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Chapter 1
Night Shift
James watched as the brown sedan pulled up to the dock from his vantage point high up on the girders of a building being constructed beside the dock. It was a warm night in the summer of nineteen forty-nine, and James was following a lead. He was the best detective on the Los Angeles Police Force, and, to many, his most distinguishing feature was the smoldering cigarette that always hung out of the right side of his mouth. He was always dressed in a black button up or white button up shirt, usually unbuttoned two of three buttons down tucked into tight black jeans, covered in a light tan ankle length trench coat. In between the shirt and trench coat was a black suit coat. He wore Converse tennis shoes, and to top it all off, he wore a black hat on top of his shoulder length brown hair. It had a white band around the brim, and a short, turned up back, with a long brim that he pulled lovingly over his left eye.
"Right, brown Packard..." James thought to himself, flipping open his notebook. Better take a note on that one, could be important.
"Light brown late 1940's Packard, no distinctive markings... other than the usual pomp of a Packard... Looks fast... I knew I should have gotten one of those..."
Just then, he heard the trunk of the car pop open, and he turned his attention from his notebook back to the car. A man got out of the car, and went to the trunk. When he got there, he opened it and took out a large bloody burlap sack.
"Oh, great. They killed 'im already... That makes my job a lot harder... And I hate hard work..." Moaned James from atop his building. "If they killed him, that must mean they got the information, so they'll be headed for that hotel." James said, hopping down from the girder he was standing on and jogging happily to the stairs. "But wait... What if they didn't get everything they wanted, but killed him anyway...? Then they'd be headed to the... Well, I STILL don't know where they'd go..." Complained James. "I HATE THIS JOB, I HAVE TO THINK!" He screamed. "Oh, great..." James said, realizing that he had just given himself away. The man down at the dock saw James, and opened fire. "GAH!" James shouted, diving behind a girder. The bullets pinged harmlessly off the front of his girder while James yanked out his 9mm pistol. As the man was firing, three others leaped out of the car and opened fire as well. "I need help with this temper of mine... It's becoming a health hazard..." Thought James as he waited for a lull in the onslaught. Finally, the pinging stopped as the men reloaded their cartridges. Taking the initiative, James leapt out from behind the girder and let loose with a flurry of bullets. James missed, however, and the men fired back. Before James had time to duck, one of the bullets struck James' beloved hat.
"OK, THAT IS IT!" Bellowed James, throwing caution to the wind, firing madly upon his assailants. Realizing that they had awakened some primeval rage locked deep inside James, the men rushed to the car. James, however, would not let them go without a price. He managed to shoot the man nearest to him in the knee, and he fell with a shout of pain. The other men didn't wait to get him, but drove off with a roar. James quickly descended the building and ran to the man's side.
"Talk." He growled, pointing his gun at the man's head.
"I know you won't shoot me, I'm your only lead." The man sneered.
"Look, Mack, it's been a very, very long day. You'll make both of our lives easier if you'd just talk."
"It won't make my life easier, I'll die if I tell you anything."
"You'll die if you don't, either by my gun, or loss of blood from that knee. I'm not taking you with me, you'll muss up the upholstery in my car." James encouraged, cocking his handgun.
"Wha...?" The man faltered. "Y- You wouldn't kill your only lead!"
"Try... Me..." James growled. The fallen man, seeing that James was deadly serious, began to talk.
"We got the guy to give us an address, but he managed to get a gun and shoot himself. That's all we got out of him, and we were going to dump the body here, but you showed up."
"What's the address?" James asked.
"... Eighteen sixty five, Beverly Hills."
"Thanks." James said, putting his gun away and walking away. "Have a nice day."
When James reached his car, a black Cadillac Series Sixty Two, he double checked the address.
"Eighteen sixty five, Beverly Hills. That's it, better go see what it'll turn up." And with that, James drove off into the night. It was about a forty-five minute drive via the main thoroughfare from Santa Monica, but James knew a back route that would take ten minutes off that time, enough to make up for the time wasted at the docks. As he flew down this route, he saw the Packard sitting at a red light.
"Here we go again..." Thought James, crossing his fingers, dropping a gear and flooring the accelerator. The car lurched forward, its advanced engine providing the thrust to get him through the dangerous intersection. The Cadillac swept gracefully past, and the driver of the Packard, seeing James driving, followed briskly. James saw the Packard come toward him and prepared for spirited driving. The Packard was gaining fast, the revs of the engine building like a wave, then the frequency changed as the driver short-shifted and clawed its way towards James.
"I KNEW I SHOUD HAVE GOTTEN ONE OF THOSE!" James roared, swerving in front of the car, cutting it off. The Packard's driver was unfazed, however, and it rammed into the back of James' car. He cut the wheels hard to the left to stay on course, and while he was in the slide, he saw an opportunity. He up-shifted and flew toward a small side street he had spotted. He shot through it, and as he came out the other end, the Packard rounded the corner and accelerated to try to cut him off, but James was quicker, squirting out of the alley and resumed his ever shrinking lead. Suddenly, gunfire popped in the background, and a bullet smashed into the back glass.
"Blast! Markos, NOW!" Bellowed James, popping his trunk. As he did, a young Latino boy stuck his head out of the trunk, and was greeted by a barrage of bullets.
"Dude!" He screamed, "You said we wouldn't get shot at!"
"Just shut up and kill 'em!" James forcefully advised."
"Fine, fine." Markos sighed, raising his shotgun. The shotgun was customized by Markos to shoot both its barrels at the same time, and he managed to affix a double clip, holding ten extra rounds for each barrel. He fired his first round, and the lead balls ripped through the Packard's front, tearing off so much metal that it was barely recognizable. He fired again, and the results were catastrophic. Both the front tires were destroyed and the engine died.
"James! I got 'em!" shouted Markos, and James promptly slammed on the brakes, causing Markos to fly back into the trunk, with a fiery protest of, "Dude!"
"Quit complaining and get out of that trunk." Said James as he strode past. Markos climbed out of the trunk and followed James to the car, which had veered off the road and hit the side of a building. James walked up to the car and looked inside.
"Markos you idiot, you killed our only lead!" James hollered.
"It was a shotgun! What did you expect?!" Markos defended. "Besides, what about the guy at the dock?" James, upon hearing this, looked at the car, then at his shoes. "Oh, don't tell me..."
"Yeah, yeah, just get back in the trunk." An annoyed James said. When James was back in his driver's seat and Markos was back in his trunk, they drove off. Finally, they reached the address. James turned off his headlights and killed the engine, and they coasted silently to the curb in front of the house. James popped the trunk and let Markos out and they met on the sidewalk.
"Right, Markos, don't mess up." James helpfully advised.
"I could say the same to you..." Muttered Markos. James studied the situation, obviously not noticing Markos' remark. "Hey, James," Markos said. "You're not going soft on me, are you?"
"No, I just don't want to blunder in there like an idiot..." James replied.
"I think you're goin' soft..."
"No! I haven't lost my youth yet."
"I worry about you sometimes..."
"How so?"
"I'm worried that you'll forget your youth and slip into the mellow with all the old caterpillars and monkeys, man."
"Markos...? What are you TALKING about?" James hissed. "I'm the one who needs to be worrying. Geez! "
"You're losing it already..."
"Fine, man."
"Well," James said, gathering his very mixed up thoughts. "We'll move in together..."
"OH NO WE WON'T DUDE!" Shouted Markos, "I don't wanna go in some creepy house!"
"Shut up!" James hissed. "You wanna get shot at again?"
"Then shut up!" James whispered, taking out another cigarette.
"You're gonna get cancer from those y'know." Markos advised.
"I'll die happy." James said, lighting it and walking toward the house with Markos close behind.
"Hey James, check out the dog." Markos said, pointing behind a bush in the yard. James walked over, and kneeling over the large German shepherd.
"It's been knocked out... It's not dead, but I don't know how well it'll recover."
"Nooooo the puppy must live!" Moaned Markos. James looked at Markos in a way that asked many questions, then turned without a word and walked toward the house. Markos again followed in his wake. James walked up to the door and tried turning the knob. It was unlocked.
"An unlocked door... In Beverly Hills... At night... Highly unlikely." James mused.
"What are you saying?" Asked Markos, leaning over James' shoulder.
"Someone's been here. Can't tell when though, but anyways, let's soldier through." And with that, they walked into the house. It was a huge house, with a sprawling front foyer, and a grand staircase in the middle.
"Err..." James mused. "What now? Where to start? This place is HUGE!"
"Hey James," Markos hailed. "Let's try following these footprints?"
"Now THAT is a good place to start!" James said, jovially, walking toward the staircase where the footprints led. He followed the footprints up the steps, and into a narrow hallway through an archway to the left. The footprints turned and went under a door on their left. James drew his gun, and moved cautiously toward the door. James turned the knob, and a heavy weight pushed against the door, throwing James back. A cold, bloody body crashed out of the closet, its hand landing on Markos' shoulder.
"WHAAAATT?!!" Markos shrieked, in a key that James previously thought could only be achieved by the plumpest of opera singers. "GAH! GAH!... GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Markos announced, rolling around on the floor.
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT MONKEY!!!" James roared. "IT'S DEAD!!!"
"But dude, IT ATTACKED ME!!!" Markos energetically defended.
"IT HAS POWERS!" By then, the two were nose to nose, shouting and carrying on in a most rowdy way. Suddenly, a bump in the night sounded in the rooms above.
"Someone's still here!" James, who was still holding Markos by the collar hissed. He dropped him with a thump, and ran behind one of the large potted plants at the archway. Markos scrambled into a corner and pulled out his own gun. James stepped out from behind the plant and moved cautiously out into the hallway with his gun cocked and ready to fire. He was walking toward the staircase, when he heard someone thundering down the steps. James, acting on an impulse, ran up the staircase, gun ready. He met the man halfway up the steps. James took action before the man could react, firing once, twice, three times into the man's chest. He fell back and lay still.
"Come on Markos, let's check upstairs." James said, completely unfazed. Markos on the other hand, looked apprehensively at the body as he went past, never again to trust a dead body's authenticity. By the time he had gotten to the top of the steps, James had banged open the first two doors that he had encountered, quickly inspecting the rooms inside and moving on. Markos followed carefully in his wake, peering apprehensively into each room. Within a few moments, they had finished going through the rooms.
"Well, looks like the lady that bit the dust was the only one here." James said, sliding his gun back in its holster. "Let's get out---" Suddenly, they head a squeak coming from the last room that they had checked.
"What the?" James said, stepping tentatively into the room.
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Status: Finished
Genre: Mystery and Crime
WHAT!? Oh come ONNNNNN you can't end it there!!! *sigh* Yet again you have a way of laying out a chapter to make it so exciting and intense. I rather enjoyed the banter between James and Markos throughout the chapter, all the while intermixed with the anxiety of the chapter itself. Now I'm so curious as to what James saw! I feel like I just turned the corner to see what he's seen and then the whole room goes black! Eeeep! You have a knack for writing and I'm really, really enjoying your work! KMU! :)
Lol, thank you very much, you made my day lol. This is probably my favorite book to write, because I can just go crazy with my sense of humor. 'IT'S DEAD YOU IDIOT MONKEY!' lol. I'll definitely keep you posted on the progress. Yo'll be the first to know when I put up another chapter lol.
Awesome :D you have to carry on with this, dude. I love how human your main character feels. Keep it up.
P.S Don't let it bother you with the whole getting it ready for the site thing, my novel titled: the author and the vampire is also a rough draft. But seriously carry on with this story, it's captivating. :)
jeez that was amazing! haha i didnt want that chapter to end!! you sir, have some talent! :D KMU? :)
A really awesome first chapter and a cliff hanger I can't resist! I love mystery/crime stories and I love James's character (and car). I will definitely finish this soon and liked! - Sixella
I agree with miss Mickey, this was intense with some great witty banter, lol. I really loved how James kept picking at Markos, calling him idiot, monkey and chimpanzee, lol. I thought the opening of this was great, with him in the rafters then getting into a shootout with the bad guys. It kind of reminded my of Darkman or something like that, lol. Then his final interaction with the injured one that was left behind was also really great. The dead body falling out onto Markos was the most intense part for me, the suspense had really been building up to that point. Then he acted like a chicken all the way through the search. Then the end of this was gripping as well, lol. You and your cliffhangers, lol. So much fun! Keep up the great work, Silver, looking forward to being able to read more of this. Thank you, sir, it was really good. :o)
Lol, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! I love writing this, and don't worry, the formula that you have witnessed in this chapter shall continue throughout the book. I like my cliffhangers lol. You'll hate me for the one I just put in the Back Factor lol :P
You have a real latent talent here. Your writing is so fluent and interesting, it kept me captivated throughout,and its only one chapter, so I look forward to reading the rest. Well done, certainly better than any novel I've attempted to write :P
Ha! I love this and how its placed back in the 1940's which was an awkward but cool time. NOWETH TO THE NEXT CHAPPIE:3
real good chapter. good suspense. and the humor is great. james is a real funny but open character. and the ending has me eager for the next chapter. keep it up and kmu. check out my work the premise and tease read. thank u
request me as well silver
love this :D on to next chapter!!
This was a great opening chapter! intense and straight into action, it pulls the reader through it really well. If crime novels were something I read, I would almost certainly be reading on, but I just never can get into them. I love how your main character isn't a typical 'stiff' cop, and has personality right from the start. The banter keeps it alive and funny as the action continues. Great job!
Thanks for the read and great comment! :) I'm glad you liked this, especially since you don't really do crime novels :) And it's alright, I understand, there are some things I just can't get into as well. I'm glad you like James, he's really fun to write about, and I figured he'd be better as a sensitive(ish) cop lol :) Thanks, Mrs. Bradbury! :)
"Idiot monkey," hah! I liked that. Very captivating chapter. I'm really curious to see what happens next.
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Google, Apple and even Microsoft are some of the most respected tech brands of the decade. However, sadly, no brand is guaranteed eternal health.
For example, while the two most powerful tech trademarks of the mid-1980s, Compaq and Lotus, are both still around, they're in a greatly diminished form.
The brands in this story haven't just lost a little of their lustre. Most were once among the most respected names in technology, but ran into financial hardship and got sold (often repeatedly) to new owners who were usually mostly interested in strip-mining whatever goodwill the brands retained with the public.
If you ever loved any of the names in this article - and chances are that you once had a high opinion of at least a few of them - prepare to feel glum.
12. Commodore
What it was: Jack Tramiel's groundbreaking computer company. In the 1970s and 1980s, it released one of the first PCs (the PET 2001), the best-selling PC of all time (the Commodore 64), and (after Tramiel left) one of the best PCs ever (the Amiga). But post-Tramiel management eventually ran the company into the ground. It went belly-up in 1994.
What it became: Commdore's golden age may have been a quarter-century ago, but the name remains recognisable enough that multiple companies have acquired it with giddy visions of using it to launch new product lines.
Germany's ESCOM and the Netherlands' Tulip both did so; both quickly gave up.
Most recently, a company called Commodore Gaming revived the nameplate yet again for a line of high-end Windows desktops, but its current site is almost entirely devoted to old Commodore 64 games which are now playable on the Wii.
Bottom line: The Commodore line of computers has now died at least four times. And yes, I did consider giving Commodore's still-extant Amiga brand its own slot on this list, but I'm too confused by its current status. Maybe you can explain it to me?
11. Heathkit
What it was: I'm too young to have ever built a Heathkit during their glory days, but I certainly remember wanting to put one together.
There was a time when there was no better way to establish your geek-cred than to assemble a Heathkit radio, TV, stereo system, or other piece of electronic gadgetry, and doing it yourself saved you money, too.
When the personal computer revolution came along, Heathkit became a significant manufacturer of early PCs, too, leading to its 1979 purchase by Zenith.
But increasingly sophisticated, miniaturised electronics made it tough to save money by assembling a kit rather than buying a ready-made item.
In 1992, Heathkit stopped selling kits.
What it became: Heathkit, which like many of the companies in this story has gone through repeated changes in ownership, is still around.
Its current name is Heathkit Educational Systems, and it sells training materials for the PC, telecommunications, and life sciences industries.
The vestigial 'kit' in its name serves as a reminder that it's quite literally not the Heathkit it used to be.
NEXT PAGE: Bell & Howell
While Google, Microsoft and Apple might be respected names in technology now, there is no guarantee of eternal health. We look at 12 big names that ran into financial hardship and got sold, causing the firms to lose their way.
10. Bell & Howell
What it was: Incorporated in 1907, Bell & Howell was a major manufacturer of imaging equipment (from Charlie Chaplin's movie camera to the slide projector at your school) as well as microfilm products.
This later business eventually led to it getting into the online services business. Even if you never bought any of its products, the name rang a bell, and suggested sturdy, reliable quality.
What it became: The information-services part of B&H is now a perfectly respectable company called ProQuest. And Kodak owns Böwe Bell & Howell, which makes scanners.
But the once-great brand name has otherwise been turned over to a licencing company that lets third parties slap it on pretty much everything except for the products it was once associated with.
You can buy 'Bell & Howell' laptop bags, razors and headphones, as well as a pseudo-hearing aid hawked on late-night TV and a pest-repellent device. It's undignified, I tell you.
9. Westinghouse
What it was: With origins dating to 1886, Westinghouse was one of the greatest American conglomerates - Pepsi to General Electric's Coke.
Among its dizzying array of businesses: electrical equipment, nuclear power plant equipment, aircraft engines, air conditioning, elevators, refrigerators and other appliances, gas turbines, locomotives and robots.
In 1995, however, it bought CBS, changed its name to CBS Corporation, and began to sell off its non-broadcasting businesses.
What it became: Bits and pieces of Westinghouse still exist - if you need to build a nuclear plant, you might want to give it a call, and there are still White-Westinghouse appliances.
But Westinghouse is now primarily a shell company that licences its name out to other manufacturers who want a familiar-sounding nameplate for their products.
You can buy Westinghouse TVs and monitors, doorbells, light bulbs and photo frames. But there is no real 'Westinghouse' - it's just a logo for rent.
8. AltaVista
What it was: AltaVista was the first blockbuster search engine - a remarkable piece of technology that began as a Digital Equipment Corporation research project and became the Google of its era.
In fact, when Google came along the easiest way to explain it was to say that it was like AltaVista, only even better.
What it became: When brands get sold, they usually get damaged in the process. AltaVista had five owners in five years: Digital (1995-1998), Compaq (1998-1999), CMGI (1999-2003), Overture (2003) and Yahoo (2003-present).
It grew less relevant with each change of hands; if you weren't aware it's still with us today, I'm not surprised. But here it is.
The About AltaVista page boasts that it's "a leading provider of search services and technology" and that it "continues to advance internet search with new technologies and features designed to improve the search experience for consumers".
As far as I can tell, though, AltaVista results are slightly rehashed variants of what Yahoo gives you for the same queries. Using it is like visiting an old friend who's been lobotomised.
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What it was: A telephone service company founded by the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, in 1875.
It went on to become synonymous with phones and phone service in the US - and was broken up into a long-distance company and separate 'Baby Bell' local-service companies as the result of a 1982 agreement after it was sued under US antitrust law.
What it became: AT&T is the current name of the former SBC, the telecommunications giant which ended up owning half of the Baby Bells.
It adopted the brand when it acquired AT&T in 2005. I thought it was an odd name change at the time, since the name AT&T brings to mind associations of the telephone's old, monopolistic, land-line past, not its high-speed wireless future.
The name may be venerable, but it doesn't evoke warm and fuzzy feelings. I can't prove it, but my gut tells me that the company's current subpar reputation - among iPhone owners, at least - is at least slightly crummier than it would have been if it had kept the SBC name.
But AT&T is also on this list - despite still being attached to one of the largest and most successful companies in America - because its current use underscores the completely ephemeral nature of branding in the telecommunications industry.
AT&T may have been around as a name for 135 years, but it's nothing more than three letters and an ampersand.
That was proven when hundreds of AT&T Wireless stores expensively rebranded themselves as Cingular stores when Cingular bought AT&T's wireless arm... and then expensively re-rebranded themselves as AT&T less than three years later.
6. CompuServe
What it was: The dominant online service of the 1980s and early 1990s. It was a classy operation, but it was eventually overtaken by AOL and then acquired by it in 1997.
What it became: AOL plunked down $1.2bn for CompuServe, but it began neglecting it the moment the ink on the contract was dry.
It finally shut down CompuServe Classic, the direct descendant of the original service, in July 2009.
Today, the About CompuServe page brags that it "provides complete and comprehensive products and access for internet online users at home, in the workplace and around the globe", but don't you believe it - it's really a budget-priced dialup ISP aimed at "value-driven adults going online for the first time".
Depending on which part of the site you trust, the current version of the service is either CompuServe 7.0, which was introduced back in 2001, or the even-mustier CompuServe 2000.
And the brand has been oddly melded with another tarnished AOL acquisition, Netscape.
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5. Napster
What it was: The peer-to-peer file-swapping service invented by Boston college student Shawn Fanning in 1999.
It did as much as anything else to introduce the world to digital music, but it terrified the entertainment industry, which instantly sued. A court order put Napster out of business in 2001.
What it became: In 2002, Roxio bought the Napster name at auction and applied it to the not-very-successful Pressplay music service, which it had purchased from Universal Music and Sony - two of the Recording Industry Association of America members whose legal attack had shut down Napster in the first place.
Today's Napster is owned by Best Buy, and it's not bad - and it's not pricey, either. But whenever I speak its name, I still want to surround it with air quotes.
4. Packard Bell
What it was: A manufacturer of classic American radios - and, eventually, televisions - founded in 1926.
What it became: Like every other US maker of radios and TVs, Packard Bell eventually ran into dire straits.
In 1986, the brand name was bought by Israeli entrepreneur Beny Alagem, who applied it to a new line of home PCs. The new company played up the name's distinguished history but did nothing to dispel the confusion of consumers who thought it had something to do with Hewlett-Packard.
And it made... truly dreadful computers, with lousy customer service. Ones that were so cruddy that people stopped thinking of Packard Bell as a defunct maker of good radios and began thinking of it as an extant maker of terrible PCs.
The company was eventually bought by NEC, which kept on selling PB computers. Last year it was bought by Taiwanese PC giant Acer.
What it was: Once upon a time - starting in 1979, to be exact - there was a software company called The Santa Cruz Operation, or SCO.
It sold various versions of the UNIX operating system. And as far as I can remember, it was both successful and uncontroversial.
What it became: In 2001, SCO sold most of itself to Linux company Caldera, which switched its focus to Unix and took the SCO name.
In 2003, the new SCO declared that Linux violated UNIX copyrights, and began suing everybody in sight - such as IBM (eventually for $5bn), Novell, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler.
The dispute remains mired in the courts and hasn't accomplished much except to earn SCO the permanent loathing of the entire Linux community. (It certainly doesn't seem to have made the company more successful.)
I can't think of many brands whose reputations have cratered in the way this one's has - it's a little as if Ritz did something to deserve the enmity of cracker lovers everywhere.
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2. Netscape
What it was: The company whose Navigator web browser did more than any other single product to introduce the world to the web. Need I say more?
What it became: AOL's $4.2bn 1998 acquisition of Netscape was an eerie and depressing repeat of its CompuServe buyout from the prior year: it bought a distinguished technology company, neglected it, then slapped its name on other, vaguely-related stuff.
Navigator was never the same under AOL's ownership and was officially abandoned in 2007; over the past decade, AOL has applied the Netscape name to a low-rent portal, a cheapo dialup ISP and a short-lived imitation of Digg.
Today's Netscape.com is merely AOL.com with the Netscape logo as wallpaper. I can't imagine why anyone would go there on purpose.
1. Polaroid
What it was: The company founded by legendary technologist-entrepreneur Edwin Land in 1937.
Its instant cameras, such as the SX-70, are among the most ingenious, engaging gadgets of all time.
What it became: Signs that Polaroid was slipping date to the 1970s - the failure of its Polavision instant movie camera eventually led to the ouster of Edwin Land himself.
In the 1990s, digital photography rendered the Polaroid camera utterly obsolete. The company went bankrupt, then re-emerged as a licencing shell that permitted the once-glorious brand to be used for imported goods that had nothing to do with its heritage, such as portable DVD players.
In the meantime, it stopped making instant cameras and phased out film production. Then it went bankrupt again, and was sold once more.
Looking at the undistinguished, generic digital cameras and TV sets now offered under the Polaroid name makes me melancholy.
At least the name is also used on PoGo cameras and printers, which use interesting printing technology developed by former Polaroid engineers.
But if Polaroid can fall this far, no name is sacred. Apple and Google, take heed - and give thought to where you might wind up come 2060 or so if you aren't careful.
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text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3217 2016-09-27T05:27:58Z 2016-09-27T05:27:58Z Heuristic space diversity control for improved meta-hyper-heuristic performance Grobler, J Engelbrecht, AP Kendall, G Yadavallie, VSS http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8576 2016-06-27T21:55:15Z 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z Title: Heuristic space diversity control for improved meta-hyper-heuristic performance Authors: Grobler, J; Engelbrecht, AP; Kendall, G; Yadavallie, VSS Abstract: This paper expands on the concept of heuristic space diversity and investigates various strategies for the management of heuristic space diversity within the context of a meta-hyper-heuristic algorithm in search of greater performance benefits. Evaluation of various strategies on a diverse set of floating-point benchmark problems shows that heuristic space diversity has a significant impact on hyper-heuristic performance. An exponentially increasing strategy (EIHH) obtained the best results. The value of a priori information about constituent algorithm performance on the benchmark set in question was also evaluated. Finally, EIHH demonstrated good performance when compared to a popular population based algorithm portfolio algorithm and the best performing constituent algorithm. Description: Copyright: 2015 Elsevier. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in Information Sciences, Vol 300, pp 49-62. 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z Generation of shape-invariant flat-top laser beams Ait-Ameur, K Naidoo, D Ngcobo, S Fromager, M Litvin, I Hasnaoui, A Harfouche, A Forbes, A http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8511 2016-04-22T21:55:21Z 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z Title: Generation of shape-invariant flat-top laser beams Authors: Ait-Ameur, K; Naidoo, D; Ngcobo, S; Fromager, M; Litvin, I; Hasnaoui, A; Harfouche, A; Forbes, A Abstract: A great number of laser applications need in place of the usual Gaussian beam a flat-top intensity profile in the focal plane of a focusing lens. In general the transformation of the laser beam from the Gaussian to the flat-top shape is made by a diffractive beam shaping technique. It is worthwhile to note that this transformation occurs in the vicinity of the focal plane. If a flat top laser beam keeping its shape during propagation is needed then this can be obtained by a weighted incoherent mixing of LG(sub0)0 and LG(sub01) eigenmodes. Here, we consider the generation of these two transverse modes by a solid-state laser axially pumped by a laser diode. The idea is to design the laser cavity so as to make identical the losses of LG(sub00) and LG(sub01) modes. To reach this objective we have used two techniques. The first one called as diffractive lies to insert an adequate amplitude mask inside the cavity. The second one called as interferometric consisted to couple the laser to an external cavity. It is important to note that LG(sub00) and LG(sub01) modes are not spatially in concurrence, i.e. the peak of the LG(sub00) appears in the dip of the LG(sub01) mode. As a result, the energy extraction from the amplifying medium is improved increasing thus the laser slope efficiency. Theory and experimental verifications have been done for the diffractive and interferometric techniques allowing the generation of a flat-top laser beam keeping its shape from the near-field to the far-field. Description: 2015 Proceedings of SPIE 9434, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII, San Francisco, California, United States, 7 February 2015. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z How to make a digital laser Burger, L Litvin, I Ngcobo, S Forbes, A http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8509 2016-04-22T21:55:19Z 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z Title: How to make a digital laser Authors: Burger, L; Litvin, I; Ngcobo, S; Forbes, A Abstract: The beam from a laser resonator is determined by the optical elements it contains. Most commonly, these consist of two spherical mirrors, but phase- and amplitude-modulating elements can also be included to produce custom beams. For every custom beam new optics are required, and the resonator must be realigned, a process which can take several hours to days. The digital laser is an innovation which allows the laser beam produced by a laser to be dynamically controlled by a computer. Essentially, one of the resonator mirrors is replaced by a spatial light modulator (SLM), which is a computer controlled, pixellated, liquid-crystal device. While the concept is the device is simple, the implementation revealed subtle properties of spatial light modulators and the liquid crystals contained in them. These properties had to be well understood before their undesirable characteristics could be overcome, allowing the laser to function as conceived in the design. Description: Proceedings of SPIE, Sensors, Mems and Electro-Optical Sytems, Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa, South Africa, 17-19 March 2014. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website. 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z Validation of the GPU based BLAZE-DEM framework for hopper discharge Govender, N Pizette, P Wilke, DN Abriak, N http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8498 2016-04-20T21:55:17Z 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Title: Validation of the GPU based BLAZE-DEM framework for hopper discharge Authors: Govender, N; Pizette, P; Wilke, DN; Abriak, N Abstract: Understanding the dynamical behavior of particulate materials is extremely important to many industrial processes, with typical applications that range from hopper flows in agriculture to tumbling mills in the mining industry. The discrete element method (DEM) has become the defacto standard to simulate particulate materials. The DEM is a computationally intensive numerical approach that is limited to a moderate amount (thousands) of particles when considering fully coupled densely packed systems modeled by realistic particle shape and history dependent constitutive relationships. A large number (millions) of particles can be simulated when the coupling between particles is relaxed to still accurately simulated lesser dense systems. Massively large scale simulations (tens of millions) are possible when particle shapes are simplified, however this may lead to oversimplification when an accurate representation of the particle shape is essential to capture the macroscopic transport of particulates. Polyhedra represent the geometry of most convex particulate materials well and when combined with appropriate contact models predicts realistic mechanical behaviour to that of the actual system. Detecting collisions between polyhedra is computationally expensive often limiting simulations to only hundreds of thousands of particles. However, the computational architecture e.g. CPU and GPU plays a significant role on the performance that can be realized. The parallel nature of the GPU allows for a large number of sim- ple independent processes to be executed in parallel. This results in a significant speed up over conventional implementations utilizing the Central Processing Unit (CPU) architecture, when algorithms are well aligned and optimized for the threading model of the GPU. We recently introduced the BLAZE-DEM framework for the GPU architecture that can model millions of spherical and polyhedral particles in a realistic time frame using a single GPU. In this paper the authors validate BLAZE-DEM for hopper discharge simulations. The authors firstly compare the flow-rates and patterns of polyhedra and spheres obtained with experiment to that of DEM. They then compare flow-rates between spheres and polyhedra to gauge the effect of particle shape. Finally, they perform a large scale DEM simulation using 16 million particles to illustrate the capability of BLAZE-DEM to predict bulk flow in realistic hoppers. Description: IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods – PARTICLES 2015, Barcelona, Spain, 28 – 30 September, 2015. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The digital laser: on-demand laser modes with the click of a button Forbes, A Ngcobo, S Burger, L Litvin, IA http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8491 2016-04-20T21:55:17Z 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Title: The digital laser: on-demand laser modes with the click of a button Authors: Forbes, A; Ngcobo, S; Burger, L; Litvin, IA Abstract: In this paper we will outline our recent advances in all-digital control of light. Importantly, we will outline how to create a so-called "digital laser", where a conventional laser mirror is replaced with a phase-only spatial light modulator. This allows the mirror properties to be dynamically changed by altering only the image sent to the device: on-demand laser modes. We demonstrate a myriad of laser beams that can be created from the same device without any realignment or additional custom optics Description: Copyright: 2014 SPIE. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. 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Is a three-dimensional (3D) woody vegetation structural classification applied to LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data better than a 2D analysis to investigate change in fine-scale woody vegetation structure over 2 yrs in a protected area (PA) and a communal rangeland (CR)? Location: BushbuckridgeMunicipality and Sabi Sand Wildtuin, NE South Africa. Methods: Airborne LiDAR data were collected over 3 300 ha in April 2008 and 2010. Individual tree canopies were identified using object-based image analysis and classified into four height classes: 1–3, 3–6, 6–10 and >10 m. Four structural metrics were calculated for 0.25-ha grid cells: canopy cover, number of canopy layers present, cohesion and number of height classes present. The relationship between top-of-canopy cover and sub-canopy cover was investigated using regression. Gains, losses and persistence (GLP) of cover at each height class and the four structural metrics were calculated. GLP of clusters of each structural metric (calculated using LISA – Local Indicators of Spatial Association – statistics) were used to assess the changes in clusters of eachmetric over time. Results: Top-of-canopy cover was not a good predictor of sub-canopy cover. The number of canopy layers present and cohesion showed gains and losseswith persistence in canopy cover over time, necessitating the use of a 3D classification to detect fine-scale changes, especially in structurally heterogeneous savannas. Trees >3 min height showed recruitment and gains up to 2.2 times higher in the CR where they are likely to be protected for cultural reasons, but losses of up to 3.2-foldmore in the PA, possibly due to treefall caused by elephant and/or fire. Conclusion: Land use has affected sub-canopy structure in the adjacent sites, with the low intensity use CR showing higher structural diversity. A 3D classification approach was successful in detecting fine-scale, short-term changes between land uses, and can thus be used as amonitoring tool for savannawoody vegetation structure. Description: Copyright: 2015 Wiley. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains an abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 18(3), pp. 528-540 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z


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Jun 11, 2016 (Sat.) Arlington, MA -Porchfest
Liz Buchanan will host a series of great musicians from 1-5 pm during Arlington's 1st Porchfest cele bration. The Rich Eilbert Band will play from 4:20 to 5 pm, arlingtonporchfest.org.
Location: 23 Adams St., Arlingotn, MA
Jun 13, 2016 (Mon.) Lincoln, MA - LOMA
I'll host the LOMA Open Mike, 7 to 10 pm. Stunning vocalist and songwriter Amy Herrera will feature, amyherreramusic.com
Rich's "Semi-Viral" YouTube videos:
Yellow Rubber Ducks with 61,000+ views, retells the 10 year journey of 29,000 rubber ducks from the mid-Pacific Ocean to the US Atlantic seaboard via the Arctic sea.
Jetman with 8,000+ views, gives homage to Yves Rossy, who flew across the English Channel and more recently over the Grand Canyon using a jet-pack.
Rich's recent YouTube videos:
Forgiveness excerpts the Rich Eilbert Band's live feature at Amazing Things in Oct 2015. Accompanying me are Kenny Selcer, Steve Gilligan, Camille Breeze and Carol Gyurina.
Till You Went Away is a poignant song performed at the SAMW camp in July 2015 with backing from David Surette and Susie Burke.
Donald Duck Umbrella offers a good-natured take on clutter in our lives and homes,
Fukushima commemorates the 3/11/11 calamity there and some bizarre plans to handle the ongoing damage.
Let My People Go humorously recaps of the Exodus story told in 3 short minutes.
Put The Guns Away makes a heart-felt appeal for gun control.
The LOMA open mike was video recorded in January and the first half including my opener can be accessed via the link, vimeo.com/34846034 . The second half, starting with the wonderful feature by Fiske & Herrera, is accessible via vimeo.com/34850959.
Two other of my recent songs ("Geneva Waltz" and "Forgiveness") are accessible via the URL vimeo.com/37068194, at around minute 40. That's Kenny Selcer on guitar and Brent Clark on bass backing me.
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NEW YORK — Retailers are soaking up sales with SpongeBob SquarePants.
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While some licensed bath and personal care items are sinking in sales, the SpongeBob character, made popular by the hit Nickelodeon cartoon show, is selling cleanly at chains such as Wal-Mart, Rite Aid and Target.
Marketed by MZB Personal Care, a division of MZ Berger & Co., the SpongeBob personal care collection consists of four items — two bubble baths, a shampoo and a lip balm. Flavors are inspired by the show, such as Jelly Berry bubble bath and Oceanfruit shampoo. There will also be gift and toothbrush sets for the holidays. Prices range from $3.50 to about $8.
"SpongeBob is blowing out and selling even better than expected," said Debbie Baker, president of MZB Personal Care.
SpongeBob is the number-one TV show for broadcast or cable for children 2 to 11, according to MZB. More than 48 million viewers tune in each month to see SpongeBob and his pals. SpongeBob merchandise — ranging from T-shirts to macaroni and cheese — account for sales exceeding $600 million, according to industry estimates. A SpongeBob film is also in the works for 2004.
SpongeBob is just that — a sponge who lives in a "pineapple under the sea" in a town called Bikini Bottom where he works at the Krusty Krab diner. His buddies include Patrick, a starfish; Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Squidward and his employer Mr. Krabs.
One of the reasons Baker believes the licensed personal care items have been so strong is that the character fits snugly with the category. To hammer that home, one of the bubble baths even has a cap on top where kids can blow bubbles.
The lineup also has the strength of MZ Berger company behind it. MZ Berger has vast experience in licensing with watches from Via Spiga, Hello Kitty, Gruen and Elgin. The company even offers a SpongeBob clock. MZ Berger decided to extend its expertise in licensing into personal care last year with the creation of the new division.
MZB Personal Care also has licensing rights for NASCAR, VeggieTales (currently getting a lift from a theatrical release), Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer.
Retailers have always struggled with how much of a commitment to make to licensed products. Too often, hopes pegged on a movie release fall flat if consumers don't flock to the film. However, there are characters buyers rely on and several sources said SpongeBob has the appeal to become a classic license. Sales of licensed personal care items exceed $5 billion per year.
Other personal care licenses on retail shelves include Scooby Doo, Bob the Builder, Harry Potter and Disney. Care Bears, Fairly Odd Parents and Strawberry Shortcake are expected to join those characters in the personal care department early next year.
Licenses are sure sweet for another company — Lotta Luv. Lotta Luv, which markets cosmetics in packages based on popular candy such as Tootsie Roll, Blow Pops, Charms and Junior Mints, is getting sweet distribution. Walgreens, Claire's, CVS and Limited, Too, are among the companies putting large racks of the delectable cosmetics on display. Walgreens in particular has a huge commitment with 176 items merchandised. Even uptown's tasty Dylan's Candy Bar is planning a revolving display of Lotta Luv's beauty items, according to Steph Fogelson, Lotta Luv's president, who also hopes to expand the concept into bath and body.


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Otohime (音姫, 乙姫) may refer to:
- Otohime (乙姫) or Toyotama-hime, a sea goddess
- Otohime (乙姫), nickname of Sanman, the second daughter of Minamoto no Yoritomo
- Otohime (音姫, lit. "Sound Princess") a trademark for a sound masking device used at toilets in Japan
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This is the fourth volume in the series dedicated to the orchestral works of Swiss composer Fritz Brun (1878-1959).
Expedition Audio Recommended
The influences I hear are pretty equal measures of Brahms and Dvorak, but Wagner and Bruckner are present too. At the same time though, you can hear that this is music of a later time... Opening in rollicking fashion, the sample in the sidebar from the album is the symphony's third movement. ... read more ...
American Record Guide, May/June 2014
Symphony 1, dating from 1902, when he was 24, could be subtitled "My Memories of Brahms". The conclusion is quiet, like the Brahms Third. Radio Bern commissioned the Overture to a Jubilee Celebration for its 25th anniversary. The finale uses the 16 Century hymn 'In God's Name I Will Arise', handled with appropriate splendor. It's a curious piece. The recorded sound is good. Adriano's interpretation is typically expansive.
MusicWeb International, 18th November 2013
This is a disc to be warmly welcomed. Both pieces - but especially the symphony - are very attractive discoveries and the performances on this disc are first rate. The Moscow Symphony Orchestra plays with both utter conviction and great skill and deserves the highest praise.
Gramophone Magazine, March 2014
Adriano (who also provides meticulously detailed annotation) elicits a respectable enough response from his hard-working Moscow forces...an enjoyable and intriguing curio.
Recording information: Mosfilm Studios, Moscow (10/29/2012-11/01/2012).
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Fritz Brun: Symphony no 5 & 10 / Adriano, Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Adolphe Samuel (b.1824): Symphony No. 6; Joseph Jongen: Three Symphonic Movements / Brabbins
Brun: Symphony no 8, Variations / Brun, Sacher, et al
Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1 in E Major / Catherine Ruckwardt
August Klughardt (1847-1902): Symphony No. 5; Overtures / Antony Hermus
Volkmar Andreae, Vol. 2: Piano Concerto; Konzertstuck; Violin Concerto; Rhapsodie / Fali Pavri, piano; Christian Altenburger, violin
Franz Ignaz Beck (1734-1809): The 9 Symphonies / La Stagione Frankfurt
Fritz Brun: Symphonies nos 6 & 7 / Adriano
Fritz Brun: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Works DetailsBrun, Fritz : Symphonie no 1 in B minor
- Conductor: Adriano
- Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Mosfilm Studios, Moscow (10/29/2012-11/01/2012)
- Running Time: 35 min. 22 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1902
Brun, Fritz : Overture to a Jubilee Celebration, for orchestra
- Conductor: Adriano
- Notes: Mosfilm Studios, Moscow (10/29/2012-11/01/2012)
- Running Time: 11 min. 49 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 05/1950


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From guarding against payment fraud to the Internet of Things, here's what's going on in the tech world this week.
'Risky behaviors' makes people vulnerable for credit card fraud
Data breaches and payment card fraud seem to have a regular place in the headlines. According to a study by payments company ACI Worldwide and research firm Aite Group, 41 percent of Americans have been affected by credit, debit, or prepaid card fraud over the past five years, Market Watch reported. The source noted that, unlike other countries, the United States still uses the magnetic stripe technology to process this information. While businesses have a responsibility to implement secure file transfer and other measures, consumers can increase their protection by avoiding risky behaviors. The source suggested that people reduce their vulnerability by:
- Locking smartphones when not using them.
- Shredding or otherwise destroying papers with bank account numbers, instead of throwing them out.
- Avoiding using public or unsecure computers for banking or making purchases.
- Not giving banking information as requested by emails or phone calls.
- Memorizing PIN numbers rather than carrying them around on a note.
Companies continue to struggle with cloud migration
A recent Enterprise Management Associates survey commissioned by VMWare revealed that IT organizations lack the skill set required to manage and monitor the complex systems created by cloud solutions, InformationWeek reported. Consequently, they're "flying blind" in their endeavors to take advantage of cloud computing opportunities. Nonetheless, the news source cautioned against taking this study too pessimistically, noting that many companies have made the cloud a key component of their business strategies. The study found that over half of customers have experienced difficulty or failure with their first cloud encounters, with pricing, technical support, performance, downtime, and management representing the most significant hurdles.
PC era still going strong, tech suppliers say
Despite increasing attention on bring-your-own-device policies and enterprise mobility, the day of the PC's demise is not here quite yet. Alain Monie, CEO of tech supply chain company Ingram Micro, told CNBC that PCs will retain a strong role in the corporate landscape for years to come, with Intel and Micron Technology recently observing stronger demand for their products. Monie explained that this boost in business is likely due to corporations needing to "refresh their fleets." Nonetheless, he noted that tablets have certainly grown in prominence over the past few years, indicating that PCs will be "less the center of the universe" and more of a complement for mobile technology.
Biggest IoT issues: Data loss and unauthorized access
The Internet of Things refers to an increasingly connected world, where machines and devices that previously had no relation to the Internet and digital data now collect and transmit information. The IoT promises some pretty remarkable possibilities for consumers and companies alike, but it's not without its challenges. According to a recent study by Fortinet, homeowners are most concerned about data breaches with regard to their connected appliances. In addition to being "extremely concerned" about information exposure, data privacy, and trust came in as major considerations. Nevertheless, respondents said they were willing to pay more to their Internet service provider to enable a connected home.


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Our double dose of Deadlands Kickstarters is almost finished—the Deadlands Classic 20th Anniversary Edition Kickstarter and the Deadlands: Good Intentions Kickstarter both close this Thursday, September 29th at 10 pm Eastern!
If you've not staked your claim to one or both of these, then now is the time to do it, amigo. Don't take our word for it, either—the roughly two thousand friends and fellow Deadlands fans who have joined up so far are a pretty ringing endorsement all on their own!
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- lpp said...
You say -"This is what a cube looks like from a distance equal to the height of the cube"
But surely that is wrong -the height of the cube is D, while its distance to the observer is taken in the example as "side of the cube squared, times two, square root" by yourself.
Or am I missing something? Kindly do clarify as otherwise I have learnt much from this article.
- June 15, 2014 at 10:24 PM
- Ben said...
You are correct, Ipp. Thank you for catching that. The article has been corrected. Also, I put a link at the end to my article about perspective drawing in art.
I would like to write an article soon about perspective rendering in computer graphics. It is similar to this but uses matrices.
Thanks again for your help!
- June 16, 2014 at 8:25 AM
- lpp said...
Thanks for the link. Good stuff.
- June 17, 2014 at 5:03 AM
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I'm going to describe a situation that happened recently to someone I know. We'll call him the "Observer." His desk at work has a lovely view of the building parking lot. One day he noticed a car pulling into a rather tight parking spot. As it pulled in, the car to one side of it seemed to shake. We'll call the person parking the car the "Driver."
The Driver got out, looked at the car that had shaken, looked at the Driver's own car, then looked around to see whether anyone else in the parking lot might be looking. Spotting nobody, the Driver got back in the car, backed out, and parked in another spot elsewhere in the lot. Then the Driver went into the building, without stopping to leave a note on the other car.
Now, it just so happens the Observer knows the Driver, who is a coworker of his. He didn't know who owned the car that was hit – the "Owner." Nor, from his vantage point, could he see what damage, if any, had been done to either car.
What would you do at this point? Go out to the parking lot to examine both cars? Try to find out who the Owner was? Confront the Driver?
In this case, the Observer stayed at his desk and continued working. Toward the end of the day, the Owner appeared, got into the car that had been shaken, and drove off. It turns out the Observer knows and likes the Owner. Should that make a difference?
All this happened on a Friday. The Observer thought about it all weekend. When he and the Owner returned to work the next week, the Observer saw the damage to the Owner's car. And it was damaged. There was no question about that.
Now what would you do if you were the Observer? Would you tell the Owner what had happened? Would you keep out of it? The Observer felt bad for the Owner, but he didn't want the Driver to be mad at him. They all work together in the same company. They see each other every day.
The Observer knew he would think about this every time he saw either one of them. He knew he had to act.
It so happened the Observer made an interesting choice. He did not go to the Owner to tell him what he had seen. Rather, he sought out the Driver, and, with nobody else around, described to the Driver what he had seen. The Driver looked ashamed. The Driver didn't know who owned the other car, so the Observer told the Driver the name of the Owner.
The Observer returned to his desk, unsure of what would happen next. Perhaps he felt a bit apprehensive when, about 15 minutes later, he saw the Driver approaching his desk. That is when the most amazing thing happened. The Driver was not angry.
The Driver told the Observer that the Driver had just spoken with the Owner. "Thank you," the Driver said, "for making me a better person."
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Tuccillo v. Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Homes Inc.
Family Alleged Outrageous Conduct By Funeral Home
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- Feb 13 2013 (Date Decided)
- Shapiro, J.
Allegations that a funeral home intentionally attempted to make another body look like the decedent at a wake, and to prevent relatives from discovering the decedent had been cremated, are sufficient to allege extreme and outrageous conduct. The 95-year-old decedent was Roman Catholic and wanted a wake, embalmment, funeral mass and burial next to her husband, who predeceased her. The plaintiffs hired the defendant funeral home to prepare the decedent's body. Allegedly, the defendants cremated the decedent's body, placed the body of another, larger, deceased individual, "S.H.," in the decedent's clothes, which had to be cut to fit, and displayed S.H. in the decedent's casket. After the wake, the plaintiffs requested an examination of S.H.'s body, which lacked a dental bridge and a hip scar. Distraught relatives confronted the defendants. Police and emergency first responders were called. Months afterward, relatives held a funeral for the ashes. The plaintiffs alleged the defendants negligently interfered with the decedent's body. The defendants moved to strike and argued Connecticut does not recognize this cause of action. In Del Core v. Mohican Historic Housing Association, a 2004 decision, the Connecticut Appellate Court wrote, "Connecticut should recognize a claim for negligent interference with the right of a family member to control the proper burial of a deceased." Superior Court Judge A. Susan Peck wrote in Witt v. Yale New-Haven Hospital, a 2008 decision, "[M]orticians appear to owe a duty of care to the immediate family members of a decedent." The plaintiffs adequately alleged a cause of action, and the court denied the motion to strike. The defendants also argued that only the surviving spouse should be allowed to allege negligent infliction of emotional distress. The court found the decedent's children adequately alleged they shared family life with the decedent. Their allegations of negligent infliction of emotional distress survived. Allegations that the defendants knew S.H. was not the decedent and intentionally attempted to make S.H. look like the decedent, and to prevent the plaintiffs from discovering the decedent had been cremated, were sufficient to allege extreme and outrageous conduct, as required for intentional infliction of emotional distress.


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In Brief: Hoarder dies after first floor falls into basement
Hoarder dies after first floor falls into basement
CHESHIRE, Conn. -- Police in Connecticut say an apparent hoarder died after the cluttered first floor of her home collapsed into the basement.
Authorities said 66-year-old Beverly Mitchell was found in her Cheshire home Saturday, two days after a postal carrier called police to request a welfare check because her mail was piling up.
Cheshire police said they went to the home Thursday but didn't find anyone. Police said the first floor was piled waist-high with clutter, and they didn't realize until Friday that the floor had collapsed.
Officials said they found Mitchell's body while removing debris with a backhoe through a hole in the house.
NYC-to-Las Vegas flight diverted over unruly man
NEW YORK -- A hollering, agitated passenger who ignored pleas to calm down spurred a pilot to divert a New York-to-Las Vegas JetBlue plane to Detroit over the weekend, according to the airline and a passenger's video.
Flight 211 was headed west from New York's Kennedy Airport when the passenger became unruly, and the captain decided to land in Detroit at around 8:30 a.m. Saturday out of "an abundance of caution," JetBlue Airways Corp. said in statement Sunday.
Passenger video obtained by ABC News shows a man in a window seat standing, gesticulating and shouting, his remarks unclear. Flight attendants subdued him and restrained him with plastic hand ties.
Authorities in Detroit took him into custody, JetBlue said. After about two hours in Detroit, the plane went on to Las Vegas.
Police: Man with gun tattoo had real gun in waistband
MADISON, Maine -- A man with a realistic-looking tattoo of a gun on his stomach had the real thing tucked into his waistband when he was arrested, police said.
Police told the Morning Sentinel that 41-year-old Michael Smith, of Norridgewock, showed up at a sheriff's deputy's home Thursday night. He was crying and had been drinking, authorities said.
Smith told police he had a fight with his ex-girlfriend and had stolen prescription narcotics from her, authorities said.
He was charged with stealing drugs, and his gun was confiscated. He was released from jail on $1,000 bail.
Madison police Officer Eric Bronson said Smith was carrying a .40-caliber Glock but isn't facing any gun charges because Maine is an open-carry state and his weapon was visible.
Riders relieved Philadelphia rail strike is over
PHILADELPHIA -- Passengers expressed relief Sunday that Philadelphia-area commuter trains were back on track after a one-day strike threatened to disrupt work schedules for tens of thousands of commuters in the coming week.
Employees ended their walkout after President Barack Obama appointed an emergency board to mediate the contract dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and two of its unions.
An arrivals-and-departures board showed all regional rails running on time Sunday.
-- from wire reports