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He was granted parole in June 2003, but it was revoked in June 2004, Gill said, after Chatton's mother accused him of threatening to kill her during an argument over money.
He was paroled again Feb. 17, 2009.
Gill said Deborah Chatton was the only person who believed in her husband. Relatives and friends had begged her to get away from him, he said.
When police responded to the 911 call from the Chattons' house the morning of the slaying, Gill said, officers found Chatton with a knife by his side.
He was indicted on a capital murder charge because he was retaliating against his wife for trying to call police, Gill said.
Defense attorney Jack Strickland acknowledged that Chatton has a "checkered history" of violent crime and a "volatile" temper aggravated by a history of substance abuse and mental problems.
"But I do think that the horrible severe nature of what he did began to sink it," Strickland said. "It was terrible all the way around, especially since the victim tried to be supportive of Mr. Chatton. This lady stood by him for a long time. Sometimes you wind up hurting the one who cares for you the most."
By the time the plea agreement was reached, Chatton was genuinely remorseful, Strickland said.
"He realized that it was unlikely that he'd ever be released from the penitentiary," he said.
ALEXANDRIA, VA — March 16, 2017 — The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) will administer a Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) from March 20 through April 14. The CSS provides valuable feedback to DoDEA from its most important customers - students and parents - about the quality of education provided and areas needing improvement.
All sponsors or spouses with students enrolled in DoD schools from Pre-kindergarten or SureStart through Grade 12 may participate. Parents with children in Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade need only complete one survey based on the experience of their oldest child's school. Students in Grades 4-12 may also participate. School level educators and support staff, full and part-time, excluding substitutes will be surveyed as well. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. Maximum participation is encouraged in order to obtain reliable and valid data.
The survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and is available online at http://www.dodea.edu/survey.
The survey was designed in consultation with the University of Southern California and the Defense Manpower Data Center. Questions cover nine broad areas: academic, technology, communication/environment, sense of belonging, caring relationships, well-being, school safety, overall satisfaction, and college/career readiness (high school only). Survey questions for parents and students were taken from the California Healthy Kids Survey. Questions for school-level staff assess the same domains. Additional questions for school staff come from the California School Climate Survey.
DoDEA Director, Mr. Thomas Brady, stressed the importance of the survey to the organization's commitment to continuous improvement.
"The Customer Satisfaction Survey provides us with valuable information to direct our efforts at continuous improvement," he said. "What we learn from the survey is critical to developing our systemic thinking of how we can improve what we do for our students."
Mr. Brady also emphasized the importance of survey participation.
"I want to encourage all parents, students, and school level staff to participate in the survey. A high response rate provides our schools with valuable information about their programs and is part of our continual efforts to improve the quality of education provided to students of military and civilian families."
Information derived from the surveys will be used to improve planning efforts at all levels throughout DoDEA. Schools, districts, and areas will use the survey results to gain insight into the satisfaction levels of parents and students, which is one of many measures used for future planning of programs and services offered to DoDEA's military-connected students. The results will be available later this spring on the DoDEA website.
DoDEA plans, directs, coordinates, and manages Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade education programs for school-age children of Department of Defense personnel who would otherwise not have access to a high-quality public education. DoDEA schools are located in Europe, the Pacific, Western Asia, the Middle East, Cuba, the United States, Guam, and Puerto Rico. DoDEA also provides support and resources to Local Educational Agencies throughout the United States that serve children of military families.
For more information on the CSS, visit the DoDEA website at http://www.dodea.edu/survey.
Nokia Networks has denied a rumour that it's planning to make an offer for Juniper Networks.
The possibility that the European vendor might slurp the Gin Palace was floated by unnamed sources who spoke to CNBC. Those sources said Nokia would offer US$16 billion.
Since that's well over Juniper's current market capitalisation of $11.2 billion, Juniper's shares shot up by 20 per cent after hours.
Nokia is not currently in talks with, nor is it preparing an offer for, Juniper Networks related to an acquisition of that company.
Note the "not currently", as it's a couplet that suggests Nokia may have pursued a deal in the past, or contemplated doing so in future.
Whatever the company is up to, acquiring Juniper would be brave because buyers have become less interested in big routers from any vendor.
Juniper's felt that for years, and shed a CEO in late 2014 thanks to indifferent results. The company later attributed the departure to sales misses with major customers Verizon and Barclays. Juniper also attracted the attention of “activist investor” Elliott Management.
CEO since 2014, Rami Rahim, worked on turning things around and developing a survival strategy in a work where routers are increasingly open code running on white-box servers.
The company's latest quarter was hit by what Juniper said was a delayed deal, and there was more bad news last week, when major customer AT&T announced it wanted to eliminate a staggering 100,000 routers and buy software-defined white boxen in future.
Last year, Nokia completed its €15.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
Khloe Kardashian has hit back at trolls who questioned how she can care for her baby with her long nails, saying she manages “just fine”.
However, Kardashian has now replied in a post on Twitter, saying she has no trouble taking care of 10-month-old True.
“It’s annoying when people talk about my nails,” she said.
“Trust me, I manage just fine.
“The same way I take care of myself, I take care of my baby.
“Happy Monday to you,” she added.
By now we are all sure you have heard the news circling around the Boston University men’s hockey team, The Boston Hockey Blog is happy to confirm that Eddie Moran will be joining Matt and Liam for this upcoming season. Below you can find more information about Eddie.
We are working to learn more information about the rumors linking head coach David Quinn to the New York Rangers.
Ed Moran is a rising senior in Boston University’s College of Communication double-majoring in Broadcast Journalism and Advertising. He grew up in the New York City area, but now resides in Windham, a rural town in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Although Windham is far removed from New York’s sports culture, Ed has been entranced by sports since his childhood days of watching Sunday football with his grandfather.
When he began applying for colleges in 2015, Ed focused on out-of-state schools with a strong communications background. He admittedly applied to BU on a whim, not fully aware of its academic, or even hockey, reputation.
Little did Ed know when visiting BU on April 11, 2015, for COM’s Admitted Students Day, that he was there the day of the 2015 National Championship game between BU and Providence. Seeing the BU students all along Commonwealth Avenue repping those scarlet and white colors exposed him to a sport he was previously unfamiliar with: hockey.
Watching the mayhem that day convinced Ed all along, BU was the school for him. During freshman year, he joined FreeP as a writer for women’s soccer, basketball and lacrosse. Since then, he has served as an Associate Sports Editor, and is grateful to spend his senior year on the Hockey beat.
Liam and I would like to personally apologize for the frustrations that you, our readers, had this year while attempting to access our blog. During the fall semester, while I was acting as the sports editor for The Daily Free Press, the website for the newspaper started experiencing issues which made it almost impossible to access the FreeP’s website. Due to the Boston Hockey Blog being an extension of the FreeP, our website also had issues. Being the sports editor, I sat in on meetings with the rest of the editorial board and we all shared the same frustrations about the website.
Over the course of the season, both Liam and I know that a large amount of readers became frustrated with their inability to go onto our website and follow the team. Personally, I made it a point to reach out to every person who shared their frustration with us via a direct message either through Facebook or Twitter. During those interactions with the readers, I felt awful that people were could not follow the team the way they have done for years. If any regular readers of our blog lost faith in us due to the issues with the website and ultimately decided not to log onto our website anymore, both Liam and I feel truly awful.
However, we would personally like to thank all the readers who stuck with us during our issues — those who were persistent in trying to log on even when they had the message “error establishing database connection.” You are all the reason we do this. You are all why both Liam and I love covering the team so much. Yes, we are both avid sports fans, but having such a loyal base of readers makes covering the Boston University men’s hockey team so extra special. Although there are only a few games left this season, Liam and I promise to cover the team the way you came to expect the blog to do so.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to reach out to Matt at [email protected].
The Terriers managed a complete turnaround after dropping a pair of games to No. 6 Denver University last weekend. They topped No. 4 Quinnipiac 3-0 on Saturday, thanks to goals from Jordan Greenway, Bobo Carpenter and Jakob Forsbacka – Karlsson.
Nick’s sider on Jordan Greenway’s impressive weekend.
Also check out our postgame videos if you missed them.
The Terriers don’t have any games this upcoming weekend, but they will get back on the ice Friday, Nov. 4, when they take on Northeastern.
Finally, keep an eye out for a feature from us this week!
The NCAA announced early Sunday afternoon that the BU men’s hockey team will be traveling to St. Paul for regional competition, continuing a whirlwind season for the Terriers. We are hoping to join them to provide game coverage, as we have each game for many seasons now.
As many of you know, The Daily Free Press is self-funded and does not accept funding from Boston University, in order to maintain its independence and neutrality. We each pay our hockey travel expenses out of pocket, a financial commitment we gladly embrace. Though we always arrange the most cost-effective accommodations, last-minute travel plans can pose a significant financial burden.
We appreciate your loyalty all season and your support of independent student journalism. We are fueled by our readers, and have all grown as writers and reporters with the opportunity to produce content for you. We are absolutely thrilled for the opportunity to continue providing the best coverage of your favorite team throughout the remainder of the season.
The 2015-16 Hockey Preview Issue is here!
After several long weeks of reporting, interviewing, photographing and writing, our annual Hockey Preview Issue is here! You can check out all of our stories here.
You can pick up a print copy at multiple locations across BU’s campus. If you aren’t near campus, you can see the PDF of the print edition here.
Looking forward to hearing what you all have to say about this year’s issue!
Due to the impending snowstorm set to hit the Boston area on Monday, the semifinal games of the Beanpot Tournament have been postponed and moved to Tuesday.
The game times are still scheduled to be the same — Boston University and Harvard University will face off at TD Garden at 5 p.m., followed by the game between Northeastern University and Boston College.
We’ll still have full coverage tomorrow and Tuesday as BU seeks its first Beanpot championship since 2009. Stay warm and safe, everyone!
We’d like to wish all of you folks a very Happy Thanksgiving. The three of us are thankful for many things, including our readers who interact with us and read our content. Additionally, we are grateful for your patience throughout our transition this season to our new format — it’s taken some time to get used to it, but we’re pleased with how it’s turned out, and are happy to see people engaged and excited about the blog.
We are grateful for the opportunity to cover BU, an experience that gives us the skills we need to be successful professional journalists. Here’s to a day of rest and delicious food, a peaceful holiday season and a continued exciting season for the Terriers.
We’ve received quite a bit of feedback over the past several weeks about our transition to the new Boston Hockey Blog platform. We wanted to address some of your concerns in a somewhat more organized manner, so here’s a “State of the Boston Hockey Blog” address, if you will.
Many have voiced concerns about the new commenting methods. We have now turned on the option to comment anonymously in the hopes that it will foster a livelier and more engaging discussion. We hope that conversation will remain respectful and productive, but you now have the option to voice your thoughts without revealing your identity if you feel more comfortable that way.
In terms of the live blog, many of you have expressed concerns with the CoverItLive window cutting off when using it in a mobile or tablet format. One of our readers (thank you!) reached out with a solution, and we consulted with our online editor. We believe we have found a solution — essentially, it involves an option we didn’t realize need to be checked off while setting up the live blog, and a few other sizing options. This should solve orientation and spatial issues for future live blogs, but if it doesn’t, please let us know and we will work to fix it as quickly as possible.
There are a few more nitty-gritty issues in terms of bugs that are plaguing the dailyfreepress.com domain as a whole — any time you get an error message, that has to do with an internal issue with the whole website. We believe it’s partially due to the number of users within the system, as we have a new process of posting stories. That’s also something we’re trying to solve with our web developer, and we’re hoping error messages become limited in the future. Errors on any website are inevitable, but we’ll do our best to limit the frequency.
As we’ve mentioned before, this year has been a huge transition for the newspaper as a whole and also for this specific blog. In addition to being an entirely new beat, we are testing out a completely new platform and trying to make our content more online-oriented, as to correspond with the new ideology of The Daily Free Press as a whole. We know that change can be difficult, but we are determined to make sure all of the changes within the blog and its structure are positive.
We appreciate your patience and loyalty throughout this process, and we hope you continue to be patient as we sort through our technical issues over the next little while. In an exciting year for the BU men’s hockey team, we will continue to try our hardest to bring you up-to-date and informative content about your favorite team. As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Welcome to the new and improved Boston Hockey Blog. We hope to use this redesign as an opportunity to bring you an in-depth and interactive reading experience.
Additionally, we’d like to introduce ourselves, since we’re an entirely new beat this year. The three of us all have editorial experience at the FreeP in addition to diverse backgrounds in sports coverage.
Andrew Battifarano is a junior at BU working toward a dual degree in international relations and journalism. He was Sports Editor of the FreeP in Spring 2014, and has covered women’s hockey, softball, women’s basketball and men’s soccer for the paper. He has also interned for NESN.
Sarah Kirkpatrick is also a junior at BU, studying journalism and gender studies. She was Editor-in-Chief of the FreeP in Spring 2014 and was Sports Editor the previous semester. She has primarily covered women’s hockey, cross country and track in her time at the FreeP, and has also interned for the sports department of seattlepi.com.
Conor Ryan is a senior at BU studying journalism. He is currently Sports Editor at the FreeP, and has covered women’s hockey, women’s basketball, women’s lacrosse and women’s soccer. He’s also interned for WEEI.com, and has experience covering the Bruins and Red Sox.
We’re excited to get underway with our coverage this season. We’re always open to suggestions for improving our content and providing the best reading experience possible. Let us know what you’d like to read about BU hockey this year by shooting us a tweet (@BOShockeyblog), email ([email protected]) or comment.
The media is buzzing today with talk of last night's Iowa caucuses. The coverage includes the obligatory handicapping of who's up and who's down, but nearly every political pundit and blogger also has something to say about the candidates' speeches. Whether you're particularly interested in politics or not, the candidates' performances in Iowa have something to teach business leaders about communication and public speaking.
So what's the take away? Bert Decker, executive coach and CEO of Decker communications, compiled his yearly list of the best and worst communicators on his blog this week and Mike Huckabee, the Republican victor in Iowa, took top honors. Why? Besides being open and authentic, he peppers his speeches with SHARPs: Stories, Humor, Analogies, References, Pictures. And if you want your speech to connect with a crowd, Decker urges, so should you.
It may be difficult, but thinking of the totality of your speech as a story (as Obama did with his speech) can help you connect with your audience and perhaps even rouse them to action.
An English-language focused online food delivery service offering a selection of international dishes from highly selected restaurants has recently opened in Seoul.
Ynot-Takeout. com, the brainchild of Phil Neiland and an investment group, is delivering different types of food items to people in an area which never had delivery available before. It will focus on international food with an English-based system.
The service has been created for the customer by the customer. Many of the current and future customers have worked with the Ynot staff behind the scenes to perfect the service being offered.
The customers also have the power to help decide what restaurants they want listed and available for delivery. Customers can recommend restaurants they want on the list of options and the Ynot staff will work to make that happen.
This service is the first to give users a food-delivery option consisting of more of the various ethnic and multicultural cuisines that exist outside of the traditional Korean delivery items typically offered. This is also the first fully functional food-delivery service in Seoul centered around an English-based system to cater to the international, traveling and tourist community.
"Customers give us feedback about certain restaurants and about the efficiency of our service. On the financial side of things, Ynot-Takeout also has the backing of investors both in Korea and abroad," Neiland said.
"We set this up from a point of personal demand. We believe variety is the spice of life, and we wanted this variety to be conveniently available for ourselves, our friends and people like us who are on the go, busy or who just want more options to be available at a click of a button."
The service is currently operating in central Seoul in areas like Itaewon, Haebangchon, Kyeonglidan, Hannam-dong, the Yongsan Army Base Gates and Ichon.
The Ynot-takeout team is currently set with a very team of dedicated employees. Over the next year, the company hopes to expand to as many partner restaurants as possible.
Customers just have to search the list of restaurants or cuisines on the website www.ynot-takeout.com, choose the menu items they want,submit their order online and the restaurant will begin preparing the food immediately and the delivery driver will be on the way to the customer with the hot and ready dishes.
The service also hopes that in five years it can provide this service to as many communities in Korea as possible.
Cuisine choices include Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Mexican, Moroccan, Indian, Pakistani, Russian, American, West African, Chinese, Korean, continental cheeses, burgers, sandwiches and pizzas.
Currently Ynot-Takeout has a roster of restaurants representing some of the hottest and most popular dining options in the city such as Vatos Urban Tacos, Linus Bama Style Barbecue, Left Coast Artisan Burgers, Casablanca Sandwicherie, Craftworks Taphouse, Amazing Thai, Pizza Peel, Rye Post and so many more!
The operating hours are 11:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m for Lunch (Break time 2:30p.m -4:30 p.m) and from 4:30 to 11 p.m for Dinner. The service is unavailable on Tuesdays. The delivery fee is typically 4,000 won but varies based on distance.
The human brain has to do quite a lot just to utter a single word. In the case of verbs, it must select the word that best expresses the idea it wants to convey (for instance, “to walk”); decide on the proper tense (“walks,” “walked,” “walking,” etc.); figure out whether adding an “-ed” also adds another syllable; determine whether the word should end with a “d” or a “t” sound; and devise a plan for maneuvering the mouth muscles to make the appropriate sounds.
How does this happen? Neuroscientists, linguists and others have been debating whether the brain gets all this done by splitting up the jobs and completing them simultaneously or by finishing this litany of tasks one at a time.
Now, a trio of epilepsy patients has provided the answer. A small section of the cortex called Broca’s area completes all these tasks sequentially, and all within about half a second, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
Scientists can study all kinds of diseases in animals, but when it comes to investigating language, only human brains will do. So researchers at UC San Diego and Harvard piggybacked on a rare procedure called intracranial electrophysiology, in which epilepsy patients allow doctors to implant dozens of electrodes directly into their brains. While they are awake, the patients answer questions so that doctors can determine which parts of the brain are necessary to maintain language and which parts can be safely removed to treat epileptic seizures.
The researchers showed the patients a series of 240 words and asked them to pronounce them in their minds. In some cases, the words had to be converted to another tense first. The probes recorded the electrical activity in the brains as the patients churned through these tasks.
The researchers found remarkably consistent patterns among all three patients. Electrical activity spiked 200 milliseconds, 320 milliseconds and 450 milliseconds after being presented with a new word. The researchers concluded that those peaks corresponded to the times when the brain decided on the appropriate word to use, picked the proper grammatical form, and figured out how to pronounce it.
Not only did those tasks occur in sequence, they all took place in Broca’s area. That should dispel the long-held notion that Broca’s area is involved in speaking, but another area of the brain called Wernicke’s area is responsible for reading and hearing, said lead author Ned Sahin, a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego and Harvard. The finding will make many textbooks obsolete.
Photo: This X-ray shows the electrodes used to identify the part of the brain that's responsible for seizures in patients with epilepsy. Scientists used the setup to study how the brain forms words.