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SENTENCING: No Death Sentences in North Carolina for the First Time Since 1977

No new death sentneces were imposed in North Carolina in 2012, marking the first time since 1977 that this has occurred. The state had a record-low of four capital trials in 2012. Thomas Maher, executive director of North Carolina’s Indigent Defense Services, said, “In some ways, it’s a milestone. In other ways, it’s part of a trend.” In 2000, juries in the state presided at 57 capital trials, ultimately yielding 18 death sentences. In 2011, there were 12 capital trials resulting in 3 death sentences. North Carolina has not carried out an execution since 2006. This declining use of the death penalty is in line with a broader national trend. In 2011, there were 78 new death sentences in the U.S., a 75% drop from 1996, when 315 individuals were sentenced to death. It was the first time since 1976 that the country produced fewer than 100 death sentences in a single year.

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California Retains Death Penalty by Narrow Margin

On November 6, 2012, California’s Proposition 34, an initiative to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole, was narrowly defeated by a vote of 53% to 47%. Although the result means the death penalty will continue in the state, the percent of voters supporting repeal represents a dramatic shift away from capital punishment. The referendum, which indicated just more than half of voters are in favor of keeping the death penalty, follows a broader trend of diminishing public support for the punishment. By contrast, the 1978 ballot initiative that enacted California’s death penalty statute passed with the support of 71% of the voters. California’s use of the death penalty has declined in recent years. Death sentences in California dropped from 40 in 1981 to 10 in 2011. California has not carried out an execution since 2006.  Among the leading proponents of Proposition 34 were Jeanne Woodford, former warden of San Quentin Prison, Gil Garcetti, the former District Attorney of Los Angeles County, and Donald Heller, a former prosecutor who drafted the 1978 death penalty initiative.

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RESOURCES: New Study Examines Effect of Death Penalty on Plea Bargaining

Sherod ThaxtonA recent study by Sherod Thaxton (pictured) of the University of Chicago Law School examined the effect of the threat of the death penalty on plea bargaining. Using statistical analysis of charging and sentencing data in Georgia between 1993 and 2000, Thaxton found that the possibility of a death sentence increased the likelihood of a plea bargain: "deterring two out of every ten death noticed defendants from pursuing a trial." However, the lower number of trials does not offset the high costs of the death penalty, he found. "The empirical findings in this article suggest that the threat of the death penalty has a substantial causal effect on the likelihood that a defendant accepts a plea agreement. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the effect is clearly insufficient to offset the substantial administrative and financial costs arising from the occasional capital defendant taking her chances at trial." In many cases, the author said, significant pre-trial costs are incurred even before a plea agreement is reached.  The study, Leveraging Death, will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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U.S. MILITARY: Latest Sentence Reversal Follows Trend of Rarely Using Death Penalty

The U.S. Military has not carried out an execution of a service member for 50 years. Of the 11 military death sentences that have completed direct appeal, 9 (82%) have been reversed.  On August 22, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the death sentence of former Lance Corporal Kenneth G. Parker, the only Marine on the military's death row. The court also overturned one of Parker’s two murder convictions after finding that his guilt was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt.  Judge J.A. Maksym, while condemning Parker's actions, said, “We have upset aspects of this verdict and will set aside the death penalty due to numerous and substantive procedural and legal failures at trial.”  Parker is now facing a life sentence without parole at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Parker's co-defendant, Wade Walker, had also been sentenced to death but had his sentence reduced to life earlier.  Since 1984, 11 out of 16 military death sentences have been overturned. The last military execution occurred in 1961.

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Use of the Death Penalty in California Declines in Key Counties

Use of the death penalty in California has declined in recent years. There have been no executions in six years, and the number of death sentences in 2011 dropped sharply from previous years.  District Attorney Mark Peterson of Contra Costa County said his office tries to be smart on crime rather than automatically seeking death. "People here want us to be tough on crime, but they want us to be smart on crime," he said. "Even though we might personally believe a defendant deserves the death penalty, it doesn't do us any good to take a hard stance if the community isn't going to support it.  The statistics bear out that the number of death penalty cases have gone down over the years," Peterson said. "It's been almost two years without a death verdict and for the ninth largest county in the state, I think that says a lot.  For the vast majority of eligible cases, we don't seek the death penalty," he said. A recent Field Poll found that while support for the death penalty in California continues, there is also a growing tendency of voters to favor life in prison without parole over capital punishment. Elisabeth Semel, professor of law at Berkeley Law School, explained that public opinion can influence the decision of prosecutors. She said, "Prosecutors are increasingly willing to use the punishment of life without the possibility of parole and recognize that it is more acceptable to the general public. The decreasing popularity of the death penalty ... has an influence in the decision." Laurie Levenson, professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, agreed: "The whole tenor in both the criminal justice system and in the community has changed in regard to the death penalty," she said. "Prosecutors realize, in the end, it might not be worth it."

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MULTIMEDIA: Interview with Michael Selsor-Served Longest Time Between Conviction and Execution

Al Jazeera recently released a video of an interview with former Oklahoma death-row inmate Michael Selsor (pictured). Selsor was the most recent person executed in the U.S. and probably the inmate who served the longest time between conviction and execution of anyone in U.S. history.  He was first sentenced to death in 1976 for murder and was imprisoned over 36 years prior to his execution on May 1, 2012.  Although his sentence was reduced to life when Oklahoma's death penalty was overturned in 1976, he was re-sentenced to death for the same crime in 1998.  The interview was conducted in 2010 and was the only interview Selsor granted. When asked about the difference between the death penalty and life without parole, Selsor said, “The only difference between death and life without parole is one you kill me now, the other one you kill me later. There's not even a shred of hope. There's no need to even try to muster up a seed of hope because you're just gonna die of old age in here....With the death penalty sentence I'm entitled to more appeals - the government's gonna pay for it. I don't have to do it myself if I don't have the money for a lawyer which I don't have. Instead I'm relying on public defenders to do my appeals."  Selsor was also asked about how he was handling his inevitable execution: “I'm not gonna beg 'em to spare my life. I'll try to keep my head up with a little bit of dignity, and I'm gonna be buried out on Periwood Hill.”   See the video of the interview.

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NEW VOICES: South Carolina Officials Point to Costs and Uncertainty for Death Penalty's Decline

Use of the death penalty has decreased in South Carolina, and some state officials are pointing to the high costs and uncertainty of capital punishment as reasons for this decline. The state has had only one execution in the past three years, and the size of death row has declined almost 30% since 2005.  No one was sentenced to death in 2011.  Prosecutor David Pascoe initially planned to seek the death penalty for a mother who killed her two children, but later changed his mind, with cost being one factor:  "Once you file for the death penalty, the clock gets moving and the money, the taxpayers start paying for that trial," he said.  Representative Tommy Pope (pictured), a state legislator and former prosecutor who sought the death penalty for Susan Smith in a similar murder, now would tell victims' families to consider agreeing to a life-without-parole sentence instead of the death penalty.  Life without parole was adopted by the state in 1995.  It "allow[s] them a measure of closure that three retrials in a death penalty case never would," Pope said.

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CLEMENCY: Georgia Board Commutes Death Sentence of 'Model Prisoner'

On April 20, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles reduced the death sentence of Daniel Greene (pictured) to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Board had stayed Greene's execution, which was set for April 19, in order to further consider his clemency petition. Greene's petition included letters from several members of the Taylor County community, where the murder occurred, urging the Board to spare Greene's life. Among the letters was one from a former correctional officer, Randy Foster, who called Greene "as fine a man as I have ever met in my life," and said, "He is not like anyone else on death row. Daniel Greene is the type of person you want for an inmate. He has never given me (or anyone else as far as I know) even the hint of a problem." In his own letter to the Board, Greene apologized for the pain he caused the victim's family and said, "I was on drugs at the time, but I took the drugs with my hands, and I take the responsibility. That choice to do drugs and what I did after were the worst mistakes of my life. I do not blame the drugs. I blame myself for everything." This was the second clemency granted nationally in 2012 and the eighth granted in Georgia since 1976.

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NEW VOICES: Creators of California's Death Penalty Law Now Call for Life Without Parole

Donald Heller (pictured), who wrote California's death penalty law, and Ron Briggs, who led the campaign to reinstate the law in 1978, are now advocating for replacing the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. Both now say that the law did not have the result they intended. “At the time, we were of the impression that it would do swift justice, that it would get the criminals and murderers through the system quickly and apply them the death penalty,” Briggs said. But the costs of the death penalty system has led him to reconsider his stance: "I tell my Republican friends, ‘Close your eyes for a moment. If there was a state program that was costing $185 million a year and only gave the money to lawyers and criminals, what would you do with it?’" Donald Heller, a former prosecutor, called California's death penalty system a "colossal failure," also mentioning its high costs, “The cost of our system of capital punishment is so enormous that any benefit that could be obtained from it — and now I think there’s very little or zero benefit — is so dollar-wasteful that it serves no effective purpose." Both men are supporting a November ballot initiative that would replace death sentences with life without parole and use the money saved to solve cold cases. California has not carried out an execution in six years, and has about 720 inmates on death row.

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Connecticut Senate Poised to Vote on Death Penalty Repeal

The Connecticut Senate is expected to vote as early as Wednesday (April 4) on a bill to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. The bill, which would only affect future sentencing, passed the Judiciary Committee on March 21 and needs at least 18 votes to pass in the Senate. If it passes the Senate, it is considered likely to pass the House, and Governor Dannel Malloy has pledged to sign the bill into law. A similar bill passed the General Assembly in 2009, but was vetoed by then-Governor Jodi Rell. Murder victims’ families and friends are among the strongest supporters of the repeal. A letter signed by 179 Connecticut murder victims’ families stated, “Our direct experiences with the criminal justice system and struggling with grief have led us all to the same conclusion: Connecticut’s death penalty fails victims’ families.... In Connecticut, the death penalty is a false promise that goes unfulfilled, leaving victims’ families frustrated and angry after years of fighting the legal system. And as the state hangs onto this broken system, it wastes millions of dollars that could go toward much needed victims’ services.” If Connecticut repeals the death penalty, it will become the 5th state to do so in the past 5 years. Illinois, New Mexico, New Jersey, and New York have all abandoned the death penalty in recent years. Other states are also considering repeal of the death penalty, including California, where 800,000 signatures have been gathered to place the issue on the ballot in November.

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 Sediment Toxicity Pilot Study for the Hudson River NRDA - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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Sediment Toxicity Pilot Study for the Hudson River NRDA

Past and continuing discharges of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have contaminated Hudson River natural resources. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is continuing with cleanup plans, federal and state trustee agencies - the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and New York State - are conducting a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). These agencies are responsible for evaluating the injuries associated with hazardous substance contamination to natural resources and determining appropriate actions to restore those resources. Natural resource damage payments provide a means for the Trustees to restore injured public resources to the condition they would have been in but for the release of hazardous substances to the environment, and to compensate the public for lost services provided by those resources.

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Sediment toxicity pilot study test organism
Hyalella azteca (amphipod).
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The Hudson River provides habitat for a range of organisms that live in or on the river bottom. These sediment-dwelling organisms - or benthic macroinvertebrates - live in direct contact with the aquatic sediments that are contaminated with PCBs. The presence of elevated concentrations of PCBs in sediments could be harmful to these organisms, which are important elements of aquatic ecosystems and are often used as indicators of the health of such systems. In addition, PCBs can accumulate in the tissues of benthic macroinvertebrates, thereby placing consumers of these organisms, such as birds and fish, at risk of adverse health effects.
This fact sheet provides information about a preliminary investigation regarding sediment toxicity and associated injuries to natural resources.

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Sediment toxicity pilot study test organism
Chironomus dilutus (midge).
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The objective of the sediment toxicity pilot study is to determine if PCB-contaminated sediments from the Hudson River are toxic to sediment-dwelling organisms. Sediment-dwelling organisms may be exposed to PCBs that are bound to sediment particles, as well as any PCBs that are dissolved in the water in and around the sediment. Sediment toxicity tests measure the effects of sediment-associated PCBs on benthic macroinvertebrates by exposing test organisms to PCBs in the same way they are exposed in the environment. The study will also evaluate the composition and structure of the benthic macroinvertebrate community and assess the bioavailability of PCBs. The combination of sediment toxicity, benthic community, and bioavailability data provide multiple means of measuring potential effects of PCBs.
During late September and early October 2008, the Trustees will collect sediment from the Hudson River between the former Fort Edward Dam and the Thompson Island Dam. Samples representing a range of PCB concentrations will be sent to a toxicity testing laboratory where test organisms will be placed in exposure chambers containing the Hudson River sediment. These organisms will be monitored over several weeks for survival, growth, and reproduction. The study will also evaluate PCB bioavailability and the structure of the benthic macroinvertebrate community.

Depending on the results of this pilot study, the Trustees may conduct additional field investigations and/or laboratory studies to further evaluate the effects of PCBs on sediment-dwelling organisms.

Further information on the Hudson River NRDA can be found on the following websites:

To add yourself to the Hudson-NRDA listserv:

1. Send a message to: requests@willamette.nos.noaa.gov

2. Write in the subject: Subscribe hudsonnrda

Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees NYSDEC 625 Broadway, 5th Floor Albany, NY 12233
If you have questions about natural resource damages, or want to submit a restoration project or be placed on the Hudson River NRDA mailing list, please contact one of the individuals listed below:

Tom Brosnan
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1305 East West Highway N/ORR3
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Kathryn Jahn
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Cortland, NY 13045

Steve Lorence
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233

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Squaws send four to state track

    FORT WAYNE—The Bellmont Squaws advanced individuals in four different events to the IHSAA state finals with sparkling efforts Tuesday night at the girls regional track meet at Northrop High School.
    The Squaws finished tenth overall as a team out of approximately 40 teams represented at the regional scoring 29 points, an accomplished that tickled coach Carl Risch pink.
    "We're pretty thrilled to be going down there (to the state finals at Indiana University in Bloomington) in four events. I think we could legitimately score in all four events at state. I thought the girls handled the pressure of a big meet like this really well. It's one thing to be seeded high in some events like we were, it's quite another to come out focused and finish as well as we did," Risch praised.
    To advance to the state finals, a girl must finish in the top three in her event or match or beat the state standard (an average of the ninth place finish in that event at the state finals in the past three years).
    Bellmont's Holly Hankenson was spectacular for the Squaws as she will advance in both the 100 high hurdles and the 300 low hurdles. The 100 sticks found Holly ending up fourth, but she moves on via the fact she beat the state standard of :15.09 with a solid :14.96. Then in the 300 hurdles, she shattered the Bellmont school record she set earlier this year--:45.44--with a new standard of :44.83 to finish third (four girls in this race beat the state standard).
    The hurdles competition was extremely fierce with defending state champion Skyler Carpenter of Westview winning both events. Carpenter's time of :42.31 in the 300 hurdles was so dominant that it beat the 1987 state finals mark of :42.51 but since this was a regional, it doesn't count as a new state record.
    Hankenson was battling Simon Black of Concordia in the 300 hurdles and was running a strong second to Carpenter late in the race but she tipped the last hurdle and that seemed to disrupt her balance momentarily. That was just enough to push Black into second place by .52 of a second ahead of Hankenson.


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Waltzing With Walter

When Walter the walrus got separated from his herd off Barrow, Alaska, last summer, the 250-pound calf was airlifted to the Alaska SeaLife Center for help. There, the affectionate and playful calf received rock-star treatment and round-the-clock care. Defenders’ Karla Dutton, who is working with the center to remotely monitor the effect of climate change on walruses, was one of his volunteer caregivers. Read about her encounter and watch a healthy and happy Walter playing in his pool at www.defenders.org/walterthewalrus.

For a daily dose of stories like these, sign up for Defenders’ blog at www.defendersblog.org.

Drought No More

On the heels of one of the worst droughts in U.S. history, scientists are questioning the future of a critter that crawls—and swims—under the radar in the streams of the Southeast.

© Todd Pierson

Salamanders play an important role in forest ecosystems by gobbling up bugs and regulating nutrients. In turn, they are important food sources for birds and mammals. But to survive, they need to stay cool and moist, and their larvae must stay totally submerged in water while they develop.

But in a five-year study beginning in 2005, including 12 months of conditions where water levels reached a 110-year low, biologists found that larvae disappeared at 30 percent of the sites during the drought year, and that adult salamanders migrated from streambeds to underground refuges at twice the rate of non-drought conditions.

“During the drought, adult salamanders demonstrated a 90 percent survival rate from one month to the next,” says Steven Price, a biologist participating in the Wake Forest University and Davidson College study. “It sounds pretty high, but at this rate, less than 1 percent would survive a four-year drought suggested under certain climate scenarios.”

And salamanders aren’t the only amphibian affected by the whacked-out weather.

Although most of the world’s frogs lay their eggs in water, many tropical frogs do not. Outside of water they are protected from aquatic predators but at increased risk of drying out.

By analyzing long-term rainfall data, Justin Touchon, a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, found that rainfall patterns are changing just as climate-change models predict. “Over the past four decades, rainfall has become more sporadic during the wet season,” he says. Heavy rains trigger breeding, but as storms become sporadic, the chance of rain the next day decreases and so does egg survival.

Those, like the pantless treefrog, that can switch between laying eggs in water or on leaves may weather the changes better, says Touchon.

Unfortunately, not all frogs are as flexible.

Keepers of the Kelp

Sea otters often make their daily doings look as if life is just fun and games. But a closer look finds these charismatic creatures actually working to help save the planet from global warming.

Scientists already knew sea otters provide big benefits to ocean ecosystems by dining on sea urchins, which would otherwise overgraze kelp forests—destroying as much as 30 feet a month when left unchecked. But researchers from the University of California-Santa Cruz recently found that kelp left to spread absorbs as much as 12 times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than if it were munched up by the voracious urchins. The effect is similar to how terrestrial forests remove carbon from the environment. With a thriving population of sea otters around, the urchins must instead hide in crevices and eat kelp scraps.

Although an enhanced sea otter population won’t solve the problem of higher carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the scientists argue that the restoration and protection of otters is an example of how animals the world over work in different ways to influence the carbon cycle—and how protecting them might actually help protect us.

More Articles from Winter 2013

These synthetic chemicals are found in all kinds of everyday items. But in the long run, they are toxic to us and to wildlife.
Most funding for wildlife comes from the Farm Bill, which funds project like those that create habitat for ocelots.
The War on Wolves Continues; New Rules Rule; A Future with Bison
Named for their white whiskers—which actually look more like mustaches than beards—these seals appear almost dashing. Unfortunately, looking dapper isn’t keeping them out of danger.
The conservation outlook in the Senate has improved, but we still have a House leadership that is quite hostile to environmental programs.
Is climate change causing the arctic food chain to unravel?
Approaching solar energy “Smart from the Start” means we can fight climate change with fewer risks to wildlife.
Keeping grizzlies alive and people safe in the Rockies


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  1. operational area

    An overarching term encompassing more descriptive terms for geographic areas in which military operations are conducted. Operational areas include, but are not limited to, such descriptors as area of responsibility, theater of war, theater of operations, joint operations area, amphibious objective area, joint special operations area, and area of operations. Also called OA. See also amphibious objective area; area of operations; area of responsibility; joint operations area; joint special operations area; theater of operations; theater of war.

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14 Shots to the Dome is the fifth studio album by rapper LL Cool J, released in 1993, and the first since his highly successful album Mama Said Knock You Out. Unlike that release, which saw him have success on his own terms, 14 Shots sees LL adopting the sound of his West coast gangsta rap contemporaries, especially that of Ice Cube and Cypress Hill. Many fans saw this as a jarring departure, and the album met mixed critical and commercial response, only being certified Gold by the RIAA.


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With weather forecasts calling for daytime highs above 40 degrees over the weekend, local fishermen should be able to connect with some action on the wrecks and reef structure off of Delmarva. Tautog can be caught throughout the winter months on snags between 15 and 30 fathoms, with Artificial Reef Site 11 and the Del-Jersey-Land Reef providing good fishing for boaters running out of Lewes, Indian River and Ocean City, Md. Toggers checking in with Dr. Julie Ball of Extreme Sportfishing found big tog on deep water wrecks off of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Virginia Beach, with fish up to 17 pounds being caught. Jumbo sea bass also were reported by boaters fishing the deeper snags. But, with the season closed, the action has been catch-and-release only. While most tog fishermen bait with green crabs or white leg crabs, Dr. Ball also recommended clams, mussels, blue crabs, Jonah crabs and stone crabs. Catch reports from the New Jersey party boat fleet indicated good catches of pollock, cod and ling, with most of the action coming from wrecks lying between 200 and 300 feet below the surface. Anglers fishing with Capt. Joe Bogan of the Brielle party boat Jamaica II returned with some real nice fish on ice, with Phil Degliomini’s 19-pound cod taking the pool. Eddy Crane cranked in a pair of 12-pound cod, two nice pollock and five ling on the trip. The area known as the Mudhole provided anglers aboard the Point Lookout party boat Captain Al with a good catch of cod and ling. Surface temperatures at the Mudhole were just 36.5 degrees, according to Capt. Tom Weiss. While wreck and reef fishing dominated the reports from the inshore fleet, anglers fishing between the 40-fathom line and the Norfolk Canyon reported plenty of action over open bottom. Capt. Skip Feller ran a 16-hour deep-dropping trip aboard the Rudee Anglers over the weekend that produced plenty of action on a variety of popular species. The first stop on the trip was the 50-fathom line, where anglers scored good numbers of blueline tilefish up to 20 pounds. A move out to 75 fathoms found several snowy groupers, including one that tipped the scale at 40 pounds. The final stop just inside the 100-fathom line focused on golden tilefish, with 17 nice fish being caught, including a 54-pounder and a 59-pounder. Bluefin tuna are being caught by big game fishermen trolling the warmer waters off of the Outer Banks, with reports of fish to 175 pounds being weighed in at the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. Anglers fishing an overnighter aboard Capt. Kenny Koci’s Big Tahuna boated a nice swordfish. The trip also provided angler Garland Storey with a release citation for a shark estimated at 150 pounds. Fishermen targeting white perch are catching a few at the west end of Indian River Bay in the warm water return from the power plant. Most reports listed night crawlers, small minnows, grass shrimp and bloodworm FishBites as good baits for the perch. With water temperatures in the low to mid-30s along the Delaware and Maryland beaches, about the only thing local surf fishermen are talking about is the closing of a portion of the Cape Henlopen State Park beaches. The closure, which went to effect on March 1, includes the dunes and the beaches on both the ocean and bay sides of the Point. According to a release from DNREC, the Point has been closed annually since 1993 “for the benefit of piping plovers, oystercatchers, least terns and other threatened and endangered beach nesters and migratory shorebirds.” The ocean beach will remain closed through Sept. 1, with the bayside beaches off limits until Oct.1.

Water temperatures were heading in the right direction until the latest blast of frigid air moved across the area and dropped surface temperatures back into the low 30s. Normally, local fishermen would expect to see some early hook and line action on striped bass by mid-March, but this has not been a normal winter. There have been reports of white perch showing up in the tidal creeks that flow into the bay and along the shoreline at Fowler Beach, Bowers Beach, Port Mahon and Woodland Beach, but the fishing has not been consistent. And, with bloodworms just about impossible to find this early in the season, anglers have had to make due with less effective offerings.

Tidewater reports from the Nanticoke River and Broad Creek listed crappie as the primary target, with some of the best fishing coming from the Seaford Spillway and Bethel Hole. Anglers checking in with Jerry Taylor at Taylored Tackle have had good results with a mix of crappie jigs baited with one-inch Gulp! plastics, live shiners and bullhead minnows. Fish the lure or live bait 2 or 3 feet below a small bobber. White perch also are being caught in Broad Creek, with the bulkhead at Phillips Landing one of the most popular fishing spots. Bait with night crawlers, grass shrimp or – if you can find them – bloodworms. White perch are starting to provide some action in the Delaware River and in the C&D Canal at Reedy Point. But, with surface temperatures ranging between 35 and 36.5 degrees at the Delaware City monitoring station it will be at least a few more weeks before the spring perch run really begins.

Anglers checking in at the Williamsville Country Store enjoyed some early trout action along the banks of Newton Pond near Greenwood over the weekend, thanks to an early stocking of 300 pounds of rainbow trout by the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Tidbury Pond near Dover also was included in the spring pond stocking effort, but with most of the pond covered in ice since the beginning of the week there haven’t been any catch reports to pass along. A whopping, 2.5-pound crappie topped the most recent pond report from Mike Bowen at Eastern Marine. The citation fish was caught on a large shiner at Lums Pond by Pete Mandeville. Fishermen stopping at Captain Bones Bait and Tackle connected with a mix of chain pickerel, large-mouth bass and crappie last weekend before the ice returned to the local ponds. With temperatures in the 40s expected this weekend and into next week, look for the ice to melt and the fishing action to turn on again. Top choices for fishermen stopping at the Odessa tackle shop included Garrison Lake, McGinnis Pond and Coursey Pond.


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Drexel Hill's Musciano shows Flyers what he can do

Thursday, February 9, 2012

PHILADELPHIA - First came word that goalie Ilya Bryzgalov was sick. Then came the realization that somebody was going to have to stand in as a target at Thursday's morning skate at Wells Fargo Center.
Then came the obvious answer - there was already a big target kind of guy dressed in goalie gear in the building.
For promotion specialist Justin Musciano, it was just another chance to network.
Already blessed with an exciting job in the sports world -- the 27-year-old Drexel Hill resident is a concessions manager at Citizens Bank Park -- Musciano had worked his way into the good graces of Flyers CEO Peter Luukko's exclusive hockey club.
Not the one Luukko is in charge of, but the group of mostly younger guys (and girls) Luukko plays hockey with a few mornings a week just past dawn.
"It's the 7:15ers, a bunch of morning hockey guys that play here at 7:15," Musciano said as he sat by himself in a locker room that usually houses visiting NBA teams. "I was lucky enough to be playing with them this morning."
It was then that Musciano's networking skills paid dividends again, as he was approached after the pickup game by Flyers equipment manager Derek Settlemyre.
"Nasty came in and asked if I wanted to skate with the boys today," said Musciano, who is so plugged in here he freely uses Settlemyre's nickname. "I said sure. It was kind of nice ... lifetime experience, man."
Not that Musciano hasn't had them before. He played goal at Upper Darby High, played two years at Division III Johnson and Wales University in Providence, R.I. and works as a goaltending coach for the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation.
Again, that whole networking thing again.
But he admits all of that work didn't really prepare him for his surprise work call this morning.
"If you haven't played with professionals and you just see it on TV, you get a totally different respect for what they do and (how they play) the game," Musciano said. "How hard they actually shoot the puck. It's just amazing."
It really was just a fun thing for Musciano to do ... one that he did for free. Well, almost.
"One condition," Musciano said. "It was just, 'You want to play?' And I said sure, but can you give me a granola bar and a couple of Gatorades?"
Musciano knows the gig isn't going to lead to anything professional - at least from a playing standpoint. But he can probably say that he fared well, even stopping some guy named Jaromir Jagr on one shot.
"I think Jagr was kind of toying with me a little bit," Musciano said. "I stopped the shot and he was yelling at me, saying 'I'm supposed to score that goal!' It was pretty funny.
"So yeah, lifetime experience and something I'll never forget."
Musciano might work at the stadium around the corner now, but he began hooking in with the boss' morning hockey group while working at Wells Fargo Center as a suite and club box manager. Before he was able to skate with the big boys, though, he had a call to make to his supervisor, Jeremy Campbell.
"I said, 'Hope you'll forgive me, but the Flyers want me to skate with them,'" Musciano said. "Thank God it wasn't a problem. I'll still have a job when I go back."


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By Diane Y. Welch

Michael Schwartz, Envision Theater coordinator and department chairperson for the Visual and Performing Arts at Canyon Crest Academy, has coordinated a full line-up of shows for the current school year. Funding donated by parents to the school's foundation enhances the quality of these performances by allowing professional guest artists to instruct students on campus, said Schwartz.

Envision's theatre arts has benefited greatly from the visiting artist program which originally brought Schwartz to CCA.

"I was working at La Jolla Playhouse and was offered the chance to come here and direct a couple of plays. I enjoyed it here so much I suffered through getting a teaching credential so I could stay here full time," he quipped. Schwartz has an MFA from UC San Diego in theater direction and has worked extensively as a freelance theater director, he said.

Three CCA seniors shared first-hand accounts of their experience working with visiting professionals. "Just today I got to learn from two different visiting artists: Jessie Miller, a local water color painter, and Lisa Burger, who teaches acting theory," said Tracy McDowell, actress and arts editor of the school yearbook. "These are such incredible opportunities that allow me to explore and learn a lot more about myself and what I am able to accomplish."

Haley Carlborg enjoys the diversity of the styles of the professional actors. "Working with them gets you ready for the real acting world, you get an opportunity to dabble in everything," she said. "Lisa Berger absolutely blew my mind. She's a genius. She taught me about finding truth in your character through the Meisner Method. While I was doing my scene she asked me how it related to my own life. I got so connected to my character, who was supposed to feel shame, that I cried, the feeling was that strong." Berger will direct the show "Anon(ymous)" in January.

Izzy Pollak was inspired to change his prospective major in college from a BBA to a double major with a BA or BFA in theatre on the strength of "the broad spectrum" of his theatre arts instruction given by professionals, he said. "It helped lay the foundation for me to tread on this unbelievable experience I am about to embark on, the path of an actor."

Professional actor/director/playwright Bernard Baldan, a founding member of the San Diego Repertory Theater, with TV and film credits included in his 35-year career, shared his views on the visiting artist program.

"An academic would put an emphasis on a series of facts and experiences that these students must have to meet the curriculum. The professional adds to this by presenting hands-on workshops to help create the final product, the show," said Baldan. "My aim is to teach students a sense of what it is to be a professional. I help answer the questions: What is it like when the show opens? What are the steps you actually have to take to get there? What is your responsibility to the other actors, to the director, to the audience, to the artist who wrote it? The show is not just to have fun, but it is to inform your audience, to bring them along, to entertain them."

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Other shows in the line-up include, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," "Chess," a Bertolt Brecht play, and the "Senior Showcase" produced by Theatre Conservatory students.

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Over the last few years,

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Traditional, publicly traded REITs are a popular way for investors to get involved in real estate profits without the hassle of actually purchasing or managing property. By allowing individuals to buy shares in a portfolio of real estate properties – many of which are highly liquid and therefore less risky for sophomore investors – these REITs, also referred to as “real estate stocks,” hold a wide appeal for a variety of buyers. When it comes to non-traded REITs, however, a complex web of hidden fees and concealed investment logistics make it all too easy for unscrupulous promoters to dupe elderly or unsuspecting investors into believing that they are getting into a low-risk situation – only to then rig the system and make supposed property-derived distributions that are in fact the investor’s own money being returned to them under the guise of income. In such cases, fraudulent promoters have also succeeded in making off with astronomical commissions and up-front fees – sometimes constituting up to 25% of the original investment and essentially robbing investors of their supposedly secure funds.

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Time is the one thing that is equal in all of humanity. How one chooses to spend that time, however, is not.

If you often feel the stresses of time, chances are good it is because you feel you just do not have enough time to do what you want to do, at the level of quality to which you are committed. When we combine the decreasing number of dental personnel with increasing service demands, challenges for time are created within the dental office.

With increasing responsibilities placed on hygienists, such as managed care, insurance dilemmas, the implementation of consultants, incorporation of advanced educational courses, the indoctrination of aesthetic dentistry and its demands, and the ever-expanding state and federal regulations placed upon us, there is more for us to do in the same amount of time, or for the sake of production, in less time.
To get the most out of the time a hygienist has with a patient, it is important to have clearly defined goals and a focused agenda. Here are some key time-saving tips you and your hygiene department can use to help achieve your daily goals for more production and less stress.

The scheduled daily production goal and the scheduled for next hygiene visit goal should no longer be the only considerations in a hygiene day. Today’s progressive hygiene departments have daily sales presentations and sales acceptance goals that we are responsible for as well.

For example, my daily hygiene production goal is $1,800 per day, which I normally meet and usually exceed. My sales presentation goal (aesthetics, quadrant, or comprehensive dentistry that is presented from my hygiene chairs) is $5,000 per day. And my sales acceptance goal (accepted, financials secured and scheduled) is $3,500 per day. I obtained these goals simply by adding my hygiene daily production goals to my doctor’s daily production goals.

Though sales acceptance goals are often difficult to track because of the patient’s need to consider and organize their budget (both time and money), sales presentations are not. Simply track the treatment plan that was discussed from the hygiene chair by writing it next to the patient’s name on the day sheet. For example: lower left No. 18 MO (inlay—$1,100); No. 19 MOD (porcelain crown—$1,100); No. 20 MOD (inlay—$1,100); No. 21 DO (two-surface direct—$250 or inlay $1,100) yields an estimated total of $4,500.

I make it easy for myself by calling everything a restoration. I say to the patient, “We will be restoring the lower left side on the next visit. If we could have a moment of your time, we’d like to help you with the fee for your treatment and the payment options we have available. Let’s see what’s most convenient for you.” Then I escort them into the private consultation room where the financial coordinator is waiting to complete the process.

At the end of the day have a mini afternoon huddle with the doctors, hygienists, and scheduling coordinators and analyze each patient to see who did or did not schedule, and why. These are very valuable numbers, and everyone should be tracking them. They will reveal staff members’ strengths as well as weaknesses.

Even though this course of action takes time, it is the best time-saver the hygienist can do to prepare for the day. It could be done during downtime or at the end of the day. The information remains fresh in your mind when you do it before the day begins. Reading through the progress notes while reviewing the charts allows us to be familiar with patients before they are seated. It allows us to gain accurate knowledge of what patients will need in hygiene services for the day. For example, the type of hygiene therapy, updating the periodontal charting, which radiographs or photography might be necessary, whether the patient is due for their annual examination, or whether the exam will be necessary because of an already known chief complaint made during confirmation. It also alerts us to some of the other possible time pitfalls, such as the need for premedication or the use of nitrous oxide. Reviewing the patient’s treatment plans and reading the progress notes for past chief complaints, concerns, or comments by both the doctor and hygienist allows both to formulate a presentation that is collectively well focused. The hygiene team will then know in advance what could or will be needed, such as a bite adjustment setup, imaging through a consultation, or possible work-in treatments like sealants or bleaching. Auditing the computer by updating the patient’s real treatment needs gives an accurate projection of the daily production goal and treatment. Instead of using the computer program’s generic codes as your guideline, type the needed treatment, like BWX, Pano, 4910, Exam.

The patient’s name and information from the audit should be transferred to a sticky note and written in black ink to indicate preexisting treatments. Save room for the patient’s current chief complaint or for case acceptance, which should be written in a different color for easy recognition. The sticky note is given to the doctor before he/she leaves their treatment room so they can be familiar with all treatment needs and know what has already been discussed. This in itself will make the exam time quicker, more efficient, and effective.

This is the next best time- saver, and is absolutely necessary for everyone on the team. It averts stress by effective communication and sharing what we learned from the audit and the phone calls too. It is with this information that treatment rooms are delegated.

Have all rooms equipped, stocked, and supplied for whoever needs to use them. The old protocol of “my room …my stuff” should no longer be acceptable as the norm, not in today’s high-paced, high-demand environment. Rooms are where income is made through production. Empty rooms should be considered overhead.

Polishing first with a mild and effective prophy paste compound before the scaling procedures will ensure that you will work in a cleaner, healthier environment. This prevents the massive transmission of bacteria from entering the patient’s bloodstream. It saves the time normally spent rescaling and repolishing tenacious stain, and reduces the hand fatigue commonly associated with heavy-handed stain removal.

Now the hygienist and the doctor can see without the hindrance of plaque, stain, and food all over the patient’s teeth.

Education means taking something that is simple and making it seem more complex. Communication is about taking something that is complex and making it sound simple. Let’s use flossing as an example. For many, flossing is the key, but instead of being the answer, it’s the solution. Few patients are interested in a solution until they truly understand the problem. Once patients comprehend the problem, they will own their disease and will want to know what they can do about it.

Immediately following polishing, ask permission to review the patient’s brushing and flossing routine. If you see a patient might be flossing incorrectly, a great non-confrontational communication might be to pose this type of question: “I see that you floss regularly, however, as part of our treatment today I’d like to show you once again a more effective method of flossing. Is that okay with you?”

Giving the patient a mirror, begin flossing between the maxillary central incisors. This area of flossing usually causes bleeding, and will open discussions about possible periodontal issues. You can then address any cosmetic concerns and present options for improving older restorations that may still have stain. This prevents the patient from thinking, “Why didn’t they get the stain off again?”

The doctor can, if convenient, come in anytime after the sticky note has been given to them and be able to see and provide a more thorough examination without the obstacle of debris.

The controlled application of topical anesthetic followed by thorough rinsing throughout the appointment allows for a more comfortable and accurate periodontal probing and scaling. As always, check the medical history for prior allergies, and be alert for any current reactions.

Hand instrumentation should be an important part of your armamentarium because it enables you to feel every surface on every tooth, confirming that the roots have been properly cleaned and planed. It also allows you to feel for decayed surfaces, marginal breakdown of older, worn restorations, and areas of sensitivity. Many times patients will feel these problem areas at the same time as the therapist, which opens the doors to communication about treatment. It also allows you the flexibility to educate and communicate, to help influence the patients into understanding, accepting, and owning their dental disease. Hand instrumentation helps make communication easier and more patient-friendly by overcoming the distractions that occur from the combination of the noises from the use of ultrasonic instrumentation, water, and suction.

Scripting—the study, discussion, and internalizing of words and phrases to use (and words and phrases not to use) along with all the reasons why—is the ideal way to ensure consistent five-star service in your practice. Scripting can and has improved the service, profitability, efficiency, and harmony of countless thousands of businesses. How can a staff member or any of us be expected to “wing” answers on the spot? Studying scripts means studying the reasons behind the scripting. You can’t have one without the other.

Another important aspect of scripting is the elimination of words not to say. For example, the patient has pocketing with inflammation and bleeding, and while you are aggressively scaling, the patient asks that dreaded nightmare question to all hygienists, “How come no one has ever done this to me before?” Imagine if we bumble around and grasp for words, we will at best look unprofessional, and at worst, offend and possibly even lose the patient.
Imagine the phrases you might hear without scripting—all kinds of things that essentially add up to either bashing other dental offices or dentistry in general, something that sounds like, “Your last dental office didn’t care.”

Patients ask lots of questions, and they are not looking for long drawn-out answers or dozens of questions in return. They want direct, honest answers.
The response I teach my clients, and the one I use daily is, “That’s a great question. Let me see how I can explain this to you so you can increase your understanding of your oral health. It’s simply been too long since your roots have been cleaned, not your exposed teeth but the roots themselves. Have you ever had your roots cleaned like this before?”

Scripts allow one the freedom to continually educate and communicate, to motivate without much thought, to alert patients to either further dental needs or educate them about today’s more advanced materials that are being offered, while the patient is still in the chair. Patients have found this time-saving tip (scripts combined with hand instrumentation) to be both soothing and more relaxing, often distracting them from the discomfort that can occur during therapeutic scaling procedures.

This simple trick will allow you to entertain, build a rapport, deliver quality care, motivate, and influence the patient by explaining through education the treatment needed, all in a shorter amount of time.

Scripting is not about being a robot. Of course, we all need to listen, be compassionate, and use our own words. But scripting is the most efficient and effective way to instill a culture of service, and excel in the busiest place on the planet—the dental office. For example, in my hygiene world I personally could not work as effectively or efficiently as I do without my memorized scripts. In my everyday real-life hygiene position, I have to stay focused. My time with patients is filled with so many thought-provoking and diverse procedures, systems, and protocols, I’d go crazy if I didn’t have my scripts written and edited, practiced and rehearsed to the point where they can be performed like an act in a play.

I relish when patients tell me they’ve never been told that before (I know they have) and how much they appreciate the time I took helping them understand their problems and the solutions. Oddly, it really was not all that much time. It’s not about the quantity of time but the quality of time that is spent on patient education and rapport.

For more information about complete scripting resources for your practice visit OfficeMagic.com or call (800) 750-8779.

The hygiene appointment is near completion, the hygienist has found the problems, addressed the patient about probable treatment options, the doctor has confirmed the treatment plan, and now the hygienist must find the time to write an accurate treatment plan in the chart and pass it to the appropriate front desk coordinator for the last final touches. This is where an educational system such as CAESY is invaluable; it provides an educational service to the patient while the hygienist completes the tasks necessary before releasing the patient.

Counting time isn’t nearly as important as making time count. Learning to take advantage of time to its maximum is essential to arriving at your destination in a timely manner, and making the journey an enjoyable one. The point of exploiting time is not to cram more responsibilities into the day, but to use the time we have more effectively, so that it is not squandered but is invested in the people and projects that are most important.

As Dr. Scott Peck says in his book, The Road Less Traveled, “If you value yourself, you will value your time. If you value your time, you will use it more wisely.”

Ms. Dopson-Hartley is widely known for being the most profitable hygienist in the country. As a full-time, hands-on, practicing hygienist for 26 years, she works her own successful business program that not only increases her own hygiene production to over $23,000 per month while working only a 3-day work week, but is instrumental in her ability to help influence and promote ideal comprehensive aesthetic and restorative dentistry for her dentist. For more information on her consulting, seminars, and advanced workshop training series, call (813) 985-5516 or visit her website at DeborahHartley.com.

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David Joseph Lawless, who pleaded guilty to planting explosive devices at a bookstore in Colorado Mills mall in June 2011 will be sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver.

Lawless forced his way into Borders bookstore and planted two crude bombs fashioned from propane tanks. One exploded, causing little damage.

He set a third device — an aluminum water bottle filled with smokeless powder taped to a propane tank — in a trash can near the entrance to the Lakewood mall. That went off, blowing a plastic lid off the water bottle but the propane did not ignite.

Lawless pleaded guilty to use of a destructive device during a crime of violence, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years. He has agreed not to seek a sentence of less than 20 years.

As part of his plea agreement, he must cooperate with Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and other law enforcement officers and provide information about “other individuals involved in criminal activity.”

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Members of the congregations of St Giles, Killamarsh and St Matthew, Renishaw, together with the Rev Canon Helen Guest and Rev Michael Guest, attended an Epiphany carol service at The Cathedral Church of All Saints, Derby, on Sunday, January 20.

The service was led by the boys and lay clerks of the Cathedral Choirs of Derby and Southwell. Mr William Tucker, Lord Lieutenant for the County of Derbyshire, Canon Jacqui Jones, Precentor of Southwell Minster and Canon Helen Guest read the lessons.

After the service refreshments were served in the Cathedral cafe.

There will be an Ash Wednesday service of Holy Communion in both churches on Wednesday, February 13, at 7.30pm.

The Diocesan Lent Course, written by Bishop Alastair, will be used in both churches. The meetings for St Matthew will be held on Monday

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Design*Sponge Online Black Book: White Paint

It’s funny how something as simple as a white wall can cause so much stress. Finding the right white paint for a project can be surprisingly difficult because, much like black paint, the undertones of white paint can drastically change the way the paint feels on the wall. Too much much yellow? The room feels dusty. Too much grey? It can feel too cold. But just the right balance in a white paint can create a perfectly fresh room that feels calm, clean and bright. So today we’re sharing our trusted white paints that each one of us has used, loved and recommended from personal experience. We’ve described each one so you can get an idea of what the undertones will be and how they’ll look at home. Happy Painting! xo, grace

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Click through for the full list our of favorite white paints…

Benjamin Moore’s White Dove (0C-17): All three of us swear by White Dove. As do a number of other interior designers and bloggers. I feel like this is one of the most recommended colors I see anywhere (online or in print) and with good reason. With just a bit of a yellow undertone, this white feels soft and warm- no hints of coldness anywhere. It’s great for any room, but I think it’s especially nice for sunny interiors where the yellow undertones can really shine.

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Image above: Benjamin Moore’s White Dove (image via Decorpad via At Home in Arkansas)

Benjamin Moore’s White Opulence (OC-69): Amy and her mother love this paint for its pink undertones. She used it on her own kitchen makeover (for the cabinets) with great results and then we found out this week that it’s Jessica Helgerson’s go-to white paint as well! The pink tones don’t read as pink so much in person, just a nice warmth that goes well with blacks and greys. If you’re not a fan of whites that have a lot of yellow in the base, this one’s for you.

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Image above: Benjamin Moore’s White Opulence (image via Benjamin Moore)

Farrow & Ball’s Wevet: I love Farrow & Ball whites. LOVE. They are my go-tos for almost everything and I’ve never been let down by one of their white hues, even when I choose without seeing them on a wall first. I like Wevet’s subtle yellow undertone- although sometimes it reads as a bit of a green undertone (which I actually prefer) when it’s next to grey. I use a lot of grey at home, so I like that little subtle bit of a green hint.

Image above: Farrow & Ball’s Wevet (image via Farrow & Ball’s site)

Farrow & Ball’s Ammonite: This probably my favorite white. It’s got a very subtle chalky green undertone and suggests the feel of the minerals after which it’s named. This is my go-to when I want a really clean crisp white. It’s not as startling as a ‘decorator’s white’, but not as warm or dusty as some of the other popular white paint colors.

Image above: Farrow & Ball Ammonite, via Farrow & Ball’s site.

Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White: This color is very bright and very, very WHITE. It’s a great option for trim and doors if you like a bright pop of white and a high contrast room. But if you want crisp “like new” molding and trim, this is a great and trusted option.

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Image above: Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White (bottom image via Decorpad via Boston Magazine)

Benjamin Moore’s Ivory White: This white has a sort of soft linen feel to it. I used to love a Farrow & Ball color (which was called ‘Linen’ I believe) that was discontinued and this is the closest thing I can find to it now. It’s soft, warm but doesn’t have too much of a yellow undertone. I think it’s perfect for wainscoting, bead board and wooden planks- it really has a soft ‘country house’ sort of feel to it.

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Benjamin Moore’s Ivory White (bottom image via BrunchatSaks)

  1. Ava says:

    I currently live in a rental where every single room is a beigey yellow color that makes everything look not quite clean and makes me sad. I know my landlord would be okay with a shade of white so I have been seriously considering it. There are some areas of the apartment that get very very little natural light. I know that paint colors can change with the light you get in the space, so I was wondering if any of these works particularly well a space that doesn’t get a lot of natural light.

  2. Amie says:

    My favourite white is Polar Bear by Behr. It is very crisp without being stark, and has a little blue undertone. All of our trim is done in this white.

    Seeing the linen colour by Benjamin Moore makes me want to redo my master bedroom!

  3. We use Behr’s Vanilla Custard, I’ve used inside and outside my home and now my boutique! It’s just the perfect creamy warm white.

  4. susan says:

    Whites are SO tough…I’m a designer and struggling right now to choose a white for my own home! Surprised F + B All White isn’t mentioned…one of my favs, but these are all excellent choices. Most people forget to account for light exposure-so major.

  5. Susan says:

    BM’s Vanilla Milkshake is my go to.

  6. Thera says:

    We are renters and also stuck with white. We painted several rooms and had to deal with southern, northern and western exposures.
    Decorators White did the job for us for every room. It’s very bright, but clean and no undertones to be detected.

  7. Lizabeth says:

    I think I just “found” the new window trim paint! Woohoo!

  8. Mindy Fox says:

    My favorite for ceilings is F&B Great White. Never harsh, seems to reflect light in a very flattering way.

  9. crystal says:

    I recently painted my west facing bedroom BM Atrium White (which was confusingly renamed something generic that I don’t remember), which has a warm, very slightly pink/cream tone to it, which helps to balance that the light is filtered through a huge tree just outside my window. The room was previously a muddy grey-green, so now it’s about a million times brighter and warmer. When the sun hits the wood floors in the evening it absolutely glows – I love it.

  10. Mel says:

    Behr’s UltraPure White right off the shelf is my go to. Looks wonderful in the sunlight and evening lamplight as well.

  11. My favorite white that I recommend to my design clients for a clean, modern look is Benjamin Moore’s Super White. It’s a true white that pairs so well with the warmth of wood floors and cool art on the walls.

  12. Zsuzsa says:

    My favorite white paint is Swiss Coffee by Benjamin Moore. Subtle but complex, looks great in day on evening light.

  13. Veronica says:

    I love coming home to Behr Ultra Pure White. It’s so clean and refreshing!

  14. Arielle Curtin says:

    Thank you. I believe that this is an article that everyone is waiting for.

  15. Lisa S says:

    My living room (northwest facing) is currently painted in Benjamin Moore’s White Dove. It looks dingy — White Dove is best in rooms that get lots of direct light. I’ve managed to repaint half the room in Benjamin Moore’s Snow White (with trim in glossy Decorator White) and the blue-y cast of the white really makes the space look bigger, brighter, cleaner. It’s my MVP for houses with not a lot of direct light.

  16. Carin says:

    I chose white dove fifteen years ago when I bought my first house for our trim. I’ve used no other white since. It makes it easy all around for remembering and always having some on hand, whether glossy, flat or anywhere in between, it’s in my stash!

  17. Tis says:

    I painted a north-east facing room extra white ( sw) and it looks grayं,

  18. nick says:

    Our favorite white is “Linen” by Pratt and Lambert. Soft and clean and beautiful.

  19. I painted my whole house Chantilly Lace and it’s just perfect!

  20. barbara says:

    what are your feelings about BM Chantilly Lace? I am painting a hand-me-down wall unit that color for my “art room” as it seems to be a clean white without dingy undertones. thinking of doing the entire room that color.

  21. Rebecca says:

    You answered my prayers!! Thank you. Have you done this with Grays? That would be too go to be true

  22. Great post! Thank you! What is your take on Glidden’s Dove White? That is our current front-runner for the walls in our home. I think we will go with BM Decorator’s White for the trim work.

  23. Carla King says:

    For Tis I would recommend a yellow base for colors painted in a north facing room. Northern light tends to gray up any color and strips out warm tones. Also, the same color can look drastically different in a north west room versus a north east room.

    In our new home I shied away from strong color on the walls, since we want color to come from our furnishings. I chose Benjamin Moore’s Standish White, which is hardly a white. It’s a lovely neutral with golden warm tones.

    This color is cozy in our south-facing main room and kitchen. It stays warm and cheery (as opposed to gray toned) as light is lost throughout the day. We also love it in our north west room, but the warm tones are completely stripped out in the north east room, so I added some Monroe Bisque and created a custom color for our bedroom.

    I used this same custom color for the sunny room that stretches along the entire west side of our house. Standish White (pure; not customized) would wash out and look too pale and pastel in all that bright light, but the warmed up custom color is perfect in there.

    It’s been quite the challenge testing and mixing colors to get this just right. Something else that has been throwing off my color quest is the orange toned oak floors. They are that traditional orange stain you see in older homes. We intend to redo them in a more natural stain later this year, but meanwhile had to wrestle with the extra wash of orange on the walls.

    So there are lots of factors that affect color selection, especially when dealing with whites and neutrals. I’ve learned that the first step should be to understand how natural and artificial lighting washes the room, and the predominant colors from the furnishings and flooring you intend to keep.

  24. Doug Warner says:

    Thanks for posting! The description of BM Decorators’ White is intriguing. I used it in a guest room — and I love it — but it has a distinctly gray undertone to me. The room faces north and there are mature trees nearby, so there isn’t a lot of direct sunlight. As you noted ere, the natural light your space gets makes the biggest difference.

  25. Sarah says:

    I used Ben. Moore’s Atrium White on the trim in our family room (w/ BM Linnen White on the walls), and it’s nice and creamy in a room that gets tons of natural light.
    But then I discovered Ben. Moore’s Cotton Balls White – it has a milky depth that’s beautiful. I lacquered my two bedside tables in it and it’s stunning. I’d do this on walls or trim the next time I need a white.

  26. Linda Campbell says:

    I have used several of the whites listed in your favorites. My go to white for my house is Pratt and Lamberts Silver Lining. It is a beautiful white with a hint of yellow undertone so it has great warmth. My house has lots of windows and light and it goes with everything and is never too bright but clean and inviting.

  27. Erica says:

    I really love Benjamin Moore’s Lacey Pearl. It’s actually the palest shade of grey but lighting and exposure definitely affects the look of this colour in just the perfect way. I’ve used it in two apartments so far. In the dark corridor of one apartment where it looked pale grey. In my current home, I used it in several rooms where it appears to be white as lighting is much brighter. This is a great colour to use if you want a soft contrast off stark white moldings and trims.

  28. Steph says:

    so interested in the several folks who proclaimed to be renters and are therefor “stuck” with white! like most new york city residents, I am a renter as well, and i have always painted my apartment walls without a second thought. if a landlord refused to return my deposit i would simply paint the walls back white again. is this not an option in other places?

  29. My all time fae BM OC-118 Snowfall white. Most of my house is this pure white.

  30. amy says:

    Nice! After testing a half dozen Benjamin Moore whites in our moody victorian with mahogany trim & moldings, the White Dove won hands-down.

    I really wanted the Decorator’s White to work (because it would brighten the space substantially), but it was unbelievably icy. Maybe best-suited to a more modern place with good lighting?

  31. Lynne MS says:

    Our Vancouver Home Depot can speed mix Swiss Coffee and Cloud White (even though they don’t carry BM) apparently their most popular whites by far.

  32. Saffie says:

    Glad to see two comments mention Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace, and a bit surprised it didn’t make the cut above. I’ve seen it in a Toronto house’s downstairs (living room, hall, and dining room). It was the PERFECT white. Bright, joyful, soft, prismatic.

  33. hannah says:

    Ava-great question! I would also love to know specifically which white would you recommend for a basement area that doesnt get a ton of natural light flooding in!!

    Based on the article, I was thinking the F & B wevet sounds like a good fit for a basement duplex project where I am painting the doors craftsman doors SW Prairie Grass( does the wevet sound like a good winner as I am looking for thet white with a little hinty hint of green? any advice appreciated ;)

  34. Simonetta says:

    I too am glad to see others mention BM Chantilly Lace. The downstairs walls and all trim in my condo is this color and I LOVE it, although I’m not a big fan of the name.

  35. michele says:

    90% of our house is benjamin moore’s simply white, and i love it. love. that being said, we live in a snowy northern climate, and when there is snow on the ground, the exterior (which is also simply white) looks a bit dingy. inside, i absolutely love the white in every room except the master bath. we mixed marble with white ceramic tile, and the paint color looks fine with the marble, but not so much with the ceramic. whites are so, so tricky. i wish i would have seen this list three years ago when we were building!

  36. Deborah says:

    Great post thanks! so informative, I love this.

  37. jess says:

    My favorite white is BM Simply White. I live in Seattle so it was important for me to nail down a white that didn’t turn cold or sterile with Seattle’s diffused, gray light. Simply White warms up our living room space and most importantly, stays warm even when it’s cold and gray outside. At first, I was afraid it looked like a pale banana color against our stark white trim but I really love it now. I’m considering redoing our office in Simply White too. I recommend it for almost everywhere except maybe for truly modern, minimalist type homes.

    1. Erika says:

      Hi, I too have the interior of my house painted with simply white, it does have a slight yello undertone to it. I am now thinking of painting all trims and moldings, which white did you choose for yours and how dies the statk white pair with simply white? Thanks

  38. Sheer Hebert says:

    Can anyone tell me if they have used Ben Moores Standish White?
    I was originally trying to get Sherwin Wolliams Ivoirre but SW has got problems w that color. Any help is appreciated.

  39. Maggie says:

    I chose Ben Moore Cloud White trim since I have warm toned cherry clean-lines Shaker furniture, and Ivory White for the walls. The Ivory White was awful….SO YELLOWISH and not modern at all ! Hated it. Moved on to the rest of the house and had to make a fast decision to have my impatient painter paint the walls, ceiling AND trim/woodwork all Cloud White. It’s okay, it’s nice enough, although I would have preferred a bit more contrast to show off the trim/moldings, but it’s so much better than the awful yellowish Ivory White, but I would love to find another off-white or pale color to repaint those Ivory White walls and still keep things neutral and fresh and a bit more modern. Anyone have any ideas for a nice pale neutral that would work with Cloud White? Tried a board of BM Overcast, didn’t like it at all. Why didn’t I hire a decorator?!

  40. mrsben says:

    Excellent and informative article, Grace! (Thank you.) -Brenda-
    P.S.: For those wanting to determine the undertone of a white; hold it up against Benjamin Moore OC-65 ‘Chantilly Lace’. It works every time!

  41. lisa says:

    What is a good ceiling color for White Dove walls? The same?

  42. Brandi says:

    I’m in the process of painting my walls BM- White Dove. It definitely has a yellow undertone. It looks best, to me, on a sunny day when the natural light is shining in on it. I was going to paint my trim Simply White, but looking at the comments above, it may have a yellow undertone as well. Now, I’m not sure. Maybe Behr’s Ultra White would work. I just need a good bright white for the trim. Thinking I’ll pick something else for my bedroom walls since White Dove does have the yellow undertone and I don’t get much natural light in that room at all. Nice post. Very informative.

    1. Gloria Benaroch says:

      I have used BM simply white for trim discovered Behr Ultra white in gloss and have not stopped using it. The more coats you put on the more glass like it looks. I have done this when I moved into the house and re did the whole house trim after losing house in Sandy. I love it!

  43. Phe says:

    Hi all, thanks for the article. I was thinking of painting the walls (Main Entrance) BM- White Dove and the moldings and trim Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White, how would that pair? And then my other walls (Dining Room/Sitting Room) a gray with a purple undertone – and accents purple, yellow and gray with light oak furniture. I am south/east with lots of Natural Light – I am just struggling with the Gray paint and if the BM WD and BM DW will blend well. Essentially I want to achieve a flowing color scheme with purple and yellow undertones to bring out the oak furniture. I am in the right direction? Help! Phe

  44. kayzee says:

    Thanks to the incredibly robust comment section on this two-year-old article! Because of the discussion here I just painted my living room/dining room Chantilly Lace and I am really liking it so far. I live in an old brick house in northern OH and don’t get much natural light – I needed something pure and white (Simply White was yellowish, White Dove looked dingy) but not too “primer-ish.” This shade was perfect. Just wanted to follow up and say thanks for this resource!

    1. Caitlin Kelch says:

      Yay! SO glad it worked for you Kayzee.

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Loving these spaces from the portfolio of Swedish stylist Jacob Hertzell. Whether minimal or mid-century, Jacob has got the magic touch. (Some of these are photographed by his brother Daniel Hertzell - the rest by another fav photographer of ours Magnus Marding).

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Ooooooo Love the sweet touches of colour throughout, and very glamour furnishings too. Lovely. <3

26 Nov 2013 | Unregistered Commenterjane

Yes. This is what I need, THINKING space! This is my guy. He understand me almost as well as Alan Rickman.

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Oh, and Daniel? You deserve a solid platinum camera with an understated yet exciting kraken-skin case.

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The ~Secret of Mana canvas: Way to go!

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Thank You for Your kind words, Kim. Just would like to correct that most of the images above were taken by Magnus Marding and a few by my brother (as indicated on my blog). Both equally great to work with...

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Thanks for clarifying Jacob!

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