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Koch brothers
To the editor: No less than two Associated Press articles in the April 9 Times News targeted, under different ostensible news reports, Charles and David Koch. Note that Koch Industries employs thousands, pays huge amounts of taxes, and that the Koch brothers have donated hundreds of millions of their own money to social charities.
To the editor: No less than two Associated Press articles in the April 9 Times News targeted, under different ostensible news reports, Charles and David Koch. Note that Koch Industries employs thousands, pays huge amounts of taxes, and that the Koch brothers have donated hundreds of millions of their own money to social charities.
Constitutional, libertarian, conservative, billionaire industrialists, exercising their right of free speech by financing at least one organization that places commercials opposing the anti-constitutional, anti-capitalist activities of the political left (usually supported by the very same AP from which these biased reports masquerade as news), the Koch brothers seem to have become enough of a threat to the left-wing Democratic Party to justify attempts at Alinsky-style character assassination.
For those who sign on to the left-wing �blame the Koch brothers for everything� bandwagon, here are questions to ask yourselves:
1. Do you support a political party or politician who represents your personal views?
2. If you had billions, wouldn�t you pay to further your views?
3. If so, why do you deny these successful entrepreneurs their right to do the same?
The answer you give will tell what kind of moral person you are.
Dick Kranker
To the editor: Upon relocating to Henderson County in 1992, I became quite active in the political arena for the Sheriff�s Office. I worked for Sheriff Abe Jackson, then George Erwin after the primary election in 1994. I campaigned for Rick Davis twice, as many did.
I was greatly saddened by the issue during Sheriff Davis�s tenure. Thus I was anxious to observe how the appointed gentleman retired from the same department would address the position.
Sheriff Charles McDonald came into a hornet�s nest, as we all know. He had many issues to address. He has conducted himself with the utmost professionalism, drawing on an extensive law enforcement background. Since he was appointed, we didn�t at that time have the opportunity of reviewing his history.
Folks, it�s impressive. There is an abbreviated version on the website at www.ElectSheriffMcDonald.com.
Better yet, stop by the headquarters on Erkwood Drive and Greenville Highway to read the full account. It�s open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Once you do, I am convinced you will cast your vote for Charles McDonald.
Please mark your calendars for the May 6 primary. Early voting is April 24-May 3.
Joseph Pirog
Flat Rock
To the editor: Having served in an elected position, Fletcher Town Council, I believe I am qualified to say no one individual is totally responsible for securing or accomplishing anything in government service. It appears that Commissioner Larry Young thinks otherwise. He claims he is solely responsible for Wingate being in Henderson County.
It is reckless thinking like this that tells me his time on the commission has passed him by. The perfect person to bring back discerning leadership to the commission is Bill Lapsley, a man I have known and recommended many times for his professionalism and quality decision-making over the past 30-plus years. His knowledge of cost and design of infrastructure and the proper procedures would serve all of us in the county well for years to come.
Let�s not miss this opportunity to bring a qualified professional to our county government.
Jim Clayton
Mills River
To the editor: It turns out there was a 2001 geological report warning of potential dangerous mudslides in the state of Washington. It went so far as to recommend that five homes be moved out of harm�s way.
By 2004, those county leaders indicated a willingness to shore up dangerous slide areas, but nothing else. Nothing was done. Instead, they approved building seven more homes in the path of the slide. Those homes are gone.
Only questions remain.
Who was copied on the distribution of the warning geological report? Why was it ignored? Was it publicized? Were the homeowners and builders aware of it?
We have lots of steep hills here with homes perched on hopefully solid footings. But one wonders. Have there been any geological studies to support the construction of those homes? If not, why not?
The access roads leading to some of these homes must be difficult for emergency vehicles to navigate, particularly during inclement weather. Have our leaders considered such factors when approving construction?
Henderson County leaders seem to be elected because they are �fiscally conservative,� or �fiscally progressive� in Washington state. Regardless, are any leaders, anywhere, ever accountable?
Only developers seem to win.
Bill Fitch
To the editor: When the Affordable Care Act was passed, billions of dollars were taken from the Medicare Advantage to help fund the new legislation. While I think it�s great to help more people have access to medical insurance, taking money from one population to give to another means that someone loses in the deal. Seniors are already struggling, and we cannot take any more cuts to this vital program.
I participate in a Medicare Advantage plan, and so far I�m pleased with the coverage. If benefits under my plan are reduced and my expenses go up, I�ll be facing some tough choices as I�ll have to limit spending in other parts of my budget. Signing up for Medicare Advantage meant that I should save an average of $1,000 a year in out-of-pocket costs compared to traditional Medicare. That makes a really big difference for me each month, and I really can�t afford to lose it.
Programs that help senior citizens should not be put on the line for further reductions, but that�s exactly what has happened in the recent past. We must urge members of Congress to stand firm against any proposals that would further gut Medicare Advantage.
Patricia Rowell
To the editor: The political season is upon us again, and I found myself in a most untenable position. I was mulling a decision regarding the least worst form of child-based breakfast food when I was approached by a man of ill repute: bad shoes, faded black knee-high socks, seersucker shorts, clad in last year�s Father�s Day tie. Without a doubt, this is one of my elected representatives. I might have voted for him in the past, but it�s hard to tell, or maybe I refuse to admit or recall.
So my moral dilemma. In one hand, I held the Fruit Loops my daughter requested, while in the other, I grasped the palm of a fruit loop, duly elected. As bad as that was, one of the two spoke. �Dr. Donaldson, can I count on your vote?� This became my dilemma.
In that moment, I put aside my years of mostly sober living, my appointment to superintendent of Sunday school and my vows of poverty and sobriety. I gripped his hand a bit tighter, looked him dead in the eyes, and lied. Truth is, I felt pretty good about it, because of this I�m certain � it is no sin to lie to a politician.
Scott Donaldson


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Missing mother linked to burned car | Crime
Thonotosassa, Florida -- Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies say the owner of the car found burned with remains inside is a woman who's been missing since Sunday.
Authorities say the vehicle was found in the area of Taylor and Pruett roads with skeletal remains inside around 6:30 p.m. Hillsborough County detectives say the owner of the black Nissan Maxima is 43-year-old Gwendolyn Patricia Belcher. However, it is not known at this time if the remains found inside the car are Belcher's.
The sheriff's office says Belcher was reported missing by a family member on Sept. 16. While investigating her disappearance, deputies learned from family members Gwendolyn and her husband, Christopher, had gotten into a fight after he came home from a birthday party Saturday night. During the fight, it was revealed he had slapped her in the face.
Once deputies learned of this incident, they arrested Christopher for Domestic Violence around 3 o'clock Monday morning.
"How could somebody do such a thing to a person who is so sweet, so kind, so loving?" said Debra Jelks, Gwendolyn Belcher's sister.
Until the Medical Examiner's Office can determine whether the remains are male or female and if they are Gwendolyn's they are still actively looking for her.
She is described as a black female, 5'1", 173 pounds, with a medium build, black shoulder length hair with brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, black spandex pants and black and gold sandals.
Her family, who tells 10 News they often call her "Tissy," describes her as a kind woman with a big heart.
They say she has three kids.
"It was totally unexpected. I mean you don't see something like this coming," Jelks said.
Christopher Belcher has been charged with domestic violence multiple times in the past.
As of Monday evening, he was being held at the Hillsborough County jail without bond.

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text: 1954 Soviet Union World Championship teamModern international hockey began in 1954. This declaration can be supported by one score, a score that sent shockwaves through the hockey world. Playing in its first ever international tournament, the Soviet Union humbled long-time World Champions Canada by a 7-2 score on March 7, 1954, the final day of the World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, it was clear Canada had a rival and adversary that could beat it any time the two teams played. Canada won the next year, lost in 1956, and continued to have the upper hand until 1961, but thereafter it was the Soviets who dominated.Although the Soviets had played hockey for several years within their borders, the 1954 Worlds was the first international appearance by Soviet Union. No one knew the players before the opening game, an easy 7-1 win over Finland, but they became known quickly. Nikolai Puchkov was the world-class goalie and Vsevelod Bobrov was given the Directorate Award as the Best Forward in the tournament.The Soviets won their next two games with expected ease, defeating Norway, 7-0, and then West Germany, 6-2, but the tournament took on new excitement when CCCP defeated Czechoslovakia, 5-2. The Czechoslovaks were regarded as the only nation close to Canada, and this put the East York Lyndhursts, Canada's representatives that year, on notice.The Soviets then beat Switzerland, 4-2, and settled in for a game against the host Swedes on March 5. But for a bit of luck and chance, history might have been radically different. The two teams played scoreless hockey for 40 minutes, and it was Tre Kronor that struck first when Gosta Johansson scored two minutes into the final period. The Swedes held the fort for most of the period, but with less than five minutes to play Viktor Shuvalov tied the game, setting up a gold-medal showdown against unbeaten Canada.In truth, the game wasn't even close. The Soviets blitzed Canada with four unanswered goals in the opening period, and although Canada made it 4-1 early in the second, it was a 7-1 game after two periods. At the final horn, the Soviets celebrated a victory that not only earned them gold but transformed the landscape of international hockey forever.1954 Soviet Union World Championship team (Arkadi Chernyshev, coach) GK—Grigori Mkrtychan, Nikolai Puchkov—Yevgeni Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov, Mikhail Bychkov, Alexei Guryshev, Nikolai Khlystov, Alexander Komarov, Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevski, Valentin Kuzin, Viktor Shuvalov, Genrikh Sidorenkov, Dmitri Ukolov, Alexander Uvarov, Alexander Vinogradov, Pavel Zhiburtovich


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Part I, "De Laudibus Legum Angliae"–"In Praise of the Laws of England"–Quote from Sir John Fortescue (c.1395-c.1477)
"Common Law: Past, Present, Future, and Beyond…"
The legal grounds of common law are based "in its beginnings lost in the mist of the history of northern Europe and Scandinavia, touched by the influence of the Roman Empire and the history of the English peoples who are frequently invaded by cross-cultures who remained, intermarried with the local citizens and greatly affected their customs and habits." While the Romans ruled Britain for almost 400 years, the development of the Justinian code and of the Roman law was still 100 years away before they left England . During 600 A.D., the English were converted to Christianity and canon law became established in England . Canon law, as a judicial system of the church, has been a significant factor in English legal history and has acquired a name all of its own–equity. For many years, two (2) parallel courts existed in England , courts of equity, which were free to apply principles of conscience, and common law courts. The "common law" is so called because it was "commonly" applied throughout the kingdom of England in the King's Court.
The last successful cross-cultural invasion of England was by the Normans over the Saxons in 1066 A.D., fought over the Battle of Hastings. Since the 11th century A.D., the English were able to develop their own legal system in a typical English manner–they avoided the method of trying to write down all known laws on paper." The English won the protection of their own basic civil rights from their rulers, as noted in the Magna Carta endorsed and signed by King John in 1215.
From that time onwards, the English applied justice, equity, and fairness in the developing courts, with trials by jury for contests between individual citizens disputing over property, personal injuries and contracts. At other times, acts of Parliament defined specific crimes and prescribed penalties. Judges and members of Parliament established British English laws gradually by legal precedents. The result is then what is known still today as "common law": that is to say, custom, tradition, decisions by judges in specific cases and acts of Parliament.
This legal system based on "common law" has been well established for the last 400 years in the United States of America , between 1215 A.D. and 1607 A.D., when the British arrived and settled in Historical Jamestowne, Virginia. For the American colonists, legal experience differed according to the background of the settlers. Since lawyers were few at the time, important cases were heard and decided in London , England . For the last 400 years, "common law" has become the most important root of the American legal system founded on solid judicial grounds from England and imported to the United States of America , during the 17th century through the 21st century and beyond…
Common law has been practiced throughout the kingdom by the King's Court as long as the English languages has been used by the Angles, the Jutes, the Saxons, and the Normans, influenced by Latin and Greek, as well as by the Celts–the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots, and the Cornish–all Gaelic-speaking tribes who were natives of the British Isles before the English settled in the United Kingdom.
The Angles and the Jutes invaded England from Denmark . The Saxons traveled from Saxony which is now known as Germany . And the Normans sailed across the English Channel from France …
Following the Saxon invasion from Germany , the word "Anglii" and " Anglia " became part of the language as used by the Celts to refer to the invaders. One hundred and fifty years after the first raids, King Aethelbert of Kent was named "rex Anglorum" by Pope Gregory. Since then, these people have been called "Angelcynn" (Angle-kin) and their language was "Englisc". By 1000 Anno Domini, the country was generally known as "Englaland", the land of Angles .
The development of the English language moved the practice of common law throughout the invasions of England and the cross-cultural revolutions which took place before and after the year 1066 A.D., marked by the Battle of Hastings, fought between King Harold II and King William I.
According to "The Story of English" by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert McNeil, the Mother tongue known as English was brought to Britain by Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, influenced by Latin and Greek when St. Augustine and his followers converted England to Christianity. The English language has been subtly enriched by the Danes, and finally transformed by the Normans . French-speaking William I of Normandy , also known as the Conqueror who won the battle of Hastings over Harold II in 1066 A.D.
In "The History of the English-speaking Peoples", Sir Winston Churchill stated: "We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man, which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the habeas corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law, find their expression in the Declaration of Independence, (of the United States of America)".
During the first week of May 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Philip, Duke of Edinburgh were hosted by President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush during their visit to Historic Jamestowne, Virginia , Kentucky , and Washington , D.C. They celebrated the 400th Anniversary of the British settlement since 1607, when the first English settlers arrived to the British Colonial fort, sited by Captain John Smith and "Matoakah" Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's Native American Indian Princess, and African-American slaves in North America and Canada, during the 17th century.
An example of "common law" is the concept of "conversion" which defines an intentional tort to personal property (same as "chattel") where the wrongdoers' unjustified, willful interference with the "chattel" deprives the owner of the possession of such "chattel". The owner must have actual possession or immediate right to possession since the time of the wrongful misuse, alteration, or abuse occurred. Interference in common law "conversion" means the exercise of dominion over another's chattel. Intent to dispossess the owner of the chattel is not a required element of the claim. In other words, intentional removal of another's chattel under the mistaken belief that it belongs to the wrongdoer, does not relieve the wrongdoer of liability under conversion.
Stealing something from someone else is one form of conversion. However, conversion is not limited to theft. Conversion can also be accomplished by moving, transferring, discarding, hiding, vandalizing or destroying another person's chattel. Merely using another person's chattel can be grounds for conversion in certain cases.
Legal remedy for conversion is usually in the form of damages restitution equal to the fair market value of the chattel at the time of conversion.
Conversion is an interference with another's ownership of property. It is a general intent tor, not a specific intent tort. That means that the intent to take or otherwise deal with the property is enough to support the claim. The standard remedy and relief for conversion is a judgement for damages in an amount equal to the fair market value of the property. Punitive damages are also possible to be assessed because conversion is an intentional tort. For the last seventeen (17) years, the Village of Lombard has been trespassing and interfering with the Hung Family real estate property by damaging, stealing, and cheating from the Hung Family in order to appropriate their assets in DuPage County, Illinois, USA.
Part II: Intentional tort–Conversion and trespass as "action in trover"
An intentional tort arises from deliberate invasion of another person's rights, causing injury without just cause or excuse. For instance, the new neighbor drives backward into the owner's fence posts between the adjoining driveway and damages the existing fence on the first moving day into their new home. The owner of the damaged fence posts can sue the new neighbor for repeatedly driving into the owner's fence posts with a van, a lawnmower, or deliberate carelessness.
Intentional torts include interference with a person's freedom of movement, defamation of character (libel and slander), invasion of privacy, interference with property rights, misuse of the legal process, fraud, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Trespass is a tort, a civil wrong because it interferes with a person's property rights. For instance, the new neighbor's son jumps the fence adjoining the owner's property repeatedly without permission. Or, the Lombard Police Department in Du Page County, Illinois allows intruders, strangers, terrorists, and criminal repeat offenders to jump the owner's fence into the backyard, under approval of the Village of Lombard, Town Hall staff, and the Village Manager, Bill Lichter, President Bill Mueller, including Trustee for District 5 Ken Florey, and others, without the authorization of the Hung Family as owners of the real estate property.
Common law "tort" action features unreasonable interference with the interests of another. For instance, intentional infliction of emotional distress is a tort. Case-in-point, John Carpenter, the neighbor calls the Lombard Police Department on the Hung Family when the daughter arrives one evening, last summer 2006, and walks into the backyard—there was nothing wrong in the backyard, at the house, or with the daughter of the late Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D.
An injured person may sue anyone who commits a tort against him/her to collect damages—money to compensate for the wrong.
Trespass is an unlawful intrusion that interferes with someone else's possession of property. A trespass gives the property owner the right to bring a civil lawsuit and collect money damages for the interference and for any harm caused. Some states in the U.S.A. have laws that make trespass a crime and prosecute illicit access entry into property with punitive fines, sanctions, and imprisonment. Generally, a trespass is committed on real property (real estate or land and everything that is attached to it), but a trespass can also be to personal property (all other forms of property) as well.
Criminal trespass is accomplished by violence or tends to be a "breach of peace". Some statutes consider any unlawful entry on another person's real estate property as a criminal act. When the trespass involves violence or injury to a person or property, it is always considered criminal, and penalties may be increased for more serious or malicious acts. Criminal trespass is prosecuted in the State of Illinois by punitive fines, sanctions or imprisonment or both.
The standard remedy in an action for trespass to chattels is a judgment for an amount equal to the value of loss or use of the property. Damages from a trespass claim are based on the harm caused to the owner's property, rather than the general value of the chattel. Under common law, many acts can constitute both "conversion" and "trespass" as "action in trover".
Conversion as an "action in trover" under English common law is an ancient, historical form of legal action to recover possession of personal property, and its practice to settle disputes, contests, and arguments, has developed our modern sense and interpretation in the application of common law in the 21st century and beyond.
Action in trover is the technical name for a lawsuit to recover damages incurred for a wrongdoer's "conversion" (wrongful taking, misuse, abuse, alteration or destruction) of personal property belonging to someone else. In trover actions, the measure of damages is normally in proportion to the value of the property at the time of conversion.
Legal "action in trover" is a remedy for conversion or the wrongful appropriation of the owner's personal property. During the course of the 16th century, "action in trover" developed as a special form of legal action in a case.
Trover damages are measured in proportion to the market value of the property, plus compensation for deprivation of use, and compensation for other losses naturally and proximately caused by the wrongful taking of another's property. The owner can also recover interest that would have been earned by the money value of the object and any expenses incurred in attempting to recover the property.
Another example of common law is "negligence per se", that is to say behavioral conduct which is evidence of an unreasonable action (or failure to act) that causes injury to a person or damages to his/her property. Negligence per se, as carelessness in itself, is behavior that falls below the standards set by law for protecting others against risk or harm. As a result of "negligence per se", anyone who is injured, or whose property is damaged because of someone else's negligent act or failure to act, is entitled to bring a civil lawsuit against the wrongdoer, for an "action in trover".
In itself, negligence is a state of mind involving carelessness, forgetfulness, inattentiveness, refusal to perform duties and obligations required by law and professional standards.
In negligence law, a person has an obligation and duty to exercise reasonable care for the physical safety and for the property of others people.
Negligence per se involves "misfeasance" which is to say, the improper doing of an act, and "nonfeasance", that is to say, the failure to perform the required duty. In cases involving "imputed negligence", the first person in charge may have a duty to see that the second person in force exercises care in regard to any third party or property. Thus, "imputed negligence" falls upon the first person when the second person fails to perform the duty of care for the third person, "vicariously". In the same way, "respondeat superior", in Latin, illustrates a principle of law that holds an employer liable and responsible for anything that an employee does during the course of employment. Case-in-point, the Village of Lombard is responsible for all its employees' actions and non-actions, at all times.
When a person suffers harm because of someone else's negligence, the same person can sue the negligent person and make him or her pay for the harm, damages and/or losses caused. Given that the negligent person owed the injured party a duty to use care; that he/she violated that duty by failing to act according to the required standard of care; and that the party incurred injury or that property was damaged as the result of the negligent person.
In the doctrine of "negligence per se", the violations of statutes by the negligent person creates a case for legal action in itself, by default. In order for this doctrine (of negligence per se) to operate, the statute which has been violated must have been designed to prevent the type of injury or damaged suffered by a victim of crime, abused by another person due to "negligence per se".
Case-in-point, in the legal action for Village of Lombard v. Hung, et al., the Plaintiff is subject to "negligence per se" for the violations of Illinois statutes pursuant to consumer service fraud, breach of the Fair Housing agreement contract, and Lombard real estate liability for the sale of old houses in Du Page County, Illinois, USA.
Since 1993, in the Village of Lombard, the Hung Family real estate property and all family members, have all been injured, disabled, and damaged due to the Village of Lombard's failure to provide the duty of care, according to the required standard of care; and the Hung Family members and real estate property have all been victims of crime as a result of "negligence per se" by default in the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois, USA.
English common law is based on legal court precedents. Each legal cause of action is decided by a judge to establish a precedent which may be used as a guide for other judges to make subsequent decisions. Thus common law is active, dynamic, functional, and constantly evolving in time, upon legal precedents.
Traditionally, English common law was unwritten, "lex non scripta"—not written as a body of law; however, nowadays, there are extensive, historical, and contemporary compilations of the English common law for the 21st century and beyond.
Common law follows natural reason, logic, and man's sense of justice, equity, and fairness. It is adopted by men and women to regulate legal behavior in social settings, disputes, contests, and arguments. Common law action is a civil lawsuit between opposing parties over a real legal issue in which the relief (help) requested as remedy is generally money granted as an award for damages.
Common law developed after the French Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. as the law common to the whole of England, rather than the local law used by the Saxons, the Angles, the Jutes, and the Celts. As the court system became established later under King Henry II, and judges decisions became recorded in law reports, the doctrine of precedents developed[1].
Historically, common law is a system of laws that prevails in England and in all countries colonized by Great Britain and the British Commonwealth. The concept of "common law" is derived from the medieval theory that the law is administered by the King's Court which represented "the custom commonly used throughout the realm", in contrast to the custom of local jurisdiction that was applied in local or manorial courts. According to Sir John Davies (1`569-1626), "it was nothing else but the Common Custome of the Realm" quoted in Preface to Reports, (1612). Later, Sir John Fortescue declared that the "realm has been continuously ruled by the same customs as it is now", as noted "In Praise of the Laws of England", c. 1470, in the original title, "De Laudibus Legum Angliae" in which the English Chancellor of the High Court of England discussed royal and political control, "sovereignty", in response to the problem of tyranny, as presented by St. Thomas Aquina and Ptolemy of Lucca. Thomas Aquina exposed the idea of "De Regimine Principum" among the highest goals of medieval political thought—Sir John Fortescue sustained that while England was a "dominium politicum regale", France, its secular opponent, represented a simple "dominium regale". As the most important exponent of English political thought in the 15th century, Sir John Fortescue expressed simply that in contract to France, in England, the King was subject to the same right that the monarch approved with the two Chambers of Parliament, whose consensus was also necessary in order to establish taxes (11)—Sir John Fortescue, "De Laudibus Legum Angliae" as "In Praise for the Laws of England", Chapters IX and XVIII[2].
English common law developed from legal usage within three (3) English courts as follow: the King's Bench, Exchequer, and the Court of Common Pleas. The King's Bench originally litigated the crown's business (including criminal matters and had jurisdiction to correct errors from other courts of record). The Exchequer of Pleas, involved primarily revenue matters. Then, in a narrower sense, the common law was the body of law administered in Westminster Hall by the twelve (12) judges of the three superior courts of law. These were the Common Pleas, whose position as the prime court of civil suits had been secured by the Magna Carta (1215) and which continued to attract most civil litigation until the 18th century. The common law administered in these three (3) courts contrasted with "equity" as practiced primarily in the Court of Chancery. The Court of Chancery was originally designated as a "Court of Conscience", concerned with securing justice in individual cases, rather than following strict rules[3].
In "Roots," the role of the sheriff is presented as "the oldest continuing, non-military, law enforcement entity in the history of England". In the 9th century, "shires" were municipal and administrative kingdoms divided by the King of England and assigned to trusted representatives. The shire representative appointed by the King protected his interest and the people of his particular land territory. In medieval English, the appointed trustees were called "reeves" as "guardians of the shire". Historical usage of the words "shire-reeve" together, derived the contemporary term for the concept of "sheriff", as we know their office of service today, before and after the French Norman invasion of England in 1066 A.D. In the past, the sheriff was responsible for keeping the peace, collecting taxes, maintaining jails, arresting fugitives, maintaining lists of wanted criminals, serving orders and writs for the King's Court.
According to DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott, "the responsibilities of the office of the sheriff in England ebbed and flowed, depending on the mood and needs of kings and government". The Magna Carta (1215) signed by King John restricted and circumscribed the responsibilities and duties of the sheriff in his times.
In the British Commonwealth, as well as in America, the concept of the sheriff has been adopted with the common law, through time, space, and physical presence. In the American colonies settled by the British since 1607 A.D., sheriffs were also appointed following the role model of English government. The first sheriff in the United States of America has been noted to be Captain William Stone, appointed in 1634 for the Shire of Northampton in the colony of Virginia. The first elected sheriff was William Waters in 1652 for the same shire. The word "shire" was used in many of the Commonwealth colonies, before the word "county" replaced its usage[4].
Under English common law, notaries public also provide another timeless office of service for the legal court system and the community at large. Since the Roman Republic, in the past, notaries public have drawn important documents and records writing for business and employment. During the times of the Roman Empire, notaries public were known under various titles in Latin, such as "scriba", "cursor", tabularius", "tabelio", "exceptor", "actuaries", and "notarius", according to the historical times in which they lived and the duties performed. Notaries public are subject to regulation by law since the later days in Ancient Rome. Some of the notarial acts have been granted degrees of authenticity to be designated as public instruments and were required to be kept as records to be deposited in public archives for the government[5].
Notaries public are commissioned by the State of Illinois, Office of the Secretary of State Jesse White. Their term of office is four (4) years from the time of commission.
Throughout history, in the early past, notaries public were well known functionaries during the times of the great Charlemagne who vested notarial acts by scribes with public authority and provided notaries public appointments by his deputies in every locality in their territories. Charlemagne provided that each bishop, abbot, and count should have a notary public.
In England, appointed notaries public acted as "conveyancers", before the French Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D., as shown by the fact that a grant of lands and manors was made by King Edward the Confessor, to the Abbot of Westminster by a charter written and attested by a notary public. In Great Britain, notaries public are authorized to administer oaths, and this official power is vested by statute.
The laws of the United States of America, under the Constitution and under God is similar, for notaries public and is often declared by the statutes of the various states and other jurisdictions.
It is my opinion that common law is established in the history of languages with the legal tradition of the past, interpreted in the present as precedents, to be preset in the future and beyond…the 21st century.
English common law is based on timeless, immemorial customs and legal practices founded on natural reason, persuasion, and logic. According to Edward Coke, "reason is the life of the law, nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason"—from the First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England or A Commentary upon Littleton by Edward Coke. Edited by Francis Hargrave and Charles Butler, (London, 1794).
Common law, within the context of its core principles, is perceived to be "timeless". It is derived from legal authority "throughout the kingdom" as stated by Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, (1765-1769).
After the Civil War, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a book called, "The Common Law" (1881), in order to recognize that law evolved and that it was a byproduct/ consequence of historical events, rather than simply the result of reason. According to Oliver Wendell Holmes, "a moment's insight is a life's experience". Holmes' book "The Common Law" focuses on experience rather than logic and has been compared as a legal analog to Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" which discusses biological processes, rather than divine ones. Oliver Wendell Holmes helped to popularize the understanding that law evolves…through time, space, physical presence, and beyond the 21st century.
After the Second World War, there was a growing interest in the use of the common law as a tool for social reform. While some academics spoke of the legal process—the belief that there were methods of common law and statutory interpretation that were independent of politics existed—other academics and jurists on both ends of the political spectrum urged judges to use their common law power to remake the law on its foundations. Where once judges had wielded the law to limit corporate liability, some began to expand "tort" law to facilitate recovery of damages and losses for injured parties in hazardous conditions, as victims of crime, to dangerous drugs to professional malpractice.
Now in the 21st century, Modern America continues to practice "common law" as a byproduct of generations of judicial decisions and during the course of time and beyond. Common law is understood to be the result of judge-made innovations, interpretation, application, and perception of the circumstances involved in judicial case review. However, a more conservative conception of the common law has been re-emerging in the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts and fellow jurists, scholars, and colleagues during 2007. During the first term of office appointed by President George W. Bush, Chief Justice John G. Roberts moved the U.S. Supreme Court toward a new conservative direction within the context of President Bush's "faith-based initiative".[6]
Since 1607, and for the last 400 years, judges still grapple and deliberate with new legal actions and struggle to apply precedents. Modern day judges are still using, applying, and interpreting the English common law system to date as a legal foundation to establish law practices for justice, equity, and fairness under the Constitution of the United States, and under God, throughout the 21st century and beyond…in the spirit of the times. Zeitgeist!
From the Law Library of my father, Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D.
You and the Law. A Practical Guide to Everyday Law and How It Affects You and Your Family. Advisory Editor Henry V. Poor, Associate Dean of Yale University Law School, 1967-1972. Reader's Digest Association, Inc., New York, 1971.
Family Legal Guide. A Complete Encyclopedia of Law for the Layman. Reader's Digest Association, New York, 1971.
Periodical, 'The Week', May 18, 2007 on the "400th Anniversary of Jamestowne, Virginia".
Periodical," The Week". July 6-13, 2007. News. Main Stories. "The Roberts Court Chars a new direction".
Periodical, 'Newsweek'. Ideas, 'Ties of Blood and History: Sir Winston Churchill', February 26, 2007.
McCrum, Robert et al. The Story of English. BBC Public Television Series.
The Illinois Sheriff, Spring 2005. 'Roots. A Historical Perspective of the Office of the Sheriff'. DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott.
Fortescue, John (1394-1477). De Laudibus Legum Angliae. In Praise of the Laws of England.
John Marshal School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Canada's Court System, Department of Justice Publication.
American Heritage Dictionary.
Village of Lombard, et al. vs. Hung et al., Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, Chancery Division, 505 North County Farm Road, Wheaton, IL 60187, County of Du Page, State of Illinois, United States of America.
Churchill, Winston. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Roberts, Andrew. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1901.
QPB Dictionary of Ideas. Quality Paperback Book Club. (New York: Helicon Publishing Ltd., 1995 in the United Kingdom under the title The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas), page 108, Common Law.
Cambridge text in the History of Political Thought, CUP, 1997. Law: Sovereignty in the British Doctrine (From Bracton to Dicey). Notes by Joaquin Varela Suanzes in http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v6n3/suanzes63_ notes.html
Fortescue, John. The Governance of England: Otherwise called the Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy. Editor Charles Plummer. London: Oxford University Press, 1885. Reprinted 1999 by the Law Book Exchange, Ltd.
Anderson's Manual for Notaries Public. Fifth Edition. Gilmer, Wesley, Jr., B.A., M.S.L.S., J.D. W.H. Anderson Company. Cincinnati, 1966.
Richard, Tom, PhD. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, USA.
Hung, Gardenia C., M.A., B.A., Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc., 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road, Lombard IL 60148-3028 USA. Email: email@example.com
[1] QPB Dictionary of Ideas. Quality Paperback Book Club. (New York: Helicon Publishing Ltd., 1995 in the United Kingdom under the title The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas), page 108, Common Law.
[2] Cambridge text in the History of Political Thought, CUP, 1997. Law: Sovereignty in the British Doctrine (From Bracton to Dicey). Notes by Joaquin Varela Suanzes in http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v6n3/suanzes63_ notes.html
Fortescue, John. The Governance of England: Otherwise called the Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy. Editor Charles Plummer. London: Oxford University Press, 1885. Reprinted 1999 by the Law Book Exchange, Ltd.
[3] http://www.answers.com/commonlaw
[4] The Illinois Sheriff. Spring 2005. A magazine published by the Illinois Sheriff Association. "Roots. A Historical Perspective of the Office of the Sheriff". By DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott. Pages 6-7.
[5] Anderson's Manual for Notaries Public. Fifth Edition. Gilmer, Wesley, Jr., B.A., M.S.L.S., J.D. W.H. Anderson Company. Cincinnati, 1966. Chapter 1, Page 2.
[6] The Week. July 6-13, 2007. News. Main Stories. "The Roberts Court Charts a new direction".
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From the Law Library of my father, Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D.
You and the Law. A Practical Guide to Everyday Law and How It Affects You and Your Family. Advisory Editor Henry V. Poor, Associate Dean of Yale University Law School, 1967-1972. Reader's Digest Association, Inc., New York , 1971.
Family Legal Guide. A Complete Encyclopedia of Law for the Layman. Reader's Digest Association, New York , 1971.
Periodical, "The Week", May 18, 2007 on the "400th Anniversary of Jamestowne , Virginia ".
Periodical, "Newsweek". Ideas, "Ties of Blood and History: Sir Winston Churchill", February 26, 2007.
McCrum, Robert et al. The Story of English. BBC Public Television Series.
The Illinois Sheriff, Spring 2005. "Roots. A Historical Perspective of the Office of the Sheriff". DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott.
Fortescue, John (1394-1477). De Laudibus Legum Angliae. In Praise of the Laws of England .
Canada's Court System, Department of Justice Publication.
American Heritage Dictionary.
Village of Lombard, et al. vs. Hung et al., Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, 505 North County Farm Road, Wheaton, IL 60187, County of Du Page, State of Illinois, United States of America.
Churchill, Winston. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Roberts, Andrew. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1901.
Richard, Tom PhD. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin , USA .
Hung, Gardenia C., M.A., B.A. Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc., 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road , Lombard IL 60148-3028 USA . Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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BOTHELL, Wash. – The Student Veterans Association at the University of Washington Bothell cleared the hurdles necessary to be admitted as a chapter of the Student Veterans of America.
The UW Bothell chapter's primary mission is to provide support to students who have served in the US armed forces.
According to faculty adviser Rosa Lundberg, "Returning to an educational environment can be a challenging experience for a veteran. The Student Veterans Association at UW Bothell provides a welcoming culture, networking opportunities and support activities through a living network of student veterans."
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has embarked on a nine-day trip to Asia, during which he will brief our allies on America's new Pacific-oriented defense strategy. In its briefings on the trip, Defense Department officials have stressed the importance of India to U.S. strategy, noting that it is the only country specifically mentioned in the strategic guidance document.
Along the same lines, Deputy Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday in a speech at AEI that the U.S is destined to draw closer to India because India is "a country we know is a kindred soul."
Carter's statement is true, and obviously so. But it raises the question of why the Obama administration snubbed India for so long, while tilting towards Pakistan – a country we know is not a "kindred soul." It's a question I tried to answer here. Among the reasons, in my view, is that Obama considers India, as he considers Israel, too kindred.
Whatever the motivation, the snub has been indisputable. Unlike Secretary Panetta, Hillary Clinton conspicuously excluded India from her first visit to Asia. As for President Obama himself, he alienated India as a candidate and as president-elect by making an issue of Pakistan's claims over Kashmir. And though he backtracked on this, he has continued to irritate India through his hectoring over the out-sourcing of jobs.
India has not been amused. It elected to purchase French jets, instead of American ones, as the mainstay of its air force. India paid $15 billion for planes that the French manufacturer had not been able to sell abroad in 15 years. India rejected bids for Boeing's F-18 Hornet and Lockheed Martin's F-16 Falcon. To add insult to injury, it also chose to lease a nuclear submarine from the Russians. In addition, India has been reluctant to cooperate fully with sanctions against Iran, on whom it relies for 12 percent of its oil.
Thus, Deputy Secretary Carter clearly was spinning when he claimed that Panetta's visit to India is part of a 10-year history of tightening relations. The tightening began late in the Clinton years, accelerated under President Bush, but was deliberately derailed under Obama.
Fortunately, at least on this issue, the administration apparently has recognized the error of its ways.


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Deck Diversity and Oaths of Vengeance
A Warhammer: Invasion Spotlight by Guest Writer Torsten Krämer
The fact that the six different races of Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game each play differently results from one of the fundamental decisions made during the course of the game – namely the decision to create six different races. The forces of Order and Destruction are each subdivided into three races, and players don't expect any two races to play the same way. Orc rush and Chaos control. Dark Elf discard and High Elf indirect damage. Dwarf slayers and Empire Judgement of Verena. These decks all enrich the game and your play experience with their diversity. Still, some cards are so good and so easy to play in nearly any faction that they find their way from deck to deck to deck. Warpstone Excavation (Core Set, 116) and Contested Village (Core Set, 111) are two such cards. The neutral units, Blood Dragon Knight (Legends, 53) and Wight Lord (March of the Damned, 48), are valuable additions to nearly any Destruction deck, while the Chaos unit, Sorcerer of Tzeentch (The Twin Tailed Comet, 53), often finds its way out of the Chaos faction. Meanwhile, the forces of Order often rely upon Arcane Power (The Accursed Dead, 57) to form infinite loops to drive powerful card combinations. Despite the presence and impact of factions, then, while players use enough of these "splash" cards – and use them often enough – some of the diversity spurred by the different races is mitigated. Today, guest writer Torsten Krämer looks at how the Eternal War cycle may encourage players to rethink the use of these standard "splash" cards and, in turn, may encourage greater deck diversity.
Torsten Krämer on the Outlying Tower Back in the days before the restricted list was introduced, practically every competitive Warhammer: Invasion deck included the so-called "Core Nine": three copies each of Warpstone Excavation, Contested Village, and Innovation (Core Set, 119). These three cards were considered fundamental because they helped boost your economy, particularly during the crucial early turns. The restricted list broke this triad apart, forcing players to choose between Warpstone Excavation and Innovation (or the other restricted cards), and while sometimes people choose another restricted card over Warpstone Excavation, it is still an absolute staple in most decks, along with Contested Village. Frankly, I'm not a fan of this. I've always preferred more diversity. I like when different decks use more different cards, instead of having so many in common, but I've often found myself forced to use these cards if I didn't want to enter a tournament at a disadvantage. I'm quite happy to say things might change soon. The Core Nine won't disappear, but they won't be "auto-includes" anymore, either. We will see more diversity. Muster for War (Days of Blood, 20) has already started to vie for Contested Village's spot in many decks since both have the Limited keyword, and the upcoming Battle Pack, Oaths of Vengeance, brings us Outlying Tower (Oaths of Vengeance, 23). This may remind you of another card from the previous Battle Pack, Chill Sea Watchtower (Days of Blood, 4). You can guess what's coming over the course of the Eternal War cycle: each faction will get an equivalent support card. It's an improved Contested Village with the drawback that you can't have it in play with cards from outside your faction. And I'm hopeful this will encourage a new approach to deck construction. For Order, the choice to switch to pure faction decks might be particularly easy. They have solid resource acceleration from cards like Derricksburg Forge (The Burning of Derricksburg, 5) and Mining Tunnels (The Burning of Derricksburg, 2) that they can use in place of Warpstone Excavation, and they can use their new supports instead of Contested Village. But these supports are also very attractive for Destruction, helping them with early loyalty and triggering The Capital Cycle quests like Raiding Parties (The Iron Rock, 60). Of course, you might also use these new supports in addition to Warpstone Excavation and Contested Village, rather than in place of them, to increase your chances of a fast start, even if you might later end up with cards that are only good for developing. Also, you should keep in mind that tactics are never actually in play, so you can freely include neutral tactics in a deck with these supports, and tactics like Desertion (City of Winter, 99) will now be much more attractive! …Speaking of neutral tactics, don't you find it annoying when your attackers are so strong you could burn all of your opponent's zones at once, but you can still only attack and burn one at a time? The Eternal War cycle promised to emphasize battles more, and it does. Oaths of Vengeance addresses this pesky problem of "one attack per turn" with All Out War (Oaths of Vengeance, 40). It's time to stop fooling around. Just finish your opponent with one decisive attack! Thanks, Torsten! While we don't expect we'll ever see the end of Warpstone Excavation or Contested Village, we're excited to see what players do with the new supports and design possibilities coming with the Eternal War cycle.
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Perhaps Harvey realized the European architecture did not represent the Southwestern arid environment that marks the Grand Canyon. When contemplating another structure to attract tourist dollars, he hired Mary Elizabeth Colter to design a gift shop along the rim of the canyon next to the El Tovar. Colter was just beginning her career as an architect; she eventually became known for the way in which she incorporated the historic and natural environment into her designs.
Colter, who attended the California School of Design in San Francisco in 1886, was a student of the popular Arts and Crafts Movement, which started in England in the mid-nineteenth century and swept America around the turn of the twentieth century. Adherents of the Arts and Crafts Movement placed more emphasis on traditional craftsmanship than the blandness of industrial manufacturing. Use of materials from the natural environment in their craft was an important element of the movement; Architects followed suit with structures that had a wilderness or natural look and conformed to local and historical culture. Popular with architects was Spanish Mission style, and two of its variants—Mission-Spanish Revival and Pueblo-Spanish Revival. Colter used both these styles in the structures she designed at the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Fred Harvey was not the first entrepreneur to invest in local tourism. Curious adventurers started to travel to the Grand Canyon in 1880. From then on, a steady flow of individuals arrived at the rim of the canyon after a two-day lurching stagecoach ride from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Accommodations were primitive; an old prospector, John Hance, who abandoned mining for what appeared to be a more lucrative business, tourism, offered tent lodging, camp food, and an exciting mule ride down a crude 6000 foot trail he constructed to the bottom of the canyon.
Tourist relaxing along the Colorado River, perhaps rejoicing, that they made it to the bottom of the Canyon on Hance's crude trail.
By 1901, the first tourists arrived on the Grand Canyon Railroad from Williams, Arizona. The railroad from Williams was a branch line of the Santa Fe.
In 1901, the officials of the Santa Fe Railroad could see the possibilities of increased tourism and revenues if they built a line from Williams, Arizona to the rim of the Grand Canyon. And, along with increased tourism there was a need for increased services and who better to offer such service than Fred Harvey. Harvey had contracted with the Santa Fe to built "Harvey Houses" along Santa Fe line from Chicago to California. With the new line to the Grand Canyon, Harvey invested in what he did best; build railroad restaurants and hotels that offered upscale food and service to railroad passengers.
When Harvey decided to build gift shops along the rim of the canyon, he hired Mary Colter to design them. The entrepreneur envisioned selling the culture of the Southwest, in particular hand made Native American crafts, and Colter was perfect for the job; he first hired her to design the interior of the Indian room in his newly finished Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque in 1901. With the contract to design structures along the canyon rim, Colter moved from interior designer to architect.
The first building Colter designed for Fred Harvey at the Canyon rim was Hopi House; her design had the appearance of an historic housing structure patterned after the ancient native village she visited at Oraibi, Arizona.
Hopi House was built of local stone and wood, and included terraces, ladders and upper doors as if the building housed the "ancient ones."
Colter also tried to be as authentic as possible in the interior of Hopi House.
Interior of Hopi House. Authentic adobe fireplace next to a showcase of Native American turquoise jewelry.
In keeping with selling the Native American culture to the canyon tourist, members of the Hopi-Pueblo people perform their version of native dances outside Hopi House. On this particular afternoon, a member of the troupe narrated to those watching the dances the significance of the ceremony in Native culture.
In all, from 1904 to 1935, Mary Colter designed five structures on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, and Phantom Ranch, a rustic lodge along the Colorado River at the bottom of the Canyon.
Hermit's Rest, in 1914:
Colter built Hermit's Rest at the end of a new road, which extended eight miles west of the El Tovar Hotel. Fred Harvey built the road between 1910 and 1912. When the extension was finished, Harvey wanted a viewing and rest station for those who hiked the trail along the rim. He asked Colter to design the building. In planning her design, Colter had to decide if she would continue the Swiss Chalet style to match the El Tovar or the Pueblo Indian style of her recently completed Hopi house. She decided on something more daring—a structure honoring Louis D. Boucher, a reclusive Canadian, who built a tourist camp in 1890 for those who traveled by horseback to the Grand Canyon.
Lookout Studio 1914:
Also in 1914, Colter designed Lookout Studio, which included a gift shop and a vista for gazing out over the Canyon. Colter used the horizontal rock formation of the cliff on which the studio would be built, and the rock formation of the cliff behind the studio as her inspiration. The studio was constructed from rough-cut Kaibab limestone that matched the upper canyon wall. For viewing, visitors traveled down a series of criss-cross staircases and terraces that descended the perpendicular canyon wall. Colter's design had a rough look; to make a larger statement, she brought stones or boulders and placed them in several locations around the outside walls, which further gave the appearance of the outside walls blending into the stone cliff. She also brought in native plants and planted them next to the boulders; the same look as visitors would see walking down one of the canyon trails.
Any one walking the canyon rim trail in front of El Tovar would not at first notice the studio it blends in so well with the natural environment.
Stone walls also accent the inside of the studio, timber frames the ceiling, an arched stone fireplace decorates an alcove, and a Native American rug decorates the floor.
Phantom Ranch 1922:
In 1922, Harvey asked Colter to design a lodge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, which she called Phantom Ranch. Colter did not make a historical statement with her design of the "ranch." The cabin type structure was more utilitarian; it served as a rest stop and overnight stay for those who traveled to the bottom of the canyon on one of several trails. The rest stop is on Bright Angel Creek. One-quarter mile from where the creek flows into the Colorado River.
Probably one of the most interesting structures that Colter designed is Desert View Watchtower, which she designed in 1932. Colter's inspiration for the tower came from her visit to Mesa Verde, just northeast of the Grand Canyon in the Four Corners area where Colorado, Utah. Arizona and New Mexico meet. (see preceding blog on Mesa Verde.)
Desert View Watchtower 2011
When Colter visited Mesa Verde in the 1930s, she found a relatively new discovery of cliff dwellings of Native people who vacated the area in around 1300 a.d. Today, many of the ruins have been restored and accessible to visitors. Cliff Palace is probably one of the most spectacular.
Cliff Palace in 2011. In order to see the ruins up close, it is a strenuous hike down and in some area a climb of several 100 ft ladders. What Colter saw that interest her in design was the towers that the "ancient ones" built in Cliff Palace and another cliff dwelling community called Spruce House.
Inside the tower visitors can climb stairs to four different levels, each with a view of the Canyon out the widows provided for just such viewing.
Also, at the landing between each floor, Colter continues the Native American theme with furniture and artwork that gives the visitor the feel of the ancient cliff dwellings.
Mary Colter left a legacy in her designs at the rim of the Grand Canyon. Her interest in blending her designs to incorporate the history and environment of a particular area became a standard for National Park structures starting in the New Deal area of the 1930s. A new type of architecture was born that today is called Parkitecture; a visitor to anyone of the National Parks will see buildings made of native stone, lumber and well blended into the environment.
Mary Colter continued her career as an architect, but outside the Grand Canyon. She Worked for Fred Harvey designing interiors and hotels along the Santa Fe line. She continued her Southwestern look in all her designs; The El Navajo in Gallup New Mexico, The Franciscan Hotel in Albuquerque and she designed and decorated shops in Union Station in Chicago, continuing her theme of Native American culture.
Mary Colter was one of the first women architects in American, she died in 1958.


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To the untrained eye this is nothing but 10% of a car. To the petrolhead eye, however, it's a glint of power bulge beneath which lurks something magnificent.
Of course you have to be a complete M3 geek to catch all that. The aggressive yet discreet front fascia, the pattern of the wheels, the cross-drilled brake disks. And the hood—invisible if not for the pitlane access door's reflection. It's a BMW E46 M3, it's got an S54B32 under that domed hood, and when it hits the track—like this particular one hit the Hungaroring on this year's last track day—the hills will echo.
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Liberty News
New "voice" coming to Flames' events
Following a national search that drew names and interest from the highest level of NCAA Division I athletics, Liberty Athletics has hired former ISP broadcaster Alan York as its new radio play-by-play broadcaster for its football and men's basketball programs.
York is replacing Liberty's legendary play-by-play broadcaster Jerry Edwards, who held the position of "Voice of the Flames" for 29 years before retiring from broadcasting in May.
Edwards announced for more than 300 football games and 800 men's basketball contests during his three decades of work, having traveled as far as Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to cover Liberty's athletics programs.
"We were very fortunate to find someone like Alan to follow Jerry Edwards as the next 'Voice of the Flames,'" said Jeff Barber, Liberty's director of Athletics. "He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience and is the right person to build upon the foundation that Jerry built for our radio network.
"I told Alan when he interviewed for the position that our goal is to have the best radio network in college athletics, and I believe Alan is the person to make that happen."
For the past 12 years, York has been an assistant production manager for ISP, America's Home for College Sports on the radio for the last two decades.
While at ISP, York was based out of Winston-Salem, N.C., and was the lead broadcaster for the Atlantic Coast Contest (ACC) National Game of the Week in football. He has also gained experience broadcasting various Wake Forest's men's and women's basketball and baseball programs.
York's vast experience has allowed him to produce the radio broadcasts for the ACC, Wake Forest, South Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas as part of the ISP family.
"It's an exciting time right now to be a Liberty Flame," said York. "The energy felt throughout this university is contagious and I am fortunate to have this once in a lifetime opportunity."


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We're waiting on a sunny day, just like the author of Blue Batting Helmet. Pitchers and catchers will be reporting to Arizona and Florida shortly; MLB.com & top blogger Jonathan Mayo just released our 2012 Prospect Watch; the Super Bowl will lead right into our Fantasy rankings; Prince Fielder is joining the Tigers; there are no obvious favorites for the 2012 World Series; and there is more to blog about than ever as a Major League Baseball fan.
How's everyone doing out here in MLB.com Blogs country? I wanted to check in before heading down to Florida later today for a vaca including my second Miami Marathon on Sunday (a very sunny day, hopefully not too much humidity!). We'll be back midweek to present you with the first monthly installment of Latest Leaders. It has been great to see so many people apply the MLB.com Blogs Top 100 badge to their own MLBlogs after such hard work in 2011, and we have already seen some great new blogs start up that are sure to make the 2012 list. I just expanded the Comments list to the right and as you can see I hope you will always leave your full URL within any comment — use this technique to get people like me to your blog, and please go through their comments and look for other blogs.
Want to see a Tim Lincecum-Prince Fielder matchup in late October? Our friend Emily of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend just posted a what-if about a Giants-Tigers World Series, so tell her what you think. Kevin of WestSide Culture vows in those comments that he "will be atop that list in 2012, starting now." He just made the switch to an MLB theme (thanks!), which is necessary to be tallied for Latest Leaders page view search. We plan to update our themes soon and I'll give a headsup whenever that date gets closer.
Jenn is coming up on her fourth anniversary of blogging at Phillies Phollowers and you can get some nice widget tips from her, such as incorporating your own Facebook page. It's easy to drag the Facebook Like widget from your Dashboard, like I also did here to the right and below. Just go to Appearance –> Widgets. Another Top 100 Phillies blog is from Michael at The Phanatic Addict and you can see how he set up a favorite blogs Link set, including Jenn, which is what reminded us to check in on Phillies Phollowers. Be nice to others and you will benefit.
From the Corner of Edgar & Dave is the brand-new blog of the Seattle Mariners PR department, and despite launching in mid-month it is tracking as the No. 5 PRO blog right now and has a pretty good chance to go on to become the top overall blog into the season at MLB.com Blogs. Why? Check it out if you haven't. It has been fun working with Jeff and the crew there as they take it very seriously and seek out feedback on what people like. Copy their widget techniques — the best I have seen since we switched to WordPress.com! Think of From the Corner of Edgar & Dave as a part of Mariners.com — a great club site.
March is my 10th anniversary with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, and probably my favorite photog in the business through that time has been Jon SooHoo — the official photographer of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It is a joy viewing his photo galleries on Dodgers.com, and his Top 100 blog known as Dodgers Photog Blog is back better than ever. Check out his posts from the past week and consider subscribing to his blog so you see whenever he posts. These are great shots — even worth a Pinterest board. Jon appreciates feedback very much and I encourage you to please leave comments there on what you'd like to see from him.
MLB.com has the only traveling network of 30 beat reporters and there are some ongoing changes in beat assignments that you'll want to know about. The list is to the right here and all the writers involved have used their blogs to discuss their moves for 2012. Alden Gonzalez now covers the Angels, Jen Langosch is moving over to the Cardinals to replace our first-ever MLB.com beat reporter/blogger, Matthew Leach, who has a new MLB.com gig coming up. Longtime MLB national writer Tom Singer is returning to his roots in Pittsburgh to replace Jen on the Pirates beat. We wish them all the best in their new roles and look forward to more great blogging!
In 2012, you will see more really cool changes as we continue to advance with the times. Part of that will be a way to find a lot of MLB.com Blogs through shares, likes and popularity. We're discussing a number of aggregators we like — Punchfork, for example — and I would really love to hear from YOU in the comments here. How should MLB.com surface and showcase our MLBlogs? Included would be (only) any blogs started at MLB.com/blogs and any of the millions of WordPress.com bloggers who choose our MLB themes. Hey, we all have Facebook and Twitter, but you need a baseball blog for more long-form thoughts. Our widgets allow you to integrate it all.
For anyone who has joined us since last May, here was the relaunch post after our MLBAM deal with WordPress.com. Reminder that WP handles support for our MLB.com Blogs community, so you may use this community blog for anything you wish but use their support link for fast action on any issues or questions. Have fun blogging and look for the next installment of Latest Leaders right here after we test out an IT Band issue over 26.2 miles of South Beach, Coconut Grove and other great places.


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I really like how the BurdaStyle book coat ended up. It has a somewhat military trench coat feel.
It was finished last Friday and I'll get another chance to see it again on Monday before it is off for 18 months at BurdaStyle.
I don't think I'm allowed to post pictures of the finished product or the sketches, so you will have to wait for the Book and it is a long wait till fall 2011. I totally think it will be worth the wait. Designers working on these projects are from 15 different countries and I'm sure every creation will be very unique. Plus the book will give everyone the opportunity to alter the patterns and recreate the designs.
I have learned/remembered a lot about sewing coats. Next time I will do all the couture touches, like in the Vogue book and next coats will be a little bit more feminine.
Armani put out an extraordinary wearable collection for fall 2010, and a lot of the colors are muted beige and creamy colors, but the cut is everything.
The latest Vogue Magazine has a page describing Beige as not being so boring when paired up with leopard print or bold colors like Red, Green or Purple (not all at once).
Who else is sewing for the book?
Becky: http://sew-and-so.blogspot.com/2010/07/burdastyle-book-project-part-2-mmmmm.html
Elaine: http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/burdastyle-book-excitement-and-apprehension/
Lily: http://mirth-thehouseof.blogspot.com/
Haruna: http://netfet.blogspot.com/2010/07/burdastyle-book-work-in-progress.html
Angela Atkin: http://sewithought.com/?p=242
Novita: http://verypurpleperson.com/2010/06/a-busy-week-and-burdastyle-book.html
AnaJan: http://anajankovic.blogspot.com/
oonaballoona: http://oonaballoona.blogspot.com/
Julietta : http://sewionista.blogspot.com/
CreativeMama: http://adithisammasews.blogspot.com/2010/07/excited-to-be-part-of-burdastyle-book.html
Liz: http://elily00.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/my-other-news/
Sundara: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sundarastudio
NikkiShell: http://nikkishell.typepad.com/nikkishell/2010/07/burdastyle-book.html
Melissa: http://www.fehrtrade.com/article/356/knipmode-summer-2010-roundup
Casey: http://blog.caseybrowndesigns.com/
Roarah: http://orchidsinmay.typepad.com/orchids-in-may/2010/07/burdastyle-book-.html
Did I miss someone? I'd like to hear who else is sewing for the book.


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Google is defending itself from a legal motion filed by a German pen company in a case that could look completely different in a world with SOPA.
Famed pen, jewelry and watch company Montblanc filed a bill of discovery Wednesday in a California federal court asking Google to turn over a list of its advertisers.
Montblanc alleges that the Mountain View-based search giant has allowed several counterfeit companies to advertise knockoffs based on its products on Google when searching for pens by the German company.
In its filing, Montblanc says there were numerous instances it first noticed in July 2011 when searching "Montblanc" on www.google.co.uk would bring up ads linking to counterfeit Montblanc pens on sites with spoofed URLs.
The company says it brought the information to Google UK's attention, whose legal team responded that the company had removed the ads and warned the violating companies.
Montblanc alleges that the ads continued to show up even after Google assured the pen-maker that they were gone, according to the court filing.
The company then requested that Google turn over the names and locations of the advertisers because it was unable to locate the true identity of the companies.
Google refused, saying it was against company policy to disclose advertiser information without a court order, according to the court filing.
Montblanc then filed a motion in British courts to force Google to reveal the names but Google UK responded by saying its parent company in Mountain View was the only party with the names.
Google UK asked Montblanc to withdraw the discovery request and said that Google would agree to comply with a discovery motion if the German company filed a motion for discovery in California instead, according to the court documents.
In its filing this week, Montblanc asked Google to turn over the names of the advertisers behind the copyright infringing ads so the pen-maker can then sue those companies, not Google.
The discovery motion is a legal procedure to get information from a person or a company before filing a suit.
The search company has not responded to the filing yet.
Montblanc Wants Google to Name Advertisers
Google is defending itself from a legal motion filed by a German pen company in a case that could look completely different in a world with SOPA.


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This adorable flower beanie is purely hand crocheted, and perfectly fits for kids!
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- Material: Wool blending yarn
- Delicate design and exquisite workmanship
- Comes with two lovely braids
- A pair of warm earflaps could protect kid's ears better
- Soft and comfortable
- Hat Circumference (Approx.): 45±2cm / 17.7 ± 0.8 inch (unstretched)
- Hat Depth (Approx.): 18±1cm / 7.1 ± 0.4 inch
- Color: Brown, pink and beige
- Size: L (Please make sure your little one's measurement before you buy)
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Although law school casebooks tend to focus on the judge's written opinion, court cases actually generate a large amount of other documents, such as: complaints, briefs, depositions, oral argument transcripts, jury verdicts, settlement agreements, etc. These materials comprise the record of the case.
Legal researchers might wish to consult a case's record or briefs for a variety of reasons: to review which legal arguments persuaded (or did not persuade) the judge, to learn more about the factual or procedural background of a case, and to gauge what kind of verdict or damages might be awarded in a similar situation. Unfortunately, there is little consistency in the publication of court records and briefs, which may be available in a variety of print, electronic and microform sources.
To aid these researchers, reference librarian Jennifer L. Behrens has created a new Goodson Law Library Research Guide to Court Records and Briefs (http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/records_briefs). The guide outlines compilations of records and briefs which are available at Duke, as well as sources and strategies for locating specific documents related to a particular case in the Goodson Law Library, LexisNexis, Westlaw, PACER, HeinOnline, and on the free web.
As always, if you encounter a citation to a court document which is not covered in the research guide, please ask a reference librarian.


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8 May Entertainment Picks in Hawaii
May is Hawaiian Music Month, but don't forget about Spam popsicles, psychics and a dramatic tale of a Hawaiian outlaw.
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Waikiki Spam Jam
Photo: Hormel Foods Corp.
No, it's not a community making jam out of Spam (but maybe that will make it on the schedule next year)—the Waikiki Spam Jam celebrates all things Spam with food trucks, merchandise, crafts and entertainment. (Fun fact: "Spam" came to mean junk mail because of a Monty Python sketch, in which every item in a diner unavoidably contained Spam.) On the menu this year? Spam manapua, Spam yakisoba, Spam cupcakes ...
Free, May 3, 4–10 p.m., Kalakaua Avenue, spamjamhawaii.com.
Sunnydogs recipe from spam.com
Combine 1 ½ c. buttermilk pancake mix, 2 large eggs, ½ c. applesauce, 1 tsp. vanilla extract and ⅛ tsp. cinnamon; mix well.
Slowly add ¼ c. of water and mix.
Cut 1 12-oz. can of SPAM the short way into six pieces, then into thirds.
Coat the Spam with batter.
Heat 1 tbsp. vegetable oil in skillet over medium heat, place Spam pieces in skillet and cook, turning once, until golden brown.
Insert Popsicle sticks and serve with honey, maple syrup or more applesauce. It's like a Spam popsicle!


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Direct Pitch Activator™
Activator™ Product Information and Usage
Activator™ packages are designed for direct inoculation of 5 gallons of standard* wort. Activator™ packages contain live yeast cells in a liquid slurry. This yeast slurry is packaged in an optimum condition for storage, while maintaining the ability for rapid and complete fermentation.
Activator™ packages include a sterile liquid nutrient pouch that, when "smacked", releases its contents into the yeast slurry and "activates" the package. The available nutrients initiate the culture's metabolism which in turn generates CO2 and causes swelling of the package. This process will reduce lag times by preparing the yeast for a healthy fermentation prior to inoculation. Activation also serves as a viability test of the culture. Expansion of the package is an indicator of healthy (viable and vital) yeast. Although beneficial, cultures do not need to be activated prior to inoculation.
The Activator™ package contains a minimum of 100 billion cells in a yeast slurry.. The Activator™ is designed to directly inoculate 5 gallons of standard strength ale wort (1.034-1.060 SG) with professional pitching rates. For lagers, we recommend inoculating the wort at warm temperatures (68-70°F/ 20-21°C), waiting for signs of fermentation, and then adjusting to the desired temperature. Alternatively, for pitching into cold conditions (34-58°F/ 1-14°C) or higher gravity wort, we recommend increasing this pitching rate. This can be achieved by pitching additional Activator™ packages or by making a starter culture. Please see the Pitch Rate section for additional information.
Instructions for the proper use of Activator™ packages:
- To Activate, locate and move inner packet to a corner. Place this area in palm of one hand and firmly smack the package with the other hand to break the inner nutrient packet. Confirm the inner packet is broken.
- Shake the package well to release the nutrients.
- Allow the package to incubate and swell for 3 hours or more (it is not necessary for this package to fully swell before use) at 70-75°F (21-24°C).
- Use sanitizing solution to sanitize the package before opening.
- Shake well, open and pour the Activator™ into 5 gallons of well aerated or oxygenated wort up to 1.060 OG at 65-72°F (18-22°C). Maintain temperature until fermentation is evident by CO2 bubble formation, bubbling airlock or foaming on top of wort. For high gravity or low temperature fermentations additional yeast may be required.
- 6. Adjust to desired fermentation temperature.
Full swelling of Activator™ packages is not required for their use. The contents of Activator™ packages may be direct-pitched without prior activation. Our smack pack technology is intended to be a tool for your use in determining viability, and in initiating metabolism for faster starts to fermentation.
Our Product Warranty states that we guarantee the viability of the yeast in our Activator™ packages for 6 months from the manufacture date assuming that they have been properly shipped, stored and handled. Our superior packaging material provides 100% oxygen barrier and UV light protection making this exceptional guarantee possible. During this 6 month guaranteed shelf life, some loss of viability is to be expected. This will vary from one strain to another. Activator™ packages that are 4 months old or older may require additional time to swell after activation.
Activator™ packages will sometimes swell slightly, or moderately during shipping or later while properly stored. This is not an indication of deterioration if the package is less than 6 months old and has been properly handled. This is result of trace amounts of nutrients, still available at the time packaging, causing small amount of culture activity and CO2 production. Some strains are more prone to this than others.
We think you'll agree our unique "Smack Pack" is preferable to all other liquid yeast packaging options to assure the success of your fermentations.
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These are the good old days."
–Carly Simon
A week or so ago, Emilia and I were outside in the early morning and that early morning sunlight was filling up the world around us as I watered the garden on the east side of the house. I grew up here, just across Lake Washington, and mornings like this touch a spot in my deep memory and feel very familiar, more familiar than the interminable cloudy cold days, so while I was watching Emilia give the plants an extra drink with her little yellow watering can I became a little lost in time.
I can call up a goodly number of memories of just such mornings as this one from the mid to late '60s, most of them not of discrete, specific moments but more like mosaics of moments similar enough in some aspect — maybe in the time of day or the time of year, or in emotional association, or in their events — that they have fused over time, the details having been extracted and perhaps sealed up in vaults that lie yet deeper in my memory (or discarded, who knows?) so that all that is left is an impression of light mixed with a feeling, and maybe the feeling is safety or contentment or wonder or perhaps even that unanguished boredom that kids get sometimes after doing everything they can think of and just before a burst of creativity that expands their world of play and exploration.
It occurred to me, standing there looking at Millie, that she was having an experience at that moment that may someday inform a similar kind of collage in her memory. Like Cindy Lou Who she is "not more than two", and according to my understanding she is not yet forming the kinds of memories that will facilitate conscious recall of these specific, quiet moments, but some of the colors and tones and moods are making some imprints and might one day be enlisted in the assembly of some early, vaguely drawn memories of life outside in the garden at her first house.
And even if this moment does become a specific, tagged memory that she can recall in her minds eye, it will not look to her then the way it looks to her now, and certainly not the way it looks to me now. My mind observing her in this moment is full of the whole world of my experience, five decades in which I have been alive and doing things, feeling things, learning things, and not five decades worth of individual impressive moments connected backward through history, like postcards on a string receding in my memory, but fifty nonstop years of a continuum of existence, one moment blending into the next, my position in space and time always preceded so closely by my last position in space and time, my activity part of such an even flow of movement and being, that there can not really be said to be individual moments at all, nothing that you could tweeze out from other moments without pulling the whole fifty year string along with it, everything connected both fore and aft of it. My whole being and experience and who-ness, speaking of Whos, is here in this moment. But in Emilia's memory none of all that will show in the frame — my worries, my satisfactions, my disappointments, my hopes yet for the future, my idea of myself, my idea of her. In fact I myself will only be hazily represented, if at all. I'll just be this parental presence standing nearby, blank except for whatever good or ill associations she has so far formed of me — dadness — and my individual self in this particular moment may in fact be replaced by a similar memory of Angela, so that the picture evolves and morphs and becomes like the pictures I have in my own memory. Kaleidoscopes.
That was when I felt myself splintering into fractals, into tiny particles of light and shade and mood, whatever can be remembered finally to paint a memory with. It felt strange to look forward in time and back to this moment, seeing myself virtually disappearing into the future past, realizing that the clarity with which I am experiencing this instant — I am fully here with all of me — will be gone when Millie gets around to calling it back up as memory. It will all be so different, and yet, someday, what she remembers of this moment is all there will be.
It made me think of all the memories I have now of days like this in my childhood. They seem such hazy, thin scenes so disconnected from other memories, but to the adults who shared those moments — my father holding my hand while I toddled or my mother keeping a watchful eye from the kitchen window while I played in the backyard — those moments were all part of their continuum. I ran right off the wharf at the Anacortes ferry terminal when I was very small. I myself have no recollection of the actual moment when my running back and forth ended in my shooting between the balusters and falling the few feet to the rocky beach just below (if it really was the wharf itself it must have been a part that was well back from the tideline). That part of the story I remember only as a story, one I've been told all my life. I do, however, have an image of a wooden deck awash in bright Pacific Northwest morning sunshine, and attached to this mental picture is a feeling of expectancy and excitement. I don't know if it is an actual memory of the Anacortes wharf — it may be a memory of someplace that popped into my mind when I was first told the story and appended itself to the memory. In any case, my parents — who were as a rule very cautious and whose hearts leaped into their throats when they turned around after just a couple of seconds to discover that I was completely gone — brought the fullness of their histories to that moment in time, and none of that made any impression on the clear but very spartan memory that formed in my mind.
So it is now. I stand watching Millie with a brain absolutely stuffed with cellular networks representing arrangements of all the data I've taken in over my life, any combination of which could be assigned to the moment at hand as handles for me to make sense of it and give meaning to it, as I'm doing now. But none of it will become metadata for this image in her mind, which will over time simplify and merge with other images and probably lose some of its sharp edges, until it looks like an impressionist painting. In Millie's experience, it's just a sunny morning somewhere in time.


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"Nanahu" - Hawaii Five-0 S5 E16
Five-0 enlists the help of a California ATF Agent to find a serial arsonist targeting couples on Oahu. Meanwhile, when Danny whisks Amber away for a romantic getaway, her abusive ex-husband tracks them down, intent on taking his wife back, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, Feb. 20 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R) Alex O'Loughlin as Steve McGarrett , Chi McBride as Lou Grover , Grace Park as Kono Kalakaua and Melina Kanakaredes as ATF Agent Kathy Millwood CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Although he is not as well known as Ennio Morricone or Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani may be the most colorful and experimental film composer of the Italian silver age. An avid fan of jazz and the producer of Italy's first bebop record, Umiliani had scored almost 150 movies and recorded a number of highly-sought after concept albums that turned out to be influential in the shaping of Italian film scoring. His score to Svezia, Inferno E Paradiso (1968) is also famous for Mah Na' Mah Na, the hit novelty song popularized by The Muppets.
Le isole dell'amore was an obscure Italian skin flick, which now is remembered for its entertaining and highly addictive soundtrack by Umiliani, who creates a score from the colorful mixture of tribal percussion and a haunting choir. The world of Pacific music is also mixed with Western sensibilities due to a couple of hippies appearing in the story: banjo, saxophone and a Hammond organ are called upon to compliment this portion of the story. The rich tapestry of odd, seemingly distant instruments made the score a big hit among lounge DJs in the 1990s and we're here to reignite the old flame.
Le isole dell'amore had been released two times already, but our CD restored by Claudio Fuiano contains over 40 minutes of previously unreleased music from the recording sessions, including many rare alternates and film versions that round out the score. 8-page liner notes by Gergely Hubai discuss the film, the composer, the score and the exotica movement.
1 Le Isole dell'Amore (2:26)
2 Tamourè Titoli (2:17)
3 Palme e Cocchi (1:43)
4 Il Tamouré dei Bambini (1:15)
5 Papete Aru (1:00)
6 Vele al Vento (1:46)
7 Isola Ssperduta (2:39)
8 Jumb Tamouré (1:38)
9 Nuku (2:03)
10 Isola Tutto Fare (1:38)
11 La Campanna nel Bosco (1:54)
12 Tamouré Finale (1:08)
13 Arrivo a Papete (1:14)
14 Lotta di Galli (1:27)
15 Comunita' Hippy (2:19)
16 La Danza del Turista (0:55)
17 Le Isole dell'Amore - Finale (3:13)
18 Corale Isole dal Tema (1:06)
19 Arrivo a Papete (versione film) (0:38)
20 Le Isole dell'Amore (festa sulla spiaggia) (1:23)
21 Isola Sperduta (sogno erotico) (1:10)
22 Le Isole dell'Amore (shake mágico) (0:50)
23 Le Isole dell'Amore (scena sexy) (0:26)
24 Isola Sperduta (organ galore) (1:19)
25 Isola Sperduta (sax shake) (0:53)
26 Le Isole dell'Amore (atmosfera antica) (2:02)
27 Le Isole dell'Amore (brass conga) (2:30)
28 Le Isole dell'Amore (party shake) (0:35)
29 Le Isole dell'Amore (party shake 2) (2:54)
30 Papete Aru (exotic mood) (0:59)
31 Le Isole dell'Amore (funny tamouré) (0:29)
32 Papete Aru (exotic mood 2) (1:05)
33 Papete Aru (exotic mood 3) (0:54)
34 Le Isole dell'Amore (nel villaggio) (2:36)
35 Le Isole dell'Amore (danza rito) (0:52)
36 Le Isole dell'Amore (sequenza hippies) (0:57)
37 Le Isole dell'Amore (danza rito 2) (4:32)
38 Le Isole dell'Amore (lounge mood) (3:48)
39 Isola Sperduta (amore sulla spiaggia) (3:18)
40 Le Isole dell'Amore (versione alternativa-strumentale) (2:52)
41 Le Isole dell'Amore (versione alternativa-corale) (2:52)
Total Disc Time: 73:20