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authorities, associations of local authorities, and civil society organisations.
Folkuniversitetet is an adult educational association that offers a wide range of adult education all over Sweden. It is an association of five foundations: the university extensions attached to the Universities of Stockholm, Uppsala, Göteborg, Lund and Umeå. We have a broad open educational program in a variety of subjects; we also run upper secondary schools, schools in higher vocational education, courses for seniors and training, labour market education and further education and training for working life.
ifa Akademie is a full subsidiary of ifa - Institute for Foreign Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in Stuttart, Germany.The ifa Akademie is ifa's professional development and training center. ifa Akademie offers courses for German as a foreign language and seminars and trainings in thefield of international cultural relations and education. ifa Akademie is active in international projects on integration, migration, social inclusion and language learning. ifa is Germany's competence center for foreign cultural relations and education and is financed by the German Foreign Office, the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart.
Oxfam Italia Intercultura is a Social Cooperative that is part of Oxfam Italy. It can be defined as a network of organizations and associations operating in the territory on the themes of integration and equal opportunities for migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and local communities. Oxfam Italia Intercultura is recognized as a Training and Development Agency since 2012 and as a provider of services for hosting and supporting refugees and asylum seekers since 2015.
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University insists the supports are there
The number of international students at the University of Regina has gone up dramatically over the past four years. (CBC)
Some Saskatchewan university professors say international students being admitted to study in the province don't have the necessary English skills to be successful.
At a recent university council meeting, University of Regina professor Cameron Louis brought up his concerns, tabling a motion stating international students were being accepted into programs they did not have sufficient English skills to complete.
But the problem may be more visible as the enrolment of international students keeps increasing. At the U of R, the number of international students has nearly doubled from 730 in 2009 to 1,448 in 2013.
The number has been going up at the University of Saskatchewan asCMSA comments on Basle II
The Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (CMSA) and the Real Estate Roundtable jointly submitted a comment letter on the Basle II accord to the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision.
CMSA and the Roundtable offered their comments to supply the different agencies with important data as they reconsider the proposed rule’s, the two organizations said in a release. The empirical data was provided by the three rating agencies and other major market participants.
According to the CMSA and the Roundtable, the proposed rule could require CMBS classes to carry significantly greater risk-based capital than either corporate loans or CRE mortgage loans. The letter also stated that the evidence suggests that rated
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China.
"The development of IPv6 is one of the most important tasks for China's Internet industry during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, from 2011 to 2015," Hu Qiheng, director-general of the Internet Society of China, said.
Although IPv6 has not been put into commercial use yet, Chinese universities have already connected to the new protocol, Xinhua reported.83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), and its progeny. Our jurisdiction1 arises under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291.I. BACKGROUND
A. Preliminary Facts2
2
During the afternoon of Friday, August 12, 1977, rancher Wayne Wallace found the bodies of two young women in one of his corrals in rural Torrance County, New Mexico, near the small town of Mountainair. One of the bodies, later identified as that of Leslie McDonnell, was clothed in a yellow Budweiser T-shirt, jeans and no shoes. The other body, later identified as Cari Talton, a.k.a. Cari Newell,3 was found naked. A pair of jeans, a green T-shirt with the word "Okies" on it, and a pair of tan boots and socks were found next to Ms. Talton's body; however, no underwear could
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be located.
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Autopsies were performed the next day by Dr. J. Gauthier of the State Medical Examiner's Office. His examination of the partially decomposed bodies revealed Ms. McDonnell had been shot in the head by what could have been a shotgun, and Ms. Talton had been shot in the head and in the right side of her pelvis.4 Based on his finding of shotgun pellets and wadding in the vicinity of both of Ms. Talton's wounds, Dr. Gauthier concluded she had been shot with a shotgun, although he could not determine whether the same shotgun inflicted both of her wounds. Nelson Welch, an expert for the prosecution, testified5 although Ms. Talton had in fact been shot by a 12-gauge shotgun, he could not determine whether State'sExhibit 44, a 12-gauge shotgun belonging to Mr. Smith, was the gun actually used to shoot her. David Ramirez, a criminalistics expert, testified there were no workable prints on Exhibit 44, nor was there any indication the weapon had recently been cleaned. Dr. Gauthier was unable to determine the precise time of death due to the decomposition of the bodies. He did indicate, however, that the degree of decomposition of the bodies was consistent with the women having been dead for two to three days.6
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Because the women's bodies were found within the geographical limits of Torrance County, the initial investigation was undertaken by the Torrance County Sheriff's Department and the New Mexico State Police. When it was subsequently learned the women were from Albuquerque,
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because she had used too much cannabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana, that night.
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When Mr. Smith awoke on Tuesday morning, August 9, he discovered a gram of cannabinol, which was worth about $100, was missing from his stash of drugs. He testified he assumed Ms. Talton had taken it. At around 10:00 a.m., he drove his van to the residence of two of his friends, Harvey Bylsma and Ginger Donham. Mr. Smith wanted Mr. Bylsma's help in retrieving his pickup, which had been impounded. Mr. Smith also realized Mr. Bylsma's neighbor had a phone, and Mr. Smith had Mr. Bylsma call Mr. Smith's boss to let him know he would not be coming into work that day. Approximately half an hour later, Mr.Smith, along with Mr. Bylsma, Ms. Donham and her daughter April, left Ms. Donham's house and went to Ms. McDonnell and Mr. Hume's house to inquire about the missing cannabinol. Mr. Smith wanted Ms. McDonnell's assistance in finding out where Ms. Talton lived.
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Both Mr. Hume and Mr. Smith testified Mr. Smith arrived at Mr. Hume's house around 10:30 a.m., accompanied by three other people. At that time, Mr. Smith told Ms. McDonnell either she or her girlfriend (i.e., Ms. Talton) "ripped off" his drugs the night before. He stated he wanted Ms. McDonnell to take him over to Ms. Talton's house so he could talk to her because he did not think she, Ms. McDonnell, had taken the drugs. Ms. McDonnell agreed and voluntarily
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left her house with Mr. Smith and his companions.
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When they arrived at Ms. Talton's house, she was on the couch, and she told them to come inside. Mr. Smith went in and spoke with Ms. Talton for a few minutes about the missing cannabinol while the others waited outside. Ms. Talton told Mr. Smith he had probably lost or misplaced the cannabinol at his house, and she suggested they go back to his house to look for it. Mr. Smith agreed, and they all went back to his house to look for the drugs. Ms. Donham's testimony confirmed this sequence of events.
10
While Mr. Smith was looking in his kitchen for the missing drugs, Ms. Talton came in with a bag containing about half aSmith and Bylsma showed up at Ms. Donham's house for lunch, where they stayed until around 2:00 in the afternoon, at which time Mr. Smith, Ms. Donham, Mr. Bylsma, and April went to Kenneth LaDue's house. Mr. LaDue had sold Mr. Smith a 1950 purple Ford pickup truck, which had been impounded; however, the paperwork had never been transfered properly to Mr. Smith's name. Thus, before he could get his truck from Broadway Towing, where it was impounded, he needed to see Mr. LaDue.
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Ms. Donham testified she spent the rest of Tuesday with Mr. Smith. Several other witnesses provided a detailed account of Mr. Smith's whereabouts on Tuesday, the day the prosecution claimed the murders were committed. From 2:30 until around 5:00 p.m.,
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these witnesses stated Mr. Smith was either with Mr. LaDue or he was at Broadway Towing, trying to get his truck out of the impoundment lot. Finally, Ms. Donham testified Mr. Smith stayed at her house9 for the remainder of the work week. She testified in some detail about what occurred on those days, and she indicated she never heard Mr. Smith leave the house during the night as she was a light sleeper and would have heard him moving around. Mr. Smith's employer Bill Gourly also provided Mr. Smith an alibi for the rest of the week as he testified Mr. Smith was at work during those days.
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Randy Appert and his roommate Ralph Strom testified that around this time, Mr. Smith had come toconsider their apartment as his own and he had his own key. Mr. Appert testified Mr. Smith came by the house on Saturday, August 13, and asked him if he could leave his gun at their house. Mr. Appert told him he did not know. Apparently, Mr. Smith left the gun there anyway because Mr. Appert testified the next time he saw the gun was when the police removed it from a closet in their house pursuant to a search warrant. Mr. Strom testified he did not know Mr. Smith had left the gun at their apartment either.
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Nikki Thompson testified she was at the home of Messrs. Strom and Appert that Saturday morning when Mr. Smith showed up with a gun, similar in size
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to Exhibit 44, Mr. Smith's shotgun, in his hands in plain view. She further testified on direct examination she overheard a conversation between Messrs. Strom and Smith. She testified she heard Mr. Smith say something like "he had been burned and the people had been punished," although she denied ever hearing Mr. Smith say he had recently used the gun. During an evidentiary hearing several years later, however, Ms. Thompson, then using her marital surname of Peters, admitted she had perjured herself. While she had heard Mr. Smith tell Mr. Strom he had been "burned," she admitted she never heard Mr. Smith say anything about having to punish, or having actually punished, anyone. She said she lied because she had been coerced todo so by Dana Smith, a good friend of Ms. McDonnell. Ms. Smith testified at trial that Ms. Thompson told her Mr. Smith said he had to punish two girls.
15
Mr. Strom testified that later on that Saturday, he went with Mr. Smith to buy some parts for Mr. Smith's truck, but they ran out of gas. The two men decided to go to a bar, at which time Mr. Strom recalled Mr. Smith mentioning someone, without using names, had "ripped off" some of his cannabinol.
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"Randy" Newell was called as a witness for the prosecution. He testified he had been living with Ms. Talton as common law husband and wife at the time of her disappearance, and the last time he saw her was late in
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the afternoon on Monday, August 8. Although she was not home when he left for work the next morning, he could tell she had been home at some point that morning because when he came home for lunch, he noticed the clothes she had been wearing the night before were either on the floor or the bed.
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Mr. Newell testified on direct examination about his relationship with Ms. Talton. He initially stated they got along "pretty good"; on cross-examination, however, he admitted she had not come home at night on at least two occasions, including Monday, August 8, and that this bothered him and made him unhappy. He also conceded they used to have "little arguments," and that one such argument resulted in Ms. TaltonNewell's testimony--that the women were killed on Tuesday--through the testimony of several other witnesses, including the aforementioned Clifford Crawford and Dr. Gauthier. Lois Chapman, Ms. McDonnell's grandmother, testified she and Ms. McDonnell's mother, Lois Strader, planned to meet Ms. McDonnell for lunch on Tuesday, August 9. Ms. Chapman further testified she spoke with Ms. McDonnell on Monday to finalize the arrangements, but she never showed up on Tuesday. When Ms. Chapman called her granddaughter at work, she was told she was not there. Ms. Chapman never heard from her granddaughter again. She claimed she and Ms. Strader looked for Ms. McDonnell for the rest of the week, but they, nor anyone else, had seen her.
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as to the time of death in an attempt to discredit the prosecution's theory that the women were killed on Tuesday. Wayne Wallace, the rancher who found the bodies in his corral on Friday, August 12, testified he used to go to his corrals every other day. He stated when he had been out to this corral on Wednesday, August 10, he did not notice anything unusual. In addition, when he described how he found the women's bodies on Friday, he stated one of the bodies was clothed in a yellow T-shirt which stuck out "like a neon light." From this, Mr. Wallace deduced the bodies were not there on Wednesday because if they had been, he would have seen them.
20
Ruth Shockey testifiedshe rented Ms. Talton and Mr. Newell a duplex apartment located in the back of her yard in July of 1977. Ms. Shockey's house had a window in the bedroom enabling her to see into the yard. After she was unsuccessful in several attempts to collect the rent from Ms. Talton and Mr. Newell, she initiated legal proceedings to have them evicted. The eviction papers were posted on the door to the apartment on Monday, August 8. Ms. Shockey testified that between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. the next day, she saw Ms. Talton and another blonde woman,11 through her bedroom window, going into the apartment while they were crouched down. Ms. Shockey thought they were crouching down to hide from her. She
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then testified she never saw Ms. Talton again after that day. Moreover, although Mr. Newell testified he spoke to Ms. Shockey on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of that week to ask her if she had seen Ms. Talton, Ms. Shockey denied ever speaking to Mr. Newell until Friday, when Mr. Newell told her he had not seen Ms. Talton in four days and that he did not really care.
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The defense also introduced the testimony of Walter Spruill, a retired member of the Navy. Spruill testified that sometime in early August of 1977, he and his mother were driving to the nearby town of Moriarty when they saw a young, blonde-haired woman walking on the side of the highway. His mother, a retired teacher, thoughtthe woman may have been one of her former students. Mr. Spruill turned the car around and picked the woman up. He described her as blonde and rather thin. She rode in the car for twenty or so minutes until they dropped her off. Mr. Spruill then testified he saw this same woman on a Wednesday, about four to six days later, at the "Travelburger" drive-in. He specifically recognized her as the woman to whom he had given a ride a few days earlier. In court, he identified this woman as Ms. Talton from her picture. He also remembered the woman at the restaurant was wearing a bluish colored T-shirt with the word "Okies" on it and that she was with
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a heavier woman in a Budweiser T-shirt. He testified he saw the women for five to eight minutes, and he recalled giving them three cents when they were short of money for their food. He also testified he gave the thinner woman a book of matches after she had asked him for a match, and that he saw the women get into a grey two-door Pontiac automobile.
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Finally, the defense called Alton Green, the owner of the "Travelburger" restaurant. His testimony essentially corroborated Mr. Spruill's testimony of what had transpired at the restaurant that Wednesday, which was August 10. He specifically remembered the two women because they, along with Mr. Spruill, were the only customers in the restaurant at that time. He also recalledboth women were wearing T-shirts and Levi jeans.
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C. The Results of the Torrance County Investigation
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While the aforementioned evidence and testimony constituted the essence of the prosecution's case against Mr. Smith, he was not, at least at the outset, the only suspect being investigated in regard to these murders. Torrance County's law enforcement officials who were investigating this case had reason to, and did in fact, suspect "Randy" Newell may have been the perpetrator of these killings.12
25
On August 18, 1977, at around 2:35 p.m., "Randy" Newell was driving his automobile near the scene where the bodies had been found when he collided with a semi tractor trailer. New Mexico Police Officer Donald Morrison was dispatched to the scene of the accident. Officer Morrison memorialized the following
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sequence of events in his report of August 19. Officer Morrison first asked Mr. Newell if he was injured, and Mr. Newell responded he was not. Officer Morrison then arrested Mr. Newell for driving while intoxicated, careless driving, and driving without a license. When Officer Morrison told Mr. Newell he was going to perform "a standard routine inventory" search of his car, however, Mr. Newell complained of various injuries and asked to be taken to a hospital. Officer Morrison further stated Mr. Newell asked either to be allowed to drive his car to the hospital or to have his car towed to the hospital. The first request was denied because the vehicle was not drivable due to extensive damage from the accident. His car remained at the scene so Officer Morrison could inventory its contents. Mr. Newell was then taken by ambulance to a hospital in Albuquerque.
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During the inventory search of Mr. Newell's automobile, Officer Morrison found a white plastic bag on the rear passenger's side floorboard. His report stated: "[u]pon opening the white plastic bag, I found women's clothes that were damp and which smelled of mildew and had, what appeared to me, to have blood and hair on them. They were women's pants, blouses and panties." Officer Morrison found another plastic bag containing men's clothes with stains he characterized as "possibly blood." His report also disclosed Mr. Newell had been stopped in this same area four days earlier, on Sunday,
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August 14, for reasons not disclosed in the record. At that time, the vehicle was searched by Officer Mark Kennedy pursuant to Newell's written consent. When Officer Kennedy requested permission to search the trunk, Mr. Newell informed him he did not have a key to the trunk.
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Officer Morrison immediately advised Captain Frank Lucero, Sergeant Robert Gonzales, and Officer Mark Kennedy, members of the New Mexico State Police, of the existence of the clothes. Captain Lucero then told Officer Morrison to "relay these [items] to the Crime Laboratory next date, 08-19-77, to be compared with the evidence found at the scene of the homicide." Officer Morrison's report further indicated assistant district attorney Neil Mertz, the Albuquerque prosecutor assigned to handle the grand jury phaseof the Talton-McDonnell homicides:
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was notified of the[se] findings and stated Mr. Newell had been a suspect due to him being involved in a fight with his wife, victim Carrie Newell, on a previous occasion.... Further, because Mr. Newell was found within the general vicinity where the two homicide victims, McDonnell and Newell, were found, he was considered a suspect.
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Officer Morrison's report thus clearly stated "Randy" Newell was in fact a suspect in the Talton-McDonnell double homicide.13 The report also contained a motive for "Randy" Newell to have murdered Ms. Talton,14 namely, jealousy.
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the evidence from Newell's car was in the evidence room and it was marked with a tag stating "Articles from vehicle accident," albeit with no mention of, or connection to, "Randy" Newell.
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She remembered a pair of women's underwear was seized from Mr. Newell's car. She recalled it being stained on the right front side with several spots she thought were blood. Prior to trial, she spoke with Newell about the blood stains, and he told her the stains were menstrual blood as Ms. Talton had been menstruating at that time. Ms. Ferrara testified she did not believe the stains were menstrual blood, primarily because they were situated on the right front portion of the underwear, rather than in the area where menstrual blood would ordinarilybe found. Furthermore, the gunshot wound to Ms. Talton's pelvis was on her right side, the same side as the stains found on the underwear. In addition, Celia Payne, the woman with whom "Randy" Newell was living at the time he died, later testified Mr. Newell had bragged to her that the police stupidly believed his explanation that the stains were menstrual blood.
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Ms. Ferrara next testified she thought it might be "helpful" to have the underwear examined in case it was introduced at trial in order to have a medical evaluation of whether the stains were in fact blood, and if so, whose blood it was. She recalled being "curious" about the stains, and she asked someone whether tests of the underwear were necessary.
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She said she was told not to worry about having the underwear tested since it was probably the same substance on the man's clothing which had been tested and which was found not to be blood. She acknowledged no tests were ever done on the underwear and that it, along with the rest of the clothes, was destroyed before any further testing could be performed.
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Ms. Ferrara admitted she did not realize at the time of trial that she had authority to order the police department to test the clothing. In hindsight, however, she acknowledged she did in fact possess such authority, although she still did not think "that was her role in this whole case, to have that done." There was additional testimony thatat the time of trial, scientific testing was available to differentiate between menstrual and nonmenstrual blood.
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Mr. Harris testified he was never informed of the existence of these clothes, and if he had been so advised, he would certainly have investigated this issue in more detail by interviewing Officer Ferguson and others who had seen the clothes as well as contacting an independent expert if necessary. He testified this information would have made a "tremendous" difference in his trial preparation strategy.
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Another critical issue at the evidentiary hearing surrounded the true identity of "Randy" Newell and whether and when the prosecution knew about his true identity. In fact, "Randy" Newell's real name was Samuel J. Newell. While he was living in New Mexico, he used the name
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"Randy," his brother's name, in an effort to conceal his real identity. Samuel J. Newell used the name "Randy" as an alias because he was a fugitive for whom an arrest warrant had been issued on August 14, 1974, by the authorities in Sedgwick County, Kansas. The warrant was based on Samuel J. Newell's failure to complete a drug addiction program and for his unauthorized leave from the treatment facility. In addition to being a fugitive, it was subsequently learned Samuel J. Newell was a twice-convicted felon, having pled guilty to two separate counts of burglary in Kansas in December of 1972 and March of 1973.
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Whether the prosecution knew "Randy" Newell was actually Samuel J. Newell, and if so, when they obtained this knowledge, wereAs for the timing of when this information was allegedly conveyed to the prosecution, Detective Borunda stated, "I don't know how early in the investigation it became known--that Randy Newell was actually Samuel Newell, but it was during one of the trials that it was known. In fact, it was in the reports that that was his real name."25 Detective Borunda later reiterated he could not remember precisely when this information was given to the prosecution; however, he was certain it was during one of Mr. Smith's trials and before the end of the retrial.
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discuss later, "Randy" Newell was actually Samuel Newell. In fact, there was a real Randy Newell, who was Samuel's brother. Samuel Newell allegedly used his brother's name because he wanted to conceal his true identity. This issue is discussed in greater detail in the body of this opinion
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With respect to the pelvic gunshot wound on Ms. Talton's body, Dr. Gauthier characterized it as a contact shotgun wound near the groin area. He further observed that the wound was inflicted directly over a professional tattoo. He also indicated his belief that because of the unusual location of the wound, whoever inflicted it did so intentionally
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All references to the "testimony" of individuals are to their testimony at the second trial in this caseunless otherwise indicated. Mr. Smith's first trial ended in a mistrial
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Entomologist Clifford Crawford testified that a maggot collected from Ms. McDonnell's body was at a stage of development consistent with having hatched approximately two and a half or three to eight days earlier
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Smith's employer, and Ms. Donham, provided Mr. Smith with a relatively strong alibi for the remainder of the week. Thus, proof that the women were killed on Tuesday, presumably in the afternoon, was important because it was arguably the only day when Mr. Smith had the opportunity to kill the women
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In many places throughout the world, gasoline (or petrol, as it's also called) has always been expensive, (consider roughly five American dollars to the gallon in the UK, for example) but in the United States, we've been relatively fortunate, enjoying prices in the mid to high two dollar range and, even just a few years before that, just less than two dollars for every gallon we pumped into our gas-guzzling road hogs. Lately, though, that's changed, and with prices climbing past the three dollar range, the on-the-road American is finally feeling the pinch, and he/she's not the only one who's suffering!
Consider for a moment all the industries effected by the increase in gasoline costs. Practically everybody has to drive to get to work, so cutting down on non-essentialcourse. The first recorded zombies appear in ancient Mesopotamia in the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the concept of the modern zombie stems primarily from the voodoo shamans of Haitian folklore. They used digitalis to place individuals into a coma-esque trance. The victims would appear dead, but then would be spotted weeks later working for the wealthy. The families assumed them to be nzambi (“spirit of the dead”).
Modern zombie lore has evolved a bit – and only a bit – since then, mostly due to the emergence of cinema. In his article “Raising the Dead,” Professor Kyle Bishop says: “The zombie genre does not exist prior to the film age because of its essentially visual nature; zombies do not think or speak — they simply act, relying on purely
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About the Dispatch
Archives
All Welcomed to the New Milliken Police Station
On January 6, 2010, the Milliken (Colorado) Police Department opened the doors
for its new policing building—a facility reflecting the department’s vision using
architecture and design to support community policing and problem solving. As
community members swarmed the gleaming new Milliken Police Station and
Meeting House, one could only surmise that the department’s new facility was
already successful in relaying its community-policing-laden message of
transparency and openness.
Coinciding with the town’s Centennial (January 6, 1910 saw the official opening
of the soon-to-be-incorporated town to settlers), Chief Jim Burack and his staff
ushered in well-wishers and provided first-hand tours of the facility,1 peppering
visitors with explanations of how the building established an environment from
which community policing could flourish and enhance information sharing for
effective problem solving.
Almost 2 years to the dayprinciples of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
(CPTED), creating a visible police presence and implying control of public
space.
Safety: Often, and understandably, police find themselves leaning toward
the needs of the internal customer at the expense of the community.
A
basic tension can exist between promoting "officer safety" for internal
users and yet, also using the building to project "public safety" into the
area around the building. The challenge in situating a police facility
directly on the main street is balancing the safety of staff inside the
building with the mission outside the walls.
Milliken’s solution was to raise the building off the sidewalk to be above the
heads of pedestrian passers-by on the sidewalk and passing motorists on
the street, and place ballistic body armor panels in the spandrel glass panels
below the windows, including the protruding glass window outside
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ON Monday, three policemen made the Mumbai Police proud. Of the 41 personnel from the state who won the prestigious President’s police medal for meritorious and distinguished services on Independence Day, three are from the local city police.
For head constable Arun Jadhav, who took five bullets on the night of the 26/11 carnage, this was the third medal, this time for meritorious service. In 2009, he won the President’s police medal for gallantry. “The 2009 award is the most special for me as it was for the 26/11 attack,” Jadhav told The Indian Express.
Jadhav, who is at present part of the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the Mumbai Police, was present in the ill-fated Toyota Qualis which was driven by his boss, slain encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar. Two otherthe birth of the child, plaintiff was not the child's biological parent. Until early 1992 plaintiff believed he was the child's biological parent. For example, plaintiff was present at defendant's side during the delivery of the child; was involved in daily care and nurture of the child; and continued his relationship with the child after separation.
In February or March 1992, over two and one-half years after the child's birth, defendant advised plaintiff he was not the biological father of the child and unilaterally terminated plaintiff's visitation with the child.
On 18 August 1992 plaintiff filed a complaint seeking visitation with the child, alimony pendente lite, and equitable distribution. Based on the results of a voluntary blood grouping test which excluded plaintiff as the biological father, plaintiff alleged the child
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to find a new language that was appropriate for these radically changing means of production. In this fragile situation the architect Walter Gropius managed to gather some of the finest artists and designers of his era and founded a new school where art and design were taught in a completely new way.
How could the Bauhaus achieve this? With the Bauhaus Manifesto, Gropius took inspiration from the idea of the Bauhütte, the mystical design studio of the ancient cathedrals, where all crafts were united to make one holistic vision come to life. At the same time, students of the Bauhaus were encouraged to take matters into their own hands. In different workshops they were free to experiment with craft techniques and as a result produced a range of experimentalworks. This approach allowed students and masters to quickly overcome traditional thinking about form, color, and space and extract from this creative exploration what would come to be known as the International Style, the first global design language that continues to shape our reality today.
One hundred years later, we find ourselves in a similar situation. New technologies demand new design solutions yet specialization will not necessarily lead us down the right path. Much like the Bauhaus dreamed of art, life, and craft as a holistic gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), working with TouchDesigner allows us to integrate all art displicines into one experience that permeates both the real and the virtual.
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London Grammar vie for top Novello
Dan Rothman, Hannah Reid and Dot Major were nominated for this year's Brit Awards
London Grammar, John Newman and Palma Violets are in the running for this year's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting award.
Newman's Love Me Again vies with London Grammar's Strong and Best of Friends from London-based band Palma Violets.
The annual awards, now in their 59th year, celebrate songwriting and composing and are voted for by songwriters.
They will be presented at a ceremony in London on 22 May.
Last year's Mercury Award winner James Blake is nominated for best contemporary song for Retrograde in a shortlist that includes Kemosabe by Everything Everything and Latch by Disclosure featuring Sam Smith.
In the best album category, the Arctic Monkeys are nominated for AM, but face competition from NickCave and The Bad Seeds for Push The Sky Away, and Laura Mvula for Sing to the Moon.
The Arctic Monkeys won the same award in 2007 for Whatever People Say That I Am, That's What I'm Not.
"The Ivors nominations clearly reflect the health of British songwriting and composing, highlighting the wealth of creative talent the UK possesses," said Simon Darlow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca).
"Basca is delighted that The Ivors continue to be the award songwriters and composers want to win, and I congratulate everyone represented here today," he added.
The Arctic Monkeys won best British album at this year's Brit Awards
London Grammar members Hannah Reid, Dot Major and Dan Rothman were at the nominations announcement in London and called it an "amazing honour"
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competing for the title.
Last year Sande won two awards including most performed work, for her track Next To Me.
The films Gravity, Captain Phillips and The Epic of Everest won nominations for their composers for the best original film score award, while TV series Mr Selfridge, Ripper Street and The Thirteenth Tale were nominated for best television soundtrack.
Additional awards will be presented to composers and songwriters at the May ceremony, in recognition of their contribution to British music.Think Small as Trade War Fears Grip Market: 5 Must Buys
Wall Street continues to apprehend a potential trade war due to President Trump’s protectionist stance. Trump has planned to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum coming into the United States, a move that has faced opposition from House Speaker Paul Ryan and compelled chief economic advisor Gary Cohn to resign. Both raised concerns that other countries will retaliate, increasing the odds of a trade war and harming the global economy.
The European Union (EU) is preparing retaliatory tariffs on iconic U.S. brands, while fears of a full-fledged trade war since the 1930s has been raised by the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
As uneasiness about trade policy spikes, small-capitalization stocks remain fairly immune to the adverse effects. And
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with Kenya's XVs team at the back end of 2018 as they vied for Rugby World Cup qualification and have not trained with the Sevens on their return.
Even some players who played in the Dubai and Cape Town legs, including captain Eden Agero, have reportedly changed their minds about the situation since then and been absent from training.
Even if the dispute is resolved before the Hamilton leg, players would not be guaranteed a spot on tour.
Coach Paul Murunga told Kenyan outlet Capital Sports that his job was simply on training the younger players left in his squad to be ready for the Australia and New Zealand World Series legs.
“That’s now about the union and the players," he said.
"I they get to agree then we will welcome them intothe team but as per now as a coach I can only work with the guys coming for training. As times go, the junior players will get better.
"Given a chance they are back, they will have to fight for a position against the youngsters.”
“I am disappointed of course but I have no control over it.
"If they were there and if we started with them it would have been better then we bring in the younger players as we continue. But now we have to manage with the younger players and give them confidence as we go on.”
Kenya's is not the first training boycott in the Sevens world in recent times.
Canada's men refused to attend official training sessions for two months after the Canadian Rugby Union announced plans to
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tell you about Clouds Across the Sun. Before the end of WWII, Hitler charged a group of his most trusted and brilliant comrades with a mission—educate your progeny and then elevate them to positions of power throughout the world. Steeped in fact and impeccably researched, Clouds Across the Sun is the story of just one of these children.
From Naples, Florida, New York City, and Washington D.C., to Israel and then the killing grounds of Vilnius, Poland (Lithuania) this story is one of great romance, discovery, redemption, and enlightenment as Jotto Wells unravels the intrigue surrounding a plan to take over the government of the United States.
MA: How did you develop your characters? Was there a great deal of research involved into the lives of people from this era?
EB:and opinionated. Her greatest weakness is that she falls prey to her family’s influence over her.
MA: Any unique antagonists, other than the obvious?
EB: I think I do bad guys really well and in this book there are some really evil people. When creating an antagonist in the Holocaust time period it is challenging to show all sides of the personality. My antagonist is a Nazi doctor from the Concentration Camps. We see him as a dangerous monster but we also see him as a loving father. The danger is constant when he comes to America after the war with one goal: placing someone under his influence as President of the United States
MA: Do your novels ever fool people into thinking more of the fiction is actual fact?
EB: I
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Mike Angley.
Cynthia’s first novel, a medieval fiction entitled The Crescent (iUniverse) was published in August 2005. The novel was unanimously praised as “an engaging, descriptive read” which prompted a sell-out at Borders Bookstore in less than one hour during the first official autograph signing.
In 2009 she released Demon Hunter: The Chosen One (AspenMountainPress.com) which quickly reached number 3 on the Fictionwise.com bestseller list. The success of Demon Hunter was followed up by the sequel, Demon Hunter 2: Seek & Destroy which takes the characters and the reader on a journey that begins on the high seas and ends in Hell. Both novels (published in e-book format) were nominated for Best Series in 2009 by LRC Cafe.
Cynthia’s latest release returns to the contemporary side of thrillers but still containsSoma (stylized as SOMA) is a science fiction survival horror video game developed by Frictional Games and released on 22 September 2015. The game takes place on PATHOS-II, an underwater remote research facility with machinery that begins to take human characteristics. Soma is a science fiction survival horror game played from a first-person perspective.[1] Thomas Grip of Frictional Games stated that the player would “encounter a number of strange creatures, each an embodiment of an aspect of our themes”. The game primarily utilizes elements of psychological horror instead of conventional scares found in most video games within the genre. Throughout the game, the player will find a large array of clues, such as notes and audio tapes, which builds atmosphere and furthers the plot. As with most titles
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273 Wis. 568 (1956)
BURMEISTER, Appellant,
vs.
DAMROW and another, Respondents.[*]
Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
October 8, 1956.
November 7, 1956.
*569 For the appellant there were briefs and oral argument by George H. Murwin and Cleland P. Fisher, both of Janesville.
For the respondents there was a brief by Thronson, Roethe & Agnew of Janesville, and oral argument by John T. Roethe and Ernest P. Agnew.
*570 STEINLE, J.
The facts established by undisputed evidence of record are as follows: The defendant, E. H. Damrow, is the father of the defendant, John E. Damrow. Both are chiropractors. The son was an employee of the father in a chiropractic clinic conducted at the residence of the father on Center avenue near the city of Janesville. In 1949 the father began the construction of a new office building uponproperty where his residence was located. The son had no financial interest in the property. Father and son did some work themselves on the new building. Contractors were engaged by the father to do work which the father and son were not skilled in performing. Neither the father nor the son was experienced in plastering. In September, 1950, the father engaged the plaintiff, Robert H. Burmeister, a plastering contractor of Janesville with forty years of experience, to plaster the exterior of the new building and also a ceiling in the interior thereof. The plaintiff, together with his own son, Darrell Burmeister, did the work. Robert Burmeister performed the actual plastering, while the son acted as helper and, among other duties, mixed plaster for his father in the mixing
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Burmeister went to the Damrow premises to ascertain the nature and extent of the *571 plastering work to be done in the interior of the premises. At that time an understanding was had between Burmeister and the Damrows that Burmeister's mixer was to be placed in the basement of the new building. However, nothing was said while E. H. Damrow was present as to the method or means by which the mixer was to be put in the basement, or as to the exact time when the mixer was to be brought upon the premises. On the afternoon of that day Burmeister brought his equipment, including the mixer, to the Damrow premises. The mixer was set on rubber-tired wheels and weighed about 500 to 600 pounds. It wasattached (trailerlike) to Burmeister's platform truck. E. H. Damrow was taking care of patients in his residence when Burmeister arrived. John Damrow at the time was doing some work in the inside of the new building preparatory to commencement of the plasterwork. The premises outside the new building were in a muddy condition. John Damrow previously had driven the Damrow farm tractor to the front of the premises. When Burmeister drove into the driveway with his truck and mixer, John Damrow went outside and started the tractor in operation. The mixer was disengaged from the truck and hooked onto the tractor. John Damrow drove the tractor and pulled the mixer through the mud to a place near the rear entrance of the new building. The mixer was unhooked
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wet, from outside the building, and handed them down the steps to Burmeister who stood on the basement floor. John suggested placement of a steel "I" beam against the lower end of the planks. John measured the distance between the wheels of the mixer and told Burmeister where to place the planks. Burmeister had never before placed the mixer in a basement. He took a position on the steps as directed by John. He was about six steps down from the landing when John disappeared. John gave no warning that he was not able to hold the mixer. Both of them had pulled the mixer over the top of the ramp. The mixer came down fast and Burmeister did not know what had happened.
E. H. Damrow testified thathis son, John, had no financial interest in their new building although he spent considerable time assisting in the construction thereof. E. H. Damrow took no part in moving the mixer. He did nothing with respect to preparing the premises so that the mixer could be lowered to the basement. He did not tell Burmeister on the morning of March 5, 1951, that if Burmeister would bring the mixer, his son John would have a tractor and chain for use in pulling it around and moving it into the basement. Between the time of the morning meeting and the afternoon when Burmeister brought the mixer, he had not instructed his son John to help in placing the mixer in the basement.
John Damrow testified that although he spent considerable
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the truck and mixer. John did not tell Darrell that E. H. Damrow would assist. John had placed the tractor near the front of the property to assist in pulling the mixer through the mud should there be need. He had not previously advised Burmeister that he would have the tractor there for the purpose of pulling the mixer. Burmeister unhooked the mixer from the truck. It was attached to the tractor. John drove the tractor, but Burmeister told him where to stop. When the tractor was stopped, Burmeister said, "We will push it from here." The mixer was moved to the platform. It was Burmeister who suggested the use of the planks which were in the basement at the time, and requested John to pick them up.Burmeister directed the placement of the planks. He said that he did not want them to slide at the bottom, and he asked John to block the bottom of the planks, which John did with a seven-inch "I" beam obtained from the premises. Burmeister said "That will do the job fine." Burmeister indicated the procedure that was to be employed in moving the mixer on the planks. He showed John the positions that each of them was to assume on the steps, and demonstrated how they were to hold and move the mixer. The planks were springy. There were 11 steps. Burmeister was to take position on the north edge of the stairway, and John at the opposite edge. Each was to place one hand on the tongue
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statute not intended by the legislature. Here, the city's purpose in letting the contract was to obtain a satisfactory sewer. By its contract the city merely designated the place where the sewer *582 was to be located and fixed the standard of quality and quantity of construction that it desired. Everything in connection with the actual work entailed in providing such a sewer was left to, and undertaken by, the contractor. It is obvious that a sewer could not be furnished without the excavation of a trench. However, the city had not contracted for a trench; it contracted for a sewer. We perceive of no distinction of plan had the city contracted for an improvement or repair to the ceiling or wall of one of its buildings, where,injuries to him arising from his own negligent activity. Here the dangerous condition resulted entirely from the change of the premises wrought by the plaintiff during the time when he was in control for the performance of the work for which he was engaged. The defendants are not liable to him under the provisions of the safe-place statute for the injury that he sustained. In view of this conclusion we deem it unnecessary to discuss the contentions of the plaintiff regarding claimed violation of the statute, or matters relating thereto, concerning the absence of a handrail and the failure to provide safeguards or devices, except to note that the evidence does not establish that the absence of a handrail was a cause of the injury, or that it
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Jose Mourinho was fired by Manchester United in December 2018 after a two-year spell.
Unemployed football coach Jose Mourinho has had enough of being on holidays, he told Spanish television on Thursday, but has ruled out taking over an international outfit or joining someone mid-season. Jose Mourinho was fired by Manchester United in December 2018 after a two-year spell of relative success was overshadowed by the results of local rivals and rising football force Manchester City. The Portuguese shot to fame as the upstart boss of surprise 2004 Champions League winners Porto, then became a superstar with his success and personality at Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter Milan and finally Manchester United.
He picked up the nickname 'the Special One' when joining Chelsea, after saying they had been looking for aQ:
D&D point buy cost
When making a Dungeons & Dragons character, an alternative to rolling ability scores is to assign them within a power budget called point buy. Higher ability scores cost more points, especially towards the upper end: a score of 8 is free, and raising a score by 1 costs 1 point, except raising to 15 or 16 costs 2 points, and raising to 17 or 18 costs 3 points.
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begins to feel like this might take a while. The band members all happily double as crew, filling bags of smoke, stringing extension cords, holding reflectors. Three of them plan on driving back to the city tonight. In two days, they’re performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, then off to Knoxville to rehearse their show one last time in an empty venue. Their fourth album, Shields, will be released in six days, likely while they’re asleep on a tour bus. A week later, they’re home in New York to play Radio City Music Hall. Then 33 more shows, from here to New Zealand, most at 2,000- or 3,000-capacity venues, before November ends. Droste says he’s as energized as he’s ever been for the tour; after the vexingWeeks,” that bounced extensively through the larger public consciousness, its buoyant intro soundtracking a Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial and appearing in more films and television shows than some successful character actors do. The band’s had a song on a Twilight soundtrack, been repeatedly praised by Jay-Z, appeared on The Colbert Report, and opened for Radiohead. Veckatimest has now sold around 220,000 copies in the U.S., which is remarkable—most of the critically acclaimed records on indie-leaning year-end lists move more in the neighborhood of 30,000, or ten, or five, or barely one—but fewer than, say, Bon Iver’s last LP (over 350,000 last year), Vampire Weekend’s discography (both of their albums were certified gold, meaning over 500,000), the Black Keys (whose 2010 Brothers broke a million), or the English folkies
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Domingo, said no standard operating procedures currently exist for how the system known as the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) will be employed, if approved by the council. In addition, the city and port are in the process of studying various public records and data retention requirements in relation to the DAC, said Domingo. Later, she added there is doubt whether the DAC will function as a center for data storage since the feeds it will pull in already come from sources with their own retention rules.
The DAC was first approved by the City Council in July 2010 following the allocation of federal stimulus dollars for security at the Port of Oakland. The $2 million outlay before the council this month represents phase two of the program which, accordingto a city staff report, has ballooned from covering the port to other parts of the city, including street cameras and various other locations, including schools and the Coliseum. Approval would also allow the city and port to seek out other agencies to provide additional video feeds to the DAC, including the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Caltrans, among others. During the Public Safety Committee meeting last week, staff also indicated plans to partner with other statewide and federal authorities for inclusion in Oakland’s DAC.
Privacy advocates say the DAC’s ability to become a clearinghouse for numerous video feeds from a panoply of government agencies, along with a torrent of data sources, including information and statistics from law enforcement, sets a dangerous precedent in a city beset with a police
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Lost in the labyrinth with Christopher Nolan (Part I)
Our fandom, like our politics, has become steadily more polarized - but few directors have been quite as controversial as Christopher Nolan, the blockbuster auteur responsible for Memento, The Dark Knight, and now Inception, the sleeper (in more ways than one) of the summer.
Indeed, as A.O. Scott famously pointed out, Nolan by now is so polarizing that an online flame war broke out over Inception before the movie even opened - this after a tsunami of threats and rants had washed over the Internet when the critics (and the Academy Awards) didn't rate The Dark Knight as highly as the sages of Ain't It Cool News had. Within days a conventional wisdom had coalesced that Nolan couldbe counted on to pull in the big bucks, but simultaneously divide moviegoers into factions about as affectionate as the Shi'ites and the Sunnis.
Things didn't start out that way. Nobody even saw the director's first feature, Following (except me, it seems), but everybody loved Memento, the "backwards" thriller about a man suffering from a rare memory disorder. And everyone went batty over Batman Begins, Nolan's clever resuscitation of a comic franchise that had turned cartoonish.
But then came The Dark Knight and Inception - Nolan's biggest hits yet - and soon battle lines had been drawn between those who insisted these movies were masterpieces (but were hard pressed to explain exactly why), and those reviewers who found them brilliantly realized, but strangely empty - and dramatically pointless. The fanboys
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dreaming. The director may import his lead character's dead wife into his "dreams," but she's essentially window-dressing on a plot that has nothing like the logic of a dream, with a symbology that's utterly unresonant, and never psychologically disturbing. Indeed, the movie's supposed nightmares are hopeless kitsch - they play as out-takes from action flicks as various as The Matrix and Where Eagles Dare (as the dreaming gets "deeper," the movies get more old-school). "Dreaming" merely serves the film as what Hitchcock would have called its "MacGuffin." Indeed, Nolan hardly bothers explaining how, in even the most general way, a dream could be shared by several people, much less "architected" (what, precisely, could Ellen Page's "dream architect" be "architecting" a dream from?). In speculative fiction, these kinds ofIn Trump we must trust
On Friday, Jan. 20, at noon, Donald J. Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States of America, bringing to an official close the contentious campaign season that marked this election.
Trump is our president and going forward, he will — and must — shift into governing mode.
It has been an emotional, trying time for many Americans. For those who are not yet at ease with this new brand of presidential administration, it's an uncomfortable time. And for Trump's supporters, the excitement of victory is settling into a smoother gear.
It is also a historic moment, in more ways than one.
From the beginning, Trump promised to be a broker of change. In every appearance, he made it clear that he was not the status
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quo, that he would do things differently.
He is bold, brash, confident in demeanor, seen by some as an opportunity to create real change in our federal government.
He is, at age 71, the oldest man in history to take the oath of office for a first term as president of the United States. Ronald Reagan was 69 the first time he was sworn into office.
And yet, Trump is full of energy. He campaigned relentlessly. He makes use of Twitter as no American politician probably ever has before, bypassing the mainstream media at will and broadcasting his thoughts — unfiltered. Twitter has become his megaphone as the news media pick up his tweets and dissect them on-air.
President Trump is a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" kind of leader. He is the man of thehour, a businessman rather than a politician who promised not to play by Washington's established rules.
He stoked the fire of hope in American voters, many of whom have felt disenfranchised, overlooked and misunderstood by the Washington establishment.
Now Trump is that Washington establishment, sitting in the Oval Office. If the hopes of his supporters are fulfilled, he will elevate the American worker, work his magic and bring good-paying jobs back to our country, boost the economy, give us a better health care policy, a better immigration policy and, as he likes to say (he even trademarked the phrase early in his campaign), he will "Make America Great Again!"
In these and similar efforts, we should all hope he succeeds in his efforts to improve our economy, our job market, our
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health care delivery system.
To help him, he has — at least for the next two years — a Congress and Senate dominated by his own party, the Republicans. He could soon have a Supreme Court with a politically conservative majority.
We will find out in the weeks and months to come how this will begin to unfold, how his distinctly nontraditional style of governing will play out, how foreign governments will respond to his unusual ways of getting things done.
President Trump does not make idle promises, and we should not underestimate him. After he won the Republican primary election, he declared that he was in the race to win. He did, against all odds and predictions. Now it's time for him to deliver on those promises.
Most Americans will notCharacter Description: Chi-Chi
Chi-chi is Goku's wife and mother of both Gohan and Goten. When Gohan was born, Chi-chi spent ages trying to make him study. But then when Goten was born, she spent her time sparring against him. She is a very protective mother, but also a nice person.
The funny thing about her name is that in Japanese, Chi Chi means both "breasts" and "father". In this case, it most likely means "breasts" since many Dragon Ball characters are named after either clothes or food.
Character Description: Chi-Chi
Chi Chi is the daughter of the Oxking. In Dragon Ball, she met Goku when the Oxking sent Goku to find her. She also met Yamcha when he lied to her and said that he was in love with her.
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almost got Goku to marry her even though he thought it was food. Close to the end of Dragon Ball, Chi Chi goes to the Martial Arts Tournament and fights Goku in order to make him keep his promise to her. She eventually marries him at the end of Dragonball.
In Dragon Ball Z, she has Gohan, her first child. She tries to get him to study all the time so that he can become a scholar. After Gohan beats Cell, he goes to school. Chi chi then has her second child, Goten.
In Dragon Ball GT, she really doesn't play a major role in the series.be put in place to negate the problems they have faced already and give assurances to the Premier League and the FA that all their home fixtures will be fulfilled in either event.
Last month Spurs had to play Manchester City and PSV Eindhoven on a damaged Wembley pitch due to the scheduling issues caused by needing to switch the game against Pep Guardiola's men to the national stadium at relatively late notice. That meant the City game was held just 24 hours after the NFL match between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The club also had to gain special permission to play their Carabao Cup match against Watford in September at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes as Wembley was unavailable due to Anthony Joshua's world title fight
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do not logically position themselves to accomplish public purposes, but to accomplish private business purposes. When Callahan wrote his classic history, Education and the Cult of Efficiency, he may have hoped to unmask and undermine the cult of which the U.S. (and many other nations) as the privatization of schooling and internationally as the globalization of schooling ( McEducation for Prakash & Stuchul, 2004). But these are not different realms and globalization means the privatization by transnational corporations of as many public spaces as possible, including the public space of schooling (Spring, 1998). Public to Private Purposes of Schooling Henry Adams, a reluctant teacher and historian, and great-grandson of the second American president, observed in his autobiography that schooling is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing thepopular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for state purposes (Adams, 1918/1992, 14). Adams was well aware that business models and imperial intentions were, in his day, increasingly determining what the purposes of the state itself would be, and hence the future course of schooling. He resented his own schooling (at Harvard) for not teaching him that fact. 424
3 The Decline of Western Education Research The fact, however, began with hopes for something quite different about 1790, a hope grounded in the relationship between two new ideas: the citizen and the nation state. During its rise, the West invented the nationstate, a concept that standardized a defensible sovereignty with ideals of large geographic spread, a single national
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language, and a singular cultural outlook. As Hobsbawm (1992) points out, however, the ideal of the nation state has rarely been met, though the West does a predictably good imitation of its own invention of the ideal they invented, but they have applied it (via international regimes of trade, politics, and war in the epochs of colonialism, post-colonialism, imperialism, and globalism) to places with small territories or hundreds of languages and cultures. The application has always been in the name of doing business, and the nationstate was engineered variously, often oddly, across its short history. It is surely amusing to see Singapore treated as if it were a nation state, for instance in international comparisons of student achievement (Singapore is a city state). Of specific concern to schooling(also known as mass education ) is the revolutionary nation-state circa 1790 in North America and France (and, to be sure, Haiti though its coeval revolution is seldom cited; see Wills, 2003). Education, in these places and times, was about creating the citizen from ordinary people, previously dismissed by the aristocracy as peasants, tradesmen, or merchants (not to mention slaves). Hobsbawm (1992, p. 20) wrote, What characterized the nation-people as seen from below was precisely that it represented the common interest against particular interests, the common good against privilege. The nation-state, in short, was to be founded on the capacity of ordinary people, particularly their capacity for self-governance. What was to equip them with this capacity? It was a suitable education, increasingly to be delivered in schools, but,
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at least in the U.S. not originally imagined exclusively or most effectively as schooling (Cremin, 1980). The 19 th and 20 th centuries, however, increasingly built schools to the specifications that so troubled Henry Adams: the purposes of the regime and by no means of the people. Adams knew that the state s regime was guided by the will of the emerging capitalist class (emerging, that is, in the U.S. from about 1865 to 1915 and in Britain for more than 100 years before that). Callahan documented the subsequent consequences for schooling in the U.S. Joel Spring (1998) and many others have updated Callahan s cheerless picture. Such a critique does not deny the existence of many good schools in the 425
4 Craig B. Howley West concerned tothey may visit almost any website sponsored by the various state education agencies in the U.S. for the varied and quite explicit statements to this effect. There is occasional lip-service to 426
5 The Decline of Western Education Research community and the public good, but not much of it. My own favorite example of this jingoism, though, is a road sign in the American state of Kentucky. For several years, that state posted signs on all entering roads that read: Education pays! Kentucky thus announced greed as the guiding principle of the schooling it sponsored. And the school system in Kentucky is the most radically reformed in the U.S. These sorts of episodes, multiplied hundreds of times (with less overt offense), indicate that public purpose has nearly foundered in
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the U.S. under the sway of global capitalism and its shrill ideology. It is surely past time to think differently about schooling (see Howley & Howley, 2006, for one example framed for the North American context). The Accommodations of Western Education Research The preceding account is a true one, but can seem irrelevant to those struggling in the day-to-day flow. Teaching is everywhere a challenging work, even in well-funded schools dedicated to thoughtful instruction aimed at enabling the public good instead of private greed. It is in the day-to-day flow, also, that education researchers make their accommodations to the regime of post-industrial capital and its State schools and deploy scholarly resistance to it. It s important to remember, though, that education research is not a very old field,nor one with much status in the West. Education researchers are simply professors in colleges of education, some of whom conduct research as part of their quest for tenure. Colleges of education, moreover, have a very short history and a very low academic place in the ranking of academic vanities. Indeed, the expectation that their faculty will do legitimate empirical research is relatively new, emerging most strongly only in recent decades (with some vigor only after the Second World War, and not with real vigor until at least the late 1960s). Readers should temper the critique on offer in this essay with their understanding of the implications of this history. That is, education research in the West struggles for a respectable identity, and the need for that struggle
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is a large part of its failure. It seeks to fit into the usual ways of doing business in the Western academy. Economics. On one hand, under the prevailing regime, money (funding) is the surest route to the highest respectability. The larger the grant, the more respectable is the research and the more respectable the researcher. On the other hand, programs in school administration are cash cows many students, much tuition, some grants, and famous and durable 427
6 Craig B. Howley allegations of low program quality, in the U.S. at any rate. Their respectability, therefore, is enhanced disproportionately when they secure substantial external funding. In an organizational sense in American higher education, research is defined operationally as the quest for grants. A $US20 million grant confers not onlyto RFPs. These are the responses that stand the greatest likelihood of being understood and approved. Indeed, the cycle of getting and spending such research funds is now a strong force in shaping conventional wisdom itself. For researchers who are professors in colleges of education in universities increasingly dependent on grants to escape this trap, escaping this trap is a difficult exercise. Certainly, imaginative and talented faculty can argue an unconventional perspective, even one critical of the regime. Yet, in the nature of things, 428
7 The Decline of Western Education Research these successes are quite rare and the very character of their work (critique) renders the projects and their success unstable if not always ephemeral. The regime, however, does require a modicum of tension, which limited and channeled
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which 80% of the population lives in metropolitan areas. Rural and small-town schools, in the U.S. as in many nations, are simply smaller than schools in other locales. From 1950 through about 1990, U.S. education research in school administration firmly insisted that bigger schools and school districts 1 were inherently, and for many reasons, better than smaller schools and school districts. And many schools and districts were closed. The U.S. now has only 10% of the school districts it had in 1930 (see the various historical reports from the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, all easily accessible online). The closures of schools and even districts continue. The massive closures represent 100 years of conventional wisdom, with an uncritical research agenda to support it. Recent research on smallschools and districts has nonetheless taken a 1 School districts in the U.S. are geographic regions in which local authority for education is vested. These Local Education Agencies (another term for school district ) are lead by a superintendent and a local school board (most often elected, but sometimes appointed) who make and execute policy for the district. The U.S. maintains some 14,500 such public school districts, which administer some 86,000 elementary and secondary schools. School districts themselves are linked in a chain of command to the State Department of Education (SEA) of the state in which they are located. Increasingly, research has shown that the influence of the SEA sharply circumscribes the actions of the LEAs, although the strength of this influence certainly varies among the 50
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hurt at some stage is only normal. That’s why we want him to recover quickly.”
In fact, Djokovic has played 51 Grand Slams in a row since his Grand Slam debut at the 2005 Australian Open. Those have included two staggering crests, one in 2011-12 when he won four out of five Grand Slams, and one in 2014-16 when he won six of eight, including the four in a row between the 2015 Wimbledon and the 2016 French Open. When he splayed on his back at Roland Garros after Murray’s last backhand rammed into the net, he reigned as few ever had.
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Since then, his Grand Slams have gone: third round, final, second round, quarterfinal (decisive loss), quarterfinal (truncated). It has been some lull. He turned 30 in May.
Djokovic saidcollecting the material, citing a dispute over their fees. They have been accused of engaging in delay tactics.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is believed to be seeking legislation that could shield him from prosecution, though he has encountered significant opposition to such moves, including from members of his own party.
Netanyahu repeatedly insisted in the run-up to the elections that he would not push for legislation granting him automatic immunity. However, several recent media reports have suggested he later decided to move forward with plans to pass such a law.
Sources close to the prime minister said Sunday that in light of the pushback, he had decided not to move forward with a new law and would work with the existing immunity law as amended in 2005.
The existing legislation requires legitimate reasons under
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course and has a catchment area of .
History
Yalanji (also known as Kuku Yalanji, Kuku Yalaja, Kuku Yelandji, and Gugu Yalanji) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Far North Queensland. The traditional language region is Mossman River in the south to the Annan River in the north, bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east and extending inland to west of Mount Mulgrave. This includes the local government boundaries of the Shire of Douglas, the Shire of Cook and the Aboriginal Shire of Wujal Wujal and the towns and localities of Cooktown, Mossman, Daintree, Cape Tribulation and Wujal Wujal. It includes the head of the Palmer River, the Bloomfield River, China Camp, Maytown, and Palmerville.
Palmer River was one of Australia's major gold rush locations. William Hannin Amsterdam, had suffered cardiac arrest while playing hide-and-seek in the hallway of the hotel the family was staying in during their skiing holiday in Switzerland. CPR was given until the ambulance arrived and Laurens was transferred to a hospital in the mountains and later to ...
Hi everyone, I thought I would check in with a quick update about our little baby Bram! Bram is one month and two days old as I write this, and he is doing very well. He is an extremely happy and content little chap! We all enjoy his company so much. It's been wonderful to ...
Earlier this week, while camped at a beautiful beach on the Coromandel Peninsula here in New Zealand, we encountered a situation that has whirled around in my
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percent of the lot. Accordingly, OZ sought relief from the minimum lot area,
minimum lot depth, and minimum rear yard requirements.
At the hearing, OZ's counsel explained that the variances OZ sought to
construct the three-family home had been approved by the Planning Board in 2007,
but at that time, OZ failedHuman2.5M Beadchip (2,443,179 markers).
The clinical features of our GWAS cohort were documented on the basis of standard ACR classification criteria. The experiment was designed to avoid batch effects to the greatest extent possible. All DNA samples were sent to the laboratory at King's College London, UK, where the integrity of the DNA was checked. The GWAS samples were then genotyped at a single laboratory. All data analysis was carried out in the laboratory at King's College.
Genotyping for the GWAS was carried out using 82 plates, processed in 13 batches. Duplicate samples taken from HapMap Phase 3 were added to each plate to check genotyping quality. Case-control status and country of recruitment were randomized across plates as far as possible, in order to avoid artifactual differences in genotyping between
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brings together my past three single releases with this fourth single" he explains "As well as Fix It, the tracks are Hunted, We Should Talk and Fame, and it's a mix of songs from when I was performing more with a full band and songs that I play primarily solo."
Liam's set on the night will be in-keeping with the nature of the release and will comprise new and established work... "It's a good mix" he says "Fix It and We Should Talk were recorded last year, with Hunted being recorded in 2016, so it shows how my style has changed and how my recordings may be different over time."
Liam is typically humble when questioned about his footballing prowess. I ask the former Manchester United academy player how closehe came to following in his father, Brian McClair's footsteps... "Not very close" he responds "I played as a schoolboy but a couple of injuries in quick succession cut my career short."
It isn't something he need concern himself with; his music career is flourishing and has already seen Liam playing iconic venues, including The Ritz and Old Trafford. He's also played alongside some legendary acts and had a stint supporting the great Ian McCulloch.
"Yeah it was fantastic" he decides "I was really lucky to play those shows and loved the reaction every time. It was nice having to sort of win a crowd round, and hope they liked what I was doing. I think one of my highlights was performing at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool supporting Echo
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He was reportedly shot in the head after a brief struggle in which his car began rolling forward.
Levar Jones was stopped for a seatbelt offense, just as he was getting out of his car to enter a convenience store. Directed to show his license, Jones leaned into his car to get his wallet, only to be shot four times by the “fearful” officer. Jones was also unarmed.
Bobby Canipe was pulled over for having an expired registration. When the 70-year-old reached into the back of his truck for his walking cane, the officer fired several shots at him, hitting him once in the abdomen.
Dontrell Stevens was stopped “for not bicycling properly.” The officer pursuing him “thought the way Stephens rode his bike was suspicious. He thought the way StephensAadhaar of 300 people stolen, Rs 40 lakh pension money swindled
Express News Service |
Published: 28th October 2017 01:52 AM
HYDERABAD: In a classic case of identity theft, a possibility repeatedly denied by the Centre and UIDAI officials, Aadhaar details of nearly 300 people were stolen their pension money swindled. City police estimate that around `40 lakh was stolen in this manner by three members in a series of frauds since mid-2015. The accused, who have been arrested, were working in the public sector.While Mohammed Abdul Khader Nakshbandi Aziz (39) was employed at an SBI kiosk customer service point at Kummarwadi, Shaik Shabbir Hussain was a former e-seva operator and Md Aslam a junior assistant with Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited in Nalgonda district.
According to the police, the
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has best represented behavioral characteristics of human related to the stocking of invasive fish species. In urban areas, although ponds are surrounded by denser road networks, visibility is apparently reduced by the many blocks of buildings that obscure the ponds. Consequently, the classification tree using only road density showed overestimation of the presence for Bluegill.
In contrast to visibility and road density, the urban ratio was not adopted for any classification tree as a predictor in our analyses. Sport anglers are generally known to come not from the immediate proximity of the ponds but from more populated urban areas such as southern coastal regions and metropolitan areas on the eastern edge of the study area. At a local scale with the study area of approximately 30 × 30 km,Saturday, December 22, 2012
Eggs and Corned Beef Hash - Brookside Diner, Whippany NJ
The classic diner breakfast is an integral part of the local culture in the state of New Jersey. New Jersey has more diners per capita than any other place on the planet- and just about all of them take special pride in their breakfast offerings. It had been a while since I've been to any of the Garden State's many diners. My travels took me back to an area near where I once worked, so I took the opportunity to stop and have a little breakfast at one of the places I used to eat at from time to time- the Brookside Diner in Whippany, New Jersey.
What I consider to be the classic Jersey Diner breakfast
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Presidential Election Protest In Egypt Turns Deadly
Vast as they are, the interrelated problems of Afghanistan, Pakistan and al-Qaida are only some of the problems the president faces - and that will be faced by whoever wins this fall's election. Egypt is preparing for a presidential election of its own, the first since a revolution toppled President Hosni Mubarak. And today, a protest related to that election led to deadly violence.
Islamist protesters were unhappy that their candidate was among several people disqualified from the presidential election. They held a demonstration outside the Defense Ministry - home of the army that still holds great power in Egypt.
And according to a state news agency, the protesters were attacked, by men identified only as "armed thugs." Five people were killed, and morethe source for the pathogen, which had been unheard of in Haiti for a century until the death in October 2010 of a villager who lived downstream of the UN camp in Mirebalais.
Since then, cholera has spread along the river, across the flood plains and into the slums of the capital, Port-au-Prince. About 6% of the population have been infected and more than 7,500 people have died – a higher toll than the political violence that brought the peacekeepers to Haiti.
According to the World Health Organisation, the 340,000 cases in Haiti last year were more than the rest of the world put together. This year, cases have declined, but hundreds of new infections are still being diagnosed every week, particularly in the wake of hurricane Sandy.
Last week the
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its role, but a panel of experts concluded in 2011 that the outbreak was not the fault of "any group or individual".
Although it acknowledged inadequate sanitation at the Mirebalais barracks as a possible source of the bacterium, it said this was not completely certain and that other factors – including poor public sewage systems and water treatment – contributed to the outbreak.
However, a former panel member – US cholera specialist Daniele Lantagne –recently cited new data that suggests the Nepalese troops were most likely to have been the source. Based on full genome sequencing, she concluded: "We now know that the strain of cholera in Haiti is an exact match for the strain of cholera in Nepal."
This backs up long-held suspicions of locals in Mirebalais. Although the Nepalesetroops have been replaced by Uruguayans and the sewage canal from the camp has been cleaned up, residents have not forgotten or forgiven what the UN peacekeepers did to their area.
"The troops were shitting and pissing in the river. It used to stink. Many people got sick," said Johnson Pierre as his girlfriend washed clothes in the stream. "We don't like the UN. They have given us nothing. They're not clean. And we are still getting cholera."
In Meye village, which sits across the road from the barracks, a sign above the first house reads: "Have Mercy Nepalese."
Everyone in the community has either had cholera or knows a relative or neighbours who has been infected.
"There were people dying in hospital and I thought I was going to join them,"
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After 42 years, train ticket receipt leads to dead man's identity, family
For 42 years, the only clue to the identity of David Conner was the water-soaked receipt for a train ticket found on his body when it was recovered from the Milwaukee River.
It was also the only link to his family, which for decades could only wonder the fate of the young man from Florida who eventually became “ME Case Number: 1975-1209” at the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office.
Now the fragile, worn receipt serves as a memorial of sorts for the family, finally located in July after a dogged, yearslong search by medical examiner’s investigators.
But the success of that search is tempered by a new mystery: the body of David Conner — committed for county burial in 1975health issues, but the symptoms of his illness were subtle and difficult to discern, his brother recalled.
And though his restlessness caused him to disappear from time to time, he would eventually show up, Jethro Conner said.
But when his last absence went from weeks to months, David Conner's family reported him missing.
“When he started missing funerals, I knew something had to be wrong,” Jethro Conner said.
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For decades after David Conner was supposed to be buried, his case was filed away in a dust-covered box in the basement of the medical examiner's office.
Then in December 2011, the office launched a link on its website for unidentified deceased.
The link grew out of its involvement with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), a database created by the National Institute of
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glean further information on the purchaser, but the effort proved fruitless.
Then in May of this year, Simley was contacted by the FBI about a new system that matches fingerprints of unidentified deceased from the NamUs system to prints on file with the FBI.
The prints from ME case number 1975-1209 matched those of a David Conner, born July 29, 1946, who was arrested by police in Savannah, Ga., for an unknown offense on June 4, 1975.
"Jenni and I were ecstatic," Simley said.
Simley and Penn then turned their efforts toward locating David Conner's family.
Databases were scoured, hospitals faxed, property, real estate and baptismal records checked and police re-contacted.
Most leads led to dead ends, but Conner's arrest report included addresses in Orlando and Mulberry, Fla.
Letters were then sent to the PolkCounty Historical and Genealogical Library and the Mulberry Historical Society in Florida.
The letters led to a story published in the Mulberry-Polk County Press newspaper on the David Conner case, which was read by one of his relatives.
Finally, on June 21, another niece, Juanita Conner Warner, who David Conner had been staying with before he disappeared, called investigator Penn.
"She said her family had many questions," Penn said.
Penn learned that David Conner had no relatives in Milwaukee or Chicago and that he could swim. She also learned that even though he did have some form of mental illness, David Conner was not suicidal or depressed, had no problems with alcohol and his family does not believe he would have committed suicide.
Penn then sent Jethro Conner a copy of the case
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file and a photo taken of David Conner after his death.
"He stared at that picture for a long time. He was silent," said Jethro Conner's wife, Gail Conner.
"It was a very hurtful thing, but at least now we know what happened to him."
But there is no body or remains, "not even ashes," to bring home, Jethro Conner lamented.
"We can't even give him a proper burial," he said.
"Some of my family still don't believe he's really dead."
The only physical remnant of the life of David Conner — the receipt for the train ticket that ultimately led him to the pilings beneath the northwest corner of the Juneau Ave. bridge — was sent to his brother in July.
The receipt — which will serve as the centerpiece at a memorial serviceSports Archive
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Celebrate with the Huskies
04/16/2013 -
10:15 AM
The men's hockey team just wrapped up a historic 2012-2013 season. Capturing their first MacNaughton Cup as Co-Champions of the WCHA and participating in the NCAA Division I Frozen Four for the first time in school history as well as SCSU’s Drew LeBlanc awarded the Hobey Baker. St. Cloud State wants you to join in the excitement as they celebrate the achievements of the team this year.
On Wednesday, April 17, a celebration will be held at the National Hockey and Events Center. The event will feature former Husky hockey player (now FOX9 News anchor) Jeff Passolt as well as university officials, head coach Bob Motzko and members of the team to relive to accomplishments of the season. After the one-ice event
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The first of the highly anticipated Saab 9-5 New Generation (NG) cars rolled off the assembly line in 2009. This year we’ll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of this breath-taking model with a historic photo shoot on 7 June for all 9-5NGs visiting the Saab Car Museum Festival 2019 in Trollhättan!
Great news for all Saab fans in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and any other country using right hand drive as a RHD version of the Saab 9-5NG SportCombi is now likely becoming available!
Spring season = Saab meet season! Some 30 Saabs participated in ‘Söderturen 2019’ (‘The South Tour’) this weekend, among them a wealth of Saab gems including a ’68 Sonett V4, several 96’s and the 9-5NG SportCombi.to continue – despite mounting Conservative anger at the tactic.
Ministers are already resigned to taking part in next month’s European elections – and a likely thumping by Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party – because of the lack of progress.
Farage launches his new Brexit Party: in pictures Show all 10 1 /10 Farage launches his new Brexit Party: in pictures Farage launches his new Brexit Party: in pictures Nigel Farage speaks at the launch of his new Brexit Party's campaign for the European elections Reuters Farage launches his new Brexit Party: in pictures Brexit Party candidate Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaks at the launch AFP/Getty Farage launches his new Brexit Party: in pictures A supporter waits for Farage to speak AFP/Getty Farage launches his new
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by the Society of Seventeen and presented each year at the national meeting. The purpose of the Fellowships to assist talented young brothers, firmly committed to the ideals of Sigma Tau Gamma, with the pursuit of graduate and professional degrees.
Musial/Hillman Sportsmanship Award
The Stan Musial/Eric Hillman Sportsmanship Award is presented annually to a member of Sigma Tau Gamma who has participated in varsity or intercollegiate athletics at his college or university and who most typifies the traits of athletic performance, scholastic achievement, leadership, and service to the applicant’s college and local community as demonstrated by Stan Musial and Eric Hillman.
Earl A. Webb Academy of Principled Leaders
New chapter presidents gather annually at the Webb Academy with our National President to mutually explore the challenges and opportunities of the most importantEarlier this year, the veteran anchor was fired from Fox News after an explosive sexual harassment lawsuit rocked the network.
Following his ousting, O'Reilly claimed the entire lawsuit was organized by a "left-wing cabal" to sabotage his career. But clearly, the cabal didn't sabotage hard enough, because the political pundit is back on the air with his OWN internet news program!
Wednesday night marked the debut of O'Reilly's 30-minute long news show, shot inside a studio and made available on his website!
The broadcast kicked off like your average O'Reilly news report. At the top of the show, the conservative commentator discussed Donald Trump's remarks about North Korea along with the media's coverage of it.
But the anchor also seemed a bit self-conscious of the downgraded platform, asking his loyal viewers:
On Thursday,
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Yet when you talk to him, it’s his big heart that comes through not the tasks he has on his plate. He fit in the interview with me between two pressing tasks, and we had only a few minutes to talk before he was going to step into a sound booth for a radio interview. In that time, two important characteristics came through clearly—first that he knows how to get a lot done in a short time and second that he’s the kind of person you want at your back- warm, intelligent, and committed to being of service in his community.
As a FundRaiser Champion, he has used FundRaiser at more than one nonprofit. He cofounded Karis, Inc., where he works now and also led to a community wideeffort to establish The House, a branch of Karis, which is the only licensed teen shelter between Denver and Provo Utah.
In his personal life, family and children are also central to what gives him joy. "I’m a big family guy. I have two beautiful children. I do a lot of coaching and hanging out with the kids," says John. One of his favorite things to do is to spend time outdoors hiking with his children.
Sara Bostancic loves her work with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bucks in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. As the FundRaiser Database Coordinator, she plays an important role in the success of the organization. She became involved in the organization as a way to contribute to her community after she had taken time off from the workplace
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Britain's ambassador to the US said Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in an "act of diplomatic vandalism" because it was agreed by his predecessor Barack Obama, according to the latest leaked cables.
The Mail on Sunday published details of the dispatch from Sir Kim Darroch, despite a warning from Scotland Yard that journalists who released further details of the ambassador's communications could be in breach of the Officials Secrets Act (OSA).
The warning prompted a furious row over press freedom, with Tory leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt lining up to defend the right of the media to publish leaked government documents.
The latest memo to be disclosed was said to have been written by Sir Kim in May 2018 following a visit to Washington by Mr Johnson- who was then foreign secretary - in a last ditch attempt to persuade the Trump administration not to abandon the Iran deal.
Under the terms of the agreement - still supported by Britain, France and Germany - international sanctions on Iran were eased in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear programme.
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and tax breaks, and energy efficiency.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the Beallsville Coal event at the American Energy Corp. in Beallsville, Ohio, Aug. 14.
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Coal power
For the first two years of his administration, President Obama pushed for "cap and trade" legislation to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants by putting a price on them for the first time. After the US Senate failed to pass legislation, the administration allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to move ahead with more conventional regulatory measures. Under Mr. Obama, the EPA issued the nation's first standards limiting mercury emissions and other toxins from coal-fired power plants. It has also taken steps to begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions.
But the EPA's go-slow approach, and references to "clean coal" development have irked environmentalistsHigh School football teams discuss Thanksgiving playoffs
Seven area high school football teams will play this weekend in the third round of the playoffs. It's the regional quarter finals and for some teams its an annual tradition to play during Thanksgiving weekend but for others it's a new tradition.
The West Orange Stark High School football players said Thanksgiving playoffs are part of their yearly tradition. The team has won the past two state championships and hopes to take home the title again this year.
"It's good to have the boys out together because we have two seniors in the house and this is their last year," said parent Tyeshia Guillory.
Guillory’s son KJ will practice every day until the game on Friday but Coach Cornell Thompson said players will still have
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the Court of Criminal Appeals granted Briddle's motion, filed by attorney Isbell, to stay issuance of the mandate for sixty days to allow for the filing on Briddle's behalf of a petition for writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. No such petition having been filed, the Court of Criminal Appeals issued its mandate January 15, 1988. On February 1, 1988, Briddle, whose representation had by then been taken over by attorney Alton Stephens, moved the Court of Criminal Appeals to recall its mandate, so that a petition for certiorari on Briddle's behalf could be filed in the Supreme Court, asserting an inability to locate five volumes of the record. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied the motion, and thereafter, on February 4,1988, the Texas trial court scheduled Briddle's execution for March 21, 1988. On March 11, 1988, Stephens, on behalf of Briddle, moved the Court of Criminal Appeals for a stay of execution pending filing of a petition for certiorari, representing that he had received the missing portions of the record on February 26, 1988. On March 15, 1988, the Court of Criminal Appeals granted the motion and stayed Briddle's execution for sixty days.
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Nothing further having been filed in any court by or on behalf of Briddle, the state trial court, Judge C.V. Milburn, on October 26, 1988, set Briddle's execution for December 1, 1988. The next day, October 27, 1988, Stephens, on Briddle's behalf, filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court, and moved
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the memorandum contains the five "proposed amendments." The first of these is that the state habeas proceedings denied Briddle due process because Judge Poe, who signed the March 27, 1989, order denying an evidentiary hearing in the state habeas case, had been a prosecutor in the original case until sometime in September 1981, and that his said order was thus void under state law. These allegations were based on a copy of the March 27, 1989, order and on copies of portions of the state record attached to the motion showing that Judge Poe, then as prosecutor, announced the state ready in March 1980 and January 1981, presented the case to the grand jury in October 1980, and agreed to a resetting in August 1981.6is somewhat similar to ineffective assistance of counsel and counsel "chilling" contentions raised in the state habeas and previously in the federal habeas which each relied on the same January 1989 affidavits of Briddle's mother, father, and brother10 and the January 1989 affidavit of a psychologist who (at the request of Stephens) examined him for the first (and only) time on January 20, 1989.11
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Part III of the September 20, 1991, memorandum contends that the May 29, 1991, decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Selvage v. Collins renders erroneous the district court's holding that Briddle's Penry claim was procedurally barred, and that the court should thus "consider the Penry claim on the merits."
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belatedness,16 Briddle's contention is wholly without merit. The April 11, 1989, findings were made by Judge McSpadden, not by Judge Poe. The only action taken by Judge Poe in the habeas case was his order of March 27, 1989. Prior to that time, Judge McSpadden had already taken the following actions in the case: on December 15, 1988, he reset Briddle's execution for February 14, 1989, and ordered that Briddle file any habeas by January 17, 1989; on February 13, 1989, Judge McSpadden again ordered Briddle's execution reset for April 21, 1989; and in another February 13, 1989, order Judge McSpadden directed that Briddle's trial attorneys, Thomas and Sims, file by March 5 affidavits explaining their representation of Briddle and responding towas committed deliberately and with the reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result;
"(2) whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society;" Id.
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Thomas has been licensed to practice since May 1965, served as a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney's office until 1969, and since then had practiced as a criminal defense attorney. Prior to Briddle's trial, he had defended four capital murder cases. Sims was licensed to practice in May 1969. He was an Assistant District Attorney in Harris County until 1975, when he went into private practice, primarily in criminal law. He had defended two capital murder cases, one with Thomas,
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old he was involved in a motorcycle/train accident, when his friend, a passenger on Mike's motorcycle lost both arms and a leg. Mike was extremely emotionally upset and disturbed because of the injury to his friend
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Mike was always taking in stray animals to care for them, and on one occasion found a great dane and brought it home on his motorcycle and cared for it
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I am in touch with Mike and we correspond regularly. I visit Mike whenever possible
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Although I did not reside in Texas during the time of Mike's capital murder trial in 1982, I was aware of his trial, but I was never contacted by his trial counsel
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Had I been contacted by Mike's trial counsel I would have informed himof the facts stated herein and would have testified at trial."
The father's and brother's affidavits (but not the mother's) also included the statement that "Mike has a daughter Renee, age 13 years, has expressed his concern for her on many occasions." The mother's affidavit, but not the others, also stated she was in an automobile accident when pregnant with Briddle, and that Briddle's birth in April 1955 was four to six weeks overdue, required forceps, and he "received severe bruises of the head," and that:
"Because Mike's father was severely injured when Mike was twelve years old, it was necessary for me to work outside of the home. During this period Mike would clean the house without being asked and would cook many of the family
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marijuana probably before his teens, 'but it didn't do nothin for me.' Around the age of 12, he started doing downers.... He said he had experimented with every drug available and really liked heroin, but usually used speed because heroin was too expensive. He also started drinking while he was young, stating that it probably was peer pressure, as he ran with an older group of boys.... He also noted that he had been given massive amounts of Thorazine and Prolixin on an alternating basis for several years while he was in juvenile facilities in California.
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Mike reports convictions for robbery and interstate transportation of a vehicle in California, after which he spent three years in San Quentin and was paroled. He1989, order was issued by Judge Poe, or was unaware prior to April 5, 1989, of the alleged assignment by Judge Poe to Judge McSpadden. The only evidence claimed to indicate that Judge Poe acted as prosecutor consists of portions of the state record in Briddle's murder prosecution, and the March 27, 1989, order reflects that it was signed by Judge Poe, and on April 5 Briddle, through Stephens, responded thereto by submitting proposed findings and conclusions. Nothing in the state record even suggests an assignment of the habeas case by Judge Poe to Judge McSpadden, there are no allegations indicating any basis for the unverified assertion that such an assignment by Judge Poe occurred, and there is no affidavit or other evidence tending to indicate
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Nobel Prizes and the emerging virus concept.
The existence of infectious agents smaller than bacteria was demonstrated already during the 1890s. After this discovery it took more than 50 years before a resilient definition of viruses could be given. There were separate developments of knowledge concerning plant viruses, bacterial viruses and animal viruses. In the mid-1930s, Wendell Stanley at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Princeton described the purification and crystallization of tobacco mosaic virus. The finding of an "infectious protein" led to him receiving a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946. In studies initiated at the end of the 1930s, bacteriophages were used as a model for replicating genes. They led to important insights into the unique characteristics of virus-cell interactions. However, an understanding of the chemicalSharon, left, listen to fire officers during a town meeting at the high school in Cave Junction. (AP Photo)
Waiting for the right conditions, firefighters were to begin burning out brush and timber in the three-mile-wide space between the bulldozer line and the fire.
The burning operation was expected to take the next three days if all goes well. "We're waiting for those conditions when you feel a light wind on the back of your neck so the flames are sucked into the fire," Lohrey said.
Meanwhile bulldozers began building a similar line on the north end of the fire to protect the community of Agness, a hub of whitewater rafting on the Rogue River.
Some residents expressed frustration that the fires were not stopped two weeks ago after the original lightning
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have been lifted as of July 29, 2002.
On Scene: 1,233 firefighters, military battalion from Topeka, Kansas in place.
Cause: Lightning.
747/MURRAY COMPLEX
Started: Northeast of Paulina in Black Canyon Wilderness, 07/13/22.
Size: 17,266 acres
Containment: 80 percent.
Evacuations: No evacuations; Four homes and eight outbuildings threatened.
Damage: Road closures.
On scene: 653 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
FLORENCE FIRE
Started: 26 miles west of Grant Pass, 07/13/02.
Size: 145,000 acres.
Containment: 5 percent.
Evacuations: The entire Illinois Valley on notice to evacuate.
Damage: 3 residences and 8 outbuildings.
On scene: 988 firefighters.
Cause: Lightning.
SOUR BISCUIT FIRE
Started: 17 miles southwest of Cave Junction
Size: 35,000 acres. (source: Florence fire camp)
Containment: zero percent containment
Evacuations: None yet.
Damage: no
On scene:373
Cause: lightning
TIMBERED ROCK FIRE
Started: Unknown. 20 miles north of Medford.
Size: 13,450 acres
Containment: 20 percent
Evacuations: Elk Creek Road is closed except to fire vehicles. Evacuation area for all addresses along Elk Creek Road, 143more frightening than anything he'd seen.
"When you're talking about losing an entire valley, 17,000 homes, when the southern escape route is closed and there's only one way out of here, when you're looking at a 30-foot wall of fire that no one's been able to stop, you're talking about divine intervention here," Haines said.
Although U.S. 199 has been closed by a fire in Northern California, state officials there have agreed to open it if an evacuation is ordered in Oregon, according to the Josephine County sheriff's office.
Sheriff's deputies drove four routes leading out of the valley Monday and uncovered a potentially serious glitch in the evacuation plan.
Deputies found road crews ready to narrow traffic to one lane on U.S. 199 between Selma and Grants Pass, the main highway
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he wrote. "The fire monster will soon revive; you will again see Dangerous Aggressive Burning conditions."
Also Tuesday morning, Lt. Brian Anderson's crew at the Josephine County emergency operations center at the courthouse in Grants Pass was staffing the phones on behalf of the Illinois Valley's livestock.
"The phone calls are coming in -- it's almost like a Jerry Lewis telethon down here," Anderson said. "We're getting a lot of phone calls about moving horses and llamas and pigs and chickens. We're trying to marry that information with people offering to help. I think actually we're up over 120 people who've volunteered to take in people and animals."
Gary Brummett, owner of the Deer Creek Ranch, said one of the animals evacuated Tuesday was Tye, a 40-year-old horse ridden by Johnmap and it was done on the 30th of July.
Looks like the ONRC Eco Fascists with their no logging, no roads and no brush removal agendas have resulted in the burning of a large part of the Kalmiopsis wilderness. May God and the Good people of Oregon dam them for this crime!
Why wasn't this fire named the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Fire instead of the miss leading Florence Fire. It has nothing to do with Florence, Oregon (at least at this time).
The pink panty wearing and ONRC card carrying Florist Workers in the Forestry Service probably didn't want the word out that the Kalmiopsis Wilderness was burning up.
As of Tuesday, July 30, Agness residents were on 30 minute standby for evacuation. There should be another update coming from the Sheriff,
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County. The Sour Biscuit fire had burned from the Major Moores area to within 4.5 miles of Gasquet on Tuesday, and progress toward containment of the fire was not known.
"If it weren't for the smoke, we could see it," said Judson Brohmer, owner of the Gasquet Market on U.S. Highway 199, which has been shut down by another smaller fire -- the Shelly Creek Fire -- only a few miles to the northwest.
The lightning-started fire burning in the Smith River National Recreation Area is part of a larger complex that totals 25,200 acres in California and Oregon and could join the 71,000-acre Florence Fire that has kept the entire Illinois Valley in southwestern Oregon on evacuation alert. That fire was sparked by lightning two weeks ago.
Rumors abound, asthe fire initially handled by the U.S. Forest Service's Region 6 in Oregon was split into two fires with different authorities. The flow of information was such that news articles from various sources in the past two days didn't include information about the fire on the California side of the border, despite the acreage burned. The Forest Service's Region 5 is now handling the California portion of the blaze.
Jim Dodge, whose home is on the south side of the Smith River and is not immediately in danger, said that until Tuesday it was difficult to get reliable information. He also said that residents in the area have been calm and helpful.
"That's one of the great joys of living in a rural community to me," Dodge said.
The California Department
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of Forestry, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Simpson Timber Co. are assisting the Forest Service and local fire crews on the fire.
Contrary to the rumors, Pacific Power and Light said that power outages are not imminent, but if firefighters requested the lines be shut down, they would be. The blaze threatens the lines on the Oregon side of the border, where the two lines are split. Only one is in danger so far, and power could be rerouted through the other line if the first is shut down.
The 200-acre Shelly Creek Fire, which started on Sunday, is only 3 miles from the Sour Biscuit Fire. The Shelly Creek Fire burned over Highway 199 Monday. It alsoforced the evacuation of Patrick Creek Lodge, Patrick Creek Campground, several residences and the Bar-O Boys Ranch for troubled youth.
The fire is only 30 percent contained, but the Forest Service hopes to have that fire contained by Saturday.
"That's just a hope as much as it is a prediction," said Matt Stephens, working in the fire information office in Gasquet, on Tuesday. Investigators have not determined how that fire was started.
Stephens said that local fire companies are working on protecting structures in the area while Forest Service firefighters are working in the backcountry fighting the blaze.
Del Norte County Supervisor Chuck Blackburn was disturbed at what he said was poor communication on the part of the Forest Service. Blackburn said he believes the fire was neglected when it crossed into
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California this weekend.
"I'm not a happy camper, and neither are the rest of us, with the lack of communication," Blackburn said. "We've had zilch up until a day ago."
Even the name of the Sour Biscuit Fire has proven slippery. It has been the Bisquit Fire, the Sourdough Fire and the Sourdough Biscuit Fire, even among official sources.
Shifting winds and difficult terrain have kept firefighters guessing, but winds are expected to die down some throughout the week. Ridge-top winds of 10 to 20 mph should die to 5 to 10 mph today. But nothing is certain.
"Even the direction of the wind is a little bit up in the air right now," said National Weather Service meteorologist Sten Tjaden.
There is a possibility that thunderstorms could move to the north thisweekend, raising the possibility of lightning strikes in the area, which could spark fresh fires.
The Sour Biscuit Fire has burned much of the 28,000-acre North Fork Smith River Botanical Area, a place prized for its unique vegetation. Forest Service botanist Lisa Hoover said most of the rare plants in the area are associated with rocky soils or wetlands, and may not have been severely affected by the fire.
"I think the jury's still out," Hoover said.
Survey crews have not been able to get into the area to assess the potential damage, or benefit, of the fire. But Hoover suspects it probably burned in a mosaic.
Del Norte County Supervisor Chuck Blackburn was disturbed at what he said was poor communication on the part of the Forest Service. Blackburn said he
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believes the fire was neglected when it crossed into California this weekend.
"I'm not a happy camper, and neither are the rest of us, with the lack of communication," Blackburn said. "We've had zilch up until a day ago."
Again I raise the legitimate question of, "Were the Enviral contaminated Pink Panty Wearing Floristry Service maggots of the Forest Service was playing the enviral game of let it burn and not saying anything."
They did this in the fire that was a result of their agenda in 1999 about 100 miles south of this area. The result was a fire that burnt out of control from August 1999 until the fall rains put it out.
It appears that the Enviral contaminated Pink Panty Wearing Floristry Service maggots of the Forest Service putfor this organized event. The tour hits Portland July 15 and Ashland July 17.
The mission of Stop Eco-Violence runs exactly contrary to the stated aims of the individuals and groups who will be meeting in Portland and Ashland as part of the Green Anarchy Tour. The tour runs through July and August in many western cities from Seattle to Houston. Hang on to your hats Portlanders. Here's a look at what to expect straight from the Tour's website:
"The Green Anarchy Tour is an attempt to bridge the gap between the punk movement, the revolutionary anarchist movement, the ecological movement, and the prisoners of war that have been incarcerated for their involvement in the struggles listed above.
"The majority of the content encompassed (sic) on this tour is from Eugene,
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an outpost of civilization in one of the most wild bioregions in "north america." Eugene experienced the spirit of wild chaos during a couple years of insurrection. In the aftermath, several comrades were imprisoned, several collectives endured, and what remains today is one of the most sophisticated propaganda mills in history.
"The tragedy of this historic propaganda mill is the geographic limit of it's (sic) reach. While many attempts have been made to present the critique and analysis developed in Eugene, they have not peaked outside of this locale. The Green Anarchy Tour will be an attempt to take the tools we have refined, the tools of resistance, to a new scale.
"Through the media of slides, videos, spoken word, and music, we will share our perspective to comrades acrosspotential damage, the Green Mushheads would out number those against the Green Agendas.
However, being the guy who never gives up the battle with these eco terrorist thugs, here is that link again: (Stop Eco Violence)
There was pepper spray and two arrests yesterday but a Stayton logging company was the apparent high bidder for the rights to log about 160 acres on the Mount Hood National Forest.
Pro-forest activists told the Thomas Creek Lumber and Log Company they will fight any attempt to log the Solo timber sale.
The Cascadia Forest Alliance says it has already put anti-logging activists in a tree-sit platform in a 400-year-old Douglas fir in the Solo site.
Yesterday's protest began when activists gathered in Sandy where the auction was held.
When Thomas Creek President Brent Walker went to
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FILE - In this May 14, 2012 file photo, Prince Mohammed bin Salman waits for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession. In a series of royal decrees issued Wednesday, June 21, 2017 and carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was first in line to the throne, from his title as crown prince and from his post as the country's powerful interior minister overseeing security. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) FILE - In this May 14, 2012 file photo, PrinceMohammed bin Salman waits for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession. In a series of royal decrees issued Wednesday, June 21, 2017 and carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency, the monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was first in line to the throne, from his title as crown prince and from his post as the country's powerful interior minister overseeing security. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince on Wednesday,
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understanding of this by playing the game below, which is one of the many no download casino games featured throughout our website. To begin the game, all of the players must place a bet. Each player, including the dealer, is dealt two cards that are either facing up or down. The dealer normally continues to draw more cards until he reaches a hard 16 hand. The Natural or Blackjack hand is where the game gets its name. These hands occur when the first two cards a player is dealt or dealer are Ace and a face card, which equals On average, this lucky hand will occur around every 20 hands.
Getting this hand guarantees that the player will win the hand in addition to a 3: In the first0 of 32
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College football is loaded with outstanding defenders for the 2018 season. In fact, 11 of Bleacher Report's top 15 players operate on the point-stopping side of the ball, and seven are linemen.
One major challenge when deciding the top 100 is determining where to rank inexperienced players. Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins, Georgia's D'Andre Swift and Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa are primed for substantial role increases, but they weren't starters in 2017. Clemson's Trevor Lawrence has immense ability and hype—but zero career snaps.
As a result, while previous production is a significant factor, individual skill and 2018 expectations also affected the order. Although that introduces a subjective element, basic statistics are imperfect in measuring the "best" players, too.
Disagreements will be had. That's the nature of rankings. But if
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Kingdom within their own local gay and lesbian communities that have never happened previously. For instance, we can even look at the church that I attend. We’re located in a predominately lesbian neighborhood in Chicago.
I had another church in San Diego recently and they were looking for a new building. And they said the Lord just kept impressing on them that they needed to reach their large gay community here in San Diego so they moved their church right into the middle of the gay community in San Diego and they have started involving a team of people who now – each one has a different gay organization that they go to on a regular basis and they go and they go back and they go back, andResearch on the LGBT Community and Religion, will release November 2015. Since 2010 Andrew has been asked by the United Nations to advise their various agencies on issues of bridging opposing worldviews, civic engagement, and theological aspects of reconciliation. He is currently based St. Andrews, Scotland where he is researching and teaching at the University of St. Andrews, earning his PhD in Constructive Theology and Ethics. His research focuses on the theology and praxis of social reconciliation between victims and their perpetrators. Andrew is married to Brenda, and you can find him elsewhere on Twitter (@Andrew_Marin), Facebook (AndrewMarin01), and Instagram (@andrewmarin1).
http://theformers.wordpress.com Debbie Thurman
Do you think, Andrew, that one of the obstacles to more churches welcoming a visiting gay family is wondering if they are sincerely seeking Christ or
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Smith, the defendant's level of impairment was "very obvious, very extreme," and there was no doubt in Smith's mind that the defendant was intoxicated. Smith stated that defendant later refused a breath test.
Deputy Sheriff Tim Pylant testified that he was the operator of the Intoxilizer test for the Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office in November 1997, when defendant was arrested for DWI. Pylant stated that the defendant's arrest led to his conviction for DWI in the Fifth Judicial District Court. Pylant's testimony was used to introduce into evidence the bill of information and minutes of court relating to the defendant's 1998 DWI conviction. Pylant identified the defendant in court as the person who had been previously arrested.
Donnie Johnson, a Franklin Parish Sheriff's Deputy who worked at the detention center,evidence presented in this case, when viewed under the Jackson standard, was sufficient for the jury to rationally conclude that all of the elements of the crime were proved beyond a reasonable doubt. The testimony of the arresting officer was unequivocal that the defendant was intoxicated and severely impaired. In addition to being unsteady on his feet, the defendant's speech was slurred, there was a strong smell of alcohol on his breath and he failed a field sobriety test. The record supports the jury's finding that defendant was driving while intoxicated.
The defendant contends the state failed to offer adequate proof of his three prior DWI convictions. He argues that the testimony of the officers was insufficient to prove that he was the person previously convicted, since there was
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the identity of the defendant as the person previously convicted. The officers involved with defendant's prior arrests testified that they were familiar with the proceedings that resulted from the DWI arrests and identified defendant as the individual who was previously arrested. The officers all testified that the arrests with which they were involved resulted in the DWI convictions reflected in the documentary evidence. In addition, the bills of information for the July 2000 and February 2002 DWI convictions show the same birth date for defendant as the bench warrant in the present case.
Based upon this record, the state produced sufficient evidence to support the defendant's conviction of driving while intoxicated, fourth offense. The assignment of error lacks merit.
Sentencing
The defendant contends the trial court erred in imposing an excessiveof parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
Prior to imposing sentence, the trial court reviewed a presentence investigation report. The court noted that the defendant was a first felony offender and that in addition to the prior DWI convictions in 1998, 2000, and 2002, the defendant had previously pled guilty to DWI in June 1979 and possession of marijuana in January 1975.
The court considered the defendant's social background, noting that the defendant was the ninth of thirteen children, had attended school through the 10th grade, had obtained his GED, and had trained as a welder and fitter in the Job Corps. The court was also aware of defendant's work history and that he was divorced with three children, one of whom had died. The court stated that its experience
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Ocean Liner
MOSCOW -- Officials in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol decided to allow the asbestos-laden SS United States into port yesterday.The navy yard there will refurbish the sleek but decrepit ship in a job that will bring millions of badly needed dollars into the economy but that has sparked protests over its environmental hazards.The 41-year-old ocean liner, once the flagship of the U.S. trans-Atlantic fleet, had been kept out of port for several days while officials debated what to do.Owned now by Turkish and U.S. interests, the United States had been at a mooring in Turkey for more than a year, but no yard there would take on the work.
With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, there should be a renewed interest in "A Night to Remember," BaltimoreanWalter Lord's recreation of the ship's sinking. It is a classic in the dramatiuc retelling of an historical event, and you could draw a straight line to more recent books such as Sebastian Junger's "A Perfect Storm" or Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air. " From the first pages, Lord evokes the gentility of the steamship era, and pulls readers into the unfolding disaster.
Another popular D.C. eatery has come to Baltimore. The Oceanaire Seafood Room opened just last weekend in the new Spinnaker Bay Building in Fells Point East (or is it Inner Harbor East? At any rate, it's in the area at the foot of President Street, where all that new construction has been going on). This is No. 8 in the upscale restaurant group, with other locations
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in Minneapolis, Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, San Diego, Atlanta and the aforementioned D.C. The Web site describes Oceanaire as feeling like a 1930s ocean liner.
T hey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. - Psalm 107:23-30 The last time I spoke to Capt. Allen Baker, who lives in Roland Park, was to hear of his harrowing experiences riding out Hurricane Katrina aboard the tug Joan Moran, which was moored near the Industrial Canal in New Orleans. After my column appeared last Sunday on preservation battles swirling around the cruiser Olympia, Adm. George E. Dewey's flagship that triumphed over the Spanish naval squadron at Manila Bay in 1898, and theUnited States, the fabled trans-Atlantic liner, whose 1952 speed record for an ocean crossing remains unbroken, my phone began ringing and my e-mail basket went into meltdown with messages from ship buffs, maritime historians, preservationists and those who simply had memories they wanted to share.
NEW YORK - The Queen Mary 2 arrived yesterday, and New York was barely big enough to hold it. Billed as the world's biggest ocean liner, the 1,132-foot QM2 emerged from the fog, squeezed under the Verrazano Bridge and came into New York harbor yesterday morning. It was greeted by fireboats that saluted with water sprays, an escort of police boats, helicopters buzzing overhead and tugboats on standby, if needed. They weren't. The old expression, it's like trying to turn around the Queen Mary,
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100th anniversary of the Titanic, there should be a renewed interest in "A Night to Remember," Baltimorean Walter Lord's recreation of the ship's sinking. It is a classic in the dramatiuc retelling of an historical event, and you could draw a straight line to more recent books such as Sebastian Junger's "A Perfect Storm" or Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air. " From the first pages, Lord evokes the gentility of the steamship era, and pulls readers into the unfolding disaster.
By MICHELLE DEAL-ZIMMERMAN and MICHELLE DEAL-ZIMMERMAN,michelle.deal@baltsun.com | November 15, 2009
A look at recent travel news, deals and tips. Rehearsal rate The Sanctuary Hotel in New York has a "Dress Rehearsal" rate that's perfect for Thanksgiving. The hotel, which undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade, is offering nine of its newly renovatedweeks of Robert Muller's journey aboard the world's most famous ocean liner he was dead. Which is just the way he wanted it. And that is just the way his widow, Beatrice Muller, hopes to go, too. Her husband died at age 85 aboard the QE2, as it is known, as it sailed off Bermuda in 1999, then was transported in the ship's mortuary to Southampton, England, where he was cremated and, eventually, buried at sea....
By Elizabeth Large and Elizabeth Large,Sun Restaurant Critic | May 7, 2000
Captain James Landing is a restaurant that tries to be all things to all people, and especially to those who want to eat in a restaurant that looks like an ocean liner. You've seen it a thousand times on your way to
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14, 1912. How another ship had warned the crew about icy water ahead. How Capt. Edward Smith was so unconcerned that he went to bed. How the North Atlantic was as smooth as glass and the sky was moonless -- terrible conditions for the ship's lookout, Frederick Fleet, to spot icebergs or hear waves splashing against them.I studied a beacon lamp and telegraph instruments recovered from the Titanic's bridge, and my palms turned sweaty, awaiting the inevitable: "Ice right ahead, sir!"A team pushes their car across the ice in a Russian city in an automobile curling exhibition match. Screenshot: TASS/YouTube
March 20 (UPI) -- Russian curling enthusiasts kicked the sport up a notch with an exhibition tournament that slid cars across the ice instead of stones.
The tournament, sponsored by a local auto insurance company and held in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg, featured four teams of 10 people pushing compact Oka cars across the ice toward the curling markings.
The cars were stripped of their window glass for safety and their engines to make them more lightweight.
The players had drivers inside the vehicles to steer -- a replacement for the use of brooms that usually steers a stone in a game of curling.
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, c.63 B.C.-12 B.C., Roman general. A close friend of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), he won a name in the wars in Gaul before becoming consul in 37 B.C. He organized Octavian's fleet and is generally given much credit for the defeat (36 B.C.) of Sextus Pompeius in the naval battles at Mylae and Naulochus (N Sicily). Agrippa took part in the war against Antony, and his naval operations were the basis of Octavian's decisive victory at Actium in 31 B.C. He was perhaps the most trusted of all Augustus' lieutenants and rendered many services, notably in putting down disorders in both the East and West. His third wife was Augustus' daughter Julia.
(born 63 BC?—died March, 12 BC, Campania) Powerful deputy ofAugustus. He helped Octavian (later Augustus) take power after Julius Caesar's murder (44 BC), defeating Sextus Pompeius in 36 and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31. He went on to quell rebellions, found colonies, administer parts of the empire, and give to Rome funds for public works and buildings. In 23 Augustus seemed to make him heir, and Agrippa married Augustus's daughter, Julia. His administrative and military skills were particularly directed to the eastern empire, where in 15 he met with and made an ally of Herod of Judaea. Agrippa's writings (now lost) influenced Strabo and Pliny the Elder. His daughter Agrippina the Elder (14? BC–AD 33) was the wife of Germanicus Caesar, mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger, and grandmother of Nero.
Marcus Vipsanius
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Agrippa (c. 63 BC–12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. He was responsible for most of Octavian’s military triumphs, most notably winning the naval Battle of Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
Early life
Agrippa was born in 64–62 BC in an uncertain location. His father was Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa. He had an elder brother whose name was also Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, and a sister named Vipsania Polla. The family had not been prominent in Roman public life. However, Agrippa was about the same age as Octavius (the future emperor Augustus), and the two were educated together and became close friends. Despite Agrippa's association with the familyof Julius Caesar, his elder brother chose another side in the civil wars of the 40s BC, fighting under Cato against Caesar in Africa. When Cato's forces were defeated, Agrippa's brother was taken prisoner but freed after Octavius interceded on his behalf.
It is not known whether Agrippa fought against his brother in Africa, but he probably served in Caesar's campaign of 46–45 BC against Gnaeus Pompeius, which culminated in the Battle of Munda. At any rate, Caesar regarded him highly enough to send him with Octavius in 45 BC to study in Apollonia with the Macedonianlegions, while Caesar consolidated his power in Rome. It was in the fourth month of their stay in Apollonia that the news of Julius Caesar's assassination in March 44 BC reached them. Despite
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the advice of Agrippa and another friend, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus, that he march on Rome with the troops from Macedonia, Octavius decided to sail to Italy with a small retinue. After his arrival, he learnt that Caesar had adopted him as his legal heir. (Octavius now took over Caesar's name, but is referred to by modern historians as "Octavian" during this period.)
Rise in power
After Octavian's return to Rome, he and his supporters realized they needed the support of legions. Agrippa helped Octavian to levy troops in Campania. Once Octavian had his legions, he made a pact with Mark Antony and Lepidus, legally established in 43 BC as the Second Triumvirate. Octavian and his consular colleague Quintus Pedius arranged for Caesar's assassins to be prosecuted in their absence, andAgrippa was entrusted with the case against Gaius Cassius Longinus. It may have been in the same year that Agrippa began his political career, holding the position of Tribune of the Plebs, which granted him entry to the Senate.
In 42 BC, Agrippa probably fought alongside Octavian and Antony in the Battle of Philippi. After their return to Rome, he played a major role in Octavian's war against Lucius Antonius and Fulvia Antonia, respectively the brother and wife of Mark Antony, which began in 41 BC and ended in the capture of Perusia in 40 BC. However, Salvidienus remained Octavian's main general at this time. After the Perusine war, Octavian departed for Gaul, leaving Agrippa as urban praetor in Rome with instructions to defend Italy against Sextus Pompeius, an
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opponent of the Triumvirate who was now occupying Sicily. In July 40, while Agrippa was occupied with the Ludi Apollinares that were the praetor's responsibility, Sextus began a raid in southern Italy. Agrippa advanced on him, forcing him to withdraw. However, the Triumvirate proved unstable, and in August 40 Antony sided with Sextus in a joint invasion of Italy. Agrippa's success in retaking Sipontum from Antony helped bring an end to the conflict. Agrippa was among the intermediaries through whom Antony and Octavian agreed once more upon peace. During the discussions Octavian learned that Salvidienus had offered to betray him to Antony, with the result that Salvidienus was executed or committed suicide. Agrippa was now Octavian's leading general.
In 39 or 38 BC, Octavian appointed Agrippa governor of TransalpineGaul, where in 38 he put down a rising of the Aquitanians. He also fought the Germanic tribes, becoming the first Roman general to cross the Rhine after Julius Caesar. He was summoned back to Rome by Octavian to assume the consulship for 37 BC. He was well below the usual minimum age of 43, but Octavian had suffered a humiliating naval defeat against Sextus Pompey and needed his friend to oversee the preparations for further warfare. Agrippa refused the offer of a triumph for his exploits in Gaul – on the grounds, says Dio, that he thought it improper to celebrate during a time of trouble for Octavian. Since Sextus Pompeius had command of the sea on the coasts of Italy, Agrippa's first care was to provide
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125, preserves the text of the inscription from Agrippa's building during his third consulship. The years following his third consulship, Agrippa spent in Gaul, reforming the provincial administration and taxation system, along with building an effective road system and aqueducts.
Late life
His friendship with Augustus seems to have been clouded by the jealousy of his brother-in-law Marcus Claudius Marcellus, which was probably fomented by the intrigues of Livia, the third wife of Augustus, who feared his influence over her husband. Traditionally it is said the result of such jealousy was that Agrippa left Rome, ostensibly to take over the governorship of eastern provinces - a sort of honorable exile, but, he only sent his legate to Syria, while he himself remained at Lesbos and governed by proxy, though hemay have been on a secret mission to negotiate with the Parthians about the return of the Roman legions standards which they held. On the death of Marcellus, which took place within a year of his exile, he was recalled to Rome by Augustus, who found he could not dispense with his services. However, if one places the events in the context of the crisis in 23 BC it seems unlikely that, when facing significant opposition and about to make a major political climb down, the emperor Augustus would place a man in exile in charge of the largest body of Roman troops. What is far more likely is that Agrippa's 'exile' was actually the careful political positioning of a loyal lieutenant in command of a significant army
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as a back up plan in case the settlement plans of 23 BC failed and Augustus needed military support.
It is said that Maecenas advised Augustus to attach Agrippa still more closely to him by making him his son-in-law. He accordingly induced him to divorce Marcella and marry his daughter Julia the Elder by 21 BC, the widow of the late Marcellus, equally celebrated for her beauty, abilities, and her shameless profligacy. In 19 BC, Agrippa was employed in putting down a rising of the Cantabrians in Hispania (Cantabrian Wars). He was appointed governor of the eastern provinces a second time in 17 BC, where his just and prudent administration won him the respect and good-will of the provincials, especially from the Jewish population. Agrippa also restored effective Romancontrol over the Cimmerian Chersonnese (modern-day Crimea) during his governorship.
Agrippa’s last public service was his beginning of the conquest of the upper Danube River region, which would become the Roman province of Pannonia in 13 BC. He died at Campania in March of 12 BC at the age of 51. His posthumous son, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus, was named in his honor. Augustus honored his memory by a magnificent funeral and spent over a month in mourning. Augustus personally oversaw all of Agrippa's children’s educations.
Legacy
Agrippa was also known as a writer, especially on the subject of geography. Under his supervision, Julius Caesar's dream of having a complete survey of the empire made was carried out. He constructed a circular chart, which was later engraved on marble by Augustus,
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and afterwards placed in the colonnade built by his sister Polla. Amongst his writings, an autobiography, now lost, is referred to.
Agrippa in popular culture
Drama
Marcus Agrippa, a highly fictionalised character based on Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa's early life, is part of the BBC-HBO-RAI television series Rome. He is played by Allen Leech. The series creates a romantic relationship between Agrippa and Octavian's sister Octavia Minor, for which there is no historical evidence.
A fictionalised version of Agrippa in his later life played a prominent role in the celebrated 1976 BBC Television series I, Claudius. Agrippa was portrayed as a much older man, though he would have only been 39 years old at the time of the first episode (24/23 BC). He was played by John Paul. Agrippa is also one ofthe principal characters in the British/Italian joint project Imperium: Augustus featuring flashbacks between Augustus and Julia about Agrippa, which shows him in his youth on serving in Caesar's army up until his victory at Actium and the defeat of Cleopatra. He is portrayed by Ken Duken.
Video Games
Agrippa is also a character in the video game Shadow of Rome, which has Agrippa as one of Octavian's friends and supporters. Although the game is highly inaccurate in its history, Agrippa does face Mark Antony in the final battle on a ship alongside Octavian.
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Most offenses covered in the two Acts are non-bailable.
Three days later, the girl was recovered and was brought to the police station.
The police's further course of action in the case is detailed in a letter by the Mumbai police commissioner to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes dated 16 April.
NCSC had intervened in the matter a day on 15 April. Swarajya has a copy of the NCSC letter and the Mumbai commissioner’s response.
The action raises several questions on the police's conduct.
The letter says that on 18 March, the victim deposed that she had gone along with her friend Akhtar to Chansoly dargah in Mumbai's Powai area. The next day, the victim was brought before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and her medical examination was carried out on 1April at Rajawadi hospital. The report confirmed sexual assault.
Here's how making the case weak during the early steps went in favour of the accused: Sheikh was arrested on 28 March on the charges of kidnapping. With no POCSO and ST/ST Acts applied, and no timely medical examination done on the victim, Sheikh got bail from the court the very next day.
Moreover, even after the girl admitted after her recovery that it was Akhtar who had kidnapped her, the police still did not add the accused's name in the FIR.
"When we went to the police station again after her recovery, asking for further action to be taken in the matter, Sheetal accused us of making it a Hindu-Muslim issue. She refused to add his name again," the mother told
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Theodis R. Leonard, 78, retired principal, activist dies
Theodis R. Leonard, Sr., a retired principal of Paderewski School and community activist, died of natural causes Easter Sunday, April 8, at sunrise. He was 78.
Mr. Leonard was born Feb. 3, 1934, in Slater, Miss., to loving parents, Joseph Richard and Lelia Leonard, who preceded him in death. He was the fifth of the couple’s six surviving children.
Mr. Leonard graduated from Mileston High School in Tchula, Miss., in 1953 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he served four years. He obtained the rank of staff sergeant and received a special commendation for inventing a hand tool to service airplanes. He was honorably discharged in 1957.
Shortly thereafter, he married his high school sweetheart, Essie Tate, and moved to Chicago’s NorthLawndale community.
Mr. Leonard and his wife expressed their love to each other for 54 years, 3 months and 12 days. The couple have four adult children. The Leonard family were among the first African-Americans to purchase homes in North Lawndale’s Historic K-Town.
A persistent hunger for education led Mr. Leonard to enroll at Crane Junior College, where he received his AB degree in education. He later received his master’s in guidance and counseling from Chicago’s Teachers College (now Chicago State University). He completed additional coursework to obtain his Type 75 certification (to qualify for school principal) at Governor’s State University.
Mr. Leonard began teaching at Gregory School in 1965 and was promoted to guidance teacher, and later to assistant principal. Early on in his career, he served as a program
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director for a summer youth outreach program based in the Urban Progress Center.
Mr. Leonard was a mentor to younger teachers and was instrumental in bringing programs such as Project CANAL and Adopt A School to help teachers develop professionally and to supplement the school’s public resources. He encouraged several parents to get involved with the PTA and Local School Council, and to go back to school to become teachers.
A number of his former students refer to him as a “father to the fatherless” and credit him for their becoming educators. Mr. Leonard also served as a representative to the Chicago Teachers Union under the leadership of the late Robert Healey and the late Jackie Vaughn.
Mr. Leonard was also instrumental in getting a representative from the West Side appointedto the Chicago Board of Education (the late Michael Scott, during former Mayor Jane Byrne’s administration) and helped organize students, parents and faculty to keep Gregory School from closing in the late 1980s.
He networked with a broad cross section of community based organizations, including the Midwest Community Council and Better Boys Foundation. Mr. Leonard was also an active member of the PTA for Daniel J. Corkery School, where his children were educated.
Mr. Leonard served as principal of Paderewski School until his retirement in 2001. He was a founding member of the North Lawndale Learning Community, a network of principals, educators and North Lawndale residents.
Mr. Leonard’s thirst for education didn’t prevent him from serving in the church. He was a member of the Carey Tercentenary AME Church for more
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than 50 years. He served in a number of capacities, including Sunday School superintendent, a member of the Usher Board, Class Leader, member of the Steward Board, and member of the Board of Trustees. He was the co-chairman of a scholarship drive in which the church sold subscriptions to Johnson Publishing Company magazines. Through his efforts, Carey
Tercentenary was Johnson Publishing Company’s top producing community partner, and several members of the church were able to get scholarships to offset college expenses.
Bishop McKinley Young, who once served as the church’s pastor, helped to organize the Laymen’s Organization and appointed Mr. Leonard president, a position to which he was elected and re-elected for more than 30 years. Under Mr. Leonard’s leadership, the organization organized a tutoring program to help students withtheir reading and math skills while enabling student teachers to get hands on experience.
The Carey Tercentenary Laymen’s organization was one of the first church auxiliaries in the City of Chicago to develop a computer training program, using TRS-80’s and the Commodore 64 computers in the 1980’s.
The Laymen’s Organization organized the Carey Cardinals baseball team, which was the West Side’s only official Little League affiliate at the time. The team expanded to a league sponsored by the West Side Recreation Association (WSRA). The Laymen’s organization also sponsored sewing classes where students learned to sew, and showed off their creations with an annual fashion show.
Mr. Leonard worked with his vice president, Cecil Morris, to develop a Black History Bowl in which youth and adults competed on teams to answer trivia
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questions concerning Black History. The game was eventually adopted by a number of schools in North Lawndale.
Mr. Leonard was active at the City, 4th District (regional), and Connectional (national and international) levels of the Laymen’s organization, focusing on educational issues and raising funds for scholarships to Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia and Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Leonard was very engaged in the civic affairs of North Lawndale. He served as an informal advisor to a number of elected officials, including Congressman Danny K. Davis, Former State Representative Arthur L. Turner and Cook County Commissioner Robert Steele.
He networked with other community activists from North Lawndale and the AME Church on voter education and registration drives, candidate forums and the election campaigns for the late Mayor Harold Washington.
Healso worked with the Carey Tercentenary AME Church Laymen’s organization to coordinate North Lawndale’s first political rally for State Senator Barack Obama in his quest for US Senate.
Above all of these accomplishments, Mr. Leonard was a family man who believed in attending church on Sundays, bringing his children to church and supporting all church auxiliaries with their fundraisers. He was a lifetime member of the NAACP, Retired Teachers Association and the Principals and Administrators Association.
Funeral services by Leak and Sons are scheduled for Saturday, April 14, at Carey Tercentenary AME Church, 1448 South Homan Ave. from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., following the wake from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, tax-exempt, restricted donations may be made to offset planning and construction costs for the Mary Butler
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support and certainly without government direction or regulation. This was a time of opportunity, of energy, of hope. And even though the West had long been settled by the time Wayne came along, his films with director John Ford kept the spirit of the West alive. Their films showed the sometimes harsh realities of human nature, but also served to reinforce the political principles of America’s founding as the best form of government.
“Out here a man settles his own problems,” said Wayne’s character in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), summing up the idea of personal responsibility. This so-called rugged individualism, unique to America, was not detrimental to community; indeed, it was the key to building strong communities. It was this attitude that settled new territory, builtwatched many of his movies and though not all are great, they do tell a consistent and proud story. He is the American persona writ large. We are poorer for his death.
Same for me-and I was a theatre major! Then I started to see the movies again and then his later work and realized he was truly a star. He commanded the screen and took the responsibility for his American portrayals to heart. BTW My personal favorite, despite the historical innacuracies, is "The Alamo".
He is what American men used to have in common within their own character. Principle, discipline, courage, masculinity, patience, logic etc… at least as a little girl with older brothers and a wonderful father, that's what I grew up to believe in men. Now seeing
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