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Using high tech to create nearly perfect copies of a Remington icon
Ogdensburg, NY, Oct 05, 2012 — Artist Frederic Remington's bronze sculptures of cowboys, native Americans, and cavalry are considered prized collector's items. The Remington Museum in Ogdensburg is using the latest digital technology to reproduce one of Remington's first and most popular sculptures, The Bronco Buster. Original sculptures, cast in multiples, were made and sold during Remington's lifetime. The museum is using an original casting in its collection as a model for a series of 3-D laser-scanned copies.
Todd Moe visited the Remington Museum for a chat with curator Laura Foster and executive director Ed Lavarnway about using computers and high tech cameras to create hyper-accurate reproductions of Remington's art. Go to full article
Todd Moe visited the Remington Museum for a chat with curator Laura Foster and executive director Ed Lavarnway about using computers and high tech cameras to create hyper-accurate reproductions of Remington's art. Go to full article
Digital arts and science merge in Clarkson senior show
Potsdam, NY, May 04, 2011 — Combining art and computer science isn't a new concept. But in the last few years, more universities around the country have taken digital arts more seriously. Todd Moe previews an exhibit in Potsdam this Friday that's the result of a curriculum that includes art, design, math and computer science. Go to full article
No paperless office yet
by Julie Grant
New York, NY, Feb 09, 2010 — When the computer-age took off in the 1990s, lots of people thought we'd use a lot less paper. But that hasn't happened. Julie Grant reports on why environmentalists are so concerned about all the paper we're still using in our offices and homes. Go to full article
Art and design in the digital age
Potsdam, NY, May 08, 2009 — Combining art and computer science isn't a new concept. But in the last few years, universities around the country have been taking digital arts more seriously. An art exhibit at Clarkson University will feature works by the school's first graduating class of digital arts and science majors. The Saturday night show in the Cheel Campus Center (9pm) will include animation, a documentary and product design. Todd Moe spoke with Dave Beck, Director of Clarkson's Digital Arts and Sciences Department, and some of the students involved in the exhibition. Beck says the program's objective is to combine artistic and scientific skills to develop creative talent with a strong technical background. Go to full article
Saving energy and making the Internet greener
by Julie Grant
Feb 17, 2009 — One industry that's not suffering in the economic downturn is information technology. The demand for IT keeps growing. That's good, but the environmental consequences worry some people. Turns out the Internet is not "carbon free." Internet searches and data storage use an increasing amount of energy. Julie Grant reports on how some companies are making their IT more environmentally friendly, and saving money in the process. Go to full article
Searching for E-Waste Solutions
Dec 27, 2005 — If you bought a new computer over the holidays, there are plenty of places to drop off your household's old computer. But to prevent more of the old monitors, laptops and other items from winding up in landfills, some Midwest states are looking to make sure computer makers get involved in recycling their products. One of the few manufacturers that already helps re-use old computer parts is Texas-based Dell, Incorporated. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Chuck Quirmbach went to a Dell-sponsored recycling center and has this report. Go to full article
NY Lawmakers Target "Modem Hijacking"
Apr 05, 2005 — Two Majority Party state legislators are sponsoring a bill to crack down on Internet scammers who use people's modems to make illegal long distance telephone calls. Karen DeWitt reports. Go to full article
Commentary: Black Holes
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Jul 01, 2003 — As communication technology improves, are you feeling more ignored? Do you leave messages that go unanswered? Commentator Elle Garrell Berger wonders why so many of us have been feeling abandoned lately. Could there by black holes out there we don't know about? Go to full article
State Criticized for Wasting Money
Feb 19, 2003 — An Assembly Investigations committee report says the Pataki Administration could be wasting up to half a billion dollars a year, because it hasn't kept track of the computers and software used by state government employees. Karen Dewitt has more on the story. Go to full article
Two Candidates, Two Announcements
Jul 19, 2002 — Two of the state's candidates for governor announced successes at press conferences Thursday. Carl McCall, a Democrat, who is the state's comptroller received a key endorsement, while Governor Pataki announced a major upstate job creation plan. Karen Dewitt reports. Go to full article


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Firefighters rescued a 5-year-old boy from his burning apartment, and his mother is facing charges for leaving her son alone.
Yasmeen M. Walker, 34, faces a class C felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
The 5-year-old was discovered alone in the residence shortly before firefighters responded to the apartment fire about 11:30 a.m. Thursday. The fire was reported in the second floor of the residence in the 2000 block of Park Tower Driver, Kansas City police told KCTV5.
According to court records, a neighbor told police she saw Walker driving up the hill about the time that Walker's son was standing naked in the doorway of Walker's home.
The neighbor told Walker to go back to the residence. Walker replied, "I can't. It's a fire," the neighbor told police. So the neighbor and a friend went to the get the child, who told police the fire was started by candles in his mother's room.
According to court documents, the boy told authorities he had been left at home long enough to watch three TV shows.
Firefighters put the fire out quickly and got the boy to safety. The boy is doing OK.
The mom returned home shortly after the fire was put out. Kansas City police arrested her for child endangerment, police department Officer Darin Snapp said.
Missouri social workers took the boy into their care.
Prosecutors requested Walker's bond be set at $20,000/10 percent.
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GREENWOOD, Del. - State Police have wrapped up a month long investigation, with three arrests.
Delaware State Police Sussex County Governor's Task Force and Sussex County Drug Unit had been investigating illegal drug activity at the Greenwood Inn on Sussex Highway. Detectives started surveillance, where they reportedly saw Raymond Wood, 27, of Greenwood, along with two women, Charli Evans, 24, of Greenwood, and Donna Ferrell, 22, of Federalsburg, get into a car to leave the parking lot.
Troopers say they pulled behind the car, to try to talk to Wood, who was wanted out of Maryland. According to the report, Wood accelerated in reverse, hitting one of the State Police cars, but after a brief struggle, they were able to take all three into custody.
Police searched the room of the hotel that the three left, and found 750 baggies of heroin, a fully loaded .40 caliber handgun, and more than $1,000 in suspected drug money, along with drug paraphernalia. Police say they later discovered that the gun had been reported stolen from a burglary in Kent County. Wood and Evans reportedly gave fake names to authorities.
Wood was charged with a long list of offences including, possession of a controlled substance - heroin, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a person prohibited. He is being held at Sussex Correctional Institution on $75,000 bond.
Evans and Ferrell were both charged with possession of a controlled substance - heroin, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, 2nd degree conspiracy, possession of marijuana, and 3 counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Evans was additionally charged with criminal impersonation. Both women are being held at Delores J. Baylor Women's Correctional Institution on bond.


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Staff at Worcestershire hospitals face their own Dragons Den
9:22am Thursday 15th May 2014 in News
NURSES, midwives and staff working at hospitals in Worcestershire faced their own Dragon's Den as part of an international celebration of healthcare workers.
As part of International Nurses Day on Monday, May 12 and International Day of the Midwife a week earlier, staff from Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Kidderminster Hospital and Redditch's Alexandra Hospital were invited to pitch their ideas for improving care to a board of executives.
The dragons backed six ideas including setting up 'reminiscence pods', to create a therapeutic and calming space for elderly patients with dementia and more investment in equipment to reduce falls.
The winning pitches were all based on the national six C campaign, encouraging staff to deliver care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment in every day practice.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive Penny Venables said she and the three other dragons were impressed by the ideas put forward by staff.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – After going 2-0 on Tuesday, the Whitworth softball team split a pair of games on Wednesday at the NTC Spring Games in Clermont, Fla. Whitworth moves to 18-12 on the season.
Game 1 – Whitworth 8, Concordia (Wisc.) 2
Whitworth defeated Concordia University Wisconsin 8-2 to open the three-day stead in Florida. The Pirates got started early, pushing three runs across in the bottom of the first inning, as senior Heather Hesselgesser's singled to right field scored juniors Makenzie Hope and Caylan Haehl. Hesselgesser then scored on a triple from junior Julia Johnson to put the Bucs up 3-0 early.
Whitworth doubled the score in the bottom of the fourth. Freshman M'Liss Powles scored on a passed ball and then a triple from senior Jamie Brunner scored Haehl and Hope. Powles earned an RBI in the bottom of the fifth when she singled up the middle and scored freshman pinch runner Brittany Connor. Whitworth added another run in the bottom of the sixth when Julia Johnson doubled to center field and scored senior Jessica Ross.
Sophomore Riley Fritz (10-2) earned the win, giving up two runs on seven hits, while striking out three of the 28 batters she faced in seven innings. Melissa Perkins (0-4) took the loss, giving up six earned runs on 12 hits in five innings.
At the plate, Jamie Brunner and Heather Hesselgesser both went 2-for-4 with two RBI, while Julia Johnson was 2-for-3 with 2 RBI.
Game 2 – Whitworth 4, Carleton 2
Despite recording just five hits in the game, Whitworth was able to push four runs across the plate and took advantage of five Knight errors.
After a scoreless first inning, sophomore Taylor Gilbert walked in the second inning, and scored on a triple from Riley Fritz. Jessica Ross singled in the top of the third inning, advanced to third base on a Carleton throwing error, and scored on another Carleton error. Two batters later, Heather Hesselgesser reached on an error, which allowed Makenzie Hope to score and put the Bucs up 3-0.
After reaching first base on an error in the fifth inning, Hope stole second base and advanced to third on a groundout from Jamie Brunner. Hesselgesser singled in the next at-bat, scoring Hope and putting the Pirates up 4-0. The Knights were able to cut Whitworth's lead in half in the bottom of the sixth inning, but the Pirates retired the batters in order in the bottom of the seventh to take the 4-2 victory.
Taylor Gilbert (5-6) earned the win, with one earned run on four hits in seven innings pitched. Keelin Davis (1-3) took the loss, giving up five hits, while striking out eight batters in seven innings.
At the plate, Riley Fritz went 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Heather Hesselgesser went 1-for-4 with an RBI.
Game 1 – Wisconsin-River Falls 8, Whitworth 7 (8 innings)
After two scoreless innings, the Pirates took advantage of two Falcon errors in the top of the third inning. Senior Natalie Evers reached first in an error and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt from M'Liss Powles. Another error advanced Evers to third and allowed Makenzie Hope to reach first. Jamie Brunner singled to center field, scoring Evers and giving the Pirates the first lead of the game.
The Pirates went through two more scoreless innings until the top of the sixth. Jamie Brunner walked as the first batter, and Heather Hesselgesser doubled to left center to put both runners in scoring position. Julia Johnson followed Hesselgesser's double with one of her own to center, scoring Brunner and Hesselgesser and putting the Pirates up 3-0 with no outs. After a pitching change, Natalie Evers reached on a fielder's choice, but a failed rundown between the River Falls catcher and third baseman allowed pinch runner Brittany Connor to score.
After pitching five scoreless innings, sophomore Megan Fisher gave up two hits and a walk in the first three at-bats in the bottom of the sixth inning. The next batter singled down the left field line, scoring two runners and cutting Whitworth's lead in half. Two batters later, River Falls tied the game 4-4 with no outs. Brunner doubled and advanced on the top of the seventh, scoring Caylan Haehl from first and tying the game at 5-5. Brunner scored the go-ahead run on a fielding error that allowed Julia Johnson to reach first base. The Pirates took a 6-5 lead into the last half-inning.
The Falcons were able to tie the game and force extra innings, and freshman pinch runner Alyssa Hall scored on a wild pitch to give Whitworth a 7-8 lead, but Wisconsin-River Falls hit a walkoff double that scored two runs and gave the Falcons an 8-7 win in eight innings.
Brooke Lauritzen (7-1) earned the win, giving up just one hit after coming in to pitch the final three innings. Taylor Gilbert (5-7) took the loss, giving up two earned runs on five hits in two innings.
Jamie Brunner went 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBI. Julia Johnson also had two runs batted in.
Game 2 – Whitworth 7, Buena Vista 4
Whitworth bounced back from the extra inning loss to score first in the bottom of the first inning when Caylan Haehl scored on a Jamie Brunner groundout. After holding the Beavers scoreless in the first three innings, the Pirates pushed three runs across in the bottom of the third inning to take a 4-0 lead.
Buena Vista got on the board in the top of the fourth, but the Bucs responded with a run of their one when Jessica Ross scored on a Beaver error to make it a 5-1 game. Whitworth tacked on two runs in the bottom of the sixth, as Heather Hesselgesser doubled, scoring sophomore pinch hitter Peyton McMahon and then Brunner scored on a Johnson sacrifice fly. Buena Vista was able to push three runs across in the top of the seventh, but the Pirates were able to get the final out of the game before the Beavers could do any more damage.
Riley Fritz (11-2) earned the win in the circle, giving up eight hits to the 31 batters she faced in seven innings. Faith Schmidt (2-3) took the loss, giving up four earned runs on six hits to the 15 batters she faced in 2.2 innings.
At the plate, Johns went 1-for-2 with two RBI, while Fritz was 1-for-3 with two RBI.


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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - Who wouldn't like an extra day off work each week?
Apparently a group of postal workers in Cape Girardeau would not. They organized a picket Monday to protest a plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.
The post office has asked Congress for permission to do away with Saturday mail.
The president of the union says this is the third time the postal service has tried to do this.
Workers say no Saturday mail would hurt both the post office and the people they deliver to.
Postal officials say Saturday mail should be cut because the post office has much less mail to deliver in this age of electronic communication; and because of an expected $238 billion shortfall over the next decade.
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by Tolstoy, Wed May 28, 2008 at 06:36:14 PM EDT
Any North Carolina Hillary supporters out there? Well, sign up and get on the bus that's leaving Greensboro at Midnight Friday, making a pickup stop near the Raleigh Airport and heading on up to Washington for Saturday morning's DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.
E-mail Ruth Owens to reserve a seat: firstname.lastname@example.com. Depending on the number going, the cost will be around $50. The return trip will have you back home about 8 p.m. Saturday.
Of course your reason for going is to tell the DNC to "count all the votes" but meeting Ruth should be worth the trip. A private citizen with no connection to the campaign, Ruth has used her own money to reserve the bus, spent after work hours calling and e-mailing friends and friends of friends to put this little project together. A virtual dynamo, this woman campaigned for Hillary in Rockingham County (borders Greensboro) and with her fellow volunteers put it in the win column for their candidate.
Who says one person can't make a difference? They do it every day in many ways. So climb aboard the Midnight Special, meet other Hillary Democrats and give Ruth some mojo for citizen activism. Then tell the DNC to COUNT ALL THE VOTES!


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---- — TICONDEROGA — With the help of instructional staff who agreed to reduce raises, Ticonderoga Central School District has reinstated 20 of 25 people cut or reduced in the new school budget.
The reworked union contracts give teachers a 6.1 percent pay increase for the next school year instead of the 9.8 percent they'd been scheduled to receive with the resumption of accumulated contractual raises that had been on hold for the last three years.
Ticonderoga Superintendent John McDonald Jr. said instructional and support staff contracts were approved after the budget vote in May.
"Our staff and School Board have always worked together for the benefit of our kids and the school," McDonald said.
"We appreciate their willingness to continue talking after the budget process was over."
With a $540,000 budget gap, Ticonderoga School Board had pared 25 full- and part-time positions to bring the $18.5 million budget in under the state tax cap.
Some jobs were eliminated, while others went to 0.8 time or part time.
Almost every department at the school would have been impacted, including elimination of English and physical-education jobs and reductions in hours for guidance, home and careers, music, art, business, technology, English and math positions.
To keep most of those jobs, teachers will now get a 6.1 percent raise for 2013-14, 3.8 percent in 2014-15, 3.4 percent in 2015-16 and 3.8 percent in 2016-17.
The school support staff agreed to a contract with 3.5 percent raises the next academic year and 3 percent raises in each of the following three years.
The district still won't replace four retirees from last year and a computer aide and teacher aide. Two teaching assistants will still be reduced to 0.8 time.
The teacher contract was due to resume in the next school year, but teachers agreed to redo it and enter into a new four-year pact.
"We restructured the contract and spread the raises out a little more," McDonald said.
"It (raises) looks like a high number, but they had two years of partial freezes and last year a full freeze. They were scheduled to go back to the contractual obligation.
"They had three consecutive years of givebacks and freezes," he added. "That's unprecedented in New York state."
Teachers Association President Richard Smith said teachers wanted to be sure the education provided for students wasn't harmed.
"The Teachers Association members wanted to save jobs, help district taxpayers and stabilize future budgets," he said by email.
"Our goal is to maintain our programs and personnel as best as possible. We feel this is a good contract for our members and the district. It gives us some stability for the next few years.
"We have a terrific school district and want to see that continue."
McDonald said things will be looking up for the district in the near future.
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The district is back at its previous levels, the superintendent said.
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Kelly Mykel Mertz of Geneva and Aaron Michael Pence of Ossian are marrying today in a ceremony in Berne.
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Part One: The Vast Wasteland
I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials -- many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it.
Newton Minow, Chairman of the FCC, in the speech "Television and the Public Interest" delivered to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.
So said Newton Minow in his famous speech to the National Association of Broadcasters upon taking up the job of Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. It has since become known as the "Vast Wasteland Speech" taking its name from the last line of the first paragraph quoted above in which it is just as often mis-quoted that he said "television is a vast wasteland." To be fair, immediately preceding this most famous section, he actually praised television and specifically called out shows that he considered noteworthy including but not limited to Victory, Twilight Zone and CBS Reports. That section rarely gets mentioned but it's important because without it he is just another anti-television crank. With it he becomes a balanced observer. By recognizing the quality that television has to offer he can bemoan the fact that it also serves up generous portions of drivel that act as filler between the select few good pieces of drama and entertainment out there. Such it is with film, literature, music and probably any other art form to which one devotes anything more than casual attention. One must cut away at the weeds to find the beautiful saplings underneath. Most of the output of the popular arts is lazy, cliched and mediocre. Simply peruse the aisles of a bookstore or video store (if there are any left) if any of this is in doubt.
However, each medium produces a different kind of problem inherent to its method of production that produces in each a unique type of badness when the output is below the upper tier. That is to say each one has unique traits that allow them to be bad in very different ways, and equally good in different ways as well. Since television is the subject for this post, and that's a first here on Cinema Styles, it is television's unique methods of storytelling that will receive our focus and I leave it up to the reader to determine for discussion at a later date what exactly constitute the weaknesses or strengths inherent in film and literature when delivering their stories to the non-discriminating consumer. For our purposes we will stick with the tube, the boob tube as it so infamously known, and it's storytelling strengths and weaknesses.
Unlike a film or a novel, even a film or novel series, television is unique in that it has not only a continuing set of characters but their stories continue in real time. In other words, even in a serial, such as James Bond or Nancy Drew in both film and literature, the continuing adventures of these characters continues on a yearly basis, monthly at best. Where it can take decades to reach 26 installments in the story of a character in the mediums of film and literature, television can produce 26 installments in six months on a weekly basis. Given so much opportunity to develop the character, television can indeed produce great things and has done so with many characters over the years. Shows such as M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Homicide, and The Sopranos enjoyed success by building on the lives of their characters over many seasons while other shows like Bob Newhart, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Law & Order and Columbo were content to develop traits for the characters that could be recognizable from one episode to the next while developing individual storylines that never required the character to be fully developed over time as each episode stood alone. These are in fact the two primary storytelling templates of television, usually referred to as serial and episodic, despite the fact that all television is episodic in that it is produced in segments, or episodes. Nonetheless for our purposes, episodic refers to shows that produce stand alone episodes, such as M*A*S*H, and serials are shows that provide a continuing, building story, such as Lost, the popular series still in its initial run, and these two shows will be the focus of Part Two.
As to the two types of television storytelling I have more often than not preferred episodic to serial. The episodic show can still develop characters, such as M*A*S*H listed above, but has the freedom to explore different stories without a continuous need for a connecting thread at the end of each episode or even more dramatic, and difficult to achieve on a weekly basis, the cliffhanger. Episodic television also avoids the problem of deciding when the mid-point of the show has been reached since thematically it doesn't matter. Not knowing when the story will complete itself often cause serials to repeat themselves while awaiting a decision or to provide endless loose ends few of which are ever resolved. The cliffhanger, or connecting thread at the end of each episode, is necessary to keep the viewers coming back, but without a definable beginning, middle and end those cliffhangers can't produce real change on the show lest they ruin what may become an important story thread later. Back in the nineties Fox aired a serial drama about five siblings making their way after the death of their parents, Party of Five. Its greatest strength was that its teens and twentysomethings spoke like teens and twentysomethings and not like clever Hollywood writers, an annoying trend of ignoring the character for which the lines are being written and simply giving every character the same clever voice, that of the writer (This hallmark of bad writing plagued such atrocities as Dawson's Creek and continues to plague much television drama and comedy as well as everything on the Disney Channel). It's greatest weakness was that there was no dramatic arc, a weakness shared by most serial dramas. Most serial dramas (most, not all - see Part Two), aren't building towards anything and Party of Five was no different. It was just there, week to week, as we followed the characters living their lives. There was nothing the show itself was moving towards, no goal, no endgame and that was not and is not conducive to good dramatic storytelling. Storytelling likes beginnings, middles and ends. Serial storytelling rarely if ever knows where that middle is and even more rarely has an end in sight. Usually the end arrives simply because the characters have run out of steam and viewers are tuning out. As the seasons went on with Party of Five the characters grew weaker and the desperate attempts at weekly cliffhangers grew more deceptive. Near the final season was a particularly deceptive one. The scene: Bailey (Scott Wolf) and Sarah (Jennifer Love Hewitt) go to the apartment of her mother because Sarah has not heard from her for days and is worried. As the episode reaches it's climax the two enter the apartment together with Bailey then entering the bedroom alone. The music ominously swells to a crescendo as the camera zooms into a tight close-up of Bailey's horrified face as he stammers "oh my God." Smashcut to black, to be continued. Pretty dramatic huh? Was the mother dead? Suicide? Murder? Did a grisly scene await Sarah just outside the door? No, no, no and no. The mother was simply gone and the room was in disarray. That was where the "oh my God" had come from, seeing the room in disarray. Then they found a message that she had gone on an impulsive trip, to Vegas I believe. And that was it. After a couple of bait and switch routines like that you learn to stop trusting serial television and start expecting mediocrity and laziness. But you can't fault the writers too much. They were tasked with bringing the audience back even if they knew there was no dramatic arc and nothing would ever happen.
The bait and switch of deceptive cliffhangers becomes necessary in a storytelling structure that has no beginning, middle or end. They all have a beginning to be sure but without knowledge of where the second act commences even the beginning is questionable. Daytime soap operas rely on cliffhangers on a daily basis and yet they continue for years, sometimes decades, without any meaningful story or character changes occurring. At their core, serial characters and stories progress virtually unchanged, languishing in a storytelling limbo that has no idea what final resolutions await the characters. This is, I believe, the fundamental flaw of network television. Episodic or serial, the characters and stories flop about, playing for time as executives and ratings determine whether the show will continue or not. All the rich character development in the world is meaningless if the character ends abruptly because the writers never knew what was the story arc of the drama.
A novel or film has an enormous advantage over television in that the writer knows going into the story where and when it will end. That doesn't mean every novel and film is better than every television show, quite the contrary, simply that the method itself in producing novels and film is more conducive to proper storytelling. But what about the long term story?
The long term story is one in which the writers at least know how the story will end even if they don't know exactly when it will end. In the cases of miniseries they do know both the "how" and the "when" but we will stay with regular seasonal series for this discussion. In the case of the long term story, television has its advantage over novels and film in that it can take its time developing the characters knowing full well their final fate. The long term story can be told quite differently from show to show and can exist in both episodic and serial series. Let's look at one from each, an episodic and serial example, M*A*S*H and Lost.
Part Two: The Long term Story, M*A*S*H and Lost
M*A*S*H debuted in 1972, two years after the successful Robert Altman film based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker. While the show was episodic in nature with each episode standing alone the creators and writers of the show knew how it would end, with the cease fire in 1953, if not when it would end. This allowed them to slowly build towards a finale and build stories for the main characters that could be continued in a non-serial sense. For instance, Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda, hailed from Crabapple Cove, Maine, was unmarried, had a strong relationship with his father, womanized, drank heavily and slowly but surely developed affection for and sexual intimacy with Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, played by Loretta Swit. The writers continued to develop these character traits and situations of Hawkeye without necessarily connecting one episode to another with a continuing serial plot line. The story continued but the plots changed from episode to episode.
During the course of its eleven year run M*A*S*H "remembered" what had happened in previous episodes to keep the basic story going and characters developing as they made their way towards a conclusion. But the show also broke traditional episodic television norms with its character changes. Most episodic television, then and now, replaces a departing character with a similar character to keep what was popular going. For example, if Gomer Pyle exits The Andy Griffith Show then his brother, Goober Pyle, takes over providing almost the exact same character for fans to enjoy. When the simple minded Coach leaves Cheers a younger simpleton, Woody, takes his place. But M.A.S.H. did things differently. When McLean Stevenson left the show his character of Colonel Henry Blake was killed, and the befuddled, gentle non-military Blake was replaced with a career military man, sharp and disciplined, Colonel Sherman T. Potter, played by Harry Morgan. When womanizing Trapper John left, faithful father and husband B.J. Hunnicutt arrived. Incompetent buffoon Frank Burns stepped out, highly skilled, erudite and culturally aloof Charles Emerson Winchester stepped in. And that mirrored reality more than situation comedy. It's rare anyone is replaced at a job they've left with an oddly similar doppelganger. But television is more often than not afraid to take the chance that the audience will stay with them if something new is introduced, hence the preponderance of pod-people replacement characters in the history of network television.
In the end, M*A*S*H knew where it was going but didn't know when it would arrive and this hampered its originality as the show progressed. Because the show was immensely popular the network kept it going despite the fact that the story was based on a historical three year long event. They knew eventually the actors would clearly look to have aged more than just three years but didn't want to lose a cash cow and the writers and actors didn't want to stop developing characters of which they had grown so fond. As a result, plot lines started to feel familiar and the show began to borrow from itself heavily. Hawkeye writing a letter home to his father became a familiar and all too easy way to show a variety of vignettes that required no plot but could keep the show going. Other episodes used "racing against the clock" plots in which the surgeons once again struggled to save a patient before time ran out. It is not to say that the writers and actors did a poor job with this, just that over time, most dramatic situations had been done multiple times and were starting to feel stale.
After eleven seasons M*A*S*H finally made its way to the historical cease-fire of the textbooks and did its best to tie up loose ends and give the characters a fitting send-off. For the most part it succeeded but as a story with a dramatic arc, a beginning, middle and end, it failed. Despite having a firm conclusion in advance there is no feel of a building storyline ever present when watching an episode of M*A*S*H Watching an episode from the second season back to back with an episode from the ninth season, the viewer would notice different characters and a bit of age on the returning characters but otherwise see no furthering along of the story. They would see doctors in Korea in a M*A*S*H unit, they would see dramatic moments and comedic moments and then see the credits roll with that episode's plot neatly wrapped up. And here is the curse of episodic television: The beginning can only be the very first episode, the ending can only be the very last episode and the middle is doomed to be everything in between, and that makes for one hell of a long second act, too long to work dramatically.
But what about serial television? As noted earlier, it suffers from the same fate when it has no endgame in sight but what if the series is developed with not only a conclusion in mind, but an end date as well? Such is the case with Lost, the current ABC dramatic series about the survivors of downed flight Oceanic 815 on a mysterious island somewhere in the... well, somewhere in the Pacific. Supposedly, Lost was developed with an end in sight and its principal writers and developers stated well in advance that it would end after its sixth season, the one to begin this January. Is it really as tight as all that? Perhaps.
The time frame of Lost is brief. From beginning to end it covers only a few months on the island, however, there are three years that take place off the island as well as three years that take place back on the island thirty years prior with other time displacement events scattered throughout. All this is to say that the main story of the crashed survivors on the island itself, in the present day of the story, last only a few months. Having never watched an episode of Lost on commercial television but in fact watching all of the first five seasons online I was able to approach the show from a unique perspective. Roughly speaking, I was able to watch the show in about the same time as the events on the show were taking place. And I must say, considering that the actors have been playing the roles for five years now but are supposed to have only been on the island for a little over a hundred days, they look remarkably similar from one season to the next. The continuity alone is extremely impressive and probably deserves some sort of special award. But it is the development of the characters and the story that are our concern, and the question of whether Lost succeeds where so many other serial dramas have failed. It does but not without some of the same longevity problems that will most likely always plague serial drama.
First, the story arc. Watching the show every day online, often several episodes at a time, until reaching the end of season five, may have impressed with its continuity prowess but revealed flaws perhaps not as noticeable to the weekly viewer, and the show didn't necessarily produce an episode every week in the first place. Those flaws came in the form of redundancy. Most of season two into the first half of season three felt like watching the same episode over and over and I admit, after the beginning of season three I was ready to call it quits. Apparently the shows creators and producers; J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof; were in negotiations with the networks and an end date was undecided so they didn't want to continue much further with the arc of the story until it was. Watching all episodes back to back to back on a daily basis this was more than obviously the case.
More importantly the series has created an abundance of characters and an over-abundance of story threads that makes one suspicious of how easily all the loose ends will be tied up. Take the characters of Ben Linus and John Locke, played by Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn, for my money far and away the two most interesting characters and two most skilled actors on the show. Their two characters have undergone multiple jarring revelations of who they are, where they come from and what their motives may be for their actions. Logic is applied and then abandoned. Red herrings are most assuredly the order of the day. They are fascinating characters but the misdirections concerning them seem to be doubling over onto themselves at this point. There is a feeling too many cans of worms have been opened to close at this point and perhaps those negotiations in season two and three will be, in the end, the tragic flaw of Lost. By playing for time they may have introduced too many story arcs with which they have to deal. Or maybe, as some fans fear, they're going to reboot for season six to make the clean up a little tidier.
Without going into many details (and to a non-fan of the show explaining the plot at this point would be a fundamentally futile endeavor, a more intricately latticed plot line you will rarely find in network television history) Lost deals with familiar science fiction tropes including that of time travel. At the end of season five a catastrophic physical event made possible by several characters occurs, in the past, which will, they hope, set everything back to normal, but which may just set the show back to day one, when the crash occurred, so that the viewer can watch the final season possessing knowledge the characters don't have as they achieve a conclusion to their woes. While it would be interesting to watch a final season repeat the first season but at a ninety degree angle it would also be a cop out of the first order to destroy every loose end by simply blowing them up. Still, there is a feeling more than most shows I have watched that the writers do indeed know where they are going, and even though it hasn't yet concluded, I can discern a distinct beginning, middle and end. The beginning seems clearly to be season one through the halfway point of season three, the middle is the halfway point of season three through season four and season five clearly feels like the machinations of a final act. To the writers of Lost, bravo, especially considering how complicated the storyline has become.
So the story arc of Lost is good but its quality cannot be fully determined until the series concludes. What about its character development? Here we find Lost's greatest strength and its completist approach to the backstory for each character, achieved through flashback coupled with the present day situation, provides the show with characters as well drawn as any in film. So well drawn that it sometimes becomes distracting to have to follow the plot because of the desire to watch certain characters simply interact.
Lost proves, so far at least in its unfinished condition, that television can produce a proper story arc over multiple seasons, providing an identifiable beginning, middle and end. While it suffers from the fact that two of its defacto leads, played by Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lily, aren't nearly as interesting as most of the other characters and certainly nowhere nearly as interesting as the second leads of Linus and Locke, it still holds the viewers attention and I am as eager as any to follow it to its conclusion, although now I wish I had waited for it to end and just watched the entire series online so there would be no infernal waiting for a final season.
Unlike film and literature, television has great difficulty bringing a story full circle because it operates in the dark most of the time. It wanders around that vast wasteland that Newton Minow described so many years ago, wandering and waiting to learn its fate, rarely knowing when the end will come. But it can succeed and many times has even if many more times it has failed. It probably deserves more credit than it is given for having to extend most characters lives well past their expiration date and continue stories with no end in sight. Maybe in the future more shows will determine their story arcs in advance, allowing the creators and writers to develop a show fully before the first scene is even shot. Until then most television will continue to wander blindly but not all will be without direction. Currently, on ABC, there is a show that, so far, proves one can wander the wasteland...
...and not get lost.


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Republicans Reap What They Have Sown with Farm Bill [Commentary]
The House version of the Farm Bill was never going to be popular with Congressional Democrats. It was a bloated giveaway to all the wrong parties, didn't means test any of the benefits, and cut nutritional assistance by much more than the Senate version of the bill did.
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the proposed cuts to SNAP would have kicked 2 million people off of food stamps and eliminated free breakfast and lunch programs for several hundred thousand children. Even with all of that, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicted that 26 to 40 Democrats from farm states would vote for the bill.
Not that the Republican leadership needed those votes. They have a majority. All they needed was to get all the Republicans in line and the bill would have passed. That didn't happen.
It didn't happen because the aforementioned cuts to food stamps weren't enough for "bah, humbug!" crowd, who wanted even deeper, more draconian cuts. 62 Republicans voted against the bill.
Democrats could have been brought on board, but a Democratic amendment that would have preserved the cost savings, dollar for dollar, of cuts to nutritional assistance, but have them come instead from reduced payouts to big agribusiness was rejected. Immediately thereafter, Republicans signed the death warrant for this version of the Farm Bill. They passed an amendment specifically designed to weaken Democratic support for bill, a so-called poison pill.
Before we detail the contents of the poison pill, it is worth reviewing current policy as to nutritional assistance. In order to receive even three months of food stamps over a three year period, an adult needs to either be working at least 20 hours a week, or participating in a work training program, slots for which are very limited in number and almost always full.
There are situations under which those rules can be waived. They include a temporary disability, like recovering from surgery or a car accident, and having young children but not being able to afford childcare. In addition, states can request a temporary waiver of the rules for specific areas under harsh economic conditions that make finding work especially difficult. Almost every state, including Republican and Democratic governors, have requested such waivers since the start of the economic crash of 2008.
The poison pill amendment would have encouraged states to eliminate all of these waivers and limit food stamps to only parents who qualify for welfare or disability insurance by giving those states half the cash savings from eliminating benefits. Note only parents, not any other adults, regardless of whether they qualify for welfare or disability insurance, not even disabled veterans, would be exempt. And get this; the wording specifically forbade expanding job assistance and training programs.
Republicans are awful concerned to make sure you already have a job before you qualify for food stamps, but when it comes to passing a jobs bill, or funding programs to help you find a job, their concern evaporates.
Congressional Republicans knew very well that their poison pill amendment would weaken Democratic support of the Farm Bill; it was designed to do that. 58 of the 62 Republicans that ultimately voted against the final version of the bill, voted to include the poison pill. They intended to make the Farm Bill fail, and by ensuring that the end product was something antithetical to Democratic principles, they succeeded.
In the end, only 24 Democrats voted for the bill. Even if the full 40 that Pelosi had predicted might support the bill had done so, it wouldn't have outweighed those 62 Republican no votes. No bill that would appease the pain caucus of the GOP, would have ever survived rectification with the Senate version anyway. The only way forward is to put out a product that a significant number of Democrats can get behind. If you want a Farm Bill, you can blame radical Republicans for not getting you one.
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President Bush signs housing stimulus bill, provides relief to those hit hardest by the housing crisis
Habitat advocates from across the nation sent thousands of letters and met with legislators to show support for the housing bill
WASHINGTON (July 30, 2008) – Habitat for Humanity International applauds the enactment of the housing stimulus bill signed by President Bush, with National Housing Trust Fund and neighborhood stabilization provisions intact. This new law offers federal help for the hundreds of thousands of families and individuals facing foreclosure, and provides $3.9 billion for communities hit hardest by the housing crisis. Habitat advocates tracked the bill's progress through the House and Senate, sending more than 10,000 letters of support to their representatives in Congress. In June, nearly 150 advocates joined Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, and visited members of Congress to discuss the importance of the National Housing Trust Fund and neighborhood stabilization act.
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The passage of a National Housing Trust Fund was designated as a key advocacy effort involving Habitat for Humanity's supporters across the country.
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gallery "style" module
5 July 2010 at 2:21am
Does anyone know if there is a gallery style module or even if it is possible to tweak the existing ones (eg uncle cheese's) to use in the following way...
I want to create a kind of profile page for an artist, withing the page I want some copy about them and some images for examples of work.... This thing is I need this to be able to be amended in the backend (via uploading images etc) the same way that the mention gallery module works???? Also I want the menu for the gallery to work with my pre-made Jquery menus.
Any ideas - much appreciated...
Re: gallery "style" module
5 July 2010 at 9:20pm
If your doing a few sites that need collections of images of some description its definitely worth getting to know uncle cheese's DataObjectManager. I've used the filedataobjectmanager class to feed images into slide show pro or shadow box thumbs. Taking the time to do it yourself means its much easier to customise image resizing for thumbnails and/or larger full size images.
The following is the most complicated part about implementing it (I did this a few days ago for use with the shopping module, you might want to call it GalleryImageObject....)
class ProductImageObject extends DataObject
static $default_sort = "SortOrder";
static $db = array (
static $has_one = array (
'ProductImage' => 'Image'
public function getCMSFields_forPopup()
return new FieldSet(
new FileIFrameField('ProductImage')
public function Thumbnail()
return $this->ProductImage()->CroppedImage(120,120);
public function Large()
return $this->ProductImage()->CroppedImage(300,300);
With a class like above, if you need captions of links wrapped around your images you can just add fields to $db and add the appropriate form field to the popup function.
Then on your gallery page add a has many relationship to the above dataobject, and uncle cheese's FileDataObjectManager, which I found difficult getting my head round the first time I used it.
class Product extends Page {
static $has_many = array (
'ProductImages' => 'ProductImageObject',
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
// Allow Multiple Images
$manager = new FileDataObjectManager(
$this, // Controller
'ProductImages', // Source name
'ProductImageObject', // Source class
'ProductImage', // File name on DataObject
// this array was left in from the last time I used this manager (i think)
//'Name' => 'Name',
//'Caption' => 'Caption',
//'Category' => 'Category'
), // Headings
'getCMSFields_forPopup' // Detail fields (function name or FieldSet object)
// Filter clause
// Sort clause
// Join clause
$manager->sort = 'SortOrder';
$manager->sort_dir = "ASC";
$manager->setPluralTitle('Product Images');
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.ProductImages", $manager);
return $fields;
Then on my Product.ss page or for you ArtistGalleryPage.ss I have.

<% control ProductImages %>

<% end_control %>
You could just have
<% control ProductImages %>
<% end_control %>
But I was using the alt attribute for a javascript function.
I hope that helps. The FileDataObjectManager is awesome, mainly because it gives you a little thumbnail of the image in the admin.
And if you add
to yoursite/dataobjectmanager/_config.php
you can drag and drop your images around to reorder them in the future, very useful!
Re: gallery "style" module
6 July 2010 at 1:43am
Thanks Bambii7 - that looks like some v.helpful (at the very least looks like it will keep me up for a few days!) - sorry was a bit vague in description before but this is an example of the "kind" of thing that I am looking to acomplish, as I said before this menu style (image and jquery rollover/text but with the ability the amend both in the back-end plus with the selected page giving some kind of light box style gallery...
example: http://www.i-donline.com/i-spy
Re: gallery "style" module
6 July 2010 at 11:32am
Wow very very cool site.
I think I kinda understand. You want an image based menu? And a light box gallery for each page?
I did this site a month or so ago http://seatinglogic.com/home/outdoor-airport/silver-surf/ its not finished, but you can see the shadow box being used. I can dig the code up if you want it, but it was very similar to the code I posted earlier.
Then for an image based menu I'd imagine you'd give Page a
That will bind one image to the page in the database. Then to allow administrators to upload a new image add
function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new FileIFrameField('ProductImage'));
return $fields;
Then use something like this for your menus.
<% control Menu(2) %>

<% end_control %>
I hope thats helping.
Re: gallery "style" module
6 July 2010 at 10:18pm
Thanks Bambii7 - that would great (to see the code), you seem to know exactly what I am trying to achieve - when I get the site and running would love hear what you think. I like the gallery in your example - not entirely sure how I will fully achieve mine - maybe a Jquery image gallery - this should work okay with the DataObjectManager(?). If not I can (as you stated) use an image based menu and a light box gallery for each page.
This is my first SS site (have been using ModX in the past) a client requested it and so far have been quite happily surprised with it. Think that I nearly converted...
Much thanks...
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7 July 2010 at 12:41am
Remember that DataObjectManager is a backend tool and jQuery lightbox gallery is a frontend tool, so they're totally disparate and independent of each other.
You can use the ImageGallery module, but if you have specific needs it might get in your way. If you want what it does, however, you'll be up and running faster than you can imagine.
Otherwise, I'd use an ImageDataObjectManager and create your own templates and controllers for your gallery.
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7 July 2010 at 8:40am
I haven't used other ObjectManagers besides this FileDataObjectManager, but I'd imagine UncleCheese would know what he's on about
I had to go through the code and make sure I didn't have any sensitive data in there. I changed a few things to try and make the code more readable.
I used the GalleryHolderPage.ss on this site http://www.mitchellstoutarchitects.co.nz/residential which may be of use to you.
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7 July 2010 at 8:55am
p.s. that gallery is dependent on the DataObjectManager Module and SWFUpload module. And I didn't test it after I made the changes sorry, but it should work
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14 U.S. Code § 186 - Civilian teaching staff
(a) The Secretary may appoint in the Coast Guard such number of civilian faculty members at the Academy as the needs of the Service may require. They shall have such titles and perform duties as prescribed by the Secretary. Leaves of absence and hours of work for civilian faculty members shall be governed by regulations promulgated by the Secretary, without regard to the provisions of title 5.
Source(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 509; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 32,68 Stat. 1238; Pub. L. 86–474, § 1(9),May 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 89–444, § 1(9),June 9, 1966, 80 Stat. 195; Pub. L. 94–546, § 1(14),Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2520.)
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Based on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 15d (Apr. 16, 1937, ch. 107, § 3,50 Stat. 67; May 2, 1942, ch. 273, 56 Stat. 265).
The last sentence is new and is inserted to permit adjustment of the work load and leave schedule of Academy faculty members due to the peculiarity of the academic schedule.
The last sentence of this section is new, being included in order to allow for adjusting the working time and leave of civilian instructors in conformity with the academic terms at the Academy. The work load of an instructor varies greatly, and flexibility in administration of a faculty is therefore essential. The leave provided for civil service employees does not fit the needs of an instruction staff, and this has been a source of difficulty in the past. This new provision would permit leave during the summer and between academic terms without deduction from pay, and, it is contemplated, at no other time.
Changes were made in phraseology. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.
1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–546substituted "Leaves of absence and hours of work for civilian faculty members shall be governed by regulations promulgated by the Secretary, without regard to the provisions of title 5." for "Leaves of absence and hours of work for such personnel shall be governed by regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, without regard to section 84, chapter 18section 84, chapter 18, subchapter IV of chapter 21, sections 1112, 1113, and 1121–1125, and chapter 23sections 1112, 1113, and 1121–1125, and chapter 23, of title 5."
1966—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–444, § 1(9)(A), (B), substituted "faculty members" for "members of the teaching staff" and struck out provision that compensation of faculty members be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and designated existing provisions as so amended as subsec. (a).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89–444, § 1(9)(C), added subsec. (b).
1960—Pub. L. 86–474substituted "Coast Guard such number of civilian members of the teaching staff at the Academy as the needs of the Service may require" for "Coast Guard, subject to the competitive provisions of the civil-service laws and regulations, such number of civilian instructors as the needs of the Service require, not to exceed eight", and inserted provisions relating to titles and duties of the civilian members of the teaching staff.
1954—Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted "Classification Act of 1949" for "Classification Act of 1923" and "section 84, chapter 18section 84, chapter 18, subchapter IV of chapter 21, sections 1112, 1113, and 1121–1125, and chapter 23sections 1112, 1113, and 1121–1125, and chapter 23, of title 5" for "sections 29a, 30b–30m, 84, 663, 667, 672a–673, andchapter 18 of title 5".
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Does health IT actually save money for health organizations? That's a billion-dollar question — one which the whole Meaningful Use program rises or falls, I'd argue — but it still hasn't been resolved. For what it's worth, though, here's some thoughtful input on the subject.
According to a new study appearing in the journal Health Affairs, always the class act of the health policy game, health IT isn't generating cost savings because of slow adoption and limited interoperability, iHealthBeat reports. The research was conducted by the RAND Corporation.
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* Failure of the healthcare system as a whole to implement process changes needed to realize health IT system benefits
Another big issue is lack of interoperability between many health IT systems, the RAND researchers said. They note that previous predictions about health IT savings assumed that systems would be connected, thereby increasing efficiency.
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* Patients should be able to access their electronic health data and share those records with other health care providers
* Health care providers should be able to easily use health IT systems across different health care settings
* Health information stored in one IT system should be retrievable by health care providers that are part of other health care systems
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Originally published: Feb 27, 2013 - 11:46 am
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. -- The trial of an Iraqi man charged with detonating an explosive device in Casa Grande is being postponed again.
No one was injured in the Nov. 30 blast outside a Social Security office.
Abdullatif Ali Aldosary's trial had been scheduled to start April 2 following an initial postponement from Feb. 5, but his lawyers recently said they need more time to prepare.
A federal judge in Phoenix then rescheduled the trial for June 4.
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River Road Bunkhouse - Guadalupe River Front in New Braunfels
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If you are looking for an unforgettable New Braunfels summer vacation with friends or family, look no more. This house overlooking the Guadalupe river is the BEST on the river. This home is located on River Road near New Braunfels, Texas and sits on 400 feet of Guadalupe River frontage across from a beautiful cliff on the river between the 2nd and 3rd crossings. You will have DIRECT RIVER ACCESS, with tube rental and shuttle service on site.
This is a NEWLY CONSTRUCTED luxurious 3BR/3Bath home overlooking the Guadalupe River in the Cliffview Community. The home sleeps 10 guests comfortably. Open Kitchen/Dining/Living room with many amenities. Granite countertops with a large island for extra seating in the full kitchen, which includes dishes, all appliances and cookware. 3 flat screen HD TV's with DIRECT TV. The home also has a washer and dryer.
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**The new "Disposable Container Law" effects ONLY properties located within the City Limits of New Braunfels. Our property is located outside of the City Limits!**
You have direct access to 460 ft. of the Guadalupe River with tube rental and shuttle on site. Just outside is great fishing or just watching tubers/boaters from the deck. You can also take your lawn chairs down to the banks on the pebble beach or grassy areas. The Bunkhouse has a grassy yard directly behind for outdoor games. It has a gated entry for security and covered parking beneath the house.
This new 3BR/3 Bath home is fully furnished with a flat screen TV & DVD player in the living room. The home has a washer and dryer and private BBQ pit. Open Kitchen/Dining/Living room with many amenities. Granite countertops with a large island for extra seating in the full kitchen, which includes dishes, all appliances (stove, oven, refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave) and cookware.
Master Bedroom has a King bed, flat screen TV and private bathroom with walk-in shower. Bedroom #2 - The bunk room (2 sets of full beds with twin beds on top). Bedroom #3 has a Queen bed and flat screen TV. Bathroom#2 is in the hall with a tub and shower. Bathroom #3 is on Ground level with shower for cleaning up after having fun on the river.
Linens are not included with this rental. You will need to provide your own towels, washcloths, sheets, pillows, pillowcases and blankets.
activities and attractions in New Braunfels Texas
This home is less than 5 minutes from the towns of New Braunfels and Historic Gruene, which provide antique shops as well as many unique shops where artisans sell their wares. Not only does Gruene have lots of shopping and good food, it is also home of the famed "Gruene Hall", which has served as a springboard for many Texas musicians. A great place for dancing or just enjoying the music. You might even enjoy learning the Texas Two-Step!
You are close to great restaurants as well as several outlet malls. If you are looking for other activities...Schlitterbahn (an awesome water park) is located nearby in New Braunfels. Boating, water-skiing and sailing can be found at Canyon Lake. The drive up River Road to the lake is notably one of the most scenic areas in Texas. Watch for deer and other wildlife along the way!
You will be a short 35 mile drive from San Antonio where you will find Six Flags, Fiesta Texas, Sea World, the famed San Antonio Riverwalk as well as fantastic Mexican food. The Alamo, along with several other missions located in San Antonio are fantastic for a day out. There are numerous tour buses that can take you to experience the sights and sounds of San Antonio.
The state capitol of Texas is located 45 minutes away in Austin, which has great nightlife featuring many of Texas' finest musicians. You never know what great and noted name will appear at some out of the way bar!
For you golfers, there are courses located in New Braunfels as well as San Antonio. Austin is home to some of the finest courses America has to offer.
This location is truly the BEST on the river. You can float in the river or raft it, find a nice place to sit while watching others play or just enjoy the privacy of your own deck as you relax. During the fall, there are many festivals in the area, including "Oktoberfest" and "Wurstfest".
Must be at least 25 years of age to rent this property.
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Summer Season - May 1 - Sept. 15
Week nights (Sun.-Thurs.) $500/nt. w/ 3 nt. min. stay
Friday/Saturday nights - $600/nt. w/ 3 nt. min. stay
Holidays - $600/nt. (w/ 4 nt. min. stay)
Value Season - Sept. 15 - May 1
Week nights (Sun.-Thurs.) $250/nt. (w/2 nt. min. stay)
Friday/Saturday nights - $300/nt. (w/ 2nt. min. stay)
Holidays - $300/nt. (w/ 3nt. min. stay)
$500 refundable Security Deposit placed on Visa/MC
$75 Cleaning Fee (Mandatory)
A 10% tax will be added to rental fee.
We require 90 days notice of cancellation or date change.
Must be 25 years or older to rent this property.
Jeff and Kim Girouard 281-787-9362
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in New Braunfels
- Floating the Guadalupe
- Schlitterbahn
- Wurstfest
- Oktoberfest
- Fly fishing for rainbow trout
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Bucks Sunday: Nothing too sweet about home
DEC 23, 2012 7:57p ET
MILWAUKEE -- Home, sweet home. Or is it?
While the Milwaukee Bucks are certainly looking forward to spending an extended period time at home, the BMO Harris Bradley Center hasn't been too kind to them this season.
The Bucks have the worst home record among the current playoff teams in the Eastern Conference at 7-6. Milwaukee would certainly take its 7-6 record on the road, but the Bucks know they must better protect the home court if they want to make a serious run at the end of the season.
Winning at home isn't something new this season, in fact, the Bucks are just 46-41 on their home court dating back to 2010.
"We'd still like to play better at home," Bucks coach Scott Skiles said. "We haven't played well enough at home.
"Our approach has got to be right. We've got to come out ready to play, start the halves. All that stuff. That's something that has not been a strength of ours yet."
Including Saturday's loss to the Cavaliers, Milwaukee plays three straight games at home for the first time this season. They've only played back-to-back games at home three times this season. The Bucks will play six of their next nine games at home before venturing out on a four-game road trip that starts in Toronto and takes them to Phoenix, Los Angeles and Portland.
There are some key games at home included in the next nine games. Brooklyn and Miami come to Milwaukee next week, and San Antonio and Houston come the following week.
After playing four games in five nights, the Bucks took Sunday off and will practice early on Christmas Eve before taking the holiday off.
Udrih on the mend: Since backup point guard Beno Udrih went out on Nov. 30 with a sprained ankle, the Bucks have been thin in the backcourt.
Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis have been forced to play major minutes, and it's taking a toll on them. Both have played through nagging injuries and could use a bit of a lightened workload. Rookie second-round pick Doron Lamb has been the only backup guard on the roster, and while he's held his own, he doesn't bring what Udrih does.
Simply put, Milwaukee needs Udrih back, and it appears that could happen next week. Udrih was out working out on the court prior to Saturday's loss to Cleveland and could be ready to play as early as Wednesday when the Bucks host the Nets.
Before his injury, Udrih was averaging 8.3 points and 3.3 assists per game in 18 minutes per game off the bench.
Streak ended: Prior to Saturday's loss to Cleveland, the Bucks had won nine in a row over the Cavaliers. Milwaukee had last lost to the Cavaliers on Nov. 24, 2010 and hadn't dropped a home contest in the series since Dec. 6, 2009.
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