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By Chen Yingqun ( China Daily) Fleurot says transparency is a new law because people can have access to all kinds of information, so trying to hide something is the wrong strategy.自存倉 Provided to China Daily Olivier Fleurot has always been open to change. Trained as an engineer, he ended up managing newspapers and is now developing a global public relations network."There's no longer such a thing as 'forever' and nor should there be. The world we live in is going through a radical transformation," he wrote in a recent article Don't Welcome Change, Be the Change.Fleurot, chief executive officer of MSLGROUP, a Publicis Group company, was in Beijing recently sharing his insights about communication and marketing on social media in the digital age."Asia in general, which is mainly China and India, will represent about 30 percent of our business, which is almost as much as the US. It is growing the most. It has seen about a 20 percent growth rate every year. It will become more and more important in the future," he says.Three years ago his company had 50 staff in China. Now the number is more than 800.Fleurot was born in France in 1952. His father was a pilot in the French Air Force, which meant the family moved home almost every two years."I had to learn quickly about the new environment, new schools, new teachers. I had to build relationships with new people all the time. It certainly opened my mind," he says.In 1978, he made the first significant turn in his career by returning to Paris and becoming a journalist, covering the high-tech industry for leading French business newspaper Les Echos. That job gave him opportunities to meet pioneers in the second wave of the personal computer and software industry, including Bill Gates.In 1984, he changed path again against the advice of family and friends, resigning from the newspaper to join Control X, a 10-person startup that produced software for the newly launched Macintosh 128K. Fleurot says it was the best choice he ever made.From there Fleurot changed career yet again, moving into marketing and progressing through a successful career that included stints as a CEO at Les Echos Group and later at the Financial Times Group from 1999 to 2006."That move in 1984 was very risky," he says. "But, although I really enjoyed being a journalist and I have a lot of respect for serious journalism, I was probably more of an entrepreneur than a commentator. I was right to follow my instincts." Fleurot says that a passion for technology has helped him to become an expert at adapting businesses to the digital era."I think you are good in your job when you are really interested in much of what you do, so when I have moved, it is because I lost my passion. I was trying to get a new challenge to rekindle my passion," he says.Communication and marketing have changed dramatically since Fleurot's early days in the business and he has embraced new technology. "My generation, when we started to work, we had no mobile phone, no Web, nothing," he says. "Now we have a lot. I think we have to learn how to use these tools in an efficient way. I've been interested in technology all my life. It's natural for me to be interested in technology anyway." Technology has reduced the power of traditional media and put it in the hands of different people and communication platforms, according to Fleurot."Now it is very dif迷你倉新蒲崗erent, because you can do it on the Web and reach a large audience almost with no cost, if you have a very interesting blog or a lot of followers and fans. That's a huge difference," he says.Companies have to engage their audience in a different way, he adds."Today you have less control, because people are having conversations, on your ground, on your brand, on your company," he says. "You have to engage with them, which means you have to be part of the conversation." The first step is listening to these conversations and then deciding which are the most influential voices, Fleurot says. This used to be easy because it was limited to traditional media - television, newspapers and magazines - but today the options are far larger and more diverse.Speed of communication has changed drastically too and companies have to react, adds Fleurot. "I would say transparency is also a new law," he says. "People can have access to all kinds of information, so trying to hide something I think is the wrong strategy." Companies should have a clear idea of what they will say and communicate it quickly in the event of a public relations problem, he adds.Fleurot says he has been impressed by the relentless drive to grow he has seen at many Chinese companies and by the use of social media in the country.According to Catherine Cao, general manager of MSLGROUP China, social media has a high penetration rate in China compared with many other parts of the world and users talk more about problems on it."The background of the macro social media environment in China is very different from Western countries," she says. "Chinese Web users talk more about social problems on social media. Social media is a good platform for the Chinese general public to discuss, to illustrate opinion about social problems." Marketing managers should be prepared for this use of social media if they are doing business in China, according to Fleurot. "They have to know what exactly happens in the company and be well informed and aware if they are launching a new product," he says. "Otherwise when they start seeing tweets and conversations about the product they won't be in a very good position to answer." To be truly prepared requires training, he adds. He recalls one instance when a company got the social media site YouTube to remove a video uploaded by an non-governmental organization only to see it reposted elsewhere and become widely downloaded as a result of the initial attempt to stop it circulating."It was a very wrong decision," he says. "Immediately the NGO put it on their website and then it became known on the Web. So because the company wanted to ban the video, more people wanted to see it. You need to be trained about this new behavior online."Online you don't try to ban something. It doesn't work because things will easily appear somewhere else, so you need to honestly engage with people in the conversation. You could say that you don't have the information right now, instead of giving a false response, which could be worse. You need to train these people, to make sure they have enough information, know the engagement rules online and be as transparent as possible." Fleurot adds that in this fast-changing world, it's hard to predict what new communication platforms will arise. "But we know there will be new platforms for sure," he says.chenyingqun@chinadaily.com.cn迷你倉出租

By Wang Zhenghua in Zhoushan, Zhejiang ( China Daily) Diver Tang Shunjie (left) wears diving gear on Donghai rescue vessel No 110 in July.迷你倉新蒲崗 Gao Erqiang / China Daily Rescue vessel No 110, operated by the Donghai Rescue Bureau, operates its water cannons in July. Gao Erqiang / China Daily It was Dec 4, 2005, and Zou Chenhao had a life-or-death decision to make.His thoughts turned to his family and his girlfriend. He knew waiting just a few seconds might mean never seeing them again.Then he jumped.Zou was on the crew of cargo vessel the Zhenle 57 when it sank during a heavy storm off China's east coast, killing five people.Zou survived by leaping from the deck onto a rescue boat 10 meters below."That narrow escape made me rethink the value of life," he said. "When a sailor is saved, it's not only one life. Society benefits, too." Since then, he has been the one doing the saving, as a member of the Ministry of Transport's Donghai Rescue Bureau, which he joined a year after the shipwreck."I wouldn't have chosen another job on the sea if it hadn't been with the rescue team," said Zou, now 32, an engine room technician. "I plan to make it a lifelong career." The Donghai Rescue Bureau is responsible for rescue and salvage missions on the East China Sea and covers a coastline that stretches 7,200 kilometers.The unit has saved 13,656 people and 467 vessels since it was set up in June 2003, and prevented economic losses of 38.4 billion yuan ($6.3 billion).China began improving its sea rescue and salvage services, eventually establishing three regional units to cover the Bohai, East China and South China seas, after suffering its deadliest maritime tragedy in 1999.On Nov 24 that year, the Dashun, a passenger ferry, caught fire while traveling from Yantai, Shandong province to Dalian, Liaoning province. Two hundred eighty people died, and fewer than two dozen survived.Living testament "Our salvage capability was weak then, and the accident shocked the nation," said Ma Pingyuan, deputy Party chief of the Donghai Rescue Bureau. "After, professional sea rescue teams were established, funded by the central government." These units were tasked with guarding maritime safety and responding to emergencies at sea.Eight years after the day that changed his life, Zou remains a living testament to the work done by the maritime rescue teams.He can still recall the shipwreck in vivid detail.When the Zhenle 57 set off from Zhoushan, a small city on an island in the East China Sea, Zou was one of 17 men on board. As the vessel headed to Taizhou in Jiangsu province it encountered 115-km/h winds and waves of up to 7 meters."The waves were so powerful it was impossible to stand on deck," he said.The crew radioed for help, and a rescue vessel and helicopter arrived. Nine crewmen were airlifted to safety, but the cargoship'迷你倉出租 owner demanded the rest stay and steer into the shallows. He ignored warnings from rescuers that the ship could sink.Eight men, including Zou, were left aboard - unaware the worst was yet to come.Escorted by the rescue vessel, the Zhenle 57 continued to sail at full speed. At about 5 pm, darkness fell and the storm showed no signs of abating. By then, it was impossible for the helicopter to draw close due to poor visibility."The vessel started taking on water, and the spare diesel container rolled into the sea," Zou said."We started to panic. We knew no one could save us," he said. "I phoned my girlfriend and told her to find another partner. Then I called my younger sister, to say I may never come home." Shortly after, the boat was hit by a huge wave and began to sink.At that moment, Zou leapt from the deck and landed on the rescue vessel. His only injury was a strained back muscle.Bringing them home Within seconds, the Zhenle 57 was gone. Two crew members were later pulled from the water. Five were lost."I was impressed the rescue team never gave up," Zou said. "Just imagine how hard it was, with waves then up to 6 meters, people on two vessels 20 meters apart and neither can see each other." The Donghai Rescue Bureau, which is headquartered in Shanghai, has six teams spread across several coastal cities, including Ningbo and Fuzhou.The bureau also has underwater rescue and salvage specialists.Diver Tang Shunjie, who joined in 2006, has taken part in many missions, including the recovery of a helicopter from China's icebreaker, the Xuelong, which crashed off the coast of Shanghai in 2009.He said the worst tasks are those that involve searching for bodies, and he explained that the first time he went on one such he remembered the advice given to him by fellow divers."I kept telling myself that they weren't dead bodies, just lifeless sacks," the 32-year-old former navy diver said.Recovering bodies from sunken vessels is dangerous because of the poor visibility and complicated conditions, and the fast currents, he said. The worst, however, is when a vessel is upside down."It is totally dark, so a diver has to carefully study the boat's design and rely on memory to feel for bodies. It requires a lot of skill," he said, adding that despite the many hazards, such as oxygen lines getting snagged on objects underwater, the bureau has reported no casualties during missions.Although it is tough work, Tang said he loves his job."Recovering the bodies of victims in a shipwreck is as important as saving survivors," he said. "It serves as a consolation to loved ones, and we can help the deceased be laid to rest." Looking ahead, Tang aims to work for the rescue team as long as he can."I'll only think about retirement when I'm not physically able to go on missions," he said.wangzhenghua@chinadaily.com.cn儲存倉

Source: Bangkok Post, ThailandAug.儲存倉 12--The telecommunication regulator insists the digital-TV auction will happen as scheduled in October and is confident there will not be delays similar to the third-generation (3G) bidding.Col Natee Sukonrat, head of the broadcasting committee of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), said it may be delayed until November, depending on the process, but the beginning of the auction will proceed as scheduled.The confirmation was made to ease speculation that the auction will be postponed to December.Some potential bidders also complained the draft regulation on commercial channels has been frequently amended, confusing operators worried about running afoul of the rules.The draft regulation on commercial channels for the digital-TV auction was approved by the NBTC board last month and is awaiting an announcement in the Royal Gazette this week.Then the information memorandum (IM) for each channel category will be announced to interested applicants.The auction for each channel will be organised on separate days."At least 60% of Thais will be able to watch 30 digital TV channels, which are set for their first broadcast on Dec 5," said Col Natee.Network rental costs are being revised for the four network providers _ MCOT Plc, the Royal Thai Army, the Public Relations Department and Thai PBS _ and will be announced to the public by the month's end.The bidding invitation will cost 1 m迷你倉沙田llion baht, which should guarantee the upcoming auctions are not delayed, said Col Natee.Only bidders have the right to ask the court to issue an auction injunction.In 2010, Col Natee was a member of the National Telecommunications Commission and head of the 3G auction that year.The Administrative Court ruled in favour of CAT Telecom's call for an injunction to suspend the bidding of 3G licences.In a related development, standard-definition (SD) digital-TV channels can be upgraded to high definition (HD) once MPEG-5 (MP5) technology is ready. The MP5 video compression technology will increase the efficiency of frequency usage from the existing MP4 format.MP5 technology is projected to arrive over the next 2-5 years.The NBTC cannot estimate how many HD channels will be allocated, but the global trend is towards HDTV.To upgrade SD channels to HD, the NBTC will hold an auction for each category.A maximum of 24 bidders can take part in phase two of the digital-TV auction after receiving licences in phase one."Having 24 commercial digital TV channels in Thailand is appropriate, apart from community and public services, bringing the total to 48," said Col Natee.Bidders will be instructed on channel improvements through an IM for each category: news, SD variety and HD variety.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) Visit the Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand) at .bangkokpost.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉價錢

Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.儲存M.Aug. 11--RATON -- It was, oh, around 10 o'clock when we came across our third bear, a fat dark one that had been hanging around a garbage Dumpster and, startled by the car lights, dashed into the front yard of a house on Sixth Street.We had spent suppertime watching a bear eat cat food in a driveway and then watching that bear skedaddle when a bigger bear ambled over and commandeered the cat food dish.Our fourth, fifth and sixth bears came in quick succession. A bear was waddling down the sidewalk on Third Street. The biggest bear I have ever seen was sitting in front of a house on Park Avenue while a dog went nuts in a yard nearby. And in an alley downtown, a female bear hopped out of a trash can as we rolled up, froze for a few minutes and then popped back in to leisurely finish her garbage meal.We saw six bears in about three hours in the middle of residential neighborhoods, and, yawn, no one seemed terribly concerned. We were with New Mexico Game and Fish warden Clint Henson, who took out his flashlight a few times but never reached for a tranquilizer gun or his pistol.Even when the big bear stood up on his hind legs, stretching to at least 6 feet, Henson only marveled at its size. "That's a really big bear," he said.Neither were the townspeople of Raton out with their cellphones dialing 911 and demanding that someone arrive to rescue them from an encounter with the state mammal.Ratonian Colleen Grogan laughed when I told her that people in Albuquerque call the cops whenever they see a bear."We could call 911 till hell froze over," she said, "and they'd say, 'Really? And what else is new?' "In Albuquerque, a bear in a neighborhood attracts game wardens and TV crews, and it often ends badly for the bear.Raton has a different relationship with its 25 to 30 resident bears, and it goes like this: The bears hang out in trees or culverts or the nearby hills during the day, fast asleep. After dark, they come out and raid a good number of the more than 1,000 small garbage Dumpsters that dot the town, pulling out bags of trash, rooting through them and leaving a mess. In the morning, city sanitation workers and residents clean up the garbage, and when the sun sets, the cycle begins again.Game and Fish considers this a garbage problem and signed a contract with the city last year to provide $317,000 to replace all those tasty, accessible trash cans that sit all over town with 40 larger bear-proof Dumpsters.Raton City Manager Butch McGowen told me the city considers this a bear problem. He said he voided the trash container contract, because the city didn't want to spend money on two new trucks to empty those Dumpsters and inconvenience residents by making them drive their garbage to a centralized location.The city of about 6,800 people straddles Interstate 25 close to the Colorado border. But in terms of bears, it's the neighbor to the west that makes all the difference.The Vermejo Park Ranch, 920 square miles of open space owned by Ted Turner, is filled with bears. When young male bears go searching for territory, a few of them inevitably end up in the hills outside Raton, where they smell McDonald's and Sonic and Arby's and lots of ripe garbage cans and stop in for a meal.Raton is filled with leafy trees that make ideal daytime nesting spots and a web of drainage canals that allow bears to bypass traffic and move mostly unseen through town."A bear can be in the woods and then at McDonald's in like five minutes," Henson said.Also, the way the city organi新蒲崗迷你倉es its garbage collection -- small Dumpsters every few houses where people dump their fresh garbage every day with pickup once a week -- contributes to a happy bear life."It's such a great place for a bear to live," Henson said. "Bears here are, for the most part, incredibly docile. They're here for the pizza."None of this is to say there are not conflicts.In July, near a driveway where we watched the bears eating kibble left out for feral cats, a bear walked through a door left open at a home and ate a 5-year-old girl's birthday cake off the kitchen table while the family slept. That bear was trapped and killed.Henson has killed bears, too, mostly bears that have trespassed into a home or garage or refused to give ground when confronted. He hates it."Oh, it's horrible," Henson said. "My job is to protect wildlife."Henson told me he prefers to haze a misbehaving bear by shooting it with paint balls or, better yet, to just leave alone a bear that's not misbehaving.I asked him what he does when someone calls Game and Fish and reports a bear in a tree. He said he tells the caller to leave the bear alone and assures the person it will be gone tomorrow."If I walk up to a bear and it runs away from me," Henson said, "that's a good bear. If it sleeps during the day and eats out of Dumpsters at night, that's a good bear. If a bear's in the trash, that's a people problem."It seemed that everyone in Raton had a bear story. Raton is the place, after all, where a bear walked into the lobby of the Best Western and headed for the pool, where a bear that had been making nightly raids of the Sonic Dumpster climbed up a utility pole and got snagged by her radio collar, and where a bear that had apparently been dozing in a Dumpster on trash collection day was compacted with fatal results.My favorite bear anecdote was from the folks who know their neighborhood bear by the time each night he walks out of the ditch and raids the can on their corner: 9:45.So when I called Raton Mayor Bobby Ledoux to ask him about the trash problem, it wasn't surprising that he wanted to talk about bears instead."I have a minimum of four by my house every night," he said. "They're like the state patrol; they have their routes. They're way too friendly."McGowen, the city manager who canceled the trash bin contract, agreed that it's the trash that's attracting bears. He said he would like to continue talks with Game and Fish and devise a trash can solution that works for everyone. Meanwhile, he tells Ratonians to empty their trash bags into the Dumpsters so bears can get to their discarded food more easily."That way they can't grab a sack and scatter it all over," he said.Henson told me nothing in town will change -- not the midnight Dumpster raids or the garbage-strewn yards or the fatal consequences when habituation to people turns a good bear into a bad bear and a bad bear into a dead bear --until garbage collection changes and stored garbage moves out of residential neighborhoods."I am sick of killing bears that are in town because of our behavior," Henson said.UpFront is a daily front-page news and opinion column. Comment directly to Leslie at 823-3914 or llinthicum@abqjournal.com. Go to .abqjournal.com/letters/new to submit a letter to the editor. OnlineTo see a video of Raton residents telling their bear stories, go toABQjournal. comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

Source: The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.自存倉Aug. 09--EDWARDSVILLE -- A Rosewood Heights woman was being held on multiple theft counts involving a home burglary and a store theft in separate communities.Kathryn J. Church, 42, of the 700 block of Woodland Drive, was charged Friday in Madison County Circuit Court with burglary, theft over $500 and retail theft under $500 (second subsequent offense).On Monday, June 17, at approximately 8:35 a.m., deputies with the Madison County Sheriff's Department responded to a home located in the 700 block of East Woodland Drive, East Alton, in regard to a burglary to a garage just discovered. Upon arrival, the victim reported miscellaneous power tools had been stolen from the victim's garage. Through investigative efforts, Church was identified as a person of interest in the burglary. Church was further identified as an acquaintance of the victim.On Thursday, Aug. 8, about 1:07 p.m., Madison County sheriff's deputies responded to a residence in the 5200 block of Shannon Drive, Godfrey. Upon arrival, the victim reported numerous items of jewelry had been taken from the home. Investigative efforts by sheriff's deputies resulted in Church's identification as a suspect in the theft. Church was an acquaintance o迷你倉新蒲崗 the victim who had been to the home recently.On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the Bethalto Police Department investigated a retail theft that occurred at Ace Hardware, 1 Airway Court, Bethalto. During their investigation, Church was identified as a suspect by an employee who was working at the time of the theft and who recognized her.Investigators with the Sheriff's Department and the Bethalto Police Department located Church at her home on Aug. 8. Probable cause was developed, and Clark subsequently was arrested on the above noted charges. Detectives with the Sheriff's Department and the Bethalto Police Department recovered property belonging to the victims who reside on East Woodland Drive in East Alton and on Shannon Drive in Godfrey.Church was taken to the Madison County Jail in Edwardsville, where she was held pending a formal review of facts by the Madison County State's Attorney's Office. Church qualified for the enhanced felony charge of retail theft (second subsequent offense) due to an April 28, 2010, conviction for theft in Madison County Circuit Court.Bond was set at $100,000.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Telegraph (Alton, Ill.) Visit The Telegraph (Alton, Ill.) at .thetelegraph.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉出租

Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.自存倉M.Aug. 10--For the third time in five years, computer chipmaker Intel failed to ensure that 60 percent of the new hires at its Rio Rancho plant are New Mexico residents.That means the company will have to spend $100,000 toward school-to-work programs, under an agreement it made with Sandoval County.Liz Shipley, Intel's government affairs manager in New Mexico, said as technology becomes more complex, the company is having more difficulty finding candidates locally and nationally who have the needed master's or doctoral degrees in science and engineering."It's not just in New Mexico; we're seeing a shortage throughout the country," Shipley told Sandoval County commissioners on Thursday.A report Shipley presented to the commission showed that about 26 percent -- or 19 of the 74 employees the company hired in 2012 -- were state residents.Intel currently has about 3,300 employees at its Rio Rancho plant. The 60 percent hiring goal was one of the conditions the county set in 2004 when it approved a $16 billion revenue bond for Intel.Intel missed the goal in 2011 and 2009 as well. In 2011, 35 percent of 349 new hires were from New Mexico. In 2009, three of eight new hires were state residents. In 2010, the company's New Mexico hires were right at the 60 percent mark.The company is committed to working with New Mexico schools to improve paths to technology and engineering careers, Intel spokeswoman and Education Manager Natasha Martell Jackson said Friday.The school-to-work programs that receive the $100,000 are designed to prepare students to enter the job market; money is distributed to public school systems in Rio Rancho迷你倉新蒲崗 Bernalillo, Cuba and Jemez Valley, based on enrollment figures, county spokesman Sidney Hill said.Rio Rancho used the $70,000 it received when Intel missed the target in 2012 to establish a course in "cybersecurity" at V. Sue Cleveland High School. About 30 students are enrolled in the inaugural class this year, school district spokeswoman Kim Vesely said.In 2012, the Rio Rancho plant was one of several Intel facilities to run a sixweek "boot camp," which gave university engineering students the opportunity to shadow Intel engineers at the plant. The program drew about 90 students from the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute and Central New Mexico Community College.Martell Jackson said the company is considering running the program again in Rio Rancho.Intel is also a partner in the Mission: Graduate project, a collaboration among United Way of Central New Mexico, UNM, CNM, Albuquerque Public Schools, Rio Rancho Public Schools, local business leaders and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry. The project goal is to add 60,000 new associate, bachelor's and graduate degrees to central New Mexico by 2020."We know that for us to help current businesses grow and to attract new economic activity, we have to generate a more educated workforce," said CNM President Kathie Winograd, who co-chairs the project with Jim Hinton, president and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉出租

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Source: The Roanoke Times, Va.self storageAug. 10--Just about the first thing Roanoke code compliance inspector Brad Wilson does when he gets into his maroon city Chevy -- "it's been in the shop seven times already this year" -- is roll down the windows."I like to hear things. If there's a jackhammer going, I can hear it, drive around and make sure they've got their permits, that everything's OK," Wilson said. "I even keep the windows down in the winter."He's one of Roanoke's 15-strong team of inspectors and supervisors -- just this week finally back up to full strength -- who enforce the laws that say buildings must be maintained so that they are safe to be in and that property has to be free of the junked cars, weeds and garbage that can shelter animal pests and disease.Wilson's turf is Hurt Park and a stretch of northwest Roanoke between Fifth and 18th streets, and Moorman and Shenandoah avenues. He spends several hours a day cruising the area's streets and alleys, checking out some 1,100 homes, businesses and vacant lots. He figures he hits every street and alley once every week to 10 days, and issues an average of about 20 notices of violation a week -- more in the summer, when people sometimes let the grass go too long without cutting.He's strict -- but you wouldn't guess it by the way one wheelchair-bound lady on 13th street in Hurt Park teases him about not working hard. A few days later, she was on the phone to say her efforts to ask a neighbor to clear a bush blocking the alleyway were fruitless. I know you'll get on it, she told him.Code enforcement is central to the city's efforts to make sure Roanoke is a safe and pleasant place to live and work, City Manager Chris Morrill said."They're the problem-solvers in the neighborhoods. They're dealing with the tough properties, the tough cases," Morrill said. Sometimes that means citations or taking people to court, sometimes it's simply steering people to the help they need.For many Roanoke property-owners, code enforcement inspectors are more of a pain in the neck."There's a car someone's working on, it's got a flat. They're out there cruising around and see it, they write the landlord a nasty letter and issue a citation. Is that the best use of time? ... It's insane, the petty detail they get into," said Andy Stowasser, president of Real Estate Investors of Virginia, which complains that code enforcement inspectors come down harder on landlords than on people who own their homes.Some Roanokers want the inspectors to be even more aggressive."I moved back to Roanoke in '96. The very first issue I heard from people over neighborhood problems was code enforcement, or the lack thereof. Seventeen years later it remains the number one, most often spoken issue at neighborhood watch meeting and neighborhood associations," said Southeast community activist E. Duane Howard."Just weeks ago a house on Montrose had growth 6 to 7 feet tall," he said. "It was like making a federal case to the city to get this eyesore cut. They said if it happened again they would notify the owner."The city's inspectors issued about 6,400 notices of violations last year. Some are in response to complaints, many because of problems they see as they patrol their areas or make their scheduled inspections of rented houses and apartments.Sometimes, when they check on a problem, a simple conversation with the property owner gets action without a need to write up a notice of violation. Sometimes, when a notice gets no action, they get a summons to bring the property owner to court.On one recent summer afternoon, Wilson focused on "re-checks" -- follow-ups on notices he had issued over the past few weeks.One of his first stops was to see if the out-of-state owner of a house at 14th and Moorman had made any progress clearing away a huge tree toppled by an intense storm nearly three weeks before. A trailer full of firewood and 10 feet of now-clear sidewalk were good signs, though there was still plenty of work to do."Yeah, he started there," a man called from a few feet away."Did he get those things fixed up in there," Wilson replied, nodding at the duplex house on the lot, which the out-of-state owner rents out. "It needed some cleaning up.""Yeah, it's real nice," the man said. "I've moved in."Across 14th, not far from where Wilson parked his Chevy, there's a utility pole with a wire wrapped tightly around it and taped into place. Wilson did that a few days earlier, when a neighbor pointed to the wire lying across the sidewalk. It caught her eye when some kids nearly rode their bikes into it.It can be easy to miss things -- which is why Wilson drives slowly, keeps his windows down, and stops a lot.Around the corner, down the alley for a couple of blocks, Wilson spots Angel Rodas, working on a house in the 1600 block of Moorman. Rodas, who rents the place, is helping the owner fix it up -- including dealing with citations for overgrown vines on迷你倉the back fence and needed repairs to the outside walls, trim and windows."Cleaning up this fence was bad," Rodas said. "I didn't see the poison ivy."He had such a severe case, he had to go to the hospital, he added."Whoa," Wilson said. "You gotta watch for that. Spray maybe. You know, it's got those three leaves."Wilson walked down the alley while Rodas followed on the other side of the fence, seeing if he could point some out since Rodas wasn't sure he knew what the plant looked like. He spotted some -- right by the tomato patch Rodas planted.Wilson said the back windows on the house look new, and asked what Rodas planned to do about the foam caulking that has bubbled out between the window frame and the wall. Both agree it looks bad."I'm gonna have to cut it away," Rodas said."Maybe a trim board?" Wilson hinted.Rodas nodded.He's going to get going on the back siding in a couple of days, now that he has installed a proper facia and soffit under the roof, Rodas continued. There was no point tearing off the gray, waterstained siding below until he stopped the steady leak of water that risked rotting the structure beneath."Going good," Wilson said. "It's going to a real nice place to live."Nobody likes getting a notice, and many bristle at a code compliance inspector's less formal suggestion that they do something about an overgrown lot or a junk car in the yard. Wilson said the point, though, is to start a conversation about how to fix a problem.Turning the Chevy up 12th street, Wilson spotted the Rev. Cecil Scott and Edward Jones on the side steps of Truevine Church of Christ, peering at a length of insulated wire."We're not working, just trying to figure out if this was after 1985," Jones quickly said.Wilson had come by a few days before to remind them that they needed a building permit for the repair work after one of July's storms blew off a chunk of roof. Knowing if the rear part of the church was built after then will save the hassle of getting an asbestos report to get a permit."I know you're working on the permit," Wilson said. "I know you, you know me, don't worry about it. I don't have a problem."Jones tells him the church is doing a fundraiser, selling donuts, to finance the repairs.Wilson said if they need to stretch their money they should get in touch with volunteer groups Rebuilding Together or World Changers, for help with the repairs.Heading back to his Chevy to fetch some information about those groups, he spots the front porch sagging next door, then sees how, where it separated from front wall, the wood beam at the bottom of the front wall has been almost completely eaten away by termites.It's a serious problem -- basically there's no way to tell what's holding the wall up any more. Wilson puts some caution tape up and gets started on a condemnation notice.Back on patrol, he turns down Gilmer Street, checking on a house in the 1300 block that he condemned as unfit to live in a month ago, after checking the tenants' complaint that several inches of standing water in the basement wasn't draining. The thick layer of mud in the basement and mildew upstairs pointed to a continuing problem -- one that could mean a chance of rot in the house's wood frame.Wilson's unhappy to see no signs that the building owner has done any work yet. It's another place he'll have to keep an eye on.Just like a house in the 700 block of Loudon that's in foreclosure. Wilson had to condemn it a few months ago -- when nothing happened, he had a contractor in to shore up the collapsing rear foundation. He regularly checks on the boarded-up houses in his territory, to make sure nobody's breaking in and using them to sleep in or as a base to deal drugs.Rodney Randolph, who's been busy cutting the grass at his late father's home two houses down, stepped over to complain about how the foreclosed place's front hedge is blocking the sidewalk.Wilson nodded. There's not much he can do, since the foreclosure is in process and the bank hasn't formally taken possession."I'm doing my yard, and my neighbor's and then we've got this," Randolph grumbled. "Got groundhogs and skunks living in there. I'm sick of skunks."Back around Memorial Day, he said, there were a bunch of people hanging around the back, maybe even getting inside. He was pretty sure they were up to no good.Wilson -- like many in city hall -- is a believer in the broken windows school of public safety, the idea that neighborhoods that are looked after, even in smaller matters like overgrown yards and junked cars, tend to discourage criminals from trying their luck.He's trying to figure out what to do about the hedges."Tell you what," he said. "If I can't get someone to do 'em, I'll come out on the weekend and do 'em myself.""I'll help," Randolph said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.) 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