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- Jul 18:
- Corruption-buster to monitor sale, closure of Corinthian Colleges
- Jul 8:
- Corinthian to sell its Bay Area Heald and WyoTech campuses
- Jul 7:
- Corinthian Colleges: Bay Area campuses to be sold or closed
- Jul 3:
- Heald, Everest and WyoTech career college fates still undecided
- Jun 21:
- California lawmakers setting new regulator over for-profit career colleges
- Document: Improving oversight of for-profit schools, National Consumer Law Center
- Jun 20:
- Corinthian Colleges' closure threat alarms Bay Area students
- Jun 19:
- Corinthian Colleges, California's largest career-college company, could go out of business
- Mar 14:
- New rules on for-profit colleges coming from White House
- Feb 26:
- Feds sue major US for-profit college chain
- Oct 11:
- California sues for-profit college company, saying it sought out poor and 'isolated' students
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- How for-profit colleges in the Bay Area measure up
They rake in millions of dollars in federal tuition aid and still charge students more than $20,000 a year, on top of scholarships and grants.
Despite their high prices and promises of good jobs, more than a dozen of the Bay Area's most expensive trade schools graduate fewer than half of their students, report alarming rates of students defaulting on their loans -- or both.
While Californians have been hearing for years about runaway tuition at the state's public universities, the state -- and now the federal government -- is demanding better results from a different sector of the higher education world: for-profit colleges.
Squeezing the for-profit sector would be "all to the good," said UC Berkeley education Professor Emeritus Norton Grubb. "They enroll low-income students, they charge them high tuition, they get them all on student aid and then the students drop out, leaving them with no increased earnings potential and a lot of student debt."
Take the $25,700-per-year Everest College in Hayward, where one in three former students did not earn enough to repay their student loans. Or the 1,900-student University of Phoenix in San Jose, which brought in $17 million in federal student aid in 2010-11; it reported a graduation rate of just 19 percent and a student loan default rate of 26 percent.
New federal regulations proposed for vocational programs and President Barack Obama's initiative to tie student aid dollars -- both grants and loans -- to schools' affordability and performance could also affect institutions like the $24,000-per-year Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, whose students relied on $9.7 million in federal education aid in 2010-11.
To understand where federal student aid money goes and how well the investment is paying off for students and taxpayers, this newspaper analyzed U.S. Department of Education data for more than 100 Bay Area schools. The analysis of federal financial-aid data from 2010 to 2011 found:
Last year California cut from its tuition aid program more than 130 private colleges with low graduation rates and too many student loan defaults. Some wonder if the federal government will follow the state's lead to hold colleges responsible for their performance.
Today, only 50 for-profit schools in California remain eligible for state-subsidized tuition; 115 do not.
"I think I'd be crazy not to be worried," said Daniel Levinson, CEO of Ex'pression College, which lost its state aid eligibility because of its 17.9 percent loan default rate.
For-profit colleges say they open doors for low-income students who want to become medical assistants, sound technicians, mechanics and cooks -- education unavailable to them elsewhere. And federal data shows a handful of Bay Area trade schools do appear to be serving their students well; Alameda Beauty College and MTI Business College Inc. in Stockton, for example, have graduation rates above 75 percent and single-digit default rates.
But some former students say their schools overpromised the kinds of jobs they would land after earning a degree. More than four years after she graduated from Heald College in Hayward, paying $65,000 for an associate degree in business administration, Rachel Tenorio says she has yet to find a job in the field.
"I regret it, definitely," the Hayward resident said. "I tell people I know that it's not worth it. You're better off going to a community college."
Obama last month singled out some of the sector's bad actors during a town-hall meeting.
The students, he said, "Get out of these for-profit schools loaded down with enormous debt. They can't find a job. They default. The taxpayer ends up holding the bag. Their credit is ruined, and the for-profit institution is making out like a bandit."
Obama's concern that current federal aid policies prop up problem schools reflected a more sweeping higher education proposal that will require congressional approval. But on Aug. 30, the U.S. Department of Education proposed cutting off aid to vocational programs whose graduates spend too much of their paychecks on student loans.
If its standards were imposed today as written, the department predicts 974 programs at colleges nationwide, about 10 percent, would fail. If they failed a second year, they would lose funding.
The federal government awarded about $50 billion in tuition grants, including aid for military veterans, in 2011-12 -- the largest source of grant aid and nearly five times what states contributed. In all, the office of Federal Student Aid issues more than $150 billion annually -- a figure that includes grants, loans and other aid -- to 15 million students.
Many college students receive more than $10,000 annually in state and federal aid.
Industry supporters say their colleges are being unfairly targeted and note that their students are less likely than other college graduates to have a financial safety net.
"Here's a bunch of students who want to go to school. They can't get into the state system, and they don't have any alternative except for the private for-profits," said Levinson. "We're not here to rip off students."
But with opportunity and cost comes risk. Within three years of getting their first loan bill, nearly 19 percent of former students from Bay Area for-profit schools defaulted -- compared with about 5 percent of public and private nonprofit university borrowers during the same period, the newspaper's data analysis revealed.
(Community college borrowers were just as likely to run into loan trouble as those from for-profit schools, but only 3 percent had to borrow, compared with 66 percent of students at for-profit colleges.)
Even students who graduate can have a hard time finding full-time work in their fields. Only about half of the grads from WyoTech Fremont, which specializes in car and motorcycle repair, found the kind of jobs they prepared for within six months of graduation, newly required state reports reveal.
WyoTech, Heald and Everest, with more than 14,000 students at nine Bay Area campuses, are run by Orange-County based Corinthian Colleges Inc., a company that has drawn lawsuits claiming that it defrauds students. Attorneys general in six states and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Corinthian, according to SEC filings that do not specify reasons for the probes.
"They go after these kids who come out of high school with no future who are just sitting around," said John Fallat, a San Rafael attorney. He won a settlement in a 2007 suit arguing that Corinthian falsely promised easy employment to a woman who studied at one of its Santa Clara County campuses to become a medical assistant.
In a pending case, nine former WyoTech students who took heating and air-conditioning classes in Fremont claimed in 2008 that they had taken out student loans for as much as $40,000 each, but their training did not make them employable. Instructors sometimes appeared to be drunk, fell asleep in class and could not answer basic questions, and equipment was outdated, according to their suit.
In 2007, the company paid $4.3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by then Attorney General Jerry Brown claiming it committed fraud, gave falsified records to the state, and ran ads misrepresenting the jobs students would find.
A Corinthian Colleges spokesman said the allegations against WyoTech were unfounded and that the company was working to lower its default rates.
Students now must take a financial literacy class before they graduate to make sure they are prepared to meet their loan obligations, and the company now has technology to help it reach students behind on their payments, said spokesman Kent Jenkins.
But smart budgeting will only take you so far when you're making $24,000 before taxes and owe $5,500 a year in loan payments, the average figures reported for recording arts grads from Ex'pression.
Taking a smoke break at the Emeryville campus, sound arts major Ryan Cooper, of San Jose, said although a pile of debt awaits him after he graduates next year, he's getting excellent training at the college -- and is banking on getting a good music industry job.
After hearing the earnings statistics, Cooper exhaled.
"That's a lot to think about," he said.
Follow Katy Murphy at Twitter.com/katymurphy.
See how California schools compare in costs, graduations, student debt at www.mercurynews.com/education


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A Brewer man wanted in connection with a pair of pharmacy robberies late last month has been arrested.
Police say 35-year-old John Campbell was nabbed as he stepped off a bus Sunday.
Police tell the Bangor Daily News that Campbell fled soon after the Sept. 29 robberies by boarding a Greyhound bus to New York. Brewer police learned Sunday that Campbell had purchased a ticket to travel back to Bangor.
Campbell had been charged in connection with a Sept. 29 attempted robbery at the Rite Aid in Brewer and the robbery of the Hannaford grocery store pharmacy in Bangor a little more than an hour later.

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Aman was found dead Monday morning near the railroad tracks behind a strip mall in the 800 block of South Central Avenue in Medford.
Medford police Sgt. Brent Mak said the body was an adult male and there was no apparent trauma, though the investigation is continuing.
The identity of the 29-year-old man will not be released until his next-of-kin has been notified, but police recognized him as a known homeless man from Ashland.
An employee from La Clinica Women's Health Center nearby discovered the body as she was walking to work and reported it to authorities at about 10 a.m.
Medford officers, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department and a medical examiner responded.
"We can't really say how long he was there," said Lt. Mike Budreau. "He was not appropriately clothed for the temperature and he appeared to have been there a little while, based on his body temperature."
The man was found on the west of the tracks near a large concrete building and behind a strip mall containing a Purple Parrot, dog spa and other businesses.
Ashland police last had contact with the man in 2008.
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Like I said earlier.. We have guns up here too. The difference is Y'all bang your sisters and look like this
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Did y'all know that Lincoln didn't exactly like slavery but he also didn't exactly like black folk. He considered them inferior to the white man. And, here's the kicker, he was planning on shipping those of African descent to Panama. Why Panama? I don't know, but that's a true story.
Man, weed "withdrawals" ain't nothing but some insomnia, lack of appetitie and irritability. Certainly a tough southerener can handle that. That ain't no kick, cracker.
If you think weed's a rough "withdrawal," man get addicted to opiates for a spell or alcohol........
Now that's good fun right there.
Northerners can quit weed without seeing a doctor. Plus, we're all hooked on smack.
The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500 man elite fighting unit called the ----US REDNECK SPECIAL FORCES (USRSF).
These North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given the following facts about....
1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus.
5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt.
This mess in afganistan should be over IN A WEEK ...enough said
^^ did you know that the Army Spec Ops use locals for exercises around Bragg as guerrilla fighters?


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On New Year's Eve, Marietta resident Cody Bauman will be where he's been the last day of many years - on stage.
Bauman has been in one band or another since he was 16 years old, so he's played a lot of New Year's events.
"Usually if I'm not, I'm just at home," he said.
New Year's Eve audiences can have a different mix than other performances, Bauman said.
"There's a lot of people out who aren't usually out, just because it's New Year's," he said.
This year, Bauman will be performing with Hit Parade at The Adelphia Music Hall on Second Street in Marietta. The band, for which Bauman serves as drummer, formed in 2010 and performs '80s covers.
"They probably draw the biggest crowd of any entertainment we have," said Audrey Moodie, general manager of the Adelphia and the Galley.
Music, food, dancing and more await Valley residents as they ring in 2012. A number of establishments are having special events and others are preparing for a busy night.
Lucio Castillo, manager of Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Marietta, said the business is usually more crowded on New Year's Eve, but he expects even more people than usual.
"This time it's going to be a Saturday," he said.
A survey by the National Restaurant Association indicated an estimated 100 million Americans would be dining out or ordering in on either New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
East of Chicago Pizza owner Tim Myers said he always has an extra worker or two to make sure demand is met on New Year's Eve. It's not as big a night for pizza as Super Bowl Sunday or the day before Thanksgiving, but Myers estimated business is up 20 to 30 percent.
Some restaurants have special offers for New Year's Eve. The Galley is offering a four-course gourmet dinner starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 and include the performance by Hit Parade starting at 9:30 and a champagne toast at midnight. People can also pay $10 to come for just the music and the toast.
More information is available by calling 374-8278 or visiting www.thegalleymarietta.com.
In some cases, revelers may stay at the place where they party.
The Lafayette Hotel and Holiday Inn in Marietta are offering packages that include overnight stays.
All 77 of the Lafayette's rooms are booked for Saturday night, but there is still room for people to come to the party, which starts at 8 p.m., with music by local band River City Revue from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. The package includes a midnight buffet, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight in the ballroom.
"It's a really nice place to come and enjoy yourself with friends," said Christina Thrasher, director of sales and marketing at the Lafayette.
For reservations, call 1-800-331-9336 or 373-5522.
The Holiday Inn's package for couples includes a dance party in Brandy's Lounge with music by a DJ, as well as champagne, party favors, a midnight buffet and a New Year's Day breakfast buffet.
The $95 price includes a room for two with a king-sized bed. For more information, call 374-9660.
It's not just restaurants and hotels playing host to New Year's parties.
The Knights of Columbus Hall in Churchtown recently revived its New Year's Eve party last year after an absence of nearly a decade, said Bernard Dyar, the hall's Grand Knight.
The event was brought back "to keep something in our own area," he said.
Last year's festivities drew 60 to 65 couples ranging in age from "21 to 81," Dyar said.
Doors open at 7 p.m., with a meal at 8 and music by a DJ starting at 9. The party is "bring your own beverage," with mixers and snacks provided, along with a euchre area and party favors. Admission is $30 a couple or $15 for singles, with proceeds going to upkeep of the building. For more information, call 896-2117.
Other New Year's Eve events in the area include:
New Year's Eve Gala at the Blennerhassett Hotel in downtown Parkersburg, featuring live music by Columbus group Luxury Brown; package includes overnight accommodations for two, hors d'oeuvres, a midnight buffet, a cash bar and a champagne toast.
New Year's Eve dance from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the American Legion Post 159 home on Central Avenue in Williamstown; includes music by a DJ, appetizers and party favors; cost is $10 for singles and $15 for couples.
Surf and Turf New Year's Eve dinner party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5108, 319 Pike St., Marietta; music by Little Rock from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.; cost is $25 for singles and $40 for couples and includes dinner, dance, party favors and pork and sauerkraut at midnight. To sign up, call 374-9038.
New Year's supper and karaoke starting at 6 p.m. at the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 52 Hall on Ohio 821 off Interstate 77 exit 6 past the Pit Stop north of Marietta; sauerkraut and pork, $2; karaoke, $3 cover charge. For more information, call (740) 629-2315.


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State's teen birth rate needs study
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According to the West Virginia Kids Count organization, more than 46 teenage girls (ages 15-19) out of every 1,000 in West Virginia gave birth during 2011....
We can stop this problem by stopping rewarding teens for poor decisions. When teen girls get pregnant they consider it no big deal because for them it's a ticket to welfare wonderland. For the price of af getting pregnant they get food, shelter, babysitting, medical care and a free ride to college! When this is the alternative why would anyone want to work instead. Cut off the welfare and watch the pregnancy rates go down!
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I have to strongly disagree with both MrAlex and Jane. I was a teen mom. I am 32 now.. it's not "cool" and it's not easier. I am just now in my 3rd yr of college. I still struggle financially and my daughter knows what it feela like to go without the newest and most expensive clothes and gadgets. Do I regret having a baby young? Yes and no. I know the humiliation of paying for groceries with a foodstamp card. I know what it feels like to have to say no I can't afford that right now.
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Feels* oops :)
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On the other hand I also know how it feels to have someone love me more than anything else is their world. I also know what it feels like to be thanked for something that you really didn't think you would get. I am grateful for my daughter and all that she has become...all that she will be. I can only speak for myself when I say it's not "cool" to be a teen mom... but it's made me who I am... a better human.
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And as for "TEENMOM" (the mtv series).. I suggest you watch it before you bash it. I have and it is not glorifying the experience. It's pretty dead on accurate. It's educational and in my opinion the best thing mtv has ever put out. If a teen can watch that and still want a baby... wow. Just wow.
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ProudriverRat-yes, you made the mistake of having a baby as a teen mom-but it was we the taxpers who picked up the tab and money from out taxes allowed you to have food stamps. I am assuming that we are also paying for you to go to college too-while those of us who did not have babyies as teens had to pay our own way. You and everyone in your shoes owes us a debt of thnaks!
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Jane.. Thank you. I also work and pay taxes. I have worked since before I was pregnant and have continued to do so. I do get grants but I also have loans and family who are glad to help. I am lucky compared to most and I know that. People who use the system the way it is supposed to be used and try to help themselves do not deserve the same kind of judgment that you talked about in your previous post. I didn't get pregnant to enjoy the "welfare wonderland" that you spoke of. Do I appreciate the help I have gotten...absolutely! Am proud that I am bettering myself and that I have continued to pay into the system that has helped me? Absolutely! Do I feel like it has been a free ride? NO!
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We need to educate our children on sex and teen pregnancy. We need to stop the cycles of poverty that this issue and many others have caused. I can't help but to feel like you (Jane) were talking down to me. My mom was a teen mom too.. twice! She is still living in poverty today. I have chosen to expect more from my daughter and to be there for her... to set an example...to rise out of the ashes rather than let them swallow me up. I have chosen to stop the cycle. Wish me luck! And be glad that I stopped at one and am doing my best to see that you, me, and our kids don't have to provide a safety net for the next generation. ~:)
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You Proud are what all that was created for - stuff happens - not always on purpose. Chilcren need cared for period. I totally commend you for trying to make your family better. Unfortunately many many getting help are NOT like you and could care less about bettering their lives and more about just taking from others to survive. Good luck to your little family I wish you the best.
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Well proud, good for you but as I tell every waiter and waitress...don't quit your schooling If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
You have gotten past all he hard stuff, now having your daughter watch you graduate..will do wonders for her dreams
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We address the problem of teen moms, but the teen dads are seldom mentioned. Why is this issue so one sided?
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GoldNBlue, there's a lot of research and data that disagrees with you. Many teenage girls are having babies for the for the government assistance that follows the birth. Also, the number of teenage girls whose mothers also had children as teenagers is growing.
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If your business/organization/school has any weather-related closings due to the forecast of snow tonight, send them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Here's some of the things we've picked up on so far today:
• All Pocono Mountain School District schools will dismiss two hours early today. Lunch will be served to students prior to dismissal. All after-school activities are canceled for today.
• Delaware Valley School District has announced early dismissal at 11:30 a.m. for the middle and high schools, and at 12:30 p.m. for the elementary schools.
• Pocono Mountain Charter School has a two-hour early dismissal.
• The Clymer Library in Pocono Pines will be closing at 1:30 p.m. today.
• East Stroudsburg School District has canceled afterschool activities and meetings today due to the approaching storm.
• Polk Township residents: Trick-or-treating scheduled for tonight is rescheduled to 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Spaghetti dinner at Rescia Elementary School tonight has been canceled. The new date is Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 5-7p.m.
We will update this list through the afternoon and night here at poconorecord.com.
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Attention-grabbing billboards so pervasively dot the landscape that it seems as though anyone can express their creativity any way they want.
But transportation officials like the Colorado DOT's (CDOT) Jerry Miller, PE, — the agency's outdoor advertising program manager — must see to it that billboards maintain an aesthetic balance with the country's wide-open spaces. As Miller and I drive around Denver, it doesn't take long for him to spot code violations.
He points to an electronic billboard advertising mattresses.
"That looks pretty harmless, right? That's the factory showroom, but the sign is on a different piece of property from the showroom, so it may be illegal." He notes that the billboard belongs to a national outdoor advertising company whose management should know better. "If the sign reads, 'Come here and buy this,' it's OK," he says. "If it reads, 'Go there and buy that,' it's not. It's a subtle distinction, but it's easy to spot."
Violations in outdoor advertising typically result from financial motives and, in western states like Colorado, age-old "squatter's rights" attitudes toward land ownership. "You add money and the ease with which owners can physically erect or alter a billboard, and there's little compelling interest on anybody's part to play by the rules," Miller says.
Indeed, regulating outdoor advertising seems like maintaining law and order in the Wild West (minus the shootouts). Enforcement presents quite a challenge for the agency, which has limited staff resources. Because Miller is also CDOT's assistant statewide utilities engineer, he must also divvy his time working with utilities and on special projects — so he had to figure out a way to work smarter. His solution was to use mobile GPS and GIS to build a geodatabase of the state's 2,000 billboards.
Miller's first potential challenge was the agency's decentralized management structure. The agency splits the state into six regions. Tracking outdoor advertising is a secondary duty for regional employees, who report to their regional manager.
Each region had its own legacy database and reporting methods. As regional employees retired, their colleagues had difficulty quickly finding billboards in the databases. "It was almost a revolving door over a five-year period, and we lost our institutional knowledge of where we were at, where we were going, what we even had," Miller says.
In Colorado, federal and state laws (see sidebar on this page) define three categories of signs: conforming, nonconforming, and illegal. The most common violation that makes a sign illegal is when a property owner lets a friend or relative advertise off-premise goods or services free of charge. Nonconforming signs were lawfully erected before the effective date of state laws but don't currently conform to them; the signs aren't illegal but must be maintained according to state law.
"Let's say you built a billboard and we changed the law five years later," says Miller, adding that about 800 of the state's billboards are nonconforming. "We're not going to say, 'We want you to take down that sign.' It's grandfathered in. But if that sign originally had four posts, that's all it can ever have. Therefore, we take many pictures to document any changes to it."
Determining if a sign is legal or illegal also necessitates photographic records and pinpoint location. "If it's an illegal sign, that's where the attorneys might come in, so what we need are GPS coordinates precise enough to stand up in court," he says.
With these challenges in mind, Miller bought several Topcon GMS-2 hand-held GPS units in mid-2008. In addition to 50-channel dual-constellation satellite tracking, the receiver's digital camera automatically links images to the unit's GIS feature. Besides location data, the GIS feature stores up to 60 additional component data. The unit also has an integrated electronic compass, replaceable/rechargeable battery, and an expandable memory card slot.
"I picked it because our eight field personnel aren't engineers or surveyors," says Miller. "I wanted something they'd be comfortable with." The units are easy to use because they operate on Windows-based software, complementing the agency's Windows-based Microsoft Access database.
Miller pulls his car into the parking lot of Total Positioning Solutions in Denver. Inside, Survey Development Manager Jeff Hull provides an overview of the GMS-2's highly customizable software program, GeoAge's Field Adapted Survey Toolkit (FAST).
The software has a desktop version for designing forms, establishing data sets, and uploading and downloading data to a mobile device; and a PDA version that runs on any Windows-compatible device. Hull begins setting up a demonstration file for recording and inspecting trees using the desktop version, which allows programmers to create question-and-answer fields that "walk" users through a process step by step.
Hull sets up a question in a 250-character window and then sets up the answer as a required field; the field agent could pick a date range, too. A single-select menu is created to force the field agent to select "pine" or "maple." Multiple- or single-select menus indicate adverse conditions such as a fungus or insect infestation. Programmers can add headers, phone numbers, and other critical data, or import a text file with comma-delimited fields. For higher-precision devices like the GMS-2, programmers can select a submeter wide area augmentation system (WAAS) correction option.
"Jerry's got signs in the thousands; how does his team go out and get inspection data and spatial data on all of those signs? Very quickly," says Hull, opening a calculator in the PDA version. "Plus, if I've entered a numeric field, now I can use a calculator."
Playing the role of tree inspector, he selects from a pull-down menu multiple descriptions of a strange new insect. Next, he creates a question asking for an image of the tree's problem. From a pull-down menu, Hull selects "bugs" for the tree condition and can insert a photo or even a sketch of the insect. Finally, he creates a mandatory signature field, pointing out that the program timestamps field activities.
The question-and-answer format makes the software much more searchable. "If you wanted to know how many 'bad' trees there are, you can't search very well that way," Miller says. "Giving users a limited range of answers to choose from makes it a lot easier to draw that information back out. The same thing happens with our signs on a route. What if they call it I-70, Interstate 70, or an urban interstate? If you can control their answers so they can only call it I-70, it's much easier to get clean data."
It's also much easier to generate reports through the Access database. A supervisor can ask for how many trees are diseased and, of those, how many are infested with a particular insect. The data also can be exported into a program such as DXF mapping software or a free application like Google Earth so assets within a given geographical area can be mapped and marked with icons.
Miller is building a GIS-based database, updated with each region's existing data. So far, the data for about one-third of the state's billboards have been updated. Once the initial GIS development is complete, employees can begin using it to maintain records of legal and nonconforming billboards within their regions.
"Now we have multiple photos tied to the same permit so that we can have a historical record," Miller says. "What we're doing in our initial inventory is logging things about a sign that are easy to get. I want to know the location — that's where the GMS-2 comes in. I want to know the size. I want to know the permit number and I want inspectors to take a picture." From there, regional employees will use their GMS-2 units to complete the remaining fields programmed into the FAST software. Periodically, photos will be taken for visual archives.
Miller expects the technology to give the department much more flexibility. For example, it should be possible for one employee to verify and update all billboard data throughout the state once the original inventory is completed. He predicts that it won't take long before employees wonder how they ever managed without such tools.
—Talend, of Write Results Inc., West Dundee, Ill., is a print and e-content developer specializing in technology and innovation.


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There's certainly no shortage of worthy benefit concerts vying for your dollar this time of year. Yet, there's only so much dough to go around during the holidays, right?
That certainly factored into the decision a few years back to move the Help Is on the Way benefit concert from the holiday season to Valentine's Day. It was a reasonable attempt to separate the famed show that benefits the fight against AIDS from all the other charitable events that happen each December.
Reasonable, maybe. But not popular.
The decision lasted only two years (2009-10).
"The holiday show was more successful than the Valentine's show," says Ken Henderson, co-producer of the annual fundraiser. "People kept coming up and saying, 'I loved your holiday show. It really sets the mood for the holidays.' So, we decided to bring it back -- by popular demand."
It's easy to understand why there was such demand -- just look at this year's offering.
The 2012 edition of Help Is on the Way for the Holidays is another star-studded affair, featuring members of the national touring casts of "The Book of Mormon" and "The Lion King," cabaret star Connie Champagne, "Star Search" finalist Spencer Day, "America's Got Talent" semifinalist Tim Hockenberry, comedian and Broadway performer Bruce Vilanch, jazz vocalist Paula West and Supremes star Mary Wilson. The event, which benefits Shanti, a nonprofit that helps AIDS/HIV patients, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday at Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.
The artists will be performing a wide range of material, all of which is suitable for the season. It won't be, however, just a night of Christmas chestnuts.
"We want it to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, for people who might not be traditional Christians," Henderson explains of the song selections. What he's shooting for is a program and songs that get at the "spirit of the holidays -- that captures love and hope and caring. It still has that warm holiday feel, but not everything in the show is necessarily a Christmas song."
In the beginning
Help Is on the Way for the Holidays is a production of the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, which also stages Help Is on the Way benefits in August. The organization was founded in 1995 by Barbara Richmond and Peggy Ermet, who both lost their sons -- John Richmond and Doug Ermet -- to AIDS. The foundation honors their memories while raising funds for AIDS service organizations. To date, the foundation has raised nearly $2.8 million to help fight the battle against AIDS.
One of the first moves the women made was to enlist Henderson and show co-producer Joe Seiler in the effort. The two men, who had experience and connections in the Bay Area entertainment world, were more than willing to help.
"(Doug) Ermet was our best friend at the time," Henderson says. "His mom was like a second mom to us. He was like a brother to me. It was something that we just felt compelled to help and do something about.
"Like most people at that point, we'd write our little checks to different agencies for different things. When the moms came up with the idea of doing a big benefit, we thought, 'Well, this is something that would be a little more significant and hopefully have a little more impact.' And that's what has kind of kept us going."
That first benefit, Help Is on the Way: San Francisco Cares, was held in 1995 and featured a who's who of contemporary theater, nightclub, cabaret and other artists operating in the Bay Area. The bill included members of the San Francisco Ballet, "Beach Blanket Babylon" and "The Phantom of the Opera," which was the hot show at the time in the Bay Area (much like "Mormon" is now).
An instant hit
Help Is on the Way was a hit from the start, with both ticket-buyers and corporations willing to join the fight against AIDS.
"It was a cause that people got behind much more readily than they do today," Henderson says. "When we started, people were still dying (from AIDS) regularly. It was in the news. It was still one of the major diseases that were impacting people, especially locally. It was a cause that everybody wanted to support."
However, that's changed somewhat over the years.
"I think today people have the perception that AIDS is kind of over -- that they have drugs to keep people alive, and you don't have to think about it," Henderson says. "Corporations have reprioritized their giving guidelines away from AIDS as a cause. We still have some really great sponsors that are sticking with it and keep us going. But it's much harder overall to bring in new sponsors."
In a way, that makes Help Is on the Way more important than ever.
"The message that we are trying to get out there is that we are getting closer and closer to a cure, but we're not there," Henderson says. "People with AIDS still rely on the services of local service providers. It's a little too soon to try to give up and pull back. The people with HIV still depend on those services. And with more and more agencies closing, their resources are getting smaller and smaller."
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Help is on the Way for the holidays
With cast members from "The Book of Mormon" and "The Lion King," Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Bruce Vilanch, Tim Hockenberry, Spencer Day, Paula West Connie Champagne
When: 7:30 p.m. Monday
Where: Marines Memorial Theatre,
609 Sutter St., San Francisco
Tickets: $40-$60; 415-273- 1620,
Note: Underwriter ticket prices are $100-$5,000, which allows access to the popular post-performance Cast Dessert Party at Hotel Adagio.


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Less than a week after the premiere of "The Avengers," Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed there will be a sequel to Earth's Mightiest Movie following sequels to "Iron Man," "Thor" and "Captain America."
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As Sunday's box office reports roll in with better-than-expected results, Marvel Studios has revised "The Avengers'" North American opening weekend's take to $207 million.
Marvel's "The Avengers" opened this weekend to a record-shattering $200.3 million in North America to become the largest domestic debut of all time. The film has earned $641.8 million worldwide in just 12 days.
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Current tracking has Marvel's blockbuster "The Avengers" poised to surpass ticket sales of $550 Million this weekend as the film opens in North America, China and Russia.
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As if "The Avengers'" early tracking wasn't already impressive enough, the Joss Whedon-directed action film has now pre-sold more tickets than all the previous Marvel releases combined.
"The Avengers" stars Robert Downey Jr., Samuel Jackson, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and producer Kevin Feige speak about the film and working with Joss Whedon.
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The sixth clip from Marvel's "The Avengers" showcases an old-fashioned comic-book brawl between Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and Chris Hemsworth's Thor.
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While celebrating his 50th birthday, Clark Gregg unveiled "The Avengers" character banner for fan-favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson -- aka, "the Son of Coul."
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The game incorporates a range of skills, yet anyone at any level can play. You don't need to be strong or tough to compete and win and the game is popular with everyone from grade school kids to adults. Don't be surprised when your 8 year old "takes you to the cleaners!" Disc-Off is also available in bulk to support fundraisers, favorite team activities, a school, business or charity. The games come in a multitude of colors or can be special ordered in your favorite team, school or organization's colors. While everyone else is playing Ladder Ball or Corn Hole, you can step out from the crowd and play an exciting game of Disc-Off in your team's colors and decals. It's awesome for family bonding and team building so get the game, grab some friends and have some fun!
- The Bottles - Custom molded shape, size and weight conducive to playing the game.
- The Bases - Same tough bottle material for solid color matching, toughness and strength.
- The Disc - A 9 3/4 inch 130 gram high quality flyer produced by a major U.S. supplier.
- The Poles - Two three piece solid color 3/4" polymer - easy assembly, convenient storage.
- The Bag - Size and design for active use, open mesh for sand, holds entire set.
- The Set – Tough, colorful, high quality, durable, stable, easy assembly, easy storage.
Players:Play 1 on 1 or in Teams of 2 (Team players alternate tosses)
Set up:Poles 40 – 50 feet apart (adjust for player skill and/or playing conditions) being able hit the bottle or pole around every 5-8 throws. Players are even with or behind the poles during play.
Scoring: The tossing Player/Team knocks the Bottle off the pole to the playing surface
Tossing Player
"HIT" Disc hits the Bottle - 5 Points
"TAP" Disc hits the Pol - 3 Points
"SKIP" Disc hits ground and then the pole - 1 Point
Opposing Player(s) catching the falling bottle one handed, not trapped against their body, before it hits the ground is "A STEAL" and the Tossing Player points are stolen by the opposing Player!
Catch a "HIT" - 5 Points
Catch a "TAP" - 3 Points
Catch a "SKIP" - 1 Point
(Some players like to reduce the "STEAL" values to "Hit" 3,"Tap" 2 and "Skip" 1 as they feel the catching is easier than hitting the Bottle or Pole).
Interference: Players may not inhibit or block the flight of the Disc to the target. "Interference" where the Disc may have hit the pole allows for a re-toss or if it's intentional 5 points is awarded. Use good judgment and Fair Play.
Winner(s): First Player or Team to 15 points
Next Game: Teams or Players switch ends after every game to compensate for playing conditions.
Warning:Disc-Off is a competitive disc tossing game and players should be cautious in throwing the flying disc and catching the bottle and should not aim the disc at another player's face.
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Weight: 7 lbs.
Manufacturer: Rock Wall Corp Dba Disc-off
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If the Summit High hockey team needed to start playing the full 51-minutes of the 51-minute game, they did so Friday night.
A few unlucky bounces gone the other way, and it could have been a victory for the Tigers.
Instead, Resurrection Christian walked away with a 6-5 win.
"We came in expecting a good game, a physical game, and that's exactly what it was," head coach Chris Ruhly said. "Our team didn't let up. The turning point in the game was bad bounces which led to three goals. We had a post at the end. Two posts (that go in instead) and it's a different game. Top to bottom, everyone worked hard. The goalkeeper made saves when he needed them to. Our top line scored when we needed them to. Unfortunately, at the end, it just didn't go our way."
Nothing went into the net until well into the first period, when Resurrection Christian broke through the Tiger defense for a goal. A minute and a half later, Jack Nevicosi responded. The Tigers didn't let down, either, as Travis Potts put the puck into the net about a minute later.
Resurrection Christian's Tanner Ulland scored at the end of the first period to put the teams at an even 2-2.
From there, it was an evenly matched game, with the Tigers executing some of the things they've been practicing: getting in front of the net for screens and tips. Putting the puck in front of the net. Assistant captain Blake Horan had three assists while captain Sean Farley and senior Peter Grotemeyer parked themselves in front of the net to pick up a tip each.
In the third period, Resurrection Christian scored two unassisted goals, putting the team ahead, 6-4. With less than two minutes to go in the game, though, Farley responded with the help of Grotemeyer and Nevicosi to finalize the scoreboard at 6-5.
Despite the loss, it's another step in the right direction, Ruhly said.
"You're never happy with a loss, but if you take anything away from this game, we battled and we battled hard," said the coach. "We're starting to turn. We're starting to have things happen. We need to get a win here sooner rather than later, but things are looking good. ... This is probably the first game we've played where we really put a lot of things together. Unfortunately, we didn't come out with the win."


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Courtesy of Marvel arrives an exclusive expanded preview of "Daredevil" #22, by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, featuring the first meeting between the Man Without Fear and the Superior Spider-Man -- and, oh, yeah, the return of Stilt-Man!
Our conversation on the year that was 2012 for Marvel Comics wraps as Axel Alonso says farewell to long runs by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis and more while reviewing what made "Daredevil" and "Hawkeye" hits.
Ryan K. Lindsay gives "Daredevil" #21 4 stars, saying series writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee "hit effective end of issue beats and continue to propel the series forward."
Marvel Comics has released a first look at Chris Samnee's interior artwork for "Daredevil" #22 written by Mark Waid. The Man Without Fear joins the Superior Spider-Man January 16.
Senior Editor Steve Wacker has taken over CBR's regular Friday column with Marvel Editorial and doubled up on fan questions including hints as to future guest stars in "Hawkeye," "Captain Marvel" team-ups and "Daredevil" comebacks.
This week, Batwoman and Wonder Woman draw on Pegasus, Sirocca creeps up on Diana, the Shadow knows (how to ride a motorcycle), Captain America stands tall and Daredevil swings past guns, and ammo and ⦠bodies?
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Captain America" #1, "Deadpool" #2, "Iron Man" #2, "Uncanny X-Force" #34 and more.
In "Daredevil: End of Days," an all-star team of creators explores the possible final days of the Man Without Fear. In part two of our look at the series, CBR spoke with Editor Steve Wacker and artist Alex Maleev.
This week, Mothman takes a nap, Clint and Kate take aim, Metal Man takes to the water, Wonder Woman takes a walk and The Coyote takes a head.
Ryan K. Lindsay gives "Daredevil" #19 by Mark Waid with art by Chris Samnee 4 stars, saying series writer Waid is "back on pitch perfect form for Daredevil."
Marvel kicked off its final day of New York Comic Con devoting a panel to Spider-Man, with Dan Slott, Mark Waid, Joe Keatinge, Declan Shalvey, and more on hand to discuss their amazing, superior, and avenging titles.
"Arrow" debuts as the most watched CW show in three years! More set photos from "Red 2!" Oni's "The Sixth Gun" to become a television show. Also, "Iron Man 3" has a composer, "Daredevil" reverts to Marvel and more.
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Captain Marvel" #5, "Daredevil" #19, "Marvel Zombies Halloween" #1, "Venom" #26 and more.
This week, the King of Monsters wreaks havoc, Lobster Johnson keeps watch over the city, Danielle Moonstar goes techno (-organic), Frank Castle strolls out of the sunset and Matt Murdock gets stripped down.
Doug Zawisza gives "Daredevil" #18 by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee 4.5 stars calling the issue "a stellar example of how Waid balances superheroics, personal character development, action and humor."
An all-star team of "Daredevil" creators examine the final days of the Man Without Fear in "Daredevil: End of Days." CBR spoke with co-writers Brian Bendis and David Mack about the series.
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Avengers" #30, "Spider-Men" #5, "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" #15 and more.
Marvel has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at Alex Maleev's cover and Klaus Janson & Bill Sienkiewicz's interiors for "Daredevil: End of Days" #2, written by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack.
A closer look at August's direct-market sales! Penguin launches graphic novel imprint! "Daredevil" team talks about Harvey Awards wins! Geoff Johns at the Arab American National Museum! Keith Giffen on his "He-Man" plans! Plus more!
Marvel has released a preview for "Daredevil: End of Days" #1 by the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack, Klaus Janson, Alex Maleev and Bill Sienkiewicz. The last days of Daredevil begins October 10.
Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, remembered for his roles in such films as "The Green Mile," "Daredevil," "Sin City" and "Green Lantern," died Monday from complications of a heart attack. He was 54.
Although his character is pivotal to the "Extremisâ" storyline, Guy Pearce insists his role in director Shane Blackâs "Iron Man 3" "really kind of cameo stuff" while explaining why he passed on "Daredevil" a decade ago.
Dan Slott, Stephen Wacker, Axel Alonso and more gather at Fan Expo Canada to discuss the wall crawler, Alpha, Stan Lee's role in issue #700 and a new Morbius ongoing.
Marvel has released a first look at Chris Samnee's interior pages for "Daredevil" #18 written by Mark Waid. The Man Without Fear faces down the new menace of the Coyote September 19.
This week, the Lizard's up to his eyeball in Spider-Man, Batwoman chants "Bloody Mary" three times, Daredevil keeps watch over Hell's Kitchen, we wonder what's behind the blue-green door and go leaf watching in space.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse has faith in "Kick-Ass!" Joe Carnahan posts a "Daredevil" sizzle reel! "The Walking Dead" to amble into motion pictures? Also, a possible "Iron Man 3" trailer description and more.
Following his comments that Fox's "Daredevil" movie plans had gone "up in smoke," director Joe Carnahan has released the sizzle reel he used to pitch the studio on his '70s-inspired plans for the character.
With the clock run down on Fox's "Daredevil" plans, multiple reports indicate that Marvel could reclaim the film rights to the character as soon as mid-October.
In what appears to be another blow to Foxâs "Daredevil" plans, "The Grey" director Joe Carnahan reveals his idea for the Man Without Fear, described as a "Frank Miller-esque, hardcore '70s thriller," "went up in smoke."
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Avengers" #29, "Captain Marvel" #2, "Daredevil" #17, "Hulk" #56, "X-Men" #34 and more.
Ron Marz muses on numerous topics including his current workload to abandoned projects, and what music he just can't stop listening to right now. After all, it's hot out there...
Brian Michael Bendis has debuted the first look at Bill Sienkiewicz's interior art from Marvel's upcoming "Daredevil: End of Days" miniseries by Bendis, Sienkiewicz, David Mack and Klaus Janson.
Fox denies trading "Fantastic Four" characters for more time on "Daredevil!" President Obama weighs in on "The Dark Knight Rises!" Guillermo del Toro gives an update on the "Hulk" television series! Plus, "Robocop" and more!
Time is running out for Fox to retain rights to the "Daredevil" universe of characters, but a new report denies the studio will exchange the rights for characters Galactus and the Silver Surfer to keep the blind hero.
This week Hazmat blows her top, Matt and Foggy go their separate ways, Nick Fury takes aim, the Beasts of Burden cast a creepy shadow, and Clint Barton shoots an arrow into the air (it falls to earth he knows not where).
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "Captain America" #16, "Gambit" #1, "New Avengers" #29, "The Mighty Thor" #18, "Spider-Men" #4 and more.
Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you advance looks at new titles on sale next Wednesday including "AvX" #9, "Daredevil" #16, "Fury Max" #5, "Hawkeye" #1, "X-Men" #33 and more.
Marvel has released a first look at Mike Allred's return to Marvel Comics with "Daredevil" #17 written by Mark Waid with colors by Laura Allred. "The Great Divide" begins August 15.
This week's Cover of the Week nominees bring with them a Martian attack, a royal portrait, a mysterious hand, a Gotham shapeshifter and Matt Murdock in the trenches.
Matt Murdock escaped from Latveria in "Daredevil" #15, but he did not emerge unscathed. CBR News spoke with writer Mark Waid about the issue and his plans for the Eisner-winning series.
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Warrenton, Ga--A lot of times to single out a player of the week is not easy. To pick someone from a 12-3 ballgame, you know he had to do something pretty special. That's exactly what Warren County's Jabari Wilson did this past Friday night.
Wilson did it all over the field for the Screaming Devils. On offense, 140 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries and on defense, he may have made the play of the year for the team. With top 10 George Walton threatening to take the lead late, a big hit led to a fumble and Wilson did the rest. 99 yards later he was in the end zone to seal the win. A worthy performance indeed.
"The running back was cutting through my way and me and my outside linebacker hit him and I saw the ball pop out and I looked up at the referee and I just picked it up and just gone," said Wilson.
"I was just giggling inside," said Coach David Daniels. "Because I said they're not going to catch him, and I said he's going to score and we're going to win and that's just a nice feeling. It's just a great feeling to have something like that happen. We were just very fortunate to have something like that happen because George Walton is a great team."
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RedHat 7.2 kernels the contains a few line of code in the slab.c that does not allows more usage of memory. But Jan Michael Ibanez has developed a Kludge for the SM56 Modem Driver that is available with this Tar file.
Hey! I know Jan Michael Ibanez! w00t, karma++. Visit his blog at http://www.livejournal.com/~cyberlizard/ .
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I've just purchased a copy of Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder, from Books For Less. AFAIK, it's out-of-print, though I may be mistaken. Written circa-1981, it is a must-read for any self-respecting tech geek about the creation of a (good Lord, this is old) new 32-bit minicomputer. Hurray for me. =)
Amen to that! Soul of a New Machine is a terrific book. It's a gripping story of how a cool piece of hardware was built, and I loved its vivid description of the computer industry back then - long hours, high stress, great wizardry... Must read!
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In order to do that, it is not enough to know the subject well. I also need to know how to teach effectively - how to engage and excite students, how to draw out their questions and guide them to answers. I want to be able to reach each student - not as a faceless, nameless crowd I teach to, but as individuals from whom I can learn and with whom I can share what I know.
It will not be easy. Not all my lessons will proceed according to plan. Not all the examples I use will be clear and understandable. But armed with a passiono for the field and a desire to help people learn effectively, I hope to do the best I can.
I believe that formal training in education - from formulating lesson plans to assessing student accomplishments - will help me become a more effective teacher. With its emphasis on Ignatian ideals such as "magis" and "cura personalis", an Atenean education will help me learn how to help prepare other people to be men and women for others.
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By Wade Bourne
Hunters have until sunset on January 27 to pursue ducks in the last few states in the lower Mississippi River Valley where the general waterfowl season is still open. In addition, special youth waterfowl hunts will be held in several states in early February. Here are late-breaking reports from Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee about what hunters can expect in these states during the final weekend of the open season as well as upcoming youth hunts.
Luke Naylor, waterfowl program coordinator for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, expects hunting conditions to be about the same during the closing weekend as they've been over the past two weeks. "We flew a waterfowl count this week, and we didn't find any appreciable increase in duck numbers from our previous survey. We inventoried 800,000 ducks in the delta of eastern Arkansas, and only 450,000 of these were mallards. We were hoping to see more," he said.
Naylor says that the duck season has been somewhat disappointing for Arkansas duck hunters overall. "Our November duck count was high; we had good early numbers. But then things leveled out, and we never had a major migration, just a series of smaller flights here and there. There never really was that big push of birds that everybody hopes for," he said.
According to Naylor, a few areas are holding good concentrations of ducks, and hunters who locate these pockets of birds could have good shooting this final weekend. In addition, Arkansas' Youth Waterfowl Weekend is on February 2 and 3, and Naylor expects the youngsters (ages 15 and under) to have good success. "Hopefully, after five days of rest, ducks will fall back into more predictable patterns of feeding and resting that will make them more accessible to youth hunters. Traditionally the youth hunt offers a great chance for our young hunters to bag some birds, and I don't see any reason why this won't be the case again this year," he said.
James Callicutt, waterfowl program biologist for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks, reports that hunting success has picked up in both the north and lower Delta regions following the passage of strong cold fronts in mid-January. "We had a significant influx of new ducks associated with these fronts," Callicutt said. "But we also received a lot of rain, and the ducks scattered across a broad area. There was a lot of sheet water in the fields and an abundance of water in the woods. When concentrations of ducks received hunting pressure, they just went somewhere else.
"Now the water is starting to recede slightly, and hunting conditions are more stable. I've heard some good reports from people hunting in flooded timber. Two good public areas are Delta National Forest and its associated wildlife management areas and also Malmaison WMA near Greenwood.
"So the ducks are here; it's just a matter of getting on them. Overall, I'd say we're set up for a good closing weekend. There's a lot of habitat available, and hunters who do a good job of scouting should have a couple of days of good shooting."
Callicutt is also optimistic for Mississippi's Youth Waterfowl Weekend on February 2 and 3. "Prospects for the kids look great," he said. "Several WMAs have good numbers of ducks now, and they won't receive any hunting pressure for a week. Ducks normally concentrate in some pretty big numbers on the WMAs in early February. Two areas I'd recommend are Howard Miller and Mahannah WMAs, both in the lower Delta."
Tennessee hunters benefited from heavy rains in mid-January as rising water levels in Reelfoot Lake and river bottoms lured ducks off refuges. However, now that water levels are receding, the ducks are moving back into secure zones.
Dan Fuqua, waterfowl biologist for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, believes hunting prospects for closing weekend are fair at best. "We've been hunting the same ducks for several weeks now. We have very few new ducks around. And the ducks we do have are call shy and decoy wise. They're also getting back into that old pattern of feeding at night and sitting on the refuges during the day. Add all these things together, and I'd say most hunters will have a difficult time this weekend," Fuqua said.
"We just never got a big push of new ducks this year. Counts on our state refuges showed less than half the number of ducks that we had last year. All of west Tennessee was very dry until we got recent rains, and this has had a negative impact on our duck count throughout most of the season."
One recent duck-hunting hotspot has been Reelfoot Lake, where guide Billy Blakely of Blue Bank Resort reports consistent shooting since the lake level rose above normal pool following mid-January rains. "We've had a lot of ducks moving and looking around the last few days," Blakely said. "I think we'll close out with a successful weekend."
Tennessee has a different calendar for its statewide Daniel Greer Memorial Youth Waterfowl Hunt, which will be held on February 2 and 9─two Saturdays a week apart instead of during one weekend. "In years past, when we had the youth hunt on back-to-back days, the kids would usually have a good shoot on Saturday, but then the ducks would be back on the refuges on Sunday. However, this year both Saturdays should offer good shooting since the ducks will have a week of rest between the two days of hunting. I anticipate a high success rate for our youth hunters on these two days," Fuqua said.
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This is an addition to the Playstation3 Media Server core adding functionality of remote shutdown (have a look at features for details). Personally I feel this would be worthwhile integrating to the program, however if maintainers don't like this and users still want it I'll consider writing it in the form of a plugin instead.
Anyhow, here are the details:
- Remote (via UPnP) shutdown of Windows, Mac and Linux
- Customisable shutdown command: Change shutdown parameters/command to whatever suits you.
- Allows user to submit password as might be required for shutdown on Linux/Mac machines (sudo)
- Enable/disable option
Security issues:
- There is no authentification needed from the UPnP client in order to execute a shutdown command.
- Possibly needed computer user account password is stored as plain text as part of the configuration.
File name: ps3mediaserver+shutdown_binary.zip File size: 56.21 MB
File name: ps3mediaserver+shutdown_source_included.zip File size: 152.48 MB
Brief user guide:
- Start program by opening the PMS.jar file in the main directory.
- Configuration is stored under the "General Configuration" tab. Enabling, setting command and password is all done from here.
- The shutdown is executed by opening the dummy video called "Shutdown computer" in the "#Video settings#" folder.
- Enjoy the software, thinking of those steps you don't have to walk to shut down your computer anymore!
Source code with instructions:
The work was carried out on build 412 2010-10-04T18:23:16.263731Z, use this to ensure functionality.
Quicker, less portable:
PMS_shutdown (replace corresponding files in build 412 and recompile)
More portable, although manually modifying files required
Manual code insertion (see in which files and where code was inserted and manually insert it yourself, likely to work with future releases as well).
Some design choices explained:
- The reason I put it here is because it's treated as a "video" and as such it didn't feel worth it making a new folder with a name like System settings. Such a folder wouldn't serve any purpose to Music or Image viewing either.
- The shutdown option is disabled by default due to previous mentioned security issues.
Possible further additional features:
Custom user commands: While it technically is possible to supply any command (i.e. non-shutdown commands) to the shutdown computer button it might be an interesting idea to allow users to dynamically add their own commands to new dummy videos.
If you have any questions or want to discuss something just reply to this thread or send me a pm.


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Swan Lake
Ballet in two acts
Ballet in two acts
Music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography and Staging by Patrice Bart after Petipa and Ivanov
|Choreography and Staging (after Marius Petipa and Lew Iwanow)
|Patrice Bart
|Set and Costume design
|Luisa Spinatelli
|Robert Reimer
|Solisten und Corps de ballet des Staatsballetts Berlin
|Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
|Krasina Pavlova
|Rainer Krenstetter
|Sarah Mestrovic
|Leonard Jakovina
|Kévin Pouzou
"Swan Lake" had its first night in december 1997. The fact, that all the performances thus far have been sold out, and that a live telecast was seen in more than one hundred French cinemas by approximately 80,000 people, gives an idea, how successful this production has been.
Patrice Bart, associate director of Paris Opéra Ballet, mounted this "Swan Lake", and modified the story. In his version, Prince Siegfried is a sensitive young man who is besieged by expressions of love and desire from his dominant mother, the Queen, and from his close friend, Benno. He wonders, if he is able to truly love anyone. Only Odette, a creature between a woman and a swan, who comes from another world, fascinates him. The Queen an Benno advance in Bart's psychoanalytical but elegant and unsugary "Swan Lake" to become principal characters with substantial dancing roles. The jealous mother; her prime minister, Rotbart; and Benno hatch a scheme against the lovers with Rotbart's daughter, Odile, as the tool. Siegfried recognizes the conspiracy too late and follows his beloved Odette to death.
The story takes place around 1900 at the court of Nicholas II, Russia's last czar. Designer Luisa Spinatelli has created decor and costumes in the spirit of art nouveau. Stylistically, both "white" lakeside scenes in this two-act version remain almost untouched, while the two scenes set at court include a lot of tricky, nimble-footed dances for large groups. Bart tells the story as logically as one can in ballet, and choreographs with sensitive musicality without being a slave on Tchaikovsky's score.
Volkmar Draeger
Dance Magazine Review May 1998
45 minutes before each performance (except premieres), there is an introduction in the opera house.
It is prepared and moderated by students of the institute of dance studies (Institut für Tanzwissenschaft) of Freie Universität Berlin.


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Woman charged with posing as caretaker, stealing from clients
Published: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 4:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 4:33 p.m.
A Hendersonville woman was behind bars Friday after police say she swiped medications and jewelry from the homes of former patients she tended under the guise of a trusted caregiver.
Hendersonville police and the Henderson County Sheriff's Office charged Lacey Marie Silcox, 25, with multiple counts of check larceny, obtaining property by false pretenses, identity theft, larceny by an employee and forgery after a multi-agency, dual-county investigation.
"Silcox previously worked for different home healthcare service providers in Henderson and Transylvania counties up until October 2012," according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office Friday.
Detectives said she "continued to pose as a home healthcare worker" and stole from residents she once cared for while employed.
"Many of these residents have reported the theft of medications and personal property during the times Ms. Silcox revisited their homes. Investigators have uncovered forged prescriptions, stolen jewelry and a pattern of deceit and theft involving Ms. Silcox since the investigation began," according to the release.
Silcox is being held at the Henderson County Detention Center in lieu of a $140,800 bond. Officers in Henderson and Transylvania counties will continue the investigation. More charges are expected, according to the release.
Anyone with any information about the case is asked to contact Detective Tonya Starling at the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at 828-694-2796 or Detective Gail Mackey at the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office at 828-884-3210, ext. 3.
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Yes, Leslie Jones, Twitter has a humanity problem
July 20, 2016, 5:53 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
If social media is a reflection of all that we are — good and bad — than we should lean to the good.
After 13 years at a shelter, Archie the cat finds his forever home
April 7, 2016, 4:52 p.m. by Laura Moss
Archie has only known shelter life, but now he has a home, thanks to a heartfelt 'Dear Santa' letter and the kindness of strangers.
Boaty McBoatface inspires internet to rename animals
March 24, 2016, 3:18 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
From 'Stab Rabbit' (porcupine) to 'Huggles Von Deathcuddle' (grizzly bear), here are some of the hilarious new monikers.
Your social media activity can help and hurt animal rescues
March 14, 2016, 8:10 a.m. by Laura Moss
When you share a rescue organization's posts or comment on them, it may not always be what's best for the shelter.
No one knows why Canadians are being barred from 'Jeopardy!'
February 22, 2016, 3:28 p.m. by Michael d'Estries
We'll take 'Things that don't make sense' for $500, Alex.
Google's solar-powered drones aim to bring high-speed Internet to all
February 1, 2016, 9:48 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
Search giant's 'Project SkyBender' is currently testing in secret at Virgin Galactic's HQ in New Mexico.
Is the whole world watching your baby monitor?
January 25, 2016, 1:08 p.m. by Lloyd Alter
It's possible — security on the Internet of Things is that bad.
The science behind email response times
December 28, 2015, 10:06 a.m. by Laura Moss
Study reveals what you can do to increase the likelihood of a speedy reply.
Mark Zuckerberg pledges 99% of Facebook shares to charity
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I had a demo version, then bought the professional version. Now when I open the professional version and click on the search key in the help screen I get the message
'file:///Users/bm/Desktop/qcad-188.8.131.52-1-demo.macosx.tiger.universal/doc/chapter24.html#aligned dimension'
It apparently is looking for the demo version of a page.
How do I fix this.
Apparently you are not the only company that has problems installing software on a Mac. I've had more problems this month on Mac installations than I had in 25 years on Windows.
I think Steve Jobs should quit worrying about iPad and iPods and get rid of this 40 year old obsolete software he's using on the Mac. [/img]


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PABLO, MONTANA 59855 Salish-Xootenai Community College ISSN:0528-8592 Box 1020 Ronan, MT 59364 OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION , WESTERN MONTANA VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4 THE MONTH FOR CELEBRATION DANCES JULY 1, 1983 If you get bored this weekend, you're just not trying hard enough Summer gets going in high gear this weekend with no less than ten events on tap across the Reservation. The biggest, of course, is the Tribes' annual pow wow celebration in Arlee featuring dancers and drummers from the Pacific Northwest, a raffle, stick game tournament, card games, and arts and crafts displays. (Details, last page.) Standing Arrow Pow Wow is July 14-17 This year's 5th annual Standing Arrow Pow Wow in Elmo will run from July 14th to the 17th. Prize money will be awarded to the first three places in 14 categories, which include four age groups. Registration deadline is noon on the 16th. Contestants must register in person. In addition to the dancing and drumming, there will be a men's Softball tournament and a rodeo. The 12-team tourney will result in three teams earning $400, $250 and $150. The entry fee is $100 per team; the registration deadline is July 13. The two-day rodeo starts at 6 p.m. on the 16th and 3 p.m. on the 17th. Admission is $3 for adults and $1.50 for children under 12. (Concludes on page 5) Inside . . . The Program for Elmo's Pow Wow An all-Indian rodeo is scheduled in Arlee, too, as is a bowling tournament. The town will also host its 23rd annual parade beginning at noon on July 4th. The town of Charlo has its annual parade set for 1 p.m. on the 4 th. An all-school reunion there is also scheduled for the weekend. The Joseph Hamel Memorial 3-on-3 Tournament takes place in St. Ignatius on July 1, 2, and 3. Call 675-8555 for details, or see the ad in our last issue. Moving north, 1983's third quarterly Council meeting will be held in Pablo today (July 1) beginning at 9 am. July 1 is also an "admin, holiday"-Tribal offices will be closed. A few miles up the road in Poison, the Rez's third parade on the 4th starts at 11. Several dozen powerboats will be tuning up their engines all weekend on the Flathead River for a combined regatta: Poison's Independence Day competition and the western region divisionals. (Continues on next page) Tribal offices closed today and Monday July 1 has been declared an administrative holiday for Tribal employees. The quarterly meeting set for today is still on, however. Both Tribal and BIA offices will be closed July 4 in observance of Independence Day.
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In Theaters This Week
What a waste.
That thought lingers in the air like the smoke off some moll's cigarette at the end of the gory, only intermittently entertaining "Gangster Squad."
The film noir originally was slated for release this past September, but it was delayed after the Aurora, Colo., tragedy to accommodate for a reshoot to replace a sequence involving a shooting in a movie theater. Sadly, it wasn't worth the wait.
Its failings aren't due to the top-notch cast, which includes Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and Emma Stone. Those three are mostly OK, even if some of their roles are underdeveloped. It's the screenplay that brings down this action flick.
And what a shame that is. Director Ruben Fleischer ("Zombieland") has vividly brought to life the late 1940s-'50s Los Angeles. He, production designer Maher Ahmad and costume designer Mary Zophres welcome us into a richly detailed era that tailor-fits this crime story about a clandestine group of lawmen trying to take down crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn).
Fleischer stages and paces action set pieces like a champion, from a climactic shootout at a hotel Christmas display (love those exploding bulbs!) to a suspense-filled Chinatown encounter. But at times, he goes overboard on the violence, making it glaringly gratuitous. Really, do we need to see a guy get ripped apart by two cars?
"Squad's" screenplay by Will Beall alternates between violent and silly, until it goes so over-the-top we stop caring.
Beall, who's a novelist and former homicide detective, based his crime avenger story on journalist Paul Lieberman's nonfiction book. One of his biggest problems is Grace (Emma Stone), a love interest that Beall created for the Gosling and Penn characters who is not given much to do. The romance between Gosling and Stone is so boring and phony, it makes you almost forget how well the two played off each other in "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Here, they have no chemistry whatsoever, and the screenplay does nothing to help them turn up the heat. On his own, Gosling has some fine moments as his character leaps into mob-fighting action.
Beall's two main characters -- the single-minded Sgt. John O'Mara (Brolin) and the narcissistic Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Gosling) -- have a lot of potential, but most of it goes untapped.
Brolin is a commanding on-screen presence as a World War II veteran waging his own war, but he's not given much to play with, especially when it comes to the dialogue, which is limp. Neither was anyone else, for that matter. The film's best moments -- written well by Beall -- don't involve the needlessly graphic violence. Rather, they come in the exchanges between O'Mara and his smart, pregnant wife, Connie (Mireille Enos), who helps select the squad in question. Connie is the most intriguing character in the whole lot. You just wish her character had more screen time than the boys.
Other members of this squad have their modest moments, with Robert Patrick and Anthony Mackie standing out. But it's Penn as Cohen, their nemesis, who surrenders to too many histrionics and comes off as far more comical than the scary presence he's supposed to be. Penn doesn't modulate his Cohen, and while he's obviously having fun here, I wish we could say the same.
"Gangster Squad" needed to rein it in in so many ways. As they'd say back in the day: Sweetheart, give me rewrite.
'GanGSTER SQuad'
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Rating: R (for strong violence and language)
Cast: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Nick Nolte
Director: Ruben Fleischer
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1 hour, 53 minutes