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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is expected to release a report on Thursday on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane that it has sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN body that governs global aviation.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told CNN last week that the report on Flight MH370 would be released this week, and the Ministry of Transport said in a statement that a media release and preliminary report would be issued later on Thursday.
Malaysian officials declined to comment on what the report might contain.
The fact that the aircraft has not yet been found suggests there will be few, if any, major revelations in the report, although any information on the missing flight is being closely followed by families of missing passengers and international media.
The Boeing 777-200ER, which had 239 passengers and crew on board, disappeared off civilian radars on March 8 while on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Relatives of those on board have accused the Malaysian government of bungling the early phase of the search and of keeping them in the dark about the details of the incident.
The search moved to the Straits of Malacca a week after the disappearance after radar data confirmed that the aircraft made a turn back. It was expanded after satellite data showed it could have taken a course anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean.
Satellite data eventually showed that the aircraft flew to the southern section of the Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia, where a massive search of the waters and underwater has still not yielded any evidence of the aircraft.
(Reporting By Siva Govindasamy; Editing by Mike Collett-White)


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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said that he used the information he obtained from four separate investigations in deciding whether to end his team's association with Michael Vick after a shooting was held outside the nightclub that was hosting the quarterback's birthday party.
Lurie said he had to "deal with the facts."
"I can't deal with people that are happy we signed Michael Vick, aren't happy we signed Michael Vick, want to create a headline, want to discuss it in different ways," Lurie said at training camp during his annual State of Team address. "That's not me."
Lurie was asked if, after he learned of the facts, whether Vick had any interaction at the party with Quanis Phillips, the man that was shot in the leg and also a codefendant in Vick's dogfighting case.
"I don't know that," Lurie said. "I'm just basing on the investigations exactly that there was no wrongdoing. We have been over this already."
There have been various reports and rumors that Vick and Phillips had an altercation at the party prior to the shooting that occurred in the early morning hours of June 25. Vick is also prohibited by his probation from have any contact with known felons or his codefendents. Lurie was asked to help clarify those rumors.
"The facts are that there was no wrongdoing, if obviously that was wrong that will become apparent," Lurie said. "You can only deal with the facts. That's all you can deal with. I can't sit here and deal with rumors, innuendoes and all sorts of things. It's just not productive."
Vick refused to discuss details of what happened the night of his birthday party, and what interaction, if any, he had with Phillips.
"I won't address the situation, what happened. Everything was put out there on the table from the beginning," he said. "Any questions pertaining to football I will answer, but any questions pertaining to what happened that night I won't answer, because I'm just trying to move forward, I feel like I've already answered those questions."
Police have said Vick was not a suspect in the shooting and he was not charged with any crime, but it is still unclear exactly what happened that night and what involvement, if any, Vick had. Neither he, nor the NFL, nor the Eagles have revealed what their own investigations have found.
Vick found at Tuesday, after his meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, that would not be disciplined for his involvement in the shooting. The commissioner said that Vick would be held to "even higher standards," and that the league and the Eagles would help provide the quarterback with a support system.
Vick said he was "very relieved" at the NFL's official decision.
"Now I can focus on football and that's what I've been trying to do over the last couple weeks anyway, not trying to think about what the outcome could be, but just trying to move forward," Vick said after the Eagles' morning practice, his first meeting with reporters since sitting down with Goodell.
When the Eagles signed Vick last August after his 18-month stay in a federal prison, Lurie said that there would be no third chances and that Vick must be an "agent of change" to remain on the team. The owner was asked if he had indeed given Vick another chance after the shooting.
"You got to decide is that chance based on wrongdoing or a lapse of judgment to attend a party where he had no wrongdoing," Lurie said. "That's, I think, for all of us an interesting question. Those that hated that we signed Michael Vick or were very upset that we signed Michael Vick – believe me I understand that completely – will probably be quicker to jump and say, 'Showed lapse of judgment, that's a huge mistake, end of career.' I don't feel that way.
"I feel as human beings that was a lapse of judgment. Nothing he did was factually creating any wrongdoing. He shouldn't have been there, but he was trying to appease some people from his old neighborhood and family. So let's give support, let's not jump to judgment and let's deal with facts. That's the best, I think, a CEO can do."
Vick said he also weighed how Vick was as a teammate and how he has been involved in the community in making his decision. He said he also believed Vick had been an agent of change since the controversial signing.
"I do but that's a hard thing to measure because these are kids your dealing with that you hope he's influencing," Lurie said. "From all the feedback I get and the actions he's had it's a unique case of somebody who has done some really bad things be able to explain himself and being able to explain, not just what animal cruelty, but the difficultly of leaving an environment you grew up with and trying to make a success of yourself after a tremendous failure."
"I don't know you can measure today, August, 2010 that there's tremendous impetus for social change for that, but that gets multiplied over time. He's going to have a lot of time to keep impacting kids."
Vick said that abiding by the the higher standards of conduct requirement would be "no problem."
"It's no biggie, I'm a changed man anyway, so that's going to be easy, trust me," Vick said.
Asked about facing "zero tolerance" for missteps, Vick said athletes do it every day and still enjoy themselves.
"It's not hard to live a zero tolerance life. You just put yourself in the right positions at all times and think through situations thoroughly," Vick said.
He also said he would take extra support the NFL has offered, "whether I need it or not."
"I think it will just be an extra thing to have in my back pocket. But for the most part, I'm going to walk the walk," Vick said.
He said he feels "blessed" to be in his current situation, and last year had the most fun of his entire football career.
"If you look at my life over the last year I've been trying to do all the right things, whether it's in the community or on the field, or with my family and I think that's what it's all about," he said.
Before the question and answer session ended, Vick, still a favorite among many fans who have clamored for his autograph at training camp, said his attention was now on the NFL season.
"It's all about football now," he said. "Being with the guys, building camaraderie, building chemistry and focusing on winning that first game."

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Alabama's Old Rotation — the oldest continuous cotton rotation in the world — has proven what many have believed all along. That yield potential increases along with soil organic matter.
"When I came to Auburn 20 years ago, I inherited the oldest cotton rotation in the world," says Charles Mitchell, Auburn University Extension agronomist. "We started to look at some of the things that have happened in that experiment over the years, and one thing popped out at me — as soil organic matter increased, the yield potential also increased."
At the Old Rotation site, organic matter increased from about one half percent to 2 to 2.5 percent. "Year in and year out, you could plot a curve," says Mitchell. "The low yields are at the low organic matter and the high yields are at the high organic matter. Since then, we've looked at many other fields throughout Alabama, and we've seen the same thing."
In a survey conducted in Autauga and Elmore counties in central Alabama, researchers found that the average soil organic matter was about five tenths of a percent, he says.
"That's equal to about the worst soil organic matter at the Old Rotation. That's caused from years and years of conventional-tillage cotton, and not putting organic matter back into the soil. As more growers switch to high-residue management and conservation-tillage, we'll see organic matter building up in the soil, and we'll see our yield potential increasing," says Mitchell.
In 1997, researchers switched the Old Rotation over to conservation-tillage in an attempt to leave residue on the soil, he says. "Since then, we've produced the highest yields ever recorded of each crop — 230 bushels of corn per acre, about 100 bushels of wheat, a little over 3 bales of cotton per acre, and about 80 bushels of soybeans. We've seen all of these record yields in the past five to six years. There may be other factors involved, but I think most of it is due to soil management and increasing organic matter," he says.
Many cotton producers in central Alabama this year saw the return of a disease that has been around for more than 100 years in the state's Black Belt soils.
"A professor at Auburn looked at the problem in the 1880s," says Mitchell. "It's a leafspot disease that causes cotton rust and premature defoliation. On sandy soils, it's a potash deficiency. Defoliation is a classic symptom of a potash deficiency."
The cotton plant, he explains, is a perennial plant that we force to grow as an annual. "We found out that the plant roots start taking up potash at about mid-bloom. All of the potash it has taken up to that point starts translocating into bolls. If there are more bolls on the cotton plant than the cotton has potash, it will fill those bolls and then the leaves will drop off."
In some years, stress can cause the leafspot complex to occur on cotton, says Mitchell. "We might have a wet season, and the roots of the cotton plant don't grow as extensively as they probably could. Then, weather conditions may turn off dry, putting stress on the plant and causing problems such as this."
The disease is caused by fungi that are moved around by water, such as wind-blown rain. "Normally, this disease comes in late in the season. We run into problems when it comes in before the cotton is ready to cut out."
The problem is seen almost exclusively on Black Belt soils due to the heaviness of the soils, notes Mitchell. "These soils hold water and don't drain very well. They have almost no internal drainage. We rarely see this disease on our well-drained sandy soils. It's also prominent under no-till conditions because the residue acts as an incubator for the disease."
Many Alabama cotton producers continue to show an interest in using poultry litter for fertilizing their crops, says Mitchell, and about 13 years of research in cotton and corn has shown some interesting results.
"What we have found out in tests conducted in central Alabama is that the nitrogen is chicken litter is readily available. It's almost — not quite but almost — as available as the nitrogen in urea and ammonium nitrogen. So, you want to put it out as close to planting as possible. If you put it out more than 30 days prior to planting, you'll lose most of that nitrogen."
A grower might see some residual benefit to poultry litter a year after application, says Mitchell, but it won't be enough to make a difference.
"One ton of poultry litter is going to give you, on the average, about 60 pounds of nitrogen, 60 pounds of phosphorous and 40 pounds of potash. It's almost a 3-3-2 fertilizer. You'll normally put out about 120 pounds of nitrogen through an entire season. Two tons of poultry litter at planting will give you that 120 pounds.
"In a wet year, you may have to go back and side-dress. But in a normal year, with a relatively dry May and June, you'll have it all out there. Over 13 years of experiments, 2 tons generally gave us what we needed to make a good crop of cotton — two to two and a half bales. It took 3 tons in some years, and rarely did 4 tons hurt anything. But I wouldn't put out 4 tons every year."
If you're thinking about using poultry litter, now is the time to make arrangements because next spring will be too late, says Mitchell. "Get it in the fall and winter, and stockpile it on your fields, as long as it's covered and protected from the weather. You can spread it within 30 days of planting next year, and you can save a lot of money on fertilizer costs."


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Deroy Murdock: The federal debt burdens you, not just your kidsBY DEROY MURDOCK
March 17. 2014 4:18PM
Budget hawks and free-marketeers very badly need to re-tool their rhetoric on the dangers of government borrowing and America's ever-deepening national debt — last clocked at $17.4 trillion.
"How dare we pass along our bills to our children and grandchildren …yadda, yadda, yadda…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………"
Such ubiquitous references to indebted youngsters have grown hackneyed. These proverbial little boys and girls have zero practical impact upon and limited emotional appeal toward Americans who either do not have or do not want offspring. Despite the widespread assumption that "everyone has kids," tens of millions do not. According to the latest-available Census data — among the 226,249,370 adults between ages 18 and 88 in 2009 — 70,897,249 (31.3 percent) collectively had spawned a grand total of zero children — ever. While most of these voting-age Americans — enough to populate six Ohios — eventually will bear children (or have since this study), many others won't.
Among those age 50+ in 2009, the Census Bureau's most recent Survey of Income and Program Participation found that 7,354,970 (17.03 percent) of men and 7,558,026 (15.06 percent) of women never had reproduced. These 14.9 million Americans — nearly enough to inhabit three Colorados — have been childless for at least five decades and likely will remain so.
Thus, any given speech about "the children paying our debts" may stir parents and grandparents, but it will fall on at least 140 million deaf or disengaged ears.
Even worse, arguing that the national debt will menace "the children" drains this issue of any sense of urgency. Don't curb spending now, liberals believe, although they rarely state the following: Let the little ones grow up and cut government.
Meanwhile, as Obama proposed on Feb. 26, let's splash around in a brand-new, $302 billion infrastructure budget. In an instantly gratified culture, where expectorating 140 characters masquerades as political discourse, it grows harder to rally people against statist extravagance.
Most important, calling the national debt tomorrow's headache masks the enormous socio-economic damage of government red ink today. The national debt is not just bad news for the next generation. It crushes the dreams of American adults right now.
Economists with Encima Global in New York use Federal Reserve data to illustrate this phenomenon. From Dec. 31, 2008 through New Year's Eve 2013 (Q4 2008 through Q4 2013), Encima compared the total debt owed by four major economic sectors: households, small businesses, corporations outside the financial services, and government. During those five full years:
• Outstanding loans to households fell from $13.8 trillion to $13.1 trillion — a decline of 5 percent.
• Small or non-corporate businesses saw their borrowing crawl on its belly from $4.1 trillion to $4.2 trillion — an increase of just 2.2 percent.
• Credit to non-finance corporations grew from $7.6 trillion to $9.4 trillion — a boost of 24.7 percent.
• Meanwhile, publicly traded debt to local, state, and federal government soared from $9.2 trillion to $15.3 trillion — an increase of 65.9 percent.
Thus, loans to individuals and families have sunk while credit to small companies has been as flat as a flounder. Beyond Wall Street, major corporations have borrowed plenty. But government wins again: It hogs the smorgasbord and leaves only table scraps for everyone else.
"It's no coincidence that median incomes and small businesses have done poorly as federal spending surged and the Federal Reserve added $3 trillion in its own debt," David Malpass tells me. The former Reagan administration Treasury official now runs Manhattan-based Encima Global, where he and fellow economist Wing Chow think deeply about markets, ideas and policy.
"The government is crowding out the private sector, making itself bigger at the expense of growth and jobs," Malpass continues. "Rather than a debt crisis in the future, the tragedy is the last five years of economic decline — millions of people who should have gotten jobs and small businesses that should have launched — but couldn't because the government was in their way, borrowing crazily for itself."
Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.


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Company to film movie scenes in New Orleans
New Orleans officials say a production company will be filming scenes for a movie at the city's Naval Support Activity site from Wednesday through Friday.
A news release from the city says filming will involve simulated gunfire and loud dialogue Thursday and Friday nights from about 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., but the production isn't expected to disrupt traffic. The Naval Support Activity site is at 4400 Dauphine Street.
The news release gave no details about the movie being filmed or the company doing it.
Officials say filming will be limited to the Naval Support Activity site and will not disrupt traffic.
The Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy says New Orleans has hosted 51 tax credit film projects as of the beginning of November.


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LITTLE ROCK With Side Effects, writer Scott Z. Burns and director Steven Soderbergh, the team behind Contagion, play the same tricks on their viewers that they play on their beleaguered characters.
They strategically withhold data, create plenty of opportunities for false expectations and load the movie with characters who aren't quite who they appear to be. Fortunately, the audience fares better than anyone in the film.
This is a formidable achievement considering that one of the characters has every reason to be chronically depressed. Ad agency drone Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) has had enough miseries to fill an oil tanker.
If genetics hadn't already stuck her with a brain inclined to sadness, fate has. Her husband, Martin (Channing Tatum), is a former Wall Street high roller who is now languishing in prison for insider trading. As a result, she has had to drastically downsize her living conditions and the stress has caused her to miscarry.
Even after Martin's term is over, the burden of trying to rebuild their lives seems so great that it's not surprising that she rams her car into a parking lot wall.
While Emily is barely hurt by the incident, the hospital psychiatrist examining her, Dr. Johnathan Banks (Jude Law), believes that she's suffering from an acute combination of depression and anxiety and prescribes her a series of drugs, including Zoloft and an experimental medicine.
Because he's strapped for cash just like his patient, Banks thinks nothing of being compensated by the drug company for his experiments with Emily. Her former psychiatrist, Dr. Victoria Siebert(Catherine Zeta-Jones), is familiar with the drug and thinks Emily, who is seemingly miserable on the other meds, is an excellent candidate.
Naturally, everything goes wrong from here.
Thankfully, Burns and Soderbergh have more on their agenda than simply trashing the pharmaceutical industry. Having taken some of the drugs prescribed in the film, I can personally verify some of the adverse reactions that Emily complains about. While my own bouts of depression and anxiety were milder than hers, the drugs have made me deal with life's formidable challenges more easily and have made it easier for others to tolerate me.
For the sake of accuracy and entertainment value, Side Effects reveals that psychiatrists and their meds can help, but overworked shrinks can make the same faulty decisions the rest of us do. Human error can be as catastrophic in this field as any other, maybe more so.
Burns certainly knows the lingo, and he comes up with plenty of surprising but vaguely plausible jolts. Law's Banks seems well-intended, but has enough personal problems to make treating Emily more than he can handle. Perhaps he could crack under the strain.
Mara proves that her fine work in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was hardly a fluke. Her doll-like face has a pair of nervous eyes that indicate something grave is happening in Emily's head.
Soderbergh paces the film in a steady and deliberate manner, while Thomas Newman's (Skyfall) score is hypnotic and dissonant. As a result, Side Effects lulls viewers before delivering the requisite shocks.
Soderbergh has been declaring that he'll take a hiatus after Side Effects, and considering that he has managed to deliver a rare character-driven thriller that works with a single car crash, the absence of him and his work is regrettable.
Side Effects 87 Cast: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw Director: Steven Soderbergh Rating: R, for sexuality, nudity, violence and language Running time: 106 minutes
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This I can't make it work.
I manage to make work the alternative way by declaring in the web.xml
but the first mentionned way doesn't work, it's not automagically bound to an already existing spring mvc dispatcher servlet
To expose the AccountService (mentioned above) within a Spring Web MVC DispatcherServlet, the following configuration needs to be in place in the dispatcher's application context:
Such an exporter definition will be exposed through the DispatcherServlet's standard mapping facilities, as explained in the section on Hessian.
HTML Code:
<bean name="/AccountService" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter"> <property name="service" ref="accountService"/> <property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/> </bean>
I manage to make work the alternative way by declaring in the web.xml
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<servlet> <servlet-name>accountExporter</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class> </servlet>


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Cool Exciting Projects
From FamiLAB Wiki
A list of projects and project ideas that we find exceptionally cool and exciting.
New Ideas
Musical Stuff
Old Ideas
(It hasn't been updated in some time - so many of these have been done - and we have plenty of new ideas...)
Relatively Easy
- Simple Website
- Decontamination Chamber
- CVS/SVN server (input? ive never used these systems before to be honest **tetsu)
- Just used for revision control for source code, would be a good way to collaborate on software.
- Maybe Git?
- game console area: chairs, tv, cabinet, game storage
- xbox linux
- nice cheap steel shelves with particleboard shelves. shelves of some kind. cheap shelves to store things before we're awesome.
- cool idea database
- Commercial shelves = pricy, but can be broken down and reassembled quickly, are robust.
- second hand, could be cheap. $70 for a decent 4' x 6' x 2' shelves from Home Depot.
- library
- coffee dispensery
- pallets of Yerba Mate, Jolt, and Bawls
- CCD webcams everywhere, recording software, central storage, ease of video logging, streaming
- IP cameras? That way we can view what's going on anytime! -- Nuno
- make posters and network maps of stuff
- everyone loves the Internet Maps. there's a lot of cool stuff to map, and GraphViz can do all the work for us.
- a few hours collecting data, 15 minutes processing it, and however long it takes a print shop to print it
- Homebrew security system for the space
- DIY vapor-transmitted caffeine for e-cigarettes
- Telepresence Wall
- Database Mirroring
- workstation/project webcam autouploader project
- (D) I will figure out how to get button events to trigger a shellscript to grab the webcam frame, maybe video, and autoupload it to wherever it goes. Also hunt for webcams.
- Is there some way to decrease the machine-readability of license plates without making them any less human-readable?
- mobile_computer -- for car, boat, bus, RV or motorbike
Relatively Difficult
- Portal Mirror w/ Infinity Room
- Warzone / Hostile Network
- Warzone network radio station
- RepRap self-replicating rapid prototyping machine
- video gaming - any consoles we can find, emulation.
- I have an emulation program w/all SNES games (~4GB or so), but no controller...I'm sure I can find controllers on ebay or something. Is this what we're looking for? - Nuno
- I have an Xbox or two to donate, one already modded with X3 chip - M
- I have an NES, SNES, Dreamcast I can donate - M
- graphviz project association map
- electronic whiteboard (webcammed, interact with drawings)
- oh my god. OCR whiteboard, write code on whiteboard, see actual code run. make common functions so you can just write "turn_off_lights()", or "lightswitch_rave()"
- blog to verify scientific claims - which soda has most caffeine, composition of e-liquid, etc
- Giant LED (+diffuser lens) programmable matrix. Cover an entire wall. Have fun programming cool stuff to go on it.
- elaborate on project details?
- what about ALL walls are programmable LED matrices :O
- metalab made an led wall - [Blinkenwall]
- interactive blinkenwall - switches/touch? Welcome to the FUTURE!
- Float Conference/Hackathon Or Something?
- Ephemerisle Floating Festival
- We are in Florida :), plenty of beach access. How many miles till international water? ;p
- Lego robotics project with webcam to work on systems on benches to be
- Electric Car
- Recumbent Energy
- StarTrek&mark; Tri-corders


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Bobby Petrino Admits Affair With His 25 Year Old Co Worker Jessica Dorrell
We reported earlier that Petrino lied about having Dorrell on the back of his motorcycle when he crashed. After the media discovered this, he came clean.
Like most men when he was caught he showed remorse.
Petrino is now on paid administrative leave and Taver Johnson will serve as interim head coach.
"The state police report today provides an accurate description of my accident, which includes details that had not publically come to light prior to the report being issued. I regret that I have not publically acknowledged a passenger on the vehicle. I have been in constant pain, medicated and the circumstances involving the wreck have come out in bits and pieces. That said I certainly had a concern about Jessica Dorrell's name being revealed. In my press conference, I referred to her simply as 'a lady'. My concern was to protect my family and a previous inappropriate relationship from becoming public. In hindsight, I showed a serious mistake in judgment when I chose not to be more specific about those details. Today, I've acknowledged this previous inappropriate relationship with my family and those within the athletic department administration.
I apologize to my wife, Becky, and our four children, Chancellor (David) Gearhart, Jeff Long, the Board of Trustees, University administration, my coaching staff, student-athletes and the entire state of Arkansas. I have been humbled by the outpouring of concern and get-well wishes. I apologize to the Razorback Nation for the attention my actions have brought to the University of Arkansas and our program. I will fully cooperate with the University throughout this process and my hope is to repair my relationships with my family, my Athletic Director, the Razorback Nation and remain the head coach of the Razorbacks."
By the way Petrino is married and Dorrell is engaged to be married on June 9th, check out her fiancée.
If I was him, I might want to reassess some things considering his lady cheating on him with this guy.
You have to wonder if the reason Petrino crashed was because Dorrell was trying to adjust his stick shift? Lesson to be learned if you want to get frisky with your mistress who you just gave a job at the University you work for (that is so dumb), do it in a car not a motorcycle.


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Deception and inaction in Norwich
If they are not already doing so, we would strongly urge Norwich police and all other appropriate law enforcement officials to take a hard look at Zane Megos, an unlicensed real estate broker with a history of deceptive practices.
In a two-part series beginning today, Day Staff Writer Claire Bessette documents numerous cases in which Mr. Megos accepted security and advanced rent deposits for apartments he knew were in such poor condition they were uninhabitable. In other cases these victims report being subjected to bait-and-switch tactics. Sometimes Mr. Megos strung along tenants for months with promises that an apartment would be ready.
When the individuals grew tired of the run around and demanded their deposits back, the story was often the same - Mr. Megos refusing to return their money or, at best, offering only a partial reimbursement.
Fraud is defined as the intentional deception of someone through misrepresentation, concealment or nondisclosure of material facts. That aptly describes the experiences of many intended renters who were unfortunate enough to respond to one of Mr. Megos' advertisements for rental units. Fraud is a crime.
Mr. Megos should know, because in 1983 he pleaded guilty to fraud. Then in 1988 the Connecticut Real Estate Commission revoked his real estate license after allegations he mishandled money from prospective buyers, failing to deposit money into escrow accounts or maintain separate accounts for buyers.
In 1992 the state reinstated Mr. Megos' license, thanks to sponsorship of a realtor, but Edith Baum withdrew her sponsorship in 2005 when new allegations of fraud surfaced. No criminal charges were filed, but Mr. Megos surrendered his license voluntarily.
In the latest series of abuses outlined by The Day's investigation, the victims were often those operating on the margins of society, facing desperate situations to find housing quickly and with limited resources to pay for it. Some had to borrow money to pay Mr. Megos, while others exhausted what little they had to meet his deposit demands, only to learn the apartment was "not ready."
Some moved in anyway, living in dwellings without running water, amidst unsafe conditions, only to be booted out when city building inspectors condemned the structures.
We learn of two people, both with kidney disease, forced to abandon their senior housing because of the need to care for a displaced 17-year-old niece, only to find themselves dealing with Mr. Megos as they sought a new apartment. Another duped woman was scrambling to find a home for herself and her child after the break up of a marriage. Then there is the ex-convict who is trying to rebuild her life after getting involved in drugs, only to have to deal with Mr. Megos, who kept taking her money to help renovate the apartment that was supposedly waiting for her. It never became available. She is still waiting to collect a $7,394 judgment she won in Small Claims Court.
That court was the only place tenants appeared to get relief, or at least the promise of relief, if they could collect. Some credit goes to Norwich Human Services and building inspectors, who have been chasing after Mr. Megos as best as their limited authority and staffing permitted, but the bottom line is that no agency was either able or willing to take aggressive action.
Various groups - Consumer Protection, city officials, the Better Business Bureau, police - told frustrated victims it was someone else's job to take a look at Mr. Megos, or dismissed the dispute as a civil matter best left to litigators that most of the victims could not afford.
If Mr. Megos' sins were ones of commission, the lack of help these people received from paid public officials was one of omission. Perhaps publicity brought about by this investigative reporting might get some results.
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Alas, this isn't really a SQL post, but thoughts on efforts to share work that has been previously done by one person! For the past two years I've handled almost all of the work leading up to SQLSaturday Orlando, bringing in volunteers close to the event to help with logistics. It works pretty well because I have all the pieces of the puzzle and know that I have to get it done. The downside of course is that I add more work to a list that is already larger than it should be, and I'm not training anyone to take over sometime in the future.
The latter is a fundamental challenge of most businesses, and most fail badly at it. Ideally every leader should be grooming someone to be their replacement, just as they themselves should be preparing to move into the job that their boss does (note that I'm not suggesting a coup!). It doesn't happen for a lot of reasons; lack of time, lack of candidates, fear of being replaced.
For me, my excuse has been lack of time. Dividing up tasks takes time, explaining how to do them takes time, checking on them takes time, doing them yourself when they don't get done…takes time!
This year I'm trying harder to share, and I started that by including some of the key volunteers on all the email related to the event. It lets them see how I communicate, what kind of responses I get back from speakers and sponsors, and start to feel like they understand what is going on. Last week we met at lunch for a planning meeting and to divide up more tasks, and it's quite a dance. Volunteers want to own tasks, but aren't sure what is involved – is it really an hour task? Or the "how" worries them, what should a message to a sponsor who isn't responding look like? For me, there are some things that I'm not ready to let go of – key sponsors is one – and there are other tasks that are critical path and require some faith to let go!
In one case I asked Jack Corbett to request funding for the event via UGSS. First I had to add him as an admin, then he emailed back that he didn't see the funding option. That required an email to our MS guy to fix that, then back to Jack, then finally get the request done. I'm worried that I'm annoying the daylights out of Jack, and he's thinking the same – trying to help just added work! Some of it had to be done anyway, but it feels slow at times.
Management 101, right?
it's the nature of managing anything that delegating takes time and adds complexity, but you hope you benefit from it in the long term. For volunteer events the more people that have ownership of it the better the event becomes, so it's worth some pain to share the work and the knowledge.


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(In other news, this summer will see a film of Asimov's I, Robot starring Will Smith and apparently not based on Harlan Ellison's screenplay, first published in Asimov's and then as a book.)
The post with the reference to a film of Dhalgren is actually a letter from the screenwriter, who is responding to an excellent post in which Silliman figured out the standard three-act structure of commercial films.
Having studied playwrighting and screenwriting at NYU for three years, this is a subject I know well. Being an inveterate contrarian, I rebelled as much as possible against the idea of a three-act structure, which most of the teachers of screenwriting forced us to abide by, and have since come to resent it beyond all reason. Like any formula, it's perfectly capable of producing very interesting films, but is also, in general, a way for writers to become lazy and not think closely about structure beyond how to chop and sculpt their story to fit into the parameters of the three acts. Great writing doesn't come from fitting something into a formula, it comes from thinking both about structure and content and striving to let the two support and inform each other. Sometimes the effect will be a three-act style, sometimes not.
But the audience becomes accustomed to the style most often presented to it, and so films which violate the three-act structure tend to alienate mass audiences, because the audience members arrive to the theatre like strict Platonists, the universal "good movie" structure stuck in their heads, any violation from it befuddling. Any work both teaches an audience how to read it and helps create an audience for it, and the prevalence of the three-act structure has taught millions of people how to read and interpret films, thus blinding many of them to any other possibilities.
Silliman ends his post about structure with two paragraphs which summarize the problems facing anyone who wants to break away from dominant (and dominating) structures of writing:
One problem that any serious post-avant writing confronts is that, over time, readers come to understand the landmarks to any new terrain. What was comically misidentified in the 1970s becomes instantly recognizable just 25 years later. In order to keep it new, the writer (me or you or whomever) must go beyond the exoskeletal components of structure to create a sense of liveliness internally -- through word choices, sentence juxtapositions, the underlying logic. I obviously have a serious bias towards building in devices -- like the "new sentence" -- that block or at least slow the integration of the text, the point at which it moves from the first of my three mock stages into the moving machinery one. Even as a reader, I am more apt than not to avoid reading the title until the very end of the poem & oftentimes not even then. I've gone through entire books without taking note of a title. I simply find them too confining. And I guess that my own titles have a tendency to point anywhere but the text.Isn't the challenge to the SF writer to awaken readers by confronting them with new information -- new imaginings and ways of imagining? Traditional structures, then, may only hamper writers from communicating with readers, because the traditional structure will lull a reader into missing everything important in the writing. (Of course, using traditional structure to play around with readers' expectations can be a lot of fun, too, and one that many SF writers are quite skilled at -- think of so many stories by Fredric Brown which rely on a reader's intuitive grasp of where a story is going and how it has been set up to then create a surprise ending.)
The logic behind all this isn't newness for the sake of novelty, some sort of attention deficit approach to contemporary meaning, but rather to maximize the reader's (& my own) attentiveness to detail. That's what gets lost when a reader gets too comfortable with the landmarks of the poem -- why, for example, it's so very hard to write a good haiku -- just as it's what gets lost when you get too familiar with a landscape or city. Slushing around Chicago in the snow last weekend was a great reminder of just how awake one feels when confronted with so much new information.
Or it may be that for the majority of stories, a traditional structure is the one which best serves the tale. What does that say about the stories we want to tell?


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15 comments:
- Leah said...
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- January 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM
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I bought the January Vogue just because I spied this lovely tucked in the back. Great minds think alike as Raina just posted this Brooklyn abode as well. I have a feeling this one will be popping up all over blogland and with good reason!
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