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Telco Police Detain 4 Suspects in DGM Home Robbery Case

Authorities recover vehicle used in the incident, investigate possible links to liquor shop theft Jamshedpur police make progress in solving high-profile robbery, detaining four suspects and recovering the alleged getaway vehicle, as investigation expands to explore potential connections with recent liquor store theft in Kadma area. JAMSHEDPUR – The Telco Police have made progress in the…

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Is Your Web Hosting Company a Good Business Partner?

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Is Your Green Web Hosting Company A Good Business Partner?

Morals in Web Hosting

It Sure Better Be!

Why?

Since your web have is your accomplice in on-line achievement. See, there are loads of choices accessible when you begin looking for web facilitating administrations. You can go with a free facilitating site. Just issue is those gift facilitating administrations bring in their cash by setting their promotions on YOUR site. What's more, you have no power over what promotions show up on your site.

Bad. Particularly when quality facilitating administrations are free for just $7 every month. You lose more than that in the lounge chair! Along these lines, facilitating isn't a spot you need to compromise, regardless of whether you're bringing your initial dive into the internet. Particularly if this is your first computerized try. Read more We Talk Hosting

Presently, there are minimal expense has yet these organizations need to compromise some place. In this way, technical support is 12 time regions from the worker where your site lives - or used to until you got the feared 404 blunder message when you signed on to your own site. Site not found! What the hell?

Or then again, these organizations ration things like security, leaving your site more defenseless against programmer assaults from the worker side - from your minimal expense web have. Nonetheless, you don't need to go through a can of money to discover a facilitating organization that keeps up numerous layers of safety, shielding your site from malware infusions from the worker side of your business.

In any on-line attempt, regardless of whether your selling items, administrations, or simply getting out a message to the world, your web have IS your on-line accomplice so it pays to pick carefully.

What would it be advisable for you to search for in a decent W3 accomplice? What would it be advisable for you to anticipate from the web facilitating organization you pick? A great deal and a lot of it.

1. A customer driven corporate culture.

This incorporates everything from people who pick up the phone when you call with an inquiry to reasonable valuing to a tool kit brimming with free treats.

You need a facilitating organization with a long heredity of web facilitating experience. Anybody can purchase plate space and exchange it. Anyone can purchase a worker and pack 2,500 sites onto that worker. Are these the sort of computerized accomplices you need for your new dispatch? No.

You need dependability (a 99.9% uptime), life span in the web facilitating space (insight), and a business that perceives that YOUR business achievement is vital for the facilitating organization's drawn out progress.

This is an outlook that beginnings at the top and injects essentially all parts of conveyance of facilitating administrations - from conveying more for less to fixing issues in no time. This customer driven way to deal with web facilitating ought to be a basic piece of your examination and your choice to collaborate with a facilitating organization.

You need to accomplice who's as occupied with the accomplishment of your site as you are.

2. Security like you wouldn't accept.

Quality facilitating organizations are current on the most recent infections, the quickest programmer strategies and the most recent dark cap trick to descend the Information Superhighway.

Thus, to fight off assaults from programmers, saltines, script-youngsters and other trouble makers, your web-have web-accomplice keeps a hard-wired firewall, firewall programming that is refreshed routinely, against infection programming that ensures your business resources and hostile to spyware programming that keeps key-lumberjacks under control, securing your on-line business.

You can ensure your business network at your end. You ought to shield against everything from simple robbery (somebody wanders off with a PC) to rebellious viral assaults in unchecked messages (filter it first), yet on the off chance that your web have doesn't convey worker side security, you're significantly more powerless to assault - a cerebral pain you simply needn't bother with.

3. A total site tool kit - FREE!

Beginning a web business shouldn't cost a lot. It ought to be accessible to anybody with the creative mind to imagine accomplishment on the web - and that is a great many us from one side of the planet to the other.

A decent, on-line accomplice, your web have, ought to give for all intents and purposes the entirety of the apparatuses you need to dispatch a site and assemble it to productivity or some other proportion of accomplishment.

Search for site formats to wipe out the expense of an expensive planner - and not only a couple cutout layouts. Your web host should offer many choices, and the great ones offer large number of layout alternatives that you can redo so they don't seem as though a format website.

What about a free shopping basket and secure checkout. That is a "unquestionable requirement have" for any business site and you need it free. Same with a data set, customer the executives programming, expandability, customization and coordinated answers for standard, on-line movement. Free.

Before you join up with any host, verify what the tool stash resembles. You should discover all you require to assemble a site, dispatch a site, advance a site and oversee every day activities - and all in particular structure so each piece of the on-line business puzzle slides directly into the right spot.

4. Organization Benefits

A decent colleague carries something to the table - something you can use for your potential benefit directly from the beginning.

Minimal expense and undeniable degrees of customer care are positively benefits however what else does your web have bring to the table? What about specific highlights you can utilize - like "green facilitating" - a web have with a promise to the climate and utilizes green innovation to create the juice, cool the workers and run the workplace. By making strides toward environmental friendliness, you say something about your own corporate culture and friends esteems - a significant piece of building an on-line brand.

What about U.S.- based customer backing and make that day in and day out, please. You realize that some web has just prepare customers to contact headquarters through email? Is that your most ideal decision for an on-line accomplice? When your site is down? Furthermore, you don't have a clue why?

You need to converse with a geek who can stroll down the corridor, give the security information needed to enter the secured worker room, and fix the glitch that took your site disconnected. At the point when your site is disconnected, you're undetectable to both site guests and bots and if either can't get to your site, you're in a difficult situation.

Search for cost investment funds openings. For instance, does your host save you some beginning up cash in the event that you pay a year ahead of time? Exploit the investment funds on the grounds that, with any beginning up, cash is best. Would you be able to purchase more worker space as your business develops without climbing to a more costly level? A decent host will allow you to grow a gigabyte at a time without gouging you with expanded month to month expenses that consume your edges.

What about a free, 30-day time for testing to check whether you can make this thing fly? A decent accomplice doesn't secure you to some drawn out bargain, by the same token.

Some web has take your cash and run. Attempting to get a grip of high level technical support resembles going through a root waterway. Anyway, what does your top-decision web have bring to the table?

5. Simple to coexist with.

You need an accomplice that is not difficult to coexist with - is useful and consistently there.

You need a web have that is keen on your online achievement. These organizations convey heaps of free treats, security, customization and free and simple access. You need an educated individual with perpetual persistence to pick up the phone - somebody who will work through your inquiries, give answers and arrangements when you need them, which resembles yesterday.

You need to do your examination prior to picking any web have. It's anything but a choice that depends on cost since you can get quality facilitating at a low month to month cost in this exceptionally cutthroat domain of the W3.

Peruse the terms of administration. Step through an exam drive of the manager's control center and fabricate a test site the manner in which you need it. What's more, when you have an inquiry or run into an issue, you need an accomplice who will pick up the telephone, give the appropriate response and fix the issue.

Take as much time as is needed. Picking the right web facilitating organization is likely the main choice you'll make in the beginning phases of business development.

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The first African start-up on the New York Stock Exchange

An e-commerce company based in Nigeria is to become the first African start-up to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Jumia could go public in the next month.

Founded in Lagos by two French entrepreneurs in 2012 with Rocket Internet backing, Jumia, which was given a $1bn valuation in 2016, offers a range of online goods and offers services to most of the African population, in 14 African countries such as South Africa, Tanzania, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, and Morocco. Goods and services lines include Jumia Food (an online takeout service), Jumia Flights (for hotel and flight bookings) and Jumia Deals (for classifieds). Jumia processed more than 13 million packages in 2018, according to company data. It had four million active consumers at the end of 2018. Its largest shareholder is MTN, Africa's biggest telecoms company.

No share price or valuation has been given but there is speculation Jumia could be valued at $1.5bn, despite the fact that it reported a loss of 170m euros ($192m) in 2018. In documents filed in New York, Jumia warned it could not guarantee achieving or sustaining profitability in the future, citing challenges such as a robbery at its Kenyan warehouse, which saw merchandise worth $560,000 stolen.

African businessmen may welcome the fact that an African start-up had listed but there are a lot of challenges ahead. There is still a lot of work to do for Jumia. They need the technical infrastructure - because currently it is difficult to get a parcel from Senegal to Rwanda. There are also issues around distribution and the supply chain. The inconsistent quality of the products Jumia sells and the delivery challenges it faces have often made the company a target of criticism on social media. Unless someone invested billions of dollars in it, it's difficult to see how they would beat Amazon or Alibaba.

Neither of these online retail giants have yet made inroads in the African market, partly because of the lack of postal addresses on the continent, coupled with the lack of infrastructure and the fact that most Africans do not have bank accounts. However, Alibaba has more chance of succeeding in Africa because they are more used to building things from scratch.

Jumia's biggest selling point is the acceptance of mobile money payments across the continent where few people have credit or debit cards. Chief executive of African firm BRCK, Erik Hersman said the news was "an important event in the evolution of the African tech scene." "Jumia is showing that an IPO [initial public offering] on a major stock exchange is possible," he added.

There have been numerous press reports on an anticipated Jumia IPO, but none of them had been confirmed by Jumia execs or an actual SEC, S-1 filing until today. Jumia’s move to go public comes as several notable consumer digital sales startups have faltered in Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation, largest economy and unofficial bellwether for e-commerce startup development on the continent. Konga.com, an early Jumia competitor in the race to wire African online retail, was sold in a distressed acquisition in 2018.

With the imminent IPO capital, Jumia will double down on its current strategy and regional focus. “You’ll see in the prospectus that last year Jumia had 4 million consumers in countries that cover the vast majority of Africa. We’re really focused on growing our existing business, leadership position, number of sellers and consumer adoption in those markets,” co-CEO Poignonnec said.

The pending IPO creates another milestone for Jumia. The venture became the first African startup unicorn in 2016, achieving a $1 billion valuation after a $326 funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN.

Starting in Nigeria, the company created many of the components for its digital sales operations. This includes its JumiaPay payment platform and a delivery service of trucks and motorbikes that have become ubiquitous with the Lagos landscape. Jumia has also opened itself up to traders and SMEs by allowing local merchants to harness Jumia to sell online. “There are over 81,000 active sellers on our platform. There’s a dedicated sellers page where they can sign-up and have access to our payment and delivery network, data, and analytic services,” Jumia Nigeria CEO Juliet Anammah told TechCrunch.

The most popular goods on Jumia’s shopping mall site include smartphones (priced in the $80 to $100 range), washing machines, fashion items, women’s hair care products and 32-inch TVs, according to Ms. Anammah.

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Paul John Knowles (1946-1974)

Paul John Knowles, also known as the Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer who was linked to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, but claimed to have killed 35. He was born on April 17, 1946 in Orlando, Florida. His father gave him up after he was convicted of a petty crime, and Knowles ended up in a series of foster homes and reformatories. Knowles himself was incarcerated for the first time at the age of 19, and in the following years spent more time in prison. In early 1974 Knowles was serving a sentence at Raiford Prison in Florida, now known as Florida State Prison, when he started communicating with San Francisco divorcee Angela Kovic, who went to the prison to visit Knowles. After the couple got engaged, she became vital in getting Knowles released by paying for a lawyer. After he was released, Knowles flew straight to California to be with her. After being warned by a psychic of a dangerous man in her life, Covic ended the relationship and called off the wedding. Devastated by the rejection, Knowles claimed to have killed 3 people on the streets of San Francisco the night Covic ended their relationship. He returned to Jacksonville, Florida and was soon arrested after stabbing a bartender during a fight, but picked a lock in his cell and escaped on July 26, 1974.

The cross-country murder spree of Paul John Knowles started in Jacksonville the night he escaped from jail. He broke into 65-year-old Alice Curtis’s home, binding and gagging her before ransacking her house for money and valuables. Curtis choked to death on her dentures, but it is not known if this occurred before or after Knowles left. He also stole her Dodge Dart, but realised police had already connected him to the crime and were advertising him as a wanted fugitive. When he stopped to abandon the car, he saw family acquaintances, Lillian, 11, and Mylette Anderson, 11. Scared that they would identify him he kidnapped them, strangled them and buried their bodies in a nearby swamp. Not long afterwards, Knowles claimed he picked up a teenage girl who was hitchhiking and killed her – she remained unidentified for decades. On December 21, 2011, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified her as Ima Jean Sanders, 13, who had run away from Beaumont, Texas in July 1974 to Warner Robins, Georgia and then disappeared on August 1, 1974. The day after the Anderson sisters disappeared, Knowles met Marjorie Howie, 49, in Atlantic Beach, Florida. He ended up in her apartment (it is not known if she invited him or was forced to take him) where he strangled her with a nylon stocking. He stole her television set, which he would later give to a former girlfriend. Near the end of August Knowles was in Musella, Georgia, and broke into the home of Kathie Sue Pierce, who was there with her 3-year-old son. He used a telephone cord to strangle her – he did not harm the child. On September 3, 1974, Knowles entered Scott’s Inn (a roadside pub near Lima, Ohio) where he met 32-year-old accountant executive for Ohio Power Company William Bates. The bartender, who knew Bates, recalled him and a young redheaded man having several drinks and leaving together. Bates’ wife reported him missing and police realised his car was missing too. Close to the bar, police found an abandoned Dodge Dart that they traced back to Alice Curtis. In October, the naked corpse of William Bates was found – he had been strangled and dumped in the woods. Now driving Bates’ car, Knowles moved on to a campground in Ely, Nevada. It was there, on September 18, 1974, that he bound and shot 2 elderly campers, Emmett and Lois Johnson. Because this murder seemed random it was a cold case until Knowles confessed, although he did use their credit cards for a short period to pay for his expenses.

On September 21, 1974, Knowles’ killing spree continued in Seguin, Texas, where he encountered strangled motorcyclist Charlynn Hicks. He abducted and raped her before strangling her with her own pantyhose. He dragged her body through a barbed-wire fence – it was discovered 4 days later. He then travelled to Birmingham, Alabama, where he met beautician Ann Dawson on September 23. It isn’t known whether he abducted her or she travelled with him willingly, but she did pay the bills while they travelled together until he killed her on September 29. Knowles claimed to have dumped her corpse in the Mississippi River, but it was never found. Knowles arrived in Marlborough, Connecticut in mid-October 1974, where his serial killings. He entered the house of Karen Wine and her daughter Dawn, 16, on October 16, where he bound and raped them before killing them with a nylon stocking. The only thing missing from the home seemed to be a tape recorder. By October 18, Knowles had travelled to Woodford, Virginia, where he broke into the house of Doris Hosey, 53, and shot her with her husband’s rifle before wiping the prints from the gun and placing it next to her body. Police found no signs of robbery to indicate a motive in the case. Still driving William Bates’ car, Knowles picked up 2 hitchhikers in Key West, Florida. He intended to kill them both but his plan went wrong when a police officer stopped him for a traffic violation. Not recognising Knowles, the officer let him off with a warning. Shaken, he dropped his potential victims off in Miami, Florida, and soon afterwards contacted his lawyer, who suggested Knowles surrender. He rejected this idea, but arranged a meeting with him that lasted just long enough to hand over a taped confession (made on the tape recorder stolen from Karen Wine’s home). He then left town before police noticed he was there. On November 6 in Milledgeville, Georgia, Knowles met Carswell Carr and was invited back to his home to spend the night. While sharing a drink, Knowles stabbed Carr to death and then strangled his 15-year-old daughter. After killing her, Knowles tried to have sex with her corpse, but was unsuccessful. After fleeing from Macon, Knowles was also suspected of the November 2 murder of hitchhiker Edward Hilliard, who was found in nearby woods, and his friend Debbie Griffin, whose body has never been found.

On November 8, while bar-hopping in Atlanta, Knowles met Sandy Fawkes, a British journalist – she was impressed by his “gaunt good looks”. The pair spent the night together, but according to Fawkes, he was repeatedly unable to perform when they tried to have sex. This suggests impotence when it came to willing companions. The 2 parted on November 10, but the next day Susan Mackenzie, an acquaintance of Fawkes’, was picked up by Knowles and he demanded sex from her at gunpoint. She escaped and reported the incident to police, but when patrolmen attempted to stop him, Knowles threatened them with a sawn-off shotgun and escaped. Days later, in West Palm Beach, Florida, Knowles broke into the home of disabled woman Beverly Mabee. He abducted her sister and stole their car. From there, he travelled to Fort Pierce, Florida and for reasons never discovered, he released his hostage unharmed. On the morning of November 17, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Eugene Campbell recognised the stolen car near Perry and tried to make an arrest, but after Knowles was pulled over he managed to wrestle the officer’s gun away from him. He took Campbell hostage and drove away in his patrol car, later using the sirens to stop James Meyer, a motorist, in order to ditch the Highway Patrol vehicle and continue his journey in a less noticeable one. Now with 2 hostages, Knowles took the men to a remote wooded area in Pulaski County, Georgia and handcuffed them to a tree. He shot each of them in the head at close range. Shortly afterwards Knowles tried to drive through a police roadblock in Henry County, Georgia, but lost control of the car and crashed into a tree. He escaped on foot and shot at officers pursuing on foot. A chaotic chase ensued, with Knowles being followed by dogs, law enforcement officers from multiple agencies, and helicopters. Knowles was finally cornered by an armed civilian with a shotgun a few miles from the search area, who took Knowles to a nearby home where he called police. Knowles was outside the perimeter given for the manhunt and would have escaped without the actions of this man. Once in custody, Knowles claimed responsibility for 35 murders, but only 20 were ever confirmed.

On December 18, 1974, Sheriff Earl Lee and Agent Ronnie Angel from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were driving down Interstate 20 with Knowles handcuffed in the back. They were en route to Henry County, Georgia, where Knowles had admitted to ditching a handgun he had taken from Florida State Trooper Charles Eugene Campbell, later killing him with it. The SBI reported: “Knowles grabbed Lee’s handgun, discharging it through the holster in the process and while Lee was struggling with Knowles and attempting to keep control of the vehicle, Angel fired three shots into Knowles’ chest, killing him instantly.”

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Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene

In 2018, 23-year-old Jorge Molina was arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of killing another man. Police in Avondale, Arizona, about 20 miles from Phoenix, held Molina for questioning. According to a police report, officers told him they knew “one hundred percent, without a doubt” his phone was at the scene of the crime, based on data from Google. In fact, Molina wasn’t there. He’d simply lent an old phone to the man police later arrested. The phone was still signed into his Google account.

The information about Molina’s phone came from a geofence warrant, a relatively new and increasingly popular investigative technique police use to track suspects’ locations. Traditionally, police identify a suspect, then issue a warrant to search the person’s home or belongings.

Geofence warrants work in reverse: Police start with a time and location, and request data from Google or another tech company about the devices in the area at the time. The companies then typically supply anonymous data on the devices in the area. Police use their own investigative tools to narrow down this list. Then they may ask for more specific information—often an email address or a name of the account holder—for a phone on the narrower list.

Critics say the process is an invasion of privacy, often subjecting many people to an unconstitutional search. Now, in a rare step, two judges have denied requests for geofence warrants and questioned whether they complied with Fourth Amendment protections for searches. Lawmakers and activists see the court opinions as steps toward a potential ban on the practice.

“This is as clear as day a fishing expedition that violates people's basic constitutional rights,” says New York state assemblymember Dan Quart. Earlier this year, Quart and state senator Zellnor Myrie introduced bills that would prevent authorities from using data gathered from geofence warrants. “It should never be used in a courtroom.”

Though relatively new, the practice is becoming increasingly common. Google reported a 1,500 percent increase in requests in 2018 compared with 2017. The New York Times reported the company received as many as 180 requests per week last year. Privacy experts tell WIRED that it isn't just Google. Apple, Uber, and Snapchat have all received similar requests.

“This is a tactic that really can be targeted at literally any company,” says Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit civil liberties organization. The New York legislation would bar law enforcement from obtaining location data from tech companies or any of the nameless data brokers collecting the data from seemingly innocuous apps. The legislation would also prevent law enforcement from bypassing geofence warrants and buying location data directly, as the Secret Service did, a Vice report uncovered.

“This is as clear as day a fishing expedition that violates people's basic constitutional rights.”

Dan Quart, New York state assemblymember

“This exact same data can be gathered by all sorts of commercial data brokers using the free apps on our phone,” Cahn says. “Police can potentially use them to get the exact same information as when they send a warrant to Google.”

Google itself has raised questions about the practice. Lawyers for Okello Chatrie, a suspect in a Virginia bank robbery, are questioning the legality of a geofence warrant that led to Chatrie’s arrest. Google declined to take a position on his case but, in an amicus brief, called a geofence request "an uniquely broad search of all Google users' timelines."

Quart, the New York state lawmaker, says geofence warrants are impermissibly broad and can gather data about bystanders. “I could easily see how a reverse search warrant could be used against protesters to violate people's First Amendment rights.”

“Police have no idea how many people's information is going to be captured,” Cahn says. “They don't know if it's one person or a thousand people. And the judges who are asked to approve these requests, they don't have enough information to actually make an informed decision.”

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Soon to be Lost - The Rohe & Brothers Building, 527-531 West 36th Street

photograph by Renee Stanley

In 1872 the massive Manhattan Market opened on New York's West Side.  Engulfing the block between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, from 34th and 35th Streets, it was the largest market building in the world--offering fresh meats (a butchery was on site), fish and produce.  It was a welcomed neighbor for Rohe & Brother, which had erected its sprawling provision packing house and lard refinery at No. 533 through 541 West 36th Street two years earlier.  Simultaneously an architecturally matching warehouse and stables building had been erected on West 35th Street.

Although a block apart, the main plant (center) and the warehouse (left) were designed to match. from the collection of the Library of Congress

In 1897 The National Provisioner noted that the packing and refinery property "has been added to a number of times...The building is a substantial one of brick, and extends from 533-543 West Thirty-sixth street, to 534-540 West Thirty-seventh street.  The abattoir [butchery] is located at the foot of Fortieth Street, North River, and occupies four lots."  Charles Rohe had died in 1888 and his son, Charles, Jr., became a member of the firm.  Charles Sr.'s other son, Julius, by now supervised the packing house and the manufacturing of goods.  Florian's sons, Albert and Oswald Rohe, worked in the store and main office.

Florian Rohe as he appeared in 1897.  The National Provisioner, January 30, 1897 (copyright expired)

The National Provisioner noted that "the secret of the success of Rohe & Bro. is the splendid business ability which characterizes its movements and the bond of fraternity which exists between employees and employers."  The Rohes recognized the importance of good employee relations and a contented staff.   A separate article in the journal reported on the 11th annual employee ball.  Many, if not most, of the factory workers were German immigrants and the event was a brilliant change to their day-to-day lives.  "The entire office staff of the house of Rohe & Bro., from the office boy to their traveler and salesman, was present, while the large force of employees, numbering many hundreds, together with their wives and sweethearts, were delighted participants in the night's proceedings, all actuated by a loyal regard for the interests of the firm." On January 19, 1898, The Butchers' Advocate and Market Journal reported that year's ball, held in the Lexington Avenue Opera House.  "When the orchestra, led by Professor Rode, started the grand march, about 300 couples were on the floor, and these quickly fell in behind Mr. Albert Rohe and wife, who led the army of gay marchers through a series of evolutions more beautiful than any ever seen before in this city." Two months later, on March 5, the Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide reported that George D. Bogert had sold the "old buildings" at Nos. 527 through 531 West 36th Street to Rohe & Brother for $24,750; just under $860,000 today.  The property abutted the main lard refinery and packing plant and The New York Times noted "the buyer will erect a factory on the site." That would not happen, however, until 1902.  On March 29 that year The National Provisioner reported "Rohe & Brother now have their specifications in for their new packing house at 527-531 West 36th Street."  The firm had hired the architectural firm of Werner & Windolph to design the structure, which was projected to cost about $1.8 million in today's money. Somewhat surprising was the architectural style of the new two-story addition.  It may have been that Charles Rohe (his uncle, Florian, was deceased by now) directed Werner & Windolph to match the old factory; or perhaps the architects themselves chose to meld the two.  Either way, the design, out of style for years, seamlessly carried on the design of the 1870 Rohe & Brother building.  Only the delicate corbel table that ran below the cornice broke ranks with the original structure. Upon the building's completion the Rohes incorporated "the packinghouse firm of Rohe & Brothers," as reported in Industrial Refrigeration in April 1903.  The article mentioned "The company will do a general meat packing business."  It was an interesting and unusual move.  By 1908 there were three corporation names.  Charles was listed as head of Rohe & Brother;  Albert as head of Rohe Bros.; and William of Rohe & Bro.  All three, legally separate firms, were listed as "large refiners and provisions." The sons of the firm's founders never abandoned its interest in employee contentedness.  On June 29, 1904 The Butchers' Advocate and Market Journal reported on the employee summer outing at Bachmann's Pavilion on Staten Island.  "How those Rohe & Brothers' employees did enjoy themselves!  They danced and bowled and ran races and absorbed the product of Mr. Bachmann with a strenuousness that would make a lazy man tired just to look at." The two-story building at Nos. 527-531 held the company's offices.  Working past nightfall could be risky, given the sketchy Hell's Kitchen location and that threat came to pass on the night of January 22, 1913.  The Elmira Star-Gazette reported "Five men dashed up to Rohe & Brothers' wholesale meats, provisions and oils plant at 527-531 West 36th street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, last night in a taxicab and at the point of revolvers held back two inside and two outside employees of the firm."  The Morning Call of Patterson, New Jersey entitled its article "Wild West Game in New York" and began "The west side of Manhattan, where automobile holdups and robberies are not by any means unknown, experienced last night its most spectacular Wild West holdup and robbery about 7:30 o'clock."

Charles Rohe, Jr. was the principal of the firm following Florian Rohe's death. Empire State Notables, 1914 (copyright expired) 

While the employees were held at gunpoint, one of the robbers jumped over the wire cashier's cage and snatched up $700 in cash, a considerable $18,300 today.  The gang escape in the waiting taxicab and although the four employees rushed out in pursuit, they were unable to get the license plate number in the darkness.  The Elmira Star-Gazette said "None of the employees could give much of a description of the robbers, further than that all were 'tough looking,' and all wore caps." In 1914 Rohe & Brother was, according to Chicago's The Day Book, the "largest New York provision packer."  The firm was, for instance, the major United States exporter of lard to Venezuela.   In 1930 the Rohes sold off all the firm's property in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood except for Nos. 527-531 West 36th Street.  The Sun explained on May 6 that year that the building was still used as Rohe & Brother's executive offices.  But that would not last long, either. Architect William H. Fuhrer renovated the building in 1936 for the bottling plant of milk dealer Hershey Farms, Inc.   It was run by Max Doner, who chose not to use union employees for its delivery drivers.  It was a daring decision at a time when unions used strong-arm tactics to force businesses to comply with their demands.

A 1940 tax photograph reveals the ground floor changes for Hersey Farms, including an architecturally disparate pedimented entrance.  The main Rohe & Brother plant has been demolished.  photo via NYC Department of Records & Information Services.

On March 19, 1942 nine labor leaders, involved with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America, Local 445, were indicted on extortion.   The New York State prosecutor charged that between December 1935 and November 1940 the defendants "feloniously, wrongfully, willfully and extorsively obtained the sum of $7,125.00" from Max Doner "by the wrongful use of force and fear induced by threats" to injure both him personally and the property of Hershey Farms, and to induce strikes. Hershey Farms remained here until 1959 when the building was once again renovated, this time for a storage warehouse.  In 1970 it was converted for use by Scheuman Lumber.   A later occupant was Steven & Francine's Complete Automotive Repair Inc. who shared the building with its owner, the Convention Center Hardware & Supplies, LLC.  By 2012 the once gritty district had been discovered by developers and the upscale Hudson Yards project, formerly unthinkable, was on the table.   The old Rohe & Brother  building sat within the four-acre Hudson Park and Boulevard project--Phase II of the larger Hudson Yards development.

The buildings at the right of this photo have all been demolished, stranding the Rohe & Brothers building as in a wasteland.  photo via Commercial Observer, November 2012.

Faced with eventual eminent domain Convention Center Hardware and Supplies placed it on the market in November 2012 for $10 million. Any architectural historian who might pass the vacant and boarded up building today would date its construction at around 1870; not knowing that its anachronistic design was based on its 32-year old next-door neighbor.  But they would have to be quick.  The unlikely survivor has a short life expectancy. many thanks to Renee Stanley for prompting this post

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2019/05/soon-to-be-lost-rohe-brothers-building.html

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Made on the Inside, Worn on the Outside

In the U.S., the Bureau of Prisons operates a program known as Federal Prison Industries that pays inmates roughly 90 cents an hour to produce mattresses, eyeglasses, road signs, body armor and other products for government agencies, earning $500 million in sales in 2016. Carcel, a Danish clothing brand founded in 2016 specifically to provide incarcerated women with jobs, training and, possibly, a crime-free future,  introduced a new line of silk garments produced from women’s jails in Thailand. Some argue that it’s socially irresponsible to rely on cheap prison labor rather than regular laborers. Is it (1) socially responsible or (2) socially irresponsible, to rely on prison labor for making clothing? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

In a lush valley surrounded by the Peruvian Andes — past two sets of security gates, high fences, barbed wire and a rigorous pat-down — 13 women stood hard at work. They were weaving and knitting luxurious alpaca wool sweaters, deep-pile roll-necks and silky-soft track pants, destined to be sold to wealthy shoppers with lives far away, and a far cry, from their own.

All were prisoners at the women’s penitentiary center in the city of Cusco, serving long sentences predominantly for drug-related crimes as well as murder, human trafficking and robbery. They were also employees of Carcel, a Danish brand founded in 2016 specifically to provide incarcerated women with jobs, training and, possibly, a crime-free future.

More than two years into their program, both Carcel’s founders and the Peruvian prison authorities say the project has been a measurable success. It’s popular with prisoners and consumers alike and proof that the profitable and responsible production of luxury fashion can have a place behind bars.

Peru is becoming something of a case study on the issue of aid versus exploitation. A little more than 5,000 women are currently incarcerated there, and over 50 percent are actively employed in producing leather goods, clothing and textiles, according to INPE, the national penitentiary institute.

Yet questions around the ethics of prison labor and regulation have also made headlines of late. There have been reports of Muslims incarcerated in brutal Chinese internment camps producing sportswear apparel, and strikes against imposed labor for paltry wages in American prisons. This month, tensions flared on social media when Carcel introduced a new line of silk garments produced from women’s jails in Thailand.

“Companies are literally advertising that they use slave labor now as a reason you should buy their product,” one person wrote on Twitter, prompting a chorus of outrage from hundreds.

“Your ‘sustainable business model’ includes the need for women to be in prisons,” another user wrote, followed by a slew of confused-face emojis. The more Carcel posted explanations on its practices, payment models and prices, the angrier the online responses became.

The long history of fashion and prison

“Prison labor is a very complicated and opaque topic,” said Peter McAllister, the executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, an alliance of companies, trade unions and nongovernmental organizations that back workers’ rights.

“On one hand, there are definitely well-intentioned brands with rehabilitation programs in place doing some good work all over the world,” he said. “On the other hand, there are big questions to be asked around whether inmates should ever form the mainstream production of a profit-driven label, particularly given how many unacceptable cases of prisoner exploitation exist deep in the global fashion supply chain.”

Fashion has a long-established history in prisons, dating back to the 1700s. Traditionally, most manufacturing programs in countries like the United States or Britain were run either by government bodies or correctional boards in order to mass-produce low-value items at scale, like military uniforms. Inmates received well below the minimum wage, if anything at all. In the 1990s, with a record number of people behind bars in many countries, there was a boom in private companies employing prisoners for tasks as varied as telemarketing, the manufacturing of circuit boards, and garment production for brands like Victoria’s Secret and J.C. Penney.

Today, in Britain, the average prisoner engaged in some kind of employment earns around £10 a week, a government report from 2016 found. In the United States, the value of prison labor to the economy continues to add up — though not for inmates. The Bureau of Prisons operates a program known as Federal Prison Industries that pays inmates roughly 90 cents an hour to produce mattresses, eyeglasses, road signs, body armor and other products for government agencies, earning $500 million in sales in 2016.

The made-behind-bars trend

One product subcategory in particular has been gaining international traction in recent years: small, street trend-oriented brands selling clothing made by inmates, like Prison Blues in the United States, Stripes Clothing in the Netherlands and Pietà, another Peru-based label. All claim they can create a profitable and sustainable business model while also providing new jobs and opportunities for prisoners.

Pietà was founded in Lima in 2012 by Thomas Jacob, a Frenchman who had once worked for Chanel, and currently employs around 50 male and female inmates from some of the largest jails in Peru. Prisoners manufacture anti-establishment logo T-shirts, sweatshirts, hand-knit sweaters, varsity jackets and high-top sneakers using locally sourced materials. Prices range from $8 for tote bags to $120 for jewelry.

“There are a lot of men and women in jail very far from the image you may have of inmates, who just want to get by, to learn a skill, to work, to earn money,” said Mr. Jacob, who has opened five Pietà stores in the Peruvian capital and says he is considering an international expansion.

“Of course there are major challenges, from security issues and logistics in a high-security jail to brokering relationships with prison administrations and between inmates,” he said. “But we are used to it all now.”

Inmates don’t just make the clothes, he said — on occasion they also contribute to his designs, giving them both a creative outlet and training. Often, they act as models for advertising campaigns and are paid a portion of the sale price for each unit of clothing they produce, providing income they can send home to their families. Upon release, former inmates can continue working with Pietà, or seek jobs at other companies with Pietà’s recommendation and support.

Louise van Hauen and Veronica D’Souza, the founders of Carcel (which means “prison” in Spanish), met while living and working in Kenya. The former was a creative manager at a leather bag company and the latter was the head of a social start-up that made and distributed menstrual cups.

Ms. D’Souza said a visit to a women’s prison in Kenya in 2014 changed her thinking. “It became clear to me that virtually all of the inmates were mothers who were there because of poverty-related crimes, be it theft or prostitution. The same applies here in Peru,” she said. As part of the drug-production chain in Latin America, cocaine paste must be transported from crop areas in remote parts of the country by drug mules. Many are women, and often, they are nonviolent, first-time offenders. According to INPE, 85 percent have children to support at home.

“Often these women get incarcerated, then released, but struggle to find ways to provide for their children, and the crime cycle would start all over again,” Ms. D’Souza said. “The system was clearly broken. It got me thinking about how we could create a new model that might break the cycle.”

Ms. van Hauen said she wanted to start somewhere with proximity to high-quality natural materials, where some of the skills required were already part of local culture.

“As one of the world’s largest alpaca wool exporters, and a country where knitting is a national pastime, Peru was perfect,” she said. Instead of designing streetwear, though, she and Ms. D’Souza decided to focus on the luxury end of the market.

“Historically, lots of brands have struggled to make a profit or scale because of the low quality of product or design,” Ms. van Hauen said. By having inmates create goods of higher value, the thinking goes, the products have better retail viability and healthier profit margins — and the women hone a more worthwhile skill set.

Virginia Matamoros, the director of Cusco Female Penitentiary, said that the prison offered basic training in sewing, weaving, baking and gardening to all new inmates with the hope that they can then move on to working with companies that can prepare them for release.

“We accepted Carcel because it is an organized, formal company that works with good salaries and which has subsequently pushed the other companies that operate here to improve their pay rates and work schedule,” she said. Ms. Matamoros added that increased access to work opportunities could lessen the likelihood of recidivism. “More than anything, it is extremely positive for their self-esteem,” she said.

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HCC Trustees meet tonight, SC makes goal for Mabee match, Inman Foundation match day and other news

A light agenda awaits Hutchinson Community College Trustees tonight... in addition to personnel matters, the board will consider declaration of surplus property, hear strategic planning and grant status reports, consider bids for removal of the old greenhouse at south campus and for a couple of purchases, and conduct an executive session on negotiations.

Sterling College announced today it has met a two million dollar challenge grant from the Mabee Foundation in support of the Sterling Now Capital Campaign. To receive the grant the college had to raise at least 20 million dollars in gifts and pledges... With the Mabee grant Sterling College has now raised 23 million dollars of Sterling Now’s 25 million dollar goal which will provide funding for upgrading science and academic facilities, renovation and expansion of the Gleason Physical Education Center and growing the college’s endowment. Over 1800 individual pledges have been received for the campaign, including a 600 thousand dollar gift from the Sunderland Foundation

The Inman Community Foundation is having its 4th annual Match Day Thursday from 7 AM to 1 PM at the Inman Community Building in Lambert Park. Donations of 25 dollars or more to nine component funds of the foundation will be matched from a pool of six thousand dollars from the foundation with additional contributions from Prairie Bank of Kansas, Peoples Bank and Trust and Jim’s Appliances. Funds getting support from Match Day including the Inman Public Library, Inman Senior Center, Inman Arts Council, The Inman Museum, Inman Education and Parks and Recreation Funds, the Medical Assistance Fund, the Inman Needs Fund, and ICF’s Unrestricted Grants Fund. Donations can also be made online between 7 am and 6 PM at www.inmancommunityfoundation.com/donate.

Trash rates are going up in McPherson starting the first of the year. City Commissioners Tuesday approved a resolution passing on an about 3.5 percent increase in charges from the McPherson Area Solid Waste Utility... this will increase the base monthly residential charge by 38 cents, to 17.08 a month.

A Hutchinson man convicted to embezzling some 145 thousand dollars from a Kechi Company where he was comptroller was sentenced to 60 days in federal prison Wedenesday. Richard H. Yust was also ordered to pay pull restitution to F&H Insulation Sales and Service for his guilty plea to one court of wire fraud. At the time of the plea, Yust admitted using company credit cards for personal purchases. Once he does his 60 days, Yust will be on three year’s supervised release.

A Hutchinson man was found guilty Wednesday of three robberies and one attempted robbery last year. Jeffrey Howell was convicted of three counts of aggravated robbery involving holdup of a Kwik Shop, a Subway, and a dog grooming business between August and October 2017, the attempted aggravated robbery of a person in the parking lot of a Dillons store. Howell was identified as a suspect based on his walk as seen in a video at one of the businesses. and two counts of kidnapping for forcing two women at the Subway at knifepoint into a back room. Sentencing for Howell, who was not present at trial after the court granted a motion allowing him to not be there based on potential prejudicial behavior, will be November 16th.

The Reno County Museum opens the first of a series of Hutch Heroes tonight at 6:30. The first exhibit honoring the Hutchinson Fire Department will feature an assortment of artifacts from the museum collection, and loaned items from HFD and retired firefighters. Tonight's opening will also feature old and new fire apparatus, and Sparky the Fire Dog will be on hand to meet the kids.

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Massachusetts Credit Union to Provide Banking Services for Cannabis Companies

Adam Drury of High Times Reports:

Massachusetts’ retail cannabis market is perhaps a week or two away. For Massachusetts’ cannabis consumers and business owners, the official start of retail sales has been a long time coming. For regulators and law enforcement, however, several major concerns remain unsettled. Chief among them is the well-known and oft-cited “cash problem,” the lack of access to federally-backed financial services that forces cannabis businesses to be cash-only operations. But swooping in like some deus ex machina less than a week before the Cannabis Control Commission is likely to greenlight the state’s first retail operation, one Massachusetts credit union will provide some key banking services to cannabis companies in the recreational sector.

Credit Union Services Could Get Millions in Cash Off The Streets

The Boston Globe is reporting that GFA Federal Credit Union, a federally chartered small credit union, will provide banking and financial management services to Massachusetts cannabis companies. The announcement makes GFA the first financial institution in the state to open its doors to the retail cannabis industry and comes after more than a year of preparations and research into making it work.

“We’re looking at cannabis business as a legitimate business that wants to be recognized as such and that, without banking services, presents a tremendous public safety issue in our communities,” GFA’s chief executive Tina Sbrega told the Globe. Beginning October 1, GFA will offer cash management, checking accounts, payroll, wire transfers and bill payments.

Those key services could help get millions of dollars in cash off the streets. And for that reason, public safety and law enforcement agencies are praising GFA’s initiative. “Public safety-wise, this is a home run,” said John Carmicheal, Walpole’s chief of police and a member of Massachusetts’ Cannabis Advisory Board. Typically trenchant in their opposition to adult-use legalization, Massachusetts police have consistently expressed their support for bank involvement.

Indeed, giving cannabis companies access to banks gives officials oversight and the ability to monitor transactions between licensed businesses. That, in turn, makes fraud, tax evasion and black market diversion easier to spot. Beyond that, it makes the entire industry and consumers safer; a cash-only operation is much more susceptible to robbery.

Are Small Banks The Answer To The Cannabis Cash Problem?

But law enforcement aren’t the only ones nodding their approval of GFA’s move. Massachusetts regulators and the industry are also feeling relieved that financial services will be available. Banking services don’t just make it easier for customers to buy cannabis with plastic. They also reduce overhead and risk for the businesses. Handling cash transactions is time consuming and expensive on top of the logistics of covering business expenses like payroll.

Despite these benefits, however, most major banks have been hesitant to do business with state-legal cannabis companies. Federal marijuana prohibition presents some serious risks to financial institutions backed by the government. But GFA isn’t one of those massive institutions. It’s a credit union with about $500 million in assets. Both of those qualities mean GFA is unlikely to face an enforcement action from the federal government. It also means its business with cannabis companies won’t put existing clients and investments at risk.

Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commissioner chairman Steve Hoffman hopes more banks and credit unions will follow GFA’s lead. It’s not a bad idea. Smaller financial institutions could step up where larger firms are so far holding back, says Colorado-based Safe Harbor, a company that helps financial institutions work with cannabis businesses.

Could small banks be the answer to the cannabis industry’s cash problem? GFA is optimistic they can be. But they’re starting cautiously. The credit union will only contract with 15 to 20 cannabis companies in the first year. It also won’t offer loans to small cannabis businesses, raising concerns about equity in an industry already dominated by large firms. GFA is assuring prospective clients that it won’t favor large, already-established firms over smaller, newer companies.

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The GTA 5 Online

GTA four is without doubt one of the most anticipated video games from the GTA series. One of the causes for this are the good Teaser's put up by Rockstar Video games. Rockstar gta 5 Video games has finally released GTA four however which has come out not only as a game, but an enormous on the earth of leisure. But what is so particular about it?

Crucial and most important thing of the GTA world.

You can nearly do something. And this time Rockstar Games has added tones of recent things together with TELEVISION channels ...sure TELEVISION channels ...now players can access eighty totally different channels. And one other factor Websites too... one hundred sixty of them. In it the player may also use the mobile phone to entry text messages, arranging conferences and for the first time can name 911 for help or reporting one thing (Be good for once at least ?) However the factor that makes GTA 4 distinctive is that Rockstar Video games has included wealthy vivid details in all the pieces.

The second characteristic of this game is the Natural Motion's Euphoria engine. This is the first time it's being used in a Rockstar Sport too. This improves the civilian's Synthetic intelligence to a whole new level. And it turns the GTA world into a a lot actual world. And for the naughty ones on the market .... The civilians now do inform the police unusual actions and robberies etc...So this will increase the challenge for you too.

The third thing is the brand new real looking automotive system. Now the vehicles won't be accessible for the standard sit and drive technique. Now the avid gamers must scorching wire them instead...oohhh Tasty! The vehicles also have GPS techniques which can assist with navigation. The radio craze is back with 18 totally different stations offering a lot of genres to take heed to. And the racing freaks on the market ....can burn some rubber in three modes of racing in GTA four. Now the player can himself call a taxi to go some the place.

The subsequent characteristic ......hmmm....you might be pondering what concerning the preventing and stuff. So yes GTA four has developed an superior combating engine. Now you may blind fire, lock on and free purpose too. It additionally includes cool reduce scene killing at certain points. The combat system has been changed to a third person view now. In automobile taking pictures may also be obtainable too. For online customers this will be the grand feast. At one time as much as sixteen gamers can play online.

The video game entitled Grand Theft Auto 4 was developed by Rockstar North. The GTA IV, as it is also recognized by that title is an motion adventure game. This is the ninth one over a total of 9 collection of the Grand Theft Auto games. GTA San Andreas was the one which got here before GTA IV.

It's in the month of April of 2008 when the sport GTA IV was released with versions of Xbox and PlayStation 3. The game was released in America and Europe in that release date. Nonetheless, it was on October 30, 2008 when the game was also launched in Japan. On December 2, 2008, the game was ultimately launched in the Windows version.

Studying extra in regards to the game, it was in this fictitious Liberty city the Grand Theft Auto 4 recreation was set. The version of the city available in this recreation is different and utterly redesigned compared to the earlier video games. It was from the real life New York and different things that go on in the city where the town attracts its inspiration.

A conflict veteran Niko Bellic is the protagonist of the game. What we only find out about him is that he's from some nation in Jap Europe as a result of his country is not specified.

It is in the quest for the American Dream why this man comes to America. Within the city, nevertheless, he will get caught up in seedy dealings and affairs with the underworld. Every sort of vice that you can think of akin to corruption, murder, and many others. are discovered in the metropolis. He's unable to come out of when he gets pulled right into a internet of crimes and gangs.

Whereas enjoying this sport, you'll be able to endure a diverse variety of experiences akin to being a primary particular person shooter, a 3rd person shooter, and you'll journey your automotive and what not, the great part of the game. What I'm speaking about is familiar to those who have performed a few of the variations of Grand Theft Auto.

It is an "open-world" gameplay which allows the players an immense amount of hold over the playing expertise.

That is actually the gaming experience that can be attained by any participant of Grand Theft Auto 4. The game is also accessible online with a a number of participant mode. With your friends across the globe, you'll all certainly benefit from the sport for its mode has about fifteen sport types.

This can be a sport ever developed that broke all data of the gaming business main Grand Theft Auto 4 as a significant crucial success. Anyone can guess how huge a industrial success the sport is after it was sold about greater than four million on the first day of launch.

When landing in Canada in the Higher Toronto Area and its vicinity at Mississauga, Markham, Hamilton Burlington, or Brampton Airport, it is wise to make reservations for a taxi online before you land. Some people have a really dangerous expertise ready for a taxi and should sometimes await as a lot as two to 3 hours.

Executives conducting enterprise on the go will just like the fairly environment of a limo where they can make business phone calls, have meetings with business purchasers, or work on their laptops. You will get the Meet and Greet companies of a dependable airport limo and taxi service and make your Airport Transfers with ease between Mississauga, Markham, Hamilton Burlington, and Brampton Airport.

After a tiring flight it's good to treat your self good to a limo experience to your Toronto vacation spot. When you land and are available out of the flight arrival space, the screened chauffer will meet you and help you along with your luggage, so no more carrying heavy masses. Your booked taxi or limousine will be parked in a designated space while your aircraft lands. Child seats can be requested ahead of time to ensure your youngsters travel secure.

Whenever you want to buy one thing on the best way, your personal chauffer will drive you to the shop avoiding areas that have to be averted especially at sure instances of the day. These chauffeurs know the city properly and can help make your Toronto expertise a memorable one. You can find them informative and courteous, so get some sightseeing and shopping hints on the best way.

Passengers who don't book a taxi on-line have to line up with different passengers within the ready area to get a taxi. Reserving a taxi forward of time will guarantee the primary few hours of your Toronto experience are stress free and comfy. Instead of wasting time searching for a taxi you can be exploring the tourist factors of town which may be of interest to you.

The most important up to date is on the Grand Theft Auto V, set for launch next week. This is among the reasons why there's a a lot anticipated on-line heist, and other people logging into the site to see if it is already on the release. Many people have waited for this sport for the reason that firm unfold stared asserting it easier and many fanatics can not wait to get the copy.

What can gamers expect?

There are completely different each day targets that you should know, and this shall provide the players a sequence of different challenges. You've gotten the chance of completing the roles, or get the free street for the in game cash. These are the aims that you will want to do day by day. Eventually, in case you are successful you're going to get the reward. This may embrace the Rock star stacking challenges, and you may make greater than $500000 for the challenges.

The activities

The free roam is bolstered with a set of different actions, which include the only players video games characters. There are contact players, who will destruct the police in an effort to keep the legal colleagues secure. There are different new actions within the game and it consists of Lamar giving directions to gamers to get rid of automobiles, and other staff leaders asking help in destroying the planes which can be within the air.

Modes of the sport

There are three new modes of the game. The new PvP modes are very a lot impressed by the terminator 2, and you will note the striking resemblance. They embody

? Come out to play

? Siege mentality

? Hasta la vista

Come out and play mode

On this mode, there are three runners, who need to make it home but there's a staff of hunters on their tail. They should run, in an effort to get to their vacation spot, and keep away from the shotguns and motorbikes of the hunters. The runners even have entry to weapons to trample the bikers, and it's all about survival for the fittest

The siege mentality

On this mode, a group of about 4 players will stand on their floor, and they are outnumbered however not out gunned. They battle to survive many attacks, and they are in a location, which has a defense mode, within the GTA type setting. The attackers have a group of unlimited weapons, and the defenders have entry to use all manner of weapons accessible.

The Hasta La Vista mode

On this section, the prospect is on, and the Truckers are on the hunt for the Cyclists. The purpose of the bicycle owner is to succeed in the ultimate checking point without being run down, or crushed underneath the wheels of the pursing automobiles. The Truckers only use their automobiles to crash the cyclists, and the cyclists must concentrate on acceleration, and maneuverability to keep their bikes on the proper path.

Woow! Taking part in online automotive racing games is admittedly turning the gaming scene up a notch. Back within the day, with the correct old style computers, such as the commodore sixty four (now the age is exhibiting), to get multi-participant you had to kind of, have a cable guy join the computer systems collectively to have the ability to play in multi-participant mode. Like 2 gamers.

Take a look at what you can do now if you're taking part in online automobile racing games. You've obtained all kinds of choices: tuning your automobile, racing face to face or competing in all kinds of road races.

Road races that are actuallybased on maps as well.

... Not simply designed specifically for a racing game.

It is not even just your desktop LAPTOP you can play the games on.Gaming consoles just like the Xbox 360, permits you to go browsing through your console and race towards any participant, wherever in the world.

Wireless steering wheels are available as nicely for some consoles, so you possibly can sit and play on-line automotive racing video games, without the hassles of getting wires all snarled. Avoiding shedding your concentration and ending up dropping the game, once you used to have to type the wires out and end up going head on right into a wall. Off the cliff edges and all kinds of loopy stuff that make the awesomeness of racing games.

With various challenges, race choices and customization jobs, it's no marvel there's so could video games to choose from.

Not simply racing either.

There's all out action games, that you simply want to be able to drive fast in case you are to evade being captured by the regulation on your racing antics. Video games like GTA, the place you may up to all kinds of mischief, nick a automobile and outrun the regulation.

Then there's automobile capturing games, where you need to maintain your pace whereas trying to take out your opponent.

That's nice if you're playing the part of a cop chasing the fugitives. Doing whatever you want to hunt them down, while attempting to blow out their tyres and produce them to a stop.

For the brand new period of gaming, the Xbox 360 appears to have hit the nail on the top with the choice of logging on.

Automotive racing video games are glorious when you're racing in actual time and it is amazing to suppose that you would be able to bounce on the web anytime you need and have the ability to race an actual opponent as an alternative of a programmed computer.

In fact, there is not any need to be saying in regards to the difference between the web automobile racing games expertise you get, while you play through a contemporary games console, compared with some of the free on-line automobile racing video games you'll find across the net.

Some of them are just a sheer waste of time and embarrassment to the developers. The graphics are sub-par, the customization is non-existent and there's very little you are able to do to make the race your personal.

It is all about enjoying the interplay of the modern gaming, with enhanced graphics, customized engine tuning, real time reporting of injury standing and naturally, some video games like "Need for Velocity", lets you run your races, collect the points based mostly in your driving ability and add all kinds of enhancements to your automotive.

Letting you add on super energy boosters that will amp as a lot speed as doable, guaranteeing that once you take that automotive out the storage for the subsequent race, you may kick your opponents to the curb with an superior avenue car and work your way up the profession modes some games have and be crowned the quickest driver on the web.

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Phone Scams Involving Gifts Cards That You Should Look Out For

People love gift cards because of the convenience and flexibility they offer. Unfortunately, those same features also make gift cards very appealing to phone scammers. These scammers purposely target the most vulnerable people in society including seniors. These days, scamming people over the phone is big business. It’s estimated that Americans lost over $7.4 billion through scams in just the past year. Phone scams can often be very convincing and the scammers on the other end of the line work hard to convince a person that time is running out in order to catch them off guard.

Luckily, a little education can go a long way in protecting yourself and your loved ones from gift card scams. Learn about some of the common gift card scams below and share this blog with your friends and family to ensure that no one is taken advantage of.

Family Member in Distress

This type of scam is designed to tug at the heartstrings of family members and make them act quickly without thinking. Scammers will use social media to research the people they wish to target. Often, they don’t need much more than a name and some other basic info in order to execute their scam. Then, the scammer will use that information and phone a family member, claiming to be the person they have researched and asking for help. Some of the common stories they will tell involved an incident while traveling. The scammer may say that their belongings have been stolen and they need a gift card to be able to purchase supplies. Sometimes the situation is even more urgent where the scammer claims the family member has been taken hostage or arrested and needs to pay off their captor with a gift card.

The best way to protect against this is to hang up and call the family member that the scammer was pretending to be. It is very likely the person is not even traveling and may just be sitting at home watching television. In some cases, it may be helpful to have a code word that you can use on the phone with family members in cases where you may actually need to ask for money or gift cards. However, strange situations involving kidnapping, arrests, or robbery should immediately throw up red flags. Do not allow yourself to be tricked into acting too quickly and sending a gift card code over the phone.

Pay Off Your Taxes

This scam will often pop up around tax season. Scammers will phone potential victims and claim to be from a tax collection agency like the IRS. They will explain that a tax balance is due and it needs to be paid immediately or else there will be additional fines or jail time. Again, this scam follows the pattern of forcing people into acting urgently without stopping to think. The scammer will direct people to purchase gift cards to a popular store or retailer in order to pay off their balance. Once these gift card codes have been sent, the scam is complete.

There are some general rules to keep in mind when tax season rolls around to help avoid gift card scams, or any other tax scam for that matter. First, tax collectors will rarely ever contact you by phone to notify you of a balance due. Typically this type of information is sent by mail.

Second, you cannot pay your taxes by using gift cards, period. You could sell gift cards for cash and then use the cash to pay your taxes but that is not what the scammers ask for. They want the actual balance of your gift card and will usually direct you to purchase a specific type of gift card. Finally, if a tax collector does phone you, ask them for their name and return phone number. You can go to the tax agencies’ website and confirm the correct phone number. This is a common security practice and the tax collector will have no issue with you taking the time to verify their information. If they are being urgent, pushy, and rude, then the chances are that they are trying to scam you.

Home Security System

Everyone loves getting a great deal but if the deal sounds too good to be true then it probably is. In the home security system scam, a caller will offer a free home security system if the victim buys a gift card. The home security system is usually given a very high value and scammers will often pretend to be calling from a major home security company. The scammer will direct people to buy a gift card online and read the code to them over the phone to verify that the gift card has been activated for this reward. Once that gift card code has been read over the phone, the gift card balance is stolen, leaving the victim with nothing.

Just like the above scams, this scam will attempt to create urgency. The scammer will claim this is a limited time offer and that there are only a few home security systems available in your area. They will do anything to stop you from hanging up the phone. If a business is offering a legitimate promotion, they will not stop you from hanging up and phoning back after verifying the phone number on their website. Be sure to research the home security company that the caller claims to be from and ensure they are a reputable provider. Sometimes, instead of trying to sell a home security system, scammers will offer other high priced products or services including home theatre systems, computers, travel packages, and more. Remember: if the deal seems too good to be true; it probably is.

Modern App Scams

Smartphones are powerful tools to organize our lives but they can also be powerful tools for scammers trying to keep up as technology advances. Some app scams aim to convince you to enter iTunes or Google Play gift card codes directly in the app in order to buy in-game currency or prizes. Apple and Google do a pretty good job of stopping harmful apps like this from entering their store; but with millions of apps there are always a few bad ones that sneak through the security process. If you have an iTunes or Google Play gift card, it’s important not to use that code in any other app on your phone. Those codes are only valid in the official Apple or Google stores. The only time you should provide gift card information outside of the official mobile app store is if you have chosen to sell gift cards for cash and you have ensured the company is honest and trustworthy, like EJ Gift Cards.

Political Donations

Whenever election season comes about, there is always a flurry of election-related scams. Many people often think they are supporting their local political candidate when, in fact, they are being scammed. This scam can be especially sneaky because it’s not uncommon to receive phone calls from politicians or their campaign team during election time. Never give out too much personal information over the phone. This includes gift card balances, credit card numbers, mailing information, or social security numbers. If you wish to donate to a political candidate, then the best way to do so would be to visit their official website and ensure you are using a secure internet connection. Politicians will also typically only ask for cash and not gift cards.

Secret Shopper Scam

This scam extends beyond the phone and can become very dangerous if people are not aware. Just like the scams above, this one starts with a phone call. The caller will pretend to be from a major retailer and they are looking for secret shoppers to test their cashiers. They offer a generous bonus for helping participate in the secret shopper program to entice people into following through. Then, the scammer will direct the victim to go a store and purchase one of their gift cards with the promise that the money will be paid back plus a cash bonus for helping. Once the gift card is purchased and activated, the victim will meet the scammer outside. The scammer is often dressed as an employee or in a suit. They will take the gift card and promise to mail payment. The payment is never sent and the victim has lost the money spent. In some cases, the scammer may turn violent, putting people at risk to lose more than just their money.

Another variation of this scam gets people to go to their bank and withdraw cash as a way to test the bank teller. The cash is given to a phony employee and the money is never deposited back into the bank account. Secret shopper jobs usually offer an hourly rate and go through a hiring process like any other job. A cold call from a stranger offering a secret shopper task should be an immediate red flag. In addition, secret shoppers usually do not give the products to an employee with payment promised in the future. A legitimate secret shopper job will usually ask you to return the item at the store’s customer service desk for an immediate refund.

Tech Support Scams

This type of scam is becoming more and more common. Scammers will phone and claim to be calling from Microsoft, Apple, or Google. They will say that they have detected a virus on your computer and they need to repair it. If you hear this, immediately hang up the phone. None of the companies will ever phone you out of the blue to repair an issue with your computer. If you do not hang up, the caller will attempt to make you download a program that locks your information. In return for unlocking your computer, they demand payment in the form of a gift card or wire transfer.

Similar scams are being attempted through email. Never click any link you don’t trust and do not download files from people you do not know. Those simple tips can be all it takes to protect yourself from a tech support scam.

Stay Ahead of Scammers

Scammers will always try to find new, inventive ways to steal your money. They love gift cards because gift cards are often untraceable and once the money is gone; it’s gone. Credit card companies have become better at stopping scammers which has forced them to change their focus to gift cards.

There are a few common rules that will protect you from any type of scam. First, if an offer is too good to be true then it probably is. Don’t allow scammers to trick you into giving away gift cards or money in return for expensive items. You should be especially careful if an offer like this comes through the phone. Also, avoid doing business with anyone who is trying to make you act quickly. Scammers love to make you feel like you’re in an emergency situation and there will be consequences if you don’t act right away. Any legitimate business or organization will not be upset if you tell them that you want to hang up and call back using the number on their website. If they complain about this they might be a scammer. Finally, never meet a stranger after being offered payment over the phone for a task. This is unsafe and very likely a scam.

If you have gift cards then there are only two things you can do: spend gift cards and sell gift cards. EJ Gift Cards is a trusted business that offers cash in return for gift cards. There’s no urgency or obligation to sell gift cards when you choose to contact us. All you have to do is log in, submit your information, and then review your offer. We will never charge any fees to find out the value of your gift cards and, if you choose to accept our offer, we pay cash directly to your PayPal account.

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Amazon Gets Stream Rights to Logan Lucky

Amazon has received exclusive streaming rights to upcoming film Logan Lucky:

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 25, 2017– (NASDAQ:AMZN) Amazon today announced a deal to bring Steven Soderbergh’s newest film to Prime Video customers during its exclusive first-run US streaming window. Logan Lucky will hit theaters on August 18, 2017 and is expected to be released on Prime Video during the first quarter of 2018. Additionally, Amazon has signed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Fingerprint Releasing on its theatrical film projects. Fingerprint is the new US film distributor formed by Soderbergh and piloted by Dan Fellman, former long-time President of Domestic Distribution for Warner Bros., with Amazon providing strategic P&A financing to augment the marketing of Fingerprint’s theatrical releases.

Says Soderbergh, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning director known for box office and critical successes such as Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich and Magic Mike, “The deal with Amazon is the final, crucial piece of the puzzle. The scale of this endeavor required a fearless, flexible co-conspirator, and Amazon has shown they have the appetite and vision to help us navigate these semi-unchartered waters. I’m both relieved and excited, which is one of my favorite states of being.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with the Fingerprint Releasing team,” said Jason Ropell, Amazon’s Vice President of World Wide Movies. “The combination of a pioneering director, a compelling script and an A-list cast made this an easy decision. We strive to work with partners who bring innovative ideas to our service; with Fingerprint Releasing, Steven is creating a new paradigm for indies which can seriously compete with major studios on director and star-driven projects, and we’re excited to support that vision.”

Other companies partnering with Fingerprint on the film’s US distribution include Bleecker Street and Universal Home Entertainment. Milan Records will be distributing the film’s soundtrack album. FilmNation Entertainment is handling the film’s international deals.

Logan Lucky was written by Rebecca Blunt, produced by Gregory Jacobs, Mark Johnson, Reid Carolin and Channing Tatum, and executive produced by Michael Polaire, Dan Fellman, and NASCAR’s Zane Stoddard. Trying to reverse the infamous Logan Family Curse, brothers Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), along with sister Mellie Logan (Riley Keough) hook up with accomplice Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) to execute an impossibly elaborate robbery during the Coca-Cola 600, the biggest NASCAR race of the year. In addition to Tatum, Craig, Driver, MacFarlane, Swank, Keough, Waterston, Holmes and Stan, Logan Lucky also stars Dwight Yoakam (Amazon Original Goliath), David Denman (13 Hours), Macon Blair (Gold), Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) and Brian Gleeson (Snow White and the Huntsman) and features cameos from six NASCAR drivers.

About Amazon Video

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Prime Video: Thousands of movies and TV shows, including popular licensed content plus critically-acclaimed and award-winning Amazon Original Series and Movies from Amazon Studios like Transparent, The Man in the High Castle, Love & Friendship and kids series Tumble Leaf, available for unlimited streaming as part of an Amazon Prime membership. Prime Video is also now available to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe at www.primevideo.com.

Amazon Channels: Over 100 channel subscriptions that Prime members can add to their membership, including HBO, SHOWTIME, STARZ, Cinemax, PBS KIDS, Acorn TV and more, plus Anime Strike – the first curated on-demand subscription by Amazon Channels. To view the full list of channels available, visit www.amazon.com/channels

Rent or Own: Hundreds of thousands of titles, including new-release movies and current TV shows available for on-demand rental or purchase for all Amazon customers

Instant Access: Instantly watch anytime, anywhere through the Amazon Video app on TVs, mobile devices, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire tablets, or online. For a list of all compatible devices visit www.amazon.com/howtostream

Premium Features: Top features like 4K Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and mobile downloads for offline viewing of select content

In addition to Prime Video, the Prime membership includes unlimited fast free shipping options across all categories available on Amazon, more than two million songs and thousands of playlists and stations with Prime Music, secure photo storage with Prime Photos, unlimited reading with Prime Reading, unlimited access to a digital audiobook catalogue with Audible Channels for Prime, a rotating selection of free digital games and in-game loot with Twitch Prime, early access to select Lightning Deals, exclusive access and discounts to select items, and more. To sign-up for Prime or to find out more visit: www.amazon.com/prime.

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Brain Dump: Compositing & VFX

This is a post to thoroughly explain the things I already know about compositing and VFX, as well as question myself on what else I need to figure out. It will serve as the basis for both which my presentation will come from as well as my 500 word report for submission. 

Compositing

the google definition of this word is; combine (two or more images) to make a single picture (photographic compositing by computer)

compositing is the art of creating one final product from many different pieces added together - live action, animation, visual effects, etc.

it can appear in places that you wouldn’t guess - a very good example of this is the weather on the news; the weather reporter will stand in front of a green screen, which in turn will be placed into software that completely changes the green screen into a map of the weather.

VFX

the first example of VFX is the silent short film “the execution of mary stuart” (VFX lecture), alfred clark (1895)

further down the moviemaking line, movie effects spanned into two different threads; special effects and visual effects, the latter of which grants itself to post-production and CGI visual effects, the former being achieved on movie sets

moana has the most visual effects used in any disney film thus far, and uses the software “hyperion” to create lighting effects, which uses “path tracing” to account different light sources and bounce realistically between objects within the scene using their textues

lecture by Andrew Schlussel of MPC (moving pictures company, soho, london) for “the jungle book” discussing the “skills of virtual cinematography, photocell VFX and animation” (weds 22nd march) to create the animals they began with skeleton, layered muscle, and skin, and used blue screen compositing to impose mowgli into the cg environment

VFX TIMELINE

early cave paintings depict the qualities of movement as well as man’s representation of the living world

in the 1800s came the establishment of the motion picture industry, and the first ever special effect or illusion was produced by Alfred Clark in 1895 for The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

French magician George Melies released many films from Indian Rubber Head (1901) and The Dancing Midget (1902)

The Great Train Robbery (1903) directed by Edwin S. Porter is a milestone in filmmaking, using composite editing and one of the earliest examples of “cross cutting” (two scenes occurring simultaneously but in different locations)

from Melies’ accidental discovery of stop motion with a jammed camera, Willis O’Brian pioneered stop motion special effects in his movie The Lost World (1925) by combining both live-action and stop motion animation in the same scene

in the 1950′s, post second world war, film focus reigned in on outer space. some of the most well known movies from this time are Destination Moon (1950), War of the Worlds (1953) and Forbidden Planet (1956). it was during this time that the blue screen technique as invented, enabling what we call nowadays as green/blue screen compositing.

in 1953, Jason and the Argonauts came out with the skeleton battle sequence developed by Ray Harryhausen, which still inspires filmmakers to this day

the University of Utah opened the first CG department in 1966, and 2D morphing techniques were first developed in 1967 at the University of Toronto as well as environmental reflection

James Blinn created the first feature film appearance of 3D CG in Mapping (1976) and Bump Mapping (1978)

pioneers such as James Blinn and David Em continued to push computer graphics in the 1970s. Ed Catmull developed texture mapping in 1974, which was refined later by James Blinn in 1976.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft, and Steve Woznik and Steve Jobs built the first Apple Computer. 

George Lucas formed ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) to cover the mass amount of special effects in his new film Star Wars (1977), which won an oscar.

Where the Wild Things Are (1982-3) pioneered the 35mm film test, digitally composited 3D CG backgrounds with traditionally animated (digitally inked and painted) characters, led by Chris Wedge (now vice-pres. of Blue Sky/VIFX)

John Lasseter left Disney and joined Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Division, working on the CG Endor moon sequence for Return of the Jedi (1983)

The Black Cauldron (1985) became the first animated feature film to contain a 3D element

Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Division produced the 3D animation required to bring to life a knight made of stained glass for the film Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and was the first to composite CG with a live-action background

Steve Jobs purchased Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Division in 1986 for $10 million, and Pixar was created by John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Ralph Guggenheim. They went on to produce the famous “Renderman” software.

Howard the Duck (1986) was the first film to use digital wire removal and the first work carried out by the new ILM computer graphics department.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) which contained the first use of 3D scanning by Cyberware on a film.

By the end of the 80’s things were beginning to steam ahead. ILM won another Academy Award for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and completed the first digital morph for Willow (1988)

The following year ILM produced ‘the Donovan’s destruction’ sequence for the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). The shot involved scanning multiple film elements into the computer, digitally compositing them together and then scanning back out to film. Also in that year, ILM produced the ‘water pseudopod’ creature for “The Abyss” (1989) (Oscar winner). The software used included Alias/2 and Photoshop. Dennis Muren, Mark A.Z. Dippe and John Knoll were some of the brains behind the success of the project.

One of the newer CG companies to appear towards the end of the 80’s was Rhythm & Hues. They produced over 30 shots of photorealistic airplanes, bombs and smoke all in daylight for a film Flight of the Intruder (1990). 

Disney produced the first completely digital film in the shape of The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Pixar used their new Photorealistic Render software, Renderman, to produce the famous “Shutterbug” image. Autodesk released 3D Studio v1, their own 3D modeling and animation software.

James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Oscar winner) brought to life by the artists at ILM began to change the way Hollywood perceived computer graphics. It was the first major digital character to be used in a film since the stained glass knight in Young Sherlock Holmes.

Another major contribution that year came from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; the ‘ballroom’ sequence contained a complete 3D rendered background.

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) (Oscar winner). ILM employed a huge range of tools to create CG dinosaurs and various other special effects needed for the film. These included Alias PowerAnimator, Softimage 3D, Matador and Lightwave (for simple animatics). 1993 also saw the rise of Digital Domain formed by James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross.

Alias/Wavefront’s Dynamation particle system was again used in 1997 by ILM in the creation of a CG cape for Spawn together with realistic goo, drool and saliva. 

‘Jar Jar Binks’ from Star Wars Episode 1 (ILM) (1999) was the first photorealistic all digital main character in a feature film. People are still fascinated by the concept of entirely digital photorealistic humans.

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Discharged and Carpetbagging

A screenshot from the diary of Robert H. Milroy mentioning W. Angelo Powell. The diary is in the General Robert H. Milroy Collection of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Discharged

On January 3, 1865, Captain W. Angelo Powell was honorably discharged from the service. Papers in hand, the veteran returned to Hagerstown, Maryland.

For three and a half years, Powell served in a region that witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the war. With the exception of suffering from “acute rheumatism” (arthritis) and an injury to his left leg, Powell escaped the greatest conflict in American history virtually unscathed. Physical health and mental stability were assets few veterans possessed.

Powell had seen his family sporadically over the past three years. His weight had dwindled and the cavalryman arrived in Hagerstown displaying a hungry gauntness. Cecelia embraced her husband, but daughters Nannie (age four) and Flora (age five) barely recognized their father.  

Never a man of wealth, Powell emerged from the shadow of the war virtually penniless. With little money in hand and five mouths to feed, he began searching for steady work that paid. On February 13, the former captain composed a letter to Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. Hancock, a thirty-nine-year-old Pennsylvania native, had been assigned to lead the ceremonial First Veterans Corps.

Martinsburg W. Va

February 13th 1865

Maj Gen  Handcock [sic]

Vet  Corps.

Sir

I respectfully request to know if  it is possible for me to obtain the position with your Veteran Corps as  Engineer__ On the 3rd of January 1865 I was discharged from the U. S.  Service by means of Paragraph 5. Circular No 75. C. S. A. G. O 1964.

I entered the Service  as Engineer & [illegible] with Genl W. S. Rosecrans in 1861 and served  under him during he campaign of 1861 in Western Va.  Afterwards with Genl Fremont, Genl Sigel,  fortified at Winchester under Genl Piatt, Genl Julius White in 1862. At Harpers Ferry in 1862 and again at  Winchester Va in 1863 with Genl Milroy, and during 1864 under Genl Averell On the Raids into S. W. Va.

I possess all the necessary Engineer instruments for the field and respectfully request that my  application may be duly Considered. and respectfully refer to Genl Schenck — Members of Congress and to E. D. Townsend A. G. War Dept.

I have the Honor to be

Sir with the Respect your Obd

W Angelo Powell

(Late Capt Co A 1st W Va Cav)

The Veteran Corps was conceived as a means to reenlist discharged veterans with disabilities. Originally called the “Invalid Corps,” it was divided into two battalions. The First Battalion was comprised of those whose disabilities were comparatively slight—men who were still able to handle a weapon, march, and perform guard or provost duty. The Second Battalion was made up of men whose disabilities were more serious—those who had lost limbs or suffered other grave injuries. These men were commonly employed as cooks, orderlies, nurses, or guards in public buildings.

Major General Hancock was a well-respected soldier who was severely wounded in the leg at the Battle of Gettysburg. After recuperating, he performed recruiting services for the army. Hancock never regained full mobility but returned to field in 1864. During Lieutenant General Hiram Ulysses Grant’s Overland Campaign, Hancock commanded the II Corps. Although he performed well at the Battle of the Wilderness and other engagements, Hancock surrendered his field command in November 1864.

Unfortunately Powell was unable to secure an engineer’s commission with the Veteran Corps. Turning to the private sector, he composed a letter to General Robert Huston Milroy, one of his former commanders.

Tennessee

In December 1864, General Milroy was transferred to the Western Theater. Having avoided a court-marital for the embarrassment of Second Winchester, the forty-eight-year-old major general was stationed in Tennessee. Old Gray Eagle was ordered to organize the local militia forces and oversee the defenses of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad.  

Milroy’s task was not an easy one. The region under his command was extremely dangerous. Tennessee was the most sectionally divided state of the Confederacy and difficult to control. Only the state of Virginia saw more fighting during the Civil War and his long supply lines were thinly stretched over a vast expanse of territory.

Due to necessity, the Union “occupied and fortified only select towns and railroad crossings, scattering their strength…to prevent mounted raids.” According to James Alex Baggett, author of Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee’s Union Cavalry in the Civil War:

More than anywhere else…the Cumberlands possessed the conditions to foster guerrilla warfare. The section’s isolated territory, much of it “rough and inaccessible,” made it suitable terrain for irregular warfare. Moreover its population clung to those traditions that encouraged the growth of guerilla bands: retribution in kind, family feuds, class conflicts, vigilantism, and backwoods wars against authority.

Milroy’s headquarters were located in Tullahoma, approximately 70 miles southeast of Nashville. Founded as a work camp in 1852, the small town of Tullahoma prospered due to its vital railroad link. Before Milroy’s arrival, the region was a special place—one controlled by neither side and one without a strong base of operations. It consisted of:

…forested hills and mountains, swiftly moving streams, and fertile valleys yielding plentiful crops. Rebels used the area…for sanctuary and for obtaining foodstuffs and horses. It soon became, as preacher J. H. Grimes of Putnam County described it, a place of “rendezvous for bushwhackers and guerillas on both sites.” As he recalled, “stealing, robbery, and murder was the order of the day.”

The white-haired Milroy called himself the “bossguard” of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and “dispatched mounted detachments to scout and forage in a difficult to defend “no-man’s land” of quasi-Union authority.” One of the senior officers under Milroy’s command was a local Union sympathizer named Shelah Waters. A native of DeKalb County, Tennessee, Major Waters served in 5th Cavalry (First Middle Regiment Union Tennessee Cavalry).

The 5th Tennessee guarded many small-town posts along the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and scouted the surrounding area. Their area of operations was a large:

…lying east of the Caney Ford river, and west of the Cumberland mountains; and south of the Cumberland river, and north of a line on which [lay] the towns of McMinnville & Sparta.”

The 5th, along with the 10th and 12th Tennessee, were adept at capturing, trying, and executing bushwhackers and guerrillas.

In August 1864, Milroy ordered Major Waters to McMinnville. Located 35 miles northeast of Tullahoma, McMinnville was (and remains) the seat of Warren County. Before the outbreak of the war it was described as a “bustling metropolis” nestled in a predominately agricultural community. The town possessed “a great variety of first-class stores and shops” and drew “high quality lawyers, doctors, and ministers from across the country.”

As the quartermaster stores were being withdrawn from McMinnville, Waters had orders to post pickets around the town. If threatened, his troops were to skirmish with the enemy and gauge their strength. If necessary, Waters was to hold his lines and then “send off his equipment with loyal citizens by rail toward Tullahoma before covering his garrison’s withdrawal on horseback.”

On August 29, approximately 300 Confederates attacked McMinnville. Waters ignored Milroy’s instructions and engaged the enemy surrounding the town for more than three hours.

The 5th Tennessee lost 10 troopers and several wagons. Waters and his remaining men barely escaped with their lives. The major’s decision to circumvent Milroy’s orders was dangerous, but it earned his superior’s respect.  The two officers became fast friends. They also began discussing plans for life after the war.

Milroy, Waters & Company

Shelah Waters resigned from the 5th Tennessee on January 24, 1865. He kept in close contact with Milroy and the two formed a business. “Milroy, Waters & Company” was conceived to deal “in oil and mineral lands, stocks & c.”

On Monday, April 3, Milroy attended a “meeting of the Tenn Legislature with Gov. [William Gannaway “Parson”] Brownlow” in Nashville. The general discussed several potential business ventures with the governor and the negoitians went smoothly. Later that day Milroy wired Angelo Powell “$75.00 to pay expenses out to Tullahoma to act as engineer for our Co.”

On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee, the general-in-chief of Confederate forces, and Hiram Ulysses Grant, the commanding general of the United States Army, met in the parlor of Wilmer and Virginia McLean’s house in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. It was Palm Sunday. After four years of fighting and more than 630,000 casualties, General Lee surrendered—signaling the end of the Southern States attempt to create a separate nation.

Powell arrived in Tennessee just days before Lee surrendered. On April 14, his first week in residence, President Lincoln was assassinated.  

Lincoln’s killing was a shocking counterpoint to Grant’s triumph. Powell, along with the rest of the nation, closely followed the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth in the newspapers. Twelve days after the actor’s narrow escape, the assassin was shot and killed in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia.

Milroy resigned his commission from the army on July 26 and established business operations for Milroy, Waters & Co. in Nashville. Powell worked primarily around McMinnville and Tullahoma.

On September 19, Powell sent his new employer a telegram “asking for funds to enable him to” travel to the state capitol. Milroy wired him $10.00 and, later that afternoon, composed a letter to his wife:

…I have more faith in our oil than in our mineral prospects of wealth. Our oil well at McMinnville is getting along splendidly. Capt. Powell is superintending it & everything goes on like clock work. He is down 75 ft. & has already got oil in considerable quantities & feels certain that he will get a flowing well there by the time he gets down a 100 ft. further.

Powell faced innumerable challenges in his new role as the company’s civil engineer. Prospecting was dangerous work, and the veteran was often confronted by hostile locals. Many viewed him as a carpetbagger and Milroy’s letter to his wife went on to state:

Capt. Powell wants his gun badly; that I forgot to bring with me. I wish you would get Conwell to make a nice box for it & send it to me at this place by Express. I have promised Powell to have it here soon.

Powell’s engineering background helped the veteran secure employment. The gun allowed him to keep it. On January 20, 1866, the 34th Tennessee State Legislature voted to allow:

“Milroy, Waters & Company,”…to purchase, lease, hold, operate, manufacture, transport, refine, erect and dispose of such real estate, leaseholds or parts thereof, mines, oils, minerals, buildings, machinery, tools, and other property…as may be necessary for the legitimate and successful transaction of their business.

The business was granted license to engage in boring and mining for “petroleum, salt-water, iron marble, coal, slate, and other valuable minerals and volatile substances….”  

Hagerstown

The day-to-day operations of Milroy, Waters & Co. did not run smoothly. Shortly after the legislature’s vote, the company folded.

Robert Milroy returned to Indiana to practice law. Shelah Waters, after serving as a clerk in the Office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, became the Assessor of Internal Revenue in the Tennessee’s Third Collection District. W. Angelo Powell:

…accepted engineering work in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, running preliminary lines for different railroad companies, who began to project plans for opening up the rich resources of the South. His duties included the making of reports on mineralogy along the routes and affording details of all kinds to his employers.

Powell also speculated, but was met “with disastrous results financially.”  

In the spring of 1866, Powell returned to Cincinnati. By the time he arrived, the Roebling-designed Cincinnati-Convington Bridge suspension bridge was nearing completion. The engineering marvel spanned more than 1,000 feet and the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle called it “the stateliest and most splendid evidence of genius, enterprise and skill it has ever been my lot to see.”

Powell spent several weeks in the Queen City, but found it “full of architects.”  The thirty-eight-year-old veteran’s attempts to revive his former practice bore no fruit. He again returned to Hagerstown.

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Ohio prisoners created havoc with computers hidden in ceiling

Two technologically savvy Ohio inmates pieced together and hid a couple of computers within the ceiling and went on an unlawful browsing spree as soon as linked to the network on the Marion Correctional Group.

One inmate stole the identity of a fellow prisoner to use for 5 credit score cards and also deliberate to report false tax returns and feature the refunds stressed to the credit playing cards.

And, alarmingly, the inmate created passes for other inmates to get admission to unauthorized regions of the jail, “creating a safety chance,” wrote the workplace of Inspector Popular Randall J. Meyer.

Meyer launched a document nowadays critical of protection on the Marion prison that allowed the pair of prisoners to additionally rummage through the internal facts of different inmates.

The record additionally said then-Warden Jason Bunting violated kingdom on-line in mid-2015 with the aid of failing to record suspected criminal activity to his superiors, the state Highway Patrol, and the inspector Popular. Bunting later resigned as warden to become superintendent of the nation-run Northwest Ohio Development Center in Toledo.

The prisoners who planted the Computers “have been unsupervised for good sized durations of time,” permitting them to disguise the computers and ran different wiring to connect to the jail’s computer network, the document said.

They accessed web sites that covered facts on manufacturing pills and home made guns.

Their scheme finally was exposed whilst jail IT worker Gene Brady acquired an alert about a former worker, whose person call and password were lifted, trying to bypass security controls. The system installation via the inmates allowed them to get right to entry to the prison network from any laptop that prisoners have been allowed to apply as part of Ohio Penal Industries.

Brady, who turned into observed to have allowed prisoners to get entry to salvage computers and components, has been located on paid go away from his $eighty-five,688-a-12 months process.

The inspector Standard called at the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to determine if any employees have to be discipline-lined, to tighten protection over computer systems and jail networks and to make sure that each one suspected crimes are mentioned to the appropriate government. The document was despatched to the Marion County prosecutor and Ohio Ethics Fee for evaluating.

“We’ve got already taken steps to cope with some regions of the situation,” said prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith. “We are able to very well assessment the reports and take any additional steps vital to save you these styles of things from taking place once more. It is of essential importance that we offer necessary safeguards with reference to using generation while nonetheless supplying possibilities for offenders to participate in significant and rehabilitative programming.”

In a separate record, the inspector Widespread’s workplace also today located that Marion Correctional Group officers didn’t observe aggressive bidding processes in executing a settlement. The contract concerned $20,000 in work that was transferred between Two nonprofits. Bunting had a “near and persevering with dating” with one of the companies and did now not cast off himself from the agreement procedure, the document said.

The file advocated higher ethics and procurement schooling for personnel and an assessment of the companies’ payments. The investigation becomes despatched to the country auditor’s office for assessment.

Why You can purchase A laptop Roll Pinnacle Desk

In recent times, It’s far nearly impossible to step into any family that doesn’t have a PC. No matter anything profession you’re in, be it a teacher, a scholar, a businessman or a workplace worker, you may still discover a computer to be a handy and beneficial tool because it allows you to finish a mission in a miles shorter timeframe. However, when it comes to the storage space of the computers, there are customers who hated the use of a standard laptop Desk because it makes the house feel like an office. If you are such a worried people who do now not need to compromise your home’s fashion and subject matter for a fashionable computer table, You should purchase a computer roll Top Desk.

There are numerous benefits for buying a laptop roll Pinnacle Desk and the primary motive is to the direction its design. those roll Top desks might look just like a regular cloth cabinet but once you carry up the rolling Pinnacle, you’ll locate the PC hidden inside. In these desks, there are also retractable and foldable booths wherein you may vicinity your mouse and keyboard. you’ll also locate extra spaces for your different software program inclusive of the audio system, printer, and scanner. In case you want, you may also buy the ones that include greater cabinets and drawers so that you can keep your office stationery and books.

Because the call implies, a laptop roll Top Table is ideal In case you desire to have your private paintings space and at the equal time, you do no longer need to compromise the fashion and theme of your property because you could without difficulty conceal your computer inside the table. You just want to unveil it when you want to work so that you will not have to sacrifice your space or create a multitude whilst you work. With just one piece of furnishings, you can have the whole thing in a single area.

whilst you perform your research, you’ll find that a computer roll Pinnacle Table can be in some of shapes, designs, and composition of material. What you want to do whilst you are choosing which to shop for is to first consider the size of your PC and what kind of space you’ve got on your property. For someone who wishes a running location with a variety of garage area for the working substances and hardware, you should recollect buying a roll Pinnacle table that has a variety of shelves.

In these roll Pinnacle desks, there are generally special compartments supposed to your cables and wires, so that you do no longer have to fear about ugly wires sticking out or which you might experience over them. One point to word even though is that In case you want the table to closing longer, then you need to don’t forget to get those manufactured from hardwood. You do now not should fear approximately its suit with the rest of your furnishings due to the fact There are many colorations and designs to pick from.

Now which you understand of the numerous advantages of a PC roll Pinnacle Desk, in which are you able to buy one? you can without problems purchase these roll Top desks from any local fixtures in your neighborhood. In case you are very specific, you can even have your table custom made so that it fits your area, finances, design and system flawlessly. Instead, If you are on a decent budget, you may even purchase a reduced one from online shop. All you need to do is to do an internet search.

The way to Keylong someone’s PC

With the consistent development in state-of-the-art technology, one has to understand that the information saved in computer systems, hidden or now not, are susceptible to robbery. These days, pertinent files stored in personal computer systems may be without difficulty obtained by someone else with none trouble. Privateness can be invaded even via digital manner. One have to undergo in thoughts that the whole lot is quite viable In recent times and if a sure character is decided sufficient to get keep off more statistics stored electronically, all he or she need to recognize is How to key log a person’s computer, and this isn’t always hard at all.

Yes, studying A way to get into someone else’s laptop thru keylogging is straightforward, in particular when you have the competencies and equipment wished. Of course one should recognize How to use the keylogger tool. It is crucial to recognize the manner a certain software program works earlier than doing something with it, simply so that one ought to exploit its full potential. It isn’t always difficult to analyze even though, and it isn’t tough to apply either. Keyloggers sincerely maintain music of all of the information that passes between the keyboard and the critical processing unit of the laptop. It then stores it in a report, generally.Txt, then just sits there until It is downloaded or robotically transmitted to any other PC thru the Net.

After grasping the basic capabilities of the software, the learner then has to realize the simple instructions consisting of turning the software on and off, as well as retrieving the statistics. All these facts may be located though, as some sites that train How to key log a person’s laptop are soared off points for keylogging software program as well. If one is not careful, he or she will be able to turn out to be being the recipient of the keylogger. additionally, always keep in mind that keyloggers are truly only for tracking the access of your own Pc, and not a device that must be used to thieve the facts of others.