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Ronin retired from the Sheriff’s Office in February after serving for almost a decade. He was a veteran of 70 bomb calls, 78 public demonstrations, 1,135 warrant services, 13 apprehensions, 36 suspect surrenders and 14 tracking assignments, with five suspect locations, the department said.
He assisted on the police search for Eric Frien, the convicted killer of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper, and also worked at special events in Lancaster County, like the U.S. Women’s Open Golf Championship at Lancaster Country Club. He also served during visits to the area by Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence, presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Pope Francis.
Ronin spent his last months with his handler, Sgt. David Bolton, and family.
Ronin was escorted to West Lancaster Animal Hospital by members of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, the Lancaster City Police K-9 Unit, the Lancaster County Prison K-9 Unit, Columbia Borough Police, East Hempfield Township Police, the York County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit, and the CSX Railroad Police K-9 Unit.
“K9 Ronin had an amazing career and will always be remembered,” the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office wrote.
Ruger specialized in patrol, narcotics detection, and tracking with the Manheim Township Police Department, where he served for nine years after becoming the department’s first K-9 officer in 2008.
Members of the Manheim Township Police Department gathered at the Neffsville Veterinary Clinic to say their final goodbyes to Ruger, who retired from duty in 2017 and spent his final years with his handler, Det. Lee Billiter, and his family.
About two weeks ago, “Gangnam Style”, the breakout worldwide hit from Korea pop star Psy, became the first video to hit two billion views on YouTube, a number that continues to grow. In fact, Psy is in very rare company with his astronomical view count. Not only is he the singular person to have reached the two billion mark, but he is one of only two people to hit one billion, sharing that honor with Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (for better or worse).
The song launched Psy into the stratosphere of pop music, easily making him the most famous K-Pop singer in the world and helping raise the profile of his genre. As of writing this post, the video sits comfortably at 2.016 billion views, a number reached in just under two years.
While the quirky single had its time on the charts around the globe, it has fallen off the lists and sales have slowed significantly, as is the norm in pop music. While it may not be enjoying the radio and sales attention it once did, the song is still earning Psy (and his record label YG Entertainment) quite a bit of money, and it’s all from that most viral of videos.
While there is quite a bit of debate about how much the singer really has earned, the New York Times quoted a video ad buying platform named TubeMogul in reaching a figure. Breaking down their figures, it can be surmised that Psy has earned just under $2 million from YouTube ads, almost all of which come from the “Gangnam Style” clip.
While it may seem like how much money a person has made from a certain product would be fairly straightforward, in this case it is actually tricky to figure out. While YouTube has partner programs with many content creators, the deals they have made with all of them are secret, and can vary widely. What is known is that YouTube keeps half of earned ad revenue, with the remainder going to whomever owns the content.
Making numbers slightly more complicated is the fact that costs for advertisers are not equal, as they shouldn’t be. Ad placement in the “Gangnam Style” video is worth a lot more to a South Korean company like Samsung than it is to Ford. Also, costs for advertising vary around the world, and the value of various international currencies being used here need to be considered.
On top of that, YouTube offers two kinds of ads: small banners that pop up during the video, or full video ads that play before the clip. Videos are obviously much more expensive than the other option, and YouTube won’t release information regarding how many of each ads were placed with “Gangam”.
Interestingly, Psy is making money every day not just from his own video(s), but those of other users from around the world. YouTube has a system for detecting when copyrighted material is being used in a video, and should it be found, the content’s owner has the choice of either taking that video down or getting a share of the advertising revenue. Often record labels will quickly remove copies of new singles, so as to centralize views to the one they have uploaded. Psy chose for others to be able to use his track, and is raking in money from the 40,000 or so parody videos, lyric videos and the like that all use “Gangnam Style”, though calculating how much is a daunting task.
It should be made clear that $2 million figure mentioned above is from YouTube advertising alone. When all other revenue streams are taken into account—sales of the track on iTunes, live shows, endorsements, etc.—Psy’s wealth swells to somewhere between $8 million and $10 million, with almost all of it being traceable back to the silly horsey dance.
“Gangnam” continues to add an average of just under three million new views per day, so the singer probably won’t have to worry about the funds drying up for some time to come.
DOVER — The Children's Museum of New Hampshire, located on the Cocheco River, is hosting a River Celebration on Thursday, July 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be activities inside the museum as well as aboard the Captain Edward H. Adams gundalow docked on the river in Henry Law Park.
Families will learn more about New Hampshire rivers and the role the flat-bottom gundalow boats played in transporting materials and goods on river "highways." Activities and demonstrations inside the museum will include exploring how rivers form and flow and learning about animals who make their homes along the river. Children can also design a simple boat.
Just outside the museum, the Captain Edward H. Adams gundalow will be anchored for dockside, interactive tours and hands-on activities such as setting the sail, using old tools, and making half-hull gundalow models.
All River Celebration activities are included in the regular price of Children's Museum admission: $8 for adults and children, $7 for seniors age 65-plus, and free for children under one year old.
For more information, visit www.childrens-museum.org.
Thailand’s Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha visited President Trump at the White House on Monday night. The meeting marked the first time the Thai junta leader has been welcomed to the United States since the 2014 coup, indicating an open embrace of the repressive military regime.
Their conversations centered on strengthening military and trade relationships. Commenting before the private meeting, Prayuth stated the need for “security defense cooperation,” referring both to the junta’s expansion of the domestic military apparatus and Washington’s need for regional alliances.
Thailand officials reaffirmed their support for Washington’s aggressive confrontation with North Korea, including the crippling UN sanctions. The Trump administration has been pressing the Thai regime to end all financial and trade relations involving North Korea. The mounting confrontation with North Korea is part of broader efforts throughout the region to undermine the influence of China, including in Thailand.
US officials have called for boosting economic relations with Thailand. Thai diplomats and corporate representatives have presented investment plans aimed at expanding financial ties and trade. In line with “America First” protectionism, Trump called for Thailand to import more US goods, extracting a promise from Prayuth to boost annual purchases of coal to 50,000–60,000 tonnes.
Trump and Prayuth barely touched issues of democratic rights, including the junta’s ongoing political repression and the military’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority in neighbouring Burma (Myanmar).
In its three years of power, the Thai junta has imposed its own “constitutional rule” which undermines the rights to assembly and free speech, limits access to information criticizing the government, and hands unlimited powers to the cabinet. Prayuth’s government has continued to delay promised national elections, while suppressing opposition and dissent.
Since the coup, at least 80 people have been tried for peaceful assembly, 27 have charged with criticizing the regime and another 56 for criticizing the royal monarchy. Over the past month, the pro-junta courts have protected those responsible for the 2010 military crackdown on protesters while imposing a five-year jail term on former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on trumped up corruption charges. Yingluck fled overseas before the guilty verdict was handed down.
Trump described Washington’s relationship with Thailand as “very strong... [and] getting stronger in the last nine months.” The White House regards Thailand as a critical element in pulling Southeast Asian nations away from China and more firmly into the US camp. In August, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia to initiate the discussions on military and economic alliances. Trump plans to attend the Association of South East Asian Nations summit in November.
Trump’s strengthening of ties with the Thai junta is a continuation of the policy of the previous Obama administration. During the political turmoil in 2014, the US government maintained its support of the military even as it prepared to oust Yingluck Shinawatra and her elected government.
When General Prayuth seized power and cracked down on all opposition, the Obama administration issued limited criticisms and reduced but did not cut off military ties.
The US announced an immediate suspension of $3.5 million in military aid and a reduction in military exercises, but left the most vital programs intact. Economic relations remained untouched, and, in fact, were strengthened over the last two years of Obama’s time in office. Although the former administration never invited the junta leaders to the White House, it aimed to maintain and develop military relations in all possible ways.
The Obama administration’s expressions of concern for democratic rights and calls for a new election were utterly cynical. As part of the “pivot to Asia” against China, Obama was above all concerned to assert US geostrategic, political, and economic interests in a counter-offensive against China’s growing economic and military influence.
Like other countries in the region, Thailand has sought to balance between the US and China. The Thai military, however, has longstanding connections with the US. In the wake of the reduction in American military aid, Thailand increased its military ties with China, causing concern in the United States, Japan, and ASEAN.
Trump has dropped the cosmetic facade of “human rights” and cautious language as he seeks to strengthen relations with the Thai military regime. His welcoming of the coup leader Prayuth to the White House underscores the administration’s embrace of authoritarianism and militarism both at home and abroad.
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How does one drive a 340-ton boulder into Los Angeles?
From the annals of moving large objects come two stories, one of a rock, the other a bridge.
A very large boulder is on its way to Los Angeles, we read in the New York Times this morning: a 340-ton rock on a journey moving "through the heart of one of the most congested urban centers in the country: nine nights at six miles an hour, through 120 miles of roads, highways, bridges, overpasses, overhead wires, alarmingly low-hanging traffic lights and sharp turns."
The rock is going there for an installation by artist Michael Heizer, called "Levitated Mass," and it was "dynamited out of a hillside" 60 miles from Los Angeles.
"The effort, nearly five years in the planning (though Mr. Heizer has been making sketches of it as far back as the late 1960s), feels nothing short of a military movement: an incursion through a bewildering thicket of state, city and county regulations and a region with a notoriously difficult street grid," Adam Nagourney writes in the New York Times.
In fact, the rock's specific route never relied on one path through that "bewildering thicket," but has been constantly updated and changed; as Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where Heizer's rock will be displayed, points out, "the State of California is always reviewing the state of its bridges and roads. So a route plan that would have worked a couple of days ago doesn't work today."
This has the effect of doubling the distance covered: "Door to door," Nagourney writes, "the distance is 60 miles, though the actual drive is going to be closer to 120 miles, as engineers plot a route that can accommodate the huge size of what is known as the Prime Mover, and one that steers clear of low bridges and wires. Any route must have stopover spots to park the rock as it waits for night."
The museum's $10 million boulder-displacement project has, of course, faced some public criticism-but Govan has a response for that: "we are putting more people to work here in L.A. than Obama," he quips. This includes "teams of workers... deployed to lift telephone and power lines, swing traffic lights to the side and lay down steel plates on suspect patches of roads or bridges."
I remember once reading once about the construction of the Pompidou Center in Paris, which required an elaborate ballet of shutting down whole streets and intersections in the middle of the night, when traffic would already be low, to truck massive girders and beams in past the mansard roofs and streetside cafes of a sleeping city. The building was first a distributed network of large, chaperoned objects, taking shape load by load, before it briefly served as a gleaming sign of the architectural future.
In any case, read more at the New York Times.
Elsewhere, meanwhile, thieves have dismantled and stolen an entire steel bridge near Pittsburgh. "Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a steel bridge worth an estimated $100,000 that was dismantled and taken from a rural area in Lawrence County," we read. "Police said they believe a torch was used to cut apart the bridge, which measured 50 feet by 20 feet, near Covert's Crossing in North Beaver Township."
If you see the bridge-or its parts-moving slowly down a remote Appalachian road somewhere, I'm sure the police would appreciate a heads up.
Images by Monica Almeida, courtesy of the The New York Times. This post originally appeared on BLDGBLOG.
... by how much is up for debate, though.
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Former Gilman All-Metro defensive end Melvin Keihn, pictured, took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce he's transferring from Virginia Tech to Maryland.
Former Gilman defensive end Melvin Keihn announced Tuesday that he's transferring from VT to Maryland.
While most of its recent success on the recruiting trail has centered on a potential bumper crop in the class of 2016, Maryland appears to have landed a potential impact transfer. Virginia Tech defensive end Melvin Keihn (Gilman) announced on Twitter he is joining the Terps.
Keihn appeared in all 13 games last fall primarily on special teams for the Hokies and finished with two tackles on the season. In Virginia Tech’s spring game in late April, Keihn finished with four tackles and a fumble recovery.
On Thursday, Keihn reportedly asked for his release and was no longer listed on the Virginia Tech roster.
Keihn was a two-time first-team All-Metro first-team selection at Gilman, earning the nods his junior and senior seasons. In his senior season with the Greyhounds, Keihn had 85 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, nine sacks and two forced fumbles. Rivals gave the 6-foot-1, 211-pounder a four-star rating, ranking him as the fourth-best player in Maryland and 16th-best outside linebacker nationally. Overall, Rivals ranked him 226th in the class of 2014.
Keihn committed to Virginia Tech on Christmas Eve 2013 over a host of Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten schools, including Maryland, Michigan, Penn State and Virginia. He likely will have to sit out the 2015 season as a transfer.
EA SimsOnStage (formerly a site called SingShot), allows anyone to record themselves singing embarrassing karaoke songs, either audio-only or with with video. Now they're in the video mash-up business too (it's almost like they saw the Googe Adsense for video announcement coming).
The site's latest contest allows users to submit video mashups for three Datarock songs ("Computer Camp," "I Will Always Remember You," and the hit song "Fa Fa Fa") using stock video and images from The Sims or their own videos. First prize is a signed hoodie (their signature outfit), second prize is a T-shirt, and third place gets a signed album.
You can try it out here; tagging your video for any of those three songs with __"__datarock0208" enters them in the contest.
Communication and education are key for parents concerned about their child's mental health.
That's from director of Manx charity Parent2Parent Lorna Fairclough.
The group helps mums and dads dealing with children and teenagers who are struggling with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.
Lorna's comments form part of 'Island Mentality', on Manx Radio tonight from 5.30pm.
It's a programme focussing on child and adolescent mental health issues and services on the Isle of Man.
Full HD video stream recording with lower resolution sub-stream enables efficient, remote control, display, and transmission Redvision's RV30 rugged PTZ dome cameras now fully integrate with Meyertech's ZoneVu keyboards. Additionally, the RV30 wiper, IR and white light illumination switching or scheduling enabled, with multiple presets, tours, and absolute dome positioning. Full HD video stream recording, with lower resolution sub-stream is also available for efficient, remote control, display and transmission. FUSION-Eclipse video management software Joshua Hughes, Marketing Manager at Meyertech, stated, "Meyertech's FUSION-Eclipse is a scalable VMS with flexible multi-media display, storage, operator, and channel expansion options, evolving as site requirements develop. Alongside its capability, FUSION-Eclipse has the simplest and easiest VMS user interface available today. Meyertech customers, who operate in public space, retail, transport, MoD, custodial, education, stadia, and industrial markets, can now include RV30 rugged cameras in their systems." RV30 X-Series rugged PTZ camera range Dermot Grace, Managing Director of UK manufacturer, Redvision, added, "Redvision produces 1080p and 720p resolution models for the RV30 X-Series rugged PTZ camera range. The 1080p model will view events at distances of 120 metres, with operators identifying people at 40m. The 720p model, although lower resolution, has a 150m range, with operators identifying people at an incredible 60 metres. FUSION-Eclipse gives customers a recording and control platform for the X-Series. Meyertech understands our customer's applications and is as strong and well-established as we are in the local authority and public space markets."
TRINITY is made possible by the combination of Veracity’s advanced camera code and COLDSTORE Veracity, a leading provider of innovative, intelligent solutions that solve real-world IP video challenges in transmission, storage and display, will be demonstrating the unique benefits of TRINITY™ and its simplified system architecture which records IP video directly from camera to COLDSTORE™, a surveillance storage system, uniquely and specifically designed for video surveillance. The demonstration on booth #5065 at ISC West at The Sands Expo in Las Vegas, 6-8 April 2016 will showcase an increasing number of vendors that allow third-party software applications to be run inside their IP cameras. Examples include models from Samsung Techwin, Axis Communications, Hikvision, AMG Panogenics, ISD, and UDP with many other manufacturers rapidly following suit. Supports video analytics applications These “open platform” cameras are generally aimed at supporting video analytics applications but are, with the right software, capable of much more. Veracity has developed dedicated software for such cameras which writes video, audio and meta-data directly to a hard disk array. This “direct-to-disk” concept completely removes the need for NVR servers resulting in substantial savings on server hardware and NVR software licences whilst simultaneously reducing system complexity and increasing system resilience. “The front-end client system can be anything from a simple PC playback system to a full-blown, broadly-integrated PSIM operator workstation” says Alastair McLeod, Group CEO of Veracity. “We call this simple system architecture TRINITY™, and it’s an ideal solution for unmonitored or remote access systems”. TRINITY™ is made possible by the combination of Veracity’s advanced camera code and the COLDSTORE™ surveillance storage system, uniquely and specifically designed for video surveillance. The lifetime cost of system ownership is further reduced, thanks to the increased disk reliability of COLDSTORE by a factor of 20, and its very low power consumption at 0.5W per TB. Simplified video management system TRINITY™ recordings can be played back by Veracity’s own VIEWPOINT™ Player utility or, more significantly, by any third-party PSIM or VMS front-end system which incorporates the simple TRINITY™ Media SDK. Example PSIMs which are integrated with TRINITY™ include ISM, Meyertech, Visual Management Systems, i-Comply and Synectics. The result is a simplified, serverless, robust, highly scalable and very cost-effective video management system with innovative features such as camera-level fail-over, optional dual-stream or redundant recording, resilience to network interruptions via internal camera recording, and all the existing benefits of the highly successful and award-winning COLDSTORE™ surveillance storage system. Veracity’s storage products will also be demonstrated at the Hanwha Techwin America booth #14079 and at the Digital Watchdog booth #17089. Veracity is Hanwha Techwin America’s Integration Partner of the Year 2015.
Starting Monday, Ross will replace Babak Parviz as head of the Glass team, working under the Google X division.
Former Disney Store chief creative officer and marketing exec Ivy Ross today announced her next endeavor: Google Glass.
Starting Monday, Ross will replace Babak Parviz as head of the Glass team, working under Google X and reporting to Astro Teller and Sergey Brin, according to BBC News.
"With your help, I look forward to answering the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses," Ross wrote in a Google+ post. "Can technology be something that frees us up and keeps us in the moment, rather than taking us out of it?" she asked. "Can it help us look up and out at the world around us, and people who share it with us?"
Ross has worked for a number of big-name employers, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Bausch & Lomb, Gap, and Art.com, where she worked "at the intersection of design and marketing."
Now, she'll use that advertising know-how to boost Google Glass, an "especially cool" challenge, Ross said, "as no one has really tried to answer [those questions] with a product like this before."
The high-tech headset may still be in its infancy, but it is finding itself in unique situations. The University of California Irvine recently announced plans to hand out close to 40 pairs of Glass to med students participating in the school's four-year program. Pupils will integrate the technology into their labs and lectures, learning to perform hands-free tasks while caring for patients.
Plus, Google this week reopened public sales of the spectacles, offering Explorer Program spots to anyone in the U.S. with $1,500 to spare.
"I'm just getting started on Glass, but, because of all of you, and your thoughtful and smart feedback, I feel like I have an incredible head start," Ross said. "And I look forward to learning even more from you, and experiencing Glass together."
As TechCrunch notes, meanwhile, the Google Glass team recently lost electrical engineer Adrian Wong, who is moving to Oculus VR.
For more, see PCMag's review of Google Glass Explorer Edition Version 2.0. Also check out Google Glass: Everything You Need to Know.
Santa to touch down early in H.B.
With a multicultural celebration at Old World Village and Santa Claus sightings expected throughout the city, the holiday season is coming to life in Huntington Beach.
In a celebration of holiday diversity, the Old World shopping, dining and entertainment center will hold its 12th annual International Celebration of Christmas and live nativity play at 6 p.m. Dec. 15 in the festival hall.
The event focuses on how "different cultures celebrate Christmas," said Old World German Restaurant owner Cyndie Kasko.
The celebration will feature song and dance performances from a variety of churches and include the traditions of Israel, Jamaica, Native Americans and Samoans.
The play is free to the public. Organizers are asking for donations to World Vision, an organization that provides agricultural assistance, livestock and a means of self-support to families in need.
With Christmas just weeks away, Santa Claus is making his list and checking it twice even while making a few early visits.
"He loves Huntington Beach; it's his favorite place to come," said Susan Welfringer, Huntington Beach Downtown Business Improvement District manager.
Santa will be stopping by from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in downtown Huntington Beach.
He will be sitting for free photo opportunities at the Christmas tree in front of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
On Dec. 17, St. Nick will be accompanied by six princesses for an "enchanted princess party" downtown.
The Huntington Beach Lions Club will host Santa Claus at its pancake breakfast Dec. 14 at the Murdy Community Center.
The Lions will be seating breakfast guests at 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. Pancakes, sausage, orange juice and milk will be offered.
Tickets for the breakfast are $5 and must be purchased before the event at any of the city's community centers.
Santa will also make appearances from noon to 4 p.m.Saturdays through Dec. 21 at the Bella Terra shopping center. He will be walking around, offering to pose for photos and handing out free goody bags for kids, according to Bella Terra's website.
The Renewal Center will be housed in the old Tomball Electric Company building on Main Street.
Those lyrics, from Nashville singer/songwriter Andy Gullahorn’s “I Will,” seem to fit perfectly with the theme of the Tomball Renewal Center’s vision casting and benefit concert.
The event, titled “On Showing Up,” will be held at 5:15 p.m. this Sunday, April 17 at Main Street Crossing.