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Enjoy this years rendition of Rudolph...
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Feeling Lucky???
Are you getting this beautiful gift for Xmas??
There was a drawing of a gnome in a hot air balloon, but he got colored over :-(
This is her "Merry Christmas" face.
This is her "seriously I need to wrap another present" face
Christmas is almost here! We wish all our friends and family a safe and wonderful holiday.
Sunday, December 23, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:01 PM 0 comments
Winter Storm Caeser
We were hit with the first major storm of the season... As it turns out, we are now naming our major winter storms now as well... So Caeser it is!
Phase 1 of the cleanup was Sunday morning around 9AM. There was a solid 4-6" by then, but Sylvia was up for playing in the snow, so I attacked the driveway with a shovel. Sylvia was also proud of her shoveling - and to be honest, it was much improved over last year.
Brief intermission for snow angels!
After lunch, a haircut for Sylvia, and a run to the grocery store, it was back outside for more fun in the snow. This time little sister joined in the fun.
Sledding does not work very well in 12" of powder...
Still snowing...
One more time cleaning the driveway - this time with the snow blower - was finished around 7PM. This morning we woke up to a drift at the end of the driveway from the snowplow and another 1-2 inches on the driveway.
Besides the five+ hours spent in the car today back and forth to Hutchinson, we really enjoyed this first storm of the season... especially when I get home to Sylvia waiting in her room, not being able to fall asleep until we have "story time".
Tonight's story was about her stuffed deer "Snowflake". She had informed be that Snowflake lives with Santa and Rudolph doesn't live with Santa anymore. When I asked her why Rudolph doesn't live with Santa anymore, the response was quick and direct... "Rudolph had to move because he was afraid of the adorable snowman!" Translation of adorable is abominable... I like her version better! Hopefully she isn't having nightmares about that crazy looking thing!
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I'm going to Germany next Monday for work! I'm really excited about it, as I love to travel. Although I'm mostly going to drive around in a car, it's nice to travel to different countries and meet new people. Hopefully I'll get a chance to take some pictures during the trip. It's a pretty tight schedule though:
- Monday evening: flight from Stockholm, Sweden to Stuttgart, Germany. Hotel somewhere in Stuttgart, haven't decided which yet.
- Tuesday: Car drive south west to Pfalzgrafenweiler to visit a customer, then moving on to another customer where I'm supposed to stay over night and update the software on a machine. Hopefully things will go well.
- Wednesday, morning: Stay at the customer while they resume production to make sure everything works without problems.
- Wednesday, noon: Drive north east 3½ hours to a place outside Nürnberg to visit another customer.
- Wednesday, afternoon: Train from Nürnberg to Herford. Hotel in Herford over the night.
- Thursday, morning: Drive west 1½ hours to Stadtlohn to visit customer.
- Thursday, noon: Drive further west another 1½ hours to Doetinchem, Netherlands to visit another customer.
- Thursday, afternoon: Drive back east 3 hours to Herford to sales meeting and dinner.
- Friday, morning: Drive south west to Bielefeld to visit a couple of customers.
- Friday, afternoon: Drive 1½ hours north east to Hanover.
- Friday, evening: Flight from Hanover to Stockholm.
I'm doing this trip with my old classmate Andreas, nowadays a colleague of mine. It's really nice to have a "real" friend at work (not that my other colleagues are not nice (quite the opposite!), but nothing beats a friend you've known for years).
The only slightly negative thing is that I get to spend my 27th birthday updating software on a large machine, several hundred miles from my love Sofie… Hopefully all goes well and I have time for a good German beer on Tuesday evening. Or maybe I should wait until Thursday and have a joint in the Netherlands instead! 🙂

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The company I work for are Norwegian in origin, therefore I was dispatched to Norway for their "new hire" training/brainwashing. After three days of learning corporate mantras I was feeling slightly frazzled to say the least. Some of us stayed in Oslo for the weekend to do some sightseeing which was rather enjoyable. I've collected […]


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Picking and Choosing Digital Content
Technology is changing the way schools think about crafting curricula and buying content. But are publishers ready for the changes?
As school districts navigate the shift from print to digital curricula, many are mixing and matching curriculum materials—from teacher-created work to open education resources to publisher-provided programs—to achieve the best customized combination for their teachers and students.
Until every child has a device that can readily access digital curricula, however, most districts must rely on proprietary print materials as the primary source of curriculum.
"The real tipping point is when every student has a device," says Wesley Fryer, a digital-learning consultant and the executive director of StoryChasers Inc., an Edmond, Okla.-based nonprofit that archives and shares local oral histories captured by K-20 learners.
"Until then," he says, "you can't scale any kind of digital curriculum across the nation."
But for schools that are able to provide each student with a computer or mobile device, "we are living in a day where it's the buffet of digital curriculum," Fryer adds. "Schools pick and choose what they want. There isn't anybody out there who is the be-all and end-all [of digital curricula]."
Because of the thousands of curriculum resources on the Internet, the vast array of open education resources (which are created under open licenses, as opposed to copyright, and are shared for free), and the materials created through curriculum publishers, teachers now have much greater flexibility in finding, modifying, and customizing curricula to fit their needs, says Fryer.
That flexibility can increase the number of voices and perspectives that are included in curriculum, but it also puts the onus on the teacher, he says, to select high-quality materials, a task that can be time-consuming.
"It's a good day for meeting student needs, but it's a challenging day because there are more decisions for administrators, teachers, and school boards," says Fryer.
The Open High School of Utah in Salt Lake City is an example of a school that puts the curriculum in the hands of teachers. The 3-year-old virtual high school serves 350 students full time and 50 students part time. Fourteen percent of the student population qualify as "economically disadvantaged."
All the teachers create their own curricula from open education resources, says DeLaina Tonks, the school's director.
"Especially in the economy we're experiencing right now, people can't afford proprietary materials," she says. "Open education resources are an answer to that call."
The school began by hiring instructional designers to choose the curriculum, but found that the materials were not engaging enough for students. Moving that responsibility to the teachers has been more successful, says Tonks.
Each teacher spends a year gathering materials and creating a comprehensive curriculum before teaching students. Teachers often use materials they find online, Tonks says, or they create their own.
So far, the strategy has worked. The Open High School of Utah's test scores are higher than the state average, and last spring, the school won Utah's Best of State Award for Curriculum Development.
"It's doing the job that we need the curriculum to do," says Tonks.
Mixing and Matching
In the 700-student Van Meter school district in Iowa, teachers use a combination of their own materials, open education resources, and proprietary materials from publishers, says Deron Durflinger, the district's secondary school principal, who oversees grades 6-12.
Students in those grades are in a 1-to-1 laptop environment, which has allowed them to make the shift from print to digital curricula almost completely, he says.
Teachers have different levels of comfort with digital curricula, he says; some use such materials exclusively, while others keep classroom sets of textbooks handy.
"There's a continuum. You've got some teachers who jump in with both feet and others who really need more assistance," Durflinger says.
"There are all these online repositories of content that [teachers] can access and use however they need," he says. "There's enough information out there that, as an educational system, we should be able to tap into that, and it essentially should be free."
While mixing and matching content from multiple providers, as they are doing in Van Meter, is something many educators envision, it is not widely happening yet, says John Sipe, the national sales manager and a senior vice president for the Boston-based textbook publisher and curriculum provider Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
"We all envision this happening in a digital platform where teachers can pull in content via open-source, district-created, or publisher-provided," he says, "but it's going to be a while until we actually see that in a very pragmatic and effective way."
For now, several roadblocks stand in the way of creating that reality, including how much technology costs, how the content weaves together, and how curricular materials are adopted by states.
"Some states have a very specific way they want districts to procure textbooks and curriculum, and they don't allow for a whole lot of flexibility," says Sipe. "We all want the most current, accurate, and relevant curriculum available, but in many cases, we aren't allowed to change [the materials] until the next time they are adopted."
To meet the needs of schools that want to create customized lessons and curriculum materials, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt provides custom publishing. In that approach, Sipe says, the school chooses the lessons and the sequence it wants in its own printed or digital book.
"Our job is to provide great content in whatever way school districts want to consume it," he says. "That's how we remain relevant today and in the future."
A high-profile announcement in January by Apple Inc. creates further options for publishers and schools. In a strategic move into the K-12 e-textbook market, Apple is partnering with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson to offer interactive textbooks through its iBooks store.
'The Future of Digital Curriculum'
Some school systems, such as California's 44,000-student Riverside Unified district, located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, are pushing for the decoupling of publisher-provided curriculum from its package. That means breaking up textbooks into learning objects that can be mixed and matched with materials from other sources.
As it is, the district uses a wide variety of curriculum providers. They range from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Fuse—an Algebra 1 app for the iPad that delivers the entire curriculum on the tablet—to the nonprofit Palo Alto, Calif.-based curriculum provider CK-12's FlexBooks, which are open-source, Web-based materials that teachers can mix or modify.
"In terms of the iTunes model, where we could take all those pieces and parts and put them someplace so that we could then pick and choose, we're there in a rough sense," says Jay McPhail, the Riverside district's director of K-12 instructional technology.
"The realization that the world is changing for the publishers is coming home to them because they used to be the sole provider of content, but we've got curriculum specialists who can put this together in a better way than they do," he says.
Keeping the district "device agnostic," or not tied to any one specific device, is a key part of its philosophy, says McPhail. He cites Riverside's use of iPads and Android slate tablets, as well as the use of student-owned digital devices.
Fryer, the digital-learning consultant, echoes McPhail's concerns.
"The old curriculum model was one-size-fits-all. The new model is open, shared, and mobile across multiple devices," says Fryer. "A single-platform focus may be tempting for curriculum, but ultimately that's a limiting mind-set.
"The future of digital curriculum," he says, "is in the cloud, on mobile devices, and in remixable forms."
But until schools call for a different way of buying and consuming curricula, publishers will maintain the status quo, says Rick Miller, the superintendent of the Riverside Unified schools.
"When school districts begin to demand something different is when this will change overnight," he says. "The real question is, what does it look like in 10 years? It may not even look like a textbook at all."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - After decades of court battles and $1 billion of government aid, one the nation's most historic school desegregation efforts might finally be nearing an end.
A federal judge gave preliminary approval Friday to a settlement in a Little Rock desegregation lawsuit that would phase out special court-ordered payments after the 2017-18 school year.
The end would come 60 years after the eyes of the nation first were riveted on Little Rock, when President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 ordered federal troops to ensure safe passage for nine black students walking through angry crowds into the doors of the predominantly white Little Rock Central High School.
U.S. District Judge Price Marshall said Friday that the settlement appeared to be legal - an important hurdle. He set a hearing for Jan. 13-14 to determine whether it's fair to the state, the school districts, the children and educators involved in the case.
"This is not the end," Marshall said. "But I hope this is the beginning of the end."
For at least some of those who were there for the beginning, Friday's court action rekindled decades of powerful emotions of distrust and frustration.
"Wow! That's interesting - I wasn't aware they were at that stage," said Terrance Roberts, one of the original Little Rock Nine escorted into Central High in 1957. But Roberts wasn't rejoicing Friday. Rather, it's "business as usual," he said.
Roberts, who was a high school junior when he helped integrate Central High, later returned as a desegregation consultant for the Little Rock School District in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He said he was relieved of his duties before all of his proposals were implemented.
"Even though on the surface they gave the impression that they were willing to follow the dictates of the federal government to desegregate, there was not only a great reluctance, there was an unwillingness to really move in that direction," Roberts said in a telephone interview from St. Louis, where he was attending the screening of a documentary about the federal judge who ordered the desegregation of Central High.
The lawsuit moving toward a settlement is not the same one that spurred the school's integration. But it still has deep roots. It dates to 1982 and has resulted in more than $1 billion of state spending on desegregation efforts in the Little Rock, North Little Rock and Pulaski County school districts.
Much of the extra state money that flowed to the districts - a combined $70 million per year - went to magnet schools, which focus on particular programs such as the arts and sciences. As a result, the Little Rock district has been able to attract students from the predominantly white suburbs into the now predominantly black urban areas. Central High, for example, is among the top schools in the state with its magnet program, but it also has traditional educational program and a wide mix of students.
Under the settlement, students could finish those magnet courses but the special payments that help fund their transportation and programs would eventually come to an end.
For the next several years, annual payments would continue at $37.3 million for Little Rock, $20.8 million for Pulaski County and $7.6 million for North Little Rock. The final year of payments would be devoted toward school facilities - which in many cases remain in need of improvement - but could not to be used for athletics or administration buildings.
John Walker, a civil rights attorney who represents black school patrons in the desegregation case, said the districts will still need supervision to ensure they're meeting their end of the bargain. He has pledged to file another lawsuit if the Little Rock district doesn't make progress.
"The only thing historic about (the settlement) is that the state no longer will have to pay money after four years for trying to help these districts do what they're supposed to do," Walker said after Friday's hearing.
In case the accord collapses, Marshall set aside time in March at which the desegregation case could still go to trial.
Two years ago, U.S. District Judge Brian Miller ordered an immediate end to the desegregation payments, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said he hadn't given everyone involved a full hearing. The state subsequently asked to end the payments altogether, and a federal court hearing was set for Dec. 9 on its request. The parties involved in the case negotiated an agreement before then.
The Little Rock and North Little Rock districts already have been declared substantially desegregated by federal judges. But the Pulaski County district has not yet achieved that distinction. Marshall said he might ask attorneys at the January fairness hearing to show how the settlement would help the district toward that goal.
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These are just opinions, of course. If there's anything the climate debate has taught us over the past decade it's that science doesn't have much of a place in modern American politics. Despite the complete lack of empirical evidence to support theories alleging videogames cause violent behavior, politicians and pundits in the media continue to drum up fear and paranoia in the public and vilify things they obviously don't understand.
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Days after a Chicago cop filed a lawsuit against Bravo and some cast members of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, the network is now responding by stating the lawsuit has no merit.
The lawsuit filed by police officer Adolfo Arreola and his cousin Jason A. Gomez claims they were savagely beaten up by Joe Giudice, Albie Manzo, and Chris Manzo during a brawl that took place earlier this year in the Dominican Republic. Adolfo stated in the filing that the drama began after Teresa Giudice sprayed champagne on his mother-in-law at a club and refused to apologize. He claims he was then attacked by the guys after confronting Teresa.
However, we pointed out yesterday that there was a major hurdle for Adolfo to overcome in the lawsuit filing. What you ask? Well Adolfo himself admitted he and his cousin Jason received $25,000 each
in hush money to sign a release in which they also promised never to sue or speak out about the case. In fact, the men used some of that money to pay off their Dominican Republic attorneys.
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Bravo also added that the show was not taping at the time the incident occurred, which might explain why previous reports stated the brawl would not be televised. The statement in full is below –
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The state's poet laureate will talk about writing, and other guest speakers will discuss such subjects as women in China and collaborations between museums and academia in separate lectures on campus this week. The events, all of which have been organized through the School of Arts and Humanities, are free and open to the public.
Jan Seale
Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m.
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Seale, the 2012 Texas poet laureate, has written seven volumes of poetry, three nonfiction books, two books of short fiction and nine children's books. Seale will read and discuss some of her best work.
Seale was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in poetry in 1982. She received the Kathryn Morris Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of Texas and the Bill Burke Award and Dolly Sprunk Memorial Award from the New York Poetry Forum. Seven of Seale's short stories were chosen for the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards series. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers including Texas Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The Yale Review and Writer's Digest. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
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Tani E. Barlow, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian History and Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University, will discuss advertising trends surrounding women in China.
Barlow is a scholar of feminism, post-coloniality, and history in Asia and China. Her most recent book is The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization. The lecture is sponsored by the Confucius Institute at UT Dallas.
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Casadio joined the Art Institute of Chicago in July 2003 to establish and direct a state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory. As the museum's first A.W. Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist, she is in charge of planning and carrying out scientific research in support of the preservation and study of the museum's collection. Dr. Casadio has also established and co-directs a research and education collaborative program in conservation science with Northwestern University that brings to bear techniques and cutting-edge scientific expertise available at the University to problems of interest to the museum community. Casadio received her PhD and master's degrees in chemistry from the University of Milan, Italy.
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Overfishing has hurt the Gulf's economy, report says
Decades of overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico have stripped the five-state region of tens of millions of dollars in economic activity in recent years, according to a report released Tuesday.
The study by Ecotrust, a Portland, Ore.-based conservation group, found that Gulf states, including Texas, lost $13 million annually between 2005 and 2009 because of fewer recreational fishing trips targeting severely depleted red snapper.
The amount represents money that was not spent on boat rentals, charter fees, tackle and bait and other direct expenses.
The group estimated the losses increased to $33 million a year when spending on restaurants, hotels and other related businesses is included.
The Gulf region also lost millions each year because of overfishing of gag, gray triggerfish and greater amberjack, the study found.
The Pew Environment Group, which paid for the study, said the findings make the economic case for extending federal law that requires science-based annual catch limits to rebuild fisheries stocks.
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is up for reauthorization this year.
The group said the analysis underscores the benefit of allowing stocks to grow to a sustainable level by showing how much additional money anglers would spend.
"These limits could help deliver robust fish populations, create jobs and put money back into our coastal communities," said Lee Crockett, director of Pew's fisheries program.
Some fishermen are seeking a change in the law after the National Marine Fisheries Service set the shortest snapper season in Gulf history, just 40 days, despite the healthiest population of red snapper since the 1970s. A decade ago, the season lasted as long as 194 days.
"They have removed fishermen from the water, and they do not want us to go back," said Capt. Tom Hilton, who owns and operates Hilton's Fishing Charts in Arcola.
The Fisheries Service has said the catch limits under the Magnuson-Stevens law have been successful elsewhere, with a record six stocks of fish returning to healthy levels in the last year. They include the Bering Sea snow crab, the haddock in the Gulf of Maine and the Chinook salmon along the Northern California coast.
In all, 27 fish stocks have recovered since 2000.
The red snapper stock is on pace for recovery by the early 2030s. Fish stocks must be 40 percent of their historical level to be considered rebuilt.
Red snapper must grow larger and older to reach its most productive spawning years. One 24-inch fish can produce as many eggs as 212 17-inch fish can, said Holly Binns, who leads Pew's conservation efforts in the Gulf.
"Full recovery will take another couple decades," Binns said, "but we will see some significant gains in the next five to 10 years, and that will mean higher catch limits."
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Former NBA star power forward Charles Oakley will not serve jail time under the terms of a plea deal in a casino cheating case.
Oakley, 54, was arrested July 8 after allegedly being caught on video pulling back a $100 chip after realizing he was going to lose a hand at a poker game at the Cosmopolitan Casino. On two other hands, officials said Oakley added chips to increase his payout.
The New York Daily News reports Oakley pleaded no contest to misdemeanor disorderly conduct stemming from the arrest.
He was initially accused of "adding or reducing his wager" after the outcome of a game was known.
Oakley faced up to six years in prison if convicted of committing a "fraudulent act in a gambling establishment."
The former basketball player's lawyer said his client "appreciates the professionalism of the (Clark County) district attorney and the Cosmopolitan in resolving this event."
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Zombies may have a tougher time taking over the world after a counterterrorism training program scheduled next month in San Diego.
MilitaryTimes.com on Sunday reported that California-based security firm HALO Corp. will incorporate training to fight the undead during its Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 Counter-Terrorism Summit expected to draw 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts and government workers to the 44-acre Paradise Point resort island in San Diego's Mission Bay.
The company, founded by former special operations, national security and intelligence personnel, says its annual summit this year will include a realistic tactical training environment using "Hollywood magic" in live action demonstrations, realistic tactical training scenarios and classroom education.
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Immersive Hollywood sets will include a Middle Eastern village and a pirates' haven, MilitaryTimes.com reported.
The more than 30 courses range from border and maritime security to cyber terrorism and modern warfare, HALO says in its summit promotional material.
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"The Zombie Apocalypse is very whimsical," Brad Barker, HALO president, told MilitaryTimes.com, referring to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campaign released last year.
Zombies who roam the island will harass the troops, first-aid teams and medical responders participating, Barker told MilitaryTimes.com.
This is an overview of the HALO Counter Terrorism Summit and the events that are taking place on HALO Island -- San Diego, CA, 29OCT-02NOV2012.
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News from around Illinois, as reported by GateHouse newspapers.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS Judge given lane-change warning PERU -- Police said they stopped LaSalle County Circuit Judge Cynthia Raccuglia on Wednesday for a lane use violation after receiving a complaint a woman might be driving while impaired. "We sent officers to investigate the traffic complaint, and the driver turned out to be Cynthia Raccuglia," said Police Chief Doug Bernabei. Responding to a published report that an officer detected a moderate odor of alcohol, Bernabei said, "She was not impaired while driving. There was no need for her to take a Breathalyzer test." He said she was stopped at about 12:30 a.m. near her home and given a verbal warning for a lane-use violation. "There is no need for further action," he said. In 1998, Raccuglia was charged with driving under the influence and improper lane usage. In early 1999, she pleaded guilty in LaSalle County court to an amended charge of reckless driving. She was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge and ordered to pay $750 in fines and court costs. She also was ordered to complete a DUI evaluation and alcohol counseling and treatment, each of which was successfully completed. In June 1999, the Judicial Inquiry Board filed two misconduct charges alleging Raccuglia lied and tried to influence police during her 1998 arrest. She denied all the allegations, and the board concluded in 2001 the evidence did not establish that she intended to use her office to influence the investigating officers. She did receive a reprimand from the Illinois Courts Commission. Journal Star, Peoria Mid-year raises given to ISU professors NORMAL -- Mid-year salary increases will be given to 434 Illinois State University full and associate professors as part of President Al Bowman's Salary Enhancement Program. The increases range from .5 to 8.5 percent. They begin with January's pay period, affecting professors from all six academic colleges and Milner Library. Bowman unveiled the program in September 2005. Since then, more than $2.4 million has been added to faculty and staff members' salaries in addition to merit-based raises associated with each fiscal year. In 2005, salaries for full professors lagged 14 percent behind comparison group averages. Today it is about 10 percent. "Through the Salary Enhancement Program, we continue to make progress on my top priority of improving faculty and staff member salaries," Bowman said in a statement. "Although the numbers are smaller, there are still pockets of employees within the civil service and administrative/professional classifications whose salaries are below peer group averages, and we will continue to address those needs as funds become available." Journal Star, Peoria Eagle watchers to take to shoreline Saturday PEKIN -- Eagle enthusiasts will flock to the Illinois River on Saturday to view the national bird. The Eagle Census Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at sites along the Illinois River in Tazewell County. This is the eighth year for the event, which is part of the National Eagle Census count, said Pekin Main Street Executive Director Leigh Ann Matthews. Festivalgoers may take free bus tours to sites where telescopes have been set up at spots where the birds have been spotted over the past few weeks. The bus tours will leave from the upper parking lot at Riverfront Park throughout the morning. Tour guides will be on the buses to answer questions and distribute handouts. Matthews said the Illinois River is a ripe hunting ground for the majestic birds because the barge traffic keeps the waterway from freezing over. Eagles feed on fish and carrion. The greatest concentration of eagles in Illinois are along the Illinois River from Pekin to Havana because the river is kept open and clear of ice for barges. In addition, the river's water continues to become cleaner. Participants should dress warmly and bring spotting scopes, binoculars and cameras for best viewing of the eagles. Pekin Daily Times Police investigate Peterson spotting in Peoria PEORIA -- Once again the search for a missing Bolingbrook woman has headed south to Peoria after an anonymous caller left a voicemail stating she spotted Stacy Peterson near a downtown Peoria homeless shelter. Andy King, executive director of Dream Center Peoria, said his secretary received a phone call about two days ago from Illinois State Police asking if Peterson was living or had been seen near the YWCA's shelter and transitional housing. King said Thursday night that, so far, no one has seen her, and there was no record of her at the shelter. Local law enforcement agencies said Thursday they were unaware of the alleged sighting. Joel Brodsky, lawyer of Peterson's husband, Drew, said the message was left on Drew Peterson's office phone and stated, "I did see Stacy again on January 2nd. I saw her at 3:15 in the afternoon. I didn't speak to her again. When I saw her I stepped back, I walked over near her, looked her straight in the face, and I walked off." Stacy Peterson, 23, vanished Oct. 28 from Bolingbrook, a Chicago suburb, while on her way to meet her sister. Drew Peterson also received a letter, dated Nov. 12 and carrying a Peoria postmark, that stated his wife was seen in a Peoria Kroger store. State police have named the former Bolingbrook police sergeant a suspect in her disappearance. Journal Star, Peoria University retains rights of admission, discipline toward jailed students PEORIA -- Three Bradley University students now serving six-month jail sentences for a botched fireworks prank that killed their friend and fellow classmate may be allowed back into the college. Whether they will, however, is up to Bradley's admissions department, university President Joanne Glasser said Wednesday, adding the trio also could face disciplinary measures, subject to Bradley's Code of Conduct. Glasser said such disciplinary proceedings were "reserved" after Sheridan "Danny" Dahlquist, 19, died in an August house fire because "there was so much confusion and ambiguity at the lack of real facts as to who did what. ... We did not want to give the perception or appearance that was either going to help or hinder the (court) process," said Glasser, an attorney by education. Bradley students David Crady, 20, Ryan Johnson, 22, Nicholas Mentgen, 22, and Illinois Central College student Daniel Cox, 20, all pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Thursday for the Aug. 12 incident. The three Bradley men, however, must reapply. Any student not enrolled full time for one semester must reapply to the school, Glasser said. Bradley does not have a policy precluding anyone charged or convicted of a felony from being admitted. Crady, Johnson and Mentgen were on Bradley's soccer team with Dahlquist. Bradley soccer coach Jim DeRose didn't declare the players officially out of the program but indicated the team is proceeding without them, as it did through its 2007 Elite Eight campaign. Journal Star, Peoria Chicken wings, yogurt, mustard among items swiped from delivery truck SPRINGFIELD -- A food service delivery driver was surprised this morning when he walked out to check on his truck and found boxes of food being tossed from the cargo area into a shopping cart. The incident happened in the parking lot of the Quest Inn. The victim, who works for U.S. Food Service in Fishers, Ind., said he was staying overnight at the motel and he went outside about 3:15 a.m. to check on the refrigeration of his truck, which was parked on the east side of the building. He walked up to find a red shopping cart and some boxes sitting at the back of the truck. He continued walking toward the truck and saw boxes being thrown from the inside of the trailer into the cart. Not knowing who was inside, the man went back into the motel and called police. When officers arrived, they found the overhead door was down and latched. It was unknown how the burglars managed to open the door. In all, thieves stole about $1,800 worth of food that was to be delivered to various businesses in Springfield. The menu of stolen items included: * 130 pounds of prime rib roast * A case of crab meat * 160 pounds of chicken wings * Assortment of cheese products * 40 pounds of chicken breasts * 50 pounds of ham * A dozen yogurt cups * 500 mustard packets State Journal-Register Fire breaks out at site of water main break SPRINGFIELD -- A city-owned service truck was damaged Friday morning when an acetylene tank hose caught fire while workers were repairing a water line along MacArthur Boulevard near Lenox Avenue. The fire was reported about 2:30 a.m. as an explosion of a tank of acetylene, which is used for welding. However, firefighters determined that actually a hose leading to the tank was on fire. Officials believe the tank was leaking gas - possibly the result of a broken hose or line - and the gas ignited, causing the fire. Workers at the site all were underground at the time, and no one was injured. Firefighters extinguished the fire, and then were able to shut off the valves to the tank. They were at the scene almost 90 minutes. A police report described the truck as a 2005 Chevrolet. A hose reel was destroyed and some truck paint was damaged. The service truck was carrying a variety of tools, parts, generator and other equipment needed to repair a water line valve that ruptured Thursday afternoon. State Journal-Register Firefighters hospitalized after battling flames in sub-zero weather LINCOLN -- Frigid temperatures sent two firefighters to the hospital Thursday as they fought a morning fire at a two-story farmhouse near Beason. Logan County Emergency Management Agency Director Dan Fulscher said Beason Fire Chief James Hubrich and Lincoln Rural firefighter Seth Thomas were both treated at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital for symptoms related to exposure to bitter cold temperatures. Both men were released from the hospital after being treated. The wind chill at the time of the alarm was 16 below zero at the Logan County Airport. "I know the firefighters worked valiantly," Fulscher said. "What a brutal day to fight a fire." The fire destroyed the home of Tony and Rene Barr. Fulscher said the family was back at the residence going through the remains of their home, which was insured. Firefighters were able to save the family's German shepherd by breaking out a window in the basement. Firefighters from Lincoln city and rural departments as well as fire crews from Beason, Atlanta, Waynesville, Clinton, Chestnut and Mount Pulaski responded to the scene in the sub-zero temperature. The McLean County EMA also offered a hand. Firefighters used emergency vehicles as warming stations, taking brief breaks from the cold. Neighbors and McDonald's from Lincoln contributed coffee and other beverages to emergency responders. The Lincoln Courier SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Oil field worker's body found An investigation was launched into the death of an oil field worker whose body was discovered early Friday morning on a catwalk between two storage tanks near Old Ben Mine 24 west of Benton. A co-worker found the body of Kenneth Reiger, 34, of McLeansboro around 12:17 a.m. Friday. According to authorities, the co-worker had gone to the scene after Reiger's wife became alarmed when the man was late returning home. Reiger was an employee of TMZ Oil Treating, according to Franklin County Sheriff Bill Wilson. "His wife talked to him on the telephone around 7 p.m., and he told her about a strong gas smell," West City Fire Chief Jim Reed said. The co-worker found Reiger's truck, with its motor running and lights on, near the tank battery on the west side of the old mine property, located about one-half mile north of Petroff Road. A search of the immediate area resulted in the eventual discovery of the man's body lying on the elevated catwalk, some 20 to 25 feet above the ground. There was a strong chemical odor in the immediate area, the co-worker said. Emergency personnel, including the Franklin County Sheriff's Department, the West City Fire Department and Mercy Regional Emergency Health Services, were called to the scene, Reed said. He said that when firemen arrived there was a definite smell of hydrogen sulfide, a "fairly deadly" gas. Reed likened the gas smell to that associated with rotten eggs. Firemen had to don a special breathing apparatus to work in the area, Reed said. The chief said it took four firemen about 30 minutes to remove Reiger's body from the catwalk. Benton Evening News Sting operation backfires HARRISBURG -- Three Harrisburg men are facing charges in what authorities contend was a sting operation that backfired. Richard H. Abney, 39, was formally charged Jan. 23 with unlawful sale of a firearm, and David H. Ealy, 23, was charged on the same day with possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Abney was arrested 9:15 p.m. Jan. 23. Ealy was arrested 10:50 p.m. Jan. 24 and is also charged with possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. Leland Curtis Wollesen allegedly was operating a swap-shop out of his Raymond Street residence and making pawn agreements without a pawnbroker's license, Illinois State Police Agent Rick White said. Abney, who owns a pawn shop, became upset about the possible damage Wollesen could be doing to his business, so evidence indicates he gave a High Standard model 11 .22 caliber LR revolver to Ealy to pawn at Wollesen's business, White said. Ealy has a prior conviction for burglary and cannot possess a firearm, according to formal charges filed Jan. 23. The incidents took place on Dec. 13, formal charges indicate. Abney and Ealy face more serious charges in the cases than Wollesen - unlawful sale of a firearm is a Class 4 felony punishable by up to 1 to 3 years in the Department of Corrections and a fine up to $25,000. Unlawful possession of a weapon is a Class 3 felony punishable by two to five years in prison and a fine up to $25,000. Wollesen, charged with operating a pawn shop without a license, is charged with a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a up to a $1,500 fine and six months in the county jail. Harrisburg Daily Register 56 get IEMA training HARRISBURG -- Had there been a disaster in the Harrisburg Town and Country Lions Club this week, there was no shortage of chiefs available to take charge. There were 56 students in the building Wednesday and Thursday from fire departments, law enforcement, U.S. Forest Service, emergency management agencies and health departments. Officials of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency were training the emergency workers on the National Incident Management System Incident Command 300 course required in a national mandate in 2005 of the Bush administration. NIMS is intended as a standard of organization all emergency agency use in order to manage an incident most effectively. The class is set up to train using once-in-a-lifetime scenarios like train wrecks or earthquakes. Workers can also apply their training to more common incidents. The training was sponsored by SCEMA and the Gallatin County Emergency Management Agency. Eldorado Daily Journal Fees for Shawnee National Forest? HARRISBURG -- Michael Scott, a school teacher at Anna-Jonesboro High School, urged Saline County Board members to consider a resolution opposing user fees in the Shawnee National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service has a draft proposal that would impose fees for use of certain sites, such as $5 per carload at Garden of the Gods, or $5 per day or $50 per year to enter the forest on horseback, Scott said. A few people mow at trail heads and pick up trash voluntarily at public sites now, Scott said. The Forest Service has claimed there are no funds available for such things, but it does not appear the Forest Service will use the funds wisely, he contended. He asked board members to look over the resolution and consider passing it at a future meeting. However, a representative of another group asked the board to take a wait-and-see approach. Jeff Jones of the Saline County Tourism Bureau -- also the county highway engineer -- said it might be better if board members wait and see how the Forest Service plans to spend the revenue before taking a position. Jones is not a proponent of the fees yet, but he is not sure knee-jerk opposition is the best policy. The headquarters for the Shawnee National Forest is in Harrisburg. Harrisburg Daily Register NORTHERN ILLINOIS 24 years for Red Bull heist DUPAGE COUNTY -- A 31-year-old former Glen Ellyn resident who pleaded guilty to robbing two delivery trucks at gunpoint was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years in state prison. Samer Bader hijacked a truck from Power Distributing, an Elmhurst beverage distributor, on March 6, 2006, outside a Sam's Club in Woodridge as the driver made a delivery of Red Bull energy drinks, authorities said. About three weeks later, on March 24, Bader and William Moctezuma, 27, of Chicago confronted the same truck driver at gunpoint outside the company's Elmhurst warehouse, 185 Industrial Drive. The pair stole more cases of the energy drink along with a company truck. Altogether Bader stole more than 800 cases of Red Bull worth about $50,000, authorities said. Bader was arrested March 30, 2006, in New York City. He had plane tickets to leave the country at the time of his arrest. He pleaded guilty in September to armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and vehicular hijacking. Moctezuma pleaded guilty Dec. 12 to armed robbery with a firearm and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 11 for sentencing. In a case of life imitating art — or perhaps the other way around — Bader produced a film directed by his brother Malik that tells the story of an elusive Chicago their named Kaspar Carr. "Street Thief" premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival in New York a few weeks after Bader's arrest. The film, shot it documentary style, drew speculation over whether it portrayed actual crimes. Chicago Suburban Troubled night-spot condemned ROCKFORD -- A building that housed a nightclub has been condemned by the city for multiple fire and electrical safety hazards. The property is the location of Colicm, where a brawl broke out near closing time Jan. 20. The fight damaged furniture and caused several injuries, and police continue to investigate reports of shots being fired. Among the violations are deficiencies in the sprinkler system and insufficient exits in case of an evacuation. The building cannot reopen until the violations are corrected. Earlier this week, the bar's liquor license was pulled by Mayor Larry Morrissey, who is also the city's liquor commissioner. According to city officials, the license was never transferred to the bar's new owners when it changed hands earlier this year. Rockford Register Star


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Recently I began writing letters to him again, tucking them into his lunch box when ever I have the notion. It is my prayer that these letters will be a bright spot in a hard day.
Here is today's letter:
My Dearest Love,
I know that life has been neither simple or easy over the last year or so, but these hard times only serve to remind me how blessed we are to have each other. Even with our collective faults we are still a great team. We love as passionately as we believe. We are fervent in our faith, sincere in our principles, (even if, occasionally, we fall short of ideal). You still hold my heart. I am satisfied. There is no place I would rather be than in your arms. Regarldess of what the future may hold, I am confident, with Gods help, we will be victorious-- together.
All my love,
your Sarah


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