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SQLAlchemysettings for HANA, express edition
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from sqlalchemy import create_engine engine = create_engine('sqlite:///:memory:', echo=True)
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I think I can go ahead and post this photograph though.
Arthur Métayer 1854-1943
This man is Arthur Métayer.
This is his daughter Azella.
Azella or Isabel?
This is where this picture came from…
It was sent to me two years ago. Isabel or Azella was Arthur Métayer's daughter.
Isabel had a sister named Alberta.
This is Alberta.
I am sure the woman who sent these pictures won't mind if I post them here on my blog.
Her e-mail address got lost in a computer crash last year so I can't ask for permission.
I am sure she won't mind because someone who is searching for someone's ancestors wrote me about Azella. He was not sure about her identity in my family tree on Ancestry.
He had Isabel instead of Azella.
We connected.
We both had the right information. Azella was Isabel and everything else fitted in.
I won't go much further with this, but I know I put a smile on someone's face once again.
Pictures are such an interesting way to connect with people.
Am I related to these people?
Just distant relatives.
Arthur Métayer is the brother of Édouard-Elzéar Métayer.
Édouard-Elzéar Métayer is my great-great-grandfather seen in the middle of the front row.
His son Édouard is in the back on the right smiling. His wife Angélina Renaud has her arm resting on his shoulder.
Édouard Métayer was a fireman.
Édouard later became a fire captain. He died in 1928 after an accident while responding to a fire alarm.
He is the one who is responsible for this blog.
I only had a faint memory of him… A picture at my grandmother's place when I was 6 years-old.
In 2007, strangely enough, I wanted to know more about him.
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Champ Car is going to race in China in 2007, but Champ
Car is an unknown quantity in China so the race promoter doesn't have a
lot to sell. However, that could soon change if German F3 points
leader Ho-Pin Tung is successful in getting Champ Car to give him a test
Tung lives in Holland so he carries a Dutch citizenship,
but he's also Chinese, which could make him a perfect fit for Champ
Car's new races, soon to be announced, in Holland and China.
I caught up with Tung in Montreal this past weekend.
MARK CIPOLLONI: Welcome to Montréal.
Ho-Pin Tung: Thank you.
Q. Ho-Pin is a Dutch-Chinese, Dutch citizenship, am I correct?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yes.
Q. Chinese ancestry.
Ho-Pin Tung: Correct.
Q. I understand you've been driving in German F3
this year, is that correct?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, that's correct. Been racing there this year. Pretty
successful. And so far I have won six races. With four races left, I'm leading
the championship by 20 points. Hopefully next three races we can keep
this pace and try to get the championship eventually.
Q. Before that you raced in Formula BMW, is that correct?
Ho-Pin Tung in Montreal
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Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, I did Formula BMW Asia in 2003. I won the
championship. After that I got a chance to drive the BMW Williams
Formula One car. This was in December 2003, which was a fantastic
experience, of course.
Ho-Pin, I understand that you didn't run a Dallara this year in F3, is
that true?
Ho-Pin Tung: That's true. Dallara has been dominating Formula 3 in
Europe the last couple years. I had to stick to one of the Lola
chassis for European Formula 3. Lola, being a British
manufacturer, set up a whole new project to try to fight into the
Formula 3 competition in Europe.
It was, for me as a driver, really interesting to be so much involved in
developing a car. Made myself a lot more complete as a racing driver.
Learned how to give the proper feedback about the car. We did a little
work together with Adam Airey, the designer of the Formula 3 car. He was
attending a lot of the races.
I was being able to set the car, to make developments to the car, which
suit me as a driver. That was a very interesting part for me of the
season. I really learned a lot from that.
Q. I understand all the engines aren't equal in F3.
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, there's quite some changes in Formula 3 engine-wise
the last couple of years. Before you had all the domestic championship,
like Opel was dominating Germany, Honda was Britain. So you had all
these championships.
Now you have Mercedes came into Formula 3 a couple years ago. They've
been really, really strong the last few years. And you can really see it
at the international races. They are dominating.
Q. So what kind of engine did you run?
Ho-Pin Tung: We run an Opel engine, yeah.
Q. There's a lot of Chinese in this world. There's a lot of Chinese in
China, a lot of Chinese outside of China. Do you feel they would take an
interest in the Chinese driver in a top level series like Champ Car?
Would that excite the Chinese around the world?
Ho-Pin Tung: Well, for sure. I'm convinced that many -- of course, me
being a European Chinese, being raised, grown -- born and raised in
Holland, I think a lot of people would be able to identify themselves
with me. There are many Chinese out of China.
Of course, besides that it's also great to see that even in China we are
really -- I'm really closely watched by the big TV stations, by all the
writing media. Yeah, that's a great response for me.
Q. So you live in The Netherlands?
Ho-Pin Tung: I do. I was born there. Raised over there. Yeah, it's my
Q. But your parents are Chinese, is that correct?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah. They emigrated I think like 28 years ago,
something like that, from China to Holland. They were originally from
Wenzhou, a city in the Zhejiang province in southern China.
Q. I understand you speak a number of languages, is that correct?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah. I speak Dutch, German, English, Chinese, French. My
Mandarin, I'm still improving on that. Of course, I grew up in Holland,
so it's a thing I have to work at. But I'm gradually improving.
Q. How did you learn all these languages?
Ho-Pin Tung: I've been to regular school in Holland, the pre-university
college. Went to university to do law and economics. But my
racing duties were taking so much time I couldn't finish that. So now
I'm full-time focusing on my racing career.
Q. So what brings you here to Montréal?
Ho-Pin Tung: Well, of course, I've been to a Champ Car race in Denver last
year. That was a great experience. To be here in Montréal again to visit
Champ Car is great. It's a fantastic race. I enjoyed it very much last
year. I enjoy it again now.
Q. You may win an F3 championship this year the way it looks. What's
your next step? Where are you looking forward to going next?
Ho-Pin Tung: Well, obviously I really am very keen to make a step up.
Champ Car is a very interesting series. Of course, there are many
options available.
I think GP2 would be great. DTM is an option. Champ Car would be
fantastic. Yeah, we have to see what's the best option for me.
Q. There's some strong rumors of a possible race in Assen, as well as in
China, next year for the Champ Car. You being Dutch and Chinese, would
that help you if they have races in those locations to find sponsorship
to help you move up?
Ho-Pin Tung: Well, it would surely be very interesting. That's a very
interesting point about Champ Car. It's a great series. They've got new
cars next year coming up. It looks very promising. And the future for the
series with Assen and China, you know, it can work on both
sides for me. It would be great to be competing in both countries.
In Holland we get a lot of support from the media, also from China. Last
week at the German F3 race there were eight journalists from China who came over, including
China Central Television, CCT. Yeah, that would be a fantastic
opportunity to be one of the
representatives for both of the races, of course.
Q. There's been a number of drivers recently who have made a step up
from Formula 3 level horsepower car up to Formula One even. Sebastien
Vettel most recently this past weekend stepped right in and was fastest
on Friday in the BMW Sauber.
These Champ Cars here are 750 to 800 horsepower. What is an F3 car? How
much horsepower?
Ho-Pin Tung: It's 210, 216.
Q. That's a big jump, an almost 600-horsepower jump. Do you feel you can
do something like that?
Ho-Pin Tung: Well, basically I feel I'm ready for that. In Formula 3,
you really learn to get -- to drive the car which has a lot of
downforce. Also engine power is something you get used to, I'd say,
pretty easily.
Formula 3 is extremely competitive in Europe. You really learn to race,
how to race a proper racing car. You can see, like you said, with
Vettel, who jumped straight from Formula 3 to Formula One. You have
Hamilton, Rosberg who are breaking into F1 from GP2. I think it's a very good
step up. Really a good basis to step up to a quicker series.
Q. Very interesting. So is your goal to try to get a test in
Champ Car?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, that would be a fantastic opportunity I think,
especially looking at the fact that Champ Car will be competing in Assen
and China next year. For me, it makes it even more interesting, of
It's a great series and got a very nice future with all the
technological improvements. Yeah, that would be fantastic.
Q. Where do you live in The
Netherlands? Amsterdam?
Ho-Pin Tung: No, it's about 100 kilometers from Amsterdam, quite near
the German border. For me it's quite convenient for me doing the German
championship, of course. But it's nice.
Q. Have you driven the Assen track?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, we recently raced there. Somehow, I never have had
much luck at Assen. I'm always quick over there, but couldn't translate
it into a good result. But, yeah, it's a nice venue.
Of course, everybody knows it from MotoGP. But they recently made quite
some improvements on the track to make it more suitable for cars as
well. I think they succeeded in that.
Surely for a Champ Car it would be pretty quick, I think, and with a lot
of high-speed corners so very exciting.
Q. I understand some of the corners are superelevated, banked.
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah. There's one corner called Stekkenwal, which in
Formula 3 in fifth gear -- I don't know exactly the speed, but 170
kilometers per hour. Champ Car would probably be faster. Yeah, they've
got some quite exciting corners.
The one before the chicane for start/finish is also flat out in sixth
gear, 230 clicks in Formula 3 already. Imagine arriving with a Champ Car
with 800 horsepower, that would be...
Q. Interesting. And have you seen the Zhuhai track?
Ho-Pin Tung: Yeah, I've been there a couple of times. Did some events
there. Drove there around with some racing cars, different racing cars.
Yeah, it's a very big and nice venue.
I think with some minor adjustments, it would definitely be suitable for
Champ Car, as well. They got all the facilities over there. Yeah, I
think it would be really nice if Champ Car as well to be in China.
Q. Very good. Thank you very much if your time today. I wish you a lot
of luck with your future.
Ho-Pin Tung: Thanks a lot.
Q. Hopefully we'll see you in Champ Car here someday.
Ho-Pin Tung: I hope so soon.
Q. Thank you.
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Safety - It's going to take more than just magic to fix
CART vs. IRL, Hatfields vs. McCoys
DRIVEN is CART's best chance to become mainstream
Is CART's problem really a lack of American's?
CART vs. NASCAR - TV Coverage
Bubbas' rule auto racing
Book review - Autocourse 2000/2001
Do heroes make a sport, or does a sport make heroes
To-Do-List, for CART's new President
Lawsuits, Will Greg Moore's final legacy to racing be more than one of…….
Tire Warmers, an idea whose time has come
BrandingCART and their race cars
Will CART's next leader be a corporate visionary?
AddressingCART's TV issues
CART, do you know who you are?
Will CART miss this boat too, - Destined to shadow NASCAR?
Why the new Indy Lights cars should meet IRLspecs
SoftWalls - drivers take a stand while you still can
CART Fan Forum - Highlights from CART's very first Fan Forum
Warren Hughes - A name to remember
CART restarts - NASCAR Style
Mario Andretti Tribute - America's Driver of the Century
Shift w/o Lift- How it works
Aerodynamics- CART's chance to make progressive changes
CART's HP dilemma
Soft Walls - Finally, a safer wall system
BuddyRice deserves a shot at Champ Cars
Choices, Choices, we rate possible new CART venues
CART must avoid Detroit's politics
10ways for CART to invest $100million
Montoya and Ganassi do CART proud at Indy
Welcome to AutoRacing1.com
A year of progress shapes Rockingham
A solution for CART's franchise dilemma
Lausitzring nears completion, fighting hard to win CART date
Paul Tracy keeps his Kool, wins LBGP for2nd time
What is an American driver?
Warming-up at Nazareth
172mph in a Champ Car is the ultimate adrenaline rush
Standing Start Rules proposed standing start rules for CART
Standing Starts are they right for CART?
Champ Car's Minardi 2-seater is the ultimate ride
For Alex Figge and PCM it's baptism by fire
A tribute to Alfred J. Cipolloni
Champ Car owners move to silence critics
Establishing a firm foundation for Champ Car
One-on-one with Champ Car President Steve Johnson
J.R. Hildebrand is one American going places in a hurry
What's new for Champ Car for 2007 - Part 1
Champ Car positions itself for international expansion
Paul Stoddart confirms interest in Champ Car
An inside look at Champ Car TV production
Ho-Pin Tung wants to be Champ Car's first Chinese driver
Stephen King explains Justin Wilson's novel Investor's Club
One-on-one with American sensation AJ Allmendinger
Champ Car moving forward without the IRL
One-on-one with Paul Tracy
Bruce Delahorne explains CDW's sponsorship in Champ Car
One-on-one with Justin Wilson
Champ Car bosses won't be bullied
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Part 1: NASCAR/ISC get dirty in Phoenix, out to destroy Open Wheel
The Rahals: Like father, like son
Why and IRL/Champ Car merger will be a big boost for the sport
Headless Open Wheel Racing appears doomed
Richard Lyons looking at Champ Car for his next challenge
We salute the champions of 2005
Is Jay Howard the next Ayrton Senna?
Interview with Grand-Am President Roger Edmondson
Otaru, Japan Champ Car race moving closer to reality
Champ Car's global appeal may ride on mimicking the Team
Australia concept
Champ Car's Surfers Paradise race promoter "gets it"
Champ Car cements another brick in its foundation
Custom built Champ Cars and Indy Cars
Interview with RuSPORT Team President Jeremy Dale
Conspiracy Theory: What Indy was really all about
Why the Champ Car/IRL war must end
How a
Champ Car and IRL merger might work
Will the battle for Long Beach destroy its Grand Prix?
Katherine Legge has her eyes set on Champ Car
Traveling Light Media - Just what the doctor ordered
Car lays out bold 3-year plan
Champ Car's 2005 driver lineup vastly improved
Hunter-Reay anxious to get racing again
with new team
That sucking sound you hear is NASCAR
Feud - The story of the murder of Mickey Thompson
Yes, Blame Tony and the CART defectors too
Interview with ALMS President Scott Atherton
2005 a foundation laying year for Champ
Kalkhoven talks Champ Car with AutoRacing1
Kalkhoven and Forsythe buy Cosworth from Ford
Carl Russo is bullish on Champ Car
Can this be Champ Car's next-generation car
Champ Car poised for major comeback
Champ Car Race Control - the 'Hot Seat Zone'
Open Wheel Racing is in serious need of consolidation
Champ Car South of the Border, An
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There is an easy way for Champ Car and the IRL to unify
From airport to race track, a race within a race
The 2-seater Car is one of Champ Car's biggest assets
Why Bernie Ecclestone could, and should, buy Champ Car now
Champ Car rocks the streets of Times Square in Manhattan
Why did Fernández leave Champ Car? Follow the money....
Next Generation Champ Car: A call for F1 tires
Coming to America? Interview with Ralph Firman Jr.
Open Wheel Racing defeats IRL - Champ Car
Series to continue
Open Wheel Racing needs a win by OWRS - Part
The next generation Champ Cars - Part 2
CART next for Villeneuve?
New deal for CART may be better than first thought
The genius of one Bernard Ecclestone
CART Champ Cars, the next generation - Part 1
Details emerging on CART race in Seoul, South Korea
CART hits a Grand Slam in Mexico City. Now What?
Top-10 Challenges facing new CART owners
CART can still race in Europe, but will they?
For CART, time is of the essence
Making sense of CART's situation
Push-to-Pass means no more parades for CART
An interview with CART's David Clare
What did Roger Penske really mean?
CART must differentiate itself - clearly
turbos make for superior street and race engines
For CART, it's now or never
Chicken or the Egg?
War of the worlds
What Bernie brings to CART
CART, Driven to where?
Is it really about CART vs. IRL?
If I were
The Champ Cars and St. Pete
informal survey of the St. Pete race attendees
Artificial Dissemination
CART, F1 coming to grips with doing business in China
Cancel the Funeral
CART and F1 must, and will, share a common V-10 engine
Book Review: Autocourse 2002-2003 F1 yearbook
Does CART need Michael Andretti?
2002 CART TV ratings by the numbers
Now is the time for CART to redefine its ladder system
CART gets a taste of tifosi passion in Mexico
affair in Mexico
Making sense out of Bernie/CART rumors
Changing of the guard?
Mom, apple pie, CART and....Formula1?
Why CART and Bernie make perfect dance partners
Miami should be a CART and ALMS kickoff party
David slays Goliath in Miami
What to make of Gurney's F1 team
Taking it to the streets, why Miami is a war
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CART still
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CART's real attendance numbers
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An Unappealing Appeal, George reigns in GEORGE-town
A candid
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More than meets the eye with CART's turbo move
It's time for CART to define its own future
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Back-Breaking work
rebirth of CART
hidden costs of Indy Car racing
CART's road and street circuits are clicking with the fans
Is it sport, or a P.T. Barnum show?
IRL at Fontana - a victim of friendly fire
CART's 2003 race venues #1 in the world
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ISC is making enemies in Miami
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WorkSafeBC has expanded an order to clean up wood dust that is an explosive hazard to include panel and wood pellet plants.
The order released today also includes pulp and paper mills.
The workplace safety agency already ordered the cleanup of sawmills in April after two deadly explosions in northern B.C. earlier this year killed four workers and injured dozens.
"Wood processing and paper product operations have been selected because of their high risk of combustible dust explosion due to large amounts of dust produced or handled in these facilities," Betty Pirs, vice-president of prevention services, said in a news release. "Like all WorkSafeBC inspections, orders will be issued to employers based on violations observed during the inspections," she said.
WorkSafeBC plans to have the first round of inspections of the 280 new plants complete by late August.
The inspections will focus on dust cleanup, ventilation and dust control issues.
In a first-round blitz of sawmills in early May, at least 11 B.C. Interior sawmills had hazardous levels of wood dust a week after WorkSafeBC issued cleanup orders, according to WorkSafeBC documents obtained by the Vancouver Sun through a freedom of information request.
The cleanup order to 173 sawmills was issued just one day after two workers were killed in an explosion and fire at Lakeland Mills in Prince George on April 23.
An explosion and fire at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake on Jan. 19 also killed two workers.
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Karen and Jim Reynolds, the couple who accidentally stumbled upon fugitive Christopher Dorner, describe finding him, being tied-up, what he said to them, and their eventual escape.
The chase, shootout, standoff and inferno that ended the search for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner began when a married couple startled the suspect in his mountainside hideout.
When Karen and Jim Reynolds arrived to tidy their rental cabin not far from a police command post, they found the alleged cop killer holed up inside.
"He said four or five times that he didn't have a problem with us, he just wanted to clear his name," said Jim Reynolds at a press conference late Wednesday. "He said I don't have a problem with you so I'm not going to hurt you."
"I didn't believe him, I thought he was going to kill us," he added.
Dorner, the target of the biggest manhunt in LAPD history, then tied them up, swiped their purple Nissan Rogue SUV and left.
"We haven't really been told what's happened to it," said Karen Reynolds.
Dorner might have had a chance to flee the Big Bear ski resort area where scores of police had conducted a door-to-door search for him — except Karen Reynolds got free, called 911 and alerted cops that a man who looked like Dorner was on the run, the officials said.
After a long manhunt culminating in gunfire and a cabin set ablaze, the search for accused murderer and ex-cop Christopher Dorner seems to have ended. Police say the charred body found inside the cabin was unrecognizable, but they claim there is no doubt their suspect is dead. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
"What we did was kind of scoot our way — I went up and she went down," said Jim Reynolds. "then she got her gag off and then we both worked on trying to stand up."
Earlier reports, based on statements from law enforcement officials, indicated that it was a pair of housekeepers who had been tied up by the suspect.
"We really very much wanted to clarify things," said Karen Reynolds, "but, it was taking us a whole lot of time to get over the trauma too and, like even by the time all the police were gone last night you guys [reporters] arrived immediately and, wasn't, we never slept for one second, since this happened."
The 911 call set in motion a dramatic and tragic chain of events in which one sheriff's deputy was killed in a gun battle outside a second cabin where the suspect's charred body would be found before the day's end.
"It was like a war zone and our deputies continued to go in to that area," San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. "The rounds kept coming, but our deputies didn't give up."
Police have not officially determined that the corpse found in the burned-out county was Dorner, who kept southern California in fear for a week as, authorities say, he carried out a murderous campaign of revenge against the LAPD. They are waiting for forensics.
The San Bernardino Sheriff's office has said they don't believe the gunman who barricaded himself inside the cabin escaped before it erupted in flames.
"We believe that this investigation is over at this point and we'll need to move on from here," said McMahon.
McMahon said police did not intentionally set the cabin ablaze, but the pyrotechnic tear gas canisters — commonly referred to as "burners," he said — generate a high level of heat.
It was when police began using the pyrotechnic canisters to flush out the suspect that the fire began.
The charred remains of the cabin where ex-cop Christopher Dorner was believed to have been holed up.
The LAPD, which had been under a series of tactical alerts while Dorner was on the lam has returned to normal operations on Wednesday, although a dozen people on hit list remained under guard, said Lt. Andy Neiman.
"Thanks to the brave men and women of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, it looks like we have our man," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" early Wednesday.
Investigators had been combing the ski resort area since Thursday, when Dorner's burned out Nissan truck was found there hours after he allegedly ambushed cops in two cities, killing Officer Michael Crain.
Days earlier, police believe, Dorner executed the daughter of a retired police captain and her fiancé in Irvine to kick off a killing spree that sowed fear across the region and in the ranks of law-enforcement.
After the man believed to be Dorner fled the cabin where he had encountered the couple, wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife spotted the purple Nissan and gave chase.
The suspect lost them and, it appears, ditched the Nissan and carjacked a white pickup.
Rick Heltebrake, 61, told TODAY on Wednesday that he was driving near the Boy Scout camp he operates when a heavily armed man he recognized as Dorner, 33, crawled out of the woods, pointing a rifle at him.
He said the hulking former Navy reservist was wearing camouflage and a ballistics vest and told Heltebrake, "I don't want to hurt you."
"He was dressed for action," Heltebrake said.
Dorner commandeered the pickup, but let the man and his dog go. Shortly after Dorner sped off, Heltebrake heard gunshots.
That may have been the brief exchange of fire between Dorner and another game warden who spotted the pickup and pursued it. The warden's truck was riddled with bullets, but he was not hurt, officials said.
Dorner then "fled into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin," the San Bernardino Sheriff's office said. "A short time later there was an exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and the suspect."
Det. Jeremiah MacKay, 35, was killed on Feb. 12, 2013, after exchanging gunfire with a man believed to be a fugitive ex-police officer accused of a revenge-motivated shooting spree.
Two deputies were shot and taken to Loma Linda University Hospital, where officials later confirmed sheriff's deputy Jeremiah MacKay had died and another had surgery but was expected to survive.
MacKay, 35, joined the department in 1998 and was father to a 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son.
"Our department is grieving from this event," said McMahon.
No further shots were fired from the Angelus Oaks cabin before police began to storm the building, according to a sheriff's spokesman.
Deputies smashed the cabin's windows, fired in tear gas, and tore through the structure's walls using an armored personnel carrier, a source close to the probe told NBCLosAngeles.com. A single gunshot then rang out, according to the source, and flames and smoke began to emerge from the remains of the building.
It was hours before police were able to enter the cabin and find the body. Investigators continued to scour the crime scene Wednesday as other police gathered in Riverside for the funeral of Officer Crain.
San Bernardino, Calif., County Sheriff John McMahon says that the sheriff's department did not intentionally burn down a California mountain cabin where Christopher Dorner is believed to have died. Watch the entire news conference.
Neiman said it was difficult to celebrate the apparent end to the rampage given the loss of four lives, two of them lawmen.
"This has been a very trying time," he said. "To hear those words 'officer down' is the most gut-wrenching experience you can have as a police officer," Neiman said.
Additional reporting by Andrew Rafferty
This story was originally published on Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:20 PM EST


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Farm Service Agency Disaster Assistance Programs at a Glance
The Agricultural Act of 2014 indefinitely extended the following four disaster programs that were previously authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill. The programs are made retroactive to Oct. 1, 2011. To be eligible for disaster assistance programs under the 2014 Farm Bill, producers are no longer required to purchase crop insurance or NAP coverage, which was the risk management purchase mandate under the 2008 Farm Bill.
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A devoted wife and mother of three, Lois Meade cleans houses in the quaint village of Long Farnden. When a local spinster is murdered, Lois finds herself poking around her clients' houses for clues. But her quest for the killer will uncover some surprising secrets about this seemingly peaceful village-and put her family in mortal danger.


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From time to time, we revive our in-house book club to catch up on new themes, practices, or ideas out there in the design world. This month, we're reading Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience, written by Jeff Gothelf and ex-Cooperista Josh Seiden. Inspired by Eric Ries's The Lean Startup, Lean UX takes aim at waterfall design and development processes and outlines a set of ways that UX designers can more deeply and helpfully engage in product development. The intent is to foster more open, collaborative, and iterative processes, and to break through the organizational red tape that can stifle creativity. The end goals: More trust, more clarity, more fun, and better products delivered quickly by a highly-functioning team. Managing Director Doug LeMoine caught up with Jeff and Josh to discuss the ways in which lean practices can superpower our (and your) UX work.
Doug: UX, as it is commonly practiced, is all about establishing a coherent vision for a product or service. Oftentimes, in striving for coherence, designers can slam the brakes on development, since no one wants to waste effort in developing something that's not part of that coherent vision. What is to be done with this state of affairs? How does Lean UX help here?
Josh: I do think establishing a vision up front is important. But I think that we often mistake how much work we need to do to establish and articulate that vision. If you're working in deep collaboration with a cross-functional team, you can establish, test, and validate a vision very quickly. So, instead of "slamming the brakes on developers," we advocating including them and other team members in the visioning activities early in the project.
The risk with design-centric early "vision" activities is that the work done in the vision phase frequently goes beyond "vision." Sometimes, in order to communicate a vision to outsiders, you need to articulate the vision with a level of detail that can create problems, because those details, while important to the communication, are not actually important to the vision. The risk is that these explanatory details get misunderstood later–and they start to cross over into requirement and specification. That's risky, because as you start to elaborate on the vision, you need to continue to validate those elaborations–but too often we build up a backlog of untested decisions.
The Lean UX approach is well articulated by our colleague Giff Contstable, who says, "Lead with vision, then test ruthlessly."
Jeff: One of the myths Lean UX helps dispel is that only designers have vision. In fact, every member of your product development team has something to contribute to the problem being solved. Including everyone from the beginning builds their points of view into the process. In addition, the feelings of inclusion and buy-in gained by including everyone translate into a much healthier and productive team environment.
Doug: This makes sense to me. You want to communicate a vision with enough detail to give it shape, but not so much that the detail distracts from the big picture ideas. So let me ask what may sound like the same question in a different way: How should designers contribute to a product vision? And how will they know when they've arrived at enough detail?
Josh: I think you need to step back and consider the point of the vision work. Who needs to share the vision? Why? In general, I've moved to collaborative "visioning" in which the designer facilitates the vision from the team and stakeholders. The designer can still form and express the vision, but it needs to represent a shared concept. In terms of detail, um… 42? I think you're sensing for evidence of alignment across the team and stakeholders.
Doug: Josh, you have a design background. How do Lean UX methods or techniques help you achieve your objectives as a designer?
Josh: I want my work to create a change in the world. A bad outcome for me is to create a deliverable filled with wonderful ideas that sits on a client shelf for 5 years. A good outcome is when my work helps create a product that achieves a goal for my client. Lean UX uses a variety of tactics to orient design work around outcomes. We recommend that teams consider not just the outputs they create (the deliverables, web pages, apps, and other things we make) but the outcomes of the work: the new user behaviors the work enables and the results those behaviors have on the business or organization that hired you.
Jeff: Designers should facilitate the team's journey towards realizing the vision. By bringing concepts familiar to designers, like brainstorming, empathy for the user and basic sketching exercises, to the non-designers on the team, designers are steering the team through multiple validation loops for their visions. In the process they are creating empathy not just for their customers but for the design practice as well.
Doug: Have you had success with any specific mechanisms for achieving this shift in focus from output to outcomes? I'm not asking after a magic bullet, but more wondering about techniques you've used that help you capture the right level of design, facilitate a focus on perhaps less spreadsheetable things, and remove the crutch of milestone deliverables.
Josh: This is certainly easier to do for internal teams than for consultants, where the contractual relationship is typically defined around deliverables. The basic mechanism for shifting this: "time and materials" to "contracts and trust."
Doug: Jeff talked about "getting out of the deliverables business" in his Smashing Magazine article. So … What business are you getting into with Lean UX? Is there a buzzy way to encapsulate that?
Jeff: We focus the teams we work with on a specific, measurable key performance indicator (KPI) they'd like to move. This KPI can be an indicator of a greater impact on the whole eco-system but we don't task the teams with affecting that higher-level impact. For example, we may ask a team to focus on reducing shopping cart abandon rates. This is a specific outcome that can be measured. It happens to affect revenue — but it's not the only KPI that does that so we don't task the team with impacting revenue. We want their work to be directly measurable so the team can react to these changes.
I suppose that if you're getting out of the deliverables business (and we all should be) then yes, we should be getting into the outcomes business.
Doug: How do you ensure that you're not throwing out the good stuff that (hopefully) gets baked into those deliverables – ie, the vision, the forest-level thinking?
Josh: First of all, the deliverable is not the thinking. It's a record of the thinking and an attempt to share that thinking. But the best way to share the thinking is to do it together with another human in the first place. So our first recommendation is always to create collaborations that allow teams to create shared understanding.
We don't advocate throwing away deliverables entirely though. Our friend Lane Halley (another former Cooperista) talks about the difference between leading documentation and trailing documentation. Leading documentation tells people what to do. It's a spec, a requirements book. We try to get rid of those, and replace them with conversation and collaboration. Trailing documentation is a record of what you've done and decided. It helps the team go back and recall what you've done and why. We advocate in favor of these documents because they help the team keep a record of their decisions.
Jeff: We advise the teams we work with to come up with a hypothesis backlog instead of a product roadmap. A hypothesis backlog is a prioritized list of ideas the team has come up with and wants to validate. Prioritization is often done using risk as the primary delineator and, as each idea is proven or disproven, the team moves its way through the backlog of untested ideas. This way, none of the good thinking is thrown out or forgotten.
Doug: Are there simple steps to begin implementing lean techniques within an in-house product team?
Josh: What we've observed is that the grass-roots approach can work if you start small and build on your wins. Start by reducing the formality of your deliverables and instead have more frequent collaborations. Grab a colleague and sketch together. Work with stakeholders to reframe your projects around outcomes. Set up weekly user test sessions. And get our book, which is filled with very practical descriptions of tactics you can use to get started.
Jeff Gothelf has spent a 14 year career as an interaction designer, Agile practitioner, user experience team leader and blogger. He is one of the leading voices on the topic of Agile UX and Lean UX. Jeff is a Managing Director in the New York City office of Neo.
Josh Seiden has been creating great technology products for more than 20 years. As a designer and leader, Josh has worked in hardware and software, consumer and enterprise, mobile, web, and desktop. He is currently a Managing Director in Neo's NYC office. Earlier, he was head of product design at Wall Street innovator Liquidnet, and lead pioneering interaction design teams at Cooper. He is a founder and past President of the Interaction Design Association.


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Jessica Ghawi had avoided mayhem at a Toronto mall only to be one of a dozen movie-goers in a Denver suburb to be killed Friday as a gunman terrorized the opening of the latest Batman movie. In a chilling blog post, the former San Antonian wrote that she credited a "feeling" for saving her life during the mall shooting.
"An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm's way," Ghawi wrote just three days after the June 2 shooting at the Eaton Centre Mall food court that left two people dead. "It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting."
Her receipt from the food court was stamped 6:20 p.m. The first shots were heard at 6:23.
Ghawi's reflection on the Toronto shooting she witnessed seven weeks ago resounded Friday: "I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday," she said. "I saw the terror on bystanders' faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change," she wrote.
"I was reminded that we don't know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath."
The 24-year-old sports journalist, who had moved to Colorado a year ago, died at the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," as her friend Brent Lowak — visiting from San Antonio — tried to stop her bleeding and ended up taking a bullet himself. At least 12 were reported dead and 58 critically wounded.
Hours earlier, Jessica Ghawi tweeted of her excitement about being at the premiere.
"Of course we're seeing Dark Knight," she posted.
The news of her death broke when her brother Jordan Ghawi, a Seguin firefighter who lives in New Braunfels, tweeted it a few hours later.
Her friend Lowak recounted the scene inside the theater to Jordan Ghawi, who reported it on his blog.
Lowak said Jessica Ghawi asked several times for someone to call 911 after the theater began filling with smoke and shots were fired.
He said he then heard her scream and saw she'd been shot in the leg. As he applied pressure to her wounds and tried to calm her, Lowak said he was shot in the legs and noticed Ghawi wasn't screaming anymore.
It appeared she'd been shot in the head.
In the blog, which he updated frequently throughout the day, Jordan Ghawi matter-of-factly describes what the coroner said happened to his sister in her final moments.
"Official cause of death is severe cranial cerebral trauma caused by a penetrating (gunshot wound) to the head. Essentially, she died quickly and painlessly. Now we will begin the process of bringing her home to celebrate her life."
When asked what he'll miss most about his younger sister, Jordan Ghawi responded, "Just her personality, and the light she brings into a room. The entire family is in complete shock, especially after the events at Eaton," the mall in Toronto.
Jordan Ghawi said he hopes to soon bring his sister's body home to Texas, where friends and family can gather and remember her.
Known professionally as Jessica Redfield, she'd been an intern at San Antonio's KABB-TV and radio station KTKR's "Sports Talk San Antonio" before moving to Denver.
Lowak's mother, Sue Greene, said Lowak underwent surgery for bullet wounds and shrapnel. She said her son, a limousine driver for the past four years, was awake and talking after the surgery.
Mike Mason, Lowak's boss at A First Class Limousine and Sedan Services in San Antonio, said the shooting was a "horrific nightmare" for Mason's wife, who loves Lowak like a son.
Mason said Lowak is studying to become a San Antonio firefighter.
"He's one of the nicest young men that I have ever encountered," Mason said. "We were just devastated to hear the news."
Daniel Rodriguez, a spokesman for San Antonio-based Santikos Theatres said the chain plans to increase security at its venues in the wake of the rampage.
"We're just shocked and saddened about what happened," Rodriguez said. "It was a senseless act of violence."
AMC Theaters released a statement saying it would no longer permit face-covering masks or fake weapons at its theaters.
Minor-league hockey player Jay Meloff, who was dating Jessica Ghawi and hoping to try out for Denver's Central Hockey League team, sent several emotional tweets about her death Friday.
"I shoulda kissed you, goodnight," he said.
"Every experience in life was amplified beyond my wildest dreams with you," he wrote in another.
Meanwhile, journalists who knew Jessica Ghawi blogged, tweeted and aired their condolences. BustedCoverage.com, a Denver-area sports blog where Ghawi was a hockey blogger until recently, posted a blog that described her as an aspiring sportscaster, writer and sports fanatic.
"Jessica was headed for big things in life," the blog says. "She could write, had a huge personality and possessed that Texan drive that was going to eventually pay off with a great career in hockey."
KABB-TV sports reporter Hector Ledesma remembered her for her boisterous personality and energy.
"She was really doing what she loved in journalism," Ledesma said. "She had a whirlwind personality ... really loud and funny."
Peter Burns, a sports radio host and friend of Ghawi's in Denver, tweeted a link to his "favorite memory" of her, a YouTube video of Jessica Ghawi performing her first interview with a professional athlete.
In the video, Jessica Ghawi — then with Sports Talk San Antonio — is seen falling and floundering about as she tries standing on ice in high heels next to Chris Summers of the San Antonio Rampage.
At one point, Summers jokingly instructs Ghawi to "face the camera a little bit ... or not fall."
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Correction: The movie theater complex in Aurora, Colo., where a mass shooting occurred early Friday is owned by Cinemark Theatres. Its owner was misidentified in a story on Saturday's page A1 of the Express-News and on mySA.com.


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78th St is a startup company building web applications for companies that want consumer style solutions to common problems in small to medium enterprises.
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We will be building a number of applications over time, and to be honest, we're not sure which ones will be successful. We want 78th St to represent a home for our diverse set of applications, a destination for daily use by customers and welcome a wide range of developing contributors to our project. It needs to be memorable & specific, but generic enough to support a diverse range of sub-brand applications. Examples may include 78th St Steps, 78th St Parking, 78th St General Store.
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There are few current streaks in sports as impressive as the Dynamo's 32-game home unbeaten run, standing just two short of Real Salt Lake's all-time record.
Come Saturday night, Houston's aura of invincibility faces a stern test when a side missing key names hosts a buoyant Vancouver Whitecaps at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Two weeks ago, all three Canadian MLS clubs won on the same day for the first time, pointing to the growing strength of soccer north of the border.
The Whitecaps are coming off a 2012 season that ended with a loss to eventual MLS Cup winner LA Galaxy in the Western Conference Playoffs Knockout Round, but the Canadian squad re-loaded in the winter and have the makings of a club looking to end LA's stronghold on the Western Conference. Head coach Martin Rennie signed Daigo Kobayashi and Nigel Reo-Coker to boost the midfield. Kobayashi scored a spectacular long-range goal against the Columbus Crew on March 9 while Reo-Coker has a pedigree few can equal.
The former England Under-21 international is only 28 years old but has captained West Ham United, Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League. Most recently at Ipswich Town in the English second tier, in 2006 he was rated highly enough to be on stand-by for England's World Cup roster.
"It's good to see for the league," said Dynamo midfielder Adam Moffat on Reo-Coker's arrival in MLS. "He's been around for a long time but still playing at a good level. I caught their first game and he was involved a lot, he's done well.
"His experience will be great for their team, they've got a lot of young boys," Moffat told HoustonDynamo.com. "It definitely helps them. He's a hard worker and that's good in this league."
MLSsoccer.com Whitecaps reporter Martin MacMahon agrees. "The Whitecaps have never really had a player in his prime playing in central midfield in a dominant way. For him to come over is a huge coup for the Whitecaps," he said.
Rested after a bye week, MacMahon thinks that Vancouver will arrive in Texas feeling confident given a 2-0 start and that they have the defensive cover to cope without captain Jay DeMerit, who could miss the entire campaign with an Achilles injury suffered early in the opening-day win over Toronto FC.
Vancouver won only three times on the road last season but downed the Dynamo, 3-1 at B.C. Place last June. Tactically, MacMahon believes the team are increasingly focusing on possession soccer that builds from the full backs.
They will be without striker Kenny Miller, who is on Scotland duty, but the rapid attacker Darren Mattocks is a constant threat.
"It's going to be an interesting game," added Moffat. "They've got a little bit of speed, pretty dynamic, it'll be good to see how we match up. "We played them in preseason twice. They've got a good squad."
The 26-year-old is looking forward to a reunion with Whitecaps head coach Martin Rennie, a fellow Scot who coached him at the now-defunct lower-division club, Cleveland City Stars.
"Martin and I are good friends, it's always good playing against them and he's done real well for himself. He's come up the leagues over here, he's got a good team there, so good for him," Moffat said.
Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear is without international call-ups Brad Davis, Jermaine Taylor and Boniek Garcia for Saturday's match, though off-season acquisitions Andrew Driver, Eric Brunner and Omar Cummings could step in to fill the gaps.
Regardless of how the line-up is shuffled, most important will be the team's collective ability to cut out the defensive errors that were costly in the previous two games against FC Dallas and Santos Laguna.
"We know what we have to do, we're strong at home. We've got to work hard and maybe clean things up a little bit," Moffat said. "We know it's uncharacteristic, giving up those goals from set pieces, it's unlike us. If we cut that out we've got a good chance of winning games."
Dynamo striker Brian Ching respects Vancouver but is optimistic Houston will move within one match of Salt Lake's historic achievement.
"I think they're playing well. Having said that we're a confident team especially here at home. We always come to play - we know what's on the line with the home record," he said.
"We're not over-confident, we know we have to put the work in, we know they're a good team - but if we approach the game the right way I think we have a great opportunity to win."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian as well as SI.com.


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There's been an interesting/convoluted story floating around the internet for the last couple of weeks that has finally been addressed and brings to the fore front what might have been had Darabont never been fired from TWD. It started with a rumor regarding a supposed web series that would tell the back story of the dead soldier in the tank in episode 2 of season one into what would could have eventually become the season 2 opener. Here's a video of Sam Witwer, the guy who played the dead soldier, discussing his part in what could have happened.
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