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Another batch of heavy snow and frigid temperatures is forecast from Virginia to New England as a winter storm bears down on the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S.
The National Weather Service says the winter storm could bring 10 inches of snow to Philadelphia and as much as 14 to the New York City metropolitan area Tuesday, along with bitterly cold air with wind chills as low as 10 degrees below zero later in the day.
It warned of heavy winds and hazardous driving conditions throughout the day as the storm moves up the East Coast.
Eric Fisher, chief meteorologist of CBS Boston station WBZ, reports that by Wednesday, the wind chill is expected to be sub-zero in New York and Boston. Wind chill advisories are in effect for parts of 26 different states.
Snow was reported from Illinois to Pennsylvania Tuesday morning.
Airlines had cancelled more than 1,900 flights nationwide.
Schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and West Virginia are sending students home early on Tuesday or staying closed after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
The federal government says its offices in the Washington, D.C. area will be closed Tuesday because of the storm. The weather service warns the storm could impact the morning commute in Washington and Baltimore.
CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports a storm system that was blowing over Minnesota and Iowa Monday afternoon was taking a southerly track and intensifying overnight. Combined with an area of low pressure moving in from the south, a major snowstorm was likely to result.
Philadelphia and its adjacent counties, as well as South Jersey and Delaware, were probably going to see 5-10 inches of snow, reports CBS Philadelphia station KYW-TV.
Travel was being slowed across much of Indiana Tuesday as strong winds are blew around several niches of fresh snow accumulations.
The northern half of Ohio was under a wind chill advisory and commuters were being warned about dangerous driving conditions as temperatures plummeted and snow was expected to blanket much of the state. Several counties in the area were under snow advisories because of snowy or icy roads, as were some counties in southern Ohio.
The mercury was expected to fall as low as 10 degrees as far south as Georgia and Alabama, with wind chills as low as 10 below zero.
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By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: October 20, 2001
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19— In the heyday of the new economy, the Raytheon Company's military plant in the Southern California industrial town of Goleta was easy to ignore. Corporate mergers and cuts in military spending sliced the work force in half. There was little to keep employees loyal when Internet executives from nearby Santa Barbara came calling.
''Some of our brethren have gone to the dot-coms,'' said John Bowen, a senior manager at Raytheon's Infrared Operations, which makes the technology for, among other things, night-vision goggles.
Indeed, said John Fennell, a manager of human resources, they could not compete with the fun-and-games work environment promised by the dot-coms. ''It became not a sexy place to work,'' he said, ''because we didn't have slides and beer on Fridays.''
Even though the Raytheon plant, which also makes decoys that lure enemy missiles away from American combat planes, is Santa Barbara County's sixth-largest employer, many people ignored its nondescript building and barely knew the company's name.
But after Sept. 11, Raytheon workers in Goleta, about 100 miles up the coast from Los Angeles, are feeling a renewed sense of self-respect.
Executives are almost surprised by their newfound relevance. While Internet stocks have nose-dived and many Americans are worried about layoffs, Raytheon's Goleta office hopes to fill 150 positions in the next few years.
''It's an ability once more to show we are a stable, vital company,'' said Jack Saunders, acting general manager of Raytheon's Electronic Warfare Operations.
Something similar is being felt across Southern California, particularly in towns like Long Beach, where aircraft plants once dominated the landscape but have faded in importance in recent years. Many military contractors in the region scrambled over the last decade to transform themselves into anything else. Most notable was Hughes Electronics, which sold its military business to Raytheon in 1997 for $9.5 billion, and became a satellite and media company.
But companies that stuck with the Pentagon are seeing virtues in their old businesses and a revived sense of being needed. Some analysts are even predicting that military contractors here will prosper.
''I would call these companies both the hidden and reluctant beneficiaries of what's going on,'' said Howard A. Rubel, an aerospace analyst at Goldman, Sachs in New York. ''It may not be in a lot of big stuff right away. It will be in parts and small stuff. But this elevates the prestige of the military back to where it should be.''
Some of those who joined the exodus have even come back. Kris Brawn, a San Diego-based project manager for Northrop Grumman who works on software for the B-2 bomber, left his job two years ago for a finance-related dot-com, but returned in January after just 13 months.
''Coming back to a defense company gives me the opportunity to proactively make a difference,'' said Mr. Brawn, who also hated the long hours and time away from his family. And during times like these, he added, ''at an Internet company you sit on the sidelines.''
But it will never again be like it once was.
During and after World War II, Southern California suburbs blossomed to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of workers building and designing missiles, planes and other weapons. But when the cold war ended, many of those jobs withered away. Companies, in turn, became more streamlined.
In Los Angeles County, 113,000 people now work in aerospace and military jobs, a far cry from the 290,000 of 15 years ago, said Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation.
As a result, military contracting in this new era of terrorist warfare will rebuild only gradually as the military turns to companies that offer products that meet specific needs, particularly in information and technology.
Among those expected to prosper is Northrop Grumman, which makes the Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance aircraft being built in Palmdale, Calif. The company acquired the technology when it bought Ryan Aeronautical, based in San Diego, in 1999.
The military has agreed to buy 60 Global Hawks in the next several years, and Northrop said it expected to hire 100 people to help with research and production.
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Youth from Muskogee, Owasso, Henryetta and Coweta have been awarded outdoor getaways for winning an outdoor writing contest designed to help youth share their hunting heritage.
Contestants in the annual youth writing contest — sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and the Oklahoma Station Chapter of Safari Club International — chose between two different topics and submitted entries to not only share their interest in the outdoors, but also to compete for a chance at a unique outdoor trip. Topic choices included "Hunting: Sharing the Heritage" or "What I like about Archery in the Schools and Bowhunting."
Winners in the age 15-17 category will receive an all-expenses-paid antelope hunt in New Mexico. They were Timothy Allison of Muskogee and Hannah Stinson of Owasso. Winners in the age 11-14 category receive a scholarship to the YO Ranch Apprentice Hunter Program in Texas. They were Carson LaValley of Henryetta and Alexis Marmion of Coweta.
"I enjoy the chance to review each and every essay submitted," said Colin Berg, education supervisor for the Wildlife Department. "We always have some great stories. Oklahoma's hunting heritage is strong and these essays show that hunting is still a vital part of our culture."
The scholarship to the YO Ranch Apprentice Hunter Program and expenses for the antelope hunts are covered by the Oklahoma Station Chapter of Safari Club International with funds raised at the Chapter's annual banquet.
The youth writing competition is designed to promote America's hunting heritage among Oklahoma's youth. It provides them an opportunity to express the importance of hunting in their lives and to affirm their commitment to carrying on the hunting tradition. Students use the essays or short stories to relive memorable hunts, to explain why hunting is important to them and to recognize mentors who have influenced them to grow as hunters.
The contest winners will be eligible for entry in the Norm Strung Outdoor Writers Association National Youth Essay Contest, whose winners are awarded cash prizes and scholarships. Last year, two Oklahoma students' essays placed at the national level.
Students are not the only winners, however. Colby Cagle, 8th-12th-grade agricultural education instructor at Bethel Schools, has been awarded an all-expense-paid scholarship to attend an eight-day conservation education school at Safari Club International's American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS) at Granite Ranch near Jackson, Wyoming. Cagle also is an Oklahoma Archery in the Schools instructor. The AWLS program is conducted during the summer and presents an outdoor program for educators that concentrates on natural resource management. Participants learn about stream ecology, map and compass usage, fly tying, shooting sports, wildlife management, the Yellowstone ecosystem, camping, white-water rafting, educational resources, how to implement outdoor education ideas and language arts and creative writing in an outdoor setting.
"Each year we find that Oklahoma students step forward and reach new pinnacles of success not only through their writings and sharing of their experiences through prose, but in establishing lifelong relationships with others they meet and become acquainted with through this writing adventure," said Sam Munhollon with the Oklahoma Station Chapter of Safari Club International. "One of the more exciting developments has been the interest not only in the essay contest but wildlife management and appreciation of the outdoors by those students being home-schooled as well as those who attend more traditional schooling venues. We are very proud of the Oklahoma youth and look forward to sharing their experiences and accomplishments now and in the future."
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There are a lot of options for you at the school. A lot of people come as undeclared and are able to find a major or minor they want to pursue.
My major is nursing. You have to take a lot of liberal art classes before you start taking actual nursing classes. To graduate within your four years you have to go full time. Some of the rooms are re done and look nice, but others are very old and have not been updated for many years.
They are good with visitors you can whoever you want come. The parking policies are very strict. The security checks all the lots and parking structure to make sure everyone has the right permits or passes. Most teachers are strict with attendance, you usually cannot be late for classes. If you miss three or more classes, the teacher has the option of dropping you from the class.
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It is an all girls school, so there is not meeting guys at the school. Most girls already have boyfriends and they can come visit. Most girls wear sweat pants and comfy close to class. Some girls do dress up though. I feel like a lot of people at the school are going for nursing, but I have been learning about other majors girls are taking.
I feel like I get less and less financial aid each semester. Some people in the financial aid office are no help.
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They are currently re- doing the dining area, but before it was very plain and crowded.
I think you need a car for the campus. Otherwise you go to the store you would have to walk to the bus stop and use public transportation.
I mean this school has students from all over the globe and different racial background, ethnicity and religion and that's what I love about it.
The school is very strict on a few topic but otherwise understanding when behavior is appropriate.
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I'm a little worried about this but I guess they helped you find a place to go and do your internship. they partner with different companies depending on your major and they help find a place for you to to your internship.
I haven't even started my program yet because of all the prerequisites that this school wants you to take. It's a little annoying.
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Overall, I love my school very much.
I hate the fact that I have to apply every year but I guess it can be worst like applying every semester. Otherwise it's ok.
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Alverno does the absolute best to keep students updated on safety concerns or crimes committed near or on campus. I receive both texts and emails when situations occur and seeing campus security around campus is always comforting.
The parking structure at Alverno =best thing ever.
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With Alverno having the basketball team going far this year, it felt great knowing our school was really into supporting them.
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When you receive help from the Financial Aid Office, the process of receiving financial aid goes by smoother.
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Alverno being an all girl college really helps the way girls not only look at each other but themselves. You would think there's too much drama since it is an all girl school, but overall my relationships between friends/faculty/family have only improved and I feel like each person within our community feels good about themselves and tries to share this feeling with everyone.
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With reconstruction, our campus life and buildings will only improve to what already is in good standing. It feels good to know Alverno is always trying to improve for their students.
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The food served at events by Alverno is really good, gives a variety of different options appealing to vegetarians, vegans, or anyone else. Sometimes the food can be pricey.
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KEITH STREFF PULLS his maroon minivan up to the curb across the street from a split-level, Fifties-era home in north Minneapolis. A run-down RV takes up most of the driveway. Sprawled over the rest of the concrete pad is a massive dumpster, overflowing with rusting pipes and rotting boards. Eight of these bins have already been filled with trash removed from the house.
Three months ago Streff, an investigator with the Animal Humane Society, and a team of humane-society employees and Minneapolis police officers laid out 68 dead cats on the cement here. They arranged the bodies--discovered rigid and icy in freezers in the basement--in three precise rows, and then took photographs. Four other carcasses, decomposing and infested with maggots, remained where they had been found inside. Twenty-five other cats were captured, alive, on the property; others scattered and hid. The house was filled floor to ceiling with garbage, debris, food, and feces.
An old woman peers out through the RV's screen door, her bulging eyes locked on Streff, a compact figure in a brown-and-tan uniform. She seems to recognize him. Before he can speak, she starts spouting answers to the questions she expects him to ask, questions he has asked her many times before. They're almost done, she tells him; everything's all cleared out inside. The workmen have gutted the walls. They'll be coming back around 4:00 p.m. with the Sheetrock.
Streff asks whether there are there any more animals. They've caught a lot of cats, the woman explains with a nod toward one of several metal cages scattered around the yard. And even some raccoons.
It's not a direct answer, so Streff tries again. Are there cats still inside the house? Maybe one or two, she replies. And the baby. But she's a year old already, not really a baby anymore.
Streff peeks inside the dumpster. What about the basement? We're all done in there, the woman says. Would you like to see?
Streff retrieves a flashlight from his maroon minivan. Supported by a cane in each hand, the 75-year-old gingerly steps down from the RV's back door. They enter the garage, which is filled with machinery--decades-old washing machines, stoves, snow blowers, gardening implements. "All this is going to storage," she explains.
Streff pokes the beam of his flashlight into the piles. "Couldn't you have a garage sale?" he suggests. "Do you really need all this stuff?"
"I've never had a garage sale in my life," the woman snaps back. "I'd rather give it away than sell it. I'll never get rid of these washing machines, because they wash the clothes so well. And we need our snow blower and lawn mower."
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"We got rid of the freezers," the woman says. "But they didn't have any cats in them, because you took them all away."
In April, Streff, whose job is to investigate possible cases of animal cruelty, got a court order to search the house and seize any animals
found there. Minneapolis inspectors found the home unlivable and condemned it. Streff forwarded his complaint to the City Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the homeowner with criminal cruelty to animals, a misdemeanor. She recently pleaded guilty.
Streff continues poking around the house. In the center of nearly every room is a bonfire-size pile: furniture, mattresses, broken-down ceiling fans, bags and boxes of old clothes, bedding, appliances, children's toys, dishes, even collections of empty 7Up and Tab bottles. Streff suggests again that perhaps it would be wise to sell some of the remaining items in a garage sale. But the woman won't hear of it. It's all going to storage.
"Well," he says, making his way over stripped-down floorboards and out on to the porch. "It looks pretty good now." Then he notices something under a shabby porch swing: a frying pan filled with dry cat food. "I've told you over and over to get this up," he scolds, the sound of authority rising in his voice.
"Oh no, that's just to catch them," she answers feebly.
"That's why there are the traps," Streff explains. "You're counteracting the effort. They'll just eat your food and then go about their business."
After checking on the woman's 81-year-old companion, who has been in and out of the hospital and is suffering in the heat, Streff climbs into the minivan he uses to drive around on pet patrol. "They sure mellowed out," he says. "They were in my face the first two weeks." He can't explain why the couple let the house fall into such a state of disrepair. He can't explain why they thought they were helping the cats, not turning them into wild beasts, festering with disease. He can't explain why the woman still believes that she never let the house get dirty. But he's seen it all a thousand times.
"Did you see that garbage?" he says incredulously. "They're going to store all that stuff and die broke and under stress. They won't get help, they won't seek medical care. But you can't force it on them. You can't take the stuff and haul it to a garage sale, you can only politely suggest it. As much as we'd like to do that with individual cases, it kind of gets out of hand. It's a free country. I guess it's another one of society's ills." As a result of the chain of events, he adds bitterly, the woman now has a criminal record: "And I was a part of that. It bothers me."
Keith Streff is one of only two full-time humane investigators in Minnesota. Employed by the nonprofit Animal Humane Society, Streff is empowered by the state to enforce Minnesota's animal welfare statutes. He investigates complaints of animal abuse and neglect, educating pet owners, seizing endangered animals, and helping to prosecute those who break the law. He focuses on Hennepin and Anoka counties, though he will also investigate cases all over the state if called upon by local police or sheriffs.
It is a strange job, an amalgam of animal husbandry and law enforcement, and Streff's degrees are, accordingly, in animal biology and criminal justice. In his capacity as humane investigator, he is not a cop. He can't arrest people or write tickets. But he can investigate complaints, get search and seizure warrants, and forward cases to prosecutors for charging. He is also a licensed police officer, moonlighting on weekends in suburban and rural jurisdictions.
In the 14 years since he started working for the humane society, he has accumulated a litany of disgusting, cafeteria-clearing stories about people and their pets. He rattles off images of inbred poodles with no hind legs crawling over urine-soaked carpet, men who beat and sodomize their dogs, trash houses packed with hundreds of dead and dying rabbits. He has witnessed the unimaginable, and he has grown accustomed to it.
Once when he was investigating a trash house, he munched on a corn dog while surveying animal carcasses. Some of the other investigators vomited in the corner, he recalls with a chuckle.
Most people, if they've even heard of it, think the job of a humane investigator is to save animals. They think of cute critters--the kittens and puppies that adorn the humane society's literature. And while Streff admits that part of his duty is, as the society says, to be a voice for those who cannot speak, his job is actually about people--and what their animals say about them.
"I'm not there to rescue the animal," Streff says, with characteristic bluntness. "It's the moron or the asshole that owns it that I'm dealing with. It's the animal that he may come in contact with next that I'm really saving. I personally pretend not to give a crap because it bugs me. But also because the animal's fate has already been decided by the guy who owns him. I'd love to do more, but it's not reality."
Growing up on a dairy farm taught Streff to respect animals, but he steadfastly believes their berth in the world pecking order is lower than that of humans. Despite what one might assume given his job title, he's disdainful of animal-rights activists, whom he refers to as "humaniacs." "There's a place for animals, there's a place for humans," he opines. "Humans are far more important in our society."
In the mornings, Streff works in his office. It's eerily quiet upstairs here, far from the yapping dogs, chirping birds, and scurrying chinchillas downstairs being donated, examined, adopted, and sometimes euthanized. He digs around for information about cases he's investigating. If there's an emergency, like a dogfight in progress, he'll jump up and leave. But usually, throughout the morning, he takes calls and writes up complaints. Some 3,000 complaints are made to his office each year; he investigates about 1,800.
A man calls, alleging that his dog got sick in a kennel and had to be put down. A woman claims that a vicious dog bit her granddaughter. Streff keeps meticulous files, filled with news clippings, information about his cases, the industry, and relevant obituaries. Organized on his desk are several neat stacks of paperwork. Each manila folder contains affidavits, notes, warrants, and photos. These are the serious cases; he either already has or is about to send them along to the prosecutor's office.
In the afternoons, Streff goes out into the field. He organizes the complaints he plans to investigate each day and places them on a metal clipboard. The allegations he hears don't just concern household pets; he spends a lot of time traveling to farmsteads located in the far reaches of the metro area. And with such a vast geographic area to cover all by himself, Streff must prioritize his cases. A complaint about a traveling circus, for instance, might go to the bottom of the pile, simply because there will already be many people around to notice if the elephants are being mistreated. "But if a dog is anchored to a tree and dying of heat prostration," he asks, "who's there to notice it if I don't respond to it?"
He gets ready. First he straps on a light-blue Kevlar vest ("seven extra pounds of heat that doesn't evaporate," he quips) and buttons his brown uniform shirt over it. Then he snaps on a belt with his holstered gun, grabs his cell phone and an attaché case filled with binoculars, maps, and notices he'll give to the pet owners he talks to. "Seventy-five to eighty percent of my cases I approach from an educational perspective," Streff says. "You educate where you need to educate, instruct where you need to instruct, and enforce where you need to enforce. You need to pick your battles."
The minivan slowly slides to a stop on a run-down block in south Minneapolis. From the car, Streff spies the address he's been looking for. Someone called him saying the people who live there were keeping a dog in a rabbit kennel. Streff pulls around the corner and into an alley. If he can, he prefers to approach a property from the alley, so he can see animals in the backyard.
He peeks over the fence at the cage. It's about twice the size of your average bathtub, with a small doghouse inside. Two dogs are crammed inside the enclosure, barking and jumping up against the chicken wire. In the corner sits a smaller cage. Inside it paces a tiny orange cat, wailing plaintively. In the yard next door, on the other side of a low fence, a white pit bull lounges Snoopy-style on top of a doghouse inside a wire kennel.
"That's a nice deal for the cat," Streff says mockingly. "Locked between a pit bull and two dogs, in a kennel itself. Makes for a good night's sleep."
He pauses for a moment at the back gate, nervously surveying the small yard and the duplex's two back doors. "I hate this part," he mutters. "Dangerous property, with all kinds of access points."
He draws a deep breath, pops open the gate, and marches toward the house. He raps his metal clipboard against the doorknob on the downstairs door. No answer. He knocks again. All the while the dogs howl, the cat whines.
Slowly, Streff mounts a rickety wood staircase to the second floor door. It sways precariously as he climbs. As he places a heavy boot on the deck leading to the door, wood chips cascade from the underside. Streff nods toward a satellite dish on the wall. "DirecTV and ten-dollar stairs," he says.
A pregnant woman opens the door, and soon another woman joins her. Streff tells them that he's a humane investigator, and that he's checking on their animals after receiving a call. "Do you see anything wrong with the kennel and the dogs and everything back here?" he asks.
"Not from my perspective," huffs the pregnant woman. "Is there a problem?"
"I can see a number of problems," Streff says, raising his voice a little. "No water, no food, no shelter for the cat. I'll bet they're not licensed or vaccinated. That dog is extremely lean. What is it? A whippet or a basenji?"
"Basenji," the woman replies. "What do you mean, 'lean'?"
"It's pretty small," Streff begins, but the woman quickly interrupts. "It's always been that size," she says, adding that the animals aren't her responsibility.
But Streff is adamant. "No, no, no, no," he tells her. "You live here? You need to take care of that."
The woman says her mother, who is at work, is the one who takes care of the dogs. The cat, she says, must belong to someone who's staying with them right now. Streff gives her a notice, explaining the regulations on proper care of animals in Minnesota. They need to get some bedding in the doghouse and clean up the kennel, he says. And they need to get the cat out of there. He asks the woman to have her mother call him. "Otherwise, I'm going to have to seize these animals," he warns. "I'm trying to work out a plan because I don't want to have to do that."
The two women at the door swear they'll take care of it. Streff is already planning to come back and check on the situation, to make sure the animals are all right. But for now, there's no extreme danger. The dogs are alert and seem relatively healthy, so he wouldn't have enough probable cause to do anything else today.
Streff is frustrated by the encounter. Not just because of the residents' lack of awareness, but because the people themselves seem to be falling through the cracks. "I would like not to believe that people are more worried about animals than people," he begins. "Wouldn't you think someone would be concerned about a single mother going up and down those stairs? But no, they call in the Benji and the stupid cat. Let the pregnant lady fall down the stairs!"
Zepo lets out a quiet, continuous hiss as Streff approaches the cage. He's just inside the porch door of a small, unremarkable home in a wealthy southwest suburb, packed up and ready to go. Zepo is an African serval, a kind of miniature cheetah, with a small, lean, spotted body, a fluffy striped tail, and large, perky ears. It's illegal to have this kind of exotic cat in this city, as well as in many urban areas.
Streff got some complaints about an exotic cat in the area and tracked down the owner. Through a series of conversations, Streff convinced the man to voluntarily give up the animal, which had become a little much for him to handle, to the humane society. This is one of those cases that straddle the gray area between education and enforcement; Streff doesn't plan to have the man charged. "He's just a little guy," Streff tells the man, in reference to Zepo. "You can't have him in the city of Edina, so in the best interest of the cat and the interest of your criminality, we'd best sign a custodial agreement."
As he fills out the forms, Streff asks the owner a few questions about Zepo, but it's clear that the man doesn't know much about the history of the cat, which he found through newspaper classifieds. He bought the serval about five months ago from a man who had gotten it from a game farm somewhere. He wasn't sure if it had been vaccinated or neutered. All he knew was that the cat was born in November 1999.
"What prompted you into getting it?" Streff asks.
"I'd wanted one for a couple of years, and I finally saw one in the paper," the man explains.
Streff doesn't even blink. "Why a serval?" he continues. "Why not a bobcat or a lynx?"
"I heard they're more docile," the man says, adding that the animal turned out to be quite temperamental. When Zepo leapt up and ate the owner's lovebird in its cage, he realized he couldn't take care of the cat. "If he's hungry, he'll bite at your feet," he says. "He bit my girlfriend a couple of months ago. But she hasn't gotten sick."
The owner signs the release form and Streff prepares to take the cat away. It's an all too rare example of the times when Streff actually gets to save an animal; the humane society will turn the serval over to an exotic-cat refuge in Isanti County. "I would suggest you research your city's ordinances if you ever consider getting another exotic pet," he tells the man. "You can be issued a citation for an exotic animal that is considered contraband."
On August 1 Minnesota became the 38th state to make animal cruelty a felony. The new law creates stricter consequences for intentional acts of torture of and cruelty to animals. Causing "substantial" bodily harm to a pet or companion animal is now a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $3,000 fine. Causing "great" bodily harm or death is a felony, punishable by up to two years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Both acts are considered felonies if they are done in order to threaten or terrorize a person; in those cases the penalties are much higher.
"Minnesota had some of the weakest animal-cruelty laws in the country," explains Sen. Don Betzold (DFL-Fridley), who authored the bill and doggedly introduced it every year for four years, until--despite fierce opposition from the agriculture, medical research, hunting, and fishing industries--it finally passed. "There were some very egregious things that happened in the state. If a prosecutor took on the case, the best they could get was a misdemeanor. There aren't a lot of cases that happen, but enough of them are repulsive, and something's got to be done."
Many people believe the law doesn't go far enough. Even Streff, who repeatedly testified on behalf of the bill, would have liked it to include at least some agricultural offenses, though he recognizes the difficulty of passing that in a farming state. But, Streff figures, you take what you can get.
The new, stricter laws prohibiting animal cruelty can be strong tools for cracking down on abusers, but there still aren't nearly enough people like Streff enforcing the laws. "What's changing is the penalty," explains Gary Patronek, the director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. "What isn't keeping pace is a comparable level of enforcement. We really need to do a lot more work in being able to respond to these things."
In many areas, police officers and prosecutors are just limping along, with neither the expertise nor the resources to pursue these cases. Patronek understands that law enforcement agencies have to juggle animal cruelty with murders, rapes, robberies, and other crimes against people. But he stresses that the link between animals and humans should not be ignored. Animal abuse often indicates other problems, such as elder neglect, child neglect, or domestic violence.
"There may well be another person at risk," he explains. "Animals can be sentinels, because they share our lives so intimately. If animals are being neglected or treated cruelly, it probably makes sense to look at the other people in the family."
And then there is the distinct problem of animal hoarding. No one really knows why some people become animal hoarders. Patronek is currently working with a consortium of experts to better understand the syndrome. Unlike those who intentionally hurt or kill animals, hoarders believe they are helping their pets, Patronek says. "It's night and day," he says. "Hoarders are oblivious to the harm they're causing."
Though the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium is only in the early stages of its research, Patronek says, already its interviews with "people who own more than a typical number of animals" have revealed some common threads. One seems to be a chaotic childhood or childhood trauma, where pets were the only stable fixtures. Another appears to be the ability to form relationships with animals more easily than with people. Yet another cause could be neurological problems including dementia or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which can lead to other hoarding patterns such as living in squalor. "It's a behavior more than a condition in and of itself," he says.
In the case of animal hoarders, prosecution might not be the answer, Patronek suggests. "While cruelty has occurred to the animals, the intent was not there," he offers. "Is criminalization the answer? You're just taking away the crutch. It's not going to prevent that person from harming animals in the future. That person will have a cat on the way out of the courtroom unless you address the other roots of the problem."
The house is much the same as the last time Streff saw it. It's in a tony neighborhood near Lake Minnetonka, where million-dollar homes sit on pristinely manicured lawns. This house, however, is nearly hidden from the road, tucked behind overgrown trees and shrubs. Remnants of white paint cling like scabs to the wood siding. Sheets of plastic are stretched across the decaying window frames. Empty Friskies cans are scattered around the lawn. The air is rank.
Streff has dealt with the owner before. "This guy's a treasure," he quips. Years ago Streff busted him for having a trash house filled with cats. According to neighbors, he's back at it now.
"Do you see this blowfly activity?" Streff says, pointing around the edges of what looks like the front door, now blocked by a single piece of plywood. "There's maggots in the house." He presses against the thin wood and sniffs along the edge. "That's a nasty, maggoty, dead-animal smell."
Last time he visited, Streff says, there were probably 50 cats here. He shines his flashlight through the plastic cover on the front window. In an instant, seven or eight curious cats pop up and peek outside. He counts at least a dozen cats in just the small front room; the floor inside is covered with brown pellets, a mixture of cat food and feces that appears to be ten inches deep.
Streff walks along a path through the junglelike brush until he finds the back door. He knocks, but no one answers. A shovel is leaned up against the door, bracing the handle. Streff leaves his card there. That's all he can do now; anything else would likely be considered an illegal search. Probably the owner will call him in the next day or two, and things will get under way.
In the meantime, Streff plans to call the local police and find out if they've been having problems with the owner, if they think it's time for a new intervention. If that's the case, he'll get an affidavit from the person who complained and use it to get a search warrant. "It didn't develop overnight and I'm not going to solve it overnight," he says, "so we may as well do it by the book."
The situations that make the news are the obvious ones--the garbage houses with hundreds of animals, the intentional abuse or killing of pets. But most of the cases Streff looks into aren't so clear-cut. Too often, when he follows up on a complaint, his gut--educated by 14 years in the field--tells him something's amiss. But he won't find enough probable cause to do anything the first time he visits a home or farm. Typically he'll just keep investigating, visiting someone over and over again, painfully aware that an animal may die before he can piece together hard evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
And then, he complains, animal-rights advocates and other critics will demand to know why he didn't step in and save the animal when he could have. "They have no clue how the criminal-justice system works," he says. "I have to wait and build my case until I can show in court that I told you what to do, gave you every opportunity, and you didn't do it."
As he backs away from the house, he shakes his head thoughtfully. "He's gonna croak in there one day and the place is going to burn up," he says. "But maybe if I can get some cats out it'll help that cause at least."
Streff has poked around so many houses like this, seen so many cats locked up in dirty rooms, that he knows the sad, unfortunate truth. These cats are probably as good as dead already. Disease is probably rampant: ringworm, hepatitis, feline leukemia, distemper. "If you're pooping and peeing and eating in the same environment, that's where the bacterial issues incubate," he says with a sigh.
"I've been around the block enough to know what I'm going to find in there," Streff says as he pulls the minivan away from the house, glancing at the lot in the rearview mirror. "But I could be wrong. I hope I am."
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While Afu-Ra preps his new album Body Of The Life Force Part 2, he throws out this three song free EP of tracks that won't be included on the album. The new LP includes collabos with M.O.P., Sean Price, Sadat X, Vinnie Paz, Guilty Simpson, Nine, El Da Sensei, C-Rayz Walz, Hannibal Stax, and more.
1. Big Boyz (produced by Mike Rone)
2. Blackgang (feat. Blackadon, Aqua, Respect, Chief, Blackysteez, Bgk & H.Stax; produced by Chain Soor)
3. I Can Fly (produced by Funky Budda)
Afu-Ra "Body Of The Life Force 2″ 3-Song Pre-EP
Why does Afu Ra look like a member of the Black Eyed Peas. SMH.
Man I love Afu-Ra but that BEP look makes me wanna boycott this! WTF was he thinking!?! I cannot take him seriously looking like that!
Afu-Ra « I Can Fly » produced by L.O.K (MELLOPROD) aka FonkyBuddah from Toulouse-FRANCE
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Hotel Utah, 100 years of history
From the Hotel Utah to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
It is truly a remarkable, and impressively detailed, artwork.
When the day of the concert arrived, 17-year-old Gallegos took it to the Salt Palace, hoping to meet Harrison. No one knew where the star was. No one had a clue. Most discouraged Gallegos from trying to meet his favorite Beatle, the one he admires most for "his music, his singing, his songs."
"I went home, all sad, laying down. I thought: I'll never meet a Beatle, but at least I'll see him in concert."
Then resolve kicked in: Gallegos decided to try one more time "or I'll regret it."
This time someone gave him a name: Denis O'Brien, Harrison's manager. He went to the Hotel Utah, thinking George might be staying there — and in fact saw keyboardist Billy Preston emerge. A chauffeur verified that Harrison was indeed at the hotel. A new friend from India, "Gabs," who Gallegos met on the street, helped him write a note to O'Brien.
Later, Gallegos felt a tap on the shoulder. "I'm Denis O'Brien," a man said. "He says, 'Let me see what you have. That's really good.'" O'Brien wondered: If Harrison signs the portrait, will Gallegos be inclined to sell it? At first Gallegos says "Yes!" thinking the ex-Beatle might buy it, but O'Brien wants to know if the artist will sell it at all. Gallegos says "No!"
O'Brien took the art board and returned with it signed.
"Very Good Ted," it says near the bottom. "Love from George Harrison. Hare' Krishna," with several religious symbols and writing below.
"In a couple of minutes, the elevator opened, and there he was." George Harrison, all alone, smaller than Gallegos expected, i.e., about the teen's own size. "He said, 'I want to talk to you. Are you the artist? Did you do that?'"
Afterward, Gallegos amazed, Harrison walked off toward the Hotel Utah lobby's west exit, to Main Street, got in a light green mobile home, sat in the drivers seat — and drove off.
The lesson learned, Gallegos says today:
"Nothing is impossible."
All Things Must Pass
That, of course, is the title of George Harrison's landmark 1970 album. It rings true in song, in life and for the Hotel Utah era.
In 1980 the Hotel Utah Motor Inn closed. In 1984 the Utah Hotel Co. passed management of the Hotel Utah to the Westin Hotels organization. The hotel celebrated its 75th birthday in 1986, with media fanfare, the book "The Hotel" and high hopes.
However, in 1987 the LDS Church closed the 76-year-old hotel, planning new things for a new era. The structure itself was saved, and following adaptive renovation reopened in 1993 as the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.
Rob Sibley was recently coming back from the airport when he noticed the forest of Salt Lake skyscrapers; the iconic gray Salt Lake LDS Temple; the lower, domed Salt Lake Tabernacle.
But the Hotel Utah's bright-white gleam amidst the cityscape concentrated his eye. Maybe the hotel's centennial and his own KBYU documentary project had something to do with Sibley's refreshed perspective.
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Posted: 09/27/2007 - A convicted killer arrested in Nevada has waived extradition to Colorado, where he escaped from prison 31 years ago.
Posted: 09/27/2007 - A Grand Junction man known as "Giggles the Clown" at a local Farmer's Market Festival is due back in court next month to enter a plea in an Internet sex case.
Posted: 09/27/2007 - More than 50 people walked out in protest Thursday over the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance at Boulder High School, and said they would recite their own version in a school courtyard.
Updated: 09/27/2007 - The editor of the Colorado State University student newspaper faces a disciplinary hearing next week and could be fired over an editorial that directed an obscenity at President Bush.


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Matilda Myers Ogan
Anybody know who her husband was? My "brick-wall" is at Samuel Ogan, Mercer Ohio {b-1840's). Died in Richmond, Indiana. My sister and I have this Samuel married to a Nancy. Matilda is my 3x Great Gr-mother. Thank you.
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RE: Marie Fern Ogan Jones
OPPs! the Merle Jones you give birth date to was a woman, Merle (McCain) Jones. She was second wife to Hugh A Jones. buried at Pine Log Cemetery (on Find-a-Grave).
SO, the birth date you have for Merle Jones may be incorrect.
Can you give me some sources for the birth date you have and the marriage date you have?
I did find another Merle Jones, born in Iowa, married to "Henrietta" who was born in Columbus, OH. They were on a cruise together returning from Cuba landing at Key West, Florida May 5, 1922. At that time they listed they were living in Denver, Colorado.
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Kristina (Kuhn) Krumm
RE: Marie Fern Ogan Jones
found this on Merle:
Name: Merle Jones
Last Residence:
72417 Brookland, Craighead, Arkansas, USA
BORN: 4 Nov 1884
Died: Jan 1967
State (Year) SSN issued: Arkansas (1953-1954)
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Kristina (Kuhn) Krumm
RE: Marie Fern Ogan Jones
Here is the information from the 1910 Census:
Household Members:
Name Age
Albert Ogan 49
Elizabeth Ogan 60 (wife)[married 26 years, two children]
Lucy Ogan 23 (daughter)
Fern Jones 24 (daughter)[married 2 years, one child]
They are living at
1021 Hildreth, Columbus, OH (renting)
I hope this helps,
Kristina Kuhn Krumm
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She is the mother of my grandmother Priscilla (Leach) Speakman who married into family of Fred Speakman. Isabell was married to a George Leach, Isabell died in 1946, buried in same cemetary as Pricilla.She had 3 girls Corey, Carrie, Pricilla, Oatis Leach and another boy? I have a picture of her and yes I found her.
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You're very welcome, Sharon.
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Thanks Sharon. I would be happy to have both James Blakely and William Davis transferred to me. They are in my family line. Mary Zirkle
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James Blakely
Thanks Sharon for adding this. It has helped to add to my genealogy records. Mary
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Marie Fern Ogan Jones
Hi Sharon,
Do you know who Marie was married to? Or any information on a child she had? According to the 1910 Census, she had been married two years and the mother of one child.
Thanks in advance,
Kristina Kuhn Krumm
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RE: Cumberland Cemetery, OH
Hi Sharon... thanks for the info... I spent Fri afternoon there, the Clerk was just wonderful, I did find a lot info and docs, but couldn't locate
Robert Bay... I did find other Bay's
Thank you for your help.
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The Volunteer Cycle #5: ENCOURAGE
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In case you missed 1-4 of The Volunteer Cycle, check them out here: It Never Ends!, Enlist, Equip, Empower. Over the course of my youth ministry career I have had lots and lots of people serve on our youth ministry team only to transition off..
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Right-handed pitching is one of the strengths of the prospect landscape right now; featuring multiple handfuls of high-end pitching prospects that have the potential to become front of the rotation arms. Unlike some years, there is a group of four pitchers in the upper minor leagues that all have the potential to front rotations and become legitimate number one starters. If that weren't unusual enough, that group of four pitchers exists in just two franchises. That leads to some exciting times for fans of those clubs, but fans of other clubs should be excited as well. Of the ten players ranked here, seven of them have a legitimate chance to pitch in the big leagues this season and another one could be there sometime next summer. That's an impressive crop of pitching prospects and something baseball fans should be prepared to embrace and cherish.
1. Gerrit Cole – Pittsburgh Pirates
2. Dylan Bundy – Baltimore Orioles
3. Kevin Gausman – Baltimore Orioles
4. Jameson Taillon – Pittsburgh Pirates
There seems to be a discussion out there that Dylan Bundy sits alone atop the list of pitching prospects in the minor leagues. I don't share that belief. In fact, I don't believe he's the best pitching prospect in the game. While it is close, give me Gerrit Cole and his potential for three '7' pitches at the front of my rotation. Both Bundy and Cole are exceptional talents that can develop into number one starters. My beef with the conversation of Bundy alone at the top doesn't end there. I think the Orioles and Pirates both have another prospect that is right there with Bundy and Cole. Kevin Gausman and Jameson Taillon are also exceptional talents that have the potential to front rotations at the big league level. They're all potential number one starters and they all deserve recognition at the top of this list.
5. Zack Wheeler – New York Mets
6. Jose Fernandez – Miami Marlins
7. Shelby Miller – St. Louis Cardinals
8. Taijuan Walker – Seattle Mariners
Just a half tick behind the first four on this list, the collection of Wheeler, Fernandez, Miller and Walker are almost equally as impressive. I don't believe these four grade out as potential number one starters down the line, but they could all be really, really good number two starters at their peak. If one player had the potential to vault himself into the upper group, it would be Taijuan Walker, who while still the rawest of the group, could also be the most supremely talented of this four.
9. Lucas Giolito – Washington Nationals
10. Archie Bradley – Arizona Diamondbacks
I broke Lucas Giolito and Archie Bradley into their own tier because they are much further away than any of the other prospects in the Top 10. Giolito will miss much of this season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last year and Bradley struggled enough with his control and command in Low-A, that his path through the minor leagues is expected to be pretty lengthy. Both players are fantastic talents that could be high number two starters and possibly even number one starters down the line.
Just Missed: Matt Barnes – Boston Red Sox, JR Graham – Atlanta Braves, Carlos Martinez – St. Louis Cardinals, Trevor Rosenthal – St. Louis Cardinals, Julio Teheran – Atlanta Braves


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Robin Hammond had never considered the long-term mental health effects on the Africans whose stories of war, famine and conflict he had covered for 12 years as a documentary photographer. But on a 2011 reporting trip to Sudan, he witnessed the wretched aftermath that the war's brutality had left on some of its most vulnerable citizens: the mentally ill. Continue reading
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Ok, got it. So FICO does not factor "Current Status" when scoring, only account history. I'm betting FICO does not discount late marks reported after the date a given account was closed (wrong as it may be), and that my credit score is getting screwed sideways due to the servicer's reporting error.
Thanks to you both for weighing in on my situation.
It certainly does. It doesn't matter when an account was marked closed, any late showing will impact the FICO score. For example, let's say you have a CC and for whatever reason the lender closes the account. Maybe they went out of business. Maybe there was some derogs reporting which influenced their decision, or whatever. Anyway, they close it and you're on-time up to that point but there's a balance remaining you're paying on. Let's say you pay it late going forward a year after it's closed. If you're late 30 days, FICO will score that 30-day late even though the date of closure was a year prior. The status will update to something like "Was 30 days late" or something like that after bringing the account current again. The worst delinquency is 30 days and FICO will score accordingly.


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Passings | Archie Comics artist Tom Moore died yesterday at the age of 86. Moore got his start as an artist in the Navy, where he served during the Korean War: His captain found a caricature that Moore had drawn, and instead of calling him on the carpet, he assigned him to be staff cartoonist. Moore's comic strip, Chick Call, ran in military publications, and after the war he studied cartooning in New York, with help from the GI Bill. Moore signed on with Archie Comics, drawing one comic book a month, from 1953 until 1961, when he left cartooning for public relations. "It's important to create characters that can adapt to anything, but whose personalities are consistent," Moore said in a 2008 interview. "Establish that, and don't deviate. Betty doesn't act like Veronica, and Charlie Brown doesn't act like Lucy." He returned to cartooning in 1970, drawing Snuffy Smith, Underdog, and Mighty Mouse, and then went back to Archie to help reboot Jughead, staying on until his retirement in the late 1980s. After retiring, Moore taught at El Paso Community College and was a regular customer at All Star Comics. [El Paso Times]
Publishing | DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio talk about the comics market as a whole, variant covers, and their move to Burbank, among many other topics, in a three-part interview. [ICv2]
Commentary | Christopher Butcher discusses the way the comics audience has diversified, and the way that parts of the industry (the parts that aren't involved, basically) have refused to acknowledge the enormous popularity of newer categories of comics by "othering" them: "'Manga aren't comics,' went the discussion. They were, and are in many ways, treated as something else. The success that they had, the massive success that they continue to have, doesn't 'count'. All those sales and new readers were just 'a fad', and not worthy of interest, respect, or comparison to real comics. It was the one thing that superhero-buying-snobs and art-comics-touting-snobs could agree on (with the exception of Dirk Deppey at TCJ, bless him): This shit just isn't comics, real comics, therefore we don't have to engage it." Butcher sees these attitudes changing at last, though, thanks to the massive commercial and critical success of books like Raina Telgemeier's Smile (three years on the New York Times graphic novel best-seller list!) and Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer. [Comics212]
Publishing | Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater responds to Singapore's ban of the third volume of Life With Archie, which features the wedding of Kevin Keller and Clay Walker: "Riverdale will always be about acceptance, equality and safety. I'm sad readers in Singapore will miss out on the chance to read such a pivotal moment in comics." [The Hollywood Reporter]
Business | Devin Leonard looks at the possible effects of a Fox/Time-Warner merger on superhero movies; Time-Warner owns DC Entertainment, and Fox has the movie rights to some Marvel characters. The New York Times offers a broader overview. [Business Week]
Passings | Dave Thorne, sometimes called the father of Hawaiian cartooning, has died at the age of 82. His most recent strip was Thorney's Zoo, which ran in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Mark Evanier has a personal appreciation of Thorne and his love of Hawaii. [Honolulu Star-Advertiser]
Creators | Carl Barks once wrote, "Ninety-nine readers out of 100 think Walt Disney writes and draws all those movies and comic books between stints with his hammer and saw building Disneyland," but for much of his career he was happy to remain anonymous and avoid the hassles that come with fame. Jim Korkis writes the fascinating story of how two fans got through the Disney wall of anonymity — and Barks' own reticence — to figure out who Barks was and bring him into contact with his admirers. [USA Today]