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During a recent conservation tour, Dave White, chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, talked about conservation's biggest challenge - how to feed the 9 billion people expected in the world by 2050 without hurting the environment.
Another challenge is to maintain common sense in government regulation. Government funded programs have to be economical for the farmer and have good value for the taxpayer.
As he was being introduced to speak during a conservation tour of Coahoma County, Mississippi, Dave White, chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, looked like an athlete warming up on the sidelines before a big game. He bounced up and down on his tip toes and shook his head from side to side.
The guy definitely doesn't act like a Washington, D.C. bureaucrat. You get the idea he doesn't think like one either.
White spoke glowingly of the conservation practices presented on the tour, which was organized by the Conservation Technology Information Center and Delta Farmers Advocating Resource Management. Attendees – including representatives from environmental groups – saw agricultural reservoirs for conserving surface water and reducing dependence on groundwater, tailwater recovery systems, riparian buffers to prevent soil erosion and nutrient loss and cropland that had been converted to wildlife habitat.
During lunch at Mill Creek Gin north of Clarksdale, White didn't back off the 800 pound gorilla in the corner either. How do you balance the need for clean water and clean air in the midst of budgetary cutbacks and a burgeoning world population?
"We're supposed to have 9 billion people by 2050," White said. "With that 9 billion people, we have to have a 70 percent increase in food production. How are we going to increase food production by 70 percent without trashing the environment? How are we going to do it sustainably, so we have clean air and clean water and a healthy environment, and where we can make room for the wildlife?"
White said three factors compound the issue for government agencies working in conservation. "There will be less money, fewer people working and the same amount or more work. We will accomplish this through increased partnerships and by increased leveraging of dollars (several agencies pooling dollars for a common purpose). We're going to get more boots on the ground. It's not necessarily going to always be a federal foot in that boot, but it's going to be a boot that's trained and highly qualified to carry out the mission."
White is concerned that too much government regulation will hurt conservation objectives.
One example is the possible listing of the sage grouse as an endangered species. "If the sage grouse were to be listed, it would effectively shut down western ranchers from working public lands.
"All the conservation in the world won't do us any good if the men and women who operate our land and produce our food and fiber cannot stay in business. There has to be common sense, it has to be economically doable, and it's got to give good value to the taxpayer. We can achieve all those things."
White's enthusiasm for his job is catching. At the same time, balancing conservation with the needs of 9 billion people while juggling a dwindling pile of cash is indeed a sobering thought.


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My Glove Reborn! and Spring Training's 1st game
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how my glove that I use for ballhawking had snagged its last ball as it was, and was just about completely fallen apart. I needed a fix, so I sent it off to Jim Dowdell of Mittfix.com to get it redone.
Well, I've got it back, and it's literally like having a brand new glove.
Below are some before and after pictures.
A profile of the glove:
You may notice the stitching has all been completely redone, and the shape of the glove is different. It looks a little more rigid.
Here's the backside of the glove:
Before the glove was really flat. Now there is a nice curved shape to it.
Check out the drastic difference in the pocket.
It used to be really floppy and flimsy. Now it has a nice pocket that stays that keeps it shape.
Another major difference in the glove is the heel region – the part where I put my hand in the glove. Before there was a huge opening there. It was from having 30 feet of string wrapped around my hand at all times in my glove. That may sound difficult, but I got really used to it.
Now there glove fits like a glove – really snug.
That leads to one issue when it comes to ballhawking though… how am I going to do the glove trick? I literally feel like I can't fit anything else into my glove besides my hand.
What do you think I could do? I was thinking about getting two hooks and just carrying the 30 feet of string in my pocket, and then clipping the hooks together when needed to in order to excute the glove trick, but I'm afraid that when tossing the glove out onto the field for more challenging glove trick balls that the clips could dislodge and I could end up losing my glove. What kind of clips should I use? Keychain hooks? Those seem too big.
Anyhow, despite not being able to have much string in my glove, this was the most important improvement:
A sturdy webbing that will allow the ball to stay in place once I get the rubber band over the ball when performing the glove trick. Before, the lacing was loose, so the balls kept falling out, making me feel like an idiot.
Here's one more look at the heel work from Jim:
Again, its basically brand new.
I'll no longer be worried about my glove falling apart while playing catch before the gates open.
In other news, Spring Training games began today!
There was just one game – the Phillies taking on the Florida State Seminoles. Just one MLB team, but still, a baseball game was played. Finally.
And here's the pictures to prove it from the broadcast:
A pitcher named Austin Hyatt was the first pitcher to throw a pitch in a 2012 game:
Domonic Brown stole a base:
Hunter Pence ripped a double:
And Hector Luna ripped the first home run of 2012 into the left field stands at Bright House Field:
And who doesn't love reading box scores? Here's the first one of the season.
It's nice to have this to look forward to every day from now until the end of October isn't it?
There's only 36 days until opening day, and 3 days until the first broadcasted game on MLB TV (Yankees vs Phillies). And, just 4 more days to win this LA Dodgers shirt.
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Erik, I am in the camp that considers the glove trick to be blatant theft in most cases and I remember that you got lectured as such by a player when you needed him to throw your glove back to you. I know that there are fields that welcome the glove trick and other devices, and in those stadiums I say knock yourself out. But, when I see ballhawks sneaking around and trying to avoid the ushers seeing them it bothers me a bit. There is only one reason to sneak around and that is that the person knows they are doing something that they shouldn't be. I hear people use the argument that the owners are worth billions. Well, the owners of WalMart are worth billions too and you can't just go into sone of their stores and take goods. I hear that the "players give them away". Yeah, I give candy away at Halloween, but that doesn't give some snot nosed brat the right to come in my house and help himself to some Snickers bars anytime he sees fit.
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Erik, If it is allowed than I have no issue with it. I think it would be fun to be at a park like AT&T where people have fishing nets and lightbulb changers and it is all permitted. But, I think probably less than half the parks are device friendly. Which parks are device friendly might make a good blog entry. I just don't believe in sneaking around in the parks that do not allow it.
Big Glove Bob
Ah baseball games are officially back. It looks like Jim did a good job with your glove.
like the glove now
you can get a large carabiner and hook it through the finger hole and hand opening to attach the string to the glove. it would be easy to attach and remove. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=carabiner&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10666482406872973637&sa=X&ei=hT1ST_muKNHmggeZpKnPDQ&ved=0CF4Q8wIwAg
Thats really cool i have a few gloves i used i little league i would love to get fixed, and the 50 flat rate is pretty good. He should advertise more how did you find out about the site?


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A wise man once said a game is a series of interesting choices. For some the takeaway from that is more choices mean a better game. In general I see the Blizzard approach as a focus on emphasizing what an interesting choice is. Interesting choices can offer depth and complexity without needing to be numerous and overwhelming for the sake of being overwhelming. It's easy to throw all of the paint on the floor and say it's done. It's far more difficult to properly mix, and restrain, and balance elements. Looking at chess, there are relatively few pieces with few "abilities", it's a near-infinitely deep and complex game, and strategies for it continue to evolve even hundreds of years later. Certainly someone could introduce dozens of new chess pieces, dozens of new choices, and there would be some subset of players who would enjoy it more purely due to an increase in complexity.
Over time as new systems are introduced to WoW, others are removed, and iteration happens on current mechanics, these things tend to become more complex at no fault of their own. I think any designer would agree that it's not the fault of the player that the game's systems get more and more complex over time as changes are made. It's a snowball effect for sure, and it's not the player's fault when things get out of control over years and years of patches and iteration and inflation of complexity. It's just difficult to predict what the game will be like a few years from now, and only approaching design from that future-angle would likely mean less active design to help address current issues (something we wouldn't want to do). But at the very least we can recognize when we need to reevaluate the corner we've painted ourselves into, can enact that change in an intelligent way that makes the game better, and ideally be able to explain clearly why we're making it.
Perhaps inevitably, considering what is likely to change once Warlords finally hits, people have begun to question the choices Blizzard are intending to implement with the game. When you consider Thursday's Watercooler is being set out as a deliberate attempt to explain the philosophy behind the changes, it is inevitable that people will respond to this with legitimate concerns regarding that, and Bashiok's reply to one such thread is probably one of the most eloquent responses I've ever seen a CM give. It is a reiteration of the understanding (which players like Cynwise have so beautifully demonstrated in their posts) that actually, there is a shedload of stuff to grasp correctly before you even get to hit a mob in game. Making the process of understanding and the eventual comprehension of your abilities as simple as possible does NOT devalue the overall experience for the new player: in fact, quite the opposite. Making the journey fun, exciting and with the minimum amount of 'oh crud what does THIS do?' will mean people remain engaged. After all, you don't need complexity to create compelling gameplay. In fact, often the opposite is true.
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The thing with gaming, like it or not, are the Instructions. There's a reason every game experience starts with a Tutorial: to play there are rules and commands, and you need to grasp these to proceed. Except, in games like Journey, there ARE no instructions and you are left to pretty much work it out on your own, because it transpires that playing the game ends up as it's own instruction manual, and each time you come back to play it again you have a better idea of what to do. So actually, learning is repetition, and the reason why lots of people never make it to the end of games is that the repetition isn't enough to inspire you to progression. It is no real wonder that End Game has become as important in Warcraft as it undoubtedly is, why giving people incentives to reach maximum level becomes so important, because if you want your game to last a decade, the journey can really only be a part of the overall experience. What has become abundantly apparent in the last year is that many people have (quite rightly) pointed out that, after four expansions, there's too many bits bolted onto the basic framework of the game to allow it to function correctly. Blizzard had argued they'd do the item squish thing before Pandaria, but decided against it.
How different things might be now if they had.
|Big line, little line, Abilities STILL ROCK.
And so we discover a few things as the dust settles from Thursday: many people are going to miss buttons that go, some of us (and I include myself in this) will wish there were no need to change anything because we're happy and the people who like to complain will reiterate the basics: change is bad, scary, I WILL be less uber and I'm BLAMING BLIZZARD. However, and this is crucial in understanding the nature of change, this reboot isn't just being done for the people that are here, now. The complete retool is being implemented to make the game more attractive to returning players. What needs to be considered after I say that is twofold: these people are likely not going to level to 100 via the 1-100 route at all, many WILL just start at 90 by buying the game fresh. Many of those players will have left sometime after The Burning Crusade too, if returning numbers on my server are any indicator. The past, at least for them will be utterly irrelevant, because all they'll have to do is clock ten levels to get to Endgame. That means making things quick, simple, BUT AT THE SAME TIME retaining the level of choice that this game has become synonymous for. When people drag the baggage of 10 years along to comment on this 'change' they're bound to end up feeling at a loss. What existing players forget, so many times it's depressing, is that the game isn't just them. IT'S FOR EVERYONE.
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The final key to success in all of this, and the reason why Blizzard may have deliberately decided to stick the brakes on with announcing a Beta before they've explained their rationale for changing things first, is if everything actually fits together and still looks like Azeroth when it does. Some of these changes sound drastic but in reality they're probably just sticking like abilities together. Giving less stuff to press and making us less uber always had the potential to freak people out: after all, one of the many reasons Blizzard didn't do this in Pandaria was the potential this fact alone had in disenfranchising the existing player base. That's probably got a lot to do with why Developers were answering questions on Twitter for hours after the Watercooler was published: if people feel included in the process, they're less likely to end up aggrieved. Talking about change is also important too, because it makes you feel a part of the process. They call it crowdsourcing, if you want the precise marketing term, and it is very effective. Give everyone a chance to feel they're being considered as an individual with an important opinion will mean less potential volatility when faced with change.
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The decision by Blizzard to actively involve the Community in what is effectively a redesign process is undoubtedly a good move, and this will extend to Beta testing when their choices will come under the most intense scrutiny of all. What is less clear at this stage is why, when we were rushed through a series of patches in Pandaria, we're spending so much time discussing details and not actually playing the game yet. Best guess? They're still not in a position to do so because it's not all complete, and this is part of a process to allow the nuts and bolts of the game to be put in place. Maybe it is also because the Designers have realised that actually, these are a combination of changes we can't just rush through in the hope that everyone agrees. Perhaps now is the moment where content actually becomes LESS important, and choice becomes MORE, because if these changes are mishandled, it could truly wreck the status quo.
Whatever the reasoning, we're not doing anything until it's been explained first. Perhaps more people should be grateful that's happening at all, and take the opportunity to involve themselves in the debate as a result.


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Zoë to Mets: Kick Some Tushy!
We know our boys can knock Roger Clemens around tonight, so let's see them do it.
No more stupid errors. Relax at the plate. Sweet bejeezus, drive in the runs.
Mets: We'll do our part tonight to cheer you on. So how 'bout you do your part and show this city what you're made of?
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ummm.. ok, guy definitely got a little offended here.. Anyway, perfect night for the mets to break through
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Rutland Herald Editorial: A solar cityAugust 22,2013Editorial:
The promises and plans emanating from Green Mountain Power would be hard to believe were it not for the company's record of keeping or exceeding its promises.
At a press conference on Wednesday company officials unveiled a long list of energy projects that could make Rutland a national laboratory for innovation, as well as an exemplar in community betterment. It is an ambitious and far-sighted vision that has been embraced by Mayor Christopher Louras and other city officials. Sen. Bernard Sanders was on hand to lend his support.
GMP made big promises when it absorbed Central Vermont Public Service, the Rutland-based utility that was the largest in the state. One was to make Rutland the "solar capital" of New England. That meant it wanted to install the greatest solar capacity per capita of any city in the region — which amounted to 6.25 megawatts by 2017.
The utility is moving so quickly that it will reach that goal by next year, and so it has announced a much more ambitious goal — 10 megawatts by 2015.
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GMP hopes that its innovations will draw others to Rutland to pursue the technical challenges that the company hopes to pioneer. These include residential heat pump technology and a pilot project to use ice to cool large buildings. It is ingenious but simple. The ice storage unit would create ice at night when power is cheaper and then use the ice during the day to cool the building, when power is more expensive.
The company plans to provide a mechanism for homeowners and businesses to make thermal improvements or sustainable energy investments and to pay for them on their utility bill. It also wants to expand its Cow Power project to small farms and to use local food waste for power generation.
Steve Costello, GMP's vice president for generation and energy innovation, is the guiding force behind the company's efforts in Rutland. And his vision goes far beyond the generation of electric power. For Costello GMP's solar city initiative is a path-breaking exercise in civic improvement. He has enlisted the support of Police Chief James Baker, who understands that to address the problems of drugs, crime, poverty and derelict neighborhoods, the city must promote the welfare of the city as a whole.
Costello has been the animating spirit behind the Gift-of-Life Marathon, the blood drive that was the signature of CVPS and which he has brought with him to GMP. The blood drive, Costello says, is about more than blood. It is about breathing a spirit of pride and ambition into the life of the city. That's what GMP, with the leadership of Costello, is hoping that the utility's energy programs do for the city.
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Holiday boutique features fair trade items
Posted on November 27, 2012
The Women's Center will host its annual holiday boutique November 26-29 in the Kirkhof Center lobby from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Ten percent of all proceeds from the sale will be donated to Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women (GROW), a local non-profit organization that helps women and men start new businesses, and provides resources to businesses for growth and success.
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November 21, 2013
Burington's back: Columbus native to star in Nebraska Theatre Caravan encore of A Christmas Carol
After doing his own solo version of A Christmas Carol solo for quite a few years, central Ohio actor Brent Burington was eager to try something new for the holidays.Continue Reading
So when he saw an audition notice early this year for the Nebraska Theatre Caravan's annual winter tour of Dickens' classic, the Columbus native jumped at the chance to show his stuff.
His experience and talent paid off: Burington was cast in the pivotal role of Scrooge in the 2013 production, which will run Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 at the Ohio Theatre.
"The biggest challenge this time is they have a really good script, but very different from the one I've been doing for 20 years now as a one-man show," Burington told me recently.
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Few theater troupes have a chance to bring their own sensibilities to a Broadway musical as passionately or as well as Shadowbox has done with this zany meta-theatrical stage adaptation and extension of the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.Posted by Michael Grossberg on November 14, 2013 07:30 PM
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Christopher Columbus lands in the New World, Oktoberfest finds its roots, Sid is arrested for allegedly killing Nancy, and Matthew Shepard dies, all on this day.
1933: Members of John Dillinger's gang impersonate Indiana State Police officers to break Dillinger out of the Allen County jail in Lima, Ohio. Claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana, they shot and killed Sheriff Jess Sarber when he asked for their credentials and then released Dillinger from his cell. Sarber's murder was the first of 13 law enforcement deaths blamed on Dillinger gang members.


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June 13, 2002: The Hubble telescope reveals a rainbow of colors in this dying star, called IC 4406. Like many other so-called planetary nebulae, IC 4406 exhibits a high degree of symmetry. The nebula's left and right halves are nearly mirror images of the other. If we could fly around IC 4406 in a spaceship, we would see that the gas and dust form a vast donut of material streaming outward from the dying star. We don't see the donut shape in this photograph because we are viewing IC 4406 from the Earth-orbiting Hubble telescope. From this vantage point, we are seeing the side of the donut. This side view allows us to see the intricate tendrils of material that have been compared to the eye's retina. In fact, IC 4406 is dubbed the "Retina Nebula."
The dark tendrils are dust lanes that were created at the boundary between the hot, colorful, glowing gas and cooler, "neutral" gas. The neutral gas does not glow and therefore cannot be seen in visible light. But this cool gas does comprise the dark dust lanes. The gas can be seen in silhouette because it is so dense. In fact, the gas in the dust lanes is 1,000 times denser than the gas in the rest of the nebula.
The lanes were formed because the boundary between the gases is unstable. This instability creates irregularities on the nebula's surface, causing the neutral gas to clump together in certain areas, much like puddles forming on a prairie after a rain. These puddles of material eventually became dense enough to be seen in silhouette. The dust lanes are like a mesh veil that has been wrapped around the bright donut.
Yes. The object has an IC (Index Catalog) number, indicating that it was first seen and recorded in the 19th century. The Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to see IC 4406 in greater detail and to determine its three-dimensional structure.


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Hear ye! Hear ye! Court is now in session. All please rise for the judge, the Honorable Steve Sarley. Be seated please.
Please realize that this is not a legal court, it is merely the court of public opinion that I preside over today.
The case before us has been documented clearly in the past few weeks. To quickly recap, it concerns the 72-year-old Des Plaines man who harvested what he thought were a pair of elk, only to find out they were European red deer. These animals are not native to Illinois. They had escaped from a nearby farm. Legally, the man was within his rights to take down the animals because neither elk nor European red deer are mentioned in the Illinois Department of Natural Resources hunting rules and regulations. If an animal species has no designated hunting season, it is legal to harvest them."
The reason we are here in the court of public opinion is because this has become a "hot button" issue and many people are furious about it.
Greg Cypher contacted me to say, "Steve, Please do not refer to the Des Plaines man as a hunter, as this would lead one to believe he is also a sportsman. In reality, while his actions fall through cracks in the law, he is not a hunter or sportsman. The appropriate title is 'common criminal.' "
Although I can understand Greg's strong feelings, the man is not a criminal in any way. What he did was legal.
The court of public opinion is in session to let the hunter have his say. The archer's name is Ronald Mulholland.
Mr. Mulholland, please approach the bench. Sir, do you have any regret over having killed these two animals?
"No, not really. I honestly believe 100 percent that what I did was OK. I believed they were wild elk from Michigan, Wisconsin or Minnesota that had migrated here. They are living in those states now, and Wisconsin is having its first elk season next year."
Sir, you thought the animals were elk, but it turns out they were red deer. Did you really know what you were firing at?
"I have a college dictionary right here that says that the red deer is an elk. Right here in black and white. You call them red deer, but I say I shot two elk."
Sir, what animals wouldn't you shoot if they crossed your tree stand? I mean animals that were not regulated with proper hunting seasons?
"That is silly. I shot a species that is hunted. I've been out west to hunt elk as recently as this past January.
"The IDNR conservation officer that was quoted in one of the stories was totally out of line. I'd never shoot a cow. I heard some goofy writer wanted to know if I'd fire on a giraffe if it walked by. How stupid.
"The owner of the place the animals got loose from said they were hand-fed, like they were pets. Well, in Wyoming, they put food out for the elk in the winter. Does that make them pets? They feed animals at the zoo. They're not pets."
Sir, if the law was changed to say that animals without hunting seasons are not allowed to be harvested under any circumstances, how would you feel?
"I'd be fine with that. I would abide by the law like I did in this case. I tell you, I did nothing wrong."
Mr. Mulholland, do you have anything that you'd like to say on your own behalf to conclude your testimony?
"Yes, I do. This whole incident has been very hard on me. I have lost the place I hunt on because of all of the negative publicity. The owner wants to stay away from me. I had no interest at all in having this publicized. I showed my neighbor the animals and let him take a picture. I had no idea that he was going to send it off to one of the Chicago newspapers. The next thing I know this just snowballed. It was not my intention. I did nothing wrong."
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have been presented with the facts. There is no wrong decision. Consider what you have read and let your heads and hearts guide you to your opinion. Whatever it is that you decide, the court of public opinion is interested in your findings. Please contact the judge at firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know what you think.
Court is adjourned.
• Northwest Herald outdoors columnist Steve Sarley's radio show, "The Outdoors Experience," airs live at 5 a.m. Sundays on AM-560. Sarley also runs a Web site for outdoors enthusiasts, OExperience.com. He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hunting/fishing report
Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz from Dave's Bait, Tackle and Taxidermy in Crystal Lake reports: "A warm, second gun season slowed down deer movement last week. Cooler days ahead will get them on the move for the rest of the seasons.
Fishermen took advantage of the nice weekend and did well on walleye, pike and panfish. Walleye can be caught at the dams all winter long on a jig and minnow combo. Remember to fish slowly and that the bites may only feel like extra weight on your jig. Customers continue to look at all the new ice toys and hope for a better ice fishing year."
Call 815-455-2040 for updated reports.
For up-to-the-minute water conditions on the Fox Chain and Fox River, go to foxwaterway.state.il.us/ or call 847-587-8540.
Wisconsin – Lake Michigan: Call Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Fishing Hotline at 414-382-7920 to hear the latest fishing information for Lake Michigan and its tributaries.
Deer season
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reported that Illinois hunters harvested 99,324 deer during the seven-day firearm deer season that ended Sunday. The second-season total was 27,213, compared with 31,259 taken during the second half of the 2011 season. Reports show the top five county totals for deer taken during the seven-day firearm season were Pike (3,068), Fulton (2,815), Adams (2,534), Jo Daviess (2,534), and Randolph (2,221). The totals for some local counties showing 2011/2012 are: Kane – 44/53, Lake 5/9, McHenry 337/415 and Winnebago 437/503.
"If you enjoy deer hunting in warm, spring-like weather, this was the season for you," said IDNR Forest Wildlife Program Manager Paul Shelton. "One of the benefits of having a split firearm deer season is that we typically avoid getting caught in a single weather pattern that might negatively impact the overall harvest. This year, conditions were much more favorable during the first season and less so during the second, but I think we're right on track with our harvest in most areas."
Made in the USA
HunterSurvey.com and AnglerSurvey.com recently polled sportsmen to determine how much weight the "Made in USA" tag carried when purchasing outdoor equipment. They found most respondents agreed that U.S.-made products were of better quality and it was important to buy them. They also discovered there is only so much more that most hunters and anglers are willing to pay for that label. When asked, nearly 89 percent of anglers said it was very or somewhat important, while 94 percent of hunters said it was very or somewhat important. At the same time, 47 percent of those anglers feel U.S.-made tackle is generally better in quality and 63 percent of hunters believe U.S.-made hunting gear is better than equipment made overseas. If the "Made in USA" product is 5 percent or less in cost, 85 percent of anglers and 89 percent of hunters report they will buy the American-made product. But after that, numbers begin to drop sharply.
– Steve Sarley


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If you major in history, you'll also complete HST 470 Capstone Seminar, involving primary-source research on a topic usually developed from your previous coursework, as well as a history portfolio that includes a self-evaluation and sample coursework. A maximum of two courses from other disciplines may be used to complete the requirements of the history major, provided such courses contribute directly to the overall coherence of your program and have been approved by the department chair.
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Movies are an audiovisual medium, so they've had to develop a bag of tricks to convey the depth of their characters. If a film adapts a book, it can't let you hear a character's internal monologue without making Dune, and nobody wants to watch Dune.
Universal Pictures, what have you done?
No ... just, no.
Instead, they cue the audience to more subtle details with sights and sounds. For example, in this movie I'm watching right now, the female homeowner is giving an audio clue that she is very much enjoying the installation work of her local cable guy.
But some details are subtler than that. A nuanced performance is fine and dandy if you're filming on a tight budget, but major motion pictures are costly, and they can't afford to let details sail over the audiences' thick heads. The characters' personal appearance must tell you everything about them, right down to the slightest imperfection on their skin.
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Example: Just a quick glance tells you that this man isn't attractive enough to play a Cracked writer.
Directors use physical traits to share with the audience more than what they could with words. In the March 8 release of Dead Man Down, Niels Arden Oplev (director of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) does just this. He opens with Beatrice, played by Noomi Rapace, removing the bandages from her most recent surgery, which tried to save the face she once had. Now covered with scars, Beatrice's pain lays the foundation for what is to come in this thriller, which tells the story of two strangers irresistibly drawn to each other through a mutual desire for revenge.
A physical clue to someone's maleficent nature is known in Film Trope Land as a "red right hand" (and that's also the name of a particular act illegal in 49 out of the 50 states). Maybe you recognize these telling characteristics from every movie you've ever seen anywhere forever.
Since we were inspired by Beatrice's scars, let's start off with the obvious: As in real life, scars let us know that a person has been through some decidedly real shit. But here's where fiction differs: placement counts. Receive a wound over your eye and, good or ill, you're the fierce bastard who walked away from a hand-to-hand battle.
(L-R) Disney, Eon Productions, ibid, Universal Pictures
Although whether you'll kill children to achieve your goals remains up to you.
But raise that scar to your forehead, and now you're some poor slugger who's taken his licks and come out stronger for it. In Sin City, Hartigan's an old man, but a hell of a fighter, as most men are when the prize is Jessica Alba, Cowgirl Stripper Edition. Even a villain like Renard in The World Is Not Enough is more of a poor dope in love who's slowly dying of being too impervious to pain.
The most prominent forehead scar in pop culture history belongs to Harry Potter, who was just a baby when Voldemort tried to kill him. The bolt on his brow remains a toehold for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to try again. On the plus side, it serves as an early warning system for Harry to detect when the Dark Lord is plotting evil or stubs his toe. It literally, as well as symbolically, toughened the teen up while blemishing his daily life.
It also gave him a great pickup line: "Yeah, I was that baby who was too tough for the world's most terrifying sorcerer to kill." A scar like that is a sweet deal compared to the acne all the other kids are getting. Sure, it left him with a telepathic pipeline to an evil sorcerer, but how dark could that really be compared to the thoughts of the average teenager?
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"I- I had the chicken dream ... again."
And speaking of those two heroes, let's talk about shape and color for a second. Got a cool white "X" or a beige lightning bolt? Then chicks dig scars. But if it's a glossy, burning keloid, my advice is not to tell 007 your plan before leaving him alone to die.
Put a scar on a guy's chin? Same as the forehead: He's rugged. But move it closer to the mouth, and you have a lunatic clown like The Dark Knight's Joker, or a sneering twerp in Gladiator's Commodus. Think about it: The eyes and mouth are the most expressive parts of the whole human being. Since we're wired to recognize facial expressions, limiting or distorting them creates a dissonance that can disturb people. It's not as off-putting as having your face sliced open, but still.
The reality, of course, is that Commodus' scars are nothing more than a real-life microform cleft palate. Whatever that is, it has not stopped any of the women you date from pretending you are Joaquin Phoenix when you have sex at them, but the movie doesn't care. Gladiator, you might remember, had another scarred character: Cicero, played by Tommy Flanagan.
Chibs cleans up real nice.
Flanagan's real-life "Joker" scars are also known as a Glasgow smile because ... Jesus, are enough people doing that to each other that it has a name? Anyway, Flanagan's resume is a relentless string of tough-guy roles pretty much because something awful happened to him one night and Hollywood said, "Great!"
He's a swell actor, and it's great he's getting the work, but even when he plays a priest, there's a decent chance he's a gun-wielding priest.
Basically, it all comes down to "Does the pain these scars represent define the character, or does he persist in spite of them?"
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Hollywood prides itself on being cutting edge, but there's one thing that's been true ever since the '80s: The guy with the oiliest hair in the room is untrustworthy.
Blame it on one film: Wall Street.
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Wall Street is to blame for everything.
As we've mentioned, once Michael Douglas started playing upper-class men in suspenders doing very bad things, people just went with it, despite the fact that when Wall Street was made, nobody on Wall Street dressed like that. But now it's gone beyond brokers and bankers. In fact, it's become such a prevalent image, you get satires of these Jell-O mold clods like American Psycho:
If you can't watch that scene because you're at work and your boss with the slick hair won't let you have any fun, I'll summarize: A half-dozen puddles of hair gel attempt to stand out from one another by seeing who can most closely resemble their oily idol.
You can see this in major bad guys like Hannibal Lecter, whose precise, widow's-peaked hair gives the impression of a devious Dracula, or Agent Smith, the impossibly perfect image of a G-man. Neither of those characters would have the same presence with a stylish tousle of hair. Draco Malfoy has it even though no kid ever bothered to slick down his hair unless it was time to impress girls.
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A shiny suit also accounts for an 18 percent rise in violent crime.
Despite being a pretty common hairstyle for decades and decades, that's what people have decided looks evil. And they're still going with it.
Gordon Gekko became the image of the white-collar bad guy (and of Michael Douglas, even though his hair is only slicked back for that one movie). But don't worry, someone else is carrying this stereotype forward. The basic rule of thumb is that any movie set in the present day slicks Andy Garcia's hair back to make him the villain and forward to make him look trustworthy.
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Loggers baseball will be back at the Lumberyard soon. Tickets go on sale next month.
The team's current long-term lease allowing them to play at La Crosse's Copeland Park expires in August. But we're told a new long-term lease agreement is close to being finished.
"We're about to enter the spring season," says Loggers GM Chris Goodell. He met with city officials Thursday for the tenth time in the past 2 1/2 years to negotiate for a new lease agreement. "We're kind of at the point where we're eager to get it done and put some finishing touches on it."
Goodell says a lot of work has gone into the agreement so far, from both sides.
"When you reconvene to talk about these things once every ten years in this instance, you want to make sure everything's in-place, and that it's a good partnership and continues to be. It has been for the past ten years. We certainly want it to be a good partnership for both sides."
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Federal appeals court upholds Wis. union limits
A federal appeals court has upheld Gov. Scott Walker's contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights.
Seven public unions, including the teachers' union and the largest statewide public sector union, challenged the law's constitutionality in 2011. U.S. District Judge William Conley in March overturned part of the law requiring unions hold elections each year for members to retain their official status. The judge also said the law illegally halted the automatic withdrawal of union dues.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision on Friday that upheld the law in its entirety. The court said the law is constitutional. Click here for a link to the decision.
Governor Walker recleased the following statement after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision:
"As we've said all along, Act 10 is constitutional. Today's court ruling is a victory for Wisconsin taxpayers. The provisions contained in Act 10, which have been upheld in federal court, were vital in balancing Wisconsin's $3.6 billion budget deficit without increasing taxes, without massive public employee layoffs, and without cuts to programs like Medicaid. With this ruling behind us, we can now focus on the next state budget, which will invest in priorities to move our state forward."
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen released the following statement regarding the decision on Act 10:
"For nearly two years, those opposing Act 10 have tried every angle to have it struck down and invalidated. Today's decision by the Seventh Circuit confirms what I have stated from the beginning. Act 10 is constitutional. While there are no guarantees, it is my hope that this decision will pave the way for resolving any remaining challenges in a manner that supports the legislative decisions made by our elected officials."
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Layoffs are coming to Kohl's Department Stores, which is based out of Menomonee Falls, according to a release.
The shopping giant reports it will lay off 67 people in its accounts payable and sales audit department, according to the release. The company has decided to have a third party vendor handle accounts payable and sales audit functions.
The workers affected are based out of Milwaukee, according to the release.
The company says the terminations are expected to be permanent, and will start in December and continue in phases through the end of February 2014.
According to the release, all terminated associates will be provided 60 days' notice prior to their termination date and will be extended severance packages, including outplacement services.


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Patriot League Tournaments Expand to Six-Team Fields
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — The Patriot League announced on Wednesday that the postseason basketball, soccer and lacrosse tournaments will expand beginning in 2013-14 with the addition of Boston University and Loyola University Maryland.
The men and women's basketball tournaments will feature all 10 Patriot League members, and once again be played entirely at home sites. First-round contests will feature the 10th-seed at the seventh-seed, and the ninth-seed at the eighth-seed. Each tournament will then move to the quarterfinals held at the top four seeds, followed by the semifinals and championship at the site of the higher seeds. The bracket will not re-seed, and dates will be announced soon.
The men and women's soccer and lacrosse tournaments will now feature a pair of quarterfinal games played at the site of the higher-seeded team, with the sixth-seed visiting the third-seed and the fifth-seed at the fourth-seed. Those winners will then join the top two seeds in the weekend semifinal and championship rounds, played at the site of the highest overall seed in the tournament. The brackets will re-seed after the quarterfinal round.
The 2013 Patriot League Women's Soccer Tournament will begin with the quarterfinals on Nov. 5, followed by the semifinals on Nov. 8 and championship on Nov. 10. The next week, the Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament opens up with quarterfinals on Nov. 12 and continues with the semifinals on Nov. 15 and championship on Nov. 17. The 2014 Patriot League Men and Women's Lacrosse Tournaments will each feature quarterfinals on April 22 before semifinals on April 25 and the championship on April 27.
Patriot League tournaments in field hockey, volleyball and softball will remain as four-team events played at the site of the highest seed, while baseball has a four-team field with the top two seeds hosting semifinal series followed by a championship series at the higher seed the following weekend.
Boston University and Loyola University Maryland will officially join the Patriot League as full members on July 1, 2013. Among team sports, the Terriers will compete in soccer, lacrosse, basketball, field hockey and softball while the Greyhounds have teams in basketball, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball.
The Patriot League continually demonstrates that student-athletes can excel at both academics and athletics without sacrificing its high standards. The Patriot League's athletic success is achieved while its member institutions remain committed to its founding principle of admitting and graduating student-athletes that are academically representative of their class. Participation in athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of a well-rounded education.
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Wedding poaching is a growing trend for the busy, rushed or uninspired. Call them copycats or call them resourceful, but for cut-and-paste couples, another wedding's details may be just the thing they've always wanted to make theirs special, too.
A decade ago, wedding poaching was much more difficult — and much more obvious. Brides bought their dresses at local boutiques, not online. Wedding albums resided on parents' coffee tables, not on Facebook. Florists, photographers, performers and vendors relied on word of mouth rather than recommendations on wedding blogs.Slideshow: Chic summer bridal gowns (on this page)
And as national retailers from J. Crew to David's Bridal and Ann Taylor are streamlining options and making beautiful gowns (without a six-month delivery time), it's only natural that women are making those choices over and over.
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Then there's budgetary explanation, as some brides are opting to save money by renting or borrowing used gowns.Slideshow: Best-dressed celebrity brides
Take Amelia Nardinelli, the California bride who passed her dress on to two friends after her own 2004 nuptials. The New York Post reports that Nardinelli loaned out the dress partly because of her friends' budget concerns, and partly because, well, she liked the idea of sharing something so special with other women in her life.
"It's the most meaningful and memorable piece of clothing I'll ever wear, and to share it with such close friends is an honor," she told the paper.Story: Short wedding dresses make the bridal cut
And that's the thing about wedding poaching: It's so pervasive that today's brides don't actually mind their friends' copycatting. Even when it comes to highly personal weddings, imitation remains the sincerest form of flattery.
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"I think I'm a copycat!" admitted unapologetic poacher Aimee Bois, who confessed to copying "a lot of ideas from friends and co-workers" for her July wedding, including using the same vases and "pretty much the same flower arrangements as my friend."
The human resources consultant, 31, who lives in Beverly, Mass., explained that the volume of weddings she's attended has turned her into a connoisseur, and so feels her expertise justifies her party pilfering. "I've been to 35-plus weddings," she reasoned. "And I've witnessed a lot of ideas to steal."Story: On 100th birthday, he married the woman of his dreams
Janese Pfeiffer, 32, "stole" one particular idea from a friend of a friend for her summer wedding last year. She saw an acquaintance's early summer wedding photos on Facebook wherein the groomsmen all donned the same striped purple socks. She adopted the idea just in time for her late summer wedding — but in green. When apprised of the poach, the original bride wasn't angry — she was flattered.
"Girls are more prone to share, and with sharing comes the risk of copying," says Anja Winikka, senior editor at wedding site TheKnot.com.Story: Knotty problem: Whether to wed midweek
Recently, when a woman posted on The Knot's message board her frustration over a friend's buying a similar wedding dress, reactive reader comments were mixed. While some said she should be flattered, "others told her to suck it up — that everyone was wearing fit and flare dresses because that's the trend," said Winikka.
Her advice for brides feeling the copycat burn? Just chill.Story: Hey, that's my dress! Kate's gown rings a bell
"At the end of the day, everyone wants their wedding to be unique and reflect their individuality," said Winikka. "Just because you used the same Mason jars as her or she wore the same dress doesn't mean you're the same. You're marrying different guys; you're different people."
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If you've been developing for the open web for long, you'll know that Internet Explorer is the bane of any web developer's existence. The number of CSS bugs are enough to give any web developer a headache, but then add to that JScript's deviations from the ECMAScript 3 spec and you have yourself a pain in the neck as well. Grab your favorite pain reliever, because there is another nuisance: memory leaks.
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Written by vezzy on 02.12.2010 at 06:40
It's actually "Jupitreas".
That's five sips.
Written by BitterCOld on 02.12.2010 at 07:44
Written by vezzy on 02.12.2010 at 06:40
It's actually "Jupitreas".
That's five sips.
meh. I intentionally spell his name wrong in reference to a long, mostly forgotten exchange with someone who took issue with one of his reviews.
Written by vezzy on 02.12.2010 at 13:17
Oh, right. I remember.
Written by Paradox0 on 02.12.2010 at 06:30
3 points for every shout k7 makes not involving sports or street gangs (and yes we know it can be hard to know whether he's talking about that or not, just go with how drunk you want to get)
Drink each time k7/Bad English spells a word incorrectly. One sip per infraction is enough.
Written by Void Eater on 17.04.2011 at 08:07
If I took a drink each time Bad English misspelled a word, I'd be wasted before finishing his post.


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"We do not worship, we do not adore, for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the Creator, but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore Him whose martyrs they are."
~ St. Jerome ("Ad Riparium", i, P.L., XXII, 907) writing on proper Catholic veneration of relics.


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The Lord of the Flies Administration
Two recent ads illustrate the great cultural divide in this nation and which parties and presidential candidates represent these competing worldviews.
In the handling of the economy and national security, President Obama has shown he's not capable of being the adult in the room. After four years of perpetual campaigning and cheerleading for his pet projects, he still isn't prepared to deal soberly with the consequences of his ideological indulgences.
His community organizing fantasy has been to remake America in his more socialistic image, and in the process, he's taken the nation dangerously close to financial ruin. Yet like the unsupervised children in "Lord of the Flies," he refuses to make mature decisions to reverse this fiscally suicidal trend.
In the same way, Obama eschews any responsibility for the destruction his policies have caused — still preposterously blaming President George W. Bush four years later for his own scorched-earth ransacking of America's treasury and jobs market.
The American left simply will not graduate from its '60s radicalism, and under President Obama, these adolescents are firmly in charge. Thus, it should be no surprise that these same developmentally arrested people don't have the good sense to hide their intentions to permanently convert America into a land of rampant licentiousness and irresponsibility. Two ads connected with Team Obama make the point quite clearly and deserve universal distribution.
First, we have the Obama campaign ad comparing voting for Obama to having sex for the first time. Is nothing too vulgar for this bunch of MTV panderers? Probably not, as President Obama either showed us his true character or stooped to even lower pandering in his recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, during which he called Mitt Romney a BSer — only he, our sitting president, pronounced the full word. Now, back to the ads.
If you haven't had the misfortune of viewing this, actress Lena Dunham appears on a video appealing to young women to imagine their first time voting for Obama as being akin to losing their actual virginity. The references were explicit and unmistakable. You shouldn't expect anything subtle from this vulgar crew.
First, the sexual innuendo: "Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy," says Dunham. "It should be with a guy with beautiful … someone who really cares about and understands women."
Next, she segues seamlessly into policy: "A guy who cares whether you get health insurance — and specifically whether you get birth control. The consequences are huge. You want to do it with the guy who brought the troops out of Iraq. You don't want a guy who says 'oh, hey, I'm at the library studying,' when really he's out not signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act."
After a short riff on gay marriage, she says, "It's also super-uncool to be out and about and someone says 'did you vote?' and (you reply), 'No, I didn't feel — I wasn't ready.'" She closes by describing her first time voting as "amazing." It was like crossing that "line in the sand" to vote for Barack Obama. "Before I was a girl; now I was a woman."
Is this the type of ad we should expect from a president who has two young daughters? Is this really acceptable in today's hip America?
The next video features children singing about what an America under a Romney presidency would be like. This world — kind of like the horror show the late Ted Kennedy predicted for women should Judge Robert Bork have been confirmed to the United States Supreme Court — would be one in which sick people must "just die," our atmosphere would fry, oil would fill the sea and homosexuals could be "fixed." In that world, "we don't have to pay for freeways. Our schools are good enough. Give us endless wars on foreign shores and lots of Chinese stuff. … You can't cut spending with elections pending — unless it's welfare, though."
The mind-numbed, programmed "children of the future" sing in lock step about these ills and then squarely lay the blame on their own "mom and dad."
It is particularly sinister that these indoctrinated children are led to charge that Romney and the GOP would leave them "holding the bag," when the administration behind the ad is itself flagrantly guilty of that very charge.
It is not debatable that unless we dramatically reverse course, America will go over the cliff to national bankruptcy. It is equally unarguable that President Obama has no plans to avert our course.
The good news is that the grown-ups in America, I truly believe, are going to come out in droves on Election Day and demand that the controls of this nation be returned to their fellow responsible adults.
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My daughter was hardly sick at all during her first year of life. Since then, and especially in the last few months (in which I've been pregnant) I feel like she's gotten a lot of colds. It hasn't been anything serious, just runny/stuffy nose, cough, but it's frustrating none-the-less because I feel like my breastmilk doesn't provide her with what she needs to fiend off sickness. She eats healthy, sleeps well, and nurses 4 times per day (around going to sleep and waking up). I just don't understand why she's getting sick more often. We're doing the same amount of activites we've been doing, the only thing that's changed is she nurses less and I have less milk. I thought that during the weaning process the immunities in my milk increase, so I don't understand why she'd be getting sick more?
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I must respond to Mr. Larry Stewart's letter to the editor in the Jan. 23 edition of the Karnes Countywide.
I had been the executor director for the Kenedy Chamber of Commerce since April 2001 until my retirement on Dec. 31, 2012.
I was well aware that the board would put an ad in the paper to fill my position at that time (Jan. 2 and Jan. 9).
I am very proud of the chamber and the progress it has made under my leadership in the last 12 years.
I think you could ask the people of Kenedy, Karnes County, many South Texas counties, I-1O corridor, TCBRTC, Texas Settlement Region, AACOG, Texas Indepence Trail Region and many smaller organizations how much the Chamber and I are respected.
I along with great board members through the years brought the Chamber from an office that offered phone books and maps to a true Chamber of Commerce as well as a Tourism Center.
The Chamber has always reached out to all businesses and individuals.
We have spent the last three plus years reaching out to the Eagle Ford Shale and related business in many different areas, our current board reflects that.
We have three board members working for Eagle Ford Shale companies, two working in direct contact with those companies, the other four are in areas working indirectly but affecting the shale workers though the schools, hospital, churches and city services.
Our Chamber and community are growing by leaps and bounds daily and true enough it has been a struggle to keep up with such a fast moving change to our small community.
The Chamber continues to strive to meet all needs that everyone has (businesses and individuals) in our community.
I have never had the pleasure of meeting you Mr. Stewart, but I look forward to meeting you in the future. I welcome you to attend the board meetings held on the third Tuesday of each month, and to join the Chamber, and become an active member in our community.
Carolyn McDonald


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Hawaii?s Film Industry expects that 2010 will be a banner year with revenues generated from films and television shows approaching $300 million.
Walt Disney?s Pirates of the Caribbean will wind up at Heeia by the week?s end. Cast and crew will conclude filming behind closed doors before heading to the US mainland and Europe.
The film debuts in May 2011. But the buzz and business generated by the production comes on the heels of other shows. Even as "Pirates? prepares to leave, ABC will hold a casting call for a new series "Off the Map".
At Heeia Kea pier, fans just kept coming to watch the action even though it is a closed set. The filming of night scenes has attracted crowds which seemed to hold steady at about two hundred.
Some fans have waited for hours for a glimpse of the big stars headed for a night of filming on the ?Black Pearl.?
Extra special-duty police and state harbor enforcement officers have been on hand for crowd control.
Some fans have risked parking tickets or having their cars towed if they disregard warnings about where it?s safe to leave their vehicles. But some figure that a chance to get a picture of one of the stars is worth the price of a ticket or tow.
A Kaneohe family was hoping to get one of Johnny Depp, from the ground, since they snapped a few from their sailboat the other day.
?We a got a few photos while we ran aground and of course the police had to point out we ran a ground as we were rolling over the reef. It was exciting,? said Andi Wagner.
Another star struck fan who got to see George Clooney filming ?The Decendants? this summer, was waiting for anyone famous to walk by.
?I did go to the ?LOST? premiere too. Normally I am not like this, but it's great they are coming to Hawaii to film,? said Michele Fergeson.
?I saw Johnny Depp. He is a great guy .He was shaking everyone's hands,? said Jeff King.
Kaneohe Canoe Club paddlers can attest to that. After practice every day the women have stuck around to see the lights and action. They have the pictures and video to prove it has been worth the wait.


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