Utah panel targets teen dating violence

In informal poll, 50% of state's teens call the abuse a problem

By Geoffrey Fattah , Deseret News

Published: Thursday, June 16 2005 12:00 a.m. MDT

(Deseret Morning News graphic)

As a 19-year-old student at Brigham Young University, Sarah Southerland said she didn't recognize the signs that she was about to enter into an abusive relationship with a young man she met in religion class.
She thought his questions about where she was, what she was doing, even what she was wearing, were just the symptoms of a "lovesick boy."
"But it wasn't because he loved me," said Southerland, who ran off with him to marry in Vegas.
Southerland told lawmakers Wednesday that during her 4 1/2-month marriage she was beaten with a golf club and baseball bat, and lockedin a room and starved.
After being bound with tape and told by her husband he planned to kill her to collect on a life insurance policy, Southerland said she managed to escape to her family and press charges. Southerland told lawmakers the man served 22 days in jail.
Although numbers are scarce, advocates against domestic violence say abuse among dating teens appears to be a problem.
Susan Burke, with the Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-violence Coordinating Council, said an informal survey of teens across Utah showed that 50 percent of them thought there was a problem with violence among teens who date.
Rep. David Litvack, D-Salt Lake, read a letter from a 19-year-old who had been with her boyfriend since she was 13. Litvack said the boy would choke her and


273 F.2d 757
AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, Agricultural Insurance Company of Watertown, New York, and Niagara Fire Insurance Company, Appellants,v.TREASURER, SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 37, McCURTAIN, OKLAHOMA, Appellee.
No. 6168.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
December 29, 1959.

Walter D. Hanson, Oklahoma City, Okl. (William L. Peterson, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., was with him on the brief), for appellants.
Gus Rinehart, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Butler, Rinehart & Morrison, Oklahoma City, Okl., were with him on the brief), for appellee.
Before HUXMAN, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.
LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

1
On April 2, 1957, a tornado struck and partially destroyed a school building owned and operated by the respondent School District and insured against windstorm damage through the appellant insurance companies. In a suit by the School District to recover the amount of loss so occasioned, the trialcourt rejected as irrelevant evidence proffered by the insurance companies to the effect that the School District intended to abandon the building for school purposes and to arrange for the demolition of the building in its entirety. The correctness of this ruling is the only question submitted on appeal.

2
Evidence admitted in the case showed that the school building was constructed in the early 1900s; that the School District had sought and obtained federal assistance for the construction of a new building upon the representation of need and the assertion that the existing building was inadequate and hazardous; that on the date of loss a new building was in the process of construction but not completed; that upon the day prior to the storm the school was in full


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three of the other pitchers who batted in the DH-era AL were from the early years of the rule (all were in 1976 or earlier). They were all used to batting most of their careers to that point: Holtzman played 6 years for the Cubs and 1 year for Oakland pre-DH before he was penciled in to hit for himself, Jenkins was fresh off an 8-year stretch with the Cubs, and Brett played his first 4 years in the pre-DH AL before switching leagues in 1973 for the next 3 years. Holtzman and Brett were used to PH in their careers, and Brett, who is the only pitcher to bat for himself in the starting lineup twice in the DH-league, PH 28 times over his career, including 6times in the 2 and a half months between his two occurrences. These three pitchers averaged 546 career PAs prior to hitting for themselves. Sonnanstine, on the other hand, had accumulated 14 career PAs hitting only in interleague games played in NL parks. Never before has such an inexperienced hitting pitcher been used in lieu of a DH.

Sonnanstine was also the only one of these to hit higher than 8th (which Brett did in one of his 2 games). In fact, he's the only pitcher dating back to the mid-50s, where Retrosheet has complete batting order data, to hit 3rd in the starting lineup, and in all of Retrosheet's batting order data, which includes data from a handful of years before the 50s, the only other pitcher to


7th. Of the other 8:

-Three were by Jimmy Lindell, and career outfielder who, at age 36, briefly revived his career in 1953, 3 years after he last played in the Majors, as a pitcher.-One was by Cesar Tovar, the Twins leadoff hitter who played anywhere and everywhere on the diamond, in a publicity maneuver where he played every position in the same game. It was the only Major League game he ever pitched.-One was by Jack Bentley, a pitcher the Phillies converted to first base in 1926. He also started 3 games on the mound that year, and in one, he hit in his normal 5th spot.-One was by Alvin Dark, the Giants shortstop who regularly hit 2nd and occasionally led off. He pitched a game in 1953and led off.-The only game by a regular pitcher was from Gary Peters in 1968, when he hit 6th in the first game of a double-header against the Yankees on May 26. It was the only game Peters ever started in which he didn't hit 9th, but he was known as a decent hitting pitcher: he PH 75 times in his career, including once in the second game of that doubleheader.-The other game was Babe Ruth's, whose, along with Dark's and Tovar's, fills out the group of games in the Retrosheet data where the starting pitcher has hit in the top 4 spots.

So Sonnanstine's only real match here is Gary Peters, if we're willing to count hitting anywhere 6th or better as close enough to hitting 3rd.

Beyond just


being put in a strange position, Sonnanstine further distinguished himself by actually succeeding, going 1 for 3 with an RBI double. Of the other pitchers to bat in the starting lineup in the DH-era AL, only Fergie Jenkins got a hit. Of any pitcher to bat at any point in a DH game, only Eduardo Rodriguez (Game 1, Sept. 3, 1973), Mike Jeffcoat (Aug. 2, 1991), John Wetteland (Aug. 16, 1997), and David Howard, who was a shortstop but pitched a game in relief and came to bat as a pitcher (Apr. 12, 1994), have hit for extra bases. Jeffcoat, Wetteland, and Howard are joined by Mike Benjamin, another shortstop who pitched a game in relief and batted as a pitcher (June 21, 1997), and Buck Martinez, a72 U.S. 318
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5 Wall. 318
DWYERv.DUNBAR.
December Term, 1866

ERROR to the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the case being thus:
William Dunbar, assignee of George C. Dunbar, brought suit against T. A. Dwyer, on certain notes given by the said Dwyer. Dwyer, who had other creditors, and had become embarrassed, set up as a defence, that after the maturity of the notes, one Smyth, by W. Dunbar's authority and acting for him, had made and carried into effect a general settlement of his, Dwyer's, indebtedness to his other creditors, and to Dunbar, and had signed and given to him an acquittance, as follows:
'Received of T. A. Dwyer, $35,500 in merchandise, in full for the annexed amounts to date, which amount includes the amount of William Dunbar,


assignee of George Dunbar, whose power of attorney I do not hold, but whose agent said that William Dunbar was willing to do what the balance of New York creditors were. In case said Dunbar declines acceptance of the above composition, the pro rata due him is to be held subject to the order of said Dwyer.'
The defence set up further that before this receipt was given, the plaintiff, W. Dunbar, by a letter dated on the 23d of May, 1856, and written and signed and sent to the defendant, Dwyer, by one J. T. Ray, acting for and by the authority of him, Dunbar, had authorized him, Dwyer, to make the settlement set forth in the receipt, and had thereby approved it in advance. And it averredthat Dunbar had not declined acceptance of the settlement, &c., but, on the contrary, had ratified the same.
On the trial, the notes having been put in evidence, the defendant offered a deposition of Smyth, to which was attached a letter written by Smyth himself, some time previously, to one Charles Russell, an agent of Dwyer. This letter professed to give an account of the assent of Dunbar to the compromise set up; spoke of a letter 'from Dunbar to Dwyer, shown me by the latter,' and which Smyth stated that he regarded as 'the authority of Dwyer to adjust Dunbar's claim on the same basis that the other claims were arranged.'
To the same deposition was attached, also, the letter of Ray. This letter ran thus:
NEW YORK, May 22,


1856.
T. A. DWYER, ESQ.
DEAR SIR: Yours of April 26th has been received. Mr. Dunbar, the assignee, being absent at the time, I could not join with the other creditors in their arrangements without consulting him. Since then I have seen Mr. Dunbar. He is disposed to arrange your indebtedness the same as other creditors.
Respectfully,
J. S. RAY,
For W. DUNBAR, assignee of G. C. Dundar.
The deposition to which these letters were attached, after stating that at a meeting of Dwyer's creditors, sundry of them nominated him, Smyth, attorney to adjust their claims against Dwyer, and that among those who came to the meeting was a person 'who represented himself as appearing for Dunbar,' and who stated that Dunbar 'was willing to do what other creditors were,' and that the othercreditors had acceded to the settlement made—went on to say in reference to the letter of Smyth above referred to (this being all, however, which it said in reference to it):
'The letter of this affiant to Charles Russell, was written in reply to a letter of said Russell, wishing to know the circumstances respecting the settlement made in the Dunbar claim by me.'
The admission of the letter to Russell being objected to, on the ground that Smyth had nowhere stated in his deposition, that what he said in his letter was true, the court below excluded the letter.
The defendant then read the deposition, as also, Ray's letter attached; and read the power of attorney of the other creditors to Smyth, to compound and compromise things with Dwyer; Dwyer's


receipt of the $35,000 merchandise; and after reading these, and a deposition of one Green, who testified that he had understood from the representatives of William Dunbar, as also from George Dunbar himself, that Dunbar was a party to the arrangement—offered in evidence a deposition from Russell. The deposition ran thus:
'While acting as the agent of T. A. Dwyer, the defendant, in June, 1856, I received a number of letters, among which there was one addressed to Mr. Smyth from Mr. Ray, agent of Mr. Dunbar, which I forwarded to Mr. Smyth. The contents of said letter were, to the best of my recollection, in substance as follows: 'Mr. Dunbar has returned to New York, and after conversing with him relative to the Dwyer claim, he says, anysettlement you make with Dwyer will be satisfactory to him."
To this deposition the plaintiff objected that it did not show that the letter of Ray, mentioned in it, was sent by the plaintiff's authority, and that therefore the deposition was irrelevant. And it was accordingly excluded.
Ray himself then testified that he had been employed by William Dunbar, assignee of George Dunbar, to assist him in settling the indebtedness of the said George; that at the meeting he stated that he was present for W. Dunbar, assignee; that he had written the letter already read as his; that the letter was written by him (Ray) on his own responsibility, and without consulting Dunbar at all; and that Dunbar expressed dissatisfaction with the settlement made by Smyth, so soon as


to charge as it did, were the matters now before the court on bill of exceptions taken.

Mr. Carlisle, for the plaintiff in error:

1. It appears, by Ray's deposition, that he was employed by William Dunbar as the assignee of George, in the capacity of agent to assist him in settling up the indebtedness of George; and that on the meeting of Dwyer's creditors Ray represented and was present for W. Dunbar. Green deposes, in effect, to the fact that Dunbar was a party to the arrangement that Smyth should settle the claims of the New York creditors against Dwyer; and Ray himself deposes as to the letter of May 22, 1856, written by him to Dwyer. In this state of the evidence the court erred in excluding Russell'screditors to give up a part of their claim.8
Mr. Justice SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

1
The suit was founded upon two promissory notes executed by Dwyer to George C. Dunbar, and by him indorsed to the defendant in error, who was the plaintiff in the court below.

2
Dwyer, in that court, set up, as a defence to the action, that he had made a compromise and composition with his creditors, and that the plaintiff was a party to the arrangement and bound by it. The plaintiff denied that he was in anywise a party to the agreement.

3
The cause was tried by a jury, and a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff. Upon the trial, Dwyer took exceptions to the ruling out of certain testimony which he


Q:

Why did so many Italians emigrate to Argentina?

On 13th of March, 2013, archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became new pope of Catholic Church. He was born and raised in Argentina with Italian origins.
There are more than 24 millions of Argentinian citizens who have Italian roots, making it around 60% of the country population. They came to South America in different generations. Many of them during the great European immigration wave to Argentina at the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Italian immigration was an important part of that, as between 1880-1920 Italy was facing social and economic disturbances.
As for the overall reasons of immigrating to Argentina, articles linked above mention in the first place the open immigration politic of the Argentinian officials,Brazil and the United States could offer economic opportunities not to be found in the old country, but equally importantly, had policies that were open to immigration.

Italian Emigration 1876-1926
Many Italians left Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; it is one of the largest modern emigrations any country has seen (Ireland was another, and Italian and Irish emigré communities became rivals in many places). Argentina was a popular destination, but so were Brazil and the United States, as well as Uruguay and Canada, and numbers of Italians are noted in Venezuela and Peru as well. According to a 1931 paper on emigration between 1876 and 1926, an estimated 8.9 million Italians emigrated to the Americas, 7.6 million to other countries in Europe, 300,000 to Africa, 42,000


century, when the U.S. became the favored destination until after World War I, when Argentina resumed the crown.
As the great majority of Italian emigrants were economic migrants, it was the availability of work above all that governed their preferred destinations. Argentina was popular at first because of geography; farm laborers could find work in Argentina to earn extra income during the Northern Hemisphere winter. As the economy there boomed— in per capita terms, it was one of the wealthiest countries in the world at the start of the 20th century, thanks to demand for its agricultural products— there was also work to be had in building and railroad construction. Domingo Sarmiento, president of Argentina 1868-1874, encouraged immigration, although he rather wished for more Northern Europeans, even attempting tosubsidize them.
In 1890 Argentina suffered a severe economic downturn, the Baring crisis, which also affected its neighbors and the U.S. But Brazil's coffee planters were becoming more aggressive in seeking cheap labor. São Paulo state began to subsidize passage and lodging for recent arrivals, and in the 1880s, coffee plantation owners had begun promoting Brazil heavily as a destination. As such, Brazil began attracting a large proportion of Italian emigrants; indeed, in percentage terms, Italians would become a larger part of the Brazilian population than the Argentinian.
Word of ill-treatment of Italian workers in Brazil led to outrage in Italy, and in 1902 the Prinetti Decree outlaws subsidized emigration to Brazil. This sharply curtailed the number of Italian immigrants to Brazil, and helped swing the numbers to the United


States. In contrast to the situation in South America, the U.S. needed cheap labor for its factories, not farms, and some argue that some Italians deemed the life of a factory worker preferable to that of a farm laborer or ranch hand. So the United States absorbed the lion's share of Italians until after World War I, when a series of anti-immigration laws all but closed the country to Southern Europeans (among others).
After World War II, Italian emigration expanded to places like Australia, but improving economic conditions at home would eventually stem the population outflow to more stable levels.

A:

To take off on the climate answer, it is noteworthy that the area between Buenos Aires and the Brazilian border (to the north), approximates the southern latitudes of Italy's ownnorthern latitudes. Thus, not only the temperature, but the rainfall and crop patterns of that part of Argentina resemble that of parts of Italy. Basically, Italians felt "at home" there.
In the U.S., the Labrador current makes places like New York City (where many Italians settled) much colder than the same latitude in northern Italy. The parts of the U.S. further south with similar climates (e.g. Virginia and the Carolinas) were much more "Anglo" and Protestant and much less receptive to Italians than climatically similar areas in Argentina (whose "settlers" spoke an Italian-like Spanish, and who were mostly fellow Catholics).
Also, Argentina was the most technologically advanced South American country in the late 19th century, while Italy was less advanced than the rest of Europe and the U.S. Put another


way, they were quite "compatible" in this respect, being at similar stages of development.

A:

One thing that may have been a big factor is the climate. Argentina is the one place in South America that has large areas of temperate climate. This allowed Europeans to go there and find not just temperatures and weather they were already acclimated to, but that allowed the kinds of agriculture they knew.

The other large temperate areas available are in the United States, Southern China, the East Coast of Australia + New Zealand, and southern Africa.
Of those, the USA also experienced a large amount of Italian immigration in this same period. The British controlled South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and Dutch the rest of southern Africa, which may have served to deter othernationalities from settling in those places. China already had more than enough Chinese people living there.
According to the link above, a large number of the people emigrating from Italy during this period were rural folk from south Italy, so being able to carry out their agriculture would have been a huge deal.

The newly created Italian constitution, drafted after unification in 1861, heavily favored the North. This caused economic conditions to considerably worsen for many in southern Italy and Sicily. Heavy taxes and other economic measures imposed on the South made the situation virtually impossible for many tenant farmers, and small business and land owners. Multitudes chose to emigrate rather than try to eke out a meager living.


Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland says the rapid growth in women's cricket could allow the 2020 Women's World T20 tournament to be held as a standalone event.

All five Women's WT20s so far have been held concurrently with the men's tournament, giving the women's game extra exposure and allowing female players to experience the big-game atmosphere of playing the final on the same day and at the same venue as the men.

Following the 2016 tournament in India, the Women's WT20 will continue to be played as a biennial event with the men's tournaments to now be played every four years.

While the women's events in 2018 and 2022 will be standalones, the 2020 tournament is scheduled to run alongside the men's in Australia in 2020.

And Sutherland says the women's gamehaving their own clear air at the end of our 2019-20 summer and then the men come in later in the year.

"It’s not really our decision ... we need to talk that through with the ICC."

Hosting the 2020 women's tournament at the end of the 2019-20 season would allow organisers to build on the momentum of the Women's Big Bash League, which would be in its fifth season.

ICC CEO Dave Richardson said the 2018 women's tournament in the West Indies will provide an indication as to whether or not future women's tournaments should also have standalone status.

"We'll see how that event goes in the West Indies," Richardson told Cricket Radio. "It's a matter for consideration.

"There's two schools of thought; some say (the women's players) benefit and they love


being part of the men's event, others say 'no it deserves to have its own standalone status'.

"The women's game is going from strength to strength. I think this tournament, the fact that it's combined with the men's has done a wonderful job in helping the women's game grow and increasing the profile of the women’s event.

"To the extent that we might have to start thinking ... as to whether the Women's World T20 justifies a standalone status.

"Because we don't want everyone to be focused on the men's and not on the women's."

The inaugural WBBL and the upcoming Women's Cricket Super League in England are further positive steps for women's cricket and generally for women's sport, which Sutherland believes has enjoyed a landmark few years.

The full impact of theWBBL became clear on Sunday when the West Indies women's team credited the new competition after their upset win over three-time winners the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars in the WT20 final in Kolkata.

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Windies opener Hayley Matthews, who played for the Hobart Hurricanes in the WBBL, was named player of the match in the decider for her knock of 66 off 45 balls.

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"Coming from playing in Australia, it helped me to already know a lot of the bowlers a lot better (and) what they're coming at me with," the 18-year-old said.

"Also working with my coaches in Australia, they really helped me a lot with my batting. Also my patience and even my confidence.

"I do think that really


helped a lot."

West Indies skipper Stafanie Taylor, who scored 59 to finish both the leading run-scorer and player of the tournament, expressed similar sentiments.

"It actually helped us. Hayley's quite young and I think it was good exposure for her to go and build (to) what she's actually doing now," said Taylor, who helped steer the Sydney Thunder to the maiden WBBL title in January.

"She matured. You could see that out there in the way that she played."

Sutherland said all women's sport was currently enjoying a significant period of growth.

"I'm just projecting forward and 2015 was a big year for women’s sport around the world and the respect for women’s sport was something that changed in the tide I think," he said.

"The women's World Cup soccer in Canada wasWho's Johnny

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Whatever aid money is agreed on this weekend is supposed to be contingent on the Afghan government commitment to attacking the country’s endemic corruption and upholding and improving human rights standards--something the draft media law does not seem terribly concerned with.

The proposed new law will go in front of the legislature with little or no advice from the vibrant Afghan media community that has grown up since 2001, said Danish Karokhel, the head of Pajhwok Afghan News, who was the lead-off topic in that June 11 blog. He told me overnight that the best tactic the Afghan media community can come up with is, “Stop it from getting to Parliament.” One positive of the 2009 law now in effect was that local media were involved in its construction.regarding media issues.

The government would have much wider power to limit foreign broadcast programming--just as foreign influence would wane with the 2014 NATO troop drawdown and the government could swing to a more conservative political approach. Bollywood movies and Turkish soap operas are widely popular, but even their modest standards may be too racy for the post-2014 Afghanistan.

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State law now requires Gov. David Ige to schedule a special election within 120 days in the sprawling district that stretches from Waikiki to Hawaii Kai.

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▪ Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets – Thoughts from a Life (Continuum, 2005) extract from pages 50 through to 51.

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More than three years after the Timorese people voted to begin the process of independence from Indonesia, the General Assembly today voted to admit the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as the 191st Member State of the United Nations.

More than three years after the Timorese people voted to begin the process of independence from Indonesia, the General Assembly today voted to admit the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as the 191st Member State of the United Nations.

“This milestone embodies the realization of its people’s hope to take their place among the community of independent nations,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at a ceremony to raise the Timorese flag outside UN Headquarters in New York.

“None of us can forget the sacrifices made by


the people or the courage of its leadership,” Mr. Annan said. “Even before this day, Timor-Leste showed that greatness among nations is not a matter of size or resources, but rather one of global citizenship and adherence to the highest principles of our Charter.”

The admission of Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, follows that of Switzerland, which was admitted on 10 September after its citizens passed a referendum in March in favour of joining the world body.

Earlier Friday, in his address to the Assembly, President Xanana Gusmão expressed gratitude for the commitment of the international community to Timor-Leste. He said that his country often has been mentioned as a “UN success story” and acknowledged the contribution of the international community, “namely that of the United Nations and its bodies, thecreator Greene had previously made the ARMA 2 mod DayZ: Battle Royale, earning himself cult status within the PC gaming world.

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Transportation Security Administration officials say they believe an 80-year-old South Carolina woman had no idea until she went through airport security that the walking cane she was attempting to take on an airplane contained a hidden sword. Regional spokesman Mark Howell recounted the incident Thursday at Myrtle Beach International Airport as part of an effort to highlight examples of dangerous items recently carried by passengers departing the airport. Howell told reporters secret swords are not actually that uncommon a discovery for TSA screeners, since people sometimes buy the canes at thrift stores without realizing there's a sword inside. Howell emphasized that people can't take anything on board that resembles a weapon, including toy guns and squishyUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was set to name a former Lebanese culture minister as new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending an unusually contentious four-month search that followed U.S. rejection of his first suggestion.

FILE PHOTO: Ghassan Salame, dean of The Paris School of International Affairs, attends a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 24, 2014. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

Guterres on Friday officially put forward Ghassan Salame, a professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at Sciences-Po in Paris, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday. Diplomats said objections were unlikely and the U.N. Security Council will greenlight the appointment on Tuesday.

The council must agree by consensus on the appointment of special envoys. Traditionally, the U.N. chief


informally discusses candidates with the 15-member body to ensure agreement before officially proposing a name.

The search for a successor to Martin Kobler, a German diplomat who has served as the U.N. representative in Libya since November 2015, began in February when Guterres proposed former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for the job.

The United States rejected Fayyad because of his nationality. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United Nations had been “unfairly biased in favor of the Palestinian Authority to the detriment of our allies in Israel.”

“In practice ... if (countries) have a significant objection then they usually make it clear before the secretary-general has made the proposal,” said a senior council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity. “So it was very unusual that the United States blocked thein

Brampton has an incredibly rich history — Chinguacousy Township was first surveyed in 1819, settled by immigrants from Brampton, Cumberland, North England. John Elliott applied the name Brampton to the land in 1834, and the city has been through war, hurricanes, and architectural development since.

That said, there are certain neighbourhoods in Brampton that have been around much, much longer than others. In fact, there are communities still standing that have been around since 1815 — 200 years ago — according to the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (PAMA).

Note that first three neighbourhoods on this list are listed in no particular order. Downtown Brampton encompasses several of the oldest areas in Brampton, dating back to the 19th century, and which ones were the earliest are currently unable to


be confirmed. This map depicts all of the oldest neighbourhoods located in downtown Brampton for reference:

Map courtesy of PAMA, Heritage Conservation District Feasibility Study

Brampton’s history is so old and rich and there were once neighbourhoods here for which no trace now exists, like Broddytown, Nortonville, and Claireville (though some names have been repurposed for current use, like Claireville Conservation Area!).

Here are five of the oldest neighbourhoods that are still standing in our city!

5) Nelson Street West (mid to late 19th century/early 20th century)

The Nelson Street West neighbourhood encompasses single-deatched houses and a few semi-detached houses, ranging from cottages to mansions. Here, you’ll still find classic Ontario cottage-style buildings near Italianate mansions, semi-detached homes with roughcast plaster, a large Regency house, and a Second Empire mansion perched on anold western bank of the Etobicoke Creek, according to PAMA. From Elizabeth and Railroad, the spire of Christ Anglican Church is visible, which was the neighbourhood’s main institutional landmark. The Nelson West neighbourhood extends west to Park Street which runs parallel to the historic Credit Valley Railway.

4) Central School neighbourhood (19th/early 20th century)

A mix of single-detached homes remain in Central School neighbourhood, encompassing three major landmarks in the area: Central Public School, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and Grace United Church at the northeast, southeast, and southwest poles of the neighbourhood, respectively, according to PAMA. Now, in this area from Church Street East, look east and instead of blank sky you’ll find a high-rise building just outside of the neighbourhood! Ah, how times have changed.

3) Civic, religious, and commercial


heart of old Brampton (19th century)

Complete with commercial streetscapes, and civic and religious landmarks, this area is very close to the Four Corners at Queen Street and Main Street. This is very much still near the heart of downtown Brampton. A row of commercial buildings along Main Street South and another along Queen Street East still stand from the 1800s. PAMA itself is also in this neighbourhood, which used to be the Peel County Courthouse, Registry Office, and Jail. Here, you’ll also find a civic precinct on Chapel Street that served as library, firehall, and armouries, and St. Paul’s United Church and First Baptist Church. As for residential buildings, there are a few, including a Queen Anne house near City Hall.

The following two oldest neighbourhoods in Brampton arethe course of 200 or so years it has been home to a slaughterhouse, a tannery, a schoolhouse, a wooden boardwalk, several churches, small hotels, and a cemetery. Some buildings have survived and are now designated heritage homes here in Brampton.

Bonus: The Four Corners (1830s)

Featured in our cover photo, the Four Corners began as a crossroads hamlet known as “Buffy’s Corners” after William Buffy’s Tavern, located at the north-east corner of the intersection. Buffy’s Corners then and The Four Corners now, this intersection has remained the heart of downtown Brampton. Lots were sold in the area beginning in 1834, subdivision plans were laid out from 1850-1884, Haggert Foundry, the Dale Estate Nurseries, and the Grand Trunk Railway were introduced in the mid-1800s, and after 1867, civic buildings and


burn him in the massive furnaces within the caves, but, instead, the beast flees, promising to torch Lake-town to the ground for their proposed part in his planned defeat. In the meantime, Gandolf learns that a dark force known as the Necromancer is using the one-armed Orc Azog (Manu Bennett) to form any army to destroy Middle Earth.

When you consider the spectacle involved and the edge of your seat derring-do on display, The Desolation of Smaug can’t help but satisfy. It soothes a wicked itch that anyone who saw An Unexpected Journey still has, a need to feel the majesty of the material within all the fairy tale trappings and mythologizing. The spider battle is something, followed almost immediately by the video game insanity of the barrel escape.John H. Hager, assistant secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services (OSERS), U.S. Department of Education, is pleased to share with you
the schedule of a series of public meetings held during calendar year 2005 to
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desire to be dominated. The program will be broadcast on Saturday, September 19 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) in conjunction with the release of the book "Seven Days of Rage: The Deadly Crime Spree of The Craigslist Killer" (Pocket Books)* out this week. Written by 48 HOURS MYSTERY producer Paul LaRosa and Boston Globe reporter Maria Cramer, "Seven Days of Rage" also uncovers new details of how Markoff nearly eluded authorities on the day he was caught.

In April 2009, Manhattan model and masseuse Julissa Brisman was discovered lying face down in a pool of blood in the hallway of the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, her head battered and a bullet through her heart. Brisman was at the hotel to meet a client she had connected with on Craigslist.

In anexclusive interview, hotel guest Jill Stern (a pseudonym) describes to Paul LaRosa what she heard in the moments before discovering Brisman's body. "It sounded like maybe some furniture was being moved and then I heard a shriek," says Stern. "It was high-pitched and sounded like a child. I thought maybe a kid was having a fight with her parents."

As the investigation unfolded, pieces of an astonishing puzzle emerged: investigators revealed that the same man was linked to two other assaults across the northeast, all involving women whom he contacted through the website's infamous erotic services classifieds.

"I shut the door, I turned around and I locked it. That's when he pulled out the gun, he was very calm," Trisha Leffler, a Las Vegas-based escort who was the first victim,


tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY in an exclusive interview, "he knelt down with one knee in between my legs. I'm thinking, like what does he want? I'm shaking. I'm scared. It dawned on me later that he could have killed me."

Three vulnerable women, each cornered in a hotel room by a man they met on Craigslist, one of them murdered when she resisted.

"I turned around and he pulled out a gun. His hand was shaking pretty bad," recalls Amber (a pseudonym), an exotic dancer who was assaulted in Rhode Island. She was the third victim. In her exclusive interview she tells LaRosa how the gunman repeatedly told her, "I don't want to kill you. I'm broke and I just need some cash or cards."

The story captured headlines, striking fearin many as they wondered who would be next? With a combination of high-tech investigative tools and old-fashioned shoe leather, investigators were led to the unlikeliest of suspects: twenty-three-year-old Philip Markoff a second-year medical student at Boston University who was engaged to be married within months of the attack. One officer recalls staking out Markoff's apartment, watching him and his unsuspecting fianc�, Megan McAllister, saying, "She looked like she was living in a fairytale."

The program and book also detail the intricately coordinated efforts by authorities that would lead to Markoff's capture. On Monday, April 20, Markoff and McAllister packed up their car and headed south on I-95. Facing the possibility of losing their man, Massachusetts police were in a race against time as the couple approached the Rhode


Island border. Needing a positive identification of Markoff, everyone was on edge, and Trisha Leffler was the key to his capture. As authorities pursued Markoff, Leffler was in New York City with two NYPD officers showing her photos in hopes of identifying the man who had bound and robbed her.

"I stopped on number five and said �that's him,'" says Leffler in an exclusive interview. "As soon as I saw the picture I started shaking."

Leffler made her identification at 4:03 PM. Markoff's car was stopped less than 25 miles from Rhode Island at 4:07 PM.

Peter Van Sant and Richard Schlesinger report on 48 HOURS MYSTERY, "Seven Days of Rage." This broadcast is produced by Paul LaRosa and Sarah Prior. Al Briganti is the executive editor. Susan Zirinsky is themind, we have Casey Thomas from Dark Shadow Studios coming in to discuss her experiences in pitching ideas, along with recommendations on what you should do to prepare for pitching to someone.

We will also have updates from the City of Ballarat around hat is coming up in Ballarat, and (I hope) an update on the status of the Creative Coworking space.

There will also be networking opportunities after the official talks are done, so please feel free to stick around afterwards.


It wasn’t easy to impress Peggy Charren. As the founder of the Action for Children’s Television (ACT) organization, Charren was a tireless crusader for quality kids' programming. She resented the glorified toy commercials posing as juvenile entertainment and successfully lobbied Congress to pass legislation limiting the number of ads aired during shows. She hardly ever promoted or endorsed a specific series.

But Charren made an exception for Zoobilee Zoo.

The 1986-1988 syndicated series about six anthropomorphic, artistically-inclined animals—including Bill Der Beaver, Van Go Lion, and Talkatoo Cockatoo, with Ben Vereen as the leopard-spotted host—so impressed Charren with its determination to foster creativity among its preschool audience that she praised it in the pages of the Los Angeles Times. It was racially diverse, she said, and tackled subjects (like disabilities) notQ:

Who's the child and her mother that can "talk to flowers" in Ruins?

In Ruins (1995), a Marvel Comics limited series, there is a child who says that she has a mother that "talks to flowers". Who's the child and who is her mother?
I was able to identify many of the characters referred to in Ruins but not this one. This part also wasn't mentioned in the Wikipedia plot summary for Ruins. I searched for Marvel comics characters that have a "talking to plants" ability but have only found Dryad and Klara Plast, and they both seem to have been introduced after Ruins was published.
The page where the character appears and mentions her mother is below:
Click on image below to view original, full-sized image.

A:

The girl was just a girl.


According to my good friend, Ruins artist Terese Nielsen, she was inserted into the plot in order to demonstrate Phil Sheldon's frame of mind.

Q: In Ruins, who was the little girl?
TN:  The model was our daughter, the character was a random little girl
that could tell he needed a flower and a hug.

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Court arrests three Turkish soldiers for beating Syrian refugees near border

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A court has ruled for the arrest of three soldiers for beating and verbally abusing four Syrian refugees who attempted to cross the border illegally in the southern border province of Hatay.Another soldier was released as part of an investigation carried out by the Altınözü Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into the incident on July 31.The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) on July 30 said the soldiers who were seen in a video footage mistreating Syrian refugees at the border were detained.The army said “all necessary administrative and legal procedures” were launched into the incident, which drew widespread criticism on social media.The video that was recorded on July 28 at around 11:00 a.m. shows four Turkish soldiers kicking and beatingThe 44-year-old French national endured the strong currents and four-degrees Celsius temperature of the Bering Strait in a four-kilometer swim between the US island of Little Diomede and Russia's Big Diomede.

Croizon was accompanied by long-distance swimmer Arnaud Chassery. Beginning in May, the duo swam across three other straits separating the continents – the Red Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar and from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia.

After reaching Big Diomede, Croizon said it was the hardest swim of his life, despite lasting for only 80 minutes.

Philippe lost his arms and legs after being struck by electricity. He didn’t lose heart, however, and managed these near-impossible feats thanks to specially designed artificial limbs.


Two decades before police said Gary Martin, 45, opened fire at his co-workers, he was convicted of aggravated assault in Mississippi. Authorities there said he regularly abused a former girlfriend, at one point, hitting her with a baseball bat and stabbing her with a knife.

"All I can remember is him hitting and kicking me, I can remember fighting and screaming for help. I remember him pushing my head into that brick wall outside the apartment and thinking that he was going to kill me," the woman told police in Mississippi in 1994, according to court records.

The incident led to Martin's arrest. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison, though records show he served less than three years. He later moved to Aurora, Illinois, wherehe spent 15 years working at a warehouse, where he was able to buy a gun despite his felony record, and where, on Friday afternoon, violence erupted again.

Authorities in the Chicago suburb said Martin was called into a meeting at the Henry Pratt Co. warehouse. After he was told he was being fired, he began shooting, killing the three employees who were at the meeting and two others who were nearby, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters Saturday. Among the dead was an intern on his first day at work.

Investigators have said little else that would explain the shooting spree, including why Martin was fired.

Police do not know if Martin knew of his termination and planned the shootout beforehand. But Dennis Rokop, a retired nuclear project manager,


to confiscate the firearms. Instead, the letter asks people to specify that they either no longer have possession of the firearms, or have given them to another person.

The shooting also carries echoes of the April 2018 shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee involving a suspect who had obtained a FOID card from Illinois. Travis Reinking, who has been charged in that shooting, had previously been arrested for trying to cross a security barrier near the White House. As a result, Illinois authorities revoked his FOID card, took his guns and gave them to his father. But Reinking later got the weapons back.

"The fact remains is that some disgruntled person walked in and had access to a firearm that he shouldn't have had access to," Ziman told reporters,referring to Martin. "I don't want to make it political. This is a human issue. Lives were lost."

Wehner was killed on his first day as an intern at Henry Pratt. In a statement Saturday, Northern Illinois University president Lisa Freeman said Wehner was supposed to graduate in May with a degree in human resource management. Parks, an alumnus of the university, graduated in 2014.

A family friend of Wehner, Cynthia Rose Cascarano, described him in a Facebook post as a big brother to many boys in the community and a great role model.

"Each and every one of us have had a 'First Day' on the job," Cascarano wrote. "His should have never ended this way."

One warehouse employee suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

The five wounded officers are all expected to survive,


police said. The officers, whose names were not released, are between ages 23 and 53. The youngest has been an officer for two years and the oldest for 30 years, authorities said. A sixth officer suffered a minor injury, though it was not caused by a gunshot.

Police were called to the scene just before 1:30 p.m. Friday. Within five minutes, Martin had shot the five officers who arrived at the 29,000-square-foot warehouse. He then hid in the warehouse, and police spent the next hour and a half finding him inside the massive facility. When police found Martin, he fired at the officers, who then killed him, Ziman said.

About 200 people work at Henry Pratt, which is owned by Atlanta-based Mueller Water Products. Scott Hall, the company's president andchief executive, told reporters Saturday that Martin was fired for "a culmination of a various workplace rules violations." Hall said Martin's felony record did not come up in a background check before the company hired him 15 years ago.

"Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones, the first responders, the Aurora community and the entire Mueller family during this extremely difficult time," the company said in a statement.

Neil Van Milligan, a former supervisor who no longer works at Henry Pratt, said Martin worked for him sporadically over four years, usually packaging up valves.

"He had kind of an attitude," said Van Milligan, recalling how Martin repeatedly broke the rule against using cellphones on the plant floor.

"He'd just kind of look at you like you were stupid for


telling him not to do something," Van Milligan said. "Knowing him and the way his attitude was, it doesn't surprise me that he got reprimanded."

Aside from his felony, Martin had been arrested six times by Aurora police on traffic and domestic violence issues. He was arrested most recently in 2017 by police in nearby Oswego, Illinois, for disorderly conduct and damage to property, authorities said.

Mississippi court records paint a picture of a disturbed man who frequently abused his former girlfriend, Chyreese Jones. Jones described Martin as a controlling man who "fakes" his remorse to seek attention. At one point, she told police, Martin held her and her 3-year-old daughter hostage inside their apartment, and threatened to kill her with a box cutter, court records say.

Jones, 52, brought chargesagainst him after he stabbed her several times with a kitchen knife in Mississippi in March 1994.

"He doesn't take loss or rejection at all," Jones said. "He is going to be in charge. He is going to have something, a knife or a gun, and he is going to win."

On March 8, 1994, Jones asked Martin, then 20, to pack his belongings at her apartment because she wanted to end the relationship. Martin told Jones that if they were going to end their relationship, they were "going to go out with a bang," she told police at that time.

"'We are all going to die'" Jones told police Martin said. "That's when (he) began to hit me."

He kicked her in the stomach and hit her with the baseball bat,


court records say. Jones ran to her neighbors, and police later found her bleeding from several stab wounds, including two deep cuts to her neck.

While in prison, Martin wrote to Jones. In one letter, he appeared to blame others for his problems, telling Jones that "they" were doing everything to keep him incarcerated.

"I don't know how much longer I can keep my thoughts to myself. I've got so much to say but I don't know who to say them to ... This pain and hurt is with me day and night and I just can't seem to shake it," Martin wrote.

At the end of the letter, he said, "Give Vozzie a big hug and kiss for me," referring to Jones' daughter.

On Saturday, neighbors in the cluster of three-storyapartment buildings where Martin lived, in a blue-collar neighborhood on the outskirts of Aurora, said some had heard Martin was fighting to keep his job.

Steve Spizewski, who lived three doors down from Martin, saw another, kinder side to him. They would hang out together, Spizewski said, playing video games or watching movies.

When Spizewski's mother passed away recently, Martin was the person who consoled him. Spizewski's never thought of Martin as a man who might use a weapon.

"I knew he had an air rifle," he said. "I didn't know he had a 'gun' gun."

But Spizewski also said Martin had a troubled recent relationship with a girlfriend who had damaged his car and had mounted a camera on a post overlooking his assigned parking spot to protect his prized possession.

When


Spizewski last saw Martin earlier this week, though, he had no idea that anything was wrong.

"He had a cigar in his mouth, a fedora on his head," Spizewski said.

Martin often bought cigars from a Circle K not far from where he lived, where he struck up a friendship with Ricardo Moreno, an assistant manager.

Martin came in almost every morning as he left for work on the early shift, and would purchase two to three cigars - the "Black and Mild Jazz" brand.

The two men bonded over 30-minute conversations that ranged from talking about women to the news. When mass shootings, notably Las Vegas and Parkland, were in the headlines, Martin didn't have much to say.

"He tried to stay away from bad vibes," Moreno said.

He also never talked aboutpartying or going to the bars, said Moreno, noting he mostly stayed at home.

Moreno said he last talked with Martin two weeks ago, when he said he was dating a new woman.

"Life's good, everything's going good," he said Martin told him.

Jones attributed Martin's anger to problems that dated to his childhood in Aurora. He never had a father-figure in his life, she said, and he had such a strained relationship with his mother that he moved to Mississippi where he lived with his grandmother and other relatives.

"He is a nice guy - was a nice guy," she said, "But he was dealing with demons of some sort and he couldn't chase."

Martin's mother declined to comment.

The shooting in Aurora occurred just a day after the first anniversary of a


mass shooting that killed 17 students and staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The young survivors have since become among the loudest advocates for stronger gun laws, spurring a social media movement with the hashtag #NeverAgain. Their activism has led to the creation of the student-led demonstration, March for our Lives.

Aurora shares a name with a Denver suburb that endured a mass shooting almost seven years ago. A gunman, James Holmes, opened fire inside a movie theater in 2012, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. The similarity was not lost on Nick Metz, the police chief of Aurora, Colo.

"Months from now as people talk about the mass shooting in Aurora, someone will ask, 'Which Aurora mass shooting are we talking about?'" he saidhave been a concern.

While the deadline for the U.S. World Cup coach Bob Bradley to name his short list of 30 players is May 11, he has until June 1 to cut that list down to 23 players.

Bradley will hold an eight-day camp at Princeton University. Players and coaches will begin to report May 15 for the eight-day camp. The first training session is scheduled for May 17 at Roberts Field.

Davies isn't the only starter from the 2009 Confederations Cup runner-up team who has been sidelined.

Oguchi Onyewu injured his knee a day after Davies' accident and hasn't played for AC Milan since then.

Ricardo Clark hasn't played for Eintracht Frankfurt's first team since arriving from the Houston Dynamo in January.

Stuart Holden suffered a broken leg in last month's U.S.


As previously reported, BMW will be the exclusive automotive sponsor for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. As such, BMW will provide 4,000+ of its cars to transport athletes, officials, media, organizing committee members and other VIPs throughout the Olympics.

BMW has just launched its BMW Drive for Team USA, a national drive program that invites consumers to get behind the wheel and the Olympic Movement in support of U.S. Olympic Team and Paralympic Team hopefuls. The event series travels to 276 BMW retailers across America between June 16 and August 13, 2011. For each participant who test drives a vehicle at one of the BMW Drive for Team USA events, BMW of North America will donate $10 to Team USA, up to a maximum donation of $200,000. Funds raisedwill work to further the training and performance goals of Team USA athletes.

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In support of the BMW Drive for Team USA national drive program, BMW has also launched an Olympic-themed integrated marketing campaign inclusive of radio, print, out-of-home and digital advertising as well as a national television commercial. Debuted in local markets in early June and airing on network cable beginning June 13, the commercial “Runners” features Olympic track & field athletes and hopefuls Jeremy Wariner, Shawnpartners – four – but those who couldn't smell lacked confidence in their partners and were on average 20 per cent less secure than females who could.

Significantly, a woman's lack of smell had no impact on her friendships, suggesting smell is only key for females when it comes to relationships.

Smelling, or olfaction, is generally the least understood of the senses but it is increasingly recognised as having an important role in a large number of areas.

According to the Independent on Sunday, one study says women are more concerned about the way a potential date smells than looks, while another report found 13 per cent of men and 52 per cent of women have slept in the clothing of a partner because of the aroma.

Al Pacino in the film


Scent of a Woman, where he played Colonel Frank Slade, who was blind but could tell a woman's name from the smell of her perfume

'The sense of smell provides social information about others,' according to researchers from the University of Dresden.

'Its abscence is related with reduced social security in men and women, and affects partnerships.

'Men exhibit much less explorative sexual behaviour and women are affected in a way that they feel less secure about their partner. Our results show the importance of the sense of smell for social behaviour.'

Smell has long been portrayed as a trigger for arousal in men in a number of films, including Al Pacino's Scent of a Woman, where lead character Colonel Frank Slade can name or describe the appearance of women by theirNewborn screening in the Asia Pacific region.
The success of blood spot newborn screening in the USA led to early screening efforts in parts of the Asia Pacific Region in the mid-1960s. While there were early screening leaders in the region, many of the countries with depressed and developing economies are only now beginning organized screening efforts. Four periods of screening growth in the Asia Pacific region were identified. Beginning in the 1960s, blood spot screening began in New Zealand and Australia, followed by Japan and a cord blood screening programme for G6PD deficiency in Singapore. In the 1980s, established programmes added congenital hypothyroidism and new programmes developed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China (Shanghai), India and Malaysia. Programmes developing in the 1990s built on the experience of others developing


more rapidly in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines. In the 2000s, with limited funding support from the International Atomic Energy Agency, there has been screening programme development around detection of congenital hypothyroidism in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan. Palau has recently contracted with the Philippine newborn screening programme. There is little information available on newborn screening activities in Nepal, Cambodia, Laos and the other Pacific Island nations, with no organized screening efforts apparent. Since approximately half of the births in the world occur in the Asia Pacific Region, it is important to continue the ongoing implementation and expansion efforts so that these children can attain the same health status as children in more developed parts of the world and their full potential can be realized.Hardcover | January 19, 2011

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What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions—the ownership of capital, for instance—most obviously define this group but cannot explain the emergence of shared identities or the capacity for collective action: after all, economic interests frequently drove capital-rich Americans apart as they competed for markets or governmental favors. Engaging fundamental questions about American society in the nineteenth century, this book argues that one of the most important factors in the self-definition of the bourgeoisie was its articulation of a shared culture.

About The Author

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie.


understanding of class formation in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of how social, expressive, and institutional practices transformed raw economic resources into class identities that largely trumped occupational, ethnic, regional, and political loyalties. It reveals class formation to be fluid and contingent upon social, material, and ritual enactments evolving in tandem with shifts in capital. With its distinguished roster of contributors, this volume offers a vital new resource for cultural and social history, material culture, art history, and literary studies.”—Angela Miller, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University “After three decades of intensive research on the European bourgeoisie, here comes the much-needed American counterpart. As in the European case, culture has gained center stage as a field of social demarcation and identification.”—Ute Frevert,character of its contributors. The cumulative picture they draw of the ways in which these economic elites drew closer together as the century wore on, the institutions of exclusion and self-definition they constructed, and the lasting patronage of the high arts on which they fashioned a part of their claims to worth and status is broad and coherent. For those interested in the origins of the cultural institutions that this group was so prolific in founding, in particular, this is a valuable collection.”—Daniel T. Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University


A white ex-officer who was charged with murder said in court his "mind was like spaghetti" when he was shooting unarmed black man Walter Scott five times in the back.

Michael Slager, on trial in North Charleston, faces 30 years to life imprisonment for the killing in April 2015 which was captured by a bystander on video. He is the 18th witness in his own defense.

Once the video of the shooting had been released, Slager was fired and charged with murder.

He has been on bail since January.

Scott’s family speculated he might have been running away because he had been falling behind on child support payments and was afraid of going back to jail.

During cross examination he was asked if he could see in the video that, at the timethe video, widely shared on social media, did not tell the whole story, and that Slager told Scott to stop and warned him he would use his stun gun. Scott allegedly wrestled with Slager and grabbed his taser before running away.

He maintained they had a struggle, in which he said Scott was on top of him, but he did not remember everything that happened during the fight. He said Scott had the taser and it was “coming at [him]“

“He never stopped. He was always dangerous,” said Slager, referring to the moment when he chose to fire his weapon because he said he believed Scott had run away with his taser.

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Scott was 18 feet away when the ex-officer fired the first few bullets, and about 40 feet away by


the final shot.

Slager insisted that at 18 feet away, Scott could still have turned around and attacked him "again". The taser was later found with an empty cartridge, lying on the ground near Slager.

Civil rights protests in North Charleston following fatal shooting of Walter Scott

Both sides have seen 3D computer creations of the scene presented by witnesses, as reported by the Associated Press.

His defense lawyer Andy Savage cited an April 2015 report from the FBI which stated that Scott was "wanted and dangerous, with violent tendencies".

The judge, Clinton Newman, is considering whether the jurors will be allowed to visit the scene of the shooting.

Dot Scott, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in North Charleston, previously told The Independent that she was concerned aboutnews, latest-news

A 33-year-old man has been charged with the death of a patron at Summernats earlier this year. Queensland resident Alister Spong is charged with culpable driving causing death. He was summonsed to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court in March, and will face court again this week. The charge relates to an incident at the annual car festival in January, where Luke Newsome, 30, from Emerald in Queensland was killed after falling from the tray of a ute. The death was the first in the event's 29-year history. It resulted in security at Summernats issuing a blanket ban on riding on the back of utes. In the days that followed his death on January 6, Mr Newsome was remembered as a "top bloke" and a loving friend


continued to run as scheduled in the days following the death. A report for the coroner is being prepared. The Summernats festival has not been without incident since it kicked off in 1987. In 2006, four people were injured when a ute performing in a stunt show crashed through the perimeter fence and in 2000, a security guard was hit on the left leg by a car. Uniformed police began patrolling inside Exhibition Park during Summernats in 2012 for the first time in nine years, targeting hoons, violence and anti-social behaviour. The onus for maintaining security previously rested primarily with organisers and their contracted security guards. Reports of antisocial behaviour and sexual harassment have also marred the event. However, in recent years police on patrol had made minimalEric Hedlin

Eric Hedlin (born April 18, 1993) is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Hedlin won a silver medal in the men's open water 5 km swim at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.

Career
Hedlin began his notable international career competing in Randy Bennett's Victoria Swim Academy that also includes major Canadian World and Olympic medalist Ryan Cochrane who is also a long distance swimmer. As a member of the Canadian swim team he won a bronze medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade in the men's 800 m freestyle.

Hedlin qualified for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships by finishing 16th at the FINA World Cup event in Cancun Mexico in April of that year. This put him into the 5 km race where he was in a dogfight with former World Champion Thomas Lurz and


Reports of the sighting also were coming in from people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, according to WGN radio news anchor Steve Grzanich from Chicago and Fox News meteorologist Chris Higgins from St. Louis.

Many people reported seeing a green fireball, possibly a meteor, streaking across the sky late Friday around 10:15 p.m. Central time. The fireball could be seen from the Chicago suburbs.

A Fox News webcam in Belleville, IL, near St. Louis, recorded the fireball at about 10:16 p.m.

Twitter fired up immediately with many reports of the streaking flash in the sky.

If you've spotted a meteor or bright streaking object in the sky, report the sighting to the American Meteor Society. A record of meteor reports filed in the last 24 hours shows people inLast updated on .From the section Premier League

Luka Milivojevic's penalty helped Crystal Palace cause a major upset at Manchester City

Premier League champions Manchester City were stunned at home by Crystal Palace on Saturday, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made a winning start as Manchester United boss, and Chelsea were beaten by Leicester City.

Manchester City remain four points behind leaders Liverpool after losing 3-2, with Andros Townsend scoring a stunning 30-yard volley as Palace won for just the third time in 12 league games.

Liverpool had extended their lead at the top with a Mohamed Salah-inspired 2-0 victory at Wolves on Friday.

In Saturday's 17:30 GMT kick-off, Manchester United beat Cardiff City 5-1 in Wales.

Chelsea stayed fourth as a Jamie Vardy goal was enough to end Leicester's three-game winless run with victory at


abbreviated rendition of facts derives from trial testimony and, insofar as it is relevant to the legal issues, is undisputed. When defendant was a minor, he was befriended by an adult named Hauck, who apparently provided him with relief from a physically and emotionally abusive home. Eventually, he also exploited defendant sexually. Several years later, defendant, by then an adult, stayed briefly with Hauck while attempting to overcome a methamphetamine addiction. During his stay, defendant discovered a videotape of himself as a child and Hauck engaging in sexual acts. He also found tapes of Hauck having sex with other underage males. Defendant threatened to expose Hauck as a child molester unless Hauck "loaned" him a large sum of money. Hauck refused and threatened to kill defendant if suchexposure occurred.
A short time later, Hauck contacted defendant and told him to retrieve his belongings from Hauck's house or Hauck would throw them away. Afraid to go to there alone, defendant asked Yancey, his friend (and eventual codefendant), to accompany him. Yancey agreed. When they arrived at Hauck's home, defendant asked Yancey to wait in the garage while he went inside to collect his things. Some time later, defendant came into the garage and told Yancey that he was going to lie down with Hauck and that Yancey could wait in the living room. After waiting there for an hour, Yancey heard Hauck and defendant arguing, and then he heard a loud thud and a bang. Then he heard defendant scream for help.
Knowing that Hauck was a very


large man  he stood six feet, five inches tall and weighed around 350 poundsYancey ran to the garage and grabbed a crowbar he had seen while he was waiting there. When he reached the bedroom where Hauck and defendant were, he saw Hauck standing a few feet away from defendant, who was on the floor and appeared to be "roughed up." Hauck, surprised by Yancey's arrival, rushed Yancey, and a fight ensued. While Yancey and Hauck struggled with the crowbar, defendant first watched, in a daze; then he left the bedroom and returned with a knife, which he slid across the floor to Yancey. Yancey and Hauck struggled for the knife. During the course of that struggle, Hauck was stabbed in the back and neck. He fellto the floor and did not move again. Defendant left the room and returned with a metal pipe. He hit Hauck in the head several times with the pipe before becoming hysterical. Hauck died from wounds to his head, neck, and chest.
After a cursory attempt to clean themselves of blood, the two men took Hauck's vehicle and drove to Washington state, where defendant was soon apprehended. Under questioning there, he claimed to have killed Hauck by himself; that claim, however, was contradicted by the physical evidence. Ultimately Yancey was apprehended, and both men were charged with aggravated murder.
At trial, Yancey chose to testify on his own behalf. Defendant did not take the stand. During deliberations, the jury submitted several notes to the court. The first was a request


of the union. As Kruger described it after the final: "The team's success could be ascribed to the fact that the Light Blue jersey made every player's heart beat faster."

2002 was the start of the Heyneke Meyer and Anton Leonard era. They defeated the Golden Lions 31-7 at Ellis Park thanks mainly to heroics by a 19 year old Derick Hougaard who scored a try, 2 drop goals and 5 penalties for a record 26 points. The following season they defeated the Sharks 40-19 in the final with most of the team doing duty at the 2003 World Cup. The Blue Bulls then won the 2004 final, defeating the Cheetahs by 42-33. This match saw one of the finest individual tries scored in a final. Ettiene Botha receivedhe related it to The Scots Magazine back in June 1990. This account took place a year before the Loch Ness Monster first began to appear in newspapers.

In April l932 while living in Kent, my ﬁancee and l travelled to Aberdeen to attend a family wedding.At the conclusion of the function, rather than return south straight way, I decided to show her a little of my native land. We cut across to Inverness where preparations appeared to be in full swing for a Highland Gathering.

After dinner in the late evening we took a stroll through the the town. and saw men in shop doorways and at street corners practising on their bagpipes. The air was full of sublime music (my version), rent with strange, wild sounds (her description


the prying eyes of keeper and constable?

Upon hearing the approaching car Wee Jock tried to get the horse off the road but as he was struggling up the bank he slipped and lost the lead rope and could only crouch aghast in the soft moss as the horse calmly walked across the road and into the wood on the other side to get away from the motor car.

Not forgetting that Mr. Fordyce followed the animal on foot for a short while so would almost certainly have seen that it was a horse with "something" loaded on its back, unless he was somehow mysteriously duped by an obvious mirage created by the now infamous heat haze that is prevalent in the area. There may well be some other explanationfiction, even the Great Finlay one, not one stands up to any serious scrutiny.

He may not have kept quiet. He may have tried to have his account publicised at the time via a letter but with the prevaling wind being very much in the direction of plesiosaurs, he may have got short shrift from editors.

I will continue to hold that the beast has been seen on land multiple times.

"He may not have kept quiet. He may have tried to have his account publicised at the time via a letter but with the prevaling wind being very much in the direction of plesiosaurs, he may have got short shrift from editors."

Lieutenant-Colonel Fordyce answered that question in his piece to "The Scots Magazine".

He wrote "Some readers may wonder why it


than the sightings they reject.

"Camels might be known as ships of the desert but they had giant ancestors that once roamed the Arctic. Bone fragments belonging to a camel almost one-third larger than any now living have been recovered from a remote site in the far north of Canada. The animal lived 3.5 million years ago."

I was browsing through Roy Mackal's The Monsters of Loch Ness and decided to review his list of reported land sightings Appendix A Table 2 Eyewitness Observations, Land Sightings. Well lo and behold! Episode No. 5 states:

Date: 1912

Observer: Five or six children including William MacGruer at Inchnacardoch Bay

Description: Queer looking animal moved to the loch and vanished in the water. Compared to a camel but smaller: long neck, humped-back and fairly long legs,and critics have limited themselves to the Occidental world of philosophy and science, and have overlooked the rich potential of Eastern thought – Chinese Taoism in particular. It will suffice for the sake of this inquiry to limit the use of Taoism to one of its most fundamental tenets. For our purpose, the Taoist perspective on duality and tension as expressed in the ubiquitous yin-yang symbol, from here on properly called the Taiji diagram.

Though described in numerous ways throughout the Taodejing (the chief Taoist text), it conveys many of the essential questions that literary theory has struggled with since the beginning of the twentieth century. If a simple explanation may suffice: it is the nature of two opposing forces, both unique and oppositional, that interact such as to


Former Gamba Osaka boss Akira Nishino will succeed Dragan Stojkovic as manager of Nagoya Grampus next season, sources with knowledge of the appointment told Kyodo News.

Nishino’s deal is expected to be for one year and will be announced in the coming days.

The 58-year-old Nishino is the J. League’s most successful coach of all time with 244 victories in the top flight. At Gamba, he won the league in 2005 and the Asian Champions League in 2008, as well as two Emperor’s Cups (2008, 2009) and the Nabisco Cup (2007).

Nishino parted ways with Gamba in 2011 and took over at Vissel Kobe the following year but was sacked midway through last season before the club was relegated.

Stojkovic leaves Nagoya after six seasons in charge. His team won the J1collected data as the seals rose from the deepest point of their dives and sent it back to researchers via satellite. Comparing data at different times and from different locations in the Bellingshausen Sea, near where some of the most at-risk glaciers are located, revealed that this deep water does indeed circulate near the ice sheets, where it is warm enough to begin melting them. The majority of the water makes its way up the Belgica Trough, a massive trench dug into the seafloor by ancient glaciers. Pushed by currents, the warmer water makes its way inward, where it mixes with cooler water in a kind of underwater tornado that swirls it toward land and then back out again. Their paper was recently published in the journal Geophysical


relevant to this proceeding, however, are simple: Long Beach began foreclosure of its mortgage in March of 2000. On June 30, 2000, it began publication of its foreclosure notice and served the debtor on July 7, 2000. The foreclosure sale was scheduled for August 17, 2000. The debtor filed this Chapter 13 case on August 16, 2000. Long Beach postponed the sale and a Notice of Postponement was published on August 25, 2000. The debtor's case was dismissed on September 1, 2000, for failure to file any schedules or statements.

THE DEBTOR'S CLAIMS
The debtor argues that the publication of the Notice of Postponement was a violation of the automatic stay because it was a "continuation, including the issuance or employment of process, of [an] action or proceeding against thelimited the spread of Ebola to only 19 people, instead of potentially spreading to tens of thousands throughout the densely populated and heavily travelled city of Lagos, a transit hub of Africa.

During the Ebola crisis of 2014, the U.S. Congress passed emergency legislation to appropriate more than $5 billion for responding to the disease, with a provision that allowed this money to be redirected in the event of another international disease crisis. That provision came in handy during the 2015-2016 Zika outbreak, when the funds were reallocated to respond to Zika both in the U.S. and abroad.

Unfortunately, delays in Congress to redirect these funds meant it was months before the money was actually available to fight Zika. As former CDC director Tom Frieden noted, precious time was lost


How do you say "Acoustic Southwestern Americana Musical Guitar Genius" in just two words? Michael Hearne, that's how. Since the 1970s, this native Dallas Texan has strolled down a musical path inspired by the great folk and country singer-songwriters who typify and have characterized the Americana "roots" scene. Even minus the undeniable influence of the musical giants he admires and respects to this day, Michael simply had no choice when it came to deciding to be who he is.

This prodigious musical talent was blatantly obvious in Hearne as a young kid. With minimal formal training as a child, coupled with hours of music immersion and hardcore practice, his destiny was forever tangled in "wire and wood." Hearne had his hands on his first real guitar by age sevenand by 12, Michael was a fixture at parties and local homespun events, not realizing that this period was actually dress rehearsal for what would prove to be an ever-evolving and rewarding musical career.

Michael continues to leave an indelible mark on his audiences not only with his signature "Michael Hearne" guitar sound, but also with songs and stories that are rich in lyrical prose, imagery and humor.

He is a songwriter's songwriter, cut from the same cloth that propels an artist on a committed journey to experiencing life as a series of creative events and fulfilments. Even though the musical high road is typically scattered with twists of fate and a few u-turns along the way (all of which make for great lyrics), Michael continues to forge ahead by


just keeping on doing what he loves.

Longevity has yielded Hearne a vast fan base that is solid and ever expanding. Anyone who has ever grooved to one of Hearne's impeccable guitar leads or kicked up their heels to one of the many two stepping tunes played by him or with his band, South by Southwest, has also probably been caught singing along at some point in the night, note for note, with that beautifully distinctive voice that can never be mistaken for anyone else.

Hearne's never met an audience he didn't like and fans quickly become repeat offenders on the house concert, music festival, and club scenes, as both the man and the music are extraordinarily genuine, inspirational, and entertaining.

His newest CD, The High Road to Taos, has receivedcritical acclaim, with some discriminating reviewers declaring it to be his finest work to date.

"Michael Hearne's record embodies all that I love about New Mexico. Between his whiskey velvet voice, the evocative songwriting and gorgeous musical production, I found myself profoundly aching for my favorite place in the world" – Eliza Gilkyson

"Once in a while there comes a recording I never tire of playing. 'My Funny Valentine' by Chat Baker comes to mind. 'Come Away With Me' by Norah Jones is another. It's like they were recorded only yesterday even though it might be years since they were first released. In January of 2008, I heard Michael Hearne's 'High Road To Taos' and I knew from the second or third time I played it, and that's been a


lot of plays ago, that this was one of those records I'll always play and every time I do it will be as fascinating, alluring and inspiring as the first time I played it. It's a very real classic and it's my hope it gets the wide audience it so richly deserves." – Keith Sykes

Just after its release in December 2007, The High Road to Taos landed a coveted position on the KTAOS Top Ten recordings chart for that year. Michael Hearne is now being heard around the world thanks to the World Wide Web, old-fashioned regional and national airwaves and because of the legion of loyal fans who continue to request and support "Taos's own, Mr. Michael Hearne." A dedicated and eclectic fan base, which spills acrossborders and state lines and represents a smorgasbord of musical tastes, keeps Hearne perfectly aligned with the spotlight.

"His voice, style and outstanding musicianship blend into one beautiful gem. It's no wonder Michael's work will stand the test of time, as he remains the artist who captures the musical essence of the southwest. Like it's second nature. That's because it is."

A consistent winner of the "Best of Taos" awards for performer and singer for the past 10 years, Hearne's songwriting credits are impressive. Awards include Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Production at the 2001 New Mexico MIC AWARDS, for "A Taos Christmas Eve," 2002. He has penned songs for Jerry Jeff Walker and Gary P. Nunn ("Lesson to be Learned from Love") and his


New Mexico anthem, "New Mexico Rain," recorded by his uncle and aunt, Bill and Bonnie Hearne, and country music legend Johnny Rodriguez.

His critically acclaimed CD "Sight and Sound" – 11 songs written about 11 different works of art – won seven awards at The New Mexico Music Awards, making him the biggest winner in their history. This CD includes the song The Songwriter, co-written with Grammy winners Mentor Williams and Andy Byrd. Michael Hearne has also written songs with his good friends Shake Russell, Keith Sykes, and many others.

He and his band South By Southwest (a.k.a. SxSW) are best described as country swing/southwestern Americana. Loyal fans who continue to pack dance halls, clubs and house concert venues listen and two step the night away to Hearne and thethe International Organisation for Migration have held talks with Keke this week to try an avert a crisis in Nauru.

Keke said his country wanted funds to set up a regional centre for training young people.

He said such a centre could alleviate a skills shortage and offer training for people from other Pacific nations including Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu.

"We are not going to be asking for just extra cash aid to fill a gap. That is not sustainable for Australia and I don't think it helps us in the long term," Keke said.

In the short term, Nauru hopes the detention centre can be used as a temporary secondary school.

Keke will travel to Australia at the end of this month and hopes to take his


German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for ending the demonization of Russia and its people on Sunday. He added that Germany should do more to help de-escalate tensions, given his country’s unique history with Russia.

Steinmeier warned that the US-led airstrikes in Syria in the early hours of Saturday morning raised the risk of direct confrontation between US and Russian forces operating in the Syrian theater. Relations between the US and Russia have hit a post-Cold War low after the attack, which followed the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, last week. The Syrian regime has denied allegations that it gassed its own people, particularly in an area where, and a time when, its forces were on the brink of total victory.

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between CJC and the Union was a five-year contract running from

June 7, 1989 to June 6, 1994.

     The contract permitted the Union to request a seniority list

from the company every three months to find out about new employees

and to update its records.       By letter dated March 5, 1992, the

union president requested from the company a seniority list of all

employees, including their addresses, dates of hire, pay rates, and

social security numbers.      One reason for the Union's request for

employees' addresses was that over 60 copies of its


February 1992

newsletter   had   been   returned    by   the   post   office   because   of

incorrect addresses.      The company refused to provide employee's

addresses, stating only that it was not obligated to do so.

     The contract also provided for a renegotiation of wages for

the final two years of the contract:

          The wage rates to be paid from the first work day of the
     first pay period in June 1992 to June 6, 1994 ... are subject
     to negotiation if either party gives written notice ... at
   unlawfully refused to comply with

the Union's March 1992 request for employees' addresses, and

unlawfully refused to bargain with the Union regarding wages after

June 7, 1992.       The ALJ ordered CJC to provide the Union the

seniority list requested, to bargain in good faith concerning the

midterm wage increase and to post a notice to the employees

concerning the ALJ's rulings.

     On December 16, 1994, the Board affirmed the ALJ's decision

and adopted the ALJ's proposed order.          CJC did not seek review, and

claims to have complied with the Board's order.            On May 8, 1995,

the Board filed its Application for Enforcement with this Court.

In


in

refusing to meet with the Union again after June 7.

     CJC   complains    that        the   ALJ's   refusal    to    consider

                                      8
extra-contractual evidence regarding the meaning of the contract

language was a violation of its due process rights.          The ALJ gave

CJC the opportunity to demonstrate an ambiguity in the meaning of

the language.     Correctly finding that thereto the truth

The panel will decide on a penalty in March. The hearing came to end when Mr. Sullivan abruptly walked out after the decision was made, and as counsel for the college was making submissions on what the penalty should be. Christine Wadsworth, a lawyer for the College, recommended a reprimand, that Mr. Sullivan's teaching certificate be suspended for one month, and that he attends courses on appropriate professional boundaries, ethics and anger management.

In the two-day hearing, Ms. Wadsworth said Mr. Sullivan's personal opinion on vaccines affected his ability to professionally conduct himself in the school.

"It's not Mr. Sullivan's place to be an activist at the school on the topic of vaccines," she told the hearing earlier on Wednesday. "He did not act as a role model


that day. He did not model appropriate behaviour for his students and he did not treat visitors, who were legally authorized to be at the school, with respect."

The incident occurred in March, 2015, when public-health nurses were running an immunization clinic in the cafeteria at Mr. Sullivan's school.

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Ontario requires students to provide proof of immunization to attend school. Parents can get exemptions for their children on medical grounds, such as an allergy or a weakened immune system, or if they fill out a form stating they object to immunization.

Angela Swick, a public-health nurse in the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit, told the hearing on Tuesday that Mr. Sullivan came by the clinic three times. Ms. Swick said the teacher's demeanour left her uncomfortable and nervous, and shecontacted her supervisor and the school principal. One set of doors to the cafeteria was subsequently locked.

At one point, Ms. Swick said, Mr. Sullivan asked students in line if they knew what was in the vaccines and "shouted at them not to get it." She said the situation at the school was "unsafe" for the students and the public-health nurses, and the nursing staff felt "intimidated and scared."

Mr. Sullivan was suspended from his job without pay for one day in 2015 after the incident.

Mr. Sullivan, a teacher for 17 years at the Grand Erie District School Board in southwestern Ontario, told the hearing on Wednesday he did not intend to intimidate the nurses or make those at the school feel uncomfortable.

He said that public-health staff do not inform


students about the risk from vaccines of death and the rare neurological condition Guillane-Barré syndrome.

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But the hearing was told nurses use screening tools to assess whether any underlying conditions would trigger a more serious reaction in a student. Students and their parents are told about the most common risks, such as a fever or a sore arm.

Mr. Sullivan said he was asking the health-unit staff about their practice, and was also trying to inform students at the school about the contents of the vaccines and the side effects.

"It was probably one of the most professional things that I did, actually," Mr. Sullivan said.

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