follow him in raising open palms over their heads at a campaign rally. It is a gesture Calderon has repeated across Mexico, helping the presidential candidate with a lifetime of conservative politics in his blood to build a squeaky-clean image, free of smudges from the country's corruption. Yet suddenly, in the last weeks before the July 2 election to replace President Vicente Fox, voters are looking more closely at those hands.

During President Vicente Fox's visit to Chicago this week, he will be greeted by many immigrants who no longer see their relationship with Mexico as just sending money home each year with no voice in their native country's affairs. From Chicago and elsewhere in the United States, they expect to be voting for Fox's successor in 2006. Onthe eve of a three-day visit to the Midwest, Fox on Tuesday signed a long-demanded proposal to approve absentee voting for Mexicans abroad.

A deeply divided Mexico goes to the polls Sunday to decide whether to stick with the U.S.-friendly policies of President Vicente Fox or to clean house. At the end of the most competitive, negative campaign in Mexican history, the results of the two-man, left-vs.-right race could be even more important to the prosperity of the U.S.' southern neighbor than Fox's landmark victory six years ago. Perlita Hernandez Monteyo, 33, plans to vote for Fox ally Felipe Calderon. Why? As a result of the conservative Fox's "government of change," her family qualified for a housing credit that allowed them to own their first home and feel like


part of a small but growing middle class.

- Several articles about Mexican President Vicente Fox have reported that Fox has a Harvard University education or a degree from the university. He has neither. The Harvard Business School says Fox did participate in a six-week course sponsored by Coca-Cola in the late 1960s that was taught by Harvard faculty members using Harvard Business School materials. The Tribune regrets the errors.

Laurie Goering's article "Mexico's president visits Chicago" (Page 1, July 15) emphasizes that President Vicente Fox wants an open border but does not support amnesty for Mexicans here illegally. Mexico could sweeten the pot by dropping out of OPEC and selling oil to the U.S. at bargain prices. We could grant amnesty to Mexicans here illegally.

President Vicente Fox urged Mexicothe pic out in the Oscar race. On Saturday night the film played to a standing ovation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with the crowd promptly on their feet once Rami Malek came out onstage.

Again, 51% female to 49% male turned out for Bohemian Rhapsody with 78% over 25, 22% under, and the biggest turnout being the 18-34 demo at 43%. Canada played strong repping close to 9% of the business with the Malek-headlining movie over-indexing in the West, Rockies and Midwest. Top grossing theaters came from Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Toronto, Vancouver, Denver, Montreal, San Antonio and Boston.

Meanwhile, industry estimates show Disney’s expensive The Nutcracker and the Four Realms with an estimated $5.8M Sunday, down 33% for a


Italian archaeologists have discovered 38 graves, with skeletal remains intact, from the cemetery used by Rome’s Jewish community from medieval times to the 17th century.

The discovery of the so-called Campus Iudeorum was announced during a news conference held in Rome on March 20 at the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian. The location of the cemetery had long been known from old maps and archival sources, but the physical site had disappeared under centuries of urban construction.

Archaeologist Marzia Di Mento was quoted in the Rome daily Il Messaggero as saying that in addition to the 38 graves, a stone with a partial Hebrew inscription had also been found. Archaeologists said most of the skeletal remains recovered were of men, with one man buried along with aset of iron scales, possibly related to his profession. The remains of two women, they said, were found wearing golden rings.

Archaeologist Daniela Rossi told JHE that the archeologists were in contact with rabbinical authorities, including Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, about the skeletal remains.

Pictures published by Il Messaggero showed trough-like graves arranged in rows. Di Mento said that recovered nails and wood fragments indicated that the bodies had been buried in wooden coffins.

The site was revealed during four years of excavations that were carried out during work to restructure a building, the Palazzo Leonori in Rome’s Trastevere district, to become the new headquarters of the Assicurazioni di Roma insurance company — the company moved into the building at the end of February. The excavations also uncovered remains


of an ancient Roman tannery.

According to the reports, parts of the discoveries have been preserved to form a small museum that interested people can visit on appointment.

The International Catacomb Society writes that

An extensive restoration of the structure provided the opportunity to dig deeper not only into the building’s history, but also into that of the surrounding area close to the Tiber docks in Trastevere, today outside the walls, but once a threshold to Rome from the ancient Porta Portuensis, the fifth-century CE city gate demolished and rebuilt in its present location as Porta Portese by 1644.

The Campus Iudeorum operated from at least as early as the 13th or 14th century, when the Trastevere district was Rome’s main Jewish quarter. About three centuries later it was taken over byRome’s Papal rulers and dismantled.

In an article, the International Catacomb Society provides its history:

Before and after the rebuilding of the Trastevere defences, a plot of land on the right side of the street, behind S. Francesco a Ripa and San Biagio, was known as the “Campus Judaeorum” (or Campo/Orto dei Giudei, etc.). This “Field of the Jews” on the city’s extremity was a Jewish cemetery, in use by the thirteenth century, and expropriated three centuries later in 1587 by Pope Urban VIII, not long after the institution of the Roman ghetto on the Tiber’s left bank. Remaining graves and other artifacts were uprooted during the completion of a new wall circuit in 1644, during the pontificate of Innocent X, which seem to have used commemorative stones from the


graveyard in their construction, while collectors pocketed the smaller goods […] the uprooting of the Jewish cemetery itself might not have been all that systematic, as pieces of epitaphs in Hebrew (or reused grave markers in Greek and Latin, for Jewish burials during the Late Antique and Medieval periods) continued to turn up in subsequent building activity well into the 19th and early 20th centuries, though most of these inscribed rock tablets no longer seemed to be in situ to mark a grave.

After this cemetery was razed, Rome’s Jews were obliged to move their cemetery to a site on the Aventine Hill, next to the Circus Maximus. This in turn was destroyed in 1934 by the Fascist regime, and burials were moved to the current Jewish section ofthe sprawling Verano cemetery.

JTA published an article about this on August 20, 1934:

On the 28th of October of this year, the thirteenth after the Fascist revolution and Mussolini’s march on Rome, a beautiful promenade stretching along the historic Aventine Hill and the neighborhood of the famous Circus Maximus, where in the ancient Roman imperial days the gruesome gladiatorial games were held, will be formally opened. In order to carry out the project, which is part of Mussolini’s plan to beautify the city of the Caesars and to show the world the colossal monuments of ancient Rome in all their glory, the ancient Jewish cemetery of this archeological area is being destroyed. […] the work of excavation is in full swing, and goes along at a truly “Fascist” tempo.


Several hundred workers are engaged in excavating the graves, collecting the bones and moving them in locked chests to the Verona [Verano] cemetery. Despite the great heat of this summer, little groups of relatives of the dead stand about the open graves and with endless sorrow in their eyes gaze upon what is left of their dearest relatives, their mothers and their fathers, and feel the tragedy of their present wandering, after years of death, to find a new resting place.

The area on the Aventino overlooking the Circus Maximus today is the site of the city’s Rose Garden, with just a small memorial commemorating it as the former site of a Jewish cemetery.

Click to see slideshow in Il Messaggero

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the big bang says that all energy was brought together into the size of a small dot. the problem with that is something has to have caused the all the energy to come together into a tight space and then causing it to explode into a universe of today.

No. It doesn't say it was "brought together". It says that all matter and energy in the known universe was once in a very hot very dense state that was microscopically small. This is sometime called the "singularity". The Big Bang is the event where this singularity to began to rapidly expand. It has continued to expand to what it is today, the known universe.

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May 09, 2010|By Jamison Hensley | Tribune Newspapers

BALTIMORE — Jim Zorn has already made an indelible mark as the Ravens' new quarterbacks coach by bringing a kid-at-heart enthusiasm, a proven record for improving mechanics and a mean game of dodgeball.

Long before the Ravens begin their first official offseason minicamp Friday, Zorn lined up his quarterbacks and started hurling huge Pilates balls at them.

The quarterbacks got hit. And they got hit again. They soon realized they couldn't just duck or take one step to get out of the way. Just as if a 280-pound pass rusher were bearing down on them, the quarterbacks had to make a sudden shift to one side, reset their feet and deliver the throw.

Most quarterbacks coaches


don't tap into changing direction like that. But the Ravens' quarterbacks learned right away that Zorn isn't like most other coaches.

"I'm sure they had some conversations when they were walking in (for the dodgeball drill)," Zorn said. "The whole idea is to get the work out of them and not get boring."

Some might consider Zorn's ways as outside the box. But many supporters say Zorn's tactics are more in tune with quarterback play than any other coach's.

Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron called Zorn "the premier quarterback coach in the NFL for the last 15 years." Ravens Super Bowl-winning quarterback Trent Dilfer proclaimed him "the Butch Harmon of quarterbacks coaches," referring to the renowned golf instructor who served as Tiger Woods' longtime coach.

Still, the preseason media buzz will centeron how the lauded additions of Anquan Boldin, Donte Stallworth and two young tight ends will boost Joe Flacco. Many inside the Ravens' organization believe the best offseason move was bringing in Zorn, 56, the deposed Washington Redskins coach who is determined to make Flacco one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL.

"He coaches all of the things that translate to the game," Cameron said. "I think that's where some quarterback coaches miss. But Jim doesn't miss in that area."

What many outsiders miss is that there's a method to Zorn's drill madness.

At this year's training camp, many heads will turn when Zorn busts out the Slip 'N Slide. Zorn uses it to help the quarterbacks slide, which is a drill that he brought from Seattle and Washington.

"They may


of camps, he wants Flacco to improve his rhythm in dropping back and become more explosive in moving away from the center.

Perhaps the most important step for Zorn this offseason is earning the trust of Flacco, Troy Smith and John Beck.

"I'm not God's gift to coaching," Zorn said. "I have to earn the right to be heard. I have to say things that they'll believe."

Jim Zorn

Age: 56

Playing career: 11 years as an NFL quarterback, primarily with the Seattle Seahawks (1976-84)

Highlights: NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year (1976), All-Pro (1978) and member of the Seahawks' Ring of Honorsizes and shapes. Generally speaking, a sewing machine has a mechanically driven reciprocating needle used for sewing and stitching. The reciprocating needle is positioned over a surface where the work piece of the quilt material is located and reciprocates to drive a needle, carrying thread, up and down through the work piece to develop lines of sewing and stitches to hold the various layers together. Some sewing machines occupy large work areas over which the work piece, such as a quilt can be totally unrolled and laid open for processing. However, over the years, the portable sewing machine has become a favorite in many homes because of its compactness and the ease in which it can be folded (usually in its own carrying case) and carried to someone""s


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The vocabulary concerning the patient care dates back to the times of early Christianity and presents the Latin etymology. Though meager limited to a few words, the lexical range that with the course of historical development formed the terminology still provides a basic notional framework valid till the present day in many European languages. The author depicts the way the Polish onomatology developed since the early Middle Ages till 1838 (the year the term the nursing of patients was used for the first time). She searches for borrowings, relations, analogies present in other European languages, mainly in Romance, German and English. She uses in her research monastic sources (monastery rules), church materials, hospital post-visit files, hospital regulationsList of minor planets: 5001–6000

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| 5868 Ohtaand mitigating factors and circumstances, the trial court refused to accept the death penalty verdict and sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment without parole.
The victim was Miss Quenette Shehane of Clio, Alabama, who had just recently graduated from Birmingham Southern College, and was working at Parisian's Department Store located at Five Points West. She was last seen alive by her fiance, Ramsey Howard Lane, at the ATO Fraternity house on the campus of the Birmingham Southern College on December 20, 1976, at 6:20 p. m. Ramsey was cooking food on a gas grill at the back of the fraternity house while waiting for Miss Shehane to get off work. When she arrived at the fraternity house she decided to drive to a nearby grocery store for a bottle


of salad dressing for the salad they were to eat that night. She was driving a white four-door Mercury Marquis, and her car was packed with her possessions, including some wrapped presents, as she was going home for the Christmas holidays. Ramsey walked Miss Shehane to her car and watched her drive down 12th Street towards the entrance to Fraternity Road.
Ramsey further testified that on December 20, 1976, Miss Shehane owned a portable television set and he saw it packed in her car, the day before she disappeared, along with her other possessions which she had removed from her room. He stated that he was with her when she purchased the television in September, 1976, from Sears in the Century Plaza and that it was a birthday present.He had seen the television set almost daily since it was purchased. He identified State's Exhibit 12 as the television set belonging to the victim.
He testified that when he last saw her on December 20, 1976, "She wore a blue jean type skirt and a white turtleneck type blouse; she had on someI believe a white bracelet and some beaded wooden-type earrings and a rust colored car coat." Ramsey waited at the fraternity house for about forty-five minutes and when she did not return he became very apprehensive and started driving around in the neighborhood, thinking, perhaps, her car had broken down. He drove to the nearest convenience store located on Graymont Avenue, then to a store on College Hill and finally to Five Points West to a


larger grocery store. His search proved fruitless and he returned to the fraternity house and made inquiries of several people in his efforts to locate her but no one had seen her. He then called the emergency room of a local hospital but he was unable to determine her whereabouts.
During the trial Mr. Ramsey identified State's Exhibit 12 as the television set owned by the victim and which was packed in her car the day before she disappeared. He identified State's Exhibit 13 as the skirt she was wearing when she left the fraternity house to get a bottle of salad dressing, and State's Exhibit 14 as a coat belonging to the victim which was in her car at that time.
Mr. Curtis Eiland testified that he was ateacher at Clio High School and that Quenette Shehane was his niece. He last saw her alive during the Thanksgiving holidays of 1976 at the home of her grandparents in Clio. The next time he saw her was Tuesday, December 21, 1976, at the Cooper Green Hospital and she was dead.
Mr. Jack R. Parker, Deputy Coroner of Jefferson County since 1973, testified that he received a call on December 21, 1976, at 12:16 p. m. to go to the 3800 block of 4th Place West. He arrived at 12:38 p. m. and saw the nude body of a white female lying nine feet off the side of the road. She was dead at that time. The body was identified to him as that of Quenette Shehane. He stated


the body was in a wooded area and there were no houses in the immediate vicinity. The coroner said that he had considerable experience in investigating homicides and had an associate degree in Mortuary Science from Jefferson State College. He also had a certificate from Jacksonville State College in Death Investigation.
*1335 Mr. Parker examined the body at the scene and determined the cause of death was due to a bullet wound in the chest area. He observed other penetrating wounds on the body. He identified several photographs made at the scene where the body was found and of the body itself. The coroner ordered the body removed to Cooper Green Hospital for an autopsy and was present during the autopsy at which time he observed three penetrating wounds.Two such wounds were in the left buttocks and one to the right buttocks. The coroner identified photographs of all the wounds, injuries and abrasions noted during the autopsy, and these photographs were admitted into evidence over objections of the appellant.
Mr. Parker further testified that the autopsy was performed by Mr. Jay Glass, Pathologist Assistant with the Coroner's Office, and that he was present when Mr. Glass removed four bullets from the body. As each bullet was removed it was given to Mr. Parker who wrapped it with gauze and placed it in a separate amber plastic vial which he sealed with tape around the top and placed his initials on each vial. He stated that Dr. Henry Santina assisted Mr. Glass in performing the autopsy. Mr. Parker


kept possession of the bullets removed from the body of the deceased until he delivered them to Sergeant Dave Higgins, an evidence technician with the Birmingham Police Department. They were kept in Mr. Parker's locker to which he had the only key and he delivered the four vials to Sergeant Higgins at 5:37 p. m. on the day the autopsy was performed. He stated the time of death would have been between 6:00 p. m. and 3:00 a. m.
Mr. Jay M. Glass, an employee of the Office of the Coroner, testified as to his education and experience and his qualifications were not questioned by appellant. He stated that he performed an autopsy on the body of Quenette Shehane on the afternoon of December 21, 1976 and removed fourbullets from her body. Three bullets were removed from the pelvic area and one from the upper chest. Each bullet was turned over to Mr. Parker. Mr. Glass determined the cause of death to be shock and hemorrhage due to multiple gunshot wounds.
Following the death of Miss Shehane an intensive and thorough investigation was undertaken by the law enforcement agencies to ascertain the identity of her killer or killers. Several suspects were taken into custody, questioned and released. The investigation continued and finally led to the arrest of three black men who were all students at the Daniel Payne College in Birmingham at the time of the disappearance and death of Miss Shehane. These three men are appellant, Jerry Lee Jones and Wallace Norrell Thomas. They were indicted,


tried, convicted and each received the death penalty. Appellant was the last of the trio to be tried and convicted but his is the first appeal to be submitted to this Court.
John Andrew Mays testified that in December of 1976 he lived with Jerry Lee Jones at 933 8th Avenue West and that this address is directly across the street from the Birmingham Southern College. He came to know appellant and Wallace Norrell Thomas through Jerry Lee Jones. He identified appellant in court. He was unable to recall specifically the date of December 20, 1976, but he vividly recalled the occasion shortly before Christmas when appellant, Jones and Thomas came to the apartment where he was living. He distinctly recalled a conversation between this trio in which theywere talking about going to Birmingham Southern College and getting some ladies and taking them out. Jones asked him if he wanted to go with them and he said no, he was not interested in going. He stated that on that occasion Jones had a yellow Chevrolet automobile that was making a terrible sound and he asked Mays to drive it and see if he could determine what was making that noise. He drove the car and told Jones what he thought the trouble was that caused the motor to make such funny noises.
*1336 Mays further testified that the three men left the apartment together just as it was getting dark and that he left about thirty minutes later to go to his sister's house at 1st Center


Place, North, Apartment B. He was going to stay with his sister until two days before Christmas at which time they were going to their parents' home in Lowndes County, Alabama, for the holidays. He got as many of his personal things as he could carry and started walking down Graymont Avenue when he passed the U-Totem Store which he identified as the store shown in the photograph which was State's Exhibit 15. He stated that as he came out of the alley in the vicinity of the U-Totem Store he saw a young man pushing a young lady into a car and he heard her scream. He just glanced in that direction and kept walking. He said the car in which the young lady was pushed intoleft, going away from him and that this car was immediately followed by a yellow car which in his best judgment belonged to Jerry Lee Jones as this car was making the same peculiar noise. He further testified that around 10:00 o'clock the next morning he returned to the apartment at 933 8th Avenue, West, to get the rest of his belongings. He found a note from appellant advising him that he had taken Mays' tennis shoes and that Mays could have his boots. Mays picked up appellant's boots and noticed they were muddy and had some red spots around the side and across the toes. He washed the mud and red spots off the boots and carried them with him to his sister's apartment.
Edward Lynn, Jr., testified


that he knew appellant, Thomas and Jones. He said that on the night of the bowl game between U.C.L.A. and Alabama, either on December 20 or 21, 1976, he received a telephone call from Wallace Thomas. In response to this call he drove to a convenience store in Pratt City about 9:15 p. m. where he saw appellant, Thomas and Jones. They were standing in front of the convenience store located on Highway 78 and near Cherry Avenue. The three men got in Lynn's car and he observed their clothes were ruffled as though they had been in a fight. He saw blood on the clothes of appellant and Jones. He asked about the blood and Thomas said that appellant and Jones had had a fight at agirl's house and got blood on their clothes.
Police Officer Dennis Ray Whidbey testified he found Quenette Shehane's automobile near Cherry Avenue about 9:00 a. m. on December 21, 1976. He stated the car was a few hundred yards off Cherry Avenue. He identified State's Exhibits 18 and 19 as being photographs of Miss Shehane's car and these photographs were admitted into evidence without objection. Whidbey secured the automobile and remained at the scene until his supervisor and evidence technicians arrived.
Officer M. F. Striplin discovered the body of Miss Shehane around noon on December 21, 1976, near the 400 block of 30th Avenue West. He identified State's Exhibit 3 as being a photograph of the body. Upon discovery of the body he called the homicide unit and an evidence


technician. He secured the scene and did not let anyone come near the body until the proper authorities arrived. He noticed red spots on the pavement near the place where he found the body.
Evidence technician L. E. Stricklin processed the automobile for physical evidence. He found and collected several shell casings from the ground near the automobile and found a lead projectile in the near top seat of the car. Officer Stricklin found certain articles around the automobile including packages, Christmas wrappings, Christmas paper, and a coat near the door of the car. He put these articles in the car and had the car transported to the City Shop. He followed the towed car to the shop and never lost sight of it. At the City Shop helifted eleven latent fingerprints from this vehicle and turned them over to the Identification Bureau. He also made two lifts from the wrapping paper found around the victim's car. He further stated the automobile was found three-quarters of a mile north of *1337 Cherry Avenue and Highway 78 off Cherry Avenue. This location was approximately 200 yards from Daniel Payne College.
Officer Leonard M. Robbins, an Evidence Technician with the Birmingham Police Department, made photographs of the victim's automobile and then went to the 3800 block of 4th Place West where he observed Miss Shehane's body. At this location he collected six spent .22 caliber hulls and one live round. The following day he returned to the crime scene where he collected a brown paper bag containing two Coosa


Evidence Technician Collecting Unit. Bradley assigned case number C 14301 to his report. He identified State's Exhibit 28 as the same pistol he had given to Officer Rhodes. Bradley further testified he had seen between 150 and 200 RG pistols but this was the only one he had ever seen with a three-inch barrel. He said that a three-inch barrel on this type of weapon is very rare.
Evidence Officer Dave L. Higgins testified that he got to his office on the morning of January 29, 1977, and found a sealed evidence bag on his desk. The door to his office was locked and he had to unlock it to gain entrance. He stated that when he opened the bag he found the RG-14 .22 caliber pistol which heChannel 6. During his testimony he used the program log and verified the accuracy of the date and time of the game. He personally signed the log at the time of the occurrence. From his independent memory he testified that the two teams were U.C. L.A. and the University of Alabama.
Eugene Maddox, Jr., testified that he knew all three defendants in the case in which Quenette Shehane was the victim. He identified them as appellant Neal, Wallace Norrell Thomas and Jerry Lee Jones. He came to know them by his association with students at the Daniel Payne College in Birmingham. On December 21, 1976, Thomas came to his house and had several *1338 items with him, including a portable television set; that two weeks after Christmas Thomas moved


into the room with him and brought the same set with him. He stated that in his best judgment it was the same television set as State's Exhibit 12. He further testified that this same television set remained in their room until some time in January when Samuel Mulkey took possession of it.
Sammy Davis Mulkey testified that, in December of 1976, he was a student at Daniel Payne College and knew as fellow students Eddie Neal, Jerry Lee Jones, Wallace Norrell Thomas and Eugene Maddox. He said that some time after Christmas of that year he got a television set from Maddox and carried it to his home in Clayton, Alabama, and kept it a day or two. Mulkey identified State's Exhibit 12 as the same TV sethe had received from Maddox. He said Officer William Petty, Jr., of the Clayton Police Department, came to his house and removed the TV set.
Police Officer Petty testified that on February 9, 1977, he and Sergeant J. B. Barefield of the Birmingham Police Department went to the home of Samuel Mulkey and picked up a television set. The set was carried to the Clayton Police Department where it was sealed in a pasteboard box. Both of the officers and Samuel Mulkey signed their names on the sealed container containing the television set and placed it in the trunk of Officer Barefield's car. At appellant's trial Officer Petty identified State's Exhibit 12 as the television set which he had taken from the home of Samuel Mulkey.
Officer Barefield testified that


he retained custody of this TV set and during the time it was in his possession he kept it locked in a metal box in the trunk of his car. He had the only key to this locked metal box. Barefield further testified that he turned this television set over to Evidence Technician L. E. Stricklin on February 10, 1977, and that State's Exhibit 12 was the same TV set which had been seized from Samuel Mulkey and was in the same condition as it was at the time of the seizure.
Officer Stricklin stated that at 1:31 p. m. on February 10, 1977, he took possession of a box containing a portable, black and white, Sears 12 inch television set from Officer Barefield. Stricklin took the back offthe set and found the serial number to be 40204630. After dusting the set for latent prints he resealed the TV set in the metal container and deposited it in the property room of the Birmingham Police Department. Officer Stricklin stated that the set was in the same condition as it was when he turned it over to the property clerk. He identified State's Exhibit 12 as the TV set which he had received from Officer Barefield.
Mr. Frank Speigner testified that he was manager of the Home Entertainment Department of the Sears Store at Century Plaza and that he had been so employed at this store since it opened in 1974. He stated that he was the custodian of all records made daily in the regular course of


business and that every day the sales of television sets and stereos are recorded in a register book by him or by someone under his supervision and directions.
Mr. Speigner said that during the regular course of business a second daily record was made of the sale of each TV set as required by Federal law. He stated the original tag is sent to Chicago each day and the photocopy becomes the permanent record of the local store. State's Exhibits 34, a page from the daily record book of 1976, and 35, a photocopy of the registration of the television set, were introduced into evidence over appellant's objections. These records reflected that, on August 20, 1976, Quenette Shehane purchased a 12 inch black and white portable television set, serialnumber 40204630, from the Sears store at Century Plaza.
Ms. Sandra Triplett, Senior Fingerprint Technician for the City of Birmingham, whose qualifications were not questioned, identified one of the latent prints lifted from Miss Shehane's automobile as being one from a person who identified himself to her as Wallace Norrell Thomas, one of the three co-defendants.
*1339 Mr. Lowder Yates, Criminologist with the Department of Toxicology, whose qualifications were not questioned, testified he received four bullets taken from the body of Miss Shehane, being State's Exhibits 29, 30, 31 and 32, which were turned over to him by Sergeant Higgins who was present during the autopsy. He examined and compared the bullets removed from the victim's body with those fired from State's Exhibit 28, and found they were fired from


the same weapon. Mr. Yates further testified that, in his opinion, the barrel of the death weapon had not been removed.
F.B.I. Agent T. Michael Dillon testified that, on March 29, 1978, he arrested Eddie Barnard Neal in a house in Los Angeles, California, and found him in a bedroom underneath a bed. Agent Dillon advised appellant Neal of his Miranda rights orally. Prior to questioning Neal, Agent Dillon read him his constitutional rights from a form he had from the Los Angeles Police Department. Neal said he understood his rights and agreed to be interviewed. Neal told the F.B.I. Agent that he found out he had been indicted for murder in February of 1977 when he was staying with his mother in Memphis, Tennessee. He became aware ofthe charge against him when he received a telephone call from a girl friend in Birmingham. He told Dillon he saw some policemen entering his mother's house and he decided to leave Tennessee. The next day he got on a bus and went to Los Angeles. He further told Mr. Dillon the reason he did not surrender to the authorities was because he was afraid the Birmingham Police Department had a strong case against him.
At the time of Miss Shehane's death appellant was 18 years of age. He told Agent Dillon he had learned that Wallace Thomas and Jerry Lee Jones were convicted and given the death penalty but he did not think he would get the same punishment because of his age.
Dr. B. E. Blankenship, a psychiatrist


in Birmingham, testified that he had examined John Mays in July of 1976, and that in his opinion Mays had probable incipient schizophrenic reaction. He interviewed Mays on three occasions. The initial interview lasted probably an hour and the other two interviews lasted only fifteen minutes each.
Appellant testified and denied that he killed Quenette Shehane and stated that he did not participate in her abduction. He could not recall where he was on the night of December 20, 1976, but he steadfastly maintained that he was not in a car with Thomas and Jones when it was claimed that Miss Shehane was abducted, raped, robbed and shot to death. He denied knowing anything about the television set that was allegedly taken from the automobile belonging to the victim.
Oncross-examination he admitted that when he got to California he was going by the name of Eddie Ivory and that in 1977 he obtained both a temporary driver's permit and a Social Security card in the name of Eddie Ivory. He stated that he lived at three different addresses in Los Angeles. He also admitted that he was hiding under a bed when he was arrested by F.B.I. Agent Dillon.
Appellant contends the trial court erred in not granting his motion to strike Juror Ollie F. Adams because of possible bias against blacks. This juror was extensively examined on voir dire out of the presence and hearing of the jury. The record reflects the following:
"Q. Do you think you can exclude from your mind the things that you have


rights were violated by the admission of the testimony of Mr. Bill Sutton. This witness had been employed as a technician for Channel 6 in Birmingham for 25 years. On December 20, 1976, he was in charge of the Master Control Board of Channel 6. A master control log is maintained each day under Federal Communications Commission regulations. Mr. Sutton used a copy of the program log to testify. He signed the program log and as each program was aired he personally checked it off the log. On December 20, 1976, he was on duty from 6:30 p. m. until 12:15 a. m. He personally verified the time of the Liberty Bowl game by putting his check mark on the log and he joined the ABC network forthat the admission into evidence of State's Exhibits 34 and 35, the business records of Sears, deprived him of his constitutional rights to confront witnesses against him. He also contends that the television itself, State's Exhibit 12, was erroneously admitted as evidence. We disagree.
Appellant was indicted for feloniously taking one portable Sears television set of the value of one hundred dollars, the personal property of Quenette Shehane, from her person or by putting her in such fear as unwillingly to part with the same, and said defendant in the course of said robbery did intentionally kill Quenette Shehane by shooting her with a pistol.
Miss Shehane's fiance, Ramsey Lane, was with her when the television set was purchased from Sears as a birthday present a few months before her


violent death. He *1342 had seen the television set almost daily since it was purchased. He last saw the set in the victim's car the day before she disappeared. The set was traced to Wallace Thomas, a co-defendant, and from him to Eugene Maddox, then to Samuel Mulkey, then to Police Officer Petty, then to Officer Barefield and from Barefield to Officer Stricklin and from Stricklin to the courtroom during appellant's trial. There was no break in the chain of custody and possession. The officers testified the TV set was in the same condition at trial as it was at the time it was seized. Mr. Lane stated that the set was the same as the last time he had seen it in the victim's possession with onlyrecord book showing the sale of the television set to Quenette Shehane, was introduced into evidence after it was identified by Mr. Frank Speigner, the manager of Sears store at Century Plaza. He was the custodian of all records made daily in the regular course of business. He testified that every day the sales of televisions and stereos are recorded in a register book by him or someone under his supervision. Mr. Speigner stated the registration was required by Federal law. The original registration tag is sent to Chicago each day and a photocopy becomes the permanent record of the local store. State's Exhibit 35, the photocopy of the registration of the television set, was introduced into evidence.
These two exhibits squarely meet the requirements of Section 12-21-43, Code


the flight was carried out with secrecy was admissible as tending to show a consciousness of guilt. Locklear v. State, 17 Ala. App. 597, 87 So. 708; Franklin v. State, 145 Ala. 669, 39 So. 979.
There are a number of incriminating circumstances reasonably calculated to connect appellant as a guilty participant in the *1345 shooting death of Quenette Shehane. He and two co-defendants were heard making plans to go to Birmingham Southern College and take some young ladies out. About two hours later all three defendants were picked up in the vicinity where the victim's body was found the next day. He had blood on his clothing where he was picked up with his companions. There were mud and red spots on his boots the next morning inthe apartment where they were heard planning to abduct some young ladies. He took a friend's tennis shoes and left his boots in exchange. He left Birmingham shortly after the murder and went to Memphis. While in Memphis he received a telephone call from a girl friend that he had been charged with murder. He observed a number of police officers at his mother's home in Memphis where he had been living since the murder. The next day he left Memphis and went to Los Angeles, California. While in California he changed his name to Eddie Ivory. He lived in three different places in the City of Los Angeles. When he was finally apprehended on a federal flight warrant to avoid prosecution he was found hiding under the


in September of 1976 he was assigned to the Vice Squad. He stated that he went to Terry's Time Machine in answer to a complaint about a man entering the ladies restroom and bothering female customers. The male was identified as appellantEddie Barnard Neal. This officer and his partner identified themselves to Neal and asked him to step outside the place so they could check on his identification. They ran a check through the N.C.I.C. and learned that Neal was wanted for City escape. Neal then started running north on 17th Street. The officers pursued and caught Neal. They had a struggle with him and had to put handcuffs on him to subdue him. They placed him under arrest and put him in the patrol car at whichtime Neal promised to kill both officers when he got out of jail.
The State then called Officer Carl V. Garrett, Commander of the Homicide Detail, who investigated the death of Quenette Shehane. He testified that he went to Brandon, Mississippi, and picked up Jerry Lee Jones in connection with the death of Miss Shehane and returned him to Birmingham. At the time Jones was given the Miranda rights and warnings and stated that he knew and understood his rights. He was given the opportunity to talk to two attorneys in Mississippi and Garrett saw one attorney conferring with Jones in a jail cell before he was brought back to Birmingham. Jones voluntarily agreed to give the *1346 officers a statement concerning the abduction and death of Miss Shehane.


His statement was tape recorded and later transcribed. Prior to the introduction of this statement at the aggravation and mitigation hearing of appellant the proper predicates were laid and the statement was read to the Court. The statement is very long and we will not set it out in this opinion.
In short, the statement involved Thomas and appellant. Jones said that Thomas picked up Miss Shehane and made her get in the back seat of her car with appellant. Appellant made her remove all her clothes and he raped her; Thomas shot her in the chest and when he stopped the car both appellant and the girl fell out of the car. The girl was not dead and appellant told Thomas, "The bitch ain't dead," whereupon Thomas shother four or five more times; after she was dead her body was dumped in a wooded area close to the highway; Thomas took the television set and a small calculator and they abandoned the car near the Daniel Payne College. Jones denied that he raped Miss Shehane and he further stated that he did not take anything from the car.
The defense introduced the testimony of appellant's mother who testified that he had never been involved in any criminal activities; that he started to work at the age of 14 to help support the family until he joined the Job Corps.
At the conclusion of the hearing the trial court made the following written findings:
"Under the statute's mitigating factors, the court finds the following to apply:
"(a) The defendant has


no significant history of prior criminal activity.
"(g) The age of the defendant at the time of the crime.
"(d) The defendant was an accomplice in the capital felony committed by another person and his participation was relatively minor.
"(e) The defendant acted under ... the substantial domination of another person.
"The last two sub-sections would seem applicable just from the strong evidence of active participation on the part of Jones and Thomas, and the lack of evidence of participation by Neal. Further, Jones and Thomas were each two or three years older than Neal who was 18 at the time of the commission of the crime. From the evidence it would appear reasonable to assume that Neal's `participation was relatively minor' compared with that of Jones and Thomas, and that Nealwas under their domination.
"The evidence against Neal is mainly three-fold: (1) John Mays testified that he was with Jones, Thomas, and Neal one night in December, 1976, when these three discussed going out to get a girl, but Mays does not recall exactly what night in December that this took place. (2) Eddie Lynn stated that he gave Jones, Thomas, and Neal a ride in his automobile the night that Miss Shehane disappeared, and further, that he saw blood on Neal's and Jones' shirt. (3) There was evidence that Neal left Birmingham after the crime took place, went home to Memphis, and from there to Los Angeles. From this evidence the jury found that a conspiracy existed as they were perfectly justified in doing.
"But from all the evidence:
"(1)


Neal was never placed with the victim. Jones was by his confession as was brought out in his case.
"(2) Neal was never placed at the scene of the crime. Jones was by his confession.
"(3) Neal was never connected with the victim's automobile. Thomas was by his handprint, and Jones was by his confession.
"(4) Neal was never connected with the victim's television set. Thomas was, it was taken from his apartment.
"(5) Neal was never linked with the murder weapon. Thomas was, the pistol was taken from him.
"While there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find Eddie Barnard Neal guilty, there was not the depth of evidence against him which this court must insist upon for the penalty of death to be invoked.

*1347 "Therefore, the court finds that theSir Alex Ferguson warned Manchester United's title rivals that his team would improve in the later stages of the season after opening up a three-point lead at the top of the league with a 2-1 defeat of Stoke City last night.

Nani's winning goal puts United in an increasingly commanding position, with a game in hand over second-placed Manchester City, leaving Ferguson's side on course to overtake Liverpool with a record 19th league title. The victory extends their unbeaten run of league matches to 25 and moves them nine points clear of the champions, Chelsea, courtesy of a 15-point swing since September.

"Once you get to the new year it gives you a good guide to where you are going to be at the end of the season," Ferguson said.


"Our history tells us that we play better in the second half and that big games are not an issue for us because we relish them."

Javier Hernández had opened the scoring before Dean Whitehead equalised for Stoke early in the second half. United were missing several key players, including Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand, and Ferguson believes some of the criticism about his team's recent performances has been unfair.

"We're an easy target but we're going to dismiss it and concentrate on our ambition – and that's to win the league."crime with which he was charged.
The opening statement evidently angered the prosecutor. Though he made no objection at the time, the prosecutor later sought to ventilate his feelings to the court. The court lectured both attorneys on behavior and the trial proceeded. Phillips was called and refused to testify. The proprietor of the jewelry store, Corey Tennen, testified and identified the defendant as the person who had sold the jewelry. The defendant took the stand and testified that he had sold the jewelry, but said he had done it for Kevin Phillips, not knowing, at the time, where Phillips had obtained the jewelry. Since Phillips had claimed the fifth amendment privilege, there was no way in which the prosecution could contradict this statement. Other problems afflicted the State's


be directly carried around by the user.
As the terminals are diversified, some of the terminals are implemented as multimedia players having such functions as capture of images or video, reproduction of music or video files, execution of games, and reception of broadcast signals. In addition, some terminals support connection to a vehicle, thereby providing a more convenient environment for voice calls when connected to the speaker or microphone of the vehicle over a short-range communication network. Meanwhile, a technology to enable reproduction of multimedia files of a terminal through an audio/video system of the vehicle is also commercialized.
In view of communication performance, however, a terminal mounted in a vehicle may undergo a problem of signal attenuation (in-car penetration loss) by about −20 dB when a signal reaches theSevere postwar malnutrition did not have a negative impact on the earnings and subsequent pensions of German men born in 1945-1948.
Poverty has often been associated with malnutrition, stunted growth, impaired cognitive development and poor earnings. We studied whether these associations were found in German men born and raised shortly after World War II during severe and long-standing nationwide malnutrition. We analysed German old-age pension payments, as a rough measure of lifetime earnings, in German men born from 1932 to 1960 and compared the at-risk-of-poverty rates of German men born in 1945-1948 versus 1935-1938 and 1955-1958. Substantially fewer women worked during this period and their longer life expectancy makes their pension payments difficult to interpret. We therefore limited our analysis to men. Men born in the 1930s received the


highest monthly old-age pensions and these declined slightly in men born from 1945 to 1948, indicating a minute impairment in work-related income in cohorts born shortly after the war. We also found that there was no evidence for increased at-risk-of-poverty rates in men born in 1945-1948 versus those born in 1935-1938 and in 1955-1958. Being born and raised following World War II was associated with a minute work and pension impairment that was not visible in the at-risk-of-poverty rates. These findings question statements associating early childhood nutrition and future lifetime earnings.Featured Post

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“There has been a slight window of hope since the exhumation,” Joan Jara told me in January 2013:

There is concrete evidence now: Víctor’s identity was legally confirmed and it was established that his death was a homicide. There is ballistic evidence. There have been a number of judges in the last 40 years. The interesting thing is that the new judge is not from a human rights background; he is a criminal judge. This has produced different results. The investigative work of the police has produced enormous results recently. Former


after one month of medication. Maximum flow rate (MFR) of three groups was higher after one month of medication. International prostate symptom score (IPSS) and quality of life (QOL) score were decreased after one month of medication and further decreased 3 months, 6 months after the medicine, the difference was statistically significant. The effective rate of three pharmaceutical groups after 6 months of treatment was 84%, 89% and 89%, respectively. The cost of operative group was lower than 5-year cost of pharmaceutical group. Tamsulosin combined with finasteride is the better pharmaceutical option for BPH patients and the transurethral 2 micron laser resection of the prostate, the cost of which is lower than pharmaceuticals, is a safe and effective surgery.New York nugget merchants, The Strokes, have returned at last to the fray with The New Abnormal. To mark the occasion, bassist Nikolai Fraiture waxes eloquent on the band’s origins, supporting Bernie Saunders, Electric Picnic, the failure of the Trump administration on Covid-19 – and lots more besides. “It’s about finding that balance,” he tells Pat Carty.

Every band prays for it, but The Strokes had it: the kind of impact that happens only very rarely. When their debut album, Is This It, was released in 2001, its effect was explosive. Bands formed in their wake – The Libertines, Vampire Weekend, Artic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon among them – and they were a boon to skinny jeans salesmen the world over. Their sound was part Velvet Underground, part CBGBs


executed two separate acts of donation wherein they donated the same 52 foot by 170 foot rectangular portion of the larger tract to John H. Monk and his wife, Fannie Todd Monk, by one act of donation, and to Milton D. Clark and his wife, Maxine Soileau Clark, by another act of donation.
Sometime toward the end of 1996 or early 1997, Mr. Gorum became aware of the May 1991 transfer to Mr. Stanley and filed this suit on June 10, 1998. All of the original defendants joined in filing peremptory exceptions of prescription and no cause of action in response to Mr. Gorum's suit. The trial court considered and rejected these exceptions after a hearing held on December 7, 1998, and signed a judgment to that effect onbe reinvested back into the public realm to improve the overall environment for downtown and other urban areas once we stop wasting it all on providing free parking.

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of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, the duo behind the ideology and language-crafting of the executive order that rocked the world.

TLDR: This evening at 8pm, Donald Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court. It will come just about 24 hours after his firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Yates refused to defend the president's controversial executive order regarding immigration because she said she is not convinced it is "lawful."

PHOTO OF THE DAY: On March 24, 2015 after Sally Yates was nominated for Deputy Attorney General she had this interesting exchange with Sen. Jeff Sessions, now Trump's AG nominee. Sessions asked Yates: "Do you think the Attorney General has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that's improper?" Her answer:Attorney General, Sally Yates, was fired Monday night hours after she refused to defend President Trump's executive order regarding immigration because she is not convinced it is "lawful," according to a letter. In a statement, the White House said Yates "betrayed the Department of Justice" and was "weak on borders" and said she was being replaced by Dana Boente, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. ABC’s TOM LIDDY, GENEVA SANDS and MIKE LEVINE has more. http://abcn.ws/2jPanWa

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that the United States has a new posture on the world stage. In appearing to make good on the bold action he promised, Trump is signaling a new era to go with the new brand of leadership he brought to the office. And it took only hours after that order was issued for the nation to become engulfed in a defining debate about national security, compassion and what it means to be American. The chaotic aftermath of the president’s move could have consequences for the rest of Trump’s tenure -- and beyond, ABC’s RICK KLEIN writes. http://abcn.ws/2kIwdLG

--TRUMP TWEETS AGAIN ABOUT “FAKE TEARS SCHUMER”: Trump clearly has landed on a new nickname for the Democratic Leader in the Senate, taking to Twitter this morning to lambaste the audio andThis article was taken from the August 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.

At the end of 2004, Nilang Patel had a problem.

The chief of Coca-Cola's research laboratory at the company's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Patel needed to find a way of bringing the soda fountain into the 21st century. Despite the place of the statuesque Coke bottle in the company iconography, the drink had reached its first customers, in the bars of Atlanta drugstores in 1886, as a thick syrup diluted into individual glasses with soda water.

Even after the introduction of vending machines in the early 1920s, the method -- updated to use syrup


his patents on medical devices, yet remained best known as the inventor of the Segway Personal Transporter. But Patel knew that much of Kamen's most innovative medical work lay in the finely calibrated delivery of liquids; his expertise in engineering pumps and valves precise enough to dilute concentrated drugs for injection into human beings would surely be useful in building a machine to fill a paper cup with 475ml of Fanta.

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"That was a pretty straightforward project," Kamen says now. "I had [the technology] in my back pocket."

Yet Kamen was keen for the Coke Freestyle machine to impress his new corporate clients. Because, soon after he took the call from Patel, the inventor became convinced that Coca-Cola was the only company on Earth that could help him achievea dream he had by then nursed for more than ten years -- to extinguish the world's biggest health problem, using a machine he had built to make pure drinking water out of anything wet.

Almost every project we do starts out with most people thinking we are nuts Dean Kamen

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As Kamen marches through the car park of a river-side Victorian mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire, he admits with a smile: "Almost every project we do starts out with most people thinking we are nuts." Yet he's made an enviable career out of proving such doubters wrong. Gesturing down the long row of hulking brick buildings along


the waterfront, he explains how he began to buy up these buildings 20 years ago, when they had been derelict since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and now owns them all. He currently has tenants including Texas Instruments, Autodesk and the University of New Hampshire's engineering school; with three of the buildings (and part of a fourth) taken up by his company DEKA Research & Development Corporation (the DE from Dean, the KA from Kamen) and its 400 employees, including engineers, physicists, mathematicians and the like, Kamen is dean and landlord of his own campus of high technology.

He leads the way into a concrete-floored basement that echoes with a sucking of pumps and the clicking of solenoids, where the first of his water machines are undergoing finaltesting. "These units are just getting ready to go," he says; in the next few weeks, Kamen's device -- named the Slingshot -- will begin shipping to Paraguay, South Africa and Mexico. Kamen had promised Coke that by the end of this year, he'd have deployed the machines in no fewer than five countries. But then Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent surprised him at the end of last year by announcing that it was his intention to get Slingshots into 15 countries in 2013 -- and to make a billion litres of clean water. Kamen's eyes shine in anticipation of the challenge. "We're up for that," he says. "We'll do it."

The statistics of the global water problem are startling: 783 million people around the world don't have access to


clean water, Kamen will tell you; diarrhoea is the second-largest killer of children worldwide, and lack of safe water is the primary reason that globally 3,000 children under the age of five die every day. Yet Kamen admits that he is an unlikely saviour. His background, he explains, is "at the other end of the spectrum, building exotic, sophisticated medical products for the world that can afford them."

His career began when he was still at school, tinkering with electronics in the basement of his parents' Long Island home. When the older of his two brothers -- at the time studying for a medical degree at Harvard -- described the difficulty of administering measured doses of chemotherapy drugs to babies, Dean set out to design a drug-infusion pump todo the job. The pump proved so successful that he dropped out of college to concentrate on the new company, AutoSyringe, and in 1982, aged just 30, he sold it to Baxter Healthcare for a sum rumoured to be around £20 million.

Today, he has patents on more than 150 devices, and medical products remain the core of Kamen's business.

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The most famous product of DEKA's in-house R&D may be the Segway, but it's also the least representative. Built in military secrecy and publicised as a miraculous device that would change the future of humanity, when it was finally launched, the electric scooter


was met with ridicule, and is now remembered more as an example of the toxic confluence of hubris and hype than as a means of transport.

Yet from the moment he left college, Kamen has tried to focus his work on improving the lives of others. "Life is short," he says, "and when I look back, I don't want to think I wasted some of this life doing nonsense."

[pullquote source="Dean Kamen] [image id="gayOOzg7EZR"] His most transformative inventions since then have largely been medical devices. The one topic about which he's most passionate is FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, the charity and annual competition he devised to encourage students to be as excited about science as they are about athletics. Indeed, the Segway was onlyto make purified water back into dialysate. And to keep power consumption within the limits of a domestic supply. He needed to develop a heat exchanger that could function with more than 95 per cent efficiency. The last part alone took years -- "You could fill a room with all the ideas we tried," Kamen says. Nonetheless, by 2000, Kamen had a collection of tiny components connected together on a bench at DEKA that could do what he wanted and would fit in a small box. But since he had started work on the project, the management at Baxter had changed, and Kamen's plan to alter the face of home dialysis fell out of favour. He had spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money on development


-- and now had no client. But Kamen had also begun to look at the device in a new way. He recognised that the machine could remove contaminants from water and purify it. In seeking an improvement to a medical practice necessary for a few thousand people worldwide, he realised he may have stumbled upon a way of saving millions of lives. "It could make clean water for billions of people," he says, "on a very attractive basis." Yet Kamen remained almost entirely ignorant of the practicalities of providing water to remote communities in the developing world. So he dispatched a team from DEKA to report on the state of the art. Their findings were frustrating: the NGO approach to getting clean water to people was to targetand stick it in anything that looks wet: the ocean; a latrine; a chemical-waste site; a well. Out of the other comes the purest water you will ever see." Convinced that this was a means of saving the world, Kamen began looking for commercial partners to help him build and distribute the machine. But medical-equipment manufacturers weren't interested in the poorest and most deprived markets in the world, and the likes of the UN and World Health Organisation told him they weren't in the manufacturing business. In the meantime, anticipation had been building to a hysterical pitch around some of his other work: in December 2001, Kamen unveiled the Segway on live TV; the anticlimax was crushing. Seeing the machine, Good Morning America host Diane Sawyer simply asked,


"Is that it?" I n the wake of the Segway debacle, Kamen returned to Manchester and picked up where he had left off. While his engineers continued to tinker with the specifications of the water machine, Kamen also worked on providing the device with an independent power source to ensure that it could be used almost anywhere on Earth. For this, he resurrected the Stirling engine, first conceived in 1816 by Scottish engineer Robert Stirling. Generations of engineers had nonetheless proved unable to find a practical application for this well-known curiosity of theoretical physics. Yet by 2007, Kamen and his team had produced a series of prototype Stirlings that could turn almost any combustible fuel, from aviation spirit to cow dung, into electricity with remarkable efficiency. At theproduction. By his estimates, Kamen had already sunk $30-40 million (£20-27m) of his own money into the Stirling project alone. [Quote"]I'll just build a distiller to boil water, he thought. How hard can that be?[/pullquote]

By then, Kamen and a team at DEKA had also spent three years working on the new soda-fountain machine for Coca-Cola -- where, in April 2009, Muhtar Kent completed a four-decade rise through the company's global hierarchy with his appointment as chairman of the board. Under Kent, water conservation moved very quickly and publicly to the centre of the corporation's priorities, and he announced that he wanted the company to become the "water stewards of the world", committing to projects to replenish 100 per cent of the water Coke uses in drink production. This


cost-effectively get it anywhere -- and the poorest people in the world get access to it."

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Kamen invited Kent to attend the FIRST competition finals in St Louis, and took the opportunity to try to sell him -- as he had with so many executives before -- on sponsoring the event, and on his water machine.

This time, he was finally in luck. In 2010, Kent agreed to visit DEKA to see the Slingshot in action, and afterwards told Kamen he'd be welcome to present it at the biennial gathering of all the Coca-Cola bottling franchise holders from around the world, to be held that year in Monte Carlo. Kamen scrambledto build a display machine, flew it across the Atlantic, and then spent three days explaining how it worked to delegates from India, Africa and South America. When the conference was over, Kent agreed to a trial programme in Ghana with 15 machines; Kamen and his technicians hand-built each one at a cost of around $200,000 a unit. Coca-Cola picked up the tab. "They worked beautifully," he says.

Kamen's Slingshots were installed at the end of 2011 in five schools around Accra, the Ghanaian capital. In four months, they produced 140,000 litres of clean water in communities that had previously relied on a nearby river or buying plastic bags of water delivered by truck. Afterwards, Muhtar Kent took Kamen to a dinner with the Coca-Cola board of directors in


of its EKOCENTER plan, in which full-size shipping containers -- outfitted with a shop, a water machine, solar power, a phone-charging station, TV and an internet connection -- will provide what he calls a "downtown in a box" in even the most remote communities. Hendriksen plans to deliver "thousands of units in two or three years".

Back in the clattering basement room in Manchester, Kamen ambles down a row of 18 Slingshots that will shortly be installed in clinics and schools in South America and Africa, branded with the DEKA and Coke names, and the words Clean Water (For All). Each of the machines is constantly cycling through its purification process, taking water from a test reservoir, and distilling it into 189-litre plastic drums. "Each one of these machineswill fill one of those in an eight-hour shift," Kamen says. These are the final mechanical trials before shipping. The most important appraisal -- third-party testing of the machine's ability to purify water -- has already been completed, and Kamen has a story he likes to tell about this. At first the technicians reported that the Slingshot was faulty. But it was fine -- it was removing contaminants so effectively from the water that they could no longer be detected by conventional testing. "It doesn't just make water potable," kamen says. "It has the potential to make medical-grade water, dialysate, in remote, small hospitals."

After all the time and money he had invested in his project, Kamen is giddy with the possibility of being able to finally deliver. "The


Eric Levine '13 Hopes to Realize NHL Dream

This past summer Levine, a graduate of RMU's psychology program, signed an amateur tryout contract with the American Hockey League's Syracuse Crunch. The former Colonials goaltender, who had an average save percentage of .921 and a goals-against average of 2.89 at RMU, helped the Crunch reach the Calder Cup finals before eventually losing to the Grand Rapids Griffin. But his time with the team served as a valuable learning experience.

"My two months in Syracuse were extremely beneficial because I got a taste of what professional hockey was like," he says. "Seeing how hard they prepared for practice and games taught me a lot. And being on the ice with such talented players really raised my level of play."

While there, Levine gotto work with Tampa Bay goalie coach Frantz Jean on a daily basis. "It was simply amazing. He taught me a lot about what it takes to be a professional goalie and the type of work you have to put into the little details of the game in order to be successful."

Less than a week after his time with the Crunch ended, Levine received a call to attend the New York Rangers development camp. "I got the call Saturday night and flew out Sunday morning," he says. "That's how quickly things happen in professional hockey." In New York he scrimmaged with the team for four straight days and even got a chance to work with goalie coach Benoit Allaire. "He showed me a few things about my game


court awarded Marguerite her legal expenses incurred in connection with the suit in Hawaii.[8] Marguerite argues that she had to sue Norman because she could not file a lis pendens unless a lawsuit was pending in a Hawaiian court. A lis pendens was required, she argues, in order to protect her interest in the proceeds of the condominium sale.
Marguerite's lawsuit in Hawaii, however, was not undertaken as an attempt to safeguard her rights under the property settlement, but instead as an attempt to expand them. The principal goal of the Hawaiian litigation was to share in the appreciation of the condominium and to recover an unrelated debt.[9] At no point did Marguerite claim that Norman balked at payment of the $22,500 when the sale of the condominium closed.paid to the Wife, the sum of Twenty-two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($22,500.00), from the proceeds realized from the sale of Apartment B-230, Casa De Emdeko, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Husband has entered into an agreement to sell said condominium for the sum of One Hundred Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00). Documents shall be executed by the Husband directing the escrow or closing agent to pay the said sum of Twenty-two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($22,500.00) to the Wife from the proceeds realized at closing. The balance of the proceeds from the sale of the condominium shall be retained by the Husband as his sole and separate property."
[12]  We do not address whether a court has jurisdiction to interpret the terms of a property settlement agreement incorporated into a divorce


Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been
filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the
source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so
extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the
heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of
Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity,
which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their
aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been
maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed
everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has
been greatlycontracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful
industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or
the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines,
as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more
abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding
the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and
the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is
permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No
human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great
things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing
with


us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has
seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and
gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American
People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United
States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign
lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of
Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascription's justly due to
Him for such singular deliverance's and blessings, they do also, with humble
penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender
care all those who have becomewidows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the
lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently
implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation
and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the
full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of
Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the
Eighty-eighth.

I recently had the great
privilege of enjoying Daniel Day-Lewis in his role as “LINCOLN”. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who
considers themselves a proud American.
This Thanksgiving I am


grateful for all of America’s Presidents, past
and present, and for all the patriotic Americans who have dedicated themselves
to the cause of freedom and to the preservation of our incomparable nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. SC

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Outside the storm continued. The sleet came down fitfully against the
window, and periodically a gust of wind would find its way down the stovepipe
and the old cast iron heater would belch smoke from around its damper and its red-hot
lid. After a while the rough plank roof
began dripping and leaking like a sieve, and one by one a strategically placed
company of pots and kettles joined in a chorus of plops, plinks, and piddles,
as they filled quickly with their captured leakage and began to splash
rhythmically on the rip sawntheir kinds.And God saw that it was
good.

26 Then
God said, “Let usmake mankindin our image,in our likeness,so that they may ruleover the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky,over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a]and over all the creatures
that move along the ground.”

27 So God createdmankindin his own image,in the image of Godhe created them;male and femalehe created them. Genesis 1

8 Now theLordGod had planted a garden
in the east, in Eden;and there he put the man he had formed.9 TheLordGod made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—treesthat were pleasing to the
eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of lifeand the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.

15 TheLordGod took the man and put him in the


Garden of Edento work it and take care
of it.Genesis 2

Friday, November 2, 2012

A wet weather stream meanders through the
middle, and here and there Spruce trees pierce the dense canopy of briars,
competing for the sunshine and littering the ravine floor with a luxurious
carpet of dry needles. Several of the
evergreens sport tree-forts assembled from lumber the children have salvaged
from the wreckage of an abandoned barn.
A network of paths and tunnels connect the forts with each other and the
outer banks. The balmy fall afternoon was almost summer-like, and between the
sounds of children at play, frogs sang from the creek bank and a pair of mourning
doves cooed a melancholy refrain in the distance. A well-traveled trail formed several
switchbacks during its’ decent down the steep bank and ended abruptly at a
small clearing justbeen unable to speak to their parents directly, receiving news from intermediaries, instead. No one knows when — or if — the families will be reunited.

The school, called Oku Uygur Bilig Yurdu, opened last year. These 33 boys were the first to attend as boarding students because their living situations were considered the most unstable. A wing to house female students remains unfinished.

A teacher conducts an evening English class at Oku Uygur Bilig Yurdu, a school for Uighur children. Credit: Durrie Bouscaren/The World

Seeking refuge in Turkey

Through a combination of visa regulations, family ties and a perceived shared cultural history, Turkey has rapidly evolved into a destination for Uighurs leaving China. Many say they’ve fled arrest and surveillance in Xinjiang, where even a mild form of religious expression of


of the school’s students is an 11-year-old boy with a slight frame, but a wide smile. Drawing is his favorite part of the school day; chicken and noodles are his evening meal. But when asked to introduce himself, the first thing on his mind is a much more serious matter.

“I wish [for] freedom for my country, and I want to fight for the freedom of my country,” the boy said in Uighur, as his classmates crowded in a circle around him on the carpet.

He calls his homeland East Turkestan, a name Uighurs in the diaspora use to describe China’s Xinjiang region, as well as their hopes for its independence.

Izatullah said he does his best to distract the students from thoughts about their parents. Usually, he takes them aside2 hope to unseat Assumption sheriff

Two men are challenging incumbent Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack in the Oct. 22 election.

Farrell Gros, a former Assumption deputy who has military experience, and Ray Nicholas, of Belle Rose, a former two-term Assumption Parish School Board member, are seeking the post Waguespack has held since 2000.

Waguespack, 46, of Napoleonville, unseated incumbent Sheriff Thomas Mabile in October 1999 and is seeking a fourth term.

The three candidates are Democrats.

In campaign literature, Waguespack touts his aggressive pursuit of the illegal drug trade, his community outreach, his ability to attract grants and the planned expansion of the 108-bed jail in Napoleonville.

“Your Sheriff’s Office continues to make great strides toward fulfilling our mission of keeping Assumption Parish safe and fostering an environment where businesses can prosper, providing


to every middle and high school in the parish and most have training in Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

Waguespack, who has interests in an accounting firm, a mortgage company and other businesses, said he remains a 24-hour, seven days a week sheriff.

Waguespack said he divested half his interests in the accounting firm when he was first elected and has relinquished more since then. He said his partners and other employees do the bulk of the work.

He said he does work on weekends and after hours, and checks in during early morning hours, especially during tax season.

Nicholas was not available for comment late Monday.

According to a statement published in the Bayou Journal, the former teacher recently worked in a program with former prison inmates in New Orleans and was employedfrom this year's Sundance Film Festival: the sci-fi movie Advantageous. It will also be losing several favorites over the course of the month, with films like Taxi Driver and Silence of the Lambs departing the service.

Amazon, on the other hand, will be adding a slate of cinematic classics to Prime Instant Video, including The Shining, Apocalypse Now, Sid & Nancy, and Troll 2. (Shhh, just trust me on that last one.) We've broken down the highlights along with their debut dates below.

Coming to Netflix

June 1st:

The Aviator

La Dictadura Perfecta

Danger Mouse , season 1 through 10

June 2nd:

Pretty Little Lairs, season 5

June 3rd:

The Best of Me

Hector and the Search For Happiness

June 5th:

Sense8

June 8th-11th:

Grace of Monaco

It's Tough Being Loved By Jerks

Nightcrawler

Rose Water

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD , season 2

June 12th:

Orange is the New


The festive evening was led by NYRG Music Director Deborah Booth,
featuring consort performances, tutti playing, cake, bubbly and lots of fun!

The NYRG May 24th Playing Session featurned Nina Stern.

Ruth Cunningham led NYRG on its April 26th Playing Session.

NYRG welcomed Martin Bernstein for its Playing Session on Thursday, February 15th.

The 2018-2019 schedule is: October 25, November 29, December 20, 2018; January 24, February 28, March 28, April 25, May 23, June 27, 2019. All meeting dates are Thursday evenings. Mark your calendar now.

All dates are subject to change due to weather, etc. so check back regularly for confirmation and more information. All monthly sessions are held at 6:30 PM at All Souls Unitarian Church,
1157 Lexington Avenue, at the corner of 80th St.

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Local Chapter Meetings

The Westchester Recorder Guild invites allNYRG members to join their playing sessions. First meeting of the 2018 season is September 24th. Meetings are held at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 197 Manville Road,
Pleasantville, NY. For more information visit the WRG website at www.westchesterrecorderguild.com.

Recorder Society of Connecticut invites all New York Recorder Guild members to join their playing sessions. The Saturday playing meetings are from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, including two playing sessions and a refreshment break. First playing session of the 2018-2019 season is on September 8th, coached by Susan Iadone. The participation fee is $15. For more information and directions visit the: RSC
website.

Bergen County Chapter ARS invites NYRG members to join their playing sessions. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at: Congregation Adas Emuno,
254 Broad Avenue,
Leonia, NJ 07605. There


and Happenings in the New York Area

Here is a list of the major venues and sponsoring organizations
for early music events in the greater New York Metropolitan area, together
with their websites, which provide concert schedules, contact and ticket
information. Comments, suggestions and corrections are always
welcome! Contact webmaster Carol Scafati.

GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE(GEMS) is dedicated to the
promotion and advancement of early music in New York City and
serves professional and amateur performers and ensembles, church
organizations, audiences and enthusiasts. Get on their mailing
list and receive On the Scene which features current
New York performances of early music. Call: 212-866-0468 or E-mail.

GEMS has also subscribed to a new web-based event listing service called Nearsay. They have a good, useful site that keeps people informed about events of interest in their own neighborhoods. Pay them avisit, and look for GEMS presence in Arts & Culture, Night Life, and Upper West Side.

Musica Viva NY, The Joy of Choral Music performed in an intimate space.

Musica Viva NY is a chamber choir driven by a desire to share the transcendent power of choral and instrumental music. All concerts are hosted byAll Souls Church, the organization which graciously provides our meeting space. For program information and performance dates, visit their website at http://musicaviva.org

MUSIC BEFORE 1800 SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS
Concerts are at 4 pm at Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street, New York, NY 10027
Contact: e-mail; Telephone: 212-666-9266 Fax: 212-666-9266. See website for additional information. "Music Before 1800 is the longest-running early music concert series in New York City. We have been presenting vocal and instrumental chamber music


at Corpus Christi Church for twenty-eight years, with programs of sacred and secular music ranging from Medieval to early Classical."

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Parthenia, A Consort of Viols, Concerts and Touring, 2018-2019

Visit their website at http://www.parthenia.org for information on the upcoming season of this wonderful group. Larry Lipnik will be leading the NYRG playing session in March 2019.

The Grand Tour. In centuries past, people of means would devote a year or more to THE GRAND TOUR, traveling throughout Europe to broaden their appreciation of art, culture and western civilization.This season, Frederick Renz guides Early Music New York in its own version of THE GRAND TOUR.For upcoming schedule and more information visit EarlyMusicNY.org

MILLER THEATRE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. Concerts at Church of St. Mary the Virgin and other NYC venues.website for additional information and to order tickets on line.

REBEL BAROQUE ENSEMBLE AND MUSICA ANTIQUA NOVA
REBEL concerts take place at various Metro area venues. The Musica Antiqua Nova Series takes place at the Bedford Presbyterian Church
Village Green (junction, Rt. 22 / Rt. 172). Performance schedule and details at their website.
Phone: 914-734-9537 ; E-mail

THE CLOISTERS, Fort Tryon Park,
New York, NY 10040. Concerts are held in the The Fuentidueña Chapel. Check the Metropolitan Museum events website.
Or call the Cloisters at (212) 650-2290 for information and to purchase tickets in advance.


thus the manifestation in aggregate form of the psychological
and subjective dimensions of politics. A political culture is the product
of both the collective history of a political system and the life histories
of the members of the system and thus it is rooted equally in public
events and private experience.1

There are two fundamental differences between the parties in which all
others are rooted. The first one is structural: In the Democratic Party
power flows upward and in the Republican Party power flows downward.
The second is attitudinal: Republicans perceive themselves as insiders
even when they are out of power and Democrats perceive themselves as
outsiders even when they are in power.

I

Party Structure and the Flow of Power

In Ronald Reagan's acceptance speech at the 1984 Republican Convention
he declared that the Democrats' "government sees people only as a
memberslevel (e.g. ethnics).

Some of the Party's current constituencies had staff members of the Democratic
National Committee identified as their liaisons. In 1983 there were seven
such caucuses, five representing demographic groups (women, blacks, hispanics,
asians and gays) and two ideational ones (liberals and business people).
In May 1985 the DNC Executive Committee revoked official recognition of
these caucuses, to deflect attacks on the party as being run by "special
interests".2 Instead, an informal
understanding developed that one of each of the three Vice-Chairs will be
a member of and represent women, blacks, and hispanics. The largest and
most important constituency -- labor -- does not have such a person as union
leaders feel they should deal directly with the party chair without benefit
of a liaison. Instead, a majority of the 25 at-large seats on the DNC, as
well as