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On February 26, 2005 RUTH FRIEDA SCHAEFER; daughter of the late Emilie (nee Boeke) and Julius Wilhelm Schaefer; beloved sister of the late Elizabeth, Arthur, Amalia (Molly), Frederick, Marie, Anna Louise, William, Olga and Wilfred Julius; beloved Aunt of Judith Keane, David Imwold, Ruth, Frank, and Melvin Meyer, Anne Boddiford, John Mosmiller, Claire Moore, Richard and Carl Schaefer and the late William Schaefer, Jr., Leonard Green, Dorothy Waltz and the late Elizabeth (Toots) Roberts, Ethel Razac, Elanor Mersinger, Garland Green, Charles Green and Anna Green; beloved great-aunt of David and Michael Keane and the late Robert G. Keane, III and many great-great nieces and nephews.

David Keane is doing his part to keep deer from feasting on the buds and shoots of young trees meant to grow into forest cover on county open-space land. A project forester with the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, Keane became frustrated last year that traditional methods of keeping deer away from new plantings were not working. With materials he had on hand, he fashioned a simple tree shelter out of plastic mesh fencing, a piece of reinforcing bar and plastic ties. The shelters, which encircle about 7,500 plantings on county parkland, are proving effective at saving the trees from hungry deer.

Aether Systems Inc., the Owings Mills developer of wireless communications services, said yesterday that it acquired one of Europe's largest providers of financial data to "smart phone," pagers and other wireless devices for $85 million. The cash deal for IFX Group PLC gains Aether a further foothold in the growing market for wireless information services in Europe, said Brian Keane, vice president for Aether. The acquisition was driven in part by Aether's interest in technology that IFX is developing to improve data delivery over a new generation of high-speed digital networks being rolled out across Western Europe, said Keane.

Morrissey / Constitution Hall Former frontman for the Smiths and one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in indie rock, Morrissey plays Constitution Hall, 18th and D streets N.W. in Washington, Wednesday night at 8. Tickets are $40-$55 and are available through Ticketmaster by calling 410-547-SEAT or by visiting www.ticketmaster. com Keane / 9:30 Club Keane, among the most impressive bands to come out of England recently, rocks the 9:30 Club, 815 V. Street N.W. in D.C., Tuesday night at 7. Tickets are $15. For more information, visit www.930.

On Saturday, August 26, 2006, BERNADETTE I. TRAVIS (nee Boylan), age 79, peacefully departed this life at her daughter's home in Pennsylvania. Formerly of Baltimore, she had been employed by the Glenn L. Martin Company and Oriole Chemical Carriers before moving to Pennsylvania. She is survived by daughter Annie Keane, granddaughter Allison Morgan, grandson Joseph Travis Keane, great-grandchildren, Alexander Morgan and Brynna Rose Morgan, sisters, Eleanore Hobbs and Regina Crews. She had been preceded in death by husbands Russell W. Krutsch and Walter R. Travis, sisters, Anne Eves, Mary Louise Stedtman, brothers Edward, Charles and James Boylan.

Second National parent posts lossSecond National Bancorporation, parent of Second National Federal Savings Bank, said yesterday that it lost $8.8 million, or $1.20 a share, in the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $21 million, or $2.85 a share, in the same period last year.The Salisbury-based banking company, which had assets of $1.57 billion at Sept. 30, said it was negotiating with the Office of Thrift Supervision regarding an extension of its capital plan. "We are pursuing several options to raise the necessary capital during the first half of 1993 to bring the company up to the required regulatory capital levels," the company said.

Frank Faris usually spends Sunday afternoons thinking about Aikido, a form of martial arts he teaches in a studio near the Cross Street Market.But yesterday he found himself thinking about the numbers flashing across a billboard-sized electronic clock mounted on wheels and parked at a service station three flights below his studio.Each second, the National Debt Clock at South Charles and West Cross streets ticked off the federal deficit. The foot-high figure increased at the rate of $9,600 per second.

As word of the tragedy was being spread to their classmates, two 1952 graduates of the Naval Academy remained in critical condition at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said, a day after they lost their wives in a traffic accident in southern Anne Arundel County.The couples were heading home to Virginia after visiting the academy and were driving south on Solomons Island Road on Saturday afternoon when their Pontiac Bonneville collided head on with a minivan, said Lisa Ritter, a spokeswoman for Anne Arundel County.

Acting on neighborhood complaints, police raided a third-floor apartment in the 2100 block of St. Paul St. and arrested two people on drug charges Thursday night.Officers from the Northern District and members of the city's tactical squad served a search warrant about 10 p.m. and seized a .357-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, $5,255 in cash and 148 plastic bags of crack cocaine, police said.Arrested were Keane McCollum, 29, of the 2200 block of Callow Ave. in Reservoir Hill and Hazel Thornton, 52, of the 300 block of E. 28th St.Pub Date: 1/09/99

The recurrent threat of furloughs for federal employees may be eroding the very thing that federal managers believe is most instrumental in keeping workers in the ranks -- confidence in job security.The General Accounting Office found in a survey of 271 federapersonnel managers in agencies with high "quit rates" that nearly 80 percent felt job security was a reason for employees to stay. More than 80 percent believed applicants thought job security was the best reason to accept a federal job.High quit rate was defined by the GAO as when employeeleave a federal occupation at a rate 50 percent higher than the government-wide average.