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it's not going to be legal unless it's directly from the station's site or via hulu/netflix.
with that said, free cable plugin works great for a free legal, tv like environment.
i just miss a lot of the shows i watched that are not available on free cable.
A legal alternate to Icefilms?
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mikeplow1961 Wrote:[quote=DDDamian]
Actually the ad revenue is based upon how many people view the content (programme) itself, not the advertisements. So watching in this method does not affect ad-revenue... currently. Hope this helps. The advertisers of course will prefer you to view their commercials and of course use lots of little ways for you to clikc-and-play to take you to their sites. The viewing figures of said advert, coupled with the viewing figures of the content AND how man click-and-play are waht determines the price of advertising slots on demand.
Hope I helped explain a little further.
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Another plus to the Free Cable and Hulu addons is they allow you to watch the programs commercial free by blocking the advertisements from being loaded in xbmc. I believe you can set Hulu to show the advertisements but I don't know why you would want to do that.
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2012-01-23 23:26 Post: #19
Quote:Originally Posted by DDDamian
Think I'm getting misquoted lol - that wasn't me. That may be a copyright infringement
I had quite forgotten the UK structure (I did live there for a few years and paid the damn TV tax), and not sure how that affects streaming there, but I guess my point was more that: if it comes from either a paid service (e.g. Netflix) or is streamed from a network that owns the rights to distribute and pay for it as they see fit, it doesn't classify as piracy and should be freely discussable here.
Typically though that applies to streams, not storable content. Icefilms was an example of pirating, as are sites like the pirate bay for most content.
I'm glad to see many suggestions for legal streamed content popped up here.
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StinDaWg Wrote:Another plus to the Free Cable and Hulu addons is they allow you to watch the programs commercial free by blocking the advertisements from being loaded in xbmc. I believe you can set Hulu to show the advertisements but I don't know why you would want to do that.
I understand that nobody wants to watch the ads... but it really is best to do so when possible. Hulu makes money from displaying the ads. If everyone running Hulu through XBMC is ignoring the ads, then Hulu is going to notice that and make more of a concerted effort to block Hulu from XBMC access, because nobody is seeing the ads. The more we make use of the ads, the less likely it will be that Hulu will try and block access to XBMC users. That's the idea at least.
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crawl Wrote:If everyone running Hulu through XBMC is ignoring the ads, then Hulu is going to notice that and make more of a concerted effort to block Hulu from XBMC access, because nobody is seeing the ads.
How would Hulu know whether XBMC viewers are viewing their ads or not?
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2012-01-23 23:57 Post: #22
You should use the following services if you want something legal...
TV Shows - Hulu and Hulu +
Movies - Crackle
Music - Spotify
If you want something to replace IceFilms, it would probably be Navi-X unless IceFilms site gets new sources and cleans that up.
Almost every file hosting site is conducting illegal activities by hosting copyrighted content on their website. If there was something legal and better to use, we wouldn't be discussing IceFilms... if anything, the answer is Netflix and that seems to bother you greatly OP.
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canadave Wrote:How would Hulu know whether XBMC viewers are viewing their ads or not?
Because you can count the number of times an episode played as opposed to how many advertisements aired... servers keep track of all this. If they do the math, they already know what's up.
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Actually... the ad revenue is based on how many people view the advertisement... plain and simple.
Advertisers have been complaining to Hulu for a while now that people are getting around ads, which means the money they give broadcasters to host and display these ads are nothing but free money to the broadcasters, with no way's of re-assuring it's ad customers that each viewer is getting delivered the ad as contracted with the content provider.
This is why ad counts increased this year, to make up for losses on missed advertisements AND typical corporate greed in revenue dollars.
Anyone who signed a contract contrary to ad views per viewer is getting shafted and is probably getting what they deserve for not making intelligent choices. Yes they exist and are a dying breed of suckers in the advertisement industry.
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(2012-01-23 03:18)remops Wrote: OK Fine I will try to answer for others.I think the thing you are looking for is called a TV subscription. It is the only legal way of getting all of those.
This is exactly why people use torrents and rapidshare ect. Because there is no legal alternative or we would all be using that.
They don't want you to be able to see the latest movie on your tv before it is out of every movie theater in the world.
And even a bit longer because once you have forgotten most of the story they will first offer it to you on DVD.
And after that your cable company buys it with your subscription money and plays it for you again.
That is 3 times that you pay for it.
Just saying, if they don't provide a streaming service that has it all; XBMC can't offer a plugin.
And a streaming service doesn't seem to be in their best interest, or they would have done it already.
And i'm not talking about the producers, thee is a legion of middlemen out there that want to keep their revenue.
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You won't get hbo and showtime content without icefilms
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Dude, chill out. Everyone on the internet has an opinion, and there are stupid people on the internet, it's a fact of life. I'm not even sure who you're talking to lol
The fact is, legal vs. illegal is a lot more complicated than people here are making it out to be.
Here are some things to consider.
Nothing about Megaupload's business model is illegal (to narrow the focus of discussion, we'll stay within the US court system). It is not illegal to host a copy of a copyrighted work. It IS illegal to continue hosting that copy once you have been properly notified that the hosted media was created illegally.
It is NOT illegal to stream an illegal copy of a piece of content (keep reading). It IS illegal to make a copy of a copyrighted work IF THAT COPY IS NOT FOR PERSONAL USE, ie it is intended to be shared online. Now, most of us know that from a technical standpoint, downloading and streaming are the same thing, you're just not keeping the parts of the file around after you've watched them. There is a court precedent that indicates that DOWNLOADING (specifically) constitutes making a copy of something, making it illegal. In the United States you are (supposed to be) innocent until it can be proven that you have violated a specific law. Since there is not law or precedent that says streaming a file constitutes making a copy (which is the only thing that makes it illegal), streaming a file breaks no laws.
Further more, you have to consider incomplete, non-working copies. There is no law against making partial copies. In fact, these partial copies (or excerpts) are legally protected and specifically exempt from copyright law. Let's play out an extreme, but applicable example.
If I draw a circle on a piece of paper and write Avatar in it, have I made a copy of a cd? You're probably thinking "of course not!" (unless you work for the MAFIAA). But why, legally, does this not constitute making a copy? Because it's incomplete and unusable? What if I write out all the 1's and 0's on the disc, on the paper, by hand? If I then use optical character recognition software to turn my writing into digital 1's and 0's, so I can now play it back with media software, is that a copy of the original media, or a copy of my (legal) drawing? Does my pencil count as a tool for committing copyright infringement?
Writing all those 1's and 0's out by hand is a lot of work. I'm going to have my friend help me out and we'll each write half of the bits down on paper. Did one of us break make a copy? Which one? If my friend takes a picture of my half of the drawing, then reassembles the drawing and creates a copy of the movie, did I break the law? At what percentage of writing 1's and 0's does it become illegal?
Let's now extend this example to it's purely digital equivalent, bittorrent. I never possess the original content in digital form. Instead, I ask my anonymous friend for 6,000 bytes of a file who's hash is XXXXX. Then I ask another friend for 8,000 bytes of a file who's hash is also XXXXX. I continue this process until I have all of the pieces of the file who's hash is XXXX. For this to be illegal, it has to be proven that I have made a whole copy of a copyrighted work, that is intended for something other than personal use.
Now, bittorrent is a two-way protocol, so while I'm downloading, I'm also uploading, which means I'm potentially providing copies of my personal copy. The problem with that is the same as above. At what percentage of my drawing is a law broken? Does that percentage have to go to one person? What if I write each 1 or 0 on a separate scrap of paper and toss them off the empire state building (note: littering is bad kids). Did I break a copyright law? None of those scraps of paper are illegal, and neither is using bittorrent.
I hope that illustrates some of the sticky situation this is. These media groups make more money (almost twice as much last year) suing people than producing content. They don't want to fix this.
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Well put... The lines that are drawn by people in this category are so devicive, and sometimes misinformed.
As to the original post, why avoid icefilms?
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(2012-01-23 02:15)remops Wrote:DDDamian Wrote:Obviously YouTube and the various TV plugins. What kind of legal media are you looking for? Out-of-copyright oldies? Basement bands? Granny's home videos? Tell us what legal media you're looking for.
I agree with you about smart a-- remarks when a noobee asks a question about xbmc. I thought that it was all supposed to be legal when I joined and now I am learning a lot of it aint. . One of the answers you got on this post said to use hulu, Netflix and other pay sites. I assume that if you watch Netflix and the others I just mention you still have to pay for a membership. I don't know.
I on disability so money is tight and I am tired of paying thru the nose to watch tv/movies. Thats why I joined here . I thought it was all free.
With some people on here a long time , they have learned the ins and outs about the legal/illegal add ons. I would like to know what add ons are legal and free and what ones are illegal.
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So you honestly thought that content that is paid for by every other means can suddenly become totally free with an addon within XBMC without something shady being involved If there was such a legal avenue don't you think everyone would be using for products such as Smart TV's?
The simple guide is does that addon simply provide a XBMC interface to a web service, where you can sign up and watch stuff on the web service ala Netflix, hulu etc, so the addon simply connects to servers that host the streams for that legal web service.
Add-ons with illegal content will typically have no web interface equivalent (as it would be taken down by the rights holders) and so the media will be stored on a file sharing service, anything streaming from a file sharing service will usually be illegal.
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Thoughts? Any other creative names?
zwong.com is probably the best one out of the list. It is easy to remember and the shortest in .com form. If you can afford it, obviously get them all but have that one be the main one.
I'd avoid the two zachrwong options, because (a) it isn't easy to say and (b) folk in a hurry are likely to misread and/or mistype it as zachwrong.
why is this obvious?
Which would be...ironic is the word?
True to this...why do I need 4 domains?
I guess I'm leaning towards zwong.com as well.
Edit: zwong.com is taken, but zwong.us is open.
Are there general, un-written rules pertaining to .orgs and .nets and such?
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Secondly, I would add to your research a check on the Google SERP for those other domain names.
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The domain name is the most important part of your website. I think [zwong.com] is good one and think of it as the address numbers on your mailbox (but each year they fall off and you have to buy new ones).
This might help.
zrwong seems to be available with pretty much any extension - perhaps for the same reason I wouldn't use the "r" in it.
zach-wong.com is available, if that's of any interest? zachwong.com is registered to an Australian artist, so there's not too much chance of confusion there. (A large Scottish travel company uses the .co.uk version of its name for its web site. The .com version is used by an American company of the same name, which is "the world leader in the product design and manufacture of thermal energy storage", so they say. There doesn't seem to be any conflict of interest, as neither company is likely to be mistaken for the other.)
Failing that, maybe you should change your name to something less common. :lol:
i would recommend either you get zrwong.com and then also buy zwrong.com and redirect it to the first one OR get zachrwong.com and then also buy zachwrong.com and redirect to the first. definitely stick with .com
He means that you should search those other domains and names on Google and see what results come up, to gauge how much competition you have with those names.
I would agree that a .com name is better. Perhaps use your name but add the word "design" to the domain. E.g. "zwongdesign".
Just some random artist. Other than that, no others come up. Will it be too confusing? Web design v. art?
Part of the issue is what your business will be known by (or searched for). Will people be searching for you by name, or by your business name, or by what you do? I don't think personal name searches are all that relevant in this respect.
the shortest name will do .. as long as it's still available to purchase.
As noted above, it's already taken ... unless you own it and are offering it for sale?* :lol:
(* Which, of course, would not be allowed here anyhow. :shifty: )
You should have ommitted the second part - then you could have trapped him! :lol:
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Vintage Snowglobes And Snowdomes
Water-filled glass snowglobes (aka snowdomes) originated in France in the late 1800s and gained popularity in the U.S. as a promotional item for thousands of travel destinations and roadside attractions.
Up through WW2, crudely fashioned glass snow globes were primarily novelties in the U.S., issued for Christmas or as keepsakes for events like the 1939 New York World's Fair. After WW2 came a desire for more fun souvenirs, however, and colorfully decorated glass disks and Italian shell based globes showed up. By the early 1960's, souvenir snow globes had been overtaken over by the plastic Hong Kong made snow dome.
Snowglobes were integrally linked with early roadside travel, as early tourist amusement parks, motels, and restaurants needed to stand out from the crowd. Not mention famous landmarks, museums, caverns and caves, missions or old homes of famous people, trains rides, miniature golf, gardens, trained bear acts, animal parks and storybook castles. You name it and they sold snow globes!
Up through the 1960s, most American snowdomes were designed and manufactured by one of three companies, The Karol Western Corporation, Nanco, and the Allen-Lewis Manufacturing Company (they also made salt and peppers shakers, glasses, pennants, ashtrays, souvenir buildings, tablecloths and scarves).
With vintage souvenir snowdomes, rarity and condition are king. Rarity is usually determined by the customized scenic panels representing remote or abandoned locations and attractions.
Best of the Web ("Hall of Fame")
Andy Zito's Snowdomes
Andy Zito's partial showcase of his collection of over 4,500 snow domes (aka globes), browsable by category. Start … [read review or visit site]
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Found in Moms Basement
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I just installed BackTrack and found that everything is vastly outdated even after apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade. Because of outdated libs and other dependencies, I can't even update some of the main programs that come with BackTrack such as WireShark.
Things like GNOME, KDE, GTK+, etc should all have the latest, stable versions in the repositories so installation of 1 program won't take several hours to find all the missing dependency files.
Installed, from source, every dependant file I needed for the newest GTK and everything was going good until I finally got to where I could install GTK and now it's telling me it doesn't have the X libs and most of the apps already installed no longer work (like Synaptic).
Well then I guess you will have to wait on the repo to update.
On the bright side it makes me more comfortable with the new ubuntu base daily, do to the fix ups
or maybe think about if you really need the newest version... There's no point in wasting time to be up to date and not using it then


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Related story: Norton-Perry to move on after two decades on Chino Hills council
Chino Hills community honors Gwenn Norton-Perry, the city's first mayor
CHINO HILLS - Councilwoman Gwenn Norton-Perry will be honored tonight for her years of service to the community.
Norton-Perry was a member of the city's incorporation committee and was the first female and youngest mayor in San Bernardino County when she was elected in 1991.
She has served on the council since then.
Earlier this year, Norton-Perry announced she was stepping down from her elected seat at the end of this term.
City officials will host a special recognition ceremony at the end of tonight's council meeting.
Community members on Saturday celebrated Norton-Perry for her the dedication and service.
"This was a small group of people who have come together to honor my service, which is very humbling," Norton-Perry said about the gathering at at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse.
"And I'm embarrassed to be in a position to be recognized, to be truthful, I've done it out of my heart, and I don't believe I am anyone special. The last few days has been very difficult ... I was very proud to serve."
Norton-Perry has also represented the city and the region on numerous committees specializing in transportation, air quality, land-use planning and public policy.
Tonight's council meeting starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 14020 City Center Drive.


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English Writing Awards Contest
Thank you for participating! Please download the cover sheet and the submission guidelines. Good luck!
Cabrillo College is currently seeking applications for anticipated openings in those disciplines marked with an asterik(*) as noted on the Adjunct Discipline List.
In addition, we welcome adjunct application packets on a continous basis for our adjunct pool.
If you are interested in applying for an open position or being considered for inclusion in an adjunct pool, you must submit a complete application packet.


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Raoul Cauvin is one of Europe's most successful and productive scriptwriters of humorous comics, and one of the pillars of Spirou magazine and the publishing house Dupuis since the 1970s. Among his best-known works are historical adventure series like 'Les Tuniques Bleues' and 'Sammy', as well as many humorous gag and short story features like 'Les Femmes en Blanc', 'Pierre Tombal', 'L'Agent 212' and 'Cédric'. Despite being largely for children and having a light tone, some of his series are also characterized by their gallows humour and morbid themes.
He was born in Antoing, a town in the Hainaut province of Wallonia, on 26 September 1938. His mother was a tailor of trousers, and his father was employed in the offices of Antoing's power factory. He grew up in a Catholic environment reading comic magazines like Pat, Bravo!, Tintin, Spirou and Héroïc Albums. Raoul enrolled at the faculty of Decorative Arts of the Saint-Luc Art Institute in Tournai in 1953. He specialized in advertising lithography, only to discover, upon graduation, that the profession hadn't existed anymore for many years!
Raoul Cauvin starring in a photocomic with Salvé (Spirou #1776, 1972)
Cauvin had his first job in a factory in Callenelle, where he painted saint's figures, crucifixes and other holy objects. Then, after fultilling his military service, he found employment with the publishing house Dupuis in May 1960. He initially worked in the publisher's art studio under the guidance of Maurice Rosy and alongside artists like Salvé, Jamic and Arthur Piroton. He was assigned to draw crossword puzzles, and to do the lettering of Robbedoes, the Dutch edition of the publisher's magazine Spirou. By 1961 he became a cameraman with TVA Dupuis, the audiovisual department of the publishing house, headed by Eddy Ryssack.
He remained with the studio in the centre of Brussels throughout the decade, participating in animation projects with characters like 'Mr. Magoo', 'The Smurfs', 'Musti', and 'Tip & Tap', but also more experimental films like 'Teeth is money' and 'Le crocodile Majuscule'. He left TVA Dupuis in 1971, because he couldn't get along with Ryssack's successor Ray Goossens. He inherited the studio's Rank Xerox copier and set up his own photo lab in the Dupuis offices at the Rue de Livorne in Brussels. It was there that he not only lended a helping hand to visiting artists with his copier (Franquin even featured Cauvin and his Xerox in one of his 'Gaston' gags), but he also started building on his large comics oeuvre.
Raoul Cauvin featured in Franquin's 'Gaston' strip
Cauvin had written his first comic scripts for Spirou in 1963-1964; the first being two mini-books in cooperation with Ryssack, Degotte and Matagne under the joint pen name Desquatre. His other early works were also largely in cooperation with his studio colleagues. With Ryssack, he made the gag strip about the flees 'Arthur et Léopold' in 1968-1969. He created the two crooks 'Loryfiand et Chifmol' with Serge Gennaux in 1967-1969, while he also wrote the bulk of Gennaux's strip about 'L'Homme aux Phylactères' ('The man with the speech balloon') from 1965 throughout the 1980s, although he remained uncredited until 1984. He also created 'Les Naufragés' with the young Claire Brétécher between 1968 and 1971.
Cauvin's oeuvre expanded after the departure of editor-in-chief Yvan Delporte in 1968 and took a flight when Thierry Martens got the job in July 1969. He delivered plot ideas for 'Gaston', 'Boule et Bill' and 'Les Schtroumpfs' by Franquin, Roba and Peyo, respectively, and aided Monique and Carlos Roque with their gag strip about the duck 'Wladymir'. He also got the opportunity to work with Raymond Macherot, with whom he created short stories starring the housecat 'Mirliton' between 1970 and 1975 (in 2007 Cauvin participated in a relaunch of the series by Éditions Flouzemaker, drawn by Erwin Drèze). While still with TVA Dupuis, Cauvin additionally wrote one-page stories starring 'Musti' for Bonne Soirée, a women's weekly by Dupuis, between 1970 and 1972 with art by either Jacques Van Driessche or Robert Lebersorg.
His biggest break came however with the creation of 'Les Tuniques Bleues', a comic series set in the Wild West, that filled the gap that was left after Morris departed from Spirou with his series 'Lucky Luke'. The comic debuted with a couple of gags and short stories in 1968, and initially settled around a group of cavalrymen and their dealings with a tribe of Indians. Drawn by Louis Salvérius, the series gained popularity when the setting was changed to the American Civil War, and the main characters were restricted to corporal Blutch and sergeant Chesterfield. During the creation of the fourth long story, Salvérius passed away prematurely, and Cauvin has continued this well-documented series with Willy Lambil from 1972 until the present day. Dupuis has collected the series in book format since 1970.
Another early hit series was the action-filled comic about the bodyguards Sammy Day and Jack Attaway, that was set during the American Prohibition years. Cauvin made 31 albums starring the characters with Flemish artist Berck between 1970 and 1994, and then another nine with Jean-Pol until 2009. The author delved into other periods of history, such as the days of the musketeers, with 'Câline et Calebasse' drawn by Mazel (1969-1976), and the Neapolitan era with 'Godaille et Godasse', drawn by Jacques Sandron (1975-1986).
Cauvin and Mazel continued their collaboration with 'Boulouloum et Guiliguili', a jungle serial about a mini-Tarzan and his gorilla. Debuting in 1975, the comic took a more mature tone in 1983, when the main characters were renamed to Kaloum and Kong and the series was retitled to 'Les Jungles Perdues'. Dupuis published ten books until 1987. 1975 also marked the beginning of Cauvin's long collaboration with Daniel Kox and the creation of the chubby police officer 'L'Agent 212', Cauvin's longest running gag strip.
Raoul Cauvin was also called in for help when a young artist applied for a spot in Spirou. He wrote short stories for Marc Wasterlain, Hislaire, Brouyère and Zygmunt, and created the comical space opera 'Les Naufragés de l'Espace' (1973-1978) for newcomer Guy Counhaye, as well as the little chicken 'Christobald' for Antoinette Collin in 1975-1976. And let's not forget 14-year old Philippe Bercovici, whom Cauvin introduced to the pages of Spirou in 1976, and with whom he created the parody on classic love stories, 'Les grandes amours contrariées', between 1979 and 1981.
Cauvin with Berck, Lampil and Fournier, from: Pauvre Lampil (artwork by Lambil)
The 'Carte Blanche' section of Spirou contained the debut of 'Pauvre Lampil', an "autobiofiction" series about the dramatic relationship between a comic artist (Lambil, a.k.a. Lampil) and his scenarist (Cauvin). Cauvin and Lambil made irregular appearing installments in this hilarious series from 1974 until 1994 (and then with some occasional reappearances in the 2000s). Also in 1974, Cauvin teamed up with François Walthéry for 'Le Vieux Bleu', a nostalgic comic series inspired by Walthéry's great-grandfather, who was a pigeon fancier. In 1988, Cauvin and Walthéry collaborated again, when Cauvin provided the script for the 'Natacha' episode 'Les nomades du ciel'.
Together with Nic Broca, Cauvin formed one of the two teams that succeeded Jean-Claude Fournier on the 'Spirou et Fantasio' comic. Cauvin and Broca made three long stories with Spirou's title character from 1980, until Tome and Janry got full reign over the series. Cauvin also cooperated with the Dupuis division S.E.P.P. on the comics version of 'The Snorks' ('Les Snorky'), a concept for an animation series developed by Broca about strange underwater creatures, in 1981. Cauvin made one comic book with Broca, and then provided the scripts for a series of stories published in the Italian magazine Il Giornalino with art by Franco Oneta and published in book format by Dupuis in 1986 and 1987.
The 1980s marked the beginning of a new genre in Cauvin's oeuvre; semi-controversial comic series with a more black and cynical humor. The first was 'Les Femmes en Blanc', in which the medical world is mocked, drawn by Philippe Bercovici from 1981 onwards. 'Pierre Tombal', a gag series with Marc Hardy, followed in 1983 and has a more morbid tone, as it deals with a gravedigger and his "customers". With Glem, he regularly made gags starring a group of hungry vultures, called 'Les Voraces' from 1986 well into the 1990s. By 1992, Cauvin and Bédu added 'Les Psy', a series that settles around the psychiatric world.
Other new creations had a milder theme, such as the series about the little cherub 'Cupidon', created with Malik in 1988 and written by Cauvin until 2011. The antics of the little schoolboy 'Cédric' and his friends and family (drawn by Laudec) became another highlight from 1986, and was even adapted into an animated TV series in the 1990s. Cauvin and Laudec also created 'Taxi Girl' from 1992 until 1998. Between 1993 and 2004 Cauvin renewed his association with Mazel to create 'Les Paparazzi', a parody on the society press.
One of Cauvin's final new creations for Spirou was 'Coup a foudre', a series about a transgender bull, of which three long stories were drawn by David Deth between 2008 and 2010. Also in 2008, Cauvin and Bercovici participated in a new series of mini-books containing a 'Femmes en Blanc' spin-off, and created a series of gags about sports collected in the book 'Ce qu'il faut savoir avant de pratiquer des sports de competition' in 2012.
Additionally, Cauvin also wrote comic series that were published exclusively in Spirou's Flemish counterpart. On demand of Flemish editors Jos Wauters and Erwin Cavens, Cauvin wrote and drew(!) 'Zotico', a comic strip in which the author and his garden spider have the starring role, in 1981. When Robbedoes got its own section with original Dutch and Flemish material in 1983, Cauvin participated with some short stories in cooperation with Louis-Michel Carpentier, 'Circus Maximus' episodes with Hec Leemans and the funny Olympics 'De Lolympische Spelen' with Caryl Strzlecki.
Cauvin has been somewhat of a cult star in the pages of Spirou since Thierry Tinlot's tenure as editor-in-chief from 1993 until 2004. He had a starring role in photo comics, editorial pages and jokes (including a coup for the chief editorship in 1996), and appeared on covers and in comics like 'Le Boss' and 'Raoul, scénariste choc' by Bercovici and Zidrou. His 70th birthday was celebrated with a special issue in 2008. Well after reaching pensionable age, Raoul Cauvin is still a highly productive writer for Spirou. By the 1990s he had already trained a new generation of writers including François Gilson and Dugomier, but he has remained standing at the front.
Raoul Cauvin has remained loyal to Spirou and Dupuis throughout his career, with only a few excursions to other publishers. Way back in 1969 and 1970 Cauvin had made 'Luc de Tarente', 'Alerte aux Iroquois' and the western 'Prime pour une Couronne' with Robert Lebersorg for the newspaper supplement Le Soir Jeunesse. They worked together once again on 'Fontenoy', a story about the Austrian Succession, that was published by Archers in 1987. These collaborations with Lebersorg are in fact the only realistic comic stories in Cauvin's oeuvre.
His first collaboration with Louis-Michel Carpentier was a post-apocalyptic tale about rats, called 'Les Toyottes'. The first story was serialized in the ecological comics magazine Pistil in 1978 and 1979 and the series was subsequently published in five books by Casterman from 1980 until 1982, with a final book released by Éditions du Lombard in 1989. Cauvin and Carpentier then made a short-lived toyline tie-in comic called 'De Biepjes', and began an association with the educational publisher Artis-Historia and its magazine Artiscope in 1985. Their best-known collaboration is however the series about the pub owner Poje, initially called 'L'Année de la Bière' and published by Archers in 1986 and 1987. The series also knew a couple of successful editions in local dialects, and was eventually published under the title 'Du Côté de Chez Poje' by Dupuis between 1990 and 2009.
Other non-Dupuis exploits include many anonymous scripts for productions by Berck, such as the SF series 'Mischa' for the German publisher Rolf Kauka (1972-1974) and 'Lou'/'Lowietje', a comic about a wealthy orphan that was published in the Dutch magazines Sjors and Eppo (1975-1983). He made the comic about the postman 'Raphaël et les Timbres' with Jacques Sandron for Je Bouquine by Bayard Presse between 1986 and 1994. In 1990 Cauvin made two comics based on the TV show 'Tatayet' with Olivier Saive for Marsu Productions and he was the plotter 'C.R.S. = Détresse', Achdé's series about the French security forces, from 1995 to 2007.
Ever since the 1970s, Cauvin has continued to work at the offices of Spirou magazine, and remained an employee of the publishing house Dupuis (and its subsequent owners). It was announced in October 2013 that Raoul Cauvin would go into semi-retirement at the age of 75. This meant that he would leave leave his office and terminate his employment after 53 years, but would continue to write scripts for most of his running series, that include 'Les Tuniques Bleues', 'Les Femmes en Blanc', 'Pierre Tombal', 'Les Psy', 'Cédric' and 'L'Agent 212'. And only a few months after his retirement, he even launched a new project with Curd Ridel for Éditions Sadawe, called 'Le Bâtard des étoiles'.
In November 2013, Dupuis released 'Cauvin la Monographie', an extensive book about Raoul Cauvin and the many artists he worked with, written by Patrick Gaumer.


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The confidence grows with each win.
You can ask any member of the Judge Memorial High volleyball team what the goal for this season is, and the answer will be the same:
To win the state tournament.
It isn't a case of robust cockiness. The Bulldogs could have their best team in school history. At 23-2, Judge hasn't lost a match since Sept. 4. It has won 14 of its last 15 games entering this week. The Bulldogs hold a 14-match win streak, and they have shown no signs of letting up.
"We really want to win the state," senior Sydney Schaefer said. "We feel right now that we're a team without many weaknesses. We're playing together as a team, we have great chemistry and everyone is in love with the sport. The coaching staff really cares about us, and it's all working right now."
Coach Matt Carlson said records haven't been kept, but it's believed that no Judge team has started a season winning 23 of its first 25 matches.
That makes the Bulldogs a favorite heading into the Class 3A tournament.
So how are they doing it? It's nothing spectacular, really. Judge happens to enjoy a perfect storm of balance. The Bulldogs are good at the net, offensively and defensively. When they have the chance for a kill, it usually ends up in a point. They share the ball and rack up plenty of assists. The liberos are strong and leaders on the back line. It's hard to score against them.
Carlson said sophomore Lauren Naatz should have Division I offers piling up by the time she's a senior. Taylor Gustafson leads Judge in assists and has proven to be a major asset as a setter.
"The girls play very hard and they are even-keeled," Carlson said. "The most important thing for us is winning the state championship, and we know that we have what it takes to be contenders."
The work ethic has improved. Carlson's team participates in an additional 30 minutes of practice each day. The key moment in the season was two wins over Woods Cross, one of the best programs in the state.
"That's when we knew that we had a chance to be good," Schaefer said.
Most important, the Judge players have responded to the first-year coach. The Chicago native played at the University of Utah. He coached at the club level before coaching at Judge.
Carlson, 28, knows he's young. But he and former BYU player Chris Gorny have turned around things in a short period.
Carlson saw talent when he first stepped into the gym over the summer. He also saw a timid bunch, so he worked to change that. He challenged his players to think big, reminding them each day that they had what it took to be competitive.
It's paid off.
Big time.
"I just wanted them to be aggressive," Carlson said. "I wanted them to go out and play. If they made mistakes, let it be out of being aggressive. When I got here, it was about changing some habits and working hard. I wanted them to stop being emotional and to just play."
Twitter: @tonyaggieville


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Trump Follows-Up: Reaches Out To Black Caucus For A Meeting
In response to a surprisingly personal exchange during a White House press conference Thursday, Donald Trump's team at the White House has contacted the Congressional Black Caucus for a meeting.
The ordeal sprouted from a question from American Urban Radio's White House correspondent April Ryan, an African American reporter who asked the President if he planned to include the CBC in his inner-city agenda.
"I would," Trump replied. "I'll tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?"
"No no no no, I'm just a reporter," Ryan said, clearly startled by the President trying to involve her in arranging a political meeting with her apparently black friends. (Yikes.)
Ryan appeared on CNN's Out Front Tonight with Erin Burnett to discuss the exchange.
"You know what Erin, I was really looking forward to an answer to the question," Ryan told Burnett Thursday night. "It's not about me and I'm not going to make it about me. There are issues in the black community that are way bigger than my feelings being hurt or what have you. I asked about the black agenda he said he wanted to fix urban America and inner cities."
Ryan announced that the White House has reached out to the Congressional Black Caucus and they are trying to set a date and time. During his press conference, Trump said he has tried to reach out to CBC's Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) for a meeting, but has been unsuccessful in solidifying one. He suggested that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — "a lightweight" — has probably been advising him against it.
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Hi balding_parrot, I would just add that md5sum also work on OS X, just open Terminal, type md5sum and drag & drop the file to the terminal windows.
download hashcalc from
SlavaSoft HashCalc - Hash, CRC, and HMAC Calculator
Its a free tool
Install it if it needs it
open hashcalc
uncheck all the checkboxes except md5
change data format to file
in the data box at the right hand side is a button with 3 dots in click it now navigate to where you downloaded your .iso or .zip and select it and click open
now press calculate
after a few seconds (or more depending on your computer speed) there will be a string next to the md5
now compare that to the md5 hash on the download page
if they are the same then your iso or zip is ok, if not the you need to download it again
the hash should be:
Name:: bt4-final.iso
Size: 1570 MB
MD5: af139d2a085978618dc53cabc67b9269
Name:: bt4-final-vm.zip
Size: 2000 MB
MD5: 733b47fad1d56d31bc63c16b3706a11c
make sure that .iso or zip is somewhere easy to navigate to eg \root
Open a console Window and navigate to that folder and type
md5sum <name of file>
after a few seconds you will get a response
the hash should be:
Name:: bt4-final.iso
Size: 1570 MB
MD5: af139d2a085978618dc53cabc67b9269
Name:: bt4-final-vm.zip
Size: 2000 MB
MD5: 733b47fad1d56d31bc63c16b3706a11c
as long as this is the same as the hash should be, you are good to go.
BTW these steps will work for any file that you need to check the md5 for.
Hi balding_parrot, I would just add that md5sum also work on OS X, just open Terminal, type md5sum and drag & drop the file to the terminal windows.
Thanks for that addition.
I should also add that you should check with the MD5's listed on the download page as they will always be updated to the correct ones for the file, whereas this page will become outdated and will not always have the correct MD5
balding_parrot, the SlavaSoft HashCalc site seems to have been shut down. I searched for any alternate or mirror download sites, but all 12 I found linked directly to the main site's download.
I wanted to recommend a great alternative that I've used for a while called HashTab. It integrates into the windows shell and adds a new "File Hashes" tab to every files' Properties window.
You can customize which hashes it will generate, and it supports Adler32, CRC32, HAVAL, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-320, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Tiger, and Whirlpool hashing. It's pretty quick, and it took about 10 seconds to generate all the hashes for the BackTrack ISO.
HashTab Direct Download Link (Windows)
Main website: http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/
A more unix-y correct solution is actually: openssl md5 bt4-final.iso
Which will work more across the board than the other. And will also let you do: openssl sha1 bt4-final.iso to verify the second hash (should the team ever put them both up to ensure nobody is collisioning your downloads )
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
Windows cli alternative. I've used this tool for a while on windows platforms and it has served me well. Can be run from remote shell if you have to.
MD5sums for Windows
Unzip the file.
Change to dir location of md5sums.
md5sums.exe C:\bt4-final.iso
Check hash.
Another excellent tool, which inspects integrity of the iso and makes a USB install key (Fully supports BT4)
Is LinuxliveUSB (.com)
It's similar to unetbootin but offers persistence as well.
LinuxLive USB Creator is currently supporting these Linuxes :
* Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Xubuntu 9.10 & 9.04 Desktop CD
* Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10
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While I am not a sysadmin or know much about security, I am partially responsible for operating the smallish network of my company. As such I find Backtrack to be very educational and also somewhat frightening!
I want to ask three questions about the effectiveness of spear-phishing and the Java download attack. I have watched the video posted at IronGeek's site which suggests that these attacks are very simple. However, in "the wild" would they work so well?
First, as I understand it, with both the unencoded executable payload inside the .pdf file and the Java download of the encoded payload, the remote shell can execute properly for Windows, OSX, and Linux OSs. The video stated that the Java downloaded worked for all three and I assume the same is true for the payloads pretending to be a .pdf but can someone please confirm?
Second, I might well have thought the payloads inside the .pdf would be detected by AV software since, unlike the remote shells used in the Java download, they are not encoded. So how effective can sending the .pdf by e-mail really be if the payload is unencoded?
Third, each exploit makes a direct connection between the victim and the IP of the attacker. Does this mean that when the victim first clicks on the .pdf, the attacker has to be listening? What happens if the attacker is offline? Does the payload stay in memory (including after reboots) on the target's machine and always looks to make a connection to the attacker's static IP irrespective of whether he finds it?
Thank you - I would like to learn more about this particular attack since it seems so easy and I wonder if there are not "real world" issues with its implementation.
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LOcation Nest Airport Public area are poor, Breakfast, no good Rooms are very loud from the street
Shuttle to airport. Friendly staff. New rooms. Great value for money. Free parking for a few days.
Near to the airport Clean rooms Rooms are very loud Public places are poor
Quick airport shuttle, nice reception, clean, good breakfast in an nice ambiente, excellent savety. The chip card that allows you just to go to the floor you live. No way to meet friends in other but the starcase or assitance.
Good business hotel, perfect location. Good breakfast. There is no hot water late at night and carpets in the halls are very dirty. Aiport van driver has a bad attitude. The advertised rate was not honored.
The hotel is close to the airport. Standard is average for an airport hotel. No restaurant at the hotel (only breakfast), but some nearby. Hotel car drive ust and from the restaurant. Nice service minded people. Free use og wifi internet. Aiport shuttle included. Just dont expect anything more than a average Airport hotel.
The Garden area first floor rooms. Extremely loud and late hours. Avoid those rooms if looking for rest
The gym was not too bad. Extremely unprofessional front desk teams. Called me at 09.30 pm to come down and pay the bill because I was checking out the next day. I spend 200 nights in hotels all over the world. Never made such an experience before.
While the place was nice, I was most impressed with the staff. They were very friendly and helpful. There are many homeless people in the area and it's not very safe to go out at night.
Because it is very confortable, and it is in a good place and accesible to the mall
the staff they do a good job. the service at the restaurant the best. the look of the interiors they try to hard trying to look well, but everything looks fake bad finish. the shawre leeks the barroom smells bad and the carpet and floors cheap.
This hotel is very convenient to the train station and fairly convenient to the city center (old market). It offers a mid-range type comfortable clean room (we went with a double with our own restroom) and includes a buffet breakfast (Polish style -- sandwich meats, etc).
Location , close to downtown The elevators don't work properly, and their card system the worst i have ever experience
The locations was great, had shopping that you can walk to and felt very safe.
This is a great property if you are in the south side of Monterrey, it's located right smack in the middle of a shopping center with lots of restaurants. This hotel is walking distance from ITESM and if you have a helicopter you can land on the top floor, not kidding.
The cleanliness of the rooms, food, security, and service.
Very nice new hotel close to downtown area and major streets. Good restaurant and hotel located in a strip shopping center with several really great restaurants. Nice experience.
The hotel was a complete chaos.Getting an elevator to my floor was always an ordeal. The card key failed constantly and I could not communicate with any other family that was staying in the same hotel but on a differ floor. I had to dial front desk first.
The location of this hotel is wonderful. Many restaurants, bars, etc within easy walking distance. The service was not as good, check in was friendly, but when I was faced with an issue (needed to buy pesos on Good Friday) the staff was ill equipped to help me or even offer solutions. Room service was nice, but housekeeping rarely cleaned the room during our five night stay and seemed not very motivated to do a good job. Wifi was good, but you have to re-authenticate every day.
This is my first time staying at a Novotel in Mexico and I was pleasantly surprised, this is a great hotel for business with prime location near restaurants and shopping in the border between upscale neighborhood of San Pedro and Monterrey.
I liked the security that my car was not in the open and limited access to the parking garage That the hotel was so hard to find
Staff friendly and always helpfull. They close the pool for one day, because of one event.
This is not a 4 star hotel. Maybe in a fifth world country. The hallways are uncomfortably hot. I doubt they use the air conditioning. It took three days and numerous calls to get an ice bucket with no lid and the size of a martini shaker. Carpeting is so inferior and poorly installed there are waves of air under foot-needs to be stretched. Checked in and waited 20 minutes for a manager because the desk clerk said are printed reservation was not what they had recieved from booking agent. They cannot DO ANYTHING without a manager who is never at the desk and is 'busy' elsewhere. Walls are paper thin-you could hear the TV next door. Poorly managed. One big ugly motel posing as a 4 star premise. WORST hotel experience in my life. No offers of compensation not gesture of goodwill. RUN to the Quinta Real across the street- they know property management. The Camino Real is run by robots who seek only the bottom line. Come to think of it the bottom is where they are at. Furnishings are retread 70s with garish purple and orange cheap fabric over foam cushions. Words can not paint the tasteless, tacky interiors. It looks like an art student won a contest. I couldn't wait to leave that place and WILL NEVER return. Restaurants-Chinese and Italian. What a waste when there could be a wonderful authentic Mexican restaurant. Look for this place to fold or continue to cater to the less sophisticated traveler. Saw plenty of rooms with what looked like 12 people to a room. LOUD and NOISY children runnng down the hallways and mothers screaming at them. It was a horrible, horrible long weekend and not one person from management really tried to solve the problems. STAY AWAY!!!!
Stayed there for a night, it was really bad. The bathroom smelled and the staff do not have a clue what they are doing. It took them one hour to find my reservation. Stay away!!!
The other reviewer got it right. I didnt listen. You could try the SAFI across the street but skip the Intercontinental and the NH. SAFI has a fantastic buffet breakfast and Id try that one the next time I go. It couldnt be any worse than spending 2 weeks in the Camino Real. PS: Absolutely nothing works right!
One of the hotel restaurants, Kyo, has a great asian fussion cousine menu. Front desk staff lost my reservation, they didnt help me to improve my new years eve experience by not offering me other services that i could pay them as combo, they charge every service separely, i dont recommend this hotel because the lack ofservice.
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Hotel is in a great location, nice ammenities and a historic hotel that has grown along the city. This is not a modern style hotel but neither a dump. I felt safe and the hotel exceded my expectations from callings taxis, getting my laundry done. The coller in the rooms does not cool, but keeps drinks cold, think of it as a dry ice cooler. I just grabbed a bag and got some ice and out it inside the cooler and it kept drinks cold for days. fixtures are not super new but it is a rustic hotel.
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is in downtown
All the staff were so friendly and helpful.Really went out of normal courtesy. There was no resturent for food for the day,except breakfast.
Food was good. Bedroom was spacious. Location is decent. Air conditioning is absolutely terrible. This is the first hotel I've ever been to that has NO ice makers. You hvae to call the restaurant. Room smells bad.
Rude staff at check in, long line, terrible parking access, noisy, smelly room, AC subpar. So much that i will never stay here again and am telling others.
The common areas: The lobby, the halls, etc. I like the restaurants. The buffet is very enjoyable and has a terrific paella. Staff is very polite. (1) Cleaning and laundry: I was told twice that somebody would come by for my clothes. No one did. This also happened on a past trip.
good location and fair price
The beds, nice and soft, coffee and water in the rooms and indoor parking
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Location, the fact that room had toothpaste and water Service needs improvement especially the front desk
For me the day starts with a good breakfast and their morning buffet is very good-not fancy but just a very good breakfast with a lot of choices. Beats the hell out of continental breakfasts that I usually experience when traveling. The staff at the front deck was top notch-very helpful with all my requests and questions. If you are with someone who enjoys shopping at a mall, the skyway takes you directly from the hotel to the mall and it appears to be upscale but I am not a shopper. No car needed for this and it's but a 10 minute walk over the highway. Because I speak not a word of Spanish, the front desk took care of all my taxi needs. I look forward to visiting Monterrey this December and will definately stay at this hotel again.


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The Florida Highway Patrol says the crash happened around noon Sunday in northern Brevard County.
According to troopers, Jessica Dalrymple of Merritt Island was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by 67-year-old Michael Bowers.
The FHP says 64-year-old Grace Bowers was riding her motorcycle behind them when Dalrymple fell off the bike for an unknown reason. The motorcycles collided and the Bowers, who weren't wearing helmets, were thrown to the ground.
The teen died at the scene. Her name has not been released. Michael Bowers is in serious condition and Grace Bowers is in critical condition at a local hospital.
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ADELANTO - The charter school chosen by a group of parents under California's "parent trigger" law finally got their chance to present how they'd remake a failing High Desert elementary school Tuesday night.
Debra Tarver, the founder and executive director of LaVerne Preparatory Academy in Hesperia presented her charter position for Desert Trails Preparatory Academy at the meeting of the Adelanto Elementary School board.
About 75 supporters of the proposal charter school attended the meeting, many in their black "Desert Trails Parent Union" t-shirts.
In October, Adelanto parents announced they'd selected Tarver to take over Desert Trails Elementary School, where three-quarters of students are unable to read and write up to standards, according to state testing scores. They used a law that lets groups who collect signatures from more than 50 percent of parents to imposing sweeping changes on the school.
"We wholeheartedly support the charter school," Desert Trails Parent Union member Joe Morales told the board during the public comment section of the meeting Tuesday. "We respectfully request you give Debbie Tarver the opportunity to succeed in Adelanto the way (her school has) in Hesperia."
The Desert Trails Parent Union and AESD appeared in court several times this year, arguing over whether petition signatures were admissible and whether the state's parent trigger law allowed the school district or the parents to call the shots on what happened next. The Adelanto group's use of the law is the first successful attempt since it was signed into law in 2010.
Tuesday night was the next hurdle to be cleared: Tarver, who has run two different charter schools in Hesperia, still had to have her charter petition approved by the school board. School boards can and do reject petitions that fail to explain various aspects of the school's educational or business plans.
Board members were very aware of the national attention the Desert Trails story has garnered.
"As far as I'm concerned, I don't care about (the public's) eyes," board member Elaine Gonzales said. "I care about our children's eyes."
"This is about here in Adelanto, but not everybody running their mouth is from Adelanto," board member Jermaine Wright said, nominally speaking about the membership of the future Desert Trails Preparatory school board. "If they're going to be in charge of kids in Adelanto, they should be from Adelanto."
The Desert Trails Parent Union received a great deal of assistance from outside-the-area groups, including the Los Angeles-based grouped Parent Revolution, which provided legal counsel for the parent union Tuesday night.
"At the end of the day, it is about the child and what we can offer them and their lessons for life," Tarver said.
The new school would follow the model established by her K-8 Hesperia school, with a classical education model, including the teaching of Latin to her elementary school students and high academic expectations.
Wright was skeptical about Desert Trails Prep's projected enrollment of up to 720 students.
"Realistically, with 57 parents (who voted for the school), we're looking at maybe 200 students," he said. "Is 720 students a realistic number when there's not 720 kids in that (current) school?"
The enrollment figure was based on the number of families within the school's boundary, LaVerne officials said.
"We've been very hard on charters here," board member Christine Turner told Tarver. The district is currently home to only one charter school. "We're asking questions we need to ask. And they will be asked."
After an hour and 15 minutes, the board still had more questions to ask: The meeting ended before the public hearing did. The board will continue asking questions at a special workshop meeting later this month.
The school district has up to 60 days to decide on the petition.
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STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONALIncomplete Ballots Passed Out at Polling Place
Did anyone else only get the first page of the 3 page ballot at your polling place this morning? I made them stop passing...Original post made by Dedicated Voter on Jun. 3, 2014
Last comment by Daveg, on Jun 3, 2014 at 5:02 pm | 2 comments | 1003 Views
COMMENTS ON STORIESVote Yes on Healthcare Measure AA
Proponents of Healthcare Measure AA on the June 3 ballot talk about how a Yes vote won't increase taxes. That's because,...Original post made on Jun. 3, 2014
Last comment by Right, on Jun 3, 2014 at 4:34 pm | 3 comments | 1609 Views
COMMENTS ON STORIESPleasanton readies for tomorrow's primary
As campaigns for tomorrow's statewide direct primary election head into their final, the focus is on the "other half" of...Original post made on Jun. 2, 2014
Last comment by lll, on Jun 3, 2014 at 10:46 am | 5 comments | 3871 Views
A different perspective on Spotorno Ranch development
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