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UJF I i viLiLMb'k urn Austin Ainerican-tatCjman statesman.com austin36Xcom, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 SECTION FATAL SHOOTING Man, 22, found dead in North Austin B2 OTATrOU A A TO Looking for a friend? We've teamed with area shelters AplO I Ml QOIVIMiN.OVjIVI I L. I to get the word out about adoptable cats and dogs. a i pang AUSTIN Jf -j A More iriec Ice beta oiscip Low-level offense investigations In July 2008, Austin police supervisors began investigating complaints involving minor allegations against officers. July 2007 to July 2008 Number of complaints: 215 Complaints resulting in discipline: 150 Percent: 69.8 July 2008 to July 2009 Number of.complaints: 247 Complaints resulting in discipline: 191 Percent 77.3 t- part of an altered system for how Austin police are handling, less serious complaints against officers. Internal affairs detectives had conducted such investigations until July 2008, when Police Chief Art Acevedo decided that the less serious cases complaints such as profanity, rudeness and inadequate police response would instead be investigated by an officer's supervisor.

Officials say that the policy change has resulted in a higher percentage of officers getting disciplined and has reduced the number of See CHANGE, B3 Department changed handling of complaints against officers ByTonyPlohetski AMERICAN STATESMAN STAFF The complaints have landed on Nick Hernandez's desk in the past yean An officer had an avoidable accident, another was rude and a third broke rules for chasing suspects in his patrol car. 1 As their immediate supervisor, Hernandez opened an investigation into each of the allegations and passed his findings to his bosses AUSTIN RELIGION Si fill A ft BEN WEAR GETTING THERE Positive signs for financial future of Texas 130 tollway Texas 130 is ofBcially no longer a disappointment. Which may disappoint people who hate toll roads. But in this case, failure to disappoint does not necessarily equate to financial success or anything approaching heavy usage of the road. According to the latest quarterly report on the tollway that skirts the Austin area's eastern edge, and on its two sister toll roads, Texas 130 since May has been making more money each month than was projected in 2002, before construction.

Those original estimates of traffic and revenue, shared with the investment community to get it to buy $2.2 billion of bonds for construction, said the 49-mile road would be averaging $2.13 million a month in toll revenue by now. According to the report and additional information from TxDOT, proceeds from Texas 130 hit $2.8 million in June and July. Mind you, the report says that for the 12 months that ended Aug. 31, Texas 130 revenue was still 4 percent below projections, but, confoundingly, those figures don't include all the revenue. The report, for bureaucratic reasons, lists only the money coming in from electronic toll tag and cash toll payments on Texas 130, leaving out the 21 percent of drivers who pay after getting bills in the mail Well, many of them pay Based on the numbers for the three-road, system of Texas 130, Texas 45 North and Loop 1 overall which, go figure, does include the pay-by-mail revenue that's likely another 10 percent of revenue for Texas 130.

So that means Texas 130 was probably over its revenue projections for the full year as well. Looking at the number of toll "transactions" (the number of times See WEAR, B3 sfatesman.comtollroads Read more about Central Texas tollways. peace. i it cm A MEANS "REJECT PRVCE TERROR 1 i i fi I I 1 VO'l i A 1 3- "1 Mm Jay Janner americ.an-stateslan Zignat Abdisubhan, right, of the University of Texas Muslim Students Association and about 25 other people march Sunday at the Capitol. Muslims speak for peace, against terrorism Brand K8W5 Google has an image problem in China; Rubik's Cube gets touchy-feely update Austin-area Muslims and their non-Muslim friends and family members marched around the Capitol with signs that said "Muslims Reject Terror" and "Peace Be Upon You." Sunday's event, organized by the Central Texas Muslimaat, was the third time Austin Muslims have marched to denounce terrorism ancTto try to educate the public about what Mossaad calls Islam's true peace.

"We're letting people know that this is By Patrick George MlEfflCAN-STATESMAN STAFF Before he spoke Sunday morning on the steps of the state Capitol, Imam Islam Mossaad wasn't exactly sure what he wanted to say to the two dozen people who came for the third annual Muslim Peace March an event started to demonstrate Islam's focus on peace and justice and to speak out against terrorism. But Mossaad said that as he watched runners from the Silicon Labs Austin Marathon Relay move through downtown, statesman.com View more photos of the Muslim Peace March with this story online. he was inspired as they put one foot ahead of the other and moved forward with speed and balance. "This is what peace is about" said Mossaad, the leader of Austin's largest Muslim congregation, at the North Austin Muslim Community Center. "It's not a state.

It's something we strive towards." Imam Islam Mossaad said the religion's true goal is world peace. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM Gampuses join virtual world of Second Life See MARCH, B3 By Ralph K.M.Haurwitz AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF CENTRALTEXAS-PETS Leslie Jarmon, a faculty development specialist at the University of Texas, sensed that David Prior would bring a certain skepticism to her ambitious proposal to create a series of i -J. David Prior Jan McGill got help from others this summer after her 87 schnauzers were seized. Three volunteers cleaned the filth that had built up in her house. She now has four of the schnauzers back, including Gabriel, Chester and Inky.

McGill said she had gotten depressed but felt loved by her dogs. Nell Carroll AMERICAN-STATESMAN virtual campuses in cyberspace. Prior, the UT System's executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, was trained as a geologist. And geologists are all about rocks, oil and other stuff that actually exists. But he was soon quite taken with Jarmon's pitch to bring the system's nine academic and six health campuses into a three-dimensional, online world of learning, research and collaboration called Second Life.

The system agreed to put $250,000 into the project from an account it established to underwrite innovative education initiatives. "I think well want to watch this one carefully," Prior told the system's Board of Regents See ONLINE, B4 For dog owner, 87 schnauzers proved too much By Suzannah Gonzales AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF BASTROP COUNTY At the time her 87 schnauzers were taken away in June, Jan Mc- Gill lived in unimaginable filth. Floors were covered with trash and dog feces 2 inches deep in places. Cockroaches'were everywhere. Since then, almost all of the schnauzers have been adopted.

The Animal Trustees of Austin took in six pregnant schnauzers half needed Cesarean sections and 20 of their puppies survived and have been adopted. A court order allowed McGill to take back three of the dogs once her house was cleaned and air conditioning was installed. She welcomed home Chester, Inky and Gabriel in July. Sienna, who bites, was unadoptable, so a judge allowed McGill to take back that dog as well. Three volunteers an animal control officer and two Austin veterinary hospital employees, Deborah List and Gwen Dominik helped clean McGill's house on Texas 95 in their free time, spending hundreds of dollars of their own money.on cleaning supplies and taking shovels to the feces.

Adult Protective Services See SEIZE, B3 a CampSwift ra3Si Smiles "bed mm I r- tl 'r'v -V 77 AMERICAN-STATESMAN Ili istatesman.com ONSTATESMAN.COM WHERE'S THE FLU? Help us track the spread' of flu in Central Texas. If you have the flu (or have had it recently), log your symptoms into our flu database, or just take a look to see where the outbreak has already hit statesman, comflutracker. View more photos of Jan McGNPs dogs with this story online. aan "1.