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ALBANY - Six North Country veterans have filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to restore float plane access to remote Adirondack lakes.
Maynard Baker, Douglas Irish, Mark Schumaker, Ronald Dixon, Richard Kenny and Joseph Franklin filed suit Aug. 23, in United States District Court alleging state policies restricting float planes from landing and taking off from dozens of Adirondack lakes amount to discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Baker, a former town supervisor of Warrensburg, said 40 remote lakes were once open to seaplanes prior to 1972, when the State Land Master Plan was implemented, banning the use of motorized vehicles - including seaplanes - on lands classified as Wilderness, Primitive, or Canoe.
"The DEC and Adirondack Park Agency have said, 'you able-bodied people can still walk in and enjoy those lakes,' but the only means the disabled had, they took that away from them," said Baker. "That's discrimination."
All six plaintiffs in the case are classified as qualified disabled persons under the ADA, the suit says, and all have served in the military.
Baker said the suit was filed mainly with disabled veterans in mind, including those returning from recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Our veterans deserve a lot more than they're getting," Baker continued. "There shouldn't be a square foot of the United States off limits to these special people, but they've done it."
The lawsuit names APA chairman Curt Stiles, DEC commissioner Pete Grannis, and Gov. David A. Paterson as defendants. It seeks an injunction against state regulation of aircraft operations within the Adirondack Park and seeks payment of legal fees.
Controversy surrounding the use of float planes on Adirondack lakes was evident in recent discussions within the DEC and APA regarding the Wilderness classification of Lows Lake, a man-made reservoir 10 miles southwest of Tupper Lake.
In April 2009, after two years of debate between preservationist groups, seaplane operators, and officials from the DEC and APA, the two agencies agreed to phase out float planes from the lake after 2011, claiming their use violated the Master Plan. The decision was made over the objections of many area residents and local officials.
Baker said Lows Lake is not among the 40 on his list, however, and the lawsuit makes no mention of Lows Lake.
DEC spokeswoman Maureen Wren said the agency would not comment on the pending litigation. APA spokesman Keith McKeever also declined comment.
'Reasonable modifications'
New revisions to the ADA that became effective July 23, could be a key element in the access lawsuit. The amendments require state and local government programs to "make reasonable modifications in their policies" to allow access to individuals with disabilities through the use of "other power-driven mobility devices," including those powered by a fuel-driven engine, so long as such modifications do not violate "legitimate safety requirements" or pose a "substantial risk of serious harm" to natural or cultural resources in the immediate area.
The plaintiffs are being represented by attorney Matt Norfolk of Lake Placid.
"We just want to be able to have our day in court to say, 'What are the impacts of float planes compared with what's already being allowed?'" Norfolk said.
Allowing people with disabilities the use of float planes to access the remote lakes and surrounding regions would not "fundamentally alter" the way wilderness lands are currently being utilized, Norfolk said, claiming state agencies allow the unnecessary use of helicopters and other motorized vehicles to transport supplies and researchers into some remote wilderness areas.
The complaint also claims the re-utilization of float planes will have less of an impact than "the tens of thousands of hikers and campers that annually continue to devastate those lands already classified as Wilderness."
"The only thing that the preservationists and the Park Agency have complained about is the noise of a seaplane taking off," Baker said, noting the planes make very little noise when landing. "It's just 60 to 90 seconds of noise when the plane takes off, and then it's gone."


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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Darryl Crystal has a passion for preserving Jewish history, and he"s found it at Savannah"s Mickve Israel, Georgia"s oldest Jewish congregation.
The interim rabbi might be leaving Savannah shortly, but he"s made sure some of the congregation"s finest treasures — its oldest Torah scrolls — are professionally documented to preserve what he called a "living legacy."
"What we"re really focusing on is giving people a chance to see inside a 500-year-old Torah, which would usually just be in a museum case, but you"d never get to see it up close," Crystal said. "And then to see inside a Torah that survived the Second World War, and then see inside a scroll that came to the congregation in 1850 and see inside a modern scroll."
The oldest two scrolls date to around 1500 in Spain and Portugal and are made of deer skin. One came to Savannah in 1733, the other in 1737. Three are dated to 1850, and one scroll dated to 1890 survived World War II before coming to Mickve Israel.
"What I"m focusing on here is … letting people see inside the scrolls that have a very distinct and colorful history," Crystal said.
He brought Will Kirk, a Johns Hopkins University photographer with whom he"s previously worked on similar projects, to Savannah last week to photograph the scrolls. Unrolling the scrolls — which Crystal said were about 450 feet each — was a time-consuming process. They would use books to flatten individual pages, or yeriah, to get the perfect shot.
When all was said and done, Crystal said, they had completely documented the two oldest scrolls and taken plenty of photographs of the others.
He said it was moving to see members of the congregation coming in to see the work being done.
"You"re touching literally the deepest part of people"s roots," Crystal said. "Coming to a new land, which was a land of economic opportunity and free from religious persecution was really a dream come true. And not just to be coming to the land for your own prosperity, but to be carrying with you a Torah scroll, which represented the continuity of Jewish heritage but also represented your flight from persecution and now the scroll is here today as the Jewish community is established and people are secure in this land of freedom."
Seeing one scroll in particular rolled out certainly meant a lot to Marion Levy Mendel. Just shy of her 95th birthday, Mendel got to see the 500-year-old deerskin scroll her ancestor Benjamin Sheftall brought to Savannah from Europe in 1733.
"It gave me pause to say the least," Mendel said. "Especially when I saw it spread out in its entirety and realized what they must have gone through to get it over here. And after they got over here, they took such good care of it."
Such good care, in fact, that it weathered two fires. When the old synagogue on Perry Lane burned in 1829, the Torah scroll stayed first in Charleston and then intermittently at the home of Benjamin Sheftall"s son Mordecai Sheftall until a new synagogue was built. Then, when the roof of the current Mickve Israel — a newer building still, at Monterey Square — caught fire in 1927, Mendel"s mother risked her life to save the scrolls.
"My mother happened to be playing bridge across the street, and my mother and her friend … ran over and rescued the Torahs out of the ark," Mendel said. "That was quite a story, and she was quite a woman."
Crystal said it"s all part of preserving what he called the "majesty of what this is all about."
His hopes are that members of the congregation and visitors to Mickve Israel will be able to look at a digitized version of one of the 500-year-old Torah scrolls, and through pictures be able to compare unique yeriah pages from the others.
"If you read from the Torah scroll at a certain point in your life when you become bar mitzvah … on a computer, you"d be able to look and find what you read but from a Torah scroll from 1500," he said. "So a living legacy is really what it is."
The styles in which the scrolls are written change over time, he said, so some of the intricacies of the older scrolls that originated in Europe wouldn"t be found in modern scrolls. Being able to see and compare the scrolls, he said, is seeing how the tradition has been carried on for hundreds of years.
"The opportunity to share the wonder of this tradition with people is what it"s all about," Crystal said. "And it doesn"t get better than that."


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|2012-12-11, 16:10
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Depends. If he is counted as a found baby, he likely needs no birth certificate. (Door step baby).
Plus such a thing only gets under their skin if he ran for an office that required him to be a natural born citizen.
|2012-12-11, 16:23
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
We know Clark had to hide who he truly is. But what about WHY he has to hide? Is it to protected his loved ones from bad people? Or is it to protect his loved ones from the country?
|2012-12-11, 16:24
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Age: 32
Favourite bit of that trailer hands down was how the ground & air below his fist started rumble & crack as he flew off.
|2012-12-12, 01:18
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Senior Member
I have mixed feelings about the trailer itself. I definitely see the cinematic skill that went into it, but I can't help but think this isn't the right direction to take the character in.
I know that Nolan's approach worked with Batman, but Superman is a very different character.
Honestly, I think that a good, modern Superman movie should be a sci-fi, action-packed extravaganza. Loaded with glorious special effects, great action scenes, and lots of pulse-pounding moments. Now, there should be a good philosophical base for all of that; something that you can really get emotionally invested in and think about; but a Superman movie shouldn't be some dark character drama, imo.
It can have darker elements, to be sure, but the character himself should be a "f yeah!" character if ever there was one (i.e. Superman should have several scenes that makes the audience just want to do celebratory fistpumps over the latest cool super-feat or him kicking some villain's ass). That's how you make Superman relevant again. Not by making him a poor man's Batman.
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|2012-12-12, 01:49
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Hmmm. I wonder if this will be DC's attempt to counter Marvel (to lead to a Justice League film).
Or it is just Superman does in Nolan Batman style.
I grew up with four different versions of Superman: SuperFriends (I don't remember much anymore), the Christoper Reeve Superman films, Lois & Clark, and the Timmverse Superman.
I liked the Superman films (Reeve did a good job making Clark look like a 99 pound weaking while Superman was this beyond anything man who acted like an overgrown boy scout. Also the John Williams themes were wonderful (my high school band played it one year).
Lois & Clark was fun at times. Some of it is forgettable. A few things stick around, mostly the comedic parts (Calrk calling his mom to find out how to get a "bomb" stain out of his uniform. Him telling a villain his mom made hos uniform for him. And the villian from the future calling Lois "cosmicly stupid" for not noticing the simple glasses trick of Clark's).
The Timmverse Superman has his moments as well. His powers are known to be toned down. Mostly because Batman is still the main attraction in this universe. But the "World of Made of Cardboard" speech was awesome in its own right. He was fairly powerful still in his own show without Batman or the others from Justice League. He was always considered the most powerful by the others in the League (even if Batman could throw him.) Did the government trust him. No. Not always. (he turned on them once via mind control, and he was an alien. So, like with all things it seems, the United States tried to come up with something to counter him. They actually mostly didn't mind him until he was mind controled that one time and nearly took the planet. It sort of soured their relationship).
|2012-12-12, 14:46
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Yeah, I'm not really sure about this direction. Nolan's style certainly worked great for Batman. But Batman and Superman are kind of different characters. Of course was ready for this when the first trailer showed Clark on an episode of Deadliest Catch .
Just hope this doesn't try and make Superman too dark and too human, because he's neither of those things.
But let's wait and see how it turns out. It should be pretty good even if it doesn't end up being great.
|2012-12-12, 15:07
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Location: Indonesia
Instead of Nolans Batman, I feel more of Ang Lees Hulk vibe from the trailer. To me, thats not a bad thing at all. I like Ang Lees thoughtful Hulk movie 100x more than the mindless action and zero chemistry (between Bruce and Ross) that is Incredible Hulk.
Heres hoping that Man of Steel delivers the great action since theyre dealing with the very icon of superhero with almost unparalleled power compared to other heroes.
|2012-12-12, 19:11
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: East Cupcake
I love the grandness and simplicity of these trailers. Very naturalistic and evocative, even almost mythic. The story of the legend (of a God come to Earth to serve, rather than rule (with Zod being a natural counterpoint). Yes, there are clear parallels to "Batman Begins" (truthfully, I see more Terrence Malick than Nolan in the trailer), but that is not bad, especially since the pathos of these trailers is very akin to Richard Donner's stupendous "Superman", only without all the kitschy elements that have not aged well. I am thoroughly impressed and absolutely brimming with excitement over the possibility of the new Superman film.
edit: Additionally, if this is the start of the Justice League universe, then this type of drama could be a clear way of separating the two franchises (the other, of course, being the Avengers). Go to the Avengers to get (mostly) family friendly action and adventure, go to Justice League to get thoughtful drama with strong action elements.
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|2012-12-12, 19:40
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Know who you are
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Resides within the depths of Ned infested Glasgow
Miss Lois Lane's hair isn't black enough imo.
Haha I know it's an odd thing to nit pick at but you just grow up known she's a beautiful raven woman and yes Miss Adams is beautiful but has to have the jet black hair as well.
It was a problem I had with Smallville as well with Superman Returns.
Call me anal if you want but I like minor details that stick to what I have known for a great deal of time.
Otherwise, I'm very much looking forward to this as I did Superman Returns which was quite alot.
Still recall when I went to see it at the cinema and then hearing the theme song come for first time was very exciting stuff, put a stupid grin on my face
|2013-04-16, 20:08
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|2013-04-16, 20:29
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Senior Member
Now that was an awesome trailer. Now that is exciting!
The S symbol being a symbol of hope on Krypton. Interesting idea. I kind of like it.
The action scenes look glorious, and fittingly larger than life. Zod sounds great!
|2013-04-16, 22:57
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Senior Member
I'll admit there's some things I'd change if I could, but they're almost entirely aesthetic (Superman's costume, while Ok, is a bit darker and too solid navy blue for my liking; Lois Lane seems well-acted but I have to admit I'm use to her having black hair. ). Putting aside mild aesthetic preferences, I don't see much to complain about here.
|2013-04-17, 00:14
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Location: East Cupcake
Some brief thoughts:
This final trailer teases more of third act action sequences, and by god are they amazing. Beautiful, fast-paced, seemingly effortless. Synder was hired to give us these stunning scenes, and he has seemingly delivered.
I didn't think it could be done, but the Hans Zimmer theme is both appropriately epic while also touchingly aspirational. If the rest of the soundtrack is as good, I might just have to buy the album.
Every advancement of this ad campaign has been purposeful, expressive and even, dare I say, humble. My anticipation for this film has increased even more than I thought possible. Sadly, I now have to face the very real possibility that the movie will never be as good as the trailers (kind of like Super 8)...
|2013-04-17, 01:20
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
From the trailer, it seems there may be less of a secret identity for Superman. What I mean is, he doesn't seem to have built much of a life for Clark. Just... wandering and small jobs, instead of a career. (Is he even using the name "Clark Kent"?)
|2013-04-17, 01:33
|Link #99
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
This means Superman doesn't NEED a secret identity. He doesn't need a day job to pay the bills like the likes of Peter Parker. So it seems Clark ended up like a wondering nobody, much like the old The Hulk TV series. Maybe he got a job at an oil rig?
But "Clark Kent" is not a fake name. It is the name given to him by his Earth parents. And as the new trailer showed, his human family matters, which means his Earth name matters.
I think this film is playing up Clark's status as a space alien. That he is both a boy who grew up in Smallvile, and an alien of a different culture. The plotpoint that the "S" is actually Kryptonian means that Clark is wearing his alien origins on his chest. And that likely even his costume is an altered version of Kryptonian fashion.
Superman is an immigrant. He is trying to be a good Earthling, but to also not forget where he came from.
|2013-04-17, 01:38
|Link #100
Senior Member
So maybe Clark decides he needs to move somewhere far away where nobody will know him, so that he can live a "normal life".
Perhaps at some point he decides he's been gone from Kansas (America?) long enough to make people forget about kid/teenager Clark, and so he can go to Metropolis, and take up a job as a news reporter.
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N.H. Civil Commitment Law Rarely Invoked
In 2007, when New Hampshire began allowing the most dangerous sex offenders to be held past the end of their sentences, officials worried they might need a new facility to house all the people who would be committed.
Six years later, though, that projection hasn't panned out.
Only two people are being held under the state's sexually violent predator law. And two counties — including one with the second-highest court caseload in the state — have not initiated even one civil commitment.
The route, which can result in inmates being committed for treatment past their sentence in five-year increments, is complex and includes a jury trial where a prosecutor must prove the inmate has a mental abnormality that makes him likely to re-offend. The law, aimed at the most extreme cases, is deliberately narrow, and many county prosecutors who spoke with the Monitor said they use it infrequently because they rarely have cases they believe fit the statute.
But other prosecutors — particularly those who have gone through the process at least once — point to factors like funding, limited sentencing options under the statute and restrictions placed on what evidence is admissible in court as deterrents to using the law.
No county attorney said those challenges would keep him from going forward with a civil commitment if one was warranted.
But many said they will avoid it if they can.
"The (sexually violent predator) civil commitment process is flawed," Merrimack County Attorney Scott Murray said. "And that is what necessitates the use of creative alternatives to protect the public."
Last week, Murray's office did just that.
After filing a civil commitment petition last year against 64-year-old Denis Gagne, a child rapist whose sentence was set to expire in June, prosecutors pulled the case on Wednesday when Gagne pleaded guilty to another assault on one of his prior victims.
The crime happened in 1989; his then 7-year-old victim is now 30.
Below Projections
Passing the civil commitment law was former governor John Lynch's top priority in 2006, a year when he was running for re-election. Earning the strong support of Democrats and Republicans, the legislation passed quickly and by a wide margin.
Under the law, county attorneys are notified by the state prison when an inmate who has committed one of several applicable crimes is nearing release. The Department of Corrections was unable to provide data on how many notices it sends out annually, but officials said that in general the number could range from none to about 20 each week. Several county attorneys told the Monitor that a majority of those inmates are granted parole, meaning they have likely completed sex offender treatment and wouldn't qualify for an extended sentence.
If a county attorney believes a person they've received notice for remains a danger, they can ask for a review by the state's multidisciplinary team, a group of licensed psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in sex offender diagnosis and treatment. That's happened 34 times since 2007.
In 11 of those cases, the team decided the person was a sexually violent predator, a ruling that allows prosecutors to file a petition with the court.
Geoffrey Souther, who has been chairman of the state's multidisciplinary team since the law created it, said that initially he and others anticipated receiving many more requests. One expert, he remembers, estimated that most states with sexually violent predator laws see an average of five civil commitments each year for every million people in the state.
Six years after the law took effect, that means New Hampshire could have seen anywhere from nine to 57 people committed by now, Souther said.
"We were all collectively saying, 'Oh my goodness gracious. How are we going to do this?' And we were thinking that we were going to get absolutely swamped with referrals from county attorneys," he said.
Instead, the multidisciplinary team has received requests at a steady but modest rate, ranging from two to nine per year.
The 11 inmates they concluded were sexually violent predators have resulted in just two commitments: William Ploof, who was convicted by a jury, and Thomas Hurley, who agreed to a three-year commitment without going to trial. (That period is ending soon, and the Hillsborough County prosecutor who handled Hurley's case said he recently filed another petition to keep him incarcerated for another five years, as the law allows.)
In Merrimack County, prosecutors initiated but then dropped two cases, Gagne recently, and William Decato shortly after the law passed.
Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice, who helped write the legislation, said last week it doesn't surprise her that New Hampshire's numbers aren't in line with the civil commitments from other states because the law is geared to address a small but dangerous group.
"It's a pretty arduous process to go through," she said. "I think the county attorneys have been very diligent in terms of looking at the people who are potential candidates and deciding whether they should pursue the sexually violent predator process."
Limited Options
Part of that decision includes weighing the risk involved in a civil commitment petition, according to Murray.
The law is essentially all-or-nothing. For instance, if prosecutors had pursued the sexual predator process against Gagne and didn't convince a jury that he has a mental abnormality making him likely to re-offend, he would have walked free with no oversight.
Instead, prosecutors charged him with a crime more then two decades old and accepted a plea agreement in which they dropped the commitment attempt and Gagne agreed to spend up to seven more years in prison.
Equally important, according to Murray, was Gagne's agreement to be supervised by the Department of Corrections for the rest of his life.
Supervision, or other alternative sentences, aren't options under the predator law. According to Murray and others, they should be.
"They literally walk out. They have no support, no supervision, no treatment, no money. There is no transition," said Michael Valentine, a prosecutor in Hillsborough County who has handled seven civil commitment cases, far more than anyone else in the state. "That is something that most other states have developed."
Dan St. Hilaire, who brought the state's first civil commitment petition when he led the Merrimack County Attorney's Office, knows that frustration acutely. His office dropped that case against Decato when experts ultimately concluded he didn't fit the scope of a sexually violent predator.
And though Decato had another suspended sentence hanging over his head at the time he was released, St. Hilaire was unable to impose it or any form of supervision. Less than two years later — after he had "maxed out" of prison without completing sex offender treatment — Decato raped a woman in Manchester.
"That's why supervision is so important," St. Hilaire said. "You can get somebody to do the treatment or do home visits, make sure they're not drinking and using other drugs, make sure they're checking in with a mental heath worker, make sure they're taking their medications, make sure they have a job and are compliant. All of theses things are very important and are not tools under this particular law."
It's unclear how supervision would work under the law and if prosecutors would still need to prove that an inmate was a sexually violent predator to see it imposed. But St. Hilaire speculated that the parties could agree to supervision as a way of avoiding a trial, or a judge could impose supervision rather than commitment.
Essentially, St. Hilaire said, it would be a bargaining chip.
"When you're negotiating a case, the main factor for the respondents is they've already served their max sentence. They have nothing to lose (if they go to trial). All you're asking is for them to serve more time," he said. "The chances of a plea bargain in that case are very low."
Weighing the Risk
When weighing whether to continue seeking a commitment against Gagne – which could have resulted in life confinement if he didn't succeed in treatment — or taking a plea deal, Murray said he and Assistant County Attorney Kristin Vartanian looked to the cases in Hillsborough County for guidance.
What they saw worried them.
Judges there, according to Valentine, have limited the use of evidence helpful in proving the basic element of the case, that the person is likely to re-offend. In assessing that risk, psychiatrists can use an assessment known as the Static-99R that predicts a person's risk of recidivism.
The experts then compare those numbers to data sets of other sex offenders, ranging from low to high risk. The low-risk numbers include all sex offenders, including those who have been successful in treatment, while the high-risk set includes people who have failed counseling, served multiple sentences for sexual assault or had violent tendencies.
Valentine said judges in Hillsborough County have only let evidence in at trial comparing the inmate to the lowest-risk group.
"They're not allowing us to say, 'Look our person is more like this high-risk group.' ... So we're being limited in the usefulness of the actuarial instrument," Valentine said, adding that he believes the approach creates an artificially low appearance of the person's likelihood of re-offending.
According to Valentine, the same problem hasn't arisen in other states where legislatures have validated the use of the Static-99R within their civil commitment laws. He added that the test has changed in recent years, which makes it suspect to judges in New Hampshire who aren't as comfortable with the assessment as those in states with long-standing predator statutes.
Lawmakers here need to follow the example set out by other states, according to Murray, who said that until there is a set standard for using the assessments, he'll continue looking for creative ways to avoid the law unless it's completely necessary.
"The Legislature needs to amend the statute to deal with the evidentiary issues associated with the introduction of psychiatric testimony, the expert opinion testimony," he said. "And until they do, this is going to be a real tough process to go through. And it is the last resort."
Expensive to Prosecute
All the county attorneys who spoke with the Monitor are quick to say that money will never keep them from filing a civil commitment petition if one is warranted. But funding, they added, is a major challenge associated with the law.
Murray estimates that one civil commitment petition costs about $30,000 to prosecute, at least 10 times more than an average case. The money goes mainly to costly experts who spend hours reviewing the inmate's file, testifying at initial hearings where a judge decides what evidence to allow and then speaking at the trial.
While Valentine said his office allocates money specifically for civil commitment petitions each year, that isn't the case in most offices where the law is used less frequently.
When Murray considered prosecuting a civil commitment in early 2011, he asked for and received a $30,000 appropriation from the county. But that case, much like Gagne's, was settled when the inmate pleaded guilty to another crime. Murray said he used some of the remaining money to begin the case against Gagne last year.
In Coos County — one of two counties, along with Rockingham, that hasn't made any requests of the state's multidisciplinary team — there is no appropriation in the budget for such cases. Coos County Attorney John McCormick said he'd find the money if an applicable case came across his desk.
Finding the time to prosecute it, he said, would be the bigger challenge because his office has just two attorneys.
For offices that don't have someone on staff familiar with the law — like Valentine in Hillsborough County or Vartanian, who prosecutes the cases in Merrimack County — taking it on is a daunting task. Ideally, many said, a team at the attorney general's office would work on cases across the state, the same way the public defender's office handles them. (Inmates facing a civil commitment are typically defended by Anthony Sculimbrene, who did not return a request to be interviewed for this story.)
Instead, the cost and learning curve falls on each individual county, a move Murray called a "downshift."
"The state is responsible for correcting them or modifying their behavior (while in prison)," he said. "And I think the state ought to bear the cost of continuing their confinement for treatment purposes if they don't meet an appropriate standard."
Few Changes Made
Just weeks after the law went into effect, some legislators and officials began to question if it was rushed through the State House without being properly vetted.
The sexually violent predator legislation includes about two dozen provisions other than the civil commitment process, and most of the debate at the Legislature focused on changes to mandatory minimum sentencing standards.
Mostly, though, people agreed that it was a good law that would be tweaked in the future.
"I think we'll likely revisit this bill several times," then-Rep. David Welch, chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee, said in early 2007.
That hasn't been the case, though. The law was edited in 2009 and 2010 to change mostly procedural issues, according to Rice. In 2009 the Legislature lessened the severity of deadlines imposed in the law in response to three cases being dropped in Hillsborough County because court deadlines were missed.
It makes sense that there haven't been substantive changes, according to Rice.
"There have been so few of the proceedings under this law," she said.
"You know, the more a law is used and applied, that's when you find out when there are problems or what needs to be changed."


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COLUMBIA, S.C. - "Tebow Time" is coming to South Carolina's capitol city.
The Columbia Fireflies announced Monday that the former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback will become a member of the minor-league baseball team, ending months of speculation that he would join the squad as part of his quest to start a professional baseball career.
Mets Manager Terry Collins announced. Tebow will continue with the Mets in spring training at the team's complex in Port St. Lucie, Florida, before breaking camp the first week of April and heading to the Palmetto State's capital.
"No one works harder than Tim did this Spring," said New York Mets manager Terry Collins in an interview today with Marc Carig from Newsday. "He was a pleasure to have around. What he wants is to improve. I'm sure he'll be a great influence on the kids in Columbia and the fans will enjoy watching him play."
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"Tim Tebow will bring major excitement and national attention to the Fireflies and city of Columbia," said Fireflies President John Katz. "Baseball fans, sports fans and Tim Tebow fans will likely come from around the southeast to see him play. We expect this to add to the energy at Spirit Communications Park and around downtown Columbia, especially during our opening weekend (April 6-9)."
Tebow signed with the Mets on September 8 and participated in three Florida Instructional League games, hitting a home run in his first at-bat. The 29-year-old finished 4-for-14 (.286) at the plate in those three games with two walks. Later in the fall, he played in 19 contests in the Arizona Fall League. The AFL annually features some of the best prospects in Minor League Baseball, primarily consisting of Double-A and Triple-A level players. Tebow finished with a .194 batting average (12-for-62) with two RBIs and eight walks. It was the first time the former NFL quarterback played organized baseball since his junior year of high school (Allen D. Nease High – Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida) in 2005.
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Consumers continue to shift their video consumption away from traditional TV screens to tablets and mobile phones. That's why TV providers need to more aggressively redefine the TV package to remain relevant to today's consumers and aligned with consumers' evolving viewing habits. Specifically, they need to leverage their large base of existing consumers and content relationships to aggregate video products with relevant, personalized content available anyplace, anytime, via any device. Doing so will mean TV providers have to fundamentally switch their mindsets. Instead of playing defense, they need to go on offense, investing in analytics to understand who their consumers are and innovatively serving up what they really want to watch. The result will be more engaged and loyal consumers, lower costs, and bigger profits.
Consumers' video viewing habits are changing quickly and dramatically:
Total video consumption is expected to increase at a 0.8 percent CAGR from 2016 to 2020
But consumers are shifting away from traditional TV screens and are viewing much more content on tablets and mobile phones.
The proportion of time viewers consume over these "second screens" is expected to grow 13 percent by 2020, helped by a 5.8 percent boost in connected devices.
This shift is having a dramatic impact on traditional TV:
Leading companies lost nearly 700,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2016 and TV providers continue to reach record lows.
What's the answer? Go on offense. TV providers should stop playing defense to protect their legacy business. Instead, they need to adopt proactive strategies to capitalize on changing TV viewing habits and technology advances and remain competitive.
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Consumers continue to shift their video consumption away from traditional TV screens to tablets and mobile phones.
"Playing offense" requires taking aim at price and content, the two key drivers of viewership. Three actions are key to influencing both of these factors:
Reduce pricing to increase profits. Consumers continue to watch more video, but they concentrate on a smaller range of content. Providers need to abandon their "more channels for more money" legacy strategy and offer smaller packages tailored to what people watch.
Do more with anytime, anywhere viewing. Time- and place-shifted viewing continues to grow in popularity among consumers. Providers need to continually revisit their feature roadmap to make sure they are delivering a richer in-home and out-of-home experience
Provide cross-platform content and recommendations. Consumers expect TV providers to carry content from OTT providers. Providers should aggregate content across disparate sources and platforms and deliver very specific, personalized and timely content suggestions across all content.


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SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD At the regular public meeting of the Board of Education the PTA acknowledged the SPF BOE. Marci Bowman, President of the SPF PTA Council, said "we are all very appreciative of what you do and your commitment to the students of our district and the hard work that you do." School boards in districts with higher student achievement are significantly different in knowledge, beliefs and actions from the boards in lower achieving districts.
The PTA recognized each member of the Board by pairing up each school in the district with a board member. Board members were presented with framed photos and plaques, and certificates of appreciation "in recognition of dedicated service to the school children of our community."
January is Board of Education Appreciation Month, as decreed by the State of New Jersey.
Following the meeting agenda, under Instructional Update, the Board reviewed the first of the budget presentations. Ms. Deborah Saridaki and Mr. Thomas Beese, Director of Special Services, presented a tentative Special Education Budget for the school year 2013 – 2014. According to Ms. Saridaki "the Special Education Budget runs somewhere around 20% of our total budget." There are 745 special education students, approximately 14% of the total student population. 85% of these students are placed within the district. Costs are increasing each year, and the IDEA federal funding is decreasing. The 2013-2014 budget is $18,214,574.
Mr. Beese mentioned that the budget reflects the addition of one teacher for the High School. The other increase that is significant in the budget is in regards to the applied behavioral analysis services.
The Special Education budget presentation is the first of three budget presentations that the Board is planning to have.
During the Superintendent's Report segment of the agenda Dr. Margaret Hayes moved that the board approve the proposed 2013-2014 school calendar, option A, which has school ending June 19th. Dr. Hayes said that "the feedback that I have received from the public that did choose to weigh in on the calendar was overwhelmingly in support of option A."


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As stated in our breed standard, Bouviers possess all the qualities that have proven them to be formidable performance dogs. Their characteristics of strength, vigor, agility and keen intelligence have made them well suited to both traditional and non traditional performance sports. One way to recognize those dogs that have excelled in the use of these traits is the Performance Top Twenty recognition event.
A Performance Top Twenty recognition event will be held at the National Specialty. This event will recognize the extraordinary dogs competing in performance sports during the competition year. Some of the benefits to this program are:
Program Outline
Performance Top Twenty eligibility will be determined by using a point scale related to titles and outstanding accomplishments earned during the competition year. Major updates to the guideline/point scale will normally be submitted to the Board in February of each year. The updates become effective for the current competition year. This is done to ensure exhibitors benefit from any new titles accepted by AKC. Also to ensure necessary corrections can be made to the guidelines so that the system can be as fair and accurate system as possible. Updates may be made at other times if necessary.
1. To be eligible for the Performance Top Twenty, a dog must have earned at least a Level 1AKC title, ScHH/IPO, Scent Work, Herding or Carting title, during the competition year. Eligibility Titles are earned from the sports of Obedience, Agility, Herding, Tracking, Carting, Scent Work, ScHH/IPO or Rally. The competition year will be May 1 thru April 30th. (See chart below).
Eligibility Title Point Scale:
2. The highest AKC Level title earned will determine the amount of points the competitor will start with. This will be listed as the exhibitor's Eligibility Title. Points can be obtained for additional titles earned from the Additional Title Point Scale. Bonus points may be earned for nontraditional sports/duties and individual honors. The 20 dogs with the highest total number of points will comprise the Performance Top Twenty for the year.
Special recognition will be given to any dog earning a performance championship (obedience, rally, agility, herding, carting and tracking) Schutzhund 3/IPO 3, IPO FH, VCD4, VCCH, Obedience Grand Master title, Elite CH and SWD (Scent work Detective). These dogs will not be required to compete for placement on the Performance Top Twenty list. These dogs will be placed under the special recognition category of Performance Elite.
Performance/companion sport champions will be included from the North American Barn Hunt Association (RATCh/RATChX) and winners of any AKC Performance/Companion Dog National Championship Competition (i.e. Obedience, Agility, Rally - NOC, NAC, PNAC, RNC titleholders, etc.). Performance Elite from Barn Hunt and AKC national competition champions will be responsible for providing official documentation of the title/honor and for notifying the Performance Committee Chair and Top Twenty Committee of their accomplishment prior to set deadlines.
Multiples for T2B (regular or preferred) will earn 2 additional points for each multiple (Example – T2B2 will earn 17 points, etc.)
Multiples for Obedience titles (PUDX, UDX and OM) will earn 2 additional points for each multiple (Example - UDX2 will earn 32 points, a UDX3 will earn 34 points, etc.)
Multiples for RAE and titles will earn 1 additional point for each multiple (Example - RAE2 will earn 8 points, a RAE3 will earn 9 points, etc.)
3. Bonus points may be earned for nontraditional sports/duties, lower level AKC titles and individual honors. Individual honors are defined as High in Trial, Preferred High in Trial, High Combined, Preferred High Combined, Reserve High in Trial, current ABdFC Multi-Level Performance Award winner and current ABdFC Reserve Multi-Level Performance Award winner. Multiple individual honors will earn multiple bonus points (Example – If 2 All – Breed High In Trial honors are earned, then the exhibitor would earn 6 points instead of 3). See list below for the Bonus Points scale.
Bonus Points Scale:
5 points – Certified Scent Detection Dog (active/working), Search and Rescue (FEMA Certified/ AKC recognized titles – Urban SAR, Wilderness SAR), Street Service (police, military)
4 points - Barn Hunt – RATM, Detection-Nosework titles
3 points – Pre-trial Tested (PT), Junior Herding Dog (JHD), Weight Pull, Water Rescue title, Pack Dog, Barn Hunt - RATO, Rally Advanced (RA), Flyball, Freestyle Obedience, Beginner Novice (BN), VCD (1, 2 or 3), AKC High In Trial (All-Breed trial), AKC High Combined (All-Breed trial), Preferred CD (PCD), AD (Endurance)
2 points – AKC High In Trial (Specialty), AKC High Combined (Specialty), Rally Novice (RN), Rally Intermediate RI), Herding Tested (HT), AKC Therapy Dog title (THD thru THDD), Carting HIT, AKC Reserve High In Trial (All Breed trial), High Combined – Rally (All-Breed), current ABdFC MLP winner, CGCA (Official recorded AKC title certificate required), Barn Hunt – RATN, AKC Preferred High in Trial (PHIT), AKC Preferred High Combined (PHC), CGCU (Official recorded AKC title certificate required)
1 point – AKC Reserve High In Trial (Specialty), High Combined – Rally (Specialty), Carting RHIT, CGC (Official recorded AKC title certificate required), Therapy Dog (registered/certified), AKC Therapy Dog Novice title (THDN), current ABdFC Reserve MLP winner, Coursing Ability (CA and above), Preferred High in Trial (Specialty), Preferred High Combined (Specialty), Agility Course Test 1 (ACT 1), Agility Course Test 2 (ACT2), Treibball, Trick Dog (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Performer), Farm Dog , Disc Dog, Fast CAT
Only Therapy Dog organizations listed as recognized by AKC will be counted. Please check the AKC website Therapy Dog section for a current list of recognized organizations. Copies of dated current ID cards and/or certificates must be submitted to verify Therapy Dog titles earned during the competition year.
CGC titles (all types) must be earned during the competition year. To receive credit for CGC/CGCA/CGCU titles, a copy of the new official AKC title certificate must be presented.
Only the highest Bonus Point title will be counted if more than one title is earned in Obedience, Rally, Schutzhund, Agility, Barn Hunt, Therapy, CGC and Herding (Example: If an RA and RN are earned, only the Bonus Points for the RA will be counted.
4. Additional titles earned, at levels 1 thru 11 on the eligibility scale, will receive the following amount of points listed below (Example – If you earn a CD and RE, you will earn 5 points for the CD and 3 points for the RE (or vice versa). If you earned a CDX and an MCDD, you will receive 12 points for the CDX and 6 points for the MCDD):
Additional Titles Points Scale:
Level 1 – 3 points
Ties between dogs with their highest Eligibility Title coming from the same sport:
Scent Work
Ties between dogs with their highest Eligibility Title coming from different sports:
1. Highest level of Eligibility Title (Example - AX (level 5) outranks a CDX (level 4)
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One of the things you lovely people out there in the blogosphere & the twitterverse may have noticed is that something I sometimes
eloquently articulate upon bang on about with insightful profundity monotonous regularity is music, my love of it, how I listen to it a lot, how my iPod Touch is now up to (just a sec…) 8,735 tracks so far, & how I should have been a singer in a rock'n'roll band. I even have a twitter account specifically for tweeting what I'm playing on my iPod, via YouTube. At least I don't drunkenly tweet random lyrics late at night anymore as much as I used to…
So it makes sense for me to feature music in my blog. With the sad demise of Musodad's blog I feel moved to
blatantly take advantage try to pick up where he left off & do a post where I put up a few songs that have recently taken my fancy for one reason or another & write some words about them.
And… some may also have heard me mention that it's Jallie's 2nd Birthday today (yay!). So that gives me an obvious theme then for my first, & possibly last:
Warning: may contain traces of soppiness. I'll try to add a little sarcasm & some bad jokes where appropriate.
Altered Images: Happy Birthday
An obvious place to start: it was either this or the Bjork-lead Sugarcubes' "Birthday". Altered Images' lead singer was the scrumptious Clare Grogan: not only Gregory's Girl, the object of Dave Lister's unrequited love (& the true Kochanski), but also the scourge of Craggy Island & Father Ted when she turned up there to tell him & the boys a thing or 2. So I'll take her over Bjork any day! Also: Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday" is a bit rubbish. And I don't care if it's about Martin Luther King.
U2: Two Hearts (Beat As One)
Say what you like about U2 & Bono, & most of us do, this is just a great rock song; from the pre-Joshua Tree "War" album. You know what I think of now when I hear this? Jake & Ellie inside their Mummy, entwined together, separate yet one, apart but together now & always, like two hearts that beat as one.
There ya go: soppiness, with rock'n'roll!
Steve Miller Band: The Joker
This was Jake's early theme song. Yes, we give our children theme songs: doesn't everyone? From a very early age he's exhibited a terrific sense of humour, getting & making jokes long before we'd have thought a young child would. OK, some of the lyrics aren't appropriate: if I find he's a smoker or a midnight toker I may have to have words. And I don't know what the "pompitous of love" is but I'm pretty sure I disapprove. But it's a good song.
Elton John: Tiny Dancer
I adore this song: Elton John at his very best. It's almost worth watching the film "Almost Famous", about the '70s music scene, just for the Tiny Dancer sequence. Shows the '70s wasn't just prog, punk & disco!
My Tiny Dancer, of course, is Ellie. This was my early theme song for her. She's loved to dance virtually since she could stand, & has been much better at it than her Dad for at least that time. She's always sung beautifully too.
I also used to jig her about to this, substituting in "Ellie!" & lifting her high up in the air at the appropriate moment. She loved it! Then she'd usually throw up all over me. Happy Days.
Bob Dylan: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Jake's current theme song: "Come on the juice, come on the cake: you'll not see nothin' like the mighty Jake". He has a great sense of humour; it's sometimes a mystery where he gets it from…
Donovan: Mellow Yellow
Ellie's current theme song: "They call her 'Ellie-belly' "…
I'm starting to think that the quality of the songs we choose for our children may be on the wane…
Beyoncé: Halo
From the ridiculous to…
Beyoncé: a bona-fide Superstar, supremely talented, ravishingly beautiful, jaw-droppingly sexy: you name it, she's got it. And this song is just epic, beautiful & moving. Her music was playing in the operating theatre during their birth, & I'm pretty sure 'Halo' was playing as they were delivered into the world. I even gave it its own little post.
I can't now listen to this already beautiful song without being profoundly moved. It's Their Song. It always takes me back to those mad, magical moments when they came into the world & into our lives. They were so wanted for so long, & it took so many tears & trials before they finally became a part of us. When they did 'it was like we'd been awakened': "Baby, I can see your halo: you know you're my saving grace".
Happy Birthday, Jake & Ellie. We love you.
I warned you that there might be soppiness! I can't think of any sarcasm or bad jokes at this point, sorry. Maybe next week…


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While Congress is making progress on a new five-year farm bill, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said a few key issues remain unresolved.
While Congress is making progress on a new five-year farm bill, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said a few key issues remain unresolved.
Specifically, a proposed new insurance program for dairy producers and budget cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are left to negotiate. But Walden assured a group of Umatilla County wheat growers Thursday in Pendleton that their crop insurance is protected, and the safety net will be there for American farmers.
Walden kept much of his focus on agricultural concerns as guest speaker at the Oregon Wheat Growers League fall county workshop, though the discussion changed course at times to the recent federal government shutdown and controversial rollout of the Affordable Care Act. All over the district, Walden said he hears stories about families facing cancellation of their health care policies or renewal at higher rates.
"Clearly, the health care law is of concern," Walden said. "Premiums are going up dramatically for some. Worse is the co-pay."
One grower questioned why Walden voted against legislation to end the government shutdown a month ago. The congressman agreed the shutdown should not have happened, but leaders in Washington, D.C. needed to figure out a long-term solution, he said, instead of kicking the can down the road for another 90 days.
The White House rejected everything Republicans put on the table to meet halfway on debt and spending, Walden said. Ultimately, they would accept only a clean debt ceiling increase, and now face the same situation heading into Jan. 15.
"I don't think the shutdown was a good idea, either, and it was never our intention to wind up there," Walden said. "It's really frustrating."
On the farm bill, Walden said the House aims for reform in the food stamp program that has doubled in size and quadrupled in cost. Driving between Ontario and Baker City, Walden said he swapped calls with Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, and they are committed to getting the bill done.
"I'll do my part to try and get this farm bill done the right way," Walden said.
Blake Rowe, CEO of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, also briefly discussed the farm bill during a workshop presentation. Other topics ranged from financial overview to research by Oregon State University, and a recap of the year's startling discovery of genetically modified "Roundup Ready" wheat growing in a fallow Eastern Oregon field.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is still investigating how and why the incident occurred. There is no timetable for when results will be announced. What is certain, Rowe said, is the exemplary way growers worked to reassure overseas trade partners that temporarily backed off new imports.
"It was a very positive message," Rowe said.
"Nobody can question we put our customers' interests first."
Genetically modified wheat remains a possibility. The product will eventually come into the market, Rowe said, and now is the time for growers to start thinking about what they can and cannot do.
As for the farm bill, Rowe said they are working closely with national organizations and their congressional delegation to protect priority programs including crop insurance, conservation, research and export promotion. The most important thing, however, is that it get passed.
"We understand we won't win on all the issues," Rowe said. "That's why they call it a negotiation."
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There is no doubt that Northwest Veg's VegFest gets better every single year. I remember the first one I volunteered at, which I think was either the 1st or 2nd annual event, at the Friends Meeting House in 2005. The smell of fakin' bacon filled the air, and the guests kept flowing in, way over the anticipated number of attendees, from what I was told. Last year, VegFest moved its happenings into the much-much-larger Oregon Convention Center. I helped sell books with Isa at The Post Punk Kitchen table and didn't get to do much wandering, but the place was positively veg-chaos with an astounding flow of attendees. Tomorrow, I'll be tabling with friends for Vegan Iron Chef, which I'm proud to say is now its own non-profit corporation and has grand plans for the future that are underway. Now, 2010 is the first year the convention is open for 2 complete days of tabling – it's harder to think of veg-companies that *won't* be there vs. who will. There is so much to look forward to (in addition to seeing every single vegan and vegetarian you know, free samples, new products, and Vegan Iron Chef's free pins and 2011 Chef Nomination box!!) – here are some official things that caught my eye:
- Chef Tal Ronnen and "Who knew Vegetarian/Vegan Cuisine could taste this good?" Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 4:30pm. The renowned author of the conscious cook and the chef who became a household name after working with Oprah during her 21-day vegan cleanse in 2008.
- Pulin Modi's "Snappy Comebacks to Animal Rights Questions" Saturday at 12pm. I attended his talk with Glenn Gaetz on activism & social media a couple years ago at Let Live, and it really stuck with me.
- Hope Bohanec's "Eco-Eating, A Cool Diet for a Hot Planet" Saturday at 3pm. Facts about the undeniably negative impact of animal agriculture.
- Sarah Taylor's "Vegan in 30 Days". Sunday at 12pm. VegFest always packs in a lot of veg-curious folks, and this looks like a wise place to start a new path.
- Christopher Weber, Ph.D.: "Climate Change and Food Choice". Sharing research we should all be aware of.
- Pete Prasarttongosoth's "Delicious Thai Cuisine". Sunday at 3pm. I was under the impression that Vege Thai changed management a few years ago, but according to the info, the proprietor of the short-lived but fantastic Vege Thai cart downtown is giving a cooking demo, making me extra sad I won't be in town.
And more, and more, and more fantastic pro-veg folks from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with something to say – including the amazing Robert Cheeke, Chef Al and Donna B, Rae Sakora, David and Wendy Gabbe, Christopher Weber, Ph.D., Dr. Milton Mills, Dr. Gordon Saxe, and exhibitors galore, vegcetera.
Not to mention culinary offerings from Vege Thai, Green Wok, Red & Black Cafe, Papa G's, Blossoming Lotus, Porto-freaking-bella, and more.
And hey! Don't forget your official coupon for $1 off the $5 admission.


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The fc_open function returns a pointer to PRFileDesc that refers to an open file (fileName). The fileName must be the full path name of an existing file. The file is opened in read-only mode. The application calling this function should not modify the currency of the file pointed to by the PRFileDesc * unless the DUP_FILE_DESC is also passed to this function. In other words, the application (at minimum) should not issue a read operation based on this pointer that would modify the currency for the PRFileDesc *. If such a read operation is required (that may change the currency for the PRFileDesc * ), then the application should call this function with the argument DUP_FILE_DESC.
On a successful call to this function, a valid pointer to PRFileDesc is returned and the handle 'FcHdl'is properly initialized. The size information for the file is stored in the 'fileSize' member of the handle.
PRFileDesc *fc_open(const char *fileName, FcHdl *hDl, PRUint32 flags, Session *sn, Request *rq);
Pointer to PRFileDesc, or NULL on failure.
const char *fileName is the full path name of the file to be opened.
FcHdl*hDl is a valid pointer to a structure of type FcHdl.
PRUint32 flags can be 0 or DUP_FILE_DESC.
Session *sn is a pointer to the session.
Request *rq is a pointer to the request.
The fc_close function closes a file opened using fc_open. This function should only be called with files opened using fc_open.
void fc_close(PRFileDesc *fd, FcHdl *hDl);
PRFileDesc *fd is a valid pointer returned from a prior call to fc_open.
FcHdl *hDl is a valid pointer to a structure of type FcHdl. This pointer must have been initialized by a prior call to fc_open.
The filebuf_buf2sd function sends a file buffer to a socket (descriptor) and returns the number of bytes sent.
Use this function to send the contents of an entire file to the client.
int filebuf_buf2sd(filebuf *buf, SYS_NETFD sd);
The number of bytes sent to the socket if successful, or the constant IO_ERROR if the file buffer could not be sent.
filebuf *buf is the file buffer that must already have been opened.
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent socket descriptor. Normally this will be obtained from the csd (client socket descriptor) field of the sn (session) structure.
if (filebuf_buf2sd(buf, sn->csd) == IO_ERROR) return(REQ_EXIT);
filebuf_close, filebuf_open, filebuf_open_nostat, filebuf_getc
The filebuf_close function deallocates a file buffer and closes its associated file.
Generally, use filebuf_open first to open a file buffer, and then filebuf_getc to access the information in the file. After you have finished using the file buffer, use filebuf_close to close it.
void filebuf_close(filebuf *buf);
filebuf *buf is the file buffer previously opened with filebuf_open.
filebuf_open, filebuf_open_nostat, filebuf_buf2sd, filebuf_getc
The filebuf_getc function retrieves a character from the current file position and returns it as an integer. It then increments the current file position.
Use filebuf_getc to sequentially read characters from a buffered file.
filebuf_getc(filebuf b);
An integer containing the character retrieved, or the constant IO_EOF or IO_ERROR upon an end of file or error.
filebuf b is the name of the file buffer.
filebuf_close, filebuf_buf2sd, filebuf_open, filter_create
The filebuf_open function opens a new file buffer for a previously opened file. It returns a new buffer structure. Buffered files provide more efficient file access by guaranteeing the use of buffered file I/O in environments where it is not supported by the operating system.
filebuf *filebuf_open(SYS_FILE fd, int sz);
A pointer to a new buffer structure to hold the data if successful, or NULL if no buffer could be opened.
SYS_FILE fd is the platform-independent file descriptor of the file which has already been opened.
int sz is the size, in bytes, to be used for the buffer.
filebuf *buf = filebuf_open(fd, FILE_BUFFERSIZE);if (!buf) { system_fclose(fd);}
filebuf_getc, filebuf_buf2sd, filebuf_close, filebuf_open_nostat
The filebuf_open_nostat function opens a new file buffer for a previously opened file. It returns a new buffer structure. Buffered files provide more efficient file access by guaranteeing the use of buffered file I/O in environments where it is not supported by the operating system.
This function is the same filebuf_open, but is more efficient, since it does not need to call the request_stat_path function. It requires that the stat information be passed in.
filebuf* filebuf_open_nostat(SYS_FILE fd, int sz, struct stat *finfo);
A pointer to a new buffer structure to hold the data if successful, or NULL if no buffer could be opened.
SYS_FILE fd is the platform-independent file descriptor of the file that has already been opened.
int sz is the size, in bytes, to be used for the buffer.
struct stat *finfo is the file information of the file. Before calling the filebuf_open_nostat function, you must call the request_stat_path function to retrieve the file information.
filebuf *buf = filebuf_open_nostat(fd, FILE_BUFFERSIZE, &finfo); if (!buf) { system_fclose(fd); }
filebuf_close, filebuf_open, filebuf_getc, filebuf_buf2sd
The filter_create function defines a new filter.
The name parameter specifies a unique name for the filter. If a filter with the specified name already exists, it will be replaced.
Names beginning with magnus- or server- are reserved by the server.
The order parameter indicates the position of the filter in the filter stack by specifying what class of functionality the filter implements.
The following table describes parameters allowed order constants and their associated meanings for the filter_create function. The left column lists the name of the constant, the middle column describes the functionality the filter implements, and the right column lists the position the filter occupies in the filter stack.Table 7–1 filter-create constants
Functionality Filter Implements
Position in Filter Stack
Translates content from one form to another (for example, XSLT)
Encodes content (for example, HTTP gzip compression)
Encodes entity bodies for transmission (for example, HTTP chunking)
The methods parameter specifies a pointer to a FilterMethods structure. Before calling filter_create, you must first initialize the FilterMethods structure using the FILTER_METHODS_INITIALIZER macro, and then assign function pointers to the individual FilterMethods members (for example, insert, read, write, and so on) that correspond to the filter methods the filter will support.
filter_create returns const Filter *, a pointer to an opaque representation of the filter. This value may be passed to filter_insert to insert the filter in a particular filter stack.
const Filter *filter_create(const char *name, int order, const FilterMethods *methods);
The const Filter * that identifies the filter or NULL if an error occurred.
const char *name is the name of the filter.
int order is one of the order constants above.
const FilterMethods *methods contains pointers to the filter methods the filter supports.
FilterMethods methods = FILTER_METHODS_INITIALIZER; const Filter *filter; /* This filter will only support the "read" filter method */ methods.read = my_input_filter_read; /* Create the filter */ filter = filter_create("my-input-filter", FILTER_CONTENT_TRANSLATION, &methods);
The filter_find function finds the filter with the specified name.
const Filter *filter_find(const char *name);
The const Filter * that identifies the filter, or NULL if the specified filter does not exist.
const char *name is the name of the filter of interest.
The filter_insert function inserts a filter into a filter stack, creating a new filter layer and installing the filter at that layer. The filter layer's position in the stack is determined by the order value specified when filter_create was called, and any explicit ordering configured by init-filter-order. If a filter layer with the same order value already exists in the stack, the new layer is inserted above that layer.
Parameters may be passed to the filter using the pb and data parameters. The semantics of the data parameter are defined by individual filters. However, all filters must be able to handle a data parameter of NULL.
When possible, plug-in developers should avoid calling filter_insert directly, and instead use the insert-filter SAF (applicable in Input-class directives).
int filter_insert(SYS_NETFD sd, pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq, void *data, const Filter *filter);
Returns REQ_PROCEED if the specified filter was inserted successfully, or REQ_NOACTION if the specified filter was not inserted because it was not required. Any other return value indicates an error.
SYS_NETFD sd is NULL (reserved for future use).
pblock *pb is a set of parameters to pass to the specified filter's init method.
Session *sn is the Session.
Request *rq is the Request.
void *data is filter-defined private data.
const Filter *filter is the filter to insert.
The filter_layer function returns the layer in a filter stack that corresponds to the specified filter.
FilterLayer *filter_layer(SYS_NETFD sd, const Filter *filter);
The topmost FilterLayer * associated with the specified filter, or NULL if the specified filter is not part of the specified filter stack.
SYS_NETFD sd is the filter stack to inspect.
const Filter *filter is the filter of interest.
The filter_name function returns the name of the specified filter. The caller should not free the returned string.
const char *filter_name(const Filter *filter);
The name of the specified filter, or NULL if an error occurred.
const Filter *filter is the filter of interest.
The filter_remove function removes the specified filter from the specified filter stack, destroying a filter layer. If the specified filter was inserted into the filter stack multiple times, only that filter's topmost filter layer is destroyed.
When possible, plug-in developers should avoid calling filter_remove directly, and instead use the remove-filter SAF (applicable in Input-, Output-, Service-, and Error-class directives).
int filter_remove(SYS_NETFD sd, const Filter *filter);
Returns REQ_PROCEED if the specified filter was removed successfully or REQ_NOACTION if the specified filter was not part of the filter stack. Any other return value indicates an error.
SYS_NETFD sd is the filter stack, sn->csd.
const Filter *filter is the filter to remove.
The flush filter method is called when buffered data should be sent. Filters that buffer outgoing data should implement the flush filter method.
Upon receiving control, a flush implementation must write any buffered data to the filter layer immediately below it. Before returning success, a flush implementation must successfully call the net_flush function:
int flush(FilterLayer *layer);
0 on success or -1 if an error occurred.
FilterLayer *layer is the filter layer the filter is installed in.
int myfilter_flush(FilterLayer *layer) { MyFilterContext context = (MyFilterContext *)layer->context->data; if (context->buf.count) { int rv; rv = net_write(layer->lower, context->buf.data, context->buf.count); if (rv != context->buf.count) return -1; /* failed to flush data */ context->buf.count = 0; } return net_flush(layer->lower); }
The FREE macro is a platform-independent substitute for the C library routine free. It deallocates the space previously allocated by MALLOC, CALLOC, or STRDUP from the request's memory pool.
FREE(void *ptr);
void *ptr is a (void *) pointer to a block of memory. If the pointer is not one created by MALLOC, CALLOC, or STRDUP, the behavior is undefined.
char *name;name = (char *) MALLOC(256);...FREE(name);
The func_exec function executes the function named by the fn entry in a specified pblock. If the function name is not found, it logs the error and returns REQ_ABORTED.
You can use this function to execute a built-in SAF by identifying it in the pblock.
int func_exec(pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq);
The value returned by the executed function, or the constant REQ_ABORTED if no function was executed.
pblock pb is the pblock containing the function name (fn) and parameters.
Session *sn is the Session.
Request *rq is the Request.
The Session and Request parameters are the same as the ones passed into your SAF.
The func_find function returns a pointer to the function specified by name. If the function does not exist, it returns NULL.
FuncPtr func_find(char *name);
A pointer to the chosen function, suitable for dereferencing, or NULL if the function could not be found.
char *name is the name of the function.
/* this block of code does the same thing as func_exec */char *afunc = pblock_findval("afunction", pb);FuncPtr afnptr = func_find(afunc); if (afnptr) return (afnptr)(pb, sn, rq);
The func_insert function dynamically inserts a named function into the server's table of functions. This function should only be called during the Init stage.
FuncStruct *func_insert(char *name, FuncPtr fn);
Returns the FuncStruct structure that identifies the newly inserted function. The caller should not modify the contents of the FuncStruct structure.
char *name is the name of the function.
FuncPtr fn is the pointer to the function.
func_insert("my-service-saf", &my_service_saf);


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Mueller competed in the 400m hurdles at the Big West Conference meet and placed sixth with a time of 1:02.91...Ran 14.93 in the 100m hurdles at the Azusa Bryan Clay Invitational meet.
High School
Mueller competed in varsity all four years...Won league and qualified for section finals and masters all four years of high school...Named team female MVP sprints and hurdles her junior and senior years...Was on the "A" Honor Roll all four years at Oak Ridge High School...Member of the National Honor Society.
Parents are Vance Mueller who ran track and field and played football at Occidental College and drafted to the Los Angeles Raiders and Lissa Mueller who ran track and field at Occidental College and is the current hurdle coach at Oak Ridge High School...Has siblings Timery Mueller who is a freshman at University of Reno-Nevada and participates in the long jump and Shay Mueller who plays football and runs track and field in high school...Is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Collegiate Bests 400 Hurdles - 62.91 (Big West Conference Championships, 5/14/2010) 100 Hurdles - 14.93 (Azusa Bryan Clay Invite, 4/15/2010)


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*** t* * n Faith Baptist marks 50th — Page 7 | Garden Club lodges concerns — Pa* Amherst News-Time WEDNESDAY, September 4, 2002 AMHERST, OHIO O (-> o o o to x x r- 00 m i-( C IP o o 3 x C"<lH c m m (fl r w ® 3 H (-• 3> O ~~» 7) (S> > H M < O -^ m x» e» i- oo CO o o o X 3 Helmet would not save Mirand GO ro by JASON HAWK ■ ■ ■ i n ■ — ■ i News-Times reporter The fact that neither girl was wearing a bicycle helmet on Monday, Aug. 26, when Miranda Ward and Jolynn Hardie were struck by a driver on Pyle South Amherst Road in South Amherst made no difference, according to Lorain County coroner Paul Matus. Although Hardie was examined at the scene and released, her cousin, Ward, 12, a seventh-grade student at South Amherst Middle School, was pronounced dead at EMH Regional Medical Center in Elyria. Matus said the autopsy indicated that she died of severe head trauma. "In this particular case, I'm not sure that a bike helmet would have helped in the least," he said. "They're flimsy and may help if you fall off your bike in the driveway, but they're not meant to withstand collisions with vehicles." According to Matus, no safety equipment could have helped avoid the injuries that led to Ward's death. The source of those injuries — whether they were caused by a direct vehicular blow, from impact with the ground, or from contact with her bicycle — have not yet been determined. Matus is also not sure how far Ward and Hardie were dragged by the vehicle, although the State Highway Patrol estimated about 320 feet, from which Ward sustained multiple bone fractures and other serious injuries not detailed by the county coroner's office. Also undetermined is the speed at which the vehicle was traveling. "We're not sure how fast the car was moving," said Matus. "But even when a car is only traveling 30 mph, and it strikes a pedestrian, he or she can get carried way down the road," he said. "It's like a cue ball," said Matus. "When it strikes another ball that's sitting perfectly still, the energy is transferred, and that ball is instantaneously moving at high speed. It's the same here. If she was only going five mph and was struck by a car moving at 40 mph, she would in stantly have been propelled ahead at 40 mph." In such a scenario, Ward and Hardie were completely vulnerable, no matter what safety precautions were taken, Matus said. The driver of the vehicle, Jo- nathon Williams, 43, of Amherst, fled the scene of the crash but later turned himself in to Amherst police later that evening. CONTINUED on page 12 Administration offers alternate plan to change voter districts by JASON HAWK News-Times reporter Administrative staff and two members of city council have ironed out their differences over the reapportionment of voting district lines. Safety/service director Sher- rill McLoda met with Ward Four councilwoman Jennifer Wasilk on Aug. 22 to resolve the dispute after Wasilk and councilmember Nick Bnisky accused the mayor and his administration of gerrymandering the districts to favor his political party. McLoda presented revised numbers and an updated map that included changes requested by councilmembers. "These were not minor changes," said Wasilk, who cited 29 changes to the map, including eight instances in which census blocks were reassigned to different wards. McLoda disagreed, admitting that while there were clerical errors in the administration's map, wards were still within an acceptable 1.S percent margin of each other. "The maps would have been correct if council had time in its July meetings to listen to explanations for some of the shuffling," said McLoda. "This was a very complex issue. These differences between maps weren't just typographical errors. Things were moved between our meetings. We were trying to get it as precise as we could," said McLoda. Wasilk and Bnisky accepted the changes and retracted their protests. "I'm glad that these issues were resolved so that the Fourteenth Amendment rights of the citizens of Amherst have been preserved," said Wasilk. McLoda told the News- Times that any disparities were not the result of ill intent "I don't know where Republicans or Democrats live. I don't care. I had no interest in trying to make the voting districts unfair," she said. "That would be almost an impossible task anyway," she said. The redistricting proposal was tabled until council could bold an ordinance committee meeting earlier this week. Smashing success Comet Man and the marching band looked on while Amherst "J08 Midview car at a pep rally sponsored by the Amherst Athletic football team members took turns swinging a sledgehammer at Boosters Club. Cops reward McBucklers with McPrize by JASON HAWK News-Times reporter They're everywhere you look. They're on lawns. They're on driveways. They're on school busses. Red and white signs that dot the Amherst landscape send a clear message about seat belt safety to residents, thanks to the efforts of the Amherst Police Department. • The department has been recognized as one of the stale's top 10 participants in the "What's Holding You Back?" campaign. Program organizers at the Ohio Department of Public Safety challenged mare than 700 safety part- den across Ohio to raise seat belt usage by IS percent over the next several months. • Safety experts estimate that if Ohio residents increased seat belt lire by 80 percent, 120 lives would be saved annually. [ Ohio's usage rale jumped from 64 percent to 70 percent following the program's initial enforcement wave held over Memorial Day weekend. High numbers of citations have been issued for non-compliance to seat bek laws along the Route 2 •pys-rinsi since the campaign's calling the project Ohio's "largest, most comprehensive seat belt campaign in state history." The "best of the best" of Ohio law enforcement participating in the program gathered in Columbus on Aug. 27 to be recognized for their contributions. Amherst police were among the top 10 to receive honors. The other nine top contenders were: Delphos, Hiram, Miami Township, Niles, Oregon, Ravenna, and Reynoldsburg Police Departments and the Stark and Summit County sheriffs offices. A committee of highway safety professionals selected the 10 final- isu based on their adoption of a zero tolerance policy for teat belt violators in addition to public outreach and community education efforts. The 10 selective agencies were rewarded for their hard work by being placed into a drawing to win free safety equipment, including in- car video and laser gun, each valued at over $4,000, and a new patrol car, valued at over $30,000, which was purchased with federal grant dollars. Officer James Triples of the Rey- noldsburg Police Department pulled the winning key that started the prize cruiser. Amherst police do not plan lo discontinue teat belt enforcement efforts. Amherst police officers hand out orxipone tor free burgers to i bek users at McOonalda on Leavitt Road aa part of the **Whafa Hotting You Back?" canpalgn. Those caught wNhout seat btkXt onaeat bet j »*i
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