The invention relates generally to the field of speech recognition and in particular to the recognition of speech elements in continuous speech.
The need for speech recognition equipment which is reliable and reasonably priced is well documented in the technical literature. Speech recognition equipment generally falls in two main categories. One category is speaker independent equipment wherein the speech recognition apparatus is designed to recognize elements of speech from any person. However speaker independent systems can be quite limited with regard to features other than the "speaker independence", for example, the number of words in the recognition vocabulary. Also, typically, five to ten percent of the population will not be recognized by such systems. The other category, speaker dependent speech recognition, relates to speech recognition apparatus which are substantiallyarrest.

Even after the gravesite was discovered and McStay’s DNA was found inside Merritt’s vehicle, police were far from pinning the quadruple homicide on him.

Until they turned to Project Hemisphere.

Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call records and analyzes cellular data to determine where a target is located, with whom he speaks, and potentially why.

“Merritt was in a position to access the cellular telephone tower northeast of the McStay family gravesite on February 6th, 2010, two days after the family disappeared,” an affidavit for his girlfriend’s call records reports Hemisphere finding (PDF). Merritt was arrested almost a year to the date after the McStay family’s remains were discovered, and is awaiting trial for the murders.

In 2013, Hemisphere was revealed by The New York


invented a programming language to mine its own records for surveillance, and in 2007 came under fire for handing these mined records over to the FBI. That same year Hemisphere was born.

By 2013, it was deployed to three DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Investigative Support Centers, according to the Times. Today, Hemisphere is used in at least 28 of these intelligence centers across the country, documents show. The centers are staffed by federal agents as well as local law enforcement; one center is the Los Angeles Regional Criminal Information Clearinghouse, where Merritt’s number was sent for analysis.

Analysis is done by AT&T employees on behalf of law enforcement clients through these intelligence centers, but performed at another location in the area. At no point does law enforcementa good match today. Coming back from an early break in the 1st set and coming from behind in the second set (she was 4-0 down). Finished the match right on time before the rain really came down heavily.


you look.

But the blending of yoga and cannabis is far from weird. It is, in fact, a fusion that has ancient roots in Indian spiritual traditions, and is as natural a combination as a wellness enthusiast could hope to find.

Yoga, Cannabis, and Connecting with the Self

Stacey is a yoga and Pilates instructor with a background in IT, social media and the cannabis industry. A former Mormon, she started on the yoga path after rebelling against the confining doctrines of the church and coming to understand that she didn’t want anyone to dictate her own spiritual experience. At the same time, she was experiencing a lot of physical pain and tension due to a sedentary lifestyle as an IT consultant in addition to deep unhappiness with her personal life.also had strong words of support, calling her a strong voice and an important person in the Liberal Party. He also said her testimony before the justice committee on Wednesday was credible.

Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould arrives to give her testimony about the SNC-LAVALIN affair before a justice committee hearing on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday. (Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images)

"After listening to her, I think most of us had no doubt that she felt that she was inappropriately pressured by the Prime Minister," McLeod said.

Wilson-Raybould has claimed that as attorney general multiple officials pressured her to interfere in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec-based engineering and construction company that is facing corruption charges for contracts it had in Libya.

She testified at a Commons justice committee that there were


veiled threats to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, which would spare SNC-Lavalin criminal charges.

McLeod said Wilson-Raybould's testimony answered some key questions for him.

"I wanted to hear if there was actually any actual firm direction provided by the Prime Minister's Office, and I wanted to also know if it was illegal what was going on. And in both cases I heard no.

"The issue is certainly not black and white."

In an interview later Friday on CBC TV's Northbeat, McLeod elaborated on his comments about Wilson-Raybould's preparedness to deal with political pressure, calling her a "seasoned politician" who was "well suited" to be attorney general — a job she held for more than three years.

"I have a lot of faith in Jody Wilson-Raybould, and I also have faith in the primeKatherine Janeway, who encounters dozens of civilizations as captain of the USS Voyager. She started out as a science officer, so she has great appreciation for science. But I would not want to be stuck in the Delta Quadrant for a period of seven years.

What makes Star Trek good for showcasing science?

Star Trek has been powering along for more than 700 episodes, seven series, and thirteen movies. The mission of the USS Enterprise, the original starship, is to seek out new life. And while it occasionally depicts magical or mystical events, the series is grounded in science.

One concept you wrestle with is how to define life. Why is that so tough, even for biologists?

Think about the characteristics we generally use in defining life as they might correspond with


Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. Richard is Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-director of the Center on Children and Families. His research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility.

Richard’s publications for Brookings include his latest book Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It (2017), Time for justice: Tackling race inequalities in health and housing (2017), Ulysses goes to Washington: Political myopia and policy commitment devices (2015), Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream (2014), Character and Opportunity (2014), and The Parenting Gap (2014). Heis also a contributor to The Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Richard is also the author of John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.

In September 2017, Politico magazine named Richard one of the top 50 thinkers in the U.S. for his work on class and inequality. From 2017 to 2018, he served as a member of the Government of Canada's Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty. Richard is also a policy consultant to the Opportunity Insights teamled by Prof Raj Chetty at Harvard University, an advisor on the American Family survey, and serves on the Board of Jobs for the Future.

Richard’s previous roles include: director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank;


director of futures at the Work Foundation; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform; social affairs editor of the The Observer; research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research; economics correspondent for The Guardian; and a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year.

Richard has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.

Richard has received an honorarium for speaking from McKinsey & Company.

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. Richard is Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-director of the Center on Children and Families. His research focuses on the middle class,inequality and social mobility.

Richard’s publications for Brookings include his latest book Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It (2017), Time for justice: Tackling race inequalities in health and housing (2017), Ulysses goes to Washington: Political myopia and policy commitment devices (2015), Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream (2014), Character and Opportunity (2014), and The Parenting Gap (2014). He is also a contributor to The Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Richard is also the author of John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.

In September 2017, Politico magazine named Richard


one of the top 50 thinkers in the U.S. for his work on class and inequality. From 2017 to 2018, he served as a member of the Government of Canada’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty. Richard is also a policy consultant to the Opportunity Insights teamled by Prof Raj Chetty at Harvard University, an advisor on the American Family survey, and serves on the Board of Jobs for the Future.

Richard’s previous roles include: director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank; director of futures at the Work Foundation; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform; social affairs editor of the The Observer; research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research; economics correspondent for The Guardian; and a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.Eklavya is Vidhu's dream project

Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra talks to Diganta Guha about his much-awaited film Eklavya-The Royal Guard.

His last release as a director was way back in 2000 Mission Kashmir and it has taken filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra seven years to get ready with his next directorial venture— Eklavya The Royal Guard that releases on February 16.

Well, Chopra’s production house may have kept hits flowing in Munnabhai MBBS, Parineeta and Lage Raho Munnabhai, but the man was never behind the camera.

So, the obvious question which strikes me first is was what kept him away from direction for so long? Now, before he answers the question, Chopra prefers to vent his anger on multiplexes with which he is on a fight over revenue sharing (a recent phenomenon that


involvement of the producers, they will also have full access to the script. Most of the top brass of the film, trusted directors, lead actors, producers, and other high ranking members of the production will likely have access to the script, or at the very least, read the script. Though, to address the green elephant in the room, for a project in the MCU or Star Wars, the chances of reading the entire script, unredacted, even of the level of a main cast member, is very small depending on what stage the film is in. For example, there were episodes on The Leftovers were there would be a different director for different episodes, and sometimes that director would only have the script for that episode, other times they’dthe two girls rode in the other.  Each of the girls, on the other hand, testified that she departed Portland with one of the appellants, the younger girl with Johnson and the older one with Green.  In any case, it appears that from near The Dalles, Oregon, to Yakima, Washington, the two girls traveled in one car and the two appellants in the other.  There is circumstantial evidence that the change was deliberately made with the crossing of the Columbia River in mind.

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The girls testified that, after eating in Yakima, they followed appellant Johnson to a motel where they obtained a room.  Green introduced the girls to another prostitute named Sherry who was to assist them in plying their trade, particularly the young girl.


 Both engaged in prostitution that first night and thereafter until the time of the arrest of the young girl.  On one occasion, the girls had a conversation with the Yakima police and they related this fact to the appellants.  Green's response to the older girl was that the FBI would be coming to see her and that she was to tell them that she was not acquainted with either of the appellants.  Appellant Johnson's response was to threaten and strike the older girl.

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The young girl was arrested six days after her arrival.  Up until that time, she had earned $600.00-$700.00 and turned it all over to the appellant Green.  The older girl, during this same period, turned over her earnings of aboutto a pair of armed robbers who were bold enough to attempt a stickup in a bustling parking lot patrolled by multiple police cruisers. Later on Friday, robbers shot a woman in the foot after she left a Walmart in Myrtle Beach, SC.

A gun was reportedly waved during a dispute over a video game at a Walmart near Toledo, OH. There were brawls near the jewelry counter at a Florida Walmart and in the electronics section at a Walmart in upstate New York. A teenage girl was knocked down and trampled at a Michigan Walmart. A baby was punched in the face at a Texas Walmart.

A mini-riot erupted over $2 waffle-makers at a Walmart near Little Rock. If you have the stomach, watch that linked video and pay


attention to the fat slob monster woman’s ass crack. Her ass crack summarizes America late in 2011. Her ass crack is the 99%.

The boys in blue kept busy pepper-spraying a crowd outside a North Carolina Walmart, foot-sweeping a suspected shoplifter at an Arizona Walmart (and knocking him unconscious in the process), tasering a man who threw punches while waiting in line for video games at a Connecticut Walmart, and stun-gunning a reportedly intoxicated shopper at an Alabama Walmart.April 27, 2012

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (d. Alison Klayman)

Like Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s vital This is Not a Film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorrydelights in capturing its dissident subject lounging in the company of animals. Panahi has his iguana, which roams the Tehran high-rise to which he’s been confined by Iranian authorities, and Ai, a target of systematic harassment by the Chinese government, has his cats, one of whose ability to open doors mystifies him. By framing Ai in this domestic scene, director Alison Klayman finds warmth in an artist recognized for his compulsive refusal to comply with draconian authority – see, for instance, the series of photos where he smashes ancient pots and strategically places his middle finger in front of cultural landmarks. Situating Ai as a


closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those whoall are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

After suffering a heart attack, Edward Teller took a breath, sat down with a friend and a tape recorder and offered his views on the secret history of the hydrogen bomb.

"So that first design," Dr. Teller said, "was made by Dick Garwin." He repeated the credit, ensuring there would be no misunderstanding.

Dr. Teller, now 93, was not ceding the laurels for devising the bomb - a glory he claims for himself. But he was rewriting how the rough idea became the world's most feared weapon. His tribute, made more than two decades ago but just now coming to light, adds a surprising twist to a dispute that has roiled historians and scientists for decades: who


of arms control, battling often with Dr. Teller. The tribute also
poses the riddle of how Dr. Garwin's work, done in the early 1950's, could have gone unacknowledged for so long.

"It's fascinating," said Dr. Ray E. Kidder, an H-bomb pioneer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which Dr. Teller helped found and once directed. "There's always been this controversy over who had the idea of the H-bomb and who did what. This spells it out. It's extremely credible, and I dare say accurate."

Dr. Priscilla McMillan, a historian at Harvard who is working on a book about the early H-bomb disputes, agreed, saying the tribute sounded right. She added that Dr. Teller might have done it to "square things with God" after his 1979 heart attack.

One of themost controversial figures of the nuclear era, Dr. Teller played central roles in inventing the atomic and hydrogen bombs, and in destroying the career of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who in World War II had run the laboratory in the mountains of New
Mexico that gave birth to the atomic bomb. Afterward, though, he questioned the morality of devising an even more powerful weapon, and amid the anti-Communist paranoia of the McCarthy era, the government stripped him of his security clearance. The schism among scientists over his fate lasts to this day.

In the process, Dr. Teller became a hero to conservatives but was disparaged by liberals as the role model for Dr. Strangelove, the fictional mad scientist of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film who was fixated on mass destruction.

Dr. Garwin,


during the design effort a half-century ago, was a 23- year-old faculty member at the University of Chicago who was working during the summer break of 1951 at the New Mexican weapons laboratory, known as Los Alamos. Over the decades, he rose to prominence, often advising the government on secret matters of intelligence and weapons.

In an interview, Dr. Garwin said Dr. Teller was correct to include him among the bomb's designers, likening himself to its midwife. "It was the kind of thing I do well," he said of joining theory, experiment and engineering to make complex new devices.

But he added, "If I could wave a wand" to make the hydrogen bomb and the nuclear age go away, "I would do that."

Now 73, Dr. Garwin is an experimental physicistwho for decades has worked at the International Business Machines Corporation and is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan. He backs such arms control measures as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to outlaw all nuclear explosions.

A theoretical physicist, Dr. Teller is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and director emeritus of the Livermore weapons laboratory. He was an ardent advocate of the Reagan administration's Star Wars antimissile plan and, more recently, has promoted the idea of manipulating the earth's atmosphere to counteract global warming.

If Dr. Teller's version of events is right, he and Dr. Garwin were the main forces behind one of the most ominous inventions of all time, a bomb that harnessed the fusion power of the sun.

Dr.


flood the interior of the casing
with radiation of pressure sufficient to compress and ignite the hydrogen fuel.

No one knew whether the idea would work. And studies of it were slowed by ill will between Dr. Teller and Dr. Ulam, as well as debates at the weapons laboratory over whether building a hydrogen bomb was ethical and smart, given its potentially unlimited power.

Dr. Garwin arrived at Los Alamos in May 1951 from the University of Chicago, where he had been a star in the laboratory of Enrico Fermi, the Nobel laureate and arguably the day's top physicist. Dr. Garwin had been at Los Alamos the previous summer and, intrigued by the work, had come back for another atomic sabbatical.

In the interview, Dr. Garwin recalled that Dr. Teller had toldhim of the new idea and asked him to design an experiment to prove that it would work - something the Los Alamos regulars failed to do. "They were burnt out" from too many rush efforts to build and test prototype nuclear arms, Dr. Garwin recalled. "So I did it."

By July 1951, after talking at the weapons laboratory with physicists and engineers, he had sketched a preliminary design. Of its features, Dr. Garwin said, "There is still very little I'm allowed to say."

He continued working on the design until he went back to Chicago that fall. Then, as momentum built at Los Alamos for the H-bomb, many experts joined the design effort, which was finished in early 1952.

The prototype bomb stood two stories high. In November 1952, it


Teller's testament is the reactor accident in Pennsylvania at Three Mile Island in March 1979. As the nation panicked, Dr. Teller, an ardent backer of nuclear power, went on a public relations blitz to insist that the crisis was one of politics, not technology. In May 1979, he stressed the point to Congress.

The next day, Dr. Teller, then 71, suffered a heart attack.

"He called me from the intensive care unit," recalled Dr. George A. Keyworth II, a friend of Dr. Teller's at Los Alamos who later served as President Ronald Reagan's science adviser. He said the elder physicist began the call with two assertions: "Heart attacks are painful, and I have discovered that I am not immortal."

Dr. Keyworth recalled: "He was frightened, like a child."

Upon release from theCalifornia hospital, Dr. Teller came to Los Alamos to recuperate. He sat down with Dr. Keyworth in September 1979 to detail his H-bomb views. A copy of the transcript, which Dr. Keyworth recently gave The New York Times, ran to 20 pages.

It was a long rebuttal of the idea that Dr. Ulam played any role in developing the hydrogen bomb. Instead, Dr. Teller asserted, he alone made the key theoretical breakthrough after a decade of work. Then, he said, he told Dr. Fermi's star pupil about it, "and I asked him to put down a concrete design" and make it "so hard that there should be the least possible doubt about it."

"So that first design was made by Dick Garwin," Dr. Teller said. "It was then criticized forward


and backward. In the end, it stood up to all criticism."

Dr. Teller said the scientists who worked out the details of the design were Dr. Marshall Rosenbluth and Dr. Conrad Longmire. After Dr. Garwin went back to the University of Chicago in the fall of 1951 and Dr. Teller returned to Los Alamos in December 1951 to
check on progress, "I found that the calculations came out just as I had expected" and that "the design remained unchanged."

"And therefore, as far as I'm concerned, the preparation for the hydrogen bomb was completed by Dick Garwin's design."

In an interview, Dr. Keyworth judged that Dr. Teller's memory at that time "was as good as it gets," and he said Dr. Teller put no restrictions on how to treat the testament. "Hesimply had a near-death experience," Dr. Keyworth said, "and was thinking of his place in history."

Two years later, at a meeting in Italy of a dozen scientists including Dr. Garwin, Dr. Teller alluded to the younger man's role in public. "The shot," he said, "was fired almost precisely according to Garwin's design."

After that, Dr. Teller and Dr. Garwin clashed for years over Star Wars, which Dr. Teller helped create and Dr. Garwin criticized as a dangerous fantasy.

Silence ruled afterward. Dr. Teller, in his 1987 book, "Better a Shield Than a Sword," did not mention Dr. Garwin's design in a long account of the H-bomb's development. Nor did Dr. Teller's biographers, Stanley A. Blumberg and Louis G. Panos, authors of
"Edward Teller: Giant of the Golden Age of Physics" in


1990, though they had a transcript of the testament.

In an interview yesterday, Dr. Teller stood by his 1979 portrayal. "He filled in the details very effectively," he said of Dr. Garwin. "He made the design and that was it." And Dr. Teller denied slighting Dr. Garwin in earlier accounts of the breakthrough. "He was a good man who did it in record time."

That judgment was lost to history, however. In 1995, Richard Rhodes, in his book "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" found that Dr. Teller actually delayed the bomb's development and made no mention of Dr. Garwin's role.

In an interview, Mr. Rhodes said that in praising the 23-year-old outsider, Dr. Teller was "essentially saying the guys at Los Alamos couldn't cut the mustard." And thatassertion, he said, was false.

But Dr. McMillan of Harvard disagreed, saying that while Dr. Teller could be combative and vindictive, he was also generous and fair. The testament, she said, should probably be taken at face value.

Few players in this drama survive, making it difficult to clear things up.

Dr. Jacob Wechsler, who was a young man on the hydrogen bomb team, said the Los Alamos regulars, not Dr. Garwin, were the real stars. "We had to hit this with a sledge hammer," he said.

Dr. Rosenbluth, a main H-bomb designer at Los Alamos, said his own role was underplayed in the testament but that nevertheless he substantially agreed with Dr. Teller. "Dick understood physics," Dr. Rosenbluth said, "and certainly produced the embodiment thatwas actually constructible."

He added that Dr. Garwin


was virtually unique at Los Alamos in his ability to bridge gaps between experts in different fields.

"I was a pure theorist, and there were a lot of experimental engineering types, but there weren't many people able to serve as a link between the two," Dr. Rosenbluth said. Dr. Garwin was probably the project's intellectual glue, tying many ideas into the successful device, he said.

"He's an extremely brilliant person and has this rare combination of talents," Dr. Rosenbluth said. "Fermi had them. But in the generation after Fermi, Dick may be the best exemplar."

Over the decades, Dr. Garwin said, he spoke publicly of his role in the hydrogen bomb on more than one occasion.

But he added that he was advised early in his career, "You can get credit forYou are here

Club Confirms New Roles For Two Senior Managers

Two well-known figures in the outdoor leisure industry have been permanently appointed to new positions following their 12-month secondments.

Rob Ganley has been confirmed as the Club’s Editor-in-Chief while Simon McGrath has been appointed Head of Communications and External Relations. Simon was previously the Club’s Editor-in-Chief while Rob was the Senior Communications Manager and the pair had carried out a role swap for a year.

Rob spent 15 years in magazine publishing including a number of years as Group Editor of the Practical Caravan and Practical Motorhome titles in both print and online before joining the Club. As Editor-in-Chief he is responsible for Camping & Caravanning magazine, the Club’s monthly title which is the oldest camping magazine in the world. It


has an average monthly circulation to members of 287,835. Rob also heads up the Club’s publications team that includes designers, production staff and the technical helpdesk team, and is also responsible for advertising revenue across Camping & Caravanning’s print and digital platforms.

Simon’s face is also familiar to many in the outdoor leisure industry, having edited Camping & Caravanning for nearly a decade in a career as a journalist that has spanned 30 years. Simon heads up the Communications and Events team, which includes PR, partnerships, events, social media and videography. In addition, he will now take on responsibility for leading on external relations activities by working with the Club’s external stakeholders and regulators such as Government departments.

The Club’s Marketing and Communications Director Paul Jones said: “Having Simon anddenied.

"What you're seeing in the Middle East today in Iraq and in Syria is the stark hatreds between radical Shi'ites, in this case led by Iran, and radical Sunnis led by al Qaeda and ISIS and others," Netanyahu told the NBC program "Meet the Press."

"Now, both of these camps are enemies of the United States. And when your enemies are fighting each other, don't strengthen either one of them. Weaken both," he urged.

The comments from the Israeli PM come just days after Baghdad asked the US to initiate airstrikes against the Sunni extremist group, which has taken several towns in Anbar province, advancing closer to the capital.

Last week, Washington hinted to Tehran on the sidelines of separate nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, that it would be open to


36 million people ever since March 20, 2003 when the United States opened a military offensive against Iraq under the pretext that the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction – claims later determined to be false.

From March 2003 to mid-2011, the people of Iraq lost an estimated 460,000 civilians during the war and occupation by the US and allied forces, statistical research compiled by the PLOS (Public Library of Science) Medicine journal revealed in October 2013.

Following the withdrawal of US troops in 2011, Iraq sank even deeper into sectarian conflict, as the country’s Shiite majority squared off against the Sunni minority, many of whom were supporters of the usurped Ba’athist government.

2013 was the bloodiest year in Iraq since 2008 with over 7,000 civilian(Gutsbezirk) by its owner, Anton Douglas (1817-83). Douglas was married to Charlotte Warschauer and was a brother-in-law of Eduard Simson.

On 3 June 1898 parts of Amalienau were transferred from the rural district of Königsberg (Landkreis Königsberg i. Pr.) into the urban district of Königsberg (Stadtkreis Königsberg i. Pr). The remainder of Amalienau was finally incorporated into the city of Königsberg on 1 April 1905. Neighboring quarters were Ratshof to the west and Mittelhufen to the north and east.

In 1898 Friedrich Heitmann and Joseph Kretschmann, architects and construction officials, founded the Königsberger Immobilien- und Baugesellschaft (Königsberg Real Estate and Building Company). In 1901 they began to develop Amalienau into a villa suburb (Villenvorort or Villenkolonie) for the upper class. North of Amalienau was the estate Klein Amalienau.

Public squares


of the lines that bracketed mustache and mouth, the bruise of sleeplessness that turned his one eye pale as yellow wine, and the scabbing-over abrasions on his high forehead he hadn't even felt last night. "You look less than rampant yourself."

"A touch of the vapors."

Her thin mouth flexed with amusement, and she offered him her smelling salts in the bottle of cut rose crystal half the size of his fist. With a grin he waved them away, the wizard in him wondering what spices had gone to scent that aromatic vinegar while the mercenary priced the bottle at nearly two gold pieces—three, if your buyer was honest. He was interested to note now the Lady Prince's smile etched a whole new network of lines in her face under(Risk Behavior and Dependency). The study was conducted in collaboration with the Jellinek Clinic, which is a division of Arkin, the Amsterdam-based mental health and addiction treatment center. Arkin supported the trial and facilitated its development. The two interventions evaluated in this study were developed at Jellinek. None of the funders of the project had any role in the design of the trial, selection of the measurement instruments, or preparation of the manuscript. The protocol of this randomized controlled trial has been published previous to the trial's execution. The trial was conducted in agreement with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Publication of this paper was financially supported by grant


and efficient protocol aiming at lower loss and damage to the enamel.

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A total of 180 bovine deciduous incisors were used in this study. In selecting the sample, the following inclusion criteria were applied: integrity of tooth enamel, no caries, fractures or cracks visible to the naked eye. For preparation of specimens, the teeth were sectioned at the tooth cervix, and only the dental crowns were used. The remaining dental pulp in the crown was removed using a dental probe. Subsequently, the crowns were placed on wax, with the buccal surface against a glass plate so as to allow most part of the flat surface of enamel to stay parallel to the ground and perpendicular to the sidewalls of the PVC ring. In this position, the crownsremains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China No. 2017YFA0402600, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos 11503001, 11690023, 11373014, and 11633001, the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDB23000000, the Interdiscipline Research Funds of Beijing Normal University, and the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. J.-Z. Qi was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2017M620661, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities N180503014. M. Biesiada was supported by Foreign Talent Introducing Project and Special Fund Support of Foreign Knowledge Introducing Project in China. He is also grateful for support


frigates, four Air Force helicopters and a transport plane rushed to the scene of the accident not long after the research ship started sinking to assist in the rescue.

Those aboard included researchers from Academia Sinica, the Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute under the National Applied Research Laboratories, and graduate students from National Taiwan Ocean University, National Yang Ming University, Yunlin University of Science and Technology and National Chengkung University.

The ship departed from Tainan's Anping Harbor on Thursday and was scheduled to return on October 16. The eight-day mission was aimed at learning about the pollutants in the atmosphere and how they move through the air, reported the Focus Taiwan News Channel.

The 2,700-ton Taiwan-built research ship belongs to the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Applied Research Laboratories.California Poppies

When my mom was sick–several years in–she went outside one afternoon in the summer and saw that poppies had grown spontaneously in our side-yard. They were orange and bright. She was something of a gardener. I have many memories of her outside in the backyard bending over plots of dark soil, planting tulips and daisies and pansies and sunflowers–but these poppies hadn’t come from her efforts. They’d come from nowhere. When she saw them, she immediately began to cry.

By this point the cruel disease of plaques and tangles had already eaten away much of her brain function. Years earlier, before the diagnosis, she would forget words, tell repeated stories, ask redundant questions–but those were the deceptive early years, long before we knew the truth–that Early-Onset Alzheimer’s was


more than the largely inconvenient and sometimes even silly memory-problem we’d seen portrayed in movies and TV, but was so much more vicious, so much more degrading–that it was exacting and thorough, taking a person’s dignity and sense of personhood little by little. By the time the poppies came, she could no longer write, and was having trouble forming complete sentences. Yet, when she saw them she knew she hadn’t planted them herself. She knew they were a message from her father.

Her father, Woodrow Mousley, had moved his family to northern California in the early 1960’s when he and his brother-in-law developed a large swath of land in a region of Morgan Hill, near San Jose. They built beautiful homes there, and they developed a neighborhood called HolidayLake Estates which was right near the most placid lake I’ve ever seen. I recently visited it when I was in Palo Alto to give a talk at a fireside, and I was struck by the cobalt blue lake: its placidity, its tranquility. No water sports. No disturbance. It looked antediluvian–untouched by humans. I walked that old neighborhood where my mom grew up, saw the deer and the wild turkeys gobbling which somehow know to move out of the road for the expensive race-cars zipping up the lane. I saw the house she grew up in, which I remember every square foot of from my own childhood, and I wandered the old neighborhood my Grandpa had developed, looking at the other houses my Mousley and Tenney relatives lived


in long ago. In its heyday, Holiday Lakes Estates became something of a family compound, but before all the houses were put in–back when it was just a bunch of rolling hills by a lake–the distinguishing features of those hills were their huge, rambling oak trees (they called the giant one in their backyard Methuselah), and the thousands and thousands of California Poppies that bloomed in the spring.

I never knew they were so orange. The pictures I saw of those hills, before the houses, were black and white. But when my mom saw that shock of poppies on the side of their house there in Portland, Oregon, she just knew. It was a message. Grandpa Woody had died in 2002, but Mom told us she knew these poppieswere his signature–that they were his way of telling her he was with her in her illness.

This might sound farfetched to some, but I believe it’s real. This type of communication is not unusual in my family. I come from a long line of visionaries. I did not get this gift myself, but many of my family members have it, and they are privy to unusual communications from beyond, in dreams and visions and–as in this moment–uncanny events that defy, or at least challenge, explanation.

My Grandpa, in particular, honed this ability. His patriarchal blessing indicated he had the Gift of Revelation, and he pursued this gift assiduously, as one would practice and pursue any skill. An expert in education (he’d gotten his Doctorate in education Berkeley, and was


a professor at San Jose State), he expected as much from himself. He also expected as much from those around him. He advocated for this–that each person could get communication from God, and that all it took was a little practice. His own methods to improve this ability were innovative and surprising. My favorite technique was his use of the stock market to practice getting visions. This was not an effort to get rich. It was a practical experiment with distinct, scientifically sound parameters, the progress of which were identifiable over time. My memories of him from my childhood include him watching the ticker tape of the Dow Jones on TV almost obsessively. The craziest part is that it worked: I’ve seen stubs where he earned hundreds ofthousands of dollars in a day when he was particularly “in tune,”–and other stubs where he lost nearly as much–all in the service of honing this skill.

Grandpa sometimes saved people’s lives with this unique, unconventional ability, and I have record of revelations he got just for me, which have borne out. My favorite stories, though, were the visits he would receive from those who had passed on. A quick, largely insignificant one: before his sister DeVere died, he plead with her to come see him and bring him news from beyond, and together they made a pact–that she would come see him as soon as she was able and tell him something concrete about where she was. Sure enough, several months after her passing, he was visited in


loving father, who knew her, who was still there with her, invisible, but still aware of her needs, of her discomfort, of the depth of her distress.

Sometimes at night, near the end, my dad would hear her crying as she tried to sleep. Though she could hardly say any words at all, his heart broke when he would occasionally hear her call out “Daddy!” in the night, desperate for comfort. Even now, the thought of this brings me to tears–her mind so deteriorated, her memory so compromised that she was taken back to childhood, to her original source of comfort when she was scared in the night: Daddy. The first time I heard of this happening, it made me immediately think of my own girls and the tendernessnothing as the dark, rainy skies and the sidewalks and the bland buildings blended together into a stream of passing grey that echoed the insipid emptiness I felt, when suddenly, on the side of the road: a shock of orange. “Pull over!” I said abruptly. “Pull over right now!” Everyone was surprised at my outburst. Lolly pulled to the side of the road, and I crossed the busy street, ignoring the treacherous time of day, blind to everything around me. Nobody knew what I was doing, or understood why I was doing it. I probably looked crazy.

But there they were: a random patch of California poppies. Hundreds of them. They had somehow spontaneously grown on the side of this Washington road near my house, blooming the day after


country a few days back.

The bench had then issued notice to Mallya and sought his response within two weeks on pleas filed by the consortium of banks seeking direction for freezing his passport and his presence before the apex court.

The bench had allowed the plea of Attorney General that the notice to him can be served through his official Rajya Sabha email ID, the Indian High Commission at London, through counsel representing him before various high courts, Debt Recovery Tribunal and also through his company.

The AG had said that an amount of over Rs 9,000 crore was due to various banks and, on one pretext or the other, Mallya avoided to settle them.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had said there was a need for a garnishee order (to attachof Baroda, Corporation Bank, Federal Bank Limited, IDBI Bank Limited, Indian Overseas Bank, Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited, Punjab and Sind Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of Mysore, UCO Bank and United Bank of India.

The banks have also sought a direction to Mallya to "furnish suitable security for his appearance before the DRT" during the pendency of banks' original applications for recovering debts.

The banks had also arraigned firms like Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd, Kingfisher Finvest (India) Ltd, SBICAP Trustee Company Ltd as parties.

The plea said the banks "individually" had advanced loans to Kingfisher Airlines. By way of a Master Debts Recast Agreement (MDRA) executed on December 21, 2010, and related documents (Financing Documents), the existing loans were restructured and treated as a single facility.


The Jets haven't made the postseason since 2010 and they would have to get very hot in the season's second half to play this January. General manager Mike Maccagnan can't get to the dance soon enough, but he has to make sure every move he makes has the organization's best short and long-term interests in mind.

"The goal is the playoffs," he told reporters Thursday. "If you don't make the playoffs, are we moving the team in that direction?"

With his team 3-5 at the midway point, Maccagnan was active on the phone before the NFL's trade deadline Tuesday afternoon.

"I literally called — with the exception of maybe the teams in the division — pretty much every team in the league at some point of time," he said.

But with planshas been good early in his career.

"You want to build a team with a young quarterback who can be your guy going forward and kind of augment and build things around that," Maccagnan said.

The 21-year-old Darnold has passed for 1,705 yards while completing 55.2% of his throws with 11 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He has processed the offense well and been able to go out on the field and make quick decisions. His vision has been impressive and Darnold is an instinctive player who can make plays with his feet inside and outside the pocket.

"From early on, he's always been very steady and very cool under pressure," Maccagnan said. "He's had good games and he's had some rougher games, but we really like his progress and how he's


3 to 8 in the league in terms of the average age of our starters being young," he said. "But that's also a good thing because it gives us a chance to build what we always sort of thought was a good core going forward to kind of position this team in a way that can kind of grow together and be a young team and hopefully be a successful team."

The vision is taking shape. After winning 10 games in 2015, the Jets kept the band together again and a number of very good players got older and a few bodies broke down before our eyes in 2016. Then the Jets pivoted in 2017, cleaning up the books and focusing on culture while Josh McCown provided some enormousPerhaps my most unique service is the Rebozo, a concept I fell in love with many years ago. It’s an invaluable tool used by women, for women; women in pregnancy, women in labour, women in the postpartum period.

A Rebozo is a long, flat cloth used by women in Mexico. I got my Rebozo from a very wise woman, Angela Martinez Miranda, who passed me her precious knowledge as a Mexican midwife with vast experience. As Angela taught me, a Rebozo is an extension of the arms of she who uses it, and these arms are there to embrace the woman, to connect with her, to relax her.

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There are many types of ion implantation apparatuses, used for semiconductor manufacturing processes, transporting ions generated by an ion source to a wafer as an ion beam. As one type thereof, there is an ion implantation apparatus where slow scanning of a wafer and fast scanning of an ion beam are combined. In the slow scanning of a wafer, a direction in which the wafer undergoes mechanical slow scanning (slow movement) is set as a wafer slow scanning direction. On the other hand, in the fast scanning of an ion beam, a direction in which the ion beam undergoes fast scanning in a direction perpendicular to the wafer slow scanning direction is set as a beam scanning direction (or a


fast scanning direction). Thereby, a wafer which is mechanically driven so as to be reciprocally moved in the wafer slow scanning direction is irradiated with an ion beam which reciprocally scans in the beam scanning direction. This ion implantation apparatus is also called a hybrid scanning ion implantation apparatus.
In addition, as another type, there is an ion implantation apparatus using two-dimensional mechanical wafer scanning where slow scanning of a wafer and fast scanning of a wafer are combined. In the wafer mechanical slow scanning, a direction in which a wafer undergoes mechanical slow scanning (slow movement) is set as a wafer slow scanning direction. On the other hand, in the wafer mechanical fast scanning, a wafer fast scanning direction in which a wafer undergoes mechanical fast scanning (fastmovement faster than slow movement) in a direction perpendicular to the wafer slow scanning direction is set as the same direction as the beam scanning direction of the hybrid scanning ion implantation apparatus. Thereby, a wafer which is driven so as to be reciprocally moved in the wafer slow scanning direction and also reciprocally moved in the wafer fast scanning direction perpendicular to the wafer slow scanning direction is irradiated with an ion beam (a static ion beam). This ion implantation apparatus is called a two-dimensional mechanical wafer scanning ion implantation apparatus.
As described later, certain embodiments of the present invention may be applied to any one of the hybrid scanning ion implantation apparatus and the two-dimensional mechanical wafer scanning ion implantation apparatus.
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is necessary to secure wafer in-surface uniformity of an ion implantation amount. Therefore, it is necessary to secure wafer in-surface uniformity of an ion implantation amount and improve wafer productivity.
In the hybrid scanning ion implantation apparatus, as described above, an ion beam reciprocally scans in a beam scanning direction, and a semiconductor wafer is mechanically scanned (moved) in a wafer slow scanning direction perpendicular to the beam scanning direction, thereby implanting ions into the semiconductor wafer. Here, if high efficiency ion implantation into a semiconductor wafer is to be considered, as described later in detail, it may be considered that a semiconductor wafer is fixed and an ion beam is relatively moved. This is also the same for the two-dimensional mechanical wafer scanning ion implantation apparatus. In thisfootball federation tweeted on Thursday.

Cruyff, who began his career with Ajax Amsterdam, is considered one of the all-time great footballers and his name will forever be linked with that side and Barcelona, who he played for between 1973 and 1978.

He returned as Barcelona head coach in 1988, forming what became known as the ‘Dream Team’ and leading the club to its first European Cup in 1992.

One year earlier, Cruyff, who had been a heavy smoker, underwent a double heart bypass operation and subsequently stopped smoking, swapping his cigarette in the dugout, for a ‘chupa-chupps’ lollipop, giving the brand a boost.

He was also the brains behind the famous ‘Masia’ which forms the basis of Barcelona’s youth system, which has produced players such as Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Linel


Messi.

Cruyff was sacked as Barcelona coach in 1996, but has always maintained close links to the club, especially with former President Joan Laporta.

He led the Netherlands to the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and received the Golden Ball as player of the tournament. Cruyff scored 33 international goals from 48 matches.Congress gets four municipalities; BJP, MIM win two each

The ruling TRS candidates were elected chairpersons in 110 out of 118 municipalities and as Mayors in all the nine municipal corporations in the indirect election held on Monday by members to head the urban local bodies that went to polls last week.

The election of chairpersons in Nereducherla and Medchal was postponed while in Karimnagar municipal corporation where the results were declared on Monday, Mayor will be elected on Wednesday.

The Congress won chairpersonship in four municipalities -- Waddepally in erstwhile Mahbubnagar district, Manikonda and Turkayamjal in Rangareddy and Chandur in Nalgonda district. The BJP won in Makthal and Amangal in Mahbubnagar and MIM in Jalpally of Rangareddy and Bhainsa in Adilabad district. Barring these municipalities, the TRS won at all


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100 years ago: Germany declares war on Russia (Aug 1). On Aug 4. Germany invades Belgium and the UK declares war on Germany. That same day Ernest Shackleton offers his ship (The Endurance) and crew to British government for war effort. On Aug 8, after Shackleton receives a one-word telegram from Winston Churchill at the British Admiralty ("Proceed"), The Endurance departs Plymouth for Antarctica…offense of sexual conduct with a minor committed in
the van. In any event, the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to support
a finding that Wells committed this offense in Arizona.

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testified that Wells took her out to the desert in the van, but there was no
evidence presented that they ever crossed the border into either California
or Mexico. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any evidence that
the offense occurred outside the state, the fact that both the victim and Wells
resided in Yuma is sufficient evidence to support the inference that the
offense occurred in Arizona as opposed to outside the state. See State v.
Fischer, 219 Ariz. 408, 419, ¶ 42, 199


Inside San Francisco (Nov 19th, 2019)

1. PG&E is considering another wave of power shutoffs across Northern California on Wednesday that could affect up to 303,000 customers. The weather forecast for the rest of the week calls for low humidity and strong wind gusts, the perfect conditions for quickly-spreading wildfires. PG&E says 25 different counties in the North and East Bay could see shutoffs, including over 12,000 customers in Alameda County, 23,000 in Marin County, and nearly 40,000 in Sonoma County, where the recent Kincade Fire scorched over 77,000 acres. Those affected by potential shutoffs should get notifications four hours in advance. – THE MERCURY NEWS

2. The Bay Area is home to 55 of the nation's 125 most expensive zip codes, with 13 in San Francisco alone, according tohealth care or other public assistance throughout the year. A spokesperson for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health said she believes the updated number is the best available estimate of the number of homeless people living in the city, though she cautioned that the number might be even higher, as the data only includes those who sought public assistance. – NY TIMES

4. An ice cream shop owner in the Mission District is offering a “1,000 cone reward” for information that leads to the arrest of suspected vandals. Juan San Mames, owner of Xanath Ice Cream, says his store has been vandalized several times since August 2018, including an incident where the windows were tagged and the front door lock was jammed with glue. In the most recent incident,


multiple storefronts on the street suffered damage, though Xanath Ice Cream took the brunt of the vandalism. San Mames is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to arrest or a 1,000 cone ice cream party. – SF GATE

5. The Martinez News-Gazette, which has published continuously for over 161 years, will cease its print editions at the end of 2019. The local East Bay newspaper made the announcement on Facebook, saying that Dec. 29 would be the final print publication for the paper, and that its owner, Gibson Publishing, "offered no further details." News-Gazette Editor Rick Jones said it's possible the paper would continue in an online-only form. The newspaper was first published in September 1858, making it the oldest consistent publication in Contra Costa County. –PATCH

6. Digital artist Pablo Rochat is pranking SF by leaving AirPod stickers throughout the city. Rochat told Mashable he often sees people lose the slippery earbuds, and figured it would be easy to get pedestrians throughout the city to bend over to pick them up. He's also uploaded sticker templates to his website so pranksters throughout the world can leave AirPods on city streets. In 2017, Rochat unveiled a project where he utilized the tap-to-skip feature on Instagram stories to create interactive games. – MASHABLE

Have you seen any of these AirPod stickers in SF? Snap a photo and send to us if you do! Just hit "reply."

7. Eater SF has announced the city's finalists in The 2019 Eater Awards. The finalists for Restaurant of the Year include the


wine bar Verjus, Gujarati restaurant Besharam, and Nari and Daeho Kalbijjim & Beef Soup, which are both in Japantown. San Francisco also boasts a category for Pop-Up of the Year, which includes S+M Vegan and cult-favorite El Garage. Eater will announce their award winners on Dec. 10. – EATER SF

8. Hoodline has a helpful list of locations to volunteer or take part in a community dinner over the Thanksgiving holiday. Churches throughout the city are serving community dinners (plus, in some cases, breakfast and lunch), and many need volunteer help during the day. There are also volunteer opportunities at the annual San Francisco Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. – HOODLINE

9. San Francisco is set to get its first "American Indian Cultural District." The city's eighth cultural district willcover about 20 square blocks in The Castro and the Mission District and requires approval from the city's Historic Preservation Commission and Board of Supervisors. The ordinance will aim to promote economic strategies to maintain a stable population of Native Americans within the district, using funding from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development. Mission District Supervisor Hillary Ronen called the designation an "anti-displacement tool." – SF EXAMINER

Jonathan Harris is a writer for Inside.com. Previously, he wrote for The Huffington Post, TakePart.com, and the YouTube channel What’s Trending. He’s a frequent performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood. Follow him on Twitter @countrycaravan.

8. Hoodline has a helpful list of locations to volunteer or take part in a community dinner over the Thanksgiving holiday. Churches throughout


which is funded until Feb. 27, giving conservatives another chance to hit Obama’s immigration action with a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate.

The Florida delegation broke on very unusual lines: 14-13. Florida Republicans U.S. Reps. Gus Bilirakis, Ander Crenshaw, Mario Diaz-Balart, David Jolly, John Mica, Rich Nugent, Tom Rooney, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Dennis Ross, Steve Southerland and Ted Yoho backed the measure. They were joined by Florida Democrats Patrick Murphy and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Democratic leadership was divided on the measure with U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., opposing it but Wasserman Schultz joining U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., in supporting it.

With the U.S. House passing sanctions, including freezing assets, on the Venezuelan leadership on Wednesday, Gov. Rick Scott urged President Barack Obama to back the measure nowat the age of 44. Beck, whose daughter has Down syndrome, was an advocate of the bill which would create tax-free savings accounts for disabled Americans and who served as vice chairman of the board of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS).

“The disability advocacy community has lost a true champion, and my thoughts and prayers go out to Steve’s family, friends, and colleagues,” said Crenshaw. “Steve represents the soul of the ABLE Act and played a central role in getting if off the ground more than eight years ago.”

“More importantly, on behalf of his own daughter, Natalie, and millions of others with disabilities, Steve never gave up hope that ABLE would move across the congressional finish line and become law of the land,” Crenshaw added. “He had a


again, many dangerous terror organizations, such as ISIL and al-Qaida, are looking for excuses to vilify America and the West, and this report, even though the practices contained in it are no longer used, may do just that. Secretary of State John Kerry voiced similar concerns last week when he ‘warned that allies were concerned that the report could incite violence in the Middle East,’ and that ‘he wanted to make sure that foreign policy implications were being appropriately factored into timing (of its release).’”

Most Americans are strongly convinced that their local police protect and serve and give them high marks for their jobs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday.

The poll found 67 percent of American adults see the average police officer as a protector,Tuesday that he was keeping Barbara Palmer as director of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD). Palmer took over the post in August 2012 after serving as chief of staff for the agency for a year and, before that, working as an assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Children and Families.

“I am happy to announce the reappointment of Barbara Palmer today,” Scott said on Tuesday. “Under her leadership, APD has been able to eliminate the critical needs waitlist and Florida has also become the first state in the nation to guarantee disabled children of active-duty service members the chance to receive care while their parents are deployed in Florida. We are committed to providing every family with the opportunity to live the American dream, and


to sign a bill which passed both chambers of Congress awarding the Purple Heart to soldiers wounded in that attack.

“Florida stands proudly as two Floridians – Pvt. First Class Justin Johnson and Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler – are expected to be awarded the Purple Heart for their bravery during the 2009 Fort Hood shooting,” Scott said on Monday. “Both men sustained injuries in the massacre. As a veteran myself, I join all Floridians to express sincere gratitude to Justin and Patrick and their families today for their sacrifice.”

Scott also recognized a Floridian killed in the attack.

“We also remember Sgt. Danny Ferguson, from Mulberry, Fla., who lost his life during the 2014 Fort Hood shooting,” Scott said. “The horrific acts that happened at Fort Hood will forever be rememberedfor a brighter future."

"In this great and prosperous nation, everyone deserves a shot at the American dream," said Crenshaw in conclusion. "With determination, focus, teamwork, and sheer willpower, we've opened a door to a brighter future that might otherwise have remained closed. That's a cause worth fighting for."

On Friday, two Tampa Bay Republicans in the Florida Legislature -- Sen. John Legg of Lutz and Rep. Chris Sprowls of Clearwater -- introduced a bill to reform the state Public Service Commission (PSC).

The new bill aligns the state into five districts, using the same lines as the current district courts of appeal, and PSC members must reside in the districts for which they are named. The bill would also limit commissioners to two terms and would ensure elected officials do


the president and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, on Thursday. "This TaxWatch research highlights how that investment might be better utilized in the future to really make a difference in the lives of Florida students."

The report insists students perform better in smaller schools instead of just smaller classes, noting that elementary and middle schools in the Sunshine State have the highest enrollments in the nation on average and high schools have twice the enrollment of the national average.

Bob Nave, the director of the Florida TaxWatch Center for Educational Performance and Accountability, said the state constitutional amendment from 2002 limiting class size was not helping education.

"The repeal of the school size limits in favor of class size limits is a good example of a popular initiative trumping a sound research-basedEvent Recap:

The Spirit of Competition Award was presented to Peter Brock for his extensive contributions to the world of automotive design and motorsport racing. Pete Brock started his 60 year career in the automobile world as a youngster at the age of 19 becoming the youngest designer ever hired by General Motors' design department, GM Styling. Peter was responsible for helping Bill Mitchell and his team of designers, create the Corvette Stingray & Grand Sport. At the age of 21, he obtained his SCCA race license, Brock left GM in 1959 to return to California where he started working for Max Balchowski at Max's Hollywood Motors shop during the day and worked on his race car, a mid-1950s Cooper that had run at Le Mans, at night. In


1961 Carroll Shelby hired Brock as his first paid employee, running the Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving. Brock worked at Shelby American until the end of the 1965 season on the Shelby American brand, creating the logos, merchandise, ads, and car liveries. He designed the Shelby components of the Shelby Mustang GT350s and designed race cars for Shelby such as the Lang Cooper, Nethercutt Mirage, De Tomaso P70 and the legendary Shelby Daytona Cobra coupes that won the FIA GT World Championship in 1965. In December 1965 Brock started his own design firm and motor racing team, Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) which worked with Hino, Datsun and Toyota. The race team was disbanded at the end of the 1972 season when Brock moved on to hanggliding. Brock founded Ultralite Products, which he built into the largest hang gliding company in the world, and developed the sport of long distance hang gliding competition. Brock continued his career as an Instructor, author, and photographer. Brock continues to design clay models of new automotive designs and in 2008, he designed an aerodynamic car trailer called the Aerovault, with all aluminum aerodynamic construction.
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a single nanogram—a grain of salt is about 58,000 nanograms—the evidence still didn’t match anyone in the FBI database.

In June 2015, Fort Wayne police learned that Parabon NanoLabs, a biotech company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, was offering a service called Snapshot, in which a working sketch of a criminal suspect could be generated directly from minuscule amounts of DNA. Parabon’s roots were in bioinformatics, and their techniques, including Snapshot, which was invented and trademarked by the company in 2012, were originally designed for use in medical research.

Snapshot uses a process known as DNA phenotyping to determine several distinct physical traits—eye color, hair color, nose shape—to produce computer-generated sketches of a suspect. The sketches of April Tinsley’s killer, generated in May 2016, showed what the suspect looked like incomparing the uploaded sample to the more than one million users who had uploaded their DNA to GEDmatch, the database would spit out a list of potential relatives of the suspect.

Within months of the sample upload, Parabon’s lead genealogist, CeCe Moore, had narrowed down the DNA as belonging to two brothers: one only ever identified in court records as JPM, and his elder brother, John D. Miller, a 59-year-old third-shift Walmart worker living alone in a trailer in Grabill, Indiana, about 15 miles north of Fort Wayne. Neighbors had done their best to steer clear of Miller for years. He was strange and often angry, never marrying and keeping to himself.

Fort Wayne police were nearly certain that Miller was their killer, but they could not legally make an


formal schooling or training, retirement hobbies turned into new careers. It’s a trajectory that CeCe Moore, Parabon’s lead genealogist, knows well. Though she became interested in genetics as a high school student, none of the universities she applied to offered an undergraduate genetics major, so she decided to study voice and later took up acting, performing leading roles in local musical theater productions like West Side Story, as well as in numerous TV commercials. But in 2008, as she was about to crest 40—Hollywood’s dreaded inflection point, where parts for women begin to disappear—Moore began to indulge her earlier enthusiasm for population genetics by tracing her own family history.

As it turned out, Moore wasn’t just interested in genealogy: she was very, very good at it. After tracing herown family history back to the 1400s, she decided she wanted to help other people solve their own ancestral mysteries. Though genetic-testing companies such as 23andMe, Ancestry.com, and FamilyTreeDNA had been around since the early 2000s, more complicated efforts—such as identifying unknown parentage, for example—required time-intensive approaches.

In 2010, Moore started a blog about genetic genealogy called Your Genetic Genealogist, which attracted the attention of other genealogists, academics, and law enforcement types for demonstrating how genealogy research could be combined with DNA testing. She soon began consulting for television programs such as PBS’s Finding Your Roots, hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. She taught classes in genetic genealogy all over the country. In 2015, Moore created DNA Detectives, a Facebook group devoted to helping people find unknown biological


An image of the iconic Star Wars character, Yoda, which made it inside a textbook in Saudi Arabia, has led to the dismissal of a senior education official and the supervisors who approved the material.

On Tuesday, several Saudi outlets, including Okaz and al-Madinah Arabic daily papers, reported that the education minister had fired the undersecretary of the Curriculum and Educational Programs Department, Mohammed bin Attiyah al-Harthi, as well as other officials who oversaw the review and approval of the textbooks.

The move was prompted not only by the Yoda flop, but also other errors found in history, chemistry, English language, religious education and other textbooks, reports say.

Last week, the Saudi Education Ministry recalled 10th grade social studies textbooks after a photoshopped image of Yoda, seated next to King Faisalone who designed it, but I am not the one who put it in the book,” Shaweesh told the New York Times.

It’s unclear how the image of Yoda appeared in the textbook, but the mistake quickly went viral, leading to Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa apologizing on Twitter.

In his earlier interview with Okaz, Harthi blamed his critics for exploiting the situation with the errors to achieve fame and said he would still be loyal to the kingdom despite his dismissal.


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Police are investigating the cause of the blast, currently believed to be a gas explosion at approximately 8:30 p.m. local time at the izakaya Umi Sakura - a bar close to the Sapporo subway line's Hiragishi station.

The explosion caused the 66-seater eatery to collapse. It also shattered the windows of nearby apartments and food and beverage outlets. The Hiragishi district is less than 15 minutes by train from the main Sapporo station that serves the capital city of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture. -Straits Times

Evacuation orders have been issued to nearby diners and residents who were warned of further explosions by police and first responders.

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A screenshot of the login page for Votebuilder, the Democrat's voter database

A website that appeared to be part of a phishing campaign designed to gain access to the Democratic National Committee's voter database has turned out to be part of an uncoordinated security exercise. The false alarm has highlighted the benefits of actively monitoring for election interference efforts.

At first, the DNC believed that the phishing site was designed to steal access credentials for its cloud-based voter database.

On Thursday, however, the DNC said it had traced the fake site's creation to the Michigan Democratic Party, which hired a third-party contractor to conduct a phishing test, the Washington Post reports. But that branch of the party failed to notify the national


we're informed of advanced security testing, some things went _really_ well: The security community gathered and made some tough calls quickly. Also, the internal the flow of information was fast within the DNC, and to state parties.

Quick Detection

Kudos for the discovery of the fake DNC voter database login page goes to mobile security firm Lookout. Mike Murray, who leads San Francisco-based Lookout's security intelligence group, says the company has built a system to quickly detect potential phishing sites before attackers can send out emails with links to the bogus pages.

Murray says his team discovered the phishing site within 30 minutes of it going live.

Lookout continued to monitor the site as it was under development, noticing that within an hour a username and password field had also been added,Murray writes. Eventually, the site evolved into a site "meant to phish someone who would typically access the NGP VAN site on a laptop or mobile device," he writes.

Lookout analysts observed the phishing site as it was under development. (Source: Lookout Mobile Security)

Lookout reached out to the DNC, NGP VAN and DigitalOcean, which hosted the site, and it was taken down within hours, Murray says.

"The thing about 'false alarms' is that you don't know that they're false until you've showed up to investigate," Murray says in a postmortem comment on Twitter. "All the folks who pulled together on this were amazing, and had this been a real attack, would have stopped something terrible."

Too Late to Save Midterms?

Phishing was one of the primary methods used by foreign actors to


of internet technology designed to interfere with an election that has been seen to date.

While the U.S. is now aware of the complications and scale of the problem, Facebook's former CSO, Alex Stamos, contends that it may be too late to implement significant changes, at least in time for this year's U.S. midterm elections (see Secure 2018 US Elections: It's Too Late).

About the Author

Kirk is a veteran journalist who has reported from more than a dozen countries. Based in Sydney, he is Managing Editor for Security and Technology for Information Security Media Group. Prior to ISMG, he worked from London and Sydney covering computer security and privacy for International Data Group. Further back, he covered military affairs from Seoul, South Korea, and general assignment news for his hometownlok-sabha-elections

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Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah Friday said it was the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government that brought peace and development to the northeast, where militant activities were rampant even five years ago.

Addressing a rally here in Changlang district, he said the saffron party is committed to take action against cross-border terrorism and insurgency in the region.

“Even five years ago, the northeast region was disturbed, there was hardly any development owing to militant activities among other roadblocks. The BJP has brought peace to the region and paved way for its development,” he claimed.

Shah insisted that “political stability returned to the state after the BJP formed government in the state”.

Terming the people of Arunachal “patriots”, he said that this Himalayan state withstood the Chinese


onslaught in 1962 even when then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a statement, expressed helplessness for Assam.

The BJP chief also pointed out that PM Modi has instructed his ministers to visit the northeast states every fortnight and resolve the problems of the region.

“All parts of the northeast now have air and rail connectivity. In Arunachal alone, the government has sanctioned ~50,000 crore for the development of roads,” he stated.

Highlighting the achievements of the National Democratic Alliance for Arunachal, Shah said the state was the first in the northeast to get its two cities — Itanagar and Pasighat — into the list of smart cities under the Smart City Mission, besides air services to Pasighat and Tezu under the UDAAN scheme.

Hitting out at the Congress, he said the developmentwork had come to a halt under the grand old party. The Congress has made no effort during its tenure to root out terrorism or corruption from the country, he said.

“When Modi ji took action against Pakistan-sponsored terrorist groups by ordering an air strike on their camps, post the Pulwama attack, a pall of gloom descended on Pakistan and on the face of Rahul Gandhi,” he claimed.

Noting that Morarji Desai was the last prime minister who attended meetings of the Northeastern Council, he said 40 years later, it was Modi who attended the convention in Shillong.

“It is for the first time that BJP is fighting on all assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh. Our winning streak started in this region when three MLAs of our party were elected uncontested,”


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of State Hillary Clinton is hugely impressive. It's hard to keep one's jaw from going slack when she's delving into the intricacies of Tunisian politics or Pakistani feudalism. Many an editorial writer has already correctly opined on her experience and knowledge. She's been playing the game for decades. And she knows the issues, inside and out.

That fact is, at the same time, her greatest strength and her greatest weakness. Clinton embodies the status quo.

Few topics are as ripe for debate as the consolidation of wealth and power in the the U.S. among a wealthy few. It's an argument that only Sanders appears to truly appreciate, one that should carry through to November.the department,
the front-seat passenger was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the head, and
two back-seat passengers were examined and found to have gunshot wounds.
	While the occupants of the vehicle were at the police station, Sanchez was being
detained by an officer conducting an investigation at the scene of the shooting.  Based on
radio communications, the officer arrested Sanchez and transported him to the police
station, where he was identified by the surviving occupants of the vehicle.  Sanchez claims
that the vehicle's occupants possessed firearms and fired first.  He claims that he fired in
self-defense.
	Police secured the vehicle, which was immediately processed by crime-scene
technicians.  The technicians collected blood samples and a bullet "slug" and took over 100
photos of the vehicle.  The technicians then released


the vehicle to the Pharr Police
Department.
	The Police Department impounded the vehicle.  Two days later, on February 15,
department officials released the car to Dulce Amelia Mendez.  It was reported that
Mendez was the mother of the driver.  However, according to her driver's license, Mendez
is only seven years older than the driver of the vehicle, Samuel Mendez. (3)
	Sanchez's family retained attorney William Maxwell on or about February 20.  That
same day, Maxwell contacted the Pharr Police Department, requesting to see the vehicle
and have it made available for testing.  In what can only be described as a repeated "failure
to communicate," the Pharr Police Department misinformed Sanchez's counsel, as well as
the prosecutors, about the location of the vehicle.  The department reported the car had
been sentaround 19,000 Euros. Its main economic activity is agriculture, which is located in the primary economic sector. There is only one school in the city. By contrast, Fuenlabrada (City School Group) has 51 schools, 39 of them are public institutions. Fuenlabrada is located in the Madrid region (the third most populous Spanish community) but very close to the capital, Madrid, which the most populous city in the country (about 3,270,000 inhabitants). Fuenlabrada had 193,700 inhabitants (49.3% men, 50.7% women) in 2018. Their average age was 38.9 years, with 20% of children under 18 years and 10% over 65 years. The town had an income close to 30,000 Euros. This city has public services like hospitals and higher education centers. Its fundamental activity is industry and services, belonging to


the second and third economic sectors. In fact, it has one of the largest business centers in the European Union.

The data collection took place in the last week of the first term evaluations and before the report cards were given. Both schools followed the national curriculum and although there is a different territorial regulation, the contents and evaluative tests were verified as being similar in terms of workload and evaluation systems without differences.

The week previous to data collection, a visit was made by the researchers to introduce themselves to the children and to show the devices used for the data collection to familiarize them and to reduce possible anxiety at the time of measurement. At this point, they were helped by the teachers from both centers. Furthermore, theFRANKLIN COUNTY, Fla — A Blountstown Lieutenant, his son and another man are facing charges after getting involved in a fight in a Franklin County restaurant. It was all captured on security cameras.

Deputies say the fight started at 2:30 a.m. Friday morning as two tables at the El Jalisco restaurant in Franklin County began loudly talking to each other. That is when an off-duty Blountstown police officer, Lieutenant Tim Partridge got involved.

In the video, Partridge is seen walking to the back of the restaurant and raising his arm to make a point. He suddenly slaps the man sitting alone in the booth and then pushes him into a bench.

Partridge’s son, a twenty-three-year-old Scott Dakota Partridge, is then seen walking up and trying to pull his father away. Moments


the cons picking up more US style tricks and cutting funding/ tying funding to curb access to abortion, continue to dig its feet in all the way to the supreme court on EVERY safe injection site, and just wait a year when they start claiming that they need to keep spending in check. A continued goodbye to support systems for everything but the White Christian Nuclear Family with a Mother At Home.

Sure, he took some softballs. But really, what are the CAPPers issues? That they just woke up after a four year nap and realized that Canada is taking it up the ass? That started with the scientist who lost his lab priveledges for not referring to the recently electly government as The New Government of Canada. ICONCACAF: Mexicans favourites again as Champions League resumes

The CONCACAF Champions League resumes this week with an interesting fixture list as the competition commences its knockout stages. There are two all-Mexican affairs as well as an all-American encounter and an intriging match-up involving the record champions of Costa Rica and Honduras. Stoppage Time – International Football Blog looks ahead to the last eight clashes.

With Mexican clubs dominating this tournament in recent years the odds are very favourable that this pattern of events will continue this season although one big relief for the rest of the opposition is that the Mexican contingent will be cut by half in the quarter-final stages. Group B winners Santos Laguna, who came top of a group containing Columbus Crew, Municipal CSD and Joe Public


contend with second spot in Group B behind Santos Laguna. But, with the 2011 MLS season not beginning until March 15th, both teams will want to lay down a marker ahead of the new domestic season with success on the international stage. The final quarter-final sees Costa Rican giants Deportivo Saprissa, three-time winners and the last team from outside Mexico to win this tournament in 2005, face up to the challenge of Hondurans CD Olimpia who won the second of their two continental titles to date in 1988. Saprissa finished six points behind Monterrey in their group whilst Olimpia pipped Toluca to the top in Group D by three points and the winners of this quarter-final will meet the victors of the all-American clash.

The first legs of theAmerican Postal Workers Union (APWU)

On January 21, Cynthia Collins, former secretary-treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 12, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to one count of embezzlement from the Athens, Ga. union. She had been indicted last July for embezzling $23,345 and then concealing the thefts in union financial reports. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On January 13, Salvatore Mauro, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 1236, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina with one count of creating a false financial report. He pleaded guilty the following day. The indictment and plea follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On January


12, Pamela Nessen, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 286, turned herself into police in the wake of her indictment in November by a federal grand jury that she had embezzled $58,598 from the Fort Wayne, Ind. union. Nessen, now 58, headed the APWU local during November 2009-November 2013, and had been living in Jensen Beach, Fla. when the indictment came down. She pleaded not guilty the next day. The actions follow a U.S. Labor Department investigation.

On November 4, Susan Haugen, former treasurer of the South Dakota chapter of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota with three counts of embezzling $36,309 in funds from the Huron, S.D.-based union. According to the grand jury indictment,Haugen, now 55, during May 2010-March 2014 made about $25,000 in unauthorized cash withdrawals and spent another $11,000 with the union credit and debit cards, all for personal expenses. The charges follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On August 4, Eric Barnett, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 171, was sentenced in the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, to four years of probation for embezzling funds from the Portsmouth union. He also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $10,212. Barnett had pleaded guilty in May after being indicted last November. The actions follow a probe by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On July 8, Cynthia Collins, former secretary-treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local


12, was indicted in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia with embezzling funds from the Athens, Ga.-based union in the amount of $23,345 and concealing the thefts in union financial records. The indictment follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On January 23, David Westgard, former treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 65, was sentenced in the Dakota County, Minnesota District Court to 20 days in prison followed by two years of supervised release for embezzling funds from the Mendota Heights, Minn. union. He also was ordered to pay $4,241 in restitution on top of the $22,719 he already had paid. Westgard had pleaded guilty last November after being charged a year earlier. The actions follow an investigation by theLabor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On November 7, Eric Barnett, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 171, was indicted in the Circuit Court for the City of Portsmouth on one count of embezzling funds of $200 or more from the Portsmouth, Va. union. The indictment follows a joint probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and the Portsmouth Police Department.

On November 14, Neil Cardoso, former president of American Postal Workers Union Local 1241, was sentenced in the New York State Court for New York County to one to three years in prison for theft from the Long Island City (Queens), N.Y. union. He also was ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution. Cardoso had been indicted and arrested in February 2012 for grand larceny in


connection with his unauthorized use of the union ATM for withdrawals totaling about $75,000; he pleaded guilty this October. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.

On November 12, David Westgard, former treasurer of American Postal Workers Union Local 65, pleaded guilty in Dakota County, Minnesota District Court, to one count of theft in an amount of more than $5,000 from the Mendota Heights, Minn.-based union. He had been charged in November 2012. The actions follow an investigation by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.African players vote for Best 11

Mohamed Salah and his teammates from the Egyptian national team were among the first to vote for the inaugural Africa Best 11 organized by FIFPro.

The vote is open to national-team members from 54 African countries. Players from Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Togo are among other national-team members to have already voted.

Players have been picking their team of the year in the last few days while with their national teams for African Cup of Nation qualifiers.

Salah voted ahead of Egypt’s 3-2 win against Tunisia. The Liverpool striker scored the winning goal in the last minute in Alexandria. Both countries already qualified for the AFCON tournament, which will be in Cameroon in June 2019.

Among the other voters was former Arsenal striker Emmanuel


Adebayor, who was on duty with the Togo national team for a match at home to Algeria. Algeria won 4-1 to qualify for next year’s tournament.

Paris Saint-Germain player Choupo-Moting picked his team before Cameroon lost 2-0 to Morocco in Casablanca.

The first Africa Best 11 will be announced in Dakar on January 8th at the annual award ceremony of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Salah is the defending African player of the year.

The Best Africa 11 vote was announced by FIFPro and CAF in October as part of a five-year cooperation agreement that includes education for players on issues including employment rights, tax and insurance.Tag Archives: Mary Pat O’Hagan

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Michael Norrie is brought into court. He pled guilty to murdering Mary Pat O’Hagan. Photo by Todd Wellington courtesy of the Caledonian-Record

copyright the Chronicle July 22, 2015

by Joseph Gresser

ST. JOHNSBURY — The man who pulled the trigger admitted his role in the murder of Mary Pat O’Hagan Tuesday. Michael Norrie, 24, of Sheffield stood in the courtroom of the Criminal Division of Caledonia County Superior Court and pled guilty to burglary, kidnapping, and first degree murder in Mrs. O’Hagan’s death in 2010.

His plea was part of an agreement with prosecutors that, if accepted by Judge Robert Bent, will see Mr. Norrie spend 23 years of a 23-year-to-50-year sentence in prison. When released he will be on indefinite probation unless released by the court, the


agreement states.

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Keith Baird is brought into the Vermont Superior Court in Caledonia County’s criminal division on Monday to face charges of murder, kidnapping, and burglary. Photo by Todd Wellington, courtesy of the Caledonian-Record.

copyright the Chronicle March 12, 2014

by Bethany M. Dunbar

ST. JOHNSBURY — Two men have been charged with the murder and kidnapping of Mary Pat O’Hagan, a 78-year-old Sheffield grandmother who was killed three and a half years before the arraignments Monday, to the day. A third man has been cited.

Keith J. Baird, 33, who is in jail in St. Johnsbury, and Richard Fletcher, 27, who is in jail in Springfield, pled innocent to the charges, whichalso included burglary, were assigned public defenders, and were sent back to jail and ordered to stay away from 28 specific people, including witnesses, co-defendants, and members of the O’Hagan family.

Michael Norrie, 23, has been cited for the same charges and faces extradition from a prison in Pennsylvania to face the charges.

Mary Pat O’Hagan was a dedicated community volunteer, mother and grandmother, and organizer of the Sheffield Field Day each Labor Day. Photo courtesy of the O’Hagan family

by Bethany M. Dunbar

RUTLAND — A suspect in the 2010 murder of Mary Pat O’Hagan of Sheffield was sentenced in U.S. District Court hereTuesday to 15 years and eight months in prison for producing child pornography. Once Richard Fletcher, 26, of Sheffield, serves his jail time he will face a lifetime


of supervised release under a long list of strict conditions.

Chief Judge Christina Reiss ruled that she had been convinced by a “preponderance of the evidence” — after two days of testimony — that Mr. Fletcher was, in fact, involved in cleaning up the crime scene at Ms. O’Hagan’s home after she was murdered almost three years ago, and that he offered the use of his truck to move the body. Soon after that, he had the truck crushed.

The child pornography and murder cases are completely unrelated, but the sentencing for the first one was overshadowed in the two-day sentencing hearing by testimony about the murder.

Federal prosecutors made an effort to take over where state prosecutors left off in punishing someone for the murder of the beloved grandmother infamily

by Bethany M. Dunbar

copyright the Chronicle June 5, 2013

RUTLAND — Vermont Assistant Attorney General Cindy Maguire told a federal judge last week she does not have enough evidence, at this time, to prosecute Richard Fletcher in Vermont District Court for killing Mary Pat O’Hagan more than two years ago.

Yet much of the rest of the day was spent in a “condensed homicide case,” as the federal prosecutor put it, in United States District Court here.

On its face, the sentencing hearing was meant to determine how much time Mr. Fletcher should spend in jail for creating, receiving, and possessing child pornography. But prosecutors argued that he should serve more time for that offense if he was also involved in an unrelated killing.

In a complicated twist of the rules of


for those until February 2016. That means a 15-year sentence would keep him in jail until 2031.

The judge decided to divide the sentencing hearing into two parts. The first was about the child pornography case. The second part of the sentencing — testimony about the murder of Pat O’Hagan — started on May 29 but was not finished. The judge set June 11 to hear the rest of the testimony.

Child pornography

On November 17, 2011, a grand jury passed a seven-count indictment for child pornography. Charges include production, receipt and possession of child pornography. Mr. Darrow says Mr. Fletcher found a 12-year-old girl who lived in Utah online while he was at home on furlough from other convictions. He told her he loved her and would be her boyfriend,and convinced her to take pornographic pictures of herself on her cell phone to send to him. He told her that he would kill himself if she didn’t do it. He sent her photos of himself with a gun to his own head, according to court records.

Ms. Shingler described Mr. Fletcher, 24 years old at the time, as “a very immature kid.”

Mr. Darrow said Mr. Fletcher was not a kid, as he had already been convicted of aggravated assault for threatening to kill a man with a shotgun, and another charge of assault for threatening a woman with a knife. He was on furlough when he committed this crime, which, the attorney said, is why the sentences must be served after ones he is already serving — not


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