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Office Depot's chairman and chief executive officer, Steve Odland, will resign, the Boca Raton-based international office-supply retailer announced Monday.
The resignation, effective Nov. 1, is by "mutual agreement" with the board of directors, according to an Office Depot news release.
Odland's resignation comes after last week's disclosure that the company agreed to pay more than $1 million in penalties to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. The SEC charged that Office Depot improperly shared information with selected analysts and major investors in 2007.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Rocky Shores
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I have said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE black and white landscapes! The tones and contrasts in these are really pretty.ReplyDelete
wow! these are incredibly beautiful shots!ReplyDelete
i'm really impressed! you're so talented:)
happy to have found your blog~
have a great day!
visiting via katherine's corner.
love the photo content, but really not crazy about B&W - makes me feel chilled....ReplyDelete
lovely photos are they lava rocks on the beach? Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo P.S. did you enter my latest giveaway?ReplyDelete
These are wonderful B&W's.ReplyDelete
Thoughtfully taken nice pictures!ReplyDelete
Lovely B&W photos, - well done!ReplyDelete
Fine series. I particularly like the composition of the first.ReplyDelete
stark and beautiful. no wonder this place is popular.ReplyDelete
great shots.
Wow I won't mind hanging out here the scene is very pretty and I can only imagine watching the sunset or sunrise here. It must be a very beautiful scene too.ReplyDelete
Visiting from Water World Wednesday
Wonderful photos in black and white! Seems like a popular place!?ReplyDelete
What is the name of this rocky beach? Stunning shots!ReplyDelete
Very beautiful black and white landscape! :)ReplyDelete
Very interesting series, especially in grayscale.ReplyDelete
What did you think of the pic???? Critical evaluation is welcome...... Would give me great pleasure to hear from all you photography lovers.


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Waxman: Joshua / Sedares, Prague Philharmonic
1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Imports / 2006-09-12Works: Franz Waxman: Joshua, oratorio for voice, narrator, choir & orchestra
Performers: Buchi, Peter; Gilfrey, Rodney; Hallenberg, Ann; Poole, Patrick
Conductors: Sedares, James
'Joshua' is the world-premiere recording of a dramatic oratorio based on the biblical figure by Academy Award winning Franz Waxman. Waxman belongs to a group...continue...
Corigliano: Pied Piper; et al / Still, Sedares, et al
1 CD / Koch International / 2004-09-21Works: Katherine Hoover: Medieval Suite for flute & piano, Op. 18a; John Corigliano: Pied Piper Fantasy, concerto for flute & orchestra; Chen Yi: The Golden Flute, for flute & orchestra
Performers: Still, Alexa
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
"This is a superb recording. Still plays with flawless technique. In three demanding works, she never loses the clarity and beauty of her tone. She...continue...
Natural Escapes
1 CD / Koch International / 2003-01-21Works: William Grant Still: Summerland, for piano; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony no 4 for chorus, children's chorus & orchestra ("The Gardens"); Alan Hovhaness: Ananda, sonata for piano, Op. 303; Symphony ...
Performers: Glaser, Susan; Gruppman, Igor; Mitchell, Emily; Rosen, Marvin; Smith, Susan DeWitt; Still, Alexa
Conductors: Gregorian, Leon; ; Jordania, Vakhtang; Richman, Steven; Barra, Donald; DePreist, James; Sedares, James
Ensemble: Aureole Trio; Harmonie Ensemble New York; KBS Symphony Orchestra; Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; San Diego Chamber Orchestra; University of Michigan Symphony Orch...
Steidl: Fire Dreams, Swirl, etc / Sedares, New Zealand SO
1 CD / Albany Records / 2001-03-01Works: Scott Steidl: Swirl, for chamber orchestra; Fire Dreams, for orchestra; Distant Thunder, for orchestra; Nightscape, for orchestra; October Paint, for strings, piano & celeste
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Gateways - The Works of Daniel Asia / Schub, Sedares, et al
1 CD / Summit Records / 2001-02-06Works: Daniel Asia: Gateways, overture for orchestra; Concerto for piano & orchestra; Black Light, for orchestra
Performers: Schub, Andre-Michel
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
At the Far Edge - Symphonic Works of Daniel Asia
1 CD / Summit Records / 2000-02-15Works: Daniel Asia: Symphony no 1; Symphony no 4; At the Far Edge, for orchestra
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
This Summit release offers three world premiere recordings of works by American-born composer Daniel Asia. On the evidence of this disc, Asia is certainly an...continue...
American Classics - Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, etc
1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-02-01Works: Virgil Thomson: Symphony no 2; Symphony no 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers, for orchestra (arrangement of the film score "Journey to America"); Symphony on a Hymn Tune ("Symphony no 1")
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The four works included on this disc are among Virgil Thomson's most immediately attrative scores. The 'Symphony on a Hymn Tune' dating from 1928 takes...continue...
Harrison: Suite for Violin, etc / Bachman, Sedares, et al
1 CD / Koch International / 1999-07-20Works: Lou Harrison: Suite for Violin with Strings (arr. of "Suite for Violin & American Gamelan"); Western Dance, for piano; New York Waltzes (3), for piano; Suite for Cello and Piano; Gigue & Musette, for...
Performers: Bachmann, Maria; Boriskin, Michael; Flyer, Nina; Gandolfi, Josephine; Levitan, Dan
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Lou Harrison is known primarily for his rejection of 12-tone equal temperament in favor of "just intonation", as well as his use of percussion inspired...continue...
Herrman, Waxman, North: Piano Concertos / Beuchner, Sedares
1 CD / Koch International / 1995-09-19Works: Franz Waxman: Rhapsody for piano and orchestra; The Charm Bracelet, suite for piano; Bernard Herrmann: Concerto Macabre for piano & orchestra; Prelude for piano; Alex North: Concerto for piano and or...
Performers: Armstrong, Donald; Buechner, David; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Sedares, James; Taber, John
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Personnel: Matthew Marshall (guitar); David Gilling, Elspeth Gray, Jane Freed, Lucien Rizos, Dean Major, Janet Armstrong, Wilma Smith, Yury Gezentsvey, Andrew Kasza, Stephanie O'Flaherty, Matthew Ross...continue...
Pinkham: Symphonies 3 & 4, etc / Sedares, London SO
1 CD / Koch International / 1995-05-23Works: Daniel Pinkham: Serenades for solo trumpet & wind ensemble; Symphony no 3; Symphony no 4; Sonata No 3 for organ & strings
Performers: Christie, James David; Murphy, Maurice
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
Asia: Symphonies no 2 & 3 / Sedares, Phoenix Symphony
1 CD / New World / 1993-10-01Works: Daniel Asia: Symphony no 3; Symphony no 2 "Celebration Symphony"
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: Phoenix Symphony Orchestra


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This must be the first time in history when a comedian analyzed IRS tax records for nonprofits, uncovered unflattering news about the Miss America pageant, and boiled it all down in hilarious fashion.
John Oliver is amazing.]]>
As the Uber Tech Lead at Google, Dan studies how people search the web. He started sharing little-known search techniques three years ago at the IRE conference in Boston. Since then he's annually offered tips at IRE that can help everyone — not just reporters — find exactly what they're searching for online.
Here are some of Dan's new strategies and tools for 2014, and a recap of the most useful tips from his past presentations that I've used myself. You can check out posts about his other talks here and here.
One of the coolest new tools offered by Google this year allows you to jump in a time machine in Google Maps' Street View.
Let's say you're walking around downtown San Antonio and you're curious about the site of a historic building on Commerce Street across from Main Plaza. An inferno destroyed the building a few years ago and now there's nothing but a vacant lot:
In Google Street View, click on the clock symbol in the corner of the screen to check out how that spot looked over the years. In this case, you can look at what the Wolfson Building looked like before the catastrophic fire:
The Wall Street Journal used this time-machine effect to illustrate dramatic growth in Brooklyn.
The cool thing about this is how you can pan around and get different perspectives of the sites you're interested in.
The Google Maps Gallery allows organizations to mesh their data with Google maps. All these mashups are searchable, and Google links to the original sources if you want to download the information yourself.
Let's say you're curious about which counties in the United States are prone to tornado strikes. A search of "tornado" in the Google Maps Gallery shows a map based on federal data showing tornado strikes, total property damage, injuries and deaths by county:
Type an asterisk in the search bar of Google Maps and it will show you every business and significant, named place it knows about in the area you're viewing.
If you plan on using any of this information in a news story, you'll want to take steps to confirm what you're seeing in the map. But this is a really quick way to get a sense of what's in the area.
For example, if you're writing about the Wolfson Building fire and want to get a quick idea of what businesses were nearby, in Google Maps, focus on the site on Commerce Street and try the wildcard search:
By far the most common search function I use in Google is "intext," which Russell discussed at his first presentation in Boston.
Sometimes Google tries to be too helpful. It changes your search terms and uses words it thinks you're searching for– not the words you're actually searching for.
And sometimes the websites in Google's search results don't include all your search terms because Google decided those pages might still be relevant.
That might be OK for general searches. But it's not very helpful if you're looking for pages with specific terms or words with unusual spellings. How do you make Google search for those exact words?
Typing intext:[keyword] (with no space on either side of the colon) might be Google's least-known search operations, but it's one of Dan's favorites. It forces the search term to be in the body of the website.
If you're researching the story of the Wolfson Building, for example, you'll probably want to make sure that Google always includes that unique name in the search results. Typing intext:Wolfson San Antonio will force Google to include the term "Wolfson."
Intext also works with phrases in quotes. So typing intext:"Wolfson Building" will strong-arm Google into showing you that exact phrase.
To learn more details about Google's search operators, check out my post about his talk in Boston where he gave us a treasure-trove of advice.
Google's site search let's you search for information on a particular website. Typing site:mysanantonio.com "Wolfson Building" would show pages with that phrase that were published by the San Antonio Express-News. But what if you wanted to regularly check what other local news outlets published in the San Antonio area?
Google can focus on multiple websites with its custom search engine. You tell Google which websites to search, save your settings and Google creates a link to the custom search page. Now you can search those specific websites any time.
This technique is handy for anyone interested in a particular beat or issue. I created this customized search of San Antonio media and blogs to quickly see how news organizations are covering a story. You can also sort the results by time or relevance, and conduct an image search with the terms you want on those websites.
Not everyone knows this so it's worth repeating: Type "Control F" in Windows or "Command F" on a Mac to launch the "find" function in your browser to locate a specific word or phrase on any web page. It's faster than reading the whole page if you're looking for something in particular. "If you don't know this, you're roughly 12 percent slower in your searches," Dan said at the IRE conference in Boston.
This year, Dan said useful Chrome extensions expand the usefulness of the "find" function. Let's say you want to find more than one word. You could type an expression such as Wolfson|Building|Fire to highlight all those words. Handy.
Dan regularly blogs about search strategies by challenging readers with puzzles. It's a good way to stay in practice. And practice, Dan says, is the best way to hone your search skills.
In February 2009, an 8-year-old girl from Schertz died, alone, of acute appendicitis — a disease that could have easily been treated if caught in time.
In the hours leading up to her death, people concerned about the girl — including officers from the Schertz Police Department — had warned the Texas Department of Child Protective Services that she was a victim of neglect.
CPS didn't act. And on Feb. 5, 2009, authorities found the girl's body in a soiled bed.
Her name was Sarah Brasse.
It wasn't so long ago in Texas that you would have had a tough time learning any of those tragic details.
In fact, according to the state officials in charge of protecting children from abusive adults, you would have had no legal right to even know Brasse's name.
And you certainly wouldn't be able to know the agency missed opportunities to help Brasse.
But a decade of diligent reporting by three Express-News journalists shined a spotlight of transparency on tragedies involving Brasse and scores of other children in San Antonio, helping the public understand the unfathomable.
In Brasse's case, a state watchdog is now investigating how CPS could have done a better job protecting her. But that investigation probably wouldn't have happened without the work of Express-News Writer Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, who obtained internal CPS documents about the case that gave readers a rare look inside a troubled state agency that failed to act, despite repeated warnings about Brasse's welfare.
"The lack of agency action just really stunned me," Melissa told me.
Any longtime reader of the paper knows that Melissa's stories were the latest in a series of articles that have unfolded in the pages of the Express-News over the years about the failures and challenges at CPS.
It's worth revisiting these powerful stories, all of which took months of difficult work about a topic people don't like to read. The projects that stand out were written by three journalists — Melissa, Cathy Frye and Nancy Martinez Preyor-Johnson. I sit next to Melissa in the newsroom, and I'm Facebook pals with Cathy and Nancy, who now work elsewhere, so I asked them how they wrote these outstanding pieces of journalism that grabbed readers and didn't let go.
In 2004, the Express-News published a series of stories by reporter Cathy Frye about Unit 39, a group of overwhelmed CPS caseworkers in San Antonio.
The first story began this way:
Courtney Mayfield grabs two chunks of her ash-blond hair, lowers her head over her cluttered desk and groans.
This isn't a good week. December is rapidly approaching, and she's still searching for a crackhead mom on the run with a toddler.
Tracking a homeless woman who's roaming the streets with two sick kids in tow. Listening to the pleas of a 16-year-old girl who doesn't want to go to a children's shelter.
Then there's the deadline, that impossible deadline. In two weeks, the Child Protective Services caseworker is supposed to have 70 percent of her investigations closed. She'll never make it, not with 90 open cases stacked across her desk and the floor of her office.
And if she doesn't? Banish the thought. The stakes are high, the pressure immense. In the next office, a young colleague of Courtney's with 120 cases to work and a rising sense of futility phones her roommate and cries.
How did Cathy know all that? Because she was there. She spent months tagging along with CPS caseworkers, having been granted unusual access to the secretive agency.
"The way the system is set up, it's very difficult to get in and make these people real to your readers," said Cathy, who now works at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Shrouded in regulations protecting the confidentiality of child-abuse investigations, the agency usually didn't welcome outsiders. But a spike in child deaths that year prompted a public outcry — and created a unique situation for Cathy to get an insider's perspective at the agency.
"They were under a lot of heat," recalled Cathy. "Basically, I was the least of their problems."
Cathy packed her stories with telling details that she witnessed firsthand. The only way to do that is spending lots of time with people until they eventually start acting like themselves:
Courtney waits outside a dingy white duplex with pale blue trim. A sour smell wafts from a front window, which is partially covered by a grimy sheet.
"Can I come inside yet?" she calls, just as a hugely pregnant woman walks out, holding a toddler's hand. The woman nods, a wide, anxious smile creasing her round face.
"It's not that clean," she apologizes, opening the door. "I'm pregnant. I get really tired."
The home boasts only a tiny kitchen, living area and a single bedroom. Furniture is scarce. The bedroom contains a bunk bed that sleeps three and a stained, twin-size mattress propped against a wall.
Courtney inspects the rest of the home. Refrigerator contains food. Lights work. Plumbing works. No apparent roach infestation. Then she asks the woman to demonstrate how her son's asthma treatment machine works. As the frazzled mother tries to assemble the contraption, it becomes quite clear to Courtney that she's winging it.
Courtney asks about the new baby, due to arrive in December. "Do you have a crib? Do you need things?"
Courtney heads back to her car. She can see that this woman functions at a lower mental level.
"Really, I need to get a better feel for what she's understanding and not understanding, " Courtney says. This may be a case of medical neglect. Or it may be the woman simply needs someone to help her manage her son's condition.
Yes, the whole family sleeps in one bedroom, but that's not neglectful, Courtney says. And yes, they are poor, but that's not neglectful either. They appear to be doing what they can with what they have.
"It's got to be really, really bad before I say they have to change," Courtney says. "You have to pick your battles. Is it more important to fight with mom because there are a few roaches in the kitchen or is it more important to fight with her to keep her boyfriend away?"
"The little details are always the most telling things," Cathy said about how she crafts an interesting narrative. "A lot of the time, that requires spending more time with people."
As Cathy shadowed caseworkers, she went with them during their interviews with parents accused of abuse or neglect. They went to their houses. And to Cathy's surprise, most parents didn't object to her presence. That included a mother accused of beating her teen-age daughter with a meat tenderizer, leaving square-shaped wounds.
"There was a lot of shame," Cathy said. "The meat-tenderizer mom, when she came in, it was almost like she felt like she deserved to be not only punished, but shamed for that in some weird way. She let me in for the entire interview. She was very candid."
That kind of access to the inner workings of CPS and the cases it handles is extremely rare, as Nancy's stories a few years later in 2007 demonstrated. At the time, CPS was refusing to release anything beyond bare-bone statistics about the children who died in Bexar County. The agency refused to even release the names of victims.
"I really want to tell the stories behind the numbers," Nancy said, echoing the same goals Cathy had for her stories about Unit 39. Nancy spent six months tracking down sources — police reports, autopsy reports, tipsters — to flesh out the details behind each child death.
"It was very, very difficult," said Nancy, who is now a teacher. "It was begging sources to help out with information."
On July 15, 2007, the Express-News published the first article of Nancy's project. The series was called Four Feet Under … the usual depth of a child's grave.
It began this way:
The state of Texas doesn't want you to know about Ruben Reyna.
You should not know he was beaten to death with blows to the head or who is suspected of killing him.
You should not know that Child Protective Services had investigated his family on two earlier allegations of abuse involving Ruben.
You should not know if Ruben lived or died next door to you.
You should not even know the boy's name. State law says so. That information is confidential.
One CPS official says the law is necessary. "It's an important law, not meant to protect the reputation of our agency, rather to protect the citizens of Texas, " said Sherry Gomez, CPS San Antonio region director. But critics say the lack of transparency prevents the sort of public scrutiny that has helped bring about meaningful reform elsewhere.
"The way you protect children's rights is by exposing the system to scrutiny so it can be made better, said Richard Wexler, executive director for the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform in Virginia. "The child is dead, so there is no issue of invasion of privacy. There won't be real accountability until the system is completely open to scrutiny so that we can see all the mistakes they make and when they get it right or when a tragedy is not their fault."
The series revealed shortcomings in state law that state Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, had been trying to change.
"He was personally motivated by the article and even had it framed," Uresti's former communications director, Mark Langford, wrote in an email after I asked him about the impact of the stories.
In 2009, Uresti's Senate Bill 1050 required CPS to release basic details about children who died from abuse or neglect. Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed the bill into law. Melissa told me that CPS officials describe it as "The Express-News law."
"It's impossible to say how widely read the series was outside of San Antonio, but he definitely believes it influenced the Bexar delegation and local child advocates who supported the effort, came to Austin to testify for SB 1050 and other legislation, and lobby each day on behalf of children," Langford wrote. "So … job well done Express-News."
But even after passage of the bill, it's still difficult for outsiders to learn about mistakes at CPS and whether officials are being held accountable. The fatality reports don't go into that kind of detail.
"The average person can't read that and say, 'Oh, OK, this is what they should have done and they didn't,'" Melissa said.
That's what her stories about Brasse accomplished. Melissa obtained internal documents that showed, for example, how CPS took no action when Brasse's parents didn't provide medical care and health insurance for their children, despite being told to do so by CPS.
The records described an agency that seemed cowed by Brasse's father, who threatened to sue. The day before Brasse died, people warned CPS that the mistreatment was escalating. Yet CPS failed to send a caseworker who could have seen she was in "imminent danger."
"When later pushed to explain what happened to Sarah, CPS decided to police itself. Three employees conducted an in-house review, thus avoiding outside scrutiny," Melissa wrote in her story.
Many of these problems sound familiar — Cathy and Nancy's past stories struck the same troubling chords. As powerful as these stories are, did they make a difference?
For the reporters who wrote these articles, the impact on government bureaucracies and intractable societal problems is hard to measure. But that doesn't mean these stories about children dying at the hands of adults aren't worth telling. And it doesn't mean readers don't care, especially if the stories are written with telling details.
"I don't think you can give up on them," Cathy said of the victims. "At some point I still believe there are lot of people in the background — defense attorneys, caseworkers — who know that being more transparent is beneficial."
"A miracle is not going to happen," said Nancy, who suffered nightmares after reading document after document about dead children. "I don't think it will ever change." But newspapers can't ignore child abuse, and Nancy said she was overwhelmed by the reader response to her stories.
"I saw readers were really, really responding," she said. "They were responding with letters, emails, phone calls."
It's good to hear this kind of talk in the Buzzfeed age of cat GIFs and viral videos. Dark but important topics don't usually attract page views. So reporters have to figure out a way to make these stories matter to people.
"I will never forget that story," Nancy said.
Hopefully, neither will the people who read it.]]>
San Antonio lawyer Al Acevedo Jr, center right, pleads guilty of bribing a state district judge. @mySA pic.twitter.com/6pLLkkQQcw
— Jerry Lara (@fotografolara) March 17, 2014
"In exchange for these bribes, Judge McGinty provided favorable judicial rulings which benefited me and my clients," Acevedo says in the court document. "Judge McGinty provided these favorable judicial rulings as requested, and as opportunities arose. These favorable rulings included leniency at sentencing and less restrictive conditions of release."
The clients included a man who was convicted of DWI and sentenced by McGinty to three years imprisonment. In court, McGinty had said the defendant had committed so many offenses it didn't make any sense to put him on probation. Yet after Acevedo asked him to reduce the sentence, the judge did just that and sentenced him to four years community supervision:
On Sept. 10, Gabriel A. Lopez stood before then-state District Judge Angus McGinty and received three years in prison and a $1,500 fine for his no-contest plea to drunken driving.
He admitted his blood alcohol level was 0.21 — more than 21/2 times the legal limit. It was his third driving-while-intoxicated conviction.
"There comes a time when someone has committed so many offenses that it doesn't make sense to put them on probation," McGinty told Lopez, 35, who appeared with attorney Leandro Renaud.
The judge noted Lopez had 11 prior criminal cases and had received probation four times, while three of those were revoked.
"That's unacceptable, Mr. Lopez," McGinty admonished. "I do not think probation is appropriate."
But just three days later, on Sept. 13, Lopez stood before McGinty again, this time with lawyer Al Acevedo Jr. And this time, he walked out a happier man after the judge changed Lopez's sentence to four years of probation.
"Mr. Lopez, when you were here last, and I sentenced you, it's because I thought you had earned the right to go to" prison, McGinty said. "Your attorney has done a good job of pointing out some facts that I didn't adequately consider before."
In reality, the FBI has alleged, Acevedo had the good graces of the judge because he had served as McGinty's personal car service — paying for repairs on the jurist's two luxury cars with the expectation that the scales of justice would tilt heavily in favor of Acevedo's clients.
Later, Acevedo's law partner congratulated Acevedo. "I guess it does make a difference givin', givin' people money, right?"
Acevedo laughed. "Sure does," he replied.
Other clients that benefited from the judge's leniency included an alleged bank robber and a man charged with aggravated robbery.
McGinty resigned after word of the federal investigation spread but hasn't yet been charged.
Last night Jen and I enjoyed a rare date night at one of our favorite restaurants downtown, Bohanan's, a swanky oasis of cocktails, jazz — and no screaming Tedesco children.
If you've ever wondered exactly how much money your favorite haunt makes in alcohol sales, there's now an easy way to find out.
Joe Kokenge, the Express-News' database editor, put together this interactive data viz that shows total alcohol sales for San Antonio bars and restaurants last year. Some of these numbers are mind-blowing.
The top seller in San Antonio was the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa — the same project that sparked years of controversy for seeking exemptions from city taxes and for building on the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer recharge zone.
The resort raked in more than $11 million in alcohol sales in 2013. That's more than the second-place venue, the AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs and overpriced macro brews.
The sales data comes from the Texas Comptroller's office, which doesn't offer the information in a very user-friendly format. Joe combined a year's worth of data and put together an interactive, easy-to-use table that you can sort and search.
It doesn't show who sold the most alcohol, only how much revenue was generated in alcohol sales. So expensive drinks might move a company up in the rankings.
Out of curiosity, I checked Bohanan's and learned it generated a whopping $2.2 million in alcohol sales in 2013.
That's a lot of fancy cocktails.
Since then, one of the accusers recanted, and one of the accused was released on parole. Today, the remaining members of the San Antonio Four were set free on bond.
(Photo credit: Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-News)
One of the officials who signed off on those permits was Fernando De León, the department's friendly, soft-spoken assistant director. Investigators headed to his office. De León wasn't there, but they seized his computer and files. City Manager Sheryl Sculley later fired him, but De León wasn't arrested.
Until last week.
A federal indictment made public Thursday sheds light on the case against De León:
Longtime readers of the Express-News might remember some of the details we had discovered about the case through public records and lots of digging:
For the first time, the indictment lays out the actual allegations against De León, and describes how he is accused of teaming up with Rodriguez to defraud Pape-Dawson and the firm's clients.
Check out the most recent story here, and if you want to learn more, here are past posts about the case.
I have kids. Which means I own a video camera. Which means I chase my kids around with my video camera, trying to catch them in action. And the footage always looks shaky and horrible.
So I've read more than my fair share of reviews about stabilizers, Glidecams and Steadicams. They rely on gimbals and counterweights to produce smooth, dream-like shots. But they're often expensive, and some customers complain it takes forever to balance these contraptions.
About 15 years ago, Rene Kropf and his colleagues were experiencing the same frustration as they worked in his garage trying to design a tool that could help stabilize shaky film footage for light cameras.
"We went down the same route of counterweights and all that," Kropf told me. "And we saw that as a nightmare. It's like, the sun went down and we still haven't balanced it, so forget that."
Kropf, the owner of Cobra Crane, a camera gear company in California, abandoned the gimbal system altogether. Instead, he helped devised something called the SteadyTracker Ultralite, a crowbar-like device with two adjustable weighted ends and a balancing pad in the middle that rests on top of your hand.
I recently bought the SteadyTracker UltraLite for about $179 on Amazon. The SteadyTracker is touted as a simpler, inexpensive option compared to other stabilizers. I've been using it for a few weeks and produced some sample shots in this video review. When I called Cobra Crane with a few questions about the SteadyTracker, I was surprised to get a call back from Kropf, the company's owner. He offered insights and tips that aren't in the instruction manual.
"It's relatively inexpensive," Kropf said. "It's pretty easy to use. And the biggest thing, the number one thing that people comment on, is it's a super-quick set up, so you don't miss shots."
With the SteadyTracker, you attach your camera to a base plate on top. The plate can be adjusted back and forth and side to side. This YouTube video walks you through the process. It takes about five to ten minutes. If you plan to always use the same camera, you never have to tinker with it again. You're all set.
The SteadyTracker's simplicity is both a benefit and a drawback. Without gimbals or counterweights to worry about, it's quick to set up. But so far I haven't been able to consistently achieve silky smooth shots. My videos were certainly smoother than what I'd be able to achieve going handheld. But side-to-side wobbling occasionally cropped up in my video clips.
So as a stabilizer, the SteadyTracker is OK. But as a versatile piece of equipment, it really shines.
I took it to the birthday party of a friend's daughter and was pleasantly surprised when I discovered I could use the SteadyTracker for a variety of shots. Its base is stable, so you can use it as a mini-tripod. Or you can hold it against your hip to steady your camera, like a monopod. Or use it for relatively smooth panning shots. Or hoist it on your shoulders to get overhead shots.
This means you can bring your camera and your SteadyTracker to something like a party, a wedding or a news event and you pretty much have all your shots covered. The real benefit of the SteadyTracker is that it's more than a stabilizer.
Another cool thing about the SteadyTracker is that you can buy a "low-mode" attachment that hangs from the bottom to give you low-angle shots. Not many stabilizers offer this feature. Your camera skims across the ground. It's great for getting down to the level of kids or pets. This is one of the main selling points of the SteadyTracker in my book.
One question I had was whether to use my camera's image stabilization system. I had assumed that turning it on would help create smoother shots. But some manufacturers of other Steadicam-like products recommend deactivating it. Kropf said that in most cases, leaving it on will improve the SteadyTracker's performance.
"In general, when you're walking with it, I would put the stabilizer on," Kropf said. Try to use a wide-angle lens to get a panoramic effect and smoother shots.
Instructions for the SteadyTracker UltraLite say it can handle cameras weighing up to three pounds. Cobra Crane also sells a SteadyTracker Xtreme that can handle cameras weighing up to eight pounds. But the UltraLite is a solid piece of gear — like I said, it feels like a crowbar. I asked Kropf if the three-pound limit was a hard-and-fast rule. He said it's more of a rough guideline. If you're over the limit by a bit but can still balance the SteadyTracker, you'll be OK.
That said, the lighter the camera, the better. I used this with a Canon T3i, a Sigma lens and a microphone set up that weighed 3.5 pounds. It didn't take long for my arm to feel the strain. Using it with the lighter Panasonic FZ-150 was much easier and more enjoyable.
"The number's there as a guide," Kropf said of the three-pound limit. "It's not a super-hard number. But at the same time, if you're at six pounds, maybe you're not going to be as balanced as you could be."
What about the grip? Should you hold it loosely, tightly, or what?
"It varies," Kropf said. "Most of the time, you wrap your hand around the fuselage. You wrap your fingers around it, but you don't hold a tight grip. It's sort of floating on the top of your hand. It's a gentle touch, because this is all about that. It's about gentle moves and smooth starts and stops. Gradual stuff." The exception is when you're tilting the SteadyTracker for shots such as Dutch angles.
The trick is reducing vibration produced by your hand, arm and body as you walk. Take small steps. The instructions suggest walking like Groucho Marx.
The SteadyTracker does not come with a quick-release plate, which is a bummer. You have to screw the camera directly into the base plate. For about $45 I bought a Manfrotto monopod head with its own quick-release plate and screwed it to the SteadyTracker's base plate so I could quickly attach and remove my camera. The nice thing about this particular model is I can adjust its angle and tilt the camera up and down. It would have been nice if the SteadyTracker came with this option.
Overall, I liked the SteadyTracker's versatility and I see its potential to help people like multimedia journalists who show up at a scene without knowing what to expect. Maybe a situation will call for following somebody through a crowd. Or filming the subject of a video from an overhead angle. Or a low-angle view. The SteadyTracker can handle all those situations. "It's versatile," Kropf said.
So the SteadyTracker is a useful tool for on-the-go videographers who film events — and chase their rambunctious kids around with a camera when they get home.
Update: This post was revised to reflect the fact that there are two versions of the SteadyTracker. The larger version was invented before Kropf helped develop the SteadyTracker Ultralite.
When a research scientist at Google offers to show you how to unlock the full potential of the powerful search engine, you pay attention.
Last year Daniel Russell spoke at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Boston. Dan showed us search techniques that can make anyone a better researcher. Some tips I already knew. Others I thought I understood but didn't. And some I had no idea existed.
I thought Dan's talk was eye-opening — and others had the same reaction. My post about his presentation last year was widely shared, so there's enormous interest to learn more about how Google works and how to use it effectively.
"You gotta know a little bit about how to make Google dance," Dan said at his panel, Digging in with Google. "This is all mother's milk for investigative reporters."
I thought it'd be a good idea to compile some of the interesting new techniques, and revisit tips Dan discussed last year with some real-world examples of how journalists used them in actual news stories. Many of these methods also work on other search engines, such as Yahoo! and Bing.
These tips are for journalists, researchers, librarians and anyone else who wants to learn new ways to find information. Google will never replace the importance of shoe-leather reporting — knocking on doors and talking to real people. But Google can help reporters find the right doors to knock on and reveal surprising details about the people you're talking to. Knowing how to find obscure information on the Internet is a vital skill for any journalist.
In Google Maps, you can type a term such as "restaurant" or "golf course" and those specific places will appear in your map.
But what if you want to see every place Google knows about in the map, not just one particular type of place?
In the search bar, type an asterisk and hit enter. That's it. Google will show you every business and significant named place it knows about.
If you plan on using any of this information in a news story, you'll want to take steps to confirm what you're seeing in the map. But this is a really quick way to get a sense of what's in the area.
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When the West Fertilizer facility exploded with the force of a small earthquake and devastated the town of West, Texas, the wildcard search in Google Maps offered a quick way to check what kind of buildings were located near the site. You can see in this Google map that two schools and the West Rest Haven nursing home are just blocks away from Adair Grain — point "D" on the map — where the fertilizer site exploded.
Google can focus on multiple websites with its custom search page. You tell Google which websites to search, save your settings and Google creates a link to the custom search page. Now you can search those specific websites any time.
This technique is handy for anyone interested in a particular beat or issue. I created this customized search of San Antonio media and blogs. So when breaking news hits, such as the torrential rains that drenched the region recently, you can type the relevant key words, such as flood OR flooding OR floods, and quickly see how news organizations are covering the story. You can also sort the results by time or relevance, and conduct an image search with the terms you want on those websites.
Sometimes, you don't even need to type words to search Google. Upload a picture of a person, place or thing, and Google can search for similar images. Google might find a match and it offers relevant search terms for that image.
Dan said he was showing a photographer friend how the search worked, and plugged one of his picturesque images into the search box. They were both surprised to discover that the picture was being used without permission on other websites — by wedding photographers who should have known better.
This method of finding pictures on the Internet has become a key way to avoid getting catfished, which I quickly learned is a thing when Deadspin revealed that the girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was not actually his friend, or even a girl. She didn't exist. Te'o had never met her, and her photographs were actually of a 22-year-old California woman who wasn't part of the bizarre hoax.
Deadspin's scoop noted that it's possible to foil the reverse-image search by slightly altering a picture. But it's still an amazingly useful tool. If you're searching a popular image and get swamped by the results, you can type contextual terms in the search box to help give Google a nudge in the right direction and narrow the results.
Last year Dan showed us how the search operator intext: works and I now use it all the time.
Sometimes Google tries to be too helpful. It changes your search terms and uses words it thinks you're searching for — not the words you're actually searching for. And sometimes the websites in Google's search results don't include all your search terms because Google decided those pages might still be relevant.
That might be OK for general searches. But it's not very helpful if you're looking for pages with specific terms or words with unusual spellings. How do you make Google search for those exact words?
Typing intext:[keyword] (with no space on either side of the colon) might be Google's least-known search operations, but it's one of Dan's favorites. It forces the search term to be in the body of the website.
When the San Antonio Independent School District announced it had chosen a finalist for superintendent, it turned out the job candidate carried some baggage. As I was researching Manuel Isquierdo's background, Google annoyingly suggested changes to the word "Isquierdo," when in fact that was the exact word I wanted to use. And I wanted to make sure that word was in all the websites in my search results. So I used intext:Isquierdo in my searches to force Google to include that name.
This works for phrases — type double quotes around the words you want Google to look for in the exact order they appear. And you can use intext: multiple times in the same search. Typing intext:"Manuel Isquierdo" intext:"grand jury" forces Google to include those exact phrases in all the websites in the results.
You can also type allintext: at the beginning of your query to apply the command to all words and phrases. But you can't combine it with other search operators.
I noticed that on rare occasions when I use intext:, the keyword is still missing on a page. In such cases, the website has been updated since Google last crawled it.
In addition to intext:, Google offers a confusingly similar feature called "verbatim" search. You can type double quotes around a word and Google will not change it. You can also click on a drop down menu under search tools and select "verbatim."
What's the different between verbatim and intext: searches? With verbatim, it's still possible Google will remove those words from the pages that show up in your search results in an effort to be helpful. So I prefer intext:.
Many people know that Google ignores the word AND as a search operator. But typing OR in all caps actually works.
OR is great for finding synonyms and boilerplate language. Dan said typing "Smith denied" OR "Smith claimed" OR "Smith argued" will find more pertinent websites about the controversy involving Smith.
This technique can help you perform background checks. Start thinking of terms such as indictment OR indicted OR charged OR lawsuit or any other type of term you'd want to know about in relation to the person or thing you're checking out.
When I was working on the Manuel Isquierdo story, I was trying to track down hardcopies of tax liens the IRS filed against him to recover $150,000 in back taxes, interest and penalties. My query "Manuel Isquierdo" lien OR liens led to an interesting report by a private investigator in California.
The fact that many people don't know they can easily search for words on web pages is a national tragedy. Even those who know about the "find" function often take the long way by using the mouse to click on the menu option, which drives me nuts.
For the love of all that is holy in this world, hit "Control F" on a PC or "Command F" on a Mac and type the words you want to find on the page.
"It improves your search speed by 12 percent," Dan said.
Type site:[domain] [keywords] if you're looking for a specific topic on a particular website. This is a time-saver if you know what you're looking for, especially if a website doesn't offer its own search box.
I used this method several years ago when I worked on a story about racehorse accidents. I visited the Texas Racing Commission's website and typed injuries site:txrc.state.tx.us. It led me to an annual report that had some statistics, which led me to a little-known state database of horse-racing accidents that showed how, in a five-year period, 300 horses had died on Texas racetracks.
The site: operator also works on directories and sub-domains. So if you know how a website is structured, you can focus on a specific area of interest. For example, San Antonio's Development Services Department approves new real estate projects. Its web address is sanantonio.gov/dsd. This is the city department that dealt with the collapse of the towering retaining wall at the Rivermist subdivision in San Antonio developed by Centex Homes. So typing site:sanantonio.gov/dsd "retaining wall" shows you a bunch of results showing how the department handled the disaster.
The search operator inurl: is another way to use a website's structure in your search strategy. On the surface, inurl: and intitle: appear to serve similar roles — both methods help you find websites that focus on a particular term. Typing inurl:[keyword] will show you results with that word in the url of the web page. Typing intitle:[keyword] will show you results with that word in the title of the web page written by the site's author.
But since the url's of web pages often reflect the title of the page, what's the difference?
Using inurl: might help you find more relevant websites because Google changes the titles of web pages in search results in an effort to be helpful. So the url of the web page could be a more accurate reflection of what the author is actually focusing on. I asked Dan about this after his panel and he said he usually uses inurl:.
Typing filetype:[extension] is useful for limiting your search to particular types of files, such as Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, pdf's, Word documents and just about any other file type you can imagine. Typing filetype:xls [keywords] in a search, for example, will show spreadsheets that pertain to that issue, which is nice for finding public data. Typing filetype:kml [keywords] shows you relevant Google mapping files. Check this list for file extensions you can search.
Google's data table explorer page offers another way to find public data. Type some keywords and Google will search publicly available Fusion Tables or tables posted on web pages. You can then import that data into your own Fusion Table.
Search for campaign contributions San Antonio and you get a lot of hits. The first result is a table of campaign-finance data posted by the Texas Tribune. Notice the "import data" option:
Click on that link and Google walks you through the steps to import the data table on the page into your Fusion Tables account:
Now you can do your own analysis and create your own visualizations.
Google also offers a public data directory with interactive visualizations. When I was working on some stories about delays in the federal stimulus program in San Antonio, the public data directory offered a quick way to compare unemployment rates. Google shows you the source of the information so you can verify it.
One of the themes in Dan's talk was the importance of knowing the right keywords. That means a successful search isn't so much about typing the words you know, it's about typing the words that would likely be used by the writer of the information you're seeking.
"It's not about your language," Dan said. "It's about someone else's."
So be on the lookout for industry terms or phrases you don't recognize. Don't gloss over them; find out what those words mean. Think about synonyms. Typing define:[keyword or phrase] in Google can quickly give you a definition of a word or phrase. Dan said it's a powerful tool that lets you learn words that aren't even in the dictionary.
If you know how to describe something but don't know the exact word for it, reverse dictionaries can help. Type descriptions of the mystery word, and the reverse dictionary shows you results that match that definition. Here's a riddle from Dan's presentation:
Someone told me that in the mid-1800's, people often would carry around a special kind of notebook. They would use the notebook to write quotations that they heard, or copy passages from books they'd read. The notebook was an important part of their education, and it had a particular name.
What was this kind of notebook called? Looking up one of the many online reverse dictionaries available and typing "notebook" and "quotations" leads to the answer: a commonplace book.
"Reverse dictionary is your friend as a writer," Dan said.
When you don't want to see a particular word or phrase in your search results, type the minus sign in front of it with no space. One way this is useful is if you're covering breaking news and want to weed out all the media reports in an effort to see what's been written before the big thing happened.
After the West Fertilizer facility exploded, I wanted to see if the company had a website and read what others had to say about the company before the tragic accident. But breaking news stories and blog posts were flooding my search results. Typing "West Fertilizer" -explosion helped cut through the noise.
You can also tell Google to search for older results by filtering by date: Type a query, hit return, and click on "search tools." The date filter is to the left:
When you want to find words or phrases near each other, the AROUND operator can help. I mostly use this when Googling people and need to make sure I find relevant web sites about them, even if they use their middle name or initial, or the page cites their last name first, then their first name.
So typing Manuel AROUND(2) Isquierdo shows all pages that have the name "Manuel" within two words of "Isquierdo." The results show some pages with Isquierdo's middle initial. You can use any number you want — typing "5" would show you everything within five words.
All these search terms work with Google Alerts, your own personal Web-monitoring service. Google will email you whenever it crawls new websites containing terms you're interested in.
"This is a very good thing because you can now follow a topical area," Russell said at his presentation last year.
You can use all these search operators together. So let's say you're curious about what kind of forms and documents the city of San Antonio has posted online. And you want to see references to the term "injuries." Type site:sanantonio.gov filetype:doc injuries.
This is a cool way to find interesting story ideas.
To learn more, check out Dan's 200-slide presentation and his notes for the IRE panel at his blog, SearchReSearch. Dan also offers online classes with video lessons.
It's easy to forget these tricks and strategies. And Google is constantly working on new products. To retain these skills, you have to keep in practice. This is one reason why journalism is so rewarding — and challenging.
"Your job of learning will never, ever stop," Dan said.


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With last night's 27-6 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Washington Redskins record is now 3-8. And while they still have an outside chance to finish .500, odds are they will not make the playoffs, which means more than likely head coach Mike Shanahan will end the season with his third losing record in four years.
With a record like that what's the justification to bring him back? It seems the team is clearly headed in the wrong direction, and there's no clear indication that Mike Shanahan can get things turned around. Shanahan has taken the approach of playing it cool, while things fall apart around him, and that tactic may cost him.
He's taken no steps to shake up his coaching staff, and with five games left, there seems no reason for him to do so now. So his only other alternative is to shake up his depth chart. And while there are some pointing at the quarterback position, at this point what would benching Robert Griffin III prove?
I like Kirk Cousins, but his presence in the lineup won't make the defense any better, and such a move could only serve to divide an already divided team even more. That's why the Redskins should consider firing Mike Shanahan now. Because in his mind the future of the team doesn't exist, he may only see the present.
And RGIII needs those reps and experience to improve, sitting on the bench does nothing for him. And let's face it with all the Redskins gave up to get RGIII, they can't sit him on bench. He is the future of the franchise whether some realize it or not, and not Kirk Cousins.
Also, the approach in regards to RGIII has to change. No more read-option plays, or QB draws for the rest of the season. No more risking RGIII's health any more than necessary. He needs to make it to the off-season as healthy as possible, and that may not be a consideration for a coach who knows he won't be back.
Mike Shanahan may not care about the Redskins next season. He didn't care about it in the playoffs last year, when he left a clearly limping and injured Robert Griffin III in the game, instead of thinking about the future. But owner Daniel Snyder needs to think about it. And if it's a choice between Shanahan and RGIII, there's only one choice to make. It may be time to make it now.


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Court rules against Vince Young
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Quarterback Vince Young has been ordered to pay a loan company nearly $1.7 million after missing a payment in late May, shortly after signing with the Buffalo Bills.
The ruling against Young was made in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on July 2, according to court documents.
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Young took out a high-risk loan from Pro Player Funding for $1.877 million during the NFL lockout in May 2011, while he was still under contract with the Tennessee Titans. The loan -- plus $619,000 in interest -- was due to be paid back in January 2013 at an annual interest rate of 20 percent. That rate jumped another 10 percent if Young missed a payment.
A ruling in the lending company's favor was made because Young agreed he understood the terms by signing what's called an affidavit of confession of judgment upon taking out the loan. The affidavit is regarded as proof and could be used at any time by the lender in the event a client defaults on the loan.
TMZ.com first reported the ruling against Young last week.
Young was unavailable for comment Thursday because he was traveling with the Bills to Minnesota for their preseason game on Friday. Messages left seeking comment from both the player's agent and publicist were not returned.
PFF filed a complaint on June 6, saying Young missed a payment that was supposed to be deposited into an escrow account by the Bills between May 22-31. Young had signed a one-year contract worth potentially $3 million with Buffalo on May 15.
Young had a similar payment agreement with the Titans, court documents showed.
He was released by Tennessee following the lockout and spent the 2011 season with Philadelphia.
Young already had paid more than $180,000 in interest that was due on the loan before defaulting.
This is the latest financial blow for Young, who gained national attention in 2006. That was when he led Texas to the national championship, was drafted third overall by the Titans and finished the NFL season being named the league's offensive rookie of the year.
In June, the quarterback filed a lawsuit in Houston accusing his former agent, Major Adams II, and ex-financial adviser, Ronnie T. Peoples, of cheating him out of at least $5.5 million.
Young alleges the two conspired to commit fraud and misappropriate money he was supposed to have earned from his five-year, $54 million rookie contract and through endorsement deals.
Adams and Peoples have both denied the allegations.
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