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The Glass House is now open for visitors as a museum that documents the history of Carl Lutz and his activities. At the entrance to the old Budapest ghetto, a wall-monument was erected to him in Although more than , Hungarian Jews died in the Holocaust, , survived, half of them thanks to the efforts of Carl Lutz. Buy The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary New Ed by Randolph L. Braham, Scott Miller (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on /5(3).
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in and revised and expanded in It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews/5. Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary that serve as a grim portrait of the Holocaust in Hungary and of a defiant woman She was a hero, in my book." His aunt.
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Smell of Humans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary by Ernö Szép (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! The chronology that concludes the book is another helpful tool that orients this complicated historical narrative. * H-Judaic * [T]he book is a very significant contribution to the topic of the Holocaust in Hungary, which is relatively underrepresented in research literature about the Holocaust in English/5(3).
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The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War The Holocaust in Hungary book, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz.5/5(1).
Historians have already demonstrated that the Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of the Final Solution of the "Jewish question" in Europe. More than seventy years after the Shoah, the origins and prehistory as well as the implementation and aftermath of the genocide provide ample ground for by: Quite a few of today's foremost historians spend their lives studying the history of the Holocaust, but none has done more than Braham in uncovering the background and developments of one of the most tragic events of it all, the last-minute destruction of over half a million Hungarian Jews.5/5(1).
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, an international scholar's conference was held in Washington, DC under the auspices of the United States Holocaust Museum. Nine of the contributed essays are contained in [The Nazis' Last Victims]/5(3).
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history.
After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. According to most historians, the Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of what the Nazis termed as the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question" in Europe.
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz.
They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in and revised and expanded in It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews/5(2).
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in and revised and expanded in It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the by: The Nazis' Last Victims questions what Hungarians knew of their impending fate and examines the heightened sense of tension and haunting drama in Hungary, where the largest single killing process of the Holocaust period occurred in the shortest amount of by: 3.
Up toHungarian Jews had perished during the Holocaust. The Kasztner Controversy Dr. Israel (also known as Rudolf or Rezso) Kasztner was a Hungarian Zionist leader in his native Transylvania and then in Budapest after Transylvania was annexed by Hungary in About the Author.
Randolph L. Braham is director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Attila Pók is the deputy director of the historical Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Science in : Hardcover.
The Holocaust in Hungary. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus, then a part of Hungary, await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
—Bernhardt Walter/Ernst Hofmann. Spring marked the 70th anniversary of the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews, a seminal event in Holocaust history that continues to impact our. The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present.
Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering study the fascinating story of the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that marked the flow 1/5(1).
Get this from a library. The Nazis' last victims: the Holocaust in Hungary. [Randolph L Braham; Scott Miller; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.;] -- "The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust.
In this provocative book, historians from Hungary, Israel, Britain and the United States examine one of the greatest tragedies of World War II -- the deportation and murder ofHungarian Jews during the last months of the war when German military and diplomatic power was on the wane.
The Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of the Final Solution of the "Jewish question" in Europe. In the fifth year of the Second World War Hungary still had a Jewish population of approximatelySearch All 1 Records in Our Collections.
The Museum's Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
The Holocaust in Hungary Two-thirds of Hungarian Jewry was destroyed between and More than half a million people fell victim to the labour service, the deportations organised by German Nazis and their Hungarian henchmen, the brutality of the Hungarian authorities, the death marches, the gassings in Auschwitz, the mass executions, and the terrible circumstances of the concentration camps.
The Politics of Genocide: Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in /5.Shalom and welcome to the 31st issue of Teaching the year marks 70 years since the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.
As such, we have dedicated this newsletter to the tragedy of Hungarian Jewry, which literally occurred at the last moment in the Holocaust. In fact, what makes the Holocaust in Hungary unique is that over half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered in such a short time.The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide of the European Jews during World War n andacross German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in Deaths: Around 6 million Jews; other victims of Nazi .
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Q: How to find minimum rank of the Pricepoint Can anyone please guide me how to map the results of inner map with outer map. I have created a Pricepoint object with List holding Id,Pricepoint,Rank which i have mapped to inner map by getting minimum rank for each pricepoint, now I want to map the results with their specific Id's. Thanks
public class Pricepoint {

String id;
String pricepoint;
int rank;

public Pricepoint(String id,String pricepoint,int rank)
{
    this.id = id;
    this.pricepoint = pricepoint;
    this.rank= rank;
}

public String getId() {
    return id;
}

public String getPricepoint() {
    return pricepoint;
}

public int getRank() {
    return rank;
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    final Comparator<Pricepoint> comp = (p1, p2) -> Integer.compare( p1.getRank(), p2.getRank());
    List<Pricepoint> p = new LinkedList<>();
    p.add(new Pricepoint("1","PP1",1));
    p.add(new Pricepoint("2", "PP1", 2));
    p.add(new Pricepoint("3","PP2",3));
    p.add(new Pricepoint("4", "PP2", 4));
   Map<String,Map<String,Integer>> map1 =   p.stream()
                       .collect(Collectors.toMap(Pricepoint::getPricepoint,Pricepoint::getRank,Math::min))// I'm struck here

A: It seems that you want something like this if I am not mistaken:
Map<String, Map<String, Integer>> map1 = p.stream()
            .collect(Collectors.collectingAndThen(
                    Collectors.groupingBy(
                            Pricepoint::getPricepoint,
                            Collectors.collectingAndThen(
                                    Collectors.minBy(Comparator.comparing(Pricepoint::getRank)),
                                    Optional::get)),
                    (Map<String, Pricepoint> x) -> {
                        return x.entrySet()
                                .stream()
                                .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(
                                        entry -> entry.getValue().getId(),
                                        Collectors.toMap(Entry::getKey, e -> e.getValue().getRank())));
                    }));

    System.out.println(map1);

but this is just insanely complicated... I honestly hope you really have a use case for this.

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is set to bring her push to improve diversity and inclusion in Hollywood to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Boone Isaacs is headed to Toronto as the Academy continues to work to create more opportunities for minorities in the film industry. Her appearance as part of the festival's Moguls section, alongside onstage conversations by The Weinstein Company president and COO David Glasser and Olsberg-SPI chair Jonathan Olsberg, comes as TIFF on Thursday filled out the lineup for its industry conference next month.
Fest organizers also announced master classes by Invisible director Doug Liman, Queen of Katwe helmer Mira Nair and Feng Xiagang, often hailed as the Steven Spielberg of China as that country's top-grossing filmmaker. And Toronto booked additional panels, including one on indie film distribution with Picturehouse's Clare Binns and Mongrel Media's Tom Alexander, and another on film casting, which will include Sony Pictures vp of casting Tamara Hunter and casting director Stephanie Holbrook.
The seven-day industry conference previously announced that it would feature panels assessing the impact of Brexit and the film industry's gender gap. The fest's Doc Conference on Thursday also revealed it will feature onstage conversations with Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme; I Am Not Your Negro helmer Raoul Peck; Joe Bini, editor on Werner Herzog films including Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Into the Inferno; and the creative team behind CNN's Great Big Story digital video series, including executive producer Courtney Coupe.
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How Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales' Ending Sets Up Spider-Man 2
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is out and by now, many would have finished the main story. It's not a super-long campaign but still immensely enjoyable with stellar production values and side content to indulge in. While it's not a "true" sequel, acting as more of an interlude between its predecessor and the inevitable Spider-Man 2, Miles' heroic journey concludes in a number of interesting ways.
Before we get into the ending, please note that there will be spoilers for pretty much everything. If you're still playing the story and want to experience it for yourself – which you most definitely should – then turn back now.
As noted before release, the story sees energy corporation Roxxon investing in the new Roxxon Plaza for Harlem where Miles and his loved ones live. Powered by Nuform, the company eventually comes into conflict with the Underground, a high-tech outfit looking to expose the energy's danger. Leading the group is The Tinkerer, who turns out to be Phin Mason, one of Miles' best friends. Phin is ultimately looking to sabotage and destroy Roxxon Plaza but the company's R&D director Simon Krieger anticipates her plan, rigging it to destroy Harlem if that happens. Along the way, Miles encounters his uncle Aaron Davis, who previously worked at Roxxon and is now The Prowler. Though Davis's goal was to protect Miles, he eventually concedes to his desire to help others and even helps Harlem's citizens to evacuate before things go south.
As Roxxon and the Underground battle, Miles battles The Tinkerer/Phin. Though he eventually wins, the plaza's reactor has gone critical, leading to Miles absorbing the energy. Phin then flies with Miles above the city so he can release the energy but stays with him till the end and dies in the process. Miles survives, with a few of Harlem's residents keeping his identity secret; Krieger is arrested after Davis turns himself in; and Peter Parker, who traveled to Symkaria, returns and the duo resume their crime-fighting duties.
Mid-way through the credits, however, we switch to the POV of Harry Osborn in a containment tank. Norman Osborn walks in and speaks to Dr. Curt Connors about releasing Harry, though Connors warns about the potential dangers of…well, you know what. The Symbiote doesn't react as much as it did in the post-credits scene for Spider-Man. But the conclusion is clear – Venom will be entering the fray soon.
But there could be more to the sequel's story than that. It's first important to understand that in one Marvel Comics universe, Earth-12041, Harry Osborn bonded with the Symbiote, first becoming the Black Suit Spider-Man and then turning into Venom. This universe is the designation used for the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series and comic books (which have separate stories). The animated series is interesting due to the number of parallels you could draw with Insomniac's first Spider-Man, like Doctor Octopus taking revenge against Norman Osborn (though the reasons are different and in the series, the Doc was responsible for turning Osborn into the Green Goblin).
In this universe, Harry opposed Spider-Man as Venom and despite being freed, it would re-emerge several times throughout the series (at one point, he even became Anti-Venom). Interestingly, when Venom re-emerged a second time, it was while Harry was asleep. Over the course of the series, he would harbor an intense hatred for Peter, driven primarily by his father being more interested in Spider-Man than him.
So from the outset, Harry becoming Venom and being playable in Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 is very much possible. In fact, he could have his own separate campaign or missions, acting as a deuteragonist to Peter Parker. However, unlike the animated series, Norman Osborn seems more driven by love for Harry and saving his life as opposed to simply harnessing the power of the Symbiote. Of course, given how things play out, there's also a possibility that Norman could become the main villain, either through his own experiments or from extenuating circumstances.
It could be akin to the 2002 Spider-Man film where, to obtain an important contract, Norman experiments on himself and becomes the Green Goblin. How the dynamic works here will be key – because Norman expressed nothing but disappointment in Harry, even when he became Venom in the animated series. Meanwhile, the Symbiote seems more than happy to kill Osborn, either as a direct result of Harry's anger or because, well, it's the Symbiote.
How Miles factors into all of this is the real question. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 presents the opportunity to introduce some kind of co-op element, perhaps even a separate mode like Ghost of Tsushima: Legends that has its own story-line. There's no denying the appeal of swinging through the city with multiple Spider-Men or even jumping into a friend's session for some crime-fighting in the campaign. But the focus of Sony's flagship console titles is to offer a compelling single-player experience first. Having Miles as a co-op character would still be possible but then having Venom as a playable character would mar the pacing.
Another possibility is that Peter Parker as Spider-Man and Venom tussle throughout the campaign, leading to some kind of showdown with Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin. The story could end with Harry going his own way and possibly starring in the DLC, perhaps in a set of stories akin to The City That Never Sleeps. Perhaps he'll transition into more of an anti-hero role, as Venom has usually been recognized for throughout the years.
A quick note on other characters – Aaron Davis returning as the Prowler seems unlikely since he went to prison at the end of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. A reduced sentence, sure, but unless Spider-Man 2 is set a year or two after, it would be a stretch to see him again. Yuri Watanabe could definitely make an appearance as Wraith, especially after her actions in The City That Never Sleeps. But it's unlikely she has more than a dedicated arc or a few appearances due to the number of other pressing storylines that could unfold in the sequel.
One thing's for sure – Simon Krieger making a comeback is almost impossible. While he goes to jail, likely for a long time due to Roxxon's actions, his character was eventually killed off in the comics. So even if he survives in the video game's universe and is perhaps referenced in the sequel, having a direct impact on the plot is highly unlikely.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will likely release by 2022 with Insomniac currently focusing its resources on Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (which launches in the first half of 2021). There's no doubt that development has already begun but how will Manhattan change? Will we explore more of New York City? Time will tell but there's certainly a lot to potentially look forward to.
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Actor-filmmaker Prakash Raj's film Tadka, which is a remake of the 2014-Malayalam hit film Salt N' Pepper has landed into legal trouble. On February 4, 2019, the Bombay High Court summoned Prakash Raj after Essel Vision Productions Limited, the company which runs Zee Studios, who happen to be the producers of the film, filed a suit against the director. Tadka stars Nana Patekar, Taapsee Pannu, Shriya Saran, and Ali Fazal in lead roles.
It all started when Zee Studios approached the Bombay High Court on January 25, seeking enforcement of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Zee and Sameer Dixit-Jatish Verma (Brother-in-law of Raj)- partners in a production house called Movie Makers, which is in the business of acquisition and exploitation of copyright in motion pictures. Actor Prakash Raj owns a firm called Duet Movies, and Sameer Dixit-Jatish Verma had approached Zee Studios to produce Tadka and after all the discussions, a MoU was executed on March 10, 2016.
"According to this MoU, Rs 4,25,00,000 plus taxes was paid by Zee Studios to Dixit and Verma. This MoU was not signed by Prakash Raj, and now Zee Studios has alleged that Prakash "purposely did not execute the said MoU, so as to calculatedly defeat the rights" of Zee Studios "in collusion and connivance with" Verma and Dixit," as quoted by India Today. According to Zee Studios, when the MoU was being executed, Zee wasn't shown any agreement between Prakash Raj, Jatish Verma and Sameer Dixit. However, they were told that Prakash Raj would be directing the film, and considering the relation between Raj and his brother-in-law, the former was also given the credit of producer in the film.
As a matter of fact, Zee Studios recently learned that Prakash Raj has already sold some of his rights to a financing company - Akshay Communications Pvt Ltd, which happens to have the right to the negatives of the film as well. According to the report, Dixit and Verma themselves had taken funds from another company called Swiss Entertainment Pvt Ltd, against which they had sold some of their rights.
During the court hearing on Monday, producers of the film, Zee Studios urged that the court should pass an order in their favour, handing over all the rights to them. However, advocate Rajesh Bindra, representing Akshay Communication, objected, saying that they had paid Rs 4.5 crore to Prakash Raj and so order in favor of Zee Studios could not be passed. Justice SJ Kathawalla of the Bombay High Court then ordered Prakash Raj to be present in court in the middle of the week to explain his stand.
And amidst all the hearings, Justice SJ Kathawalla issued an order stating that the film will not release without the permission of the court and as a result, Tadka has been put on hold. A few months back, Nana Patekar had to step down from Housefull 4 owing to sexual harassment allegations against him by Tanushree Dutta, who had renewed a decade-old case against Nana that took place on the sets of 2008-film Horn Ok Please.
For all those who don't know, ever since 2009-film Wanted in which Prakash Raj played the role of a villain opposite Salman Khan, Raj has gone on to play the negative roles in films like Singham, and Dabangg 2. Prakash Raj has also starred in the Kannada, Tamil and Telugu versions of Tadka and the film revolves around the life of Nana Patekar and Shriya Saran.


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Q: How can you obtain `heroku run rails --version` for a seeming Rails version mismatch? I've attempted several iterations of heroku run rails --version in order to ascertain the actual version number of the rails gem installed on an app stack on heroku.  Nothing has returned success so far.  For example, even running heroku run "rails --version" returns:
Running rails --version attached to terminal...  !   That feature is not available on this app's stack

Any ideas?
Ultimately the reason I ask is that I'm getting the following error:
can't activate rails (= 2.3.12, runtime), already activated rails-2.3.5. Make sure all dependencies are added to Gemfile.
/usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.7/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:108:in `block in cripple_rubygems'

Which I'm not entirely following in that it would seem that there is a mismatch from what is actuallly in the Gemfile:
source :rubygems
gem 'rails', '2.3.12'
# gem 'rails', '2.3.5' ## Was originally here, but I changed it to that above in hopes to resolve issue
gem 'i18n', '0.4.2'
gem 'giternal'
gem 'heroku'

The source of this is an attempt to run ChiliProject on Heroku, which would be exceptionally useful.  The original article is here if anyone would like to take a peak.  It's a great replacement fork for Redmine.

A: On the Heroku Cedar stack you can run heroku run bash --app appname and then vai the shell simply run rails --version which will return the version number.

A: What version of ChiliProject? Our recent 2.0.0 version already has a Gemfile and is configured for Rails 2.3.12 out of the box. ChiliProject 1.x and Redmine are on older versions of Rails (2.3.5 and 2.3.11) and don't use Bundler at all.
Asking questions like this on the ChiliProject Forums will probably get you a better response in the future.


Here's another limited edition hartbox for a film that hasn't really been released in germany before. Even though Leviathan has been circulating the german market in a hartbox for quite some time, the old dvd-release is said to be a bootleg and no distributer is mentioned on niether the box nor the disc.
This one comes with a different cover design than the old bootleg version and adds a proper label to the artwork in form of the good folks at CMV. Each case is individually numbered with a total limitation of 500 copies. Note however that there are actually two hartbox-versions for this release (each limited to 500).
All in all a stylish retroesque hartbox that should please any fan of old style VHS-covers.
This disc is the first non-bootleg version release for this film (on dvd) in Germany, but sadly enough it's quite a poorly stacked set.
The film is thankfully presented in anamorphic widescreen with English DD 5.1 but as far as extras go there's nothing more than a trailer and a short image gallery slideshow.
There are three versions of this edition in germany. Cover A (standard keepcase - same design as B), cover B (limited hartbox, 500 copies) and cover C (limited hartbox, 500 copies).


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Q: How to read the JSON File using c# in pipeline I am trying to find solution for this problem.
Error:
Error when accessing database was 'System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\azagent\A2\_work\68\Automation\CommonLibSQL\databaseConfig.json'.

I have json file like this
      {
  "Dev": {
    "Studio": {
      "databaseServerName": "SqlServerName",
      "databaseName": "Studio",
      "databaseUser": "SqlUser",
      "databasePassword": "SqlPassword"
    }
  },
  "Test": {
    "Studio": {
      "databaseServerName": "SqlServerName",
      "databaseName": "Studio",
      "databaseUser": "SqlUser",
      "databasePassword": "SqlPassword"
    }
  },
  "SIT": {
    "Studio": {
      "databaseServerName": "SqlServerName",
      "databaseName": "Studio",
      "databaseUser": "SqlUser",
      "databasePassword": "SqlPassword"
    }
  }
}

and my code is below to read the file
string databaseConfigContents = File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine(Directory.GetParent(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).Parent.FullName, @"Automation\CommonLibSQL\databaseConfig.json"));
            var data = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(databaseConfigContents);
            settingsList.Add($"databaseConnectionString", new CommonSQLConnectorSettings
            {
                databaseServerName = CommonAppSettings.GetEnvironmentVariable(data[env][database]["databaseServerName"].Value<string>()),
                databaseName = CommonAppSettings.GetEnvironmentVariable(data[env][database]["databaseName"].Value<string>()),
                databaseUser = CommonAppSettings.GetEnvironmentVariable(data[env][database]["databaseUser"].Value<string>()),
                databasePassword = CommonAppSettings.GetEnvironmentVariable(data[env][database]["databasePassword"].Value<string>())
            });

I suspect something is wrong with this code
''' Path.Combine(Directory.GetParent(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).Parent.FullName
'''
above is working fine in LOcal but not in pipeline. Please help


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31 mai 2018 15 août 2018 Tarek Ben Yakhlef Street art
Grenoble Street Art Fest! Vol. 4: The return of the Alpine street art festival
By Cristina Ahita Sanz / Photos: Andrea Berlese
June is just around the corner and that means the fourth edition of the Grenoble Street Art Fest! is about to begin. The festival was born in 2015 and was conceived to be the first festival in Europe combining exhibitions and site-specific creations in the city centre with the intention of showing the variety of techniques that are part of Street Art: monumental frescoes, traditional frescoes, stencils, collages, urban sculptures, works on canvas, installations, photographs, digital works, anamorphoses, and others.
What's coming?
The festival is scheduled from June 1st to July 1st, and will take place not only in Grenoble but also in some neighbouring municipalities: Fontaine, Saint-Martin-D'Hères and Pont-de-Claix.
The Grenoble Street Art MOVIE Fest will be the first event of many to come, including several exhibitions (expecting to receive around 15 000 visitors), book signing events, workshops, conferences, guided visits (in French, English, Spanish and French sign language), live painting, many unveiling events, and others.
Some of the artists participating this year are already known to the grenobloise audience, such as: Snek, Veks Van Hillik, Etien' and AnimalitoLand. For others, it will be their first time creating in the streets of Grenoble. Pantonio, Sampsa, Mademoiselle Maurice, Sainer, Sebas Velasco and Serty31 are some of the newcomers, although not the only ones.
Regarding the exhibitions, there are several spots to keep in mind: check the Ancien Musée de Peinture (Grenoble) to enjoy a collaborative exhibition, you'll find works of most of the artists participating in the festival; visit the Espace Vallès (Saint-Martin-D'Hères) if you would like to see the works of Isaac Cordal; pay a visit to the art centre Vog (Fontaine) to see the works of Green and Emmanuel Louisgrand; and make sure you have a moment to visit the exhibition "Anarchically Yours" at Spacejunk Art Center, where GOIN's works will be displayed.
You can check the full program here and follow them on Facebook and Instagram so you don't miss any update, and, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy the recap video of last year's edition.
The festival was created and is still organised by the association Spacejunk Art Center, based in Grenoble (France). The head of the team is Jérôme Catz, who is curator of exhibitions and artistic programming and project director. In 2003 Jérôme opened in Grenoble the first Spacejunk Art Center, dedicated to Board Culture, Street Art, Lowbrow and Pop-Surrealism. Since then, two more Spacejunk Art Centers have opened their doors in Bayonne and Lyon.
The strategy these centers follow is the same: to connect the artist with their audience. Since it was created, the Spacejunk network has held not less than 15 exhibitions dedicated exclusively to Street Art.
Festival evolution
Grenoble Street Art Fest! Started small, with not a lot of resources but with a lot of will and ambition. The first edition counted with 33 artists; the one in 2016 counted with 43; last year's edition welcomed 57. Now in 2018, the number of artists will be similar to 2017. More and more artists want to take part in this festival and the participation of international artists increases every year.
The neighbours are big supporters of this initiative and the success of every edition has helped the festival to get bigger, having now more sponsors both from private and public sectors. Besides, the festival has greatly contributed to the city's patrimony and promotes Grenoble, already known for its mountains, as a cultural destination for tourists.
And what about next year?
Don't worry, a fifth edition of the Grenoble Street Art Fest! will be held in 2019, Spacejunk's team is already working on it. Make sure to check their social networks once in a while for updates.
Video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMTlEzBM1_g
https://www.streetartfest.org/
http://www.spacejunk.tv/fr/
https://www.facebook.com/grenoblestreetartfest/
https://www.instagram.com/grenoblestreetartfest/
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Publié par Tarek Ben Yakhlef
Scénariste, peintre, photographe, rédacteur en chef de Paris Tonkar magazine et auteur du livre Paris Tonkar, Tarek est un artiste polymorphe. Il découvre le mouvement graffiti dès 1985 auquel il participe activement, mais l'appareil photo prend vite la place des bombes aérosol le transformant en témoin privilégié de cette époque . Il est d'ailleurs l'auteur à 19 ans seulement d'un livre sur le graffiti français qui encore aujourd'hui est la référence dans le genre. Si au fil des ans il a développé son art sur d'autres supports notamment la bande dessinée où il rencontre un franc succès, les bombes aérosol ne sont jamais très loin. Ces dernières lui permettent encore aujourd'hui de donner vie sur les murs des villes à tout son univers fantastique et coloré. Il a écrit près de soixante-dix livres dont certains sont devenus des ouvrages incontournables (Paris Tonkar, Sir Arthur Benton, La Guerre des Gaules…), des scénarios pour l'audiovisuel en Europe et aux Etats-Unis (documentaire et fiction) et expose ses peintures dans le monde entier (Paris, Lyon, Montréal, New York, Zürich, Genève, Hambourg, Athènes, Budapest, Sao Paulo, Kribi, Dakar, Marrakech…)	Voir tous les articles par Tarek Ben Yakhlef
Festival Pav'art 2018
SKY'S THE LIMIT, LE LIVRE


Last night marked the first night of BBC Stargazing Live 2013 at the University of Birmingham :) I also seem to have made it (in picture-form) on season 3 episode 3 of BBC Stargazing Live! I am demonstrating the lycra universe to some kids.
The event went very well at the University. I estimate that we had about 400 people through our display in the physics library over the course of 4 hours. At some points the room was totally packed and people couldn't get in!
I'm really looking forward to Saturday's event, there should be quite a good turnout!


Chinese herbal medicine originated in China many thousands of years ago. When the Ma Wang Dui tombs were opened in 1976 much evidence of the practice of Chinese medicine, including herbs, was also unearthed. This tomb has been dated at 168BC and the information recorded on silk appears to have been composed before the end of the 3rd century BC! Over 250 medicinal substances are named, including herbaceous and woody substances, grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, animal parts, minerals, and even human derived substances! In 1596AD the Grand Materia Medica by Li Shi-Zhen contained 1,892 substances. By 1977 the Encyclopaedia of Traditional chinese Medicinal Substances had 5,767 entries!
An old but very successful school of herbal medicine is known as Jing Fang. This school started with Zhang Zhong Jing (150-219AD). There are currently 42 lineages practising Fang Jing in China. One of the most renowned comes from Professor Hu Xi Shu, and has passed to Dr Feng Shi Lun then to Dr Suzanne Robidoux. Jing Fang is the Six Syndromes lineage and uses symptoms as the key to identifying the syndrome presenting in the patient. Once the symptoms have been translated into the language of the 8 guiding principles, the syndrome will tell us the type of pathogens that are present and the location of those pathogens. We can also deduce if we need to treat an excess or deficient syndrome, or a combination of excess and deficiency on different depths of the body. Once the syndrome is clarified it is possible to identify the presenting herbal formula pattern and its modifications. In December 2017, I began my training under Dr Robidoux in this great system of herbal medicine.
Unlike many Western medications, Jing Fang herbal formulas protect the Spleen and Stomach. A lot of medications are very cold in their action inside the body. This damages the effectiveness of the digestive and immune systems and has flow on effects to many new problems often requiring more medications to manage them.
In Chinese Medicine your Stomach is the cooking pot and your Spleen is the fire under the pot. A healthy Spleen and Stomach means the pot turns over nicely, breaking down the food and drink you consume to make your Qi (energy) and blood. When this mechanism is hampered by medications, poor diet, stress, or overeating then your health and well being will start to diminish. Jing Fang formulas nurture this mechanism while dealing with presenting signs and symptoms. In fact, Jing Fang formulas can assist medications to do their required jobs.
Side effects are minimal and generally only come about if your diagnosis and the corresponding formula is not accurate. The upside is that stopping the herbs will also stop the any unwanted side effects. Of course, herbs are much more like food than they are to Western medications. Medications can change the body's functions straight away. Herbs take time, nurturing the body into a place where it is strong enough to deal with signs and symptoms.
So what do individual herbs do? All the herbs have multiple functions on the body for example Gan Cao (licorice) strongly boosts body fluids, Da Zao (Chinese date) tonifies Qi, strengthens the stomach, nourishes blood and treats heart palpitations, while Gui Zhi (cinnamon twig) subdues cough, dizziness, insomnia, and treats exterior syndromes causing painful arthritis.
When combined into formulas the herbs work synergistically to treat the presenting signs and symptoms. For example, Gui Zhi Gan Cao Tang (Cinnamon Twig and Licorice Tea) is used to treat acute and chronic palpitations under the heart with the presence of pressure and spontaneous sweating, chest pain, heart attack, panic attack. These are some pretty serious signs and symptoms yet it is treated with the simple combination of two herbs in a 2:1 ratio.


Maine statute describing the organization, general powers and duties of the public utilities commission.
Maine – 35-A ME. REV. STAT. §§ 101-122, Public Utilities – Public Utilities Commission – General Powers (1987).
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Audiophiles dream of something that can blow them away with the sheer sound quality and power and Zu's new flagship speaker called Dominance. Yes it is an extremely dominant force, and has the ability to knock you off you feet quite literally! The speakers feature a TFFFT array of two tweeters alongside three paralleled widebanders which have been placed inside a concave aluminum baffle. Hiding away is a huge 15-inch downfiring woofer. Priced at $40,000the speakers offer 101dB efficiency with 6-ohm impedance, and the sound bandwidth is listed at 14Hz – 20kHz with a power handling capacity of 2 to 900 watts.


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Boy loses toy cheetah along interstate, asks Rhode Island State Police for help
Updated: 7:54 AM PDT Jun 20, 2018
Rhode Island State Police
Will Ketcher hugs a stuffed animal that he received from Rhode Island State Police.
SOURCE: Rhode Island State Police
A boy who lost a stuffed animal on a highway had the Rhode Island State Police pick up his case.Four-year-old Will Ketcher was riding in a car when his stuffed cheetah, Roger, fell out the window onto Interstate 95. Heartbroken, his dad suggested they write to the state police after the family returned home to Brooklyn.The letter began: "Dear Rhode Island State Highway Patrol, I lost my Roger ... can you please find him?"Cpl. Lawens Fevrier told WPRI-TV, "We were all 4 years old at one time in our lives." Patrols found no sign of Roger.But state police sent the boy a package explaining they did find another cheetah who wanted to live in New York, who they also made a trooper.___Information from: WPRI-TV, http://www.wpri.com
A boy who lost a stuffed animal on a highway had the Rhode Island State Police pick up his case.
Four-year-old Will Ketcher was riding in a car when his stuffed cheetah, Roger, fell out the window onto Interstate 95. Heartbroken, his dad suggested they write to the state police after the family returned home to Brooklyn.
The letter began: "Dear Rhode Island State Highway Patrol, I lost my Roger ... can you please find him?"
Cpl. Lawens Fevrier told WPRI-TV, "We were all 4 years old at one time in our lives." Patrols found no sign of Roger.
But state police sent the boy a package explaining they did find another cheetah who wanted to live in New York, who they also made a trooper.
Information from: WPRI-TV, http://www.wpri.com


The owner of a now-closed metal sign company in Kent faces a $10,000 fine from the Washington Department of Ecology for disregarding an order to properly manage and dispose of potentially hazardous waste at the site.
Ecology inspectors documented numerous issues at a leased business property, vacated in January 2015 by Western Metal Art and Sign, at 1505 South Central Ave. King County's Industrial Waste Program referred the case to Ecology earlier this year.
21 drums of unlabeled waste materials.
Four open containers of waste, two of which were outdoors.
Dozens of containers of 1- to 5-gallon containers of undesignated waste.
Absorbent material used on a rust-colored liquid and left on floors throughout a large part of the facility.
Tanks and totes containing unknown liquids.
In August 2015, Ecology ordered the company to evaluate within 30 days whether waste materials still on the property should be identified as hazardous waste. If so, Ecology's order directed the company to follow state requirements for storing and disposing of the waste.
The company has not complied with Ecology's order, and the business owner remains liable for managing the waste even though Western Metal Art and Sign is no longer in business.
Penalties issued by Ecology may be appealed within 30 days of receipt to the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board.


With the rise in need in the hospitality and the management field, in this very touristic front country of Nepal, evolved the career in hotel management. There are certain criteria in the field of hospitality which cannot be addressed by the workforce in the modern global world and that is where a student of Hospitality management will be best-made use of.
Front desk, housekeeping, room boy, bell boy, customer service, travel, ticketing, marketing, tour guides, bus operators are amongst few prospects of studying Bachelors in Hospitality management, commonly known as Bachelors in Hotel Management (BHM) in Nepal.
Bachelor in hospitality and tourism management is a very practical and rigorous management degree which quips and educates the student in management and hospitality discipline. The main intention of BHTM course in Nepal is to quip students with all required knowledge to make them competent, competitive to succeed in hospitality and management oriented career.
BHTM is a very practical and extensive course of study and is a fully fledged 4 years bachelor course. In order to attain a bachelor degree in BHTM in Nepal, a student requires 26 credits of foundation courses, 30 credits of core management courses, 70 credits of core hospitality courses and 6 credits of practical courses combined with report writing.
Passing Kathmandu University Undergraduate Management Admission Test (KUUMAT).
Scores on written English Test, Interview and Group Discussion conducted by the College. Please note that during the final selection interview candidates have to be accompanied by their parents or guardians.
Successful completion of 10+2 with 2nd division from Institution recognized by Tribhuvan University (TU).
Candidate should be present physically during the admission procedure.
What are the scopes after completing bhm ??And what next after bhm ?? Masters??
After completing Bhm you can work in various sectors like; Hotel and restaurant, cruise line, airline catering and cabin services, club management, catering institutes, forest lodges, Private and public hotel and tourism associations, catering departments in railway, hospital, arm force, banks and many more. Hospitality industry has large scope. And after Bhm you can study Mhm for Upper level managerial post or for your further career development.


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Home » Crime » Jane Laut, Convicted killer – 'Why I killed my olympian husband'
Jane Laut, Convicted killer – 'Why I killed my olympian husband'
Posted on May 15, 2016 by konniemoments in Crime // 0 Comments
Death of an Olympian Dave Laut, Self-defense or murder? His wife convicted for the murder claims self defense in an interview, but his family is calling her a liar
Jane Laut, 52, shot her husband, then called 911 to report an intruder
She was convicted of 2009 shooting death of husband Dave
In her first TV interview, Jane Laut reveals why she shot her husband
Claims self-defense because Dave threatened to kill her and their 10-year-old adopted son, , on night of murder
Maintains it was the boiling point after suffering verbal, physical and sexual abuse at his hands throughout their marriage
His family remains adamant that Jane is a liar
Faces a mandatory sentence of 50 years to life in prison
Jane, Dave and Michael Lau
It was shortly after midnight on Aug. 28, 2009, and in Oxnard, California, Jane Laut was frantically telling a 911 dispatcher that her husband, Dave, may just have been shot by an intruder.
The 911 dispatcher asks her "911 emergency, this is Gaye Lynn, what are you reporting?"
She responds: "There were shots"
Dispatcher: "You heard shots being fired?"
Jane Laut: "Yes"
Dave's younger brother, Don, and his wife, Rebecca, were asleep in their home when they got the call.
"When the phone rings that early, you know, it's -" said Rebecca Laut.
"Yeah, something's not right," added Don Laut.
Voicemail recording: Hi, this is Detective Sonya Sanchez …
"But we kinda laid there frozen," Rebecca continued, "and let it go to voicemail."
Jane Laut called her brother, Hank Laubacher:
Jane Laut phone call: Dave heard a noise in the backyard and he went out and I heard some shots. And — the police are here.
Audio was recorded of first responders to the crime scene that night:
Police officer: Who saw him last?
Jane Laut: I did.
Officers found Dave Laut dead in the side yard.
"From a distance — I observed … Dave's body and he had two very close-proximity gunshot wounds," lead Detective Mike Young said. "One was to the back of his head… And there was a second very close-proximity gunshot wound to the back of his right shoulder."
"I hit the floor and I was in tears. My — my Superman was gone," said Don Laut.
Not long after the shooting, Jane was questioned by Oxnard homicide detectives about what she said happened.
Jane said that while their 10-year-old son, Michael, was asleep in his bed, her husband heard a noise out back. according to her statement during the interrogations
"… her husband, Dave Laut, had gone outside to investigate, that she had gone out briefly with him. He told her to go back in the house, and that she had heard gunshots, and that Dave had not come back into the home," said Det. Young.
That, Jane said, is when she called 911.
"How did you first hear that something had happened to your son?" " Dotty Laut, Dave's mother was asked
"It was about 5:00 in the morning. The doorbell rang," she replied. "And then knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. …It was Jane's brother, Hank … and Hank said, 'Jane and Michael are OK, but Dave's dead.'"
Dotty Laut was devastated, but relieved that Michael and Jane were safe. Jane had been a beloved part of the Laut family for over 30 years.
Wedding day for Jane and Dave Laut
Back in 1980, Dave was a hometown hero who had set shot put records and was destined for Olympic fame. His biggest supporter was the young woman who was about to become his wife.
"I mean, if you knew Dave and the kind of person he was and the way he beamed when he talked about Jane and how he had her up so high on this pedestal, I mean, he just — he loved her," said Rebecca Laut.
"They met in high school," Don Laut said. "She was a homecoming queen and he was you know, one of the big studs in high school."
"She was a nice girl. I loved her all these years, I did," said Dotty Laut.
Jane Laut spoke to Moriarty in her first TV interview.
"Do you remember your wedding day, were you happy that day -" Moriarty asked Jane.
"I was. I was really happy. You know, it was really special," she replied.
"They had a good, strong friendship, and something that I always thought, 'You know, I want to have a marriage like that,'" said Rebecca Laut.
Olympian and home town hero, Dave Laut
But the marriage faced challenges. In 1984, Dave Laut finally won an Olympic medal — but it was bronze. Everyone was proud, but Dave was determined to win the gold the '88 games. And then while training, Dave tore tendons in both of his knees and forever lost his chance at the gold.
"He tried, but he couldn't come back," said Dotty Laut.
"He then became a teacher," Moriarty noted. "Did he like teaching?"
"He loved it, he did," Dotty Laut replied, pointing to his athletic director jacket. "It was his dream job."Jane and Dave seemed to settle into their new life and tried to have a family. When Jane couldn't get pregnant, the couple adopted a baby boy from South Korea and named him Michael.
"We had happy times. Time right before Michael arrived was good. And right up 'til Michael was probably 5 was the best time of our marriage. And it just — it just started going downhill. And it — got worse and worse every year," she said, her voice breaking.
But no one seemed to know how bad.
Back at the Laut home, Detective Young made a stunning discovery that would change everything.
"You found the weapon, didn't you?" Moriarty asked.
"I did," he replied.
"Inside the grandfather clock that was in the living room of the house," the detective said. "I walked over … opened the door, and looked inside, and there was a gun underneath the weights."
Dave Laut had been shot with his own 22 caliber, single-action revolver — the kind of gun you see in cowboy movies.
The weapon is heavy and an effort to use. In a demonstration, gun expert Nabil Khattar showed Moriarty that the hammer must be cocked for every shot.
Six shots were fired at Dave Laut that night, and according to authorities, all six hit their target.
"And the gunshots that people heard, were they, 'boom, boom, boom, boom?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"They were — separated — as I recall by about a second a shot. So, 'boom — boom — boom — boom," he replied.
Just hours after being interviewed by police — before she even knew they'd found the gun — Jane changed her story. Now she said it was self defense, and hired attorney Ron Bamieh.
"There's no dispute that she wanted him dead that night. Yeah. It was gonna be him or her," said Bamieh.
Jane, Dave and Michael Laut
Dotty Laut
Jane says it was when her husband also threatened to kill their 10-year-old son, Michael, that she felt she had no choice.
"I think if it didn't happen, we would both be dead," she said.
But even then, it would be nearly six months before Jane Laut was arrested, and then, she would be released on bond for six years until her trial finally began.
"Why? Why'd it take so long?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"Because knowing the who is only half the story," he replied."We wanted to try and figure out if there was a legitimate why."
"So why do you think she killed your son?" Moriarty asked Dotty Laut.
"My personal feeling is that she was afraid Dave was gonna take Michael," she replied.
Jane's tale of the homicide
Jane Laut says she never planned to kill her husband.
"I thought I — for sure — it was the only way to stop him. You — you don't get how he — he would not stop coming after me," she said.
She was used to abuse, she says, but that night Jane says Dave went further than he ever had.
"Normally he'd get mad and it would taper off sometimes. But he never stopped all night. He just kept … raging," she said, her voice low and breaking throughout the interview.
Jane claims she first noticed Dave's temper when they were dating and Dave was going for the gold.
"There were signals I didn't really pay attention to before," she explained. "Just his anger, his [pauses] you know, if something didn't go right, if he couldn't find something, if he's throwing away a shot and it doesn't go as far as he wants, he's just losing his temper."
The first time Dave hit her, Jane says, was also shortly after they were married. Dave was going out of town to an Olympic training session and it was Jane's job to pack his bags.
"He was leaving for a trip and I forgot to buy something. …It was, like, bathroom supplies… And– and he hit — hit me. And — I had, like — black eye and my lip was split," she said. "And — he told me that if anybody asks, tell 'em some n—-r did it."
And that, says Jane, is exactly what she told everyone.
"I told 'em somebody had mugged me. A black person mugged me," she explained.
But Jane admits that was not the norm. Instead, she describes a pattern of mostly emotional and psychological abuse.
"How often would there be incidents? And what would they involve?" Moriarty asked.
"It was mostly verbal abuse," she replied.
"What would he call you?"
"Well, stupid, idiot, fat, bitch, n—–r, Jew, c–t," said Jane.
Asked how often would that happen, Jane told Moriarty, "The last two years it was all the time."
Jane also says that Dave would taunt her and their young son, Michael, with his vast gun collection and claims that he even made her play Russian roulette.
"He wanted to see how lucky I could be. And he kept trying to make me hold the gun. And I wouldn't do it," she explained.
Dave and Michael Laut
Laut family
The older Michael got, says Jane, the more unreasonable Dave became.
"There's so many times I should've called the police and I didn't. And I so regret that, especially the times when Michael was involved. I can't believe I let him stay in danger like that," she said.
"Why did you stay?" Moriarty asked.
"I always thought it would get better," she said.
Yet, she says, she was still unprepared for what happened on the night of Aug. 27, 2009. When Jane and Michael returned home late from a day at the beach, she says Dave exploded.
"I didn't ask Dave anything about his day. I didn't. That just started it, that we didn't ask him. We didn't respect him," she said.
Jane put their 10-year-old to sleep early and did what she had been doing for two years — crawled into bed with her son.
"Why were you sleeping in Michael's room?" Moriarty asked.
"Because he was scared," she said.
"Michael was scared?"
"Dave would stay up — in the living room … and he'd been drinking all — night. And he's just raging at whatever. It's the TV. It's — something, an e-mail," Jane explained.
"That would happen every night?
"Almost every night," said Jane.
Jane says she was in Michael's room when she heard Dave raging in the hallway, and got up to try and calm him. "He just started just swearing at me and I kept telling him I was sorry. And … he started to come down towards Michael's room," she said. "And I saw the gun in his hand."
She says she focused on diverting Dave away from Michael and drawing him out of the house.
"We went onto the side of the house. And we stumbled," Jane explained. "I don't know if we were falling or just, like, moving. But I felt one gunshot go off, and then we did fall. And I was, like, straddling him and I honestly don't remember after that."
Five more shots were fired.
"When you got up, you had to realize he was dead," Moriarty remarked.
"I didn't think he was. Honestly. I mean I saw him. I remember seeing his socks. I just thought for sure he's gonna jump up and run after me," said Jane.
"But if you were terrified, why didn't you right away, then, tell the 911 operator, 'Oh, my God, he tried to kill me, and he's gonna come back in?" Moriarty asked.
"I don't know," Jane said. "I can't explain why."\
Jane Laut
The District Attorney's Office offered a deal: plead to manslaughter and agree to a six-year prison term. But Jane did the unimaginable; she turned it down.
"I felt if I took the plea nobody would know what really happened. It would be like accepting what the prosecution said happened that night. It would be like accepting that they said there was no abuse with Michael or me," she explained.
"She's full of baloney," Dotty Laut laughed. "She's lied so many times. All her — as I look back and think back, so many lies."
The Laut family now says the woman they embraced as part of the family is a pathological liar and a cold-blooded killer.
"Rebecca, you once said to me that there are two faces of Jane, what do you mean by that?" Moriarty asked.
"Jane likes to portray herself as very meek and quiet and shy," she replied.
"Then there's another part of her that's — 'F the world' and 'F everything. I'm gonna do what I want to do,'" said Rebecca Laut.
"'I don't care who I hurt or in some cases, kill,'" said Don Laut.
Was Dave Laut — the hometown hero, beloved coach and high school athletic director — secretly abusing his wife at home? Oxnard Homicide Detective Mike Young was determined to find out.
"We spent … five or six months doing dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews with friends and family … seeing if anyone was aware of any domestic violence issues," Det. Young explained. "The direct neighbor, right next door — who was a ex-LA County deputy. …I specifically asked him … if there any domestic issues, and he said, 'Absolutely not. I would've seen that.'"
Dave's brother, Don and his wife, Rebecca, in interviews, were adamant: they never witnessed or heard about any abuse.
"Did Jane ever tell you that — that Dave hit her? Moriarty asked the couple.
"Never," they replied in unison.
Asked if Dave pushed Jane or was verbally abusive, Rebecca Laut said, "Never."
"Did you ever see her with any kind of bruises?" Moriarty asked.
"No, never," said Don Laut.
"Never ever," said Rebecca Laut.
Jane Laut tells detectives her husband was shot by an intruder
Even Jane, on the night of the shooting, denied any abuse in her marriage: What's more, Jane didn't look like someone who had been in a battle for her life; there were no fresh scratches on Dave or Jane.
"She had two small — maybe nickel-sized, or so, older bruises … on the inside of her left bicep, that were greenish and yellowish … as if they were in the late stages of healing," said Det. Young.
Young says that evidence collected from the scene tells a different story. He says Jane followed Dave out into the side yard holding a flashlight in one hand, and the gun in the other, and then she took a shot from behind.
"The first shot was fired from a distance, striking him on the left part of his head, above his left ear," he explained, pointing to the back of his head. "Then the next two shots, we believe, are contact wounds on the side of his face. And then there's another gunshot wound, … while he's down on the ground, is at least four-to-six feet away. …And then … you've got two more, one in the back of his shoulder … and the sixth shot that we believe was the gunshot wound to the back of the head, which is the fatal gunshot."
And because the gun was a single-action revolver, Det. Young says every shot shows premeditation.
"She had to physically, manually, cock that firearm each time she shot him," he said.
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According to the Laut family, unbelievable stories were nothing new for Jane.
"She told me one time that a man died in her arms at the bank. She told me another time that she was held up at knife point at the grocery store," said Rebecca.
"Was that true?" Moriarty asked.
"I don't think so, but it was Jane, so you kinda just say, "Oh, OK," she replied.
Jane Laut fatally shot her husband but is she lying about it, even after her conviction?
But Jane now says all those stories were to cover for Dave's abuse.
"Is it possible she did make up these stories about a stalker and an attack to cover up injuries that her husband gave her?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"Well, I guess it's possible.You know, I don't know. I find it convenient," he replied.
Another secret police uncovered? It turns out, Jane and Dave were deeply in debt. Rebecca Laut blames Jane.
"She was the one in charge of the finances," Rebecca said. "I don't think Dave knew that she hadn't paid her taxes in three or four years. I don't believe he knew that they were behind on their mortgage."
And Dave may not have known that Jane had borrowed nearly $60,000 from his own mother.
"She would say 'I need X amount of dollars for a doctor bill. I need X amount of dollars – oh, I have to pay some tuition,'" Dotty Laut told Moriarty. "I just–just gave it to her."
A large sum of money went missing from the parent teacher association at Michael's school, where Jane was the treasurer.
"She told Dotty that she needed $25,000, otherwise the bank was gonna basically foreclose on the home. And it turns out that she took that $25,000 check, deposited it in the bank, cashed out $20,000 the next day, and deposited it into the parent club account," said Det. Young.
Jane again says she was covering for Dave, who had thrown the money into the fireplace in a fit of anger.
"But you had to borrow $20,000. He didn't burn all that, did he?" Moriarty asked Jane.
"No," she replied. "There was some I used because the house payments were two months, three months behind. So I paid for that."
But where was all the money going?
"I don't know. I paid for household bills. I paid for groceries and I'd pay for tuition. I know Dave ordered a lot of stuff," said Jane.
"I know, but we're talking about thousands of dollars," Moriarty noted.
"I don't know," Jane replied.
"We hired a forensic accountant who went through everything, and I think that their conclusion was that she was just a reckless spender," said Det. Young. Rebecca and Don Laut say they are just as puzzled.
"We have since found out that Dave's wages were being garnished because, apparently, there was issues with the IRS. …Maybe he found out that day that his wages were being garnished and he went home and asked," Rebecca Laut said. "I honestly think that he was fixing to leave. I — I truly believe that he was done with the whole financial thing."
Rebecca and Don both say the terrible shooting and Jane's story of abuse came completely out of the blue.
"She told me a lot about their relationship, very personal things about their relationship, so I know that if that was happening, she would have said something to me," said Rebecca Laut.
But as "48 Hours" has learned since this interview, Rebecca might know more about Jane and Dave's marriage than she told us. In a phone call with Det. Young just five days after Dave's death in 2009, Rebecca admitted Jane confided in her:
And she may not have been the only one who knew about the verbal abuse.
Could there have been signs of physical abuse?
Still, Rebecca insists that Jane never mentioned any physical abuse, and says that with all she's learned, she now believes that Jane lied about it all.
"Do you think that Dave's mother or your sister-in-law knew this was going on?" Moriarty asked Jane.
"They knew a lot. They did," she replied. "They knew what was going on."
As the date for Jane Laut's murder trial approached, Dave's family feared what they would have to hear. In her defense, Jane would be testifying that her husband, the Olympian hero, was also a sadistic abuser.
"Rebecca, what if the jury believes her?" Moriarty asked.
"I mean, it's gonna be a horrible day, but –" Rebecca Laut replied.
"What are you gonna do?" added Don Laut.
On Jan. 11, 2016, more than six years after Jane Laut shot her husband, the trial finally began. Cameras were only permitted for opening and closing statements.
Ventura County Senior Deputy District Attorney Rameen Minoui began to lay out the State's case against Jane Laut — shot by shot.
"On August 27th, 2009, this defendant took this Ruger new model single six revolver and she followed her husband of 29 years to the side yard and she shot him with this gun," Minoui addressed the court, holding the weapon.
The shooting was premeditated, Minoui said, because Jane had reasons to want her husband dead: approximately $300,000 worth of insurance benefits, and the fear of a contentious divorce.
"Several weeks before the murder, Dave Laut was researching divorce on his laptop," Minoui continued in court.
"He was looking up divorce lawyers?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"Yeah, there was some web activity of divorce lawyer research," he replied.
"There's … research done on the computer, looking up divorce attorneys," Moriarty told Jane.
"Uh-huh," she affirmed. "I didn't know that … It was on his laptop, I guess."
"Did he threaten to leave you?"
"No. Never talked about it," said Jane.
But the computer evidence was only one part of the state's case. Investigators insist Jane was never in danger the night of the shooting and that she lied to police from the start. Minoui even showed the jury the grandfather clock where Jane hid the gun after she killed her husband.
"You said there was no sign of a struggle out in the back?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"No," he replied.
"Was there any sign that there had been any kind of fight inside the house?"
"What about on Jane?" Moriarty asked the detective. "She had nothing on her face. During the interview, Detective Mora actually noted that she had a small nick on one of her hands. He asked her how she'd gotten that — and she attributed it to her cat," he replied.
The defense has never denied that Jane shot Dave that night. But attorney Ron Bamieh has always said she had no choice.
"There's no sophisticated plan here," Bamieh said. "If you really wanted to kill the guy, you don't do it in your house with your kid 20 feet away."
"What evidence is there that he was the aggressor that night?" Moriarty asked.
"The bruising on Jane," said Bamieh.
Bamieh showed the jury photos, taken the morning after the shooting, of a large bruise on Jane's left arm — an injury she says she sustained while struggling with Dave over the gun.
"According to the detective that saw her naked, the only bruises on her, in her arm were these two old, green bruises," said Det. Young.
"But it's possible," Moriarty pointed out, "a bruise can develop with time."
"Sure, it can. …but I don't believe it," Det. Young said. "You're in this knock-down, drag-out fight for your life; no injuries on your face, no injuries on your breasts."
An emotional Jane Laut spent six days on the stand, trying to convince the jury she had suffered years of abuse, and had no choice but to kill her husband after he threatened her and their son.
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Having turned down five plea deals, Jane had only one option now. If she wanted the jury to understand why she did what she did that night, she had to tell them herself.
"How difficult was it to testify at trial?" Moriarty asked Jane.
"It was awful, but it felt kinda good," she replied. "It felt almost a relief that it would be over."
"She sobbed through most of her testimony," said Marjorie Hernandez , a reporter for the Ventura County Star and a consultant for "48 Hours."
Hernandez says all eyes in the courtroom were on Jane.
"This was her opportunity to … tell jurors 'this is what I was going through behind closed doors for 29 years in this marriage,'" she said.
It took two days as Bamieh walked Jane through a harrowing tale of abuse and even sexual assault at the hands of her husband.
"That guy sexually, physically, and verbally abused her for years, did things to her that are just awful, just awful," he told Moriarty.
Which explains, says Jane, why she felt she had to kill her husband on that August night.
"He pushed me up against the door jamb. And it was just like yelling in my face, telling me how much he's sick of this and that he was gonna blow Michael's f—-n' little head off," she said.
When the prosecutor finally stood up to question Jane, the first thing he wanted to know was why didn't she ever call out for help?
"Did anyone hear anyone screaming, yelling?" Moriarty asked Det. Young.
"Nothing. The only thing that was heard were gunshots by several of the neighbors," he replied.
"You can understand, people wonder why you didn't scream for help if he's trying to kill you," Moriarty noted to Jane.
"I never scream," she said.
Minoui also pressed Jane on why she can't recall the actual shooting.
"You don't remember anything? Is it just a blank?" Moriarty asked Jane.
"Yeah. It is. I — I mean I don't — I remember the first shot. And I–" she replied.
"Do you remember pulling the trigger on the first shot?"
"Unh-uh," she said, shaking her head no. "I just remember feeling it."
"But I mean it takes more than that. You have to pull a trigger and- pull the hammer back. I mean it takes a real effort to shoot that gun," said Moriarty.
"I don't remember that. I mean I block it out," said Jane.
To bolster Jane's defense, Bamieh called witnesses who also testified that Dave had a dark side, and said that looking back, they missed telltale signs.
"They saw signs of his temper. They saw signs of him being very aggressive. They saw signs of him yelling at Jane," Bamieh told Moriarty. "They saw that. They would — people would be disgusted by it. But nobody would say anything."
But the prosecution had witnesses too: friends and family who never saw signs of violence, and described Dave Laut as a loving family man and true hometown hero.
"He was not the monster that they tried to portray him to be. He was a good guy. He cared about other people," Dotty Laut said of her son.
Michael Laut, now 17, testified that his father had a bad temper, yelled a lot and called him names sometimes. When the prosecutor, Rameen Minoui, asked him if his father was ever violent with him or Jane, he said he couldn't recall.
Jane and Dave's son, Michael — now 17 — testified on his mother's behalf. His father had a bad temper, yelled a lot and called him names sometimes, he said. But when asked by the prosecutor if his father was ever violent with him or Jane, Michael said he couldn't recall.
"Do I think that there was absolutely no domestic violence in that house? I don't know. I can't say for 100 percent. I didn't live in that house. I'm very certain that the level of abuse, if it did exist, was nowhere near to the degree that she testified to," said Det. Young.
One person who did not testify was Dave's sister-in-law, Rebecca Laut. So jurors never heard the call between her and Detective Young.
Because Rebecca now believes Jane was lying, the defense never called her to testify.
"She once told me, towards the end, she was complaining about Dave … And she says, 'You know, sometimes I think that we'd be better off without him,'" said Rebecca Laut.
The final witness called by Bamieh was the executive director of Los Angeles County's Domestic Abuse Center, Gail Pincus.
"She thinks like a woman, she acted like a battered woman," Pincus told "48 Hours."
Pincus says that all of Jane's seemingly odd behavior — like lying to everyone including the police — is actually a classic symptom of battered woman syndrome.
"There's all of these things going through her head at the same time, none of which are logical and none of which make sense unless you understand the degree of fear and the degree of trauma," Pincus explained.
After two months, the case was about to go to the jury, when Jane Laut took one final gamble.
"We're all in. We're all in," Bamieh said in his closing.
Murder one wasn't the jury's only option. They could also choose to convict Jane of a lesser charge of manslaughter or, if they thought it was justifiable homicide, they could set her free. Jane insisted that Bamieh tell the jury: it's all or nothing.
"If it's self-defense, it's not voluntary manslaughter," Bamieh told jurors. "And don't think for one second I don't know what I'm sayin'. It's not a crazy risk at all. You either believe it 100 percent or you don't."
"Why? It was such a big gamble," Moriarty asked Jane.
"It just made — it just — because it's the truth," she replied.
WHAT WILL A JURY DECIDE?
Over six years have passed since Olympian Dave Laut was shot and killed by someone his family once loved: Jane Laut.
Dave and Jane Laut
"It's been a long, long, horrible haul, said Rebecca Laut.
"It's heartbreaking. For me, it's heartbreaking. Because I loved both of them. I mean I loved him because he was my brother. But I loved her too, she was like a sister to me," said Don Laut. But as they wait for a verdict, their love has turned to anger.
"She's a murderer and she's a desperate woman trying to get herself off," Rebecca Laut said. "We would like to see her put away for life, because she took a life."
And now what matters most is what 12 strangers think of Jane: The jury can convict her of murder, the lesser crime of voluntary manslaughter, or they can decide Jane killed in self-defense and acquit her of any crime.
As the jury deliberates, Ron Bamieh remains optimistic.
"I'm very confident a jury's not gonna convict her of first- or second-degree murder," he said. "I can predict these things. I haven't been wrong yet in one of my cases, in terms of what a jury's gonna do."
"So it's gonna come down to either voluntary manslaughter or acquittal?" Moriarty asked.
Right. We either walk outta that courtroom together. Or we don't," said Bamieh.
For Jane, the waiting is unbearable.
"It was awful. I was just trying to be positive, but scared to death," she told Moriarty.
At stake is more time with her son.
"You know, I had to tell Michael that if I'm found guilty that I'm remanded right away. I won't come home," she said.
After nearly four days of deliberating, a decision: guilty of first-degree murder.
"I was pretty shocked, honestly. I tried to prepare myself for everything. But I was surprised," Jane said of the verdict.
And in a poignant twist, it is Bamieh — once so confident the jury would believe his client — who needs to be consoled.
"It just was like somebody punched you in the gut," he said.
"Jane ended up consoling you?" Moriarty asked.
"Yeah she did. That's Jane Laut," said Bamieh.
Dave's mother Dotty Laut was in the courtroom.
"I was afraid that she was gonna get acquitted," she told Moriarty. "And then when she wasn't, it shocked me. …I cried. And I don't know if I cried because she was found guilty or because it was over."
The verdict is no victory.
"I mean Jane's been part of your life for over 30 years," said Moriarty.
"That's right. It's why I — I lost a son. I lost a daughter. And I guess I've lost a grandson, too. I don't know if I'll ever get to see him again," Dotty Laut replied.
Michael has been living with Jane's brother and sister-in-law since Jane was arrested and let out on bond.
"Do you miss him?" Moriarty asked.
"Terribly," she cried. "I know he's OK. I mean, I know he's safe."
Photo: CBS News
Jane Laut is escorted from the courtroom after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
But Jane, who turned down that last plea deal of serving a maximum of six years in prison, may never be free to be with her son– because she is facing a mandatory sentence of 50 years to life.
"For Jane Laut, who's in her late50s, this is truly a life sentence," Moriarty noted.
"She will die in prison. Yes," said Bamieh.
"Maybe they can find something I did wrong or I should've done better, that could be grounds for a new trial. But the odds are, you know, you get what, two percent of cases like this are overturned on appeal," he said.
"Do you have any regrets?" Moriarty asked Jane.
"Well, of course," she said. "I mean, I regret that it happened. You know, I killed my husband. But Michael's alive. I think if it didn't happen, we both would be dead."


When the dust settles at the end of 2009, who stands to gain in terms of server sales? One theory is that Dell's price-shopping customers were the first to cut their budgets, and they will be the first to start buying again. Here's how Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems stand to fare in the x86 space.
Nobody's going to argue with the fact that x86 server sales were dismal in 2009. Blame it on a combination of a recession that tightened IT budgets together with the effects of virtualization and server consolidation and purchase delays.
But what will 2010 look like for VARs looking to sell server hardware to customers? Plenty of people in the industry have high hopes for server sales next year due to the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. And server manufacturers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of 2010, talking about a big PC refresh next year during their recent earnings calls.
But Bob Gill, managing director of server research at TheInfoPro, says while some spending will rebound, there won't be huge growth, in the server market particularly. Servers enjoyed big sales during 2007 and 2008, he says, and there's a lot of capacity out there still. Nevertheless, the vendor most likely to gain in the server space in the short term is Dell.
"I show a good rebound for Dell late this year and in early 2010," says Gill. "Their price-sensitive customers were the first to tail off in spending" so they will be the first to return. HP will not see as good a rebound, he predicts.
Meanwhile, IBM has dropped off the map in terms of x86 sales, says Gill.
"They've put a lot more emphasis on the higher-margin big-box server, and x86 seems to be an afterthought for them, so a lot of their customers have moved over to Dell or HP," says Gill. "They've fallen from No. 1 in the market to a distant third. HP has left IBM in the dust."
Gill notes that Lenovo, which licenses IBM's x86 server technology, was selling the same product cheaper than IBM at a recent trade show. "What would you buy?" he asks.
As for Sun Microsystems, Gill says he believes it will have "a really bad year next year."
While sequential quarterly server sales overall have been on the rise, the comparisons are to the deep gully in the market created during the recession and year-over-year comparisons are still dropping, according to analyst company IDC. However, IDC says that server sales are gaining momentum and will continue to do so for 2010 as new chips from Intel and AMD and new software from Microsoft drive sales.


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› changing space Lucy lectured at The Informational City, a London Design Festival event at the London College of Communication.
London is a city full of visible and invisible layers of information and of digital and analogue spaces. New technologies have prompted designers to question the use of traditional communication methods (e.g. posters, billboards), as well as the ways in which design and motion might be more effective in its mediation of information. The way information is sent, received and mediated presents new challenges and opportunities.
Now in its third year, The Informational City lecture programme makes visible the different ways in which design and architecture interfaces with digital and analogue technologies and how we might begin to address information networks for the 21st century.
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Various - Bad Boy 20th Anniversary Box Set
Puffy and pals look back in time...
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Even if you ignore the fact that Bad Boy was established in 1993, now seems an odd time for the label to release a retrospective box set. Since 2012, only five records have been put out under the Bad Boy imprint, one of their acts (Bow Wow) has just announced his retirement, and their roster is looking a lot thinner than their mid-'90s heyday.
Bad Boy's time as a label can be split into three distinct sections: the cutting-edge hip-hop of the 1990s, the chart-chasing R&B of the early '00s, and the scrabbling for relevance of everything since. Two decades ago, Bad Boy was truly at the forefront of rap. Even a distinctly average MC like Puff Daddy was transformed thanks to the talent he was surrounded with. Their work was sample-heavy, but the riffs chosen were perfect examples of how to update the past. By the turn of the century, producers like Timbaland and Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins had made futuristic R&B the sound of the times and, thanks to acts such as Cassie, Bad Boy was invited to the party. Ever since, however, it's been further diminishing returns and, the exceptional Janelle Monáe aside, it's difficult to think of a Bad Boy act making truly exciting music. Let's face it, French Montana ain't Biggie.
Unsurprisingly, The Notorious B.I.G. dominates all aspects of this 80-track collection. The Biggie hits – 'Juicy', 'Hypnotize', 'Big Poppa', 'Mo Money Mo Problems' – are the collection's best cuts and, despite them being amongst the oldest songs here, they sound the freshest.
Sensibly, this boxset isn't in chronological order. It's no exaggeration to say everything from the last decade could be omitted without the quality significantly dipping. There aren't really hidden gems here; the strongest tracks are the ones you've known for years. There are blasts from the past in the shape of acts you haven't thought of for years – some welcome (Ma$e), some not so welcome (112) – but they're still not enough to justify such an exhaustive collection.
The 'Bad Boy 20th Anniversary Box Set' is a fascinating document inasmuch that it chronicles a label immediately hitting upon an imperial period then, like an addict constantly trying to recapture the feeling of that first fix, struggling to ever hit those highs again. It'll inspire you to dig out your copies of 'Ready To Die' and 'Life After Death', true, but it's evidence that Bad Boy needs huge changes if it's ever going to be exciting and relevant again.
Words: Joe Rivers
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