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- Title: GMSpriterAPI Beta1.3.
- Description: Support for Spriter files (SCML)
- GM Version: :GM81: :GM8:
- Registered: Yes
- File Type: .zip (gmk, gm81, gmres, gml, animation project file and resources)
- File Size: 333kb
- File Link: http://www.host-a.ne...MSpriterAPI.zip
- Spriter Site: http://www.kickstart...9087245/spriter
This adds support to load Spriter character animation files into your games.
- SpriterInit() Initializes the setup
- SpriterLoadProject() Loads the SCML file. Supports multiple files
- SpriterSetCharaterAnimation() Set the animation for the character
- SpriterDrawCurrentFrame() Draws the animation frames
- SpriterDebugMakeAnim() pops up a menu to create an animation from the characters available
Included in the zip is the Spriter R1 and R3 character files, no harm intended, used for proof of concept
Limited support for R1 and R3
There are features in Spriter that could be supported... Collisions would need to be synchronized and I think there is hot point support to come in Spriter but the file did not have anything regarding the 2.
If you are interested, I can add support to fetch where an item is, like the sword in the animation so you can drop a collision enabled object at the location, so to detect sword hits. I could also provide support for compound characters where each sprite could possibly be linked to an instance.
- Spriter R1 files support
- Spriter R3 files support
- hot spot support (to us, x,y origins)
- bounding box loading, no access
- The frame timing is slightly off (not noticeable though)
- <charmap> section is ignored
- <group> ignored
Please provide feedback... and I do have a donate link below in my sig
The Demo
It asks for the animation file when it starts
Right Click will show the characters available.


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The three ingredients are banana, peanut butter and oat flour. As you already know from my previous recipes, this recipe works with just bananas and oats, but I think that the peanut butter makes them even more special. However, if you don?t like chewy and moist cookies, this may not be the perfect recipe for you.
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1 ripe banana
3-4 tablespoons of peanut butter
1 cup of oat flour
1/3 cup of chopped chocolate
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
Mash the banana and mix it with the peanut butter. Add the oats and mix again. Lastly, add the chopped chocolate or some chocolate chips, and mix one more time.
Put parchment paper on your baking tray. Then, carefully scoop spoonfuls of the mixture onto the tray and flatten them a bit. Bake for about 15 minutes.
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With U.S. President Barack Obama preparing to travel within weeks to the Middle East in hopes of jump starting peace talks, former Reagan and Bush administrations figure Elliott Abrams is wondering whether the current administration has learned from the mistakes of its predecessors.
"If you're doing exactly the same things, making the same mistakes, you're not going to be successful," Abrams said in an interview with UPI in advance of Tuesday's publication of his book, "Tested by Zion: The Bush administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
The Harvard- and London School of Economics-educated Abrams, who served as an assistant secretary of state during the Reagan administration and was a deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, holds out little hope the Israelis and Palestinians can reach a "grand bargain," especially now that the Arab Spring has brought so much instability to the region.
Abrams' book hammers home the point that as long as Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat was alive, no progress was going to be made because Arafat was a terrorist at heart and had no interest in resolving the conflict or relinquishing any control.
Arafat died in 2004. Abrams questions why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been reluctant to reach a deal.
"With the divisions among Palestinians, with the growing strength of Hamas, Palestinian leaders are afraid to sign anything," Abrams said. "They are afraid they will be accused of treason, of being executed. I think it is fair to blame Arafat for the broader failure of Palestinian leadership."
Abrams said people forget the United Nations' formal establishment of Israel in 1948 was merely an announcement of something that was 80 years in the making -- beginning in the 19th century, when Jews began trying to carve out a Jewish homeland in Palestine, in response to growing anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe.
Immigration began in earnest in 1882 with the founding of agricultural settlements, and efforts were under way just before the turn of the century to reach a political agreement for a Jewish homeland -- culminating in the 1917 Balfour Declaration and 1922 League of Nations declaration. Jews then began buying up land from feudal landlords in anticipation of establishing their own state.
"If there is going to be a state of Palestine, it is going to be built institution by institution over time," he said.
"We're not helping if we give the impression that if we sit around a table for three days, it will be OK. It's not true that people know what a final deal will look like. In the near future, I don't see how a comprehensive agreement is possible.
"In recent years people have said rightly one of the mistakes [former President Bill] Clinton made is he only worked with the Israelis and Palestinians. He didn't get the other Arab countries involved. The Palestinians want cover. If the Arab states say, 'This is a good deal,' if they say that, the conflict is over.
"That made more sense five or 10 years ago."
Now all bets are off, Abrams said, with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge in Egypt, conflict raging in Syria and instability growing in Jordan.
The Israelis, he said, realize they will have to take some risks but the trick is to determine what amounts to a foolish risk and the question of Iran's nuclear program complicates the analysis.
Yet, despite all that, it's "not a mistake" for Obama to make the trip now, although one earlier in his tenure would have been better, Abrams said.
"The question is what he will say and what he thinks he's doing," Abrams said.
It was a mistake for the Palestinians to go to the United Nations and seek an upgrade to non-member observer state status, just as it was an error for Israel to make a big deal about it, Abrams argues.
"You don't wave a magic wand. [The action] changes nothing, means nothing," he said, acknowledging, however, the Palestinians now have the ability to go before the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, and lodge charges against Israeli leaders.
"I hope one of the messages the president carries, face-to-face, is, 'Don't do it. It not only will screw up relations with Israel, you'll screw up relations with the United States,'" Abrams said.
Abrams said Israelis are right to resent U.S. pressure on them to make concessions when little is asked of the Palestinians, and warned U.S. diplomats against getting "right back in the old rut: shooting for a final settlement in weeks or months, demanding Israel stop construction not only of settlements but in Jerusalem. If that's the route the U.S. takes, we're really going to get nowhere."
Abrams said there's little evidence the Europeans have learned much or changed their position but throwing newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry into the mix just might shake things up.
"In 2011, Kerry said publicly he thought this kind of obsession with settlements was a mistake and had wasted a year-and-a-half at that point," Abrams said. "Maybe there's some kind of recognition there. ... Maybe he's learned lessons."


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Cozy Plush Kids 'Hippo' Heat Pack
Soft and plush (and totally adorable!) heat packs for children. Heat for 2 minutes in a microwave for hours of radiating warmth.
Have you seen the cosy, cuddly, squooshy animal friends from the Cozy Plush heat pack collection?!
They are absolutely cute-to-boot as a cuddly toy, but children adore them even more when they can snuggle up against their comforting heat on cold nights.
How do they work?
Cozy Plush heat packs work in the same way as an ordinary, rectangular style heat pack you can find almost anywhere ... except these are soooo much cuter!
To use, simply heat in your microwave for up to 2 minutes (we pop ours into a clean pillow case or clean tea towel first) and they'll radiate a gorgeous comforting and soothing heat for several hours.
Heat packs for kids are handy to have around:
'preheat' your childs bedding before they head off to bed (oh so cosy in winter!)
heat and use to comfort during periods of illness or sickness
heat and cuddle when it's cold - take it to bed, snuggle with it on the couch or in a bean bag reading a story
heat and relax sore muscles - a quick remedy to help soothe growing pains!
You can also chill your heat pack and use it as a cold pack for aches and pains or to help cool your child on hot days. Just put it inside a bag and leave it in the freezer for 2-3 hours.
Are these heat packs safe?
A microwavable heat pack is much safer than using a hot water bottle which may leak or scald your childs skin.
All Cozy Plush heat packs feature a quality construction with extra strong seams using microwave safe threads.
Unlike home-made or handmade heat packs, the fabrics used have been specifically designed and created for microwave use.
They are microwave safe, have been flammability and safety tested and meet or exceed all relevant safety standards.
There are always safety concerns about babies overheating, so for this reason Cozy Plush bedwarmers are more suited for children 2 years and over.
You can of course use your heat pack to warm your babies cold sheets in winter (heat it up and tuck it in between the blanket and sheets, then remove before putting baby to bed), but never leave it in the cot with your baby unattended.
What's inside?
Each bedwarmer is filled with natural grains and gently scented with 100% natural dried lavender flowers.
Weighing around 900 grams, your child will love the 'real' feeling and weight of their new little friend.
With use the lavender will fade, but can be refreshed at any time just by adding a couple of drops of your favourite Pure Essential oil.
To clean your child's bedwarmer wipe over the surface with a damp sponge and air dry thoroughly.
Cozy Plush microwavable bedwarmers are available in a whole range of fabulous designs! Here's a little about each collection and how they differ:
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Sheep, Cow, Pig, Hippo, Monkey, Patch Puppy, Triceratops and Brontosaurus.
These are 30cm in size and have lovely little podgy bellies and bodies.
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Puppy, Cat or Mouse.
These are a little larger at 35cm, have lovely detailing and longer, floppier limbs.
Wild Warmers
Zebra, Tiger or Giraffe.
The longest heat pack at 55cm, they're a great shape to wrap around your neck or shoulders or length wise against your body.
NEW !! Yoohoo & Friends
The hugely popular YooHoo & Friends characters are now available as heat packs!
These are 30cm in size with lovely podgy bellies like the Cosy Plush range, but with beautiful big eyes and big heads and a gorgeous long tail you just want to twiddle with all day.
NEW !! Warmheart Girls
Candy, Ellie and Olivia are an innovative range of heatable ragdolls - an industry first!
35cm in size, dressed in sweet floral dresses and matching pigtails. Gorgeous detailing, your little girl will surely adore her Warmheart Girl.
These great little bedwarmers make functional 'teddy bear' toys for your children and make wonderful gifts too.
Now here's the hard part ... which one to choose??
View the entire heat pack and bed warmer collection here.
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Annette Salmeen To Be Inducted Into UCLA Athletics Hall Of Fame
Oct. 3, 2006
Eight new members will be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday night, Oct. 6. Invitation-only ceremonies will be held in the Hall of Fame, located in the J.D. Morgan Intercollegiate Athletics Center, and in Covel Commons. In addition, the new inductees will also be introduced during halftime of the Oct. 7 UCLA-Arizona football game at the Rose Bowl.
The UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame was dedicated in 1984 with 25 charter members. The Class of 2006 brings the total membership to 207. The 2006 inductees are Carol Bower, rowing; Herb Flam, tennis; Monte Nitzkowski, swimming and water polo; Jonathan Ogden, football and track and field; Annette Salmeen, swimming; Dennis Storer, soccer and rugby; John Vallely, basketball; and Elaine Youngs, volleyball.
Following are biographies on the 2006 UCLA Hall of Fame inductees:
Annette Salmeen
The epitome of a student-athlete, Salmeen was a four-year All-American swimmer (1993-94-95-96), a four-year Academic All-American and the first UCLA women's swimmer to capture an NCAA individual title when she won the 200 butterfly in 1996 in 1:55:84. During that magical senior campaign in 1996, Salmeen won two Pac-10 titles in 100m and 200m butterfly and was named UCLA Female Athlete of the Year and Alumni Association Outstanding Senior. She also received the NCAA Top VIII Award, presented to only eight NCAA student-athletes annually for excellence in academics and athletics. In addition, Salmeen was a NCAA Woman of the Year finalist, received a NCAA post-graduate scholarship and named a Rhodes Scholar (UCLA's 8th student ever and first since 1973). During her Bruin career, she was a two-time team MVP, named the team's hardest worker on three occasions, voted most inspirational twice and graduated with UCLA records in 200 butterfly, 200 free and 500 free. Salmeen went on make the 1996 US Olympic team and captured a gold medal as a member of the 800m freestyle relay team. Individually, she finished 12th in the 200m butterfly in the Olympics. Salmeen graduated from UCLA with honors in chemisty (3.94 GPA) in 1997 and completed her Doctorate of Philosophy degree in biochemistry as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2001. She is currently conducting post doctoral research in molecular pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School.
Carol Bower
Bower has been called the greatest all-around women's crew athlete in UCLA history (1978-79). A bronze medalist in the 1979 World Championships, she joined the U.S. National Women's Rowing team in 1980. She was a three-time World Champion Silver Medalist (1981-83) and took home the gold medal in the eights during the 1984 Summer Olympics. Bower was selected Oarswoman of the Year in 1982 by the United States Olympic Committee and was inducted in the Rowing Hall of Fame in 1984. Bower graduated from UCLA in 1979 and served as the head coach of the University of Pennsylvania's Women's Rowing program from 1987-1996. She is currently the head crew coach at Bryn Mawr College
Herb Flam
Flam was UCLA's top tennis player in 1947-48-49-50. In 1950, as co-captain (with Glenn Bassett, who would later become UCLA's head coach), he led UCLA to its first-ever NCAA team championship as he became the first Bruin tennis player to ever capture the individual NCAA titles in both the singles and doubles (with Gene Garrett) in the same year. The 1950 team opened the door for Bruin tennis teams which won five NCAA titles between 1950 and 1956 and ultimately established the UCLA program as No. 1 in the United States. Over several years, Flam was one of the nation's stars in an era when most Davis Cup team members and top international players came from our colleges and universities. From 1951-57, Flam was ranked in the World's Top-Ten four times. In all, Flam made the singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon on three occasions and the US Open six times. He was inducted into the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
Monte Nitzkowski
Nitzkowski swam and played water polo for the Bruins in 1950 and 1951 after transferring from Fullerton Junior College. He won the Bob Starr Memorial Trophy as the outstanding Bruin swimmer in 1951. He was a two-time southern division breaststroke champion at 200 yards and held the PCC record at 2:22.4 while also owning the Bruin record in the 100 yard breaststroke. Nitzkowski had a record of 22 wins in 24 starts in dual competition while at UCLA and was the first Bruin to ever make the NCAA meet twice earning All-America honors. Nitzkowski was a member of the US Olympic team in 1952 in the 200 meter breaststroke. In water polo, Nitzkowski was named first-team all southern division in 1951 as a Bruin. He has gone on to become one of the world's foremost authorities in water polo. From 1954-89, he coached Long Beach City College to 32 conference water polo championships and 12 conference swim titles. Nitzkowski also served as U.S. National Team Water Polo coach from 1967-1984 and coached the U.S. team in four Olympics including bronze in 1972 and silver in 1984. Nitzkowski was a 1991 selection to the International Swimming Hall of Fame and is a member of the U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame.
Jonathan Ogden
Arguably the finest offensive lineman in UCLA football history, Ogden was a four-year starter at offensive tackle in 1992-93-94-95. In 1992 he was named first-team Freshman All-American and followed that up as a second-team Sophomore All-American. As a junior, Ogden was named All Pac-10 and third-team All-American. As a senior in 1995, Ogden received a myriad of honors including being named the Outland Trophy winner as the top interior lineman in the nation (UCLA's first ever), unanimous first-team All-America, first-team All Pac-10, Morris Trophy winner, UPI Lineman of the Year, Lombardi Trophy runner-up and Co-UCLA offensive MVP. He was the cornerstone of UCLA's offensive line which led to the Bruins highest rushing average since 1967 at 4.7 yard per carry. In 1997, Ogden became the 8th Bruin to have his jersey retired. Ogden was the #4 overall selection in the first round of 1996 NFL draft by Baltimore. He was named the NFL All-Rookie team and has since been named to eight consecutive Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams. Ogden remains one of the best and most dominating linemen in the NFL. He helped lead Baltimore to the 2001 Super Bowl title and was named NFL Alumni Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2002. While at UCLA, Ogden was also a strong thrower on the UCLA track & field team winning the 1996 NCAA indoor track title in the shot put. Ogden also finished fourth in the 1995 NCAA outdoor championships and fifth in both 1994 and `95 in the indoor championships.
Dennis Storer
Storer came to UCLA from Britain in 1966 and began an extraordinarily successful career as a UCLA faculty member as well as the head coach of Men's Soccer and Rugby programs. In soccer, Storer was named UCLA head coach after soccer was elevated to NCAA status in 1967. Storer's soccer teams compiled a remarkable 103-10-10 record while he was at the helm from 1967-73. Although the soccer team did not field any scholarship players under Storer, UCLA had three NCAA runner-up finishes, three West Coast Championships and five All Cal titles. In Rugby, Storer's teams complied an outstanding 362-46-2 record against collegiate, major club and international teams during the period of 1966-1982 and included three National Championships (`68, `72, `75). UCLA Rugby also won every All-Cal title and 16 Southern California division championships. While at UCLA, Storer also served as U.S. National Coach in rugby from 1976-82, and 14 of the first U.S. National team players were Bruins. Storer has been widely recognized internationally as a coach and a great sportsman as well as his commitment to helping underprivileged youth. From 1968-82, Storer also served as Director of UCLA's National Youth Sports Programs, and during 1982-84 he served as British Olympic Association Executive Director and Attache in USA for the L.A. Olympics. Dennis was honored by Queen Elizabeth II with an OBE in 1994 for services in British/American Education, Sport and Commerce. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
John Vallely
Vallely was a starting guard for two UCLA Basketball National Championship teams (1969-`70), playing for Coach John Wooden. A junior college transfer, Vallely became known as 'Money Man' for his play in big games. Against Drake in the 1969 NCAA semi-finals, Vallely poured in 29 points to lead the Bruins to an 85-82 victory. Playing in consecutive Final Fours, he averaged 20.5 ppg and was named to the All-Final Four team on both occasions. In all, Vallely averaged 13.8 ppg as a Bruin and was the 1969 free throw champion at 75.5%. Vallely was drafted in the 1st round of the NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks and played two years in the NBA. Valley competed also competed in beach volleyball in 1969 & 70 and won a total of 8 titles (7 with legendary Ron Von Hagen) including the prestigious 1969 Manhattan Beach Open.
Elaine Youngs
Youngs was a four-year volleyball starter at outside hitter (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992) and led the Bruins to four Final Four appearances. By the end of her stellar career, she was one of only five women volleyball players (now 12) to have been ever selected as 4-time NCAA All-Americans. As a freshman in 1988, she was named All Pac-10 and second-team All-American while becoming the first Bruin to record over 400 kills (406). As a sophomore, she was named All-Pac-10 and first-team All-American as she led the team in kill average. She also set an all-time Bruin record with 33 digs against ASU. After redshirting the 1990 season while recovering from knee surgery, Youngs returned for the 1991 year and helped lead the Bruins to the National Championship while being named All Pac-10, second-team All-American and to the NCAA All-Tournament team. Her senior year, Youngs led the Bruins to the NCAA championship match and was named All Pac-10, first-team All-American and to the NCAA All-Tournament team. She finished the year ranked second in the Pac-10 and tenth in the nation with a .389 hitting percentage. Youngs concluded her career ranked fourth on UCLA career charts for kills, digs, services aces and seventh in blocks. She went on to be a member of the US National team from 1993-97 including the 1994 World Championships and 1996 Olympics. She has also been a very successful player on the professional beach circuit including winning the 2002 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Women's Player of the Year. In 2004, Youngs competed in her second Olympics and won a bronze medal in Beach Volleyball with partner Holly McPeak. Youngs also played 2 years (1989-90) for the Bruin basketball team, averaging 5.7 points.
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Well, I'm off to Grand Rapids, MI for the Vegetarian Awakening chef's conference on Saturday at the crack of dawn! (You can see photos from last year's conference here, and read my impressions of the conference here.)
I've been busy getting ready, and I'm still not packed, so this is going to be short! I wanted to quickly recommend (this is totally unsolicited!) a vegan product that I hadn't tried before, but we have recently found makes an inexpensive, delicious, and healthful snack. For less than the price of a vegan organic chocolate bar, you can munch on some delicious flavored tofu.
It's called "Pete's Tofu2Go", but in Canada (the company is Sunrise Soya Foods, a Vancouver company) there are a couple of other varieties called "Pete's Soyganics" (both varieties are made with certified organic soybeans). The tofu (6 oz. size) comes ready to eat in a sauce or marinade, and the calorie content of half the package is only 130-170 calories, depending on the variety, and you get about 12 g protein.
You can eat the tofu cold as a snack, or heat it in a wrap for lunch. I don't buy packaged foods very much, but I got some of the Teriyaki (sorry, in Canada only!) when I was in town and starving and didn't want to eat junk. It was a perfect pick-me-up, and, as I said, cheaper than a good chocolate bar!
We have only tried the teriyaki, Sesame Ginger, and Szechuan (pictured above) so far, but I intend to try the others (Thai Tango, Mambo Italiano and Lemon Pepper). DH wants me to keep a couple in the fridge for him to take for lunch if there's no leftovers around.
I'll post when I get back next week!
All the best!
5 comments:
- Veg-a-Nut said...
Have a great time at the conference and I wish you a safe and enjoyable trip! Can't wait to hear about your adventure!
- Thu Mar 29, 06:49:00 PM PDT
- Vincent Guihan said...
I've tried Pete's 2 Go (the teriyaki), and I really like it. I don't eat it cold, though, but that's a great idea. Have a good trip!
- Fri Mar 30, 06:15:00 AM PDT
- Twisted Cinderella said...
I am going to look for that around here! Thanks for the tip!
- Fri Mar 30, 07:47:00 AM PDT
- bazu said...
I too love cold baked tofu. I used to get the ones they sold in Trader Joes- I especially liked the spicy Thai- mmmmm.
Have a great conference. I love the deer picture! I've gotten used to seeing deer in my backyard, even though I live in a very urban area right outside of Syracuse University.
- Fri Apr 06, 07:46:00 AM PDT
I love Pete's Tofu2Go ! My favorite flavor is Sesame Ginger and we eat it cold, right out of the package. To good to waste time heating :p
My hubby loves it when he can have that for lunch with a rice salad or something. :)
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Deputies tase intoxicated man
A man charged with criminal mischief and a DUI was tased by deputies for resisting arrest on Thursday, March 7.
Deputies had responded a short time before to a domestic violence call in the Snyderville Basin.
Brandyn McCormick Harvey, 35, from Midway, allegedly damaged the victim's car during an argument before leaving the scene.
Deputies located Harvey on Silver Summit Parkway and pulled him over. When deputies approached the car, they could smell alcohol. Harvey submitted to and failed the field sobriety tests.
"When the suspect was being placed in handcuffs, he decided he wanted to resist," Summit County Sheriff's Capt. Justin Martinez said. "He punched an officer in the face and the Taser was deployed."
Deputies are authorized to use Tasers during escape attempts; to apprehend a suspect; or to protect themselves, another officer or a civilian from getting hurt, Martinez said.
"We're first going to want to talk to people," he said. "If we can talk them into the handcuffs when they're under arrest, that's the best thing for everybody. No one gets hurt. But in this instance, the suspect was on the way back to his vehicle. If he had gotten into his vehicle, we would then have a pursuit with a DUI."
Martinez said that after punching the deputy, the suspect would do everything he could to avoid being apprehended.
"So because it was a fighting situation at that point, the tasing was authorized," he said.
Tasers target skeletal muscles without affecting cardiac or "smooth" muscles, such as the intestines, according to Martinez.
"Some people think, if you can't control your muscles, you're going to defecate or pee yourself, but it doesn't affect that muscle group," he said. "It interferes with the mind's ability to control the skeletal muscles, so it prevents people from walking or fighting anymore. You can't use your hands because it locks them up, but you are still fully cognitive to what is going on around you."
Most deputies are tased themselves as part of the training to be Taser certified.
When the Taser trigger is pulled, two probes attached to wires are released from the Taser. Electricity is transmitted through the wires to the subject.
"We use whatever tools necessary to affect an arrest," Martinez said. "We try to use the minimum force required for an arrest, but ultimately we want to take a suspect into custody as safely as possible, while protecting them and us from further harm. And the Taser is one of many tools to affect a safe arrest."
Harvey faces several charges, including three counts of class A misdemeanor assault against a police officer, class B misdemeanor driving under the influence, class B misdemeanor possession or use of a controlled substance, class B misdemeanor possession or use of drug paraphernalia, class B misdemeanor criminal mischief: intentional damage of property and class C misdemeanor open container in a vehicle on the highway.
Harvey is scheduled for an initial court appearance on March 18.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. - Clergy from across Newtown, Conn., marked the passing of two weeks since the elementary school massacre at with an interfaith vigil focused on the healing process.
Religious leaders gathered with a few dozen others at a wind-swept soccer field Friday morning to offer words of support for the community.
Pastor Jack Tanner of the Newtown Christian Church said faith leaders are standing with the town as it begins a long healing process.
The vigil included representatives from Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Congregational, Buddhist, Muslim and other places of worship.
A 20-year-old gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14 and killed 20 first-grade students and six adult staff members. He also killed his mother before going on the school rampage and then committing suicide.


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Without question, the Minnesota Wild are the worst part of the Jets changing divisions. I mean, you know, for me.
I've watched this team play the hapless Oilers for years and I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to round 2 in my life. They're the worst kind of opponent – smothering, patient, and boring. Hockey games feel more like conversations with an over-bearing parent. Sure, once in a while you can throw a tantrum and win a few points, but mostly you're just helpless to let it happen, slowly sinking in your chair until you want it to end more than you want it to end well.
Sure – you'll tell me they've added all sorts of talent and they're not a Jacques Lemaire team any longer! Update your narrative, you'll say. You're right, to some extent. But even their stars are boring – Parise, Koivu, Suter? These guys are possession monsters. They're smart, smart hockey players and while Parise has a tenacity rarely seen in skill players, he also doesn't have a change of pace or the kind of hands and vertical speed that makes skill players fun to watch. He gets it to the net, he follows it, he makes it go in the net. And he's great at it.
"What about their young guys, dummy??
Ah, so you watched their promotional video about how much fans love Jared Spurgeon and Marco Scandella, then? Pardon me, their documentary on the future.
Yeah. Jonas Brodin is a remarkable defenceman at a very young age. He's an incredible transition skater, has calm feet everywhere, and makes the simple play often. Excited yet? Remember when Charlie Coyle scored 25 points in half a season in the AHL? Pure skill, that guy, while wearing Dave Manson's old number just to make me confused every play. I took Granlund in my fantasy league last year and I will never forgive him his 8 point season. Never.
Matt Cullen was my favourite player to watch and now he's in Nashville. At least Jason Pominville uses the offensive zone differently than any of these other players. He is to the half-boards what Matt Cullen was to the end-boards. That is, a guy who passes from them. A pass outside of the cycle is as close to offensive excitement as we're going to see.
But it's not about the personnel as much as it is about Mike Yeo. COME ON, Hockey Gods! Sure, it's not a constant trap as with coaches past, but they literally have a breakout play where the winger just turns his stick and lets the pass deflect out into the neutral zone. THAT'S A SET PLAY! The Wild specialize in a system in which neither team really has the puck. They want to create battles and then win them because battles require at least one opponent commit to a space on the ice. And bingo! They have the kind of space that another team might create with passing. (I assume their locker room has a sign that says 'A pass is just a chance for a turnover')
Defensively, they create battles by giving one corner of the offensive zone – just inside the blue line. No opportunity for a neutral zone re-group. No opportunity to cut across the top, Gretzky style. You can't even just carry the damn puck to the corner and get hit. Back pressure takes away the middle lane and the defenceman closes his gap before the top of the circles. You can give it up, dump it (and watch Suter calmly outlet on the weak-side), or start a board battle on the half-wall. Let me make that easier – your coach chose dump in the pre-game. Uuhhhgggrrr… where's the booze?
The best part of watching this team is seeing Dany Heatley's career wind down at $7.5M a season. And I suspect that's less enjoyable for Heater fans. (Is that a thing?)
So why watch at all? Because screw those guys. They're everything that's wrong with hockey today and the times you see your favourite player refuse to accept what's given and slice through the defenders on route to scoring the goal that makes it a one-goal loss feels like the Stanley Cup on Christmas.
This is going to be a bitter rivalry. Just be prepared for more bitterness than rivalry.
Jets Lines
We've seen the roster card, thanks to Michael Russo, but the lines are still a mystery (to me, anyway). Below are educated guesses.
- Ladd – Little – Wheeler
- Klingberg – O'Dell – Samson
- Wright – Scheifele – Halischuk
- Cormier – Slater – Peluso
I suspect we see the Jets' top line back together – if not to start the game, then at least to start the second period. Scheifele slides down in my lineup card based on Noel's constant chatter about the young man learning play many roles on a hockey club. Tonight he could be playing the role of the only forward in the constant 5-on-3 tauntingly referred to as 'even strength' with his line on the ice. In all seriousness, this could be the team's 3rd line when camp breaks.
One of the problems this team has had so far in pre-season is that Noel is constructing lineups that confound evaluation. Ian White got one game on his wrong side with 3 different partners – all of whom were bubble guys. Now tell me how good Ian White is.
Scheifele faces the same challenge tonight unless he lines up with Ladd and Wheeler. The bubbles guys on this roster aren't being given minutes with a combination of Frolik, Scheifele, and Jokinen – their likely linemates come October. No, they play with each other. Now tell me which one is driving results. I'm not saying its impossible, just that Claude Noel is making his job harder on himself, and I suspect it's because he already knows his lineup for October 1st against Edmonton.
- Enstrom – Byfuglien
- Clitsome – Trouba
- Stuart – Postma
- Pavelec
- Pasquale
Oh, hey, did you hear? Enstrom and Byfuglien are back together! They're effective because they transition well and don't spend a lot of time in their own zone. If the Wild can force them into board battles, look for Gary Lawless to tell us about how Enstrom isn't 100% and/or Byfuglien should be traded.
The truth is that the Jets use a swarm system to support their under-physical defence group with battles. So if this unit gets exposed, it's on the forwards.
Pavelec is finally starting to get some heat in the media. After years of hearing about his 'big-game' ability, it seems the team is considering the possibility of trying to win the 82 regular sized games that come first. That said, Claude Noel saying he has to be better is a far cry from trusting another goalie to man the pipes. Montoya, Pasquale, and Hutchison are hardly competition on a team where Pav is a central part of the narrative.
The Jets Nation season-long over/under on Noel using the word 'consistency' in his post-game comments about Pavelec is 50. The prop-bets tonight are whether we hear it before or after 'get(ting) into a rhythm' and whether it comes in the exact sentence "He needs to take that next step by adding that consistency." (Complete with the unnecessary 'that' before consistency to make us think that it's a staple of the goalie's trade)
Wild Lines
The Wild have 15 forwards listed for tonight, so we will have to wait to find out who is actually playing. Regardless, it's a mostly NHL lineup and won't have much trouble with the Jets' lesser roster tonight.
- Parise – Koivu – Pominville
- Heatley – Granlund – Coyle
- Dowell – Phillips – Niederreiter
- Graovac – Steckel – Konopka
Graovac is a 6'5" monster, and I want to see him with Steckel for the combined large-itude.
- Sutter – Brodin
- Ballard – Scandella
- Stoner – Spurgeon
- Backstrom
- Gustafsson
What do you say about this back-end? Every year Backstrom slides quietly down another 1 or 2 slots in goalie rankings everywhere as his career .917 save percentage seems further and further behind him. Still, the 35 year old signed another 3 year deal this summer with a cap hit similar to Pavelec and delivered a better-than-Pav .909 last year.
The top pairing on the blue line offers necessary shelter to the rest of the lineup, and playing against not-Suter might be the best chance to beat this team. Scandella and Spurgeon have long been the future of that blueline, and seem to be plateauing below hopes.
Keith Ballard is a cast-off from the Canucks but was a capable defenceman in Florida. Certainly an interesting story to watch this year from the perspective of diagnosing why Florida players seem to go to Vancouver to become bad at hockey (Luongo aside).
Clayton Stoner killed a beloved grizzly bear named Cheeky this summer, in spite of BC First Nations asking him not to. Heck of a guy. I'd love to see Scheifele sail right by him on his way to a winner.


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Huffington's cultural revolution: Destroying the old world to forge a new one, for a while
Here's a short play, set in 1997:
Scene: Journalist, applying for a job, is seated across a table at a moderately priced Italian restaurant from an editor who's just taken over the Arts and Entertainment section of a respected national publication.
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Journalist: The thing is, I really admire all your writers—but I mostly write about the downtown music scene, and I've never really seen more than little 200-word squibs about that stuff in Publication X.
Editor: That's exactly right. That's why we are talking to you. We need to engage a younger reader—not just for advertising but because we need to engage a new and different audience, and we need to be more timely and now. A big part of your job will be to change this publication; that's part of why I think this could be such an exciting opportunity for you.
Scene: A bar. Journalist, six months into the job, is with a friend who stayed at the downtown scene mag she came from.
Journalist: Yeah, I don't quite know what to do. My editor keeps being encouraging but I can't seem to get any of my feature pitches through; and when I do it's inevitably refashioned as an infographic or a 250-word front-of-book item.
Friend: But, you're at Publication X. I'd kill to be there.
Journalist: As it happens, no, you wouldn't. I know it sounds crazy—but if it wouldn't look so bad I'd go back to where I was in a heartbeat.
Friend: But how many more readers have you got for your 100-word capsule on Yo La Tengo than you did for the 2,000-word profile of them you did for us?
Journalist: I don't know. And somehow, I find I don't care.
You can change the particulars however you want, and set the time anytime you want. Some examples: The website, famous for its slideshows and linkbait, wants real reporting now; the magazine, famous for its celebrity profiles and fashion spreads, wants features on the state of women in Afghanistan; the newspaper, famous for its discounting of the importance of work on the web, wants to liberate you to blog all day; the blog, famous for its short, pithy takes on other people's news, wants long essays. A website that has traditionally treated its "editors" as "product managers" who spend more time in bizdev and marketing meetings than editorial meetings wants to free them to provide meaningful guidance, support and direction for a new editorial team with beefier journalistic bona fides.
Change is much easier in theory than in practice, is the point, and never comes without a real fusion of corporate goals and editorial point of view. So AOL, which needed real content and a real audience, bought the Huffington Post, whose original content was, at least, realer than AOL's.
The high-minded idea behind it, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington said when it was announced just over six weeks ago, was to fuse "a legendary and powerful new media brand [AOL] with a vibrant, innovative news organization, known for its distinctive voice, a highly engaged audience, an expertise in community-building, and a track record for demystifying the news and putting flesh and blood on the data while drawing our audience into the conversation."
A few weeks later, Huffington and AOL C.E.O. Tim Armstrong "taught" a journalism class in Brooklyn and promoted a video about it, effectively branding Huffington and Armstrong journalism experts, a term that, fairly or unfairly, rankles many in the profession who point out that you need more years of experience than Huffington in the media to land a backfield editor job at a Sunday section of The New York Times. They may be completely sincere about their emphasis on the Capital-J Journalism of what they are doing. But either way, they have clearly decided to make it the backbone of the public narrative they are creating.
Now, here's how I imagine AOL and The Huffington Post made its decisions about which 30 titles to shut down or fold into other titles yesterday.
1. Title A and Title B are "similar," from an advertising/marketing/audience demographics point of view.
2. Choose the one with the larger audience.
3. Fold the smaller one into the larger one.
In some cases there were idiosyncrasies complicating all that.
Luxist was an AOL brand about fancy things in every area—boats, cars, private islands, fashion, real-estate, cigars, watches, appliances. From that point of view it transcended "style" in editorial terms and had its own way of cutting across the luxury goods market on the advertising and marketing side.
What does it mean to fold it into Stylelist? A sample Luxist headline from today reads: "Porsche 918 Spyder Heading to Production for $845,000." Stylelist bills itself as "Real style for real women who love fashion, beauty and celebrity," and promotes verticals via google that include Hair, Fashion News, Photos, Videos, Beauty, Cuts & Style, Fashion Week, Style News, How to Wear and Makeup. Where does the $845,000 Porsche Spyder story go, then?
Fans and readers will have such arguments for pretty much every title that's been folded up or folded into another in yesterday's announcements; wherever you place the marker though, the principle stays the same.
The new Huffpo-AOL entity will not likely be given the time or space to grow larger audiences from smaller ones; instead, they must exchange the latter for the former. And in the midst of all this, there is the bragging coming out of Huffington Post about its high-profile hires.
That these moves should happen at the same time is an important thing to consider. One move, a great big bloody corporate consolidation, is aimed at streamlining a content business, on the principle of maximizing pageviews against spend. The other moves, the acquisitions of experienced, accomplished journalists, are aimed at naysayers who believe Arianna Huffington represents the least credible approach to creating quality journalism.
Most of the sites we are talking about are beloved by large audiences, but their DNA is not largely composed of what you'd call "original" reporting, or at least traditional reporting. (There are notable exceptions in both the AOL and Huffington Post stables, of course, but they have not been the centerpiece from a business point of view.)
What Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington promise to do with their new, merged site is to compete editorially with outlets whose businesses have, all along, been built on traditional reporting. To that end Huffington has been boasting about a series of successful poaches from major media outlets; the hiring of Tim O'Brien from the Times business desk is a signal to the world that they are embarking on something different. Subsequently O'Brien has managed a few nifty hiring maneuvers, too.
Huffington may believe that this will be enough to do the trick. But we have seen this before.
Personally, I've known many "serious" journalists who move to organizations like this—startups with a specific mission in the digital marketplace, "content" divisions at search-engine companies or on the websites of television networks that need some text to get readers and searchability, or at newswires that want to expand beyond their bare-bones reputations for speed and reliability and create content with more engagement and marketing potential.
Even before the Internet you saw this: I remember a period of time at the Times under Howell Raines, where many of my friends at internet- and "alternative"/traditional-print media operations were getting calls from editors eager to fulfill a mandate to freshen things up at the Gray Lady. (Ironically, I think it finally did happen at the Times, but mostly, I think, because of the merging of the digital and print editorial operations. But that's another story, and needs research and reporting.)
The point is, when journalists are called on to redirect the corporate culture of an organization, sometimes it works in a small way, but usually it doesn't; and almost never on a vast scale. If management's idea for a brand overhaul is to import cool, or gravitas, or intelligence, the best-case scenario is almost always that the importees exist successfully but completely separately: valuable parts that don't add much to the sum. (Part Two is they always leave.)
First of all, remember why Huffington Post is there, at AOL: It's because the bottom is falling out of AOL's dial-up subscription business. Tim Armstrong's big idea—and it comes after he saw great success as an entrepreneur and head of sales, but little to no experience running a major content organization—was to make up the difference on selling advertising against content.
But wait a minute. Wasn't the bottom falling out of the content business, too? Huffington did a mean business making a company with massive revenues without really much innovation in the making of content. The successes were in the marketing and distribution of that content, in the inherently social presentation, and in its search-friendliness. Those successes in turn were made possible because the burdens of a large, expensive content operation were never taken for granted, but scaled to provide the necessary margin on the ad business. That is, the question was never how do we monetize the content we want to make but what is the least expensive way to expand inventory available to our successful ad sales and marketing operations.
There is nothing wrong with that, of course. But the explicit project here is now to develop a fully staffed news organization within AOL. That's not a model the Huffington Post has tested before on a significant scale—and it's one her peers and competitors, who have years of experience working on that model, have not yet succeeded at, even without having to plug a hole in a completely unrelated business (in this case, dial-up subscriptions). Can the margin on a previously unsuccessful business model for journalism be big enough to pay for itself and cover losses elsewhere in a large corporation that is trying to get out of its old business and into a new one?
On its face, the role of AOL has been to welcome the Huffington Post as a group of distinguished journalists who are about to show them how it's done. The infamous AOL Way document that received so much scorn from journalists was, in a very quick negotiation with the Huffington Post, radically turned on its head in favor of one so new to the organization that Bob Buch, a vice president of business development for AOL, in a post on his own blog (which is nevertheless written to be read by his colleagues), is urging the company to stop using the term "content."
At the beginning of his post on the issue, he confesses, "A good friend of mine is a film director and the closest person I know to a professional creative person."
After a conversation with this person, who at 36 years of age is sleeping on the floor of his brother's house because of his passion for filmmaking, Buch had a realization. "It occurred to me that calling it content commoditizes it and sends a message to the creative community that quality doesn't matter."
"Commoditizing" is a dirty word, for sure. But isn't it precisely what AOL hopes to do with journalism—turn it into a commodity? Isn't that was journalism must do to remain in business?
Most of Buch's post is actually about news of the Times' new metering system. In it he forms an interesting argument for free journalism:
The benefit of the advertising model is that the publisher and the writer have mutually aligned interests. They both want as many people reading each story as possible. The writer gets famous, and the publisher has more pageviews on which to sell more ads. However with the subscription model, the writer and publisher have misaligned interests because while the writer still wants broad distribution, the publisher wants to keep the best stories locked up for only the paid subscribers to see. The better writer you become, the less distribution you get.
Is Buch describing the point of view of journalists whose primary commitment is to "quality"? Is he describing the "artists of a certain kind—maybe better described as passionate professionals" his company has just brought into the fold?
In my experience, he isn't. He is describing journalists who want to get famous, journalists whose chief objective is maximizing their readership. The journalists I've known who are "passionate professionals," as a rule, see the size of their readership as an indicator of how much effectiveness and power to change things their work has; therefore, the value of the size of their readership is a function of the quality of the work. Hits are good, and the absence of them is bad. But who cares how many people come to read something that doesn't matter?
Buch's revelation only applies to journalists who don't believe that, and who believe that finally, pageviews are everything. If his company proceeds on this premise--that journalists are as happy as the number of clicks they get--then the content will reflect that. All "content" will be equal under that law, regardless of quality; it will be anathema for a publisher to "subsidize" some content with other content, because this is not maximizing revenue, but enabling underperformance. And, eventually, the journalists who do not care primarily about pageviews will leave, and be replaced by ones who do, or who just don't feel in a position to be picky about where they work.
That environment, for better or worse, usually is anathema to the culture of "serious" or "quality" journalism. Even as Huffington taunts the club-footed, humble-braggy Bill Keller about her poaches from his newsroom, a V.P. of business development for her operation has this to say about the recently erected metering system at the Times:
Even if you believe that the New York Times writers have the best prose, analysis, and access to newsmakers, is it really $180 a year better than all the other free sources on the web combined?
Without passing judgment on the metering system at the Times, I think it's fair to say that Buch has put a dollar value on the difference between the work practiced at AOL/Huffington Post and that of the Times, from which some of Huffington's most impressive hires have just arrived.
So what's next? Either the "serious" journalists who have arrived at AOL from Huffington Post and elsewhere will have to reckon with a metric they find silly, or AOL will have to learn a lot more about journalism.
Arianna Huffington will have to make the best journalism as profitable as the dreck, or the "quality" part of the operation will stick out on a P&L because of its cost. In that context, the charms of Journalism may well soon be lost on Armstrong, who will, after all, be under pressure to explain why he paid so dearly for access to people capable of producing it.
Also, Huffington will have to succeed with what is substantially a new business model. I have heard some of the salaries being offered to the "serious" folks, and they are well above market. We know Huffington can make a business millions of dollars when the costs are low. What happens when the costs are high?
Finally, this operation will have to outperform every other similar operation of its kind by enough of a margin to underwrite AOL's other business.
Even if the prospects for all this are better than I am suggesting, there's one final factor: AOL will have to weather some difficult times before this strategy is even analyzable as a success or a failure. In other words, patience. It's not a virtue we've seen a lot of at Armstrong's company before.
So, my final, gut prediction, which I would be very pleased to see falsified: Arianna Huffington will create a vital and interesting news desk that in the short term garners AOL praise as a remarkably ambitious and high-quality web-native news operation. It will gain traction against other web operations and will even look, for a while, like it's making a little bit of a run at the big guys, like cnn.com and nytimes.com.
Traffic will increase—slightly. There will be reports of budget overruns and creative disputes. I'll hear from friends at bars that they're not getting edited because their bosses spend all day in partnership and biz dev meetings; that new memos are floating around about pageview targets and assigned "hot" topics meant as traffic-catchers.
Within a year, several of the most high-profile editorial hires will leak out to a variety of other news organizations, some old and some new. Before long you will be wondering what happened to all those names. And finally, the fast-and-cheap view of "journalism" will return to AOL-Huffpo, amid reports of mild success after a rocky start, all judged on pageviews and profit margins; the "quality" and "journalism" buzzwords will be forgotten parts of the corporate lexicon. Because, to borrow a phrase from Buch, journalism and the "content" strategy of AOL are misaligned.


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51% FDI in Retail India and what it means to us !
51 % FDI in Retail spells doom to mom and pop shops across India – This is going to cause massive unemployment in this sector – India is going to become a dumping ground for substandard global products – Rural India is going to suffer because of this – Once again another East India Company …..the list of false perceptions is just endless..
Pls dont get misled ! All these statements are totally wrong and misplaced. I will counter these claims with my understanding on things as it is and do a narrative of events in the past …
I live in Chennai which happens to be the the automotive hub of the East. We are home to more than 6 global auto majors. Ford, Nissan, Hyundai, Peugeot, TVS and Renault have established their operations out here giving employment to innumerable engineers, graduates and ITI diploma holders. These companies not only produce for the domestic market but also export a major chunk to other third world countries from here. The city itself has expanded upto chengalpet on one end, Oragaddam on other and Sriperumbuddur on another side. The key drivers of all this expansion is the exponential growth of Automotive Industry. Lets rollback 3 decades and examine this industry. Indian consumer had 4 choices of cars the infamous HM Ambassador, Fiat's Premier Padmini, Contessa and Standard2000 and it was a sellers market where you as a buyer had to wait for months to take delivery of a car. Notwithstanding you need to have a recommendation letter to get a car. Today its a buyer's market where the consumer is the king and so many choices and we produce for the world. FDI investments !
Look at Telecom Industry …2 decades back landline was a luxury and the first mobile phones where an outgoing call costs Rs 16. Today an outgoing call is Rs. 0.50 and the choices. The industry itself has grown so huge that there is a mobile phone for your milkman, servant maid, laundry guy, grocerer so on..Connectivity at its best. Quarter to quarter growth of new mobile connection happens today largely in rural India. So many supplementary sectors have grown bcos of this . India is a call center hub for the world. FDI Investments !
Infrastructure Industries are growing at such enormous pace. Our people are building airports in turkey, bridges in Africa, and such magnificent growth transformation in India itself. The Golden quadrilateral is a PPP model where FDI is major. We have some great airports getting built in our metros. Today civil engineers are a big demand in the market whereas a few decades back they were a plenty. Thanx FDI
We have so many reference points in the past , when it comes to FDI in Retail why think otherwise. Since Independence India has been primed as a Agricultural nation ! Largest chunk of our contribution to GDP is from Agriculture, from 65 % it has come down to 36%. India's green revolutions, ambitious five year plan have all been impetus to agricultural growth.But slowly it has been dwindling due to urbanisation , growth of service industries and all that. There is a growing divide between the aspirations of rural and urban India.
Investments in retail will empower rural India in a great way, earning potential will increase, larger employment opportunities, better access roads to markets, establishing better logistical modes to market, cold storage facilities, contract farming possibilities, new technologies to improve productivity all that is possible. Today the farmer is not getting what he is due bcos of the middle man. FDI in retail will empower rural india indirectly, increase aspirational levels too.
Gone are the days when Indians were ignorant and uneducated to fall prey to plunder of large organizations. We are no sitting ducks ! And the govt is proposing right measures of systemic expansion so on.
And as told by one of my friends India is a market on its own and it takes time to understand the factors, demographics of Indian retail market. We are not new to retail experience … today we go to the Spencers, the More's and Big Bazaars to do large purchases. Tomorro we will substitute them with the Walmarts, Carrefours of the world. Still we will continue to buy those small, immediate things from the kirana store near our home.
People who are raising voices today did so a few years back too when KFC's and Mac Donald's forayed into the Food Industry. They said that all the dhaba's and the hotels will be taken over by these chains. Nothing like that happened … in fact it gave Indian consumer greater choices in the table. And the Industry has grown . Thanx FDI !
(The author of this post also has a Degree in Supply Chain Management from MMA (Madras Management Academy) and Anna University . All views expressed here are based on sensible learning of the business ecosystem and realisation of the power of Vitamin M to an emerging Industry.)


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Double homicide suspect in custody
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In the aftermath of what the Orange County Sheriff's Office has called a "double homicide," the community and sheriff's deputies are shocked, confused and looking for answers in the tragic shooting deaths of a Vidor couple Friday Nov. 23. But the answers are not apparent as of yet, according to Orange County Sergeant Chad Hogan.
News releases from the Orange County Sheriff's Office revealed the department received a report of gunshots Friday afternoon. Deputies arrived at the scene at 5620 Woodside Drive in Vidor at about 3 p.m. and discovered the bodies of 34-year-old Aaron Conn and wife, 30-year-old Summer Conn, who both appeared to have suffered fatal gunshot wounds. They were transported to the Jefferson County Morgue for autopsies. Deputies arrested the suspect, 26-year-old Vidor resident Curtis Allen Garrison, at his parents' home in the 15000 block of FM 1442 in Orange near Mauriceville.
Lieutenant Thomas Ray of the Orange County Sheriff's Office completed the affidavit of probable cause for the arrest warrant charging Garrison with capital murder. The affidavit fills in some of the blanks missing from the news release.
According to the affidavit, the suspect was located with the help of his family members. Garrison's younger brother Nathan and mother Lisa went to the Orange Police Department the day of the incident to report that Curtis Garrison went to their house and told them he had killed two people, a male and a female, at his residence in Vidor. Mrs. Garrison stated that her son was still at her residence in Orange.
Upon receipt of the information provided by Garrison's family, deputies drove to the residence in Orange where Garrison was said to be located. The affidavit indicated Deputy Scott Barnes of the Orange County Sheriff's Office reported that Garrison surrendered when deputies arrived at his location, saying, "I will not give y'all any problems; I will go peacefully."
Detective Sergeant Roman Zelgowski investigated the scene of the crime while his fellow officers were detaining Garrison. Zelgowski observed a maroon Nissan Maxima in the wood line on the property. He then noticed damage to the vehicle "consistent with being shot by a firearm," per the affidavit. Upon inspection, he saw Summer Conn deceased in the front passenger seat of the car. Aaron Conn was lying across the rear seat of the vehicle, also deceased. According to the detective, the couple had been shot multiple times.
Garrison's neighbors told officers they heard several gunshots and then observed Curtis Garrison leaving the residence in a white van. The van was located "hidden in a wooded area … where Curtis Garrison was detained."
Garrison was arraigned by Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Janice Menard and is being held in lieu of $1 million bond at the Orange County Correctional Facility.
The tragedy followed the violent death of Summer Conn's brother, 27-year-old Beau Barron of Vidor, who was shot to death in Beaumont in February 2012.
Aaron Conn's uncle Gary Rivette of China said the family is devastated by the loss of the young couple.
"Aaron and Summer were great people," Rivette said. "They were going through some rough times, but they were great people."
Aaron's aunt Sherry Dupuis, also of China, said she will miss Aaron and Summer sorely.
"My nephew Aaron gave the best hugs," she said. "I am going to miss his hugs. And Summer was the sweetest, most loving person. She had the best laugh! She was always positive and cheery. They were good-hearted people."
Vidor resident Michael Edwards, 26, said he knew Garrison, the suspected shooter, in high school.
"We went to school together," Edwards said. "I haven't seen him for probably three years or so. It has been a long, long time since we spoke. I remember he was mechanically inclined, kind of quirky, but I would not have expected this."
Edwards said he was "surprised" to hear about the shooting, but as he thought back on Garrison's behavior, he could see the problems.
"He had some anger issues, a short temper," Edwards remembered.
Sgt. Hogan said his office is still sorting through information regarding the tragedy.
"The suspect is not talking," Hogan said regarding Garrison. "We are still in the process of talking to friends and family. … There are so many rumors and gossip going around it is taking longer. We are getting so much information, a lot of good information and a lot of hearsay. … We still want people to call with information. … We are looking for first-hand information. … We are trying to figure out how they knew each other."
Hogan said they are investigating a rumor that one or both of the Conns lived with Garrison at the time of the incident. According to Dupuis, her nephew stayed with Garrison for a couple of weeks recently working for room and board. She said from what she understands, Aaron went by Garrison's house on Thursday, Nov. 22, to pick up clothes he had left there. He was not successful in getting his belongings at that time, which is why he went back the following day.
Hogan said at this time, no witnesses have come forward and with Garrison remaining tight-lipped regarding what transpired, they do not know all of the details and have not yet ascertained a motive. Without Garrison's cooperation in providing law enforcement officers with the answers they so desperately seek regarding his motive and how the shocking events of Nov. 23 unfolded, the grief-stricken family of Aaron and Summer Conn and the outraged community might never know what really happened that fateful day.
Sgt. Hogan, however, said he believes the truth will eventually be revealed through the investigation.
"We are confident we will get it all figured out," Hogan assured.
New details continue to emerge in the ongoing investigation. The Orange County Sheriff's Office asks that anyone with information regarding the case contact the criminal investigations division at (409) 670-4125.
Sharon Brooks can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 241, or by e-mail at sharon [at] theexaminer [dot] com.


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