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Here is an indicator of UCLA's recent success: the team is good enough to have trap games.
That's an appropriate label for today's game against Oregon State, which pits the Bruins against a squad still winless in conference play, ranks last in the Pac-12 in scoring percentage and field-goal percentage defense, and will enter Pauley Pavilion minus a key starter.
UCLA (14-3, 4-0) hasn't lost since Dec. 1 and is trying to win 10 straight games for the first time since the 2008-09 season.
Yet, head coach Ben Howland warns caution.
"They're coming off of three losses at home," he said. "They're probably happy to be on the road. That's what happens sometimes. You lose at home, then you go on the road and get a big win, get the monkey off your back."
The Bruins, who have steadied defensively in recent weeks, still have a glaring weakness: allowing offensive rebounds. UCLA ranks ninth in the conference in rebounding margin (+2.8), a statistic perhaps softened by the fact Oregon State is behind them at 10 th (+2.3).
Even better for UCLA is that the Beavers (10-6, 0-3) will be without forward Eric Moreland, who is serving a three-game suspension for a violation of team rules. The nation's sixth-leading rebounder (11.1 per game) won't return until Oregon State plays USC on Saturday.
"He's a good player," Howland said. "Sometimes when you have one of your better players out, the other guys step up and take the opportunity."
Freshman backup swingman Victor Robbins is serving an identical suspension, for unrelated reasons, but he has scored just 10 points in 63 minutes this season.
Muhammad slumping
Leading scorer Shabazz Muhammad has struggled in his past two games, shooting 9 for 29 on the team's trip to Utah and Colorado.
A 46.3-percent shooter on the season, Muhammad has made just one 3-pointer in that span. Gone for now are the second-half eruptions he showed often at home, most notably in an upset of then-No.7 Missouri.
"I just think I just settle for too many jump shots," Muhammad said. "On those away games, the court, I'm not used to the court, the rim might not be the same as Pauley. Just not settling for jump shots and getting rebounds on the offensive and defensive end will get my game going."
Howland expects his star player to bounce back quickly, and said the struggles will serve as additional motivation. He also said Muhammad has seen increased defensive attention, introducing yet another necessary adjustment for the freshman.
"They were trying to really focus on him and that's natural," Howland said.
"Colorado's best player was guarding him, in (forward Andre) Roberson, and in Utah, they were really trying to be physical."
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text: Home → News DAVID ALLEN: Ray Collins, a gifted musician and wayward soul By David Allen, Staff Writer Posted: 12/27/12, 12:01 AM PST | # Comments Related stories: Ray Collins, singer and Mothers of Invention co-founder, dies | Please greet Ray Collins, Claremont's own MotherRAY COLLINS, who died Monday at age 75, was often pointed out around the Claremont Village as the guy who started the band the Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa.�The fact that Collins spent his days wandering downtown Claremont added to the novelty. Leave it to Claremont to have a celebrity transient.�Usually wearing sandals and loose-fitting clothes, maybe a peaked straw hat with chin strap, and with a chest-length white beard, Collins looked like he should be harvesting a rice paddy.�If he worked with Frank Zappa, why was he wandering the Village, by all appearances nearly destitute?�That would be a complicated story, and one I don't have enough information to tell in full. On the other hand, I did know him, and in 2009 I was among the few journalists ever to interview him.�My column about Collins was quoted this week in obituaries in the New York Times, Billboard, Variety and Rolling Stone and also formed the basis of his Wikipedia entry.�Our interview came about in an odd way - although one should expect no less from a Zappa compatriot.�A decade ago, I learned from my then-landlady in Claremont that Collins lived in a trailer on her boyfriend's property a few blocks away.�We were introduced, and Collins agreed to an interview, but a day or two later he got cold feet and phoned to back out. He had been interviewed on the air on KSPC-FM a couple of years earlier, he said, and saw no need to tell his story again.�I didn't badger him. As time went on, when we passed on the street, he would stop to chat when he was in the mood. Many others around town had the same relationship with him.�In 2006 I began jotting down notes after our bump-ins, knowing they might be useful for a day like this.�We talked about the Pomona of his youth. One day, he mentioned that his late father, Joseph Collins, had been a Pomona police officer, and a nephew still was.�We talked several times about movies. He loved Laurel and Hardy and writer-director Preston Sturges, telling me, "You might be able to do a movie as good as those, but you'll never do one better."�Covering the 50th reunion of Pomona High's class of 1956, I was surprised to see him. He hadn't graduated, he said, because he quit going to class his senior year. "I was too into music," he told me. Also, he had to go to work because he'd married, "shotgun-style," after getting his girlfriend pregnant.�Another time, he told me he prefers newspapers to the Internet and CDs to iPods. "Who needs 7,000 songs?" Collins wondered. "If I'm walking down the street and I've got five songs, that's two too many."�Then, in 2009, an item in my column mentioned a YouTube clip I'd seen, a mid-1970s TV interview in which Zappa told Mike Douglas, of all people, about the start of the Mothers of Invention.�Collins was singing in an R&B cover band named the Soul Giants at the Broadside Club in Pomona when he fired the guitarist, Ray Hunt, in dramatic fashion.�Collins "punched his lights out," Zappa said. "He was out of the band and they needed somebody to come in and take over for a while, so I went down there and sat in with them and I thought they were real good."�The phone at my desk rang that afternoon. It was Collins.�He was polite, saying he'd heard that story for years but that it was "nonsense."�He wanted to set the record straight. Realizing an opportunity had just fallen into my lap, I arranged to meet him the next morning - before he could change his mind.�And so, on May 20, 2009, a lovely spring day, we sat at a picnic table at Claremont's Shelton Park and gabbed.�He explained that he'd merely fired the guitarist at the behest of his bandmates. "I don't think I've ever punched out anyone, ever," he said.�He spoke for an hour - about singing in the Emerson Junior High choir and at Pomona High assemblies, his stint with the doo-wop group Little Julian and the Tigers, his relationship with Zappa and his subsequent life - and he answered all my questions.�He said he and Zappa made some good music together - in the albums "Freak Out!", "Absolutely Free" and "Cruising With Ruben and the Jets," as well as prior to the Mothers, when they wrote "Memories of El Monte" and recorded a tribute to TV host Steve Allen - but that Zappa was angling to take over the Mothers because he didn't like sharing the spotlight.�Collins, who had been the lead singer but was ambivalent about fame and Zappa's direction for the band, left in 1968.�"When I walked away, I walked away with nothing. But that's my personality. Probably why I'm sitting here in the Claremont Village, going, `Huh?"' he joked.�Collins never performed after the mid-1970s. He claimed to have written a lot of songs, and he filmed himself in recent years for a documentary he never finished. He turned down requests to join the Grandmothers, a band of Mothers alumni, using the excuse that he didn't want to perform Zappa songs.�He had a complicated relationship with Zappa, whom he admired and liked personally, but whom he and the other Mothers later sued for money they believed was due them.�That created such bad feelings that when Zappa, who died in 1993, was ailing with prostate cancer, and Collins phoned in an attempt to see him one last time, Zappa rebuffed him, Collins said.�At times Collins seemed bitter and wanted nothing to do with that legacy, and yet sometimes he would happily volunteer memories or sign items for fans who approached him on the street. Last year, at a record swap meet in Claremont, I looked to my right and there was Collins, thumbing through Zappa compact discs.�During our interview, Collins spoke to me frankly about his circumstances.�He had spent much of his time since leaving the Mothers without a roof over his head. In Hollywood, he ate out of dumpsters. "Some of the best food I've ever had came out of dumpsters," he said.�In the 1970s, his daughter was attending community college in Maui, and Collins helped support her by washing dishes. He slept on the beach.�She died at 26 in a plane crash in Hawaii, he told me. That would have been the early 1980s. He returned to California.�"I felt I had some unfinished business. Which is still unfinished," he added with a chuckle, in what seemed to be a glib joke about his lack of direction.�After his Claremont friend moved away in 2004, and he no longer had a place to camp, Collins bought a 1986 Chevy Astro van and lived out of it.�He eluded Claremont's ban on overnight street parking by parking in the Metrolink lot or out of town, and during the day would move his van from space to space in the Village to avoid tickets.�His family and friends sometimes helped him, and he had gone through periods of having a place to stay, but would always run out of money, he told me.�He asked me not to publish any of that, because he knew if I wrote that Ray Collins was homeless, tears would be shed and people would want to do things for him, all anathema to the free-spirited Collins, who didn't want anyone to feel sorry for him. He never panhandled and never asked for charity.�"I don't even like getting Christmas presents," he told me.�I honored his request. I understood his position and didn't want to make his life difficult.�And so, my column ended with a moment from late in the interview. Collins said he couldn't really explain why he hadn't performed in 40 years but, pointing out the birds chirping nearby, said serenely: "If you just enjoy life, it's conducive to not being successful. You know what I mean? I just enjoy life."�The morning my column was in print, Collins stopped into Rhino Records to brag excitedly that he was in the newspaper.�A few days after that, I was eating breakfast at Some Crust Bakery when Collins stopped in and saw me. He told me he didn't like the column.�All he'd wanted, he said, was for me to correct the punching-the-guitarist story. He didn't like publicity. And he objected to the column's ending, which made him seem happy. That was superficial, he said, and it wasn't the truth.�I told him I considered it a snapshot of his feelings at that moment but that I was sorry if it had bothered him. I resisted the urge to say, "My column wasn't truthful enough for you? You're the one who asked me not to say you're homeless."�Our relationship survived. We continued to bump into each other around the Village and chat.�Occasionally Zappa fans or journalists, finding the column online, would contact me to find out how to get in touch with Collins. I would phone him (he had a cell phone) or pass along messages next time I saw him.�"I feel like your press agent," I kidded him.�I heard from several of Collins' relatives due to that column. This became useful after Collins was taken to the hospital in Pomona last week, unconscious after a massive heart attack. I'd been tipped off by a witness in Claremont, but his family didn't know.�The hospital couldn't release information to me about his condition because they didn't have permission from his family and didn't even know who they were.�I provided the hospital with a name - a more active and personal role in a story than I'm used to taking, but one I was humbled to assume.�Even if Ray Collins didn't like my column on him, or at least didn't like it the morning he snapped at me about it, I'm grateful to him for sharing his story with me.�Because that allowed me to share it with you - most of it then, the rest of it now.�David Allen pays tributes to Mothers Friday, Sunday and Wednesday. Reach him via email or at 909-483-9339, read his blog, check out his Facebook page and follow @davidallen909 on Twitter. Advertisement Click here to subscribe to Digital & Home Delivery - 50% off

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Vigorously investigated and prosecuted fraudulent land transfers made by families attempting to evade the consequences of the Alien Land Law Act. His administration served to clarify new legislation involving elections, motor vehicles, and criminal trial procedures. (The Criminal Law Division has since exploded its workload - Webb reported in his 1914-16 Biennial Report a criminal case load of 307 appeals in two years, whereas today more than 6000 appeals are received annually.) Died in San Francisco on July 31, 1947.


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WATCH: Chelsea Handler reveals her theory on Taylor Swift's love life
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Chelsea Handler was a guest on Andy Cohen's "What What Happens Live" this week, where she gave her theory on Taylor Swift's past relationships.
When asked about Taylor's response to Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's Golden Globes joke about T-Swift, Chelsea said, "I like that she's [Swift] being that vociferous about something that she thinks they were out to get her and they were clearly making a joke just about her demeanor, which is embarrassing. I mean, she's just dated so many men."
She goes deeper into what she believes goes on in Taylor's love life. She explained, "My theory about Taylor Swift is that she's a virgin, that everyone breaks up with her because they date her for two weeks and she's like, 'I'm not gonna do it.' And they're like, 'Oh, well, forget it. Then I don't want to date you.'"
She continued with her theory by saying, "And they think they're gonna have sex with her… every guy thinks they're going to devirginize her, and they're not. She's never going to get devirginized, ever, ever, ever, ever."
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text: Chris Martin might be still living with The Goopster and the tabloids seem to think the couple is coupling again, but they obviously have not noticed that Alexa Chung and Chris Martin have been spending time together away from LA and away from paps while in Asia together. No better place to hide than a Tokyo hotel room. Sure, they could have just been meeting to discuss fashion or a future musical project for Alexa, but I think that is highly unlikely. It is really interesting that they waited until Chris got away from LA and the rumors about Alexa before they hooked up again. It is tough to hook up in LA and have the paps spot you and then go home to The Goopster and say everything is great.


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Green Bay, Wis. -- Shopko Stores Operating Co. said Wednesday that Shopko and Pamida will merge to create one of the largest U.S. retailers focused on serving smaller and rural communities. The combined entity will have nearly 350 locations in 22 states and plans to accelerate new store growth in the second half of 2012 and beyond.
Financial details of the merger, expected to close in mid-February, were not disclosed. Both companies are owned by affilates of the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
The combined company will be based in Shopko's home base of Green Bay, Wis., and will use the Shopko name. It will be led by Shopko president, chairman and CEO W. Paul Jones. Pamida president and CEO John Harlow will serve on the leadership team and help direct the integration process.
There will be no change to Shopko's stores, and approximately $80 million will be invested over the next 12 months in the conversion of most of Pamida's locations to the Shopko Hometown store concept and brand. Developed over the past three years, the Hometown format combines pharmacy services with general merchandise categories ranging from apparel to toys to electronics in s smaller-sized footprint that ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 sq. ft.
"Merging Pamida and Shopko is a great move for our businesses and our customers given our complementary strengths, store networks and consumer-centric retail models," said Jones. "The Shopko Hometown store format, featuring our unique merchandising strategy and improved store design, is an ideal fit for the smaller communities that Pamida serves with its exceptional service and community-minded approach. We intend to be the leader in this category by combining the best of Shopko and Pamida in our aggressive new store growth plans."
With annual revenues of $2 billion, Shopko operates 149 stores in 13 states located throughout the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. Omaha, Neb.-based Pamida operates 193 stores in 17 states, primarily in the Mountain, North Central and Midwest regions, and has revenues of approximately $1 billion.


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Pleased to meet you
I'll be there. You should be there, too.
One of the great things about living where I do is the people by whom I'm surrounded in the FOSS realm. Each community has their peeps that do yeoman's work on a daily basis to promote Linux and FOSS, and in the Silicon Valley and "over the hill" on Santa Cruz side, we are stocked with great people who do excellent work.
Grant Bowman, as I've mentioned before in past blogs, is one of them.
Grant started a discussion on the LUG mailing lists in the Silicon Valley and concludes with this: Is there a "best" way to introduce people to knowing more about computing without limits? Grant's e-mail eloquently continues in seeking an answer to how we, as Linux/FOSS advocates, can help those who are Linux/FOSS curious experience what we already know is a better way.
We all know there's not an easy answer to this, and arguably if you get 10,000 people in an arena to answer that question, chances are you'd end up with 12,000 different answers. However, it's a good issue to discuss to get ideas regarding how to best promote Linux/FOSS with the proviso that there is not a "right," one-size-fits-all answer.
Putting aside seeking community — going to LUG meetings, for example, and becoming an active member — I'd prefer here to address the one-to-one issue of Linux user introducing a non-user to Linux.
One basis — not the only one, but my own bottom line modus operandi — for determining how best to promote Linux/FOSS is to know why the potential convertee wants to use Linux/FOSS and how he or she plans to use it. Computer experience at this point in the discussion is secondary, though it is something that needs to be addressed early in the discussion.
So I would break the users down into two basic categories: Changers for philosopical reasons and changers for nuts-and-bolts reasons (and I don't mean "nuts-and-bolts" in a bad sense: What I mean are those who don't care if their software is "free-as-in-freedom." They just want to do what they do on their computers to work as they're accustomed to having it work).
There are others who might fall between these two basic categories — like those who get the philosophical side but focus on the more basic part of having the OS and software "just work" — but for the sake of discussion, let's just use these two for now.
The inverted pyramid
In the news field, one of the principles of reporting is known as "the inverted pyramid;" an upside-down triangle, actually, where the most important item of the news story (that is, the widest part of the triangle) is at the top, with less important items following in a desending order so, as far as importance goes, the diagram would come to a point at the end where the least important part of the story would exist. The inverted pyramid's purposes, in journalistic circles, stems from the fact that when there are space considerations in the newspaper — i.e., when the story is too long for the space — the editor can cut from the bottom and what's lost is not as important as what stays.
How that affects the philosophicals
In the case of those changers who want to use Linux/FOSS for reasons that have to do with not wanting to be chained to EULAs or for reasons revolving around "sticking it to the man," moreso than anything that has to do with basic functionality, you can start your inverted pyramid with the wide and lofty ideals of free software and how that works. Then you can narrow your discussion down to other principles and maybe functions of how to go about using a Live CD (if they don't know how to already) and finally reach the tip at the bottom handing him or her the CD and let them know how to reach you if they have questions.
Meanwhile, back with the nuts-and-bolts crowd . . . .
Let's say that you're having a discussion with someone who's giving you the blank, god-will-this-ever-end glazed-over stare while you discuss some of the concepts of free software. That's a pretty good indication that he or she does not really care about EULAs and the philosophical side of things, and your inverted pyramid doesn't have to start at the lofty ideals of FOSS. Here you can emphasize some of the functionality of Linux and FOSS programs, with the proviso that "your mileage may vary" (an important point — remember GIMP may not do everything Photoshop can do, but for the amateur photographer, GIMP works just fine). The concepts that the software is "free as in free beer" may also resonate. From there, you narrow your discussion down to how you can try out using Linux/FOSS on with a Live CD, etc., and so on.
Again, these are two extremes where a lot of new users may fall somewhere in between, but some of the more important aspects of introducing and helping new users know and share what we might take for granted.
But bear in mind that when you're advocating for Linux and FOSS:
I look forward to further discussion on this, and thanks, Grant, for posting this.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)
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here's how I try to "advocate for Linux and FOSS":
How to turn into Free Software supporters people who couldn't care less


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I saw him taken off to the Section and shut up in the church of Saint-Jean.
The Fire of Saint-Jean in 1573 was a magnificent ceremony, so it is said.
So saying, he went away, and crossed the place Saint-Jean to the Hochons.
Amid the hooting and insults and threats from the mob, he made the dreadful transit from the place Misere to the place Saint-Jean.
I have had a sort of presentiment of it ever since that evening, at the Fire of Saint-Jean.
This circumstance may give some idea of the narrowness of the Saint-Jean gate and the ease with which it could be blocked.
The recollection of this fact incited three of the sailors belonging to the Saint-Jean Baptiste to follow their example.
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The Charles Bridge is the oldest preserved Prague bridge that still serves its original purpose. It connects Mostecka street in the Lesser Quarter and Krizkovnicke Square in the Old Town. It arches not only over the Vltava river but also over the mill supply flume at Certovka (Devil River) and Kampa island.
The foundation stone was laid by Charles IV. on 9 July 1357. The construction of the bridge was finished in 1402. The Charles bridge was designed according to the plans of Petr Parler using the cuboidal technique and consists of six arches. The bridge is 515m long and 9,5 m wide.
At both ends there are watchtowers with gates. In Mala Strana (The Lesser Quarter) it is the Malostranska bridge tower (the smaller tower was part of the Judith bridge that was destroyed in 1170) and on the opposite side it is the Old Town tower. The walkway and one arch are decorated by statues.
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2 days to go, I am fckin well excited about about this fight. I still have a feeling Groves fights smart and boxes him rather than gets involved in a war and try to be as aggresive as carl is gonna be. If he does I can see him winning the early and middle rounds and survivng a late onslaught. If he doesn't he'll have some success early before being smashed in to the canvas later on in the fight.
Does anyone know why he split with Booth!
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Rich Homie Quan to take time off after seizures
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Rich Homie Quan is taking time off to recover from back-to-back seizures that resulted in a head injury and a trip to the hospital on Tuesday.
In a statement to XXLMag.com, G. "Fly" Henry of Quan's record label, Think It's A Game Entertainment, says he won't give an exact date when Quan will be able to return to the stage.
However, the rapper was released from the hospital Tuesday night and is now "doing well." Quan suffered a "gash over his eye and an abrasion on his face" when he had a pair of seizures while filming a music video with Problem in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Henry chalked up the health scare to "exhaustion" and overwork.
Rich Homie Quan also took to Twitter to thank his fans for their thoughts and prayers. He writes that he's "okay" and has "just been grinding too hard."
First and foremost I want to Thank God for his blessings. Your boy just been grinding too hard. Thanks for all of the prayers... I'm okay
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Morrissey hospitalized for concussion
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Morrissey is on the mend after suffering a series of injuries that landed him in the hospital this weekend.
A post on his fan site "True to You" says the singer was discharged from Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles Saturday after being treated for a concussion, whiplash, and an arm injury.
The note doesn't explain how Morrissey sustained the damage, although it does add a "thank you" from the former Smiths frontman for the "outstanding level of care and attention" he received at Cedars-Sinai.
The L.A. hospital stint is the latest in a string of health issues Morrissey has had to deal with over the past year. Severe food poisoning forced him to cancel a South American tour this summer, and before that a bleeding ulcer, Barrett's esophagus, and double pneumonia forced him to call of a North American trek.
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LAKEWOOD - Like most teenagers, Rachel Guske, 18, longs to be independent.
But the Lakewood teen, who has epileptic seizures, has difficulty performing many everyday activities such as picking up dropped items, turning lights on and off or "just going outside," she said.
Rachel's seizures began when she was an infant, but doctors officially diagnosed her with epilepsy when she was 5 years old.
On Thursday, Rachel's independence was on the horizon when she was awarded a Canine Assistant Service Dog through donations from Albertsons and the Milk-Bone dog treats brand.
"I won't have to go outside with somebody. I won't have to have my brother go outside with me," Rachel said. "I'll have the dog there with me. It will make me more independent."
About 800 dogs have been donated in the 13 years Milk-
Bone has been a contributor to the assistant program. Albertsons stores have partnered with Milk-Bone for the past 12 years.
The program is supported by a nonprofit organization that provides service dogs to people with various disabilities, at no cost to the recipient.
"This is one way to give back and they do this every year because they want to help the community and it's something that is really appreciated by the community," said Ron Hogue of Del Monte/Milk-Bone.
Jared Hunter, a certified trainer for the program - and who himself was awarded a service dog named Crissy in 2006 - said the service dogs can "change a life."
One day, without any command, Crissy picked up a sweat shirt he had dropped from his wheelchair and could not retrieve, Hunter said.
"It is a huge honor to be here representing Canine Assistants and to pay it forward," he said.
According to the organization, it takes up to two years to train each dog at a cost exceeding $20,000 for care and training. The organization is run entirely on individual and corporate donations, such as those from the Milk-Bone brand.
Ironically, for five years, the Guske family has raised service dogs for the visually impaired, said Julie Guske, Rachel's mother.
"She has an understanding of what it costs the people who have trained these dogs to give them to someone else, and it's very special," Julie Guske said.
Guske believes the dog will build her daughter's confidence and allow her to experience her long-awaited independence and freedom.
"She's very independent, but her seizures stop her from being completely independent," she said. "This will allow her to be an adult and kind of separate her from us, which is good. We won't be forever saying `Rachel, are you OK?' The dog will alert us to that."
Rachel's service dog will be selected and trained to meet her specific needs. The dog will be given to her after she and the dog complete a two-week training camp later this year in Alpharetta, Ga.
Rachel's service dog will be able to retrieve dropped objects, open doors and obtain help in case of an emergency, among other tasks.
"I'm just glad to be becoming independent," Rachel said.
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thanks for such a great OS!
UPDATE: compat-wireless-2010-07-24 + mac80211_18.104.22.168-wl_frag+ack_radiotap.patch is working for me
so for those on the back|track 4 R1 blackhat release, do the following ::
btw, I am using an ALFA AWUS036NH USB adapter with this setup =)Code:mkdir /usr/src/drivers cd /usr/src/drivers wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2010-04-20.tar.bz2 tar jxvf compat-wireless-2010-04-20.tar.bz2 cd compat-wireless-2010-04-20 wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80...radiotap.patch cat mac80211_22.214.171.124-wl_frag+ack_radiotap.patch | patch -p1 make make install make unload modprobe rt2800usb


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Why is this important? She explains that this region of the brain is linked to addiction in humans, commenting, "The same brain area we tested here is active when obese people see foods and when drug addicts see drug scenes. It seems likely that our enkephalin findings in rats mean that this neurotransmitter may drive some forms of overconsumption and addiction in people."
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By George Rinell | March 10, 2008
If you're like many IT managers in the hospitality industry, the title "manager" means you're managing yourself. IT resources are scarce, and more often than not, it's just you and no one else. It's easy to be overwhelmed when you are tasked with securing your organization's network and digital assets, while also responsible for IT troubleshooting, data auditing, software upgrades and more.
When understaffed, corners will be cut, and security is usually one of those corners. However, the situation isn't as hopeless as many believe. Here are four tips for delivering strong security in a one-person IT shop.
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If you've ever responded to a user who can't boot up his PC because, say, the monitor was turned off, you know condescension and sarcasm are tempting. Remember, though, this is the hospitality industry, and it's our mission - yes even us IT workers - to be hospitable.
It might also help your sanity to realize that you're not alone. Security vendor Astaro (
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A good way to cope with a lack of resources is to simplify the management of those solutions you do deploy. According to the Astaro survey, while most organizations already have a firewall (100% of respondents), antivirus software (91.5%), anti-spam scanners (90%) and VPN products (74%), they still intend to beef up their security within the next year.
This is a clear indication that traditional security devices aren't keeping up. The trouble is that you're probably already behind on the logs generated by existing devices, and when was the last time you patched? Will adding more security layers help or just create more complexity and chaos?
In the Astaro survey, one of the solutions a majority of respondents intend to invest in is vulnerability scanning/automated penetration testing. What that tells me is that most of us don't really know how secure our networks are, and we only learn of vulnerabilities after they have been exploited.
When you add these new features to what you already have deployed, security isn't the problem; control is. Fortunately, unified solutions are available in the security market. Find a unified security suite that offers the core set of features you can't live without, while providing a platform that allows you to turn on additional security applications as needed.
The key to unified security is centralized management. You don't want to add features that require different platforms or management consoles. With a consistent management console, the learning curve for new security features will be minimal.
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The next time someone asks about remote access, wireless connectivity, collaboration tools or some other new technology, it's probably a good time to investigate outsourcing.
At the Crowne Plaza Hotel Colorado Springs, managing access, connectivity issues, authentication and more for 504 rooms and several common areas - in addition to the hotel staff - is simply impossible for one person. Fortunately with the rise of IT service providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors, it's easy and affordable to outsource cumbersome IT tasks. Not only can you outsource Internet access for your customer base, but you can also look for service-based versions of vulnerability testing, web application security, data backup and recovery and more.
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Supernaw, a business marketing consultant, had 1,040 votes.
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The early tally represented 10.9 percent of the 23,216 registered voters in the Los Altos-centered district in an election that was expected to have a low turnout.
Just 13 votes separated the pair following a recount after the April 10 primary, with Supernaw placing first. Retired Long Beach police officer John Watkins finished third, 39 votes behind O'Donnell.
Powerful interest groups in Long Beach, including the city's police and fire unions, aligned behind O'Donnell, spending heavily to back him in the waning weeks of the campaign.
Supernaw accepted no money from political action committees and had collected $7,296 in donations this year to O'Donnell's $65,966, according to finance records.
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The ease of choosing a distro
If you'll permit me a "get off my lawn" moment, I just have to wonder where this particular tool has been all this time.
You see, I've said ad nauseum that choice is good, and the fact that there are more than 300 Linux/BSD-based distros is a good thing. In fact, I'll keep saying that until I die, hopefully several decades from now, but not before creating an OGG file to repeat this statement for the, ahem, "benefit" of others once I'm gone.
One of the complaints that sometimes flies against this position is that there are too many distros. This argument is made by those who can't easily enter a Baskin-Robbins without breaking into cold sweat — 31 different flavors? Too many! — or have a hard time with choosing what color socks to wear. In many cases, the "too many distros" argument stems from this premise: "There are too many distros, so you and everyone else should use my distro," and my distro, wait for it, always seems to be the vowel-laden one which goes light-years out of its way to say it's not a Linux-based distro.
Meanwhile, back at the original point: Distro-hoppers know first hand that trying out a vast range of distros is a time consuming task, and that there must be an easier way to find that special distro.
Leave it to TuxRadar to provide you with a tool to help you out there. TuxRadar's Linux Distro Picker can help you if you just can't decide which distro you want to run.
Using a few different ratings systems, whether it's ranking desktop environments or using a slide bar to enter your preferences, the Distro Picker helps you choose your ideal distro, and offers several other options below ranked by the TuxRadar Match Score in percentages.
So, I keep all the desktop environment settings at 1 (not important at all), slide the Desktop/Server choice to Desktop 99, Server 1; leave "Stability or Bleeding Edge" (because you can't have both) in the middle, slide the "New or Old" slightly toward the old (no new hardware for me, sadly) and Package Manager set to "don't care." Press the button and . . . .
Debian. Hmmm. Not bad. Also falling in the 90th percentile and higher are SalixOS, Porteus, CentOS, Crux, PureOS, Frugalware, Foresight and Damn Small Linux.
Changing the settings, of course, provides you with different results, complete with a helpful description of the distros as a guide.
Give it a shot if you're not doing anything at the moment. You may find a new distro.
Well played, TuxRadar.
Meanwhile, I still have Schrodinger's Cat out of the box and I'm still putting it through its paces. A report is forthcoming.
See you next Sunday, if not sooner.
(Make a few changes, push the button . . . What? Slackware? Let's slide this over and . . . CentOS?)
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I had my boss tell me today that I was too old to have my current hairstyle and length and she asked me if I wasn't too old for barrettes, too. Told her no, not when my hair flopped in my face without 'em!
Rosemadder, Why would your boss think it would matter how you wear your hair?
I work in a dental office and my hair can look pretty wild. I told my dr that I wanted to have a nose piercing and he said he wouldn't allow it. Don't you love that. He signs my paychecks so I guess he owns me. I told him I didn't think the patients would notice it anymore than my hair. He then told me HE personally didn't like piercings or tattoos. OK, daddy. Really not ok. I'm going to do it and he can just fire my ass. I know he won't because I've made changes to his office and we are bringing in more money, even in this economy.


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Men in black could be seen coming in and out of a medical marijuana dispensary in Glendale on Friday.
It wasn't a federal raid; it was a group of Nevada lawmakers seeking advice from our state on how to implement their own medical marijuana laws.
Nevada voters passed a constitutional amendment back in 2000 allowing the use of medical marijuana.
But there's still no place where patients can legally buy the drug - like dispensaries.
"You can get cards from the state," said Nevada State Senator Tick Segerblom. "If you know how to do it, you can grow it. But, the reality is, you can't purchase it."
Segerblom is the sponsor of a bill that would legalize medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada.
"It's actually modeled after Arizona - where it provides for a limited number of dispensaries like this," he said.
Friday morning, Segerblom and five other Nevada lawmakers toured Arizona Organix, Arizona's first medical marijuana dispensary, which opened in December 2012.
"We wanted to come somewhere very small, very tightly regulated and learn first-hand how it works," he said.
Bill Myer, co-owner of Arizona Organix, told CBS-5 News he's honored other states consider his dispensary the current gold standard.
But he's also looking forward to competition as more dispensaries open in the Phoenix-metro area.
"We've got one dispensary for a town of 4 to 5 million people," said Myer. "So, once this program gets operational, it might take a little tweaking as we go forward."
As Arizona 'learns as it goes,' Segerblom said it's time Nevada does the same.
"We view this as both a revenue enhancer," he said. "Plus, we're enforcing the constitution."
The Nevada legislature begins the voting process in April with a final vote on the dispensary bill in June.
Segerblom said he hopes to see dispensaries open in Nevada within six months if his bill passes.
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Karl Rossman, Kafka's young and unassuming character, is in a frightening situation. Having made a young servant girl pregnant, his ashamed and unfortunate parents have sent him to begin a new life in America. It is in Kafka's acclaimed short story "The Stoker", that the first chapter of "Amerika" also begins, as "The Stoker" was originally published on its own. Karl is about to leave the ship in New York when he encounters a member of the crew, who is...
The Castle
K. is summoned as a land surveyor. His assignation leads him far from his native town and his family to an inhospitable, snow-covered locale. His desire to reach the castle and receive further instructions on his job seems a reasonable one, but from his first encounter with the residents of the village governed by the castle, he realises that things will not be as simple as he expected. All contact he tries to make with the castle is futile, forcing...
The Great Wall of China
This story succeeds where Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' fails. (In the more famous Metamorphosis a man, a miserable salesman, who lives the life of a work-beetle, overnight turns into a giant beetle and then lives out the rest of his miserable existence in that form: literally a mere beetle in life's great hierarchy of being. Unfortunately, within that story Kafka provides no reason whatsoever for this entomological grotesquerie, and life, not actually being t...
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa, the breadwinner of his family, has worked five years as a travelling salesman in order to pay off his parent's debts and allow his family to enjoy life. However, he wakes up one day transformed inexplicitly into a giant insect, and gets increasingly alienated from his family. Met with horror, repulsion, and grudging love from his family for this strange turn of events, this short story shows the slow degeneration of these feelings into a...
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Joseph K is arrested in his lodging house by two officials for a crime which is never explained. Frau Grubach, Joseph K's landlady, in an attempt to help him, ends up hurting his sensibilities when she mentions the illicit carryings-on of Frau Grubach, another lodger for whom K. has some attachment. When he later meets Frau Grubach, in a clumsy effort not to, he actually manages to kiss her. After being told to report to court, and finding the location...


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"John's methods are nothing short of miraculous."
—Alice Waters, author, Slow Food crusader, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant
"Possibly the most detailed explanation of the Biointensive gardening method available."
—New York Times
"There are two kinds of vegetable gardeners–those who garden in beds of some kind and for whom this is the ultimate foundation book, a must-read, and an essential reference. Then there are those who don't garden in beds, for whom it's still a must-read and an essential reference. The full title–How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine–actually understates the contents. The book is about how to grow pretty nearly all your food and your garden's fertilizer on a modest amount of land."
—Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Acknowledgments vi
Foreword by Alice Waters vii
Preface / Ecology Action and the Common Ground Project by the Ecology Action Staff viii
Introduction / Building Soil, Building the Future 1
History and Philosophy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method • How to Use This Book
1 / Deep Soil Creation and Maintenance 15
Getting Started–Correct Tools • Laying Out Your Beds • Types of Deep Soil Preparation • General Double-Digging Procedure • Considerations for Initial Dig with Very Poor Soils • Prepared Beds
2 / Sustainability 33
Sustainable Soil Fertility • The Loss of Soil Nutrients and Humus • Initially Adding Nutrients and Humus to the Soil • 100% Sustainability Impossible • The Need for Up to 99% Sustainability • Ecology Action's Pursuit of Sustainability • How to Design for Your Soil's Fertility
3 / The Use of Compost and Soil Fertility 44
A "Natural" System • Compost Functions • The Process • Soil and Other Materials in the Compost Pile • Locating the Pile • Size and Timing • Building the Pile • Watering the Pile • Compost Curing and Application Rates • Composting Methods Compared • Materials to Use Minimally or Not at All • Benefits of Compost in the Soil • Building a Compost Pile Step-By-Step • All Compost Is Not Equal
4 / Fertilization 63
Soil Testing • Taking a Soil Sample • pH • Recommended Sources of Nutrients • Adding Fertilizers and Compost • More Sustainable Fertilization
5 / Open-Pollinated Seeds, Seed Propagation, Close Spacing, and Seed Saving 75
Seed Planting • Seedling Flats • Flat Soil • Some Causes of Poor Germination • Pricking Out Seedlings • Transplanting • Spotting • Planting by the Phases of the Moon • Watering • Shadenetting • Mini-Greenhouses • Key Water Factors • Weeding • Planting in Season
6 / Companion Planting 101
Health • Rotations • Nourishing the Soil • Physical Complementarity • Weed, Insect, and Animal Relationships
7 / An Interrelated Food-Raising System: Creating and Caring for a Balanced Natural Ecosystem with Insect Life 119
Natural Predators • Other Initiatives
8 / Master Charts and Planning 129
Letter Codes • Vegetable and Garden Crops • Calorie, Grain, Protein Source, and Vegetable Oil Crops • Compost, Carbon, Organic Matter, Fodder, and Cover Crops • Energy, Fiber, Paper, and Other Crops • Tree and Cane Crops • Flower Spacing Chart • Herb Spacing Chart • Planning Sheet
9 / Sample Garden Plans 180
Appendix 1 / Tools 191
Appendix 2 / The Efficacy of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE Method in Increasing Sustainable Yields and Building Soils 213
Appendix 3 / Ecology Action Publications 219
Appendix 4 / Organizations 225
Appendix 5 / Memberships and Ordering 227
Index 229
About the Author 239


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The Redneck Games are being cancelled, again. And it's not because they brought Yankees to "Jaw-juh", it's because they didn't bring enough.
Declining attendance prevented organizers from finding sponsors, last year and this year.
That means no more bobbing for pigs' feet or toilet seat horseshoes.
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Ctra Samaná-Las Galeras s/n - Los Cacaos Samaná - Dominican Republic.
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Stately and charming, Victorian style and luxuriously equipped, the Gran Bahia Principe Samana hotel is situated on the beach with unique views of the sea and the island of Cayo Levantado.
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Hi, well our rating for this resort would be no higher than a 3.
From day one we ran into problems, 1st day upon arrival noting worked in our standard room.
Every day problems with service, re no water or pop in room.
No set time for the cleaning of the rooms, when done where okay.
Problems with there safe, no lock or couldnt open.
No water activities to what they say you get, no banana boat, no canoe.
Telecommunications would rate a 2, over priced internet at 8.00 US a hour, extremely slow, 1 email takes about 8 minutes . Telephone's service in constistant pricing, depending on who you talked to at front desk.
No one speaks english, huge problem for most.
Food and Beach where a 4 star.
Overall, if you pay more than 700.00 canadian dollars, you will be un happy.
Arrived Aug23, 10 for a 1 week stay.
Whitby, Ontario Canada
Poor no greeting. 1 starr
3.5 once you got one that had things working
Restaurants and Bars:
4 for food, only 3 le carte open, Orienta rate a 1, steak a 4, Italian 4.5.
Buffet a 4.
4.5, clean and nicelt kept. Coral awesome.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Very poor, next to none.
"I'd go back...after I go other places first."
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Easy and hassle free. They did the check in on the bus ride to the resort. We were Golden Club, which I would highly recommend upgrading to (Transat). Our room wasn't ready when we got there, so we walked down to the pool bar and had a drink and looked around a bit before we went to our room.
We stayed in the suites that are down the cliff apart from the hotel. They all have ocean view rooms. You have to take the golf cart shuttle to and from the rooms (well, you can walk if you want, but there are hundreds of stairs and the rooms are very far from the main hotel/resturants/pool). Otherwise, the rooms were very clean and well kept. Fridge was stocked with beer, pop and water. Bathrooms were large with a standup shower and a separate jacuzzi tub. My only complaint was that because of the standard of the sewars in Samana, you cannot flush your toilet paper and have to place it in the garbage (ok, certain times I cheated on this, but that was the general rule). This was for all the restrooms in the resort. Oh, one other complaint...we had to pay for the room safe, $30 for the week, which I think is a rip off, but oh well.
Restaurants and Bars
The a la carte consisted of Italian, Gourmet and Seafood. They were alright...I've had better. The buffet was alright. Not a huge selection, and they tended to recycle certain dishes from dinner to breakfast or lunch to dinner. I never went hungary, and we never got sick. The best part of the buffet were the desserts...every night they had some fancy, awesome desserts like Banana's Foster or Creme Brulee or warm fudge brownies. The ice cream there was the best. The pool bars were alright. You usually had to ask for rum in your drinks (the frozen kinds like pina coladas) or they gave them to you virgins. The lobby bar was where people tended to hang at night before the "shows" in the disco. This place isn't for night owls...the lobby closed at 11, and if you stayed at the disco, you had to pay for your drinks after 11.
Main pool area was gorgeous, but crowded and people played the towel game. Not a lot of chairs. The main beach was small and good for shells with lots of chairs, but garbace tended to wash up after it rained. Staff were always on the go raking and cleaning, so it wasn't too unsightly. The pool and beach in front of our suites were nice. The pool was actually 3 jacuzzi tubs with a shallow outer rim. Not much shade, and again with the towel game. There was a large deck built out over the ocean with lots of chairs and NO shade. The beach off to the side (where I spent 75% of my time) was small but it had these great trees for shade and you could drag chairs over to it. And it was public...the locals tended to stay off further to the side, but you could still hear them all the time playing and splashing. Not much garbage here, some decent snorkeling off closer to the shoreline, but watch out for the little jellyfish! Overall, the grounds were immaculate and beautiful, lush and tropical. Be warned...you have a lot of walking to get to anything!!!!!!! The whole resort was walking and stairs! Not for people with reduced or impaired mobility!!!!!
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel
We didn't do the main pool at all, but we could hear it and it seemed to be busy and entertaining most of the day. We did 2 excursions. Whale watching was great, but they dumped you on Cayo Levantado for the afternoon and you had to rent beach chairs (don't pay any more than 50 pesos!). We also did the El Limon waterfall excursion. I was not impressed. It was very misleading "take a guided horseback tour through the jungle and end up at the bottom of a beautiful 50 ft waterfall." Ok, the "guide" actually owns the horse and walks beside you holding onto the horse or donkey or whatever you get. Then you have to park your ride and climb down the mountain. The steps are a good 2-3 feet steep, cut into the rocks. My thighs hurt at the bottom. Then, after a few minutes, you have to climb back up the mountian. Not once did anyone say "this isn't for people with reduced mobility or heart conditions or asthma or for anyone who is generally out of shape", otherwise, I wouldn't have gone. Ok, so back at the top, you get back on your ride and go back to the ranch for lunch. Don't eat anything that isn't cooked...my friend got very sick off the lettuce. But first you had to tip your guide...the tour rep at the hotel said around 150 peso's, which is about $5US. My friend's guide said he wanted $20. She gave him $11, and he looked pissed. I gave mine $10, after he didn't look too happy with the first $5. Then our tour guide "Dominique" came over and we asked him what was a good tip, and he said that the horse guides don't get paid from the tour, so their tips was how they made their money, and at least $5, but $15, 20 was great. Here's my thought...what the hell did I pay $75 US for???A bus ride to and from the ranch and lunch??? So when I got back to the hotel, I complained to the Transat rep, and she said that yes the horse guides do get paid. So...the tour tried to rip us off, basically. I heard from others that the Los Hatisis Park and the Catamaran tours were good.
Other Comments
Samana is a growing area. Shopping isn't great. There's a plaza down from the hotel you can go to that's acutally owned by the hotel and locals rent shops. Some of them are strictly "no bartering", so the price you see is what you pay. The prices aren't unreasonable, really. Other shops are in the town, but only a few tourist types. Do not buy from these guys...I bought white vanilla from one and got home only to find it was some type of cleaning solution (thank God it leaked in the bag in my luggage before I gave it away or used it!). They will rip you off 5 ways from Sunday if they can. There is a grocery store you can buy rum and coffee and whatever cheaper than in the shops. There's also an open air market further up the road, but I didn't get a chance to go. It was mostly fruits and stuff from what I heard. Overall, I'd give the resort a 5star, but the food only a 4star. I'd go back...after I go other places first.


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Reviewing local restaurants, bars and other city hot spots across the U.S. has become popular on the San Francisco-based website Yelp, but some reviewers are now posting opinions about government services like their local Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) branch office or a nearby state park.
Typically, consumers post and read reviews on Yelp for choosing where to dine, shop or visit. But should reviews about government services on Yelp be a cause of worry to public sector entities?
Those familiar with the reviewing website can find a spectrum of comments and opinions about a particular place, ranging from glowing to scathing. That same variety of reviews also exists on Yelp pages about government services.
On one Yelp page about a DMV branch office in San Diego, reviewers express a mix of positive and negative opinions based on their experiences. While some used the site as a platform to vent frustrations, others used it to either share a positive experience or to provide tips about what to do before going to the DMV, like making an appointment.
Luther Lowe, Yelp's director of public policy, recommends that governments monitoring content on Yelp to see how constituents feel about a particular department or service, shouldn't worry too much about criticisms posted to the site.
"Don't freak out about any individual negative review," Lowe said. "Eighty percent of the time, when people are writing reviews, they're three stars or above."
3 Tips to Help Governments Survive (Negative) Yelp Reviews
Luther Lowe, Yelp's director of public policy, said there are three key tips for any business or government entity to survive a less-than-stellar Yelp review.
1. Stop
Lowe said stop, take a deep breath, and understand a negative review isn't necessarily intended as a personal attack. Negative reviews come from individuals with a legitimate opinion, and they are trying to share that or offer feedback to improve your operation.
2. Drop
Drop any kind of pretense or attitude, and be willing to approach the person or issue diplomatically.
3. Roll
"Roll with the punches," Lowe said. "Everyone gets negative reviews."
Instead of monitoring Yelp for feedback on branch offices, Mendoza said the DMV engages with customers on Facebook and Twitter. The agency keeps running statistics on how often constituents submit feedback on Facebook and Twitter, she added.
The official California DMV website also provides a survey feature for constituents to submit comments and suggestions. According to Mendoza, since implementing the survey feature in 2011, the state has received almost 200,000 responses.
But unlike the California DMV, some government departments do monitor constituent feedback submitted on Yelp. David Heinicke, head park naturalist and state park police officer for the Brazos Bend State Park and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said the department does monitor the park's Yelp page every couple weeks.
Heinicke said the department began monitoring the park's Yelp page after receiving a negative review last December when a constituent used the site to complain about the park's no alcohol policy. The complaint later led to a broader public awareness effort to remind citizens about the park's rules against alcohol.
"Hopefully other people that read these [Yelp] reviews will find out that, 'Ok, I'm going to Brazos Bend, I don't need to bring my alcohol.'"
Heinicke said aside from hearing the negative comments from citizens about Brazos Bend, he finds that it's helpful to see the positive comments posted on Yelp to find out what particular features people like.
Yelp's Lowe said for government departments and agencies looking to use Yelp as a way to monitor feedback, it's best to identify patterns in the comments, and then tweak operations accordingly.
"Maybe you need to reallocate staff to optimize operations according to feedback," Lowe said.