text: [i:Vibes] :: View topic - ProducerLoops.com 'Cinematic Series Vol 5: Neo Noir 2039' Guidelines FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Bookmarks Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Main Menu Frontpage News Reviews Interviews Party Reports Artist Profiles Label profiles Diaries Tutorials What is... Links Radio-info Interactive Forum User Stats Info FAQ Crew-info i:Vibes Info Site Updates ProducerLoops.com 'Cinematic Series Vol 5: Neo Noir 2039' [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Artist and Label News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message equinoxsoundsHead BouncerVibes: 147.61Joined: 21 Feb 2008Member #: 12,591Posts: 590Location: Barcelona Post subject: ProducerLoops.com 'Cinematic Series Vol 5: Neo Noir 2039' 'Cinematic Series Vol 5: Neo Noir 2039' pays homage to the awe-inspiring soundtrack works of Vangelis, Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch on the iconic 'Blade Runner' movies. Featuring a professional voiceover, six mini Construction Kits and a selection of inviting SFX, this is an exemplary collection of aural delights geared towards soundtrack composers and experimental producers alike. As ever with the 'Cinematic Series', sound design is key. Many months of planning and studio time was dedicated to re-imagining, rather than emulating the synth-laden soundscapes of a dystopian Los Angeles. While this product is undoubtedly inspired by the works of Vangelis, Zimmer & Wallfisch, it is also a tour de force from Producer Loops producer and 'Cinematic Series' pioneer, Lhasa Mencur. The Producer: Lhasa Mencur is a composer and sound designer for interactive/visual media, with a particular passion for games and virtual environments. Click here to listen to Lhasa's music on Soundcloud. The Creative Process: "Going into the creation of this library, I wanted to try my best to pay homage to the original "Blade Runner" film, with its iconic synth-laden soundtrack that redefined the relationship of soundtrack and visuals in cinema - while at the same time taking a step into current day modalities. I was also conscious of the release of the latest sequel and its far more modern approach to the aural palette. I didn't want to try and emulate either film but rather focused on capturing the timeless melancholia of the universe and genre "Blade Runner" first defined." - Lhasa Mencur. MIDI Files: While every effort has been made to provide MIDI files for all Kits, please note that due to the analogue nature of this product, certain production elements do not have an accompanying MIDI file. Licence Agreement: All loops are royalty-free to those who have purchased the product. Commercial use of the five original compositions "exactly as they are in the demos" is forbidden, though. One has to make "new music" using our loops to act in accordance with our license agreement. Product Details: 7 Mini Construction Kits Professional Voiceover 22 MIDI Files ACIDised WAV Apple Loops Ableton Live Pack 8.1.3 Price and Availability: 'Cinematic Series Vol 5: Neo Noir 2039 is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £49.95 / 58,28 EUR. More information is available at: https://www.producerloops.com Post rating: 0 Rate this post: Not logged in Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:46 am Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Artist and Label News All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Spam----------------Spam posts Music----------------Music discussion (trance, techno, progressive and other genres)EquipmentArtist and Label NewsRadio BroadcastsMusic Production and DJ Mix PromotionClub Listings Non-music related----------------Other discussionBuy & Sell [i:Vibes]----------------Site Feedback and Help Content Discussion----------------News DiscussionReview DiscussionInterview DiscussionTutorial DiscussionWhat is...Party ReportsArtist ProfilesLabel Profiles You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group


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St. Peters & Mother Teresa Children's Educational And Welfare Organization is a registered non-governmental, secular and non-profit social welfare organization working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. St. Peters & Mother Teresa Children's Educational And Welfare Organization has been started their work for the great cause since 23rd April 2004 from its head office at C-92, Meetal Appartment, Siliguri, Kolkata by a group of young Indians with a common vision of developing a prosperous and powerful India by enabling access to quality education for all. Later on the organization was registerd on 7th Nov 2012.
We partner and work with (Onsite) government schools and hostels, orphanages, educational blocks at village, taluk or district level to implement our program. Our program serves to improve the quality of education by undertaking various activities such as funding hiring of additional qualified teachers, establishing a learning center or a library or a computer center, providing scholarships to students, conducting seminars and science events, providing career guidance and soft skills training etc.
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It's a new look and a new costume for the all-new Batgirl! As crime in Gotham City continues to rise, the newest member of the Bat-family vows to wear the mantle of the Bat and fight alongside Batman and Robin in their war on crime. There's just one problem: She hasn't told Batman and Robin yet!
Marvel Releases Acts of Evil Creative Teams, Covers


text: And Rana is back in Singapore.... after a jaunt in China. He called to congratulate me from Shanghai. And I asked him 'for what?"' He said it was because my web presence was entirely blocked in China, and I should take that as a huge compliment! He couldn't access my mail, blog, twitter account or FB page. Okay, Rana. I am flattered.... but what a bloody bore!


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There were plenty of gold, silver and bronze medals given to student-athletes from Mansfield ISD after the state track and field meet.
The meet featured the best track and field high schoolers in Texas.
Lake Ridge High School's girls are the 5A state champions, and the Legacy High School boys team won second place overall in the 5A conference.
The following individual medals were also awarded:
The 2018 UIL State Track & Field Meet took place May 11-12 at The University of Texas at Austin's Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Lake Ridge High girls won first place overall.
Legacy High boys were state runner-ups.
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Marathon manhunt's springtime 'snow day' could cost city $1 billion, economists say
The biggest economic impact from Friday's lockdown of Boston and its northern suburbs is yet to come, said Northeastern University economist and professor of public policy Alan Clayton-Matthews.
Dunkin Donuts shops were the only businesses with permission to open in Watertown, Mass., and residents in the region were urged to stay inside. The region ground to a near-halt Friday in response to the search for Boston Marathon co-bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The city's subway system shut down. The Bruins and Red Sox postponed their games.
Restaurants and universities were closed.
It is difficult to tell the value of the economic loss, said Jon B. Hurst, president of Retailers Association of Massachusetts.
"Certainly it is hundreds of millions including retail, restaurants and lost office productivity," he said in an e-mail. "Could exceed a billion."
Jim Fitzgerald, the owner of Fit-Z's Bar and Grill on Main Street in Watertown said Friday afternoon he planned to remain closed until told otherwise.
"Friday is the busiest day of the week for us," Fitzgerald said. "My friends have called, different people have texted to see if we're open. But I'm friends with cops and they've told us it's not a good idea to congregate ... it's not worth the risk. Just in case."
Most of the money lost in the short term can be made up, said Clayton-Matthews, and economists noted it isn't unprecedented for cities to shut down on weekdays.
Blizzards forced similar closures during snowstorms this winter, said Clayton-Matthews and Michael Carter, chairman of University of Massachusetts-Lowell's economics department.
"In terms of the effect on business this is similar, but since the weather is nicer I think the rebound effect will be stronger," Carter said.
Many of the people who work in Boston have salaried positions, and hourly employees will get the opportunity to make up the lost hours for shoppers who delay their spending, Clayton-Matthews said.
But some retailers, such as pushcart vendors or convenience stores, won't recoup their losses.
"That business is just gone," Clayton-Matthews said.
It will be especially difficult for restaurants that cater to the lunchtime crowd, Carter said.
The longer-term impact will be on attendance at outdoor events later this year, which may see lower attendance because of increased fear of the danger posed by being in crowds, Clayton-Matthews said.
"People do seem to want to respond to this by ... not being afraid to be out, but I still suspect there will be some kind of effect later this summer in public open places," he said.


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Witness to an Immolation in Kathmandu
Police in Nepal on Wednesday said a young man they believe is a Tibetan refugee set himself on fire inside the complex of a famous Buddhist religious site in Kathmandu.
Tibetan activists said the incident highlights the continuing spate of self-immolations by Tibetans protesting against what they see as China's repressive regime in their homeland.
Police officers in Kathmandu said the incident took place outside a restaurant near the city's Boudhanath Stupa around 8:15 a.m. local time. The name and domicile of the young man hasn't been confirmed, they said. He is undergoing treatment at the intensive-care unit of Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and his condition is "very critical," according to police officers and hospital staff.
Keshav Adhikari, spokesman for Nepal Police, said the man is about 30 years old. "The information we have is that he is a Tibetan," said Mr. Adhikari. Manoj Kumar K.C., a senior police officer for the Boudhanath Stupa area, said local Tibetan representatives told the police they had seen the man in the area for the first time.
Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa area is home to thousands of Tibetans in exile. Nepal's government views Tibet as part of China and has said it won't tolerate any anti-China protests. In the past, Nepalese authorities have cracked down on anti-China protests and demonstrations by the exiled Tibetans.
Sagar Satyal, manager of Golden Eyes Restaurant and Café, said he was opening his roof-top eatery on the third floor of a building in the Boudhantah Stupa complex Wednesday morning when a man walked in and raised his little finger—a signal that he wanted to use a toilet.
"He looked like a Tibetan monk" because he couldn't speak Nepali properly and was visiting the restaurant for the first time, Mr. Satyal said. "He looked normal—no anger or any expression on his face."
The man was wearing a long light-green jacket and was carrying a black backpack, he added. It was 8:10 a.m. local time, when Buddhist devotees typically visit the gigantic monument as they murmur holy chants and circle around the shrine. There had been an influx of devotees to the area because Wednesday is the last day of the Buddhist festival of Losar, a Tibetan word for a new year, Mr. Satyal added. A group of exiled Tibetans were organizing a cultural program in the vicinity.
Mr. Satyal said he saw the man leave the restaurant two to three minutes after using the toilet. Then he heard a commotion outside and walked onto the restaurant's terrace. "I saw that the man had set himself on fire and he was running," Mr. Satyal said. Mr. Satyal said he didn't hear the man crying or shouting. He called the police station a few streets away. Constables immediately rushed to the site and took the man away in an ambulance, he said.
The man had run about 30 meters from the restaurant building into the circle of the complex when a group of people stopped him, Mr. Satyal said. "They took out the burning jacket on his body and tried to douse the fire on his body by their hands," he said. "He was on fire for about five minutes."
Afterward, Mr. Satyal said, he and his colleagues found the backpack the man had been carrying and a yellow plastic can that holds up to 20 liters of liquid lying on the floor of the restaurant's toilet. He said that liquid left in the can smelled of petrol.
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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
- "The Mending Charm will repair broken objects with a flick of the wand. Accidents do happen, so it is essential to know how to mend our errors."
- —Book of Spells[src]
The Mending Charm,[1] also known as the Repairing Charm[2] (Reparo), is a charm that can be used to seamlessly repair a broken object and works on most materials. This incredibly useful and practical charm was invented by Orabella Nuttley, in or before 1754.
The charm was invented by Orabella Nuttley, an employee of the Improper Use of Magic Office in the British Ministry of Magic, in or before 1754. She used her charm to repair the Colosseum after it had been accidentally destroyed. Thereafter, it became famous; this instance was recorded in Book of Spells, by Miranda Goshawk.[2]
There are various textbooks containing instructions for this spell, including The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1[1], although there is still a spellbook designated entirely to the teaching of this charm[3]. Due to its being a level one spell, it is likely taught in the first year.
The Mending Charm is effective at repairing most materials.[2] However, damage caused by certain rare, powerful curses such as Fiendfyre are impossible to undo.[2]
The charm was suitable for use only on inanimate objects.[2] Use on living beings was entirely proscribed.[2] Serious scarring could result if it were cast on a person or animal in an attempt to heal wounds.[2]
While a properly cast Mending Charm was generally enough to fix an object, it seems less experienced casters might not succeed in returning liquids to broken containers.[4]
This charm does not seem to work on objects of powerful and complex magic, such as Vanishing Cabinets and wands. Draco Malfoy proved the former by having spent almost an entire school year to repair the damaged cabinet through other means, due to the complexity of the magical passage. For snapped wands, although this charm can repair the physical form, the magical capacity would be damaged beyond repair, causing the wand in question to fall apart again upon attempted use; the sole exception goes to the Elder Wand which repaired Harry's wand, due to the strength and magnitude of the Elder Wand.
Known uses
|Orabella Nuttley
|Nuttley invented this spell and in or around 1754 she stepped forward and fixed several columns with the Mending Charm she had invented. Preventing a breach of the Statute of Secrecy.
|Bob Ogden
|Used it to repair a pot that Merope Gaunt had broken.
|Newt Scamander
|6 December 1926
|Used it nonverbally to repair Jacob Kowalski's apartment after several beasts escaped from his magical suitcase and broke up his belongings and blasted through a wall.
|MACUSA Aurors
|7 December, 1926
|Used it nonverbally to repair buildings after an Obscurial went on a path of destruction through New York City.
|Bill Weasley
|August, 1994
|Used it to repair the table leg a couple days before the 422nd Quidditch World Cup.
|Percy Weasley
|25 August, 1994
|Used it nonverbally to repair his glasses when he bowed just a little bit too low when greeting Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.
|Hermione Granger
|1 September, 1994
|Used it to repair the broken glass in the door to a railway carriage compartment.
|30 May, 1996
|Used it to repair a teacup that Ron Weasley had broken during a Transfiguration class.
|10 March, 1997
|Used it to repair a set of scales broken in the corridor outside the Room of Requirement.
|Harry Potter
|10 September, 1995
|Used it to repair the china bowl of Murtlap Essence he'd knocked to the floor. The spell couldn't put the liquid back in the repaired bowl.
|14 September, 1996
|After cutting the covers off the old and new Potions textbooks in his possession and swapping them, Harry 'repaired' the two swapped covers simultaneously by tapping each.
|Fall 1996
|Used it to repair a bowl he had broken in Herbology class.
|1 August, 1997
|Used it to repair Luchino Caffe after duel.
|2 May, 1998
|Used it with the Elder Wand to repair his own broken one, which worked due to the power the Elder Wand possesses.
|Minerva McGonagall
|May, 1993
|Used it nonverbally to repair the leg of Neville Longbottom's desk, which he had accidentally vanished.
|Severus Snape
|March, 1996
|Used it to repair a shattered jar in his office during Occlumency lessons.
|Ron Weasley
|1 August, 1997
|Used it to repair Luchino Caffe after duel.
|Horace Slughorn
|12 July, 1996
|Used it nonverbally (and in a masterly way) to undo the damage Slughorn had inflicted upon his borrowed living quarters in Budleigh Babberton.
|Albus Dumbledore
|Mathilda Grimblehawk's partner
|This spell was used many times to repair various clues found during investigations
|Newt Scamander
|6 December, 1926
|Intended to repair a structure at the Central Park Zoo that got destroyed by his Erumpent. Was unable to finish the incantation when a monkey took his wand.
|Rubeus Hagrid
|27 July, 1997
|Used it to keep the sidecar attached to the flying motorbike, but unsuccesful.
|Hermione Granger
|25 December, 1997
|Used it to repair Harry Potter's wand, but unsuccessful.
Known practitioners
Two similar spells exist: Oculus Reparo, which is used to repair eyeglasses, and Papyrus Reparo, which can be used to restore torn pieces of paper.[10][11] Their history and relationship to the original Mending Charm - apart from the etymology and effects - are unknown.
It is also possible that these incantations are just the Mending Charm with the appropriate spell modifier added.
From Latin reparo, meaning "to renew" or "repair".[12]
Behind the scenes
- A variation of this spell is the first verbal spell cast in the film series (Oculus Reparo) while the Mending Charm itself was the last spell cast in the book series.[6]
- In the video games, this spell is either blue, violet or pink depending on the game.
- In many portrayals, the spell can cause entire areas of broken objects to be restored, reverse any damage and displacement, even levitating fallen objects back into their original place (such as books being put back in their shelves). It is similar to reversing time on broken objects to undo the damage.
- The spell is used repeatedly in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, first with Newt reversing the massive wreckage in and around Jacob Kowalski's two story apartment to make the apartment's broken wall and even a damaged lamppost outside come back into place. He attempted to use the spell again at the Central Park Zoo to reverse the damage done by his Erumpent, though his wand was briefly taken by an escaped baboon. In the aftermath of Credence Barebone's rampage on New York, several Aurors are shown around the city reversing the destruction as the Thunderbird, Frank, flew around the city with a vial of Swooping Evil venom, which was diluted through a storm he conjured to wipe all No-Majs of the memories of the devastation.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Nintendo DS version only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Harry Potter: Spells
- Pottermore (First identified as Mending Charm)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Harry Potter: The Wand Collection (mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pottermore
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- ↑ Dictionary and Grammar Aid, University of Notre Dame, accessed 3-18-2008.
|Grade 1 · Grade 2 · Grade 3 · Grade 4 · Grade 5 · Grade 6 · Grade 7
|Charms included in the series: Fire-Making Spell · Levitation Charm · Locking Spell · Mending Charm · Softening Charm · Severing Charm · Unlocking Charm · Dancing Feet Spell · Disarming Charm · Engorgement Charm · Freezing Charm · General Counter-Spell · Memory Charm · Tickling Charm · Summoning Charm · Banishing Charm · Substantive Charm


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I'm not exactly a member of the Hearst dynasty, but I can honestly say that I earned $900 last year from my own publishing business. Better yet, I invested almost no money of my own and only 60 hours of spare time in the whole enterprise. I publish a menu guide, and I've yet to see a more satisfying and risk-free money-maker.
What Is It?
A menu guide is what you probably wished you had in your hands the last time you checked into a motel on unfamiliar turf. It's a booklet that answers the traveler's perennial question, Where do I go to get a good meal? A menu guide is also one of those rarest of creatures: a piece of advertising that's not only fun to look at, but immediately useful to the possessor.
In it, readers find the actual menus offered by local restaurants, as well as their business hours, addresses, phone numbers, and positions on a locator map. This sort of advertising doesn't just tease — it delivers!
Having said all that, I must remind you that I'm talking specifically about my product, the Bozeman Menu Guide. Similar booklets are sold in some large cities, but my little creations are paid for and distributed in a way that reflects conditions in Bozeman, Montana, which has a population of 25,000. So bear in mind, please, that I'll be talking about a small-city adaptation of a big-city idea.
From Megalopolis to Montana
Three years ago, when I began planning my first guide, I asked a friend, "What tourist would buy a Bozeman-size booklet when he or she could skim through it at a bookstall, pick out a restaurant, and put the pamphlet back on the rack?"
"Nobody would pay for it," my friend answered, "but lots of people might look at it. So get the restaurants to finance the whole deal, and then distribute free copies to motels. That way, thousands of hungry folks will see them over the course of a year. And I don't see any reason why the restaurants wouldn't pay in advance for that sort of advertising." By golly, that solved my first (and worst) problem!
Of course, I still had to persuade the local motel people to cooperate. I wasn't too worried, though. After all, the guides would be free to them and would provide a service to their customers. And the motel owners did cooperate — with the exception of those whose places had in-house restaurants. Those business people wanted nothing to do with a publication that might draw clients away from their dining rooms, and I couldn't blame them for their attitude. However, this disappointment was more than made up for by the eagerness of the people whose establishments didn't offer meals. In the end, I managed to line up nine motels with a total of 400 rooms.
Knowing a home for my booklets was assured gave me the gumption to go on to the next step. First, I counted every restaurant in Bozeman. Then, from that total I subtracted the big national chains, since I wanted my guide to focus on local businesses — and maybe even give them a chance to compete with the monstrous advertising budgets of the "big guys."
An "Estimable" Job
I was able to turn up almost 50 local eateries, as well as 20 chains. That's a heap of grub-peddlers for a place this size, but we're a tourist and university town, and I did count every last sandwich shop in my effort to get some figures together for a trip to the printers. I wanted to know how many potential pages they should estimate for. I'd already decided to sell only full-page ads, so the most wildly successful book would run 50 pages, provided I ignored the chains. Realistically, I decided to have my costs (which are figured by the sheet) estimated for 40, 24, and 12 pages.
I couldn't be absolutely sure of how many copies I wanted, of course, until I knew the costs. However, since printers' per-page prices drop as the number of copies ordered increases, I had to give them a ballpark figure. I would publish only one edition a year and knew I'd need replacements to keep each room stocked, so I pulled the number 1,500 out of the air — a good guess, as it turned out. Then, after selecting some nice, mid-priced paper for the cover and pages, I left a string of printers busily tallying figures and went on to my next step: the selection of a graphic artist to design the cover.
It may seem strange to order a cover before a book even goes into print, but I wanted something concrete to help my potential customers visualize the finished guide. Bozeman is an artsy town, so I had no trouble locating a cover designer and was looking at an attractive rendering of my general concept the very next day. The cost of that piece of artwork ($150) has been the only expense I've ever had to risk myself, and I now know some people who would have done the job for less money ... or for barter. Still, I had to go with a professional that first year (and since I'm still using the artwork at no additional expense, I'm not complaining).
On the same day that I picked up the cover, I also gathered my printing estimates. The printer I chose offered a good reputation along with great prices, and I was able to use those figures to come up with a price per page to charge my advertisers.
The formula was simple: I just multiplied the printer's per-sheet estimate by two. That figure was large enough to absorb hidden costs and to give me a decent profit. The hidden costs I anticipated were such things as reduction charges (to bring a big menu down to my 8 1/2" x 11" booklet size) and typesetting (to add a restaurant's name, phone number, and address to menus missing these bits of information). Anyway, I now had a nice round figure to charge the restaurants (it was $100 the first year, and I've since raised it to $125), a beautiful cover to show, and almost enough preparation to start selling.
Get Ready (Really Ready!), Get Set ...
Maybe I'm too fussy, but I still felt the need for one more security blanket before facing my first restaurant manager: a typed sheet listing the names of my distribution motels, my name and phone number, a projected readership figure, and a little blurb about how wonderfully targeted to hungry travelers the menu guide would be. I obtained the figure I wanted most, the readership estimate, by converting the year-round occupancy rate for Bozeman motels (a percentage gathered from the chamber of commerce) into a decimal (63% = 0.63) and then multiplying that decimal by the total number of rooms I had lined up (0.63 X 400). Then I multiplied that sum by 1.5, a rough estimate of the average number of people in an occupied room. When the resulting figure was multiplied by the days in a year, the result yielded was an impressive 137,970 readers! As I say, I may be fussy, but it sure didn't hurt to bring the image of 137,970 hungry tourists into that first eatery.
Sell Your Guides!
Have you ever felt your stomach doing gymnastics while your palms were practically squirting sweat? That's the way I felt on my first selling day. I was dressed to the neck (oh, that tight collar!) in an outfit I used to call my marrying-and-burying suit. Now I know that a clean pair of cords and a nice shirt would have been spiffy enough for this part of the country, but there are plenty of things I know now that I didn't know then!
I used to think, for instance, that the telephone was a salesperson's best friend. Not anymore! Sure, you can make appointments with a phone, but nothing beats the personal touch when it comes to pitching sales. Nowadays I almost never use the telephone. Instead, I stick my head in the door and ask, "Do you have a couple of minutes?" If the answer is no, I make an appointment. It sure beats waiting on hold ... or waiting for a promised call-back that might or might not come ... or, worst of all, trying to explain your business plan over the phone.
OK, so much for the technique of selling. What about results? Let me just say it's a good thing I doubled the printer's per-page estimate to figure my prices, or I wouldn't have done too well. As it was, I worked about 80 hours that first year, sold 12 pages, and made $400 — not bad at all, to my way of thinking, especially since I held another, full-time, job during the whole process.
Bits and Pieces
However, I've jumped ahead of myself a little with all that talk about profits. In reality, when the selling has been done, you're still a few long yards from the finish line. For one thing, you need to sort out all the bits of information (such as phone numbers) that you picked up with the menus and then get your organized self down to the printer's. For another, there's the "locator map" to design. My wife, Brenda, did that, but be forewarned that it's not a job for a rank amateur. You may need to pay the printer to do it.
The map went on the back cover of the menu guides. I also had it printed on separate sheets of inexpensive paper (I ordered 500 copies) to be given away at motel desks. This would allow travelers to refer to the map while driving, so they wouldn't have to take along the whole menu guide (and forget to bring it back!).
And while you're designing the map and getting organized for the printer, you'll probably be wondering about the places that haven't paid you yet. This is a pay-in-advance business, but many customers like to see something happening before they part with their cash. Oblige them, by all means, by presenting the proof book (a mock-up of how the final product will look) to them for inspection. You'll certainly want to look at it before printing starts, so why not use it to reassure the restaurant people, too? In fact, it's not a bad idea to show the proof book to all of your clients, whether they've paid or not, to avoid misunderstandings later.
Suppose you've collected all the money, the proof looks good, and the presses are ready to roll — is there anything else to be done? No, not really. Just wait (from one to three weeks, probably). Then when the booklets roll off the presses, get them first to the restaurants (one copy each) and then to the motels as fast as you can. (Divide them up in proportion to the number of rooms in each place.) And then take a couple of copies home and celebrate. After all, you're a publisher!


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Hyundai i20 1.4 CRDi Blue Drive review
* Super-efficient i20 * CO2 emissions of 98g/km * Price: £13,195...
What is it?
The i20 Blue Drive is a new ultra-efficient diesel version of Hyundai's Ford Fiesta rival. With CO2 emissions of just 98g/km, it's the cheapest full-size supermini to qualify for exemption from road tax and the London Congestion Charge.
What's it like to drive?
Cars designed to return exceptional fuel economy and CO2 figures often have extra long gearing, which makes them frustrating to drive at low speeds.
This isn't the case with the Blue Drive. It achieves its 76.4mpg through aerodynamic tweaks, low-rolling-resistance tyres and an engine stop-start system so once you're on the move it's no different to drive than a regular diesel i20.
The 89bhp 1.4-litre diesel engine is gutsy enough. Squeeze the accelerator pedal and there's a pause while the turbocharger spins up, but then a healthy surge of power until just above 4000rpm.
Unfortunately, the engine doesn't go about its business quietly. There's a van-like clatter at tickover and a noisy drone as you accelerate up to speed, which stays with you throughout your journey.
Elsewhere the i20 is competent rather than engaging. It grips well, with stable and predictable handling, but it's a shame there isn't more feedback through the steering.
What's it like inside?
From the driver's seat there's little to separate the Blue Drive from any other i20. The dashboard is a victory for function over style, with the controls logical and easy to use.
The steering wheel can be adjusted for reach and rake, and the driver's seat for height.
The i20 has as much room as many of its mainstream rivals, with enough cabin space for four adults to sit comfortably. Five is a squeeze, though, and there's not a lot of rear legroom. The boot is wide and a decent size, and the rear seats split, fold down and tumble forwards.
This new Blue Drive edition might be cheap, but it's surprisingly well equipped. Alloy wheels, air-conditioning, four electric windows, Bluetooth, stability control and six airbags all fitted as standard. There's also a socket for your MP3 player.
Should I buy one?
There are certainly better full-size superminis that fall under the all-important 100g/km CO2 mark. The five-door Ford Fiesta Econetic is the best of the lot, but even in entry-level Edge trim it's priced at £14,495 and that doesn't get you Bluetooth or curtain airbags.
The i20 Blue Drive is cracking value for money, then especially when you factor in Hyundai's five-year Triple Care package, which combines a five-year, unlimited-mileage warranty, five years of roadside assistance and five years of annual vehicle health checks.
Even considering all this, we think the Fiesta is just about worth the extra outlay. It's sharper to drive, has a stronger engine and is much quieter. Ford dealers are also willing to knock around £900 off itslist price.
Before you buy either, though, make sure you do the mileage to warrant spending upwards of £13,000 on a supermini. For the vast majority of buyers a small petrol engine makes a lot more sense.
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Farmingdale State - 3, Yeshiva - 0 (25-9, 25-17, 25-15)
Farmingdale State - 3, Mount Saint Vincent - 0 (25-17, 25-22, 25-12)
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's volleyball team swept both matches today in their home Skyline playdate as they defeated Yeshiva and Mount Saint Vincent each 3-0. The Rams improved to 7-2 overall and a perfect 2-0 in the Skyline Conference.
In the win over Yeshiva, junior outside hitter Holly Sahner (Dix Hills, N.Y.) had a game-high eight kills, while senior opposite Renee Milevoj (Bethpage, N.Y.) had seven kills for the Rams. Freshman setter Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) had 22 assists, six service aces and six digs for Farmingdale State. Senior libero Jessica Zimmermann (Seaford, N.Y.) led the way with 13 digs in the victory.
Against Mount Saint Vincent, Sahner recorded 12 kills and 10 digs, while Milevoj has six kills and 10 digs. Palladino had a game-high 28 assists for the Rams.
Mount Saint Vincent's senior libero Renee Reynes (Bronx, N.Y.) led the way with a game-high 22 digs.
Farmingdale State next will play Purchase at 10:00 a.m. and Maritime at noon on Saturday, September 24th in a Skyline Conference playdate at Purchase College.


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- Heart's first album, "Dreamboat Annie," was released in 1976
- Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson proved two women could front their own rock band
- Their new studio album, "Fanatic," will hit store shelves on October 2
Legendary rock band Heart received the 2,481st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.
Founding members Ann and Nancy Wilson unveiled the terrazzo tile in front of an excited crowd that included their children, members of Alice in Chains, and actress-singer Rita Wilson, who recalled driving down Mulholland Drive during the '70s in -- you guessed it -- her parent's Barracuda.
"When I was a teenager in Hollywood," Wilson said, "I became aware of a powerful rock band that was fronted by two women, two sisters, two chicks who rocked the house."
Ann and Nancy Wilson busted the rock 'n' roll boys club wide open in 1976 when they released their debut disc, "Dreamboat Annie." The album included singles "Magic Man" and "Crazy on You." It showcased Ann's powerful vocals and her younger sister's prodigious guitar skills.
Heart's second record, "Little Queen," produced the anthem "Barracuda," which has been the group's signature song since 1977.
In a testosterone-fueled genre, the Wilson sisters proved two women could front their own rock band, play their own instruments and write their own music.
"We never considered the gender aspect of it when we first started," Ann told CNN after the ceremony. "We just thought, 'Why can't we?'"
"It was just sort of being, not girlfriends of the Beatles, or wives of the Beatles -- we wanted to BE the Beatles," said Nancy.
But breaking down barriers wasn't easy, Nancy said, noting, "Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge."
The two sisters also gave a shout-out to their children, thanking them for their patience as Heart toured the world.
"The guilt!" exclaimed Ann. "We're moms!"
"When we're home we like to cook, and be together and do mom things when we can," Nancy explained. "But we're the CEOs of the Heart corporation. Our job causes us to travel like a lot of CEO-type women, so they've been really beautiful about being proud of us and being there for us."
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Daniel Day-Lewis provided a little light entertainment at the 2012 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards by staging his own version of Clint Eastwood's famous empty chair speech as he accepted a top honor on Wednesday night.
The "Lincoln" star was presented with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts gala in Los Angeles, and he had the audience roaring with laughter as he parodied Eastwood's bizarre appearance at the Republican National Convention in August, when he began taking aim at an invisible President Barack Obama he pretended was seated beside him onstage.
After receiving the prize from his "Lincoln" director Steven Spielberg, Day-Lewis bowed his head at the empty chair placed on the podium and said, "I have to say, I'm so extremely grateful and glad that taking time out of his busy schedule, the recently re-elected president of this country was able to make it here tonight.
"I know, as an Englishman, it's absolutely none of my business, but I'm so very grateful it was you (who won the election)."
But the Oscar winner made it clear his spoof wasn't a shot at legendary actor/director Eastwood, stating, "This is no satirical comment on him or his politics or anything else, but I have to say that when I saw him talking to a chair to a room full of strangers, I thought, 'I've gotta try that. That's a challenge.'"
Day-Lewis also joked about the phone-hacking scandal that led to the downfall of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, stating, "I'm looking around at this room of distinguished guests and I feel slightly like the odd man out because I think I'm maybe the only British subject not to have had my phone hacked.
"It's probably some sort of testament to the uneventful life that I lead," he added. "I don't know where Rupert's boys were when I staggered out of the S&M bar at five in the morning."
Other winners at the Britannia Awards included James Bond star Daniel Craig (British Artist of the Year), "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy) and Quentin Tarantino, who picked up the John Schlesinger Award for Excellence in Directing.
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The drug lab scandal: Who's cleaning it up?
Veteran Boston lawyer David Meier was handed the unenviable task of fixing the drug lab debacle, one of the state's biggest law enforcement scandals ever. Is he up to the job?
IT SOUNDS LIKE one of the least appealing jobs ever: Sift through tens of thousands of state and federal drug cases, determine which ones may be compromised by tainted evidence, help shepherd them through a knotty legal system, and then bring some measure of justice to those denied a fair trial. The time frame? Indefinite. The size of the problem? It's a sprawling mess. The stakes? High. The chances of broad public recognition or gratitude? Low.
Which is to say, it's just the kind of offer David Meier couldn't turn down. With an abiding — some might say almost masochistic — commitment to the integrity of the criminal justice system, Meier, a veteran prosecutor now in private practice, was the natural choice when Governor Deval Patrick needed a skilled hand to repair one of the biggest law enforcement scandals in Massachusetts: the alleged widespread misconduct of a chemist at a state drug lab and the serious oversight lapses that allowed it to happen.
As of late November, the chemist, Annie Dookhan, was known to have handled roughly 60,000 drug samples involving some 34,000 defendants over 8 ½ years at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain. Dookhan, according to an initial investigation, allegedly identified substances as cocaine even when tests showed otherwise and turned negative results for cocaine and other drugs into positive ones. Prosecutors based many, many cases on her work. Anything that Dookhan touched — from her lab results to her testimony at trial — is now suspect.
The scandal's reach is breathtaking. The failures at the drug lab, which the state closed in August, will cost the public tens of millions of dollars, ripple across much of Eastern Massachusetts, and likely take years to right. People may be locked up or have had their sentences for separate crimes extended based on falsified evidence. There may be others who finished their drug sentences years ago but still live with the consequences: Has it hindered their pursuit of a job? An apartment? A driver's license?
Since his appointment by the governor in September, the 57-year-old Meier has been developing a master list of defendants who may have been affected, drawing on drug lab data and many other sources. He's being paid $12,500 a month and is doing the work while maintaining his practice at the Boston law firm Todd & Weld, where he is a partner.
"The job of marshaling the facts on these cases and getting these cases to a point where they can be resolved is a herculean task," says Max Stern, a longtime defense attorney and president of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Veteran Boston attorney James Sultan, who has known Meier for years, puts it more bluntly. "It's an absolutely thankless task," he says. "I think it's a terrible job." Sultan, in jest, offered Meier condolences along with congratulations. Meier says, "A lot of people have."
Having presided over high-profile homicide cases in Middlesex and Suffolk counties, Meier is a public figure to a degree, but not a household name. His reputation in the legal community, however, is sterling. This job, of course, should not even exist. Now that it does, the work is proving to be complicated, frustrating, and contentious. But there does seem to be wide agreement on one thing: David Meier is just the guy to do it.
HE WAS, IN MANY RESPECTS, a typical California kid. After spending his first years in Connecticut, David Meier grew up on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, where his father, Gerald, was a prominent economist who specialized in developing countries. The oldest of four boys, David spent much of his youth outside, played a lot of baseball and basketball, and attended the local public high school. He developed a lifelong affinity for the San Francisco Giants.
The Meier boys, though, saw more of the world than many peers. Their father, who taught internationally, took the family to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. David Meier spent two years attending school abroad — first in England, then in Jamaica. And not, his parents insisted, at the fancy schools catering to the children of government officials and elites; in the public schools. "I was taught from a young age to treat people with dignity and respect and to hear people out . . . and to be fair and to be honest and to be true to my values and principles and convictions," he says. "Perhaps part of that comes from opportunities to experience other people and other cultures and being exposed to different ways of life."
New England was a natural draw for college, because Meier's father and his mother, Gretl, had spent time here earning degrees and teaching. Meier chose Amherst College and headed east. It was at Amherst, Meier says, that he developed an interest in the law, intrigued by what he calls "the challenges of trying to evaluate issues and problems and resolve them." He wrote his senior thesis on the origins of juvenile law. Jim Rehnquist, a close friend and Amherst classmate of Meier's, says it was evident that Meier, like Meier's father, was motivated by a public mission.
Meier earned his legal degree from Boston University School of Law in 1981. One of his acquaintances there was the acclaimed screenwriter-producer David E. Kelley, who has often used the names — if not the spirits — of former law school pals as the basis for characters. L.A. Law fans may recall an irksome direct-mail magnate named Dave Meyer, played by the actor Dann Florek.
After law school, Meier was hired as a rookie assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, assigned to Framingham District Court. It became his training ground. In Framingham and later in Cambridge, he tried hundreds of cases in front of juries. Meier developed a persuasive trial demeanor, more methodical than histrionic. "He made it seem as though there was only one possible reasonable answer, and it was a one-word answer starting with a 'g,' " says retired Superior Court judge Hiller Zobel.
As he moved up the ranks, Meier began to see glimmers of injustice. "I remember feeling some unease at times with the pressures that were put upon you as a prosecutor," he says. Lawyers on both sides of a trial have a tendency to "treat facts as tools you use in your cases," says Marty Murphy, a friend and prominent Boston lawyer who worked with Meier in the Middlesex DA's office. Meier bristled at that. He was, Murphy says, "obsessively concerned about the facts," insistent that they not be manipulated, ignored, or purposefully omitted, even when they might be inconvenient to your side.
In 1989, Meier's principles were put to the test. About 18 months earlier, a man named Calvin Reid had been arrested for allegedly breaking into the Somerville house of a young couple, raping the pregnant wife, and then making off in their car with a TV, VCR, and stereo. Meier took over the case as the trial approached. Once he dug in, he developed grave concerns about the evidence and about how Reid had been identified. So he laid them out over several hours one Saturday morning to his boss, Tom Reilly, then the first assistant district attorney in Middlesex. Meier wanted to send the wife's sweat pants out for DNA testing, which at the time was novel — and expensive. Reilly agreed.
When the results came back, they pointed to another man's DNA, excluding Reid as a suspect. Had Meier just pushed on, it's conceivable, if not likely, that he could have convicted Calvin Reid. It was a watershed moment for Meier. He had trusted his gut, and his gut had been right. "The ethical commitment to doing the right thing was there from the beginning," Reilly says. "You didn't have to instill that in David."
This sensibility helped make Meier a prime recruit when the Suffolk County district attorney, Ralph C. Martin II, needed a chief of homicide in 1996. Over breakfast at Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe in the South End, the deal was sealed: Meier would come to Boston and help Martin launch a new era of cooperation between the DA's office and Boston police, in which prosecutors and cops would, in a break from recent practice, work side by side from the start of major homicide investigations. Though there was some resistance in the police ranks to working more closely with prosecutors, Meier helped define a more productive relationship. "He cared about the city, and he cared about the Police Department, and he cared about getting his cases done," says Paul Farrahar, who commanded the Boston police homicide unit at the time.
For 12 years, under Martin and then Dan Conley, Meier oversaw some of the city's biggest prosecutions. He helped dismantle the Theodore Street Posse, one of Boston's most violent gangs, successfully prosecuting members Gus Swafford and Ricardo Gittens for separate murders. He secured a guilty plea from Patrick John Durham for the long-unsolved stabbing death of 14-year-old Mary Theresa Burhoe in Charlestown in 1981. He sent Chimezie Akara and Andre Green to prison for life for the brazen 2003 shooting of a pregnant woman on an Orange Line train that killed her child. "He stood for what was right," says Daniel Coleman, a sergeant detective with the Boston Police Department and former head of the homicide unit.
Meier's intensity as a homicide prosecutor was legendary. As a trial neared, he focused like a laser. You could barely approach him, says David Procopio, a former spokesman for the Suffolk DA's office. Meier tackled his preparation like a scholar, filling three-ring binders with detailed notes, the margins crammed with arrows, checks, and other symbols. "That trial and that case became his life," Procopio says.
On the occasions when a case didn't go his way, Meier wore the loss on his face. In 2004, after a jury acquitted Kyle Bryant of murdering his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend, Chauntae Jones — even after Bryant told police he'd been present when Jones was stabbed, bludgeoned, and buried in Mattapan — Meier could be seen outside the Suffolk courthouse amid distraught members of Jones's family. He stared into space, shellshocked.
Over his dozen years in Suffolk County, Meier proved that, working in the toughest neighborhoods, on some of the most horrific crimes, he could be relentless in pursuing and winning convictions. He also proved that justice meant more than putting criminals in prison.
THE THREE MEN SAT around a table in a small meeting room at MCI-Shirley: David Meier from the DA's office, attorney James Sultan, and Sultan's client, James Haley, there in his prison garb, locked up for 34 years on a 1972 conviction for a Roxbury murder. This was late 2007. Haley, after receiving a bundle of police documents from a public records request, made a persuasive case that his trial had been unfair. Potentially exculpatory evidence had never been turned over to his defense.
It was an odd dynamic that day at the state house of correction. Ordinarily, Sultan says, he would never have let a prosecutor come talk directly to his client. But this was David Meier. He knew Meier was only after the truth. Meier discussed the possibility of Haley pleading guilty to a lesser charge and walking free. Haley said no. He said he couldn't admit to something he didn't do. (Meier says he can't talk about the case, because it remains in civil litigation.)
Meier later filed a motion to vacate Haley's conviction, saying the state could no longer be confident in the integrity of the trial more than three decades earlier. A judge agreed, and in January 2008 Haley became a free man. But Haley's release had nothing to do with whether he was innocent or guilty. Indeed, Haley's former sister-in-law maintained after he got out that she had seen him kill the victim, who was her boyfriend. The DA's office opted not to retry him, saying too much time had passed to mount an effective case, but prosecutors were clear that this was no exoneration. The operative question was, did James Haley get a fair trial? The only reasonable answer was no.
Meier applied the same standards to a series of other cases, becoming the driving force in Boston behind repairing errors of the past. He helped free and exonerate several men wrongfully convicted of murder, including Donnell Johnson, found guilty in 1996 of killing 9-year-old Jermaine Goffigan two years earlier. Johnson spent five years in prison until a separate federal drug investigation led to guilty pleas by two other men.
There was also Marlon Passley, sentenced to life for a 1995 Boston murder he didn't commit and whom Meier asked a judge to free in 1999. "In the end, he said, 'This was as satisfying as any conviction.' Those were his words," Ralph Martin recalls Meier saying of the Passley case. "It defies any stereotypical view of a tough prosecutor. He is a tough lawyer, but he's not cut that way at all." Sultan puts it differently. "There can be a bureaucratic or intellectual devotion to a concept of due process or a concept of fairness," he says. "David's view has a much more humanistic aspect to it."
Meier is sensitive about this perception, not wanting to give the impression that his moral compass makes him some kind of softie. David Procopio remembers him once joking: "Someday I'd like to get as many headlines for actually putting somebody in jail as I have for getting somebody else out." Putting people in jail is what prosecutors are expected to do, though. That's how they're measured. Meier, who is a trustee of the New England Innocence Project, has always kept a different score card. In his view, what good is toughness without integrity, without credibility?
It can be a difficult ideal to uphold, especially given the many pressures against reopening an old case or halting an existing one. Meier seems almost impervious to them. "He's going to drill down until he gets the answer, and then he's going to be completely transparent about it," says Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
A few years ago, Meier took his activism a step further. With Marty Murphy, he led a Boston Bar Association task force that took a deep look at how to prevent wrongful convictions. The task force proposed a new law to allow prisoners post-conviction access to DNA evidence; Massachusetts was one of only a handful of states that did not, by law, grant them that right. The bill passed the Legislature in February and the governor signed it into law.
Donnell Johnson, for one, isn't willing to sing Meier's praises. Johnson, now 34, is living in Baltimore, where he was recently laid off from his job with U-Haul. After his release from prison, Johnson went on to earn a college degree with honors. Still feeling burned by the Massachusetts criminal justice system, he hopes to go to law school, to turn his experience into something positive. Of Meier, Johnson says: "He did the right thing by going forward, but he had no choice. Don't read my case like he did me a favor."
IT'S A DANK FRIDAY evening. The workweek is over. Downtown is emptying out. Meier isn't quite ready to go home. He lets me into what they call the war room or boiler room. It is here, under fluorescent lights in a nondescript conference room near Beacon Hill, amid bags of M&M's, jars of peanuts, and a bank of computers, that Meier and his team are trying, bit by bit, to unravel the drug lab tangle.
He works alongside representatives from the State Police and the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, support staff from the Patrick administration, and one of Meier's associates from Todd & Weld. And it's a slog: scouring lists and documents for the names of defendants whose drug samples might be compromised, figuring out who's in custody where, and prioritizing the most urgent cases.
As we discuss the enormity of the task, I'm struck by how Meier, despite the thousands of names and details and problems rolling through his mind on this Friday night, can still rattle off facets of homicide cases from years ago — the fingerprint on a coffee mug, the sweat shirt left in a kitchen. It's all cataloged up there under his trademark dark shag, which wouldn't be out of place on a Strat player in a bar band.
In conversation, Meier, who is a stocky 5 foot 10, is chatty and informal but a stickler for accuracy. Even slight mischaracterizations or misstatements — out of my mouth or his — he feels compelled to correct. "Strike that," he says after uttering something he wants to phrase differently.
Like many prosecutors, Meier prefers to keep his family life private. Socially, he likes to hang around law enforcement types. "You go out with the guy and he's always meeting like four Lowell cops in a bar," Jim Rehnquist says. About the only personal criticism of Meier I hear from anyone is that he has a habit of promising to call and then never does.
On the drug lab scandal, Meier is responsible for one piece. Attorney General Martha Coakley is leading a criminal investigation into Dookhan, who, as of late November, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of falsifying her academic record, charges that could bring more than 20 years in prison. The state inspector general, Glenn Cunha, is conducting a broad review of what went wrong at the lab. But it falls to Meier to begin fixing the damage that's already been done — to ensure the accused and convicted are granted their constitutional right to due process. "The goal," Meier says, "is to do everything we can to ensure that the criminal justice system gets it right." It's clear that Deval Patrick, who had ultimate authority over the troubled facility, is keeping close tabs on the fallout.
Key players in the process want to get it right, too, but they have their concerns. For Ed Davis, one fear is that a raft of inmates may be released from prison earlier than expected. That's why Boston's police commissioner wants to make sure adequate reentry programs are in place. "There's a real balancing act that we're trying to accomplish here, by trying to be scrupulously fair to people who have had their rights violated, but also," Davis says, "making sure we're keeping the community safe."
One glitch so far, says Michael O'Keefe, the district attorney for the Cape and Islands and president of the state District Attorneys Association, is that the drug lab data have been less complete than anticipated. After the scandal broke, he says, his top deputy and IT director were sitting in a room nine hours a day trying to build their own database of affected cases, which O'Keefe says could number 4,000 to 5,000 in his jurisdiction. (The other affected counties include Middlesex, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Essex.) The hope is that collecting names and cases from multiple sources will yield a master list from which all parties can work.
Defense lawyers, meanwhile, raise the possibility that everything the Jamaica Plain lab processed, beyond just the cases that Dookhan herself tested, could be unreliable. Anthony Benedetti, chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state public defender agency, says there are enough questions about Dookhan's motives and behavior — as well as oversight lapses at the lab — that defense lawyers may challenge any drug charges based on the lab's work, a prospect that could cost as much as $332 million. Noting that Dookhan has allegedly admitted to State Police that she tampered with evidence, Benedetti says, "How do you know she wasn't doing that in other cases?"
As of late November, Meier and his team had identified about 10,000 of the 34,000 people who were possibly affected by Dookhan's work, including roughly 2,000 who were in some form of custody, making them the priority. Meier's group then planned to focus on the others, piecing together cases file by file. That process could take months.
Ultimately the resolution of all the cases, which have begun cycling through the courts, will depend on how judges, district attorneys, defense lawyers, and other authorities decide to handle them. (Meier intends to have no role in the adjudication.) The judiciary has created special sessions devoted to drug lab cases in courthouses across the state. The remedies will be varied, and they will be vast.
I ask Meier in one of our conversations if he misses the rough-and-tumble intensity of the Suffolk prosecutor's life. "Yes," he says with little hesitation. "I miss the intensity. I miss the camaraderie. And there are some things I don't miss." Meier, who also teaches a seminar on homicide investigations to third-year BU law students, insists he did not accept the drug lab post out of wistfulness. "In and of itself, change is good," he says. "I'm very grateful for the opportunity I've been given at my law firm."
Those who know him, though, are thrilled to see him back in a public role. "When I heard he'd been appointed by the governor, I thought, he's back to public service — because he's got this very strong streak of serving the public good," says Margaret Hinkle, a retired Superior Court judge who presided over a number of Meier's homicide cases. Hinkle and others wonder whether Meier is one day destined for the bench himself.
For Meier — just as in his early days in Middlesex, his big-ticket prosecutions in Suffolk County, and his novel work on wrongful convictions — the drug lab crisis, for now, presents a chance to put his ideals into practice for a larger good.
"In any organization or in any system, there are defining moments. There are defining times," he tells me. "And I think this is one of them for the criminal justice system." He continues: "There's no road map. There's no blueprint. But there are principles and there are priorities. And is it a challenge? Sure it is. But there's a right way of going about everything. And this is no different."
Scott Helman is a Globe Magazine staff writer. E-mail him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @swhelman. Additional reporting by Globe staff writer Jonathan Saltzman.


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Long story short, this I knit this sparkling golden penguin as part of a group penguin knitting project for the Zoo. I'll share more details of the why, and how and when you can see the finished project. For now, just soak in all that sparkles.
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Tutman, Freyhof, Dulčić, Glamuzina & Geiger, 2017
Lampetra soljani, new species, is described from the lower Neretva River in the Adriatic Sea basin. Previously it was identified as L. zanandreai. Based on morphological similarity and mitochondrial genetic data, it is related to L. lanceolata and L. ninae from the Black Sea basin. Lampetra soljani is distinguished from all other species of Lampetra by having a marmorate flank pattern in live, fully grown ammocoetes, and in some adults (vs. plain colour pattern). Lampetra soljani is distinguished from other Lampetra species by having three velar tentacles, 54–57 trunk myomeres between the last branchial opening and the anus, no posterial teeth and a bicuspid middle endolateral tooth. Lampetra soljani is also well distinguished by COI barcode data from its congeners. The new species is widespread in the Neretva River drainage and lampreys from Lake Skadar basin are likely to belong to this species also.
Keywords: Pisces, Freshwater biodiversity, Mediterranean basin, Dinaric Biodiversity Hotspot
|Lampetra soljani, FSJF 3650, paratypes
FIGURE 4. pre-spawning adults, from the top, 124 mm TL, 128 mm TL; FIGURE 8. about 120 mm TL;
Bosnia and Herzegovina: side-arm of Neretva River east of Čapljina; 16–17 Jan. 2015.
Etymology. Named in honour of Tonko Šoljan (1907–1980) in appreciation of his contribution to the knowledge and development of ichthyology in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pero Tutman, Jörg Freyhof, Jakov Dulčić, Branko Glamuzina and Matthias Geiger. 2017. Lampetra soljani, A New Brook Lamprey from the southern Adriatic Sea basin (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae). Zootaxa. 4273(4); 531–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.4


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A recap of the latest Arrow episode!
Arrow continues to provide generous helpings of action, melodrama and geekiness in its third episode. While the last two episodes has shown how Oliver is at fighting small armies of goons, this episode pits him against a different type of adversary who arguably isn't that much unlike the CW's favorite adversary.
"Lone Gunman" opens with Oliver getting his workout on and lifting some cinderblocks fastened to a wooden plank. While you'd think that Ollie could afford a Bowflex or something, maybe the cinderblocks helps him hone his vigilantism or something. Anyways, Oliver's target of the night is James Holder, the manufacturer of faulty smoke detectors that were put into low-income housing. A lot of people died because of those smoke detectors, which means that he's in Oliver's Book of Shame.
Conveniently, Holder is chatting on the phone besides his highrise rooftop pool, basically waiting to be confronted by dangerous vigilante types. Oliver shows up and yells at him a bit, but is surprised when Holder is gunned down by an unknown sniper wearing an interesting eyepiece. Oliver dodges a few rounds of sniper fire before and escapes, but not before he's hit by a ricochet.
Back at the Arrowcave, Oliver pulls out the shrapnel out of his arm and stitches himself up, giving himself another scar in the process. Oliver then realizes that the bullet was poisoned when he starts to stagger around the Arrowcave. He quickly staggers to his wooden chest and pulls out a clump of grass, which he quickly eats before passing out.
A flashback reveals that's not the first time he's eaten grass. Back on Purgatory Island, Oliver wakes up in a cave with an arrow still in his chest (remember that from last time?). An Asian fellow shows up and insists that he eats a clump of grass before pulling the arrow out. As Ollie wreathes in pain, he asks Asian Arrow why the man shot him, to which the fellow ominously replies: "To save you."
Oliver wakes up in the Arrowcave, apparently cured of all poison aftereffects. When he arrives back at Queen Manor, he discovers that the police have dropped off his sister Thea after picking her up for breaking into a dress store while drunk. While Moira successfully pays off the store owner, she's not so successful at getting Thea to go to school, causing Oliver to comment what a crappy parent she is.
Meanwhile, Detective Lance and the rest of Starling City's finest are investigating Holder's murder. Quentin's partner thinks that Oliver (whom they're now calling "The Hood") was behind the murder, but Quentin's not so convinced. After all, why would Oliver murder a guy with bullets when arrows are so more convenient? Oliver, meanwhile, discovers that the bullets were laced with a poison called 'queari", which is the M.O. of a notorious international assassin named…Deadshot. What sort of dude is Deadshot? He's the sort of guy who tattoos the names of his victims, which we see him doing right before the commercial break.
Later that day, Oliver takes Tommy and Diggle to the factory that houses the Arrowcave and talks about his plans to convert the factory to a club. Ollie's secret reasoning is that the club would help cover his tracks better and explain where he runs off to all the time. Tommy insists that they check out a club owned by Max Fuller, whose fiancée Ollie slept with the day before the wedding. That won't come back to bite him. Nope, not at all.
Coincidentally, Laurel is caught reading up about Oliver's plans to open up a club by a co-worker and gets chided about how she hasn't gotten over Oliver. Her co-worker insists that they go out that night to get drunk and dance with strange men, a plan that Laurel begrudgingly agrees with.
While Moira unsuccessfully tries to parent Thea, Oliver parkours up a building to retrieve one of Deadshot's bullets. That bullet links Deadshot to the Russian mob, which Oliver apperantly has some past dealings with. Oliver flashes his chest tattoo to convince a mobster named Leonov to give him some information on Deadshot.
After Deadshot kills a second person (and tattoos his name on his abs), the police realize that the assassin is killing potential buyers of Unidack Industries, an energy company specializing in alternative energy sources. Lance drops by Queen Manor to warn/accuse Walter Steele of the murders. You'd think there'd be more than one detective in this city to help out with these things.
That night, Tommy and Ollie head to the club and bump into Laurel and Thea. After Oliver gets all judgmental on Thea, his little sister spills that Tommy and Laurel were an item after they thought Oliver passed away. Immediately after, Max Fuller arrives and drags Ollie to the VIP area to beat the crud out of him and Tommy. However, Laurel follows them and quickly incapacitates Fuller with some nifty self-defense moves and clears up the fight before it really starts. Laurel then tells Oliver that she'll sleep with whoever she wants to before storming off. That somehow triggers a flashback to Oliver waking up on the island next to a sleeping Asian Arrow and running away, only to be captured by a net trap. Those flashbacks always pop up in the most inopportune times.
Diggle takes Oliver and Tommy to the Big Belly Burger to clean themselves up. Diggle's sister-in-law owns the place, and asks Diggle why he's bringing rich white boys into her establishment. She doesn't seem too happy about Diggle's line of work and reminds the bodyguard that his brother (her husband) was killed while protecting people. By the way, one of the names tattooed on Deadshot's chest was Andrew Diggle. Coincidence?
Anyways, Tommy apologizes to Ollie about sleeping with his ex, but Ollie doesn't seem too concerned (in part because he found out about it two episodes while creeping around on a fire escape). Oliver excuses himself to take a phone call from Leonov, who tells him that Deadshot is staying in a crappy hotel room in the city.
Oliver tries to sneak up on Deadshot, but the assassin is wearing wrist-mounted machine guns and manages to escape through a window. However, Deadshot leaves his laptop behind, albeit riddled with bullet holes. Oliver takes the laptop to Queen Industries IT department and leaves it in the hands of Felicity Smoke, who tells Ollie that the computer belongs to Walter Patel, a rival of Queen Industries. She also finds blueprints of the building where the Unidack auction is taking place. Oliver realizes that Deadshot's planning on shooting up the joint and brusquely asks Detective Lance to help him protect everyone.
Moira and Steele arrive at the auction closely followed by Thea, who shows up to show her mother that she's not an awful parent after all. As Lance keeps his eyes peeled for Deadshot, it's revealed that the assassin has already infiltrated the perimeter.
Tommy and Laurel have a little chat about their relationship and how it affects Oliver. Laurel points out that Oliver had already figured out the truth, which leads Tommy to take another pass at Laurel while promising to clean up his act.
Speaking of Oliver, Oliver arrives at the auction and speaks with Diggle and Lance (basically revealing that he knows what's going on) as Deadshot gets ready to shoot Steele. Luckily, Lance notices the red dot on Steele's chest and pushes him out of the way as Deadshot shoots. Deadshot misses and hits a waiter instead. RIP Waiter #1. Oh, Deadshot shoots an old man too.
As the auction erupts into chaos, Ollie grabs Thea and Moira and tells Diggle to get them to safety. As Deadshot shoots a woman totally oblivious to the gundire, Oliver dashes into a stairwell and grabs his gear, which he left in a trashcan. One grappling arrow later, Oliver confronts Deadshot. As the two exchange arrows/bullets and Oliver shows off his jungle gym skills, Deadshot remarks that Oliver isn't that different. After all, Oliver's amassed a pretty impressive body count over the last three episodes. Oliver replies that he only kills for the good of others before shooting Deadshot IN THE EYE. Or at least his eyepiece. Maybe the arrow just knocked him out.
However, Deadshot's not the only person who got hurt in the crossfire. Diggle followed Ollie and got hit by one of the bullets. That leads to a flashback that shows Oliver getting cut out of the net trap by Asian Arrow, who warns him (in Mandarin) that there are OTHERS ON THE ISLAND. That's so Lost season one!
Anyways, Oliver has no choice but to take Diggle back to the Arrowcave and brew up an antidote. The episode ends with Diggle waking up to Oliver standing over him in the Arrowcave.
So that was the third episode, folks. Surprised that Oliver has ties to the Russian mob? What about Moira's parenting skills? Did they improve over the course of the episode? Are you sad to see that Deadshot is a one and done villain? While I hope you all enjoyed this Arrow review, be sure to leave your comments below and come back tomorrow to check out my Arrow Annotations column, which talks about all the Easter Eggs left by the writers of the show.


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Just south of the community of East Moss Point, and north of Highway 90, is the community of Kreole. This small community is a short distance from the Fredrick Street Park, Magnolia Jr. High, and the New Faith Coffee Shop.
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Kreole real estate is primarily small brick homes with unfenced front and back yards that sit amongst mature tree lined rural streets. If you are looking for homes for sale in Kreole then you will enjoy small town rural living near larger rural communities that offer modern conveniences like grocery stores, schools, and community churches.


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This Wiki is somewhat new, and does not have much content. The offical Xindice web site is http://xml.apache.org/xindice/.
Xindice 1.0 is quite different in many details from the current (1.1) development version. The recent development releases have been quite stable and, it appears, most active Xindice users are using them.
As many details of Xindice invocation have been changing, check whether the information in this wiki applies to 1.0, the current development release (1.1b4), or the state of the code in CVS.
Xindice News
- April 2004
- Xindice 1.1b4 is out
- February 2004
- Xindice re-licensed to Apache License, version 2.0
- Xindice website updated: Added link to this Wiki.
- Xindice got new Wiki!
Read older news in News Archive. Feel free to add Xindice related news here.
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Fox Hypes Voter ID Report From Organization That Claims To Continue ALEC's "Excellent Work"
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Fox News hyped a flawed report from the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) purporting to claim that voter ID laws protect the poor and minorities. But Fox host Steve Doocy failed to acknowledge the conservative group's self-proclaimed mission to continue the "excellent work" of the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council.
On Fox & Friends, Doocy promoted a NCPPR piece, claiming that the report demonstrated that "blacks and the poor are the most common victims of voter fraud, and would be protected by voter ID laws." From the broadcast:
DOOCY: Meanwhile, despite an ongoing push by the Department of Justice to prevent states from requiring an ID to vote, a new study said requiring ID would actually help increase minority participation. According to a brand new study from the National Center for Public Policy Research, blacks and the poor are the most common victims of voter fraud and would be protected by voter ID laws. Horace Cooper, an adjunct fellow at the Center saying "the criminals, more often than not, are Democrats violating the rights of people who tend to be black or senior." Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department though, has sued to block voter id laws across the country claiming they are unfit to minority voters.
But Doocy failed to mention that the NCPPR is a "conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank" dedicated to "putting the left on notice" that it "will not win." A Talking Points Memo post noted that NCPPR's chairman Amy Ridenour attacked "the left's Trotskyite strategy" of making relentless demand over relentless demand in public. From the post:
The National Center for Public Policy Research announced this week it had formed a "Voter Identification Task Force" to continue ALEC's "excellent work" in "promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting." Describing itself as a "conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank," the group was established in 1982.
"We're putting the left on notice: you take out a conservative program operating in one area, we'll kick it up a notch somewhere else," Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said in a statement. "You will not win. We outnumber you and we outthink you, and when you kick up a fuss you inspire us to victory."
The TPM post also noted that the NCPPR began focusing on voter ID law when the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) abandoned its voter identification project. TPM cited an April 18 NCPPR press release that said the Center intends "to continue the excellent work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting." The National Rifle Association (NRA), an organization with close ties to ALEC, promoted this transition during the May 22 edition of NRA News' Cam & Company.
ALEC eliminated its Public Safety and Elections task force after increased scrutiny of the organization for its roll in crafting "Stand Your Ground" laws. This task force heavily influenced a number of state legislatures to pursue voter ID laws in recent years.
In the most recent attempt by the current right-wing defender of voter ID laws, the NCPPR attempted to provide a rationale for voter ID laws. The report's claim that voter fraud exists, and harms vulnerable populations, is similar to one recently hyped by Fox News, focusing on fraudulent voter registration tactics. But just like the Fox segment, the type of fraud Cooper overwhelmingly cites would not be helped by voter ID laws and deflects from the very real concerns that voter ID laws could prevent millions of eligible people from voting.
As much as Cooper attempts to create a vast conspiracy of Democrat driven voter fraud across the country, voter fraud that he suggests could be stopped by voter ID laws, this fraud simply does not exist. Additionally, the examples Cooper used to draw his conclusions are voter registration fraud, not voter fraud as defined by the New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. Additionally, the Justice Department, through legal action, is attempting to prevent the spread of voter ID laws that could stop eligible voters form exercising their right.
Fox's promotion of this newest dubious attack on efforts to protect the right to vote for all Americans is just another example of Fox defending voter ID laws without acknowledging the mountain of evidence that indicates that voter ID laws restricts access to eligible voters.
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Joe Jonas Rushed to Hospital With Stomach Pains
Joe Jonas was rushed to the hospital yesterday due to severe stomach pains, TMZ is reporting. A rep for the singer confirms that he was taken to the emergency room at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.
Though the exact nature of Joe's ailment has not been revealed, it apparently wasn't a major illness. He was only at the hospital briefly, and the gossip site spotted him later in the evening having dinner with brother Nick and some friends at upscale sushi joint Katsuya. He even joked with the paparazzi about creating a new Jonas Brothers brand of cereal.
Jonas appeared Friday at Chicago's Allstate Arena as part of the B96 Jingle Bash, where he was joined by Enrique Iglesias, LMFAO and Jason Derulo. TMZ noted that after the show, he partied into the next morning at the Board Room Nightclub.
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New 2019 Winnebago Vista 29VE
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Winnebago has constructed this motorhome with the highest of standards, and you can see the quality firsthand when you take a look at the premium high-gloss sidewall skin as you step foot onto the automatic entry door steps and through the screen door. Once you set off on your excursion, you will enjoy exploring all of the comforts that the cab area provides, like the multi-adjustable Primera® cab seats with fixed lumbar support and the radio/rearview monitor system that includes a 6.2" LCD color touch screen. And after the sun has set and you have parked your vehicle, you can freely stretch your legs outside because the porch light and electric awning with LED lights give this motorhome a little extra space for you to enjoy nature.
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