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Top Vt. judge Franklin Billings Jr. dies at age 91Cassandra Hotaling Hahn / Staff file photo
Longtime Vermont judge Franklin S. Billings Jr., pictured here receiving a Purple Heart pinned on by his wife in 2010, died Sunday at age 91.
WOODSTOCK Back in 1925, Franklin S. Billings Jr., then age 3, scampered on his familys porch beside his father, who was governor of Vermont, and friend Calvin Coolidge, who was president of the United States.
It didnt matter that the Secret Service shooed him away. Billings already had inherited a passion for public life he would share as a state speaker of the House, Supreme Court chief justice and U.S. District Court judge until his death Sunday at the home where he was born 91 years ago.
He exemplified the best qualities of Vermont and what a Vermont statesman should be, said U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who first met Billings as a fledgling lawyer recruited to help the Legislature navigate the New Frontier of the 1960s.
Entering the world June 5, 1922, Billings was believed to be the great-great-grandson of the first white colonist born in Vermont (in 1754). He went to Woodstock public schools until 1935, when his father died of a heart attack and his mother moved the family to her native Milton, Mass.
Billings graduated from Harvard University in 1943, only to flunk his physical exam for World War II military service. Undeterred, he volunteered as an Army ambulance driver in Italy, where he crawled out of a flaming vehicle after it struck a landmine in 1944, only to be rescued by a British transport that tipped over, mixing up his identification with the papers of an injured German lieutenant.
(Billings would finally receive a Purple Heart for his efforts in 2010.)
Earning a law degree from the University of Virginia School in 1947, Billings returned to his Vermont roots, where elementary classmates welcomed him to join their high school reunions.
Locally, Billings served as a village trustee, Select Board member, school director, planning commissioner, library trustee and town moderator and, regionally, as a Hartford municipal court judge from 1955-62.
At the state level, he was assistant Senate secretary from 1949-54, Gov. Joseph Johnsons executive clerk from 1955-56, Senate secretary from 1957-59 and Gov. Robert Staffords secretary of civil and military affairs from 1959-60.
Elected Woodstocks state House representative in 1960, the Republican joined 10 other freshmen in an informal caucus tagged the Young Turks. When one of them a fellow lawyer named Philip Hoff was inaugurated as the states first popularly elected Democratic governor in 1963, Billings was voted speaker of the House.
The first Vermonter to win two consecutive terms, Billings presided over the Legislature that reapportioned itself from a 246-seat House where each of Vermonts cities and towns had its own representative to the current 150-member chamber.
Billings would support Hoff over Republican challenger Richard Snelling in 1966, then win the Democrats appointment as a Superior Court judge later that year and earn succeeding Gov. Thomas P. Salmons nomination as a Supreme Court justice in 1975.
But Billings ascended to his top posts thanks to the GOP. Snelling, after trying to torpedo his Superior Court selection, named him Supreme Court chief justice in 1982 the first in state history to be decided by the chief executive rather than by seniority.
President Ronald Reagan promoted Billings to the U.S. District Court in 1984 but only after postponing the process for months after partisans questioned whether Billings was an activist judge.
As state Supreme Court chief justice, Billings pushed for female judges (three decades ago, Vermont had yet to appoint one) and cameras in courtrooms (the state was the only one in New England to bar them).
Society has changed, and Im not sure this court has, he said at the time. The law has to develop with it.
A full-time U.S. judge until his 72nd birthday in 1994, Billings became an outspoken opponent of federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
This type of statute denies the judges of this court and of all courts the right to bring their conscience, experience, discretion and sense of what is just into the sentencing procedure, he said in 1990. It, in effect, makes the judge a computer, automatically imposing sentences without regard to what is right.
The same year, Billings presided over the first case tried in a federal court that allowed DNA testing as evidence.
Billings married Pauline Richardson Gillingham granddaughter of the founder of Woodstocks famed F.H. Gillingham & Sons general store in 1951. The couple went on to raise four children: sons Frank and Jireh, who now own and operate the downtown institution, and daughters Elizabeth and Ann.
Billings was a member of the Grange, Masons and Shrine and on the board of Vermont Law School in South Royalton. He was also an original trustee of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, having attended the presidents 1933 burial service at age 11.
Leahy, who as a U.S. senator would support Billings nomination to the federal court, said he always admired the late judge.
He was wise and decent and generous, Leahy said. Though we were of different parties, he was always helpful in the best interests of Vermont, and never partisan.
Leahy had graduated from law school in 1964 when Billings hired him to help draft the bill that would reapportion the Legislature.
He used to invite me into his office and give me the history of what was going on, Leahy recalled. Even though I grew up in Montpelier almost across the street from the State House, I always learned something. I considered him one of the pivotal people in my own career.
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who first met Billings upon moving to the state as a young lawyer in 1974, visited the retired judge at home earlier this winter.
He was in failing health, but he was still reading the newspaper and interested in what I was doing, the congressman said Monday. That zest for life you could still see it. That outward perspective is something he has always had and I suspect helped sustain him. He was an inspiration for me, but I know thats true for many, many of us.
Billings is survived by his wife of 62 years, four children and eight grandchildren.
His great part in leadership was his ability to compromise and come out with the right answers for the greatest number of people, his widow told The Associated Press. One knew where he stood at all times. His word was his bond.
The family will hold a private service pursuant to Franklins wishes. Memorial contributions can be made to the Thompson Senior Center in Woodstock.MORE IN Vermont NewsAs Rutland prepares to welcome Syrian refugees to its community, some are continuing to voice... Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full Story
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Former Columbus Superintendent Gene Harris surrounded herself with cheaters, and then nurtured and protected them.
The findings of an 18-month state investigation released yesterday tell a story of a superintendent who presided over a culture in which administrators lost sight of their mission to educate children and instead focused on creating an illusion that they were getting good academic results. State Auditor Dave Yost's long-awaited report found that some Columbus school employees set out to deceive the state and federal education departments — and the people of Columbus.
"In fact, it appears that many of these children were seemingly being passed through the system without receiving an adequate education" or the help required by law, the audit found.
"They were making it up," Yost said.
Read State Auditor Dave Yost's report on data fraud in the Columbus schools (PDF)
When Harris was confronted in June 2012 with allegations that her own administrators were running a massive data fraud, she said she was shocked: "Why wouldn't they tell me they thought there was an action that was so horrible that was going on that needed to be stopped?"
But the audit found that, time and time again over several years, people did tell Harris about data scrubbing. Even so, when she learned that an internal investigation found one of her top administrators was manipulating data in 2011, she put him in charge of the new student-data system and sidelined the deputy superintendent who had uncovered the truth. At least one of her closest allies told investigators that she knew then that Harris must have known of the fraud.
Harris did not return a phone call to her home seeking comment yesterday.
It is a "reasonable inference based on our interviews that she was at least aware of what was going on," Yost said.
The district is already making moves based on the report: Within hours, Harris' replacement, Superintendent Dan Good, began the process of firing four principals strongly implicated in data tampering. The district already has made dozens of changes to the way it collects and reports student data so that the manipulation will "never happen again," Good said.
Yost said he will refer those he believes are responsible to federal, state and city prosecutors by week's end. He wouldn't say whether Harris would be referred and noted that his team did not interview her. Yost would not say more about Harris, citing a federal rule that deals with interfering with the work of federal grand juries. Yost also said he'd refer some employees to the Ohio Department of Education, recommending action against their educator licenses.
Yost began investigating in June 2012 after The Dispatch reported widespread data manipulation in the district. His investigation confirmed what the newspaper found when it looked at the district's data files: Administrators made thousands of changes each year that would boost the district's performance on state report cards.
Columbus had a "top-down culture of data manipulation and employee intimidation," Yost said. Under Harris' supervision, former data czar Steve Tankovich and regional executive director Michael Dodds helped create a "bunker culture" in which people feared reprisals for challenging the system of data manipulation.
The report shows nine key ways in which district employees altered data, often to the detriment of students, to make their schools appear to be better than they actually were. Auditors did not find that data was manipulated for financial gain — to win bonuses or to bring more state money to the district.
Overall, the district's student records were a mess, Yost said, in part because they had been systematically manipulated.
They range from deleting absences to changing grades to fudging the true number of dropouts.
In a single school year, 2010-11, Columbus school employees deleted more than half a million student absences, the auditor found. They changed more than 7,000 grades, often arbitrarily and mostly for the better, without teachers' knowledge.
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One assistant principal, Stanley K. Pyle, acted out his motto, "D 'em up," to change more than 600 grades from failing to passing at Marion-Franklin High School. He believed no student should get an F.
Kids taking online courses earned credit even if they didn't finish the classes. And employees created "zombie 12th-graders" when they marked students who were supposed to have graduated as high-school seniors, even though they weren't enrolled.
Some high-school principals singled out students with many absences or who had failed the Ohio Graduation Test and secretly withdrew them. That meant their test scores and attendance data wouldn't count against the school or the district on state report cards.
The investigation also details the stunning number of people whose concerns about the student-data scheme fell on deaf ears.
It recounts the times that half a dozen current or former district employees approached Harris, members of the school board or members of Harris' handpicked upper-management staff and told them what was going on, only for it to be brushed off with feeble action or none at all.
The fraud scheme dates back to at least 2002, auditors found.
Tankovich, who could not be contacted last night, ran the district's data systems back then; Harris managed to keep him under her employ after he retired twice and took a buyout, saying he'd be too difficult to replace. Tankovich demanded that his data workers manipulate student data by withdrawing and then immediately re-enrolling kids, the process called "scrubbing" that kicks their low test scores and absences out of state report-card calculations. But data-center employees demanded that Tankovich put in writing that he had ordered them to change student records. Tankovich refused, Yost said.
Instead, he began working directly with building principals, instructing them how to change the data themselves. He gave them lists of kids he wanted them to withdraw because they'd been absent a lot. He told them it was completely legitimate.
But it wasn't.
In 2004, a data-center employee anonymously wrote to several district officials, including Andrew J. Ginther, who is city council president and was then a school-board member. The writer said that Tankovich was cheating. Harris asked Tankovich if he was, and he denied it. Harris asked the state Education Department to review the district's policy manuals, though not what the district was actually doing, as a way to put the anonymous allegations to rest.
The district's internal auditor at the time opened an investigation, but once the state OK'd the district's policies, her authority and involvement was undermined. She was forced to resign.
That audit, which would have examined the types of fraud Yost found, withered away and died. Ginther told auditors that the district audit committee, which he led, let it die.
"Based on the information we had at the time, I asked staff to follow up," Ginther said yesterday. But internal auditors kept hitting dead ends without specific leads, and once the Education Department said the policies were OK, the matter was put to rest in favor of other pressing audits.
"Looking back on this, if I knew then what I know today, this would have been the highest priority," Ginther said.
A district social-work supervisor raised another alarm in 2005 about attendance fraud at Marion-Franklin High School — found in Yost's report to have some of the most-profound data manipulation in the district. The alarm was all but ignored.
In 2006 or 2007, Dodds openly discussed his "scrubbing" method within earshot of Harris at an administrators meeting. Harris covered her ears in a hear-no-evil gesture, four separate people told Yost's investigators.
And in 2009, the same social-work supervisor, Katie Huenke, begged her supervisor in emails to look into attendance problems. The supervisor warned her to be careful.
The audit notes that Harris removed some employees who questioned the attendance data. Keith Bell, who was deputy superintendent between 2010 and 2012, toured high-school classrooms when he took the job. He was shocked to find the classrooms in high schools were half-empty even though the schools' data showed stellar attendance rates.
"When he asked about the law on student attendance, he was told that he did not understand the problems of urban schools," the report says. By the end of 2011, after Bell brought evidence of cheating to Harris, she called him into her office, took away all of his job responsibilities and told him to resign. Then she assigned Michael Dodds, whom the auditor named as helping orchestrate the district's data fraud, to oversee the district's new student-data system.
Bell, now the superintendent of Euclid schools, said he had tried to accept the explanations about Columbus' empty classrooms.
"But it didn't make any sense to me," he said in an interview yesterday. It nagged at him; he said he asked a lot of questions, which weren't welcome. But he said he can't say for sure that his discoveries about data manipulation led to Harris pushing him out.
"All of this happens, she calls me in and tells me there's questions about my leadership. I said, 'What's the basis behind that?' She cited some things I couldn't understand. ... It became really clear to me that it was something else other than that," Bell said.
Other longtime administrators have similar stories.
Elaine Bell worked for the district for nearly 50 years. When she started asking questions about the data-tampering allegations brought by Huenke and Keith Bell, she said she became persona non grata.
Harris had asked her to get her superintendent license so that she could apply to become deputy superintendent. Elaine Bell did, and then a panel recommended her as the finalist for the job. But by then, "She did not want me; I think it was because I was questioning things that were occurring," Elaine Bell said of Harris.
"When I came across things that were questionable and took them to her ... she gave me a book called Ethical Eddy. Inside it, she wrote 'Ethical Elaine,' " Elaine Bell said. She retired late last year. (She is not related to Keith Bell.)
Harris has vehemently denied that she knew of the data-manipulation plan and, even when she retired unexpectedly at the end of last school year, insisted that the data scandal played no role.
In a meeting with The Dispatch editorial board in August 2012, she passionately argued that she would get to the bottom of the scandal, though she said she had no knowledge of what had gone on under her watch.
"The last thing that I would be interested in personally or directing or allowing to happen is to have some folks who are in the district doing some actions that amount to cheating so that the community no longer has any faith in us. That doesn't help us. That doesn't help the district one bit. That doesn't help a single child," she said.
What's next for Columbus schools? Board keeping mum
District officials said yesterday that as many as 15 employees who had ties to the data scandal have left, either on their own or in agreement with the district. While they did not name those employees, the number includes the four high-school principals that the district started action against yesterday. Those principals appeared to be on a quest to improve their schools' standing, even by cheating.
They are: Tiffany L. Chavers, who was the principal at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy and was recently reassigned to the central office; Mifflin Principal Jonathan Stevens; Independence Principal Christopher Qualls; and Marion-Franklin Principal Pamela Diggs.
The auditor's report doesn't name them, though it does point out large numbers of data changes at their schools.
Yost also had strong words for the Columbus school board yesterday, which he said "helped create the environment where administration felt free to play fast and loose with the data, contrary to Ohio law." He specifically blamed "policy governance," the hands-off governing model the board adopted many years ago. It urges board members to put their trust in the superintendent and manage the district only from a high level.
School-board President Gary L. Baker said at a news conference yesterday that the board is re-examining whether policy governance is the best model.

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July 26, 2011 – San Juan, PR – The NRCS Caribbean Area State Office, in partnership with the Milk Industry Development Fund (MIDF), is pleased to announce the launching of a new initiative designed to help agricultural producers transition to more energy efficient operations. The initiative will make funding available for individual on-farm energy audits designed to save farmers both money and energy.
"This is a great opportunity for the dairy farmers in the Caribbean Area," said NRCS Caribbean Area Director, Edwin Almodovar. "With these Agricultural Energy Management Plans, dairy farmers will be making better decisions. We are glad for this opportunity to partner with the MIDF, MIRO, PR Dept of Agriculture and EnSave."
The energy audits will be individually tailored to ensure coverage of each farm's primary energy uses such as milk cooling, irrigation pumping, heating and cooling of livestock production facilities, manure collection and transfer, grain drying, and similar common on-farm activities.
NRCS and MIDF are working together to implement the program. MIDF are conducting outreach and have selected 50 eligible farmers to participate in the program. They will provide financial services and outreach to private land users, through certified Technical Service Provider (TSP), EnSave, Inc., to develop Agricultural Energy Management Plans (AgEMPs) and other types of renewable energy efficiencies implemented to reduce dairy operation costs in Puerto Rico, with cost-share assistance from NRCS.
The National Association of Resource Conservation & Development Councils (NARC&DC) funded and conducted a Farm Energy Audit Data Collector Training certification workshop on April 25, 2011 for 16 EnSave, PR Agriculture Department, Extension Service and El Atlántico RC&D personnel and private engineers. Data Collector trainees learned methods for completing audits within the program and their role within the larger process. The field training took place on three PR dairy farms and one poultry farm, where workshop participants performed visual inspections of equipment, found and recorded equipment name plate information, and most importantly worked with the farmers to collect the information needed to complete the data collection forms and enter the data collected on the forms into the electronic data collection database.
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Each day we'll bring you the very latest tabloid rumors as the biggest clubs around splash the cash to bolster their rosters. True or not, they're always entertaining...
Rio Ferdinand reveals today why he quit England - and how his secret injury nightmare pushed him into a state of depression.
Manuel Pellegrini will seek urgent talks with Carlos Tevez over his Manchester City future.
Alex Buttner has revealed he nearly quit Manchester United due to homesickness. The left-back grew up on a travellers' camp in Holland and found the upmarket Alderley Edge hard to settle in.
Rafael believes David Moyes can help Manchester United end their 10-year wait for FA Cup glory.
Jose Mourinho told Sir Alex Ferguson there is no way he could have replaced him at Manchester United.
Paolo Di Canio has vowed to fine any player who puts on more than two kilograms at Sunderland over the summer.
Newcastle insist Yohan Cabaye is not going to be sold to Monaco.
Hull are closing in on the £1.8million signing of Kesiktas goalkeeper Allan McGregor.
Free agent Stephen McPhail is in talks with Sheffield Wednesday.
Gus Poyet will thrash out his Brighton future during showdown talks on Monday.
Fulham and Aston Villa have been warned to spend big if they want to sign Peterborough hot-shot Dwight Gayle.
Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham target Toby Alderweireld is set for a move from Ajax to Bayer Leverkusen for £10million.
Andre Santos admits he is gutted to be back at Arsenal.
Jose Mourinho will warn his Chelsea players: Misbehave and you're out.
Fernando Torres has been described as "so-so" by Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
Manuel Pellegrini will have the final say on all transfers at Manchester City.
Luis Suarez is planning to cut short his summer break to force his departure from Liverpool.
Manchester City think they will be given first refusal on Stevan Jovetic.
Jose Mourinho has revealed how Sir Alex Ferguson confided in him over his Manchester United retirement.
Wayne Rooney is the man Paris Saint-Germain fans want as a strike partner for Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Leeds manager Brian McDermott will target Celtic striker Anthony Stokes if he fails to snap-up Kevin Doyle from Wolves.
Tottenham have made an enquiry about St Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Scott Parker has emerged as a target for Sunderland.
Jose Mourinho has given his strongest hint yet that Fernando Torres will be heading out of Stamford Bridge, but he would like Wesley Sneijder to join him at Chelsea.
Real Madrid sporting director Zinedine Zidane has urged Gareth Bale to fast-track his move to Spain by asking to leave Tottenham.
Manchester City are embroiled in a sensational spy row as Etihad chiefs believe their online scouting network has been hacked by an employee of another Premier League club.
Sam Allardyce revealed last night that Andy Carroll is just days away from giving his answer on a £100,000-a-week permanent move to West Ham.
Luis Suarez has insisted yet again he is ready to quit Liverpool - and admits Real Madrid is one of his dream destinations.
Darren Bent could soon become a Newcastle United player - but only if he and Aston Villa lower their demands.
Wigan boss Owen Coyle wants to sign Manchester United starlet Nick Powell - at the second attempt.
Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert will go back to old club Norwich City with a bid for John Ruddy - if he gets Shay Given off the payroll.
David Moyes will go head-to-head with Jose Mourinho in a £15million tug-of-war for Dutch sensation Marco van Ginkel.
Arsene Wenger has targeted Everton's Marouane Fellaini as the man he needs to bring the Premier League title back to Arsenal.
Manchester City new-boy Jesus Navas has backed boss Manuel Pellegrini to bring silverware to the Etihad.
Liverpool are on the brink of signing Sunderland keeper Simon Mignolet, clearing the way for Pepe Reina's £10million move to Barcelona.
Jose Mourinho has claimed that Sir Alex Ferguson confided in him 'months ago' over his plan to retire and he told the former Manchester United manager that the job he wanted more than any other was back at Chelsea.
Gareth Southgate has emerged as a strong favourite to be England's next Under-21 manager.
Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has delayed his trip to Brazil to try to push through a deal for Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet this week.
Crystal Palace are hoping to take advantage of Swansea's dithering to sign rebel West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie.
Mark Hughes will start work at Stoke on Monday with the club in advanced talks to bring his long-time assistants Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki to the club.
Steve Bruce's search for a keeper at Hull is set to end with a £4million swoop for Manchester City's Romania international Costel Pantilimon.
Cheick Tiote is set to meet Newcastle this week to ask them not to use promotional shots of him wearing their new Wonga branded kit.
Manchester United are attempting to hijack Chelsea's £15million move for Dutch wonderkid Marco van Ginkel.
Manuel Pellegrini's brave new world at Manchester City could be short-lived as his employers still covert former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola.
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson has been on the move again - this time to China.
Jose Mourinho will tell his Chelsea players at a pre-season summit on July 8: We'll do it my way...or else.
Dougie Freedman has warned Leicester's Jermaine Beckford he will not break the bank to take him to Bolton.
Jose Mourinho has insisted that he was never interested in becoming manager of Manchester United and claimed he knew "many months ago" that Sir Alex Ferguson intended to retire.
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Author and entrepreneur Peggy Moran knows the exact moment that triggered her decision to resume her education. It was in 2008, when her college-aged daughter was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition.
"That changed the way I view the present tense," Moran says. "Everything suddenly became more meaningful, and time became of the essence in a different way."
A little more than two years later, Moran holds a highly competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. She began her studies at North Central College in January 2011 and is pursuing a degree in interactive media studies with a minor in anthropology.
The award is the nation's largest private scholarship for students who transfer from two-year colleges. She is one of 40 recipients selected from more than 1,500 applicants.
At age 50, the mother of three and former high school dropout is energized with a sense of purpose. She's discovering she has a knack for school after all and is quick to participate in classes and question her professors.
"I don't like to argue, but here you're encouraged to state a position and defend it," Moran says. "It's a skill I'm developing."
An animal lover all her life, she started reading dog-training books as a child to help train her family's unruly Collie puppy. Her dog-training skills progressed and as a teen she started a business, Peggy Moran's Dog Improvement. She left Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Ill., when she was 17.
Over the years her business expanded to include consulting work with animal shelters and lectures to school groups. She trained therapy dogs and experienced the rewards of visiting hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities where the animals positively interacted with people. She wrote for Dog World Magazine for many years and developed a reputation as an expert in her field. She raised two daughters, now in their early 20s, and a son, now 12.
Then one day her career success was cast in a new perspective. One of her daughters was rushed to the hospital with a pulmonary embolism, and doctors told Moran they didn't know if she would make it. The daughter pulled through and was diagnosed with a condition that is successfully being treated with blood-thinner medication.
The harrowing experience changed Moran's life.
"I decided I'd channel my nervous energy into something productive," she says. "I wanted to take a college course in anatomy and physiology to better understand my daughter's condition."
To enroll in such a course, she first had to earn her GED. She took the test and scored in the top 3 percent in the nation. She enrolled at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., where she studied for four straight terms from January 2009 through May 2010. She earned scholarships to help pay her way from service organizations like Rotary Club of Naperville, as well as an academic transfer scholarship and Phi Theta Kappa scholarship from North Central College.
"Peggy is an incredibly motivated and enthusiastic student," says Steve Macek, associate professor of speech communication. "She is intellectually curious and she's willing to speak up in class and ask questions. Best of all, she brings a wealth of real-world experience as an author and business owner to the classes she takes, so she is able to add a practical perspective to the topics we are talking about in classes."
The College of DuPage nominated Moran for the Rotary scholarship, which led to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation award of up to $30,000 per year to earn an undergraduate degree, plus eligibility for an additional award for graduate school. Initially, she enrolled at Oregon State University and started taking online courses in fall 2010, but found the experience unfulfilling.
"With online classes, I didn't feel the same connection with teachers or other students," she says.
She found what she was looking for at North Central College, not far from her home in Lemont, Ill. She was attracted by North Central's reputation for excellent academics—with small class sizes where professors give students personal attention—and the College's 150-year tradition of providing an excellent liberal arts education.
"It's a tight-knit school where you have lots of access without a lot of distractions," she says. "There's a good library, for example, but it's not overwhelming like at a large university."
Moran chose to concentrate her studies in North Central's convergent media focus within the College's award-winning interactive media studies degree, because of her strong background in writing and media. She wrote and was featured in nine various DVDs on dog training and built and optimized her company's Web site.
"My life experiences and self-education prepared me to desire a formal education," she says. "All I had to do was seek it."


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Visiting Kenya
Before going to Harvard Law School, 26-year-old Obama went to Kenya to visit his dead father's grave. He also visited his grandparents and half-siblings, and he faced the shocking poverty of his father's homeland.
The overall experience helped Obama further understand his father and why he had returned to Kenya instead of staying with him. This father and son pair had many similarities, including high goals of helping poverty and their own people, according to the A&E video."
The work I was doing was directly connected to my own family and their own struggles," Obama said. "It helped to unify my outward self with my inward self in an important way."
'We Just Clicked'
Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. After his first year, he worked at a summer internship in Chicago, where he met his wife, Michelle Robinson, his mentor and lawyer at Sidley and Austin.
"We just clicked," Michelle Obama said. The couple married on Oct. 3, 1992.
In February 1990, Obama was elected the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he began to receive a lot of media attention. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1991.
Beginnings of Political Career
After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also lectured at the University of Chicago Law School.
Obama became director of Illinois Project Vote in 1992 and helped organize and register about 100,000 new voters during Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, according to the A&E video.
His success in the project placed him on Crain's Chicago Business Top 40, Under 40 Outstanding Young Leaders in Chicago that year.
Obama's mother passed away in 1995 after losing her battle against ovarian cancer. Also that year, Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," was published. At the time, it received mediocre reviews and went quickly out of print. However, he later won a Grammy for the audio version of the book.
Ultimately, Obama's advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat, and he was elected in 1996 from the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park.
In 1998, Michelle and Barack had their first child, Malia Ann. Their second daughter, Natasha, was born in 2001.
Political Misstep
By 1999, Obama's success and hard work had established him as a politician with charisma and drive, according to the A&E video.
However, Obama had a political misstep when he was running against incumbent Bobby Rush for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Important gun control legislation was going to be voted on in the state Senate, and a close vote was foreseen. Although Obama supported the bill, he was in Hawaii and decided to stay with his ill daughter instead of returning when the bill was put on the floor.
Without Obama's vote, the bill did not pass, and Rush used Obama's absence against him in his own campaign, saying, "there was no excuse for missing a pivotal vote."
Obama lost the election to Rush but returned to the state Senate and passed 27 pieces of legislation over the next four years.
In 2003, Obama entered the race for the U.S. Senate. He won the 2004 Illinois primary after his main opposing candidate Jack Ryan dropped out because of exposed scandals.
Black Leader
Obama made the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. This defining moment in his career made him one of the United States' premier black leaders, said Mendell.
On Nov. 2, 2004, Obama became the fifth black senator in the U.S. Senate, at the age of 43.
Once in office, Obama was the first to raise the threat of avian flu on the Senate floor, speak out for victims of Hurricane Katrina and push for alternative-energy development and improved veterans' benefits.


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La Crosse police say a 21-year-old man was treated at a local hospital for a gunshot wound to the back of his neck area.
Michael Jameson would not tell investigators where the shooting happened or how he got to the hospital, police said.
Jameson was arrested because he was in violation of his bond. Police said he was out on bond for two previous felonies.
The shooting is under investigation. Police say if you have any information related to this incident, you're asked to call the La Crosse Police Department at (608) 785-5962 of call the La Crosse Area Crime Stoppers at (608) 784-8477. You can also text laxtips to CRIMES (274-637).


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My daughter is now 7 1/2 months, and has been on solids since about 6 months. I read in a baby book that if I let her feed herself, she'd have a better relationship to food in the future, never eat past being full, feel more in control of her own body instead of passive and controlled, etc. Not to mention that she would learn to use a spoon faster than if I always feed her.
So I did try to let her feed herself as much as possible, but now that it has been over a month, I often don't have the patience to let her, as it takes 10 times as long, and the majority of the food ends up elsewhere.
What do you moms think? Should I try to contine to let her feed herself? She LOVES to, and she really did get a bit better using a spoon, but still most of the food ends up on her, and even with a bib it means tons more laundry, change of outfits, practically hosing her down after each meal.
I want her to grow up having a good relationship with food (my parents were in the clean your plate club, very controlling about food, and my sister and I are both overweight). I don't want her to feel like she has no control over what she eats, and I want her to learn to notice when she is full and stop eating on her own, so am not sure how to promote that while still possibly letting me have some control over the feeding process. She only eats the pureed soft foods at present like cereals and jars of organic veggies, no lumps.
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It has been a total of 15 excruciating days since I was last at my summer home, PNC Park. On Friday night I met my best friend Andrew in Pittsburgh to help open the weekend series with the Braves. I've said it before that Pittsburgh is a de facto halfway point for Morgantown and Youngstown.
The traffic into the city was horrendous. Parking was hard to come by once I escaped the bumper to bumper mess. It honestly was the worst I have ever seen the North Shore set up prior to a Pirates game. I expected a packed house with a shot at a sellout.
It was far from that. The announced attendance was just 22,000, still a decent crowd but with most tickets $7 dollars and a sweet Andrew McCutchen canvas photo wrap giveaway there should have been more people.
Many of the people were college kids, around my age. It is weird to be a Pirates fan in and around Pittsburgh for someone younger than the age of 25. There really has been a generation of Pirates fans lost thanks to the 17 straight losing seasons. I really do wish it was cool to be a Pirates fan but until that happens I'll be stuck surrounded by hooligans who only go to the game to drink, meet with friends and start the wave while not paying attention to the game at all. Baseball ignorant people rub me the wrong way when I go to the park to enjoy a couple hours of a ballgame and to escape the outside world. PNC Park is my santuary for peace.
Anywho, the Pirates lost 7-0 and only managed four hits. Nothing went well for the Bucs. I expected a strong performance out of starting pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, but this guy made sure that didn't happen.
The Jay-Hey kid (I really do not like that nickname, it is cool no doubt but Willie Mays is the only one who should have that rhyming distinction). The 20-year old (I still can't get over the fact that I'm older than this guy, I should be a Major League player!) belted a two run homer and teed off for a double. He will be fun to watch as I have already dubbed him the next Ken Griffey Jr. He has the marketabilty and is easy to connect with.
If only I had a better camera. This was the at bat in which Jason launchedhis homerun over the Clemente Wall in left field.
This was the at bat that Heyward went deep in. You always see those flashbulbs going off when a big player steps to the plate. While it seemed that I was the only one snapping a picture of the future star I'm sure that in a few years ballparks will be flickering when he is at bat.
The night didn't end after the blowout.
I met up with my friend Erin who is a regular reader of the blog. She recently graduated from Pitt and yes I do old that against her. However, she is an awesome girl who rivals me in terms of Pirates knowledge and passion. She also is in love with Nate McLouth. A man that I can just not respect anymore.
The reaction to McLouth's return to Pittsburgh was underwhelming. It was almost unheralded completely but there were more cheers than boos. I missed his first at bat as Andrew and I fought for parking while we made the game in the bottom of the second inning.
I couldn't think of a better way to end the night than drinking away my sorrows of a shutout. We went to the Hall of Fame Club located below the scoreboard in right field. It is a cool place to hang out before of after the game and even watch the game from the deck area outside. Every so often there are former players and local celebrities that come by the HOF Club to pour drinks for patrons. Customers were treated to an appearance by one of the most famous Pirates of the last 20 years, Andy Van Slyke.
I do not remember much about Van Slyke as I was just around the age of three when he played. He autographed my program and fielded questions from thirsty guests. He said "There's no doubt Barry Bonds used steroids" and "He was a jerk and a terrible teammate." I told him I was a fan of the Tigers because at one time he was a coach for Detroit along with my favorite manager Jim Leyland. Former Pirate managers Gene Lamont and Lloyd McClendon were also on that staff. Literally the Detroit Pirates. Andrew brought up the Tigers-Twins playof play in game of last year dubbing it "the bets baseball game of all time." Van Slyke agreed saying "it rocked."
Speaking of Van Slyke it was fitting we met him on that given night. A parking garage between Heinz Field and PNC Park notes their levels based on fmaous Pittsburgh athletes. We just so happened to park on the Andy Van Slyke level.
Now that was not our only coincidence of the night. There was a second that also has to do witha Pittsburgh celebrity.
Remember Erin? Pitt fan. Back in the Hall of Fame club we ran into the only person I respect at that school, basketball coach Jamie Dixon.
After shaking his hand I asked for the picture and then told him that I may get in trouble for this because I am a die hard West Virginia fan. He showed nothing but class and laughed at me. He boasted about Bob Huggins saying he is a first class gentleman and a great friend. I wish I would have taken my jacket off to show off my WVU shirt underneath. It was a once in a lifetime chance but I guess I took the high road and displayed an ounce of respect.
Once again it was a fun night, as all nights are in Pittsburgh, as all nights involving baseball are. Saturday's game was not televised and I'm actually glad it wasn;t as Pittsburgh fell to ATL again. However Saturday's game was on and boy was it grand. Ryan Doumit hit a walk off home run in the tenth inning to avoid the sweep.
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Peas, missed you in Pitt. Took a "few" photos. Check this out: http://cookandsonbats.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/05/pnc360.html
Sounds like another great time, despite the losses. You always manage to meet up with high-profile people, so I wonder who you'll have your picture taken with next!
Looks like a blast. That's how ya do baseball, Matt. Kudos. As for Heyward's age… tell me about it. I'm 31. I'm older than Albert Pujols…yet he's MY idol. Confusing indeed.
I saw Heyward hit too…very impressive. If he does turn out like Griffey, I hope he avoids all the injuries ;o)
Heyward is definitely a candidate for the RoY award this year, but will he be able to sustain it or will he collapse towards the end of the year or next year…. So nice to avoid the sweep even better when you guys beat a Phillies rival…
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You're right. The Buccs did lose a whole generation of fans. I think it's a terrible shame. Wait till you start seeing rookies retire and watching careers start and end. Wait till you start talking in decades! LOL This is as good as it gets my friend. Live it up! : D
I hated Van Slyke since his days as a Cardinal.
If it's tough to think that you're older than a major leaguer, imagine how I feel – I could be their mother! (theoretically) That's a tough one to get used to.
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Keept those stories coming! That is so cool that you ran inot Van Slyke! That is one thing we don't have at Dodger STadium, hangout places after the game. Still, I love where is located, a hidden jewel in the Ravine.
hahaha love his honesty about Bonds!
Glad you had a great road trip🙂
Oh and Jay-Hey Kid is a horrible nickname despite his tremendous talent! haha better nickname please Brave fans!
I know what you mean about getting people in the ballpark. The Bucs are playing decent baseball (taking it to my Cubs, come on!) and that beautiful stadium should have more people in it. Nice to hear that you have been able to rejoin your boys.
Laughed when I read your comment about being older than Heyward — I remember the first time I realized that I was older than most of the athletes I follow — it was while I was playing a game of NBA Live 199something, and looked at a couple of birthdates listed for some of the players. And this was 10+ years ago. Felt old then, ancient now!


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In New Mexico, the Mescalero Apache reservation prepares for a coming-of-age ritual. Over the span of four days, young Apache girls will pass through ancient tests of strength, endurance, and character that will make them women.
Narrator: Beneath White Mountain, in New Mexico, the Mescalero Apache reservation prepares for a coming-of-age ritual. Over the span of four days, 13-year-old Dachina Cochise will pass through ancient tests of strength, endurance, and character that will make her a woman.
Narrator: The Mescalero Apache hold the ritual every Fourth of July. It's a grueling ordeal, intended to prepare girls for the trials of womanhood.
Melette: When she was a little girl I knew this is what I wanted to have for her.
Narrator: Dachina's mother, Melette, has spent more than a year preparing for this week of ceremony. Family members and friends will help her feed and care for more than fifty guests.
Narrator: The family's most important task is selecting Dachina's medicine woman. Zelda Yazza will instruct Dachina in the ways of traditional Apache womanhood.
Narrator: The four-day ceremony encapsulates the Apache creation story. Dachina will move through the stages of life…infant…child…adolescent…woman…culminating in an all-night dance that will test her endurance.
Narrator: The ritual begins with the rising of the morning star. The ceremony requires Dachina to live by strict rules.
Narrator: These four days mean little sleep, scant food and the need to set aside emotion. Throughout the ordeal, she must wear a face of stoic resolve.
Dachina: I feel really excited and happy even though I can't smile. But I'll try to show it in some way.
Narrator: Before Dachina joins the other girls she is blessed…dusted with pollen, the symbol of fertility.
Narrator: The girls start their journey in a sacred teepee built by their male relatives.
Zelda: Let's go right now. They are putting the teepee up!
Narrator: The basket is filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects. As their ancestors did, the girls run toward the rising sun…circling the basket four times to mark the four stages of life.
Narrator: The fourth and final day brings Dachina to the cusp of womanhood. She ascends the hill to pray to the mountain spirits for a long and successful life.
Narrator: With darkness near, it's time to dance beside the ceremonial fire. Dachina and the other girls will dance all night long, much of the time hidden in the big teepee.
Narrator: More than ten hours later, Dachina is still dancing. The medicine men greet the sun, a signal that the final test is near. The girls' faces are painted with white clay symbolizing the goddess. On their last circuit around the sacred basket, the girls wipe away the symbolic clay. With the falling of the teepee, their rite of passage is complete.
Narrator: Dachina receives her Apache woman's name, "Morning Star Feather".
Zelda: Morning Star Feather. Everything went well. She's going to be a strong woman.
Narrator: Her community gathers, acknowledging that this girl has earned the right to live as a woman of the tribe. As an Apache woman, Dachina serves as a symbol of her culture, renewing and protecting a way of life that's in danger of vanishing.


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California's Gas Prices Begin To Stabilize
By Richard Gonzales • Oct 10, 2012
Originally published on October 10, 2012 4:48 am
Motorists should be seeing some relief from the recent record spike in gas prices. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded hit $4.67, according to AAA. That price hike sent elected officials scrambling. Some are calling for a federal investigation, while others are taking emergency steps to increase supply.


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dont worry, ill fill up my part of the agreement perfectly fine...
If you ask me something like Kill Blood or Kayame I will turn you down in half a heart beat and just take my chances with getting the good Thadias back to straten it out.
lol, dont worry, the request will be within reason... if ask u to kill either of them, i no ud deny it immediately, so wuts the point in even asking?
Good to know.
so do we have a deal or not?
-Sigh- Alright heres what I am willing to do. If Kayame confronts me about stuff Thadias told her about me, then if you tell her that you heard and saw Thadias say he was going to try and lie to her then yes, he have a deal. But until that has to happen, theres no contract. Deal?
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-Sigh- Alright heres what I am willing to do. If Kayame confronts me about stuff Thadias told her about me, then if you tell her that you heard and saw Thadias say he was going to try and lie to her then yes, he have a deal. But until that has to happen, theres no contract. Deal?
*Walks up to Kayame's door and goes to knock but stops right as i'm about to hit the door* (-Thinks- Does she even want to see me? If Thadias was able to get to her...-) Then she might think i'm a monster... *Drops hand and looks down*
goes in room and locks door*
Goes to piano and starts to play*
*Raises hand slowly and knocks on Kayame's door lightly* k-Kayame? I know how you must think of me, with what I am and all.. I will understand if you don't want to see or speak to me right now...
Doesnt hear Xin*
Stops playing and sits on bed*
Why is he ignoring me?
Looks down*
Gets up and walk to mirror*
Who am i any more?
Goes back to piano and starts to sing*
*walks in* Hey guys?
*Walks into Kayame's room while listening to her sing* k-Kayame, after what Thadias told you, do you think of me as a monster? If you do I will understand, everyone that knows the truth about me thinks i'm a freak. I can understand if you think of me the same way... *Looks down*
Looks down*
Stands up*
Walks to mirror *
Thadias never told me a thing..
I dont know what you're even talking about.
*Eyes widen* h-He didn't? Well since we are together, I have to tell you sooner or later, so I might as well tell you now. i-I'm a Dexeia. Its a type of demon. Its a mix-bread of a demon and angel. The only problem is I took in more of the demon essence then I did the angel, so I have more rage and less control of myself. Which means I might do some things in the future to people that you might find inhuman... so if you don't want to stay with me, *Looks down* I can understand.
Starts to tear up*
Turns to Xin*
Are you trying to make me not want to be with you?!
Cause if you are then it's not gonna work!
n-No! Thats not what i'm trying to do at all! I.... I just don't know anyone that would want to be with a... THING, that isn't from earth, heaven or hell.
Turns around*
You dont get it..
You just dont get it
*Walks up behind her and puts arm around her* I just want to make you happy. And I don't know if you would be happy with a thing that isn't demon, angel or human.
Starts to cry*
I love you no matter what you are!
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Bricked iAudio7 solution.
I don't really know how to begin.
So, there was a time, when I tried to upgrade the firmware in my iAudio7, but, it suddenly crashed at flashing, and I ended up with dead player. After a long research I found this post http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showpo...24&postcount=7 which, barely ressurected my i7.
Barely, because, finally the display appeared, but it was stuck at Starting window. I finally managed to flash a new firmware, after copying the firmware files to root folder and using tcctool to boot it up again (which led to flashing firmware window appearing once again). It did work, however, the fonts were missing, so I managed to download the iaudio7 font. It brought the fonts back, but I had some display errors, which I have finally fixed.
So, this is step by step, how I done that:
(three following steps will be directly copied from http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showpo...24&postcount=7 )
Instructions for using tcctool with Windows XP for a I7 that is BRICKED and will not turn on at all.
Step 1
Download the tcctool from here and extract it to your hard drive. Copy the I7_FW.bin file to the created tcctool folder to make things easier.
Step 2
Enter the usb boot mode by holding down the 'mode/menu' button while plugging in the USB connector[1]. The wizard window should appear (new hardware detected).
Perform the following:
Step 3
Start a command propt (Click Start > Run cmd) and change to the tcctool folder
cd PATH\TO\TCCTOOL\FOLDER
tcctool.exe -d iaudio7 I7_FW.bin
tcctool v0.1 - (C) 2007 Dave Chapman This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [INFO] Using device "iAudio 7" [INFO] Searching for TCC device... [INFO] Found TCC device, uploading application. [INFO] Patching application uploaded successfully!
Download this file (It is 1.17 firmware and fontfix thrown into one folder), extract it, and copy these 3 files onto your i7 root folder
Step 5
Now plug your i7 out. If it didn't start firmware flashing, try to power it on, if it didn't start firmware flashing either, plug it once again in usb boot mode. Now it should begin to flash the firmware.
Step 6
Once it's done flashing. Power your i7 on, and Voila, you've done it.
*Note* The tcctool is not mine, neither are first 3 steps of this tutorial, I`ve just thrown together part of my job, and part of someone's job, so it's easier for people.
Cheers, r4ster.
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r4ster nice to read that you un bricked your i7, thanks for posting a tutorial too. I have read before that one can un-brick either the i7 or the d2 with tcctools here and on rockbox.org but have not yet had to use it.
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|09-25-2009, 07:23
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The instructions were very useful but now I don't have the fonts and the archive from this post is not on rapidshare anymore.
Can someone please provide a link for this?
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Hey! My iAudio7 (16GB) bricked some time ago (or at least i hope it "just" bricked and is not ruined at all). I tried doing the tcctool thing and it got me as far as my player showing the starting screen again. But at that point, it freezes. There's about a second of animation and then nothing. At the same time, my PC (OS is Vista) tells me there's a new storage device that doesn't work properly and needs to be formatted. If I click on format, it just says there's no storage device inserted (or at least i think that's what it would say in english - I'm german and so is my OS ). Still, the iAudio is shown in the explorer, clicking on it doesn't help however, just leaves me with "no storage media found...". So, although I can get it to almost start up again, I can't really get to the point where I could put the firmware bin-files on the player - or change anything on my iaudio for that matter. To me, it seems like the problem is with windows vista thinking the player needed to be formatted. I've tried plugging it into a macbook, which simply didn't do anything at all and I've tried with an XP-machine, but a pretty unstable, buggy one, so that doesn't really count - amd led to nothing as well. Any ideas on what to change on my computer to make it accept the iaudio?
|09-27-2009, 11:04
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Hey guys!
My menu looks like a single white stripe after the starting screen. (broken fonts?)
Whenever i connect my player to a pc an "internal storage" is detected with a "record" folder and nothing else. Putting the firmware files onto the device didn't change anything.
So i can't follow the solution guide because the iaudio is not detected as a drive.(maybe the usb mode is simply changed)but nothing's readable without fonts
please :-)
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|10-31-2009, 16:31
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stuck in the starting window, that's why i cant copy thos 3 files at step 4..
hope for help..
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If you are still looking for the fonts, click on "I&_FO.BIN" here for the iAudio7font.rar I had updated the link and the fontfix is no longer on that link :/
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|11-20-2009, 09:39
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Well, the last resort for me was to send it to the retailer, which exchanged it with a brand new one.
Those un-bricking solutions didn't work for me..
|01-05-2011, 10:40
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Can someone please upload the fontfix in step 4 as it's no longer there, trying to help someone out, thanks!
Edit: I found it, ignore my post ...
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|04-12-2011, 13:58
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I just HAD to register to this forum to thank you!
I accidentally bricked my brother's I7 and this solution fixed it all!
(Just a note, tried it on Windows 7 and it blocked the driver because of lack of signature, windows XP worked great).
Thank you thank you thank you!
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Well my iaudio 7 just crashed when flashing. I don't have XP but i do have a XP iso image and a virtualbox. Is it possible to run tcctools from inside there?
|02-13-2012, 21:04
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Holy fucking shit!
You fixed my iAudio 7. You've done it. I already had it on ebay.
And now it's fully working again. I really cannot believe it. Thanks so much.
some additional hints:
1. [Note for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users] i have found out that tcctool doesn't work and is unable to find the J3 while accepting to use Tcctool for Unbricking your J3. reboot PC and hit F8 before Vista or Win. 7 boot logo appears. There will be several options. Select [Disable driver signature enforcement] and that should allow you to use Tcctool. You'll have to do this step everytime if you want to use Tcctool though (source)
2. Download the iAudio7 1.17 firmware (e.g. from the German site) - contains I7_FW.BIN and I7_RS.BIN
3. If you're experiencing some font display errors (like white stripes), download the I7_FO.BIN and dump it with the two other files in the root folder. Then start the firmware update.
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|07-02-2012, 07:53
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I have a problem. After successfully firmware upgrade my iAudio 7 wont start. It is same before use tcctool. Can you advice me? Thanks
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Greg, rest assured that the check is already in the mail😉
This is a really cool idea, but my blog is matched up against your's. That will be very interesting, but may the best blog win!


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