A corporation is an organizationusually a large businesswith specific characteristics.

Under law, corporations are deemed separate legal entities from their owners. This means that corporations themselves, not the owners, are legally liable for their actions and debts. If a corporation incurs debts, creditors have claims against the assets of the corporation, not the personal assets of the owners. This is called limited liability, and is a major corporate advantage.

Joes Lawn & Garden is not a corporation. Joe and ten other people are owners who share the profits. The company is sued for $500,000, but the company only has $350,000 in assets. All ten of the owners must dig into their personal assets to pay off the remaining $150,000.

Now instead, lets say Joes Lawn & Garden became a corporation the year before, and is now called Joes Lawn & Garden Incorporated. The company is sued for $500,000, but it only has $350,000 in assets. Although creditors may collect the $350,000, the corporation owners are not personally liable for the rest.

The advantages of forming a corporation include:

-limited liability

-ability to raise money by selling shares

-separate corporate tax treatment

- and advantages when recruiting employees

Disadvantages include the time, complex paperwork and costs to form a corporation. In addition, in some cases, profits of a corporation are double taxedonce when the corporation pays taxes, and again when the owner receives dividends and pays his own taxes.

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OPINION Lawn selections should focus on the diversity of experiences residents can provide, and not offer residency as an award by Managing Board | Mar 05 2015 | 18 hours ago | Updated 19 hours ago

With last monthsannouncement of the Lawn Selection Committees decisions determining Lawn room residency for the 2015-16 academic year, the representation of the student body in the 47 selected Lawn room residents has come into question. In next years class of residents at least separate from the seven rooms whose residents are to be determined through separate processes the majority of students identify as white, and there areno black students at all. Additionally, particular University organizations such as the University Guide Service and Honor Committee have significant representation, whereas fraternities and sororities under the National Pan-Hellenic Council have none at all.

Students may be quick to criticize the Lawn selection system for the disproportionate representation of particular groups, or stigmas surrounding particular extracurriculars, or even the diversity of the applicant pool itself. But the homogeneity of Lawn residents, though impacted by many factors, is due to what we have made the space of the Lawn an accolade for high-achieving students, a reward by which we can (imperfectly) measure individuals achievements, and not necessarily a space where our whole community can gather.

The Lawn carries with it at once a heavy and moving legacy. This space was created with the use of enslaved labor; every room in which the next class of residents will live was built by slaves. At the same time, the Lawn has been a space of social change; it has been a gathering place for students to make themselves heard, including in 1969 when 1,000 studentsgathered on the steps of the Rotunda to protest the racist atmosphere at the University, in 1970 during the Vietnam war and as recently as 2012 during President Sullivans ouster. For these reasons, living on the Lawn is not just an achievement but a deep responsibility to understand that space and its role at our school, as well as to make the space as inclusive as possible.

The symbolism of the Lawn cannot be overstated. First-years face the Rotunda at Convocation, one of their first introductions to the school as enrolled students, and graduate in that same space. Incoming students are taught to see the Lawn as a special place, the original part of our University, rich in history and a space where all are welcome. If the Lawn is intended to be a welcoming space, then the process for selecting Lawn residents should focus on making the Lawn a communal area, not on rewarding students for their achievements. It is worth noting that such goals are not necessarily mutually exclusive: high-achieving students are plentiful at the University, and can be found in a diverse range of groups. But our overriding aim when contemplating each years class of residents should be to best represent the wide range of student experiences at the University. If the Lawn is truly a shared space, students from a broader intersection of the University should feel a connection to it, not just students from particular organizations, and certainly not just students of a particular race.

Think, for a moment, about Lighting of the Lawn especially last semester, when our community so desperately needed the kind of solidarity such an event provides. For many, the ability to visit friends in their Lawn rooms and to feel confident in knowing their small corner of the University world is represented there makes such events all the more meaningful. Next year, if no one on the Lawn has a direct connection and therefore reason to open his room to an organization like the Black Student Alliance, can we expect members of that organization to feel like the Lawn belongs to them as much as it belongs to students whose organizations are represented by 10 or more residents?

Of course, there are only 47 non-endowed Lawn rooms, and there are far more than 47 communities at our University. Representation across the board is an unachievable goal, but a better distribution of representation would still make the Lawn a more communal area. But beyond that, students who have no personal ties to Lawn residents should still feel like the Lawn belongs to them as much as it belongs to any individual Lawn resident or group represented by that resident. Such a feeling can only stem from a Lawn made up of students from a wide range of student groups, with the guiding philosophy that the Lawn exists not as those students reward for achievement but as our shared space.

The Lawn should ultimately serve as a place for the integration of all parts of the student body. Above all, no student should feel like a space so integral to our school is inaccessible.

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Whether you live in central Eureka or in the wild outskirts of Trinidad, gophers and moles can be found in just about any North Coast garden. While I would not recommend killing them, as they have as much right to the land as we do, after having hundreds of dollars of bulbs (true story) snarfed down by a hungry gopher or having your lawn ripped up by a mole in search of delicious grubs, you could be forgiven for hoping they might peacefully move on to that vacant lot down the street. What's a gardener to do?

Is it a mole? A symmetrical, cone-shaped mound with some chunky clods of dirt and possibly an opening in the center is a good indication you have a mole. You also might see a raised ridge in the lawn, or a series of mounds along a curving line showing where they are traveling underground. If you have a mole, breathe a sigh of relief, because at least moles don't eat plants. They prefer to feast on insects, earthworms, and grubs, and are much easier to repel than gophers.

Or is it a gopher? Gopher mounds have a fan- or crescent-shaped mound surrounding a 2- to 3-inch diameter hole. As a gopher digs through the soil, it pushes the dirt to the surface at an angle, so you'll find those irregularly-shaped mounds of soil surrounding each hole. The hole is usually plugged once the gopher finishes eating vegetation in the surrounding area.

A lot of people are so annoyed by gophers and moles that they turn to using poisons, which are not only inhumane but can kill any cats or dogs who come across and eat the disoriented rodent. Or, they'll use an old-school trap which sends a spear through the center of your gopher or mole. That gives me the willies just thinking about it and is not the approach I want to take in the garden.

However, using more natural methods requires patience and a little bit of Zen. Some amount of coexistence isn't necessarily a bad thing; they are cute in their way, and they do aerate your soil. The main idea is to make your lawn and landscape the least comfortable place on the block so they'll go elsewhere. There isn't one organic technique that is the magic bullet, and for that matter, poisons and traps require consistent use, as well. Rather than expect a one-and-done solution, choose a few techniques to use in concert with one another to chase them out and discourage new tunneling rodents from taking up residence.

Flatten the tunnels and hope they dig deeper next time. Since moles aren't actually causing anything but aesthetic damage, I personally find them a lot easier to live with than gophers. If they are driving you nuts leaving raised tunnels and holes all over your lawn, just squash the tunnels flat with your foot. The moles will just come back, of course, but some people say that if you keep up with it, they will start digging their tunnels a little deeper as time goes on. Just keep a little bit of inexpensive grass seed on hand and scatter it on any disturbed areas of soil over your lawn.

Remove their juiciest food source. A lawn studded with plump, succulent grubs is an ideal fine-dining situation for your local moles, and if your lawn has an excess of grubs, you can take care of this pest problem at the same time as you send your moles packing. Milky spore bacteria is a natural biological treatment which infests grubs and kills them. Because it is a targeted biological treatment, it won't harm any moles who eat the grubs or the beneficial insects in your garden, but by reducing the grub population, you may make your neighbor's yard look tastier than your own.

Use a sonic vibration device. These small battery or solar-operated devices emit a periodic sound that humans don't generally notice, but is said to irritate both moles and gophers. Though it won't chase them out of your garden by itself, it certainly helps make your plot a less appealing place to set up shop.

Spread castor oil granules. Granulated castor oil doesn't harm moles in any way, but when applied to the lawn (or landscape) using a broadcast spreader, it releases a scent that both moles and gophers dislike. If you have a large space, you can direct moles to the nearest exit by treating one third of your lawn, waiting a few hours for them to move along, treating the second third of the lawn and again waiting, then treat the final third of your lawn at the end of the day. If done in concert with removing their food source and using sonic vibration devices, you can expect a dramatic reduction in tunneling visitors.

Both the sonic vibration devices and the castor oil granules mentioned above also irritate gophers, so consider those as the first techniques in your arsenal.

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Sheriff Benny Deloach would like to report the following incidents handled by deputies with the Appling County Sheriffs Office over the past few days.

Feb. 19, answered a call to Noah Lane in reference to threats and theft. The complainant stated her estranged husband made threats and took two guns that belonged to their son.

Feb. 20, answered a call to Appling ER in reference to possible child molestation. Investigation revealed allegations occurred in Jeff Davis County. DFACS was notified and the case was turned over to Jeff Davis County Sheriffs Office.

Feb. 20, answered a call to North Brobston Street, which led to the arrest of Tony Lee Gillis, 51, of Baxley. Gillis was charged with public drunkenness.

Feb. 21, answered a call to Gardner Road in reference to possible child abuse. DFACS was notified and Investigation continues.

Feb. 21, answered a call to Nail Road in reference to a structure fire. The complainant found his metal storage building on fire. The County Farm Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire.

Feb. 22, answered a call to Hatch Parkway in reference to a domestic/assault, which led to the arrest of Stephanie Leigh Green, 30, of Baxley. Green was charged with battery/family violence.

Feb. 22, answered a call to Hatch Parkway in reference to a possible child molestation. The DFACS was notified and is under investigation.

Feb. 23, answered a call to Golden Isles West in reference to a theft. A complainant stated someone stole his 8ft. smoker valued at $2,000. Investigation continues.

Feb. 24, answered a call to Earl Cauley Road in reference to illegal dumping. The complainant found two bags of trash dumped on his property. Investigation led to citation being issued to violator, and trash being picked up.

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Bowling balls at 1722 Beverly Place. Photo: John Storey

I find the use of bowling balls as lawn art to be undeniably quirky. For me, that starts with the premise that bowling itself is whimsical an antithesis for the social isolation of our era.

Today, Berkeley has only one bowling venue, one which mustbe seen as at least a bit eccentric.

Lawn bowling at 2270 Acton St. Photo: Tom Dalzell

Thus it ever was not. In addition to the Berkeley Bowl on Shattuck and the underground bowling at the student union, we had at least three bowling alleys:

Left without a single alley today, we compensate with bowling balls as lawn decoration. Sometimes it is a single ball, sometimes a cluster. Sometimes black, sometimes bright colors. Sometimes overwhelmed by weeds, sometimes proudly landscaped.

Bowling balls at 22 Tunnel Rd on Oak Ridge Path. Photo: John Storey

Bowling balls at 3017 Wheeler St. Photo: John Storey

Bowling ball at 1036 Pardee St. Photo: John Storey

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PARAMUS, NJ (PRWEB) February 27, 2015

When: Wednesday, March 11th from 12:00 pm through 2:00 pm

Where: CarePlus Paramus headquarters, located at 610 Valley Health Plaza, Paramus, NJ

Care Plus NJ, Inc. (CarePlus) headquartered in Paramus, NJ and Turning Point Inc. of Paterson have partnered to create an innovative program to help adolescents and adults who are struggling with substance use challenges and, in some cases, mental health disorders.

Turning Point at CarePlus refered to as Partnership in Recovery takes over 50 years of successful and specialized treatment experience from both organizations to offer a truly innovative program. This Partnership enables those seeking treatment to access all of the care that they need through a single door. The recent alarming rise in opioid use in particular, especially among young people, supports the need for expanded treatment options. The integrated care, single point of entry approach assures that wherever the client enters the system of care, they have access to the services they need to achieve recovery.

The adult program incorporates a 12-Step Model of Recovery, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Enhancement approach to recovery. The complementary treatment philosophies and practices offer a combination of individual and group therapies and an integrated care approach that supports the individual, unique and often complex treatment needs of clients in the program.

Turning Point at CarePlus is making concerted efforts to focus their combined attention to serving adolescents with substance use disorders, many of whom have co-occurring mental health issues. The Focus on Resilience with Assistance, Resources & Determination (FORWARD) program offers assessment, substance use education, and linkage to both individual and group therapies. According to Joe Masciandaro, CEO, CarePlus , The new adolescent programs are designed to educate and support the unique needs of young substance users, and work to return them to a healthy level of functioning at home, in school, and in the community.

Turning Point at CarePlus offers both traditional outpatient (weekly or bi-weekly session) and intensive outpatient treatment (3-4 days per week) at the 610 Valley Health Plaza facility in Paramus. Psychiatric evaluation, family therapy and other complementary interventions are also available on a sliding fee scale.

While the Partners in Recovery have been working together in practice since July 2013, they are officially announcing the programs to the public with a Ribbon Tying ceremony. The goal of the event is to introduce the program to local officials, educators, medical professionals and the public, while providing some education of the growing problems of substance use and its affect on both the individual and their support system.

While many organizations kick off their new programs with a ribbon cutting, we thought that was just the opposite of what we were trying to convey, stated Manuel Guantez, CEO, Turning Point. Our goal is to show that by joining together, we can truly use our combined experience and practices to provide some of the best substance use disorder programming available.

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SAN FRANCISCO --

The Field Poll found 94 percent of registered California voters consider the shortage serious, and 68 percent of them find it extremely serious. By contrast, when the state had a similarly severe drought in 1977 just 51 percent saw the problem as extremely serious.

California is entering its fourth year of drought and, so far, this winter has yet to produce the rain and snow to make a major dent. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency a year ago and asked Californians to reduce consumption by 20 percent. December was the first month residents hit that threshold.

Another example that Californians recognize the seriousness of the problem: Voters last year approved a massive spending plan that invests $7.5 billion in projects to increase water storage, water recycling, treatment and cleaning up contaminated groundwater.

The poll found just 10 percent surveyed say the state's water storage and supply is adequate. More than half believe government restrictions should be relaxed to build new water storage on state parkland and forest reserves, while 38 percent disagreed.

Half of Californians also said that in dry years, the state should help farmers by easing environmental regulations that protect fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but the survey found 46 percent disagreeing.

Six in 10 Californians favor the current policy of asking residents to voluntarily cut back on water use, but one-third surveyed say they favor mandatory rationing, up 7 percentage points from last year.

Residents in different parts of California see the drought's seriousness in differing degrees. Nearly three-quarters of registered voters in San Francisco and the Central Valley's farming region told pollsters that they perceive the shortage as extremely serious, while just under two-thirds in Los Angeles County held the same belief.

The poll was conducted by telephone from Jan. 26 to Feb. 16, surveying 1,241 registered voters in California. It has a margin of error of between plus or minus 3.2 and 4.1 percentage points.

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AP Photo/ Bill Gorman In this photo taken Nov. 14, 2014, 71-year old Diana Miller, who agreed to be interviewed by The Associated Press under her middle and married names, talks about her rape by Arkansas parolee Milton Thomas. The elderly widow says that, Thomas who was mowing a nearby lawn, asked for a glass of water and then forced his way in and raped her. He pushed her on her bed with enough force to knock her front teeth loose she said. You realize that youre a parolee, this is going to mean youre going to spend the rest of your days behind bars, she told Thomas. She said he laughed and went back to mowing. Thomas is currently in custody at the North Central Unit at Calico Rock, Arkansas. His trial date is expected to be March 2015.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in a small cul-de-sac on the west side of the city when he stopped to ask for a glass of water.

The 70-year-old widow whose yard he was mowing told him to wait on her porch. Instead, she said, he jerked the storm door open, slammed her against the wall, forced her into the bedroom and raped her. The parolee pushed her with such force, she said, that her front teeth were knocked loose.

Then he went back to mowing the lawn.

Milton Thomas, 58, said he's not guilty. His trial is set for March.

Thomas has been in and out of Arkansas prisons since 2008 for nonviolent crimes, including check fraud. After he got out in November 2013, the state predicted he was a low risk to commit another crime, Thomas said, and assigned him the least amount of supervision.

His low-risk prediction would have been calculated based on answers to a lengthy questionnaire, the latest tool among the nation's court systems to try to predict the likelihood that an offender will commit a crime again.

Across the country, states have turned to a data-driven movement to drive down prison populations, reduce recidivism and save billions of dollars. One emerging practice is the use of risk-and-needs assessment tools, which are questionnaires that explore issues beyond criminal history. They are based on surveys of offenders making their way through the justice system.

Supporters cite some research, such as a 1987 Rand Corp. study that said the surveys can be up to 70 percent accurate in predicting the likelihood of repeat offenses, if they are used correctly. Even the Rand study, one of the seminal pieces of research on the subject, was skeptical of the surveys' effectiveness.

It's nearly impossible to measure the surveys' impact on recidivism because they are only part of broader efforts.

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In this section we will discuss the origins of the 3 versions of the great American Lawn Jockey sculpture in the specific time frame of 1776-1913. There are 2 distinct historical time frames associated with this statue: 1. 1776-1913: Original versions manufactured of SOLID iron or zinc and weighing approximately 300-400 lbs. designed for FUNCTIONAL use(tying up horses). 2. 1913-present: Reproductions of the statue manufactured of HOLLOW iron(about 150 lbs.), concrete, plastic, or aluminum designed for DECORATIVE use.

Imagine travelling back in time to 1872... clipclopping along the cobblestone road and slowly passing by the gas lights, and then stopping off your horse drawn carriage at the Composite Iron Works, 9 Mercer St., New York City... to pick out a hitching post!

Documented history on the Lawn Jockey is solid back to the 1850's, but prior history is based on putting pieces of a puzzle together through eyewitness accounts, legend, and speculation. The trail of puzzle pieces traces the history of the Lawn Jockey back through the civil war in the 1860's to the Underground Railroad in the 1850's, and all the way back to George Washington in 1776. But to truly understand the origins of the Lawn Jockey statue, you must first turn the time machine clock back further still, way back to 500 bc in ancient Greece where the public display of the human form in sculpture was perfected.

In 500 bc, the ancient greek sculptors perfected statues of the human form... clothing on sculpture is used to convey social structure. The jockey's timeless design was borrowed from ancient Greece and reinvented in colonial America.

Many copies of this popular design were made all the way through the end of the Roman Empire in 476ad. Note how all had bare feet and had their right arm extended to hold horses reins just like the original jockeys.

Apollo was also linked with oracles associated with wishing to know the outcome of an illness. Healing belonged to Apollo's realm: he was the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine.

2 milleniums later, the American Red Cross was established in the US. Coincidentally, a red jockey looks like a red cross. Many doctors who made house calls by horsedrawn carriage in the 1800's had red jockey hitching posts at their own homes to identify their profession. The unusual huge popularity of jockeys in the medical community still continues today in the tradition of Apollo and the Red Cross.

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