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Groton schools issue clouded by condition of three buildings
Groton - Any plan to build a middle school in Groton would have to take into account its elementary schools, because three of the seven are in poor condition and could end up closed rather than fixed.
The fundamental question is whether Groton wants one middle school or two, whether it should contain grades seven and eight or grades six, seven and eight, and what should happen to the remaining schools, said Wes Greenleaf, former school facilities director and a member of the task force looking at future construction.
Three of the elementary schools are in such bad shape that in 2010 an architectural firm ranked them as "poor" in five or more areas, including "building code compliance."
Two schools have needed concrete beams reinforced to buy time, one has few escape windows firefighters can fit through and another is using portable classrooms built more than 40 years ago.
Greenleaf said he'd support building a single middle school, turning the existing middle schools into elementary schools, and closing Claude Chester, S.B. Butler and Pleasant Valley elementary schools. The fewer schools Groton has, the less expensive it will be for taxpayers, he said.
Greenleaf said the three schools could be repaired, but at a high cost. "It's not that they're unsafe to be in," he said. "It's that their time has passed."
The school board will meet Monday to decide whether it wants to build one middle school or two and what grades middle and elementary schools should hold. The School Facilities Initiative Task Force will then meet Thursday to talk about specifics.
In June 2010, a report by McKissick Associates Architects evaluated Groton's schools in 13 areas, including their structure and code compliance. The report compared the conditions of the district's 11 schools at the time - including Fitch Middle School, which is now closed - and ranked them. Five of the six lowest-ranked buildings were elementary schools.
Claude Chester, the lowest ranked in terms of condition, received a "1" - or "poor" - rating in the areas of educational support, food service, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, building code compliance, heating, ventilation and air conditioning and fire protection. It received a "2" - or "fair" - in all other areas.
S.B. Butler, ranked 10th, and Pleasant Valley, ranked ninth, received a "poor" rating in the areas of educational support, food service, ADA compliance, building code compliance and fire protection.
Five of Groton's seven elementary schools were rated "poor" for fire protection.
Greenleaf said Claude Chester and Pleasant Valley are equipped with "rescue windows," meaning those large enough for firefighters to climb in, but S.B. Butler has only a few. The schools were built before sprinklers were required and fire alarms were mandated in each space.
Poquonnock Bridge Fire Marshal Adam Wojtcuk, who covers the district that includes Claude Chester, said escape windows are necessary at that school because hurricane-proof windows installed several years ago are virtually unbreakable. "The hurricane windows are next to impossible to get through, even for us," he said. "They would require a saw."
The schools also have structural problems. At Claude Chester, concrete beams holding up the gymnasium floor had to be reinforced two years ago. At S.B. Butler, beams under the front classroom wing were reinforced 18 years ago. Both schools also contain "non-friable" asbestos - asbestos that is not airborne - in the floor tile.
Elsewhere, Pleasant Valley Elementary has five portables built in 1971 that have been moved twice, Greenleaf said.
The next phase
An earlier study of the school district in 2009 and two "vision" reports filed in the last year may also factor into the debate about future school building.
Groton had planned to deal with its school construction in phases. Phase I led to the construction of Catherine Kolnaski Magnet School, Northeast Academy and a major addition and renovation of Fitch High School. Several older schools, including Colonel Ledyard, Groton Heights, Eastern Point and Noank elementary schools closed in 2007 as part of Phase I.
Phase II of the plan would have consolidated three middle schools into one, renovated others and opened new early-childhood centers. But voters defeated it by a wide margin in May 2011. The school board then voted to close Fitch Middle School to save money.
School Board member Rita Volkmann, who serves on the task force as a board representative, told her colleagues this week that the task force toured schools as part of its research. "I think after seeing the middle schools, they felt like things looked not so bad there, compared to some of our three very needy elementaries," she said.
Board member Kim Shephardson Watson, who also serves on the task force, said the group needs some basic direction as to what the board wants. Volkmann said the committee doesn't want to craft a plan the school board then won't support.
School Facilities Director William Robarge told the board this week that if Groton built one or two middle schools, it could relocate elementary students into Cutler Middle School and West Side Middle School.
In addition to the study by McKissick Associates Architects, the school board is expected to review the 2009 Master Plan Phase II draft report presentation by JCJ Architecture and reports by the school "vision committees" released in May and December 2011.
One former plan outlined in 2010 would have kept these schools open: Catherine Kolnaski Magnet School, Charles Barnum Elementary School, Mary Morrisson Elementary School and Northeast Academy. The plan would have closed Claude Chester, Pleasant Valley and Fitch Middle School.
The rebuilding plan would have demolished S.B. Butler and built a new pre-kindergarten to first-grade school, partially renovated West Side Middle School, turned it into an early childhood center and built one new middle school.
The Groton Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the school administration building to discuss future building construction. The School Facilities Initiative Task Force will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Town Hall Annex.
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|Richard A. Viguerie about to blow $10,000 on nothing.
Today, I'm announcing "The Liberty Prize," a contest for grassroots conservatives to submit a plan or ideas to take over the Republican Party, win the November 2016 elections, and govern America by 2017.
The most important political battle in America is not between Republicans and Democrats or between conservatives and liberals. It is the battle for control of the Republican Party between establishment big government Republicans and limited government, constitutional conservatives. It has become clear that establishment Republican and Democratic politicians have failed America because they have both accepted big government as the solution to every problem.
The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
With big government establishment Republicans, led by Karl Rove, launching a multi-million dollar PAC to control Republican Primary elections and the changes to the Republican Party rules rammed through the 2012 Republican Convention by Mitt Romney's inside-the-Beltway allies, conservatives must have a well-organized and well-thought-out plan to take control of the GOP from the grassroots up. Otherwise, the Republican Party will continue its slow creep away from the conservative principles that elected Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Contract With America Congress in 1994, and the Tea Party wave Congress in 2010.
In asking for ideas on how to help save our country, I named the $10,000 prize "The Liberty Prize" because I want to encourage the grassroots conservatives of the GOP to liberate the Party from the control of the Beltway insiders who are pushing the Party away from the conservative principles that win elections for Republicans. The entire $10,000 could go to one person who writes a great plan or it could be divided among persons who submit specific ideas to advance the project.
The winning plan/idea will be included in a book I'm writing to be published this spring, entitled, "TAKEOVER."
How did this guy know it was almost my birthday? Having the Teabaggers and the GOP at each others throat is the bestest gift ever!
And good news, apparently Mr. Viguerie has already received a few nibbles from the lunatic right wing fringe to his offer:
Today, we can announce the results and interest in the Liberty Prize are already starting to flow in – and the reason is clear – grassroots conservative Republican voters are tired of losing elections because their leaders regularly fail to run on the principles and values that they, and the majority of Americans, believe in.
You know I think my response to this kind of infighting between the Teabaggers and the Republican party is much like Stephen Colbert's.
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Hello Stack overflow !
I'm the ultimate beginner in programming. I have some experience in php and vba, doing my own scripts as I need them, especially in excel.
Recently, for a project at works, I need to be able to scan **AUTOMATICALLY** (say every 2 minuteS) from **multiple scanners** (say 2 for starters) **both connected to the same computer**.
I decided to use this project as a start point for me to get a feeling of Visual Basic.
So here we go, I installed visual studio express 2010 and started writing my script trying to find here and there bits of codes that could help me. I found that WIA could help with that (Twain could as well but it seems much more obscure to the newbie I am)
Anyway, I finally came up with an app that is able to automatically scan at the set interval when only one scanner is connected. The trouble arrives when I connect more than one scanner. then, the first scan occurs correctly (Scanner 1 scans, then scanner 2 scans), but when the second scan is supposed to start, nothing happens and the scanners become inaccessible (busy).
I though maybe I forgot to "release" or "disconnect" the last scanner used. Or maybe, something remains in the scanner's buffer memory ?
I have been stuck on this issue for the last 3 days and don't know how to make it work.
here is the function that scans : (i don't paste the rest as it is the UI and folder management)
Please be indulgent with me, I am aware that the code is probably a nightmare for programming pros with lots of bad stuff, but it is literally my first VB program, and I am eager to learn.Code:Public Sub scannerloop() 'format constants Const wiaFormatBMP = "{B96B3CAB-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}" Const wiaFormatPNG = "{B96B3CAF-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}" Const wiaFormatGIF = "{B96B3CB0-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}" Const wiaFormatJPEG = "{B96B3CAE-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}" Const wiaFormatTIFF = "{B96B3CB1-0728-11D3-9D7B-0000F81EF32E}" 'file format Dim fileformat As String If Me.FileExt.SelectedItem = "TIF" Then fileformat = wiaFormatTIFF If Me.FileExt.SelectedItem = "JPEG" Then fileformat = wiaFormatJPEG If Me.FileExt.SelectedItem = "BMP" Then fileformat = wiaFormatBMP If Me.FileExt.SelectedItem = "PNG" Then fileformat = wiaFormatPNG If Me.FileExt.SelectedItem = "GIF" Then fileformat = wiaFormatGIF 'colors Dim colorcode As Integer If Me.Colorbox.SelectedItem = "Black and white" Then colorcode = 4 If Me.Colorbox.SelectedItem = "Greyscale" Then colorcode = 2 If Me.Colorbox.SelectedItem = "Colour" Then colorcode = 1 'Resolution Dim dpi As Integer dpi = Me.dpiBox.SelectedItem Dim horizextent = dpi * 8.2 Dim vertextent = dpi * 11.6 Dim j As String = 1 Dim DeviceManager1 = CreateObject("WIA.DeviceManager") 'wia device manager For i = 1 To DeviceManager1.DeviceInfos.Count 'loop through all devices If DeviceManager1.DeviceInfos(i).Type = 1 Then 'Select only scanners, not webcams etc... 'startpoint to calculate how long it is to scan Dim ScanStart = DateAndTime.Second(Now) + (DateAndTime.Minute(Now) * 60) + (DateAndTime.Hour(Now) * 3600) 'Directory + file Dim targetdir = Me.ProjectFolderBox.Text & "\scans\Scanner" & j & "\S" & j & "_" & Me.FilePrefix.Text & Me.CurrFileIndex & "." & Me.FileExt.SelectedItem Form2.CurrentActionLabel.Text = "Scanning from scanner #" & j Dim Scanner As WIA.Device = DeviceManager1.DeviceInfos(i).connect If IsNothing(Scanner) Then Log(Me.logfilename, Now & " | Scanner #" & j & " not found") Else Try Dim Img As WIA.ImageFile With Scanner.Items(1) .Properties("6146").Value = colorcode '4 is Black-white,gray is 2, color 1 (Color Intent) .Properties("6147").Value = dpi 'dots per inch/horizontal .Properties("6148").Value = dpi 'dots per inch/vertical .Properties("6149").Value = 0 'x point where to start scan .Properties("6150").Value = 0 'y-point where to start scan 'Following is A4 paper size. (Not 100% accurate because real A4 Ht errors) .Properties("6151").Value = horizextent 'horizontal exent DPI x inches wide .Properties("6152").Value = vertextent 'vertical extent DPI x inches tall ' .Properties("4104").Value = 8 'bits per pixel End With 'transfer image Img = Scanner.Items(1).Transfer(fileformat) 'scans the image. 'kill previous file if exists to avoid errors If System.IO.File.Exists(targetdir) = True Then Kill(targetdir) End If Img.SaveFile(targetdir) 'last scan Form2.LastFileLabel.Text = "\Scanner" & j & "\S" & j & "_" & Me.FilePrefix.Text & Me.CurrFileIndex & "." & Me.FileExt.SelectedItem Form2.LastScanLabel.Text = Now Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) Finally Scanner = Nothing End Try End If 'End time for the scan Dim ScanEnd = DateAndTime.Second(Now) + (DateAndTime.Minute(Now) * 60) + (DateAndTime.Hour(Now) * 3600) 'log Log(Me.logfilename, Now & " | Scanner #" & j & " | Scanned " & targetdir & " | duration: " & (ScanEnd - ScanStart)) j = j + 1 Next DeviceManager1 = Nothing Me.CurrFileIndex = Me.CurrFileIndex + 1 Me.ScanCount = Me.ScanCount + 1 Me.NextScan = DateAdd("n", Me.IntervalBox.Value, Now) Form2.ScanCountLabel.Text = Me.ScanCount Form2.NextScanLabel.Text = Me.NextScan Form2.CurrentActionLabel.Text = "Waiting..." 'Increment next file index and update in config file Me.FileIndexBox.Value = Me.CurrFileIndex SaveCfg() End Sub
So basically, the rest of the program is a form where I enter the target directory for the scan, the filenames, resolution etc, and when I click on 'start scanning', it
- runs scannerloop one first time
- starts a 'scantimer' which launches scannerloop each time it ticks.
I do not want any dialog to appear to as me which scanner to select or which parameters to use as this program is supposed to run over several weeks in order to scan hundreds of images without anyone to attend it.
As I said, it works perfectly with 1 scanner (files created as expected, logfile updated, etc) but as soon as I have 2 scanners, only the first scan works and then, when scanner#1 is supposed to start scanning, it doesn't and the led of scanner#2 starts blinking (as if it was scanning, but it's not scanning)
I hope someone will be able to help me.
Thanks in advance.


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Francona is not stupid. He knew Gagne had nothing -- after a two-out walk, a single, a walk, a walk (and a line-drive double that resulted in the inning-ending out) -- yet he did nothing. He chose to stay with Gagne and lose the game. Gagne already feels like shit; leaving him out there thinking his manager has faith in him to get out of his own jam is meaningless.
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CLEMSON, S.C. – The Blue Devils totaled a season-high 15 hits, including six in an eight-run fourth, as the Duke baseball team downed Clemson 13-1 in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
Duke (12-12, 3-6 ACC) led Clemson 3-0 heading to the fourth before plating a season-high eight runs in the inning. Sophomore Andy Perez was 2-for-2 with a double and three RBI in the frame, while junior Jordan Betts roped a two-out, two-run double down the left field line. In total, Duke sent 13 batters to the plate in the fourth, registering six hits and a pair of walks.
"We just strung really good at bats together back-to-back-back," said head coach Chris Pollard. "It was a great learning moment for our guys because now they see we're capable of doing that. We haven't been great at putting crooked numbers up on the board and we put up two big innings today in the second game. To come back from really playing poorly in a lot of areas in the first game and being in an 0-2 hole in the series, to win the ball game the way we did in all three phases showed a lot of grit."
Perez turned in a standout performance at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a career-high five RBI. Sophomore Grant McCabe registered a career-high three hits, while junior Matt Berezo went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. In addition, freshman Kenny Koplove was 2-for-2, adding two RBI and two runs scored.
After scoring two runs in the top of the first in game one, the Blue Devils again jumped out to an early lead in the second game of today's doubleheader. Back-to-back base hits from Berezo and junior Mark Lumpa put two aboard and a Koplove two-out, RBI single scored the first run of the game. Perez then stepped to the plate and lined a two-run triple to right field to make it 3-0 in favor of the Blue Devils.
Down just three runs, Clemson (15-8, 5-4 ACC) threatened in the second recording two base hits and a pair of walks, but Duke's defense was able to keep the Tigers scoreless. Catcher Reed Anthes threw out Shane Kennedy attempting to swipe second and right fielder Jeff Kremer gunned down Jon McGibbon at the plate after a Jay Baum single. Duke starter Robert Huber then got Tyler Krieger to fly out to center to escape the frame unscathed.
"I thought that was huge," said Pollard. "[Clemson] could've very easily put three on the board against us that inning. To put a zero on the board that inning was huge for our team's psyche and we had to make some really outstanding plays to do it. From there, we really took advantage."
Both teams scored a single run in the sixth and Duke added another in the eighth to bring the final score to 13-1.
Huber (3-2) picked up his third win of the season, giving up just one run on five hits in six innings of work. Freshman Michael Matuella and sophomore Andrew Istler combined to throw three hitless innings in relief for the Blue Devils.
Clemson starter Scott Firth (2-4) allowed six runs on eight hits in 3.1 innings in the loss.
Duke hits the road for a pair of non-conference midweek matchups this coming week. The Blue Devils face Campbell in Buies Creek, N.C., Tuesday at 6 p.m., before traveling to Greensboro for a 6 p.m., game against North Carolina A&T. Duke will return to ACC action over the weekend, playing host to Boston College at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.


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14-8-12 12-11-9 13-10-5The Red Sox hit five doubles off Lowe (6.1-7-3-1-2, 110). Back-to-back two-baggers from Jason Varitek and Nick Green with two out in the fifth broke the scoreless tie. J.D. Drew doubled to start the sixth and scored on Kevin Youkilis's single. In the seventh, Varitek doubled (again!) with one out, took third on Green's single, and scored on Dustin Pedroia's fielder's choice.
David Ortiz had the other double, which he golfed to dead center field in the second inning. The ball hit the wall just below the camera porch.
Derek Lowe (4.08, 104 ERA+) / Josh Beckett (4.15, 113 ERA+)
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CAIRO (AP) – A court on Monday sentenced two policemen to 10 years in prison each for the 2010 beating to death of a young Egyptian that was one of the sparks that led to the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak the following year.
The sentencing was the result of a retrial in the landmark case of the killing of 28-year-old Khaled Said, a small businessman in the port city of Alexandria.
Photographs of the dead Said's severely beaten face were posted on the Internet and became a rallying cry against rampant police brutality under Mubarak.
The two low-ranking policemen _ Awad Suliman and Mahmoud Salah _ had previously been convicted and handed sentences of seven years but that conviction was later overturned and a new trial was ordered.
Authorities had denied Said was tortured to death, with successive forensic reports and official statements claiming the 28-year old man had choked on a packet of drugs he swallowed to hide it from the approaching policemen.
Said's sister Zahraa wrote on her Facebook page that the sentences vindicated her brother, as they affirmed he died under torture and not from suffocation from swallowing drugs.
"The 10-year sentences for the killers of Khaled Said are on charges of the torture that led to his death, and not like they used to say that he swallowed a packet," She wrote. "We were expecting the maximum penalty (the death sentence) to be levied on the killers. But victory comes only from God."
Activists had used a Facebook page set up in Said's memory to call for the protests that ultimately forced Mubarak from power in February 2011.
The verdict may still be appealed.
In a separate development, prosecutors released the son of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi _ Mubarak's successor _ after he agreed to give samples for a drug test. According to the state MENA news agency, 20-year-old university freshman Abdullah Morsi was freed late Sunday after agreeing to give blood and urine samples for the test.
The young Morsi was detained on Saturday on suspicion of drug possession. He was with a friend in a parked car that was searched by a police patrol east of Cairo. Officers reportedly found two rolled hashish cigarettes in the vehicle.
Abdullah's older brother, Osama, had rejected the accusations, calling them fabricated.
Morsi was ousted in July last year by the military and faces a multitude of trials on charges that carry the death penalty. He was in office for a year when he was removed by military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Mubarak himself faces two trials: a retrial over the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that toppled his 29-year rule and a second one, on charges that he and his two sons took for personal use state funds set aside for the upkeep and maintenance of presidential palaces.
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Sappharie's mom, Dicie Cooper, wants a career. She is a test away from a GED, her first step toward becoming a pediatric nurse.
Eloise's mom, Jordan Carpenter, wants to work, too. She aims for a "steady life," now that she's finished cosmetology school.
At the moment, careers are just part of the middle-class dreams of Cooper, 18, and Carpenter, 20.
Both are poor and unemployed. Both are single mothers: Cooper has three children and Carpenter has one.
Their resolve to succeed is strong. It needs to be. Climbing the economic ladder is difficult for single moms and their families.
In 2012, half of all families led by single moms in the city of Rockford lived in poverty, according to U.S. census estimates. For mothers with children younger than 5, the percentage was 62.1.
Local statistics
Unwed women giving birth used to be a societal stigma; it's not so much of one anymore. In 2010, 49.3 percent of births in Winnebago County were to unmarried women, according to the most recent figures released by the county Health Department. The number mirrors a steady seven-decade increase in unwed births nationwide.
Single mothers often have limited financial resources to pay for education, child care and health care. That can affect their children and the communities where they live.
Children who grow up poor are 1.3 times more likely than their more advantaged peers to have learning disabilities or suffer developmental delays or exhibit behavioral and peer social problems, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, "Using a Public Health Approach for Improving Child Health and Development."
According to the CDC, poor children often have lower academic performance, complete two fewer years of school, engage in riskier behavior and earn less than half as much in the workforce.
In three of the poorest areas of Rockford — ZIP codes 61101, 61102 and 61104, on the west and southeast sides — more than 60 percent of births between 1999 and 2009 were to unmarried mothers, according to the Health Department.
Teen pregnancies, which fell steadily in Winnebago County — from 15.3 percent in 1980 to 11.2 percent in 2010 — were twice as high in the 61101 and 61102 ZIP codes.
"A lot of these young women have never been around a man and a woman who are married," says Vikki Noe-Eltvedt, executive director of Rockford MELD, an agency that helps mothers in poverty work toward self-sufficiency. "The concept of marrying before children is foreign. They have no expectations about having a male householder.
"My personal opinion is, that's all that they know because that's how they've been raised."
MELD, an acronym for Moms and Dads Establishing Life's Direction, provides shelter, education and life-skills training for young families.
Census estimates show that 6,200 (43.8 percent) of the 14,110 households in Winnebago County with minor children and a single female parent were in poverty in 2012, says Deborah Lischwe, associate director of health systems research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford.
Among married couples with children younger than 18, the poverty rate was 5.7 percent.
"It represents a disadvantage to everyone involved, from the standpoint that two typically is better than one in raising children, and it's far better economically," says Mike Bacon, administrator for the Winnebago County Health Department.
"It's a contributing factor to poverty figures locally and nationally."
Nationally, children growing up in families led by single women are four times more likely to be poor than those living in a married-couple family, according to the nonprofit Brookings Institution in Washington.
On their own
Single moms tend to have less education and work experience, which means any jobs these sole household breadwinners get are likely to be low-paying.
A Health Department analysis of 44,162 Winnebago County births between 1999 and 2009 found that:
34.9 percent of unmarried mothers had less than a high school education, compared with 14.4 percent of married mothers.56 percent of married mothers had some college or a degree, compared with 23.8 percent for unmarried moms."The effects of growing up in single-parent households have been shown to go beyond economics, increasing the risk of children dropping out of school, disconnecting from the labor force, and becoming teen parents," the Population Reference Bureau wrote in a 2010 report, "U.S. children in single-mother families."
"Although many children growing up in single-parent families succeed, others will face significant challenges in making the transition to adulthood. Children in lower-income, single-parent families face the most significant barriers to success in school and the workforce."
Some single moms receive support from parents, a boyfriend, fiance, the child's father or a domestic partner. A significant number of women are on their own, however, when the child is born.
They must find the means to raise the baby, which, since the 18-month Great Recession ended in 2009, has become more difficult in a manufacturing region that fell off the economic ledge.
Researchers say that for every 1 percent change in the jobless rate, the number of people living in poverty changes 1.5 percent. In May 2007, Rockford's jobless rate was 5.4 percent; it spiked at 19.1 percent in January 2010.
The number of people in Boone and Winnebago counties who were living in poverty went from 29,152 in 2000 to 60,544 in 2010.
Unemployment has fallen, and 2012 census estimates show that poverty in the region has declined, but it is still higher than state and national levels.
The poverty threshold is a 50-year-old federal estimate of the minimum required for individuals or families to pay for basic expenses. Those who fall below it may be eligible for government benefits, such as food stamps, child care assistance, housing subsidies and other welfare.
The poverty threshold is based on family size. A senior citizen living alone with an income of less than $11,011 is living in poverty, as is a single mother with three children who earns less than $23,364.
Neither figure hits the "self-sufficiency standard" for living here, according to "The State of Social Well-Being," a report released in February by Rockford Regional Vital Signs, a planning consortium of 30 agencies from Boone and Winnebago counties.
That number is $28,725, and represents the minimum income required to cover no-frills housing, food, transportation, health care, household and personal items, and taxes. The group has collected and analyzed hundreds of data sets on social, economic and environmental conditions in the region.
Need for degrees
Researchers say education is the way out of poverty for single moms.
But motivated single moms often must choose between working 20 to 30 hours a week to pay for rent and food, or attending school, Noe-Eltvedt says.
MELD operates a homeless shelter and 22 transitional apartments for mothers with children. Its budget is $1.5 million.
Last year, MELD received 529 requests for shelter of housing. It turned away 224 mothers and children because there was no space.
"We are always full," Noe-Eltvedt says. "The need is much greater than the resources that we have.
"Who gets housing is based on need. A mom and child living in a car get precedence over someone living with Grandma."
MELD clients are poor, most coming from poor families and often led by single moms. "For us, most of the time it is multigenerations of poverty."
In addition to needing education and jobs, clients may be substance abusers or suffer from mental illness.
"Putting someone in an apartment is great, but it's not going to work if you can't address all the other issues," she says.
A client can spend up to 2½ years in MELD programs.
It is drilled into clients that education is the first step to self-sufficiency for them and their children.
If they didn't graduate from high school, MELD clients pursue a General Educational Development credential. With a diploma or GED, they are steered toward programs that will help them become certified nursing assistants, pharmacy technicians, dental assistants, ultrasound technicians or phlebotomists, or toward other careers that require shorter training periods.
That allows them to move quickly to the second step of self-sufficiency: employment.
Still, a high school diploma or GED and a job do not guarantee that a family will rise above poverty. Circumstance often plays a role.
"If they make it to us when they are pregnant or with the first child, we can help," Noe-Eltvedt says. "But when they have two or three kids, it's nearly impossible" because bigger families need more expensive housing and incur higher household expenses and transportation costs.
MELD works mostly with single mothers who range in age from teens to 25.
In Winnebago County, white mothers accounted for nearly two-thirds of the county's unmarried births (1,259) in 2010, according to the Health Department. Among African-American women, 84 percent (584) of children were born to unwed mothers in 2010.
"There are direct correlations between minority female-led households and households in poverty," the Vital Signs report says. "The relationship is reversed for white female-led households."
Not all unmarried moms running a house are poor or going at it alone. Some live with parents, a child's father, a boyfriend or domestic partner. Some are receiving child support. Some are single because they're divorced, widowed or separated.
"A lot of folks look at data on the percentage of births to unmarried women that have gone up steadily over time and link that directly to the issue of kids being raised by single mothers," says Larry Joseph, director of the Fiscal Policy Center at Voices for Illinois Children in Chicago.
"It's a little more complicated than that."
Child care
In Illinois, Joseph said, about half of single moms were co-habitating when a child was born; overall, a father wasn't living with a mother in about 25 percent of the cases. But the poverty rate for single mothers is still extremely high, and the financial gap between married couples and single mothers has increased since the recession.
One factor that's often overlooked is the cost of child care for single parents, especially when children are young. Married couples have options. One spouse can stay home if need be, or they may have two incomes and be able to afford it, Joseph says.
"If you look at single-mother households, the poverty rates are highest for those who have kids who are not yet of school age. That makes sense because it's much harder for them to get a job and pay for the child care."
Voices for Illinois Children lobbies for child-friendly laws, but Joseph says policy changes aren't likely to have a quick impact.
"The single thing that affects poverty rates over the medium term is the state of the economy. So until we get the economy nationwide back where we need it and get unemployment rates down much further, we're still going to have more problems for these types of families."
And problems faced by households led by single mothers are community problems, Ron Haskins told the U.S. Senate in testimony last year. He's co-director of Budgeting for National Priorities and the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.
"Since Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur published 'Growing up with a Single Parent' in 1994, social science research has repeatedly shown that children reared in female-headed families are more likely to fail in school, more likely to be arrested, more likely to get pregnant as teens, more likely to have mental health problems and to commit suicide, more likely to get a divorce when they grow up, and more likely to experience other negative outcomes."
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COMMUNITY R-6 GIRLS: The Lady Trojans coach Bob Curtis knew Tuesday would be a big game for his team if they wanted to stay in second place in the conference race behind undefeated Silex Lady Owls and the Lady Trojans met the challenge by defeating the Elsberry Lady Indians in double overtime.
Emmalee McCoskey was a monster in the middle scoring 22 points. Amelia Knipfel also had a huge game scoring 11 points and dishing out 4 assists. She also hit the game-winning free-throw with only a few seconds left in the second overtime. It was a war all night long as Elsberry seemed to counter every run the Lady Trojans made with a run of their own.
"We were tied at 45 at the end of regulation due to two clutch free-throws by senior Paige Curtis and then Elsberry went the length of the floor in 7 seconds and hit a runner to send it to overtime," said the R-6 coach.
Curtis ended up with 8 points on the night. Julie Hale also had 4 assists and Paige Harris came up with 4 steals.
In the first overtime the game was tied at 49 with a few seconds to go and the Lady Trojans defense came up with a key stop to send it into double overtime. That is when Knipfel hit one of two free-throws to close the door on a great game, said Curtis.
R-6 is 13-6 overall and 5-1 in conference play.
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COMMUNITY R-6 BOYS: The Trojans lost their second conference game Tuesday against the Elsberry Indians 57-44.
After the first quarter R-6 was down 15-4 and going into the locker room at halftime they were down 24-15.
R-6 had two players in double figures, Clay Thebeau scored 13 and Sean Wilson put in 11 points. Justin Durham pulled down 8 rebounds, while Wilson brought down 6. Kaleb Harris and Wilson each had one basket from the three-point range. Clay Thebeau had two assists and Shane Myers had 2 steals.
The Trojans are 15-5 overall and 4-2 in conference.
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Kiowa County Signal's Maverick Most Valuable Player Second Runner-Up
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Heft was a powerful offensive force on the court for most of the year. An emergency appendectomy sidelined her for four games at the end of the season, but she was still near the top in most offensive and defensive categories.
Heft was tied with Katelynn Gamble for second in points per game (7.1), fourth in total season points (128) and third in free throw percentage (.480)
Defensively she was second in total assists (19) and assists per game (1.1), second in steals (38) and first in steals per game (2.1) although she also led the Mavericks with 43 turnovers.
Heft won the Kiowa County Signal's Most Valuable Player last season.
"The team changed when she was on the court," said one voter. "She has this sense of urgency. It was infectious."
"She looked like the consummate student athlete all season. She hustled, she grinded it out and I like that," said another voter. "But she also played the other team like they owed her money. I liked that to."


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There's a simple - you could say perfect, though the squeamish may disagree - solution to the problem of invasive species around here. Just eat them.
There's a simple - you could say perfect, though the squeamish may disagree - solution to the problem of invasive species around here. Just eat them.
That's the idea behind the book, "Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species," by Virginia hunter/author Jackson Landers.
To Landers' way of thinking, eating invaders is ethical eating. It removes unwanted animals; it absolves consumers from factory farming cruelty.
This idea is certainly relevant to our region. This area is Invasive Species Central. The last time I checked, it teemed with over 250 "alien species."
It's as if God turned Noah's ark upside down over our part of the world and shook it.
Some of these invaders stowed away on ships that visited the port. That's how you got Chinese mitten crabs scuttling over levees into northside pools.
Others technically are not invasive but introduced. Often introducers seek to improve nature. Like the Einstein who brought water hyacinth to the Delta.
Still others are non-native but here anyway, like birds that change their flyways. The Eurasian collared dove likely arrived this way.
These creatures all flourish here. Some are outright ecological disasters. But not to worry. All can be tossed on the barbeque. Or mixed into a salad.
Starlings are a classic example. Starlings were introduced to North America by an ecologically impaired guy who thought all birds mentioned in Shakespeare should live here, too. Starlings attack other bird nests. Killing babies, they take over the nest, muscling out native species. Huge, swirling flocks of starlings descend on vineyards in Lodi and Amador. Growers consider them a scourge.
No problem. Eat them, says Hank Shaw.
An Orangevale wild food expert, Shaw wrote the forward to "Eating Aliens." His website, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, is a leading wild food website.
"Dark meat, like duck, perfectly good," Shaw, a former Record reporter, said of the taste of starling.
How to cook it? "Small birds don't have a lot of analogs in American cooking," Shaw replied. "But they are very popular in European cooking. A similar bird Italians put up on spit like a kebab, and roast over a wood fire. Best roasted whole."
Washing starling down with a Lodi zinfandel will round out the locavore experience.
Chinese mitten crabs? "Just boil 'em up and they're ready to go," recommended Record outdoors writer Pete Ottesen. "They're good hors d'oeuvres. Invasive does not mean bad to eat."
Striped bass, another introduced species, have been blamed for the decline of the Delta smelt, the collapse of the Delta ecosystem and the decline of Western civilization.
Pan-fry these interlopers in a light saute of olive oil and capers. "Oh, my goodness," Ottesen salivated. "You can also put them on the barbecue. With Cajun spice. They also make great soup."
Possibly the King of Scourges is water hyacinth. This maniacally growing, free-floating plant has completely choked many Delta waterways.
It impedes navigation. It has blockaded many boats in their berths. It clogs agricultural pumps big and small. It blocks sunlight, reduces oxygen and hurts fish.
Swimming, skiing? Fuhgeddaboutit.
Maddeningly slow state bureaucrats fail to issue permits to spray it. But there is no reason to wait for these slugs to OK the eradication of water hyacinth.
Just eat it.
On YouTube, you can watch a series by Florida forager Green Deane called "Eat the Weeds." Episode 38 stars water hyacinth.
"Attitude is everything," he says on the show. "This plant is either one of the worst pests in the world, or it is a fantastic bio-resource that's very underused."
Most parts of the plant are edible. Blossoms can be candied or cooked. Leaves can be chopped and boiled. The flotation bulbs on the stem can be deep fried.
They taste like pork rinds, Green Deane said. "I personally think eating it is a win-win solution."
Ken Albala, food history professor at University of the Pacific, agrees eating invasive species makes sense.
"There's no reason for me to play by the industrial rules and eat this cruelly produced meat," Albala said. "You could even say cruelly produced vegetables, if you think about who actually harvests them and the conditions they're living in. How can I call this a moral choice? Foraging and hunting solve this problem nicely."
One caution: Bagging birds with shotgun and birdshot requires a trip to the country, as it is illegal to discharge a firearm in Stockton. Pause for laughter.
That said, the wild turkeys in this area are introduced species. And Thanksgiving is just around the corner.
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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[477 7157]: The "Eroica" and No. 4 are potent reminders of the power and pace, the plush string sound and stunning brass . . .
[477 7161]: Bart¾k's Concerto for Orchestra . . . profits from the super-sophisticated sheen which by the mid-'60s also sustains Karajan's Debussy and Ravel . . . the colours of "La Mer" and "Daphnis" are very seductive.
[477 7163]: Karajan's collection of "Opera Intermezzi" is a real pleasure: fine-spun strings, verismo drama, and space to appreciate the delicate beauty of these gems, from Verdi to Mascagni.
[477 7164]: . . . genuinely moving . . .
[477 7165]: Youthful poise meets urbane sophistication, to the benefit of both, and also of Beethoven.
[073 4386]: You can watch the long line at work in the seamless cello melody of the Third's Poco allegretto -- no 'breaths' between phrases -- while the hard-hitting First and Fourth . . . always rhythmically well define, move naturally to their craggy peak.


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What is your favorite technique? Knees and elbows from the clinch.
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WINNEBAGO — If former Winnebago County Sheriff's Capt. Gene Coots had one pet peeve that bugged him to no end it was people carelessly leaving the arm up on the office paper cutter.
One day upon seeing the arm in the upright position, "he decided to put on a show," said Coots' brother, Lynn. Gene voiced his anger, slammed the arm down and accidentally sliced off a piece of his sports coat.
"The gals in the office were turning blue," Lynn said. "He told them to go ahead and laugh, and they busted out laughing. And he laughed right along with them."
Gene could laugh at himself, and he could also solve homicide cases.
Leafing through several old pictures of his big brother on the family dining room table Friday night, Lynn recalled that story and others about the veteran sheriff's detective who so many in law enforcement still look up to today.
Gene Coots, 80, of Winnebago, died Wednesday in River Bluff Nursing Home after a lengthy illness.
Coots, a Korean War veteran, served more than 30 years with the sheriff's department before retiring in 1993 as a captain and head of the detective bureau.
Sheriff Dick Meyers and state Rep. Jim Sacia, R-Pecatonica, a former FBI agent, eulogized Coots Monday at his funeral in Winnebago and later spoke of the man nicknamed by friends as "Cooter" and "Columbo."
"People called him Columbo (a fictional L.A. homicide detective portrayed by Peter Falk in the TV series "Columbo") because he always had that disheveled look about him," Meyers said. "If you wanted to know what he had for breakfast, you could just look at his tie.
"But I called him Columbo because he was very intuitive, intelligent and excellent at getting information from people. He had a slow methodical and inquisitive mind."
Meyers recalled the Aug. 29, 1987, execution-style deaths of Karen Hall, 39, a clerk at SwedishAmerican Hospital, her daughter, Stacy, 15, and son, Jason, 12. All three had their hands and feet tied with rope and were shot in the head inside their Old River Road home.
"The mother watched her kids," Meyers said.
It was Gene Coots, who in the wee hours of the morning, persuaded a then Rockford-based state crime lab to process various pieces of evidence, including a box of shells with finger prints on them. Within hours of the homicides, lab technicians got a positive match for Danny Ray Johnson. "We had a bunch of veteran detectives, and you could hear the cheers go up," Meyers said.
Johnson, Hall's former boyfriend who was served with an order of protection a month earlier, was found six months later in a wooded area in west Rockford deceased from an apparent suicide.
Sacia called Coots, his close friend of 44 years, "an icon" and "one in a million."
"He was an unbelievably confident investigator, yet he gave such a disheveled appearance. We worked together on numerous bank robberies. He had a unique sense of humor and was unbelievable with people."
Former Winnebago County State's Attorney Paul Logli also remembered Coots for his unassuming appearance and sharp mind.
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Upon retirement, Coots worked several years for Sacia at Northern Illinois Tractor & Equipment in Pecatonica. The history buff served on the Midway Village Museum board, assisted the Burritt Museum and served on the board that revived the Trask Bridge Picnic.
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Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief strategist and chief technology officer, has a tip to make a glass of red wine taste better: Add a pinch of salt.
Myhrvold — who holds degrees in mathematics, geophysics and space physics from UCLA, a doctorate in theoretical and mathematical physics and a master's degree in mathematical economics from Princeton — made the discovery after a few glasses of wine at a dinner.
"I was sitting next to Gina Gallo, from the Gallo wine- making family," Myhrvold says in an interview in London. "She's telling me what she values in a cabernet is the savory tones, so she tries not to have them be sweet or too fruity.
"I'd had enough wine by this point that I was a little incautious. I said, 'I can make it more savory.' So I added a little salt to the wine. There's nothing I could have done that would have shocked her so much." She then grabbed the glass from his hand, he recalls, and said 'It totally changes it."
"I start by adding just a tiny pinch and what it does is to balance the flavors. With most wines, they immediately taste smoother.
"We have many different types of flavor receptors," he said. "People say there's sweet, sour, bitter, umami. In reality, there are at least 40 types of receptors and probably more. When you taste something, you have this cacophony of different tastes and your brain tries to summarize that. A tiny bit of salt changes the overall impression, which is why chefs salt food."
Emily O'Hare, a sommelier at the River Cafe, says this isn't something she would try: "The wine is the expression of the winemaker and I wouldn't alter it. It would be like seasoning food without trusting the chef. But it makes sense. If you eat salty food, it improves lighter, cheaper red wines. If you bite into a lemon, red wine tastes fruitier and less acidic."
Myhrvold came to the attention of the food world in 2011 with "Modernist Cuisine," a six-volume work on the science of cooking that runs to 2,400 pages. He followed that with "Modernist Cuisine at Home" and, last year, with "The Photography of Modernist Cuisine." Pursuing his diverse interests, he recently wrote a paper on dinosaur growth rates.
Myhrvold's approach can be iconoclastic. Instead of decanting wines in the conventional way, he suggests blasting them in a kitchen blender for about half a minute.
"When you decant you're doing two things," he says. "You're taking oxygen from the air and oxidizing some of the compounds in the wine; you're also allowing the wine to off-gas. Typically, there's going to be sulfur dioxide, which comes from the sulfites they use. You get that out.
"I thought, 'We can turbocharge this.' So I put it into a blender, and I would say there's two reasons to do that. One is that it's a better form of decanting. The second reason is the look on people's faces. It is such sacrilege for wine snobs.
"Even people who are not wine experts, we grow up with this deep reverence. I would do that particularly for younger red wines. I wouldn't do this for a really old red wine."
Myhrvold, 54, is entertaining company. He enjoys what he is doing and is a natural raconteur, laughing as he recounts his exploits. In 2011, I attended a dinner at his food laboratory outside Seattle, and he served a fruity concoction that looked exactly like a raw quail egg. (The look is achieved by a process called spherification, developed by Ferran Adria at El Bulli.)
Some diners are alarmed at consuming a raw egg.
"I always tell people after they've tasted it that the main thing they're tasting is relief," Myhrvold says.
When we meet for breakfast at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, he is planning a dinner for the El Bulli chef, making his first visit to the laboratory in Seattle, where Myhrvold's company Intellectual Ventures is also based.
Myhrvold describes cocktails he is developing for Adria, including one that involves inhaling via a glass tube.
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In the basement workshop of his Adrian home, Fran Shaffer surveys wall shelves filled with pieces of wood. To the uninitiated, that's all they are — pieces of wood — but to Shaffer, they're the makings of his one-of-a-kind works of art: recurve bows.
Shaffer shows off one of his finished bows, made of a relatively light-colored wood with a beautiful grain.
"This is ancient cypress," he says. And "ancient" is the operative word here: harvested from a sand quarry on South Carolina's coastal plain by a company called, fittingly enough, Ancient Cypress, the wood from there is anywhere from 25,000 to 45,000-plus years old.
He makes his bows not only out of that cypress wood but also from woods like walnut, zebrawood, maple, rosewood, purpleheart, redheart, cocobolo and canarywood. It all depends on the look the customer wants, the price he or she is willing to pay, and whether a certain wood is hard enough to use.
"You want something that's fairly solid," he says. "You wouldn't want to put pine in."
Each of his bows is unique, whether it's because of the patterns inherent in the wood or because of some aspect of his design. "Have you ever seen rattlesnake skin?" he asks, pulling from a shelf a skin that some rattlesnake somewhere has shed. Even if the answer is yes, it's fairly likely that one has never seen it incorporated into the design of an archery bow, as Shaffer has done.
To date, Shaffer has made about 10 bows for customers. One of his most recent creations was for hunter, writer and television personality Jana Waller.
Waller, a Wisconsin native who now lives outside Missoula, Mont., hosts the show "Skull Bound" on the Sportsman Channel. She has hunted a wide range of game all over the world, primarily as a bowhunter but also as a rifle hunter, for some 20 years.
While the usual bow of choice for a hunter is a compound bow, the use of recurves — what's called "traditional archery" — is becoming more popular, Waller said.
"Traditional archery is very time-consuming," she says, "but it is making a comeback. It's definitely connecting to the past."
Hunting with a recurve is more challenging than with a compound bow. The hunter has to be closer to the target, and without a sight, aiming "is instinctual," says Waller. But as someone interested in Native American culture "and how they lived off the land," she sees traditional archery as "artwork."
When Waller heard about Shaffer's bows, she decided to have him build her one made of ancient cypress. "Half the reason I wanted one is that it's handcrafted," she says.
And when she went to Shaffer, "he made me a recurve bow that is just the most gorgeous recurve bow I've ever seen."
Shaffer, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., who moved to Adrian at age 24, made his first bow some 50 years ago. He got his start working for Hit Archery in Archbold, Ohio, for the legendary Bud Hitt. Hitt, whose wife, Gertrude, won numerous archery championships, started making bows in the 1950s and has built by his own estimate some 3,000 bows in his lifetime, including ones that were used by champion archers all over the world. He also came up with several bowmaking innovations, including the idea of making the limbs and the handles separately so that someone could produce limbs constantly, allowing the process to move faster.
Shaffer's mother worked in Hitt's trophy-making business and told him about her son. Hitt hired the young man, who started out in the finish room, sanding the bows and putting in the string grooves, but it wasn't too long before the master bowmaker saw something special in his young employee and began teaching him his craft.
"He's precise, and that's what it takes," says Hitt. "When he sits down to make a bow, you know it's going to be good."
Shaffer started his own bowmaking business about five or six years ago, plying his craft as a sideline to his "day job" with ScienTemp in Adrian.
When he first started out, there was certainly some trial and error, he admits. But he quickly learned from an early design flaw.
"The first (bows) I made, this part" — Shaffer indicates the section of the handle below the grip — "was squared off, and it was kind of blocky-looking. Then I was working on another one and it chipped (at that spot). So I started rounding them off here."
It takes Shaffer about 10 hours to make a bow, much of it using equipment he designed himself. His exact technique is his own trade secret, but in general it involves cutting out the shapes with a band saw using a template; gluing the layers of wood used in the bow together and then putting the result into a form that bends the wood into the proper shape; heating the form for about four hours; sanding and grinding the finished product; testing and weighing the bow; creating the grip to fit the customer's hand; and giving everything a polished finish.
The thickness of the limbs determines the bow's poundage, or what effort it takes the archer to draw the bow. And, of course, balancing the bow properly is vital.
To his old mentor, there's something innate about being a good bowmaker. "You've got to have some natural talent," says Hitt. For him, it was being raised as a woodworker's son in Archbold, which decades ago especially was known as a center for woodworking. For Shaffer's part, his innate skills led him to a related sort of career: he spent 36 years as a toolmaker.
But he's had quite a variety of experiences besides his regular jobs, his bowmaking and the occasional wooden stool he makes for fun for family members. Long-time Adrian residents may remember Shaffer and his wife, Rosemary, as the owners of the Shaffer House, a bed and breakfast on Church Street.
And then there are the years he spent handling sound at concerts for everyone from Fabian, the Contours, Chubby Checker and Tiny Tim to Brenda Lee, Reba McEntire and Sawyer Brown.
Shaffer's bowmaking business operates under the company name Shooting Star, but his bows are called Hawkeyes and bear the tagline "built by Hawkeye," after the nickname he picked up from an engineer co-worker years ago:
"He called me Hawkeye because I only have one eye," one result of injuries Shaffer sustained in an accident as a young man.
Each of Shaffer's bows is a unique piece.
"I've never made one bow that's the same as another," he says. "The shape might be the same but the wood is different."
Most of his creations end up on customers' walls as works of art. And that's exactly the way he sees his craft: as art.
"It's fun and it's fulfilling," he says. "You get done, and you've got something that looks nice."
More information about Shaffer's bows can be found online at www.hawkeyebows.com.


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Where Do The 'Twilight' Stars Go From Here?
LOS ANGELES -- Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner have walked their last "Twilight" red carpet with the arrival this weekend of the series finale "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2." Now, they must step into careers of their own using the superstardom the multi-billion-dollar franchise has provided them.
Making that transition from a beloved film series with a fervent fan base can be tricky. Do you stick to the same kinds of roles that people came to love you for and maintain the safety of familiarity? Or do you veer drastically in the other direction to prove to the world that you have range - that you're so much more than just a mopey teenage girl or a hunky set of abs?
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, for example, has successfully made choices that showcase his versatility, from appearing on stage naked in a Broadway production of "Equus" to the gothic horror film "The Woman in Black." His "Harry Potter" co-star, Emma Watson, played a damaged party girl this year in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," a character who couldn't have been more different from the fastidious Hermione Granger.
The three core "Twilight" stars have all struck while the iron was hot, making a variety of films in between the five "Twilight Saga" installments about high schooler Bella Swan and the vampire and werewolf who competed for her affections.
Stewart was the best known of the "Twilight" trio before being cast as Bella. She'd played Jodie Foster's daughter in the 2002 thriller "Panic Room" and a commune singer who befriends Emile Hirsch's character in Sean Penn's Oscar-nominated "Into the Wild" (2007).
Her choices between the "Twilight" movies have run the gamut, from playing a young Joan Jett in the 2010 biopic "The Runaways" to a fairy-tale warrior princess in this summer's "Snow White and the Huntsman." Next month, she'll appear in "On the Road," based on the iconic Jack Kerouac novel.
"Kristen seems to do a lot of indie movies. `Snow White and the Huntsman' is more of an outlier in terms of being a blockbuster," said blogger and "Twilight" expert Cleolinda Jones, author of the "Movies in 15 Minutes" series. "But it seems like she's got the kind of personality where she's got to do what she has to do ... she's not thinking in terms of career strategy."
Andrei Constantinescu of the Dallas-based Legacy Casting says he'd like to see Stewart mix it up even more.
"Her non-'Twilight' film choices are bold and different to a point, but her dark and broody acting style, similar to her real-life persona, is a bit played," said Constantinescu, whose work as an extras casting director includes the TNT series "Dallas." `'I'd love to see her in a romantic workplace comedy like `The Devil Wears Prada.'"
Pattinson has made some of the most daring and impressive choices of the three of them. Before being cast as the swoony vampire Edward Cullen, the lanky British actor appeared in another blockbuster franchise as Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory in 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." In 2009, he played Salvador Dali in the barely seen "Little Ashes," and last year he starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in the circus romance "Water for Elephants" - although Associated Press reviewer David Germain wrote there was "barely a spark" between the two.
But Pattinson also has worked with the likes of David Cronenberg, starring this year in the acclaimed Canadian director's financial drama "Cosmopolis," which takes place almost entirely inside a limousine. And he'll soon work with Cronenberg again in "Maps to the Stars," and also begin shooting Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert."
Jones says Pattinson has wisely chosen to parlay his "Twilight" fame to collaborate with serious directors and actors.
"He knows he has a certain box office appeal so the fangirls are going to see him no matter what he's in," she said. "People are willing to work with him the first time, they see all this potential he has, then they want to come back and work with him again."
Constantinescu echoed those thoughts: "He's the one to watch for additional films down the line," he said. "We are just scratching the surface with Robert."
Then there's Lautner, who was just 15 when he auditioned for the role of the sensitive, muscular werewolf Jacob Black. He'd appeared in a few films by then, including playing the title character of Sharkboy in 2005's "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D." In between the "Twilight" films, he stuck to lighter fare. He was part of the ensemble cast of 2010's "Valentine's Day" in a romantic subplot opposite Taylor Swift.
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Constantinescu says he doesn't expect Lautner will stray far from crowd-pleasing fare.
"He's very good at playing the young, muscular jock or hero," he said. "Similar to Kristen, I'd love to see roles that offer Taylor different objectives than to be the hero, take his shirt off and save the day. However, I'm not sure that the public would believe him as anything more than the borderline superhero he has become famous for."
Jones agreed: "He's not going to be in the next mumblecore indie movie," she said of Lautner. "I'm not sure where he goes with this after age 30. His current trajectory is kind of clear, but I don't know what happens when he grows out of his dimples."


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