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Audi unveiled its new quattro concept at the Paris Motor Show to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the quattro all-wheel-drive system's debut.
The new Col de Turini White show car was shown at a pre-show presentation by the Volkswagen Group Wednesday night. The coupe features a 408-horsepower, five-cylinder turbocharged engine, a lightweight body and the latest generation of quattro permanent all-wheel drive.
The two-seater coupe's foundation is provided by the Audi RS5, with a wheelbase shortened by 150 millimetres and a roofline lowered by around 40 mm, compared with the four-seat coupe on which it is based.
The two-seater's heavily modified body is made primarily of aluminum, with the hood, rear hatch and other components made of carbon fibre. As a result, the Audi quattro concept weighs just 1,300 kilograms and warps from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in just 3.9 seconds. Torque is distributed via a six-speed manual transmission.
The aggressive look of the concept adds to its exterior appeal, while the interior features attractive satin black carbon fibre elements and rally beige for all of the leather areas.
Up front are anthracite grey drilled carbon-fibre ceramic discs. They are gripped by red-anodized, six-piston fixed calipers. The ceramic discs are practically fade-free, extremely robust, powerful and durable, says the automaker.
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Rangers agree to terms with DH Manny Ramirez on minor league contract
Arlington, Texas - The Texas Rangers announced today that the club has agreed to terms with designated hitter Manny Ramirez on a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Round Rock.
Ramirez, 41, will report to Round Rock on Thursday, July 4, and will work out with the club for a few days before being activated by the Express. He began the year with Taiwan's EDA Rhinos of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, batting .352 (64-182) with 8 homers, 13 doubles, and 43 RBI. He drew 23 walks against 21 strikeouts, with a .422 on-base percentage and .555 slugging mark. Ramirez was removed from the Rhinos active roster on June 19.
Ramirez is a 12-time All-Star and finished in the top 6 in Most Valuable Player voting on 7 different occasions. He has a career slash line of .312 Avg/.411 OBP/.585 SLG, one of only 6 players in major league history with those minimums in each of those categories (minimum 3000 plate appearances), joining Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams. Ramirez last played in the majors with Tampa Bay in 2011, going 1-for-17 in 5 games before announcing his retirement in April of that year. He began the 2012 season in the Oakland A's organization, batting .302 (19-63) with no home runs and 14 RBI in 17 games for Triple-A Sacramento, but requested and was granted his release on June 15, 2012.
Ramirez ranks among all-time leaders in home runs (14th, 555) and RBI (18th, 1831). He has played 2302 career games with Cleveland (1993-2000), Boston (2001-08), Los Angeles-NL (2008-10), Chicago-AL (2010), and Tampa Bay (2011).

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Ali Baba was established in Canberra in 1979. 100% Australian family-owned and operated, the iconic kebab company has been the healthy alternative to fast food for over 33 years.
Ali Baba is Australia's leading kebab and wrap-orientated retail chain with 44 store locations in Australia. Led by extensive consumer research, our vision reflects the changing needs and tastes of consumers.
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Hope for Tiger?
Tea Leoni and David Duchovny were in New York last night at the Unicef Snowflake Ball, a very public official show of togetherness, seeming to have successfully moved beyond his sex addictions and subsequent infidelities. Tea's not a dumbass, not a bimbo who mutely takes what's put before her without a fight and without an opinion. I suppose when I was younger I would be judging her harshly. Today I admire her propensity for forgiveness. Hopefully it's in direct proportion to his ability to be forgiven. But this is not the point. It takes strength to forgive as gracefully as she appears to have. This is not in me. I doubt it will ever be. But Tiger Woods is hoping for the same from Elin Nordegren. Sounds like his entire team is hoping for the same from Elin Nordegren. And that's a problem right there. She didn't marry a person. She married a f-cking corporation.
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The international climate negotiations have begun in Cancun, Mexico, and many people are downplaying the chances for significant movement on a binding deal to save the climate. While some are emphasising the inflexibility of various governments and predicting rough seas ahead for the UN process, to me it's important that we highlight what can be done in Cancun to create positive momentum. One area in which we expect action in Cancun is agreement on a mechanism to help end forest destruction. Tropical forest destruction is responsible for about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than emissions from all the world's cars, planes, and trains put together. The program being negotiated to end deforestation is known as REDD (Reduced Emissions from Degradation and Deforestation). A good REDD deal would benefit biodiversity, people, and the climate. A bad deal would allow corporations to use claims of forest protection to hide their refusal to cut their emissions to safe levels. Here's an example of what hangs in the balance at these talks: Norway and Indonesia have proposed a plan that has the potential to be a benchmark for future deals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting Indonesia's natural forests and carbon-rich peatlands. This would be REDD in action, and if the rules are right, it could be a huge success. Some of the basic elements of the agreement are encouraging, such as its focus on providing additional emissions reductions, which means that emissions savings will not offset pollution in another part of the world in the form of carbon offsets; a moratorium on new concessions to convert forests into agriculture lands; transparent processes; and the delivery of national-level reductions and independent monitoring systems. However, the new moratorium will not cover the millions of hectares of forests already slated for destruction. What's more, as shown in the recent Greenpeace report, "REDD Alert: Protection Money", deals such as this face serious risks as industries involved in forest destruction position themselves for REDD funds. In Indonesia, there is a push to reclassify the definition of forests in order to divert money earmarked for forest protection into destructive, business-as-usual practices.
That means that forest destroyers such as the Sinar Mas Group's APP (Asia Pulp and Paper), which has long been on our radar for its nefarious business practices, could have a green light to keep destroying forests , instead of a REDD light that signifies no more business at the expense of the planet.This is what Greenpeace believes governments must do to set up a framework for the protection of tropical forests:1. Establish a forest window under the Climate Fund. As I've said, countries must agree on a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing countries. Funding for REDD must be directed towards a new global fund and not offset markets that will allow polluters to keep polluting while buying carbon offsets. Since there is not enough money now pledged to developing countries to deal with adaptation to climate change, making REDD a part of the Climate Fund is more important than ever. 2. Adopt principles to safeguard biodiversity and the integrity of natural forests as the framework for action.This must include protection and respect for indigenous peoples' rights, and be in compliance with existing international laws and obligations, such as the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Forests are more than carbon stores, they are home to a wide variety of life. A Cancun deal must include requirements to monitor, report and verify the impacts of forest protection schemes on biodiversity, indigenous peoples and local communities. 3. Set national-level reductions in deforestation.Sub-national projects, which carve up forests into different sections to be protected, merely shift deforestation from one part of the country to another (or across an international border). If you're a logger and a sub-national project is protected, you can just go to another part of the forest to log. A REDD deal in Cancun should lay out a strategy that focuses on ending deforestation nation-wide in the countries where the worst forest destruction is currently happening, and prevent it from increasing in countries with large forests at risk. I was recently in Indonesia and witnessed firsthand the scars on the land caused by massive forest clearing. If we don't stop deforestation here, we won't solve climate change. That's why negotiators in Cancun must green light a strong REDD deal right now.
Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo was Greenpeace's International Executive Director from November 2009 until December 2015.
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It is a pity that many of the people reading this article are prabably partially responsible for tropical deforestation and don't even know it. More t...
It is a pity that many of the people reading this article are prabably partially responsible for tropical deforestation and don't even know it. More than half of the wood that is harvested illegally from rainforests goes to China where it is made into furniture, most of which is then sent to the west. If you want to make sure you don't cause deforestation, buy funiture made in the your own country or better yet teak that is certified to be sustainableor second hand. In some cities, second hand furniture can be obtained for free.
Not eating or washing with anything that contains palm oil helps too.
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Would like to know the greenhouse emissions from tropical forest destruction per annum. So the intention is not to save the forests, but to minimize t...
Would like to know the greenhouse emissions from tropical forest destruction per annum. So the intention is not to save the forests, but to minimize the "collateral' damage to the western countries because of the deforestation in the tropics. Right?
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Hudge inveding on forests is going in my country (sudan) caused by poor ,ignorant comunities .They depend on wood for cooking and thier animals over graze on forests these faced with no reaction from the government
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Has the long-lived SideWinder line of gaming-centric computer peripherals finally bitten the dust? Microsoft says it isn't so.
Microsoft's been releasing computer gaming peripherals under the SideWinder brand for the better part of two decades, pushing out everything from flight sticks to elaborate force feedback steering wheels. The line was put on hiatus in 2003 due to low sales, but was revived in 2007 with a new focus on mice and keyboards for the PC gaming crowd.
On Tuesday reports surfaced of Microsoft putting the SideWinder line to sleep for good, citing too much competition from the likes of Razer, Mad Catz, and SteelSeries in the PC gaming peripheral market.
We reached out to Microsoft's hardware division today regarding the future of the SideWinder line, vis-a-vis does it indeed have one? What's the official word?
"Microsoft Hardware has not made any announcement about the SideWinder line of products; it is not discontinued."
So the line lives on. Just because it hasn't been discontinued currently doesn't mean its days aren't numbered, but for now the SideWinder sleeps soundly.


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The Myth Of "So Bad It's Good"
Alamo Drafthouse programmer/archivist and occasional BAD correspondent Zack Carlson wrote a really great piece for Wired today about the myth of "so bad it's good," particularly in relation to Drafthouse Films' joyous new acquisition Miami Connection, a previously unreleased 35mm print that Zack picked up for fifty bucks on eBay. Miami Connection is now winning over audiences with its riotous sincerity. From Zack:
The plot centers on a tae kwon do-themed synth-rock band called Dragon Sound and the group's 10-fisted battle against an evil Florida empire of cocaine-dealing motorcycle ninjas.
Now, ask yourself why your eyebrows just leaped up when you read that last sentence. Because it sounds bad? No. Because it sounds incredible.
Yeah, it's hard to find folly in that. Zack argues that our enjoyment of movies should be no different than our enjoyment of food - if we like something, we take it in. If a movie's dated and technically inept, but truly entertaining and heartfelt, does that mean our appreciation of it has to be filtered through layers of ironic detachment?
He also points out that those films that are particularly susceptible to the "so bad it's good" disclaimer are smaller budget films made outside of the slick Hollywood machine. Does that make them less worthy of our earnest admiration than a bloated Hollywood blockbuster? Troll 2, Plan 9, Miami Connection, Birdemic - we watch the hell out of these movies, because they're fun. They make us happy. And as Zack says,
So we watch, some of us snorting and smirking and shouting, "Bad! Bad!," but we do watch. And we enjoy watching. Which leads to a revolutionary, not-so-bold concept:
If a movie entertains us, then it's good.
Don't love movies ironically. Just love them. And read Zack's whole post over at Wired - it's so good it's great.


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Researchers to Present New Data at ENDO 2016 Advancing the Understanding of Strensiq® (asfotase alfa) in Infants, Children and Adult Patients with Hypophosphatasia (HPP)
Friday, January 15, 2016 4:05 pm EST
CHESHIRE, Conn.
Public Company Information:
CHESHIRE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALXN) today announced that researchers will present new functional and quality-of-life data in children with hypophosphatasia (HPP) treated with Strensiq® (asfotase alfa) for at least five years, as well as new data on the biochemical and physical function outcomes in juveniles and adults with HPP treated with Strensiq for up to four years. Researchers will also present new safety and efficacy data in infants with HPP treated with Strensiq for up to three and a half years. Data will be presented in two oral sessions and one poster presentation at the Endocrine Society's 98th Annual Meeting and Expo (ENDO), being held April 1-4, 2016, in Boston.
Strensiq is approved in the United States as a treatment for patients with perinatal-, infantile- or juvenile-onset HPP. Strensiq is also approved in the European Union, Japan and Canada.
HPP is a genetic and progressive metabolic disease in which patients experience devastating effects on multiple systems of the body, leading to debilitating or life-threatening complications. It is an ultra-rare disease, which is defined as a disease that affects fewer than 20 patients per one million in the general population.1 HPP is characterized by low alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and defective bone mineralization that can lead to deformity of bones and other skeletal abnormalities, as well as systemic complications such as profound muscle weakness, seizures, pain and respiratory failure leading to premature death in infants.2-6
Abstracts summarizing these studies were published on the ENDO website and can be accessed using the links below.
The following abstracts will be presented in an oral session on Sunday, April 3, 2016, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST):
Abstract OR26-2: "Reduction in Pain and Improved Function and
Activities of Daily Living in Children with Hypophosphatasia Treated
with Asfotase Alfa for 5 Years," Phillips, et al.
Accessible at: https://endo.confex.com/endo/2016endo/webprogram/Paper24241.html
Abstract OR26-3: "Biochemical and Physical Function Outcomes in
Adolescents and Adults with Hypophosphatasia Treated with Asfotase
Alfa for up to 4 Years: Interim Results from a Phase II Study,"
Kishnani, et al.
Accessible at: https://endo.confex.com/endo/2016endo/webprogram/Paper25979.html
The following abstract will be presented in a poster preview session on Sunday, April 3, 2016, from 11:30 to 11:45 a.m., as well as a poster session from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST):
Abstract PP26-3 and SUN-327: "Efficacy and Safety of Asfotase Alfa in
Patients with Infantile Hypophosphatasia Treated for up to 3.5 Years:
Results from a Phase II, Open-Label, Uncontrolled Study," Liese, et al.
Accessible at: https://endo.confex.com/endo/2016endo/webprogram/Paper25983.html
The following abstract will be presented in an oral session on Monday, April 4, 2016, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST):
Abstract OR35-3: "Muscular Function in Akp2-/- Mice and
Evaluation of the Effect of Asfotase Alfa on the Akp2-/-
Phenotype," Marozsan.
Accessible at: https://endo.confex.com/endo/2016endo/webprogram/Paper25988.html
About Hypophosphatasia (HPP)
HPP is a genetic, chronic, progressive, and life-threatening ultra-rare metabolic disease characterized by low alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and defective bone mineralization that can lead to destruction and deformity of bones and other skeletal abnormalities, as well as systemic complications such as profound muscle weakness, seizures, pain, and respiratory failure leading to premature death in infants.2-6
HPP is caused by mutations in the gene encoding an enzyme known as tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP).2,3 The genetic deficiency in HPP can affect people of all ages.2 HPP is traditionally classified by the age of the patient at the onset of symptoms of the disease, with perinatal-, infantile- and juvenile-onset HPP defined as patients who have their first symptom prior to 18 years of age.
HPP can have devastating consequences for patients at any stage of life.2 In a natural history study, infants who had their first symptom of HPP within the first 6 months of life had high mortality, with an overall mortality rate of 73 percent at 5 years.7 In these patients, mortality is primarily due to respiratory failure.2,6,8 In patients surviving and those with juvenile-onset HPP, long-term clinical sequelae include recurrent and non-healing fractures, profound muscle weakness, debilitating pain and the requirement for ambulatory assistive devices such as wheelchairs, wheeled walkers and canes.2,5
About Strensiq® (asfotase alfa)
Strensiq® (asfotase alfa) is a highly innovative bone-targeted enzyme replacement therapy that treats the underlying cause of HPP by replacing the missing TNSALP enzyme. In clinical studies of patients with HPP who had their first symptom prior to the age of 18, treatment with Strensiq improved overall survival in infants, enhanced bone mineralization and improved height, weight and mobility.
Strensiq is approved in the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada.
Important Safety Information
Hypersensitivity reactions have been reported in STRENSIQ-treated patients. In clinical trials, 1 out of 99 treated patients (1%) experienced signs and symptoms consistent with anaphylaxis.
Localized lipodystrophy, including lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy, has been reported at injection sites after several months in patients treated with STRENSIQ.
Patients with HPP are at increased risk for developing ectopic calcifications. In clinical trials, 14 cases (14%) of ectopic calcification of the eye including the cornea and conjunctiva, and the kidneys (nephrocalcinosis) were reported. There was insufficient information to determine whether or not the reported events were consistent with the disease or due to STRENSIQ. No visual changes or changes in renal function were reported.
The most common adverse reactions reported were injection site reactions, lipodystrophy, ectopic calcifications, and hypersensitivity reactions.
Please click here for the full Prescribing Information.
About Alexion
Alexion is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering life-transforming therapies for patients with devastating and rare disorders. Alexion developed and commercializes Soliris® (eculizumab), the first and only approved complement inhibitor to treat patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), two life-threatening ultra-rare disorders. As the global leader in complement inhibition, Alexion is strengthening and broadening its portfolio of complement inhibitors, including evaluating potential indications for eculizumab in additional severe and ultra-rare disorders. Alexion's metabolic franchise includes two highly innovative enzyme replacement therapies for patients with life-threatening and ultra-rare disorders, Strensiq® (asfotase alfa) to treat patients with hypophosphatasia (HPP) and Kanuma™ (sebelipase alfa) to treat patients with lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D). In addition, Alexion is advancing the most robust rare disease pipeline in the biotech industry, with highly innovative product candidates in multiple therapeutic areas. This press release and further information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexion.com.
1. REGULATION (EU) No 536/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014R0536&qid=1421232837997&from=ENG.
|2. Rockman-Greenberg C. Hypophosphatasia. Pediatr Endocrinol Rev. 2013; 10(suppl 2):380-388.
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I am 100% against self-driving cars. I'm about 100x more afraid of them than legalized guns. This whole self-driving car movement is putting funding in the WRONG area of society. Then again, no one makes money by actually putting effort into public transit, more ethical vehicles, or other areas of society that desperately need help in the lower middle class.
The crash follows the US House passing the Self Drive Act in September, which if passed by the Senate would exempt car manufacturers from various federal and state regulations, allowing for the eventual deployment of up to 100,000 test vehicles a year.
I voted against it in my state last legislative session, but it passed anyway. Thanks to Tesla lobbying. Not the people's vote.


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You have one case in which you separated your subject from the verb with a comma. Delete the comma.
I would question the use of "civilisational."
The "I do not see a point..." sentence requires some attention.
I have never heard of "a regress" or "a progress."
From a "sound argument" perspective, a child had a mother and father (assuming a heterosexual union) regardless of whether the parents are married. Do you think the children of Brad and Angelina wonder who their paretns are? Additionally, partners can be partners for life without being married, and getting married does not mean they are partners for life. These "supporting points" don't support your case. (I will ignore the point about marriage being between a man and a woman.)
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It's a bit risque, agreeing to a sleepover on a second date. But after I was introduced to the charming subcompact home known as L41 and invited to return and spend the night, I didn't hesitate to pack a suitcase.
Truth is, they had me at the rendering. It's something you'd expect to find in Dwell, Domus or Wallpaper magazines. The fact that I'd be the first person to catch some winks in a module dwelling that addresses the need for modern, affordable housing sealed the arrangement.
The L41 home — a play on "all for one" — is the brainchild of Vancouver architect Michael Katz and designer/ artist Janet Corne, partners in life, as well as design. It's their first prototype dwelling together: a tiny, modern cube dressed in white, stainless, zinc, glass and charcoal grey.
"The parameters evolved around asking the question: How small can we design a house and make it delightful?" says Katz. "There's a big difference between that and how small can you make a house."
We like to think of this as the Smart car of housing, he adds. "Small is beautiful," finishes Corne.
At first glance, it's so compact you can imagine it as a laneway house or stacked in multiples a la Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 project (a real possibility, by the way).
And so, purely on looks alone, I want one. But they're not kidding: this abode is ultra micro — only 220 square feet (which, at first, I think is a typo). Could something that small really be habitable, let alone delightful, as the designers devised it to be? Beyond the allure of a minimalist footprint, there would have to be some serious design intelligence.
Katz, who has an extensive background in architecture, urban planning, compact and subsidized housing with Corne, a fine artist and designer, explain the L41's inventory of innovations. They hope to share these on a global and egalitarian scale, making home ownership available to anyone, anywhere.
Key features include an integrated building mechanical system, "the beating heart" with solar thermal capillary heating and cooling, and sustainable construction techniques, including non-toxic materials, LED lighting, zinc exterior cladding, a green roof, super-efficient windows and cross-ventilation.
As important, the L41 is intended to be mass produced, with the price declining as production goes up, making this a viable alternative to traditional-sized and conventionally constructed dwellings.
Building framing also pushes the envelope, constructed of cross-laminated timber (CLT) fabricated with beetle-killed wood. The strength of CLT provides a means for wood to be used in mid-rise buildings (or stacked L41s, as the case may be) which Katz and Corne feel presents a viable and responsible alternative to emissions-producing concrete. At this time, they are exploring the feasibility of a 12-storey L41 modular building.
Inside, the L41 layout is deceptively simple. The interiors are actually nuanced, layered and elegant, with kitchen as epicentre. The couple decided to build this singular unit for the 2010 Olympics to prove how small they could make it. But it's designed for expansion to one-or two-bedroom, module by module.
"When we told people we were going to design a 220-square-foot studio unit, they said that's impossible," said Katz. "They said that's the size of a parking space, a jail cell."
But the two weren't obsessing on size, as much as focusing on quality of experience and living space. That's why they started with a great kitchen, says Corne, who notes that most small homes compromise this area.
Here, sleek Eggersmann cabinetry is recessed below the ceiling, adding loft and height to the full-sized space. There's no backsplash, rather clear horizontal windows to flood the area with light. The appliance package is streamlined and high-end, with Miele and other compact European brands.
"We didn't want to put in appliances that would end up in the landfill," says Corne. "We went for quality."
In the living area, a built-in workstation and cubby doubles as spy-door to the mechanical room. And the floor-to-ceiling closet and storage system is stepped back to visually broaden the space. A retractable glass wall provides the option of opening the living space to outdoors, where there is bicycle and solar battery storage on the deck. The bathroom is modelled after one in a cruise ship cabin.
"When you have a place for everything, then everything has it's place," notes Corne.
"It's a teaching device, this little house," adds Katz. "It's a conversation about the future and that conversation says if we can mass produce a little house like this, then we can do what Ikea did and bring high design and high quality to the masses."
When I arrive at the L41 for my sleepover, Katz and Corne are fussing like proud parents, sharing books that have influenced them, including Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher, Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken and Biomiciry by Janine M. Benyus.
After tucking my bag in the closet and stashing my snacks, I chill for a bit on the comfy Bensen sofa bed and take it all in. Could I live here? Yes indeed!
There's room for a yoga mat or to skip rope, for sure. I can watch a movie via projector on the screened blind on one side of the studio. And the Control 4 smart electronics system allows me to adjust all the lights in the home, sync my iPod for music, watch videos, etc. with one simple TV control. After a sweet welcome party drops off some wine, a cosy gathering for eight to 10 people in the L41 ensues (in my head).
Outside, the convention centre floor is hopping with dozens of folks, trucks and beeping hyabs setting up the design show well into the evening. Fortunately, with the doors and windows closed, the L41 is practically soundproof, an added bonus of that thick CLT framing. Air is constantly venting, so even closed up, the unit doesn't get stuffy.
I drift off to sleep, still coveting the L41, thinking about the last thing Michael Katz said to me, before he wished me a good night.
"I hope this little house speaks to you in a way that shows you that the L41 is all you really need. Everything else, we think we want, that's just desire."
Prices have just been released for L41 modular homes (prices do not include taxes, delivery from factory, foundation or services). Studio 250 sq. ft: $90,000; One bedroom 350 sq. ft $105,000; Two bedroom 450 sq. ft $120,000.


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HENDERSON, Nev.—Security Partners, a Lancaster, Pa.-based wholesale monitoring company, acquired equipment, accounts and staff of 1 Time, a third-party central station based here, Mike Bodnar, president of Security Partners, told Security Systems News.
HENDERSON, Nev.— Michael J. Joseph, a veteran of the security industry, is pioneering a new dealer program for 1 Time, a small third-party central station in a suburb of Las Vegas, after joining as VP, general manager and part-owner of the company at the end of September.
The last time SSN caught up with Mary Jo Vance, in April 2011, she was contemplating taking the summer off to "ride cross-country on my Harley" after leaving CenterPoint Technologies. Vance, better known in the industry as MJ, recently let CSAA members know she is "alive and very well in Vegas" after landing a new gig: manager of 1 Time Inc.'s new central station in Henderson, Nev.
MJ served as vice president of operations and business development for CenterPoint for three years before what she described as an amicable departure last spring. A well-known and respected leader in the industry, she received the CSAA's Manager of the Year award in 2007 and the Presidential Award from the Fire Marshals' Association of Missouri in 2010.
Five Diamonds for Johnson: Congratulations to Johnson Controls' central station in Milwaukee, which recently joined an elite group by earning Five Diamond certification from the CSAA. The station is among 132 of roughly 2,700 centrals nationwide to have received the distinction, according to the CSAA's website.
To qualify, all of Johnson Controls' central operators had to pass a CSAA online training course, proving their proficiency in alarm verification, PSAP communications, knowledge of electronic communications equipment and the standards of Underwriters Laboratories, Factory Mutual, the National Fire Protection Association and other organizations.
"This prestigious certification reflects the dedication and determination our central station operators bring to the job to help protect the many corporate customers we monitor every day in the U.S.," Paul Pisarski, manager of field support and remote operations for the company's Building Efficiency unit, said in a prepared statement.
Calling all duffers: Looking to get into the swing at ISC West before everyone hits the show floor? Then this one's for you: the ninth annual Alarm Research and Educational Foundation (AIREF) golf tournament, scheduled for Tuesday, March 27 at the Revere Golf Club in Las Vegas.
The Electronic Security Association created the nonprofit AIREF in 1977 as a way to help raise money for industry research. Funding for the foundation is derived almost solely from the golf tournament, which promises players "a casual golf outing" with other industry professionals while supporting AIREF in the process.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — At least 200 union workers picketed FirstEnergy Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a year.
Chuck Cookson, FirstEnergy executive director of labor relations and safety, said the company is offering an 8.5 percent wage increase over four years as part of the ongoing negotiations for a new contract, but it must have more flexible work rules in exchange so it can respond quickly to outages.
"We provide electric service 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he said, "and we need and require an appropriate response from our employees when we need them."
But Bob Whelan, president of Local 102 of the Utility Workers Union of America, said the number of employees has dropped steadily since 1996, with a 40 percent reduction in the number of linemen, the workers who reset power poles, string lines and restore service after accidents and storms.
Other groups have been hit as hard or worse, Whelan said, including garage mechanics who keep bucket trucks working.
Protesters with Locals 102 and 304 erected a 12-foot inflatable rat outside the Waterfront Place hotel in Morgantown, where they were joined by United Steelworkers and United Mine Workers of America members.
Also protesting were environmental and consumer groups angry over the proposed $1.1 billion sale of a power plant between two FirstEnergy subsidiaries. For West Virginia, it was a rare coalescing of labor and environmental groups, which are often at odds over coal.
"This whole sidewalk should be full, there's so many common issues," said John Christensen, vice president of the Eastern Panhandle Labor Council. He traveled from Martinsburg to show solidarity on several issues, including the reduction of FirstEnergy's work force. "Cutting the workers is indescribable."
Critics say the power plant deal the state Public Service Commission is considering is overvalued, concentrates too heavily on coal and would unfairly raise rates for consumers. FirstEnergy calls it "a reasonable price for protection" against the more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market to meet West Virginia's demand.
FirstEnergy's contracts with the two locals expired April 30, but members are working under their previous terms while a new agreement is hammered out.
Local 304 represents the 150 union employees at the Harrison Power station.
Local 102 includes more than 900 employees of West Penn Power, Potomac Edison and FirstEnergy Generation Corp., including line and substation workers, meter readers and technicians, and other physical and support employees.
Most work for West Penn, which serves 720,000 customers in Pennsylvania, and Potomac Edison, which serves 132,000 customers in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and about 250,000 customers in Maryland.
Cookson acknowledged the physically demanding work that linemen and others perform in inclement conditions, and their right to fair compensation. Besides wage increases, he said, FirstEnergy is offering Local 102 the chance to participate in an incentive program that could boost straight-time wages by as much as 6 percent.
But it's also proposing to reformulate health care coverage, offering a subsidy to help cover the cost of insurance Local 102 has obtained on its own for decades. That subsidy is comparable to what other employees get, Cookson said, but would result in an increase of about $500 per employee per year.
Whelan said the union doesn't fully understand FirstEnergy's new proposal on health care, but it adamantly opposes a provision that would let the company "amend, modify or discontinue" benefits at will.
FirstEnergy also said it wants changes at its power plants to improve productivity, adjust scheduling and move employees around as needed, Cookson said.
In some job classifications, people can only be scheduled to work Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. In most other contracts, the company can adjust schedules as needed between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.
"We have limits on how much or how many times people are required to respond to overtime, and we'd like to relax those limits so people would be required to respond more frequently," Cookson said. "And really, that's a matter of being more fair because we have some people that work a lot and some people that work very little."
But Whelan said the problem is not unresponsive employees; it's lack of bench strength. Local 102, for example, currently has a contract provision requiring a customer service truck be staffed 24/7 for emergency calls.
FirstEnergy wants a trouble truck designated by shift, so it could stack up multiple calls to a single truck rather than summoning another. Whelan said that would force customers to wait even longer.


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Coronavirus unable to survive intercontinental shipping
According to the World Health Organization's data, the virus has the following survival times: 24-48 hours on hard surfaces, 8-12 hours on porous surfaces (clothing, paper) and a maximum of 72 hours on damp surfaces.
Omniva international post specialists say shipments from China thus do not pose a serious danger. It currently takes one week and usually longer for parcels from China to arrive in Estonia. Sometimes it can take up to a few months and mostly parcels pass through intermediate centres (e.g. Moscow, Turkey etc.), which makes it very unlikely that the virus will spread through handling. Regardless of the very low risk, everyday hand hygiene is being taken very seriously at Omniva.
According to official Health Board data, the risk of coronavirus infection in Estonia is very low. While travelling (even within Europe), the Health Board's recommendations for avoiding illness should be followed – it is recommended to follow ordinary good hygiene, above all washing hands properly. Refrain from contact with people with respiratory illness symptoms and cover mouth and nose if necessary.
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06.02.2020As of last week, in several regions in China people have been instructed to stay at home at least until 9 February. Therefore, no parcels are being shipped from China during the so-called house arrest period. The virus cannot be spread to Estonia with parcels.
04.02.2020The United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union as of 1 February. The transitional period, which lasts until 31 December 2020, has now started. Everything will remain the same for the people who order and send postal items and they will move as before.
29.01.2020Last year, Omniva issued a record number of 11.4 million parcels, more than half of which were deliveries from foreign online stores and markets.
27.01.2020According to the World Health Organization's data, the virus has the following survival times: 24-48 hours on hard surfaces, 8-12 hours on porous surfaces (clothing, paper) and a maximum of 72 hours on damp surfaces.
16.01.2020Omniva says the recent days have seen the arrival in Estonia of a large number of international shipments that piled up during the Christmas and New Year period. Each day, about 30,000-40,000 shipments, mainly from China, arrive in Estonia.
31.12.2019The most popular day for receiving parcels turned out to be 18 December, when nearly 90,000 people received a shipment.
17.12.2019At the last weekend before Christmas, Omniva will be working practically around the clock but during the holidays (24 to 26 December) and on 1 January, the busy postal workers and couriers will be off duty, which means that there will not be any deliveries to and pickups from parcel machines during this time. Post offices will also be closed on these days.
10.12.2019Parcel volumes start growing in the logistics world before December and by now, the record volumes are already here. Thanks to expanding the parcel machine network, getting the new logistics centre settled in, planning the labour force and developing the logistics process the record amount of parcels runs through Omniva incredibly smoothly.
11.11.2019The company will install 210 new parcel lockers in the Baltics during 2019 and a significant number of additional locker sections will be added to nearly one hundred existing parcel lockers.
04.10.2019The approaching busy season for the parcel world is a good time to remind everyone that parcels sent to machines are available for pickup for seven days.
25.09.2019The share of mobile telephone use has grown from 14% in 2016 to 29% in 2018, surpassing the desktop computer and almost reaching the current leader, the laptop computer.
09.09.2019Announcement of Competition Authority: Competition Authority issued AS Eesti Post the authorisation for provision of universal postal services in the next five years
06.08.2019Starting Monday, Omniva will begin delivering international parcels to parcel machines on Saaremaa Island, in Narva and all areas of Tallinn where the service was previously not provided. Over the week, all other areas in Estonia where Omniva has already installed parcel machines will be added.
23.07.2019As of 1 August, Omniva will start filling and emptying most of the parcel machines several times a day. The most popular machines in Tallinn will also get an extra third serving round to provide even faster parcel service.
17.07.2019As of July, Omniva will step-by-step start delivering international parcels from the parcel lockers in addition to post offices.
28.06.2019The bicycle trip with nearly 100 participants titled "I want to ride safely" will go along the roads of Hiiumaa on 28 and 29 June. In total, nearly 180 km of Hiiumaa roads will be ridden on, the bikers will also visit local producers and small businesses.
06.06.2019Parcel machines in Väike-Maarja, Tamsalu and Karksi-Nuia have turned out to be immensely popular among the locals. To meet the love for parcels at these locations, Omniva adds lockers to the popular parcel machines.
03.05.2019Customs information systems will be down for maintenance from 3 May to 8 May, and thus parcels that need to be declared may run late.
30.04.2019This spring, Omniva will open up its parcel terminals to international shipments. Testing of the long-awaited solution will be started in April, and international parcels will start to be more extensively delivered to parcel terminals this summer.
30.01.2019Another fake campaign that is being presented under the Eesti Post or Omniva name is being spread in the internet. The campaign includes the promise of awarding various prizes in relation to the company's birthday. Since Omniva is not connected to the fake campaign in any manner whatsoever, we would like to urge our customers to be careful.
27.12.2018Due to limited resources and a large quantity of unprocessed international mail, Boryspil International Airport in Kiev has established a temporary embargo on the reception of goods and mail until 4 January 2019 as informed by Ukrainian postal operator Ukrposhta.
21.12.2018You can pick up and send shipments with Omniva's parcel machines at any time around the clock, but most post offices are closed on 24–26 December and 1 January and machines are not filled or emptied.
29.11.2018Omniva was announced as the winner of the "Aasta logistikategu 2018" (Estonian Logistics Project of the Year 2018) title for the launch of the new logistics center, in the 20th Annual Logistics Conference.
20.11.2018The expansion of the Omniva parcel machine network, which started two weeks ago, is half way through. Out of 100 new parcel machines, 52 have been installed.
11.11.2018On 4 November, Omniva moved all of their parcel sorting and parcel logistics to the new logistics centre and launched the work processes at the new place. The reorganisation related to the moving of to the logistics centre will be finalised and the new processes will be implemented in the following weeks. Due to the reorganisations, there may occur slight deviations in the processes and speed of moving parcels. We ask our customers to be understanding – the changes are carried out to provide a fast and better service in the future!
01.11.2018Ten thousand people have already suggested locations for parcel machines. See where parcel machines have been requested in your neighbourhood
30.10.2018On 5 November, Andre Veskimeister will begin working at Omniva, assuming the position of the Head of Parcels Business. Alongside the Head of Postal Services, Head of Finance, and the Chairman of the Board, the Head of Parcels Business is part of the company's management board.
29.10.2018In November, Omniva will start the largest parcel machine expansion project in history, adding 100 parcel machines to Estonia. In order to bring world-class technology to convenient locations as close to people as possible, Omniva invites everyone to mark their desired locations of parcel machines on a map.
11.10.2018The first train full of parcel machines began its journey from China. One hundred of them will be installed in different locations in Estonia this year.
27.09.2018Today, on 27 September, The Supervisory Board of Omniva (AS Eesti Post) appointed Ansi Arumeel, Member of the Management Board , as the new Chairman of the Management Board.
27.08.2018On August 27th, the Supervisory Board of AS Eesti Post (Omniva) will announce the public competition for the position of Chairman of the Management Board.
02.08.2018According to an e-commerce research by Kantar Emor, the most popular selling items of web stores include concert, movie and theatre tickets, perfume products and electronics, while groceries, medication and repair goods are not among the favourites.
01.08.2018In the first half of 2018, Omniva's revenues grew thanks to the group's core business: parcels business increased by 20% throughout the Baltic region and the postal service provided in Estonia grew by 2%. In terms of the whole group, revenue decreased by 2% compared to the same period last year. The main reason was, similarly to the first quarter, the restructuring of international transit at the beginning of the year, which, by now, is on its way to recovery.
27.07.2018Omniva, the largest postal and logistics company in Estonia, is about to pilot Cleveron parcel lockers, or home parcel machines, in order to test it as one of the possible future solutions for delivering shipments.
21.06.2018Even though Omniva parcel machines work year-round and 24 hours a day, they will not be emptied or filled on the Victory Day and Midsummer Day. However, parcels will be delivered again on Monday, 25 June.
29.05.2018Estonia was granted an honourable 13th place in the 2018 Postal development report by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), involving 173 countries.
24.05.2018Omniva is installing new parcel machines in both cities and smaller settlements and is expanding its existing popular parcel machines. This year, the company plans to grow its parcel machine network in Estonia to double its size.
24.04.2018The revenue of the main business areas of Omniva's domestic markets, i.e. the parcel business and postal business, increased by 18% and 2% respectively in the first quarter of 2018 compared to last year. The greatest growth in comparison with the 1st quarter of the previous year was exhibited by the Latvian parcel business with 48% and the Lithuanian parcel business with 31%. Commercial revenue of the Group decreased by 8% due to the restructuring of international business and the decrease of other commercial revenues (property sales, etc.) compared with the same period of the previous year.
05.04.2018Omniva, with its last year's Robovan pilot, is one of eight Estonian companies that reached the third round of the biggest business awards competition in Europe. A total of over 110,000 companies from 34 countries applied for the European Business Awards and Omniva was selected for the innovation category.
03.04.2018The modern energy solution promises to cover approximately half of the building's energy need with renewable energy.
09.03.2018ReBOUND Returns, retail's leading international returns platform has chosen Omniva as a partner for supporting product returns from the Baltics.
26.02.2018In 2017, Omniva Group grew in both the parcels business and information logistics business on its domestic market in the Baltic region. The revenue from postal services provided in Estonia remained at the level of the year before.
19.02.2018In order to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Republic of Estonia, Omniva, in cooperation with Estonia100 and the ERR Lastejaam, is organising a drawing competition "My Gift to Estonia". In September, three of the best drawings submitted to the competition will be put on real postage stamps.
04.01.2018The Supervisory Board of Omniva (AS Eesti Post) chose the Chief Financial Officer and member of the management Jaan Sildam as the third member of the Management Board.
15.11.2017The company started expanding parcel lockers this week. During the pre-Christmas network expansion, 63 new parcel lockers will be added to the Baltic network and 100 existing parcel lockers will be expanded.
14.11.2017The new logistics centre will help the company sort parcels and letters much more efficiently.
02.11.2017Omniva's nine-month revenue grew by 16% on a year-over-year basis as a result of an increase in both international and Baltic parcel volumes.
01.11.2017For us to be able to offer an improving and developing parcel service, the prices of the parcel machine and the Courier Mail Order services will increase as of December.
26.10.2017Omniva will be testing electric mopeds for mail carriers to find new solutions for delivering mail and courier shipments that are beneficial to the environment, the clients, and the employees.
20.09.2017Today, Omniva concluded a contract with the winners of the construction procurement of the new logistics centre: Eventus Ehitus and Nordecon Betoon (NOBE). The construction of the centre, located near Jüri, will begin in the coming weeks and will be completed by the autumn of next year.
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Lightfinder technology is a combination of Axis' expertise in image processing, in-house system-on-chip development and selection of the best optical components.
Cameras with Axis' Lightfinder technology have extreme light sensitivity. Such cameras can deliver color images in as little light as 0.18 lux or lower.
Compared with any analog or network cameras, the Lightfinder technology will give more life-like colors in low-light conditions.
The noise reduction of the Lightfinder technology is vastly improved compared with any surveillance camera on the market, which in combination with the light sensitivity of the sensor gives a superior image quality.
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Scene (with 0.4 lux of illumination at the back wall) shown at left using a camera that has switched over to Night mode, and at right using a camera with Lightfinder technology, which is still functioning in Day mode, providing a color image and details such as the box on the floor at the back wall.


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It began as the story that no one was interested in. No one in the media wanted to believe that officers of the New Orleans Police Department had murdered unarmed civilians and then engaged in a massive and wide-ranging conspiracy to cover it up. And no one wanted to pursue evidence that revealed a department plagued by systemic corruption.
In a remarkable chain of events, the story that no one wanted has become the story that everyone knows. After nearly four years of media silence and official neglect, a combination of grass-roots activism, independent journalism and federal intervention shoved the truth out. Federal investigators opened at least eight investigations, are pursuing criminal charges against more than a dozen officers and have accepted plea deals from several more, with additional cops implicated seemingly every week. And as high-ranking officers admit to manufacturing evidence, their confessions bring doubt to scores of other cases they have worked on. Public support for changes in the department has never been so high, and even Mayor Mitch Landrieu has said that "a complete transformation is necessary and essential."
Last week, Landrieu and his new police superintendent, Ronal Serpas, released a 65-point list of steps they are taking or have taken to rebuild the NOPD. While some have lauded the mayor for taking proactive steps, critics have said that the mayor is trying to institute small changes to avoid a full federal takeover of the department. "This is lukewarm reform," complains Rosana Cruz, the associate director of VOTE, an organization that seeks to build power and civic engagement for formerly incarcerated people. "This is reaching the lowest possible bar that we could possibly set."
The Storm and Aftermath
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, rumors and panic ruled the streets. There were stories of snipers and mass murder, and armed gangs controlling some neighborhoods. CNN reporter Chris Lawrence commented that there were no "normal" people left in New Orleans, only armed ones. As he said this, images of black people at the Superdome flashed on the screen. City officials helped fuel the panic with exaggerated reports. Police Superintendent Eddie Compass told Oprah Winfrey, "We had little babies in there [the Superdome], some of the little babies getting raped."
On Sept. 2, 2005, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco announced that National Guard troops had arrived in New Orleans. "They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded," she warned. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will." Witnesses from the NOPD have said that Warren Riley, who was then second-in-command of the NOPD, added to this dangerous atmosphere by telling officers that they had permission to shoot and kill as many "looters" as their conscience allowed: "If you can sleep with it, do it." Riley denies the claims, although he does say that he "may have said" that officers needed to "take back the city."
On the same day that Blanco made her threat, Henry Glover, 31, an African-American resident of New Orleans' Westbank neighborhood, was shot by one officer and then was apparently taken hostage by other officers who either killed him directly or let him bleed to death, according to published reports. His burned remains were found weeks later in the back of a car with a bullet wound in his skull. Sometime between the discovery and the coroner's report, the skull disappeared and the case was not flagged by the coroner's office as a potential homicide.
Also on Sept. 2, Danny Brumfield Sr., a 45-year-old man stranded with his family at the New Orleans Convention Center, was deliberately hit by a patrol car, then shot in the back by police in front of scores of witnesses as he tried to wave down the officers to ask for help.
Two days later, seven officers killed two unarmed New Orleanians and injured several more in a hail of gunfire on the Danziger Bridge. This bridge crosses the Industrial Canal, connecting New Orleans East with the rest of the city, and was one of the only routes survivors from that part of town could travel to escape the floodwaters.
Amid a hail of police gunfire on the bridge, a mentally challenged man named Ronald Madison was shot in the back by officers. According to Thompson's reporting, Madison was shot by officer Robert Faulcon. Officer Kenneth Bowen then rushed up and kicked and stomped on him, apparently until he was dead. One of the other civilians who survived had her arm shot off; another was so badly injured that he now requires a colostomy bag.
The officers involved arrested Madison's brother Lance under false pretenses and later had secret meetings at which they conspired to invent a cover story, including planting a gun, hiding evidence, inventing witnesses and writing coordinated statements, rewritten multiple times to be believable. Lance Madison spent months in jail facing charges that officers now admit were based in fiction.
Vigilantes began patrolling the city, apparently having received the same message that killing suspected looters was now officially approved. A young black man named Donnell Herrington was shot by a gang of armed white vigilantes in the Algiers neighborhood. Neighbors reported hearing the white man who shot Herrington — Roland Bourgeois Jr., 47 — promise to shoot anybody with skin "darker than a brown paper bag."
In their complaints, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, the out-of-state police described widespread beatings, search and seizure, spraying of mace and arrests — all of which were apparently random and unprovoked. One trooper complained that "Baton Rouge officers referred to black people as 'animals' that needed to be beaten down." Another state trooper reported, "Each time [Baton Rouge Police Officer Chad King] would make contact with a Caucasian person, he would be friendly and pleasant. But when he spoke to a black person, he was very loud, rude and demeaning." A Michigan cop reported that officers offered to let him beat a prisoner as a "thank-you for helping out with relief efforts."
These stories were open secrets. Chilling reports made it into interviews with survivors, independent media like the TV-and-radio program Democracy Now! and a 2006 People's Tribunal convened by People's Hurricane Relief Fund, a Gulf Coast coalition. But the corporate media, including New Orleans' own daily paper, all but ignored the story. The U.S. attorney, the city district attorney and the coroner — every check and balance built into the system — all failed to investigate. Police Superintendent Warren Riley said he never even read the report on the events at Danziger Bridge.
Finally, Thompson, writing for ProPublica and The Nation in December 2008, documented the shooting of Herrington and the deliberate killing of other black men fleeing the storm. According to Thompson's reporting, the men were killed by those vigilantes with the endorsement and even the participation of local police. Thompson had been urged by writer Rebecca Solnit to investigate the story. Solnit, in turn, had heard about the accusations of vigilante violence — and the lack of an official investigation — from community activists such as former Black Panther Malik Rahim.
In 2009, working with a team of reporters from the Times-Picayune and Frontline, Thompson documented at least 10 shootings by police in the aftermath of Katrina. In every case, local police mounted little, if any, investigation into the incidents. Police told the family members of Matt McDonald, a young man who was killed by an officer, that their son had been killed by a civilian. His parents didn't find out that a New Orleans cop had killed their son until a reporter called them in 2009.
The post-Katrina killings have also led federal investigators to further scrutinize the NOPD. The feds have announced that they are looking into incidents that occurred in the summer before Katrina and in the years after.
Madison's family members and the families of the others shot that day kept the case alive for years while the media dismissed them. When the Justice Department became involved in 2009, they found evidence of fraudulent investigations conducted so openly that one officer, Sgt. Arthur Kaufman, reportedly felt comfortable shouting out to a room full of cops, "Hey, somebody give me a name," as he invented a witness and testimony on the spot. In response, another officer shouted back, "Lakeisha."
A coalition of criminal-justice activists called Community United for Change has asked for federal investigations of dozens of other police murders committed over the past three decades, which advocates say have never been properly examined. Activists named a wide range of cases, from the death of 25-year-old Jenard Thomas, who was shot by police in front of his father on March 24, 2005, to Sherry Singleton, who was shot by police in 1980 while she was naked in a bathtub. Her 4-year-old witnessed everything.
Several parents and other family members of victims of police violence have joined in protests and community forums sponsored by CUC. The parents of Adolph Grimes III, who was shot 14 times by cops on New Year's Day in 2009, are among those who have spoken out. "We want those officers incarcerated so they can live with it like we live with it," Grimes' father told The Root.
Justice Department officials have indicated that they agree on the need for federal assistance. "Criminal prosecutions alone, I have learned, are not enough to change the culture of a police department," Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told TPM Muckraker.
While some form of federal supervision of the department seems likely, Malcolm Suber, a longtime police-accountability activist who is also project director of the New Orleans chapter of American Friends Service Committee, doesn't think federal oversight is enough.
"I don't think that we can call on a government that murders people all over the world every day to come and supervise a local police department," Suber told The Root. For Suber, federal control will not offer the wider, more systemic changes needed in other aspects of the system. While Suber wants more federal investigations of police murders, he wants these investigations to go hand in hand with community oversight and control of the department.
While activists may disagree on the role they see for the federal government, one thing community members agree on is that the problem runs deeper than police department corruption. They say any solution needs to reach beyond the department to other facets of the system, like the city's elected coroner, the district attorney's office, the U.S. attorney and the city's independent police monitor, whom many see as limited by not having the ability to perform its own investigations.
Organizers have put forward a range of proposals for the reforms they would like to see, including institutional support for community-led programs like CopWatch, the incorporation of a system for language interpretation and a more powerful independent police monitor. They all agree that not just the department, but the entire system, needs fundamental change, and that change needs to come from beyond the city government. "How you gonna get the wolf to watch over the chicken coop?" asks Adolph Grimes Jr. "It's the system itself that is corrupted."
Jordan Flaherty is a journalist based in New Orleans and the author of the book Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six.


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We are revamping a vehicle management system and require new icons to represent tyres, rims, and axles. 1 Tyre, 3 Rims & 1 Axle.
We're getting many entries that are similar, this is I suppose the result of a fairly tight brief. We're encouraging creativity now. We'd appreciate the sizes & proportions to be approximately the same, but all else is up to the designer. Slightly 3d versions encouraged, e.g. cut away type style for then tyre fitted to rim. (Tyre appears cut away to reveal the time.)
We currently have a tyre and rim tracking application which allows the fitment of tyres and rims to vehicles. This is represented in an overhead view of a vehicle. We would like these core icons recreated. Although there are 5 icons in total three are simple variations of each other.
What we need are the below 5 icons (with width and height listed in pixles) :
1) Tyre (32x32)
2) Rim (Coloured) (32x14)
3) Rim (coloured, when placed over tyre) (32x14)
4) Rim (greyed, disabled look) (32x14)
5) Axle (47x15)
Colour depth to be no greater than 256 for technical reasons.
Click on the below link to download a pdf with samples of what we have now for reference. There's a table at the bottom which shows exactly which icons we want replaced.
Please refer to the document when reading this following description:
The tyre and rim are separate objects, the rim being smaller than the tyre. In the screen in the doc the front left and rear left are just rim pictures. The front right is only a tyre picture. The rear right is a tyre picture with a rim picture superimposed. This is why tyres and rims need to be different sizes. The design of the tyre must be such that the smaller rim picture can be placed over the top to make it look like a rim is fitted, in a cutaway fashion.
The important part is that the rim and tyre overall picture sizes remain as above to allow the user enough space to click either part of the picture depending on if they want the rim or tyre.
In the sample you'll see there are icons on the far right also, if this goes well then we will most likely seek to have these redone at a later date to match the other new icons. There are about another 20 of these that are not visible in this screenshot.
We really just want the icons updated to something stylish and new, and clearly identifiable as rims and tyres.
We'll be revamping the look of the software to make it look more modern and this is the first step. We need the icons to clearly be able to demonstrate the states of no tyre or rim, tyre only, rim only, and rim plus tyre.
Colours : The tyre should be black. The rim should be yellow.
Format : Gif, with transparent backgrounds.
Colour depth : No more than 256.
Sizes : Sizes of the icons are not absolutely fixed ,they can vary slightly if required. Rims & tyres certainly no smaller, but up to 10% larger if designer thinks this is appropriate. Axle should be no wider but can be slightly higher by about 10% if designer sees fit. You can see by the sample doc that there isn't all that much free space to deal with as there can be up to four tyres across each axle rather than the two in the example.
Note on sizing. The system uses a drag drop, so the rim must be smaller than the tyre, and sit in the middle, so the user can easily click on the rim or tyre picture behind it if one is fitted. For this reason the proportion or rim to tyre must remain very close to what we have already.
Style : Up to the designer, clean, simple & stylish are our current ideas, and that's about it. Bear in mind we'll most likely want to redo all other icons in the application to match the style used here. The tyres we track are large off-road and smaller on-road tyres which differ a lot in size and shape, so we're going more for a 'generic' tyre that could represent either.
Nothing too complex.


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Dell has launched a brace of new XPS laptops.
The Studio XPS 1340 and Studio XPS 1640 launched overnight at CES and fill a slot at the higher end of the market.
The 1340 comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, a 320GB 7200RPM hard drive, Nvidia's GeForce 9400M graphics, a 13.3-inch screen and Windows Vista Premium 64-bit.
It costs $1,199 which these days works out to about £800 (gulp).
The 1640 comes in at exactly the same price, but incorporates ATI's cheaper RADEON M86XT graphics chip but a larger 16-inch LCD screen.
Both laptops look pretty similar, with obsidian black styling with faux-leather trimmings.


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It has been a long time since the Taiwanese public and the opposition parties came out in force and called for attention and assistance from the international community to improve the nation's human rights and political situation.
The last time it happened was during the 1970s and 1980s, the latter part of the White Terror era when the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government cracked down on all opposition and imprisoned political dissidents. Taiwanese had no choice but to reach out to foreigners, including human rights advocates, lawmakers, journalists and various organizations, hoping that their influential voices would put pressure on the authoritarian regime.
People assume those days are long gone because Taiwan has built connections with the international community through the power of globalization, as well as the means enabled by improved communication technology.
In addition, Taiwan has been praised as a beacon of democracy in Asia since former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) lifted martial law, ended hostilities with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government and made direct presidential elections possible.
That is why a number of recent appeals to the international community were mind-boggling in a country that was supposed to be a full-fledged democracy.
Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Woodrow Clark recently urged the government to stop the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, with Lu saying that she would like to "internationalize" the nuclear energy issue in Taiwan after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the KMT had ignored the strong opposition to the decades-old plan, in particular after the accident at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in March last year.
On Dec. 10, Human Rights Day, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) called an international press conference, in which DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), as well as professionals in the areas of media, legal affairs and human rights, accused the Ma administration of eroding human rights and placing Taiwanese democracy in jeopardy.
What drove them to resort to such measures, if the democratic system in Taiwan had been functioning well, with effective self-correction and sound check-and-balance mechanisms?
Was it because the DPP, along with other opposition parties, had failed in their roles as monitors of the government, and lawmakers who were supposed to do their job in the legislature were trying to garner media attention by "going international"?
Or was it because the president and the KMT, which control the administrative branch and enjoy a clear majority in the Legislative Yuan, as well as a highly unpopular judicial system, had refused to communicate with and listen to the public, leaving them with no choice but to seek help from the outside?
Ironically, while the current administration has been quick to cite Taiwan's various international rankings as its achievements, when two human rights experts, invited by the government to monitor Taiwan's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, urged Ma to suspend the death penalty, KMT lawmakers were quick to describe the appeal as "foreign interference in [Taiwan's] internal affairs."