low as we can.

The Country Music Association Awards continued to show its love for Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton on Wednesday night while giving a nod to new duo Florida Georgia Line and doling out a few more awards to Taylor Swift.

Spanish pop sensation Alejandro Sanz stepped into a music school for the first time Wednesday and received an honorary doctorate degree from one of the world's foremost institutions devoted to his craft.to the TSU RIC during the TSU investigation and to ORI.

ORI issued a charge letter enumerating the above findings of misconduct in science and proposing HHS administrative actions. Dr. Linn subsequently requested a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the Departmental Appeals Board to dispute these findings. However, on November 30, 2009, Dr. Linn withdrew his request for a hearing. On December 18, 2009, the ALJ of the Departmental Appeals Board accepted Dr. Linn\'s withdrawal and dismissed his request for a hearing. Thus, the scientific misconduct findings set forth above became effective, and the following administrative actions have been implemented for a period of three (3) years, beginning on January 7, 2010:

\(1\) Dr. Linn has been debarred from any contracting or subcontracting with any agency of


but this is a big one."

While the House has a gay marriage champion in Speaker Gordon Fox, who is gay, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed opposes the legislation.

The 51-19 House vote came after an often emotional debate that touched on civil rights, religion and the nature of marriage.

"This has been a long journey," Fox said after the vote. Fox supported same-sex legislation when it was first introduced in 1997. "Today is a great day. Today ... we stand for equality, we stand for justice."

Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who supports gay marriage, urged quick action on the bill in the Senate. The governor, an independent, argues gay marriage is an issue of civil rights and thein writing and served on the employee. Sanders was notified of his dismissal by letter from the Administrator citing unsatisfactory attendance, unsatisfactory performance of duties and a bad attitude toward his supervisor as reasons for dismissal. An incident, wherein Sanders allegedly swore at his supervisor and called him a "dog," was related in the letter. The dismissal was upheld by the Board and the circuit court. On appeal Sanders claims dismissal was not supported by the evidence and that the letter was insufficient to apprise him of the reasons for his dismissal.
On petition for writ of certiorari the circuit court was, as is this court, limited in *1036 its review of quasi judicial acts of administrative officers and boards, such as the State Personnel Board. Baker v. Denniston-Boykin


first three months of employment and on May 30, 1978, was notified of dismissal by letter. For some reason, he was later told to disregard the first notice of dismissal, was retained with probation extended and subsequently given a "satisfactory" rating by the Board. Upon transfer to another store, he failed to report for work unexplainedly for one week. The unusual number of absences continued and, as the testimony of Sanders' own witness indicates, problems with efficiency at the store resulted. The evidence was that Sanders' many absences placed an increased burden of work upon the store's other employees, some of whom had to assume his duties though not trained therefor. Sanders' supervisor stated that he was unable to prepare a work schedule effectively because "I never didfrom several forms of conflict of interest, including trading securities for their own account or owning hedge or private-equity funds.

It, and similar new laws in Europe, will help, but they will not stop big banks and rogue investors that are determined to gamble and carry out illegal activities.

Meanwhile, governments themselves are the source of an altogether new threat to our bank accounts that Canadians should watch very carefully. Many, including the Harper Conservatives, are eyeing a new mechanism for rescuing banks whose rash behaviour gets them in trouble. It's called the "bail-in."

Stung by the political backlash against bank bailouts during the last recession, and now purporting to believe that banks should solve their own problems in times of distress, Western governments are in various stages of enacting legislation


of another bank, Laiki, which has since closed. Large numbers of bonds were also seized. Some uninsured investors were expected to lose up to 40 per cent of their money.

Insured holdings of up to €100,000 (C$146,000) were untouched. Even so, many ordinary citizens had held well in excess of €100,000. Some losses were devastating.

People protested in the island's streets, but found they were pretty much powerless. Even the Cypriot Parliament was not allowed to vote on the confiscation measures: emergency laws gave the government the power to restrict all banking transactions. Cash withdrawals and the use of credit cards were prohibited. Public-sector pensions were slashed and welfare budgets reduced. The Cypriot government was forced to sell off valuable assets to help pay the national debt.

Having watched the banksdestroy much of their economy in 2008, European leaders are now talking tough. "If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be, 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalize yourself?'," Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of the Eurozone said in March.

In June 2013, European countries agreed in Brussels that ordinary customers -- individuals and companies -- would have to help pay for bank bailouts in the future. The radical policy shift decreed that shareholders, bondholders and depositors with more than €100,000 ($146,000) should share the burden of saving a bank.

Canada plans 'self-recapitalization'

With striking coincidence of timing, very similar legislation has been presented in the parliaments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the


United States Congress -- strongly suggesting some co-ordination at work and that the governments in question at least believe they have thought this through.

The Harper government's bail-in regime will apply only to the country's six largest, "systemically important" banks.

According to the Economic Action Plan, it "will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital.

"The government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a bail-in regime in Canada," the Plan continued. "Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected institutions, investors and other market participants."

According to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a bank will be allowed toinvestors' expense.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty adamantly claims that the government has no intention of allowing a "bail-in" to seize money from ordinary depositors' bank accounts.

In an email to CBC News, Dan Miles, Flaherty's director of communications, repeated the pledge: "The 'bail-in' scenario described in the budget has nothing to do with consumer deposits and they are not part of the 'bail-in' regime. Under a 'bail-in' arrangement, a failing financial institution has to tap into its own special reserves or assets (which it has been forced to put aside) to keep its operations going."

That may be the intent. But we saw in 2008 that when key banks were in trouble, their reserve holdings of only about 10 per cent of their total liabilities proved to be very little help.


England in London, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney suggested a bail-in program in Canada could indeed include raiding some types of deposits.

Anyone holding more than $100,000 in savings, chequing or short-term (under five-year) GIC accounts in a single Canadian bank might want to think about spreading their wealth around other banks or credit unions, to keep the amount they have exposed at any one institution below the insured limit.

At the first whisper that a "bail-in" may occur at a bank, it's a good bet that account holders will head for the hills. After European and Cypriot officials brutally seized peoples' money from accounts in the Bank of Cyprus, its remaining savers withdrew €4.1 billion during the first six months of this year -- despite efforts byWomen's Golf Wins ROAR-EE Invitational by 10 Shots

Pictured: Mia Kabasakalis
tied for the individual title this weekend as the Crimson won the
ROAR-EE Invitational.

By Kevin Rhoads

SUFFERN, N.Y. – April 16-17 saw the
Harvard women's team win another tournament – this time as
the crimson played its last regular season tournament of the
2009-2010 season at the Roar-EE Invitational hosted by
Columbia. Fifteen teams were vying for the trophy at the same
venue as last year – Spook Rock Golf Course in Suffern, New
York. Although the results were not as important as winning
next week's Ivy Championship – the team's biggest goal
of the year – several factors still loomed large.

The first was the same as always: focus on controllable
factors to have the best tournament possible. Second, it was a
great opportunity for the team to further sharpen their


games in
preparation for Ivies. Further, with a national ranking in the
50's, there is an outside chance that the team could earn an
at-large bid to NCAA Regionals for the first time ever, getting
them to that level independent of the results of the Ivy
Championship. Historically, the only way that Harvard would
have the chance to qualify for Regionals is to win the Ivy
Championship, which carries an automatic bid to NCAA
Regionals. Last, the team also wanted to improve on their
second-place finish from last year's Columbia Invitational –
the only tournament that they didn't win during last year's regular
season. So there was plenty of motivation.

Although the forecast was for temperatures in the mid 50's with
rain, the rain mostly held off on day one. Harvard got off to
a good start, led by Junior Mia Kabasakalis('11, Alameda,
Calif..) She hit 12 greens en route to an even par 72, which
left her one stroke back of the individual lead. Sarah Harvey had 32
putts on her way to a 76, a score she also shared with teammates Jane Lee ('12,
Alamo, Calif.) and Chloe Altchek ('13, Rye, N.Y.) Claire Sheldon
('10, Milton, Mass.) did everything pretty well but couldn't quite
find her scoring rhythm, shooting 78. Harvard posted 300, good
for a 6 shot lead over Yale and a 7 shot cushion over Penn.

Overnight heavy rain, temperatures hovering around 50 degrees,
and late tee times contributed to a slow second round. The
final group containing Kabasakalis finished in the dark around
7:20pm, and it tested the patience of the final couple of groups
who did not want to face the prospect of another night


in New
York just to finish a couple of holes. Kabasakalis shot
74 in round two, which tied her for first overall. She hit 14
greens – a career best – and was close on many birdie
putts, but couldn't get enough putts to fall to win the title
outright. This was her 4th top-6 finish of the
season, and her first tie for 1st. Lee also played
very well in round 2, stringing together 14 pars in the middle of
her round, to also card 74. This gave her an impressive tie
for 4th – her best finish in a multi-day
event. Sheldon came back with 75 to finish tied for
11th. Altchek shot 78 to come in 14th,
and Harvey shot 79 to tie for 15th. Harvard
shot 302 to win by 10 shots over Penn, and 16 shotsover
third-place Yale.

This was an encouraging result in the week leading up to the Ivy
Championship. All of the Ivy Schools were represented at
Columbia's tournament, so it could be argued that this was a
preview of next week's Championships at Baltusrol Golf Club in New
Jersey. But every team brings their highest urgency to Ivy's
and it will take all of the Crimson's focus, energy, and sharpness
honed over last weeks and months to be ready for the
challenge. Harvard is shooting for a record third-straight Ivy
Championship, and they will give their best effort next
week. It will be a fun challenge – one that the team is
very excited about. Thank you to everyone for their
support.


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SARATOGA SPRINGS — A recently retired Saratoga Springs police officer was arrested last week after police say he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old boy.

Aaron David Rosen, 46, of South Jordan, was booked into Utah County Jail Thursday for investigation of one count unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a third-degree felony.

A message left at a number believed to be Rosen's was not immediately returned late Monday. It was not clear if he had a lawyer. He had not been formally charged by prosecutors.

Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. SpencerCannon said a father called police on Thursday, saying he came home early from work and saw a man who was partially-clothed jump from the home's second-story balcony, run to a car and drive away.

The father relayed the license plate number and a description of the suspect to police, who identified the driver as former Saratoga Springs police officer Aaron David Rosen. Cannon said Rosen had retired about a month ago from the department, where he was also a public information officer.

The department asked the Utah County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the allegation because Rosen recently worked for Saratoga Springs. Rosen bailed out of jail Thursday about 11 p.m., Cannon said.

The alleged relationship between the boy and Rosen was unclear, but Cannon believes they met on social media.

Cannon


Archive for September 30th, 2013

Above is an illustration I did of Inspector Fred Abberline, a character from a comic book by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell called From Hell. It started when I was around twelve years old as a serial running in the horror anthology Taboo. My older brother, knowing I liked horror and had a fascination with serial killers, loaned me his copies of Taboo to read.

As I devoured it the initial thrill of reading a comic book about the ghastly horrors of Jack the Ripper was met with confusion in my adolescent mind. This was not exactly what I’d expected… but I really liked it. The scratchy artwork, the meticulous references and the overall air of something bigger, much, much bigger than a story aboutthe record on August 12, 2005. On August 12, 2008, the plaintiff filed a Request for Status Conference and Trial Date. Also on August 12, 2008, CueTime filed a Motion and Order to have the cause dismissed for Want of Prosecution. The trial court granted Cue Time's motion on August 14, 2008.
On appeal, Gueldner argues that the August 12, 2005 discovery was a different "original" discovery document and was not the same one that was fax-filed on August 5, 2005. We find no merit to this argument. The documents are identical except that Gueldner's counsel or counsel's agent added the name and address of the registered agent for service of process of Cue Time along with the last known address of Cue Time. Moreover, a different "original" filing


[Features of the initial manifestations of Alzheimer's disease].
On the basis of a retrospective analysis of characteristics of the initial stage of Alzheimer's disease the authors showed its variability with regard to both clinical manifestations and duration. It was found that the psychopathological structure and increase in disturbances at the initial stage of Alzheimer's disease correlated with the age at the onset of the disease. In some cases an increase in its clinical manifestations could be correlated with definite pretreatment personality peculiarities of the patients. In some patients the cortical focal disorders and intellectual dysfunctions with which dementia first manifested itself became most pronounced in the advanced stage of the pathological process.00:37 Caged Animals Rescued from Iowa, Nebraska Flooding Rescuers pulled a group of caged animals that were trapped in floodwaters at an abandoned home in Pacific Junction, Iowa as the area was inundated by severe flooding.

At a Glance Rapid snowmelt and heavy rain sent rivers surging to record levels in parts of the Plains and Midwest.

Over 40 locations set new record river levels, mainly in Nebraska and Iowa.

This included stretches of the Missouri River. Record river flooding plagued six states in the Plains and Midwest after rapid snowmelt and heavy rain from the bomb cyclone , and ice jams hammered the nation's heartland.

In total, 42 locations set new record river levels, mainly in the Missouri Valley from southeastern South Dakota into Nebraska and western Iowa, but also in


Waterloo crested about 5.5 feet above its previous record crest from March 1962.

A dike failure along the Platte River prompted the evacuation of the National Weather Service office in Valley, Nebraska , between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers. A photo on March 17 showed the office surrounded by flood water. Two days later, a preliminary assessment found little to no water damage in the building.

Flooding of the Loup River near the town of Genoa crushed the record from 1966 by over 3 feet.

A flash flood emergency was issued for Genoa on March 14, prompting evacuations on the south side of the eastern Nebraska town . Evacuations were also reported near Yutan and Duncan, Nebraska.

After the failure of Spencer Dam on northern Nebraska's Niobrara River, a downstream gauge nearthe town of Verdel exceeded its previous flood of record from March 1966 by over 6 feet as the flood wave surged downstream.

The surreal sight of huge ice slabs deposited on roads from the flood surge was common in several parts of the flood zone. In some areas, the ice piles resembled ice shoves commonly seen on some larger lakes, including the Great Lakes .

(IMAGES: Before/After the Flood Disaster )

In western Iowa, record flooding was seen along stretches of the Boyer, Floyd, Little Sioux, Ocheyedan and West Nishnabotna rivers.

Skunk Creek in the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, topped its previous record from June 1957, contributing to a mess of flooding seen around the city, which resulted from melting 8 inches of snow in four days, then picking


up about 2.5 inches of rain on top of that.

(MORE: A Rare Confluence of Factors Lead to the Historic Flooding )

A number of locations in Wisconsin also set record flood crests: Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Kewaunee, Martintown and near Cedarburg, just north of Milwaukee.

In the Rockford, Illinois, metro area, the Rock River at Latham Park reached 14.4 feet, besting the previous record crest of 14.3 feet from June 2008.

At one time, there were over 300 river gauges above flood stage in the Mississippi River and Missouri River watersheds.A former Wisconsin police officer has admitted to killing two women he met online and stuffing their bodies into suitcases found earlier this month, according to court documents.

Steven Zelich, of West Allis, Wis., told investigators with the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office that he met Laura Simonson, a 37-year-old mother of seven from Minnesota, and another unidentified woman in online chat rooms and killed both of them, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Walworth County.

He hid their bodies in his apartment and vehicle before putting each in a suitcase and hiding them earlier this month on the side of a road in Geneva, a town with a population of 5,000 in southern Wisconsin, according to the documents.

The bodies were found June 5 by town employees, police have


said.

Det. Sgt. Lee Hollatz, an investigator with the Farmington Police Department in Minnesota, told the Los Angeles Times that Zelich was on the department’s radar shortly after it started investigating Simonson’s disappearance.

Simonson was reported missing in November, and might have given her family reasons to think she was leaving town, but Hollatz declined to elaborate.

Hollatz’s investigation turned to Zelich in January, after he found out the 52-year-old had been caught on video with the victim at a motel in Rochester, Minn.

He contacted West Allis Police, who recognized Zelich as a former officer, Hollatz said. It was not clear why Zelich left the department, and calls to West Allis Police were not returned.

Investigators went to Zelich’s apartment, but Hollatz said they found “no sign of Simonson, no red flagsor anything.”

But Zelich had allegedly killed Simonson weeks before the visit from police, according to the complaint. Zelich admitted that he killed her when they met in Rochester in November 2013 and then stuffed her body in a suitcase.

The suitcase stayed in his vehicle for months, according to the complaint.

The second victim, who was not identified, met Zelich online in 2012. They met in person in early 2013 in Kenosha County, Wis., and Zelich also admitted to killing her, according to the complaint.

He also hid her body in a suitcase, then placed the suitcase in his West Allis home, where it remained for nearly a year, according to the complaint.

Simonson was found naked with a rope wrapped around her neck, according to the complaint. The second victim’s body


Internet Machine: Cloud Datacenters as Art

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I recently came across this video from elasticspace.com titled ‘internet-machine’, which gave me a new perspective on how I view datacenters. Up until this video I had never considered the possibility of datacenters being considered art.

The video shown above is just the trailer for a larger exhibition, and is 6 min 40 sec long. It uses a combination of digital photography, photogrammetry and 3D animation, to allow viewers to visually experience the infrastructure of the internet, and more specifically, datacenters.

The video was made by Timo Arnall, a creative director at BERG in London, and research fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design.

The focus of the documentary is centered on one of the largest datacentres in the world, runPet Talk: The wily coyote can be a terror to your pets

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Jun 20, 2007 at 12:01 AMJun 20, 2007 at 8:16 PM

Pet columnist Rene Knapp on coyotes and small pets.

Rene Knapp

The coyote is an adaptable and tenacious survivor.

Because coyotes are so adaptable, their habits and habitats have become geographical. Coyotes that live in the desert are active at twilight and dawn, when temperatures are cooler. In other parts of the country, they may forage during daylight hours and during winter, when food is scarce, they will hunt day and night (including in our back yards), and in the summer, they will generally hunt at night and sleep during the warmest hours.

They eat whatever they find during a particular season. They will feed on mice, squirrels, woodchucks, rabbits, fawns,


City of Rogues (Book I of the Kobalos trilogy)

Series: Kron Darkbow , Book 1

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Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was responsible for the murders. That other is Belgad the Liar, a former barbarian chieftan who is now boss of the city's underworld. More

Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another wasresponsible for the murders. That other is Belgad the Liar, a former barbarian chieftain who is now boss of the city's underworld.

Following his path for blood, Kron comes across the magical healer, Randall Tendbones, and accidentally reveals Randall's darkest secret to the world. It's a secret about the past, a secret that has kept Randall on the run for three years. Now it has caught up with him, and Belgad the Liar is suddenly the least of Randall and Kron's concerns. The gaze of Lord Verkain, king of of the dark northern land of Kobalos, has fallen upon Kron and Randall. And it is a gaze filled with madness.

OTHER BOOKS IN THE TRILOGY:

Road To Wrath: Book II of The Kobalos Trilogy

Dark King of The North: Book III of


The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 brought much change to the island nation, including many immigrants with new names. Among these immigrants were the ancestors of the Baggwel family, who lived in Derbyshire, in the town of Bakewell.

Baggwel Early Origins

The surname Baggwel was first found in Derbyshire, at Bakewell, today a small market town in the Peak District. The town dates back to at least Anglo Saxon times when it was listed as Balecanwell in 949. By the time of the Domesday Book, the place was listed as Badequella and was derived from an Old English personal name + wella meaning "spring or stream of a man called Badeca." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) At that time, KingEdward had 18 carucates of land to the geld and the land was large enough to hold 18 ploughs. There was one mill, one church and one lead mine with 80 acres of meadows. [2]CITATION[CLOSE]Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) Bakewell Castle in the town of Bakewell was a motte and bailey castle built in the 12th century that was razed to the ground during the English Civil War; now only ruins can be seen.

Baggwel Spelling Variations

Baggwel Spelling Variations

Before the last few hundred years the English language had no fixed system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations occurred commonly in Anglo Norman surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Baggwel were recorded,


including Bakewell, Backwell, Bakwell, Balkwell, Balkwill, Backwall, Bakewill, Bagwell and many more.

Baggwel Early History

Baggwel Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Baggwel research. Another 95 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1618, 1683, 1654, 1708, 1685, 1689, 1690, 1701, 1682, 1752 and 1650 are included under the topic Early Baggwel History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Baggwel Early Notables (pre 1700)

Baggwel Early Notables (pre 1700)

Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Sir Robert Bakewell of the Old Hall; Edward Backwell ( ca. 1618-1683), an English goldsmith, financier, and politician, often referred to as "the principal founder of the banking system in England", and "far and away the best documented banker of his time"; andhis...

Another 57 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Baggwel Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Baggwel In Ireland

Baggwel In Ireland

Some of the Baggwel family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 101 words (7 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

The Great Migration

The Great Migration

The unstable environment in England at this time caused numerous families to board ships and leave in search of opportunity and freedom from persecution abroad in places like Ireland, Australia, and particularly the New World. The voyage was extremely difficult, however, and only taken at great expense. The cramped conditions and unsanitary


nature of the vessels caused many to arrive diseased and starving, not to mention destitute from the enormous cost. Still opportunity in the emerging nations of Canada and the United States was far greater than at home and many went on to make important contributions to the cultures of their adopted countries. An examination of many early immigration records reveals that people bearing the name Baggwel arrived in North America very early: Henry Bagwell who settled in Virginia in 1623; Peter Bagwell settled in Barbados in 1685; Thomas Bagwell in Virginia 1623; Francis Bakewell settled in Virginia in 1635.

The Baggwel Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Baggwel Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest publishedFor professional laptop users, the ThinkPad has been known as one of the best and most reliable brands for decades. Since the Lenovo acquisition of IBM’s personal computing division in 2005, the ThinkPad lineup has continued to evolve in new and intriguing ways. Be it the X series, the T series, or E series, there are plenty of exciting laptops to choose from. But that can make it tough to find the best Thinkpad or you.

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payment of the customers' water bills and made bookkeeping entries accordingly. It was established that there was a shortage of cash receipts through a period of approximately two years prior to the date fixed in the indictment. It was shown that credits at times were posted to customers' water *65 accounts at night and after hours, when the defendant was using the posting machine. The cash on such accounts received was not at the same time run through the cash receipts book. Seventeen witnesses testified that they turned over their payroll checks at the utility office window to pay their water bills. The evidence showed that the appellant endorsed these checks personally and deposited them in his personal bank account. It also shows that he deposited other payrollchecks accepted in payment of water bills at the utility office and deposited the checks in a bank in another town (Kokomo), where he told the bank official there that he was an auditor, and the word "Auditor" was placed after his endorsement on the check. This personal bank account amounted within a year's time to over $21,000.00.
When a defendant takes checks as an employee through a payment window or out of a water department and endorses them and deposits these checks in his personal account, we have direct evidence, rather than mere circumstantial evidence of embezzlement. The court did not have to accept appellant's story of how he came into possession of the checks used to pay water bills.
In corroboration of the State's case, there is circumstantial


the Cass County Grand Jury on November 17, 1958, for the following reasons and each of them:
"1. The testimony is being made from a stenographic copy of a part of the proceedings of and before the Cass County Grand Jury on November 17, 1958, at which time the defendant was interrogated by said Grand Jury, and such testimony is incompetent evidence, privileged, immaterial, irrelevant, and violates the defendant's constitutional [constitutional] rights in that it is offered as original evidence in the State's case in chief at a time when the defendant has not testified as a witness in this cause, nor is the same introduced for the purpose of impeachment of said witness, nor to attack his credibility, nor is the defendant charged herein with the crime ofGREEN BAY, Wis. – A missing 13-year-old girl was found alive Thursday nearly three months after her parents were found shot to death in their Wisconsin home, authorities say.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald announced that Jayme Closs was located Thursday afternoon by officials in Gordon, a town of fewer than 1,000 people in northwestern Wisconsin. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after, Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said no further details are available at this time, citing a “fluid” and active investigation.

A news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. CST Friday at the Barron County Sheriff’s Department.

KARE-TV, in Minneapolis reported that Jayme was found in Eau Claire Acres, a small development about 6 miles east of Gordon, according to the town of Gordon's board chairman.

The Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported


we don’t know what condition. Just she’s alive."

Closs disappeared on Oct. 15, the same day her parents, James, 56, and Denise, 46, were found shot to death in their home outside Barron, about 70 miles south of Gordon. Authorities ruled the deaths homicides.

In a Facebook post announcing Closs had been found, Fitzgerald thanked the family "for their support and patience while this case was ongoing. We promised to bring Jayme home and tonight we get to fulfill that promise."

Jayme is a student at Riverview Middle School. Her parents were longtime employees at Barron's Jennie-O Turkey Store.

Police received a 911 call at 12:58 a.m. from Denise Closs' phone on the night of Jayme's disappearance. The sound of yelling was audible in the background, according to the call log. Butthe dispatcher wasn't able to connect with the caller, so it's unclear who dialed 911. Authorities have said Jayme was home at the time of the slayings.

Officials arrived at the family's home to find the front door kicked in.

A neighbor, Joan Smrekar, told USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin that she and her husband heard two gunshots at around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. But Fitzgerald previously said the neighbors' account is unsubstantiated.

The incident rattled the quiet northwestern Wisconsin community that, up until then, had been focusing much of its energy on celebrating local "The Voice" contestant Chris Kroeze. But residents came together to mourn James and Denise Closs and pray for Jayme's safe return, making lanterns and erecting Christmas trees in the hope of lighting her way home.

Law enforcement officials,


heads in agreement.

Today’s talk session was on Justin Mott, an American photojournalist and freelancer whose work has been featured on the New York Times, publications for the Smithsonian…etc. We focused on his life here in Hanoi, following a 17-yr-old Agent Orange victim named Nụ,
who cannot see, hear, nor speak. He first initially met her at the Friendship Village in 2007. What started out as a pure way of finding a topic to shoot some photos for work has gone beyond that. Skeptics would believe otherwise. Nevertheless, Yes, I genuinely believe that if Justin were in it for just the photos and fame of somehow capturing the un-captured then he would have left long ago. But he still visits Nụ when he can, offering her, the child in isolation,Photo Credit:

The death of a baby is tragic, always. But for the terrorists in Gaza and their supporters, the death of a child provides an irresistible public relations bonanza. Even when the killer of the baby isn’t their enemy, but their own weapons.

So when the Egyptian Prime Minister, Hesham Kandil, paid a visit to Gaza as a show of support for his fellow Islamists, a dead four-year-old child, Mahmoud Sadallah, was furnished for the photo opportunity. The staging was perfect: Kandil, gently laying a kiss on the dead child’s forehead, while Ismael Haniya, a Prime Minister of Hamas, holds the child aloft, as dozens of concerned men look on in the background.

Kandil fought back tears as he said to reporters gathered to record the moment, “What I saw


A former mayor of Waverley allegedly paid $12,000 to his nephew to organise the "serious torture" and murder of a male prostitute, a court has heard.

James Robert Markham, 73, is charged with soliciting the murder of male escort Paul Dunshea or an unknown person. He is also charged with recruiting a person for the purpose of criminal activity.

Mr Markham, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, was formally excused from appearing at his committal hearing at the Downing Centre Local Court today.

He is accused of ordering the hit which was recorded by Channel Nine's A Current Affair program, with reporter Ben Fordham posing as the hitman.

The court was played the recording during which Mr Markham tells Fordham he wants the escort to be strung up at an abattoir before beingOver the past six years, a partnership between Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas has been forged to achieve the goal of bringing more American Indians into the biomedical research community. With support from the NIGMS MORE programs (Bridge, IMSD, RISE and IRACDA), 24 American Indian students from KU or Haskell are either enrolled in graduate school or are in the pipeline to enter a biomedical graduate program. We seek to build on these successes by providing research and academic training to American Indian students with a bachelor's degree who find themselves under-prepared for graduate work. The KU Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) will recruit talented American Indian students from Haskell, KU, and elsewhere. These scholars will begin a program of research, coursework and professional


The Lebanese brides may have scored a major victory.

Following a highly publicized protest this month in which women dressed in bloodied bridal gowns demonstrated in front of government offices, Lebanese lawmakers said they were close to repealing a law that allowed rapists to get away with their crimes.

The law, which has been in place since the late 1940s, states that convicted rapists can face up to seven years in prison – more if their victim is handicapped – but that prosecution can be suspended if the rapists wed their victims.

Parliament member Elie Kayrouz told Reuters Monday that his committee, which was tasked with re-examining the law, will recommend that the parliament repeal it from the country’s statutes during the next legislative session.

Read More: Turkey Withdraws Controversial Child RapeThe Toronto Raptors had won, and some of their front-office staff were starting to regain some of the colour in their cheeks, and DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry were up on the podium, the way they almost always are in the playoffs, the usual. They were asked: How important was it to win Game 6 in Milwaukee and get three days off to rest, recover, and prepare for the Cleveland Cavaliers?

DeRozan neared the microphone, then turned to his teammate and friend. “Your back all right?”

Lowry nodded and reassured him, “I’m straight.”

DeRozan turned back and grinned. “It’s going to be critical, then.”

DeRozan knows his pal well enough to know Lowry never complains about his health, so it landed as a joke. Still, Lowry was moving well enough in Game


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Whatthe once independent south, meanwhile, a crackdown on what had been a peaceful movement against alleged political and economic marginalization has ignited demands for secession and violence.

A major risk for Obama, experts said, is that Yemenis, Saudis and others will be drawn in greater numbers to join al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the network's Yemen-based franchise, to fight the unpopular Saleh or stage attacks on his U.S. benefactor.

Stepping up U.S. security aid to Saleh "can actually play into the hands of al Qaida," warned Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who's been warning for years about a growing terrorist threat from Yemen.

Obama announced his decision to "strengthen our partnership" with Saleh after the failed Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner


if civilians were killed, as they've been in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"If there is any insistence from any foreign party or aggression or invasion against the country . . . then Islam considers jihad a duty," said the letter, which was read at a mosque in the capital, Sanaa. The signatories included Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who once was close to Osama bin Laden.

Forging closer ties with Saleh also risks costing Obama some of the goodwill he reclaimed for the U.S. when he vowed in a June speech in Cairo that he'd preside over "a new beginning" in U.S. relations with the Islamic world.

Senior Yemeni officials, apparently aware of the potential for a backlash, said they have limits on cooperation with Washington.

"As long as what the United States does isthe Washington Institute for Near East Peace.

The Counter-Terrorism Unit, an elite contingent that's commanded by one of Saleh's nephews and received training from U.S. and British special forces, is among those that have been used in the south and north, Knights said.

U.S. officials insisted that safeguards are in place to ensure that Yemen abides by its pledges to restrict U.S. counterterrorism assistance to combating al Qaida.

Britain, a leading provider of aid to Yemen, will host a Jan. 27 conference in London to coordinate counterterrorism efforts more closely with Saleh and the U.S., which will be represented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Yemen, which supplied hundreds of men to fight the 1979-89 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, has long been a home to al Qaida operatives. They staged the October


2000 bombing of the USS Cole and attacks on Western targets, including a 2008 assault on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.

Saleh, however, has been a mercurial ally. He cracked down on the terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but offered only grudging cooperation in the USS Cole investigation, and then turned his attention to a rebellion by northern Shiites known as Houthis.

Twenty-three al Qaida operatives, including the alleged key plotter in the Cole attack, are thought to have received inside help to tunnel out of a prison in February 2006.

Al Qaida's Yemeni franchise grew stronger under new leadership that included former Guantanamo Bay detainees who are believed to have guided last year's merger with the Saudi cell.

The U.S. already had intensified its cooperation with Saleh against alQaida before the failed Christmas Day attack, with two U.S. airstrikes hitting al Qaida training bases earlier in December, and Yemen has since stepped up raids against the group.

It remains unclear, however, how Obama plans to balance closer ties with the regime against the risk of fueling anti-American sentiments, which experts said al Qaida already is exploiting to recruit new fighters and forge ties with tribes opposed to Saleh.

"The United States is increasingly shifting support to the Saleh regime at a time at which it is increasingly losing (popular) support," said April Alley, an expert at the National Defense University in Washington. "A popular view within Yemen is that the U.S. is supporting an increasingly unpopular regime and buttressing autocracy."

Some experts also said that Obama doesn't have a


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several medical experts on board, including Dr Fredrik Nystrom, a droll Swedish professor from Linkoping University. Nystrom has run overfeeding experiments with young medical students, but what attracted him to ours was that our volunteers were mainly middle-aged and half were women. “I have found it impossible to recruit older women for an experiment where they might become seriously fat,” he told me.

One of the first famous faces to say yes was the 45-year-old singer and songwriter Peter Andre. Peter works out six times a week and said that he was looking forward to having the excuse to pig out on junk food. When we tested him at the start of the experiment he was in good shape.

Shaun Wallace, a 58-year-old barrister known to ITV viewers as theDark Destroyer on the quiz show The Chase, also does a huge amount of exercise. He was convinced that he could burn off the extra calories.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries, 61, was our third volunteer. She was a real trouper and I particularly enjoyed the sight of her heading into Downing Street clutching her burgers. On another occasion she was spotted sharing chips with her fellow Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Our fourth volunteer was Tessa Sanderson, 62, the six-time Olympian and gold medal-winner in the javelin. She believed that her fitness would protect her against the worst effects of the experiment.

The person I was most anxious about was Hayley Tammadon. The 42-year-old Coronation Street actress had suffered from irritable bowel syndrome for many years and I feared that junk food would


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Jackson, Wyoming, is an unlikely place for urban farming: At an altitude over a mile high, with snow lasting into May, the growing season is sometimes only a couple of months long.

But the town is about to become home to one of the first vertical farms in the world, reports Fast CoExist. A startup called Vertical Harvest recently broke ground on a three-story, 13,500 sq ft hydroponics greenhouse that will be providing fresh micro-greens and tomatoes to the Jackson community.

Equal to 5 acres of traditional agriculture, the produce will be grown on revolving carrousels and 95% of its produce has already been sold under pre-purchase agreements with area restaurants and local grocery stores.

And, perhaps best of all, their mission includes an employment and training program for individuals with


The parallels with Vince Young are uncanny. Young came out of Texas with a national championship and almost a Heisman, he was big, he was mobile, and he had an arm from Hell. He had some success his first year out. But he's a backup now in Buffalo. He didn't pan out. Cam benefited from the lockout before the start of last season, teams had little opportunity to prepare for him. That and the NFL's crackdown on hitting benefited everybody on offense in the league. Teams have now had a full year and camp to study him. While sophomore slumps are common among promising QBs, he's not showing improvement. And I question whether he has the maturity to become a true leader, which is what your QB HASto be. Like many in the league, his antics after scoring a TD are those of a punk, he acts like he's never been there before. I do have hope that things can be turned around, for him and the team. But it's going to be a long hard road!

I'm starting to have some real worries about Cam. The parallels with Vince Young are uncanny. Young came out of Texas with a national championship and almost a Heisman, he was big, he was mobile, and he had an arm from Hell. He had some success his first year out. But he's a backup now in Buffalo. He didn't pan out. Cam benefited from the lockout before the start of last season, teams had little opportunity to prepare for


some real worries about Cam. The parallels with Vince Young are uncanny. Young came out of Texas with a national championship and almost a Heisman, he was big, he was mobile, and he had an arm from Hell. He had some success his first year out. But he's a backup now in Buffalo. He didn't pan out. Cam benefited from the lockout before the start of last season, teams had little opportunity to prepare for him. That and the NFL's crackdown on hitting benefited everybody on offense in the league. Teams have now had a full year and camp to study him. While sophomore slumps are common among promising QBs, he's not showing improvement. And I question whether he has the maturity to become a true leader, whichis what your QB HAS to be. Like many in the league, his antics after scoring a TD are those of a punk, he acts like he's never been there before. I do have hope that things can be turned around, for him and the team. But it's going to be a long hard road!

more doctor phil armchair sports psychologist bullshit about cam's "leadership problems" and "antics". interesting that this post comes in the wake of cam actually being animated and involved with his teammates on the sidelines today.

the young/newton comparison doesn't work. young's rookie year was nowhere near as good as cam's (young had 12 TDs to 13 INTs for a 66.7 passer rating) and he's a much less polished passer than newton even now. not to


Stealth fighters fly off the radar

Not everyone missed out on Tuesday's top-secret passing of one of the world's most mysterious aircraft.

Gareth Goetz, an Anaheim mortgage broker, was one of 100 cheering aviation buffs who gathered in Palmdale at a makeshift viewing spot just outside the gates of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s defense plant.

Many in the crowd drove hours to catch a view of the last four F-117A Night Hawk stealth fighter jets in the nation's arsenal as they made their final flight before heading off for mothballing at a desert base in Nevada.

Because the F-117A's stealth technology is still considered classified, the public was not allowed to attend a private retirement ceremony inside the base.

The Pentagon attempted to keep even the last flight top secret, much the way theplane has flown since it was conceived 30 years ago.

So the crowd employed a stealth maneuver of its own and met just outside the western edge of the complex to catch a peek.

"That was incredible," said Goetz, who drove two hours to watch the less than one-minute takeoff. "I have some free time these days, so I wanted to see the last flight. It's historic."

In an early afternoon ceremony, the crowd looked on in silence as the black kite-like planes took off one by one, led by a jet whose undercarriage was painted with the American flag. Each fighter flew over a throng of about 100 cheering aviation buffs who had gathered at a makeshift viewing spot just outside the base. In formation, the planes then circled back


and flew overhead before heading east to their final resting spot.

The send-off began shortly after 1,000 former and current employees of Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works held a tribute to the aircraft they had developed, built and maintained, virtually all shrouded in secrecy.

"It's now time to say farewell, farewell to an old friend," said George Zielsdorff, Lockheed's vice president for the F-117A program, as employees signed their names on the bomb bay doors of the four planes parked in front of Building 601. Inside sat the next generation of stealth fighter jets, F-22 Raptors. With the introduction of the F-22, the Pentagon decided to retire the F-117As in 2006.

Beginning in 1981 and until 1990, Lockheed assembled 59 Night Hawks, most of them in total secrecy, in a hangernext to the Burbank airport. Later, Lockheed continued to upgrade the fleet at its complex in Palmdale. The Air Force did not acknowledge the program's existence until about a decade after the jets began flying.

The single-seat F-117 was the first plane that could evade radar detection. It was designed to fly into heavily defended areas to knock out radar installations and anti-aircraft missile batteries, clearing the way for other fighters and bombers. It was also used to destroy military command and communication centers. During its development, the F-117 flew only at night to avoid prying eyes and Soviet spy satellites, thus its name: Night Hawk.

Reporters who attended Tuesday's retirement ceremony were kept 75 feet from the planes and were not allowed to go beyond a roped-off area.

The retired


spectacular hikes into several canyons. Trump removed the area, rich in both Anasazi antiquities and natural beauty, from the monument, as well as Dark Canyon and Elk Ridge. Accordingly, the current planning process fails to address some of the busiest places within the 1.35-million acres President Barack Obama originally designated as a monument.

The new management plan will also grapple with other increasingly popular destinations, such as Moon House, Comb Ridge, Butler Wash and Mule Canyon, home of the iconic and easily accessed House on Fire ruin.

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Impeachment

I have asked if anyone knows what could be cause for impeachment. I found this as an addendum to an article in The Daily Mail ...

In the United States, Congress has the sole power to remove the president, vice president, and all other federal office-holders. The House of Representatives drafts Articles of Impeachment as a formal indictment, and the Senate holds a trial and votes on whether to convict.
The Chief Justice of the United States presides over that trial, in which two-thirds of


the senators' votes are required to send an official packing.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution provides that federal officials can be impeached for 'Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.' The latter category is a vague catch-all based on England's idea that a 'high crime' is one that only a public office-holder is in a position to commit.

Future U.S. president Gerald Ford was the House Minority Leader in 1970 when he opined that 'an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.'

Of the 19 federal officials impeached in U.S. history, 15 were judges – including one Supreme Court justice. The others included two U.S. presidents, an 18th-century U.S. senator and a 19th-century Secretary ofWar.

In 1998 and 1999, President Bill Clinton was impeached on perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to his statements under oath about an extramarital affair he had with a White House intern.

A Republican-controlled House of Representatives delivered the impeachment to a Republican-controlled Senate, but the GOP's 55-45 majority there wasn't sufficient. Fifty GOP senators – and no Democrats – voted to remove Clinton on one charge, and 45 on the other.

The Reconstruction-era president Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 after he violated the Tenure of Office Act by replacing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, even though the law was largely written and enacted to protect Stanton's job.

Johnson was acquitted in the U.S. Senate by the narrowest of margins: a single vote.

There is no question that Obama is


The seventh presidential elections in Ukraine are taking place on Sunday 31 March.

Among the candidates are popular comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky, current president, "chocolate king" Petro Poroshenko, and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Here are five fun facts about the election.elongated body is slidably inserted into the channel of the channel. A latching means is provided at the end portion of the channel, and an associated latching means is formed at the end portion of the elongated body of the brush member. The latching means and the associated latching means are engageable with one another to secure the brush member mounted on the handle when the brush member is brushed in an up and down direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the brush member. The latching means and the associated latching means will disengage with one another when the brush member is brushed in a direction along the longitudinal axis of the brush member.


Martin Freeman has revealed he stayed away from watching the Fargo film, once he signed on for the TV version.

The Hobbit star admitted he chose not to re-watch the Coen brothers' crime drama before shooting, so his performance wouldn't be a copy of it.

"I definitely didn't re-watch it, purposely. I like the film, but I didn't feel I wanted to be influenced by it," he said.

"I wanted to play what was in the script. The tone of the TV show is set by Noah Hawley's scripts, which obviously are influenced by the Coen brothers, and I always go on whatever script I'm working on at the time."

Martin plays henpecked insurance salesman Lester Nygaard in the TV show, who finds a new boost of confidence when he meets Billythe local business community for publications such as Inside Business and Cleveland Magazine. She was editor of the Rocky River/Lakewood edition of In the Neighborhood and was a reporter and photographer for the Amherst News-Times. At Fresh Water she enjoys telling the stories of Clevelanders who are shaping and embracing the business and research climate in Cleveland.


to be built upon a solid professional foundation based in the officer corps but crossing over to the enlisted members and lower-ranks. Certain decision-making functions will have to be flattened which mandates more cross-specialization training for small unit leaders so they can take decisive actions in real time. The proposed training program will include advanced interdisciplinary training between military occupational specialties; better mid-career development for non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, including fellowships with national defense universities; and more opportunities to attend the Foreign Service Institute. Training should incorporate education on new uses for information technology in the battlefield.

As a consequence of this reform expect to see pushback from senior military leadership who prefer to focus on conventional operations and specialized skill-sets in their combat personnel. The likely costcompetition, with the only rival product being Adrenaclick, which carries a list price of $461.

Related: Mylan CEO's EpiPen Price Arguments Fall Short

Mylan CEO Heather Bresch has defended the price hikes, saying the company only received $274 of the total price for a twin-package while insurers, pharmacies and other parties divvy up the rest.

People usually keep a number of EpiPens handy at home, school or work. The syringes, prefilled with the hormone epinephrine, expire after a year.

Numerous members of Congress and other politicians this week have called for congressional hearings on Mylan's pricing, an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and action by the Food and Drug Administration to increase competition by speeding up approvals of any rival products. On September 21st, 2016, the House Oversight Committee convened the


LUSAKA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has suspended all train services, including the transportation of copper following a strike by workers in Africa's second-largest producer of the metal, the company said on Wednesday.

The line is an important route for copper exports from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa's top producer, but the firm transporting the metal struggles to pay its workers, prompting strikes.

TAZARA spokesman Conrad Simuchile said train services between Zambia and Tanzania were suspended indefinitely after unionized employees in Zambia went on strike, demanding payment of their unpaid salaries for October and November 2017.

"In the last few months, we have been transporting at least 7,000 tonnes of copper exports from DRC and Zambia per month," Simuchile told Reuters.

"In addition, wehave also been conveying at least 3,000 tonnes of steel and 10,000 tonnes of fertiliser imports destined for Zambia every month."

In the 2015–2016 financial year from July to June, TAZARA's annual total freight traffic reached 130,000 tonnes from 87,000 tonnes in 2014–2015.

The TAZARA railway is jointly owned by the governments of the Tanzania and Zambia on a 50-50 basis. (Reporting by Chris Mfula; Editing by James Macharia and Louise Heavens)


SALT LAKE CITY - A gay rights organization is calling on Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to apologize for suggesting homosexuality is a choice and for calling decisions by other state leaders to not defend same-sex marriage bans the "next step to anarchy."

John Netto, head of the Utah Pride Center's board, said the governor's comments during his monthly televised news conference Thursday were hurtful.

"To suggest that allowing gay marriage is the foundation of anarchy, to us, is hate speech," Netto told The Salt Lake Tribune. "We think he is uneducated ... on current scientific positions in regard to human sexuality."

Herbert's office didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Herbert said Thursday that he remains committed to defending Utah's same-sex marriage ban, which was struck down by a federal judge inRoyal Holloway. She died in 2002.

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On 28 August 2019 a blue plaque will be unveiled in Dame Marjorie’s honour by Wakefield’s Forgotten Women project in conjunction with Wakefield Civic Society as part of the city’s Festival of the Moon, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 lunar landing. The Forgotten Women scheme will also honour her achievements by bringing her story to life in a series of performances of a piece entitled Professor Quantum by Wakefield College students.

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according to the RBC business portal.

A source close to the Russian delegation and Sechin's acquaintance told the Vedomosti business daily later that Sechin was due to accompany Putin for talks with Turkey’s leader on Monday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Sechin, dubbed “Russia’s second most powerful man” for close ties to Putin, was due in Russia’s southern city of Sochi for the meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court judge ruled in Moscow to issue a second summons to Sechin to testify at the next hearing on Nov. 15, Mediazona reported.

The first serving Russian cabinet member to be arrested since the fall of the Soviet Union, Ulyukayev denies the charges that he solicited a $2-million bribe from Sechin.

He accuses Sechin of conspiring with a retired seniorcareer discontinuity, and shorter work hours for female MBAs'

The study also found that the impact having children has on a woman's career is directly tied to spousal income.

Women who had both a high-earning husband and children experienced the largest dip in income after giving birth, while the effect on those with spouses earning $100,000 or less was much less pronounced.

In addition, many MBA-qualified mothers seem to actively choose careers that are more family-oriented, while at the same time avoiding jobs with longer hours and greater career advancement possibilities.

Gender gap: Researchers explored the reasons behind the difference in high-achieving men and women's earnings over a decade

Among ambitious couples struggling for work-life balance, the message is clear: Someone's career often has to take a hit, and it's usually the lower


Photograph taken by UPI Photo Editor Bill Snead in May 1968 of Dan Southerland and South Vietnamese soldiers. The UPI journalists and soldiers were in Saigon overlooking street fighting, which included snipers and some rocket fire. Photo courtesy of Dan Southerland

A wounded Viet Cong soldier on the floor following the Tet Offensive of 1968, one of the most extensive military campaigns in the Vietnam War. Photo courtesy of Dan Southerland

Dan Southerland, a South Vietnamese Marine officer and a wounded Viet Cong soldier on the outskirts of Saigon during the "Mini-Tet Offensive" of May 1968. Photo courtesy of Dan Southerland

Dan Southerland waiting for a helicopter soon after arriving to Vietnam in 1966 as a rookie UPI reporter. Photo courtesy of Dan Southerland

Alan Dawson on his last assignment as UPIbureau chief in Saigon, later renamed to Ho Chi Minh City, on Sept. 2, 1975, during a celebration of Vietnam's National Day. Dawson left Vietnam the next day under an expulsion order. Photo courtesy of Alan Dawson

Vietnam reporter Dan Southerland driving a "Mini Moke" vehicle as he delivered wounded Vietnamese to an ambulance that would not go into a dangerous area during one of the biggest rocket attacks on Saigon in May 1968 during the "Mini-Tet Offensive." Heavy rocketing of the city lasted for 12 consecutive days. Photo courtesy of Dan Southerland

An Air America helicopter crew member helps evacuees up a ladder on the roof of 18 Gia Long St. in Saigon on April 29, 1975, shortly before the city fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops. An erroneous


caption once described the helicopter as atop the U.S. Embassy. File Photo by Hugh Van Es/UPI | License Photo

WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) -- It was April 29, 1975, the last day of the Vietnam War, and people were desperate to get out of Saigon.

UPI photographer Hubert Van Es captured what became an iconic image of the fall of the city: a line of people trying to board a helicopter atop a building.

Van Es died in 2009. But in a recollection of the event for The New York Times in 2005, he told the story of the photo - and why most people are mistaken about what it shows.

About 11 a.m. that day, the evacuation of the foreign press corps began. Van Es, along with UPI Bureau Chief Alantook off with only about a dozen people inside.

Van Es rushed to transmit the photo, which in those days was done via radio signal.

Somewhere in the editing process, an erroneous caption was attached, stating that the helicopter in the photo was atop the U.S. Embassy roof, since that had been the main evacuation site -- and the scene of much panic and chaos as North Vietnamese troops were closing in.

Dan Southerland, who had landed in Vietnam as a rookie reporter for UPI before moving on to the Christian Science Monitor, recalled watching South Vietnamese civilians pressing to get through the embassy gates to safety.

In a recent interview with UPI, Southerland said he assumed many of the South Vietnamese people he knew would be mistreated under the new regime.


So he spent his last days in Saigon attempting to arrange for several people to get onto military airplanes or helicopters.

"Fortunately, I was able to get several Vietnamese out, but I was unable to persuade my old interpreter to leave," said Southerland, who is now an executive editor with Radio Free Asia. "He was convinced that the Communists would do him no harm because he was relatively poor. He was wrong. He was interrogated and beaten up and finally had to flee a few years later by boat."

Ken Englade was a UPI field reporter from the Saigon bureau who worked seven days a week for three weeks at a time in the northern part of South Vietnam. Late on the 29th, he, too, was at the embassy gates.

"Wehad a staff meeting... to decide who wanted to try to make it off the embassy roof and who wanted to stay," he said in a recent interview.

He, Vogle and and UPI staffer Bert Okuley decided to evacuate.

"When we got to the embassy, there was a large but subdued crowd in front of the gate," Englade said. "We had to force our way through. Vietnamese were forcing slips of papers into our hands with their names in the belief that someone inside would recognize them and come to their rescue. It didn't happen."

"I also had to fend off several women who tried to give their babies," Englade said. Englade, Okuley and Vogle were about halfway through the crowd when Vogle, tears streaming down his face, said, "'I can't


do it. These are my people.'"

Vogle turned around and walked back.

Meanwhile, UPI audio editor Tom Foty, who now anchors radio newscasts for CBS News, was in New York City, taking Dawson's final radio spots and putting them on the network for subscribers: "I was on duty when the North Vietnamese troops marched into Saigon."

CBS TV aired those reports in its nightly broadcast anchored by the legendary journalist Walter Cronkite, who had also begun his career at UPI.

Dawson, who fought in the Vietnam War as a soldier left the Army to join UPI in 1970. He became UPI's bureau chief for Vietnam and Indochina in 1973. He stayed on after the war until he was expelled by the new Communist government the following September.

Advertisementa place that would seem somewhat old and lowrise to our eyes today, a city of surface parking lots. Toronto would transform radically over the coming decades, as would the rest of Canada. It’s one reason why a new book, “Canadian Modern Architecture — 1967 to the Present,” is so compelling: it looks at how much remarkable building has taken place since then and tells the story of Canada’s modern, determined invention.

“Architecture-wise, the last 50 years has really seen the growth of Toronto as a modernist city,” says Elsa Lam, co-editor of the book along with University of Calgary architecture professor Graham Livesey. “The New City Hall competition, launched in 1956, was a significant catalyst.”

Lam, who is also the editor of Canadian Architect magazine, says city hall, by


Finnish architect Viljo Revell in collaboration with the Toronto firm John B. Parkin Associates, not only brought international attention to Toronto when it opened in 1965, but also attracted talented young architects to move and work here, a somewhat hidden legacy of the building.

“Much of Toronto’s strongest architecture has continued in a modernist vein, taking a problem-solving approach to design that values functionality, efficiency and the expression of structure, but not at the expense of beauty,” Lam says.

The 1967 starting point for this survey is as natural as it was the year of Expo 67 in Montreal. For many Boomers it was one of the most remarkable and memorable summers of their lives, when they came of age and, at 100 years, so did the country. Gen XersRevenue Service classifies them as “property” which should be taxed as a commodity. It’s no coincidence that the personal income tax (16th Amendment) and the Federal Reserve were established in the same year, 1913. Prior to this, America was experiencing its greatest period of economic growth in history.

Arizona and Idaho seek to join two other states, Utah and Oklahoma, in freeing gold and silver from taxation in the interest of pursuing currency competition and sound money. While these four states are certainly not the most enlightened in other areas – namely the War on Drugs – their efforts at challenging the Federal Reserve are laudable.

Passage into law would mark an important step towards currency competition. If sound money gains a foothold in the marketplace against Federal Reserve notes,


The brassy wail of trumpets and trombones, the reedy intonation of saxophones and the steady thump of a drum beat could be heard through the hallway walls at Tiverton High School late Thursday afternoon, as members of the school’s jazz ensemble did a run-through of charts they’d been honing for the last few months.

Members took turns taking improvised solos over the rhythm section.

It’s been a busy spring for the music department overall. It culminated last week, with some 80 members of the stage ensembles and the chorus performing for the first time in their recently renovated auditorium at Tiverton High school.

The Tigers marching band will also perform in the Fall River Memorial Day Parade.

Last month the concert band, marching band and jazz ensemble embarked on a six-day cruisetrip aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s “Explorer of the Seas” ship to Bermuda, each earning superior ratings in the high school music festivals there.

The month before, the Jazz Ensemble placed third among 17 bands in the Berklee College of Music’s annual High School Jazz Festival.

The Bermuda competition actually began prior to the cruise on April 13, at Port Liberty in Bayonne,

N.J., with the marching band division. The competition featured four different school districts and nine high school-level ensembles overall.

They performed before panels of nationally acclaimed adjudicators and clinicians.

The marching band earned 76.6 out of a possible 80 points, enough for a Superior rating, despite some low New Jersey temperatures and windy condition.

The High School Jazz Ensemble Division occurred during the first performance day onboard the ship. Earning


95.5 out of a total possible 100 points, the THS Jazz Ensemble also captured a superior rating.

It wasn’t all work and no play — band members enjoyed some rest and relaxation at port in Hamilton, Bermuda. They took part in offshore excursions, had some pool time, and enjoyed onboard performances hosted by the ship’s entertainment staff.

But on day five it was back to business with the concert and symphonic band division of the festival.

They received perfect scores in balance, literature and technique, and received a verbal critique from composer Jerry Nowak.

In addition to superior ratings each ensemble attained, several members received outstanding soloist honors, including junior piccolo player Chelsea Bouchard, soprano, alto and tenor saxophonist Sarah Leonard.

Junior trumpet player Cooper Pallasch, a member of all three ensembles, earned30 July 2015

Release Day Blitz & Giveaway: Before & After by Nazarea Andrews

Before & After by Nazarea Andrews.
Audience/Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance.
Publication: July 30th 2015 by A&A Literary.

Rike and Peyton fell in love in college.

A boy from the wrong side of the tracks, covered in ink and crooning in a bar is the last person a straight laced girl with a art major should fall for, but his rough edges made her jagged, alive, shaving away the coddled southern princess and revealing a soul wild and brilliant.
They fell in love, despite her family and his past and all the reasons why it wouldn't work--and with their best friends, they made a life. Everyone was supposed to live happily ever after.
They, more than anyone, knows that life doesn't go


Midwives, students and healthcare professionals have called for improvements in antenatal and childbirth services for deaf families, at an event organised by Kingston University and St George's, University of London.

The Deaf Nest Project conference was run by final-year midwifery student Paulina Ewa Sporek, founder of the Deaf Nest Project, and created an opportunity to discover more about the issues that affect the deaf community.

Attendees heard from deaf charity representatives, hearing and hard of hearing healthcare professionals, and deaf parents who shared their personal experiences of the barriers they have faced during pregnancy and post-natal care. One mother told her story of being left distressed, trying to lip-read her midwife as her husband received bad news about her pregnancy.Paulina Ewa Sporek at the Deaf Nest Project conference

Event Chair, DrJacque Gerrard, Director of the Royal College of Midwifery, described ‘huge gaps' in equality of support to deaf parents or parents with deaf children. "From some of the stories that we've heard, health services say they don't have budgets for British Sign Language interpreters – but if there are budgets for interpreting in other languages, why aren't there budgets for interpretation for a deaf parent?"

Dr Gerrard went on to commend Ms Ewa Sporek for taking the initiative to create the project and tackle these issues: "It has taken the efforts of a student midwife to actually bring it to the attention of the maternity world – now we need to get the word across to politicians, policy makers and healthcare providers, so they also get the message and


be offered to midwifery and nursing students as a part of their training programmes."

The Deaf Nest Project has been recognised by a number of governing bodies – it has been awarded the Royal College of Midwives Slimming Award for Public Health and a certificate of commendation by the Cavell Nurses' Trust.

Find out more about studying midwifery at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.Pryor is not Blanche Lincoln. In 2010, there was never much doubt that Lincoln — one of only three Democratic Senate incumbents to lose reelection in the past decade — would get wiped out. Republicans saw Pryor as a dead man walking when Rep. Tom Cotton got into the race and cleared the field. But the conventional wisdom has shifted; big Democratic TV buys drove up Cotton’s negatives, and the race is very much in play. After some public polls showed Pryor ahead, a handful of Republican internal surveys have shown Cotton in the lead.

( PHOTOS: 10 tough Senate races for Democrats)

Pryor, who didn’t even draw a Republican opponent in 2008, is a skilled retail campaigner with an independent image. But Arkansas has grown more conservative, and Pryor


has voted for every signature Obama initiative, including Obamacare. Despite Cotton’s controversial votes, whether against the farm bill or the Violence Against Women Act, he is a slight favorite at this point.

3. North Carolina

Freshman Sen. Kay Hagan does not have an established family “brand” like Landrieu and Pryor, which makes it easier to run against her as a generic Obama Democrat. But the president is more popular in North Carolina — he lost the state in 2012 by only 2 percentage points — than in Louisiana or Arkansas.

After conservative outside groups spent tens of millions bombarding Hagan, women’s groups are now rallying to her defense. But, because she was elected in 2008, all her major accomplishments are the accomplishments of an unpopular administration. Republicans plan to run acampaign against Hagan similar to the one she ran against Elizabeth Dole in 2008: tying her to the president and calling her an ineffective legislator.

( Also on POLITICO: Dems' best shot in Mississippi)

State House Speaker Thom Tillis won the nomination without a runoff. He is now overseeing a special session of the state Legislature, which brings some political headaches, along with stories about GOP infighting. Hagan’s path to victory requires destroying Tillis’ image in a way that drives women and African-Americans to the polls.

4. Alaska

Even though Mitt Romney won the state by 14 points, freshman Sen. Mark Begich looks better positioned than any other Democratic incumbent running in a state carried by the GOP ticket in 2012.

The former mayor of Anchorage has run a flawless campaign thus far,


and Peters tied in the polls, national Democrats in March dispatched a new campaign manager, who has helped right the ship.

Michigan is a blue-leaning state, but Republicans can certainly win there, especially an open seat in an off year. Gov. Rick Snyder, up for reelection, might give Land some coattails.

10. New Hampshire

Scott Brown’s campaign rollout has not lived up to the expectations of national Republicans, who spent the better part of a year practically begging him to take on popular Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. The former Republican senator from Massachusetts, who lost to Elizabeth Warren in 2012, was defined early by negative attack ads. He trails by low-double-digit margins in recent polls, and he’s viewed more unfavorably than favorably.

Working in Brown’s favor is the Granite State’s tendency to breakLabor force participation among registered nurses and women in comparable occupations.
Comparison of labor force participation of female nurses with women in comparable occupations showed no difference in overall participation rates. However, analysis by family life cycle did show differences: married nurses of all ages with young children were more likely to be in the labor force than those over age 35 without young children, while the reverse was true for married women in the comparison groups. Data were obtained from a pooled national sample survey of adult noninstitutionalized persons residing in the continental United States from 1972 through 1978 and 1980. Separate discriminant function analyses on nurses, teachers, and a composite group of other women using independent variables derived from a conceptual model of pushes and pulls into


that they are one of the best known to the audience and might give them a frame of reference. The bit about no women in the band made me laugh! All the usual excuses came out! It was highly amusing to me that they actually managed to get the potential for intimate relations out into the national radio community!
Glad to see that the "internet based band" got a mention.

Persins.. the bit about the "no women" in the band on the radio.. was that from the band members.. and not a woman going on and on and on?!
I'm reeeeally worried, and REALLY need to hear this radio thing.. my mum got interviewed at Greenfield when Brighouse were playing on the stand.. and she had SO better not have beendog collar went on and on and on. Unfortunately he was stood by me whilst he was recording it so you dont know how lucky you are!!!!!!!

To be fair to the programme makers they showed us their brief/ spec before they interviewed us and the "religious significance" was one area they had to explore. they must have had hours of material at the end of the recording to edit.

Just listened to this on the listen again feature.
Loved the bit 24minutes in, when Brighouse were taking the vote on the bus as to whether they should do Delph. There's a voice from the back shouting "Put ya hand up - ya fat git".
Its good to know that even these 'SuperStars' of banding are still just a normal band.


On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded 38 minutes after take-off over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

The 259 people on board were killed, along with 11 people on the ground.

Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, who was a reporter at the time, was among the first journalists to arrive at the scene.and assistance with formatting for final submission. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

Acknowledgments
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The authors would like to thank the Companion Animal Parasite Council for its facilitation of the meeting through its organizational efforts and its financial support for travel, food, and lodging to make the meeting a possibility. Robert Lund's work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMS 0905570.


well locally, spawning a small local radio hit with "Shimmer" even before being signed to a major label. The popularity of the EP brought them to the attention of Sony's 550 imprint, which released their third EP, Hazleton, the following year.

Mainstream success (1998–2003)
Upon signing to Epic, the band entered Longview Farm recording studios in Massachusetts, along with producer Steven Haigler and session drummer Jonathan Mover due to problems with Abbott. The band's full-length debut, Sunburn, came out in 1998. "Shimmer" was again included and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks charts, No. 11 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, No. 37 on the Adult Top 40 chart and at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as Platinum single sales in Australia;Origin and Nature of Physical and Spiritual Realities

DR JOHN COLEMAN
JJCLMC@GMAIL.COM

August 12, 2008
ABSTRACT: The meaning of matter and spirit as we comprehend them are realities rooted in still deeper realities. God reveals through His

Manifestations how attributes of matter and spirit flow from the transcendent worlds of creation and become manifested as contingent beings. Eastern religions including the Baha’i Faith teach that the ultimate source of all being is the unknowable God Whose purpose for creation is that He be known. God is the Creator but not the Cause of the universe. The Word of God is the Cause of creation, Who is endowed with the power of the Great Ether. Ether is a spiritual manifestation of

the Word of God that is the basic substance of all contingent matter and


and that such a Soul had all power and was able to do anything.” III. What Is The Reality Of Ether? In 1887, physicists Michelson and Morley tried to measure the difference in the speed of light while the point of measurement moved towards the sun in the morning as well as away from the sun in the evening. This experiment assumed that if space

was filled with ether, the measurements should indicate a higher speed of light as the earth moved through the ether towards the sun as well as a lower speed of light as the earth moved through the ether away from the sun. But no change in the velocity of light was ever observed! Later, Einstein declared the speed of light is constant regardless ofcame to pass. At that time there were no Akashic records, no nether regions, nor the three worlds. At that time only the Formless Lord Himself existed – there was no creation. As it pleased Him so did He act; without Him there was no other.” (Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Section 9) “In the Primal Void the Infinite Lord assumed His Power. He Himself is unattached, infinite and incomparable. He Himself exercised His Creative Power and he gazes upon his creation; from the Primal Void He formed the Void. From this Primal Void He fashioned air and water. He created the universe and the king in the fortress of the body. Your light pervades fire, water and souls; Your Power rests in the Primal Void. From this Primal


Brahma, the Immortal, the Self.… He who understands all and who knows all, He to whom all this glory in the world belongs, the Self, is placed in the ether in the heavenly city of Brahma (the heart). He assumes the nature of mind and becomes the guide of the body of the senses. He is the beginning, producing the causes which unite (the soul and the body) and being above the three kinds of time (past, present, future). He is seen as without parts after we have first worshipped that adorable God who has many forms and who is the true source (of all things) as dwelling in our own mind.” (Upanishads, vol.2)

“He who thus vows his soul to the Supreme Soul, quitting sin, passes unhindered tothe endless bliss of unity with Brahma. He … sees the Life-Soul resident in all things living and all living things in that Life-Soul contained.” (Hindu, Bhagavad Gita (Edwin Arnold translator) XI. How Is Ether Related To The Human Spirit? All religions state that man is made in the image of God. We incorporate all the names and attributes of God. In His Tablet of Wisdom Baha'u'llah infers that ether bears the closest likeness to the human spirit. Referring to Socrates, Baha'u'llah states: "He it is who perceived a unique, a tempered, and a pervasive nature in things, bearing the closest likeness to the human spirit, and he discovered this nature to be distinct from the substance of things in their refined form. He hath a special pronouncement


imagine building. Gravity roared in as a powerful but little understood influence at this microscopic scale. While space was expanding the particles presence tended to reverse this expansion at rates inversely proportional to the square of the distances between masses.Gravitation forces started a "tug of war" with the forces of expansion of the spaces between masses. After this beginning the expansion would cool this super-hot anarchy of colliding matter. As the universe cooled further the collisions became less violent and began to coagulate into protons, neutrons and other heavier particles. (These were like the first liquid state elements that Plato equated with "water.") Earlier, such a union would have come apart in the violent collisions. As universal cooling continued, collisions became gentler.After three minutes, temperatures had fallen enoughis also searchable by alphabetical order, chronological order, names by location of birth, the first PhD's in Mathematics of Women before 1930, and prizes, honors and awards for women mathematicians.

In the Classroom

Share this site with students as a resource when writing biographies of famous mathematicians (or women's history.) Share one woman mathematician on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) each day as students arrive in class. Use this site in history class to locate and research famous mathematicians alive during the time period being studied. Challenge students to research one of these famous women and create a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.

Zoho Show is an online presentation and document creator tool. This program is somewhat simpler than PowerPoint, but runs on a


in class to stimulate discussions and engage learning. Watch the videos on the site from educators that show how they use the site in their classrooms.

In the Classroom

Use this tool for discussions, project collaboration, voting on issues, and sharing resources in and out of the classroom. Increase student participation and encourage in-class discussions and outside homework, extension of the classroom, and activity. Use for blended learning activities that include discussion questions to extend the discussions from in class to outside the classroom. Provide multiple choice questions that they can answer, agree or disagree with statements, post comments, or vote on other responses. Use the discussions to debate issues in the school community or within the country. Critique and comment on current events as they are happening. Use tois a straightforward cartoon-creator site meant to teach the importance of character, setting, problem, and solution. The site provides possible characters, settings, and conflicts from which students can choose. Creating cartoons is an effective way to teach students how to write stories with a clear storyline and structure. The story problem section allows students to write in their own scenarios. Students are responsible for creating the solution to the story problem themselves. Each cartoon strip contains six boxes, allows two characters per page, and speaking bubbles as well as narrative box across the bottom of the page.

In the Classroom

Use "Speak Up" as part of a mini-lesson about problem and solution or dialogue. Have students create their own cartoons as part of a craft lesson. Print out the cartoon


first to be sure the media are not blocked by school web filtering. Choose one item from the site to share on your interactive whiteboard or projector as a class discussion starter on current topics or as a lead-in to a lesson. (Example: show the YouTube video about order of the planets when beginning an astronomy unit). Share the site with students and let them explore to find interesting topics for research reports. Ask students to choose one item from the site to share with other students as a way to practice oral presentation skills. Use videos or images as writing prompts or blog prompts. ESL/ELL students can practice their language skills by retelling a favorite video. Challenge your students to create their own informative videos on asimilarly showing a slotted member pinned at one end to a second elongated member with a connecting member pinned to the second member, and having one end attached to a slider moving through the slot. This enables a setting of an angle between the first and second mentioned members.
When such devices are used as a saw guide, a base member must be held against the lumber piece or other material being cut as the saw is advanced across the angled member with the base member being held in an accurately determined positioned as the sawing operation is continued. Oftentimes there is some slight shifting movement resulting from the urging of the saw edge against the member used as the guide, with a resultant loss of accuracy in the


William Basinski in Arcadia

"Since the high renaissance, society has always found a place to go to dream." I'm speaking via Skype to Rhys Chatham, composer for 400 electric guitars and former curator to New York's legendary venue, The Kitchen. "Whether that was in Bohemia or one area or another area. For art to work," he says, "you need either patrons or government grants, you need press, and you need cheap rents."

For Chatham and his contemporaries, those cheap rents could be found Downtown, in the southern end of Manhattan. A few decades later, when William Basinski was looking for a space to work, no struggling artist could afford to live in Manhattan, so he went to Brooklyn and opened his Arcadia in a former ironworks. It was "a beautiful,magical place," Basinski recalled wistfully in an interview last year for Tinymixtapes. Even the very name Arcadia evokes a utopian promise, an unspoilt idyll.

In the years in between, the location may have changed, forever on the run from the property developers, but the sense of wonder stayed the same. Chatham left New York in 1988 for Paris, at around the time that Basinski opened Arcadia. Returning to the city in the 1990s with his twenty year-old daughter, he was embarrassed to find many of his old haunts had become "sushi shops and bars that charge $10 a beer". But when one of the members of his band took him to a gig in Williamsburg, he started to recognise the expressions on people's faces, the styles, the ambiance. He