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Judge to consider separate trials for Brevard County deputy slaying suspects
A Brevard circuit judge will consider whether two people accused of killing Deputy Barbara Pill last year will go to trial together or in separate proceedings, Local 6 news partner Florida Today reports.
After hearing about an hour of argument from attorneys on behalf of the suspects Andria Kerchner and Brandon Bradley, Judge Morgan Reinman said she would decide by Sept. 13, when a status hearing is scheduled in the case. Kerchner appeared in court. Bradley did not.
Attorneys for the suspects argued that it would be too confusing to a jury to have a joint trial. They said jurors may not be able to distinguish if certain statements admitted as evidence could be considered in both cases, or just for Kerchner, or just for Bradley.
At issue are statements the suspects made during interviews with Brevard County sheriff's investigators after their arrests, including: Bradley claiming that Kerchner handed him the murder weapon and Kerchner first claiming she didn't know the shooter, then later identifying him as Bradley.
Michael Bross, Kerchner's attorney, said putting both suspects to trial at the same time would create a "circuslike atmosphere."
The state wants one trial. Assistant State Attorney Jim McMaster said he could provide the statements he planned to use during trial to the judge ahead of time for review to make sure there is no conflict.
Bradley, 23, is accused of pulling the trigger on Pill, 52, during a traffic stop in March 2012. Kerchner, 21, was a passenger in the vehicle and is also accused of murder. Bross said Kerchner's case may not be ready for trial for another year; however, a joint trial date has been tentatively set for late January. Officials expect the trial could span about five weeks.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Bradley. McMaster said in court today that a decision about pursuing the death penalty has not yet been made in Kerchner's case.
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Imagine if squatters moved into a foreclosed home in your neighborhood, then demanded cash or they wouldn't move out.
Authorities say that's exactly what's happening in neighborhoods across Southern California.
They call this "cash for keys," because they say, squatters won't hand over the keys to a foreclosed home and leave, until the bank that owns the home pays them cash.
Local news from across Southern California
Take the case of convicted squatter Gregory Russell. According to court records, Russell illegally moved into a Bel Air mansion, which was being foreclosed on by Gateway Bank.
"Mr. Russell is a professional con-man," says Mark Sussman, VP of Gateway Bank.
Sussman says Russell requested $25,000 from the bank to move out.
"This was extortion," says Sussman.
He says Gateway Bank will pay squatters to move out of foreclosures, but no more than $5,000.
NBCLA caught up with Russell and asked him, "Have you ever asked anyone for money in order to move out of a foreclosed home?"
Russell replied, "No. I have never asked anybody for anything."
Russell was eventually charged and convicted of misdemeanor trespass for squatting in that Bel Air home.
The year before that, authorities say, Russell was living in a foreclosure in Marina Del Rey. Records show the cops removed him from that house, but he was never charged.
Authorities say most squatters who demand "cash for keys" are never charged and prosecuted.
"This is a very difficult crime to investigate," says Deputy LA City Attorney Maureen Rodriguez, who has prosecuted several squatters who demanded cash to move out of foreclosures.
"These are professional criminals. They educate themselves through the Internet, they know what properties are valuable, they know who's paying cash for keys," says Rodriguez.
Rodriquez says Russell is a prime example of a "smart" and "bold" squatter.
"He's at the top of the game," says Rodriguez.
Apparently, Russell may still be at it.
The last two months, NBCLA's surveillance cameras have seen Russell moving stuff into a foreclosed home in Ladera Heights, owned by GMAC Mortgage.
GMAC reported to the LA County Sheriff that Russell was squatting in the house, and it appears he wants "cash for keys."
NBCLA obtained text messages, which appear to be from Russell's cell phone to the phone of a GMAC representative.
In one text, Russell apparently asks for "$20,000 to vacate the house in 10 days."
GMAC responds that they'll pay "$5,000 to vacate in two week."
In the next text, Russell apparently counters, asking GMAC for $10,000 and he'll be out in 24 hours.
GMAC makes Russell a final offer, in writing, of $7,000 if he'll move out in 11 days. Russell didn't accept the offer.
So why would a bank offer to pay a squatter to get out of a house that the bank owns?
"It is less expensive for the financial institutions to pay someone to move out of the house than to take them to court," says Rodriguez.
Banks tell NBCLA it can cost $100,000 and take more than a year to evict a squatter through the court process. But neighbors, who live near the Ladera Heights home where we've recently seen Russell, think law enforcement should be tougher on squatters.
"Arrest them and they should prosecute them," says one neighbor who asked not to be identified.
NBCLA wanted to hear Russell's side of the story, so back in December we caught up with him after a court hearing.
We asked him, "Do you make a living moving into foreclosed homes, then demanding money to leave?"
Russell replied, "Oh, absolutely not. Who told you that?"
Russell said he'd tell us "the whole story" about his activities, and even offered to come to our offices to meet with us.
"The 19th looks good. I'll have my lawyer contact you. We will sit down," Russell said back in December.
But Russell never did meet with us and his lawyer says he does not want to talk with us.
As for the house in Ladera Heights, a GMAC representative says Russell didn't accept their $7,000 "cash for keys" offer.
So GMAC has now gone to court to try and evict Russell.
Russell presented GMAC with a lease claiming he has a right to be in the house. Authorities say the lease is a fake.
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Okino Computer Graphics has held a close relationship with Rhino starting in 1997 with the addition of trimmed NURBS support to the Okino OBJ file importer, which was followed by IGES, Lightwave and finally bidirectional Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm file support. Okino's NuGraf was started with the primary focus of being a package able to import the most complex CAD assemblies and render them in the most efficient manner. This focus continues to this day. NuGraf can import from (and export to) native Rhino .3dm files, optimize the datasets (including hierarchy and polygon reduction), and create life-like product renderings in seconds or minutes. Batch conversion, polygon reduction, scripting, real-time ATI/NVIDIA pixel shaders, embedded multi-media file viewer+editor, and many more features are included in the current shipping version of NuGraf and its sibling product PolyTrans. Okino's NuGraf and PolyTrans are also the industry standard for cross conversion of data between all major 3D file formats and application programs. Please refer to the file format page for more details. A number of NuGraf/Rhino customer renderings and case studies can be viewed online here: Customer CAD case studies NuGraf/Rhino customer renderings Additional WEB URLs: Okino Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS exporter Okino Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS importer
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The way news and information is reported and delivered to citizens is undergoing profound transformations, especially in the United States and Europe. In the last twelve months commentary has been rife with claims about "the death of newspapers," the end of journalism, and the impact this crisis will allegedly have on democratic politics.
In a series of four posts, I want to consider the revolution that is reshaping the media economy through which we come to know about the wider world. This first post deals with the reasons for this upheaval and how it is changing the economics of news. Because of the ground to be covered in providing the context of these changes, this will be quite a lengthy discussion.
The second post will look at how the structure of information is changing in this new economy and what it means for the practice of journalism; the third post will ask what these transformation mean for photojournalism; and the fourth post will consider some of the implications for academic publishing. [Update: in December 2009 I added a fifth post on "the pay wall folly for photographers"].
What crisis?
In the US the transformation of the media economy has been mapped on Paper Cuts, which records company closures and job losses in journalism. With high profile newspapers like the Christian Science Monitor and Seattle Post Intelligencer giving up print and moving on-line, and the Rocky Mountain News shutting for good after 150 years, the decline of traditional news outlets has been hard to miss. In the UK, the local and regional press has been equally hard hit, with half of that sector facing closure in the next few years. These changes may not be repeated globally, but it is clear the established outlets of the print media economy are vulnerable.
Structural changes or cyclical problems?
Because the upheaval in the print media has coincided with the international financial crisis of September 2008 onwards, we have to ask whether the global recession is to blame, or whether there are larger structural problems in the media economy that are now coming to the fore?
Newspapers have been in decline for a long time. In America, overall circulation (when adjusted for population growth) is "about half of what it was in 1946 and is declining rapidly". That decline has been constant since the 1960s, when other media, especially television, overtook papers as the primary source of news. The decline in readership by age has been constant for all groups, but given younger generations have always used papers less, there is no prospect of this trend being arrested in the future.
The way papers have been in competition with other forms of media such as television shows that the impact of the Internet on newspapers is not a qualitatively new phenomenon, even though it might be an especially important development. These changes were obvious after the 2008 US presidential election:
For the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper, although the popularity of television still eclipses all other forms of media. In an apparently sharp shift in habits…the number of consumers using the web as a main news source surged from 24% to 40% in a year, overtaking the 35% who rely on newspapers. Television slipped from 74% to 70%.
These structural changes in audience behaviour intersected with changes in media ownership beginning in the 1970s and 1980s. City and regional papers in America were purchased by corporations trading on the stock market, which meant shareholders rather than readers became the primary concern of management. Balancing the books to ensure profit meant that journalism was cut, which in turn accelerated the decline in readership as people went elsewhere for news. In recent times, these corporate strategies have produced a further decline in journalism because servicing the massive debts undertaken to finance new acquisitions has required cost cutting on a grand scale.
The collapse of print advertising revenues during the current recession is regularly cited as a reason for the death of the newspaper. But as Nichols and McChesney have written, this revenue stream has been in long decline too:
Print advertising, which still accounts for the lion's share of newspaper revenue, declined gently as a percentage of all ad spending from 1950 to '90, as television grew in importance. Starting in 1990, well before the rise of the web as a competitor for ad dollars, newspaper ad revenues went into a sharp decline, from 26 percent of all media advertising that year to what will likely be around 10 percent this year [2008].
Long-term declines in audience and advertising, constant challenges from other media such as television, all hastened by debt-financed corporate strategies that put profit ahead of journalism, show that changes in the media economy will not be reversed even if the current global recession is followed by a period of renewed economic growth. They also show that the constant sniping at Google and craigslist for 'killing journalism' are way wide of the mark, even if both organizations have added to the current pressure on traditional news organizations.
Save newspapers or save journalism?
The current crisis in newspapers has led people to speculate at every opportunity about what strategy, product, technology or unknown revenue stream will "save journalism." There are two things going on here that need unpacking, because how we approach this question conditions the sort of response we can imagine.
First, there is the assumption that journalism, as routinely practiced in traditional news organisations, is a public good essential to democracy because of its history of challenging authority. To put it mildly, this is viewing things through rose-tinted lenses. It's easy to think that each and every news organisation is run by people who see Bernstein and Woodward's pursuit of the Watergate scandal as a template for daily reporting. But recent history suggests that much reporting promotes the interests of those in power (think about The New York Times cozy coverage of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, which subsequently prompted an apology of sorts from the paper) or recycles PR material (see Nick Davies critique of "churnalism" in the UK, and the "10 ugly truths about modern journalism."). For sure, we need critical journalism more than ever, and there are some good existing examples, but overall it is something to create as much as it is something to protect. With survey's showing Americans barely trust what they read or see, journalism's belief in its inherent social value is ill-founded and needs to be re-established.
It is important to note there that this faith in the assumed relationship between journalism and democracy comes in part from what Daniel Hallin calls the "high modernist" understanding of journalism as "objective" and "socially responsible." This journalism ran from the end of World War II until the 1980s, when more partisan and ideological coverage emerged, yet it is now being resurrected as the essential ethos of journalism rather than a historically specific form of the practice. Equally, we should not forget that the idea of objectivity as the defining characteristic of journalism was also central to corporate strategies in the post-war period – the best way to maximise audiences for advertisers was to draw readers in via a promise of non-partisan reporting, because the advertisers' clients did not want to be associated with controversy. All of which underscores Hallin's argument (revisited recently by Jay Rosen) that journalism in recent times has been less about fearless objectivity than producing the "sphere of consensus" for political debate.
Second, there is the assumption that newspapers and journalism are the same thing. While we certainly want to save the good, critical, contextualising bits of journalism, we need to understand the difference between the practice of journalism and the particular modes of its delivery. Saving journalism is not the same as saving newspapers. As Robert Picard has argued:
Many…misunderstand the nature of journalism. It is not a business model; it is not a job; it is not a company; it is not an industry; it is not a form of media; it is not a distribution platform. Instead, journalism is an activity. It is a body of practices by which information and knowledge is gathered, processed, and conveyed. The practices are influenced by the form of media and distribution platform, of course, as well as by financial arrangements that support the journalism. But one should not equate the two.
Journalism was synonymous with newspapers so long as there were no competing media. The advent of radio news in the 1920s and television news in the 1950s broke that link, but the current debate proceeds as though journalism cannot exist without traditional print media organisations. Yet the financial analysts Moody's have called newspapers a business suffering "structural disconnect" given that only 14% of their operating costs are dedicated to content creation (i.e. journalism) while 70% of costs are consumed by printing, distribution and corporate functions. There is no doubt that legacy organisations like The Guardian or The Washington Post carry important cultural baggage when it comes to producing credible reporting, but their journalism can be delivered to audiences much more cheaply and effectively through a variety of media, as is now the case with web sites, podcasts and the like.
This highlights what is most significant about new technologies in the evolving media economy. As Richard Stacey has observed, "the social media revolution…is all about the separation of information from its means of distribution." Journalism is the information and newspapers are the means of distribution. The death of the latter does not equate to the death of the former.
How do we fund the good stuff?
The Internet has solved the problem of distribution and collapsed the cost of printing (assuming widespread access to broadband, which is not something that can always be assumed), making almost everyone a potential media outlet. Plenty of people are making money from the web (especially pornographers), but how can this new technology of distribution be used to fund the public information we need? While good journalism has been under financial pressure for the past thirty years, how can the social media future be leveraged to support investigative work?
The first thing that is necessary in answering this is to resist the temptation (again) to look back on an allegedly golden age that has been lost. We have to recognise that news and probing journalism has never made money by itself in order to pay for itself. We should not, therefore, be judging the social media future for reporting via the flawed assumption that we are looking for a business model that will do what has never previously been done.
We have to recognise that the media in the twentieth century has always been corporate, and that journalism has always been funded indirectly. Oliviero Toscani once noted that editorial was "the advertising of advertising," the content which drew in the readership to view the material the advertisers paid for, thereby indirectly subsidising that information. The idea of a newspaper as a publication containing everything from comics to sport scores to political analysis to clothing advertisements was simply a function of those ads requiring a large print format that was expensive. Clay Shirkey has put it succinctly by noting:
The expense of printing created an environment where Wal-Mart was willing to subsidize the Baghdad bureau. This wasn't because of any deep link between advertising and reporting, nor was it about any real desire on the part of Wal-Mart to have their marketing budget go to international correspondents. It was just an accident. Advertisers had little choice other than to have their money used that way, since they didn't really have any other vehicle for display ads.
The search for new business models for news is occupying the minds of people much more knowledgeable than me. However, from reading recent debates it is pretty clear that the new model will in fact be a series of diverse models producing revenue indirectly. As John Temple, the last editor of the Rocky Mountain News has declared, news organisations do not make money from news; news is the 'brand' for the organisation and the money comes from relationships and services only indirectly related to journalism.
When it comes to the question of how to 'monetise' journalism on the web, everyone is talking about "pay walls" – especially now that Rupert Murdoch has flagged his intention to introduce them on all his publications in the next year. However, a large number of commentators and publishers believe they are not the answer. Why are pay walls not the future solution to funding journalism?
This has been a raging debate in the last year – see this huge selection of recent articles and posts from a short time – but there are few if any examples of enterprises successfully restricting the openness of the web. This is because the Internet, and the link in particular, has fundamentally changed the structure of the information economy, enabling a distributed and collaborative conversation happening in different places at different times (think about the composition of this post and the links it employs, for example). If people using the web by following links come up against a pay wall – part of a site that demands a small payment or subscription for access to a piece of information – nine times out of ten they will go somewhere else where information is free and accessible. The result is that the information behind the pay wall is cut off from the audience and the developing conversation, and the author of that restricted information has had their public impact curtailed.
How do we know comprehensive pay walls don't work for most news journalism? Take the web site that emerged in the wake of the Rocky Mountain News closing. InDenverTimes needed 50,000 subscribers paying only $5/month to support their operation. The RMN had 210,000 subscribers before it closed so this seemed reasonable – yet only 3,000 of those individuals were willing to go on-line and pay for the new site's content. In contrast, think of how The New York Times ended its TimesSelect subscription in October 2007 and saw its web traffic increase by 40% as a result (thereby making its columnist's views part of the public conversation and boosting advertising revenue through a larger audience).
Even if we leave aside the larger questions of participation in the new link economy, a rough analysis of a pay wall for Murdoch's paper The Times suggests the economics don't make sense. A common assumption for any business offering free versus paid versions is that only about 10% of the customer basis will migrate from the free to the paid. If 10% of Times readers were willing to pay, it is estimated they would generate between £4-8 million/year (excluding the administrative cost of running the on-line payment system). Given that the paper probably earns about £45 million in digital advertising, and that this amount would decline sharply with the lost audience who refuse to cross the paywall, thereby wiping out the revenue generated by the subscription if not much more, the value of the exercise seems dubious. And for a media company that has £445 million in revenue and £51 million in losses, the gain of £4 million+ seems hardly worth the effort even if there were no associated losses. On a different scale, a recent review of small-town American papers that have instituted some form of on-line charging, usually to protect print editions, shows mixed results, with declines in on-line audiences. It is therefore no wonder that most publishers "fear they could lose 75% or more of their traffic and banner revenue if they started to charge for content."
Comprehensive pay walls might work if every single credible news organisation erected one at the same time, but that isn't going to happen. In the UK The Guardian declared it will not follow Murdoch down the subscription route (partly because they recall the American audience they created while TimesSelect was in place), the BBC will always have news free for global users (albeit paid for by the indirect subscription of the license fee in Britain), and National Public Radio will continue to offer its 26 million listeners quality programming without direct payment (NPR's executive director recently called the desire for pay walls a "mass delusion" of the media industry).
The desire to make pay walls a key strategy in the new media economy is historically odd given that news organisations have never relied on subscriptions for the majority of their revenues. As a rule only 20% of newspaper revenues have come from subscriptions with 80% from advertising. That means even if pay walls were somehow successful it would only ever be a very small success on the road to funding journalism. And as the only beneficial pay walls are likely to be small and partial – as part of a "freemium" strategy that leaves general news open to all while restricting access to premium content – the revenue they produce is likely to be even smaller.
A common response to this argument is to highlight the small number of successful instances of subscription, such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal or a consumer publication like Which in the UK. However, what these outlets have in common is that they offer subscribers sensitive information with financial benefits (often paid for by corporate expense accounts) or, in the case of Which, they provide impartiality through advertisement-free reports. And if someone argues that micropayments for individual news stories might be a better approach than a comprehensive pay wall then — aside from questioning the idea there can be an 'iTunes for news' — we should ask if this is a good scenario: would journalists like their proprietors to judge the quality of their work by the number of consumers who had purchased their writing? Would serious investigative journalism compete well in an environment where pageview bonuses (like those at Gawker) were in operation?
That leaves funding journalism back in the troubled world of advertising, which as noted above, has been declining in print media for a long time. In the early days of the on-line revolution, it was hoped the vast amount of web traffic ("unique users") going to sites would provide the basis for a new advertising model for the Internet. In part this has occurred, and on-line advertising remains a growth area in percentage terms even during the current recession. The trouble is that the values of this advertising is small, perhaps one-tenth of the print sector it is replacing. Except for Google and its distributed mode of advertising, "print dollars are replaced by mere online dimes" [Jarvis, What Would Google Do, p.125].
So neither pay walls nor advertising are the answer; what then? As noted above, instead of a single business model for journalism emerging, we are going to see a series of diverse models producing revenue indirectly (see the example of one profitable blog, Techdirt, here). And that will bring journalism into line with other digital industries. Take music for example – it is rumoured that only 10% of U2's revenue comes from its songs/albums. The bulk comes from concerts, merchandising, video games, advertising, sponsorship and any number of other sources. It's going to take some creative accounting, but funding good investigative journalism will only be as difficult as it has always been, and largely achieved indirectly.
Next…what all this means for the structure of information and the practice of journalistic inquiry in the new media economy…
(These thoughts stem in large part from my presentations on 'the political economy of multimedia' made to the MA Photography programme at the Dalian College of Image Art, China, in June 2008 and July 2009. I am indebted to Dave Clark for making those presentations possible, and for our on-going conversation on these issues.)
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Singer Joey Tempest of Swedish hard rockers EUROPE recently spoke to U.K.'s Total Rock about the band's ninth studio album, "Bag Of Bones". You can now watch the chat below.
"Bag Of Bones" will be released on April 27 via earMusic/Edel. The CD, which features a guest appearance by blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION), was produced by Kevin Shirley, who has previously worked with IRON MAIDEN, JOE BONAMASSA, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, BLACK STONE CHERRY and JOURNEY, among others.
"Bag Of Bones" track listing:
01. Riches To Rags
02. Not Supposed To Sing The Blues
03. Firebox
04. Bag Of Bones
05. Requiem
06. My Woman My Friend
07. Demon Head
08. Drink And A Smile
09. Doghouse
10. Mercy You Mercy Me
11. Bring It All Home
The "Not Supposed To Sing The Blues" video can be seen below. The clip was directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, who has previously worked with DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE and KAMELOT, among others.
The "Not Supposed To Sing The Blues" digital single was made available on March 9.
Commented EUROPE singer Joey Tempest: "Kevin Shirley did such a great job capturing the spirit of this band. He just let us do our thing and then pushed us and our songs to the max. Finally we express ourselves completely without restraint. Straight from heart and soul. It took some time but we have arrived!"
Added EUROPE guitar virtuoso John Norum: "Why drive VW beetle when you can drive a Rolls Royce?! 'Bag Of Bones' is a classic rock album with lots of class. Even my mom likes it!"
Regarding the new CD title, EUROPE drummer Ian Haugland said, "It's not [called 'Bag Of Bones'] because we all have lost tons of weight or found a new interest in archeology or dogs... It's just because it sounds fuckin' cool!"
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1. What's your take on Paul?I don't care about him unless he mess with Michelle & Jo.2. What do teams have to do next week in that "steamy" challenge?Turkish bath?... Michelle & Jo in a turkish bath 3. What was/were the best moment(s) of Leg 5?Jo showing Michelle she's smart enough to complete the roadblock.4. Did Paul knock Grace over on purpose?Yes he did, because Michelle & Jo were there too so he wanted to show them he is a macho alpha.5. Do Ross and Tarryn stand a chance of surviving?If they are consistent and fast like Michelle & Jo they could.6. Who will and who should win the next leg?Michelle & Jo for both questions.7. Which teams are your predicted final three?Michelle & Jo.8. What will make the next leg the "most surprising leg"?Michelle & Jo not being strong?
How could Grace think Paul pushed her in purpose? For this girl to be a real donkey , she is only missing the wings...
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May Khoury-Lagan " Coffee Table"
At Design Interviews
Interview with May khoury : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. May khoury : The main priciple in my design is the fusion of two cultures in one piece.The unity of the old jordanian brass piece & the Uzbek textile ,formed a modern structure, that can be utilized within any interior. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. May khoury : I wanted to expose our new generation to designs that incorporate old crafts which are fading away. It is somehow an educational functional piece, defining two different cultures. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. May khoury : I would like this winning design to open new venues for me &expose my creations & work to European Designers & others. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. May khoury : It took me 2 days to design this concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. May khoury : This design was not comissioned, I just decided as usual to pursue an inspiration .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. May khoury : I plan to sell the production rights. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. May khoury : It is not unusual for me to design such a piece as this is the exact original concept of design that I always follow. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. May khoury : No, it is completely my idea .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. May khoury : Any customer who would like to own a piece of craft that has a story behind it will purchase this design. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. May khoury : This design is unique in including two old pieces of heritage, that compliment each other forming together a design that isn't related to their original funtion. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. May khoury : Lagan is the arabic word used to name the old brass washing utensil piece, so I named it accordingly. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. May khoury : I used very simple tools as the design & formation of it is very simple indeed. (Less Is More) .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. May khoury : The unique aspect of my design is the choice of old heritage pieces to be the main componant of the design. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. May khoury : I worked with a very simple carpenter & upholsterer to produce my design. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. May khoury : There is no role of technology in this particular design, as it is a straight forward procedure that needed very simple carpenter & upholsterer. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. May khoury : I wasn't influenced by any data, or did any research for making my design. It is an inspiration & a passion. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. May khoury : I didn't face any challenges as the design was produced exactly like I designed & visualized it. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. May khoury : I received an email & responded to it, since Iam a designer & my show room has a lot of my creations. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. May khoury : My vision & mission behind my designs was confirmed when my design became a winner. I learned to follow my passion always. .
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On Nov. 14, 2004, a bus driver with Eyre Tour and Travel was chatting with his sister on a hands-free cellular phone as he drove 27 students down the George Washington Memorial Parkway towards the Mount Vernon Estate, according to Ted Lopatkiewicz, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board. The 12-foot tall bus was traveling at about 45 miles per hour in the right hand lane when it collided with the 10-foot, 2-inch stone arch of the Alexandria Avenue Bridge.
As the momentum of the bus carried it beneath the bridge span, its roof was torn from its frame. It stopped 470 feet past the bridge, according to the NTSB. Ten students were injured, one seriously. The NTSB concluded that the driver did not brake until the bus had hit the bridge.
In the left lane of the parkway, the bridge has a 13-foot, four-inch clearance. The 44-year-old bus driver had passed warning signs indicating this. He acknowledged to investigators that he had been talking on his phone. Scott Fear, a spokesman for the National Parks Police, which oversees the parkway, said the driver was charged with reckless driving and failing to obey a traffic sign.
Two years later, the NTSB, has issued a report on the accident that calls for federal and state governments to prohibit motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones while driving their vehicles, except in emergencies.
"The Safety Board concluded that the driver's cognitive distraction resulting from his use of a hands-free cell phone caused the accident. The use of either a hand-held or hands-free cellular telephone while driving can impair the performance of even a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) holder," reads an NTSB news release. "Payment for transportation services creates an implicit contract between the passenger and the carrier that the carrier will transport the passenger safely and not allow the vehicle operator to take unnecessary risks."
The NTSB also found that the low vertical clearance of the bridge, which does not meet current standards, contributed to the accident.
MIKE MCDONALD, Eyre's Director of Operations, said the company has a no-cell phone policy for all of its drivers. It was put in place on Nov. 15, 2004.
He said that even hands-free phones can cause major distractions for drivers. "Even though they follow the laws of being hands free, it's not a matter of your hands being on the wheel, it's a matter of your mind being on what you're doing."
McDonald said that in 2006, the number of collisions in Eyre's 39-bus fleet dropped 50 percent compared to 2005.
The NTSB's Lopatkiewicz said a lack of data makes the impact of cell phone use difficult to determine. The NTSB called for all states to include categories for cell phone use in their accident report forms.
The recommendation to ban cell phones for bus drivers was sent to the Federal Department of Transportation, which establishes requirements for commercial drivers' licenses, and to the governments of all 50 states and D.C., which are responsible for issuing drivers' licenses. It called for legislation in every state to ban cell phone use by bus drivers. Lopatkiewicz said about 82 percent of NTSB recommendations are adopted by their recipients.
Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said the agency would consider the recommendation. "We received NTSB's recommendation and look forward to working with them. Motor coach operators must ensure that their operations are safe and their drivers are reliable, and we need to seriously consider all opportunities to improve motor coach safety."


text: Founded in 1962 in Santa Barbara, California, the hotel chain is synonymous with great travel value. The first hotel in Santa Barbara still carries the torch today, but a lot has changed for the motel chain that pioneered the first real economy motel designed for the no-frills traveller. The air-conditioned hotel welcomes guests in a lobby.


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mandible necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Australian independent filmmakers who are going online to promote and self distribute our film online. We have completed the film and we have just launched our website that has been built using a http://www.pagelines.com theme Station Pro.
We want to build a fan base we can communicate with and sell the DVD of the film directly online.
We are horror fans ourselves but lack the design skills to reach out and grab the attention of our audience.
This film targets a young audience 17 - 30 and also other indy filmmakers out there who will buy the film just to see how we did it on such a small budget.
From our test screenings the younger end of this demographic seem to get off on it the girls like the hot guy in it and the guys like the Maddy character is hot.
The crazy horror fans are blown away with the scary characters i the film. We have already had requests for models and figures of the characters.
We need a new main page interface design.
We want to impress and we want fans to subscribe to our list, follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook Fan page. That is the main purpose of the home page. Want the Title to standout.
Quite frankly I think it sucks as far as the way it looks from a design
perspective, I do like certain aspects of it such as the evil Twitter bird and the Facebook logo at the bottom and RSS icon. I am using an Aweber standard email form but I would like it to blend into the overall site better - I know you can customize these.
I do like the structure of the theme because I want to communicate with my audience over time, build up a community/fan base using the blog, email list and social networking which this theme is structured to do.
What I need is some help with the main page layout and background design. It is a bit flat at the moment, nothing jumps out. I want it to look like a movie site but not a complete Flash site.
My site is http://www.thegatesofhellmovie.com
These are sites I like the look, feel and quality of just not all in
http://www.purepwnage.com - although this is not horror I like the design without ads
I have heaps of photos from the film of characters and sets etc that I can supply.


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2012 Emmy Awards Winners: Find Out Which Nominees Scored Big!
The 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards aired Sunday, September 23, at 7 p.m. EST, and all the big names of TV stardom came out to see which of the top shows could truly be crowned the best! But which one of your favorite series and celebs took home the top awards?


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LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage championed by Prime Minister David Cameron, despite stronger-than-expected opposition from within his Conservative Party.
In a first House of Commons vote, lawmakers voted 400 to 175 in support of the legislation. There was strong support from the left-leaning Labour Party and Liberal Democrats party, but many Conservatives rejected the proposals.
The bill will have to go through more detailed parliamentary debates and a vote in the House of Lords, where a vote in favor is likely given the strong support Tuesday. If it becomes law, the proposed bill would enable same-sex couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies, provided that the religious institution consents.
Earlier, Cameron – who did not attend the debate – said passing the bill is "an important step forward" for Britain.
"I am a strong believer in marriage. It helps people commit to each other and I think it is right that gay people should be able to get married too," he said. "This is, yes, about equality. But it is also about making our society stronger."
Officials have stressed that all religious organizations can decide for themselves if they want to "opt in" to holding gay weddings. However, the Church of England, the country's official faith, is barred from performing such ceremonies unless it changes its laws.
The bill would also allow couples who had previously entered into civil partnerships to convert their relationship into a marriage.
Critics say the proposals would change long-standing views about the meaning of marriage. Some Conservatives also fear the proposals would cost the party a significant number of votes in the next election.
"Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon," Conservative lawmaker Roger Gale said.
If passed, the bill's provisions would come into effect in 2015, ahead of the next British general election.


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Ka Ka Mundi, Carnarvon National Park, has more than 30 kilometres of sandstone escarpments and plateaus, dry rainforest surrounding clear springs and brigalow scrubs on clay soil. Aboriginal people have close ties to the area. Ka Ka Mundi suits wilderness seekers. Self-sufficient visitors can bush-camp near Bunbuncundoo Springs, however there are no visitor facilities. Experienced walkers with compass and map will enjoy exploring. The park is best to visit in cooler months, though mornings can be frosty.


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On 26 August, I arrived in Niamey, Niger, as member of a ShelterBox Response Team, along with team member Fiona McElroy from the United Kingdom. The area is experiencing its worst flooding in 50 years, and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had put out a request for assistance.
Prior to the flooding, the country was already struggling with an invasion of locusts, a cholera epidemic, a flow of refugees from Mali, and a food shortage affecting all of the Sahel region. The flooding has seriously stretched the government's resources.
This is my third deployment to Niger. It was a pleasure and a benefit to our mission to reconnect with my good friend Gaston Kaba, a Rotarian and past district governor, and work with other high-ranking government officials. Fiona has been a great asset with her ability to coordinate with the other NGOs responding to the disaster. Through her efforts, the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), based in France, pegged us as the logical agency to receive disaster relief money from USAID, and we were able to respond to a 48-hour deadline to receive the funds.
Those funds, coupled with US$417,000 from donors around the world, allowed ShelterBox to supply 1,000 tents, mosquito nets, and water purification straws to families in the region. We have been working closely with the governor of the region to put the supplies to the best use. Families in two other significantly affected regions, Dosso and Tillabary, are being assisted by UNICEF and ACTED.
A second response team will continue our efforts after we return. It is a real privilege to represent ShelterBox as a response team member. I am particularly grateful to all the donors within the Rotary family for making my presence here possible. ShelterBox is a dynamic and effective player on the world stage and with your ongoing support, we will continue to help our brothers and sisters who are most vulnerable.
Learn more about Rotary's partnership with other organizations including ShelterBox.


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This small hotel and lodge in Talkeetna, Alaska offers 21 clean and modern rooms, and a neat and rustic restaurant where you can enjoy alaskan and swiss specialties. The cabin rentals at the Swiss-Alaska Inn are in a woodsy area only a 5 minute walk away from Main Street of historic Downtown Talkeetna, and right next to the public boat launch.
Whether you are a family on vacation, a business man, or a mountain climber who's looking for a "base camp" before the big Denali adventure, your hosts Renamary and Vern Rauchenstein will make your stay comfortable and memorable.
"Many travellers of all nationalities visit us – and we welcome them all! Even though english and swiss-german are our main languages, we can understand everybody!"
Click here to make a reservation request. We are looking forward to seeing you soon at the Swiss-Alaska Inn in Talkeetna, the wonderful southside of Denali (Mt. McKinley).


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Our designers continually crank out new limited edition products made in small batches to keep you (and your bike) looking fresh and unique. These products sell out
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Plugs, Lures and Spinners
A selection of Plugs, Lures and Spinners for Predator Fishing, including products from E-Sox, Yo-Zuri, Sebile, Mepps and CJT.
We have lots more products in store than currently displayed here. If you can't see what you are looking for, please contact us for advice. We can also take your order over the phone (01323) 460441.


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Less about the coffee, however, and more about the place / people / culture / market.
I need to formulate my thoughts and then will write something up.
I will - however - say this much (as a teaser)...
Apex is one of my favorite beer bars in the world.
The Pork Belly Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich at Bunk Bar is sick.
To understand why coffee in Portland is what it is, you need to understand the weird mix of DiY/indy and taste/flavor and passion/craziness that drives people who create places like Apex and Bunk Bar (and Pok Pok and Le Pigeon and and and). And you need to understand the people in Portland and why the support these lovely lunatics.
Let me ponder and expect something odd soon.


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Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2012. There are 81 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, also known as "Vatican 2."
On this date:
In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga.
In 1811, the first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana (built by John Stevens), was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
In 1862, during the Civil War, Confederate forces led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart looted the town of Chambersburg, Pa.
In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C.
In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, Mo.
In 1932, the first American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in New York.
In 1942, the World War II Battle of Cape Esperance began in the Solomon Islands, resulting in an American victory over the Japanese.
In 1958, the lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.
In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. The government of Panama was overthrown in a military coup.
In 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
In 1992, in the first of three presidential debates, three candidates faced off against each other in St. Louis, Mo. — President George H.W. Bush, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and businessman Ross Perot.
Ten years ago: The Senate joined the House in approving, 77-23, use of America's military might against Iraq. Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. A man was shot to death at a gas station near Fredericksburg, Va., in the latest slaying by the Washington-area sniper. A chain reaction crash on a foggy interstate near Cedar Grove, Wis., killed ten people and injured 40 others. A teenager set off a homemade bomb inside a crowded mall in Vantaa, Finland, killing himself and six others.
Five years ago: The Bush administration reported that the federal budget deficit had fallen to $162.8 billion in the just-completed budget year, the lowest amount of red ink in five years. Cold medicines for babies and toddlers were pulled off shelves amid concerns about unintentional overdoses. Briton Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature. Werner von Trapp, a member of the musical family made famous by the musical "The Sound of Music," died in Waitsfield, Vt., at age 91.
One year ago: Presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead in a time of economic peril but sounded less conservative than his Republican rivals in their debate in Hanover, N.H., defending the 2008-2009 Wall Street bailout and declaring he could work with "good" Democrats. U.S. officials accused agents of the Iranian government of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. The U.S. women rolled to their third title at the world gymnastics championships held in Tokyo. The Detroit Tigers won their first game of the 2011 AL championship series, sweeping past the Texas Rangers 5-2 in Game 3.
Today's Birthdays: Author Elmore Leonard is 87. Actor Earle Hyman is 86. Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry is 85. Actor Ron Leibman is 75. Actor Amitabh Bachchan is 70. Country singer Gene Watson is 69. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is 62. Rhythm-and-blues musician Andrew Woolfolk is 62. Actress-director Catlin Adams is 62. Country singer Paulette Carlson is 61. Actor David Morse is 59. Actor Stephen Spinella is 56. Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 51. Actress Joan Cusack is 50. Rock musician Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms) is 50. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 48. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 47. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Chris Spielman is 47. Actor Luke Perry is 46. Country singer-songwriter Todd Snider is 46. Actor-comedian Artie Lange is 45. Actress Jane Krakowski is 44. Rapper U-God (Wu-Tang Clan) is 42. Rapper MC Lyte is 41. Figure skater Kyoko Ina is 40. Singer NeeNa Lee is 37. Actress Emily Deschanel is 36. Actor Matt Bomer is 35. Actor Trevor Donovan is 34. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is 27. Golfer Michelle Wie is 23.
Thought for Today: "When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting." — Jean Renoir, French movie director (1894-1979).
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Today in History - Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012
Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2012. There are 81 days left in the year.


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For those of you over on Instagram, it's been indulgently documented that our family brought home a new Brittany spaniel puppy a couple weeks ago. Meet Aengus, featured here with his favorite Orvis antler chew toy! I'm so in love with this little guy! Britts are a hunting breed and are more pointer than spaniel, which means they're active and need a lot of exercise. They are also spectacular family pets, and very loving and gentle with children. Our boys could not be more smitten.
We found Aengus through a breeder near Portland, Oregon. When the time came to bring him home, I packed a bag and boarded a flight that arrived in PDX in the evening, just in time to dump my bags at the Ace, and head out to dinner at Pok Pok.
When I was wine and spirits editor at Bon Appétit, I found myself in Portland and the Willamette Valley pretty regularly for work. Perhaps what I miss most about Portland are the bartenders. I was reminded of just how much when I cozied up to the bar at Pok Pok and ordered a Tennessee Stud cocktail with bergamot-infused bourbon, fresh lemon and Peychaud's Bitters.
It was a perfect companion to the plate of Ike's Vietnamese Fish Sauce fiery wings, one of Pok Pok's signature dishes. My mom grew up in Buffalo, NY, and so when I see wings on the menu, I feel it's my filial duty to order them. These were outstanding, tossed in Phu Quoc fish sauce, dipped in a rice flour and tempura flour batter and fried in rice bran oil.
If you thought things couldn't get better, think again. Enter a plate of Muu Paa Kham Waan, which was wild boar collar meat with garlic, coriander root and black pepper in a spicy chili lime sauce. It comes with a side of sticky rice, and you take a pinch of rice and then pick up the boar meet. There are no words…
Not shockingly, I woke up the next morning in need of coffee. And even though Stumptown is in the lobby of the Ace, I knew that a superior cup could be found a short drive away at the newest location of Ristretto Roasters. I'm in love with Ristretto's new café on NE Couch Street and loaded up with several pounds of El Paraíso beans from Colombia. For the drive, I also pocketed a fig buckwheat scone baked by former Spago and Campanile pastry chef Kim Boyce. (When I got home, I discovered that the figgy scone recipe is included in Boyce's awesome cookbook, Good to the Grain. Yeehaw!)
The drive out to Wind Mountain Kennels from Portland, Oregon, to Carson, Washington, was pure beauty. We snaked along the Columbia River, crossing the steel truss cantilevered Bridge of the Gods as we approached state lines.
Looking over at our new sleeping puppy on the drive back to the airport, I thought how lucky we are to live on the West Coast. There is so much beauty in the world, much of it a short road trip away, and I for one need to remember that life is about finding the time to stop and smell the coffee, savor the Northern Thai street food, and cuddle up with a new friend.


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SAN DIEGO -- While there are a growing number of OpenStack code distributions and more to come, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says inefficiencies remain around being able to easily deploy and manage OpenStack clouds.
Canonical's answer to that is Juju, an open source service orchestrator that provides a simple graphical user interface (GUI) to launch and manage OpenStack-powered clouds.
Shuttleworth wants to make building clouds as easy as choosing features from a drop-down menu and connecting them. To prove it, he demoed Juju at the OpenStack Design Summit by updating an OpenStack cloud powering a production instance of WordPress from the Essex release of the code to the newest Folsom release in less than three minutes.
MORE OPENSTACK: "The clock is ticking" on OpenStack, Forrester analyst says
MORE CANONICAL: Uproar over Amazon search results in Ubuntu
Canonical, maker of Linux-based OS Ubuntu, has spent the last six months developing Juju, and Shuttleworth says it can run across any Linux OS, although he points out that Ubuntu is the leading OpenStack OS.
As an open source project, Juju is made up of "charms" that are contributed by individual developers for deploying certain features within the platform. For example, in the WordPress demonstration, Shuttleworth showed how he chose a memcached charm from a dropdown menu and plugged it into his OpenStack-powered cloud that was running a SQL server. Adding charms for identity management, storage and other features would have been just as easy to do from the dropdown menu. Users can access the system through a public cloud -- Shuttleworth was using HP's -- or deploy Juju behind a firewall.
Juju eases the deployment of cloud features from potentially taking weeks, to literally taking minutes, Shuttleworth says.
OpenStack Executive Director Jonathan Bryce says improving usability of OpenStack is a key area that has seen increased activity in recent months. "People eventually want to deal less with the infrastructure," he says, and just have a way to easily deploy new features within their cloud.
There are similar features available to do this sort of work, most notably Chef, another open source orchestration tool, but its focus is not on a simple and elegant GUI like Juju.
Other third-party apps also aim to ease the deployment process for accessing cloud resources, such as RightScale and enStratus, but those are more portals to control cloud instances rather than architecting the systems, as Juju does.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at email@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.


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I don't quite know how to start this column so I'll begin with its ending: "I'm fine."
I am asked as much, if not more, than the next person how I am doing. It's a standard courtesy offered up every day between many unsuspecting askers and most often provides answerers an opportunity to nonchalantly move the conversation along without too many fits and starts. For a cancer patient like myself, however, whose status, situation and story is likely known in advance (generally speaking) of most casual meetings that occur, the question/greeting, though well-intended, doesn't exactly fall on deaf ears, and certainly does not conjure nonchalance; at least not in my head, and that's where this problem really starts.
Of course, I want people interested in my health. Of course, I want people to be courteous and respectful to me. Of course, I want people to engage me and treat me like the non-terminal patient I'm not. I aspire to be normal so I want to be treated normally, and normally, being treated as such wouldn't bother me. And it doesn't bother me, really. What it does do however, is jump-start/remind my brain of my less-than-ideal health circumstances: stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Hardly the cross I wanted to bear beginning at age 54 and a half – after a life of not smoking, with no immediate-family history of cancer.
And given the fact that I semi pay attention to my surroundings and take notice of what I see and hear, when asked a question of health-related substance – sincerely, I am loathe to answer the question "monosyllabically." If I do control my responses and don't burden the questioner with a brief but humorous accounting of my most recent cancer-related anecdote, in my head I will have already gone there and done that: meaning, just because I don't say anything, don't presume for a second that my brain hasn't already considered how in fact I am doing and reviewed all the gory details. So whether anybody intended it – and I'm not sure anybody did, when I'm asked this most innocent of questions, my reaction is anything but. My reaction is a non-verbal, instantaneous re-living of the past four years, beginning with my visit to the Emergency Room on January 1, 2009. And as much as I think about my circumstances – on my own, what few breaks I allow myself are invariably cut short when someone, anyone has the good nature to inquire how I'm doing.
Still, being ignored is no good. Being treated with kid gloves is no good. Being cautious is no good. Being super-sensitive is no good. Being over-reactive is no good. Being pitied is no good. Being alone is no good. Moreover, being diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer is absolutely no good. As much as I want to live long and prosper and consider all the hope the future has to offer, cancer controls from within, often subconsciously. That's what I hate the most; the changes it causes in your head: your reactions, your assessments, your sense of proportion, your sense of self, etc. It's all different. I can live with it, but it does cause me to sometimes make mountains out of molehills and molehills out of mountains; with very little consideration of the mole.


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Lisa, in the modeling world, unless you are performing a calculation(like
on phone number), i've always been told to make them character.
>>> lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com 08/30/01 01:33PM
I'm hitting a wall here. I'm trying to load data into a large table. Two of the fields are phone numbers (10 digits). The database field is defined as number(10). When I try to load these records, they err out with an error similar to below.
Record 858: Rejected - Error on table
INV_OWNER.FPSITE, column FPS_AFFIL_LTD_PTS_FPS. ORA-01722: invalid number So I change the fields to character, get the data in and it truly is all 10-digit numbers. I'm wondering if I'm missing something in the format. The doco says that INTEGER EXTERNAL is to be used for "human readable" numbers, non-binary, when you want to specify the length. The length I've chosen is correct. I can even create a table with number(10) columns and insert the varchar(10) phone number data into it!
What am I missing? I really do not
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Ayden-Grifton gave its longtime coach something to remember for the road.
AYDEN � Ayden-Grifton gave its longtime coach something to remember for the road.
Mike Stancil went the distance and Connor Bowen�s pinch-hit two-run double in the fifth helped open things up as the Chargers defeated South Lenoir 7-2 on Wednesday to claim the Ray Avery Easter Tournament crown in the last one that head coach Chris Ross will be a part of.
After the game Ross, who has been at the program�s helm since 1983, announced to members of the media that he was stepping down at season�s end.
�This is bittersweet. This is my last Easter tournament,� said Ross, who fought back tears. �Thirty years I�ve done this. The good Lord�s blessed me. I will always remember this one.
�The kids knew this was my last one, and they played as hard as I think they�ve played all year long. They gave me a very good present today.�
This one lived up to the hype early. The Chargers (11-4), who were going for a 3-0 run in their own event, were facing a South Lenoir (5-7) team that was coming off a big win over Farmville Central the night before.
The two teams will also be conference foes next year as members of the Eastern Carolina 2A Conference � which Ross will preside over, he said � adding to a small but budding rivalry between the schools that meet in this tournament, now in its 17th year, just about every season.
But in the fifth, Ayden-Grifton ended the hype.
The Chargers scored six runs on three walks, run-scoring doubles by Bowen and Clay Wilson and an error.
Walker Stocks� RBI single led to the first run that broke a 1-1 tie, then Bowen, who came in to hit for Jake Wilkins, plated two more with a liner to right-center field that scored Blake Allen and James Dykes.
Wilson followed with a double of his own that scored Bowen to make it 6-1, then Hunter Cannon reached on an error to score Cody Conway, who walked.
The Blue Devils used two pitchers in the inning � starter Will Graves and Justin Howard � and both had a hard time finding the strike zone.
�It was just a team effort � pesky hitting, good pitching,� Ross said. �I pulled every card I knew as a coach.�
Until the big inning, this one was tied and as tight as expected. Allen drove home a run in the top of the first � Ayden-Grifton played as the visitor on its own field � then South Lenoir tied it with Trint Turner�s ground-rule double in the second.
It was a stalemate from then on until the fifth. Stancil struck out seven and gave up one earned run on six hits with zero walks. Conversely, walks plagued the Blue Devils. Graves, Howard and Wade Wetherington combined for five walks and 11 hits.
Brett Davis went 3-for-3 to lead South Lenoir, which had only six hits.
Pamlico and Ayden-Grifton each went 3-0 in the event, but the tie breaker went to the Chargers. They allowed only four runs in three games while the Hurricanes gave up seven.
Although Ross won�t be in a uniform at Chargers� games next season, he will still be a part of what�s going on. He said he is returning to the classroom where he will teach physical education and will also remain the school�s athletic director, a position he�s held since 2010.
But the idea that he will not coach in this event next year hit Ross close to home.
�When you�ve done something for 30 years it�s going to be tough to walk away from it,� he said, �but it�s the right time to walk away from it.�
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Berel and Sara Kruglyak
Berel was educated by his uncle Matityahu Globman. He was educated in the spirit of tradition and was connected to it even though he was not observant at all. He would worship with a nice voice and was interested in the cantorate. At a young age, he led the services on the High Holidays as well as the three festivals (Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot) in the Mark-Shuelchl synagogue. He voluntarily took the place of a hired cantor in that synagogue for many years. When he was offered payment, he would donate it to one of the local charities (the hospital or the old age home).
Berel was a contributing member of all of the Zionist organizations, with generosity and enthusiasm. He wanted to check out the possibilities of aliya for his family, and the opportunities for getting set up in an agricultural role in the Land. However this was in 1936 (July 8) when the disturbances were taking place in full force, and of course, it was difficult for him to make a positive decision.
Sarake was like Berel both had large hearts, were concerned about their fellowman, related well to people and were well liked. They were of a like mind with regard to the doing of good deeds, supporting those in need, feeding the hungry, and donating generously to all social organizations. Berel and Sarake were beloved and pleasant in their life, and in their death they were not parted
They were a seven-person family, two boys and three girls. The boys were drafted into the army when the Russians entered Bessarabia. The eldest fell in battle. Berel, Sarake and two of the daughters died when the Germans invaded Bessarabia, and the site of their graves is unknown. Of the seven-person family, only one daughter, Mania made aliya to the Land and set up a fine household. G-d blessed her with four children.
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Moshe Ravich
The Ravich household was known to all residents of our city, young and old. This was a family full of activity and full of merits. Its praise was not only heard in our city, but also outside of its bounds.
His father Velvel Ravich earned his livelihood by writing letters of petition to the civic offices and government.
Moshe was educated in his father's house with the conditions that were prevalent at that time. At first he went to cheder, and later, privately with his own initiative, he succeeded in obtaining knowledge of the Russian language and of general studies. He assisted his father in his work, also writing petitions and visiting government offices and the justice of the peace. He became known as a talented and intelligent youth.
At the end of the 19th century, Moshe was a leader in the effort to establish an agricultural school. To this end, he established contact with Y. K. A. in Paris. In 1898, he stood at the head of the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of Firma. He stood at the head of this institution that he loved for seven years, and fought valiantly for its existence. At the end, he had to liquidate it.
In 1902, M. R. founded the Jewish Public Library, and organized independent intellectual groups for the youth. At the beginning of his communal work, he dedicated himself to the Zionist idea and participated in Chovevei Zion conventions in Odessa along with Borsutsky. With the spread of the workers movement in Russia, he transferred to the Bund, and stood at the head of that movement for many years. He was elected to the Duma along with A. Borsutsky in 1905.
Ravich did not suffice himself solely with local activity. He always desired to spread his outlook on communal matters publicly, especially to large crowds. At meetings, he would speak in poor Yiddish, spiced with Russian words, as was the custom of Yiddish speakers at that time. Even though he had difficulty expressing himself, he won over the hearts of his audience with his content, and with the clarity of the idea that he was presenting. He contributed to the Bessarabian newspapers. His local articles and essays had great influence upon his readers.
Mr. R. saw the cooperative movement as an important popular social and economic enterprise. He invested a great deal of energy to it, and saw in it the solution to many problems that vexed the workers and those who lacked means. He dedicated himself to it with his whole heart and soul and worked for it until it was destroyed at the beginning of WWII.
He was the first of the founders of the two loan funds, the loan and savings funds, in our city (in 1906). He stood at the head of the committee of the fund for the middle class for many years. He worked for many years on the craftsmen's fund with all his enthusiasm, and he was the force behind and the founder of the Jewish cooperative shop in the city. This was an important matter at that time, for the supply of the market was disrupted in the country in general and in Orheyev in particular, and the workers were assisted in their ability to obtain vital necessities and low prices. The enterprise suffered losses, and closed after two years.
M. R. found a wide field of activity in the cooperative movement with the founding of the Union of Jewish Cooperatives in Bessarabia.
From the first cooperative convention (1921), at which he was elected as a member of the advisory committee, he was constantly active in the headquarters, he participated in all of the conventions, and the delegates heeded his advice and opinions. He especially endeared himself to N. Roitman, his friend from the beginning of the existence of the movement in Bessarabia.
M. R. contributed to the cooperative newspaper Dos Cooperative Vort. He published many articles to clarify matters of the movement. He struggled against the destructive influence of the masses of members who were influenced by various passing crises, and who were liable to bring serious damage to the cooperative. He always stood on guard for the matter, without veering from the path that he felt appropriate.
M. R.'s partner in life was his wife Rachel Isakovna.
She was an educated woman, beautiful, a daughter of the noble Suslik family, with a good heart that was open to the suffering of the worker and those who met ill fortune. Rachel dedicated the best of her energy to help the individual and the community. She was also a Bundist like her husband Moshe. She gave her entire essence to the organization of the workers; she urged them to revolution, and first and foremost to self understanding and labor uprightness, especially to the improvement of economic conditions. We recall the complaints that the well off women of the city had regarding Rachel's speech as the representative of the maids to improve their difficult working conditions. Rachel did not lose her resolve even though there was danger of imprisonment with this matter. She conducted the struggle with might and strength.
The role of Rachel along with another educated and active woman, Rivka the wife of Yaakov Levinson, in their concern for children is a story full of activity.
Even before the U. Z. A. (Uvshtshestova Zdarovia Yevreyev) Jewish hygiene organization was founded, a women's committee (Damen Komitet) under their direction was established. Both Rachel and Rivka organized a wide variety of assistance for children and those in need in a personal fashion.
Rachel, with her comprehensive cultural level, knew Russian literature very well, and she appreciated the popular language, Yiddish. She fought for the upper hand of this spoken language in the Jewish street. She was especially able to influence the community of workers in our city during the years of revolutionary unrest in Russia (1903-1905). The Ravich family was a bastion of opposition to Reactionary Zionism for many years, however, when the day of The hoped for Socialism arrived, they changed their outlook. As well, as the horn of Zionism rose on the Jewish street during the 1930s, they no longer thought with the same Ravichist stubbornness against the masses who regarded the Zionist movement as the solution to their national and social struggle. True democratic minds such as Moshe and Rachel took heed of the wishes of the people
At the end of their days, they were subject to wandering like the rest of the refugees of Orheyev. There they perished.
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Along with a group of parents, he established a Hebrew kindergarten and also took upon himself the yoke of heading this organization from the outset.
He was modest, upright, and refined. These traits stood out in the eyes of anyone who came in contact with him. People were attracted to chat and exchange ideas with him. People always took leave of him with a pleasant feeling.
Zvi was an enthusiastic Zionist even though he was not able to dedicate much of his time to the movement on account of his economic status. Nevertheless, he worked a great deal toward the establishing of the Tarbut Hebrew School. He bore the burden and did not stumble with obstacles. His wife Ida helped him and also bore the yoke. Both of them stand before my eyes as alive. It is hard to believe that they are no longer living. They did not succeed in coming to the Land. They perished along with their daughter Chasya and the rest of the Jewish people.
May their memories be bound in the bonds of eternal life.
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Nachum and Feiga Rotinsky
Nachum Rotinsky, his wife Feiga and their daughter Golda died in Ukraine, to where they fled from Bessarabia.
Nachum owned a store in the village of Selishte, where he lived with his family. He was known as an upright man who was careful not to disadvantage his fellowman, even a non-Jew.
Golda Rotinsky
Jews in need would come to the village, and they would find rest and food in his house, presented generously. He was known as a man who tended to his guests. Aside from this, he would send goods to the poor of Orheyev. He had an abundance of lamb meat during the season of the birthing of sheep. He would send this meat to the poor with his sons, along with a list of to whom it should be distributed.
His sons in the Land of Israel awaited the arrival of their parents to the Land, but this did not happen. They died among the martyrs along with their daughter Golda.
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Yitzchak Shapirin
Yitzchak the son of Efrayim Shapirin was born during the 1880s in the village of Chinisheutsy in the region of Orheyev.
He studied privately with a teacher in the village, and was a classmate of the late Meir Dizengof (Dizengof was from the adjacent village of Akimovitchi). He attained a wealth of knowledge in ancient literature. When he got older, he decided to leave the village because of his desire to expand his spiritual and social horizons. He met his wife in Orheyev and established a family with five children, four daughters and one son. He educated them in the spirit of the times.
He became involved in the Zionist group in our city. He was one of the regular visitors to the Borsutsky house. He was active and dedicated, faithfully bearing the yoke of duties to the movement. At the time of need, he took upon himself the role of commissar of the Keren Kayemet in our city. He filled this role tirelessly.
He was sensitive to all that happened on the Jewish street. He rejoiced at the news of the Balfour Declaration, and was upset at the news of the murder of Arlozoroff. He could not be comforted over this tragedy for a long time.
He was the type of activist who did not push himself to the head of the line. He never wished to take an official role, however when the community asked him to do so, he took it upon himself from an internal sense of duty.
When the social and financial crisis took place with the loan fund of the small scale merchants of our city, he took upon himself the leadership of this fund. He held this role for many years, despite the social and financial difficulties and obstacles. He had a unique character trait of being able to listen, to pay attention to and to talk with the bitter of heart and those who had a downturn. Therefore, he was beloved by the people.
He was quiet by nature, but he explained his ideas and opinions in such a fashion that even the few words were able to convince the opposing side. For his words were upright and penetrated the heart. He was asked to mediate any dispute, whether between individuals or with communal affairs.
Yitzchak Shapirin, the quiet and modest man, bore a great tragedy upon his heart for many years. His only son rejected the national Zionist tradition, and transferred to the Communist movement. He estranged himself to everything that was so holy to Yitzchak. He was finally imprisoned and sentenced to ten years of hard labor in the Doftana prison in Romania. After he was freed, he was forced to move to Russia. The last hope of the father that the only son would set up his home alongside the family was destroyed.
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May her memory be a blessing!
Her grandchild Moshe Ziserman
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Moshe and Rivka Shaiovitz
Avraham Shaiovitz
Liebe Shaiovitz
Moshe Shaiovitz and his family moved from Lalova on the banks of the Dniester to Orheyev in 1920.
The home of Moshe Shaiovitz in Lalova was dear to the people of Orheyev, who often visited Lalova.
They not only found a place to sleep, but also to visit at all hours of the day, without expectation of monetary payment. For the commandment of Hachnasat Orchim (tending to guests) was the constant wage of this family.
When this family moved to Orheyev they did not desist from the commandment of Hachnasat Orchim. For the Jews of Lalova and Stodolna would often visit Orheyev, and they were their constant guests.
In 1941, when the German and Romanian murderers destroyed Orheyev, the family was forced to flee for their lives along with most of the residents. The family wandered along the way for three months until they reached Tashkent in central Asia. The authorities did not permit them to remain in Tashkent even on a temporary basis, and they were forced to move on to Kokand.
Moshe, the head of the family, died in May 1942 when his energy was spent. His wife Rivka died a short time thereafter in Tashkent. Their son, the lawyer Avraham Shaiovitz died two days before the death of his father. Liebe Shaiovitz, also a lawyer, died in the Red Army in battle against the Nazis.
Four victims of one family, in such a short time!
The lawyer Yosef Shaiovitz, his brother Yitzchak (Izak) and their families, and the sister Miriam (Mania) arrived in the Land along with the refugees. Motel (Mordechai) Shaiovitz , an engineer, remained in the Soviet Union.
The wife of the late Avraham Shaiovitz along with their son Natan also arrived in the Land.
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31 October is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years), known for being the date of Hallowe'en. There are 61 days remaining in the year.
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- 1981: Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter at Godric's Hollow and is defeated for the first time when he fails to kill Harry Potter. The First Wizarding War ends.
- 1991: The first year Charms class topic is Wingardium Leviosa, the Levitation Charm. Later, the Hallowe'en feast is interrupted by the arrival of a Mountain Troll. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley save Hermione Granger from the Troll in the girls' bathroom. Professor Quirrell attempts to steal the Philosopher's Stone, but is thwarted by Severus Snape, who is attacked by Fluffy as a result. At some point during the day, a Slytherin student asks Harry if he has seen his magic hamster.
- 1992: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party takes place in one of the roomier dungeons at Hogwarts, and it is attended by many ghosts, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger. Ginny Weasley, under the influence of Tom Riddle's Diary, opens the Chamber of Secrets for the first time in fifty years. The basilisk that is released from the Chamber petrifies Mrs. Norris.
- 1993: Sirius Black enters Hogwarts Castle and attacks the Fat Lady when she refuses to give him passage to Gryffindor Tower. For security, all the students sleep in the Great Hall while the castle is being searched for any sign of Black.
- 1994: At breakfast time, Fred and George Weasley fail to pass Dumbledore's Age Line around the Goblet of Fire with an Ageing Potion. Later that day, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger visit Rubeus Hagrid and discover that he has a crush on Olympe Maxime. The Hallowe'en feast takes place at dinnertime and after it, the Goblet of Fire chooses the Triwizard champions — Viktor Krum for Durmstrang; Fleur Delacour for Beauxbatons; Cedric Diggory for Hogwarts and an unexpected fourth champion — Harry Potter.
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