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#SPC12 SharePoint 2012 Conference Wrap Up
I'm comfortably ensconced in my home office, space heater going, ears ringing with Vegas din, and sipping an AlkaSeltzer laden water to relieve my cold symptoms picked up from too many hours in too many packed conference rooms.
Wow, what a show.
Looking back over all my other previous postings, you may develop an impression of me as an unrestrained fan of SharePoint and its related, integrated technologies. You'd be right. I love the product and especially what I've seen in this new release. But, to be objective, let me run through the major items as I see them:
The Yammer acquisition is "terrifically exciting" (could that phrase become any more overused by MS staff?) but is a bit awkward right now. SP 2013 already had a bunch of great activity, newsfeed and micro-blog social components that look very nice. On the surface, Yammer doesn't add much to that and, in fact, muddies the water a bit since no one at MS is completely certain exactly how they are going to fit in. In the long run, I think it will become the social messaging bus for all the business products (SP, Dynamics) and this will be a good thing. As a Yammer Enterprise user, I see the value of social and am a big believer in what this can do when used right.
If it wasn't social being talked about, it was search. Combining Enterprise and FAST in this release is a good thing – the two products were unnecessary. Also, as anyone dealing with corporate content governance can tell you, creating stuff is easy – finding stuff is hard. What MS has done is create a search-driven system from structured meta-data and user managed tags that allows users to favorite, like, and share documents and see document previews in the search results. I think this goes a long way to making SharePoint ever MORE useable for content storage and, I believe, will kill file shares in the mid-term.
As with many things in this release, MS didn't go for hot, new sexy features. They just vastly improved what was already there. PPS, Excel Services, Power Pivot and PowerView all basically function the same but have significant improvements in security model and usability that will make them much more useful to end users. That's a hard pitch to make to your corporate masters driven by earning releases, splashy news press and units moved but they pulled on their big-boy pants and did it – and they did it across everything, not just BI. By doing so, they are showing a commitment to making this a real integrated platform not just a platform that can be demo'd but doesn't really work.
Clearly, MS is staking EVERYTING on cloud. From O365 to ERP to CRM to AZURE, you are seeing MS move its entire business model out of your data center and into its own. But, while doing that, they are being realistic in understanding that no-one is going for a full cloud IT model. The ability to federate to Azure ADS and O365 for single-sign-on was very nice, as were the cross-platform development tools to bind all this stuff together and the cross-browser support message that was consistently and repeatedly delivered in every session. With that said, I still think MS is missing the boat on its Azure costing model. All hosting partners charge for a machine of a specific size and for blocks of storage; Azure, instead, charges by proc, storage AND bandwidth making cost management for app deployment in Azure a bit tough to manage costs. I will write more on this in a separate post. They addressed this a bit by allowing SP apps to be hosted in O365 at no charge, so that's a big plus, but I still think more changes will have to come.
In Closing
Yeah, I'm a fan-boy of Sharepoint but I'm not an idiot. I've seen MS screw up too many times with me being on the receiving end of it to unreservedly admire what they've done. The next two or three months, as the product is released and we start using it, will tell the real truth. But, IF they just do what they said they will AND IF they just keeping hitting the flywheel like they did with this release they WILL have a great product for us to use.
#SPC12 Sharepoint Conference 2012–Advanced Dashboards
Great presentation Kevin Donovan (Program Manager Office BI)!
The BI team at IBIS has been preaching the benefits of SQL, Excel, Sharepoint and PPS for years. Kevin started out his presentation with a simple statement: BI is SQL, Excel and Sharepoint.
Damn, are we good or what?
In 2013, Office and Sharepoint get some really nice enhancements without truly breaking any new ground. That's good for a lot of reasons. The primary one is that what was working before is TONS better and they haven't wasted a lot of time on new flash but, instead, really hit hard on good things.
Here's my top list of what I liked:
- Effective Username in PPS and Excel Services: Kerberos is dead! You can now pass through the user name from the client WITHOUT having to deploy kerberos provide you only need access the SSAS cube.
- Server Side Migration for PPS: You can now migrated ANY part or all of a PPS dashboard server side without using Dashboard Designer. It automatically detects dependencies AND, on the new server, allows mapping to new datasources before you migrate in the new objects. Very slick.
- BI Server: In SP2013, you can designate a BI Target Server for BISM model calculations rather than having them done in the SP instance of Excel Services. Much faster response time.
- Named Object View: In Excel Services, you could always import just a named object (like a chart) rather than a whole workbook. The object appeared in a sparse looking drop down list. Now you get a cool visual graphic nav panel on the right side of the page.
- Field Well and List Exposed in Excel Services: By doing so, you can add and remove fields and columns from pivot tables allowing almost full interaction inside the embedded object rather than opening it from the client.
There's tons of stuff more, like cooler PowerView functionality (including embedded maps) and better user experience in the interface. The only shortcoming, as noted in a previous post, is lack of true mobile. However, that's why ISVs exist.
#SPC12 Sharepoint 2012 Conference–Mashing up Azure, O365, Internal Data
I'm a pretty technical guy. I've been working with SQL since the release just before MS bought it. I'm pretty deep in data warehousing and BI. I'm really familiar with Sharepoint. And yet, I was lost within the first 30 seconds of this session.
My fault, completely. This was a developer session run by Andrew Connell and Ben Robb. They warned us it was pretty technical. In my overarching arrogance I thought "Nah, I can deal" and so I stayed.
His first joke was something about data binding in Javascript and gambling. Everyone laughed. I shrunk down in my chair nervously chuckling hoping no one noticed I was completely out of my depth. I'm still in the session, have yet to understand a single thing and am inching slowly towards the door. Wish me luck…I think the developers have noticed me and are getting ugly.
#SPC12 Sharepoint 2012 Conference–Mobile BI in Sharepoint 2013
Jen Underwood from MS did an AWESOME job going through what mobility options exist for BI in Sharepoint 2013. Despite partially functional wireless and an alarm system glitch that drove screaming sirens, flashing lights and robotic, loud instructions, Jen was composed and cheerful.
The mobile BI capabilities were a bit light however.
Essentially, the near term strategy is to make certain SP 2010 and SP2013 are completely cross browser compatible. With SP2010 CU December 2011, iOS is fully supported. Android, iOS and almost everything else is supported out of the box in 2013. SSRS SQL 2012 SP1 (which I think releases this week) is fully supported in iOS (although it works well today even in older versions).
Here's what you can do with mobile:
- Performance Point Services: In 2013, almost everything works completely cross-browser except for the Decomp Tree (its Silverlight so it doesn't work on anything but IE).
- Excel Services: Everything works just fine.
- SSRS: Everything works with some limitations on calendar controls.
- PowerPivot: Works fine, but you can display the Gallery (that's silverlight). Use a list view instead.
- So, that covers browser compatibility for larger scale screen dimensions (like a large tablet or desktop).
- For true mobile, you start running into problems. First, you have to do some CSS and Master Page work on SP to get it to respond reactively to screen size differences. Second, most mobile phone screens are too small to take standard Excel Services, PPS, and SSRS dashboard data and scale it down or use it. Therefore, for true mobile, you'll need to go with a trusted ISV like Mobile Entrée, Infragistics, Extended Results, etc. RoamBI is also very good, but is only iOS focused so it limits you to single device platform.
- In essence, not much for Windows 8 native Metro out of the box for Mobile BI but much promise for the future.
#SPC12 Sharepoint 2012 Conference–Sharepoint 2013 Extranets
Coming up on a full day with no internet access at a cloud technology conference. Oh, MS, do you not see the irony?
Dr. Ian Goodman conducted this session. Ian is brilliant but he somehow took the most exciting subject and made it intensely boring.
Sharepoint 2013 is a perfect extranet tool. It's a mature collaboration tool, it has a powerful social engine with Yammer, does great LOB application integration via Business Connectivity Services, allows integrated BI/Reporting it a ton of different ways AND, on top of all that, you can federate to your customer's domain so you get single sign-on.
What more can you ask for? How about native mobile support via HTML5 and audience targeting for personalization?
I think the one thing I like best, though, is the idea of deploying an extranet on Office365 to simplify the security model. In O365 you can have External Users (called Partner Access Licenses). P level licensees get 500 licenses and E level get 10,000. Pretty much enough to cover most folks.
#SPC12 Sharepoint Conference 2012: Social CRM
Okay, I spoke too soon. The wireless is down –again- forcing Reuben Krippner and David Pennington from MS to depend on Powerpoint slides rather than being able to do a live demo.
(As an aside, the folks at Mandalay Bay or whoever was in charge of getting the wireless operational should apologize then issue a massive refund to MS which they should then pass through to the attendees)
As you can take from the post title, this session was an overall discussion on integrating social data into CRM. Although Reuben had tons of great discussion points about the benefits of integrating social to CRM (including some hilariously acerbic side comments about Ashton Kuecher), I'll stick with product oriented information:
- Reuben hammered away at how important Yammer was. To quote: "Yammer has a huge future. It's a big bet."
- Yammer is going to be a social "messaging" bus integrated to CRM (coming in December), all the Dynamics products (no timeline specified), Office365, and Sharepoint (no time line specified but the products already have great integration) as an eventual replacement of the Newsfeed.
- The Yammer inclusion in CRM should bear some interesting fruit. For instance, most companies put out Win-Wire emails to advertise sale success. Imagine instead a closed opportunity generating a Yammer activity notice that automatically builds the winwire from the opportunity data.
- In Q2 Calendar 2013 they will release the Business Hub for CRM, a native Windows 8 metro application, that exposes and allows the user to interact with all CRM data including pipeline reports, activities, opportunities, etc.
- One last comment: Reuben used the word "incentivize". For this, he must die.
#SPC12 Sharepoint 2012 Conference–Project Portfolio Management
Finally, the wireless connectivity got fixed so Christophe Fiessinger and Pradeep GanapathyRaj had a chance for a good demo.
I'll be honest – I've never liked Project and care even less for Project Server with PPM. For most of the projects I've done, I always found it easier to manage a task list in daily meetings than manage a MPP file with Project. I'll admit I'm old school in this. I'll also admit much of my dislike for Project is based on intimidation – it just always struck me as vastly complex and really bad at reporting.
It seems some of these problems are fixed in the newest release and I am forced to admit that the integration with Sharepoint is…wait for it…great. The basic approach seems to be to allow you to start with basic task lists in Sharepoint supplemented with the new timeline control. Then, when the workstream becomes more complex, you can easily create a full blown project plan manageable via Project by clicking a single button. You don't have to store the MPP file anywhere – all the data is stored automatically back in Sharepoint.
Once this project is created, it's now exposed to the entire organizational project portfolio so you can examine resource load across all projects, report across all projects and make investment decisions on what projects to do.
The last part is critical to the point of the session. By using PPM, you can set up complex scoring systems that allow you to rank projects so you can look at an entire set of proposed and existing projects and make decisions to start them or kill them. Combined with the extraordinarily improved reporting engine in the Project client (and the server based reporting that has gotten very nice), this really gives you some interesting and methodical insight to your level of commitment and resource capability.
For a consulting company, PPM has no obvious (at least to me, yet) place. We don't make decisions about what projects to take on – we take them on as fast as we can provided our team can, in any way, service them well. So, the consolidated view is great but we'd never use PPM functionality.
As a last comment, I was really impressed – again – with both the sophistication of the PowerView reporting tool in Project AND the commitment MS has made to integrate all this stuff with Sharepoint (including providing much better collaboration facilities into Project).


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If you do a lot of off-roading or towing with your stock or mildly lifted Dodge, the chances are that your stock sway-bar links are toasted. The pivoting joints wear out quickly, and the stock links seem to bend easily with normal heavy-duty truck use.
If your links are all bent up, then BD Diesel has some new heavy-duty, sway-bar end links for you. They come with all new hardware and fit Dodge trucks with 0 to 3 inches of lift.
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Texas Nationalist leader talks independence in Scotland
NEDERLAND — Although not given much fanfare in the American news media, an event some 800 years in the making will take place in Scotland this fall.
In September of this year, Scots will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
And they're asking the advice of Texans in their quest.
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"We are extremely appreciative that our friends in Scotland have extended a hand of friendship across the Atlantic and are giving us the opportunity to add to their understanding of what is at stake," Miller said.
"Regardless of which side of the issue people fall, Scottish independence is a study in the very same debates that will take place in Texas ahead of the binding referendum on independence that is in our future."
England first sought complete political power over Scotland in 1296, when King Edward Longshanks' invasion was faced by the forces of Scottish national hero William Wallace, made famous in the movie "Braveheart." Full English sovereignty has been exercised since the Acts of Union in 1707.
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"The invitation to speak at the University of Stirling is further proof that the eyes of the world are on Texas and the Texas Nationalist Movement," Miller said.
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What would be the appropriate grains/water ratio when sparging? Or is there one at all?
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Valota Road, 3-10:15 p.m. last Wednesday A residence was burglarized. Items taken included a television and speakers.
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Taikos, heavily processed deep toms, frame drums, shakers, claps, booms, swells, snares. There is a big rock influence in this track which is combined with an 'epic film score' feel to the percussion.The track comes with a version that goes from start to finish, and also a version that loops seamlessly.
Looped Track – 1:10 Non-Looped Track – 1:17
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Hugely ominous opening with just a big pounding drum. Then a rolling snare drum enters. Gradually more and more percussion elements (toms, taikos, dhols) enter to build the piece to a shuddering crescendo.
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When it comes to searching for support for the O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act, co-author U.S. Rep. Greg Walden left no rock unturned.
"I've made this a real top priority — I've called in every chit I've got for this one," said Walden, R-Ore., representative for the 2nd Congressional District, which includes all of Eastern Oregon, along with Jackson County and a portion of Josephine County.
With a commitment from the majority leader in the Republican-controlled House that the measure would be brought to the floor for a vote in September, he expects action on it within weeks.
"We only have nine legislative days in September," he said Monday. "We will have it out of the House in a few weeks. Then it will go up to the Senate and whatever Sen. Wyden is putting together. We will have to work out the difference."
Oregon senior U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is expected to come out with his own proposal in the coming weeks.
"Senator Wyden is the chairman of a powerful committee," Walden said. "He wields a big gavel in this debate."
The two share many of the same concerns, Walden said, though admitting he didn't know what Wyden will propose.
"What I do know is we have to move — we cannot wait," he said.
Authored by Walden and Oregon U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, both Democrats, the O&C Trust act would place the roughly 2.6 million acres of O&C land on U.S. Bureau of Land Management forests in Western Oregon into two trusts. Roughly half of it would be managed for conservation, while the remainder would focus on sustainable timber production to help fund county coffers.
The proposal is supported by both the Oregon House and Senate, 15 boards of commissioners, the Oregon State Sheriffs Association and timber industry groups. Supporters say economic relief is desperately needed for the budget-strapped 18 Western Oregon counties that have been dependent for decades on timber-based payments from former Oregon & California Railroad Co. lands.
The proposal is opposed by many major environmental groups in Oregon.
The statewide conservation group Oregon Wild on Monday named the O&C lands in Western Oregon as the most endangered place in its fifth annual Oregon's 10 Most Endangered Places list.
"These forests are in our backyards — they are the places that give us clean drinking water, old-growth forests to hike in, and a foundation for our tourism and recreation economy," Oregon Wild Executive Director Sean Stevens said in a prepared statement.
"Usually, when we compile the 10 Most Endangered list we have a hard time figuring out which place is most threatened, but not this year," he added. "The scale of clearcut logging proposed and the fact that this legislation represents a 1.5 million-acre land grab for the logging industry made the choice easy."
But Walden called the proposal a balanced approach.
"We've tried to thread this needle by being good stewards of the land, and with progressive and active management," he said.
The bill calls for slightly more than half of the O&C lands — 1.47 million acres of previously managed timberlands — to be sustainably managed for timber production, with a portion of the revenues going to the 18 O&C counties in Western Oregon.
The remainder of the O&C lands would be managed by the U.S. Forest Service as old-growth forest preserves, including tracts of land with trees that are more than 120 years old.
It also would add 58,100 acres to the Rogue Wilderness Area in the lower Rogue River drainage. The proposal designates 93 miles of 35 tributaries of the Rogue as either "wild," "scenic" or "recreational" under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Finally, it would withdraw 19 tributaries on the Rogue from mining as well as 11 miles on the Chetco River.
"It protects some lands, but we also get some controverted land back into production," Walden said. "There are trade-offs here."
Walden said he insisted the legislation include language that states the wilderness doesn't become official until the trust is operative.
"If, for some reason, the trust gets thrown out by litigation, the wilderness will also be thrown out," he said, adding, "I'm committed to getting jobs, revenue and active management out of this."
The legislation should produce about 3,000 jobs and about $120 million in revenue to the counties each year, he estimated, noting that several studies have come up with those figures.
"We've got this bipartisan agreement in a time when there is very little bipartisanship," Walden said, noting he is optimistic about the future of the legislation. "We know this can pass the House."
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Ed Westwick is a total Shame F&ck. Which is why he is the perfect Chuck Bass. Among his other illustrious attributes, Chuck Bass is Blair's Shame F&ck. Not to be confused with a Hate F&ck.
Tara Reid is a Hate F&ck. The kind of person you sleep with when you're raging, looking for something to punish.
The difference of course is how it originates. A Hate F&ck is rooted in the bad things inside of you. A desire to purge and soil only those who deserve it. A Shame F*ck on the other hand stems from lust, when you wake up disgusted in the morning and look at the person lying next to you and think the following:
Ugh. You're nasty, get away from me. I hate myself for having sex with you. But let's do it again tonight. Only let's not tell anyone either.
There's something about Ed's smarm that is horny as hell. Still… I'd take that secret to the grave.
Here he is last night at the premiere of Sleepwalking.
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Much of the country spent this Monday morning either digging out of a blizzard or pounding hi-test coffee to shake off a long weekend of holiday cheer.
There was no such break in the action in Major League Soccer, where there was a flurry of activity. Young players signed new deals, veterans locked down uncertain futures, a trio of foreign stars expressed an interest in joining the league and a handful of MLSers tested the market across the pond.
So hoist that quadruple latte and kick up your feet (this is the slowest work week of the year, after all). Let's take a look back.
Young Lions
On Thursday, the Philadelphia Union made history (and boosted the league's Homegrown Initiative) by signing 15-year-old midfielder Zach Pfeffer from their academy program.
A local product from Upper Dublin, Pa., Pfeffer becomes the fourth-youngest signee in MLS history, following Freddy Adu (14 when he signed with D.C. United in 2004), Fuad Ibrahim (15, FC Dallas, 2007), and Diego Fagundez (15, New England, last month).
Another young star making headlines was 17-year-old D.C. United winger Andy Najar, who signed a multiyear extension with the Black-and-Red.
DC made it a priority to keep their academy product in the fold, after a season in which he scored five goals and won the Rookie of the Year award, providing a lone bright spot in a dismal year for United.
Big Cats
Several MLS veterans entered the week facing uncertainty about the next phase of their careers, and all of them succeeded in tying up the loose ends.
Los Angeles Galaxy superstars Landon Donovan and David Beckham both flirted with the notion of going abroad for winter loan spells, and both ended up staying put.
After winter stints with Bayern Munich in 2009 and Everton in 2010, Donovan opted not to take up Everton on another loan offer this January. He cited—no surprise here—a need for rest. In addition to those winter visits abroad, Donovan also played in two MLS seasons, most of the USA's international friendlies and World Cup qualifiers, and of course, the 2010 World Cup in the past two years.
His Galaxy teammate, Beckham, had hoped to latch on with either Arsenal or Manchester United, the club where he cut his teeth, for a winter loan deal. Alas, both clubs informed him last week that he would not be in their plans. It has not stopped names of new clubs to sprout up in recent days with Real Madrid and Chelsea joining the list.
Former Sporting Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad, the 2005 MLS Defender of the Year and a 2006 World Cup veteran, faced a slightly uncertain future after being selected by Chivas USA in Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft.
Out of contract following the 2010 season, Conrad now had a team interested in his services—the Goats took him with the second pick—but he still had to hammer out a deal with the LA franchise. That mission was accomplished on Thursday as Chivas agreed to terms with the 33-year-old centerback, who grew up in Southern California.
New England also secured the immediate futures of two veterans, re-signing bedrock keeper Matt Reis, and coming to terms with defender Ryan Cochrane, whose rights they selected with the third pick in the Re-Entry Draft.
Coaching Carousel
Having wrapped up veteran defender Conrad and rising star Najar, respectively, Chivas USA and DC United turned their attention to their coaching staffs as both clubs looked to rebuild for 2011.
The Goats reportedly offered their top job to former Chicago Fire and New York Red Bulls man Juan Carlos Osorio, while D.C. hired former Houston Dynamo keeper Pat Onstad to join head coach Ben Olsen's staff.
Osorio is fresh from leading Once Caldas to the Colombian first division crown—very fresh: they lifted the trophy last weekend. He also led Chicago to the 2006 Eastern Conference finals and guided the Red Bulls to the 2008 MLS Cup before a disastrous 2009 season in New York led to his departure.
After having his option declined in Houston, and then being passed over in the Re-Entry Draft, the 42-year-old Onstad decided to call it a career last Tuesday. He'll join D.C. as an assistant overseeing goalkeepers and the backline.
Coming to America?
Former AC St. Louis coach Claude Anelka confirmed last week that his brother, Chelsea star Nicolas Anelka, has an eye on a move to MLS after his contract at Stamford Bridge expires in 2012.
"He told me so," Claude told French site MLS-News. "More and more players want to go playing over there. United State represents something. It makes you dream."
Perhaps closer to reality is a move to MLS by former West Ham striker Guillermo Franco, who played for Mexico in the 2010 World Cup.
The 34-year-old confirmed that his agent is looking into a deal with MLS and says he'll have more information in early 2011.
Franco also spoke highly of the league, and the U.S. mentality: "When the Americans set a goal, they go after it with everything they have, and that's why their soccer has grown and the gap with Mexico is shrinking."
Wait, did he say the gap with Mexico was "shrinking"? Hmmm. Considering the Yanks are 10-4-2 against El Tri since 2000, we'd say the gap has finished shrinking.
Lastly in the foreign-stars-to-MLS rumors department comes a report out of Italy that Romanian international and Fiorentina attacker Adrian Mutu has designs on a Stateside transfer.
We shall see.
Into the Woods
A pair of MLS stars are poised to experience life at English Championship side Nottingham Forest.
Former Real Salt Lake speedster Robbie Findley has signed a contract with the team and will join them pending approval of his British work permit, while Houston star Geoff Cameron (who recently signed a new deal with the Dynamo) just embarked on a two-week training stint at the club.
Those two weren't the only MLSers reaching across the pond this week.
Teal Bunbury worked out with Stoke City for a week, extending a whirlwind winter for the Sporting Kansas City striker that also included his U.S. national team debut and a triumphant tour of Spain with the Generation adidas team.
Finally, Los Angeles Galaxy striker Edson Buddle completed a trial with English Premier League side Birmingham City, whose manager Alex McLeish said about the World Cup vet, "He did okay. We will keep the door [to signing him] open."
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Yesterday the FAA sought $10.2 million in civil damages from Southwest Airlines for neglecting to inspect the fuselages of 46 of its planes. In documents the FAA submitted to Congress, it alleges "the airline flew at least 117 of its planes in violation of mandatory safety checks" over a 30 month period. Southwest says its passengers were never in danger, and that it was an honest oversight that they caught on their own and revealed to the FAA—but (here's where it gets interesting) an FAA inspector has testified that Southwest continued to fly a plane after he discovered the failed inspections and notified them. Now the U.S. Department of Transportation and Congress are asking why the FAA didn't ground the planes as soon as they knew about the missed inspections, and a couple of FAA whistleblowers are leaking internal docs to the press. Only after the issue became public knowledge did the FAA seek civil damages.
The [whistleblower] inspectors say FAA managers knew about the lapse in safety at Southwest, but decided to allow the airline to conduct the safety checks on a slower schedule because taking "aircraft out of service would have disrupted Southwest Airlines' flight schedule."
According to statements made by one of the FAA inspectors seeking whistle-blower status, a manager at the FAA "permitted the operation of these unsafe aircraft in a matter that would provide relief" to the airline, even though customers were on board.
Laura Brown, an FAA spokeswoman, told CNN that the administration has taken action and that a supervisor who was in charge of overseeing Southwest is "no longer in a supervisory position."
Here's Southwest's response to the civil penalty news:
"The FAA penalty is related to one of many routine and redundant inspections on our aircraft fleet involving an extremely small area in one of the many overlapping inspections. These inspections were designed to detect early signs of skin cracking," the airline said in a statement Thursday evening.
"Southwest Airlines discovered the missed inspection area, disclosed it to the FAA, and promptly reinspected all potentially affected aircraft in March 2007. The FAA approved our actions and considered the matter closed as of April 2007."
According to CNN, "the safety inspections ignored or delayed by the airline were mandated after two fatal crashes and one fatal incident, all involving Boeing's 737, the only type of airplane Southwest flies."
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Doctor after doctor told RB Tavian Banks he would never play football again after a debilitating injury in 1999, but he fought determinedly to rehab and return to form. With the Saints, he\'s ready to make a comeback.
Tuesday July 29, 2003
By Amalie Benjamin
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Tavian Banks didn\'t know he had stepped out of bounds. Apparently, neither did Ray Buchanan.
It was Nov. 7, 1999, as Banks, then with the Jacksonville Jaguars, ran along the sideline after a 5-yard catch in the fourth quarter of a blowout of Atlanta. Buchanan, a cornerback for the Falcons, hit Banks hard, knocked him back out of bounds -- and out of football.
The tackle bent Banks\' left knee backward and tore his anterior cruciate ligament, his posterior cruciate ligament, his lateral collateral ligament and his hamstring. It also damaged nerves in the knee.
The injury was devastating for Banks. He listened to doctor after doctor tell him he would never play football again.
Nearly four years later, he\'s going to try to prove them wrong.
\"Every doctor and trainer told me I shouldn\'t play again. . . . I don\'t really listen to what other people have to say,\" Banks said. \"Long road. Nobody knows how long it\'s been.\"
The Saints signed Banks to a one-year contract in the spring. In his first training camp since 1999, he said he\'s taking it slowly, trying to get back into the swing of NFL football.
\"I\'ve played football so long,\" he said. \"It\'s like riding a bike, you just have to work out the kinks.\"
Banks suffered a setback Monday night at Saints camp when he pulled his hamstring. Saints coach Jim Haslett said the hamstring had bothered Banks this offseason and it was unclear on how long he would be out.
Banks knows when healthy he can contribute to the team as a third-down back and on special teams.
\"It\'s kind of hard,\" he said. \"I see guys doing well that I came in with. I could have been doing that well or even better if I didn\'t have the knee injury. Things like that happen in sports. But I feel blessed to be back this far.\"
In the early stages of his rehab, Banks had his doubts about a return. For the first nine months after the injury, he suffered from drop foot (the inability to flex his left foot upward), forcing him to wear a boot for 14 months and use a cane.
After he recovered from that setback, he began training in earnest, both in California and Florida. He recovered enough to begin running \"barely at a crawl\" at the end of 2000, he said.
For those two years, Banks kept in contact with Saints director of player personnel Rick Mueller, who had been the Jaguars\' director of college scouting when Banks was taken in the fourth round of the 1998 draft.
Even after the Jaguars released him in 2000 -- after Mueller had left to join the Saints -- Mueller spoke regularly with Banks, keeping up with the running back\'s progress. Mueller said Banks is \"such a great guy that you can only root for him\" and praised his dedication and work ethic.
\"Early, when he first got hurt, it was hard on him,\" Mueller said. \"You go from a guy who was our backup guy in Jacksonville to wondering if he\'ll ever play the game again. For the first year he really struggled.
\"Since I got here, he\'s been really excited to get back out. He said, \'I\'m going to get this. I\'m going to be ready to go.\' I think he\'s got a little chip on his shoulder. He wants to prove to everybody that he can come back and do this.\"
Mueller brought Banks in last year to work out for the Saints and nearly signed him, but the running back wasn\'t sure he was ready to return to the game.
Now he\'s sure.
Even with that confidence, it\'s rare that a football player can return to form after sustaining such a debilitating injury.
\"He tore everything and then some,\" Mueller said. \"After he sustained the injury, for the first year I thought there was no way he\'d ever be out here.\"
Running back Robert Edwards had a successful comeback from a similar knee injury, which he suffered while playing in a four-on-four beach football game at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii in February 1999.
Edwards came back for the 2002 season with the Dolphins after spending three years rehabbing the injury, which included a torn ACL, PCL and medial collateral ligament.
Across the locker room from Banks is another player with a similar story. Saints tight end Ernie Conwell tore three ligaments, the same ones as Edwards, in a 1998 game. Conwell spent 14 months rehabbing his knee and returned to the Rams late in the 1999 season.
\"It changes the way you play the game,\" Conwell said. \"When I was early in the league, I would rely more on brute strength and try to overpower certain guys. (A knee injury) makes you develop into a better player if you allow it.\"
Banks is hoping for a similar feel-good ending to his injury story.
Other than the hamstring pull, Banks\' injuries with the Saints are normal for a player who has been away from the game for three years.
\"If he can stay healthy, he has a shot,\" Haslett said.
Running backs coach Dave Atkins said Banks has a \"fair shot\" to make the team.
\"He\'s worked very hard at\" coming back, he said. \"It\'s dedication from the start. First of all you have to get over the injury and the rehab, then get back into the rhythm of football, the blocking and tackling and all the fundamentals. It\'s a tough road.\"
Mueller said Banks has looked good in the limited time he has been able to observe the running back on the field. In Sunday\'s drills, Banks broke through the line for a few big gains.
\"He was a guy that was really coming on as a player when we had him there in Jacksonville until he got hurt,\" Mueller said. \"He looks pretty good out there. I see some of the old Tavian coming back.\"
While Banks\' rehab was going smoothly in the training room, his life off the field took a bizarre turn late last year.
In November 2002, he reported to police that he had received a letter in the mail about late payments on a car, one he had not purchased.
He discovered that his former college roommate and teammate at Iowa, Richard Willock, had bought a 1999 Chrysler LHS in October 2000 using Banks\' identity as a means to obtain credit. Banks said his information also was used to buy an urban clothing store.
Willock, who was a wide receiver at Iowa from 1993 to 1997, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor identity theft on July 11 and was sentenced to 18 months probation.
Dealing with the identity theft took his focus away from his comeback for a little while, but Banks is back on target as he works through his first week of training camp.
He appears confident about making the roster.
\"It\'s going to be really great,\" he said. \"I haven\'t stepped on a field like that in four years, just about. It\'ll be really something else. Something else.\"
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Kelly, Was the black disc you found a PDGA stamped Discwing Quarter K II? (175g)
Really with baskets for eyes and innova smile?
I think so. I splashed it in the pond before ramsam. It had my name and number on it


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mediabrewer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 136 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
MediaBrewer, LLC is a small video company established in 2010. Our current market focuses on event videography ranging from cheerleading competitions, band competitions, dance recitals, and much more. We hope to grow our company to be North Carolina's premier videography business. Our future markets may also include legal video, animation, sound design, and 3D design. We would like to be an all inclusive media brewing machine. I am looking for a logo that is original and creative. Coffee cups might be too misleading to cause clients into thinking we are not a video business. I know you guys have all kinds of abstract and fun ideas, so show me what you got and you just might be the ideal logo creator for MediaBrewer.
Our audience focuses mainly on parents attending the competitions and events, but the audience will eventually expand to include corporations, lawyers, producers, and other creative gurus. Our audience tends to have one purpose in mind and that is quality. When they see MediaBrewer's content they immediately are satisfied and crave more.
As mentioned above, coffee cups are a fun idea, but could be misleading for our target audience. Utilizing characteristics of coffee cups could be interesting, especially the idea of steam. We also would like to eventually expand into markets beyond video, so anything pertaining to film or video could also prove to be too limiting. However, more than these limitations I am looking for some fun, creative, and abstract ideas. I want people to look at your logo and immediately recognize it as a symbol for an all inclusive media company. Be creative and most of all, have fun.
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4 injured in fire, two missing after fire
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PUTNAM -- Two young children are unaccounted for following a house fire in Putnam, officials said.
The town's assistant fire chief told WTNH-TV at 7:15 a.m. that the children haven't been located, and that their mother has been hospitalized. Three males were were treated and released from Day Kimball Hospital. The unidentified woman has been transferred to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, WTNH reported.
Crews from several fire departments responded to the multifamily home on Prospect Street shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday. Officials say the home's roof was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
The names of the four injured residents haven't been released.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation. Officials with the state fire marshal's office have been called to the scene.


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The most often cited explanation for return is related to family. In a 1973 survey, more than half of the respondents named kinship or family as the primary reason for moving to the South. Here, cousins from North and South gather at a family reunion in Mississippi.


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the Bears after a successful minicamp tryout.
The all-time leading passer in Division III history is getting an NFL look, as did two players from Mary Hardin-Baylor and from Endicott as NFL teams snapped up undrafted players shortly following the conclusion of the 2012 draft.
The NFL expanded training camp rosters for the upcoming season and Division III players got more of those opportunities. Former Monmouth quarterback Alex Tanney will get a tryout with the Buffalo Bills. He announced the change in plans Tuesday via social media after it was originally announced he was trying out with the Steelers.
Mary Hardin-Baylor tackle Nate Menkin and wide receiver Damian Davis each got picked up, by the Texans and Giants, respectively. Endicott defensive end Kevin Eagan will join D-III alumni with the Indianapolis Colts, while Gulls tight end Taylor Allen will do so with the Jaguars.
Derek Carrier, who had a stellar pro day at the University of Wisconsin in the winter, signed a contract with the Oakland Raiders.
Dubuque wide receiver Michael Zweifel, the leading pass-catcher in NCAA football history, received an invitation to attend a rookie tryout camp with the Green Bay Packers. Cal Lutheran standout Justin Haulcy-Bateman later was invited to participate in the rookie camp for the Miami Dolphins starting on Friday, May 4, and Wesley linebacker Mike Asiedu was invited to the Carolina Panthers' rookie minicamp from May 11-13.
Undrafted rookie contracts are traditionally three-year, non-guaranteed deals with a small signing bonus. Here's the full list of D-III players reported to have been picked up by NFL teams:
Derek Carrier, WR/TE, Beloit, Raiders
Mitch Elliott, OL, Bethel, Vikings
Taylor Allen, TE, Endicott, Jaguars
Kevin Eagan, DE, Endicott, Colts
Cody Pearcy, WR, Huntingdon, Falcons
Darnell Williams, WR, Louisiana College, Eagles
Damian Davis, WR, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Giants
Nate Menkin, T, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texans
Chad Faulcon, S, Montclair State, Falcons
Rico Wallace, WR, Shenandoah, Panthers
Matt Blanchard, QB, UW-Whitewater, Bears *
* - Signed after rookie minicamp tryout
Nick Clark, LB, Alfred, Bills
Justin Haulcy-Bateman, CB, Cal Lutheran, Dolphins
Brad Fortney, LB, Carthage, Bears
Michael Zweifel, WR, Dubuque, Packers
Alex Tanney, QB, Monmouth, Bills
Kyle Fiedorowicz, TE, North Central, Saints
Long Ding, K, Norwich, Jaguars
Corey Balcerzak, T, St. John Fisher, Steelers
Derek Dreher, CB, UW-La Crosse, Ravens
Taylor Butzler, OL, UW-Stout, Packers
Kris Rosholt, P, UW-Whitewater, Packers
Casey Casper, LS, UW-Whitewater, Packers
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That's the correct part number for that application but it should be a two-groove pulley. I suppose somebody trimmed off the outer groove? That's all I can think of. Maybe if you posted a picture or two, that would help in figuring it out.
I see center hole and 2 holes 180 degrees apart with a raised flange Center hole down, other 2 raised up. Could that have something to do with the 2nd pulley attachment?
I looked at a couple of my old pulleys tonight and agree with Jerry that it looks like yours just has the outer groove removed. There is a slight ridge or parting line in between the two grooves on my pulleys and that seems to be about where yours has been machined to. I don't have time to get pictures of that tonight but maybe over the weekend.


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Christmas time has come round again, and with it come tidings not just of joy but of good works as well.
Take Penske Truck Rental for starters, which recently donated $255,157 to help the Paralyzed Veterans of America fund its "ABLE" campaign – an effort designed to enlist all Americans, from citizens and their local communities to corporations, to help ensure paralyzed heroes veteran receive: the physical care needed to live a healthy life; receive the benefits they've earned through military service; and obtain job training and employment opportunities for new and fulfilling careers.
Then there's this year's "Truckers for Troops" holiday campaign sponsored by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), which raised $46,861 this year to pack and send care packages to U.S. military service personnel stationed in combat zones. OOIDA added that over the last seven years it's conducted this holiday care package campaign, it's raised over $400,000.
[As an aside, here's one of my favorite Christmas sights of the season: my local Shell filling station, which gets decked every year in thousands upon thousands of holiday lights and assorted decorations. This is an old video, so I promise to freshen things up by filming next year's Christmas display extravaganza.]
Then there are the businesses that step in to give something back to the many truck drivers who will spend Christmas day hauling freight – like these two truck stops in Idaho that will provide free Christmas meals to those truck drivers who will be on the job.
Along those lines, I'd like to close this post with a poem sent to me by Schneider National. Written by Patrick Moore, a longtime driver for the Big Orange fleet, it's called Highway Santa and encapsulates almost perfectly the important role truck drivers play in keeping the U.S. economy rolling:
It's Christmas season,
He packs his clothes.
He's Highway Santa
And nobody knows.
He grabs his bags,
The girls crying "No."
He tells them softly,
"I have to go."
He gives them a hug
And tells them bye,
Kisses his wife,
And she starts to cry.
Up jumps the dog,
Ready for fun,
"I'll miss you too,
My K-9 son."
He pulls on the road,
Floating the gears,
Looking in the mirror,
And fighting his tears.
All over the country,
On every road,
There's a Highway Santa
Delivering his load.
He drives through mountains
Covered with snow,
His chains are tight
And ready to go.
It's almost Christmas,
Just a few more trips.
He thinks of his wife,
The touch of her lips.
He pulls in the drive,
Where the highway ends,
For a couple days home
With family and friends.
So on Christmas morning,
When you see the smiles,
Remember who brought it,
Thousands of miles.
He does it for his family,
Not fortune or fame.
He's Highway Santa.
Remember his name.
Merry Christmas, everyone.


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Circassia's ToleroMune® Cat Allergy Treatment Maintains Symptom Improvement Two Years After Start of Short-Course Therapy
Feb 25, 2013, 04:00 ET
OXFORD, England and SAN ANTONIO, February 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy, today announced the results of a phase II clinical study showing that a short course of just four doses of its ToleroMune® cat allergy therapy maintained improvements in patients' symptoms two years after the start of treatment. The results were presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) in San Antonio, USA on Sunday 24 February.
The phase II study originally measured improvements in nasal and ocular allergy symptoms (Total Rhinoconjunctivitis Symptom Score; TRSS) in 202 patients, following treatment with ToleroMune® therapy or placebo. Two years after the start of the study, and having received no further ToleroMune® treatment, 50 of the original patients returned to reassess their symptoms while exposed to cat allergens. The results show that at the end of the cat allergen challenge, patients who had previously been treated with four doses of ToleroMune® therapy over 12 weeks had a significant improvement in symptoms two years later, compared with placebo (p<0.05; 50.0% TRSS improvement on ToleroMune® treatment vs 14.9% on placebo). These patients also maintained a substantial reduction in symptoms throughout their entire exposure to cat allergens over the four day challenge (38.3% TRSS improvement vs 13.4% on placebo). In addition, the results show that these patients maintained consistent symptom improvements both 12 and 24 months after the start of treatment. The ToleroMune® therapy was well tolerated with a safety profile comparable to placebo.
Commenting on the results, co-author of the AAAAI conference presentation, Professor Mark Larché, Canada Research Chair in Allergy and Immune Tolerance, McMaster University and St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, said, "Sustaining such a substantial improvement in patients' allergy symptoms two years after the start of the study is remarkable. Achieving this with a short course of just four doses is even more impressive. These results suggest that ToleroMune® therapy has the potential to revolutionise treatment for cat allergy patients."
"These excellent clinical results are extremely encouraging, and strongly support Circassia's decision to progress to phase III at the end of last year," said Steve Harris, Circassia's CEO. "Offering patients sustained symptom control without the need for ongoing treatment is an important objective for allergy therapy. In this study, our ToleroMune® treatment reduced symptoms by two and a half to three times the level achieved by several other allergy therapies in similar studies, and maintained the improvement over a significant period, demonstrating its potential to greatly improve the lives of patients around the world."
About cat allergy
Allergies are a significant global health issue. Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC) affects up to 30% of adults and 40% of children in developed countries, and its prevalence is rising. ARC reduces quality of life and impacts school and work attendance and performance. In Continental Europe and the USA, cat allergy is one of the most common forms of the disease, and affects 10 - 15% of those with ARC and / or asthma. As cat dander is widespread in the human environment, and widely found in public buildings, patients with cat allergy may experience significant symptoms despite attempting to avoid exposure. Current treatment options include temporary symptom suppression with antihistamines, corticosteroids and cromones, or long-term whole allergen immunotherapy, which can require treatment for three to five years and has the potential to induce life-threatening anaphylactic reactions.
About ToleroMune®
Circassia's cat allergy treatment is based on the company's novel, proprietary ToleroMune® technology. This uses rationally-designed combinations of synthetic peptides to generate regulatory T cells to control allergic responses and induce immune tolerance. Circassia's ToleroMune® cat allergy treatment consists of seven peptides identified from the major cat allergen Fel d 1. It has successfully completed a number of phase II studies, which demonstrate that courses of short, simple treatment can substantially reduce patients' symptoms and have a favourable safety profile. In long-term follow up, patients' symptoms remained greatly improved two years after the start of the study, despite no further treatment after the initial four doses given over 12 weeks. Circassia's cat allergy treatment entered phase III clinical testing in October 2012.
About Circassia
Circassia was founded by a team of highly experienced biotechnology scientists and entrepreneurs. The company is based in the UK on the Oxford Science Park, and its joint venture with McMaster University (Adiga Life Sciences Inc) is located in Hamilton, Canada. Circassia's ToleroMune® technology was developed originally by scientists at Imperial College, London. Having successfully completed five fundraising rounds, Circassia has raised approximately £105 million ($178 million) and is backed by a syndicate of world-class institutional investors, including Imperial Innovations and Invesco Perpetual.
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Wakaya is a 2,200-acre island in the Fiji archipelago. Here, organic ginger grows in a nutrient-rich soil created by thousands of years of natural erosion of volcanic rock. This volcanic soil is high in beneficial minerals, especially trace minerals that are vital to human wellness.
It remained uninhabited for 140 years, until 1973, when wellness-advocate, FIJI Water founder, and life-long entrepreneur David Gilmour and his wife Jill purchased island.
Due to the geographic isolation of the island, organic farming is a necessity. It also maintains the purity of the island and ensures the health and well-being of Wakaya's culture.
No machinery touches our ginger crops, only caring hands cultivate the earth. No chemically treated water is ever used in irrigation. All washing of crops prior to processing is done with fresh rainwater from our catchment system.
On the island of Wakaya, David and Jill Gilmour have created a small eco-friendly resort that offers guests an experience of renewal and discovery through a luxurious vacation in this unspoiled corner of the world. In 1990, The Wakaya Club & Spa was opened as a small, private luxury resort that offers an extraordinary vacation experience to a handful of guests.
This serene retreat provides gracious living, sophisticated, international cuisine and unparalleled leisure opportunities, including some of the finest scuba diving and snorkeling in one of the most secluded and pristine corners of the South Pacific.
David realized that keeping Wakaya pure in perpetuity would require a self sustaining economy that could support the local Fijian residents and curtail any pressure to "urbanize" the island. Wakaya Perfection was founded to bring the islands unique healing treasures to the world and to provide Wakaya with the ongoing resources to preserve its pristine environment.
David later met Todd Smith, a accomplished health advocate, successful entrepreneur and 20-year veteran of direct selling. Todd was inspired by David's the story of Wakaya and proposed that network marketing would be the optimal way to share this story, and products, with the world.
Today, Wakaya Perfection offers an unique business opportunity, unparalleled anywhere in the world, for individuals with a passion for purity and health.
The experiences mentioned are from Independent Ambassadors who have personally used the BulaFIT Program and products. Ambassadors may receive compensation from Wakaya Perfection for sharing and promoting its products and services.
Being healthy entails so much more than brushing your teeth and staying on top of yearly check-ups. Real health is something you feel all the time. It is a deep and satisfying sense of strength, unity, and vitality. We believe you should feel this way every day.
Wakaya Perfection offers organic, pure and proprietary products that help you get well, stay well, and be well, inside and out.
From our exclusive collection of 100% Organic Pink Fijian Ginger, Turmeric, and Sea Salt, to our pure Calcium Bentonite Clay and Perfected Oils sourced from finest locations in the world; Wakaya Perfection's mission is to offer the world's purest and finest all-natural preventative healing products.
We set out to create a mission for Wakaya Perfection that would guide the actions of everyone in our organization. Our goals, beliefs and principles are the true foundation of the work our Independent Ambassadors do every day.
Our field leaders team have remarkable experience, drive and are passionate in helping others to achieve their health, and wealth, goals.
David and Jill Gilmour have a long history of participating in philanthropic activities. The David and Jillian Gilmour Foundation, they have given grants to numerous deserving organizations in Fiji and throughout the world.
The primary focus of their philanthropic activity is on education, and children are the main beneficiaries. The Gilmours have worked through their Foundation to build six kindergartens throughout Fiji.
Every employee at the Wakaya Club & Spa is able to send his/her children to the elementary school (built in 2006) on the island free of charge. Students at Wakaya's elementary school receive the very best education available anywhere in Fiji, and children of the resort's employees are also eligible to attend boarding school on the mainland of Fiji through scholarships provided by the Gilmours.
Our Advisory Team sits at the heart of Wakaya Perfection's mission. Each of our strategic advisors brings a rich industry knowledge to help educate and encourage customers to strive to live a high impact life.
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LOS ANGELES — An actor whose character died a violent death on the TV drama "Sons of Anarchy" plunged to his death in a driveway after apparently killing his landlady and attacking neighbors near Hollywood, police said Thursday.
Johnny Lewis, who played Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in the FX show, is the only suspect in the death of 81-year-old Catherine Davis, according to Los Angeles police.
Authorities found them dead Wednesday morning after neighbors reported a woman screaming inside the home, Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.
The home was ransacked, glass was shattered and a dead cat was found.
Neighbors said a man had jumped a fence and assaulted a painter and homeowner next door.
The body of Lewis, 28, was found dead in the driveway. He could have jumped or fallen from the roof, garage or balcony, or tumbled down stairs from a patio area, Smith said.
It appears Davis had been beaten, Smith said.
Because of the circumstances, investigators were checking whether Lewis was on drugs or had mental health issues, Smith said.
Lewis was released from Los Angeles County Jail a week ago, according to court records.
He pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon and attempted burglary in separate cases this year and was enrolled in a drug, alcohol and psychiatric treatment program over the summer, according to records.
As a condition of his probation in both cases, he was ordered to stay away from narcotics.
Lewis' attorney Jonathan Mandel said he was "surprised" and "baffled" by what happened.
Mandel declined to immediately comment on Lewis's criminal history or possible drug problems because of client confidentiality.
Lewis' career spanned more than a decade, mainly in small roles. He played Ricky in the 2007 movie "AVPR: Aliens vs Predator — Requiem" and was Dennis "Chili" Childress for two seasons on TV's "The O.C."
His was on "Sons of Anarchy" in 2008 and 2009 before his character was killed.
Kurt Sutter, the show's creator and executive producer, tweeted news of Lewis' death Thursday:
"It was a tragic end for an extremely talented guy, who unfortunately had lost his way," Sutter wrote. "I wish I could say that I was shocked by the events last night, but I was not. I am deeply sorry that an innocent life had to be thrown into his destructive path."
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Wow. Incredibly mediocre. Should have called it Justice League Lite. Pathetic choices made except for Wonder Woman. Where was the Martian Manhunter? Hawkman? Green Lantern? If you make a superhero movie, go all out or stay home.
Honestly ignore the few bad reviews. This movie was excellent! Highly recommend it!
Action packed and fun.
Plain ordinary entertainment....better than the Daddy movies that are out.
Excited for the next one. This was so much fun.
Movie was fun and treated the character well
Great show! You can clearly see Joss Whedon's influence in it. Loved how they took the moody, darker Henry Cavill Superman character and made him more like the Christopher Reeve Superman, complete with sense of humor. Absolutely loved Aquaman - he really made the film and can't wait for his stand-alone flick. Beautifully done mid and post credit scenes as well. Those who were nervous after Batman V Superman be not wary of this show!
Highly enjoyable. Fun movie.
Don't know why there are so many angry 1 ?? ratings, but go see it for yourself and form your own opinion.
Movie was fantastic.
I agree with everyone that gave this a bad review. This movie was hopeless from the beginning and they have forever lost me as a customer. Marvel is king and I will continue to support there movies. Looking forward to avengers civil war. Looks really good. Trailer released yesterday
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December 1, 1948 - July 22, 2013
Warwick, NY
Dennis M. Organ, of Warwick, NY, passed away on July 22, 2013, at his home. He was 64 years old.
Born on December 1, 1948 in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late John J. and Margaret (Valentine) Organ.
Dennis was a retired Lt. Detective with the New York Police Department, and a member of the Warwick Country Club.
He is survived by his son, John M. Organ of Brooklyn; and a brother, John R. Organ of Palm Coast, FL. He was predeceased by a brother, Martin Organ.
Visitation will be on Monday July 29th, from 2 to 4 p.m., followed by a Funeral Service at 4 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick. Cremation will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to New York Organ Donor Network, 460 W. 34th St., 15th floor, New York, NY 10001 or online at www.donatelifeny.org
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The Krewe of Proteus used the French flag as the design for their 1883 dance program. According to Arthur Burton Lacour in New Orleans Masquerade (1952), "dancing has always been closely associated with the celebration of Carnival in New Orleans and predominated at the masquerades of the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Contre-dances were most often performed by groups who participated in the figures composing a quadrille." [Louisiana Division Carnival Collection]
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