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Mayor completes Saratoga Springs Comprehensive Plan Committee, Council Democrats say the slate is DOA
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Mayor Scott Johnson has chosen all of the members of the city's Comprehensive Committee and plans to move forward with appointing them, even though City Council Democrats call the plan "dead on arrival."
The committee is charged with reviewing the city's Comprehensive Plan, a planning document designed to guide development in the city. Johnson called it a "roadmap for where we are and where we see ourselves in the future."
The document unifies the policies that govern development in the city. It is used by the Planning Department and land-use boards to establish what kinds, how dense and what type of development should be allowed to achieve the "city-in-the-country" vision laid out in the city's current plan.
The City Charter requires that it be revisited every five years, but it has been more than a decade since changes were last adopted.
The committee members Johnson said he plans to appoint are:
- Charles Wait, president and CEO of Adirondack Trust Co.
- Dennis Brobston, president of the Saratoga Economic Development Corp.
- Todd Shimkus, president of the Saratoga Chamber of Commerce
- Michael Piccirillo, superintendent of the Saratoga Springs City School District Continued...
Though the mayor does not need City Council approval to appoint committee members, the council could impact the committee's work. City Council Democrats are united in opposing Johnson's appointments and could hamper the committee's review by holding up approvals of necessary consultants and, ultimately, rejecting updates to the Comprehensive Plan the committee recommends.
Weeks of infighting
The fight has been brewing since the first City Council meeting of 2013, when Johnson told council members the committee had "already been constituted." Days later, in his Jan. 17 State of the City address, however, he asked the commissioners to recommend people for the committee.
Prior to Johnson's address on Jan. 8, the three City Council Democrats — Public Safety Commissioner Christian Mathiesen, Accounts Commissioner John Franck and Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan — tabled a vote on hiring consultants for the project until they discussed the appointments.
Johnson called that move "blackmail to force greater control for (City Council Democrats)."
"It's not blackmail; it's good government," Mathiesen said.
By all accounts, Johnson appointing the full committee is not illegal.
Under the city's charter, the mayor's role is to "cause a review of the Comprehensive Plan." The charter does not, however, specify who is charged with appointing a charter review committee.
Johnson admitted that question is open to interpretation. City Council Democrats do not agree with Johnson's interpretation.
"I think his 'initiation' (of the review) has been broadly expanded on," Mathiesen said. Continued...
New York's Department of State offers guidelines for the preparation of a Comprehensive Plan that indicates the City Council would be responsible for appointing any specific committee.
"That is only a guideline," Mathiesen admitted, "but why wouldn't you follow that?"
Several memos discussing the appointments stamped "confidential" in red ink have circulated among City Council members.
In one, circulated to the council Jan. 23, the mayor delivered a list of 11 people he planned to appoint to the committee, as well as a suggestion to name a 12th member from Sustainable Saratoga. In that memo, he said the committee should have no more than 13 members and added, "I hope you could use one of these individuals as your recommendation …"
Johnson said Wednesday, "that was just an option."
Madigan called that option "table scraps."
"We want actual appointments, not just recommendations the mayor could choose to accept or not," she said.
My way or the highway
"This committee is too important," Johnson said. "I would rather have no review of the Comprehensive Plan than a badly constituted committee."
The last review of the city's Comprehensive Plan was in 2006. After 18 months, the committee's plan was never adopted by the City Council.
"The last one died on the vine because (the committee) was poorly formed," Johnson said.
Franck, who was a commissioner at the time, said each council member was given two picks in 2006, while Mayor Valerie Keehn chose seven members to constitute the 15-member board. One of the members of that 2006 committee, who refused to speak on the record for this story, backed up Franck's memory of the 2006 appointment process.
Johnson remembers the 2006 process differently. He said Keehn made 11 appointments and each commissioner made one. Keehn could not be reached for comment.
The last adopted revisions to the Comprehensive Plan were made in 2001. That committee consisted of nine members, five of whom were appointed by Mayor Ken Klotz, leaving one appointee for each of the commissioners. Klotz said Thursday that he was following precedent when he appointed the committee that way in 2001.
Franck, Mathiesen and Madigan all seem to agree that the people on Johnson's list are good suggestions. Franck called them "fantastic people," but added that "I don't think (the list) represents the diversity of the community, geographically or ideologically."
Mathiesen, too, said he believes "business and development is disproportionately represented on the committee."
Following party lines, however, Public Works Commissioner Anthony "Skip" Scirocco is taking Johnson's side. "It's a well-rounded list," he said.
Scirocco was the only member of the City Council to give the mayor a committee member recommendation. The person Scirocco recommended was already on Johnson's 11-person list, but Scirocco wouldn't specify which person he recommended.
"These are major players in the community who should be part of the process," Johnson said. "These are 11 people who should and must be appointed to this committee."
Not backing down
In interviews Wednesday, council members continued to throw jabs at each other, and neither side seemed likely to back down.
"I'm not going to spend any money on this," Franck said Wednesday. "It's dead on arrival because I don't think it's equitable."
Later, Johnson retorted, "If they want to withhold the purse strings — that's on them. Don't blame me if the Comprehensive Plan Committee doesn't move forward."
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think such a committee would be constituted without the input of the City Council, who are duly elected to represent the people," Mathiesen said.
Under the city's commission form of government, all five elected officials wield equal voting power, but Johnson said they also have "distinct responsibilities, powers and authorities in the city."
He argued his department includes the Planning Department, which oversee the land-use boards, and the only place the charter mentions it is under the mayor's section.
The only exception to that is under the City Council section, where it states the council will be responsible for adopting the plan.
That is something the commissioners said they will not do.
Mathiesen said Comprehensive Plan review committee appointments are not among the many mayoral appointments laid out in the charter.
"All five members of the City Council are supposed to be the driving force of our government, not just the mayor," he said. "It's a matter of disrespect for the City Council."
Wednesday, Johnson couldn't say whether he would have the committee move forward with its review of the document without a consultant.
"I am fulfilling my responsibility under the charter to initiate a review of the comprehensive plan," Johnson said.
In criticizing Johnson's plan at Tuesday's Council meeting, Mathiesen cited an African proverb the mayor used himself during his State of the City address: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
"Let's go together," Mathiesen said.
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Press/ON files civil suit against Mille Lacs (NAP/ON) - The Native American Press/Ojibwe News and reporter Jeff Armstrong filed a federal civil rights complaint this week against officials of the Mille Lacs Reservation and Mille Lacs County. (See Pg. 4 for full text ofthe complaint) Alleging that Armstrong was falsely arrested and jailed under color of law while attempting to cover an Oct. 22, 1997 tribal meeting for the newspaper at the reservation's Grand Casino in Onamia, the lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the arrest and seeks punitive and compensatory damages. According to the complaint, the reporter was arbitrarily removed from the meeting by reservation law enforcement and subsequently detained in the Mille Lacs County Jail for the duration ofthe meeting ofthe six-reservation Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Armstrong was charged with violating state criminal trespass laws in the incident, but charges were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction on April 29, 1998 by Minnesota district court judge Thomas Knapp. The lawsuit contends that state and reservation law enforcement personnel acted in "bad faith, and maliciously with the intent to deter Plaintiffs from excercising constitutional rights." It further alleges that the parties bringing suit were defamed by statements "designed to coerce, intimidate and harass Plaintiffs in their business and personal reputations." The complaint seeks damages in excess of $75,000. Armstrong pledged to contribute at least half of any monetary judgement he might receive towards a fund to defend the human rights of MCT members. White Earth officials say cross-deputization agreement viewed as model by U.S. By Jeff Armstrong At the first public unveiling of a controversial cross-deputization pact with Mahnomen County, White Earth reservation officials claimed their "unprecedented" agreement is being viewed as a national model by the U.S. government. "The BIA is very interested in the success of the program, as is the Justice Department," said White Earth attorney Zenas Baer at the Dec. 16 meeting in Mahnomen. Baer said the federal Justice Department has reviewed and upheld the authority of the Reservation Business Committee to install a legal system, despite constitutional challenges from tribal members. "An opinion was rendered that the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians did have the right to enforce laws against members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe within the confines of the White Earth reservation and an inherent right to administer a COPS grant," said Baer. Nevertheless, a small group of tribal members continued to advance the longstanding argument that popular approval was necessary for both constitutional and practical reasons. "We have a document here that wasn't voted on by the people of White Earth, the Ojibwe Indians. To me, that's wrong," said George Earth. "You've got to get the people involved in this." Pursuant to the agreement, White Earth has hired six officers under the immediate supervision of reservation police chief Mike Robinson and the ultimate oversight of Mahnomen County Sheriff Richard Rooney. The White Earth/to Pg. 5 American Indian reservations fielding own police force BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) - Two American Indian reservations in northwestern Minnesota are fielding their own police forces to enforce certain laws on their land. Officials from Mahnomen County and the White Earth Tribal Council last week agreed on guidelines and procedures for coordinated law enforcement on the White Earth Reservation. "When I came here two years ago, one of my priorities was to improve law enforcement on the reservation," said White Earth Tribal Chairman John Buckanaga, a retired U.S. Indian Health Serviceofficial. "We need to take ownership of law enforcement. Our rural area is experiencing urban problems and we're not in a position to combat that," he said. This summer, the tribe created a police force and began patrolling roads. The action was part of a movement by tribes around the country to use the federal Community-Oriented Police Services program, known as COPS, to create or expand tribal police forces. In November, Buckanaga signed for and received a$l million COPS grant that expires in 2001. A recent COPS grant to the Leech Lake Reservation also will fund five police officers in a new department there, said Sharon Finn, Leech Lake Tribal Council planner. "That will help us with traffic enforcement and juvenile delinquency," Finn said. "Tribal courts wi 11 be expanded from natural resource issues only to include traffic and civil matters." The effort here stems from a 1997 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that interprets federal law to mean that state police/to pg. 3 Yellow Medicine School officials reinstate 'Little House' book GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) ~ School board members voted unanimously to reinstate Lauralngalls Wilder's book "The Little House on the Prairie," responding to pressure from the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union. The Yellow Medicine East school district stopped the group reading of the book in a third-grade class in October because ofa complaint about its portrayal of American Indians. Angela Cavender Wilson, amember of the Upper Sioux Community and mother ofa girl in the class, had cited some 60 references she considered racist in Wilder's "Little House" series. School board chairman Warren Formo told a delegation from the Upper Sioux Community on Monday that board members' "eyes had been opened" to racism in the book as a result of Wilson's objections. Her third-grade daughter had been upset during a class reading that contained the passage, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." While her concerns about the seemingly wholesome book attracted media attention, the school board's action to temporarily remove the book caught the eye of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union. The MCLU said in a Dec. 11 letter to board members that Supreme Court rulings made it clear that schools may only remove books that contain 'Little House'/to Pg. 3 Ho-Chunk Nation and State agree on gambling compact MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Ho-Chunk Nation gambling halls will pay Wisconsin $7.5 million annually for five years under a new casino agreement that also requires talks about real estate deals. The payment is the largest of any casino-operating tribe in any of the new compacts signed this year for allowing Las Vegas-style games on tribal lands. Potawatomi Indians, owners of a casino in downtown Milwaukee, agreed a week ago to pay $6.3 million a year. The Ho-Chunk Nation, the official name of the Wisconsin Winnebago tribe, has casinos near Wisconsin Dells, Nekoosa and Black River Falls. Wisconsin has 11 tribes with casino compacts. Eight have reached agreements. The Menominee, Red Cliff and Lac du Flambeau reservations are negotiating. The state has insisted on a bigger share of casino profits in exchange for granting new compacts to replace original seven-year agreements. Under the originals, the 11 tribes cumulatively paid$350,000ayear. Gov. Tommy Thompson and Ho-Chunk Nation vice president Clarence Pettibone signed the deal Friday. The payments begin in June 2000. The agreement forbids blackjack tables and slot machines at a Madison bingo parlor, at least without approval of local and state officials. The tribe can begin talks on that subject as early as 2000, Department of Administration Secretary Mark Bugher said. The pact also calls for talks with the state if the tribe acquires land near Baraboo at the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant, Bughersaid. Press/ON files civil suit against Mille Lacs Complete text of Press/ON v. Mille Lacs complaint, pgs. 4&8 WE/Mahnomen agreement said to be under review by state WE officials say cross-deputization agree, viewed as model Indian Country Today purchased by Oneidas of NY Yellow Medicine officials reinstate 'Little House' book Voice ofthe People 2 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com ^ American Press Ojibwe News We Support Equal Opportunity For All People Founded ii 1888 Volume 11 Issue 10 December 18,1888 j A weekly publication. Copyright Native American Press. 1888 Native American Press publisher. William Lawrence met with Governor-elect Jesse Ventura at Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America. The Ventura campaign staff held the party in appreciation ofthe work done by party volunteers to elect reform-party candidate Jesse Ventura governor. White Earth/Mahnomen agreement said to be under review by state By Gary Blair Sources at White Earth say the tribal council's attempts to launch a joint law-enforcement agreement with Mahnomen County and the State of Minnesota have been derailed. The state will not certify police officers hired by the reservation without a waiver of liability being granted to the Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training (Post) Board, the agency that approves prospective police officers. Reservation sources also say the Minnesota Attorney General's Office is presently reviewing a January 8, 1971, U.S. Supreme Court case, Kennedy v. District Court of Montana (400 U.S. 423), wherein the high court ruled, "that states do not have jurisdiction for criminal and civil matters occurring on reservations, unless, and only where the enrolled Indians within the affected area of such Indian county accept such jurisdiction by a majority vote ofthe adult Indians voting at a special election (called for by the Secretary ofthe Interior) held for that purpose." Those opposed to the law- enforcement agreement at White Earth say their concerns are going to spread to other Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT) reservations that have similar agreements with the state. These roblems that could easily give rise to questions of who gave tribal councils authority to enter into gaming compacts with the state, or permission to build casinos on the different reservations. These are questions that at least White Earth's tribal government has not been willing to answer. After two years of secret meetings with members of the U.S. Justice Department, state officials and local jurisdictions, the White Earth tribal council is no closer to solving its crime problems than it was back then. White Earth resident and activist Marvin Manypenny says problems with the law enforcement agreement with Mahnomen County, "stem from the tribal council's unwillingness to consult our people. Ifthey want more law enforcement here, that's fine, but they first need to take it to the people. They're talking about our rights and we have a right to have a say through a vote," Manypenny said recently. Indian Country Today purchased by Oneidas Of NY; Subscribers may be getting more than they Ho-Chunk/to Pg. 3 bargained for Indian holocaust: Archeologists discover 50 ancestors at ARCO refinery By Douglas Casgraux LOS ANGELES, CA.-" In all my professional life, I've never seen anything as terrible as this" says Frank McDowell, archeologist hired to by ARCO to over see the Gabrielino/ Tongva Indian burial site discovered at the Carson Refinery near the Port of Los Angeles. McDowell arrived at the Arco site in mid-September, when workmen discovered pieces ofa human skeleton. "Arco cal led in McDowell in respect to the Los Angeles Indian Community"stated Arco spokesman about the discovery. Working closely with the California State Native Heritage Commission, McDowell and his crew have been unearthing the site for the past few months." As we began excavating , it became apparent something big was going on here. This was beyond being just a burial ground. These people obviously met sudden ,very violent deaths" said McDowell. Some50Gabrielieno/TongvaIndians, including two unborn children had been exterminated on the Arco site 200 years ago archeologists estimate. The skeletal remains bear witness a violent deaths: ribs snapped from the sternum, forearm bones with hands sliced off, teeth bashed from skulls, blunt head trauma through skull fractures. As workers continued to dig, the skeleton of one poor woman was discovered with her hands in front of her face, as if she died trying to protect herself. Another skeleton appears to have been so severely tortured , it appears to have been bent backward so violently; as if the victim had been laid over something, that the spine snapped and the head ended down near the pelvis. While some bodies seemed to have been buried with care, others have been thrown into mass graves in haste. There is also evidence that in some cases futile attempts were made to burn the bodies by cremation; as a way to dispose ofthe evidence. Archeologists are still trying to determine if the 50 killed, were one terrible event or was the Carson Refinery a "killing field" where holOCaUSt/to pg. 3 By Doug Casgraux ONEIDA, New York ~ In a public statement December 2nd, the Oneida Nation of New York announced its purchase ofthe seventeen year publication: "Indian Country Today", formerly the Lakota Times published out of Rapid City, South Dakota. Under the guidance of publisher Tim Giago, the paper started originally during the summer of 1981 in Martin, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It was in October of 1992 that the name "Lakota Times" was changed to "Indian Countiy Today (ICT) " to increase it readership and broaden its already expansion of Native news across the U.S. and Canada. In recent years ICThas been plagued with huge debts and financial problems which left many of its staff unpaid or commissions not dispersed. Giago however, yet again, seems to be the winner in the arms of financial solvency by way of Ray Halbritter and the Oneida Nation of New York. With the purchase oflndian Country for what is estimated to be between a $1 to 2 million deal; Halbritter and Giago have found that publishing, as well as politics, makes strange bedfellows. Oneida Nation-N.Y. Representative Halbritter in his statement to the press stated, "Indian Country Today is the premier voice of Indian People... We intend on taking this paper to the next level by expanding its circulation, readership and influence." . These are very desirable prospects for Halbritter who, as the sole decision maker for the Oneida Nation of New York , has placed the paper under the ownership and control of Standing Stone Media, Inc., one of the newest Halbritter enterprises that not one member ofhis nation was allowed to vote on. "For anyone to understand what is going on with this acquisition, people need to know that the Oneida people living in New York have no control, no voice or say-so over what is done by Halbritter in the name ofthe tribe," states Joe Heath, General Counsel to the Onadaga Nation and the Haudenousonee Confederacy." Most Indian people across North America do not realize what Ray has done to his own people and that he plans on using Indian Country as a propaganda tool for his many enterprises.To understand this purchase, one only need look at what has happened in Oneida." What has happened in Oneida? The Oneida Nation is one ofthe six-member nations which comprise the Haudenasonee, or Iroquois Confederacy, who's principle counsel and Grand Council are in Onodaga; these are the teachings prescribed by the "Peace Maker" who gave the six tribes the oral tradition in the " Great Law of Peace". This law has been the standard rule Oneidas/to pg. 3 r
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Title | The Ojibwe News / Native American Press (Bemidji, Minnesota), 1998-12-18 |
Preceding Titles | The Ojibwe News; The Native American Press; |
Edition | Volume 11, Issue 10 |
Date of Creation | 1998-12-18 |
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Minnesota Reflections Topic | American Indians |
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A spider web is one of nature's most marvelous wonders. It's art, it's architecture, and it's engineering.
The silk is as beautiful as it is deceiving. It's 10 times stronger than Kevlar; as sticky as cotton candy covered with honey; and as flexible as a classical ballet dancer.
It's also a restaurant of sorts when the sticky strands nab unsuspecting prey. Unlike humans sitting down at a restaurant to order a meal from the menu, a spider never knows what's on the menu until it "magically" appears. It could be a honey bee, sweat bee, carpenter bee, spotted cucumber beetle, ladybug, lacewing, crane fly, another spider or some other critter.
We saw this newly woven wheel web on our front porch this morning. As the sun rose, the web glowed, glistened and glittered. An orbweaver at work..setting the dinner table...
The intricate web made us think of E. B. White's children's novel, "Charlotte's Web." Charlotte, a barn spider, kept writing messages such as "Some Pig" to try to save the life of a pig named Wilbur.
The farmer got the message, but in the real world, the spider's message is not about saving a life, but entrapment.
Backlit by the morning sun, a spider web glows, glistens and glitters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A spider's dinner, all wrapped and ready to eat: a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Where Do Foraging Bees Go to Die?
"Where do foraging bees go to die?"
That question was asked this week of honey bee guru Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, who serves as the statewide Extension apiculturist.
"Do they return to the hive? Do they retire and live out their last days inside?" he was asked.
We've all seen worker bees in the throes of death. After all, they live only four to six weeks in the busy season. But the queen bee, which can lay some 2000 eggs a day, quickly replaces them.
"Since we do not know exactly where they go, we say that they fly off in the final moments of life, lose altitude and land on whatever is beneath them, moribund," Mussen says. "They are still able to sting for quite a few minutes, as can be attested to by neighbors who find moribund bees in their lawns or swimming pools, but they die relatively soon. Bees have enzyme systems that deal with flight and when the enzymes give out, so does flight."
Mussen points out that "a few of the dying bees, maybe 15 or so, of the 1,000 or more that die daily (in a colony) during the spring, summer, and fall, do die in--or in front of--the hive."
When those bodies lose some moisture, the "undertaker bees" carry away the lighter-weight bodies and drop them 150 feet or more away from the hive, studies show. "Most of the rest just drop, somewhere, when they no longer can forage or stay in the air," Mussen says. "Bees do fly up to four miles from the hive in any compass direction, so they drop out there in that 50-square mile area."
A worker bee staggers and extends her tongue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This honey bee died soon after this photo was taken. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
My Old Flame
I usually can't get within 25 yards of a dragonfly.
Not so in our back yard.
A flame skimmer or firecracker skimmer (Libellula saturata) has apparently decided that this is where he wants to be.
Last Saturday, for nine hours, he perched on a six-foot-high bamboo stake, leaving only for a few seconds at a time to snag a flying insect before returning to eat his prey.
The flame skimmer, about a 2.5-inch Odonata, looks prehistoric. In fact, according to a UC Berkeley website, "The oldest recognizable fossils of the group (Odonata) belong to the Protodonata, an ancestral group that is now extinct. The earliest fossils so far discovered come from Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) sediments in Europe formed about 325 million years ago. Like modern-day dragonflies, the Protodonata were fast-flying with spiny legs that may have assisted in capturing prey; their wingspan was up to 75 centimeters (30 inches). The group went extinct in the Triassic, about the time that dinosaurs began to appear."
Meanwhile, back in our yard (325 million years into the future), Big Red kept snagging insects and flying back to his six-foot-high perch to eat them. Then occasionally he'd claim a five-foot-high bamboo stake. Too much high rise? A little acrophobia?
At first I kept my distance, hoping I wouldn't frighten him. However, he just looked at me as if I were part of the permanent landscape. Camera movement didn't faze him. After capturing multiple images from every angle possible, I thrust the macro lens about an inch away from his head. He did not move.
Am I a dragonfly whisperer or just lucky?
The flame skimmer prefers a habitat of warm water ponds, slow streams or hot springs. We have a fish pond, a pool and a birdbath in our yard, so I guess that's why he hangs out here.
And we have the perfect perches--bamboo stakes. They're meant to stake our tomato plants but now they're "dragonfly sticks."
We suspect Big Red won't last long. A Mama scrub jay is nesting in our shrubbery and when her babies chirp for food, off she flies in search of a tasty morsel. Mama Bird chased a bright orange gulf fritillary butterfly (missed!) and now, I expect, she'll go after Big Red.
It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, and sometimes it's a bird-eat-bug world when you don't want it to be.
A flame skimmer perches on a bamboo stake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Different view, different time: same flame skimmer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flame skimmer peeks over the bamboo stake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
From the back, the flame skimmer is equally gorgeous. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flame skimmer devouring lunch, an insect he caught in mid-air. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Poor ol' Ladybug
The lady beetle, aka ladybug, was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
We don't know how she managed to get tangled in the cellar spider's web or why the cellar spider opted to have her for dinner instead waiting for a tasty honey bee, a nutritious leafcutter bee or a plump bumble bee.
Nevertheless, we came upon this predator-prey attack in our backyard. It was too late to save the ladybug.
Ordinarily, the ladybug's bright red coloration serves as a "warning" to predators. Plus, ladybugs are known to ooze a foul-tasting chemical that tastes so bad that predators leave them alone.
"The bright colors of many coccinellids discourage some potential predators from making a meal of them," according to Wikipedia. "This phenomenon is called aposematism and works because predators learn by experience to associate certain prey phenotypes with a bad taste. A further defense known as 'Reflex bleeding' exists in which an alkaloid toxin is exuded through the joints of the exoskeleton, triggered by mechanical stimulation (such as by predator attack) in both larval and adult beetles, deterring feeding."
So why the cellar spider's unusual menu choice? "The spider's 'taste buds' probably weren't very good," quipped a UC Davis scientist.
Cellar spider traps and wraps a ladybug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cellar spider proceeds to eat the ladybug, an insect that scientists agree is "foul-tasting" to predators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ah, Ladybugs!
Consider the lady beetle, aka ladybug.
It's not a bug, but a beetle. It belong to the family Coccinellidae, and scientists have described about 5000 species worldwide, and about 450 in North America.
Some quick facts...
Ladybugs are not always red with black spots. The colors can be red, yellow, orange, gray, black, brown and pink. And, not all ladybugs have spots. Some have stripes and some have neither spots nor stripes.
Coccinellid are omnivores, dining on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, as well as plants. Aphids? A single ladybug can eat some 5000 aphids during its short life span of three to six weeks.
Ladybugs are considered good luck. If a ladybug lands on you, Lady Luck is supposed to smile on you.
This ladybug (below) landed on me on the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis.
I'm still waiting for Lady Luck.
When a ladybug lands on you, it's considered good luck. A gentle push and this one took flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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I hope that whatever your weekend has in store that it is filled with love and magic. We are looking forward to a laid-back NYC 4th of July, most likely including picnics in the park and a view of the big fireworks show from the roof deck of our apartment building. Taro and I have a special day planned for Monday, which is our seventh wedding anniversary! I look forward to sharing some of the details when I return to the blog on Tuesday.
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In recent years child trafficking has gained visibility as a major violation of children's rights and it is a priority concern for the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC). This research reaffirms this priority. The study builds upon previous UNICEF IRC work on child trafficking in eight countries in West Africa. It is framed by the important international normative framework agreed upon by the international community, particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, the Palermo Protocol to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. More information about human trafficking on the website of UNICEF.
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
- Policy and legislative recommendations towards the effective implementation of the non-punishment provision with regard to victims of trafficking
- European Commission The statistical report on trafficking in human beings 2013
- La Strada: Findings and Results of the European Action for Compensation for Trafficked Persons
- The Protection Project: 100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons
- Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers Facilitator's Guide
- ILO Special Action Programme to combat forced labour January 2013 Newsletter
- UNODC Global report on trafficking in persons 2012
- The State of Human Trafficking in California 2012
- Ewa'a: Annual Book 2011 (English)
- Ewa'a: Annual Book 2011 (Arabic)
- La Strada Guidance on representing trafficked persons in compensation claims


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The Museum of European Cultures was called into being in 1999 and was created by merging the 110 year-old Museum of European Ethnology (Museum für Volkskunde) with the European collection of the Ethnological Museum. It focuses on lifeworlds in Europe and European cultural points of contact from the 18th century until today. Comprising some 275,000 original objects, the museum houses one of the largest European collections of everyday culture and popular art. The topics covered by the collection are as diverse as the cultures of Europe themselves: ranging from weddings to commemorating the dead, the cult of Napoleon to Halloween, music on Sardinia, the historically pagan 'Perchten' processions in the Alps ... the list goes on and on.
After two years of extensive renovation work, the Museum of European Cultures is reopened to the public since 9 December 2011, in the modernist building designed by Bruno Paul in Dahlem. The permanent collection, 'Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe' is on show alongside the rotating presentation of the study collection, beginning with 'Children's toys from Europe'.
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Within the overall organization of the National Museums in Berlin, the Museum of European Cultures is the institution responsible for posing questions about the daily life and lifeworld of individuals, as seen within the wider context of the cultural and contemporary history of Europe. One of the museum's subsequent aims is therefore to engage in the discussion on 'culture contacts'. Through exhibitions, events and the formation of cooperation networks, the museum has firmly established itself among its European partners as a place of intercultural interaction. And, as a cultural-historical institution, it sees itself as an observer of current social and intercultural processes, such as in the field of migration research, as well as a place of international specialist discourse in the area of textile sciences, the history of photography and the broad field of popular visual cultures.
Over the course of the last few years, several further exhibitions have been organized on this topic, each accompanied by a series of events. Among them, the programme of events entitled the 'Month of Culture in the Museum of European Cultures' forms a particular highlight and has been held every year since 2000. During the 'Month of Culture' a particular European region or group of people from Europe is presented to the public under a certain topic. The 'Month of Culture' lasts from between two to four weeks and comprises a small exhibition and a programme of events. These events always take place at various European cultural institutes, associations and embassies in Berlin, often with the participation of the partner institutions in each of the respective European countries involved.
Following on from the scholarly tradition of the then Museum for Folklore, the Museum of European Cultures also continues to engage itself with our own society's everyday culture, seen within a European context - posing such questions as who is part of our own society and who is not. The issue of migration thus also plays a foremost role in exhibitions and events.
One core aspect to the museum's public image and ambit is provided by various exhibitions, held as part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's federal programme, which are loaned out to other museums, not just in the Federal Republic of Germany, but in neighbouring countries as well. Bilateral exhibitions with Poland, Hungary, Austria and Romania, as well as close network ties with France, Belgium, Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain, the United States and Sweden all form a current focal point in the museum's work.
But above all, the museum's principal task is that of maintaining both the collections it has been able to amass and the building itself in which it is housed. Many objects originate from the religious circumstances of people in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. Several of such pieces can be viewed in exhibitions held at Easter or Christmas, which are each accompanied at weekends by handicraft markets, where high quality items from a range of European regions are placed on sale. Items such as these as well as many collector's items are the result of the creative talents of individuals or even groups of individuals and are placed on view for the 'edification and education' of the general public under a particular chosen topic of cultural-historical importance. The museum therefore also recognizes its special task of promoting creativity and handicraft skills. And in keeping with this goal, courses are offered to children and artist workshops to adults, which give people the chance to learn more about various traditional and modern techniques using original display material taken from the museum.


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Berlin • The Challenge Bibendum is an annual event hosted by Michelin. This year, it brought more than 5,000 people together in Berlin to celebrate future transportation. The exposition proved to be a real eye-opener. Specifically, technologies generally viewed as being less than viable proved to be anything but, and tomorrow's transportation is, in reality, ready today.
There were four winners in the Inner-City Rally (ICR) component of the Challenge. The 300-kilometre rally toured Berlin and Brandenburg and included a stop at the ADAC (the German auto club) Safety Centre before returning to Berlin's beautiful Tempelhof Airport. The tests covered five disciplines that taxed all facets of the contenders: local pollution, which looked at tailpipe emissions, and overall well-to-wheel pollution, both counted toward the final score.
Likewise, overall fuel efficiency was calculated after completing the entire rally route, which included highway, country and urban road sections along with closed-track acceleration/braking and manoeuvrability tests. The latter saw the entrants evaluated for overall manoeuvrability — each vehicle was timed over a 1.5-km road course that included wet and dry road surfaces.
That was the methodology. The truly interesting part of the Inner-City Rally is that it looked at the near-term answers to the pollution problem (production and prototype vehicles powered by conventional internal-combustion engines or ICEs), as well as a full evaluation of the technologies that will provide a longer-term solution — pure electric and fuel cell-powered vehicles in both production and prototype guises.
In the prototype ICE category, it was the Audi A3 project car that picked up top honours. This car uses a turbocharged 2.0-litre engine modified to run on compressed natural gas. It bettered the Ford Escape plug-in Hybrid and an Opel Corsa running on propane.
The A3 prototype (a production version will hit Canadian roads in 2013) scored the top A rating (the scale runs from A to D) in all events. The fact that the use of natural gas reduces tailpipe emissions by anywhere between 60% and 90% when compared with gasoline speaks to the viability of natural gas, especially when it is produced from clean energy.
Audi also received the innovation award for the fuel used to power the A3 during the competition. Four wind turbines generated electricity, which was used to power an electrolyzer. It split water into oxygen (which was released into the atmosphere) and hydrogen. The latter was then combined with carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to form synthetic natural gas (e-gas in Audi-speak).
The A3 proved to be just as lively and responsive as its regular gasoline-powered sibling. This car also provided an interesting perspective. Years ago, natural gas was being pushed — rather poorly, as it turns out — as an automotive fuel in Ontario, which was hardly surprising given that Canada is the world's largest producer of natural gas.
The production ICE winner came from what would appear on the surface to be an unlikely automaker in a green car competition — Porsche. However, the company's Panamera S Hybrid beat — are you ready for this? — a regular gasoline-powered 911 Carrera and the Volvo V50 DRIve with its 1.6L turbodiesel engine.
Having driven the Panamera S Hybrid over an extended test route, its victory did not come as a big surprise. The beauty of its parallel-hybrid system (a supercharged 3.0L V6, electric motor and 1.7-kilowatt-hour battery) is its ability to run on electricity alone over an extended range. During the test, it managed to cover almost 35% of a 150-kilometresm drive on electric power only. The combination of its low-speed electric operation (at speeds up to 85 kilometres an hour) and its ability to "sail" at high speed made the difference.
Sailing occurs when the Hybrid is going downhill or is on flat ground when the loads are low. In both cases the engine is shut down to conserve fuel as the electric motor is either recharging the main battery (regenerative braking is employed when going downhill) or is powering the Panamera to maintain the driver's desired speed.
Obviously, the two Porsche entrants cleaned up in the rally and acceleration/braking segments, but both the Panamera S Hybrid and 911 Carrera scored for local emissions, proving it is possible to have a clean sports car.
The winner of the prototype electric vehicle category was the Toyota FCHV — a fuel cell-powered derivative of the Highlander. It pipped Audi's Q5 and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation's Roewe 750, both of which are also fuel cell-powered.
The important thing to come out of this portion of the event was that these three vehicles demonstrated conclusively the fuel cell is ready for the real world.
In the production electric category, the Renault Fluence Z.E. took top honours, with the Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 and Opel's Hydrogen4 fuel cell vehicle finishing second and third respectively. The caveat to the Renault's victory — which uses essentially the same drivetrain as the Nissan Leaf sold in Canada — was that it required a battery swap to complete the 300-km rally. Removing the first battery (it had a range of 160 km) and replacing it with a recharged unit gave it the required range. While its victory proves the pure-electric car is a viable alternative for anyone with a limited commute, it also speaks to the range anxiety that is part and parcel of any electric-only ride.
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I love how the guy on Lakers bench (cant tell who) jumps up and the other guys puts his arm across him telling him to sit back down.
Does it beat the dunk by Mullens?
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Robin, I love 19th century lit also, but I wouldn't want to have lived without having read Agatha Christie, Carolyn Keene, P.G. Wodehouse, and scads of others! ;-) Somehow you've missed the massive media blitz about *Fifty Shades...* and sequels, and the ubiquitous and enthusiastic displays of them in stores. It seems to be the biggest thing since JK Rowling!
Reg, Reg, Reg. I mean, really. Somehow, I highly doubt our buddy Ignaz was reading about the wedding and suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun, or anything else about Nazi Germany, when out for a lark on the MHT bus. Tsk, tsk. No more than *you* were likely recently engrossed in a book about the bloody "misadventures" of the British Empire in India and elsewhere, or of the English in Scotland or Ireland, I should think-- as my quarter-Danish side helpfuly feels compelled to point out. :-) Who knows what world wars might have been fought over those scenarios, had the balance of power been different in the world, after all?? Ahem. But as it happens, I actually WAS reading about the very subjects you attributed to Iggi's perusal, and just yesterday morning, in the wee hours, in fact-- albeit scarcely for the first time. Still, I hadn't known that Crazy Eva got married in a navy dress with sequins, and killed herself in a black dress trimmed with a red rose design. Goody for her...not. Let's just say I felt truly sorry for the fate of the dog, Blondi. The ENTIRE fate, having to be the hound of Hitler, not just the fatal cyanide test. 'Twas all in the book *Endgame, 1945* by David Stafford of the University of Edinburgh (Little, Brown, & Co., 2007), which I recently obtained for info it contains about a certain personage I'm researching-- NEITHER the aforementioned bride nor groom, however, cringe. I already know WAY more than I ever care to about THEM. As for your joke about blonds having more fun, in that context, whether about the poor dog or the stereotypic "Aryan" or whatever: boo, hiss. Better luck next chapter!
Hi Laurie, oh yes, i adore Agatha Christie, Carolyn Keene, P.G. Wodehouse, and many of the 20th Century American mystery writers, especially Ross McDonald. I also love those Lord Peter books. But still... I have read relatively little contemporary fiction. The thing I love about the Kindle is all the fabulous stuff from 15th, 16th and 17th Century authors writing about ancient authors. You just don't get that in the average bookstore or local public library. Yes, I definitely missed the Fifty Shades stuff. I never pay any attention to advertisements or commercials or media blitz's. I am totally out of the loop. I live in my own little world and although I am a boring conversationalist, I do find my own mind a fascinating place to be. LOL. EDIT: Come to think of it, I have, of course, read a great deal of non-fiction from the 20th Century, mostly about art, history, philosophy and politics. And I love 20th Century plays, especially Tennessee Williams .... I guess I have read more post 19th Century stuff than I realized.
Dear me, I couldn't live without murder mysteries, especially British! Give me a title like *Death in a Teapot*, *The Corpse Sang 'Rule Britannia'*, *Murder by Welsh*, or *The Widdnes Strangler*, and I'm a happy girl! :-)
OMG--Borje I have a bad feeling about this. Yikes!
Hey, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that their waistline is shrinking as we're going back through the years?
Hah hah! You know, I still have those Woodstock trousers tucked away...maybe Alvin would be willing to part with them if they actually fit anyone.
i start my slimming today..
Tee hee and a half! I was soooo skinny back then, sigh. What one calls model-thin. My figure has long since become a bit more matronly, and though I guess I shouldn't complain, the young girl that's still inside me doesn't like it one bit. She's decided I wanna be ultra-thin again for old times' sake. Looks like it's carrot cutlets and a trip to the gym for me! ;-)


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When can we expect "A Day in the Life of Blog Boy"? I've always wanted to know how he posts to the blog using stone tablets... :D
Indeed, our Flight Attendants play a very important role in the turn and in all our daily operations. While we focused on the ramp for this video, stay tuned for "a day in the life of a Southwest Flight Attendant"...coming very soon!
what about the flight attendants? they do a vital job during the turn too!
Thanks so much Sandeep! We appreciate your write up on the blog!
Clever editing! I saw two different paint schemes on that single aircraft! Still, it's pretty impressive what you do. Here in Manchester I've watched as a 737 was stopped at the gate less than 30 SECONDS after wheels first touch the concrete. Of course, that means the captain needs to 'Whoa Nellie!' the aircraft to hit the correct turn-off from the runway!
I remember the days of the 10 minute turn around
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The late Lamar Muse wrote in his book, "Southwest Passage," about the birth of the ten-minute turn following the court-ordered charter shutdown and deal to sell the fourth 737 to Frontier:
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Wheat Free Elevenses - Chocolate dipped florentines, coconut & lime macaroons
Wheat messes with a lot of people these days, but that shouldn't mean you have to go without your biscuity/ cakey elevenses, or that you have to settle for a packet of dusty gluten-free digestives.
These two recipes can be whipped up in no time and last for several days (if you don't scoff them all before they've cooled). They don't even have to be shared with your pals under the premise of being wheat-free - just make them, eat them and feel smug about your happier tummy.
Chocolate-dipped Florentines
This recipe is adapted from a David Lebovitz adaptation of an Ottolenghi recipe.
1 large egg white
40g icing sugar
One hearty glug maple syrup
130g of a mixture of mainly sliced almonds, pistachios and hazelnuts (or any other oily nuts)
30g cranberries or sour cherries (optional)
Pinch of sea salt
50g chocolate (it's up to you whether you prefer dark or milk)
Preheat your oven to 150°C and line a baking tray with baking parchment. Pour a little vegetable oil onto the parchment and spread it around.
In a glass or metal bowl mix together all of your ingredients except for the chocolate. If the mixture is a bit runny, add more nuts else you'll get a weird meringue like situation in the oven.
Using wet hands place the mixture into blobs on your baking tray. Push the blobs into flatter shapes using a wet fork. Try to make sure there are no holes in your flattened blobs.
Pop the florentines into the oven for 15-20mins under they're golden all over and all of the nuts seem to be fixed to each other.
Leave until cool then remove from the tray.
Now you can melt your chocolate. I like to use dark chocolate if the florentines are sweet and have berries in, and milk chocolate if they're salty and nutty. If you don't want your chocolate to 'bloom' then David Lebovitz suggests tempering the chocolate, but to be honest they'll probably get eaten before that happens so it's not a necessity.
Once the chocolate has melted, spread some on the base of the florentines using a spatula, then pop them in the fridge to set. Gobble with a big mug of tea.
Coconut and lime macaroons (pictured at the top of the page)
This recipe is adapted slightly from a BBC recipe by Jill Dupliex
2 egg whites
100g caster sugar
140g desiccated coconut
Zest of 2 limes
Juice of 1 lime
As with the florentines, preheat your oven to 150°C and line a baking tray with baking parchment. Pour a little vegetable oil onto the parchment and spread it around.
Mix all of your ingredients together in a glass or metal bowl then shape into evenly sized piles on your baking tray. Try to keep their shape fairly rough so you get nice caramelised edges.
Bake until they are golden all over (20-25mins). If they feel wobbly or that they're not properly stuck together then turn the heat down a smidge and give them a bit longer.
Leave them to cool, then remove from the tray (they feel a bit firmer after they've cooled). Again, gobble with a big mug of tea. Tea goes with everything.


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• ( 193 CREEII AVS £0 ~'^s'?; I FREEPORT BALDWIN ROOSEVELT MERRICK rm LEABER FREEI^ORT'S OFFItini NEWSPAPER 44th YEAR. No. 34 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 20.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY •V Village Tax increase May Be 10' Three Months Of Meetings Keeps New Budget Down FREEPORT • The lowest tax Increase in a decade seema to be this year's holiday present for Frecport village taxpayers. At a budget workshop session, held Saturday December 15. the Village Board of Trustees were able to finish up their preliminary work on the village's 1980-81 budget and announce that it appeared that taxpayers would get approximately a lOt In- CHRISTMAS TIME IN" FREEPORT. A day on the Freeport Man sees many Freeponers "sharing" their lime to show they care about their .neighbors. Shoppers tnis past weekend noticed representatives of the f^reeport Fire Department ringing the bell (or the '"sharing is caring" Salvation Army kettle, while members ol the Freeport Fire Department Band strolled up and down the Central Business District, playing holiday tunes and collecting funds (or (he Salvation Army. Ori the Mall, they were Joined by Santa Claus and his helpers, all volunteer Freeport teenagers, who have been giving theirweeKendstomake-theholiday season a happy time for local youncste'f — " Landtords Of Storefront ^ Churches Arraigned FREEPORT -The landlords of seven storefront'churches, located on North Main Street, were arraigned in Freeport Village Court Thursday, December 13, for violation of a village ordinance. The law they .were accused of violating prohibits-places of public assembly.without necessary off-street parking. Two Officers-- Make Lieutenant crease in 1980 in their village taxes. Presently, village uxpayers pay Sll.ll per S1(X) assessed valuation. A 10« increase would bring the tax to 511.21 per $100 assessed valuation. On a house assessed at SB.OOO. for example, the homeowner vt(^i pay viUiKC taxes annually of.-S89f>.80, an $8 difference"from this year'» tax. Mayor- William H. White stressed, however, that the !()• figure was a "guesstimate." The Board had held budget workshop sessions,.open to the public, since early October They had met with village department heads, often calling them back for "repeat" sessions for more Information or to justify "their requests. At niany discussions, as department heads justified (heir rcqucsts"TOf new ui leplacement vehicles •*r»i»^u«*«#vii—<»^i«f*»f« "teens" was in ih? 1977 budget, when the village tax was hiked by only 13<. That was the year, however, that the villaee sold municipally- owned land for 5400.000. a one-lime boon for the taxpavcts, The 1979 budget brought wUh it a 40* Increase. In 1978. lax-payers were Wl wUh a S0< \n-' crease. But back In 1976. the \ncTeate ^m« •l-.OS «ndAn-197& U> wasSl.lZT'T • White named several factors he felt contributed to keeping the tax increase low this year. Ke mentioned that the Board of Trustees had for the past few years continued to practice economics without diminishing essential services. "Wc continue to tighten up." he said, pointing to the consolidation of departments. White also credited the village's department heads, many of The six. one was a landlord to two diffefefi churches, all had conferences with the court and Bnflding Department. All plead not guilty. Trials for the six will be scheduled for January 17. except for any who may file : applications for variances with the Zoning Board of Appeals. Arcs Realty Inc., represented by its .president Joe Badalucca. was tlie landlord with the two _ Street,^ (iordies. Ares Realty rents to -Mount Zion Holiness Church of God te Christ at 193 North Main Street, and.The Tmc HbGness Apost. Faith Chan* P.A. at 197-99 North Main Street. /!r Heniy Hocbman o€, Unioodale, ^-owner.of the-pteouscs of 302 - North Main Street, was chaised ; -with Viotofing; the Tillage ordi- 'Jittnoe srith'.Ms. rental to New - HopeChotAofGodtnamst- PreseatiB court were also Mn. Barry Baincs, representing the estate of Barry Baines, which rents premises at 288 North Main Street to Hou' e of Musk Ta Ha Dar-Ul Islam -Mosque, which recently w-as written about in "Newsday." Timothy Pctemana — keeping a count for the board — would ask FREEPORT - On December 22. about the auto or truck. "Does It two of Freeport's police '6rfic-ers-nih?-'^-^es—4nswcr._would will begin to answer to the title of cause the Mayor or one of the Lieutenant. Sgt. Joseph Pesalei a .,^._ -wh<Mft=ho-m>tcd.had-increased freshman'—-trustee—Their duties due to consolidation The other" three landlords appeared to be the churches themselves. At 282 North Main the Three In One God nine year veteran of the Freeport Police Depajtment. and Sgt. George Bowe, who has been on the force for 13Vi years, have been notified that they have passed the test for lieutenant and will be considered that rank effective December 22. Bowe, a resident of North Bell-more, has been a sargeant for nine years; Pesale, a North the trustees to say. "scratch it then." White said the village had been practicing "Proposition 13 economics" before there was a proposition 13. A look at the previous ten years oT budget increases does show lower hikes since 1977 than in years previous to then. The only other increase in the of departments over thcpiit few years. "Middle-management" too. he said, had been increasing - lhclt_worJt4oads and he credited " the village employees with help-" ing keep the lax rate down so.all the residents could benefit. Last year's switch from a municipal wnitation dcpartmeni to a private carter is still reflected in ihis year's budget. White mentioned, because the village did not have to be concerned with {Cont.onPageB) _ Both Head Holy .Trtnify P " t * ? ^ 'nien hawe dutions for Inc. is located. The JJght of the exceflent police work 1«^^'" *»f,^.:Massapequan for seven. Tnnijy Pcntacost^ _ h.ve numen>a$ ciuti< World Pentacostal Chnrdi, Inc is the owner of the chuioh «f lO North Main Street. The Mgia tKwfr~Vefer to the-chnn* as Igle^ Pentacostal la Vid Veoda-denn «nd the Churdi of God and True Holiness, Auated atr306- 306A North Main Street, was Among Bowe's citations was adntawkdgement of the appre-beacon of burglars of a Sports> nians Avcane maiina in 1972. Bowe and two otter oRtcets, becinse of quick poQce vork. not ooJy apprmoded the two petpe-ouw* i^wiu. w*" "'."V.Y^ZT' "trators who were attemptiat to represented by Maffiie Scheattj. flee w boat birt tecwered iD the ..k^ ..M .tw> .TM the Modier of p^^p^ t^jten. Bowe is « » - who sakS she was UK Modter of thedwidi Ex^Cop Charged With EmbfiEzleineht FSEEPOBT ' b A sittutioa resolt^ from wbar one Freeport PoGce OfBcer caDed. Vdeaaing twT own boose,** a.fonner Free, port pDGce.O£Eicer has been charged with emb^z^ag 51,453 from a local gim dub.' Keaoeth A.-;Sbodes, who now fag in Colorado, foPowiag -his resiguxljoD finios^.ihe .Freeport!. PoGce Departnent hi' ians«y. J9!79Vlus been charged with one: cooiu of Oiiid-di^gtee gtud UictBj. Hbodes moved to Colorado haying ,been with the departmeot for I2yean. The gon dob. the Fteepoct Kevotver A Rifle AssodstiOB, meets':'at' the Freeport. RA known on the waterftoBt. His f3e also ooBtaias tufiiftK ilalkwn fat - actioB in several other barglarks la that area, where the aii^Bals; were -' appiehenoed . and tne awtchaodise tecovOed. One: vraterfraitt metdtaat patticBlarijr noted Bowe's "^qnkk alettness.** ' igL Bowe's • tme profiesnoaal- |sm...witfiaat regard for Ws own safety** broog^ him' a com-nendatidafaOowing a 197SNortfi t' ('t I . 1 •• . 1 » : i :i . V ' . ..(Conl.ooP»0«27) J:- - J ' OOft t w o NEWEST LIEOTCNANT^ tiavif^ passed ttw Nassau CaUfa^HWMa •fdr Polfea Lieutenant. Free-. ' I.).and Joseph Pesale {•' Mayor William H. Whf Bowe and Pesaie's n^ December 22. PmaV? . t)a«n wijh tha freeiKt * fS H ^ y ^ * / -- ^ ':P^'^*\
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Using Tiles a template is made for displaying a general menubar, some user-credential data and a banner area. An 'empty' area is filled with the requested info each time a user initiates some action. When hitting the 'print' button I don't want to print all the 'general' stuff, but only the requested information and a small 'this info is comming from...' banner above and beneath.
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From the controller it's possible to examine some request parameter (e.g. ?print) and return a ModelView which uses a 'print' template or the 'normal' template when the parameter is not present. This would result in each page examining the request and determing the correct view.. while I was hoping for a more general solution; not having to alter flow logic and have the print-layout switch in e.g. Tiles.