| Franklin County juror pay project comes to end
The happy days of getting $60 a day for doing your civic duty in Franklin County have come to an end. A yearlong pilot project to see if more money brings more people -- from all income brackets and ethnicities -- wrapped up Oct. 31. And once again, people are getting a meager stipend when being asked to put a monetary value on a family's suffering in a wrongful death lawsuit, to decide a man's responsibility when his buddy died after a night of boozing or to judge if a drug addict's history of misdemeanor convictions warrants a prison sentence. It's no easy task, but Franklin residents may be faced with such daunting questions and in return they'll get $10 a day, plus mileage to the Franklin County Courthouse. "I would prefer to get $60 over $10, but at the same time I know it's taxpayer money too.
Monks stage marches for first time since crackdown
MONKS in Burma marched through the streets today for the first time since the regime's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations last month. More than 100 monks marched and chanted in the town of Pakokku in northern Burma for nearly an hour this morning. .
Odyssey expands its profile
For many golfers, an Odyssey putter without an insert is like a Rawlings baseball without red stitches. It just doesn't look right.
But this year, in an effort to break into the high-end milled putter market and compete with that segment's leader Scotty Cameron, Odyssey introduced its first non-insert putters under the Black Series label. “The point of difference we can bring to (the super-premium) segment of the market is added technology to a handcrafted putter," says Bill Knees, Callaway's senior vice president of marketing, who oversees the company's Odyssey brand. “And there are ways to do that other than adding an insert."
Odyssey's plan to grab a share of the lucrative high-end putter market likely will depend on its ability to convince consumers to pay more than it ever has for an Odyssey putter.
Owner in third bid to make Highland castle his home
THE owner of a historic Highland castle is making his third attempt to secure permission to turn it into his home. Lex Brown has been involved in a long-running battle with Historic Scotland to restore and reroof the 14th century Castle Tioram, in Moidart. He has previously criticised the "Stalinist" attitude of the agency, which favours the landmark being conserved as a ruin. .
Labour leads all-party attack on SNP budget
LABOUR is close to sealing a cross-party deal that would block the SNP Budget unless millions of pounds in extra funding is given to Scotland's cash-starved universities. Opposition politicians are furious that the higher education sector received only half the money it asked for in the Nationalists' first Holyrood Budget and are working on a deal to force extra cash from the minority Government. .
Oxford Union debate with David Irving hit by protests - Summary
London - Angry student demonstrators Monday delayed a debate at the Oxford Union in Britain, forcing controversial historian David Irving to withdraw to a side room to air his views. Irving, the British historian notorious for his denial of the Holocaust, an offence for which he has served a prison term in Austria, was forced to abandon his plan to address the famous debating society in its main chamber. After a delay of several hours, he and fellow speaker Nick Griffin of the right-wing British National Party (BNP) were later chairing "mini-debates" in separate side rooms of the Oxford Union building. Earlier, police said that a group of about 30 students stormed the main debating hall, delaying the start of proceedings with a sit-down protest and by chanting anti-fascist slogans.
Community Meetings
THIS WEEK Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Hilton Head Chapter 7 p.m. Nov. 20, Coastal Discovery Museum, 100 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island. Martha Zierden, curator of Historical Archaeology since 1981 at the Charleston Museum, will speak. Free and open to the public. Call 943-784-5363. Mulberry Grove Foundation 7 p.m. Nov. 20, Orthopedic Center, 210 E. DeRenne Ave. Individuals interested in preserving the site of the invention of the cotton gin and the reward for winning the American Revolution to Gen. Nathanael Green. Call 238-4275. National Federation of the Blind of Chatham County 2:30-4:30 p.m. Nov. 24, Thomas Francis Williams Court, 1900 Lincoln St.
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