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I have 3 Japanese Barberries that need to go to a home where someone can appreciate them (and their thorns!). Will accept dwarf evergreens or smaller bamboo in trade, if you have them, but if not, a trade is not necessary. They are located in West Seattle, and I am not willing to ship - sorry. |
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I don't subscribe to Facebook, but I know some of you here do. The cover story in the June issue of Consumer Reports is "Protect Your Privacy" >Biggest Online Threats & Traps> How to Stay Safe on Facebook".
Definite reading for all Internet users while mandatory for FB account holders. They also rated what they called "Free Anti-Malware Programs". We refer to them as AVs. 1. Avira Overall score 62
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Thanks, good info DA. Are the 50s and 60s good ratings? Or is it time to go to other AVs? |
Thank you for bringing the fact I omitted the scale to my attention. I did plan on reporting it, but for some reason omitted it. The CR scale is a bar graph with identifying numeric score. The bar graphs show all of the above scores being in the good range with the Avira 62 being just short of very good. DA |
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FWIW, I just installed the newest version of Avira (after prompting, since I had already been using it for two years or so) and during installation it said that Super Anti-spyware (which I had on my computer) was incompatible with Avira ! First time that's happened ! Oh, well, I still have MBAM. :-) |
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March 31, 2010 by RA Manseau · Leave a Comment
Social internet sites like Facebook are an awesome way to stay connected with friends and family while you are on a road trip in your RV.
Facebook allows you to upload photos, videos and links with just a touch of the button! Your computer is a great tool for keeping in touch with loved ones while on the road trip in your RV. Some of my friends that were not born in the "computer generation" were terribly intimidated by the idea of using these modern conveniences. But once they got started on facebook they felt as savvy as a Jr. High Schooler.
It is all very simple. First you type www.facebook.com into your browser. The page that comes up has a login bar at the top and a sign up box below it. This is where you start.
Simply enter your name as you wish it to appear on your facebook page, your email address, your password, male or female and your birthday. Then click sign up. Don't get worried about the whole world being able to see your information. Facebook has privacy settings that you can set to protect yourself. Only the your facebook friends will be able to see your personal information and the pictures of your RV road trip.
Now that you are registered on Facebook it is time to take a look at your settings. On the top of the page you will see "Account" -click on it and a tool bar drops. Here you can change your personal information and set your privacy settings. Take the time to look through the links and set things the way you want. If you don't want the whole world able to see your information or your road trip post then you must make the settings "friends only" to prevent it.
You will find both your name and user name in the settings under "accounts." Your name and user name are not necessarily the same. Your name will appear on your facebook page.Your user name will become your vanity url, if it is available. (example- www.facebook.com/woodalls)
One of the advantages of using Facebook to keep in touch with friends and familywhile you are on the road in your RV is that you can also become a fan of organizations and pages that give you useful information. I recommend you become a fan of www.facebook.com/woodalls first off! This is a great way to keep in touch with other RVers and keep current on the newest information available from www.woodalls.com.
Now that you are all signed up your friends and family can become your Facebook friends! Then no matter how far away from home you travel in your RV, you can share pictures, links and videos of your road trip, and they can share with you.


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I really don't like this eyeliner! I got it a year or 2 ago and barely use it. I found it didn't pack enough punch - not pigmented enough, kinda just came on like a greasy grey line... And was soooo obnoxious to remove. I have medium fair skin, dark brown eyes. It looked swampy on me. I'm not sure if they've since changed the formulation because I was recommended the 19L light brown liner at sephora (after vehemently telling the guy I hate those liners) and it's awesome.
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This pencil in this color is not very deep. I am a light olive skinned Latina; generally like to wear taupey browns, or black/browns/deep grays for my eyes. I also only wear eyeliner on my waterline. This disappeared before 6 hours of wear. GONE! I don't prepare my eyes with a base for it; perhaps that would help, but other so called "waterproof" pencil eyeliners such as Dior worked much better. Alas, still in search of my HG Eyeliner. Picked up a Smashbox one (oh and a cheaper one by some line called Sorme). Wish me luck!
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I had to write a review for this pencil, because this is probably one of my most favorite, eyeliner pencils ever! I LOVE this for lining under my eyes with black liner on the top lash line. It makes my hazel eyes just simply glow! The formula is good, too, as it doesn't tug or drag along my lash line... and the pigmentation and it's ability to stay in place all day are exceptional! To me, this is a medium-toned, charcoal shimmer pencil with just a *hint* of blue. No glitter, just a slight sheen or shimmer. Love it- and highly recommend it if you are looking for a great charcoal eyeliner!
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Beautiful gray. I like that it's actually a true gray and not silver-gray as some "Gray" eyeliners tend to be. The color is deep and rich without looking too charcoal. It doesn't veer into silver territory either. The shimmer is perfect.
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In general I love Aqua Eyes eyeliners, their lasting power is great (little to no smudging) and they are just the right texture - not too soft and not too hard. I also love smokey, dark eyeliners and this one is great - its a very dark gunmetal silver/grey with a bit of pearliness. I was originally worried that like many silvery/gunmetal liners the color would be too light (I prefer and rely on dark colors to emphasize my eyes - anything too light and I may as well not be wearing liner at all) but its actually really the perfect dark smokey grey, to make a great smokey eye. Its a great color to add a bit of variation to my usual black eyeliner - but without getting too far away from the way I like my eyes to look.
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How far will Honey Dew Melons sprawl? Is it possible to grow them on a trellis? |
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Smaller ones should do well. Many of them do not slip which would be an added advantage on a trellis. Range is about the same as a cantaloupe, 4-7 feet depending on variety. |
Thanks farmerdill! By slip do you mean fall off the vine? The variety I have here is Earli-Dew, have you heard of this one? |
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Yes. Earli-Dew is an early ripening, mid size melon that slips from the vine when ripe. A dependable performer for me. |
I had a volunteer a few years ago, so I don't know the variety, but the vine grew at least 9 feet long. The roots were in a raised bed, but the vines were supported outside the bed on some old border fencing I had so the melons wouldn't be on the ground. They go along the side and around the front of the raised bed in the photo. |
Okay Farmerdill, I looked at your album too. You have quite the variety. You must have a large plot to be able to grow so many varieties. One more question before I leave you alone. How much water do you recon a plant would need per week? I know it would depend upon the weather, etc, but I got a little drip irrigation system and am trying to decide on what type drippers to put on there. I was thinking the 1GPH ones. Hello 1gteacher, that's what I'm looking for. Some type of growth like that. It's been such a long time since I've grown melons I almost forgot what to expect. Thanks for posting the photo. |
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I am traditional so in a normal year I rely on rainfall. During this extended drought over the past several years I have had to move the melon patch to an area that I can irrigate. One inch a week is usually sufficient. You want to the soil wet to a depth of 6-8 inches then let the top 3-4 inches dry before reapplying. Drives the root system deeper. Usually when the plants wilt badly in the heat of the day, it is time to apply water, just avoid shallow watering. |
Okay, thank you very much. I'll water them very sparingly then. I believe Texas is a little dryer than your neck of the woods, so I can always adjust accordingly. |
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A Frontage Road resident reported someone entered his vehicle and took his wallet.
The theft was reported Monday, according to deputy David Harper of the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
Brian Mabry said he had left his wallet inside his unsecured vehicle.
The wallet contained a small amount of cash, his driver's license and other personal identification. Mabry said he had past issues with someone prowling around his home.
Investigation has been turned over to the Bradley County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division.
- Health food items were among things taken during a break-in at a local gym.
According to a report filed by deputy Jasper McDonald, he responded Saturday to the Fitness Factory where he spoke with William Stacey.
Craig Mallet said someone had broken into his gym locker and taken personal items.
Stacy listed scales, a computer and boxing gloves as being missing. Mallet reported a weight-lifting belt and straps missing.
Damage was also noted regarding a locker and a deadbolt lock.
Loss and damage to both parties was assessed at approximately $2,600.
- A burglary of an outbuilding at a Parker Drive address was reported, but initially nothing appeared to be missing, according to a report filed by deputy Jeremy Guthrie of the Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
Isham Cross said he noticed a window screen had been removed from his storage building and that a garage door opener was missing.
Further investigation revealed the garage door opener had possibly been moved to another location, but it was never located.
Loss was estimated at $150.
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A Food Bank Turns Corporate Support Into New Followers
If Daniel Buckley, senior online communications manager at the Food Bank for New York City, had his organization's February Facebook campaign to do over again, he would change one thing.
"I would maybe go for a higher goal," he says.
The successful campaign could be a model for other organizations attempting similar "like" drives.
For every person who "liked" the Food Bank's Facebook page, FedEx would donate five meals, up to a limit of 5,000 new "likes," or 25,000 meals. The organization gave its supporters a full month to meet the goal.
It took them nine days. About 3,500 new fans showed up in the first 24 hours. The Food Bank's Facebook page also received 46 wall posts and 29 comments from supporters.
Its corporate sponsor was very happy.
"Our results were amazing and surprising, and that was the really big takeaway, that [social media] can be such a useful tool in getting the word out," said Matthew Rebholz, senior communications specialist for FedEx.
Mr. Buckley says the campaign succeeded in part because fans knew what their "like" would do.
"What people were providing when they are 'liking' the Food Bank is so tangible and so direct," Mr. Buckley said. "Just by clicking a button, they were putting food in the hands of New Yorkers."
The organization also created a logo for the campaign and spread the word through other social media as well as its Web site and e-mail.
The organization also pushed its existing supporters to ask their friends to join, and a tweet of support from Emeril Lagasse, the celebrity chef, didn't hurt.
Mr. Buckley said the charity continues to get attention as a result of the campaign.
"We get consistent 'likes,'" he said. "Fairly consistent comments. We don't see the same people posting all of the time."
Mr. Rebholz and FedEx plan to sponsor another social-media campaign with the Food Bank this fall.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Jack plays in the water at a lakeside park near their new apartment in Seattle. Jack has a hard time keeping his clothes dry during his adventures. During one visit, he used his shoe to scoop up interesting shells and rocks. Soon, Jack will be attending elementary school.
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NATCHITOCHES, La., September 1, 2012 — There's been mercifully little open discussion this summer about the religious beliefs of the major party candidates. Once it was clear Mitt Romney was going to be his Party's nominee, religious conservatives seemed more united by their dislike of President Obama than their dislike of Mormonism. Neither campaign wants to wade into the swamp of religious bigotry, so only extreme voices occasionally erupt like a boil to ask: Are Mitt Romney and Barack Obama Christians?
Romney's Mormon faith isn't accepted as Christian by all Christians, and Obama is, according to polls, still widely suspected of being a Muslim. This doesn't matter to most voters, but it matters on the margins, and if the race is close, the margins are where the outcome will be decided.
What is a Christian? In a religious family as sprawling as Christianity, that isn't an easy question to answer. In the Bible belt, it isn't uncommon to view Catholics as non-Christian, and historically Catholics have been reluctant to admit that being raised Baptist qualifies one for admission to Heaven.
Our definition of "Christian" often comes down to a collection of rites, the most important among those – baptism.
If you get the right baptism, you may be a Christian; if you get the wrong one, you're not. But most Christians understand that there must be more to it than that. Anyone can get baptized with the intention of becoming a wolf among sheep. There must be a conversion; you must be acted upon by the Holy Ghost or the "Spirit of God" to truly become a Christian.
True Christianity, then, is a matter of the heart, an effect of the spirit. Obama might show us a baptismal certificate, but that would mean less to his critics than a Hawaiian short-form certificate of live birth. If we don't believe he's a Christian, no papers he presents to the contrary will sway us in our belief. If we believe that in his heart he bows towards Mecca, we'll dismiss evidence of church attendance as a lie, along with the words of his mouth.
By the same token, Romney may claim that he's a Christian, but we ask, "What does he mean by that?" He says he believes in Jesus Christ as his savior and the Son of God, but doubters wonder about the nature of the Jesus and the God he believes in. Mormons don't accept the Nicene Creed, and their doctrine carries with it the odor of henotheism. Mormons use the vocabulary of Christianity differently than do other Christians, and their beliefs about everything from the salvific nature of grace and the efficacy of works to the eternal nature of the human spirit seem sufficiently odd to cast doubt on their Christian bona fides.
To be counted as part of a religious tradition involves a combination of beliefs, behaviors and rites. We might say that the rite of baptism is essential to admission to the Christian family. Whose baptism? Catholic? Presbyterian? Baptist? Mormon? If we accept more than one, then how can we reject any? Christians who reject only Mormon baptisms as valid often argue that Mormon beliefs render their baptisms invalid; Mormons have an incorrect understanding of baptism.
So the issue of rites is secondary to the issue of belief. What must you believe to be a Christian? Most would say, you must believe that Jesus was the son of God, the only man ever born who was also divine, the one who atoned for our sins and whose resurrection made possible the resurrection of all men and women. In short, he was the way, the truth and the light.
Mormons believe all that. So also, he says, does President Obama. Who are we to say that they do not? For me to say that a man doesn't believe what he says he believes requires either that I understand the way he thinks better than he does, or that I observe in his behavior a contradiction to his stated beliefs.
In Russia, reforms of the Orthodox Church caused a schism between "old believers" and "new believers." There was bitter contention over matters as seemingly trivial as how many fingers should be used to cross one's self. Should it be two, or three? These ritual matters are used to create shibboleths that allow groups of Christians to distinguish themselves one from another. Ritual can be used to bind communities of believers, and in that role it can be powerful and powerfully inspiring. But it is also used to divide religious communities, and so is destructive and repellant to outside observers.
The fundamental shibboleth of Christianity is faith, and faith is un-measurable and invisible except through works.
Are Obama and Romney Christians? Only God can know that, and if God is Jewish, it might be better if they weren't. If there is no god, it hardly matters. What we can know and what should matter to us isn't the precise nature of the religious faith in their hearts, but the way it is manifest in their lives.
If a man tells me he's a Christian, I don't demand to see documentary proof. I only watch the way he behaves to see whether his variety of Christianity is good or bad. Some people who call themselves Christians are awful. One who bragged to me about his love for Jesus Christ clearly loved money and status more than God. He wasn't unusual. A lot of Christians don't seem really to take Christ very seriously.
If Obama and Romney say that they're Christians, that should settle the issue for all but modern-day Pharisees, and we know what Christ thought of them. God will make the determination, not us. The question we should be asking isn't, "Are they Christians?" but rather, "What kind of Christians are they?" Better yet, "What kind of men are they? Do they exemplify the best that Christ taught, regardless of their religion?"
America will prosper if America's Christians worry more about electing good men and women into office than they worry about shibboleths.
James Picht is the Senior Editor for Communities Politics and teaches economics at the Louisiana Scholars' College in Natchitoches, La., where he went to take a break from working in Moscow and Washington. But he fell in love with the town and with the professor of Romance languages, so there he stayed. Now he teaches, annoys his children, and makes jalapeno lemonade. He's a Christian who occasionally wonders whether anyone can tell without him saying so. He hopes that they can. He tweets, hangs out on Facebook, and has a blog he totally neglects at pichtblog.blogspot.com.
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This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion. It is often studied in Communication Design and Interaction Design courses. Some commonly seen examples of this technique include movie title sequences and credits, web page animation and other entertainment media. Kinetic typography is often produced using standard animation programs, including Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Motion.
Students at CMU's School of Design have created a dedicated Kinetic Typography Engine, which is used to teach kinetic typography techniques to students. Project two. Profane Game. EYEZMAZE. Jackson Pollock. Wildcard. Viscosity - The Modern Art Generator. Arms. Draw my thing. Games for the Brain. OneMoreLevel.com. Statetris. The Road Less Taken. The 150 Best Online Flash Games. It was a long and exhausting task: playing hundreds of online games for hours in a row, day after day.
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Holiday snapshots can often look cheesier than a bedazzled elf sweater. Which is why, this year, we're advocating camera-toss photography. The art of spinning your sharpshooter to capture a trail of light isn't just fun: It's also the ultimate way to take advantage of all those sparkling Xmas lights and menorahs we only break out once a year.
We recently posted a How-To, based on tips from Ryan Gallagher, founder of the Camera Toss Blog. (Tip #1: Be careful!. Tip #2: Don't come crying to us if you happen to break your camera!).
We also asked you, the reader, to post your own pics to Wired.com or upload images to Flickr with the tag "wiredcameratoss."
After combing through more than 200 submissions — yes! — our photo editor handpicked the best and brightest of the bunch. Enjoy these desktop-worthy pics commemorating this holiday season. —Steven Leckart
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Film review: Killing Them Softly (18)
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Andrew Dominik's impressively slow-burn tale of Mob retribution gives room and rope for the sleazeball characters to go hang themselves.
It's 2008. US election time. Barack Obama is preaching hope and George Bush is throwing money at the banks to keep the economy, and the American dream, alive.
Far from this slick, high falutin' phrase making, a pair of scuzzy, bumbling Keystone crooks figure they're on to a sure thing, taking down a Mob game because they know Markie (Ray Liotta), who did the same thing a while back, will take the heat.
This is capitalism, red in tooth and claw, says director Andrew Dominik. You have a buck, I take a buck off you.
Where's the honest deal, he asks. In a credit default swap, or down in Louisiana where the truth is brutal and comes with a beatin'. Who are the real crooks? Greedy Goldman Sachs or Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) and Frankie (Scoot McNairy), the artless, sweaty hoodlums poking the hornet's nest for an easy dime.
Chief hornet is Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt playing sleazy chic) who has to sort out this mess and restore order.
He calls on Mickey (James Gandolfini) to give him a hand. But Mickey is a sozzled screw-up, facing jail, a divorce and a glass that empties too quickly and fills too slow.
We know this because Mickey tells us. This is a talkie. There is violence, slayings - uncompromising, poetically shot grubby headshots - but the director (who took us into deadbeat minds in The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) is more interested in the hopes and fears of pitiable sleazeballs trying to make a dishonest day's living so they can get the hell out.
Jackie doesn't like the touchy-feely stuff. He prefers "killing them softly, from a distance" but he still gets dragged in, taking Mickey's miserable, martini-sodden confession and giving Frankie some options.
Elmore Leonard's in there, in spirit, with the rhythmic street slang and the code of machismo. Tarantino too, but if you put two crims in a car tossing dialogue to and fro ahead of a job, Tarantino is inevitable.
And don't forget Guy Ritchie for the arch, stylised direction although Lock, Stock is gloss and varnish compared to this rain-beaten, noirish dinge-fest. Says 2008 on the pack, yes, but the browns and oranges and rusty GTOs suggest the '70s, home of the source material - George V Higgins' pulpy Cogan's Trade.
Dominik does a great job for a film with little plot. He builds character, tension and is happy to let the screen shift to slow-burn to give the druggies time to find their high.
The script is crackling: brimful of one-liners and mordant, slapstick wit, and the cast show they know how to give their blunt-toothed schmucks heart, or at least, purpose.
But, in the end, this is just business pal. Nothin' personal.


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I've been thinking for a while about the whole issue of what it means to be united, one to another through our common baptism in the body of Christ. In light of the many discussions that have been had about the relevance of an apocalyptic conception of the church as mission, what then are we to say about the notion that, in baptism, Christians enter into a special sort of solidarity with one another, a solidarity that makes them uniquely a peoplehood, a family? If we conceive the church-as-mission, that is, if we hold that the church exists only as it gives itself to the world in kenotic service, what then does that leave of the notion that the members of the church share a unique sort of unity?
As I see it there is no dispensing with the "specialness" of baptism, if you will. To be baptized together is to be brought into unity with each other in a way that is irreducible and singular. But what sort of solidarity is this that we have with each other in baptism? If we understand our baptism in light of Christ's baptism, whereby he is commissioned by the Father in the power of the Spirit to proclaim the kingdom of God in word and deed to the poor and oppressed, how can we understand our baptismal solidarity as anything other than being given over, together, to and for the world? Baptismal solidarity means we find ourselves, by virtue of God's action, to be united together as partners in giving ourselves away to "the least of these." To be united in baptism is not, then to share a unity that exists within borders, which draws lines, establishes "in" and "out." Rather the unity of baptism is a solidarity in proclaiming and enacting the end of all such separations and divisions.
To be united in baptism is indeed to share a special unity, a unity that binds us together closer than any other form of human unity. But it does so not by establishing us as an "alternative" form of unity, rather it unites us precisely in the traversal of all walls of division wherever they might be. The solidarity of baptism is solidarity in self-giving unto the world which God loves and for whom God came in Jesus. When we proclaim that we are united, one to another in one body we are not claiming to be an alternative cultural matrix, rather we are proclaiming that, because of what Christ has done and continues to do, we have the joy of finding ourselves sent out together in God's service, the service of giving our lives away, of dispensing with boundaries, divisions, and all forms of alienation. Baptismal solidarity is missionary solidarity. To be united in baptism is to be united, not towards ourselves, but towards all those for whom the kingdom of God is coming. Indeed, one might say that baptismal solidarity, by its very nature is a solidarity of being turned outward, of being sent out in Christ to follow him into the world in all its brokenness. Baptism, then, does not establish a new "inside" a new cultural seat of coherence and stability, rather it propels us — together! — out into the world which God loves, the world still in tragic, broken rebellion. We are baptized, not for ourselves, not for the church, but for the world, whose destiny it is to be transformed into the kingdom of God.


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Enterprise collaboration firm Accellion has unveiled a secure productivity tool for mobile devices such as Apple's iPad, combining the capabilities of an office suite with a secure container for documents and cloud-based file storage.
Available from March, Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite provides a secure alternative to services that workers may already be using on an ad hoc basis, such as Dropbox and productivity tools like Quickoffice, combined into a single application.
Initially available only for Apple iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad, the suite enables users to view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files inside a secure, encrypted space which is linked to a cloud-based repository for collaboration with colleagues.
However, the most significant feature is that it will enable enterprise customers to keep control over sensitive information in company documents while enabling their staff to work on the move using tablets or smartphones.
Mobile Productivity Suite actually builds on existing Accellion technology used for sharing files on mobile devices, but takes it to the logical next step with integrated editing tools to close the security gap, Accellion's EMEA marketing director Jes Breslaw told V3.
"Until now, users might be working with an enterprise collaboration solution like Accellion, but they would have to open that document in another application," he explained.
"The instant you do that you've lost the encryption, you've lost the security and safeguards, and you also no longer know where the document is being stored, because it could be saved somewhere else."
Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite creates a secure encrypted container on the user's mobile device to hold company documents, and also uses a secure link to talk to the cloud repository, the latter serving as a kind of Sharepoint for mobile users.
When used in conjunction with a separate Accellion product called Kitepoint, users can also securely access their Sharepoint portal itself without the need for a VPN, the firm said.
The app itself does not support every feature seen in full-blown suites such as Microsoft Office, but does include key features for business users such as the ability to track changes, paragraph formatting and tables in Word documents, cell formatting options and functions in Excel spreadsheets, and the ability to edit PowerPoint slides.
However, Accellion does allow the IT department to specify a whitelist of trusted apps that users will be able to open documents with outside of Mobile Productivity Suite.
Administrators can also enforce a PIN to access the app, and specify an idle time-out after which the PIN will be required to unlock it again.
While Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite initially supports only the iPad and iPhone, this will be expanded in future to cover BlackBerry and Android devices, the firm said.
Daniel Robinson is technology editor at V3, and has been working as a technology journalist for over two decades. Dan has served on a number of publications including PC Direct and enterprise news publication IT Week. Areas of coverage include desktops, laptops, smartphones, enterprise mobility, storage, networks, servers, microprocessors, virtualisation and cloud computing.
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It took six months, but Jackson Browne finally received an apology from the producers of ''America's Prince: The JFK Jr. Story.'' When the made-for-TV biopic premiered on TBS in January, the rocker objected to scenes and dialogue that implied he had beaten then-girlfriend Daryl Hannah, who then dated John F. Kennedy Jr. Now, Billboard reports, the producers have agreed to cut the offending footage from future airings and append a title card apologizing to Browne.
Browne was not depicted as a character in the movie, but there were two spoken references to ''Jackson'' as having struck the ''Splash'' actress, references viewers unfamiliar with the real-life events might not have linked with the ''Somebody's Baby'' singer. In 1992, according to People magazine, Kennedy flew to Los Angeles to be at Hannah's side after her breakup with Browne. She reportedly had a black eye, bruises, and a broken finger. She never pressed charges, and Browne claimed he had acted in self-defense.
At the time of the movie's debut, TBS issued a statement saying, ''Fox Television Studios, Inc., the producer of the movie, assures us that it stands by the accuracy of the movie.'' Now, however, Fox Television will add to the beginning of the movie a disclaimer that reads, ''In a previous version of this program, we incorrectly reported an alleged incident involving singer Jackson Browne and actress Daryl Hannah. Mr. Browne has always denied that such an incident occurred, and local authorities have reported to the media that based upon their investigation, the incident previously reported in our program did not occur. We have deleted that material from our program, and we apologize to Mr. Browne for its inclusion.''
''I never assaulted Daryl Hannah, and this fact was confirmed by the investigation conducted at the time by the Santa Monica Police Department,'' Browne said this week in a statement. ''I am gratified that Fox has agreed to take these steps.''
Browne wrested a similar concession from Gurin Company, which will remove references to the assault allegation from its documentary, ''When Cameras Cross the Line," a show about paparazzi which originally aired on VH1.''


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First things first. As everyone knows, British musicals are less about music than they are about scenery. "Les Miz" was about The Barricades, "The Phantom of the Opera" was about The Chandelier, and "Miss Saigon," theoretically about the consequences of America in Vietnam, is really about The Helicopter.
As special effects go, this one is pretty nifty. Behind an ashen scrim, a two-seater chopper descends from above the proscenium with three searchlights on its underbelly, making it look like an alien spaceship. When it lands, too many soldiers rush aboard it (the reverse of the circus act where too many clowns get out of a Volkswagen). It then takes off.
No one will be mystified by how the effects are achieved. What makes it work is the thunderous sound that accompanies it, the strobe lights that punctuate its arrival and departure, and the commotion of the actors in the foreground, playing angry, anguished Vietnamese who have been left behind.
It takes barely a minute.
Whether it's worth $100 for premium seats or $60 for orchestra locations depends on how intense your craving for novelty is. Apart from some impressive performances, there's not much else to make "Miss Saigon" worthwhile.
An update of "Madama Butterfly," the $10 million show concerns Chris, a G.I. who spends the night with Kim, a Saigon bar girl, on her first night on the job. They fall in love. In the chaos of the U.S. evacuation, she is left behind.
She is pregnant. Years later, after he has married an American, he comes back to find her. She wants him to take their child back to America. To make certain he does so, she kills herself.
The plot is pure melodrama. If the score were better, it might make the characters and situations believable. But the music is staggeringly banal, the lyrics insultingly predictable. They don't allow for human chemistry. So you feel the whole thing is mechanical and manipulative. (Also, Puccini's heroine kills herself because she has no options; Kim is considerably savvier and not restricted by a rigid, pre-modern society.)
Normally, people complain that you don't leave British musicals humming any songs. That is not true with "Miss Saigon." You do leave singing "Why God Why," because you knew it when you came in. It has the same tune as "There's a Small Hotel."
There is some beautiful, stirringly performed choral music in scenes after the North Vietnamese takeover that give you an idea of what those Soviet operas extolling the virtues of collective farming must have been like. There is some skillful ensemble writing, but the score is mostly as syrupy and simpleminded as Boublil and Schonberg's earlier work, "Les Miz."
On top of the love story is a plot hinging on a Eurasian character called the Engineer, who runs the bar where Chris and Kim meet. He is a conniver whose big moment is a song called "The American Dream," in which he describes America as an utterly sleazy society, the source, in fact, of the sleaze that blights the Asian cities in "Miss Saigon." (If America is so repugnant, how come Kim wants to send her son there?)
The song builds into a garish number in which the Engineer humps the hood of a '50s car, a cream and chrome baby with Miss Liberty in the front seat, a "Springtime for Hitler" idea if there ever was one.
The Engineer is played by Jonathan Pryce, one of England's best actors, whose talents are wasted on this one-dimensional character. He has a powerful voice, diction to project the inane lyrics clearly and a wizardry with his hands that gives his every gesture elegance.
Though the character is both French and Asian, Pryce, in response to last summer's controversy, does not wear Asian makeup.
This makes no sense. Since he looks Western, the Americans, who are portrayed as racists, would have given him an exit visa. If he looked Asian, however, it would have made clear that the character is a hateful stereotype, what the English used to call the WOG, the Wily Oriental Gentleman.
Lea Salonga, who plays Kim, has a radiant, pure voice and a lovely presence. As Chris, Willy Falk sings and acts soulfully. So does Liz Callaway in the thankless role of his wife. The sensational Hinton Battle stops the show as an ex-G.I. working on behalf of the racially mixed kids that are a painful part of the U.S. legacy in Vietnam.
The second act begins with heartrending footage of these children. In the context of this otherwise synthetic show, the footage can be interpreted in two ways. The first is as a blatant slap in the audience's face, rubbing Americans' noses in guilt over Vietnam. (This would be roughly comparable to our sending a musical about Northern Ireland to London.)
The kindlier interpretation is that this material is here for genuine humanitarian reasons. If so, perhaps the interest from the $35 million advance can be used to start a fund for these children, which can be augmented by passing the hat among the $100-a-seat customers.
In keeping with the mood of the piece, John Napier's sets range from drab to tacky. Audiences, however, are now so used to applauding set changes that they cheer as the vulgar neon signs of Bangkok fall into place.
It is hilarious to think the show that raised Broadway ticket prices to a new high is an anti-American, allegedly anti-materialist musical whose second most impressive visual image is a stage-high statue of Ho Chi Minh.
The chopper has landed.
The controversial "Miss Saigon," London's epic retread of the old Madama Butterfly story, already immortalized somewhat stickily by Puccini, of that ugly American and his betrayed Oriental war-bride, transposed to Vietnam and featuring a live helicopter and an even livelier Jonathan Pryce, arrived last night at the Broadway Theater.
It has the largest advance sale (the precise account seems to vary, safe to say more than 30 million bucks and still counting) of any show ever to hit Broadway, and some of its seats - a few in the front mezzanine apparently strategically placed for the most advantageous viewing of the special effects - are ticketed at $100, a new benchmark for Broadway. When history is made, even as modestly as this, note it.
Also "Miss Saigon" is unquestionably a triumph for its cast, particularly the priceless Pryce, but also the moth-like Butterfly of Lea Salonga, incidentally a triumph for the producer, Cameron Mackintosh, whose adamant insistence on them coming over from London now seems fully justified, and finally, but indubitably, a triumph for the young classic British director, Nicholas Hytner, best known for Shakespeare and opera, here making his Broadway debut.
The musical itself, which opened in London at the end of 1989, is the latest work of the French music and lyrics team of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, who earlier gave us the justifiably acclaimed pop-opera, "Les Miserables."
Set right at the end of the Vietnam War, the hearts-and-flowers story of "Miss Saigon," telling of a country innocent lured by family need into becoming a bar girl, her "West Side Story" romance with a young, embittered G.I. enchanted to find a girl who "smells of orange trees," their inadvertent parting, and the final tragedy of betrayal, love and death, probably needed little more than the right words and music to make it work.
Properly speaking, "Miss Saigon" - like "Les Miserables" before it - is also a pop-opera. There is no spoken dialogue, and although a list of musical numbers is thoughtfully provided in the Playbill, they are by no means set pieces in the manner of the old-style Broadway.
This may sound a little more musically sophisticated than it is, for Schonberg's unoriginal and almost unquotable score, could, like his music for "Les Miserables," be comfortably ensconced among the more menacingly romantic mid-century movie scores, although use of sprechstimme or speech-song, as well as the tart and astringent lush-reducing orchestrations by William D. Brohn give it a slightly more contemporary sound.
The lyrics - rendered from the original French by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Boublil himself, with additional material supplied by Maltby - vary from the plain, unvarnished and schmaltzy to the grotesquely inept and grossly insensitive. The emphasis is unfortunately on the latter.
The evening is studded with banal and inelegant infelicities as: "You will not touch him / Don't touch my boy / He's what I live for / He's my only joy." Oddly enough, it doesn't even help when it's set to music!
While the show may not have much to offer in the way of art or even (performances apart) artistry, what "Miss Saigon" has in abundance is energy and confidence.
It doesn't compare to "Les Miserables," any more than the David Belasco potboiler play (which the original Puccini opera and this later spun-off vulgarization was based) compares to Victor Hugo, but it does offer a surging picture of love in a hot climate in a troubled time.
Hytner's imaginatively cinematic staging - from the first scene, set in a bar/clipjoint/brothel presided over by a fiendishly adaptable Eurasian pimp called the Engineer, on through such extravaganzes as a victory parade in the newly named Ho Chi Minh City or the flashbacked fall and evacuation of Saigon, and the Engineer's dream fantasy of the American way - never once pauses for breath. Well perhaps once. But then only for the intermission.
John Napier's settings have the right look for the Vietnam we all know firsthand through TV's evening news, and their computerized performances make up a good part of the evening's fun. You won't go out humming the scenery, but then you won't go out actually humming anything, although the costumes by Andreane Neofitou and the lighting by David Hershey all deftly play their appointed roles in the technological whirligig.
When I first saw "Miss Saigon" - in London, when it was brand-new - I was struck by a certain cynical anti-Americanism. I have been told that changes have been made - and I did notice one or two comparatively minor things - but to me it looks and sounds much the same. Yet - I suspect seeing it with a New York rather than a London audience makes a difference - I was not really aware of any anti-American gloat this time around.
The Drury Lane stage in London is rather bigger than the one here, and a few of the more spectactular effects appeared more spectacular there. But the performances - some better, some worse - seemed much of a general muchness.
The about-to-be-legendary performance is, of course, that by Pryce as the Eurasian pimp (incidentally, there is a transatlantic change here, with Pryce looking a lot more Euro and a lot less Asian) and he quite certainly as good as everyone has said and will say.
He is an actor of extraordinary intent. He takes a role, walks into it and closes the door behind him. He then acts from within the character. As the Engineer, his sleazy scene of self-preservation, his cartoon version of the American dream-ideal, and his expressionist way of throwing everything into a glance, a gesture or a pose, has a Brechtian dimension and totally transcends the show's basic material.
In a weird sense, he is performing some Platonic ideal version of a role Boublil and Schonberg failed to give him, and it is more important to watch what he does than to listen to what he says.
Lea Salonga sings beautifully and brings a glistening passion to the role of the heroine Kim. And Hinton Battle, rendering his one big number with revivalist fervor, is tremendously effective as the hero's best friend, rather overshadowing the hero himself, a tortured Willy Falk, who seems a little wimp-like, but then, perhaps he should. The devious Lt. Pinkerton was never much of fellow in Puccini, was he?
Mention of Puccini, reminds me. He did do this story first, and he did do this story better. Many people will want to see "Miss Saigon" - they'd better, they've already paid for their tickets - but I imagine that your main interest (apart from the first six months or so when you'll have Pryce to watch) will be in deciding whether you were disappointed by it, or not as disappointed by it as you had expected to be. That should give it a decent, or perhaps even indecent, run.
There may never have been a musical that made more people angry before its Broadway debut than "Miss Saigon."
Here is a show with something for everyone to resent -- in principle, at least. Its imported stars, the English actor Jonathan Pryce and the Filipino actress Lea Salonga, are playing roles that neglected Asian-American performers feel are rightfully theirs. Its top ticket price of $100 is a new Broadway high, sprung by an English producer, if you please, on a recession-straitened American public. More incendiary still is the musical's content. A loose adaptation of "Madama Butterfly" transplanted to the Vietnam War by French authors, the "Les Miserables" team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, "Miss Saigon" insists on revisiting the most calamitous and morally dubious military adventure in American history and, through an unfortunate accident of timing, arrives in New York even as the jingoistic celebrations of a successful American war are going full blast.
So take your rage with you to the Broadway Theater, where "Miss Saigon" opened last night, and hold on tight. Then see just how long you can cling to the anger when confronted by the work itself. For all that seems galling about "Miss Saigon" -- and for all that is indeed simplistic, derivative and, at odd instances, laughable about it -- this musical is a gripping entertainment of the old school (specifically, the Rodgers and Hammerstein East-meets-West school of "South Pacific" and "The King and I"). Among other pleasures, it offers lush melodies, spectacular performances by Mr. Pryce, Miss Salonga and the American actor Hinton Battle, and a good cry. Nor are its achievements divorced from its traumatic subject, as cynics might suspect. Without imparting one fresh or daring thought about the Vietnam War, the show still manages to plunge the audience back into the quagmire of a generation ago, stirring up feelings of anguish and rage that run even deeper than the controversies that attended "Miss Saigon" before its curtain went up.
Challenged perhaps by the ill will that greeted their every move, the evening's creators, led by the director Nicholas Hytner, have given New York a far sharper version of "Miss Saigon" than the one originally staged in London. The much publicized (and inane) helicopter effect notwithstanding, this is the least spectacular and most intimate of the West End musicals. The most stirring interludes feature two or three characters on an empty stage or in a bar girl's dingy hovel, and for once the production has been made leaner rather than fattened up for American consumption. (Though the Broadway Theater is among the largest Broadway houses, it seems cozy next to the cavernous Drury Lane, where the show plays in London.) If "Miss Saigon" is the most exciting of the so-called English musicals -- and I feel it is, easily -- that may be because it is the most American. It freely echoes Broadway classics, and some of its crucial personnel are Broadway hands: the co-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr., the choreographer Bob Avian, the orchestrator William D. Brohn.
Without two legendary American theatrical impresarios, David Belasco and Harold Prince, there would in fact be no "Miss Saigon." It was Belasco's turn-of-the-century dramatization of the Madame Butterfly story that inspired Puccini's opera, and it was Mr. Prince who, inspired by Brecht and the actor Joel Grey 25 years ago, created the demonic, symbolic Emcee of "Cabaret," a character that is unofficially recycled on this occasion in a role called the Engineer and played by Mr. Pryce. These two influences are brilliantly fused here. Altered substantially but not beyond recognition, the basic "Butterfly" premise of an Asian woman who is seduced and abandoned by an American military man is affectingly rekindled in "Miss Saigon" by Mr. Schonberg's score and Miss Salonga's clarion, emotionally naked delivery of it. Whenever that tale flirts with bathos, along comes the leering, creepy Mr. Pryce to jolt the evening back into the hellish, last-night-of-the-world atmosphere that is as fitting for the fall of Saigon as it was for the Weimar Berlin of "Cabaret."
The theatrical poles of "Miss Saigon" represented by its two stars are equally powerful. Miss Salonga, whose performance has grown enormously since crossing the Atlantic, has the audience all but worshiping her from her first appearance as Kim, an open-faced 17-year-old waif from the blasted Vietnamese countryside who is reduced to working as a prostitute in Saigon. As her romance with an American marine, Chris (Willy Falk), blossoms "South Pacific"-style in a progression of haunting saxophone-flecked ballads in Act I, the actress keeps sentimentality at bay by slowly revealing the steely determination beneath the gorgeous voice, radiant girlish features and virginal white gown. Once Chris and his fellow Americans have fled her and her country, the determination transmutes into courage, and the passages in which Kim sacrifices herself for the welfare of her tiny child, no matter how hokey, are irresistibly moving because Miss Salonga's purity of expression, backed up by the most elemental music and lyrics, simply won't let them be otherwise.
Mr. Pryce, a great character actor whose nasty streak has been apparent since his memorable Broadway debut in Trevor Griffiths's "Comedians" 15 years ago, makes disingenuousness as electrifying as Miss Salonga's ingenuousness. The Engineer is a fixer, profiteer and survivor who can outlast Uncle Sam and Uncle Ho: a pimp, a sewer rat, a hustler of no fixed morality, sexuality, race, nationality or language. Wearing wide-lapelled jackets and bell bottoms of garish color, he is the epitome of sleaze, forever swiveling his hips, flashing a sloppy tongue and fluttering his grasping fingers in the direction of someone's dollar bills or sex organs. With his high-domed forehead and ghoulish eyes, Mr. Pryce is also a specter of doom, and he manages to turn a knee-jerk number indicting the greedy "American Dream" into a show-stopper with the sheer force of his own witty malice.
As choreographed by Mr. Avian in demented parody of an old-fashioned Broadway song-and-dance turn, "The American Dream" looks like the Fellini-esque "Loveland" sequence in the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical "Follies," and no wonder, given the song's imitation Sondheim lyrics and the fact that Mr. Avian was Michael Bennett's associate choreographer on "Follies." Among the other old favorites in "Miss Saigon" are a balcony scene out of "West Side Story," a departing refugees scene out of "Fiddler on the Roof," an Act II song for Mr. Pryce that recalls Fagin's equivalent solo in "Oliver!" and some dancing North Vietnamese who seem a cross between the Peronists in "Evita" and the ritualistic Japanese dancers of "Pacific Overtures." It is only when "Miss Saigon" imitates West End musicals of the 1980's, however, that it goes seriously astray. The helicopter stunt, which will most impress devotees of sub-Disney theme parks, is presented out of historical sequence in an Act II flashback, for no good reason other than to throw Andrew Lloyd Webber fans a pseudo-chandelier or levitating tire. A neon-drenched Bangkok nightlife spectacle in the same act is a grim reminder of the ill-fated "Chess."
Of all the failings of modern British musicals, the most severe has been their creators' utter bewilderment about what happens between men and women emotionally, psychologically and sexually. "Miss Saigon" is not immune to this syndrome, either, and it shows up most embarrassingly in the lyrics characterizing Chris's stateside wife, who, despite a game portrayal by Liz Callaway, induces audience snickers and giggles in her big Act II solo. Chris himself is nearly as faceless, and Mr. Falk, a performer with a strong pop voice and a Ken doll's personality, does nothing to turn up the hero's heat.
If anything, "Miss Saigon" would be stronger if Mr. Battle, who plays Chris's best friend, had been cast instead as Kim's lover. Mr. Battle's grit and passion are far more redolent of the marines who fought in Vietnam than Mr. Falk's blandness, and his one brief encounter with Miss Salonga has more bite than any of her scenes with her paramour. Mr. Battle, who has heretofore been better known as a dancer than a singer, also rescues the sanctimonious opening anthem of Act II -- a canned plea for homeless Amerasian children -- with a gospel delivery so blistering and committed that he overpowers an onslaught of cliched lyrics, film clips and a large backup choir.
With the aid of his designers, especially the lighting designer David Hersey, who uses John Napier's fabric-dominated sets as a floating canvas, Mr. Hytner usually keeps the staging simple. An opening "Apocalypse Now" sunrise that bleeds into a hazy panorama of a Saigon morning is as delicate as an Oriental print, and the Act I climax, in which boat people set off for points unknown, is stunning because it relies on such primal elements as an outstretched helping hand and the slow exit by the characters to the rear of a deep, darkened stage stripped of most scenery.
To be sure, the hallucinatory view of Vietnam familiar from the films of Oliver Stone, the journalism of Michael Herr and the fiction of Robert Stone, among many others, is beyond Mr. Hytner's mission, if not his considerable abilities, just as any thoughtful analysis of the war is beyond the libretto. The text of "Miss Saigon," second in naivete only to "Nixon in China," says merely that the North Vietnamese were villains and that the Americans were misguided, bungling do-gooders. Facts and haircuts are fudged, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime is invisible and any references to war atrocities are generalized into meaninglessness.
Yet the text is not the sum of a theatrical experience, and however sanitizing the words and corny the drama of "Miss Saigon," the real impact of the musical goes well beyond any literal reading. America's abandonment of its own ideals and finally of Vietnam itself is there to be found in the wrenching story of a marine's desertion of a Vietnamese woman and her son. The evening's far-from-happy closing tableau -- of spilled Vietnamese blood and an American soldier who bears at least some responsibility for the carnage -- hardly whitewashes the United States involvement in Southeast Asia. "Miss Saigon" is escapist entertainment in style and in the sense that finally it even makes one forget about all the hype and protests that greeted its arrival. But this musical is more than that, too, because the one thing it will not allow an American audience to escape is the lost war that, like its tragic heroine, even now defiantly refuses to be left behind.


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In response to the tumultuous political events of the French Revolution, Aubert Parent created this allegory of the French monarchy and the drafting of the new constitution by the National Assembly. On September 14, 1791, Louis XVI took an oath to support the new political regime. Parent's relief, carved from a single piece of limewood, links a medallion of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, symbolizing the French king, with a medallion of the Roman Senate, representing the National Assembly. The dead bird (the old regime) and the unguarded nest (France) symbolize the failure of the new constitution and the end of the monarchy.
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But when she got to the door, she saw the rain was still falling. If anything, it was falling even harder. So she took off her clothes again, and went back to bed, and lay in the man's arms a little longer.
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And then one day she discovered on the wall by the door the switch that turned the rain on and off.
She stood there staring at the beautiful day outside, and then down at the simple little switch. She listened as the birds flew by the window, singing.
And then she turned and went back to bed.
In the night, that night, the man woke up.
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Would need to see all model numbers. And to be clear, these are HP systems? Post back. IMO |
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A referendum for a new school building was rejected by 60 percent of Rushford-Peterson (R-P) School District voters Wednesday, sending school officials back to the drawing board for a third time to discuss the future of the district's schools.
The referendum was for approval of the construction of a $15 million early education building to house all the students currently in the flood-damaged middle school located in Peterson. The ultimate goal of the multi-phase project, called the New School Initiative, was to locate all R-P students at one site. The entire project would have been financed with a 20-year bond, at an interest rate of 3.9 percent, which would have cost taxpayers nearly $23 million over the life of the bond.
The project is one that has been on the table in the R-P School District for six years, and after two failed attempts at getting state aide, Superintendent Chuck Ehler said he was hopeful the referendum would pass.
"There were a number of issues that came to the forefront during the open discussions about this proposal and there were people saying we have to get this done and consolidate within the district," Ehler said. "But, there was the realization that our Peterson citizens and residents value having a school [in Peterson]. So, I think that is going to need to figure into our new plan."
An unsettling realization then came from residents in the district when they discovered that the proposed project would have been paid for by increased taxes. Ehler said if the project were to move forward, "we were looking at a 48 percent increase in school taxes."
The steep tax increase was a price Rushford resident John Peterson was not willing to pay. "I just don't think it is fiscally responsible to push [the referendum] on everyone in the district," Peterson said. "This wouldn't have been the first push either because they wanted to come back and bond for the high school. But, being a property owner, I think a weight has been lifted off my shoulders now that [the referendum] didn't pass."
Peterson said property owners in the district were not prepared for their property taxes to double, and in some cases, triple. If the referendum passed, agricultural homesteads would have been the hardest hit, with commercial property owners and homeowners following closely behind.
Since the devastating floodwaters of 2007 ripped through the Rushford area, renovation and rebuilding plans for the middle school have been discussed. However, without a concrete plan to fund the multimillion dollar project, the R-P school district must head back to square one. Ehler said he won't give up working with legislative leaders to find an agreeable solution.
"We recognize that we have a need in our community and the [school] board understands that need. Now we just look for the best alternative," Ehler said. "If that solution is to stay in this building, then we stay in the building. We can do that. But, there must be an understanding that we want to do it right. We can make this happen."