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The Joy Mission webcasting convention
For the 10th consecutive year, The Joy Mission brings the Southwest Believers' Convention to Julesburg. Messages will be delivered by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Jerry Savelle, Creflo Dollar, Jesse Duplantis, Bill Winston and Keith Moore.
The convention will be webcast live beginning at 8 a.m. daily, July 1-6. Sessions will begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 6, is a healing school with Gloria Copeland.
There are 29 sessions in all. Bring a lunch and join in fellowship, worship, rejoice, prayer and agreement for your personal needs of health, finances and family.
The Joy Mission is located at Third and Maple streets in Julesburg.
Car enthusiasts sought for July 4
The Overland Trail Museum is still looking for vintage and antique car collectors willing to bring their automobiles to the 2013 Heritage Festival on July 4.
This year, a traditional "rock-a-billy" band, The Atomic Drifters, will be playing on the main entertainment stage. They have requested that any local car collectors bring their cars out to be displayed at Heidi Park, across the street from the Overland Trail Museum.
This free community event takes place at the museum on July 4, with the opening ceremony at 10 a.m.
Call the museum at (970) 522-3895, or email Kay Rich at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in participating.
Deadline extended for local photo contest
The Tourist Information Center has extended the deadline on its photo contest seeking pictures of Sterling and Logan County. Photographers of all ages have until Aug. 31 to submit their best local photos.
Submit digital photos of people, places, events or landscapes that best depict life here in Sterling and Logan County. Submitted photos will become the property of Logan County's Tourist Information Center for use in various publications, promotional material and social media sites. A judging panel will select three top entries and award prizes for first place ($100), second place ($50) and third place ($25).
Like the center's Facebook page, facebook.com/DiscoverSterling, to receive updates about the contest. Photographers may submit up to 10 photos each, but must be the owner of the photographs they submit. Do not submit photos with watermarks, copyright messages, text or borders.
Entries should be emailed in JPEG/JPG format to Marilee Johnson, Tourist Information Center coordinator at email@example.com. The files should be saved in the format firstname.lastname.sterling.jpg.


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Lucky for you, Nintendo just announced that those who pre-order either version from "participating retailers nationwide" will receive a figurine "while supplies last."
Pokemon HeartGold pre-orders will get a figure of the rainbow-winged "Legendary Pokemon" Ho-Oh (above, left) while SoulSilver pre-orders net Lugia (above, right).
Of course, pre-ordering also means that you'll be able to pick up the Nintendo DS revamps of Pokemon Gold and Silver when they hit on March 14. And though it previously seemed that the Pokewalker wouldn't affect pricing, it appears that has changed, as Nintendo now lists each game at $39.99--a $5 premium over its usual prices.

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UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal Crawford Co. shooting | News
The GBI has identified a man who was shot to death Monday, reportedly after a family dispute in Crawford County.
Crawford County deputies found the man shot to death around 11 a.m. at a home on Haywood Circle.
Coroner Allen O'Neal identified fire him as Ben Tyler Rowland, 26, of Byron. The home belongs to a relative.
Special agent J-T Ricketson of the GBI's Perry office says Rowland was reportedly shot by a male relative and the two men had some past disagreements.
He said the case is still under investigation.
He would not release any further details on the case and said a GBI autopsy on Rowland is scheduled for Monday.
Ricketson said the fatal shooting was not related to another one Sunday night in Crawford County, when a man was wounded at a home on Sandy Point Road.


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PRINCETON — Kenneth O. Anderson, 90, of Princeton died at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 24, 2013, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.
Born April 10, 1922, in Tiskilwa to Otto and Neva (Zink) Anderson, he married Anabelle T. Morris Dec. 10, 1946, at Fort Sheridan in Chicago. She survives.
He attended Providence Grade School and graduated from Buda High School in 1940. He was a REA lineman and a Princeton City lineman. He farmed for nine years on the family farm. He was also a union electrician.
Kenneth was devoted to God, his wife and his family.
Also surviving are four daughters, Karen (Phil) McArdle of Dwight, Linda (Terry) Lanthrum of Elburn, Cheryl Anderson of Princeton and Lori (Scott) Cook of Normal; seven grandchildren, Tim (Wendy) Goodrum of Princeton, Nathan Lanthrum of Geneva, Andrew (Allison) Lanthrum of Kaishihara, Japan, Sarah (Greg) Johnson of Peoria, Kelsey Larkey of Princeton, Jessica Cook of Normal and Kody Cook of Normal; two great-grandchildren, Mason and Ava Goodrum of Princeton; one sister, Ruth (Jim) Henkel of Park Forest; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters and spouses, Eleanor (Chuck) Voeste and Elaine (Harold) Olsen; and two brothers-in-law, Marion Wiggim and Joseph Morris.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the New Hope Church of the Nazarene, Princeton, with pastor Laura Root-Tanner officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Princeton.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the family of Kenneth O. Anderson.
Pallbearers will be Nathan Lanthrum, Andrew Lanthrum, Tim Goodrum, Greg Johnson, Kody Cook and Michael Nuding.
The Grant-Johnson Funeral Home, Princeton, is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.grant-johnsonfh.com.
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PRINCETON — Kenneth O. Anderson, 90, of Princeton died at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 24, 2013, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.


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Gladbach to seal Thorgan Hazard loan
Borussia Monchengladbach are set to take Chelsea midfielder Thorgan Hazard on a season-long loan, the German club's sporting director has confirmed.
Hazard, the younger brother of Blues star Eden, impressed on loan at Zulte-Waregem last season but, having spent the last two years with the Belgian club, is now seeking to test himself at a higher level.
Eberl said in Rheinische Post that the 21-year-old, who is under contract at Stamford Bridge until 2016, is set to spend the 2014-15 campaign with Gladbach.
"We will sign one more attacking player, and that is Thorgan Hazard. We are currently exchanging the contracts with Chelsea," he said. "We have agreed on personal terms with Thorgan and also reached an agreement with the club. Only the contracts need to be signed now."
Gladbach, who will take part in this season's Europa League, have already made a number of signings as they seek to strengthen their squad.
They have already signed United States full-back Fabian Johnson from Hoffenheim and winger Ibrahim Traore from VfB Stuttgart on free transfers, and have also spent around 10 million euros on signing goalkeeper Yann Sommer from Basel and winger Andre Hahn from Augsburg.
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September 27, 2013
SUBJECT: REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WAR—C OF O STUDENTS ACCOMPANY KOREAN WAR VETERANS TO KOREA FOR THE 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONFLICT
It has been dubbed the "Forgotten War," but 17 College of the Ozarks students will learn about the Korean War, so that it is not forgotten, by accompanying six Korean War Veterans to Korea Sept. 28-Oct.7. The group will visit places such as Pork Chop Hill, the scene of battle after battle from 1951, until the signing of the Armistice in 1953.
One of the Veterans, Donald Schnurr of Urbandale, Iowa, served as a radio operator on the front lines from Pork Chop Hill to the Iron Triangle in Eastern Korea. Another, Joffre Tremblay, of Stanwood, Wash., flew 75 combat missions during the Korean War. Students will learn from these six Veterans, immeasurable amounts of history, as well as what it means to "put it all on the line" for the sake of another's freedom.
"I cannot wait to meet all of our Veterans and learn from them, so that I can pass on their stories to the next generation," said Morgan Sowell, one of the student participants. "The Korean War is called the Forgotten War, but I think it's time for America to remember and honor the men and women who served in it."
In addition to Schnurr and Tremblay, Veterans to accompany the students include Oscar Davis, Jr., of Orange, Texas; Joe Nance, Marble Falls, Ark.; Roderick Kent of Des Moines, Iowa; David Williams of El Cajon, Calif.; Richard Keller of Berryville, Ark.; Rich Peters of Forsyth, Mo.; and Jose Mendoza of Chula Vista, Calif. Interestingly, Peters and Mendoza attended high school together in Chula Vista, Calif. This will be the first time for them to reunite since graduation. Until a couple of weeks ago, neither knew the other had signed up to go on the same trip with students.
This trip is part of the College of the Ozarks Patriotic Education Travel Program, wherein students accompany Veterans to their fields of battle to learn about history, service and sacrifice. Since it was launched in 2009, more than 200 students have accompanied more than 100 Veterans on Patriotic Education Travel. Students journal and photograph their experiences, record the Veterans' stories and post a daily blog of their journey. To follow the trip, go to www.cofo.edu/PatrioticTravel.
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(MCT) — CHICAGO — In the eight years since her son was killed in a drunken confrontation with Mayor Richard Daley's nephew, Nanci Koschman often felt powerless against the forces telling her it was all her son's fault.
Chicago police said her son, David, was the aggressor. Cook County prosecutors insisted there wasn't the evidence to charge Daley's nephew, Richard J. Vanecko, with unleashing the fatal blow. She was warned that a lawsuit would be tied up in court for years. Grief-stricken, Koschman masked her doubts about the investigation and began the agonizing process of learning to live without her only child.
"I didn't even have the money to bury my son, let alone fight something (in court)," an emotional Koschman said Monday in a shaky voice.
But others took up the cause, and on Monday the case took a dramatic turn. A special Cook County grand jury indicted Vanecko with a charge of involuntary manslaughter. It is believed to be the first time a special prosecutor has brought charges in a high-profile Cook County case in more than four decades.
But while the charges are historic, it is far from a slam-dunk case, some veteran criminal-defense attorneys say. Potential problems range from the shifting stories of witnesses to a lethargic police investigation marred by missing files and failed lineups.
Vanecko's legal team expressed confidence that he would be cleared of wrongdoing.
Koschman, 21, had been drinking in the Rush Street nightlife district of Chicago early on April 25, 2004, when he and friends quarreled with a group that included Vanecko. During the altercation, Koschman was knocked to the street, hitting the back of his head. He died 11 days later.
The initial probe fizzled out without any charges filed by then-State's Attorney Richard Devine. The case was reopened last year after an investigative series by the Chicago Sun-Times raised questions about whether authorities intentionally concealed evidence for political reasons. State's Attorney Anita Alvarez first asked the Illinois State Police to take over the investigation but later fought against having a special prosecutor appointed.
Judge Michael Toomin took the rare step of appointing former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb as special prosecutor in April after concluding that the investigation by Chicago police and county prosecutors raised "troubling questions" about their efforts.
Webb said in a statement Monday that his team reviewed thousands of documents and interviewed more than 50 witnesses so far in the seven-month investigation. He also made clear that the special grand jury has not completed its duties, saying its inquiry into how police and prosecutors handled their investigation continued "at a vigorous pace."
Locke Bowman, an attorney with Northwestern University's MacArthur Justice Center who represents Nanci Koschman, applauded the criminal charge against Vanecko but said many questions linger about whether the clout of the Daley family hindered the investigation by police and prosecutors.
Clutching her sister's arm for support, Nanci Koschman fought back tears as she told reporters she planned to visit her son's grave Tuesday to tell him of the indictment.
"I'm going to tell David tomorrow that he can finally be at peace, that someone is being charged," she said.
Vanecko, 38, who currently lives in California, is expected to appear for arraignment next week at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, according to Webb. Vanecko has already posted a $10,000 cash bond and will remain free pending trial. He faces anywhere from probation up to five years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
The charge has no statute of limitations and is typically brought in accidental shootings or other cases in which the accused didn't intend to cause death. The grand jury accused Vanecko of reckless conduct that was "likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another."
Webb's statement noted that at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds, Vanecko towered over Koschman, who was 5-foot-5 and 125 pounds, but he gave no clue if his lengthy investigation turned up new evidence.
Several veteran attorneys told the Chicago Tribune that Webb could be in the difficult position at trial of trying to prove Vanecko wasn't acting in self-defense when witness accounts in initial police reports painted Koschman as the aggressor, according to several veteran attorneys.
Several of the witnesses — including Koschman's friends who were with him that night — have since said their statements were falsified in the reports. But the shifting accounts could make it harder for Webb to prove Vanecko's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Northwestern University law professor Ronald Allen said the case is also complicated by the underlying allegation that Chicago police somehow covered up what happened. Rulings from the trial judge about how much of the alleged cover-up will be allowed in at trial will be key, he said.
If the jury can hear details about how police allegedly botched the investigation, then seemingly inconsistent statements from witnesses will make more sense, Allen noted.
Also complicating the prosecution was the fact that nearly everyone at the scene had been drinking.
Vanecko's legal team, led by Terence Gillespie, issued a statement revealing that Koschman was heavily intoxicated — nearly three times the legal limit for a motorist.
Koschman "was clearly acting in an unprovoked, physically aggressive manner," the lawyers said.
They also defended the work of police and prosecutors, saying, "These decisions were not because of favoritism but because the facts did not warrant felony charges."
Daley could not be reached for comment.
Alvarez, who was sworn in Monday for a second term, defended her office's handling of the case. For the first time, she said that her office had convened a special grand jury that was interviewing witnesses in conjunction with an investigation by city Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. That effort was stopped after Toomin appointed a special prosecutor, she said.
Nanci Koschman said her goal from the beginning has been to find the truth about what happened that night and clear her son's name. Knowing Vanecko is facing charges "feels good," she said, but seeing him behind bars would not bring David back.
"I never thought that (Vanecko) went out that night intending to hurt my son," Koschman said. "To have him go to jail, what would that do?"
Asked whether she wanted Vanecko to apologize, Koschman offered a sad smile.
"That would be nice," she said. "I don't think it will be forthcoming, but it would be nice."


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Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta 353
New submitter jotaass writes "In news that is guaranteed to make the Linux gaming community (in particular, but not exclusively) excited, Valve has just announced that the Steam for Linux client Beta is now open to the public. A .deb package is available here. Interesting as well, they are using an empty GitHub repository solely as an issue tracker, open for anyone to submit, edit and track bugs, with no actual code in the repo."


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This week's Calendar of Events
The following is a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week. Readers should know that meetings are subject to change without notice. THURSDAY, May 24 •Amityville Rotary weekly meeting: 8 a.m.; For info., call 631-264-0300. The president is Rev. Dave W. Anglin.
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Dana White Confirms John Dodson Gets First Crack at UFC Flyweight Champ
John Dodson may have won the fourteenth season of The Ultimate Fighter as a bantamweight, but as soon as he did, he knew he would immediately return to his more natural weight class of flyweight.
Friday night at UFC on FX 5 in Minnesota, Dodson justified his reasoning for the quick return to 125 pounds by beating one of the top fighters in the world at that weight, Jussier "Formiga" da Silva, securing a shot at the UFC title.
UFC president Dana White at the post-fight press conference confirmed that Dodson is next up for UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson. He didn't say when the fight would happen, but did comment that they are "two of the fastest guys ever in the UFC."
Dodson agreed, saying, "It's gonna be a fun fight for me. I just can't wait for me and Mighty Mouse to fight. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be explosive."
The Jackson-Winkeljohn trained fighter, although he insisted prior to the da Silva fight that he wasn't looking past anyone, already has a super-secret plan in mind for how to take the belt away from Johnson.
"I've seen that fight happen probably a thousand or a million times in my own head," Dodson commented. "I've watched plenty of videos on him. I'm just not gonna give you guys my secret yet. I'll let you guys see it when it happens."
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Detroit last week became the biggest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. And now we're learning about some of the tough decisions that may come with that. Assuming the filing goes forward, Detroit will have to figure out how to reduce billions of dollars of debt. Creditors will, of course, push for the most money they can get, which means they're eyeing some of the city's most treasured assets. Michigan Radio's Sarah Cwiek reports.
SARAH CWIEK, BYLINE: Kevin Orr is Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager, and he has some pretty extraordinary powers to chart the course of Detroit's potential bankruptcy and its future. Last Friday, Orr took questions from reporters. The very first question he faced was pretty much: What's for sale?
KEVIN ORR: Well, right now there's nothing for sale, including Howdy Doody.
CWIEK: Orr was actually referring to the Detroit Institute of Arts, whose collection includes the original puppet from the 1950s children's TV show. Though no one knows for sure the DIA's total assets, which include masterpieces by Van Gogh and Picasso, could be worth about $2.5 billion. John Pottow is a professor and bankruptcy expert at the University of Michigan. He says parts of the museum's collection could potentially be liquidated and sold off to the highest bidder - at least in theory.
JOHN POTTOW: So if someone came in who had a complete mathematical mind and an actuarial's insight and perhaps a lawyer's sensibilities, he or she might come in and just liquidate as many of the assets as possible.
CWIEK: But there are lots of reasons why it's not quite that simple. For one, the museum claims the art can't be touched because it's held in a public trust. It's not clear how well that argument would hold up in bankruptcy court. But Pottow says there's another argument - one that could also apply to some of Detroit's other heart and soul assets.
POTTOW: I can imagine an economic argument being made that, look, the Detroit Institute of Art is something that's critical to the very model, brand, spirit of the city. So if you liquidate that, you could be crushing the prospects of economic rejuvenation.
CWIEK: Another Detroit asset in that same spirit is Belle Isle. The island park on the Detroit River is a lovely natural sanctuary just east of the city's downtown. But Belle Isle also needs some major work to make it the world-class park it was in the city's heyday. Earlier this year, the state of Michigan proposed leasing Belle Isle and running it as a state park, a move that would have saved the city a few million dollars a year. But the city council rejected the plan. Now Orr has the power to push that deal through and has said he'll do that. Of all Detroit's major assets, the city's water and sewage department might be the most intriguing to some investors. It's long been a major source of contention between the city and its suburbs. Orr has put forth a plan that would let Detroit technically retain ownership but essentially lease its facilities to a regional authority that would operate the system. The authority would pay Detroit for that. But not everyone is a fan of the idea. Kurt Heise is a Republican state representative from suburban Detroit. He thinks the idea still gives Detroit too much power over the system. Others fear this is a backdoor move to selling the water department all together, and Heise says that's not completely out of the question.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE KURT HEISE: I don't rule out privatization. Privatization does not always work in every circumstance.
CWIEK: In Chapter 9 bankruptcy, even a federal judge can't force the city to sell off assets, though he can certainly apply pressure. So Detroit's creditors might be eyeing Van Gogh, but they can really only get what the city puts on the table. As for what he plans, Orr remains coy.
ORR: We're not going to address the issues of what we're going to sell because frankly that's an open item to be dealt with in the future.
CWIEK: Assuming the bankruptcy case proceeds, Orr will have to file what's called a plan of adjustment to cut the city's debt. That should give us some more clues about what's headed for the auction block. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Cwiek in Detroit. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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|Solnes' First Alias
|Greyish-Greenish Slaad
|The Crimson Jester, Rogue Lord
|taig's clone
|Freehold DM
|Crimson Jester
|Teagan, the Tengu
Studpuffin wrote:Looks like the dragon's hoarding the rest of it. *eyes Sharoth suspiciously*Crimson Jester wrote:I brought a box of it, it looks and tastes just like red wine.Sharoth wrote:I have some FAWTY Logic.Logic...when did we have that?
~wistles innocently and backs away from the thread~
|Twin Agate Dragons
|Crimson Jester
|Crimson Jester
|Infernal Healer
|Lil' Bill
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|Gark the Goblin
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College! Also, MSPA. I linked to this page (Urizen's "You're into necro" quote) so I figured I'd post. In retrospect, it's kinda funny that I posted in the FaWTL refugee thread, which is what people probably think I intended. I'm really more of an exile, though.
Self-exile: WAY less noble than it sounds. Mostly cowardly?
Bill Nye the Science Guy is running the talk show circuit (Think Out Loud, something on Fox [Hannity?]). He's getting ready for election season.
Mairk, you hear about this?
Jean Wyclef
Jimmy Cliff
John Wycliff
Ha'ikū Stairs
Teter Posh: Hells yah.
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Dresden Codak
Speaking of Faith 2011/9/4
Actually I'm not sure what this is.
I read 1984. It's not life-changing, but it's interesting seeing the lingo it inculcated into the culture.
I still see everything come back to MSPA, though. Sorry, everyone.
Well, I'm off. I expect by saying the following I will be more likely to come back tomorrow, except by saying that I will be less likely. AD NAUSEAM. kk buy.
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I unsuccessfully psyched myself out (from not coming back on).
I've got four classes (16 credits) that I'm pretty good at. Some of them will be difficult, of course. I'm looking at three to four hours of work per day. With that, actual classes, my MS Paint Adventures habit, and the bus/bike rides (I'll be leaving 6:45 am most days; probably an hour and a half transit each day on average), I'll have to drop most of my webcomics. Which means, of course, that I can spend about fifteen minutes on here, cutting my time down by a factor of ~6. Sorry, everyone.* (for still being here, and for anticipated continuing f+#+ups)
And damN! I've got to stop writing in sentence fragments. F~%%ing Dinosaur Comics. (Ryan North is the comic's creator. Dinosaur Comics is the only webcomic James Jacobs reads with regularity. [url=http://www.mspaforums.com/image.php?u=1022524&dateline=1307553296&type=profileRyan North's avatar on his forums[/url]. There is that explained.)
*When everyone = 87% of board regulars.
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|The Luge
|taig RPG Superstar 2012
|Gark the Goblin
|Celestial Healer
|TOZ's Wandering Eye
|Gark the Goblin
|Gark the Goblin
Except oh wait last post was yesterday. W/e.
So I guess I'll just post here. No need to leave the enclave if you don't have to, you know?
As my grandfather says, BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE:
Okay I guess this isn't in the current theme of the thread, but whatevs. Today has seen TWO massive freakouts.
Today I was reading TVTropes, minding my own business. Then I saw the phrase "Dave's hair is a bird." I thought I could guess as to the configuration of said bird - some sort of contrived deal. BUT OH S@*&> THIS THIS ITH REAL>
(The above will make very little sense to non-readers of MSPA. Which means everyone who reads this thread. But it really freaked me out, and I felt the need to share it, perhaps as some misguided attempt to encourage readers to check MSPA out.)
Then, an hour later, I was minding my own business, reading this thread. I saw an avatar whose name was familiar to me. I clicked on this individual's profile, which was also incredibly familiar. I had suspicions as to the identity of this individual. I went to the post section of their profile. Believing the post I was thinking of to be in this individual's past on the boards, I went to the beginning. WHAT SHOULD I FIND BUT ATH SHE WAS IN MA PBP WITH MY BROTHER. SHE IS THE SAME FRIKKIN AGE AAS ME> SHE LIKES MANY OF RTHE BOOKS LIK I LIKE D WHEN I WAS HER SAME AGE> I read ahead further in her timeline. It turns out that she was the person I was thinking of. Back around the time when I first posted, I made a thread to find other gamers of my age category to do a pbp with. She was one of the few people to respond. THAT WS THREE FRIGGIN YEARS AGO> I began to suspect necromancy on the afore-linked thread. AND I WAS RIGHT> DAMM YOU U SMJUG BASTERS111 So, yes, this is the second freak-out. As I do not plan on going to bed any time soon, there may even be a third. MAY TEH UNIVERSES HOPE THAT SI TON ETH SACE>
Oh, and I appear to have altered my writing style.* Once I get back into the forums, I expect to adopt a confluence* of the writing styles of other posters. Until then, I am most influenced by MSPA.
*Which seems to imply that I use words unambiguously.**
**I meant incorrectly. DAMN IT IS SO EASY TO TALK LIEK S$&&>> I SEE WHO ANDERW THE HUSS DOES IT>***
***F!+%. My personal philosophy has also shifted. "Everything comes back to MSPA," I tell my little brother every day. ANDY ITS F$+&ING TRUE>****
****There are entirely too many asterisks/associated footnotes in this post.*****
I'd spoiler, but it's not like anyone cares OH WAIT... OH WAIT THEY DON"T.[/emo s#%#]
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Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) International band Swedish House Mafia is back in India and will perform in Mumbai Tuesday after its performance was cancelled last November owing to Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's death.
The electronic music dance band, consisting of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso, was to perform in Mumbai Nov 17, and in New Delhi Nov 18. However, with Thackeray's death the same day (Nov 17), the performance was cancelled as a mark of respect to the leader.
The organiser Sunburn Arena Thursday said that the band will return for their 'One Last Tour' as thousands of fans in Mumbai were left heartbroken in November
"Sunburn Arena, keeping its promise, is bringing the masters of music Swedish House mafia back to India with an additional performance in Bangalore city," an official said.
Swedish House Mafia was officially formed in late 2008 has been placed at No. 12 on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ rankings for 2012 and its members have been called "the faces of mainstream progressive house music".
The music makers will be performing in the country for the last time ever. The group is disbanding making, 'The One last Tour' their farewell act.
Swedish House Mafia have recorded houseful in a minimum time frame upon opening the ticketing process in various other places in regard to the One Last Tour -- Brooklyn (15,000 tickets in eight minutes), Chicago (14,000 tickets in five minutes) and Los Angeles (35,000 tickets in 30 minutes).


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CHICAGO – Voters trickled into the polls Monday, the first day of early voting for primary contests that'll help determine Illinois' next governor, a U.S. senator and numerous local offices.
Election officials reported a sluggish start with some predicting that the latest blast of wintry weather and a holiday that closed some municipal offices might have kept people away. Others said it was still early for people to have made up their minds, particularly with a four-way Republican gubernatorial race.
"It's not long lines," Madison County Clerk Debbie Ming-Mendoza said.
Roughly 100 people cast ballots at a county poll in the southwestern Illinois town of Edwardsville by midday. At a Peoria County spot, only one person had shown up before noon. In a Sangamon County location, less than two dozen cast ballots by afternoon.
Still, election officials and candidates said a later-than-usual voting period and young voters might help boost numbers later on. Early voting runs the Saturday before the March 18 primary and the 2014 contest marks the first time that 17-year-old Illinoisans can vote, provided they are 18 by the November election.
Few election officials expected a large early-voting turnout for the primary.
Statewide, about 8 percent of voters cast early ballots in the 2010 and 2012 primaries, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections. The board didn't have Monday turnout estimates.
"It is off to a slow start," executive director Rupert Borgsmiller said. "The weather has dragged down a lot of the people."
In the Chicago area, election officials were optimistic on Casimir Pulaski Day, a holiday honoring a Polish cavalry officer. Early voting locations were open, though city and Cook County offices were closed.
Roughly 12 percent of Chicago voters cast an early ballot in the 2010 and 2012 primary elections, according to election officials.
"We do expect it to build," said Langdon Neal, chairman of Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners.
Among those who showed was Thomas Plum, a teacher who said he usually votes early. The Democrat said he voted straight ticket and was motivated by recent Chicago schools closures.
"It works for me," he said.
Retirees Doug Wilson and his wife April Smith, both 57, pulled Republican ballots in Springfield. The couple lives in Florida part-time and wanted the convenience before they head south.
Wilson said he's waiting until November to vote for a gubernatorial candidate.
"The governor, if anything is going to come up in the next couple of weeks, is just going to be some nasty piece of business I don't want to hear anyway," he said. "I'm really more curious with who the candidate is going to be than the process."
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who is seeking re-election, faces Chicago area primary challenger, activist Tio Hardiman. Four Republicans are running: Treasurer Dan Rutherford, businessman Bruce Rauner and state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard.
While Illinois candidates made a push for early voting over the weekend, most of the gubernatorial candidates didn't vote Monday. Quinn told The Associated Press that voters should take advantage of having the extra time, but that wouldn't be his approach.
"I vote on Election Day," he said.
Associated Press writer Chacour Koop in Springfield contributed to report.
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Dagenham & Redbridge suffered their first home defeat of the season after two goals in a minute gave third-placed Rochdale a 2-1 victory.
The hosts had been leading for 70 minutes, but substitute Kallum Higginbotham levelled with an angled drive, before Craig Dawson converted a corner despite the best efforts of Tony Roberts.
Defeat was harsh on Daggers, as they had taken the lead after four minutes when Peter Gain headed Danny Green's cross into the top corner.
The hosts had threatened relentlessly in the first half as Josh Scott had a left-foot drive superbly tipped over by Tom Heaton, while the striker also had another effort off target.
Will Antwi thundered a header wide and hit the post with another close-range effort, while the hosts could have had a penalty when Paul Benson was brought down by Chris O'Grady, but nothing was given.
Dale thought they had levelled when Chris Dagnall prodded home, but the linesman's flag ruled it out for offside.
After the break, Daggers had their chances to extend their lead, but Scott sent an effort badly wide after being put in the clear by Green, while Wes Thomas comically mis-kicked in front of goal.
Thomas was also shown a late red card after a shocking challenge on Dagnall and despite a late barrage, the visitors held on.
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Both methyl bromide and methyl iodide are fumigants, gas pesticides injected into soils to kill all living things before a field is planted. "This is an archaic, unsustainable approach," remarked Pesticide Action Network's Senior Scientist Dr. Susan Kegley. "We know so much more now about soil pests, plant pathology and plant breeding than when fumigants were first introduced in the 1920s. EPA should be helping farmers move into the future by expanding the use of new integrated pest management techniques, not replacing one deadly chemical with another." Kegley also points out that fumigation is an inherently risky technology that endangers farm workers, contaminates groundwater, and threatens schools and communities surrounding fumigated fields. With new techniques, however, some organic farms can produce even greater yields per acre than fields treated with fumigants.
The chemical industry is seeking to maintain a market for soil fumigants even as EPA is beginning to recognize the full extent of their toxicity, as well as the difficulty of controlling them once they are released. Methyl bromide is already subject to a global phase out under the Montreal Protocol as a destroyer of the earth's stratospheric ozone layer. Methyl bromide is also an acute respiratory poison, strongly linked with prostate cancer, implicated in Parkinson's Disease and other neurological illnesses, and responsible for many injuries and deaths. "One time I just couldn't stand the gas. My throat hurt, and I had to run from the field to get a breath of air," remembers Jorge Fernandez, a farm worker whose exposure to the gas resulted in chronic respiratory and neurological problems so severe he can no longer support his family--simply talking leaves him dizzy and gasping for breath.
Methyl iodide may be even more hazardous to human health than methyl bromide. Cancer researchers have used methyl iodide in laboratories to induce cancer in cells. Researchers using methyl iodide use great caution, transferring small quantities from sealed tubes with syringes under special ventilation hoods to prevent its release into the air. The state of California lists it as a carcinogen under Proposition 65.
When EPA found that methyl iodide caused thyroid tumors, however, it invoked a previously unheard-of cancer ranking of "Not likely to be carcinogenic to humans at doses that do not alter rat thyroid hormone homeostasis." The EPA's Cancer Assessment Review Committee used only a single paper to come to this conclusion--a questionable study in which 62-66% of the rats in both the control and the high dose group died during the experiment. In addition to thyroid tumors, the study showed large and significant changes in thyroid hormone levels, which are closely tied to metabolic disorders. EPA did not evaluate potential adverse effects that might arise from these changes. Other animal studies evaluated by EPA indicated that methyl iodide causes respiratory tract lesions, neurological problems, and miscarriages.
The State of New Jersey's Fact Sheet cautions laboratory workers exposed to high levels of methyl iodide that the chemical can irritate eyes, burn and blister the skin, and cause coughing and shortness of breath as well as nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. High exposures may also cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs leading to death. According to the National Institutes of Health, in one case a chemical plant worker exposed to methyl iodide developed symptoms of central nervous system poisoning and died.
If methyl iodide is injected into soil as a fumigant, even tarps will not be able to keep it from escaping into the open air and endangering nearby farmworkers and communities. EPA's human health assessment optimistically recommends that workers handling methyl iodide be required to wear respirators, and that buffer zones the size of several football fields may be necessary to keep the poisonous gas from drifting into nearby communities. But on many farms, agricultural workers are regularly denied basic safety equipment, and growers have objected strenuously to buffer zones of any size. Under actual agricultural conditions, methyl iodide cannot be safely used.
Meanwhile, researchers and farmers have made great progress in improving the productivity and cost effectiveness of growing crops without fumigants. Non-chemical methods include choosing locally appropriate resistant varieties, rotating crops, planting cover crops, soil solarization to control pathogens and weeds, hand-pulling weeds, and using traps and predator species to minimize insect damage. Studies at the University of California at Davis comparing organic strawberry fields to fumigated plots found that the organic fields actually enjoyed higher yields, and both methods produced a profit. In Florida, soil solarization achieved by trapping the sun's heat with plastic covers produced 23% greater tomato yields than neighboring farms that used fumigants. Studies in many countries in Europe, Latin America and other regions are finding successful alternatives as well. These safe and ecological practices can be greatly expanded.
Join scientists, organic growers and public health advocates in calling on EPA to deny registration of methyl iodide for use as a soil fumigant. Take action by sending your comment to EPA before February 21st, 2006.
Mendez, Elizabeth and Jeffrey L. Dawson. 2006. Human Health Risk Assessment: Iodomethane. Office of Pesticide Programs Health Effects Division, US EPA, Docket ID # EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0252-0002, EPA Public Docket, http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic-rel11/component/main
New Jersey Department Of Health and Senior Services. Hazardous Substance Fact Sheet: Methyl Iodide. http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/1266.pdf
National Institutes of Health, US National Library of Medicine. Haz-Map Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents.
McSherry, Lucius and Katherine Mills. 2005. "Strawberry and Tomato Farming Without Fumigants and Other Toxic Pesticides" in August 2005 Global Pesticide Campaigner, Pesticide Action Network North America.


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Centreville Without the services of its starting point guard, the Herndon girls' basketball team matched the one-loss Centreville Wildcats bucket-for-bucket in the opening minutes of their Jan. 7 matchup at Centreville High School.
A jumper by senior forward Brianna Moses, a transition basket by senior guard Chloe Owens and another jumper by Moses gave Herndon a 6-5 lead. The Hornets, however, would soon learn why Centreville entered the game with a 12-1 record.
The Wildcats used full-court pressure defense to force 32 turnovers and generate numerous easy baskets en route to a 72-39 victory. The Hornets, who were without injured point guard Mayumi Shill, struggled against the Wildcats' pressure, turning the ball over 19 times in the first half. After trailing 6-5, Centreville used a 23-4 run to take control of the game.
"It was a teaching game," said first-year Herndon head coach Otto Jette, whose Hornets fell to 3-10, including 0-2 in the Concorde District.
Aggression is one thing Jette, a former Chantilly assistant, is trying to instill in his players. The Hornets started two freshmen on Monday --- guard Allison Guengerich and forward Sabrina Tolbert --- and a third freshman, forward Chase Cooksey, saw playing time. Jette would like his younger post players to become more physical like Moses, who finished with nine points and four rebounds.
"We don't attack the basket strong enough," Jette said. "We either look for a back pass or we go across court, but we don't look to go to the basket. We're not aggressive right now and that comes with our youth."
Herndon's leader on the floor is Owens, who scored her 1,000th career point early in the season. She finished with 16 points and nine rebounds against Centreville and showed her versatility when she blocked a shot in the third quarter, dribbled the length of the floor and drew a foul.
"Chloe is a leader," Jette said. "She's a player that attacks the basket. She's just that girl that's a leader on the court and the girls follow her."
Tolbert scored six points for Herndon. Senior guard Alexis Brown finished with four.
Herndon snapped a six-game losing streak with a 42-41 victory against Trinity Christian (Fayetteville, N.C.) on Dec. 29 in the Big Blue Winter Classic in Roanoke. The Hornets have also defeated West Potomac and Stuart.
Herndon will travel to face Chantilly at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 10.
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- Herndon Girls' Basketball Wins Program's First State Tournament Game


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On Wednesday afternoon, the Yale University baseball team will make the one-hour drive to Storrs to take on in-state rival UConn in a scheduled nine-inning contest at J.O. Christian Field at 3 p.m.
The Bulldogs are hoping to spoil the Huskies' home opener. In doing so, Yale (4-10-1) will end a short two-game losing streak. The Bulldogs have struggled of late, losing six of their last nine games, a stretch that includes two tough 2-1 losses in Florida (North Dakota State, March 10; at South Florida, March 12) and a 7-7 tie against Bradley.
The Bulldogs would love to repeat last season's performance against the Huskies (6-11). The Bulldogs scored five runs in the seventh inning and five more in the eighth to come back from a 7-0 deficit to pull out a 10-7 win in a rain-shortened eight-inning affair at historic Yale Field on April 12, 2011.
A performance like that would certainly provide a great springboard into the upcoming stretch of six straight games against in-state rivals that includes a four-game home-and-home series against Hartford and leads into the start of the Ivy League season next weekend with a pair of road doubleheaders at Columbia (March 31) and Penn (April 1).
Junior left-hander Chris O'Hare is scheduled to pitch for the Bulldogs. O'Hare is currently 1-1 with a 6.35 ERA, which includes his first win of the season against Bowling Green in which he gave up just five hits in six scoreless innings. In his three starts, O'Hare has allowed 12 runs, eight earned, on 17 hits, including three doubles and one triple, with 10 strikeouts and nine walks. Opposing teams are hitting .327 off of him so far this season.
UConn will counter with junior right-hander Pat Butler, who is 0-2 in four starts with an 8.04 ERA. Butler has given up 17 runs, 14 earned, on 20 hits with 11 strikeouts, four walks and five hit batters. His 20 hits allowed include five doubles and three triples. Opposing teams are hitting .313 off of him this season.
The Huskies are riding a four-game losing streak after closing a 17-game road swing that saw them play in five tournaments, including the Big East/Big Ten Challenge in Florida, the Cougar Invitational in South Carolina, the Mississippi State Tournament in Mississippi, the Nike Showcase in Oregon, and a return to South Carolina for the Coastal Tournament.
UConn, the defending Big East champion, is led by senior first baseman Ryan Fuller and junior second baseman L.J. Mazzilli. Fuller is hitting a team-best .351 while starting all 17 games with five doubles and two triples and 11 RBIs. Mazzilli is second on the team in hitting with a .333 average with a team-high five home runs, 12 RBIs, 15 runs scored, four doubles and a triple.
Yale enters Wednesday's contest with one player hitting better than .300. Sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson is leading the team in hitting (.380), slugging (.460), on-base percentage (.436), total hits (19), and stolen bases (3). Freshman David Toups is second on the team in hitting (.293), total hits (17) and RBIs (7). Sophomore Kevin Fortunato is slugging .414 while leading the Bulldogs in RBIs (10), doubles (6), home runs (1) and total bases (24). As Yale's primary closer, he also has two saves in six appearances.
John Stuper is in the midst of his 20th season as the head coach of baseball at Yale. The all-time winningest head coach in the 145-year history of Yale baseball, Stuper enters the weekend with 383 career victories in the Bulldogs' dugout, just 17 wins away from his 400th career coaching victory.
Following Wednesday's game at UConn, Yale will visit Hartford for a doubleheader on Saturday that begins at 12 p.m. before returning to historic Yale Field on Sunday to close the four-game set against Hartford beginning at 12 p.m.
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TPWD News Release — Jan. 2, 2013
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has scheduled three public scoping meetings next week to gather input about possible regulation changes for 2013-14. The scoping items include incorporation of a rule regarding recreational possession limit, clarification of fish harassment rules, bonus red drum tag requirement changes and new possession rules in state waters for aquatic resources in excess of federal limits.
All meetings will begin at 7 p.m. and are set for:
During the regulation restructuring process where fishing and hunting regulations were separated into their own chapters, language regarding the definition of recreational possession limit was not carried forward into the Statewide Recreational and Commercial Fishing Proclamations chapter. Though the definition currently is enforceable from the Statewide Hunting Proclamation, this proposal will incorporate the definition into the Statewide Recreational and Commercial Fishing Proclamation making it clearer. The language to be incorporated reads:
The possession limit shall not apply after the wildlife resource has reached the possessor's permanent residence and is finally processed.
TPWD is also looking to clarify language in the regulations regarding fish harassment, which currently states that it is unlawful for any person to use any vessel to harass fish. In an attempt to clarify this definition to make it clearer, the department proposes the following language:
It is unlawful to use any vessel to harry, herd, or drive fish including but not limited to operating any vessel in a repeated circular course, for the purpose of or resulting in the artificial concentration of fish for the purpose of taking or attempting to take fish.
The department is also considering removing the prohibition regarding simultaneous possession of the red drum tag and bonus red drum tag. Currently anglers must obtain these two tags at separate times. In an effort to make it easier for those anglers who wish to harvest more than one oversized red drum (>28 inches), the department proposes eliminating this prohibition. As TPWD currently only issues about 7,000 bonus red drum tags annually, and oversized red drum makes up only 3 percent of the total harvest, the department expects no negative impact to the population. Anglers would still only be issued one bonus red drum tag annually.
TPWD is also scoping a change making it a state violation for possession in state waters of aquatic resources taken in violation of federal regulations in the Exclusive Economic Zone. Differences currently exist between state and federal regulations. TPWD has maintained an annual agreement with the Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through which TPWD agrees to enforce federal regulations in state waters. The ability to enforce federal regulations will help prevent depletion and waste of aquatic resources.
Public input on these scoping items can also be submitted electronically at http://tpwd.texas.gov/business/feedback/public_comment/scoping/ by email to Jeremy Leitz at email@example.com, or in writing to Jeremy Leitz, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, TX 78744


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St. Olaf ranks No. 1 in study abroad survey for fourth year
November 12, 2012
St. Olaf College sent more students to study abroad during the 2010–11 academic year than any other baccalaureate institution in the nation, according to the Open Doors 2012 Report on International Educational Exchange.
This marks the fourth straight year the college has ranked first among its peers in the total number of students studying abroad, prompting the Star Tribune to note in its story about the survey that Minnesota's "top school is still tops."
While the number of students across Minnesota who studied abroad dipped slightly in 2010–11, overall participation at St. Olaf held steady. Director of International and Off-Campus Studies Eric Lund told the Star Tribune that while fewer students are going on shorter study-abroad programs, the college has seen a slight uptick in students participating in semester-long programs.
St. Olaf currently offers nearly 90 study abroad programs in 48 countries, including Global Semester, Term in Asia, and Term in the Middle East.
Open Doors is the comprehensive information resource on international students in the United States and on the more than 200,000 U.S. students who study abroad as part of their academic experience. The Institute of International Education publishes the Open Doors report annually with funding from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.


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Hi, all. I have a large irrigation pond, 35' across, roughly 7' deep at its deepest point. Stocked with a half dozen large goldfish and assorted minnows who do just fine on their own--no supplemental feeding. Several factors combined this summer (aeration pump broke; unusually long, warm summer; increased use of fertilizers in the fields upstream; my not being around a whole lot to look after the thing) to create some truly awful Green Slime (slimus discusticus). Seriously, my usually-beautiful pond looks like a sewer pond.
With winter starting to come on, the water in the ditch is going to stop flowing soon, and the pond will freeze over. I am concerned that all this algae will then die and decompose, killing off the fish and leaving a smelly mess come spring time. So I could like to get rid of this stuff now, while there is still water flowing, to wash out the decomposition.
I have never used (or needed) chemical treatments before, and I'm wondering what is available and what experiences people have had. And yes, I know chemicals are a short-term solution and short of the ideal. Probably my only option at the moment, though, if it isn't already too late.
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Guarding the nest egg
Bolstered by a new funding plan, the Virginia Retirement System will now examine how to better invest its cash
- April 27, 2012
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Christmas for Robert P. Schultze, director of the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) came about nine months early this year when the 2012 General Assembly, in its final hours, passed two laws designed to help shrink the $20 billion shortfall facing the state's largest public pension fund.
"We all were pretty surprised," says Schultze. "The day before the final vote, I was told there would be no pension reform this year. It all came about sort of at the last minute."
The legislation, pushed and prodded through both houses of the legislature by its chief sponsor, Sen. John R. Watkins (R-Powhatan), mandates that the state government, local government and school boards stop a longstanding habit of underfunding the 70-year-old VRS.
Pointing to VRS data collected since 1992, Schultze says that state legislators and successive governors have, since 1995, annually shortchanged the two largest pension funds managed by VRS (teachers and state employees) by a cumulative total of more than $3.7 billion.
That cash, if invested with the rest of the VRS' capital, would have produced an additional $5.7 billion in assets for the retirement needs of the 612,415 active workers, current retirees and future beneficiaries enrolled in the system at the end of last year.
Schultze says that even with an extra $6 billion in assets, the VRS still needed all the legislation the General Assembly has passed in the past three years to cover its long-term benefit obligations. Beginning in July 2010 state lawmakers said all new VRS members would be required to pay 5 percent of their salaries toward their retirement benefits. The law permitted municipalities and school boards to pay some or all of that contribution on behalf of their newest employees, but did not force them to do so. In 2011, this same 5 percent salary contribution requirement was extended to all state employees, regardless of their hire date. The legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year closed what Watkins and other legislators felt were loopholes in the system's new "hybrid" funding model, which combines the VRS's original employer-funded system with one that requires more contributions from state employees. (See related story: Who will pay? )
"This is a very big deal for us," says Schultze. "As Senator Watkins said, 'Unless you increase the state government's contributions [to the VRS] all you will be doing is treading water.'"
According to Schultze, VRS operates under a constantly extending 85-year timeline that actuarial experts calculate will cover the retirement needs of current workers and their beneficiaries. At the end of fiscal year 2011, the VRS was, on paper, about 30 percent short of its scheduled benefits payout for the year 2097.
By comparison a decade ago, before the nation's sustained economic expansion and Wall Street bull market during the 1990s succumbed to two difficult recessions, VRS officials estimated that the combined market valuation of the stocks and bonds in its various investment portfolios meant the state's public pension funds had 4 to 7 percent more than they needed to cover the 85-year liabilities the system had at that time.
Like most U.S. public pension systems, about two-thirds of the benefits VRS pays to its members are generated from investments in financial markets around the world, with the rest coming directly from the accumulated annual contributions of employees and employers. Unfortunately, some state systems have tried to recoup their losses and reduce the level of their unfunded liabilities by making increasingly aggressive bets on higher-risk stocks and bonds.
That's a mistake the VRS will not make any time soon, says Ronald D. Schmitz, the system's new chief investment officer. "At this point it's better to be conservative than aggressive," he says.
Schmitz joined VRS on Oct. 31 after eight years as chief investment officer of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund. There he attracted nationwide attention and a 2007 citation from Institutional Investor magazine for impressive returns he generated with the help of increased investments in private equity. At VRS, his combined base salary and sign-on bonus package is $485,000. (Schmitz is also eligible for an annual bonus worth 70 percent of his $375,000 base salary, or $262,500, if he hits certain performance targets, the specifics of which he and Schultze declined to discuss for this article.)
In contrast to an 8 percent annual growth target that many U.S. state pension funds have kept in spite of three years of bloodshed on Wall Street, the lower 7 percent growth target the VRS adopted in 2010 has served the system well, according to Schmitz.
Like many other state pension plans around the country, the VRS board endorsed successive annual targets of 8 percent growth before 2005; but as forecasts for stocks and bonds soured that target was lowered to 7.5 percent between 2005 and 2009, and it dropped again to 7 percent in 2010 when it looked like financial assets would not recover anytime soon.
"When you have an 8 percent [profit]assumption you have a lot of pressure from the board [of directors] to go after it," he says. "When your return [target] is 7 [percent], that's a meaningful difference… and that can keep you from reaching too far."
On the other hand, Schmitz says the VRS's "conservative" annual investment target of 7 percent may be an important contributing factor to the system's roughly $20 billion long-term funding shortfall. For that reason, he and the system's nine-member board of trustees have decided to hire an outside consultant to facilitate "a very involved risk policy discussion" tentatively scheduled for later this year to discuss investment strategies for the long term.
"We've decided to have a third party come in and help the board through this discussion. Historically, [changes in VRS risk policies] have been driven by staff. For a variety of reasons it was decided to bring in an outside party to lead the board through that discussion and have consensus on what the mission is and what the right risk tolerance is and what are the objectives of the investment group," says Schmitz.
On Sept. 30 the VRS reported net assets of $49.6 billion, down from $54.6 billion on June 30, the end of the last fiscal year. By Dec. 30, VRS assets had recovered to $51 billion and at the end of March they had reached $54.1 billion, according to VRS officials. In fiscal year 2007, before the worst stock market collapse in decades, the VRS reported net assets of $58.3 billion, the highest fiscal year-end total since the VRS morphed from a teachers-only program started in 1908 to a retirement plan for almost all Virginia state employees in 1942.
Tasked like most pension fund managers with slowly building value while protecting existing assets, Schmitz predicts the overall ratio of stocks to bonds in the VRS investment portfolio may remain roughly 60/40, with a small percentage spread among credit instruments, real estate and cash.
"Typically, there's not a lot of change…Maybe we could go to 70/30 or 50/50. But if it goes beyond those parameters then I'd be a little surprised. But it could stay exactly where it is," he says.
In late March about 55 percent ($29.9 billion) of all the VRS' financial assets was in equities; 37 percent ($20 billion) was in various debt, loan and credit instruments; 7.6 percent, or $4.1 billion was in real estate and the remainder was held in cash. (VRS's equity investments include publicly traded company stocks and private equity, such as ownership stakes in privately held companies or investments in private equity funds.)
More specifically, according to Schmitz, one of the subjects to be discussed later this year as part of the upcoming "risk tolerance" summit between VRS investment staff and the full board of trustees will be what he called Virginia's "conservative" target of 7 percent annual investment gains, a policy he says may explain a bit of the increase in the VRS's unfunded liabilities during the last few years.
Like many other state pension plans around the country, the VRS board endorsed successive annual targets of 8 percent growth before 2005; but as forecasts for stocks and bonds soured that target was lowered to 7.5 percent between 2005 and 2009, and it dropped again to 7 percent in 2010 when it looked like financial assets would not recover anytime soon.
Periodic reviews of any pension plan's funding objectives, investment goals and risk tolerances are perfectly normal and usually very complex, argues Schmitz, who before serving as CIO for the state employees' pension plans in Oregon (2003-2011) and Illinois (1998-2002) began his career with private funds at Kraft Foods Inc., Sears & Roebuck & Co. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
He adds that the most important result of any review is that trustees and internal investment staff work toward the same goals. "A lot comes into play about what the board's [investment and funding] objectives could be, or should be. Frankly, there's no right or wrong answer."


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A sparsely attended meeting at the Kenai Public Library marked the beginning of five years of chinook salmon research on the Kenai River.
Three representatives from the subsistence division of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game presented a loose plan for gathering local and traditional knowledge from central Kenai Peninsula residents who harvest Kenai River chinook salmon.
Their research fits into a statewide effort by Fish and Game to assess the downturn of chinook stocks through a series of projects on rivers that have "indicator stocks" of the fish.
Projects on the 12 rivers that contain the indicator stocks were recommended to address gaps in knowledge for biologists tasked with managing the chinook salmon fisheries.
The broader chinook salmon stock assessment and research plan was published by Fish and Game in January 2013 after a Chinook Salmon Symposium where fisheries experts were gathered to weigh in on gaps in the state's knowledge on king salmon bearing rivers.
At that symposium, the importance of having local and traditional knowledge was emphasized in several presentations.
Other projects identified on the Kenai River were the three-year project to move the DIDSON sonar used to assess chinook salmon runs, a project to estimate smolt abundance and one to estimate the marine harvest of Cook Inlet chinook salmon.
Malla Kukkonen, who works for the subsistence division said the group would do 25 interviews with local residents in each type of fishery to determine when and how people fish for chinook, how they share the resources they harvest, how far they travel to harvest and the overall cultural, social and economic value related to the resource.
Researchers will also be looking for changes in chinook patterns, Povelite said.
The group will also compile biological data on run strength and harvest to supplement their final report.
Jim Fall, research director for Fish and Game's division of subsistence, said the division was starting some of their research ahead of other divisions within Fish and Game, though the final scope of the project to gather traditional knowledge on the Kenai River has not yet been defined.
All told, the subsistence division will take $1.2 million of the total funding available for chinook research for the first two years of the statewide research.
The Kenai River presents some challenges for subsistence researchers who are more accustomed to working in rural communities.
"The Kenai is going to be a little more challenging in that there are so many users and such a complex history there," he said. "Part of the challenge and why we have to have these community scoping meetings is to narrow down the focus and try to figure out who we need to talk too."
The research group will not focus on subsistence users, Povelite said. They want to hear from users in all aspects of the chinook fishery.
"It's a bit of an experiment for us doing this kind of work in a system like the Kenai again just because of the number of people who have an interest in it," Fall said. "Obviously we'll talk to the Kenaitze tribe ... but we certainly won't stop there."
The final product of the subsistence division's research will be available for use by local biologists and on a statewide level, though Fall said it can sometimes be received with skepticism.
"I'm an anthropologist, so I'm more open to it. Maybe from the other side, we're too open to simply going with local perspectives that are sometimes quite deep in terms of specific knowledge and historical knowledge, but might not be really wide or have the comparative perspective that the biologists might bring," he said.
Some researchers have become more open to local and traditional knowledge, he said.
"We see it in Board of Game meetings. It's pretty common at a Board of Game meeting for hunters and trappers to give testimony and be, sort of, interviewed by board members about what they're seeing. It is put into perspective along with the more systematic biological perspective," he said.
Fish and Game has worked to include local and traditional perspectives in other portions of the state including the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers — which support the largest subsistence fisheries in the state — where inseason working groups on both rivers meet to advise biologists.
"There is a mechanism set up to listen to people and those perspectives are not simply dismissed, they are factored in," Fall said. "I think that information is considered and I think it is valued, but I also think it's an evolving situation and not everybody is as open to it as others."
Researchers from Fish and Game will back late in November or in early December to continue their community outreach.
Rashah McChesney can be reached at email@example.com.


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This week's arrests in the murder case of Jeffery Shane Elliott are just the beginning of a crackdown on "The Crazy White Boys" gang.
NewsChannel Seven spoke with several people who know members of the gang, some of whom went and still go to Arnold High School at Panama City Beach.
For many of the students at Arnold High, the name "Crazy White Boys" rings a bell. One student told us "our go to high school for a couple of years, you are going to hear about them one way or another. It could be, did you hear what happened at school today, so and so's car got broken into."
Another student, not wanting to be identified in our story, says, "People knew they were involved in drugs but they never actually thought they were selling drugs, dealing them, stealing from people and hurting people."
But Bay County sheriff's deputies say it's true. Over the last two years, members of the gang have been charged 150 times with various crimes including drug trafficking, armed robbery and now first-degree murder.
A third student we talked with says, "They don't single people out. They just go after someone with some property, some money or some drugs. If they want it, they are going to take it and they don't care who they hurt."
Deputies say the gang members called their crimes "hitting a lick" and they believe that is exactly what happened to Jeffery Shane Elliott. "They picked people out and tried to have fights with them. They take their money or take their cell phones. Sometimes they try to take people's cars."
The five killed Elliott with a baseball bat earlier this summer at a Grand Lagoon Boat Ramp on South Lagoon Drive.
Investigators say members of the Crazy White Boys gang will sometimes wear blue bandanas. Some have tattoos like "CWB" or"360", which means full circle of family.


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|Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:10PM
|California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen
|Friday March 30, 2018 @10:02AM
|Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules
|Friday February 16, 2018 @07:44PM
|Coffee Beans Are Good For Birds, Fancy Brew Or Not
|Friday January 12, 2018 @10:37PM
|Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea
|Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:13PM
|Coffee Cuts Risk of Dying From Stroke and Heart Disease, Study Suggests
|Monday June 19, 2017 @05:25PM
|Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change
|Monday January 16, 2017 @11:46PM
|Caffeine May Counter Age-Related Inflammation, Says Study
|Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:34AM
|Maths Zeroes in on Perfect Cup of Coffee
|Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:23AM
|Grumpy Cat Wants $600K From 'Pirating' Coffee Maker
|Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:44PM
|Soylent Coffee: Nootropics, Fat, Carbs, Protein -- But Will It Give You The Toots?
|Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:19PM
|WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer
|Monday May 16, 2016 @04:25PM
|Amazon To Sell Its Own Private-Label Groceries
|Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:23AM
|Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze
|Thursday December 11, 2014 @03:48PM
|Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability
|Monday June 16, 2014 @06:58PM
|Interview: Alan Adler Answers Your Questions About Coffee and Throwing Objects
|Monday June 16, 2014 @03:31PM
|Starbucks Offers Workers 2 Years of Free College
|Sunday June 15, 2014 @05:04PM
|How To Make Espresso In Space
|Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:00PM
|Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug
|Thursday April 18, 2013 @09:19AM
|Demand for Kopi Luwak May Be Threatening Wildlife
|Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:53PM
|Coffee and Intellectual Property
|Saturday November 10, 2012 @03:39PM
|Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080
|Thursday October 04, 2012 @10:54AM
|New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss
|Friday May 18, 2012 @11:21PM
|MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds
|Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:25PM
|NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death
|Thursday March 15, 2012 @09:55AM
|Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee
|Wednesday May 18, 2011 @09:33AM
|Coffee Wards Off Cancer
|Saturday February 12, 2011 @12:27PM
|Tech-Unfriendly Cafes Say No Kindles Allowed
|Sunday July 04, 2010 @07:39AM
|Information On Philips' "Coffee" Machine?
|Thursday June 03, 2010 @10:27AM
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|Wednesday December 23, 2009 @10:30AM
|Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species
|Friday January 16, 2009 @06:09PM
|Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's
|Tuesday November 25, 2008 @04:49AM
|Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space
|Thursday April 17, 2008 @01:19AM
|The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee
|Monday July 09, 2007 @08:19AM
|First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning?
|Thursday May 17, 2007 @10:20AM
|What is Your Favorite Way to Make Coffee?
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Part of National Museums Liverpool
'Insyde' is an interactive installation by the people at Airside.
'We went looking in the back of our cupboards and found these strange creatures who whispered in our ears that they wanted to visit the far off land of Liverpool, so we packed them up in a crate, gave them some sandwiches and sent them off to those nice people at the Walker Art Gallery.
They've had a very long journey and they might be a bit shy, so please be gentle with them and play nicely. They are very keen to meet you but are a bit short sighted, so when you see a light on the floor, step into it so they can see you more clearly and come and say hello.'
The installation was commissioned by National Museums Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial 2006. It was a unique interactive installation created by multi-disciplinary design collective Airside. The world comprised a mixture of real world objects, wall projections and music. Fred Deakin, who is one half of dance act Lemon Jelly, specially composed this music for Insyde.
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Gravity Birth
This is a wonderful article promoting the many benefits of a Vertical Birth, I know when I was in labor squatting was the most comfortable position I could find during a contraction, surely 100 times more comfortable than on my back in bed! This article also suggests that a vertical birth may be a quicker birth!
'Gravity Birth' Pulls Women to Ecuador Hospital
By Dominique Soguel - WeNews correspondent
OTAVALO, Ecuador (WOMENSENEWS) --Gravity is the invisible midwife in indigenous birthing rituals, says Rosa Colta, a traditional midwife and intercultural health promoter in Otavalo, a town in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.
For that reason a maternity ward in the dimly lit hospital of San Luis de Otavalo calls to mind a small yoga or ballet studio.
Six horizontal bars covered in colorful rope hang on the back wall, forming a gradient, or "chakana," in Kichwa, the dialect of the Quechua language spoken here.
In a room right around the corner from the hospital's emergency room, laboring women move down the chakana's rungs during delivery, transitioning from almost standing before contractions, to kneeling with their palms on the lowest rung, back curled like a cat, posterior high and ready for birth.
The practitioners believe the downward abdominal pressure as a woman moves down the steps or switches from standing to squatting helps push the child out and speeds up dilation of her cervix.
Part of a model effort to lower maternal and infant mortality and attract more women to hospital deliveries, San Luis de Otavalo is the first public hospital in Ecuador to provide a so-called vertical maternity ward that connects indigenous birthing practices with access to modern medicine. The ward opened in April 2008.
"It was a hard fight for us to get into the hospital and care for women with our ancestral wisdom and practices, with our teas and waters, our sacred cleansing rites," says Colta. "Everyone has bad energy. But we shoo it out at birth."
Traditional Herbs on Hand
In this small room, shelves spill over with herbs ranging from "patacun yuyo," a mountain weed that they believe reduces abdominal pain, to "hojas de higo," fig leaves used to clean and numb the vaginal area during birth and to enhance muscular activity.
Three traditional midwives take turns concocting teas and washing waters for the mother, who starts to ingest these special infusions when the cervix reaches a dilation of three to four inches.
Midwives here massage and bathe the mother until the baby is born. A "yatchak"--literall y "he who knows"--oversees the spiritual dimension of this process and ensures it follows ancestral cosmic laws. This Andean shaman welcomes the child into the world beating five stones on the door frame--representing the fingers of a hand--in the maternity ward.
"Every detail of the delivery is important to us," said yatchak Huillka Pukara Pakhsi, a name that means "moon force" in Kichwa. "It is a road map revealing the child's nature, foreshadowing its life. This hospital room becomes a sacred place, an altar, because this is where life begins."
The hospital has a team of six obstetricians, three interns, eight nurses, one gynecologist and 10 traditional midwives trained in vertical delivery.
Five to six babies arrive a day in accordance to ancient Kichwa lore in this medical setting.
Growing Demand
The hospital continues to provide modern horizontal birthing care in an adjacent room but the demand for vertical births is growing.
From April to December 2008, the hospital hosted 128 vertical deliveries. In January alone, there were 68, more than half of overall deliveries.
"Vertical birth is quicker, easier," said Monica Pasmayo, as her husband wheeled her out of the hospital with a tiny newborn nestled in her arms earlier this month. "The baby comes out and you are free to go."
Five years ago, Pasmayo gave birth horizontally to her first daughter, Maria Fernanda. Labor lasted six hours then. Delivering a boy vertically on Feb. 5 took her half the time.
Pedro Luna, the chief gynecologist at the ward, attributes the speed of Pasmayo's delivery and other vertical deliveries to the use of a natural position.
"Vertical birth-delivery, adapted by the Kichwa tradition, is a natural and instinctive process that makes physiological sense," says Luna. "Horizontal birth is an occidental practice brought by the conquistadors with zero medical logic."
When the hospital opened the intercultural maternity ward, says Luna, indigenous women accounted for 95 percent of vertical deliveries. Most mestizas--women of mixed racial heritage--preferred horizontal, occidental delivery. The ratio is now 56 percent indigenous and 44 percent mestiza.
The hospital has an infant mortality of 7.8 per 1,000 live births, less than half the national average, which stands at 19 per 1,000. The vertical maternity ward witnessed one maternal death due to complications from an unrelated membrane infection, compared to eight deaths due to complications in horizontal deliveries the previous year.
Vertical deliveries, says Luna, have also helped reduce Caesarean sections from 18 to 8 percent at the hospital.
Providing a National Model
The hospital's successes have turned it into a model for a nation that is trying to reduce maternal mortality and neonatal fatalities by 30 to 35 percent. In January, the maternity ward became a training center for clinics hoping to introduce or master this ancestral practice.
Luna says he is working on an agreement with national universities and the health ministry to teach ancestral practices at the medical school. There are 40 trained traditional midwives who work in Otavalo and surrounding rural areas tending to a population of 102,000.
The Ministry of Health called for an accelerated national strategy in August 2008 to reduce maternal and neonatal fatalities. The training of traditional midwives and the creation of intercultural, vertical maternity wards were incorporated in the government's strategy. So far, intercultural maternity centers that incorporate vertical birthing practices have spread from Otavalo to the provinces of Chimborazo, Amazonia and Esmeraldas.
The United Nations Population Fund for Women supports Hospital San Luis de Otavalo's center as a way to help meet the millennium development goal of reduced maternal mortality by making hospitals friendlier to rural communities that follow traditional customs.
Lily Rodriguez, an assistant representative at the United Nations Population Fund in Ecuador, says the introduction of the ward
increased deliveries in hospitals by 8.3 percent.
"We figured out that the majority of indigenous and mestizas delivered babies at home because they were afraid of the hospital," says Rodriguez. "They didn't understand the technical language. They were uncomfortable with the request to undress. They missed their teas and families."
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Did you ever see National Geographics, In The Womb? I think the couple was British, but she totally gave birth vertically...standing on the floor leaning over the bed. I thought that it looked so natural..I wanted that for me...but 26 hours later I wanted an epidural...and about 6 hours after that I was on my back in the OR having my emercency c-section. If I had my first experience to do all over again, I would never have been induced early, and would have just waited out going into labor to try a vertical birth.ReplyDelete
Yes, I saw that! I had a similar labor experience! I was induced at 41 weeks with pre-e related hypertension. I labored about 20+ hours without the epi until I needed the c-section because Jude was stuck in a posterior position and wouldn't come down the birth canal. I was so sad because I was fully dilated! We will try for a vertical birth next time around too! :)ReplyDelete


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Honey Wheat Pancakes Recipe
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Even my kids love these wholesome pancakes! The thick and tender pancakes have a delightful hint of honey and cinnamon that you'll love. —Martina Bias, Belleville, Illinois
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- 1-1/2 cups reduced-fat biscuit/baking mix
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1-1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 medium ripe banana, mashed
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Assorted fresh fruit and/or maple syrup, optional
- In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Combine the eggs, buttermilk, banana and honey; add to dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Pour batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto a hot griddle coated with cooking spray; turn when bubbles form on top. Cook until the second side is golden brown. Serve with fruit and/or syrup if desired. Yield: 12 pancakes.
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"This is my go to recipe when I need some quick and healthy. I have 4 children and they all love these pancakes! They love the banana flavor and the hints of honey and cinnamon. I love that this recipe uses whole wheat flour so it's heartier than a lot of pancake recipes, but it still starts with Bisquick so it comes together easily. If you want to make it even healthier use the Heart healthy Bisquick mix. Delicious!"
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Information in Police Reports is obtained from the Addison and Bensenville police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
Eden Clemente-Camacho, 29, 120 S. Lincoln St., was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving while license suspended, failure to wear seat belt, speeding, improper lane usage and failure to yield to emergency vehicles at 11:24 p.m. March 7 in the 100 block of South Lincoln Street.
Retail theft
Stephen B. Menger, 31, 2528 Autumn Grove Circle, Aurora, was charged with retail theft at 4:24 p.m. March 4 at 1400 W. Lake St.
Warrant arrest
• Brittany R. Thomas, 22, 1545 Balmoral St., Westchester, was arrested on an unspecified outstanding warrant from the Addison Police Department at 4:47 p.m. March 16 in the 900 block of College Boulevard.
• Philip R. Ortiz, 23, 1422 Northfield Court, Harvard, was arrested on an unspecified outstanding warrant from the Addison Police Department at 11:15 a.m. March 11 at 1 Friendship Plaza.
• Patricio Sanchez, 21, 104 N. Church St., was arrested on an outstanding failure to appear warrant from the Livingston County Sheriff's Department at 12:59 p.m. March 12 at the Addison Police Department, 3 Friendship Plaza.
Domestic battery reported
An incident involving domestic battery and threats with a weapon was reported at 6:32 p.m. March 17 at 11 W. Green St.
Dean Weickart, 52, 417 Park St., was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol at 9:29 p.m. March 16 at 128 E. Jefferson St.
Motor vehicle burglary reported
An I-Pass was reported stolen from a motor vehicle after the driver's side window was broken at 8:49 p.m. March 15 at Green and Mason streets.
Eluding police
Francis Burke, 24, 920 E. Shady Way, Arlington Heights, was charged with fleeing and eluding police and other traffic violations at 3:41 p.m. March 16 at Irving Park Road and Spruce Avenue.
Theft reported
A UPS package taken from the front of a resident was reported at 6:17 p.m. March 14 at 302 S. Mason St.
Credit card fraud
An unauthorized purchase made with a credit card was reported at 3:44 p.m. March 17 at 1123 David Drive.
Criminal property
damage reported
A wooden fence that was spray-painted was reported at 12:50 p.m. March 13 at Sunset Park.
Disorderly conduct
• Jennifer Hansen, 39, 18 E. Belmont Ave., was cited for disorderly conduct at 1:03 p.m. March 14 at 1043 S. York Road.
• Victor Funes-Carrillo, 24, 332 Lincoln Court, Addison, was charged with disorderly conduct at 5:12 p.m. March 15 at 102 E. Pine Ave.
Warrant arrest
• Orlando Zayas Guilbe, 41, 1045 W Irving Park Road, was arrested an outstanding failure to appear warrant at 12:03 p.m. March 11 at 100 N. Church Road.
• A juvenile was arrested on an unspecified outstanding warrant and transported to the Kane County Youth Home at 8:20 p.m. March 11 at 7 S. Addison St.
• Jennifer Prochaska, 27, 259 Miner St., was arrested on an outstanding failure to appear warrant at 12:29 p.m. March 14 at 100 N. Church Road.
• Cassandra Belau, 26, 100 E. George St., was arrested on an outstanding failure to appear warrant at 1:26 a.m. March 16 at 100 E. George St.
Traffic violation
• Arlette Romero, 27, 431 Park St., was charged with driving with no valid driver's license, and Sarah Rae Linde, 32, 2540 Silver Creek, Franklin Park, was arrested on an outstanding failure to appear warrant at 6:41 a.m. March 11 at Crest Street and York Road.
• Lisa Garcia, 47, 6505 S. Knox Ave., Chicago, was charged with driving with a suspended driver's license at 9:06 p.m. March 17 at 1045 S. York Road.


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From the PHPMag.ru site comes a recent post looking at a technique for creating auto-loading models in your Zend Framework application.
When it comes to MVC, ZF handles almost everything - your action controllers are triggered, your views are loaded, w/o you having to worry about them. Not the same with models. If you comply to directory layout advised by ZF, you have "models" folder, but framework doesn't interact with it in any way.
There's a three step process he includes to make your models autoload - extend the Zend_Controller_action for the controller you're working with, put loadModel() method into the controller (what will actually load the models) and an optional third step of adding in class autoloading. A few alternatives are also mentioned: Zend_Load_PluginLoader, Zend_Load subclassing and a controller plugin.


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The Countdown 2010 initiative in partnership with UNRIC and the Stagiaires Committee of the European Commission is holding an afternoon event on 21st January 2010, to mark the International Year of Biodiversity in Brussels.
The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, with the aim to increase public awareness on the topic of biodiversity and the crisis it faces. This conference, aimed at the wider public, will give an introduction to the current crisis of the loss of biodiversity, the link between climate change and biodiversity and how policies address this interaction.
Speakers range from Janos Tisovszky, the Deputy director of UNRIC, who will give a short welcome speech and moderate the event; Olivier Deleuze, Director of UNEP's Brussels Liaison Office, who will introduce the current crisis of biodiversity loss; Luc De Bruyn, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) who will talk more about the science and linkages between Climate Change and biodiversity, and Sebastian Winkler, Head of the Countdown 2010 Secretariat of IUCN, who will talk about the integration of biodiversity and climate change policies. There will also be screening of a short film showcasing the issue.
For information on the venue and time for the event please download the invitation.