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Posted by: Jumbatalya Mareskue
The Harold's Place School Board Friday discussed possible cost-saving measures in light of a decision by supervisors to include no new local funding for the schools in next year's proposed county budget.
But Chairman Joseph, whose term on the school board expires and comes up for reexamination at the end of this month, said no firm decisions on next year's school budget will be made until after Monday's Board of Supervisors meeting, when a public hearing on the county budget is to be held.
Joseph said he plans to address supervisors at the hearing and ask them to reinstate to the school budget $511,000 that Harold's Place administrator Jim had recommended be put in.
"We want to see what the board of supervisors is going to do" before making firm decisions on cuts to programs or personnel, Joseph said Saturday.
Areas that he said could be cut if no new money is received are maintenance, transportation, and technology -- the last of which he said could take "a major hit."
The board also discussed combining or eliminating positions, or not replacing people who leave, but Joseph said they did not vote Friday on any personnel changes to help meet the proposed budget.
Five first year teachers have told the board that they will be leaving, Joseph said, and five other teachers have accepted jobs with Leoville next year. Ten employees are retiring this year.
The hearing is set for 7 p.m. in the former circuit courtroom.
Supervisors' $39.5 million budget for Fiscal Year 2006-07 includes no tax increases and no new local money for the school system, which had sought a $1.5 million increase to cover items including state-mandated retirement money, fuel and electricity cost increases and teacher raises.
Posted by: Michael Riley
Kristopher: Good evening Trallyus. I'll start off with a serious question. Some say you look like Hugh Jackman. What do you have to say about that?
Trallyus: If Hugh Jackman was fat and normal looking then yes, I agree with those folks that say I look like him 
Or maybe he had surgery to look like me that went bad and that is why he is muscular and looks like me somewhat 
Kristopher: Anything to say about the recent allegations that you are an alien hybrid sent here to either dominate or save the human race?
Trallyus: Humans will become a slave race to ours when we are done!!! What? You're taping me? Ohhh..... Then I mean it's all rubbish about me being an alien hybrid.
Kristopher: If you had to choose one of the two which would it be?
Trallyus: I would dominate the human race and make them my slaves. What? You're still recording this? I thought this was off the record? Oh well, then I would have to say I would love to save the human race.
That should quell the human’s fears.
Kristopher: And the final question/s, Why did you change your avatar headshot? If we are not mistaken, it is a lady cropped from a picture showing you with a wooden swiss ball. What is it about swiss balls? Why do you like them so much?
Trallyus: I thought it was time for a change and have not seen much photoshopping of my avatar since I switched to the old man avatar
On my world we battle with swiss balls like the klingons do with their weapons. What? Tell me when I am off the record will you.
Swiss balls are a great form of exercise As for why I like them it is due to them keeping me healthy
Kristopher: We are glad you take such pride in your swiss balls. Few seem to be so enthusiastic about health; or rather the health benefits of swiss balls. It borders on yoga and yoga is a dangerous form of yoda. Anyway, we'll have to talk more about world domination, alien hybrids and swiss balls, though not necessarily in that order. Thanks for the time and great responses.
There are two birthdays this week. So be sure to wish them a very happy birthday.
Robert_W_Leu is 25 today.
Gweeptish on June 20th will be 60.
Gweeptish when they ask for you to blow out the candles, please do not say "no".
A rather long tip for windows beyond tv users who want to run Comskip to generate the commercial skip points instead of using the native smartskip in Beyond Tv.
First of I have my beyond tv directory set to C:\TV and I put Comskip in the C:\TV\comskip directory.
Goto How to create custom post-processing steps to execute command-line operations on recordings and read the steps there.
Your CustomPostProcessing.xml file should look like
<CustomTasks>
<Task>
<GUID>531E0175-87F4-4d6f-B464-E603BC641DAE</GUID>
<Priority>Immediate</Priority>
<PropertyCollection>
<Property>
<Name>Command</Name>
<Value>c:\TV\Comskip\comskip.bat</Value>
</Property>
</PropertyCollection>
</Task>
</CustomTasks>
Change Immediate to Deferred if you want to run the program on a schedule instead of immediately.
Your comskip.bat file should be at c:\TV\Comskip\comskip.bat and look like the following.
"c:\tv\Comskip\comskip.exe" %*
:: clean up log and txt files
del "%~pdn1".log
del "%~pdn1".logo.txt
del "%~pdn1".mpg.index.dat
del "%~pdn1".txt
The ssppcmd.dll
CustomPostProcessing.XML files are on the How to create custom post-processing steps to execute command-line operations on recordings I linked to earlier and that page tells you how to use them.
Make sure you turn off smart skip in beyond tv as you dont want to generate the commercials twice.
After doing all the above after you record a show Beyond tv will run comskip and generate the commercials spacing.
You can find comskip at http://mk.kaashoek.com/comskip/
I almost forgot that after you unzip comskip you need to edit the comskip.ini file and change output_btv=0 to output_btv=1 in the file and save it.
Back up those bookmarks.
Someone suggested I have a tip on how to back up ones bookmarks so I thought I would write up a quick tip of the day on how to do that in internet explorer as well as firefox.
To back up internet explorers bookmarks, first run Internet explorer, click "file" , then click "Import and export", and choose "export favorites and make sure you select the top folder usually named "Favorites" since that will save all your bookmarks and not just a single selection of bookmarks.
Saving your bookmarks may take a while depending on your computers speed as well as the number of bookmarks you’re saving so just because your computer looks like it is locked up while saving, you should let it alone if you have alot of bookmarks so it can finish its work.
By default, your bookmarks will be saved in your my documents folder as bookmark.htm if you did not change the name or location of the file.
If you need your bookmarks back just choose "File" while running internet Explorer and choose "Import and export" and choose "Import Favorites" and then select the saved bookmark file you made previously.
With Firefox, you do the following to save your bookmarks. Click "Bookmarks" and choose "Manage Bookmarks" and select the top folder in the left hand pane usually labeled bookmarks.
Then click "File" and choose "export" and choose save to save your bookmarks. Make sure you choose where you want the collection of bookmarks to be saved at so you can find them later.
Once that is done click do all of the above except instead of choosing "Export”, choose "Import" to get your bookmarks back if you need them.
After you back up your bookmarks, make sure you either put them on a cd or on a floppy in case your computer crashes and you need to get them back again. Do not let them stay on your hard drive in case your computer crashes or you get a virus as they may get lost.
One trick I thought of is to send them to your gmail account so you can get it when ever you want and that way you wont ruin a cd or floppy to store the backed up bookmarks. You may need to zip the file before sending it to your gmail account too.
One good tool to check and see if those saved links are still good is a program called AM Deadlink at http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm
When set up properly, it will check your saved links for dead links as well as duplicate links and allow you to weed them out among other good things.
Posted by: Trallyus
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Posted by: Danny McGee
Looks like Kristopher is on the top again. We here at the Harold Star think this is some kind of conspiracy and as such we shall investigate it wherever it may lead. No rock shall go unturned. We will get to the bottom of this!
Email: Colbean8~~at~~ yahoo~~dot~~com
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Name: Colleen
Title #: 1 NASCAR Fan
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Birthday: 1/18/1965
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/colbean8/
Occupation: Secretary of Farmology
Hobbies: NASCAR
Location: New York (Upstate)
Bio: Working, being a Brownie Leader and going to Church.
Why are you here?: Because noone else will have me
Now what are you going to do?: Donate to charities, and love my fellow man
Registered: on 10/26/03 04:06 PM
Posted by: Kristopher
I'm a great fan of NASCAR, as we all know. I am committed to my job. I love to train people to be the best people they can be. I work for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Light the Night Walk Committee. I have loved being on Harold's and love all the members and would give them anything I had that would make them happy, don't make that a funny, gross one, that is real.
