a special year. There's no way we can say it any other way.''
It was in the cards (Cards?). It was even in the Gospel. New Englanders who went to Mass Wednesday noticed the final verse of the Gospel of Luke (13:22-30), which reads, "For behold, some are last who will be first . . . ''
This is the 2013 Red Sox. They finished in the basement of the American League East in 2012, winning a mere 69 games in a trainwreck season that came on the heels of the epic collapse of the Terry Francona/Theo Epstein Sox who folded dramatically in September 2011.
John Lackey was the poster boy of the 2011 chicken-and-beer chokers, and Wednesday he completed his comeback ballad, hurling 6⅔ innings of one-run ball and becoming the first man in baseball history to win World Series-clinching games for two franchises (Lackey won Game 7 for the Angels over the Giants when he was a 24-year-old rookie in 2002). The Boston pariah of 2011 became the hero of 2013.
Wednesday's night's finale was the first World Series Game 6 at Fenway since the Carlton Fisk Home Run Game of 1975, and it was a worthy successor. Luis Tiant, the '75 Game 6 starter, tossed the ceremonial first pitch to old batterymate Fisk, and Sox heartbeat Dustin Pedroia completed the metaphor when he hit a towering foul fly that narrowly missed the left-field pole in the bottom of the first.
Pedroia's near-miss was a mere footnote. The Sox would not be denied.
Both teams squandered scoring opportunities in the first two innings. It looked like it might be a true contest, but the Sox removed all doubt with a three-run third off St. Louis rocket boy Wacha.
Jacoby Ellsbury, most likely playing his last game for the Red Sox, led with a single to right. After Pedroia went out on a grounder to third, Wacha intentionally walked World Series MVP David Ortiz (.688). Good move. Mike Napoli struck out and then Jonny Gomes was hit by a pitch to load the bases.
Enter Shane Victorino. Cue the music. "Three Little Birds,'' by Bob Marley.
Every little thing gonna be all right.
Victorino turned on a 2-1 pitch and drove it toward the Monster Seats. The ball hit the Covidien sign on wall, good for three runs and a World Series ring. Victorino was credited with a three-run double. The ballgame was over.
The Sox added three more runs and chased Wacha in the fourth. Much-maligned Stephen Drew led off with a homer into the Red Sox bullpen (gloved by Franklin Morales). Wacha surrendered a double to Ellsbury. The young righthander (MVP of the NLCS) was lifted after intentionally walking Ortiz. Napoli made it 5-0 with a single to center off Lance Lynn. After a walk to Gomes, Victorino struck again with a single to left and it was 6-0. Ballgame.
There was good drama for the Sox in the seventh. With two out and nobody aboard, the Cardinals rallied with a single, a double, and Carlos Beltran's RBI single. Farrell came out to get Lackey, but was rebuffed.
"This is my game!'' Lackey shouted to his manager.
Farrell relented. But when Lackey walked Matt Holliday to load the bases, the manager reemerged from the dugout and pulled his starter. When Lackey — Mr. Redemption on Team Redemption — walked off the mound, he tipped his cap to the masses who'd rightfully crushed him over the past two years. Junichi Tazawa retired Allen Craig on a harmless grounder and it was on to the seventh-inning stretch.
It was a mere formality in the last two innings. Indomitable Sox closer Koji Uehara came out for the ninth and retired the side in order, sealing the championship by striking out Matt Carpenter (swinging) at 11:23 p.m.
Fifteen minutes after the final out, Red Sox/Globe owner John Henry hoisted the World Series championship trophy ("The World Series Cup,'' according to Menino) and addressed the crowd as fireworks smoke enveloped the infield. Henry spoke. Tom Werner spoke. Cherington spoke. And then Farrell took center stage for his bow.
It was the first time the Sox won the World Series on the Fenway lawn since Carl Mays beat the Chicago Cubs in Game 6 on Sept. 11, 1918.
Ninety-five years later, the Sox won it again on their home field. And the party lingered long into the night.
This is the eighth championship for Boston teams since Adam Vinatieri split the uprights in New Orleans in February 2002 — the first since the Marathon bombings.
The High Renaissance of New England sports continues.Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @Dan_Shaughnessy


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If you still don't get a picture, ask for help on the video4linux mailing list.
If you still don't get a picture, ask for help on the video4linuxmailing list.
==Tuner information==
==Tuner information==
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List of v4l tuners in the kernel documentation
See Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
If your tuner is not detected correctly (you get a black screen, let's say), try inserting the v4l kernel driver with a tuner parameter, for instance:
modprobe bttv tuner=41
This can also be added to the list of modules loaded on boot, sometimes /etc/modules:
saa7134 card=2 tuner=17 oss=1
If you still don't get a picture, ask for help on the v4l mailing list -- cf. searchable archives.
Tuner information
It's generally preferable to place comments on an individual card's tuner quirks in the card's own page, but cross-card tuner-specific information can usefully go here.
TCL tuners are manufactured in Huizhou in China. The English pages don't respond, but see the product list in Chinese.
The TCL2002MB-3 was first discovered on saa7134 cards and recently on cx88 Hauppauge WinTV GO2 models. All use tuner=37 with LG API, and so does TCL2002MI-3 (PAL-I/DK) (cf. discussion on spinics.net)
The F variants with radio use the older Philips API, for example tuner=5. The TCL2002MB-1 is supposed to be PAL-BG/DK capable. Don't know if the -3 could indicate any change here, but would not ecpect it, since we have recently also seen the TCL2002MI-3 on a cx88 Hauppauge (cf. discussion on spinics.net).
On the other hand the above site shows that we have to be aware of NTSC tuners with tda9885 and also tda9887 with radio like the MFMN05-4 and the full MultiEurope MFPE05-2 (some mismatches on the site).
The WinTV-Express card is a European or UK model, but the Hauppauge WinTV Go Plus looks very much like a PAL-B/G Express 44804 REV D148. Just like this cards, WinTV Express cards in Europe may all be MONO. No MSP34xx...
A new Hauppauge WinTV PCI-FM card is here (pci_ids: 14f1:8800, 14f1:8811), using the TCL MFPE05-02 PAL (DK BG I) FM tuner. It just implements mk3 API, you can use philips 1216me mk3 (tuner=38) instead.
Xceive 3028
We extremely need info about such tuner. This link: http://www.kaiser-linux.li/index.php/Linux_and_TV, gives some information ... we definitely need the reference driver from Xceive - a data sheet is not enough.


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Three quarters of a century since the opening of the first McDonald's, the fast food chain operates around 34,000 outfits in around 120 countries and territories across all continents. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), however, – a region of 48 countries and almost a billion people - only South Africa and Mauritius have been able to attract this global food chain.
This peculiarity cannot be explained only by the fact that the region is poor. The company has found a market in about 30 countries with GDP per capita of less than US$ 3,000 (in constant 2005 US$) at the time of their first McDonald's opening. Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, and Big Macs are also on offer in a dozen of low-income countries as well. When the first McDonald's opened in Shenzhen in 1990, China's GDP per capita was less than US$ 500 per person. Of course, Shenzhen's per capita income was several times higher, but the company has also found a market in Moldova since 1998 when the GDP per capita of the 3 million person country was less than US$ 600 per capita. There are many cities in SSA today that have higher income, population concentration, and tourists than what Chisinau had in 1998; yet they do not have a McDonald's. As a matter of fact, 22 SSA countries today have higher income per capita than what Moldova or Pakistan had when the first McDonald's opened there, and 15 of them have higher income per capita even than what Indonesia or Egypt had at their McDonald's openings (see chart).
Chart: Sub-Saharan Africa is rich enough for McDonald's
What then explains SSA's inability to create a favorable environment for global food chains? It is hard to imagine that an entire continent is disinterested in Big Macs and fries. Actually, South Africans seem to love it as the chain has opened more than 150 outlets since it established itself in 1995. The investment decision to open a McDonald's, as for any other business, rests on the feasibility and profitability of the product offering. Three factors, beyond the market's buying power (income), are likely to be found decisive. First, it is an issue of access to finance: local investors would need hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring the McDonald's (or other global fast food chain) brand – not an easy sell in the region with the least developed banking sector (measures through the share of credit to private sector to GDP). Then, there is the question of security of investment which depends on crime levels, state intrusion (including governments' openness to foreign investors) and corruption. Finally, ingredients have to be imported in an efficient manner through participation in global supply chains, thus infrastructure, logistics and trade regulations come into play. When McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990, it had to import 90 percent of the around 300 ingredients that go into the menu. The SSA countries seem to be missing one or more ingredients to have the red neon sign with a golden yellow "M".
Having the above ingredients may mean more to a developing country beyond the taste that comes with the burgers. In almost 60 percent of cases, developing countries grew faster in the five years, compared to the previous five, following the opening of the first McDonald's. Moreover, the acceleration of growth is substantial (from 1.7 percent to 6.3 percent annual growth for those countries that had GDP per capita of less than US$ 1,000 at time of opening). What this means is that McDonald's may be viewed as one of the tipping points for when a country has amassed sufficient urban middle-class, investment security and supply chains for economic take off. In the case of SSA, the ingredients are not there yet, but the recent economic trends and reform advancements may bring more red and yellow neon lights across the continent's capitals.
So hold on. Am I right in
So hold on. Am I right in thinking that this is all pure speculation - you have no evidence for why MacDonalds actually avoids SS Africa, (asking them, press statements etc), you just wanted an eye-catching way to talk about ease of doing business? Smart packaging, if a bit frustrating for anyone who actually wants to know the answer......
Dear Duncan,
Dear Duncan,
Thank you for your comment. You are right to point that no information on 'why SSA is being avoided' was collected. This is because the analysis is based on revealed rather than declared preferences. With the latter as a starting point, the blog hypothesizes about what the reasons may be, illustrating that low income does not seem to be the sole reason.
best, Borko
i am an African and from
i am an African and from souther Africa. It really doesn't matter which part of Africa but what really matter is the fact that Africa is failing dismally mainly because of our opportunistic politicians supported by fellow Africans for Africanism. We must learn when to shelf Africanism because that has put us into drains. There is serious lack of commitment to lead for a working system across Africa. Let alone a franchise like Madee cannot function in most of these countries because of lack of requirements. We must be straight up with the facts on the ground in order to move on.
I find it interesting &
I find it interesting & exciting that someone has observed that this legendry eatry is not investing in Africa. Here in Nigeria, it will be worth while for me to take part in this dream come true.
Dear Maxima,
Dear Maxima,
According to wikipedia, Nigeria is about to have a McDonald's soon, though I'm that given the size of the country there are many opportunities.
best, Borko
To me, the reasons espoused
To me, the reasons espoused in this article are very valid and basic. That is why strategic National Development plans of most if not all SSA countries mentions, at the very least, one of these as an issue to be addressed.
I think it's best, for health
I think it's best, for health reasons, that McDonalds has stayed out of Africa - and I hope it remains thus.
It is a very valid point! The
It is a very valid point! The example of global fast food chains is only used a means to illustrate the point that SSA countries are way behind the rest of the world in the attractiveness of the business environment and that is not explained solely by the fact that they are poorer.
Interesting comparisons, but
Interesting comparisons, but why does it seem to me that the article seems to present the idea that having a McDonalds is a desirable state of "development"?
Dear Ivan, the article aims
Dear Ivan, the article aims to make the point that having the business environment in place to have global fast food chains is good for development because that means there is also potential for many other more productive and healthier business opportunities.
KFC and many other
KFC and many other international fast food brands have opened up more stores in the same SSA countries with the same conditions that have been outlined and are doing just fine. There is definately more to this story that the factors outlined. It would have been insightful to hear from the company itself rather than put forward hypothesis
Dear Dr Kamanaga,
Dear Dr Kamanaga,
This is a good point, KFC is present in few countries. Perhaps KFC requires lower investment (global fast food outlets are often times franchises opened by domestic investors and it could be the amounts of funds needed that determine which chain to invest in), or has less stringent requirements on ingredients (which makes the business feasible in countries with weak logistics). In any case, these are my hypotheses, I looked for any company statements on why McDonald's hasn't invested (or seen interest for its franchise model) in Africa but couldn't find any.
best, Borko
Let us also not forget that
Let us also not forget that the red neon sign and the yellow M bring another devastating problem with it (i.e the exponential increase in overweight and Obesity and it's associated many health problems). Yes the business environment is not healthy to attract global business into Africa but let us just hope fast food chains won't make their way there as the risk on health and the huge economic cost that comes with it is too big for Africa to tolerate. In the US we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every single day to treat obesity and it's related problems and lots of DALY are lost due to it; don't think Africa with it's under nutrition problem it can afford the nutrition transition and amplifying the double burden of malnutrition rate above its current rate; in the last 10 years obesity among children less than 5 more than doubled (went from 4% in the 1990 to 8.5% in 2010) and the highest rates are in African countries that moved from low to middle income : read more at
Dear Ahmed, the health and
Dear Ahmed, the health and nutrition concerns are absolutely valid. The example of fast food chains is used to illustrate the weaknesses in the business environment in SSA and the fact that the lower attractiveness for foreign investment goes beyond the low income levels.
best, Borko
First, while I'm quite sure
First, while I'm quite sure that SSAfrica's economic backwardness can be related to its lack of global chains like this, I'm still not convinced her progress can be definitively linked to their presence. SSA has peculiarities that I think defy so many established markers in the outside world, so if these global chains do come in, the correlative effect of sped-up growth in 5 years you mentioned, will not hold. SSA's economic growth right now has been praised to high heavens with the "Africa Rising" theme, but it really is not rising, in the same way perhaps as the Asian Tigers did. It rises in offficial reports but the lives of citizens is not really changing.
Secondly, the way the global chains/firms work with Africans is different from they do with the rest of the world. For instance, their is a serious distrust of Nigerians by foreign firms that ensures that most Nigerians employed are kept in menial low-income positions with little prospect of promotion. Like KFC, the shop attendants are Nigerians but all managerial positions in each shop is held almost exclusively by Indians and other People of Near/far eastern origins. Many other foreign firms, especially of North American and Eastern founding, do this. The token Nigerians elevated are used more as stooges with little discretionary responsibilities. This ensures that this companies never fully become domesticated, and hurts the development of experienced upper-level/technical man power.
Three, I want to point out the fact that i agree that although their is a correlation between economic devt and the presence of foreign chains, i suspect that the link is less of causation for SSA. I rather think that the real indication, for SSA nations of economic growth, would be the presence and sophistication of indigenously owned companies in strategic sectors like Banking (which you mentioned briefly), Industrual manufacturing (especially in heavy metals and technological equipments) Agriculture, Energy and Education.
No doubt that fast food
No doubt that fast food chains are a very tiny part of the economy, but in this case they are used as a signal for how other parts of the economy are moving (including foreign investment). Some of the countries with high income levels [on paper] have very high poverty (Eq. Guinea being the starkest example), and that is one of the reasons why there is no interest for opening a McDonald's.
I fully agree with your third point, SSA will take off as the presence (number) and sophistication (productivity) of domestic companies increases across numerous sectors of the economy. We see this happening already in several countries.
The WSJ had a similar piece
The WSJ had a similar piece last year and the challenge of efficiently sourcing consistent, quality, abundant beef for burgers is a challenge that McDonalds is still likely to face in African markets.


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Alice Cardona's (1930-2011) advocacy for women's rights and bilingual education, as well as her efforts as founder of various organizations for Latinas, distinguished her in New York activist communities. She passed away on November 1 of cancer.
Cardona was born on March 17, 1930, the first of nine children. Upon graduating from high school in 1950, Cardona began to work in a store. During this period, she also volunteered at the Legión de Maria, visiting and giving psychological support to black and Latino people in need. This experience helped expand Cardona's understanding of the oppressive social, economic, and educational obstacles that these groups faced in New York.
In 1961, Cardona decided to join the Sisters of St. John, a religious order based in Taylor, Texas. After a short time in the community, however, she decided that the religious life limited her abilities to affect change so she abandoned the religious vocation.
In 1964, she became involved in the first Head Start program in New York.
Cardona's career flourished between 1970 and 1978, a period during which she worked at ASPIRA as a counselor for youth and later as director of a counseling program for parents and students. Cardona was also an active member of National Conference of Puerto Rican Women (NACOPRW). She also co-founded HACER/Hispanic Women's Center, which aimed to help Latinas to achieve their professional goals via education.
During the Cuomo administration, Cardona was the assistant director of the New York State Division for Women. She directed the office's day-to-day operations. This position allowed her to further advocate for bilingual education and women, including those in prison. She also worked to combat HIV/AIDS, breast cancer and domestic violence.
Since her retirement in 1995, Cardona dedicated herself to participate as a member or founder in a variety of organizations. She was the director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA) and was co-director of Atrévete — a group dedicated to voter registration and political participation organized by the Migration Division. She was member of the boards of National Women's Political Caucus, National Association for Bilingual Education, and Puerto Rican Educators Association. She was also a member of various other organizations.
In July 1997, Cardona was one of 70 women from the United States to be invited to attend the "Vital Voices of Women in Democracy" conference in Beijing, China to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Women's Forum. She also served as the Hispanic liaison of the office of Assemblymember Cathy Nolan and as a trustee of the National Latina Caucus.
Cardona, honored by The Queens Courier as a "Top Woman in Business," is an author and the first Latina to receive the Susan B. Anthony Prize.
Her sister Diana is following her wishes to be cremated and a service will be held in the near future.