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Will County State's Attorney Jim Glasgow gears up for four more busy years
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Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow
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The pace of life slowed considerably for Jim Glasgow on Wednesday.
He spent much of the day after he was elected to another term as Will County's state's attorney resting at home — hanging out with his Great Dane, Hobbs.
"Great Danes are like a person," Glasgow said. "I put my arm around him and talk to him. And he agrees with me on everything."
After a long and busy campaign, Glasgow, 61, of Joliet, got 57 percent of the vote Tuesday, beating Joliet attorney Dave Carlson for the job.
The glow of victory burned into the night Wednesday, as Glasgow was scheduled to accept the Mitchell A. Mars Prosecutorial Excellence Award from the Chicago Crime Commission for his successful prosecution of Drew Peterson for the murder of his third wife.
"It's going to be a very fulfilling evening to celebrate what we accomplished," said Glasgow, who planned to attend the awards dinner with the entire team of prosecutors that worked on the trial.
Looking ahead to his next term, Glasgow said there are several issues in particular his office will focus on. Protecting children from Internet predators and attempting to staunch the electronic flow of child pornography is one of them.
"We're looking towards building cases where we can get the producers" of child porn, Glasgow said, which requires help from the FBI and other agencies who work across state lines.
"In the next year we're going to really aggressively reach out to parents and teachers to make sure they're aware of the cutting edge technology" that Internet predators use to snare children.
He said he wants to maintain and improve on his office's conviction rate, which is currently the highest in northern Illinois and 15 percent above the state average.
"That's a real credit to the attorneys that work in the courtrooms," he said. "The important thing here is that we continue to work on the unsolved murder cases. They're never off our shelves."
He said his office is still actively investigating the 2007 disappearance of Lisa Stebic of Plainfield as well as the Feb. 2, 2008 murders at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park.
Glasgow said his office will also review the case of Peterson's missing fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, and assess whether charges should be filed.
The heroin epidemic is another hot issue, he said. While he believes the county has been aggressive in its enforcement and prevention work, he wants to expand the effort to coordinate with other counties and law enforcement agencies.
"We had 46 heroin dealers convicted this year in Will County. But we can't stop the kids from going up to Chicago and buying it out on a street corner," Glasgow said. That's why he plans to set up a meeting with Cook, DuPage and other law enforcement officials to combine their resources and efforts.


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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:34 am
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Have you ever had one of those days? Yep, we all have. In fact, Squee had one just this last week.
Squee has been working on 2 weeks for this project for Squee's Renderman Shading class. That's right, 2 weeks working to make a very photorealistic 3D image. It wasn't anything very complex, as this isn't the end of the class yet, but still...Squee was very proud of it, and enjoying the project immensely.
Thursday roles around. Squee's not feeling too hot (not unusual), and Squee sits down to work in the lab. Squee opens up the project and....errors pop up. "Unable to open file, errors in file." Immediately, sweat breaks out. "Just breathe, yes, just breathe." Squee had luckily been taking care to make regular backups. Still, Squee was very annoyed. It was still gonna be a loss of a day's worth of work. Squee spent a few minutes trying to get the file open, but to no avail. Finally, Squee gave up and popped in the thumbdrive with the backs.
Again, "Unable to open file, errors in file." More sweat. "This, isn't good." After several minutes of investigating, Squee finds the problem: Squee had only been backing up HALF of the files needed. The others where stored in a bizarre location and...of course...where the most important.
So there it is...the story of a bad day where 2 weeks of work were lost because files were stuck in weird locations. Not to mention the fact that there was a file corruption in the first place. Squee had to work all day Saturday to try and redo the project.
Share your recent bad days and let us all commiserate with each other! Remember, misery loves company! (And boy, has Squee been miserable.)
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:44 am
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Poor Squee
I can feel your pain to a certain extent. One day, as I was backing up my files to my Norton account, my computer decided to it was time for a permanent hardware failure. No assignments gone, but I am missing a lot of old photos and music.
Anyways, to make you feel better:
Getting hit in the fact with a few hundred eggs doesn't make for an outstanding day either. My brother worked at an egg farm over the summer, and in the sorting area (roughly the size of a gymnasium) one of the machines went haywire and started firing out eggs everywhere. The poor girl who was closest looked up just in time to see dozens of eggs flying at her.
By the time the machine was shut off, everyone in the room was about a foot deep in broken eggs.
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Oi. And egg is hard to clean.
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Yeah, I had one of those a week or two ago... I wrote a minirant about it in the Today thread. Lemmee see if I can find it, and I'll post it here.
Long story short, it all started when I misplaced my phone and my wallet. Was almost late to class, had to pay for the bus, missed an important phonecall, and had a gut-wrenching close call with the financial records office.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:28 am
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The worst day I had was when I lost my camera (with about 1400 photos on it D: ) on the Tokyo underground, then got lost from my tour group on it the next day.
I'm quite proud that I managed to navigate my way back to the hostel, though. I'm glad I had
enough money to buy a ticket back. Although the fact that no-one realised I was missing for TWO WHOLE HOURS kinda annoyed me.
And yes, that was two days. But there was a flow-on effect :p
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:57 am
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I could name quite a few, but I think one that really stands out is this one; I got a call from a man some 100 miles away, saying that he needed a couple of horses picked up before they died. Needless to say, my team and I were eager to rush out there and grab them, but me, being the voice of maturity and reason (haha) told the nice man that they weren't in our district, and therefore not in our jurisdiction. Now, not being an American, I have no real proof, but he sounded just like those stereotypical New Yorkers from the movies. You know, "Hey turkey, I'm walkin' here!" (where was that from? Enchanted? The chipmunk? Never mind.)
Anyway, the guy explains he won't tell a soul we took his horses, and I explained back that he should contact the people assigned to his district. I turned away to face my disappointed team, but no sooner had I opened my mouth to tell them no cigar, we are NOT going, the phone rang. I whipped around to get it, but Shallan was faster. She kicked me in the ankle while pushing my back and I went flying.
Grabbing the phone, she said breathlessly, "Hawk Haven Horses. Are you the guy who called a second ago?" The the git gave gullible Shallan a sob story about how he had become attached the miserable horses and that the rescue up in his district didn't even bother to foster horses or adopt them. The lazy [censored] just did euthanasia. (I yelled that we weren't even the legal rescue, because we kept a lot of horses, but everyone ignored me.)
Okay, getting to the bad part. So I got voted down, and everyone tumbled into the truck to go get these horses, who were at least an hour and a half, two hours away. We were ten minutes away when the same guy called, saying, "They're taking the horses to the slaughter house! Down Rt. 412!" Oh crap. I'd let Shallan drive...
Tires screeched and rubber burned as Shallan swung the pickup truck and gooseneck trailer into crazy turn, drove across the grassy stretch between the highway, and went flying from 0 to 60 the other direction.
Jon and I clutched each other with wide eyes and clamped onto seatbelts, handrests, and our lives.
"What kinda car are we lookin' for, Joe?" Awww, special. Shallan and Joe had a connection. Both NYers.
"Beat up Silverado and a rusty blue trailer. You'll be lucky if they break down. Trailers a piece of crap." Shallan nodded and hung up, concentrating grimly on driving. Jon and I concentrated equally grimly on staying alive.
Luck was with us. We caught up to them. Feeling elated mainly because when we stopped them, Jon could get behind the wheel, we started to relax. Bad move. Shallan saw something and started screaming at the top of her lungs.
"What the--" Jon started to say as Shallan fumbled the horn and blasted it several times. The silver truck sped up.
Only I had seen too. The trailer the horses were in was indeed so crappy that the bottom of it was sagging, and two hooves had punched through and were dragging on the asphalt.
I started screaming too. Then Shallan did a stupid thing, and gunned the engine, speeding in front of the truck and trailer and cutting them off. Brakes squealed as we both skidded to a halt.
The guy at the wheel hopped out and started howling at Shallan, who brushed past him to the trailer with the horses. I followed her and diplomatic Jon stopped to reason with him.
The horses gazed at us with crazed eyes. The coppery, metallic tang of blood was strong as Shallan gently eased herself into the trailer. I waited outside, holding my breath.
"It's bad." Shallan said after a moment, in a very small voice. That was code for, 'They probably won't live.' Well, we didn't get this far without being tenacious.
I ran back to the truck to get halters, bandages, hoof boots, treats, banamine, and tranqs. Jon and the man looked on the verge of blows, so I stopped and pressed 500 american dollars into his hand. The guy shut up. It took us the better part of two hours, with cars whizzing by on a crazy highway, to get the horses into my trailer, where the were able to lay down. I had designed the trailer specifically for cases like this, but everyone's nerves were stretched to breaking point.
We were about a half hour from home when my truck sputtered and died. On a highway. Shallan coloured the air purple with her words while I tried to mend the truck.
It wasa bloody nightmare. Horses injured and bleeding, their feet worn away to the bone, trucks breaking down on highways. I'm pleased that we made it home and managed to save one horse, but it was definitely one of the WORST days EVER.
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Man, I have nothing to say but to offer hugs to everyone here. Seriously, these are some rough stories.
**hugs all around**
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:16 pm
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O_O That's horrid Ponce. ;__;
*hugs for people*
I've a tendancy for forgetting bad things. Most of my bad days occur because of my complete lack of self-preservation, and then it's usually bad because people get mad at me for it. Like the time we were in DC and I thought my friend had left me at Rite-Aid and decided to walk back to the hotel alone. At 12:30 AM.
*thinks* Yeah, I don't remember bad days unless they're recent. We'll ust skip over the numerous times I've come close to drowning or becoming a pankcake because the rest of those days were good. ^^
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I've had days like those, but they elude me now. o_0 I suppose that's a good thing.
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Yeah, I also have a tendancy to let bad things breeze right by. Even now, that horrible day two weeks ago is kinda fuzzy and hazy, like, 'It was bad, right? I know it was bad because I remember thinking it was bad, but it doesn't feel that way now...' I even get that way with really serious stuff. Like, really really serious stuff. If I'm not directly in the situation, it somehow doesn't seem worth it to bother other people.
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Having read Ponce's post I think any bad day I've had pales in comparison.
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Having read Ponce's post I think any bad day I've had pales in comparison.
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Oh! Now I remember a bad day of mine... heh, I'm kinda like the last few people on here, and easily forget about the days that are bad. Even while I'm in the middle of them sometimes, it's wild.
Worst bad day I can recall is the one where I spent six hours baking in an airplane that was detained out on the runway due to an engine that exploded and burst into flames during takeoff. I was on my way to see my parents, the flight was only supposed to last two hours, and they didn't let us use our phones until the fourth hour we were sitting there. So by the time I could call and tell my mom that I was ok she was already deep into panic mode. I had to try and calm her down - no small feat as my mother has a severe flair for the dramatics, to the point where all the panic I hadn't felt during the explosion and emergency landing was brought surging out thanks to her hysterics. This was after about seven hours of traveling already that day.
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Worst days: I dwell on them. It's not good.
Worst day number one: Shallan is in Russia in the middle of an uprising. It wasn't a coup, but there was some nasty rumours. While she was off traipsing across a war-torn country, I went and got my a -- erm, posterior kicked, so to speak. (a.k.a. got shot by a drunkard)
Worst day number two: GIANT FREAKIN' STORM. FENCE DOWN. HORSES OUT. Still have nightmares, hehe.
Worst day number three: ...Never mind.
Worst day number four: ya know what, I'm going to stop here. Yes I will.
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@ Ponce and general: Hugs!
@ Sunny: What were you doing baking on a plane? Are you a flight attendant or something? =_=
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Yesterday Alex featured Cab Calloway blasting out Minnie the Moocher, a song that while was around for a long time was truly made epic by his performance with the Blues Brothers. And this lets me tie in perfectly to wish my brother Logan a happy graduation from high school next week. Logan and many of his friends were in their jazz band, and he often dressed up as the Blues Brothers when appropriate. And in lieu of that, today's reading music is the Blues Brothers' "Soul Man" performance from the 1978 SNL season. The good old days. 5 years before I was born.Hokiebuddy asked...
"With the revamp of the bear and cat forms for Druids will there be any more Druid revamps in design such as the travel, swimming, or flying forms? Also will this spill over into other races and classes i.e. Warlock and Paladin mounts, Warlock minions, Shadow Priest shadow form, etc..."
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Confession time: I don't eat enough vegetables! There now you know my secret. Everyday it's a struggle, but I really do try. I love salad, but when it comes to cooked vegetables, I just don't like the taste. I like the steam in the bag idea, and since most vegetables are flash frozen quite soon after harvesting, the nutritional profile is not too far from the fresh stuff. I decided to give Green Giant 100% Natural Valley Fresh Broccoli and Cheese Sauce Steamers a try.
I followed the directions and put it in the microwave for 5 minutes. The broccoli came out like crunchy hard chunks. It was delicious with the cheese sauce, which although it provides extra calories, also made it quite tasty. Thankfully it wasn't too goopy and there wasn't too much of it. I shared it with 2 kids, and while they didn't eat all their portion, they didn't complain about the taste either. I can't speak for all kids - oooh, they can be so picky - but this was well received by the ones I gave it to. From an adult's perspective - 2 thumbs up!
Each 1/2 cup (cooked) serving of Green Giant Valley Fresh Broccoli and Cheese Sauce provides only 45 calories, 1.5 grams of total fat which is 2% of the recommended daily amount, no saturated or trans fat, 16% of the RDA for sodium (380 mg), 2 grams of protein and 7 grams of total carbihydrates which includes 3 grams of sugar and 8% of the RDA for fober (2 grams).
I bought a 12 ounce bag, which has 3 servings for a very reasonable $1.50. I had actually picked up a small bundle of asparagus before this, but it cost $3.58 and this was just so much more economical.


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Those of us who have been traveling abroad of late know well the impact on the value of the greenback and how little the currency now buys in terms of goods and services. The dollar of the past used to be the 'go to' currency when the world was in a crisis. The dollar (through the purchase of treasuries) has been the largest holding of the Chinese reserve fund and that of most other emerging countries.
But that is becoming less so as these countries are starting to diversify away from the dollar as a reserve currency. They are doing so as the U.S. government has flooded the market with dollars, ratings agencies have expressed concern over the U.S. deficit and economists project slow growth for the American economy.
Many expert market watchers predict the dollar will fall further. For example, Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO, the largest bond firm in the country, feels convinced of the downward direction and has sold all of PIMCO's U.S. Treasury holdings.
What happens when the dollar weakens and your portfolio holdings are in dollar-based securities? It means the buying power of the dollar weakens, at home and abroad. It means imports will cost individual investors more money. In the last 10 years, the dollar's global purchasing power has dropped by about a third relative to other world currencies.
This affects all Americans: the young investing for retirement and retired individuals with dollar-based investment accounts.
How do you protect yourself against this potential further decline in the dollar? Essentially, you could make a bet against the dollar's future ability to hold its value and short it in the currency markets. But it is hard for an individual to do that for a lot of reasons.
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The proliferation of digital electronics is actually doing much more than driving demand for analog content. In many cases, new digital products require new levels of highly integrated, high-performance analog circuitry that is able to convert, condition and regulate the signal, control and power chains that define today's advanced system functions. In fact, some end users might be surprised to learn that many of the features of their most favorite digital products are differentiated more by analog innovation than digital circuitry. Consider the following application trends and the ways in which analog technology is enabling and defining the digital landscape:
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