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Gladys Peugh
Gladys Katherine Peugh, honored and revered mother of Patricia Starr, Oleta Jones and Marleta Roth, passed away Nov. 10, 2002, at the age of 89 in Portland, Ore.
Gladys was born in Burt, Iowa, on July 7, 1913, to Mads and Lillian Dransfeldt. When she was a young girl the family moved to Hollywood, Calif., then to the Willamette Valley, Ore. She also lived for many years in Parkdale, Ore., Yakima, Wash., and San Bruno and San Mateo, Calif., before moving back to Oregon in 2000.
She was the proud lynchpin of her family, and though she herself received but an eighth-grade education, she insisted that all her daughters go to college. She was a great mother, a wonderful cook, farmer and homemaker, a fast apple and pear-packer and an insatiable reader.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her siblings: Helen Molloy, Merle Maurer and Roland Dransfeldt; husbands Clarence Starr and Earl Peugh; step-daughter, Anita Wright, and son-in-law, Norman Wright. She is survived by her daughters and extended family, including David Jones, Van Dyke Roth and Lorraine McIntyre; her three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren of the Wright/McIn-tosh/Olsen branch of the family tree who will all miss her easy-going, feisty, wicked sense of humor and her stubbornness when she was right.
A memorial service, to continue to honor and revere her in the manner to which she has become accustomed, will be held at a later date.
Dennis Dean
Dennis Ellsworth Dean, of Redmond, Ore., died Nov. 11, 2002, in Bend, Ore. He was 74 years of age.
Dennis was born Nov. 11, 1928, in Baker, Ore. He served in the U.S. Army as Sgt. 1st Class, where he earned a Korean Service medal and UN Ribbon, Army Occupation, Japan. He was production manager for Hood River Distillery for over 30 years. He also owned Bebo's Candy in Hood River.
Dennis moved to Redmond in 1984. On Sept. 13, 1990, he married Betty Ebeling in Reno, Nev.
He was a member of the Elks, American Legion, and the Eagles fraternities. He was a voracious reader and loved playing golf.
Dennis is survived by his wife, Betty; a son, Michael Dean of Wilsonville, Ore.; a daughter, Thea Dean of Lincoln City, Ore.; and one grandchild.
The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to Summit High School in Bend, or Redmond Junior High in Redmond.
Roderic Landis
Roderic Martin Landis went to be with his Lord on Oct. 25, 2002, in Spokane, Wash. He was 93 years of age.
Roderic was born in China on Aug. 30, 1909, to missionary parents. He, too, became a missionary of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and served in the Philippines for 43 years. He retired from mission work in 1974, remaining active as a speaker and pastor for many years.
Rod and his first wife, Audrey Cooper Landis, lived in Hood River and their children attended Barrett School. Audrey was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Cooper.
Roderic is survived by his wife of 23 years, Helen Peterson Landis of Spokane; daughter, Pat Landis of Newberg, Ore.; and sons, Dick Landis of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Paul Landis of Portland, Ore., and their wives. He had three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Rod is also survived by members of his wife's family: Dr. David Petersen and Kristen Smith of Spokane and Dr. James Petersen of Seattle and their families; and the family of Helen's deceased son, Alan. Rod has two living brothers, 98-year-old Fred and his wife, Gwen, of Salem, Ore., and Esli Landis of Calif. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Audrey, after 48 years of marriage.
Donations may be made to the Great Commission Fund of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, P.O. Box 35000, Colorado Springs, CO, 80935-3500.
Grant Bailey
Grant Covert Bailey, 32, died Oct. 15, 2002, in a private plane accident. Grant was born May 28, 1970, in Boston, but soon moved to Moraga, Calif., where he was raised. He moved to Newberg, Ore., to live with his father and finished high school at Tigard High School. He attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz., and graduated with a degree in Aeronautical Science. He lived for a time in Hood River County.
On Aug. 19, 1995, Grant married Cari Arnot in Whitefish, Mont. Grant and Cari kept busy moving across the country to places including Arizona, Pennsylvania, Portland, Bend, and Idaho. Always he was a devoted husband who would fix, build or soften the world for his wife.
Grant loved to share his passion for life with others. Whether it was rock climbing, backcountry skiing, kayaking, windsurfing, business ideas or flying, Grant was a fanatic and wanted everyone to join in his enthusiasm. Anything that interested him he took to the max. He learned everything he could. He was a fanatic, a lover of life.
Grant's joy for life doubled with the birth of his son, Marshall, in May of 2001. Grant adored Marshall and was teaching him early to enjoy the sports that Grant loved so much. One of Marshall's favorite play toys is Grant's new kayak, which he and Marshall climbed and played on in the middle of the living room floor.
Grant worked for Lancair of Redmond for the last several years as a pilot and in sales. In August of this year, Grant took a job with Chelton Flight Systems and moved to Boise, Idaho. He was the marketing and communications manager and director of training. He was enthusiastic about his new job and showed great promise.
One of Grant's favorite places was the Gorge. He was an avid windsurfer and loved spending time with friends out on the river or with family in the upper valley.
Grant will always be remembered and missed by his wife, Cari Bailey and son, Marshall Bailey, of Boise, Idaho; his father, Covert Bailey of Newberg; his mother, Sally Bailey of Mount Hood; and his sister, Christina McGhee and her husband John McGhee, of Parkdale.
A memorial service was held at Westside Church in Bend on Oct. 19. An educational fund has been established for Marshall. Additional information may be found at www.caapilots.com.
Lucy Fortesque
Hood River resident Lucy Alice Fortesque died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002, at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. She was 74 years of age.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002, at 4 p.m. at Anderson's Tribute Center. Visitation will be Saturday, Nov. 16, from noon until 3:30 p.m. at Anderson's Tribute Center. Private interment will follow at Idlewild Cemetery.
Lucy was born June 12, 1928, to Jesse Curtis and Delores (Balcom) Washington in Scottsbluff, Neb. She was raised and educated in Gooding, Idaho, and was later married in Boise, Idaho.
Once here in Hood River, Ore., she raised her family and worked seasonally for Diamond Fruit Company. Following that line of work Mrs. Fortesque worked as a head cook for the Hood River Care Center and then for St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Yakima, Wash.
Mrs. Fortesque enjoyed spending her spare time bowling until her health forced her to stop. She then became heavily involved with the Senior Companion Program (through Hood River Memorial Hospital.) Serving with this program she visited people at their homes, took them to doctor's visits and helped them run errands. Lucy had a great love for serving people.
Some of Mrs. Fortesque's interests included collecting dolls, and assembling large puzzles. She attended the Hood River Assembly of God Church for years and most recently attended the Hood River 7th Day Adventist Church.
Mrs. Fortesque is survived by her daughters Paulette Rushin of Emmett, Idaho, Evalena Baer of Gresham, Ore., Linda Sharkey of Spokane, Wash., Debra Woods of Portland, Ore., sons Timothy Wingerd of Hood River, and James 'Eddie' Fortesque of Hood River, sister Lorraine Gonzales of Sacramento, Calif, 20 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation for the Hood River Senior Companion Program c/o Anderson's Tribute Center, 1401 Belmont, Hood River, OR 97031.
Sherman Hinkle
Hood River resident Sherman Hinkle died Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002, at Eastmoreland Hospital in Portland, Ore,. He was 82 years of age.
A private family gathering was held Friday at Anderson's Tribute Center, followed by private interment at Idlewild Cemetery.
Sherman was born Nov. 29, 1919, in Barbersville, Ky. He was raised in Kentucky and later graduated from Barbersville High School. Once out of school Mr. Hinkle joined the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII. He was stationed in Corvallis, Ore. Mr. Hinkle was part of a crew that flew supplies across enemy lines in Japan.
Upon honorable discharge from the military Mr. Hinkle returned to the United States to work as a welder for Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Mich. He then married Cuthrena Couch on August 12, 1967, in Detroit. Together they shared 35 wonderful years of marriage. Following Mr. Hinkle's retirement in 1983 he and his wife moved to Hood River, Ore., where they have lived ever since.
Some of Mr. Hinkle's hobbies included reading books; magazines, newspapers or whatever he could gets his hands on. He also enjoyed playing cards, watching sports on television and was a member of the Hood River Elks.
Mr. Hinkle is survived by his wife, Cuthrena, of Hood River, OR and his sister-in-law Erma Couch of The Dalles, Ore.
Fred Shestak
Fred Shestak, 93, died Oct. 5, 2002, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Fred was born Jan. 30, 1909, in Wilber, Neb. He graduated from Wilber High School, received a BS degree from Peru State Teachers College, Peru, Neb., and a Masters degree in Education from the University of Oregon. He spent 42 years in the education profession as a coach, an educator and an administrator. Early years were in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. Then he moved to Hood River, where he spent 28 years. He retired in 1973, in Rockaway Beach, Ore., after 7 years as principal of Neah-Kah-Nie High School.
Fred married his college sweetheart, Maxine Sears, in 1930. They had one daughter, Donna Lee. He was a member of King Solomon Masonic Lodge No. 30 of Colorado; Order of Eastern Star, Columbia Chapter No. 23, The Dalles, Ore.; and BPO Elks Lodge 1437, Tillamook, Ore.
Fred liked to travel, golf, dance, listen to polka music and watch sports. He also loved fishing, hunting, clamming, beachcombing and playing cribbage. He enjoyed life.
Survivors include his wife of 72 years, Maxine; daughter Donna and her husband, Jim, and their children, Mike, Jimmy, Donny and Carrie; nine great-grandchildren; sister Mildred Weiner; brother Frank; and several nieces and nephews.
Fred devoted his life to helping young people obtain their goals in life. He believed "where there is a will, there is a way, but you must be willing to work to get there."
Rosemary Petri
Hood River resident Rosemary Petri died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002, at the Parkhurst House. She was 85 years of age. Arrangements are pending at Anderson's Tribute Center, 541-386-1000.
Jose Enriquez
Hood River resident Jose Perez Enriquez died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002, at his home. Arrangements are pending at Anderson's Tribute Center, 541-386-1000.
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Beginning with Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Irving Fine, Slosberg Music Center has hosted performances and lectures by brilliant musicians, composers and conductors. This spring, it will be the locus of a different kind of virtuosity, one of duels, jams, swagger and twang. It's the voice of Dublin, Oslo, and Bangalore, filtered through the Brandeis music department's own wide range of knowledge and connections: FiddleDeis.
The fiddle, like no other instrument, gives voice to unlimited human expression—lament, exultation, yearning and delight, to name but a few. The fiddle inspires celebration and mourning, lively jigs and elegant waltzes. From Canada's Cape Breton to the Louisiana bayou, from high lonesome bluegrass to the lowdown blues, it's hard to imagine a musical landscape that does not include a fiddle or violin.
No matter their cultural origin, fiddlers treasure originality and invention. A devoted fiddle player can play for hours, solo or with others, by memory or by improvising. The great ones can riff like a jazz master, staying true to the essence of the melody.
"Fiddling is a dynamic and vastly expressive art form with all the trappings of other art forms," writes musician Ryan Thomson in "The Fiddler's Almanac," a practical reference work. "There are old standards, new trends, conservatism, economic and social considerations." With room for innovators as well as purists, it's a genre that will never stop growing.
So then: FiddleDeis. Possibly the strongest common ground of the very diverse Brandeis music department, this three-day festival celebrates the progression of the violin in performance. Distinguished faculty members and guest musicians will escort audience members through an unprecedented whirlwind of performances, master classes and workshops. There is even a yoga and relaxation session with stretches designed for string players.
Further blurring the violin/fiddle, classical/traditional distinction, many of these performers were conservatory trained before finding their fullest expression with the addition of traditional folk forms or electronic expertise. They perform in settings as diverse as concert halls and whitewater raft trips; they tour internationally and give high-tech TED Talks to a global audience. Many have attracted a strong and faithful following at enormous music festivals, and look forward to giving an intimate performance in Slosberg's recital hall. Others are local heroes, such as father and son Andy and Dave Reiner, directors of the annual "Fiddle Hell" musical marathon in Concord, Mass., which attracts hundreds of players from around the world.
There's an exuberant generosity in the fiddle world that spills over into jams, seisiúns, and dances. FiddleDeis offers a welcome jam, a guided jam, an open jam, a groove-finding jam and a dance. Many of the performers will teach master classes throughout the festival. Shawna Kelley, the department's concert manager and a veteran employee of gatherings such as the Newport Folk Festival, has convinced her friends on the roster to teach what she calls repertoire run-throughs: 50-minute sessions in which participants learn a song well enough to play it in one big community session on Sunday morning.
Here's a day-by-day road map. For a complete schedule, ticket prices and updates, please visit the event page.
Friday, March 15: From the Fjords to the Moors
The festival kicks off with a welcome jam and master classes throughout the day. The evening concert features Mariel Vandersteel, on the ethereal Norwegian Hardanger fiddle; Andy and Dave Reiner (bluegrass, Irish, Western swing, and more); the Laura Cortese Acoustic Project, led by "the sassy local folk-pop goddess of fiddle," grounded in bluegrass and Celtic fiddle traditions. Jeremy Kittel (ex-Turtle Island Quartet), one of the world's leading Scots-Irish fiddlers, and his band finish up the evening.
Saturday, March 16: Around the World on Four Strings
Day two continues with daytime jams, master classes and workshops. The evening concert follows a wild route through a range of expressive forms: South Indian classical from Meena Kothandaraman (Bentley University); jazz improv from Ben Powell and his trio -- Evan Caleb-Yearsley (drums) and Troy Sandow (bass); French- and blues-influenced Cajun roots music from David Greely (founding member of the Mamou Playboys); and the genre-defying Casey Driessen, known for his use of digital looping to create powerful, jaw-dropping, high-energy fiddle sounds. "Casey has performed with Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn and Steve Earle and was the obvious choice to represent electronic and new music," says Kelley.
Sunday, March 17: Roots Revealed
Remember those repertoire run-throughs? Sunday morning is the chance for everyone who's learned tunes over the past two days to perform en masse. The concert repertoire travels back in time to medieval and 17th century England, revealing the roots of all that was performed on Friday and Saturday. Performers include Sarah Mead, Emily Walhout, Shira Kammen and Cathy Liddell on treble & bass violin, viola da gamba, lyra-viol and theorbo. Those Elizabethans were spirited partiers, so their music is a natural bridge to an Irish jam session in the Reinharz Residence Hall (next door to Slosberg Music Center) with the Reiner Family Band. Finally, Lydian String Quartet violinist Dan Stepner connects the music of Bach to country, Cajun and Cape Breton styles. Stepner will demonstrate the common techniques – the fast alternation of strings, for example – that link baroque and traditional playing. Stepner promises to bring the festival to a rousing close. "Why not?" he says. "Let's go for baroque."
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Jessica Chastain: 'The Heiress' Photo Call with Dan Stevens!
Jessica Chastain flashes a smile at The Heiress Broadway photo call held at the Empire Hotel on Thursday (September 13) in New York City.
The Lawless star was joined by her co-star, Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens.
Also in attendance at the photo call was cast members Judith Ivey, David Strathairn, Ben Livingston, Mairin Lee, Molly Camp, Dee Nelson, Kieran Campion, Caitlin O'Connell, Virginia Kull, and director Moises Kaufman.
Previews for The Heiress begin on October 6, with the official opening on November 1 – be sure to check out the show if you're in the area!
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WOODSTOCK – A former Algonquin man who tried to commit suicide in the courtroom after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young girl was sentenced today to 25 years in prison.
Robert W. Lucht, 56, apologized to Judge Joseph Condon for his suicide attempt last month, saying it was selfish.
"That was not fair to anyone," Lucht said. "I'm sorry."
Moments after the jury's verdict was read, Lucht had tipped back an envelope made from notebook paper and tried to swallow what appeared to be rat poison.
A bailiff ended up tackling Lucht in an effort to get him to spit the granules out. Lucht was transported to the hospital by ambulance and released back into the custody of the McHenry County Jail several days later.
Lucht faced between 21 and 120 years in prison following his conviction on three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
His attorney, Michael Norris, said that the minimum was effectively a death sentence for his client, who suffers from health problems including emphysema and likely will die in prison.
Assistant State's Attorney Sharyl Eisenstein asked for a "lengthy" prison sentence, emphasizing that the victim was between ages 7 and 9 at the time she was subjected to pornography and sex acts.
"She is a strong person, but what this defendant did to her his disgusting," Eisenstein said.
Rather than apologizing to the court, he should have been apologizing to his victim, Eisenstein said.
The victim, now 15, read a victim impact statement, saying that she no longer is ashamed, but she feels anger.
"Because of him, I felt isolated," she said. "I allowed myself to believe what he did to me was OK."
When she was 11, the girl was hospitalized for suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. She also described being bullied, afraid of being jumped by other kids.
"Little did they know, I was being abused at home," she said. "At least now I don't fear sleeping at night."
WOODSTOCK – A former Algonquin man who tried to commit suicide in the courtroom after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a young girl was sentenced today to 25 years in prison.


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I wrote a poem tonight to remember my grandfather who passed away today. I've never felt myself to be a great poet, but here goes:
Paper can do you no justice
A man who lived through thick and thin
83 years is a long time running
Run you did, as more than a friend
Mentor, teacher, encouraging all
I am proudly your son's son
And though this day is hard to bear
Eighty three years is a long hard run
Doctors said time and time again
Said the curtains were falling soon
But you were just too stubborn to die
And three years your body prevented its doom
You will by many missed, it is certain
And in many your legacy will evermore live
And what will be said of you can be said of none
Naught even from fear of death has he hid.
Your passions were more than I can count
And indeed math was one, and among a few
From kaleidoscopes to wooden models of ships
And watching birds another thing you would do
This lowly planet dies a little today
And I pity those who sit unaware
Many lives you have touched in your stay on earth
And for this those lives could not be prepared
I know that you ascend to a higher place
And strange, though not for lack of love
Is the unexplained peace that I am now feeling
Almost as if I can feel you above
I'm no artist, though your wife is and was
I cannot immortalize you in a song or dance
This poem I put forth to the world imperfect
Shows of your great life but a tiny glance
And so I close, with no words good enough
As tribute to your kind old self
You lived with wisdom and kindness abound
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B&ECPL Chair Rebecca L. Pordum:
Honorable Legislators, today, Erie County and its Public Library System stand together at a crossroads. We have been through a couple of tough years. We have suffered and struggled, but we have not succumbed, and we know that when we all work together, we can achieve our mutual mission of rendering valuable service to the residents of Erie County .
As you know only too well, last year, Erie County 's fiscal crisis cost the Library System one-fourth of its financial support. That loss
Now, in 2006, with reduced hours, fewer staff to carry the load, curtailed programs and services and far too few new titles to satisfy the demand of library users, there is no wiggle room left. The County Executive has proposed a 2007 Library budget that keeps funding flat for the third year in a row $7 million less than we received 2 years ago, roughly the same level of funding we received ten years ago $35 less per average $100,000 taxable property than the Library received in 2000!
We need more than the County Executive recommends, and we asked for more ? not a lot more, just enough to get back to the fundamental levels of service our constituents deserve.
A library should be open more than 18 hours a week! How can families, with both parents working long hours to make ends meet, get themselves or their kids to the library when it's open just a handful of hours three days a week? Students need regular hours after school. They need weeknights and weekends so they can complete their assignments. Many seniors, on the other hand, are more comfortable visiting the library during the late morning or early afternoons, just before the school-aged kids arrive. We must serve all of our constituencies with schedules designed to meet their specific wants and needs.
Libraries shouldn't have to beg their local governments or their patrons for extra cash just to meet New York State minimum standards when Erie County isn't providing enough revenue to keep the doors open the required number of hours. This year, some municipalities were able to supplement County revenue with local funds to maintain basic service levels, and we are extremely grateful for their aid, but many of those municipalities have indicated that they cannot continue to offset these shortfalls year after year.
There will always be a need for libraries and their friends to do independent fundraising to supplement limited public dollars, but libraries shouldn't have to hold raffles, chicken barbeques and bake sales just to cover basic operating costs or to purchase enough books to meet the demands of students, families, small business owners, homeschoolers or older adults who don't have the resources to buy their own.
You can help us resolve this situation. The solution might cost more, but not much more. For an increase of only 7 cents per month on an average $100,000 taxable property, those libraries that fail to meet New York State standards can meet them. For a little more, we can restore some desperately needed hours at several locations, increasing those 18-hour-a-week locations to 24 hours, improving weeknight and weekend hours, so more people can visit and take advantage of all the Library provides.
We have developed a four-tier restoration package, and its total cost is only 62 cents per month on an average $100,000 property in Erie County . Sixty-two cents per month! That's less than the cost of one regular cup of coffee or a candy bar!
Now, you might ask: How can we propose raising the Library Tax when so many constituents are opposed to tax increases?
We understand this is a difficult decision, so we asked your constituents that very question this past summer when we conducted an online survey to gauge public opinion to assist us in developing our 5-year plan of service. And guess what the respondents told us: 85% would be willing to pay more in taxes in order to restore some of what the Library has lost in recent years. EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT! And, of those 85%, more than half said they would be willing to support an increase of $25 or more per year.
We're requesting only 62 cents more per month!
Last month, we asked that tax question again when we conducted a series of public meetings to get community feedback regarding our proposed 5-year plan of service, and we heard the same response. Jim from the City of Tonawanda told us his Library Tax bill is only $25 per year ? less than the retail price of one hardcover book ? and Jim assured us he'd be willing to pay a few dollars more if he knew it was going to help the Library. He would do it happily!
Honorable Legislators, the Library is the best example of regional service delivery you can find in Erie County . It has an exceptionally high rate of return on investment. For every dollar we/you invest in our library system, the rate of return is $6.62 in books, services, programs and assistance that benefit the taxpayers of Erie County . Show me another investment, public or private, that performs so well!
We don't ask for much, and we never ask for more than we need. Is 62 cents more per month too much to ask?
B&ECPL Director Michael C. Mahaney:
Thank you, Mrs. Pordum. Honorable Legislators, good afternoon.
We learned a lot of lessons from the freak snowstorm that struck our community only two weeks ago, but for me one lesson overrides the rest: Never take anything for granted.
That storm reminded us how much we rely on heat and lights and phone service ? not to mention sump pumps and chain saws. It will be a long time before we take those for granted again.
And what about our beautiful, tree-lined neighborhoods? After a strong wind storm, we expect to see the occasional downed branch, but nothing could prepare us for the devastation we witnessed as limbs snapped and trunks cracked, and our curbs became barricades of brush and branches as high as our heads. Many of us took those trees for granted. Now, thousands of them are gone, and the ones that remain are sad reminders of how much this community has lost.
As we continue to clear the debris around our homes and consider how to deal with the consequences of that fateful storm, we should revisit the dramatic changes that have occurred in our Library System over the past two years, and we must agree that we cannot afford to take this institution for granted.
Last year, we made unpleasant but necessary cuts ? closing library buildings, reducing personnel, limiting book purchases and exploring new ways of doing more with less. Nevertheless, there is a limit to how deep we can cut and how many branches we can prune without doing irreparable harm to the tree.
We urge you to help us take the first steps toward restoring this Library System. As Mrs. Pordum has stated, a few cents more per month can make a genuine difference.
We want to do so much more for our patrons ? and with your help we will. Consider, for example, the success of the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, one new branch library that has, in effect, replaced three on the East Side of Buffalo. This 20,000 square-foot facility, with its dramatic design, state-of-the-art technology and unique resources proves the adage: If you build it, they will come. Today, this single library outperforms the three it replaced. Its circulation is higher than those three combined, and its computer use is the second highest in all of Erie County . Only the Central Library sees more public access computer activity.
All of our successes don't need to be behind us. Let's build on successes like Merriweather. Let's envision a new library system that might be a bit leaner than the old one but one that is better equipped to serve the people of Erie County in the years ahead.
And as we look toward the future, I urge you to re-enact the Library Protection Act as a permanent local law. It has served this community well for 14 years; it is time to make it permanent.
Thank you for your consideration.
B&ECPL Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Rick Berger
Thank you, Mr. Mahaney. Honorable Legislators, good afternoon. My name is Rick Berger and I'm President of NanoDynamics a company based right here in Buffalo . I also am a Library Trustee serving as Chairperson of the Board's Budget and Finance Committee.
The Budget & Finance Committee monitors the Library's budget and provides policy direction to staff in preparing the Library's annual budget request.
The 2007 budget proved yet another challenging process. The base budget, as recommended by the County Executive , leaves county Library Tax support at $21.7 million. This amount, less than the library received 10 years ago, would be unchanged for a third straight year.
The reduced funding level, implemented during 2005's fiscal crisis, is insufficient to successfully sustain even the present downsized library operation into the future. Three libraries are presently not open enough hours per week to meet New York State minimum standards. Based upon System/County provided support, as many as 12 libraries are at risk in 2007 or beyond.
Should a library continue to fail to meet New York State minimum standards, the library's registration would eventually be revoked and the library would become ineligible to receive public funds from any source and can no longer operate as a public library.
To proactively address the situation, we request your consideration of library service restoration proposals. These proposals are grouped, starting with the most urgently needed to prevent future library closings, and progressing through a series of service restorations that will allow the downsized Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System to meet continued high public demand for service at a cost that would still be down to approximately what the taxpayers provided in 1999.
The monthly cost of the Library's restoration requests to an average $100,000 taxable value property range from 7 cents per month to allow libraries to meet minimum state standards to 22 cents per month to strengthen existing libraries in higher population centers, for example opening remaining Buffalo Branch Libraries 40 hours per week. As Ms. Pordum indicated, the monthly cost should all restoration requests be approved, would be approximately 62 CENTS, LESS THAN THE COST OF A REGULAR CUP OF COFFEE!
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to speak with you on these important matters.
I would now like to introduce the Library's Chief Financial Officer, Ken Stone, who will provide an overview of the Library's 2007 Budget Request
B&ECPL Chief Financial Officer Ken Stone
Thank you, Mr. Berger. Honorable Legislators, th ank you for the opportunity to provide an overview of the 2007 budget request, which are summarized on pages 3 through 12 of your Budget Overview and Issues handout :
Page 3 provides a brief outline of how we got to this point.
Since 2004, County support for the Library has been reduced by 24.5% or $7 million. $2.5 million of the reduction was in the Library Property Tax.
The rest of the 2005/2006 funding reduction resulted from a $5 million cut in the Erie County Capital Budget for library material.
The charts that follow show that County property taxpayers have seen their library property tax decline over what they paid ten years ago. Both the total Library tax levy and the rate paid per average $100,000 property are lower!
Had the Library Tax levy been allowed to grow in proportion to the growth in assessed value since last year, it would have grown $1.0 million over the $21.7 million received in 2006 without an increase in the tax rate (using figures reported in the County Executive 's proposed budget).
The chart on page 4 details the county support provided to the library from 1997 to the proposed 2007 budget. It shows the $21.7 million library tax proposed in the 2007 County Executive 's budget is less than the levy provided in 1997!
Meanwhile, the consumer price index will have increased an estimated 30% over that same period and, as the chart on page 5 shows, many items the library must purchase increased by larger amounts. Had library funding simply followed consumer prices, Erie County funding would total approximately $29.7 million in 2007.
The impact on B&ECPL staffing over the period are discussed on page 6 , with full-time personnel trends over the past thirty years charted on page 7 . Under 2007 BASE Budget County funding, full-time staffing will have DECREASED 361.5 positions and 63% from 1975 levels while Erie County 's population decreased from 1,113,491 in the 1970 census to 950,265 in the 2000 census, a 15% drop.
Of the 215 full-time positions in the 2007 base budget, 186 are in the SAP system (and shown in your budget position runs) with the remaining 29 funded through the contract line for those suburban contracting libraries not yet participating in B&ECPL's Centralized Human Resources Program.
Operating under these conditions required constant evaluation of the mix and methods of service delivery and the staffing levels required to cost-effectively provide library services. Techniques included applying technology, conducting process improvement studies, and aggressively managing turnover to evaluate and reclassify/redeploy vacated positions to meet library users' changing needs.
Unfortunately, the 24.5% reduction in county support between 2004 and 2006 placed an unprecedented strain on the Library's ability to provide quality public services. Despite the Library's ongoing efforts to downsize, streamline and innovate, additional support is needed to sustain today's smaller library system.
The charts on pages 8 and 9 place Library property tax support in context.
The County Average Annual Library Tax chart on page 8 shows, on average, a $100,000 taxable value property owner paid $89 per year for library services in 1996 decreasing to an estimated $70 per year for library services in 2007's base budget. Even if all the Library's requested restorations were approved, the amount would rise modestly to $77 per year, which a property owner could recover by checking out just 2-4 hardcover books!
The Library Property Tax share of a typical property owner's total property taxes paid is very small. The charts on page 9 compare the proportions a village property owner paid in taxes by entity in 1999 (the year before Erie County reduced its property tax) and 2006. As you can see, both the County and Library tax make up a smaller share of the property taxes paid in 2006 than in 1999. The library's share having fallen from 2.4% of total property taxes paid in 1999 to 2.1% in 2006.
The chart on page 10 , Library Restoration Requests Strong Bang for Few Bucks summarizes the Library's requested restoration proposals that, if fully implemented, would restore the Library Tax to $24.0 million. County support would still be $4.7 million LOWER than that provided in 2004 and less than provided in 1999.
As previously mentioned, the restoration requests are grouped starting with the most urgently needed to prevent future library closings, and progressing through a series of service restorations that will allow the downsized Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System to meet continued high public demand for service at a modest cost.
Examples of restorations in each grouping include:
URGENT: $252,947 and roughly 7 cents per month cost to an average $100,000 taxable property would ensure all libraries meet New York State minimum standards. Currently 12 libraries do not receive sufficient system funding to meet NY State minimum standard weekly open hours.
ESSENTIAL: $696,779 and roughly 18 cents per month cost to that same property would allow libraries remaining open to provide more effective service. For example: restoring 6 weekly open hours at two Buffalo Branches from 18 to 24 hours per week and restoring 7 hours per week at the Lake Shore Library and Anna Reinstein libraries.
BASIC: $817,819 and roughly 22 cents per month cost to an average $100,000 taxable property would further strengthen existing libraries in higher population centers, particularly those serving patrons from closed libraries. For example: restoring all eight Buffalo Branches to 40 open hours per week.
TARGETED: $549,315 and roughly 15 cents per month cost to this $100,000 taxable property would address specific problem areas or system-wide programming and service opportunities. For example: restoring some vehicle based outreach; restoring system-wide technology training; and restoring system-wide children's programming.
As mentioned previously, the monthly cost of the full restoration package to a $100,000 taxable value property, approximately 62 cents, would be less than the price of a regular cup of coffee!
Shifting gears towards the 2007 County Capital Budget, as pages 11 and 12 show, with no capital funding provided for library projects for a third straight year, the Library may lose much of an available $664,117 in state library construction grant funds.
The 2006-2007 New York State Budget contains a one-time $14 million supplement in aid for library construction. The share of funds available to the 37 public libraries in Erie County is supplemented by $664,117, with funds provided on a 50% match of eligible project components. The filing deadline is late December 2006!
As a result of its fiscal crisis, with no projects recommended for funding in the 2007 Capital Budget, the list of needed projects has grown while B&ECPL's County project pipeline is essentially dry. The lack of match funding in 2007's budget may mean that much of the $664,117 will be lost to Erie County and redirected to other libraries in the State.
Escalator Replacement and Asbestos Abatement at the Central Library is the Library's top priority project (page 11) . The Central Library is the only County owned facility (other libraries are owned by their respective municipality or, in the case of the Alden, Boston, and Marilla Free libraries, by the library association members). This project was previously included in the 2004 Adopted Capital budget at a cost of $1.6 million. However, the bonds were never issued and the project was cancelled during the 2005 fiscal crisis. As conditions have deteriorated further and construction costs have increased, County Public Works staff estimates 2007 costs at $2,000,000. Delay will further increase costs above inflation as conditions deteriorate. If it was added to the 2007 Capital Budget, this project would qualify for up to +/- $400,000 in aid depending upon the number and amounts requested by other libraries.
Central Library Fuel Tank, Mechanical Equipment and Exterior Renovation is the Library's next priority project. At an estimated cost of $650,000 this project, if added to the 2007 Capital Budget, would likely qualify for up to +/- $225,000 in state aid. As you can see from the photographs on page 12 , the condition of the sidewalks and parking area are significantly deteriorated. The fuel tank provides dual fuel heating capability (#6 heavy fuel oil and natural gas) allowing the library to meet both emergency situations and use the most cost-effective source of heating at any given time.
The remaining pages in this handout provide additional detail on the Library's 2007 Budget Request, including:
Hours of Service by Community ( Pages 14 and 15 )
Restoration Request Detail by Category and Library ( Pages 16-23 ); and
Revenue and Expense Listing - "Form 4" (Pages 24 31 ).
Of course, additional explanations, charts and graphs are also available on the Library's website at www1.buffalolib.org
Finally, on a celebratory note, I call your attention to the single page in your packet titled Proof of Concept: Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library
As Mr. Mahaney mentioned, this library, which opened April 1, 2006 on the City's East Side at Jefferson and Utica , directly replaced the aging N. Jefferson Branch. Additionally, due to Erie County budget cutbacks, Merriweather provides service to patrons who used the former Kensington and Fronczak Branches that closed in late 2005.
The new, bigger, more capable library has been extremely well received by the community. In September 2006, the library circulated MORE than the three former libraries COMBINED did in September 2005.
Since opening, computer use has grown dramatically each month. September use was HIGHER than the combined use of the three replaced libraries in 2005 and Merriweather is now the second busiest library for computer use in the entire B&ECPL (after the Central Library).
The Merriweather Library experience validates the continuing relevance, importance and demand for public library service in our community!
Thank you for your interest and support. Chairperson Pordum, Budget and Finance Committee Chairperson Berger, Director Mahaney and I would be happy to answer any questions you might have.


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Held Nov. 10-11, the fifth-annual San Francisco Bike Expo a bike lover's dream.
Custom builders, bike polo players, kids, new- and use-gear sellers, and everyday riders transformed the Cow Palace indoor arena in Daly City, California into one big bike party, complete with an adjacent outdoor bike park.
In the 48,000-square-foot South Hall, custom frame builders and bigger exhibiting companies shared the place with bike polo players and their "4th Annual Ball Whackers Ball."
This used to be a unicycle
Many builders, such as Bicycle Fabrications, Renovo Bikes and Bamboosero, treated the show as equal parts art exhibit and selling opportunity.
"I wanted to make something new that looks old," said Brad Hodges of Nemesis Project, a local custom bike builder. "I treated it as an art and design project, rather than just treating it as a bike."
Among the highlights: Yuba utility bicycles, for parents who want to carry their children and other cargo in the back; Renovo Hardwood Bicycles offering 30 types of wood for frame construction; Bamboosero building frames with bamboo from Africa and bark cloth, the same material with which mummies were wrapped.
Bamboo bottom bracket shells and mummy wrap — just another exhibit at the San Francisco Bike Expo
The expo included track bikes, mountain bikes, BMX bikes and road bikes, plus water-proof shoes, art, imported and U.S.-made clothing, bags and bike gear.
The 48,000-square-foot North Hall held swapper's row, where individuals, teams, clubs and bike shops swapped used or new old stock to other cyclists.
But the fun didn't stop there. Outside of the two halls was another whole area of vendors, music and bicycle ramps and dirt courses. The expo what show organizers claimed to be the "only mountain bike slopestyle head-to-head competition placed in a major urban city."
The Expo hosted what organizers said what "the only urban slopstyle competition"
Not too far from the competition was a kid's zone, complete with walking bikes and a little pump track. There was also a fixed-gear freestyle competition, a fashion show, a miniature velodrome dubbed the whiskeydrome and more.
Check out the huge photo gallery for all the details.
Bike shows are serious business


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In two introductory article series on the Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API, you learned the very basic steps involved in connecting to the Yahoo Inbound Links API using the PHP server side scripting language to get important link- related data.
Those were very basic concepts which you need to know to build more complex applications. In this series, you will learn how to build a web application using Yahoo Site Explorer's inbound links API to count back links/inbound links from unique domains. The first part will discuss the design and concept of the implementation. The second and third parts will discuss the PHP script and application in detail.
These are very important tools for search engine optimization and web marketing. In a study conducted by SEOMoz, "diversity of link sources" (links from many unique root domains) is considered to be one of the top five primary ranking factors Google considered in 2009.
Source: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
Because of this trend, it is important for web marketing analysts and SEO professionals to at least examine the back link profile of their domains and see how many links are coming from unique domains. This information can be used as input to formulate strategies pertaining to link popularity improvement.
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This web application is written in PHP and should run in an Apache/Linux/MySQL web environment (MySQL database is not needed for this implementation, although it can be integrated). Paid hosting enables important PHP functions which are needed to run this application, for example file_get_contents. You need to consult with your hosting provider to find out if there are limitations on the PHP functions you can use, such as the example function provided earlier.
Remember that if you are in a limited hosting environment — as you would be with free web hosting, for example — there is no way you can run this type of application. Web hosting companies offering free hosting services typically disable these PHP functions (used for grabbing data from outside the domain, like API) to control spam and abuse.
However, you can run the application perfectly inside your own XAMPP local host (to be used just for your own consumption). If you use either Windows or Linux, you can install XAMPP (it is bundled with Apache, MySQL and PHP) which you can use to run this application. If you are interested in using XAMPP, you can read the tutorial at the link, as well as this one.
Other than that, assuming you have read the two introductory articles on the Yahoo Inbound Links API (provided in the first section), you should have your own Yahoo Application ID which is needed for this application.
It is also important that if you plan to use Yahoo inbound links API, you agree to their terms of use.
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Before we dive into the details of programming, we should first formulate the concepts that will govern the implementation. The following is the native flow of the Yahoo Inbound Links API using PHP:
The PHP web application will be the first one to establish communication to the Yahoo API, and then the Yahoo API will examine the application ID. If it is valid, it will output the requested Yahoo API data back to the user.
Since you need to count back links coming from unique domains pointing to a specific targeted domain, you need to have "Domain URL" as the most important user input, which should preferably be the canonical home page URL. Yahoo Site Explorer API does not take the www and non-www versions as the same. This means that if the query to the API is www.php-developer.org , this result will be entirely different if only the non-www version is used: php-developer.org.
For example, it is entirely possible for Yahoo Links API to return 583 back links for the www version of the entire site, but no links (zero) for the non-www version.
In SEO, you should be interested in the overall number of back links (coming from unique domains) pointing to the entire domain, not only the home page URL. The higher the number of links to the entire domain, the more authoritative the domain will be. However since it is possible for Yahoo Links API to return the number of links pointing to the entire domain or only to a specific page, these can be added as an option in the web form.
Bear in mind that "back link obsession" is not recommended; this data should only serve as a guide in formulating general strategies. You should not worry about each little detail.
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The complete and detailed implementation flow for this application should look like this:
The web form is first presented to the user. They will enter the root domain URL, for example: http://www.thisistherootdomainurl.com . After that, the user will decide if he or she is interested in the number of back links pointing to the entire domain (home page + inner pages) or only to the specific root domain URL (home page only).
When the form is submitted, PHP will process the user inputs and then establish a connection to the Yahoo API. Details of the request will be sent, for example the Application ID, Requested Domain URL, and additional options (entire domain or to specific URL).
If the application ID is valid, the Yahoo API will send the request back to the server. PHP will receive the request, and then analyze the data by filtering for unique domains. For example, if PHP receive the series of back link URLs seen below:
PHP should filter the back link data to count unique domains. In the above example, there are only five back links coming from unique domains.
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Bear in mind that Yahoo Site Explorer Links API can only provide 100 back link samples at a maximum. They can provide the total number of back links pointing to the domain but this is NOT unique data. You will still need to do some statistical approximation of the overall UNIQUE back link count.
Below is the formula for the unique back link count:
Unique Back link count = (Number of Unique Back links in 100 Yahoo API samples/100) x Total number of back links pointing to the domain (not unique data)
For example, if there are 20,674 back links pointing to the entire domain, and in the sampling analysis of Yahoo Inbound Links API data there are 32 back links from unique domains out of 100 back link samples, the estimated/overall back link count should be:
Unique Back link count = (32/100) x 20,674 = 6,616 unique back links pointing to the entire domain.
Since this is an estimate, this is not guaranteed to be entirely accurate. Use this result only as a rough guide.
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One of the suggested user-friendly web forms uses AJAX PHP validation (details here). We will use this one as an example. As discussed earlier, the form should accept the following user inputs:
1. Root domain URL (starting with http:// and NOT ending with a trailing slash). For example:
www.php-developer.org is NOT acceptable
http://www.php-developer.org/ is NOT acceptable
http://www.php-developer.org – ACCEPTABLE
2. The choice of whether to analyze back links pointing to the entire domain or just to the home page.
3. A captcha for user validation.
The screenshot below shows what the HTML form will look like:
In part two, we will discuss the PHP script/source code in detail.


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Emotionless White Face
Join Date: Feb 2008
But what would be the purpose to lower the dosage of a drug ? NOT ALL the people drink to become drunk (As a French proud of our cuisine and wine, I would see that as an insult if somebody talks to me as if becoming drunk was the main purpose for drinking wine or using Cognac in cuisine, even if I don't drink myself). Why does the people take drugs? To experience the effects of it, and those effects come together with said bad side effects, and the effects that some people like are sometimes actually part of the bad effects. A person who is bored will smoke marijuana because it can change the perception of time on a certain number of people. The person sees that as a good effect, but then he has not a normal control on himself anymore.
And in my example, I was talking about Cocaine. Are you aware that not all the drugs are equal? In France, cocaine is seen as a very dangerous drug even at little dose.
People who know they will get high are not sure to still have full control once they will be "high". Nor that they will remember what they did. Here, it happens often about people who take drugs. Sure it's not important if you get high in your bedroom and wake up in your garden without remembering how and why you left your room. But very bad cases happen more and more often here. One of the very bad case can be that a man will rape a woman and doesn't even remember. Or that a woman will let 10 guys make love to her because she was not in full control of herself and realize in the morning the effects that a single dose of drug has on her. Some people might not care and even laugh at that, but if I was a parent I would care. And even so, I actually care about that.
I dont compare some of my friends who drink one beer every two weeks in a café (because it tastes good) and never get drunk to people who takes drugs with the sol purpose of getting high. Actually, said friends will see that as an insult if I ever make a comparison.
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|2009-04-05, 12:29
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Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Edit: On second thought, its not everyone as i first wrote, but quite a large number of people.
And about my comment about the accidental part, I'm saying people who get high know they will be losing control and know the consequences of what they do when that happens. People who drink a few glasses convince themselves they are alright, drink more, lose themselves and then do something they regret, all the while thinking they could control themselves.
|2009-04-05, 12:39
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Emotionless White Face
Join Date: Feb 2008
O_o I'm speechless about what you say of NA. Are they all brainless and totally stupid?
About your statement to alcohol, you generalize a lot. Again I'm talking about my country obviously. But in our laws, somebody who break the laws because of alcohol is in deep shit. We don't laugh over those people behaviors. Stop comparing just to excuse the purpose of drugs.
The main purpose of alcohol in france is NOT to get drunk. While the main purpose of drugs is to get high. You just can't compare once you know that.
|2009-04-05, 12:49
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Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Again, i can only talk about what is the norm in my area.
|2009-04-05, 13:27
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Maybe you're confusing a particular demographic with "everyone"...
|2009-04-05, 13:35
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Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 31
I suspect that alchohol is less dangerous in Europe than in Canada or the US because European cities tend to be less car dependent. Not everyone is responsible enough to have a designated driver.
As for drug laws, my big problem with them would be the effects of them. Dealers don't merely sell drugs - the huge profit to be made makes them actively recruit victims, many of whom are minors. They also have a tendency to shoot each other up over "turf" around here (drug trade related shootings make up a significant portion of Vancouver's murder rate). It's actually gotten to the point where when the police arrest someone important in the trade around here, my reaction isn't "yay!" it's "I hope that nobody gets shot trying to decide who his successor should be". And Vancouver's very high property crime rates are drug related too. If someone smashes your car window looking for money, there's a good chance they're an addict needing money for a fix.
So now that I've detailed who loses from drug laws, my question would be "who wins?". Based on the fact that marijauna is more popular than tobacco with youth around here, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that not a lot of people care that something is merely illegal. And for hard drugs like heroine or cocaine, I'd say the health effects are a way better deterrent than the law is.
|2009-04-05, 15:01
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Senior Member
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Age: 29
With all the news of killings and slaying across America, I stumbled upon this commentary of a would be "postal" man. Its pretty gritty, but wow is that prose amazing, and story itself was amazing.
check it out.
|2009-04-05, 15:03
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Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
I still think it is fair to say there are a lot of people who go out and get drunk.
|2009-04-05, 15:27
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
Look, I work in a irish pub at Mont- Tremblant ( Canada) and I see plenty of customes taking one or two drink only, and not getting drunk. Even those more eavy drunker plenty try to avoid the drunk level.
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|2009-04-05, 16:00
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Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
|2009-04-05, 16:55
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Age: 30
ZANESVILLE - Local law enforcement deals with sex offenders almost daily, but in the past couple of months, Zanesville police have dealt with one of the youngest cases officers can remember - an 11-year-old girl charged with three counts of rape.
Detective Randy Ritchason said the girl had some type of sexual contact with three other children - two boys and a girl -all under the age of 10. She was charged in Muskingum County Juvenile Court.
"I believe it's the youngest perpetrator we've had," Ritchason said. "We've had young teens before, but she is about the youngest I've ever dealt with."
Rhonda Hinkle, a supervisor with Muskingum County Children's Services, said the girl is a very rare case, but her office is continually seeing more and more children who are committing sex crimes, not just being victims.
|2009-04-05, 17:29
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I always assumed they'd end up being the losers who couldn't think of anything more interesting to do on Friday than blow their paycheck on booze and not remember the weekend.
|2009-04-05, 17:43
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: PMB Headquarters
I don't look at it this simple. Currently, Japan, the United States, and South Korea is planning to extend sanctions on North Korea but without the agreement of China and Russia, two veto-wielding powers, the UNSC will be able to do nothing about it. Currently, China is asking everybody to remain calm about the act of aggression which North Korea has committed indicates that China actually supports North Korean missile test. Russia is staying silent meaning that they don't really care either way but they prefer to not support Japan, South Korea, and the United States in punishing North Korea's ignorant attempts. This isn't good.
More importantly, where did North Korea's "satellite" went? It disappeared off the SDF's radar after leaving eastward of Japan by 2100km, yet nobody had seen any sort of flying object entering orbit. Did their "satellite" fell into the Pacific Ocean again?
|2009-04-05, 18:17
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In a house
Perhaps my perspective is a bit selfish since I have a lot of Korean friends who actually live in South Korea whilst my Japanese friends are all overseas. I was more than a little alarmed at what the war games between North Korea and Japan in particular would mean for South Korea. Unlike Japan, South Korea has a lot at stake in this conflict so despite its recently toughened stance, it still tends to tread a lot more carefully than Japan.
|2009-04-05, 19:13
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Join Date: Jun 2008
whoop that trick!
|2009-04-05, 19:14
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
Um, what is your supposed alternative?
Ignore the missles coming down on your head, don't shoot them down, and just take it in the ass?
For god's sakes, you act like South Korea is just an innocent bystander. No, they are just as much of a player in the political games in the region as any other.
North Korea is the only aggressor in the conflict between the five nations involved, stop trying to play the silly blame game.
|2009-04-05, 19:17
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 28
|2009-04-05, 19:25
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Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
PAC3 missles are anti ballistic missles, they can't even travel very far.
It's purely a defensive weapon, that cannot be used offensively in any way.
Jesus. Christ.
I can understand criticisms if there were offensive military actions taken, but that is not the case here.
I swear, some of you peole just want to see Japan burn.
Oh, and PAC3s ARE supplied by the US forces in Japan, thank you very much.
|2009-04-05, 19:45
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 28
Anyhow all did was just throw a half assed idea (quite bored right now), you don't really have take my post seriously.
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GREENVILLE, TENN. – Mike Martiello scored six goals to lead the Coker men's lacrosse team to a 13-7 South Atlantic Conference victory on Saturday (Mar. 15). The win improves the Cobras to 2-1 in conference play and extends Martiello's streak of registering at least three points to eight games.
In addition to Martiello's six goals, Andy Campos netted three goals and handed out two assists for five points. Shane Wilson added two goals of his own, while Ryan Maurer found the back of the net one and dished out a team-high four assists. Timothy Smith scored a goal to move his goal streak to eight straight games. Lending helping hands on the Navy and Yellow's scores were John Bretton (3) and Patrick Timothee (1).
Dylan Marks caused four turnovers and picked up six ground balls to lead a smothering Coker defense. Tim Ryan was phenomenal in goal as he allowed a season low six goals and tallied double-digit saves for seventh consecutive game with 16.
Coker trailed after the first period 2-1, but would use a 4-2 second period scoring run to take a 5-4 lead into halftime. The second half would be all Coker as the defense clamped down and put an end to any offensive opportunities by Tusculum. The Pioneers would only score three goals in the second half, while the Navy and Yellow's No. 2 nationally ranked offense poured on eight goals in the final 30 minutes to secure a 13-7 victory.
Coker will make the second stop of its three-game road trip on Wednesday (Mar. 19) when they travel to Belmont Abbey College for a non-conference tilt with the Crusaders. Face-off is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Release written by Coker sports information graduate assistant Sharod Williams.


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In the 41st minute of Saturday night's 3-1 loss to host Southern Methodist in the SMU Classic in Dallas, Texas the Lipscomb Bisons lost defender Garrett McLaughlin who received a red card.
"Things could have gone a lot better with another man," Bisons coach Charles Morrow said. "It certainly changes things.
"But I thought the guys responded well. In some ways it helped us to sort some things out defensively. Our markings and our shifting defensively improved so much because the guys knew they were going to have to put the work in to cover for the extra guy."
The Bisons gave up two goals in the first half, but came back to cut the lead to one in the second half before SMU responded with its third goal of the game in front of 466 fans at Westcott Field.
SMU attempted 11 shots in the first half and 10 in the second. But only six of those were shots on goal.
The Bisons had two shots in the first half and three shots in the second. Andrew Chamberlain, Angel Chairez and Garret Pettis each had one shot on goal for the Bisons. Chamberlain led the team with three shots overall.
"We played a lot better in the second half," Morrow said. "One of the things we can take from the game is we can't get caught up with stuff off of the ball."
SMU struck at the 3:04 mark of the first half on a shot by Robbie Derschang from 16 yards out.
"We didn't start off great," Morrow said. "Giving up a goal in the first five minutes is not good.
"We have to bring the defensive intensity early. If we do we are going to have a lot more success. Once we were able to sort ourselves out defensively we were able to play a lot better."
At 26:36 SMU struck again when Zach Barnes put in a chip shot from the edge of the six-yard box that went just inside the post. In the second half Pettis scored the lone goal for the Bisons when he kicked in a loose ball from about one foot out at 65:54.
A.J. Corrardo closed out the scoring for SMU with a shot from 18 yards out off of a free kick with less than six minutes left to play.
The Bisons will play Tulsa Monday at noon to close out the tournament. Austin Neil scored all three goals as Tulsa beat Seattle Saturday in the first round.
"We got the chance to see Tulsa play," Morrow said. "They are big and fast and strong. They are a very talented team. It will be a challenge for us, but I think it is also a team we can find some success against."
Defensively, the Bisons will have to be ready to go from the starting buzzer.
"Tulsa has very technical players as well," Morrow said. "They do an outstanding job of finding their forwards early. A key to the game for us is to make sure their forwards are accounted for and that we are tight on our marking. We have to make it difficult for their forwards to receive the ball."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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In the fall of 2003, a meeting was convened at the Banbury Center of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to discuss construction of a public resource consisting of a comprehensive collection of mouse knockouts, i.e. a null mutation in every gene in the mouse genome. The meeting was international in scope and attended by scientists from both the public and private sectors. The issues discussed included the scope of the potential effort, type of mutations and the strain background that would be most desirable, the feasibility of producing such a collection in a cost-effective and highly efficient manner within a reasonable period of time, the data management requirements, the dissemination of data and materials, and the feasibility and costs of phenotyping the mutant mice generated in the project.
The 2003 CSHL Banbury meeting recommended the value of a knockout mouse project to generate a library of ES cells comprising a null allele, ideally conditional null for each gene in the genome. However, because they doubted that existing technologies were sufficiently robust to accomplish a genome-wide, high-throughput effort to produce mice with a conditional null mutation, the meeting attendees agreed that the project should use a mixed strategy employing both gene trapping and gene targeting technologies to produce a comprehensive collection of mutant ES cell lines representing null mutations for "all" mouse genes (~20,000) in the strain 129 background. The resource would be used to produce live mice (which would then be stored and distributed as frozen embryos and sperm). A graduated scheme, represented as a pyramid with three additional tiers, was recommended for the subsequent phenotyping phase of the project. Tier 1, or basic, phenotyping would be done on nearly all of the mice created by the project and the phenotyping would be done centrally. Tier 2 phenotyping would be carried out for only a subset of mice, although transcriptome analysis would be done centrally, and Tier 3 phenotyping would be specialized and performed by individual labs. It was envisioned that the project would international in scope.
Since the Banbury meeting, there has been a significant amount of activity around the world to organize mouse knockout efforts. Investigators in Europe are planning the European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM) that proposes to generate 20,000 mutations (12,000 conditional gene trap mutations and 8,000 conditional targeted mutations) in ES cells. The group proposes to archive and distribute the mutant ES cell lines centrally, along with existing Cre recombinase-expressing transgenic mouse lines. Additionally, they will establish 300 mutant mouse lines from the conditional mutants produced as part of the project and provide an online database for the dissemination of information about the resources. EUCOMM is a consortium of eleven laboratories and is led by groups at the GSF (German National Research Center for Environment and Health) in Munich, Germany and the Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK. Other mouse knockout projects are under consideration in Canada, Australia, Japan and at the Sanger Institute.
In addition to these newly planned focused efforts, there are, of course, a large number of knockout mice that have been previously created in individual research laboratories, both public and private, around the world in the course of their specific research projects. The existence of these mice should be taken into account in planning the development of the proposed comprehensive resource, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. As a basis for doing this, the NIH has begun systematically to develop information about existing knockouts. The approach involved compiling data from the Mouse Genome Database (data curated from the published scientific literature), and gene trap sequence data submitted to the dbGSS section of GenBank, as well as conducting a new inventory of available but unreported knockout mice. The latter was done through an e-mail solicitation widely distributed to the research community. The results were collated by the MGD.
The information obtained to date indicates that mutations have been constructed in at least 8188 unique genes, by either gene-trap or targeted knockout methods. The information-gathering effort also indicated that only a small fraction of the mice or ES cells containing these constructs is publicly available and that investigators were willing to make available another small, but significant, number. One of the problems with this effort was that there was only a limited response from investigators outside of the US. Therefore it is almost certain that the current number is a significant underestimate of the number of unique genes that have been already been knocked out by the research community.
Since the Banbury meeting, the NIH has also been considering its role in the construction of a comprehensive mouse knockout and how to complement the efforts of the international community. The NIH Planning Meeting for a Knockout Mouse Project was organized to assess the status of research in the field eighteen months after the Banbury meeting, to obtain updates on current projects and to get input from the scientific community on a draft proposal for an NIH mouse knockout program
A panel of experts discussed the use of ES cells derived from inbred lines, particularly 129/Sv and C57BL/6, and of a 129/BL6 F1 hybrid cell line. The F1 line is very to easy handle and produces a high rate of germline mice. Despite the efficiency advantages, there was a strong recommendation that issues of mixed background genetics were of overwhelming importance. The influence of genetic mutation is most easily interpreted on a defined background. As a gene is bred onto a different genetic background, the role of modifier genes can be inferred. Moreover, a mixed genetic background makes breeding of congenic lines difficult, especially if it is into to a third genetic background. Thus the recommendation was to the use an ES cell line derived from an inbred strain to allow breeding to pure genetic inbred when needed.
There remained the question of which inbred strain, 129/Sv or C57BL/6, should be used. Strong reasons were presented for each alternative. In the end, a majority of those present recommended the use of C57BL/6, as the preferred line of choice for many groups including immunologists and neurobiologists.
Given that the European and other efforts will be focused on conditional mutations, the meeting recommended that the NIH should consider providing a complementary resource of benchmark reporter-marked null deletions. The "simple" deletions would provide an opportunity to generate baseline data that could then provide the context for the interpretation of the data from the more complicated conditional mutations, and the deletion/conditional heterozygote would be a particularly valuable experimental reagent.
In designing an NIH program, the mutation-generation strategies should be fully validated, have a benchmarked cost per allele, and result in mice with a high germ-line transmission frequency. Any strategy employed must ensure that the target vector resource remains useful in the future. The attendees also ratified the Banbury meeting's conclusion that the mutations to be incorporated in the comprehensive resource (whether existing or newly generated) must be fully validated as to null/conditional/reporter status.
There was general agreement that the NIH should not undertake the creation of a complete resource but, because of the large number of international efforts already underway, the NIH effort must be cognizant of and complementary to the already active efforts in Europe, the UK, Canada, and elsewhere. Thus, the attendees strongly recommended that an NIH gene targeting-based program must be closely coordinated with international efforts to ensure that appropriate choices of genes to target are made. However, it was also considered crucial that there be an agreement among all of the groups participating in an international mouse knockout project that the resource generated be available to all users around the world.
Finally, whatever strategy is chosen, BAC recombineering-ready libraries of targeting vectors that can be reengineered for any future genetic alteration of locus are a vital first-line resource.
Beyond the considerations of vector design and mutation strategy, it was acknowledged that baseline gene expression and phenotype information would make the resource more valuable. However, it was recognized that this would also increase the cost significantly and, as a result, such characterization was not included as a recommendation for the initial phase of the mouse knockout project at the NIH.
The following information will be needed for a knockout mouse project and accumulating the information will require bioinformatics solutions:
The issue of evolving technologies that might obviate the need for a mouse knockout resource within the next few years was discussed. It was agreed that siRNA-based technologies for selectively knocking out gene function are likely to be a good complement to genetic knockout techniques, but are not going to replace them. Additionally, there are no conditional transcription technologies robust enough at present to compete with the recombinase-mediated conditional approaches utilized in mouse knockout systems. There are new inducible technologies that may be useful but at present the data are too preliminary to assess as they have not been validated in mice. Additionally, many of these usually include a transgenic system expressed with a Knockout. Thus the KO resource is still a valued resource.
The group agreed that the availability of primary targeting vectors would be extremely useful in facilitating the secondary modifications of alleles. There is a need to engineer additional mouse strains to support conditional strategies and no need to preconfigure ES cells for this effort. There are a variety of histochemical and fluorescent protein markers that can be expressed in transgenics or knock-ins and are available to assess the activity of integrases and recombinases, and the group felt that technology is moving rapidly and many new tools are appearing. There was consensus that the ideal reporter or recombinase expression system has not been validated. There was no strong feeling among the participants that any new approach is ready to be incorporated into mouse knockout projects or that there is a limitation of availability of existing tools.
To make the conditional knockout resource maximally useful, the loxP/Cre-based approaches are favored, but data presented at the meeting raised a concern about secondary chromosomal damage as a consequence of Cre activity. Some preliminary sites suggested that Cre induction can induce deletions that can be as large at 20Mbases, presumably due to recombination between cryptic loxP sites in the mouse genome. If the Cre-lox system is to be used, good Cre driver strains are critical to the maximal usefulness of a conditional resource, and this is an element of the system in which the private sector has a particular interest. However, no proposal for developing a specific set of strains was discussed at the meeting.
As a public resource, it will be essential for public repositories to handle the products produced by the knockout mouse project. The following points were made in the discussion of this issue:
Considerable progress in producing knockout constructs and mice has been made since Banbury. The NIH's plan to construct a set of ES cells carrying null mutations with reporters, as recommended by the Banbury meeting, is important. The addition of 10,000 more nulls with a reporter will complete the resource so that there is a null for each gene in the mouse genome. Such a resource would be complementary to the set of conditional mutants that the EUCOMM project plans to generate. However, there is considerable interest in continued efforts to develop the C57BL/6 ES cell lines as a system for generation of knockout mutants in an experimentally tractable genetic background. Private sector scientists are interested in "humanized" mice, that is mice in which a human gene has been "knocked in" in to replace the corresponding mouse gene. They urged NIH to consider this element in its planning.While generation of new mutants to complete the knockout resource is important, participants urged NIH to explore "repatriation" (collection) of existing ES cells and mice to repositories as an alternative to remaking the null mutants. It was noted that there are, issues such as quality control, relative expense, and potential IP restrictions that must be carefully evaluated before a decision is made one way or the other. Overall, there was agreement that whatever initiative NIH puts forward, it will need to coordinate its efforts with other international programs that are also participating in developing the comprehensive mouse knockout resource.
Finally, a warning that a complete catalog of mouse knockouts will totally alter the sociology of the mouse research community landscape. In that regard, it will be a disruptive innovation, and will create the need for an extensive educational/re-training platform. Such education programs will facilitate the wide-spread distribution of mice, advance research, and minimize duplicative efforts.
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