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In what was a short meeting Jan. 22, the Butterfield-Odin School Board voted unanimously to purchase a Town and Country Van for $8,100 which will be available for student purposes.
In what was a short meeting Jan. 22, the Butterfield-Odin School Board voted unanimously to purchase a Town and Country Van for $8,100 which will be available for student purposes.
"I like the fact that we have until 2020 to use the van for students and I like the price," said Butterfield-Odin School Board Member Kristin Haseman.
The school board has been shopping around in the search for a van for some time, so this decision came without much discussion.
Superintendent Lisa Shellum reported to the board that Diane Peterson received an award for 300 hours of service training as the chairman of Riverbend. These 300 hours of service have come over a short period of time.
The construction which has been taking place in the Butterfield-Odin School is now complete. Students now enjoy new flooring and an updated cafeteria as well as redone panelling and eight new Mac computers in the computer lab. The restrooms are scheduled to be completely remodelled by March 1, 2013. Restrooms will include a handicap-capable facility.
Butterfield-Odin School Board and St. James High School are continuing to work together on football conference issues. The board is excited moving forward and feels the sports pairing is going really well. There will be a sports pairing meeting at Armstrong School in St. James Feb. 27, at 5 p.m.
School board members were given a packet to outline some goals for their next term. The board is working proactively in collaboration with one another to continue moving forward in their professional development and making Butterfield-Odin a competitive and thriving school.
"All of us will be working together to find out what the heartbeat of Butterfield-Odin is," said Shellum.
Butterfield-Odin school board members are excited about the spelling bee scheduled for Feb. 1, at 12:40 p.m. Dawn Johnson will supervise the event and the winner from the seventh or eighth grade class will move on to the next round at South Central College.
Shellum reported she had received some good news from the Department of Education regarding testing and positive growth ratings for Butterfield Odin.
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These gains can be attributed to the practice tests instituted in math and good improvements from the teaching staff at Butterfield-Odin School.
The week of Jan. 14-18 is paraprofessional week. Certificates were given in recognition and appreciation to the paraprofessionals working in the Butterfield-Odin School, including: Marge Pankratz, Kim Wentzlaff, Vickie Smith, Mary Oakland, Kathy Crissler, Amy Hall, Autumn Morrow, Kim Cantwell and Cindy Palm.
In the student report, Butterfield-Odin School reported students were responding positively to the Reading Rocks program, which offers prizes to those children who read 250 minutes, 500 minutes, 750 minutes, and 1000 minutes a month. Prizes include gift certificates to a chance for $100 dollars by a drawing.
There was math testing in the Butterfield-Odin school Wednesday, Jan. 23, in preparation for the statewide academic progress tests. The school board responded positively to the idea of testing, saying they like the idea that kids can do these practice tests.
"We did it last year and it helped a lot," said Shellum.
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A step one increase in wages for substitute non-certified employees.
A move to Kevin Rupp as school attorney – he is the attorney most familiar with the district and has recently moved from Ratliff to his own law firm.
After prom concerns – there is no one in charge of the program and a fish fry has been tentatively scheduled.
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February 11, 2012
purple hair and jaguars and retirees
I am now at Fashion Week, stalking people whose style I admire to take their picture for STOPS, the street style project of GARAGE Magazine, at which I am a contributing editor. It is one of my favorite fashion magazines ever for how interestingly it incorporates all other kinds of inspiration. I am pleased to work for any fancy publication that would let Edward of Meadham Kirchhoff and I curate our own section devoted to the work of young feminist artists and zinemakers and girls making inspiration diaries from their bedrooms. (I really need to make a video flipping through it soon.) Here are today's subjects, whose pictures I plan on compiling at the end of the week into a game of Guess Who, as well as a quilt, and a giant posterboard to hang in my room that says BEST OF FRIENDS.
I really appreciated MJ's rainbow pills with the black and white crazy pants print.
Arabelle, who also writes for Rookie, could wear sweatpants and still I'd be like OMG YOUR OUTFIT YOUR HAIR, but she also wears vintage lace collars that correspond with her Zana Bayne harnesses and by that point I can't even handle it anymore.
Kristin's very textured self understands my need to be constantly entertained and amused because I kept freaking out about each individual detail. KNEE ZIPPERS OK.
Nicolette was wearing jaguars and polka dots together and it needed to be documented.
And Erin said she hated her school uniform when she was in school and now she is a grown lady who wears that style by choice all the time. I recommend her coverage and lovely photos of Lauren Moffatt's presentation, which fits right in with her adorable outfit.
Here I am, contributing editing. Photo by Arabelle.
Sweater from Edward, skirt gift from Miu Miu, Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony shoes, and I borrowed the bag from Anaheed. The sweater has the little flying heart witch from the album art for Hole's Live Through This, my desert island album. This outfit is kinda like this combined with this.
The necklace is my mom's, the barrettes are all randomly accumulated, and the ring I made by gluing a thing to another thing. Lately all I do is sit at my desk and watch stuff and find things in my room I can glue onto rings or to pipe cleaners to then shape into rings. (I do this using my muscles.) The button my dad got at a retirement party. Little did young Billy (idk) know that he would one day be immortalized on a stranger's sweater! The mints just felt appropriate to include here.


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On June 18, after coordinating efforts with XTO Energy's Lorie Jackson, Chicora Borough Council received an on-site tour of a drilling pad in action. XTO Energy employees were on hand to help us understand the several steps required to orchestrate the planning, implementation and final use of an unconventional well.
The words that I can use to describe what we saw are; professional, clean, safe and very well-maintained. I have seen residential basements and garages with more potential hazards than anywhere on the drilling pad we toured.
I am very concerned with the red herring argument that we should not drill until it is completely safe. I want to ask those individuals standing on that platform; Are you also postponing driving a vehicle or walking up and down steps until they are completely safe? If not, then why are you focusing on the far safer endeavors of modern well drillers? Vehicle and household accidents cause far more harm nationwide than any of these unconventional gas wells, thanks to careful training and procedures.
In addition, the product of these wells is one of the cleanest fuels known to man.
To those that believe and would use the argument that companies like XTO Energy simply extract the gas and ship the profits elsewhere, a lesson in economics is needed. I am personally an employee of a large manufacturing facility in Butler County. One of our primary growth sectors is manufacturing hardware used in gas extraction. Even if many drill site jobs belong to out-of-state residents (for their specific valuable skill set), and gas may be sold outside our region, the activity is significantly felt locally by the support roles, hotels and accommodations needed for this activity. Additionally, the gas reserve itself is a commodity owned and sold by the local landowners through lucrative leases.
It is my observation that our local area is greatly benefited by XTO Energy and others engaged in gas recovery. We should thank these people and welcome them for playing their role in boosting our economy.


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Reincarnation Tied To 'Memory Errors'
Posted 07 April 2007 - 03:41 PM
The propensity to make these mistakes could, in part, explain why people cling to implausible reincarnation claims in the first place.
Researchers recruited people who, after undergoing hypnotic therapy, had come to believe that they had past lives.
Subjects were asked to read aloud a list of 40 non-famous names, and then, after a two-hour wait, told that they were going to see a list consisting of three types of names: non-famous names they had already seen (from the earlier list), famous names, and names of non-famous people that they had not previously seen. Their task was to identify which names were famous.
The researchers found that, compared to control subjects who dismissed the idea of reincarnation, past-life believers were almost twice as likely to misidentify names. In particular, their tendency was to wrongly identify as famous the non-famous names they had seen in the first task. This kind of error, called a source-monitoring error, indicates that a person has difficulty recognizing where a memory came from.
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People who are likely to make these kinds of errors might end up convincing themselves of things that arent true, said lead researcher Maarten Peters of Maastricht University in The Netherlands. When people who are prone to making these mistakes undergo hypnosis and are repeatedly asked to talk about a potential idealike a past lifethey might, as they grow more familiar with it, eventually convert the idea into a full-blown false memory.
This is because they cant distinguish between things that have really happened and things that have been suggested to them, Peters told LiveScience.
Past life memories are not the only type of implausible memories that have been studied in this manner. Richard McNally, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, has found that self-proclaimed alien abductees are also twice as likely to commit source monitoring errors.
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Posted 08 April 2007 - 07:51 AM
Posted 08 April 2007 - 01:18 PM
I am not saying everything that are held as beliefs are true, but if we take time to analyze and explain certain things to ourself, we will get the right answer - so long we are wise enough to ask the right questions, that is
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 09 April 2007 - 02:26 AM
Posted 10 April 2007 - 07:02 PM
Now I am not saying that all cases of using hypnosis to uncover lost lives or alien abductions, etc. are easily dismissed. This all just goes to show us that we should be very careful in our research and not believe everything we hear or read.
Posted 10 May 2007 - 03:34 PM
It's the same story with demonic possession. Many cases from the past would now be diagnosed as some mental illness, but this doesn't prove there aren't real possessions.
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
Posted 10 May 2007 - 04:36 PM
People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make certain types of memory errors, according to a new study.
I may have missed this one, but allow me to propose a scenario. Two individuals seperately 'recalling' a past life which is shared. To explain, Person A recalls a past life. Person B recalls a past life. These recollections are seperate and apart from each other. Person A and Person B later discover the recalled lives are lives which are shared.
To give you a real life example, Frither and I both have a shared recalled life which we believe took place approximately 800 years ago in Scotland. This shared life also includes another member of this website.
Posted 10 May 2007 - 08:50 PM
To give you a real life example, Frither and I both have a shared recalled life which we believe took place approximately 800 years ago in Scotland. This shared life also includes another member of this website.
Mystic, your comment really caught my attention when you mentioned finding someone on this website.
I belong to another community (not paranormal) which has literally thousands of active members. It can truly be overwhelming at times...and yet 9 women and myself found each other. Our connection was nearly immediate to all of us. We are a very diverse group of women....ranging in age from 36 to 73. Married, single, Christian, Pagan...and yet we knew...absolutely knew that we all needed to be together.
We broke away from the huge group (although we all still visit there) and formed our own private group as we work towards understanding our relationship to each other.
We all met for the first time last year and spent a week together. We will do the same this July and every year from now on.
When we first saw each other, it was like 'coming home'.
And so, we continue to search for the ties that bind, and keep records as they make themselves known. It's such a beautiful thing to watch this develop.
Yes, I do believe we shared another lifetime together...We all believe that. We're just working on the specifics now.
And loving every minute of it.
Edited by Holly, 10 May 2007 - 08:52 PM.
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 02:09 PM
Great Stories...
Would LOVE to hear more!
Posted 12 May 2007 - 11:13 PM
Mystic & Holly,
Great Stories...
Would LOVE to hear more!
Watch for a post from Frither called 'Destiny's Child'. It talks in more detail about Frither and my shared past life. Perhaps the third party involved will join in the thread.
Posted 12 May 2007 - 11:44 PM
Posted 13 May 2007 - 10:43 AM
I do have a few friends and relitives that I feel strongly I have known before, for instance I'm certain that I was my fathers older brother and we still have some very interesting relationship traits that are more sibling like than anything else.
I also have a very close friend that I met the first day of high school. We took one look at each other and BAM! instant recognition, we've been best friends ever since (again) and I was even the "best man" at his wedding.
By a funny coincidence we have the same first name, the same birthday, we are the same size (shoes and ring sizes too) my middle name is Ann, his sisters name is Ann, his middle name is Scott, my brothers name is Scott, the day we met we were both wearing t-shirts that said 'Yale University', black leather jackets, 501 blue jeans, and the same make Nike shoes .
When we were kids we used to talk about our past lives and compare notes a lot, but that was 30 years ago, guess I'll have to ask him what he still remembers...
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true." -Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Posted 17 May 2007 - 05:47 PM
Months later, I managed to track down a photo of of my ghost pal at the local historical society. It had a note on the back saying that it was taken from another family's photo album. I tracked down that album, too, and got a shock when I turned to the second page. There was a photograph of a young woman in 1860's dress with her hair in ringlets. Weirder yet, she looked a lot like me at the same age. My eyes are a little more widely set and her face is a little narrower, but I'll be darned if there isn't a strong resemblence.
So, I'm a little more convinced now.
Posted 18 May 2007 - 12:15 PM
A Civil War soldier ghost I deal with on an ongoing basis keeps telling me that he knew me during his time period. I believe in reincarnation but the concept of having a past life with a ghost seemed a bit over the top. A psychic friend of mine seemed to think he was telling the truth, though. She had some visions of me with my hair up in ringlets in 1860's dress at the ghost's house. That would have been a very unusual hairstyle back then, so again, I doubted that she was picking up on something real.
Months later, I managed to track down a photo of of my ghost pal at the local historical society. It had a note on the back saying that it was taken from another family's photo album. I tracked down that album, too, and got a shock when I turned to the second page. There was a photograph of a young woman in 1860's dress with her hair in ringlets. Weirder yet, she looked a lot like me at the same age. My eyes are a little more widely set and her face is a little narrower, but I'll be darned if there isn't a strong resemblence.
So, I'm a little more convinced now.
That is a FABULOUS story Abbeygal!!!!
I was wondering, how did you come to know that there was *someone* around you? How old were you? Did you buy some sort of antique or memorabilia that he was "attached" to? Did he tell you what kind of relationship you both had?
Thanks for sharing!!!....
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As for my own story regarding this topic, when I was a freshman in high school I took a trip up to Duluth, Minnesota, in early spring. Iceburgs were still crowding the harbors and a Nordic chill was on the air. Duluth is a town with a very strange aura which is very hard to place, so I will simply say that it seems heavy with history. On this journey, my group and I visited an old mansion on the short of Lake Superior called Glensheen. It is a beautiful place and rich with aging treasures and that musty scent all Victorian houses seem to retain. On my way to the second floor (after having walked over the broad landing in the stairwell upon which a maid of the house had been murdered), I noticed a painted portrait hanging on the wall. It was of a very pale girl my age (at the time) in a white Victorian lawn dress with her dark hair piled on top of her head in a rather average Victorian way. She was cradling a fat black and white cat and peering out at her audience with great dark eyes, her tiny pink lips pursed into a smile. Everyone in my group looked at the painting and immediately sought me out. We looked very much the same. To this day I still cannot find out who the painter was, but a mansion employee says the girl was a friend of the family. My own fat black and white cat has since passed away, but the mystery of this painting has always haunted me.
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Hill, Lovatt Evans and Zotterman lectures on gramophone records, England and Sweden, 1935-1945
On each of these gramophone records are lectures given by three of the largest players in physiology in the mid 20th century - Archibald V. Hill (1886-1977), Sir Charles Lovatt Evans (1884-1968) and Yngve Zotterman (1898-1982). Hill is best remembered as one of the founders of the field of biophysics. Biophysics applies quantitative measurement to reactions in body such as nerve and muscles reactions - the field that Hill studied extensively from 1910 onwards. Lovatt Evans worked with Hill for 23 years. While Hill was interested in the physical nature of the body, Lovatt Evans studied the chemical side of things. Lovatt Evans worked extensively on the impact of gas warfare on the body during both World Wars. He was also founder of the Biochemical Society. Zotterman received some of his early scientific training from Hill. Zotterman was President of the International Union of Phsyiological Sciences from 1971 to 1974. The gramophone records were donated to the Science Museum's collections by the Department of Physiology at University College London where the three men worked for all or some of their scientific lives.
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The holiday season is typically reserved by video game companies to tout big sales numbers and roll out major sequels. 2012's been no different. Nintendo proclaimed this week that it sold 400,000 Wii Us during the week of Black Friday, Sony boasted 525,000 PlayStation 3s sold, and Microsoft reported 750,000 Xbox 360s sold, particularly impressive since the Xbox is celebrating its seventh birthday this November. This is not the Xbox 360's season, though, as each day a new rumor about the console's successor circles the Internet. The latest is that the next Xbox, sometimes called Xbox 720 and sometimes Durango, will definitely arrive in time for Christmas 2013.
Bloomberg reported on Friday morning that its sources, who naturally asked to remain anonymous, confirmed that Microsoft is planning to release the next Xbox almost exactly one year after the Wii U, to capitalize on Black Friday and Christmas 2013 sales. The source also said that Microsoft has yet to decide whether it will debut the next Xbox at a trade show like E3 2013 or the Consumer Electronics Show or if it will hold an independent event.
Microsoft famously debuted the Xbox 360 in a television special back in 2005, showing off "target" demos of games like Madden NFL 2006 that didn't look anything like the games that shipped alongside the console later that year. Since then Microsoft hasn't shied away from bringing new products to trade events. Kinect debuted as the codenamed "Project Natal" at E3 2009 before re-emerging one year later with its proper name.
Just what Microsoft will announce for release in 2013 is up in the air as there are two successors to the Xbox 360 rumored as of now. The first is an expensive, powerful new gaming machine codenamed Durango that will ship under the simple name Xbox. This console will play Blu-ray discs and run graphically intensive games similar to those seen in tech demos like Star Wars 1313.
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Sunday's Free Family Concert presented by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association will feature the talents of local musician Jenna Walters.
Sunday's Free Family Concert presented by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association will feature the talents of local musician Jenna Walters.
The train-themed event will begin at 2:15 p.m. at the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center with crafts and fun for children of all ages. There will be train whistles to create and bandanas to decorate.
Music for the concert, which will begin at 3 p.m. will center on excerpts from the movie "Polar Express," Thomas the Train television series plus the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Orange Blossom Special; and the popular Pleasure Train Polka, as well as other musical selections.
Jenna, who studies the viola and cello, is a 9th grader at Berean Christian School's independent study program and the daughter of Jeff and tammy Walters of Oak Ridge.
She has studied violin but prefers the lower string instruments. Jenna has also performed master classes with many noted stringed instrument virtuosos. At the concert she will play Johann Christian Bach's Concerto for Viola.
In addition to the activities and concert, the Oak Ridge Children's Museum and members of the Knoxville Model Railroad Society will display a model railroad track.
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Girl : Without trying to offend, if your priest ( spiritual father) has instructed you ( as taught by our holy fathers ) correctly , then you will know when the end time is near.
I am not really offended by anyone, thanks for posting your opinions.
Also I only put a picture of Bob Marley up because I like his music. (reggae mon)ÂÂ
I have read (in the paper) that many people think that the world is going to end very soon because of all the destruction and terrorism that they have been seeing in the world. What do you think?
Well, you know what I meant. Regardless from where it is, it still says in one of the prayers that it is on earth as it is in Heaven. And when it says he will come again to judge both the living and the dead, I don't believe it meant that Jesus will come and take all the good people and leave all the people considered 'unworthy.' God forgives ALL transgressions, not only the ones he wants to. He judges us and cleanses us from our sins everytime we commit the sin. The bible says he comes like a thief in the night and takes away our sins. So why would he come physically to earth to judge when he does that every time we commit the sin in the first place??
I am so happy to see someone at your age being interested in God. I certainly wasn't, when I was your age, many moons ago (it wasn't just last century but last millennium also LOL).
I've read some writings from a number of scholars who seem to think that the Second Coming will occur during Holy Week because this would be the time when we are most prepared for the Second Coming. Any thoughts?
What will the Church of Finland do? And when SCOBA-ites change the Paschalion, what will they do?
It is said that there were over 300 prophecies (spoken by different voices over 500 years) that the Lord Jesus fulfilled, including 29 major prophecies fulfilled in a single day — the day He was crucified. (Some of these prophecies may have found fulfillment on one level in the prophet's own day, they found their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ.)
Besides that, the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies in the Lord Jesus Christ, as we shall see, precludes any possibility of another messiah. There could only be one True Messiah He Who has already come.
God changes the future when we repent, like the men of Nineveh in the OT.
This isn't for sure browneyedgirl.....but I believe he means that if enough people are truly good and repent of their ways then the future can be changed.If there are people praying for us (the monks at Mount Athos pray for the whole world)then the future can be changed.
†Irini nem ehmot †Would it be accurate to say that the future is "changed"? God is all-knowing, I'm sure we all agree on that. And He doesn't so much forsee the future as actually "see" it happening right before His eyes. God is not bound by time so everything is layed out before Him, past, present and future. To use these words would be inaccurate when dealing with God. So, to say the future changes, to me, doesn't seem right. God takes into account people repenting because He sees them repenting. I hope that makes sense.Prayers please.
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So I was telling an innocent passerby that a recent donation had included an electronic device which, when opened, told me the correct time, date, and year. All I wanted, I said, was to see whether it worked, not be informed that it was more current than I was.
"Do you get a lot of stuff besides books?" he inquired. "What do you do with it?"
I assumed he did not mean records, tapes, magazines, and other such cultural artifacts for which the Book Fair is famous. I also assumed he didn't want to hear the whole history of our donations, so I simply said, "Well, it all depends."
But you're just sitting there, armed with a mouse which can click you to a collection of blithe poetry somewhere else. So I can tell you that, through the years, we've had a mattress (unused), a mangle, two pianos, eight strings of Christmas tree lights, four gold coins, an iPod, three snowglobes, Belgian license plates, about a dozen necklaces, an eyelash curler, a curling iron (with steam capabilities and five strands of hair still stuck to it), a pair of cut-offs, a hundred neckties, three rolls of fabric, a quilt, a sheet/comforter set, one pistol, one set of brass knuckles, a set of 3-D slides of women in heels and hose, a box of microscope slides, a box of glass insulators, a pasta machine, three different sets of wine glasses, nine pairs of candlesticks, three crocheted hula dancers, a silver tea set, a bottle of cherry brandy, a bottle of J&B, sixteen quarts of white wine, a Snoopy Sno-Cone Maker, two fur coats, a jar of cinnamon, and a squeaky toy in the shape of Michelangelo's David.
And that's just what I could think of in a five minute period jotting down notes for this blog. I could go on. (I frequently do.)
Now, as to "What do you do with it?"–well, it occurs to me, looking back across the list, that there is just one thing that got tossed in the garbage. Go ahead: guess. I'll tell you later on.
A lot of it, you might correctly decide, was sold on eBay. The gold coins, some of the candlesticks: it just made more sense than trying to decide what to charge and which subject to sort them into at the Book Fair. (And how many guards to post over them. No insult intended to my customers, but gold coins are way too portable. You, personally, wouldn't have taken them outside to see how they looked in sunlight, but I'm not so sure about that person who was behind you in line. The orange jumpsuit kind of made me nervous.)
The mangle and the mattress, though, were sold in-house. Better to deal with the matter among Newberry staff than try to mail somebody a mattress. It doesn't always work that way: we sold both pianos (one baby grand, one player piano) on eBay. Two different people threatened to give us cars to sell, too, and I was planning to unload those via eBay. (They reconsidered, or I might be starring in late-night TV ads by now.)
The gun and the brass knuckles can not be legally sold by Book Fair Managers in Illinois, so the police got those. I am also not licensed to sell booze, but a bottle makes a lovely gift. (That white wine, for example, went one bottle at a time to the December staff party until somebody told me they were reaching the vinegar stage.)
Some of these WERE sold at the Book Fair, but you might have missed them: the hula dancers and the squeaky toy sold mere minutes after opening (I have seen what you like,pastrami sandwich cookie, and it's a frightening picture). The wine glasses did sell, albeit more slowly, and one of our long-suffering volunteers actually wore one of the fur coats around the room to interest people in it. (Sometimes these ideas backfire: the one person who was interested saw her wearing it and withdrew the offer.)
We did finally sell that fur coat. We sent the other one to an artist who made bears and bunnies out of old fur coats, and put the bear up for sale. We try to think of a use for what comes out way. No, the bear hasn't quite SOLD yet, but it's easier to store than the coat. And it will have more chances to sell, especially if it is accompanied by a small denim bunny made out of the cut-offs.
Yeah, we threw away the eyelash curler. But that was before eBay. We might…no, don't send me yours. Books are easier to stack.


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A proposal to open a second ABC store in Transylvania County has run into opposition from Schenck Job Corps supporters, who say the location is too close to the residential facility for at-risk youth in Pisgah National Forest.
PISGAH FOREST — A proposal to open a second ABC store in Transylvania County has run into opposition from Schenck Job Corps supporters, who say the location is too close to the residential facility for at-risk youth in Pisgah National Forest.
After hearing those concerns, the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission voted 3-0 Wednesday to defer action on the Brevard ABC Board's request to put a 1,750-square-foot package store next to Bi-Lo in the Forest Gate Shopping Center.
The deferral is designed to give local ABC officials an opportunity to address concerns expressed by Job Corps supporters and others about the new store location, said Agnes Stevens, the commission's public affairs director.
If it had been approved Wednesday, the new ABC store could have opened as early as May 1, said General Manager James Michael Houston. That schedule will now be pushed back indefinitely.
ABC commissioners received five letters opposing the proposed store — four related to its proximity to Schenck Job Corps, which provides career training and education to about 200 low-income youths ages 16 to 24.
"Our students often walk down to Bi-Lo and Walmart in that shopping center," wrote Schenck Director Tammy Wentland. "The temptation for our students to purchase liquor will be too great for some. A large number of our students struggle with alcohol and substance abuse."
Schenck's program has a zero-tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol, Wentland wrote, and she worries students with increased access to alcohol could get kicked out. The program, which already faces an enrollment freeze caused by federal budget shortfalls, provides $13 million in local economic impact each year, she said.
"It would be a significant negative impact on the community if Schenck Job Corps were to close for poor performance, and a contributing factor could be the placement of a liquor store within walking distance," she wrote.
David Carr, president of Schenck's Community Relations Council, echoed those concerns in his letter to the ABC commission.
"We do not want these students put in harm's way by a few individuals who may not be able to resist the temptation of alcohol being so near," Carr wrote. "These young people may have not had the life experiences needed to 'walk on by' the liquor store."
Another council member, Kimba Nichols, news director of WSQL radio in Brevard, said Job Corps is within a mile and a half of the proposed ABC store, too tempting to at-risk youths who regularly walk to Forest Gate.
"One ABC liquor store already exists within three miles of this new location, and I believe a second one is not necessary," wrote Nichols.
The city's ABC board estimates the second location would produce annual sales of $250,000. Three-quarters of the store's net profits would go to Brevard's general fund, with the remaining quarter going to Transylvania County.
Last year, Brevard's single ABC store, at 350 N. Broad St., had sales of $2.8 million and returned about $220,000 in net profits to the two localities, Houston said.
Pisgah Forest was chosen as a second location because of its high traffic, Houston said, both from tourists using Pisgah National Forest and locals who frequent Walmart, Bi-Lo and other Forest Gate shops. The existing store is also maxed out, he said.
"We're a single store and we're one of the biggest single stores," Houston said. "You finally get to the point where it's hard to manage out of one location. You either have to expand, or spread it out. This is going to give us some breathing room. Also, Pisgah Forest is a booming area in our community."
Initially, the new store would operate from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, Houston said. The current store is open six days a week from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m., the maximum allowed by state law.
It's unknown whether new competition from Brevard's package store would affect the viability of a possible sixth ABC store in Henderson County. This month, the Henderson County ABC Board hired a consultant to examine potential sites for a new store, including top contenders Mills River and Etowah.
The new Brevard store is 8.5 miles from Etowah and 11 miles from Mills River.
Beau Waddell, chairman of Henderson County's ABC Board, said consultant Martin-McGill will look at consumer demand for liquor across "our entire geographic area" and "take the whole picture into consideration," including existing stores serving county residents.
Houston said the new Pisgah Forest location "might catch commuters" on their way to or from work in Hendersonville, but added, "I'm not looking at picking up that many customers (from Etowah). If we did, I think it would be minimal."
Contingent on the commissioners' approval, Brevard ABC is leasing space at 61 Forest Gate Shopping Center for $2,114 per month for five years. The landlord is CWT Properties LLC, which bought the land in 1998 to develop into a shopping center anchored by Walmart.
Brevard ABC opened its first store in 1967 at 50 Asheville Highway, where Metcalf Pharmacy is today. The board moved its operations to the North Broad location in 2000, more than doubling its square footage.
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The Reverend Father '''Adrian Augustus''' is a [[priest]] in the [[ROCOR]] [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]], where he serves a [[parish]] in Sydney and is the Dean of Pakistan, within
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The Reverend Father Adrian Augustus is a priest in the ROCOR Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, where he serves a parish in Sydney and is the Dean of Pakistan, within the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand of ROCOR.
Biographical Sketch
Life in India
- 1977: Adrian was born in India, where he was raised.
- Adrian became an Anglican deacon, serving in India.
- Adrian, inquiring into Orthodoxy, exchanged correspondence with Abp Hilarion of Sydney, who provided detailed responses.
- Abp Hilarion suggested that Adrian go to Holy Trinity Seminary, Jordanville. Family illness prevented this.
- 2007: Adrian converted to Orthodoxy.
Life in Australia
- Adrian moved to Australia, where he was received into the Orthodox Church, and was very close to Abp Hilarion.
- 2009 May: Adrian was ordained to the diaconate.
- 2011 March 13: Dcn Adrian ordained to the priesthood.
- (After ordination, Fr Adrian continued secular work).
- Fr Adrian was appointed rector of St Michael the Archangel Russian Orthodox Church, Blacktown.
Missionary to Pakistan
- Abp Hilarion received correspondence from people who had left the Catholic seminary in Pakistan and were inquiring into Orthodoxy. He forwarded this to Fr Adrian, who asked permission to go to Pakistan to meet with them.
- First mission trip
- Fr Adrian was met, not only by the two he expected, but by 50 people.
- After he settled into his hotel room, he was not allowed to leave the hotel (as he is ethnically Indian) until a local member of parliament permitted him to leave for 12 hours.
- During this time, the press reported that a priest had arrived, and more people came to see him.
- Fr Adrian preached for two hours, about the history and praxis of Orthodoxy. He then answered many questions about Orthodoxy. After his sermon, 110 Catholics joined the Orthodox faith, followed by 74 people the next day.
- When asking why his sermon had interested them, people responded that they were touched that Fr Adrian, an Indian, had come to preach Orthodoxy and looked on them as equals.
- When asking why they had invited him rather than other Orthodox priests in Pakistan, people responded that they hoped to be cared for by the largest and multicultural Church, the Church of Russia.
- Fr Adrian then took on the responsibility of preserving this community, and Metr. Hilarion blessed the Archangel Michael Mission.
- His second trip to Pakistan was focused on pastoral care, meeting with people and understanding their needs.
- He celebrated the Divine Liturgy there for the first time.
- On the same trip, a former Catholic priest and his wife converted to Orthodoxy, through being touched by the ancient prayers of the Liturgy while translating them.
- Fr Adrian also baptised over 50 other people.
- He was also able to secure a missionary visa.
- There are now three Christans who wish to become priests, and there are plans in place for their training in other parts of Asia. There are also six young women who wish to become nuns, and there are plans for their training in Russia.
- Currently (Oct 2012), Christians gather in homes for reader's services (Hours, Typica, Gospel) and fellowship.
- 2013 Jan: With Fr Yurij Maximov, accompanied Metr Hilarion on journey to Pakistan and India. Ordinations included 3 priests for Pakistan, one reader for India, in addition to the tonsure of one monk from the Philippines.
- 2013 April 4: Appointment as the Dean of Pakistan confirmed by Metr. Hilarion.
- Interview of Fr Adrian Augustus by Denis Grishkov, at the Missionary Department of the Moscow Theological Academy.
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Robert Chambers, CEO/Founder of the Stuttgart Civil/Human Right Party, wants to hold Stuttgart Junior High School Principal Cedric Hawkins responsible for many of the school's problems.
Robert Chambers, CEO/Founder of the Stuttgart Civil/Human Right Party, wants to hold Stuttgart Junior High School Principal Cedric Hawkins responsible for many of the school's problems. Anyone in any position, especially in a leadership role, should be held accountable. However, where Mr. Chambers got it wrong was when he said things that attacked Hawkins' character and, for the most part, singled him out. As the old saying goes, "It takes a village to raise a child," and everyone involved with any district plays a role in its successes and failures in some way, shape or form. Chambers did a good job when it came to raising concerns, but instead of looking deeper as to why these issues exist, he put the blame squarely on Hawkins. When I look at Hawkins, not only do I not single him out as the cause or problem, I think he's the perfect person to make things better for SJHS.
If you want to disagree with a decision to place a student in alternative learning environment, that is one thing, but to say the principal doesn't have the student's best interests at heart is something else. I don't know the specific situation, but I do know Hawkins well enough to say when he makes a decision, it is because he believes it will benefit the particular student.
The next thing Chambers addresses is the racial make-up of the school. He shows that barely more than half of the students are white while 19 of the 24 faculty members are white. I would like to see all schools as diverse as possible with their student and faculty population because that shows everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, religion or anything else, would feel welcome. You can't fix that overnight. What does Chambers expect Hawkins to do? Does he want teachers already employed by the school system to be fired? He has only been principal for four years and to use another expression, "Rome wasn't built in a day." I don't know if that's what he is expecting, but you should not get rid of someone who is doing his or her job unless there is just cause. If a specific teacher committed a racist act, by all means, deal with that teacher individually. Otherwise, just as I have said when defending President Obama, people in opposition are just experiencing some of the difficulties involved with change. Change does not happen overnight. Racism is thousands of years old and laws have been on our side to fight prejudice for a short time. It takes time to implement change and we need to be patient. I believe the solution to the problem is for Hawkins, or a leader of any organization, school or business, to build as many bridges possible with the black community where they live, in their field and organizations that fight for equality. That way when positions do come open at SJHS, educators of all races feel free to apply, and, in time, the faculty will become as diverse as the student body.
Chambers goes on to talk about how 70 percent of the disciplinary infractions at SJHS come from African Americans. Mr. Chambers and I are in complete agreement when he calls that "alarming." The problem is, once again, he takes those numbers at face value and fails to look at the big picture. There could be many causes to the problem. It could be the principal. It could be some of the teachers. It could be the culture within the community segregating the kids socially. It could be a problem within the entire school district. There could be an overall cultural bias against black kids. I don't know how these numbers came about. I don't know what the 825 disciplinary infractions were for. I don't know how severe the punishments were for any of them. There are a lot of questions to be answered, but, as a society, we should look at all the reasons behind any problem such as racism and try to solve it collectively. I do agree with Chambers on one point. It wouldn't hurt to have more administrators at SJHS or any school. One more educator at any school to benefit children is always a good thing.
I believe Cedric Hawkins is the right leader for SJHS based on my personal interactions with him back when I lived in Stuttgart and he was the Ricebirds head basketball coach. I know that was four years ago, but the principles, which led he and his athletes to success are still inside of him. I had many conversations with him about racial issues so I am aware of his viewpoints. I saw him coach teams where nearly all of the players were African Americans and, when they were treated unfairly, he was the first one to speak up. He always encouraged the community to come cheer on those kids working very hard. He wanted them to be more than good athletes, he wanted them to grow up to be good young men and, from what I have seen, many of them are. I saw him be a role model and positive influence to many of the students for years. I know, if given the time and support, down the road things will be much better for all students and teachers. Hopefully, one day, we will be talking about people as individuals and won't have to check on the numbers because everyone will be treated fairly in the big picture. We must take baby steps to get there and Hawkins is the best person to lead SJHS.
Josh Troy
Clarksdale, Miss.


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I Love the New Busch
Yesterday was my first trip to the new stadium, and I love it! It's such a huge improvement over old Busch. I know I should probably be nostalgic for that stadium, since I saw many Cardinal games there and many Gridbird games too (my dad shared season tickets), but I always thought it wasn't very well-suited to either sport. Maybe that's because I almost always had upper deck seats and the players looked like tiny ants. Yesterday, I splurged for an infield box seat about 15 rows from the field and a little behind 3rd base. It was awesome to be that close to the action, even if there wasn't much action, at least not from the good guys.
I didn't venture up the escalators, but I walked around the perimeter and was impressed at the variety of food stands, the martini bar, the creative installation of the old manual scoreboard in the hallway, the family fun pavilion, and the shops. I love the openess of the stadium, the various viewpoints for standing room patrons, and the view of the Arch. And taking Metrolink to and from the game was a breeze. I was entertained on the way down, sitting next to a mom with her 3-year-old daughter. The kid was already a Cards fan and had memorized the names and numbers of most of the starting lineup! Her favorite player? "Goochi! 99!"
I don't have a whole lot to say about the game. Reyes just wasnt sharp. I felt like I was watching the all-star home run derby the way the Reds were knocking them out of the park. Sosa didn't impress either. I was glad Tony removed Reyes early when we still had a chance to come back, but Arroyo was just too tough.
I took some photos but left my camera's USB cord in LA, so I'll have to wait to upload them til I get back to LA next weekend. At least we got the win today (yay Rolen!) and won the series. Things are lookin' up.


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Unsure how to pay your bills this month? Need a warm place to spend the night? Stuck on the side of the road and need assistance?
Residents in Southwest Colorado may find it useful to call 211 from any phone to receive free help to these and a number of other human service-related topics.
The 211 service has been widely available since about 2000 in the United States, but the information and referrals to health and human-service organizations caters mostly to larger cities. Volunteers have been working to provide local referral information to a call center in Grand Junction, where local calls are routed.
Southwest Connect and the Adult Education Center teamed up to compile the information for the five-county region, said Erica Keter, a project coordinator. The group has completed urgent-care referral data for the area, she said.
Its time to spread the word, she said.
Callers can obtain information about homeless services, financial assistance, health care and emergency assistance.
If a visitors car breaks down while passing through the area, the driver can call 211 to receive information about roadside assistance, the location of a homeless shelter or the Salvation Army, which can provide vouchers. If someone was abused, he or she can call 211 for referrals to agencies that can provide assistance. Or if someone is having trouble paying bills, 211 can refer residents to housing-assistance organizations in the area.
Keter said organizers will be distributing promotional material to help spread the word about 211.


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text: Thursday, June 09, 2011 APTA Members Gather for PT Day on Capitol Hill Sens Jon Tester (D-MT) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) addressed approximately 1,000 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students of physical therapy on Capitol Hill today as they rallied in support of legislation to increase patient access to rehabilitative care. Tester and Wicker, sponsors of the Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act (S 975), spoke about the importance of adding physical therapist to National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program and recruiting them to rural and underserved areas. Following the event, rally participants met with their members of Congress to ask them to support S 975 and the House's companion bill HR 1426. They also advocated for the Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act (HR 1546/S 829), legislation that would repeal the cap on outpatient rehabilitative services for Medicare beneficiaries, and the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act (HR 469). HR 469 includes physical therapists in the multidisciplinary team of licensed health care providers that is qualified to evaluate and manage patients with concussions. Look for more rally coverage in tomorrow's PT 2011 Daily News and on www.apta.org. APTA members gather for today's rally. APTA President Scott Ward, PT, PhD, welcomes participants. Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) told the crowd, "The work that you're going to do today is critically important." Sen Roger Wicker (R-MS) spoke about the "huge wave" of baby boomers who are going to need physical therapy. Comments It is great to see our profession working together for the better good of our profession. Posted by melanie weis on 6/10/2011 2:13 PM An amazing experience! This was my first PT Day on Capitol Hill and I am so happy to have had the chance to participate! Posted by Ann Lowrey on 6/13/2011 7:49 AM Thank you to all who organized the PT Day on Capitol Hill. Well done! This was my first in our nation's capital. A great experience shared with fellow PTs/PTAs/and students from all over the country. I look forward to next year. Let's shoot for another 1000 plus! Becky Posted by Becky Crocker, PT, DPT on 6/14/2011 10:50 AM


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David Irons, a de facto leader of The Day's online community, dies at 66
New London - Few of The Day's online commenters had ever met David Irons in person, but they knew where this conservative Waterford resident stood on many issues.
Riverside Park? Sell.
Snow plow complaints? Get out and do it yourself.
Media coverage of Memorial Day? Disappointing.
Irons, a Vietnam veteran, retired National Guardsman, one-time columnist for The Day and a thorough reader of theday.com, died Wednesday.
His wife, Maura, looking for a way to reach his online pals, announced his death Thursday by posting a comment on an editorial about political gridlock in Washington.
"My husband David passed away from a major stroke yesterday,'' she wrote under her husband's name. "As you can imagine, it's been a sleepless night. I would like to thank each and every one of you for the countless hours of entertainment and spirited discussion which you provided for him."
By noon, more than a dozen people had responded, sending condolences and saying they enjoyed Irons' "wit and wisdom" and "his reasonable views on everything."
"His insight and daily posts will surely be missed," wrote Brian12.
Dollar Bill called Irons' musings "thoughtful, well-written, to the point, and, most of all, logical."
Irons, unlike most posters, used his full name with his online comments.
Jeff Sonderman, the digital media fellow at The Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalism, said he had not heard of a case of an online commenter's passing being announced the way Irons' was but found it fascinating.
"The best online forums and comment sections become places not just of exchanged words but of true community,'' he said in an email exchange Thursday. "'Community' means the people know and care about each other, not just the newspaper or the news they read. This case, where many members recognized and were moved by the mention of another member's death, shows why that notion of true community is so powerful."
Maura Irons said her husband had a massive stroke Sunday afternoon, with bleeding into his brain. He was taken to the emergency room at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and was alert enough to say he did not want surgery.
"It was either death or an operation on his brain, and they weren't sure it would save him,'' she said. "He spent three days, slowly dying."
Irons, 66, had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commonly known as COPD, and rarely left the house except for doctor's appointments, she said. But he loved interacting with people.
"Other people talk to each other verbally, he spoke his mind in writing,'' she said. "He would get up, have coffee and breakfast and immediately get online and read articles."
She said he loved The Day, which he delivered while growing up in Waterford, and loved reading everything.
Kathleen Mitchell, another frequent commenter, whose more liberal views often clashed with Iron's conservative streak, said she always was glad to read his opinions.
"Especially when he agreed with me,'' Mitchell said Thursday. She was one of the few who interacted with Irons online but also knew him personally.
"No matter what side he was on ... he was always a gentleman and I always knew he was my friend,'' Mitchell said. "I'm going to miss him. I'll miss seeing his name up there."
Maura Irons said she chose the political editorial to announce her husband's death because she knew those with whom he routinely exchanged comments would be reading it.
"You brought joy into his life - from the verbose Bud Bray to Dave's friend and sometimes adversary, Kathleen Mitchell. I especially thank 'Dollar Bill' who so graciously visited Dave while he was hospitalized. Thank you all again and keep up your wonderful comments," she wrote.
Later in the day, she said she appreciated the kind response from her husband's online friends, but she wanted people to refocus on the editorial.
"I want them to go ahead and do their thing,'' she said. "That's what he would have wanted."
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Keith Rowlands and his family know intimately � three times over � how Alzheimer�s disease hurts.
�It is a horrible disease,� said Rowlands, who lost three family members within three years to Alzheimer�s. His father, Donald, died in 2007 at the age of 72 � and in the prior three years, Donald�s twin brother, Daniel, and other brother, Bob, had both died of the disease.
It was after their father died, said Keith Rowlands, a technical service engineer who lives in Gorham, that he and his siblings decided to rally behind the cause to end Alzheimer�s.
On Saturday, the Rowlands family will join others for the annual Walk to End Alzheimer�s. The national event � which takes place this Saturday, Sept. 21, in Canandaigua ��benefits The Alzheimer�s Association of Rochester & the Finger Lakes, which serves a nine-county region that includes Monroe, Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties. The mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through research and enhancing care and support for those affected, along with promoting brain health to reduce the risk of dementia. Alzheimer's is the nation�s sixth leading cause of death, according to The Alzheimer�s Association.
The walk, which starts at Granger Homestead & Carriage Museum at 10 a.m.,�offers two routes:�a 1.1-mile stroll through Canandaigua's historic neighborhoods and a 3.3-mile walk that extends into Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park off Charlotte Street. Registration is at 9 a.m.
Keith said participating in the walk is a way to help fight the disease while celebrating time with family and friends.
�You can�t live life crying. You have to do something positive," Keith's sister Christine Caplan stated in a press release promoting the walk.
�When you look around, you realize, wow, just how many people at the Canandaigua walk have been affected,� added Rowlands. �You see first that you are not alone, and second, that there are a lot of people working to make it better."
WHAT Canandaigua Walk to End Alzheimer�s
WHEN Saturday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. (registration begins at 9 a.m.)
WHERE Begins at Granger Homestead & Carriage Museum, 295 N. Main St. Canandaigua
DETAILS The event features a 1.1-mile walk through the city�s historic neighborhoods and a 3.3-mile walk that extends into Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park. Routes are wheelchair-accessible. Sign up to participate at alz.org/rochesterny or by calling (800) 272-3900. To volunteer, call (585) 760-5472.
ONLINE Information at www.alz.org/rochesterny
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PENSION CRISIS: Municipalities wait their turn
While the legislative stove is heating up for 2013 and ideas for state pension reform are simmering, interest in a municipal fix has been lukewarm at best. The consensus among some lawmakers and members of the Corbett administration is that debate and, eventually, a solution to cover state pension debt already incurred and to adequately fund future benefits must come first.
The two state-level pension systems — the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System, commonly known as PSERS and SERS — have run up more than $41 billion in unfunded liabilities.
If viable reform measures are found, that plan could be replicated or used as a template for municipal pension reform, state Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said.
"We really have not been looking at municipal pension reform," he said. "Some municipalities are in a different place. Many of them have challenges, but not all of them do."
Lingering legacy costs from pensions and other debt challenge local budgets and make higher taxes more likely. The state shifting the burden for services through cuts it must make because of increased pension debt only exacerbates the problem and hampers business development.
That's because distressed local governments are less likely to consider business-friendly options — tax incentives, for one.
"Something needs to be done. We all know the legacy costs," said Eric Montarti, senior policy analyst for the Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. "How do we get from identifying the problem and coming up with a solution to churning through the legislative process?"
New to the debate is a proposal from the state's auditor general to consolidate municipal pension plans.
The debt
Excluding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's roughly 1,400 municipal pension plans have a little more than $2 billion in combined unfunded liabilities, according to the state Public Employment Retirement Commission, which tracks the progress of local and state pension plans.
Pittsburgh alone accounts for about $380 million of that remaining total.
In its latest pension report in July, PERC numbers show that about 45 percent of the municipal and public authority pension plans were at least "minimally distressed."
A plan falls in that category if its assets are less than 90 percent of what is needed to pay accrued pension liability.
Central Pennsylvania plans make up about 11 percent of the municipal plans that PERC oversees. Of the 158 local plans in the July report, 69, or 44 percent, are at least minimally distressed.
The 2012 report, which looks at 2011 data, actually shows a slight improvement in municipal pension plans compared with the 2010 edition, which analyzed 2009 numbers.
But there still is a lot of work to do, and pensions are not the only issue stretching municipal finances.
Known challenges
Many municipalities are struggling to cover annual expenses and deal with other sources of debt. Harrisburg floats to the top because of its massive incinerator debt, not its pension situation.
The capital city also faces structural challenges with a high percentage — about 50 percent — of tax-exempt property.
Several municipalities have turned to Act 47, a state-assisted recovery program aimed at strengthening a municipality's short- and long-term fiscal management practices.
Shrinking tax bases, poor infrastructure and higher health care costs are common, along with pension debt. It makes the cost of doing business that much higher and heightens the level of advocacy for tax-abatement initiatives to drum up future commercial development.
Altoona was the last to file for Act 47, while Middletown has gone with the state's early-intervention program.
"I think that the issue is moving to the forefront," said Richard Schuettler, deputy executive director of the Pennsylvania Municipal League, referring to the growing number of distressed municipalities and calls for reform from local governments and business leaders. "Something has to be done."
During the summer, the state passed what has been called the Act 47 "fix." The bill set up a mechanism for evaluating arbitration awards under Act 47 and clarified language that the state Supreme Court objected to in an October ruling.
The court set union arbitration awards off limits when cities formulate financial recovery plans under Act 47.
The Coalition for Sustainable Communities, a broad coalition of business and government leaders, supported the fix, which makes negotiation a viable option again.
"Pension issues are one of our top issues right now," Schuettler said, along with addressing Act 111, a state law that governs collective bargaining for police and firefighters.
Arbitration awards often dictate much of a municipality's budget, driving future pension obligations in the process. The strain on the budget often means decreases in service or significant tax hikes to meet escalating costs.
For businesses in fiscally distressed municipalities, it becomes a quality-of-life issue, said Ellen Horan, president and CEO of the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce and Industry, one of the coalition's founding members.
"It very much impacts a business's ability to attract and retain talent," she said. "Initially, we thought it was a city problem, but then we heard from townships and boroughs that they were in the same boat."
Reading was accepted into Act 47 ahead of Harrisburg.
The coalition is working with lawmakers to finalize reform proposals. The push is to take pensions out of the binding arbitration equation, Horan said.
"The current process has resulted in binding arbitration awards as high as 6 percent per year and generally does not consider a municipality's inability to pay," said David Black, president and CEO of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and Capital Region Economic Development Corp. "The changes, in the coalition's opinion, merely restore balance to the collective bargaining process."
The push for reform would likely occur next year, because the current fall calendar has very few session days.
"We've had two pretty major shots in the market in 2002 and 2008 that hurt a lot of (pension) plans and earnings," Schuettler said. "That plus binding arbitration has led to pension costs that are just out of control."
Support exists, Schuettler said, for some sort of hybrid model to retirement plans that would blend the current defined-benefit plans with defined-contribution, or 401(k)-style, options.
'Huge structural issues'
Municipal leaders are hoping to piggyback on any planned reforms to PSERS and SERS.
"When you see a Middletown come forward, it tells you this is going beyond local politics," he added. "There are huge structural issues in local government."
The roughly $7 billion in unfunded liabilities quoted by PERC could easily be $10 billion, said Richard Dreyfuss, senior fellow for the right-leaning Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy.
The assumed rate of return — often 7.5 or 8 percent — is too high, he said. Pension liabilities are predicated on that assumption.
The state Department of Community and Economic Development recognizes that changes are needed to address issues that a lot of municipalities are facing, spokesman Steven Kratz said.
"It's not just a Pennsylvania problem," he said. "We need to evaluate finances on a more global level first to understand issues (municipalities) face and what needs to be addressed and in what order."
DCED oversees the Act 47 and early-intervention programs. The latter helps keep communities out of the former.
Since 2004, 11 counties, 27 cities, 15 boroughs and seven townships have participated in the early-intervention program. Only four — Nanticoke, New Castle, Reading and Harrisburg — have entered Act 47, Kratz said.
The program provides for an analysis of a local government's historic and current fiscal position and a three- to five-year financial plan with accompanying recommendations that should help maintain fiscal stability.
Would additional Act 47 applications or even a municipal bankruptcy filing expedite the reform process?
"There is enough of a problem and evidence that we need to work carefully but quickly," said state Rep. Warren Kampf, a Chester County Republican who has proposed twin bills to move PSERS and SERS to defined-contribution plans. "I don't know whether a filing by a municipality would change the pace, but it could."
There could be some unique situation that really makes the legislature look and say, "Wow, we need to address it," Montarti added.
Harrisburg's situation with a fiscal overseer, or receiver, is definitely unique. City Council petitioned for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection last year, but its request was thrown out by a federal judge.
"Ultimately, bankruptcy should be available, but as an absolutely last resort," Kratz said. "There is a misnomer that it's a magic bullet."
He said he would not speculate on what might speed up the reform process.
"There is recognition that it's a situation that needs to be closely evaluated," he said.


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Winter is not boring. It is a joy to live where a great variety of beautiful feathers friends visit us in all four seasons.
What a beaurtiful winter morning! The sun is brilliant, the sky clear, the snow sparking. As I sit here, warmed by our little Vermont Stove, the dog snores and absorbs heat from the stove. Our black cat sits on a pillow and watches the birds at the feeder.
Right now there is a pair of Downy Woodpeckers at the suet. Each day the Hairy Woodpeckers, and both White Breasted and tiny Red Breasted nut hatches enjoy suet. In winter the ever present Chic-a-dees feast on sunflowers and safflowers. On a really lucky day, a Pileated wood pecker pays us a visit. We also have had flickers, redbellied, and red headed woodpeckers come to call. Last year, we were thrilled to see a pair of cardinals in our back yard. And this year, a Varied Thrush and a Brewer's Blackbird have captured our attention. Soon the cute litte Red Polls will be arriving, then Robins, and Goldfinches in full color to impress their ladies.
Bill just put out peanuts for the Blue Jays, and in about 90 seconds they are helping themselves. Their feeder is on the deck rail, about 8 feet from where I work at my computer, so I get a really good view. Believe it or not, they have personalities! One seems more intelligetn than the others as he swoops in, chooses a peanut then drops it into the snow below then takes another and soars up into a tree. He will return when the they have eaten all in the feeder and from the railing cock his head and search the ground, then retieve the peanet he cached. Another big male will pick up a peanut and throw his head back, taking the peanut deeply into his throat, leaving room in his beak for another to fit crosswise. Then away he goes, into a tall spruce. Another Jay seems particular about which peanut to select, taking one then putting it back and doing this four or five times until the perfect peanut is found. Some birds are aggressive and dive bomb others to drive them away, and some line up on the rail and wait for a vacant spot before helping themselves.
Our older son once said to me, "We grew up in the perfect place." It is true. When grandchildren come from California, they are fascinated by the variety of birds they see here. During summer, we will see birds that have not stayed for winter: gross beaks, hummingbirds, catbirds, yellowbellied sap-suckers (not our friends as they have destroyed two trees), varieties of finches and wrens too numerous to count, and in the fullness of summer, a Baltimore Oriole arrives and from the top of an old oak, he sings out his joy at life in North Dakota! He, too, seems to think this is "the perfect place."