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Significant recent planning efforts have laid the groundwork for Downtown Plattsburgh revitalization and economic development. These plans emphasized increased walkability and re-urbanization of the Historic Core, and proposed projects and initiatives in various stages of planning, predevelopment, and completion.
Community Driven Process:
Building upon on a long tradition of local planning, including recent engagement and priorities established under the Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, a Local Planning Committee (LPC) – comprised of residents, civic leaders, and business owners – led the DRI planning process and created a unified vision for the role that DRI investment should play in building Plattsburgh's future. To fuel this vision, the LPC guided extensive community engagement, fueled by nine LPC meetings and calls, and four Public Engagement Events.
At the end of the planning process, the LPC created and submitted a Strategic Investment Plan to the State based on all meetings, input, and best practices. This plan proposed projects to advance downtown revitalization and served as the basis for the projects that were awarded funding from the State. Any additional projects that were not awarded funding but exist within the Strategic Investment Plan will seek to leverage other funding initiatives from public or private sources, and it is anticipated that other state funding initiatives will give priority consideration to projects and proposals in the Strategic Investment Plan.
Application Documents
- A. North Country Downtown Revitalization Initiative Application
- B. Plattsburgh DRI Brochure 2016
- C. Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Excerpts
- D. DRI Downtown Outline
- D. Durkee Dock Street Pin Point
- D. Radius From Durkee
- D. Sewer Infrastructure
- D. Water Main
- D. Water Valve
- E. 2016-04-22 Market Analysis - Durkee St
- F. Destination Master Plan
- G. Concept Maps
- H. Destination Downtown Poster
- I. Arvay
City Documents
- 2003 Durkee St Design Study - Freeman French Freeman
- City of Plattsburgh Downtown Design Guidelines May 2009
- Comprehensive Plan for the City of Plattsburgh - 1999
- Comprehensive Plan Maps for the City of Plattsburgh - 1999
- Destination Master Plan - Plattsburgh City Beach - July 2013
- DRAFT: Community Engagement Strategy Update
- Durkee St. Real Estate Market Analysis and Financial Feasibility Study 2016
- Guide to the Lake City
- Plattsburgh Brownfield Opportunity Area 2010
- Plattsburgh Downtown Waterfront Economic Enhancement Strategy Report - Hyatt Palma 2003
- Plattsburgh Local Waterfront Revitalization Program - 2010
- Plattsburgh Local Waterfront Revitalization Program - 2016 DRAFT
- Plattsburgh Task 7-8 Report
- Task 5_Phase I ESA
- Task 5_Site Recon Report
- Task 6_Crete Center Asmt
Regional Documents
- Adirondack Coast Destination Master Plan Actions 2010
- Clinton County - Adirondack Coast Destination Vision Draft 2010
- Clinton County Destination Master Plan 2012 Goals
- Clinton County Destination Master Plan 2013 Goals
- Clinton County Destination Master Plan Analysis 2010
- Clinton County Destination Master Plan Preliminary Assessment 2010
- Clinton County Destination Master Plan Revised Goals 2015
- Destination Master Plan Action Items
- Essex Clinton Waterfront Plan - 2010
- North Country Regional Economic Development Council Progress Report 2012
- North Country Regional Economic Development Council Progress Report 2013
- North Country Regional Economic Development Council Progress Report 2014
- North Country Regional Economic Development Council Progress Report 2015
- North Country Regional Economic Development Council Strategic Plan 2011
- Plattsburgh_DRI
- Town of Plattsburgh Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2010
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As the first college in the United States to adopt sustainability science – the leading-edge of 21st century transdisciplinary (collaborative) environmental problem solving – as its framework for teaching and learning, Unity has attracted top talent to augment its visionary faculty, staff and administration. The College community welcomes the following individuals to an endeavor that is vibrant, focused and without borders. Just as Unity College issues forth environmental professionals who become leaders across the globe, so too, is it attracting professionals who are committed to ensuring that Unity reach its key goals in service to the sustainability of the planet.
The newest members of the Unity College community are:
Mary Saunders Bulan, Ph.D., Director of Half Moon Field Station and Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agricultural Enterprise
Saunders Bulan possesses broad experience in sustainable farming, value-added enterprise, research, teaching, and learning. She has served as a volunteer on biodynamic farms and specialty produce operations in British Columbia, was coordinator for a non-profit farm project in Rhode Island, has overseen membership, and greenhouse / field production. Bulan's work on her Ph.D. program expanded her understanding of farming systems both globally and at home, and reinforced her commitment to sustainable agriculture. She holds a Ph.D. in Agronomy, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a B.S. in International Relations from Brown University.
Jennifer Lorraine Cartier, Ph.D., Director of Teacher Education and Science
An experienced science teacher educator, Cartier most recently served as Director of Teacher Education at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Education. She has designed and taught 19 different courses related to science pedagogy, curriculum theory and design. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. from Williams College.
Matthew W.H. Chatfield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology
Chatfield has served in several capacities at Tulane University of New Orleans, Louisiana, including as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Project Coordinator at the Tulane Center for Applied Coastal Sciences and Engineering, and visiting Assistant Professor. He served the University of Michigan as a Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago of Chicago, Illinois.
Zachary Falcon, Assistant Professor of Conservation Law and Environmental Policy
Zach Falcon has been named Assistant Professor of Conservation Law and Environmental Policy at Unity College of Unity, Maine. Falcon is currently an adjunct Instructor at Unity College and previously taught at Eastern Maine Community College, Thomas College, and Husson College. He served as Associate Director of the Writing Resource Center at the University of Iowa College of Law. As an attorney, Falcon served in the State of Alaska Department of Law, where he represented the state in civil litigation, administrative hearings, and permit appeals. Falcon was also an associate with Faulkner Banfield, PC, during which time he served as a public defender for the City and Borough of Juneau. Upon graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, Falcon worked as an associate counsel for the Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey (Steve) Kahl, Ph.D., Director of Sustainability
Kahl possesses over 30 years of experience in academia, industry, and non-profits working on environmental and energy issues in New England. A sought after speaker and visionary within the field of sustainability, Kahl has addressed emerging issues in sustainability, environmental policy, water quality, energy use and reduction, renewables, air pollution, and sustainable low impact development. He has held major, visible roles in agencies and commissions. He has pursued legislative work to advance a host of issues related to sustainability. Kahl holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Maine, an M.S. in Geological Sciences, University of Maine, and B.A. in Zoology, from the University of Maine.
James Killarney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Killarney has demonstrated a laudable commitment to mentoring undergraduate research and has taught a variety of classes to students from across a broad spectrum of majors. He has taught chemistry for science and pre-med majors, in addition to teaching courses for non-science majors. Outside of the classroom, Killarney has been involved in service both in his field and community. He has mentored high school students, led community service projects that promote chemistry, and serves as a coordinator of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry Olympiad program for the state of Maine. Killarney holds a Ph.D. in Analytical / Environmental Chemistry from the University of Maine, Orono, an MPH from Boston University, and B.S. in Biology from the University of Maine, Orono.
Bill Kovarik, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Writing
Kovarik has broad teaching experience that is augmented by work for environmental and green technology groups and news reporting. His professional credentials include journalism, digital media, and community information services. Kovarik has trained scientists to effectively address traditional and new media. Among his many projects is setting up small windmills for an agricultural cooperative in Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Communication from the University of Maryland, M.A. in Communication from the University of South Carolina, and B.S. in Journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Sheryl G. Spann, MBA in Marketing, Director of Marketing and Communications
As a strategic marketing professional with over 30 years of experience, Spann has been named Director of Marketing and Communications. She will develop effective internal and external strategies to enhance the College's brand recognition and reputation regionally, nationally and internationally with particular focus on targeting primary constituents of prospective students and donors. Partnering with the new Marketing Department, she will direct all marketing efforts including brand marketing, advertising, events, publicity, institutional publication development, graphic arts, printing, social media, e-communications, web, media relations and crisis management. She will serve as chief writer, editor and proofreader for all college-wide publications and marketing communications. Spann has extensive experience in the areas of brand identity development, strategic marketing, market research, web site creation, new academic program/product development, media relations and fundraising. She previously served as a Marketing Consultant for Strategic Solutions of Boston, Massachusetts, was the Director of Marketing for two academic publishers – Fortress Press (Minneapolis, MN) and Multnomah Publishing (Sisters, OR – division of Random House), managed the web-based Affiliate Marketing Program for CBD (Peabody, MA) and built an international educational tour division for Explorica (Boston, MA) as Espiritour Program Manager. Spann has also focused her career expertise in the non-profit world with marketing, publicity, events and donor fundraising efforts for Stop Hunger Now (Community Development Director – New England), Habitat for Humanity and the American Cancer Society. She holds an M.B.A. from Boston College, an S.T.M. plus Professional Fundraising Certificate from Boston University, and a B.S. in Business Administration from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
James Spartz, (Ph.D. candidate) Assistant Professor of Environmental Communications
Spartz is a doctoral candidate in Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and anticipates completion of his terminal degree this year. He has broad experience in the field of communications, having served as a Public Affairs Specialist in the Office of Communications at the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, the national research and development laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service. The experience Spartz has gained in a variety of communications contexts has given him an exceptional understanding of effective science communication in public, political, and scientific contexts. His dissertation is entitled "Public Perceptions of Bioenergy and Land Use Change in Southwest Wisconsin: A Case Study Investigating Narrative Frames, Place-Attachment, and Trusted Sources of Information." He holds an M.A. from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Royals fans will have to wait a while before they see their new starting pitchers in Cactus League games.
Manager Ned Yost said left-hander Will Smith and right-handers Guillermo Moscoso and Luis Mendoza will be the starting pitchers, in that order, in the first three games -- all against the Texas Rangers.
"But we will not have [James] Shields, [Wade] Davis, [Ervin] Santana, [Jeremy] Guthrie throwing those, because with the length of Spring Training, our starters won't pitch in the first four or five games," Yost said. "The first one, I think, would be like Wade Davis on the fifth day. And then we start incorporating them in. The first five or six days we're going to go with our younger guys in these games."
Yost plans to have intrasquad games next Tuesday and Wednesday and a regular workout on Thursday, followed by Friday's Cactus League opener.
"It's cool to start off Spring Training and be the first guy to throw," Smith said. "But it's just a normal game. Just like if I was throwing the seventh game of Spring Training. So just get my two innings of work in, try to locate the ball down like I've been working on the whole offseason and get things rolling."
Smith, who started 16 games for the Royals as a rookie last year (6-9, 5.32 ERA), is among several pitchers vying for the fifth spot in the rotation.
"There's a lot of competition, but I think it helps everybody out," Smith said. "Whether you're a starter or in the bullpen, if you can help your team win, then you're doing the job. But having all these guys in here that are starters, it brings everybody up a notch because you want to be that much better. It raises everybody's game."


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Conversation about conference realignment continued Wednesday night at the Emmetsburg Community School District board meeting. Athletic Director, Joe Carter, relayed information he had gathered since the December meeting and discussed new options for realignment.
"Being in the Lakes Conference is a tremendous challenge," said Carter. "It's a challenge for our students and it's a challenge for our coaches. We want to do what is best for our kids and make sure the opportunities and experiences are the best we can possibly offer," said Carter. "Right now, on paper, the Lakes Conference makes the most sense for us because there is no other place to easily plug us in, but there are opportunities in the North Iowa Conference."
Carter stated he had started building data on neighboring conferences. Movement is taking place as two new schools have applied and been accepted to the North Iowa conference.
Emmetsburg has already been contacted by the North Central conference and there are scenarios out there involving other conferences as well. "There's a lot of movement and discussion taking place and everyone is aware that we're always interested in being a part of those discussions," said Carter.
Size of schools, travel distance and opportunity are all major factors in the decision making process. "The opportunity to pop into a conference our size doesn't exist," said Carter.
The North Iowa Conference appears to be the most advantageous option based on a hypothetical scenario. Including the new and possible incoming schools, it would likely become a "super conference" made up of 18-20 schools.
Carter shared his thoughts on how the North Iowa Conference could be a multi-division conference to help reduce travel for Emmetsburg. The divisions would eliminate any increases in travel time and expenses. This scenario would allow Emmetsburg to play games against their division members twice but still leave room on the schedule for rivalry games and local schools.
"Conferences are going to have to get much bigger in order to get smaller," said Carter. "I have talked to the North Iowa Conference numerous times and they are aware we want to be a part of their expansion and we want to be a part of those talks." Carter was optimistic the North Iowa Conference would work with these divisions based on geography. "I think for the first time that we have enough conferences and enough schools involved that these things can become real," said Carter.
Moving to a conference with smaller schools would lower the amount of games available for the lower levels, an area where Emmetsburg produces a large number of participants. "We want to secure our lower level schedules," said Carter. "The North Iowa conference would ensure we don't lose opportunities for our 7th, 8th and 9th grade classes."
Students currently play against schools of all sizes in the Lakes Conference making it difficult to stay competitive against the larger schools. "We would like the opportunity to play schools our size where we can be competitive and have fun," said coach Anna Fiene. The high school has seen declining numbers of female participants due to losses and the inability to stay competitive. A few members of the coaching staff were present to give their opinions and they agreed the kids were starting to get beat down.
"Something needs to happen to change the current character-building losses into wins," said board member, Tammy Naig. "The more we lose, the less likely kids will go out. They don't want to work that hard to be beaten all the time. It's not all about wins and losses and I'm ok with that. It is about creating a successful and good opportunity for our kids that leaves them feeling good about themselves."
"The school sizes within the North Iowa Conference are exciting because they are comparable to Emmetsburg," added Superintendent, John Joynt. "If divisions happen, I think we should really look at the North Iowa Conference."
Schedules within the Iowa Lakes Conference are currently set through 2015. No motions were made on the topic of realignment but it was agreed that continuing to explore options would be in the best interest of the kids.
"This meeting has been a good fact finding opportunity to see how far we should go when these other opportunities are on the table," said board member Rick Brennan.
Carter reiterated, "You always have to be realistic on these things and whether or not another school would accept you." The overall consensus remained the same. It is time for something different.
"The golden opportunity may be out there. We need to find a conference that fills our needs from top to bottom and that will fulfill them going forward. There is probably no better time than right now. I would like us to pursue this and see if there is a good opportunity. If there isn't, then we suck it up and work as hard as we can, but we need to do something different," said Naig. "There may not be a clear cut answer out there right now but there is a lot of opportunity and I'd sure hope we are doing everything we can to find another opportunity equivalent to the Lakes Conference."
Board member Scott Kibbie agreed, "I believe if we stay complacent, then we aren't doing any good for our kids."


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After 30 years of developing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and other original video games, developer LucasArts is no more. Destroyed not by the Empire but closed by its new owner, The Walt Disney Company, as originally reported today by GameInformer.
Disney released the following statement:
After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles.
This means that Disney has ceased all internal development at LucasArts. Sources tell GamesBeat that this doesn't necessarily mean Star Wars 1313, the promising third-person action game set in the Imperial capital of Coruscant's underworld, or any other LucasArts game is dead. Disney and Lucasfilm is evaluating each project along with third-party publishers that could come in as licensing partners.
After the layoffs, a small team will remain on at LucasArts to help guide the properties. Some of the laid-off employees are moving on to Disney Interactive.
Since its inception, LucasArts developed and published scores of games including dozens of Star Wars titles. As a developer, its most notable period was in the late 1980s through the early 1990s when it produced beloved adventure titles like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle.
After adventure games felt out of fashion, LucasArts fell back on the Star Wars universe for most of its releases. In 2003, it published BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic role-playing game to glowing reviews.
In 2011, Lucas Arts partnered with publisher Electronic Arts and developer BioWare to release the massively multiplayer online RPG. The highly anticipated title failed to maintain a paying audience and moved to a free-to-play model in 2012.
In October, Disney bought Lucasfilm, Star Wars, and LucasArts from creator George Lucas for around $4 billion. Since that time, Disney publicly stated that it wasn't interested in following up with the kind of development that LucasArts specializes in, which is traditional console and PC releases.
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Apatow's latest, Funny People, premiered last night at Hollywood's "ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome." Leslie Mann, Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Faris, Eric Bana and various other funny people looked seriously good. We won't mention a certain pair of espadrilles...
Leslie Mann looks lovely. Yes, the matching shoes are a tad Barbie, but I'm guessing her daughters approve.
Speaking of! Maude and Iris Apatow look like normal kids, always (sadly) refreshing. Also, Maude has the same half-Jew hair I had as a kid! Well, if mine had been groomed and detangled instead of a matted rat's nest.
Gotta say, Seth Rogen's looking sharp - even if he always looks more stoic than happy on the red carpet.
Anna Faris looks like she was caught doing something naughty - instead of just wearing a fairly unremarkable summer weekend outfit. What's she hiding behind her back?
Oh, Rashida Jones, you make it look so easy: love how the horizontals on the skirt are echoed by the sandals and the necklace!
Jonah Hill's pants are really long and he's wearing lace-up espadrilles. He's obviously aware of both these things, so.
Kinda digging on Elizabeth Banks' 80s cocktail - very Bright Lights, Big City. As to the hair, well, those of us susceptible to humidity are not adverse to seeing this become an acceptable look.
I've never seen comedian Aubrey Plaza scrubbed up; she "puts on the dog," as my grandfather would inexplicably have said, like a charm.
Okay, Eric Bana's obviously handsome blah blah blah, but if you're going to wear a natty suit, complete with gentlemanly trappings, you might as well shave.
So on the one hand, I love to see people taking chances and being creative and working without the stifling influence of stylists. On the other, Toni Collette looks daft.
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DEARBORN, Mo. (AP) — The search is on for the country's newest multimillionaires, the holders of two tickets that matched all six numbers to split a record $588 million Powerball jackpot.
Lottery officials said Thursday that the winning tickets matching all six numbers were sold at a convenience store in suburban Phoenix and a gas station just off an interstate highway in a small northwestern Missouri town. Neither ticket holder had come forward.
The mystery fueled a giddy mood at the Trex Mart just outside Dearborn, Mo., as lottery officials and the media descended on the town of 500 people.
Cashiers Kristi Williams and Kelly Blount greeted customers with big smiles and questions about whether they had bought the winning ticket. No one had come forward to claim the prize by late Thursday morning, Missouri Lottery officials said.
"It's just awesome," Williams said. "It's so exciting. We can't even work."
Karen Meyers, a server at the Cook's Corner Cafe, where the daily special was roast beef and potatoes, said she didn't believe it at first when she heard the winning ticket had been sold nearby.
"I think it's wonderful! I hope someone local won it, not someone just passing through," she said. "It's a small town where everyone is really nice."
Kevin Bryan bought his ticket at the Trex Mart and made an extra trip to his mother's home in Dearborn to verify that the ticket he left on her counter wasn't, in fact, the winner.
"When I heard it was sold here in Dearborn I about fell over," Bryan said, as he hung Christmas lights outside his mother's home.
He said the only other local lottery win he could remember was when an area farmer won about $100,000 in scratch-off game years ago "and bought himself a combine."
The winning ticket sold in Arizona was purchased at a 4 Sons Food Store in Fountain Hills, state lottery officials said. Customers poured into the store, to check their tickets and share in the big moment.
"I think it's crazy, and I also think it's great," said Bob Chebat, who manages the 4 Sons. "I'm glad that all that work yesterday wasn't for nothing."
The store was swept up in a nationwide ticket-buying spree preceding Wednesday's drawing, with the big money enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery to buy a shot at the payout.
Clerks at 4 Sons sold 986 Powerball tickets Wednesday, which Chebat said was well above average.
Baron Hartell, son of the owner of the Missouri store, said if the winner isn't a local resident it might have been a truck driver. Interstate 29 connects Kansas City to the Canadian border, so it's a busy thoroughfare in both directions.
"Even the truck drivers who come around, we see them every day, so they all feel like all locals to us," he said.
Store manager Chris Naurez said business had been "crazy" for Powerball tickets lately and that the store had sold about $27,000 worth of tickets in the last few days.
"This really puts Dearborn on the map," he said.
Kenny Gilbert, the general manager of Trex Mart, suggested his staff would be sharing in the $50,000 bounty that the store will be awarded for selling one of the winning tickets.
"The response from the owner was, 'I guess we'll be able to give out Christmas bonuses,'" Gilbert said. "That's nice, especially at this time of year."
It appeared the winners had yet to come forward, and it wasn't clear if the tickets had been bought by individuals or groups. Winners have 180 days to claim their share of the prize money.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 5, 16, 22, 23, 29. The Powerball was 6. The $587.5 million payout represents the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history.
"If you find you're holding the winning ticket, be sure you sign the back and put it in a safe place until you can take it to a Missouri Lottery office," said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. "You will also want to get some legal and financial advice before you claim."
Americans went on a ticket-buying spree in the run-up to Wednesday's drawing, the big money enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery to purchase a shot at the second-largest payout in U.S. history.
Tickets sold at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide — about six times the volume from a week ago. That pushed the jackpot even higher, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. The jackpot rolled over 16 consecutive times without a winner.
In a Mega Millions drawing in March, three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot. This remains the largest lottery payout of all time.
Skoloff reported from Fountain Hills, Ariz.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 9-year-old autistic girl fatally shot her 7-year-old brother at the family's Arkansas apartment while their parents were signing paperwork at a leasing office, police said Tuesday.
The girl initially told authorities two men entered their Little Rock apartment on Monday and shot her brother, but police didn't find any signs of forced entry and nothing in the apartment was missing, according to a Little Rock police report.
The children's father told officers that his daughter has high-functioning autism. He said she "often told stories, and he did not believe that the apartment had been entered by anyone," police wrote in the report.
Little Rock Police Sgt. Cassandra Davis said later conversations with the girl led investigators to believe she was responsible for the shooting. Davis declined to discuss details of the conversations or whether the girl had been tested for residue left behind when a gun is fired.
It was not immediately clear whether the girl could face charges and a prosecutor didn't immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.
Authorities are not releasing the girl's name because she is a juvenile. The Associated Press is not naming the boy or his parents so as not to identify the girl.
The girl's father told police he and his wife left the apartment briefly to sign some paperwork at the leasing office. He said he locked the front door when he left and that it was locked when he returned. He told police his daughter said her brother was hurt once he and his wife were back.
When police officers arrived at the home, first responders were performing CPR on the boy, who appeared to have been shot in the chest. The boy was rushed to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.
The children's father told police he had firearms in a case in the back bedroom. Authorities found blood marks in that room and closet, along with a large pool in the closet near a silver case.
A man who answered the phone at a number listed for the father Tuesday said he wasn't ready to talk about what happened.
This story was written and provided by The Associated Press Wire. (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Police arrest 1, seek 1 in burned body case
Prosecutors: Victim, suspects involved in drug deal
Kansas City, Kan., police released new information Wednesday in its investigation of a man's body found inside a burning car over the weekend.
Police said they have arrested Adam Smith and are looking for a second man in connection with the case. They said the second man, Rafeeq Rahman, who is also known as Howard Hickman, should be considered dangerous.
Officers said a patrol unit spotted a red 2012 Lincoln MKT on fire about 11 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of North Second Street and Greeley Avenue. The car had been registered as a rental from Avis.
Firefighters put out the fire and found the body inside.
Police said the victim and suspects were involved in a drug deal to distribute cocaine, but the drugs were confiscated by the Kansas Highway Patrol.
"He was stopped less than 24 hours before, coming back to Kansas City in the vehicle that was burned out," said Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman.
He said the victim was briefly in custody after the traffic stop, but was released pending further investigation. He was found dead that night. His name has not yet been released.
Anyone with information that could help the case is asked to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.


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The future of flight: Shape-shifting engines and body heat power
By Daisy Carrington, for CNN • Updated 18th June 2013
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Imagine a future in which planes run on a mixture of batteries, body heat and cow manure.
Or perhaps noise pollution would cease to exist (thanks to a shape-shifting engine, that is). Luggage could arrive at the baggage carousel quicker, because it would float on and off aircraft like pucks on an air hockey table.
These sci-fi-sounding concepts have been drafted by a handful of engineering students at the behest of Airbus, who has partnered with UNESCO to sponsor the third consecutive Fly Your Ideas competition.
According to Dale King, Airbus' senior manager for research and technology, the goal is to engage tomorrow's innovators, and perhaps nudge their eco-conscience in the process.
The Paris Air Show isn't just for showing off new airframes. GE Aviation's David Joyce shows off new engine technology.
"We're trying to encourage the next generation of leaders to think about ways in which the aviation industry could be made more eco-efficient, and to be sympathetic to its environmental impact," he says.
The competition is in keeping with the company's goal of halving CO2 emissions by 2050, and many of the solutions could mean the future of flight is zero-emission.
"Even if you replaced (jet fuel) with liquid natural gas, you could cut CO2 emissions 20%," says Luke Spiteri, a finalist in the competition.
Read more: 3-D printer makes jet engine
Spiteri is leading the team from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, which has designed supercooled pods on the plane's wings to deliver sustainable fuel to the engine. He envisions bio-LNG -- a combo of bio-methane (a by-product of organic composed waste) and liquid natural gas -- replacing traditional jet fuel. Overall, says Spiteri, the blend could reduce CO2 emissions by 97%.
University Putra Malaysia has presented another novel energy-saving technology involving converting passengers' body heat into electrical voltage.
Tan Kai Jun, the team leader, envisions cabin seats upholstered with a thermoelectric fabric that can convert a person's energy into 100 nanowatts of voltage. Alas, that amounts to about one-millionth of what your iPhone needs to stay on standby. Still, Jun maintains that it does ultimately add up.
"It's a small amount, but imagine this collected from 550 seats throughout 10 hours of flight. A plane has a lifespan of a few hundred flights -- over time that's a big reduction," he says.
Read more: Are flying cars the future of travel?
While King says the technology isn't quite mature enough to roll out just yet, he says he's keeping his eye on it.
"Currently, the difficulty is that these devices do weigh something, and weight has a direct impact on fuel. The trade-off doesn't work just yet, but there is potential there in the future."
Bertrand Piccard, co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse, the solar powered currently flying across the USA, believes that wild ideas are what inspires innovation.
"The world of aviation loves pioneers, because they're responsible for its existence," says Piccard. "Of course, they don't believe that what we're doing can be done with commercial flight and they are correct; today it can't be done. But when the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903, and Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, no one would have imagined then that a plane carrying 300 passengers could make the same trip."
Industry experts are taking a keen interest in the project. Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson is a sponsor, and according to Piccard, he is thinking of using solar power to tow aircraft onto the runway -- a process that could save up to two tons of fuel per flight.
"Our goal is not to make a revolution in air transport, because it would be arrogance for us to try and do this," he says. "Really, we want to make a revolution in the mindset of the people."
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Freedomland manages a seemingly impossible feat: It's both turgid and overwrought, eliciting the shriek that fades into a yawn without anyone ever noticing. It's a wholly dreary piece of work, yet another dismal entry on the résumé of director Joe Roth, an only-in-Hollywood hack who's allowed to make movies -- among them America's Sweethearts and Christmas With the Kranks -- because he runs the production company (Revolution Studios) that makes them and damned near runs the studio (Sony Pictures Entertainment) that releases them. (He liked the company so much, he bought it!) Roth also used to be chairman at Disney, and directed the likes of Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise; since then, he's brought you The Animal and The New Guy for Revolution, its name by now surely intended as a sarcastic screw-you. Roth's is the cautionary tale with the inexplicable happy ending; it's his world now, and we just see shitty movies in it.
Here's one offering with a better pedigree than most of Roth's work: Freedomland, the 1998 novel by Richard Price set in the same New Jersey housing project as his 1992 murder mystery set amid the world of cops and drug dealers, Clockers, which Price adapted for Spike Lee's wrenching, if occasionally clumsy 1995 film. (Certainly, Roth has chosen more highbrow material than for 2004's Christmas With the Kranks, based on the John Grisham checkout-counter pamphlet Skipping Christmas.) And it boasts a high-caliber cast: Samuel L. Jackson as Detective Lorenzo Council, a father figure to even the no-goods living in the Gannon, New Jersey projects known as Armstrong; Julianne Moore as Brenda Martin, the distraught woman who claims to have been carjacked while her four-year-old son slept in the car; and Edie Falco as Karen Collucci, the activist who fronts an organization of moms dedicated to tracking down missing kids. The book was likewise a rich, intricate, and even haunting work -- a would-be whodunit set in a messy place where black and white are always one shove away from drawing red.
The movie, though? No such luck. No one expects that a two-hour movie can capture a modicum of the complexities and ambiguities and tensions wrought by a nearly 600-page book, but to strip them away entirely and leave us with the hollow, meaningless nothing of this movie is unforgivable. Freedomland as it exists now is nothing more than shallow pulp play-acting as a deep-felt tract on police brutality, racial injustice, sexual betrayal, and bad mothering. This makes Crash, loved by those who thought it honest and messy, and loathed by those who proclaimed its views on race glib and superficial, look like the work of revolutionaries; episodes of Law & Order swing bigger sticks than this candy cane.
The question at the movie's center is whether Brenda, who claims a black man in the Armstrong projects jacked her car during the middle of the night, is telling the truth. There is nothing to indicate otherwise -- she walks into a hospital with sliced-open palms, bleeding all over sliding-glass doors, and seems suitably traumatized -- but Lorenzo doesn't believe her, because she isn't frightened by his skin color. This explanation comes off as silly and convoluted, a hack's shorthand used when the storytelling isn't working. Of course Jackson doesn't terrify her: Brenda works in the Armstrong projects, the only white teacher with the only white child in the school. There is no sense to Lorenzo's logic, only the assumptions made by a cop portrayed by an actor given lazy lines and nothing to do with them except speechify and, occasionally, explode (and reach for his asthma inhaler).
But he's a lousy cop anyway: Early on, when Brenda confesses that there was a child in the car, what had been, for 10 minutes, a murky and moody movie takes on the herky-jerky tone of an action picture, as Lorenzo stops soothing the victim and begins berating her for no good reason. Then Brenda stops crying and begins shouting, less like a trauma victim and more like a mental patient off her meds. There's a method to her madness, and Freedomland contains perhaps one of the worst performances in recent memory offered by an actor with four Academy Award nominations -- especially one clearly determined to garner her fifth. The entire end of the movie, which has more finishes than the Boston Marathon, seems constructed like an Oscar reel full of maniacal monologues; she tries like hell to fill her empty words with enough tears to flood a desert.
The movie's about as subtle as a club to the forehead, offering nothing more to the discussion of race relations than hot-tempered white cops lining up to pummel the black folks who've taken torches to their own homes. Roth knows nothing of nuance, of subtlety, of saying with a whisper what he can only communicate with a piercing, distancing scream. And Price is not blameless here: Whether he actually stripped down his novel to the barest, least functioning parts or allowed Roth to do it for him in exchange for the check, he nonetheless has taken part in the amping up and dumbing down of a provocative, evocative novel. They all oughta be ashamed ... or, at the very least, embarrassed.
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LOS ANGELES, April 2 (UPI) -- "General Hospital" actress Finola Hughes has made her feature-film directing debut with "The Bet," a movie to be screened this week in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Made with a cast and crew of first-time filmmakers, the picture was produced by the Community Film Studio Santa Barbara, the first non-profit, all-volunteer, community movie studio, TV Guide Magazine said.
"About five years ago I started directing theater in Santa Barbara, which is where I live, and out of the blue I was offered the chance to direct 'The Bet' by Jack Presnal, the founder of CFSSB," Hughes told the magazine. "I loved the idea that everybody on the film would be doing jobs they'd never done before -- no money, just for the love of it -- and what a great thing that would be for the community of Santa Barbara. I instantly said yes. Didn't think twice. There's great bravery in ignorance."
Hughes plays Anna Devane on "General Hospital," which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week.


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[Federal Register: September 27, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 187)]
[Page 54902]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
Petition of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. for Exemptive
Relief, Pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act, From
the Requirement That the China Foreign Exchange Trade System and
National Interbank Funding Center or its Members Register as Futures
Commission Merchants
AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
ACTION: Re-opening of comment period.
SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'')
published on August 23, 2007, a notice of proposed order and request
for comment regarding a petition filed with the Commission by the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (``CME'') applying for exemptive
relief, pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act.\1\
CME's petition applies for exemptive relief from the requirement that
the China Foreign Exchange Trade system and National Interbank Funding
Center (``CFETS'') or its members register as futures commission
merchants (``FCMs''). An interested party has requested that the
comment period be extended by two weeks due to the novelty of the
issues involved. The Commission is extending the comment period to
October 9, 2007.
\1\ 72 FR 48262 (August 23, 2007).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 9, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.regulations.gov/
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://frwebgate.access.gpo/cgi-bin/leaving. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected] Include ``CME Petition for
Exemption from FCM Registration on Behalf of CFETS'' in the subject
line of the message.
Fax: 202/418-5521.
Mail: Send to David S. Stawick, Secretary, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20581.
Courier: Same as mail above.
All comments received will be posted without change to http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.CFTC.gov/
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert B. Wasserman, Associate
Director, 202-418-5092, [email protected]; Division of Clearing and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three
Lafayette Centre, 1151 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2007 by the
David A. Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. E7-19222 Filed 9-26-07; 8:45 am]
Last Updated: September 28, 2007


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Though Regis Philbin still plans to retire, he's extending his victory lap by a few extra months.
The co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly has decided to delay his departure from the airway until November of this year, reports Crain's New York Business.
Philbin, a mainstay of the daytime TV talk circuit, had originally scheduled to leave the show in August, but Crains reports that he will stay on longer so that a proper send-off can be arranged.
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No replacement has been named for Philbin, 79, who announced his retirement after 28 years on air last month.
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The problem may occur when you are using field Form will be sent from this Email in form configuration in builder. For example you use address in this field email@example.com. Then mails may not be received on your email account due to the fact that domain mysite.com does not have DNS record of type SPF (for more details please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework). Due to this mails can be blocked by mail servers. If you are an owner of domain "mysite.com" you need to add SPF record in DNS configuration of your domain.
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Despite you added email address in "Contact Form" block settings there can be cases when mail notifications are not delivered. The usual reason for that is the absence of SPF record of your website domain. Please check this page for more details about this problem.
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Personal Brain Management (PSYCTRY 182) is offered at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Personal Brain Management begins with a basic overview of brain function, and then moves on to consider some of the "management" methods that exist already, and what the future may hold. Among these topics are new methods for predicting our own futures and modeling 'what if' scenarios that might alter risks and benefits of different courses of action, based on our individual genetic background and other elements of personal history and environmental exposures. Key principles from the science of behavior change are introduced, illustrating how important health-related behavioral habits are, and how difficult these can be to change, and why. The course then covers a series of topics that center on personal enhancement of well-being through consideration of stress management, long-term goal and value identification, mapping of long-term goals onto immediate actions, reinforcement learning, meditation, Neurofeedback, and time management. The course emphasizes critical appraisal of tools that are already finding their way to the marketplace, and aims to help students distinguish scientifically validated procedures from those that are not. Final lectures emphasize creative cognition and the concept of "flow", focusing on what this actually may mean in terms of brain function.
Personal Brain Management Syllabus
1: Course Introduction and Overview
o Personal Brain Management
why now?
how is it different from other 'self-help' methods?
o Brain orientation
quick summary of brain evolution
basic frontal-posterior (output-input) organization
mismatch detection, resonance and resonance failure
o Neurofeedback
General principles of biofeedback
Introduction to MyndPlay system software
o Optional Reading-Homework:
YouTube video on PBM from TEDx San Diego, 2010: http://youtu.be/rG494qden64.
Gruzelier, J. (2009). "A theory of alpha/theta neurofeedback, creative performance enhancement, long distance functional connectivity and psychological integration." Cognitive Processing 10(0): 101-109.
LaConte, S. M. (2011). "Decoding fMRI brain states in real-time." Neuroimage 56(2): 440-454.
2: Personal Predictive Modeling
o Predicting health outcomes from genes and biology
o Aging applications and face-aging software
o Predicting health outcomes from behavioral monitoring
o Predicting depression risk
o As easy as it looks?; assessing causal relations, probability calculus, counterfactuals
o Reading-Homework:
Saphire-Bernstein, S., B. M. Way, et al. (2011). "Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1113137108
(optional) Alloy, L. B., L. Y. Abramson, et al. (2006). "Prospective incidence of first onsets and recurrences of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 115(1): 145.
(optional) Kendler, K. S. and C. O. Gardner (2010). "Dependent Stressful Life Events and Prior Depressive Episodes in the Prediction of Major Depression: The Problem of Causal Inference in Psychiatric Epidemiology." Arch Gen Psychiatry 67(11): 1120-1127.
ALSO: Implications of DNA scanning: "My Genome Myself" by Pinker (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11Genome-t.html)
"DNA as Destiny" by Duncan (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/dna.html?pg=4&topic=&topic_set=)
3: – Basics of Behavior Change
o Stages of Change model: Prochaska
Stages: Precontemplative, Contemplative, Preparation, Action, Maintenance
Matching treatments to stages of change
o Brain-based theories of reward, learning and decision-making
o Reading-Homework:
Prochaska, J. O. (2008). "Decision Making in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change." Medical Decision Making 28(6): 845-849.
(optional) Rushworth, M. F. S., M. P. Noonan, et al. (2011). "Frontal Cortex and Reward-Guided Learning and Decision-Making." Neuron 70(6): 1054-1069.
(optional) Prochaska, J. O. (2008). "Multiple Health Behavior Research represents the future of preventive medicine." Preventive Medicine 46(3): 281-285.
4: Self-Monitoring: Experience Sampling and Logging
o Mood monitor, c/o Margie Morris
o Affectiva tools, measuring skin conductance and facial expression for marketing, personal development?
o Reading-Homework:
Fletcher, R. R., K. Dobson, et al. (2010). "iCalm: Wearable sensor and network architecture for wirelessly communicating and logging autonomic activity." Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on 14(2): 215-223.
5: Brain Training
o Education as brain training
o Psychotherapy as brain training
o Brave new world of on-line brain training exercises – panacea or snake oil?
o See Lumosity, Posit Science, Google "brain training"
o Reading-Homework:
Jaeggi, S. M., M. Buschkuehl, et al. (2008). "Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(19): 6829. [see also "Brain Workshop" where you can download and play the game that yielded generalized improvement…]
Optional Reading-Homework: Bryck, R. L. and P. A. Fisher (2011). "Training the brain: Practical applications of neural plasticity from the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and prevention science." American Psychologist.
6: IBZ To GTD
o InBoxZero: a mantra for the multi-taskers of the world (see Merlin Mann website/video)
o Getting Things Done (GTD): David Allen's system, with a focus on "stress-free" productivity
o How the brain works in responsive (under stimulus control) versus projectional (under volitional control) modes, and how this relates to our inbox loads and fixation on incoming messages rather than our own plans and goal
o Reading-Homework:
GTD – Finding Your Inside Time (PDF), Getting Email Under Control (PDF), and Micro-Managing Your Mind.
(Optional) try your own Core Dump!
7: Mobile Health and Psychotherapy
o mHealth overview and future directions
o mHealth applications for brain health, psychological health
o Behavioral Activation and Cognitive Therapies
BAT: principles of aligning long-term goals & values with immediate actions
CBT: principles of re-evaluating one's own thoughts
o Reading-Homework:
Morris, M. E., Q. Kathawala, et al. (2010). "Mobile therapy: Case study evaluations of a cell phone application for emotional self-awareness." Journal of Medical Internet Research 12(2): e10.
Optional Reading-Homework: Estrin, D. and I. Sim (2010). "Open mHealth Architecture: An Engine for Health Care Innovation." Science 330(6005): 759.
Optional Reading-Homework: Newman, M. W., D. Lauterbach, et al. (2011). It's not that I don't have problems, I'm just not putting them on Facebook: Challenges and Opportunities in Using Online Social Networks for Health, ACM.
8: Buddhism & the Brain
o Developing mind control; the last few eons of experience
o Modern links of Buddhism & neuroscience
o Mindful awareness, brain function, and health
o The Yerkes-Dodson Law: inverted U curve relating anxiety or arousal to performance
o How to find the "sweet spot" of arousal with respect to your proficiency in a given task
Reading-Homework: Lutz, A., H. A. Slagter, et al. (2008). "Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4): 163-169.
9: Brain & Creativity
o Creativity defined: novelty & utility
o Big C and little c
o Dimensions of creative cognition: generation, working memory, response inhibition
o Persistence, Openness, and Dis-Agreeableness – plus the 10,000 hour effect
o Flow and the psychology of optimal experience
o Reading-Homework:
M. Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, "Enhancing Personal Creativity" (chapter)
Liane Gabora, Revenge of the 'Neurds': Characterizing Creative Thought in terms of the Structure and Dynamics of Memory, Creativity Research Journal (see http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/papers/neurds.htm)
Dietrich, A. and R. Kanso (2010). "A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight." Psychol Bull 136(5): 822-848.
Arden, R., R. S. Chavez, et al. (2010). "Neuroimaging creativity: A psychometric
view." Behavioural Brain Research 214(2): 143-156.
Seligman, M. E. P. and M. Csikszentmihalyi (2000). "Positive psychology: An introduction." American Psychologist 55(1): 5-14.
10: You And Your Machines
o Dialectic – Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity is Near) versus Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget
o Ethical implications of modifying brain function
o Reading-Homework:
excerpts from "You Are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier
(optional) Newman, M. W., D. Lauterbach, et al. (2011). It's not that I don't have problems, I'm just not putting them on Facebook: Challenges and Opportunities in Using Online Social Networks for Health, ACM
The course is offered by Dr. Robert Bilder, Ph.D., ABPP who is Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor of Psychology UCLA College of Letters and Science
Dr. Robert Bilder: Personal Brain Management TedX San Diego (Video)
For more information about Personal Brain Management (PSYCTRY 182) at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, please visit: http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/BrainMindWellness/curriculum.htm


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LOS ANGELES — The prosecution and defense are presenting their final arguments Monday in the trial of a longtime Rockefeller impostor who is accused in a decades-old murder of a California man.
Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian, who has presented three weeks of circumstantial evidence in the mysterious cold case is expected to argue that all signs point to the defendant, whose true name is Christian Gerhartsreiter, as the killer of John Sohus.
Sohus' bones were unearthed in the back yard of his mother's former house a decade after he and his wife, Linda, disappeared. The man who then called himself Chris Chichester vanished around the same time, according to witnesses.
Eventually, he would turn up on the east coast using the name Clark Rockefeller and living well at the expense of his wealthy wife.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner is expected to portray his client as a man who lived a life of pretense but didn't kill anyone. The defense team has said it is just as likely that Sohus' wife, Linda, killed him. No trace of Linda Sohus was ever found.
The newlywed couple disappeared in 1985 after telling friends they were off to New York to interview for top secret government jobs. They never returned.
Meanwhile, the man who had been renting a guest cottage at the home owned by Sohus' mother also left town and the couple's truck was later traced to him on the East Coast although it was never found.
He had arrived in the toney suburb of San Marino in the early 1980s using the name Chichester and befriending wealthy residents. He said he was a film student at University of Southern California and boasted of having royal lineage.
Prosecutors say he was a German immigrant who came to the United States when he was 17 and began blending into wealthy communities. He would later say he grew up in New York and lived on elegant Sutton Place. .
There were strange stories told on the witness stand by former friends from San Marino. A woman remembered seeing dirt in his yard where a large hole had been dug. Another friend said he tried to sell her a rug but it had what appeared to be a blood stain on it. And an employer remembered Linda Sohus saying the tenant in the cottage was "creepy" and she never spoke to him.
Women who lived with him later told of his extreme paranoia when police began asking questions a decade after he had left California. He adopted disguises, changed addresses and went into hiding.
A key question likely to remain unanswered is why the defendant would have killed Sohus. A motive is not required as proof in a murder case, but it often goes a long way toward convincing jurors of a defendant's guilt.
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Uxbridge officials will hold a tax lien sale at 2 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall to auction liens for back taxes and interest worth approximately $1.2 million.
This will be the town's second tax lien auction this year. The first auction, in March, brought in $372,652. Another $400,000 or so came in on delinquent property taxes before the sale, according to Finance Director David A. Genereux.
The March sale was for tax liens from fiscal 2005 through fiscal 2011. The upcoming sale includes liens that didn't sell then plus those from fiscal 2012 or years before 2005.
Mr. Genereux said that liens for which the property owner is on a payment plan or in bankruptcy would not be sold.
Investors who purchase the liens collect 16 percent interest, as the town would, and they are restricted by the same procedures to foreclose on properties, which involves multiple notices and going through Land Court.
"There's no way the property can be stolen from you," Mr. Genereux said.
He said that a few institutional investors who specialize in real estate, as well as individuals from the community, participated in the spring auction.
Mr. Genereux said, "Sixteen percent interest is a pretty good rate of return and every now and then you can wind up with property for not a lot of money. It's not for everybody, but it does serve enough businesses where it's an attractive alternative."
He said the biggest benefit was to the 97 percent of taxpayers who pay their taxes on time. The town relies on property tax revenue for a large part of its budget.
"We're trying to be as creative as we can in a tough economy," he said.
Mr. Genereux said that after the spring tax lien auction, the town's fiscal 2012 certified cash was $1,875,454, a significant increase from fiscal 2011 when it was $280,815.
Much of the revenue was transferred to the stabilization fund at fall town meeting.
"It's a healthy balance," Mr. Genereux said, "but it's one-time revenue so it doesn't count for operations."
He said the town would use the money for expenses like unanticipated snow and ice removal.
The healthy stabilization fund also helps maintain a strong bond rating for the town, which Moody's currently rates as AA3.
Information about the upcoming tax lien auction is available at www.uxbridge-ma.gov or at Town Hall, 21 S. Main St.