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Bridgeport approves pot moratorium
BRIDGEPORT -- Zoning officials have one year to decide whether there is a place for medical marijuana in the city.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday unanimously voted for a yearlong moratorium on accepting any applications from the fledgling medical pot industry.
The clock begins ticking June 3 and will give commissioners time to develop a strategy for reviewing medical marijuana proposals.
"We really don't know what the hell's going on with this because it's so new across the country," said commission member Anne Pappas Phillips, who ran Tuesday's meeting. "It's not a question of `should it' or `shouldn't it' (be permitted). It's a question of, `Where is the best place?' "
The moratorium marks the completion of a reversal in how Bridgeport has approached the two-year-old legalization of medical marijuana in Connecticut.
As of late last year, Mayor Bill Finch's Democratic administration was trying to work with proposed farms and dispensaries to find suitable locations.
While neighboring municipalities passed moratoriums, Bridgeport City Hall initially tried to treat medical marijuana purveyors like any other businesses interested in moving to Bridgeport.
In fact, the Zoning Commission did approve local businessman Jo Palmieri's application to grow and harvest pot on Burr Court. But Palmieri did not receive one of the coveted state licenses to operate.
The applicant that did have the state's blessing -- Trumbull-based D&B Wellness -- had its bid to open a dispensary at 2181 Main St. shot down by zoning officials in mid-April following intense neighborhood opposition.
Residents questioned the safety of the facility and what it would mean for property values.
The D&B application proved so controversial that the Zoning Commission -- with Finch's support -- decided to move ahead with the moratorium.
Prior to Tuesday's vote, the commission held a public hearing. Only one speaker attended: Councilwoman Michelle Lyons, D-134, who had helped lead the fight against D&B.
"I believe it's something that is needed," Lyons said of medical marijuana. But, she said, the question remains about where should the industry go.
She suggested the city's two hospitals host future proposals.
Attorney Raymond Rizio, who represented D&B in its Bridgeport application, suspected the poor turnout Tuesday was a sign that both proponents and opponents of medical marijuana anticipated that the moratorium would go forward.
"I think maybe after the previous (D&B) application was defeated, people just thought it was a fait accompli," said Rizio, who was at Tuesday's meeting to represent another client on a different matter.
While D&B had been threatening legal action in Bridgeport, the company's owners, Angela D'Amico and Karen Barski, recently received approval to open in Bethel.
"Bridgeport's in the rear view mirror at this point," said Rizio, who is no longer representing D&B.
Critics of the Zoning Commission's decision to turn away D&B Wellness might find some solace in another rejection the group handed down Tuesday.
A couple of dozen residents of Seaside Village turned out to oppose Santa Energy's proposal to install a 30,000-gallon propane tank on South Avenue. As with the medical marijuana dispensary, residents said they were worried about safety and the impact on their property values.
And as with the dispensary, Zoning Commissioners ultimately sided with the neighbors, defeating Santa's application in a 5-2 vote.
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Prada Spring 2013 Ready-to-Wear Collection
That strange sensation in the pit of your stomach before a Prada show is very natural. It's called anticipation. Every spring and fall, for at least 8 minutes, the fashion world comes to a halt and pays attention to what Prada and crew have to deliver for the season.
That strange sensation in the pit of your stomach before a Prada show is very natural. It's called anticipation. Every spring and fall, for at least 8 minutes, the fashion world comes to a halt and pays attention to what Prada and crew have to deliver. 'Expect the unexpected' has become the resounding mantra amongst editors and spectators at large. This summer's celebrated Met exhibit, 'Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations', made even the curious museum-goers feel like Prada aficionados – those stated tenets of 'Ugly Chic' and 'Naif Chic', among others, becoming part of the cultural vernacular, instead of esoteric fashion-talk. Still, when people say that fashion moves fast, they're talking about Prada. She's the reigning master of the volte face, this latest collection a perfect example of her addictive polarity. Suffice it to say, there was no Margot Tenanbaum here.
Today, Prada went floral, again, but not even close to the flowers donned by like last spring's hot-rod addicted pin-up girls. Today's flowers looked spray painted onto dark tops and skirts through repeated stencils. That motif carries its own subtext, but what about those leather socks in variants of pink, gold and silver worn with towering stacked sandals with little rosette embellishments? The woman will slap a sock on a shoe even if it kills her. It's one of her charms. The socks alone made everyone sit to attention. Is she serious? Well, she may be having fun with it, but yeah, of course she's serious. Will those socks even be sold, or were they just runway ornament? Oh, they'll be sold alright. But those weren't her trickiest propositions today. The shoes were simply baffling. Models have toppled over on the Prada catwalk on far less intimidating footwear. How the general public will react to the shoes once they hit stores should be interesting, but reason has it that they'll flounder compared to the equally gimmicky, but ultimately more plausible direction of heels with brake lights.
Still, the strikingly Asian curlicue folds on the sandals, the skewed tabard shapes on dresses, the parade of origami obie pleats that closed the show – Prada was clearly serving Oriental fare, but it was much more involved than 'Milan Goes Behind the Yellow Curtain'. It was the Tale of Genji written by Harmony Korine. A touch of romance, a touch of subversion. The perfect Prada cocktail. Going back to the flowers, they looked best in the beginning. There was a slight sinister touch to the printing and paneling of those buds, as if plucked right out of a staticky TV screen (Think 'The Ring'). The more textured incarnations, like the crushed velvet coat on Suvi Koponen, felt too familiar, too 'been there, done that' (overall the entire show burst with 90s Prada nostalgia). That iteration was bland. The black and white floral diptych on a hunter green coat, on the other hand, was undeniably fresh, and looked particularly smashing set against the model's shining gold feet.

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Following successful reunions from Take That, Steps, and most recently The Stone Roses, Margaret Thatcher has ended years of speculation with the news that the original Conservative line up from 1979 will take to the Commons once more.
Some of the big names will be back with Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe and Norman Tebbitt all confirmed. While some key members succumbed to 'the political year of death' and joined the infamous 'Forever 97 Club', Willie Whitelaw is set for a triumphant return to the front bench, using a modified hologram of 2Pac.
Organisers of the gig have been surprised at how difficult it's been to find a support act, with few willing to share a stage with the iconic PM. 'Neither Billy Bragg or Morrissey have returned my calls', complained Nigel Lawson, the brains behind the venture. 'It's strange, they were always going on about Margaret when she was top of the pops.' But all is not lost, and Lawson has managed to secure Mel Gibson, who will perform his notorious Ronald Reagan tribute act.
With the first official comeback gig scheduled for September, some lucky fans were ecstatic to get the chance to see them at a surprise performance in Finchley last night. Fans were instructed to arrive with an original rosette or paid poll tax bill in order to gain entrance, and were thrilled to hear favourites such as 'The lady's not for turning', 'We have become a grandmother' and 'There's no such thing as society'.
The 'Iron Lady' took her inspiration from Ian Brown, a man who shares a similar cult following, despite being a loony. 'I was speaking to Ian about what motivated him to reform the band after his expensive divorce. He told me 'Maggie, it's all for the fans.' so I thought why not? I'm not sure we're quite as popular in the North of England as The Stone Roses, but I can still teach Gerri Halliwell a thing or two about 'girl power'.'
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The Connected Health Symposium is not one of the larger health conferences, but it is one of the most respected. I met a number of leaders in health IT there who praised it for the conference scope and seriousness, and told me they were glad to see me there covering it.
Many issues in health IT and patient empowerment, however, are best learned not from any conference, but from the tussles and tears of everyday life. Let us hope no reader has undergone the personal experience of having her reports dismissed and of being misdiagnosed, as did several speakers at the conference.
But many of us have spent three hours on the phone with an insurer to approve a single medication shipment, or fought in vain to get the medical records that US law requires providers to give us, or watched our doctor fumble with his new EHR for fifteen minutes while trying to stay engaged with us.
It's encouraging to see the progress of patient engagement at Massachusetts General Hospital, as reported by Gregg Meyer of Partners Healthcare System (the funder behind the Center for Connected Health that put on the symposium). But can small and rural providers struggling with cash flow join the movement?
These institutions would be comfortable using swyMe, a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine system that allows doctors to interview patients over everyday mobile devices and perhaps avoid a trip to the hospital. swyMe can also transmit audio and video from devices that EMTs can connect up to the phone. (Not many devices with the necessary hardware connectors are on the market, though.)
swyMe was one of the "innovators" highlighted in a conference demo. Jeffrey Urdan, COO of the company that makes it, told me later that he felt "low tech" compared to some of the fancy, expensive devices at the demo. But most of the providers in the US, and elsewhere, are more on swyMe's level than theirs.
Another hurdle to forming connected teams that serve the patient is interoperability. A sign of the distance we have yet to come can be found in iCancerHealth, a service for cancer patients offered by Medocity. A free app is available to individuals, but the main integrated service is offered through providers or pharma companies doing clinical trials. The service includes such conveniences as medication tracking, treatment plans, a diary, audio and video connections to their physician, and even a way to form communities with other patients.
This is great, but iCancerHealth works with data from only one provider. This can be a limitation even for the few months that cancer patients typically use the service, and could certainly be a problem if the service were expanded to a broader range of illnesses. Similarly, there's no seamless way to share data with patient communities; it has to be re-entered manually. Enhancing the service to encompass multiple providers would probably require wider adoption of electronic health record standards.
As an example of finding a creative solution to devices that lack interoperability, Mobile Diagnostic Services demonstrated an app that could photograph the display panel of a device, interpret the bars on the display to create digital data, and transmit the values to a health record in the cloud. This is a process well-known to computer programmers from thirty years ago as "screen scraping," now relevant to the health industry.
One of the strengths of the Connected Health Symposium was the platform it gave to patients and doctors to express their frustrations with the old way of delivering care and the slow pace of change. The testimony could come from entrepreneur Robin Farmanfarmaian, who lost three organs unnecessarily to misdiagnosis, or Sarah Krüg, president of the Society for Participatory Medicine, whose parents died from diseases that might have been caught if the doctors had paid attention to their reported symptoms.
Or the testimony could come from Greg LaGana and Barry Levy, MDs who write and perform in a musical review called Damaged Care that skewers everything about doctors behavior as well as the legal and financial environment in which they have to operate.
Anna MCollister-Slipp, co-founder of Galileo Analytics and a sufferer from type 1 diabetes, regaled us with the dozens of vital sign measurements, treatments, and other details she has to manage on her own manually. She still get lab reports only because her doctor sends them via email (using a private account, so that HIPAA zealots don't discipline him–the rights and wishes of the patient are supposed to be paramount). Like other conference attendees, though, she reported progress in tools and patient-oriented culture.
Less was heard at the symposium from other sectors of the medical field, but we did hear from Michael of Aetna, Jonathan Bush of athenahealth, and Beverley Bryant of England's National Health Service. The panel on which Bryant spoke proved to be discouraging. Many of us in the US like to think that other developed nations with their universal health care systems have solved the coordination and interoperability messes that the US is in. But the panelists expressed many familiar frustrations.
I plan to return to the Connected Health Symposium next year, and I'm sure each year will bring a bit of progress toward better communication among staff, better use of patient data, and better integration of tools. The mood at the show was largely positive. But a little probing turned up barriers in the way of the healthcare system we all want.


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Lifelong Baltimorean becomes bishop in Massachusetts
Pope names new Springfield, Massachusetts bishop
The new leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield said Thursday that one of his first tasks will be to break out the maps and the GPS to find his way around the unfamiliar region.
Pope Francis on Thursday named lifelong Baltimore-area resident Bishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski the ninth leader of the diocese founded in 1870. The diocese encompasses the four westernmost counties in Massachusetts.
Rozanski, currently an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, succeeds Bishop Timothy McDonnell, who submitted his letter of resignation almost 18 months ago, on his 75th birthday as required by church law.
"I already feel at home because of your welcome," Rozanski, 55, said at an introductory news conference. McDonnell had already taken him on a brief tour of the Springfield area, he said.
"They scoured the earth and found the right man to take my place," McDonnell said, pointing out that western Massachusetts was once part of the Baltimore Archdiocese.
Rozanski takes over a diocese that includes the inner city of Springfield and its associated problems of violence and poverty, to the small rural towns of Franklin and Berkshire counties. The diocese has 230,000 Catholics in 81 parishes.
The area is dealing with an immigrant influx, a large Latino population, and struggling parochial schools.
"As a church, Jesus gives us the model and example of welcome," Rozanski said of newcomers.
He served as the vicar for Hispanics in Baltimore.
As for schools, he stressed creativity and affordability.
He is also the first Polish-American bishop of the diocese, an area with a significant population of Polish descent.
Rozanski was ordained in 1984 and served as a parish priest for 20 years before being named bishop in 2004.
McDonnell took over in 2004 for Thomas Dupre, who cited health reasons for a sudden retirement but who had been indicted on child abuse charges dating to the 1970s. The district attorney did not pursue the case because the statute of limitations had expired.
Rozanski will be installed at a ceremony scheduled for Aug. 12 at St. Michael's Cathedral in Springfield.


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Computation of the central elements and centralizers of sets of elements in non-commutative polynomial algebras (2006)
In this thesis we present the implementation of libraries center.lib and perron.lib for the non-commutative extension Plural of the Computer Algebra System Singular. The library center.lib was designed for the computation of elements of the centralizer of a set of elements and the center of a non-commutative polynomial algebra. It also provides solutions to related problems. The library perron.lib contains a procedure for the computation of relations between a set of pairwise commuting polynomials. The thesis comprises the theory behind the libraries, aspects of the implementation and some applications of the developed algorithms. Moreover, we provide extensive benchmarks for the computation of elements of the center. Some of our examples were never computed before.
This thesis is devoted to constructive module theory of polynomial graded commutative algebras over a field. It treats the theory of Groebner bases (GB), standard bases (SB) and syzygies as well as algorithms and their implementations. Graded commutative algebras naturally unify exterior and commutative polynomial algebras. They are graded non-commutative, associative unital algebras over fields and may contain zero-divisors. In this thesis we try to make the most use out of _a priori_ knowledge about their characteristic (super-commutative) structure in developing direct symbolic methods, algorithms and implementations, which are intrinsic to graded commutative algebras and practically efficient. For our symbolic treatment we represent them as polynomial algebras and redefine the product rule in order to allow super-commutative structures and, in particular, to allow zero-divisors. Using this representation we give a nice characterization of a GB and an algorithm for its computation. We can also tackle central localizations of graded commutative algebras by allowing commutative variables to be _local_, generalizing Mora algorithm (in a similar fashion as G.M.Greuel and G.Pfister by allowing local or mixed monomial orderings) and working with SBs. In this general setting we prove a generalized Buchberger's criterion, which shows that syzygies of leading terms play the utmost important role in SB and syzygy module computations. Furthermore, we develop a variation of the La Scala-Stillman free resolution algorithm, which we can formulate particularly close to our implementation. On the implementation side we have further developed the Singular non-commutative subsystem Plural in order to allow polynomial arithmetic and more involved non-commutative basic Computer Algebra computations (e.g. S-polynomial, GB) to be easily implementable for specific algebras. At the moment graded commutative algebra-related algorithms are implemented in this framework. Benchmarks show that our new algorithms and implementation are practically efficient. The developed framework has a lot of applications in various branches of mathematics and theoretical physics. They include computation of sheaf cohomology, coordinate-free verification of affine geometry theorems and computation of cohomology rings of p-groups, which are partially described in this thesis.


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Enjoy this repost of my Rosh hashanah table setting from 2012!
What will be YOUR Rosh Hashanah table decor style for 2013?
This Rosh Hashanh (2012), I decided to purchase two ram's horns as accents to my Rosh Hashanah table decor. The horns flanked a centerpiece of gorgeous orchids and ruby red roses and "new" Rosh Hashanah fruits embedded within the display- all designed by Shirley Bar Nathan.
Originally I had planned on using jelly apples with butterfly place card holders on each dish (pictured down below), but the jelly apples were a little more tedious than I had anticipated, so I ended up using about 10 of them as an accent on the table. I bought a couple dozen bumble bee sugar shapes on Amazon.com.
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My napkin rings were simple burgundy strips of tied velvet ribbon that picked up upon the colors of the pomegranate and the new fruits within the table's centerpiece. A simple wood honey dipper (saved from last year's Rosh Hashanah table setting) slipped into each "napkin ring" served as extra Rosh Hashanah table themed decor. Every table setting had their own little individualized plate of Simanim, which made it much easier to clear away and serve my dinner buffet style on the server. Candles and little golden tea lights added to our romantic themed new year's table. Email me with any questions! Wishing all of my hostesses a healthy an happy and successful year!
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It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a cozy marina in San Francisco Bay, was nearly flat. The 63-year-old programmer phoned his wife, Donna Carnes, who was on an annual vacation with friends in Wisconsin. He said he was heading out to the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 27 miles offshore, to scatter the ashes of his mother, Ann, who died in October.
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As Gray steered out through the Golden Gate to the open ocean, both tide and wind were in his favor. At 10:30 am, he called Carnes again and said that he was approaching a channel marker buoy 15 miles out. She asked him if he was wearing his harness; single-handed sailors can drown if a wave pitches them overboard and the ship sails on. "Yes, dear," he replied, saying that he would get in touch as soon as Tenacious came back into range.
A few minutes later, he left an upbeat voicemail for his daughter, Heather, in Santa Barbara. "I'm taking Granny out to her final resting place. I'm surrounded by dolphins out here. It's a little cloudy but very pleasant. No whales but lots of dolphins and very pretty. Love and kisses, take care, bye." At 11:50 am, his smartphone synched with Microsoft's email server one last time, pinging a Cingular tower south of San Francisco. A couple of hours later, on Southeast Farallon Island, a naturalist named Brett Hartl spotted a sailboat with a reddish hull a mile or two offshore, sailing north.
Then Gray and his boat vanished. The Coast Guard received no Mayday call, and Gray's EPIRB — an emergency radio beacon designed to broadcast a homing signal if it sinks — stayed silent. No sailors in the area reported seeing the boat adrift, and not a single life vest, flashlight, or scrap of debris belonging to Tenacious washed up on local beaches.
The news that Gray was missing shocked the high tech community. The lanky coder had been a computing legend since the 1970s. His work helped make possible such mainstays of modern life as cash machines, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. "Jim's work inspired us and many other computer scientists to seek out and tackle very ambitious projects," says Google cofounder Sergey Brin. "He never shied away from problems involving large-scale data and computation."
When Gray joined Microsoft in 1995, he convinced the software behemoth to launch a research center in San Francisco so that he and his wife wouldn't have to move to Redmond. "If Jim had wanted a lab in Monte Carlo, we would have built a lab in Monte Carlo," says Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid. In 1998, Gray's peers gave him the highest honor in computer science, the A.M. Turing Award.
His influence reached far beyond the insular world of coding and computers. Each morning, as Gray strolled down to the lab from his rustic Victorian on Telegraph Hill, he chatted on his cell with one of the many scientists who became regular guests on his boat. He could talk to astronomers, oceanographers, geologists, geneticists, or fellow programmers and seem like a native in each field. And he felt equally comfortable hiking along the Tahoe Rim Trail or sailing up the Sacramento River delta with his wife.
Gray's mysterious disappearance inspired one of the most ambitious search-and-rescue missions in history. First the Coast Guard scoured 132,000 square miles of ocean. Then a team of scientists and Silicon Valley power players turned the eyes of the global network onto the Pacific. They steered satellites and NASA planes over the Golden Gate and mobilized the search for Tenacious on blogs and on Amazon.com. This group included some of the best minds in science and technology, among them Amazon.com chief technologist Werner Vogels and top executives at Microsoft and Oracle, including Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. Oceanographers and engineers from the US Navy, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute joined the effort, as did astronomers from leading universities.
The search became national news and gripped the imagination of the blogosphere. Some commentators tried to cast the programmer as a digital-age D. B. Cooper, who disappeared in 1971 with a suitcase full of cash by leaping from the back of an airplane — though Gray had no evident motive to flee.
During the search, Carnes stayed in seclusion with a security guard posted at her door, refusing to talk to the press. But as salvage boats and remotely operated underwater vehicles scanned the seafloor along California's north coast, she met with me in the house she shared with Gray. "I am determined to find out what happened to my husband," she said. "And I am determined to find Tenacious, because she is the key to Jim, and to this strange, singular, very painful mystery."
Carnes spent the last normal afternoon of her life skiing near a remote lakeside lodge in northern Wisconsin. On Sunday night, concerned that she hadn't heard back from her husband, she phoned the harbormaster at Gashouse Cove, who verified that Tenacious' berth was still empty. Then the harbormaster called the Coast Guard.
When David Swatland's phone rang at his Berkeley home that night, he hoped it would turn out to be a routine case of an overdue sailboat with the usual happy ending. The deputy commander of the busiest Coast Guard sector on the West Coast, Swatland and his team fielded 1,705 search-and-rescue calls in 2005 alone. Most were relatively minor — drifting kayaks or hikers stranded by the tide. A former triathlete with a reassuring manner, Swatland says he gets several reports a week of boats late coming home from the bay, but they usually turn up in a marina somewhere within a couple of hours. He gets fewer than 10 calls a year about boats gone astray in the ocean, though these cases too are usually solved in a day.
"Most sailors are pretty careful outside the Golden Gate, because they're aware that this is a particularly unforgiving stretch of coastline in a particularly unforgiving ocean," Swatland says. "There are only a few good anchorages, it's often windy, and there's a fair amount of boat traffic. Things can get squirrely out there."
The Coast Guard, which became an arm of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, keeps watch on the San Francisco sector from a command center on Yerba Buena Island, under the Bay Bridge. After the harbormaster's call, Swatland's crew broadcast a description of the black-masted sailboat to mariners. Later that night, an 87-foot patrol boat roared out from the command center, joined by a motor lifeboat capable of handling a 360-degree roll in the surf. By 1 am, a helicopter and a C-130 turboprop plane, both equipped with thermal-imaging radar, began flying tight grids out to the Farallon Islands. Carnes stayed up all night, getting updates every half hour.
In the morning, the Coast Guard sent out its standard press release about a missing sailor. Swatland was unaware that Gray was well known in tech circles until local news reporters made the Microsoft connection and descended on Yerba Buena Island with TV cameras. The news spread quickly among the programmer's colleagues and friends.
On Monday night Paula Hawthorn, a former VP at Informix who had known Gray for 35 years, got a call from her son Andrew. He reminded her of how helpful Carnes had been when Hawthorn's own father was dying of cancer. "You have technical and organizational expertise, and you ought to be helping Donna," he told her. Hawthorn lay awake most of the night, thinking of ways that Gray's illustrious friends — with their connections to major scientific institutions and three-letter agencies in Washington — could assist the search. The next day she sent an email to a core group of his associates suggesting the use of satellite imagery to supplement the Coast Guard's boats and planes. (The commercial satellite industry got an early boost from a Web site called TerraServer, one of Gray's first projects at Microsoft, which made high-resolution imagery of the planet available online seven years before Google Earth.) "Does this sound possible, helpful?" she wrote. "Who do we need to talk to?"
It was the kind of gutsy idea Gray might have come up with himself. Hawthorn's email was forwarded to Sergey Brin, who promised to talk with satellite company DigitalGlobe, Google's primary image provider. More feelers went out from the group to other satellite vendors. The ever-widening CC list christened itself the Friends of Jim.
By midweek, Swatland was assigning more Coast Guard boats, helicopters, and personnel to the search. He brought in local sheriff's departments and the National Park Service to patrol the coastline, and ran computer simulations to predict where Tenacious might be drifting if its skipper had suffered a heart attack or other catastrophic event.
Meanwhile, Joe Hellerstein, a former protégé of Gray's who had become a computer science professor at UC Berkeley, launched a blog to coordinate the online effort. Gray's Microsoft colleagues worked with the Coast Guard to bring more technical resources to bear on the search. "Sometimes I felt a little self-conscious because they were all smarter than I was," Swatland says. "They had connections to stuff I'd never heard of."
This emergency mobilization gave many in the Bay Area tech community déjà vu. In late November 2006, CNET editor James Kim and his family had become stranded in the Oregon mountains. Kim's wife and children were saved because two Edge Wireless engineers spent hours examining phone logs, finally spotting a cell-tower ping that helped a rescue pilot locate them just in time. But Kim, who had gone looking for help, was found dead two days later.
Determined not to let history repeat itself, the Coast Guard asked Cingular for Gray's complete cell phone records so it could triangulate his last point of contact. At first the company balked, citing privacy concerns. "Cingular was hesitant to give us all the information we were looking for. They seemed skeptical about the Coast Guard being a law enforcement agency," Swatland says drily. Eventually, the company coughed up the data.
At least the weather was cooperating — the sky was crystalline, and the seas were unusually calm for that time of year. Search pilots could see beer coolers and other flotsam bobbing in the water below. But none of it belonged to Tenacious.
As the search area expanded, the Coast Guard had to consider the possibility that Gray didn't want to be found. Rumors flew around docks and online sailing forums that the "wily maverick" programmer might be recklessly crossing the Pacific or "already settling down to a round of margaritas in Baja," as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle put it. "We had to weigh all the scenarios, including 'I want to escape,' as uncomfortable as that was to mention to Donna," Swatland says. "But guys who try to disappear usually have financial issues, legal issues, or they're in the middle of a divorce. Jim had nothing like that."
There was also a darker possibility to consider. Gray's mother's death in October followed the unexpected death of Carnes' father, Don, in June. Watching Ann lose her ability to walk before dying of old age at 97, Jim confided to Donna, "I have seen my future, and it is ugly." Could Gray's grief over his mother's death have caused him to scuttle his own boat?
Friends who spoke to Gray nearly every day find this scenario unlikely. By all accounts he was content in his marriage, committed to his work, and delighted with the arrival of Sam, his first grandchild, born in 2005 to Heather, his 38-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. "My dad was happier than I've ever seen him," Heather says. "He was always so successful, and balancing that with his personal life was a challenge. But he had finally struck that balance."
As days passed, Swatland felt increasingly frustrated. "I couldn't figure out what had happened to this guy," he says, "unless he was kidnapped by Apple."
Any tech company would have been eager to get its hands on Gray. He had managed to stay at the leading edge of computer science for decades, and his résumé reads like a timeline of key developments in the digital age.
Born in San Francisco in 1944, Gray spent his first years in Rome, where his father, James, was a spy for the US Army. After his parents separated, Gray and his sister, Gail, returned to the Bay Area to be raised by their mother. James went off to become an inventor, making a small fortune by patenting an early typewriter-ribbon cartridge, while Ann taught English in public school.
On frequent visits to the aquarium and planetarium in Golden Gate Park, Gray became fascinated with science. As a gangly teenager, he devoured books like Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings, which made the bold prediction that computers would someday be smart enough to play chess and tackle social problems. Gray got another kind of education on camping trips with his uncle to Yosemite, where he learned the thrill of surviving in the woods with minimal gear. Gail says that her brother became "a bit of a daredevil" as he got older, "taking chances because he always thought he could do what he set out to." When the family spent days at the beach in Santa Cruz, he would swim alone out past the breakwater.
Gray enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1961, grew his hair long, and rented a basement room with a dirt floor for $5 a month. He thought about majoring in philosophy but lost interest when he discovered computers. He signed up for graduate classes without taking the prerequisites, and in 1969, he earned the university's first PhD in computer science.
After a stint at Bell Labs, the scruffy young coder took a job with IBM Research in San Jose. He gamely plunged into the nuts and bolts of data management, considered a dreary backwater even by avid readers of the Systems Journal. Back then, inputting a request to a data bank (the word database hadn't caught on yet) required a thicket of query syntax and a team of programmers. But in 1969, an IBM mathematician named Ted Codd had an epiphany. He sketched out a model for a so-called relational data bank that would make it easier to sift relevant needles from haystacks of information.
Gray joined an R&D team that was attempting to turn these theories into functioning software. His work focused on transactions: When should changes be firmly committed to the database? What if one of a pair of transactions fails halfway through? How can two (or 2,000) users access the same data simultaneously without corrupting it? In his research papers, he compared transactions to a marriage contract: What was the right moment to say "I do"?
Gray's solutions to these riddles are now embedded throughout the networked world, from Amazon.com to the corner ATM. The data bank he created with his colleagues, called System R, laid the technical foundations for a new industry. Updates of its query language, SQL, are still widely used. Compared to their clunky predecessors, relational databases turned out to be better suited to the revolution just over the horizon — GUIs, parallel processing, and the Web.
System R also inspired a seminal open source project at UC Berkeley, a relational database called Ingres, built by a crew led by Mike Stonebraker, now a professor at MIT. Though the teams at IBM and Berkeley were officially competing for the same small market, Stonebraker recalls, "Jim was unbelievably smart and very willing to help without getting credit. Most people considered business data-processing to be beneath them. Who would help Bank of America cash checks? No one foresaw how essential databases would become."
No one but an aspiring entrepreneur named Larry Ellison, then a young programmer working at Ampex on a data-storage scheme for the CIA. The agency's codename for the project: Oracle.
In 1977, Ellison launched a startup called Software Development Laboratories, using System R's papers as the blueprint for his own software. Then he repositioned his database for the emerging minicomputer market, betting that Big Blue would drag its heels. Ellison bet right, and the rest is Silicon Valley history.
"There was no love lost between Jim Gray and Larry Ellison. They hated each other," one of Gray's Microsoft colleagues says. But Gray was gracious in public, and he mellowed with the years. He told an interviewer in 2005 that his life had been a "researcher's dream — you have a lot of fun, you do something innovative, and then people make billions of dollars off of it."
And Gray never stopped innovating. At Tandem Computers and then Digital Equipment Corporation in the '80s and '90s, Gray helped develop what is now called grid computing, paving the way for the mammoth server farms that made big-iron mainframes obsolete. Though he felt more at home in industry, Gray would accept the occasional academic chair or fellowship. This gave him the chance to nourish the careers of promising upstarts like Amazon's Werner Vogels, who asked the programmer to sit on his doctoral committee at the Free University of Amsterdam. Long before Google appeared on Redmond's radar, Gray was advising Sergey Brin in Mountain View. Asked which of his achievements made him most proud, Gray once said, "The people that I've mentored."
"Jim was extremely forward-looking and had very few boundaries in his mind," Vogels says. "When Jeff Bezos wanted to hire me, he was the first person I called to ask what to do. When a question came up in my research, I'd shoot Jim an email. He was the ideal person to use as a soundboard for ideas."
Along the way, Gray got married and divorced twice, raising Heather with his first wife, Loretta. In 1984, he met Carnes, an articulate Norwegian-American beauty with master's degrees in history and education. An avid sailor and hiker, she accepted his proposal on their third date — on his boat, of course. She became an engineering manager in the Valley, and they spent their vacations sailing and reading Tolkien aloud to each other in the wilderness. When they bought the house on Telegraph Hill, they christened their nautically themed bedroom Gondor — the realm of the Ship-Kings.
"I fell head over heels in love," Carnes says. "We'd both been married before, but we met our match in each other. He was intense, I was intense, and we were both raised by single parents. Jim was like a mountain man who was also a brilliant scientist." She liked to call him Mr. Database. Every night after work, Gray would greet his wife by saying, "Hello, Donna Lee! I'm home, you lucky person!"
In 1995, Microsoft's Rashid recruited Gray as part of a big-brain hiring spree. With fellow computing pioneer Gordon Bell down the hall, Gray tacked up a UNIX — LIVE FREE OR DIE or die license plate in his office and set about mentoring a new generation.
He turned a dorky Windows NT marketing concept ("Scalability Day") into an excuse to build TerraServer, which brought satellite imagery — previously the exclusive domain of intelligence agencies and weather forecasters — to the masses. Then Gray teamed up with astronomer Alex Szalay at Johns Hopkins University to port a massive star-mapping project — the Sloan Digital Sky Survey — to the Web, making the data accessible to professional astronomers, backyard stargazers, and students. Since its debut in 2001, SkyServer has become the most widely used astronomical resource in the world, sparking discoveries about dwarf galaxies, dark matter, and sonic waves triggered by the big bang.
To Gray, both sites were teasers for the coming era of data-centric science made possible by the proliferation of cheap sensing devices, very large data bases, and online interfaces. For life-science researchers, he was like an ambassador from the future who spoke their language. The morning he set sail for the Farallon Islands, he had collaborations under way with oceanographers, soil ecologists, and public health officials.
And he was at least as interested in the scientists themselves as in the petabytes of data they produced. "We connected so deeply," Szalay says. "Sometimes you make these kinds of connections very early in life or in graduate school. But by the time you get to 50, it's rare to meet someone who is so much on the same wavelength. We talked this way, usually several times a day, for eight years."
Gray described his job at Microsoft as "making other people successful." When word went out that he was lost at sea, the scientists and engineers whose careers had flourished under his watchful eye marshaled their forces for their toughest test.
Three days after Gray set sail, on Wednesday, January 31, Swatland held a press conference on Yerba Buena Island. "We've searched 40,000 square miles of ocean," he said. "We cannot search indefinitely. It is always a hard decision when to break it off." Reports of sailboats disabled at Point Reyes and Stinson Beach just north of San Francisco had turned out to be blind alleys. Even a small boat typically casts a wide debris field as it sinks, with cushions, flashlights, trash, and gasoline bubbling up to the surface, but the Coast Guard had found nothing. Swatland announced that he would officially call off the search at 1 am Thursday.
The news did not sit well with the Friends of Jim at the press conference. When speculation among reporters turned to the notion that Gray might have evaded the searchers intentionally or committed suicide, Paula Hawthorn says, "I beamed right up to the front of the room and said, 'You don't know this man. He would never have done such a thing.' So they put me on TV. I said that Jim's friends were not giving up."
The notion of searching for Gray with tools he helped invent struck a deep chord in the online world. When the hunt for James Kim intensified in December, some bloggers had suggested crowdsourcing a rescue effort by enlisting netsurfers to aid in the search online. Executives at CNET had also thought of trying to use remote sensing to find the Kim family, and a company called GeoEye announced that its Ikonos satellite would make a special pass over the Oregon mountains. But a pilot spotted Kim's body the next day. Now the 21st-century paradigm for search and rescue would get a second chance.
The first step in any missing-person case is to make the subject of the search ubiquitous. As Gray's serenely owlish visage propagated on YouTube, images of Tenacious were tacked up in marinas from Japan to Mexico. Slashdot readers furnished links to the programmer's technical legacy while cracking grim jokes about the Blue Wave of Death.
Microsoft PR decided early on that it would keep the company's efforts out of the news. But behind the scenes, Rashid let it be known that money would be no object in the search for Gray. If the Coast Guard was going to drop out, keeping search planes aloft required raising a private air force. Bill Gates personally offered Microsoft's corporate account at a rental company called NetJets.
The lead developer on TerraServer, Microsoft's Tom Barclay, took on the job of organizing the air search while coordinating efforts with Google to obtain satellite imagery. Of the archrival companies working together, he told a reporter, "We were competitors yesterday and we'll be competitors tomorrow, but today we're partners."
Then the Coast Guard did something unexpected — instead of calling off the search, Swatland redoubled the effort. He deployed two C-130 aircraft, three helicopters, three patrol boats, and four motor lifeboats to venture as far south as the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, as far north as Oregon, and 300 miles offshore — an area the size of the Republic of the Congo. "I changed my mind because I didn't have a warm fuzzy feeling we'd done everything we could," he says. "And I'd be a liar if I said all the publicity didn't have something to do with it."
The only case Swatland could recall of a boat disappearing so completely was a fishing vessel called Relentless, which vanished in a busy shipping lane in 2004 while steaming toward San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf with a catch of Dover sole. The captain's family is convinced that the boat was rammed by one of the huge merchant ships churning in and out of the Golden Gate. The wreck of the Relentless has never been found. "You hit a steel fishing boat in a big ship like that, you probably feel it," Swatland says, "but a fiberglass sailboat like Tenacious? Maybe not."
After making a list of major vessels that could have posed a threat to Gray, the Coast Guard dispatched investigators to scrutinize ship's logs and examine hulls for signs of a collision. Japanese ships already back in their home ports were inspected by local maritime authorities. But no telltale log entry or damage was discovered. Swatland admits, however, that a determined crew could scrub away the evidence: "Can I say with 100 percent certainty that none of the ships we checked did it? No."
Time was running out — if Gray was still alive, he had only a few days of food on the boat, and the weather along the coast was getting worse.
As the Coast Guard revived its search effort, the Friends of Jim finally got some hard data to work with. With the blessing of the Canadian Space Agency, a satellite called Radarsat-1 — equipped with cloud-piercing synthetic-aperture radar — flew over the search area with sensors blazing. Soon after, DigitalGlobe's QuickBird made the first of three high-resolution passes, joined by GeoEye's Ikonos.
In addition to the satellites, NASA volunteered a pilot scheduled for a training flight in an ER-2 — the civilian equivalent of a spy plane — to cover the coastline with a near-infrared camera. In the course of a few days, the strip of ocean outside the Golden Gate became one of the most thoroughly documented locations on the planet.
The incoming avalanche of data created a fresh set of challenges. Originally, Gray's Microsoft colleagues and Vogels at Amazon were planning to use fancy data-crunching software to sift through millions of pixels for anything resembling a drifting boat. But these schemes were frustrated by the clouds moving in over the Pacific, which would have overwhelmed the algorithms.
Then Vogels remembered another resource that's very adept at picking salient details out of blurry images: human eyes. Launched in 2005, Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a service that enables employers to hire online workers for short-term tasks that computers don't do well. If a city government wants to count its utility-pole inventory, for instance, it can pay netsurfers a pittance (in dollars or rupees) to click through thousands of street-level photographs, tagging the poles they see. Spotting Tenacious in a sea of gray seemed like the perfect test of MTurk's "artificial artificial intelligence." On Friday, Vogels posted a request for volunteers on his blog with the headline "Help Find Jim Gray." The request raced through the online world, landing on the front page of Digg and getting a link in a New York Times story about the missing programmer. More than 12,000 volunteers signed up.
To increase the chances of finding the boat, Alex Szalay and his son Tamas — a student at Caltech — organized an alternate crew to analyze the same image data at Johns Hopkins, the University of Hawaii, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. The Szalays stayed up all night writing software to increase the clarity of the images. More seasoned analysts joined the effort from ESIP, the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, a consortium of satellite vendors and federal agencies. "All these different communities working together, on a moment's notice, with an incredible sense of urgency, to try to do the impossible," Szalay says. "That was very Jim."
Transferring hundreds of gigabytes of 8,192- by 8,192-pixel files into a standard format and tiling them into smaller pieces for distribution turned out to be tricky. When DigitalGlobe's first batch arrived on Amazon's servers, the files looked 100 percent black — a "heart-stopping moment," says Mechanical Turk director Peter Cohen. "That was our own ignorance," Vogels admits. "We went back to DigitalGlobe and said, 'There's something wrong with these images.' They told us, 'We're looking at them now. They're fine.' It took us crucial hours to realize that there were bits we needed to strip out. Our team worked day and night to get those files up."
Thousands of online volunteers tore through the images over the weekend. The task was eye-numbing: Most of the tiles were a murky gray or bluish black, with occasional streaks and blotches that could be clouds, wakes, whitecaps — or Gray's boat. One coder whipped up a Greasemonkey script to make scrolling through mass quantities of images easier. Meanwhile, Szalay's astronomers and the ESIP volunteers were hard at work. A particle physicist named Julian Bunn spotted a Tenacious-like blip lurking under a cloud. Swatland pledged that if anything turned up, the Coast Guard would lead the rescue effort.
By Monday afternoon, eight days after Gray went missing, the Amazon volunteers had scrutinized roughly 30,000 square miles of water. About 20 images were tagged as "likely," and one was tagged "highly likely," Vogels says. Promising images were flagged with comments and forwarded to a panel of expert satellite analysts convened by Szalay and led by venture capitalist David Tennenhouse, former director of Darpa's Information Technology Office.
But even with a handful of likely targets, there was another hurdle before Microsoft's Tom Barclay could dispatch search planes: Because days had passed since the objects in the images were caught by the satellites' sensors, they could have floated miles from their original locations. The Friends of Jim needed a way to forecast where a 40-foot sailboat would drift, given the state of the weather and surface currents.
Oceanographer Jim Bellingham was already on the case. Chief technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Bellingham was another young scientist who had benefited from Gray's patient mentoring. A typical field program at MBARI consists of putting dozens of robot gliders and other sensing devices into the sea to measure such variables as temperature, nitrate content, and the presence of bioluminescent organisms. Last year, Gray helped Bellingham design a set of "digital workbenches" to help the institute better analyze rapid influxes of real-time data.
Now similar tools were needed to build simulations and to plot drift trajectories. Bellingham assembled a team of ocean modelers from the US Navy, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and Oregon Health & Science University. For up-to-the-minute data about currents, they tracked Coast Guard radio buoys and dialed into a high-frequency radar network recently installed by the state of California to monitor coastal conditions. Then they posted GIF animations to the Web showing where an object seen by a satellite two days before would likely be located. "We pulled out all the stops," Bellingham says. "If this had been a real field program, it would have taken months to spin all this up."
In some cases, the drift team relied on ocean data from the same types of buoys that Gray himself had used for a climate-change study in 1994. "Now we were using them to find Jim. That was bittersweet," says Oracle's VP of embedded technologies, Mike Olson, who had also worked on the climate study.
But just as Szalay's image experts were identifying the most promising targets, the weather intervened. Rain and high winds swept down the coast, delaying some flights. When the sky finally cleared, all the leads were hunted down, but the searchers came back empty-handed.
Vogels is still haunted by the notion that the "highly likely" target may in fact have been Gray's boat. "It's not that we didn't find anything," he says. "That image might very well have been Jim. The drift analysis was right. But we had to wait two or three days before sending out a plane because of the weather. By then, nothing was there."
As the satellite drama unfolded, the Friends of Jim were also working other angles. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, an organization called the Wireless Emergency Response Team had located survivors in New Orleans by flying a portable wireless tower over the flooded city. Barclay proposed that WERT do the same thing over the ocean to ping Gray's smartphone. To pull it off, he needed a twin-engine plane and a pilot capable of ferrying the device on a risky long-range flight from Mexico to the Canadian border — the entire length of the search area by that point. Late one night, Barclay got a call from Oracle's head of server technologies, Chuck Rozwat, who said that Larry Ellison was volunteering to do the job himself in his own private jet. But WERT backed out of the plan, claiming its crew was unavailable.
For all their technical and financial might, the Friends of Jim were out of options. The massive push to create new tools for search and rescue had been a success — but the man who inspired the effort was still nowhere to be found.
As Gray's friends lost hope that he was alive, Carnes gazed out at the water from her deck on Telegraph Hill. "I would go out there and have these ridiculous conversations: 'Come home, wherever you are, just come home, in whatever form, I'll give up an arm or a leg, just let me find you,'" she says. Finally she decided it was time to go to sea herself.
On February 11, she chartered a fishing boat to take her and a marine search expert named Bob Bilger to the Farallones. An avuncular, walrus-mustached Minnesotan whose day job is delivering boats to their owners, Bilger organized a team that was able to predict the location of the Coyote — a boat wrecked en route to an around-the-world race in 1992 — within 15 nautical miles. His goal when embarking on a search is to "get inside the mind of the skipper," he says, while gathering every scrap of data he can about the boat and ocean conditions on the day the vessel went astray. Bilger takes no fee for his searches, saying that it's his way of showing gratitude to the boating community for being generous with him when he was younger.
Onshore access to Southeast Farallon Island is restricted to scientists, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office arranged clearance so Carnes and Bilger could talk to Brett Hartl, the young naturalist who may have seen Tenacious just before it fell off the map. Looming out of the mist, reeking of guano, and devoid of all but scrub and government-issue architecture, the island is hospitable only to the dozens of species of seabirds and pinnipeds that breed there. So many great white sharks slither through the water nearby that naturalists toss in old surfboards just to video the attacks. Scores of ships have met their doom on the jagged outcroppings that 19th-century sailors called the devil's teeth.
It seems like an inauspicious place to deposit your mother's ashes, but Ann Gray made that specific request in her will. Carnes' father, Don, also wanted to be scattered at sea, and the two urns sat side by side in Jim and Donna's kitchen for months. Last Christmas, Jim invited his daughter along for the trip, but Heather thought baby Sam was too young for sailing.
Both wind and water were relatively calm as Carnes passed the Point Bonita lighthouse, as they had been for her husband two weeks earlier. But as she got close to the 15-mile marker that Gray mentioned in his last conversation, the boat entered a maze of floating debris. Winter storms in Oregon and Washington had launched a ragged archipelago of logs, nets, and other flotsam into the Pacific, which had been making their way down to the Bay Area for weeks. "There were so many logs, hundreds of logs, so much lumber in the water," Carnes says bitterly.
Though Gray was never interested in racing, his boat — a C&C 40 — was built for speed, with a lightweight hull, an unshielded propeller, and an 8,000-pound lead keel for stability. These features make boats like Tenacious graceful and maneuverable in the hands of a skilled sailor like Gray. But they leave the boat vulnerable to damage from heavy objects in the water. Bilger estimates that if a log had opened a hole in the hull that was 6 inches or more in diameter, Tenacious would have taken on a thousand gallons of water a minute. "I can picture a million scenarios that would have put a hole in the bottom," he says, "with enough water coming in that Jim had no way of shutting it down, slowing it up, or fixing it."
In fact, Tenacious might have been even more vulnerable to hull damage than the average C&C 40. Ten years ago, a saltwater intake hose on the boat frayed against the engine. By the time Gray discovered the leak, the water was waist-high in the cabin. If the boat had never completely dried out, the balsa-wood core of its fiberglass hull could have slowly rotted from within.
Plus, even on a clear day, the water between San Francisco and the Farallones is a washing machine. Entering or leaving the Golden Gate, sailors have to skirt two shipping lanes that straddle a treacherous area of turbulence known as the Potato Patch. A Microsoft engineer named Phil Garrett determined that on the day Gray set sail, the favorable morning winds turned against him in the afternoon, gusting from the east at more than 8 knots, something even a seasoned Bay Area sailor would not have expected. Those stiff winds and an outgoing tide would have made it nearly impossible for Gray to make it back to Gashouse Cove by sunset, even running his motor. And in the dark, it would have been tougher for him to avoid hitting heavy objects in the water — and harder for the crew of a merchant ship, trying to stay on schedule, to notice a small fiberglass boat gliding in front of them.
Like many sailors, Gray could also be slightly careless about safety equipment. He stashed his emergency radio beacon — designed to deploy automatically underwater—on a shelf in the companionway, below deck, and didn't always remember to bring it up before leaving the dock, according to Carnes.1 If a log had opened a big enough hole in the hull, Bilger estimates, Tenacious could have sunk in as little as 30 seconds; hardly enough time to fetch the EPIRB or start inflating a dinghy with the foot pump stored under the cockpit seat. If something bad did happen out there, Jim Bellingham says, Gray's unflappable attitude may not have served him well. "With Jim being an engineer, you can imagine him thinking, 'I can fix this' — and then the whole thing snowballs. He was a level-headed, steady guy who wasn't likely to panic. Which is maybe too bad, because a less-competent person might have grabbed the radio and shouted for help."
The mystery of the missing debris might not be a mystery, Bilger says. If Tenacious took on water, its engine and gas tanks would have sunk the boat stern first; any loose life rings or ropes might have been scooped up in the bow and sucked under the waves. But until the boat is found, the search expert is not ready to say definitively what happened to Gray. "I deal in facts, not hearsay or speculation," he says.
There is one more scenario that Bilger refuses to absolutely rule out — that Gray did something completely unexpected and sailed away. He's the kind of guy who does exactly what he wants, when he wants, doesn't ask anybody's permission, and may or may not explain himself later. The problem is, I can take the same set of facts, run Jim south, and have him leaving. Everybody who knew him thinks that's extremely far-fetched. But strictly speaking, the facts could go either way."
Gray's friends and family firmly reject this scenario, which has become a popular explanation for his disappearance among Bay Area day-sailors with Jimmy Buffett tendencies. While cynicism and irreverence are not hard to come by among old coders, even Gray's most hard-boiled cronies dismiss the notion that he vanished on purpose, for reasons ranging from love and lust ("He said his sex life with Donna was still great") to cash ("He would never have walked away from all that Microsoft money").
As winter turned into spring, Carnes employed a private company to comb the ocean floor north of the Golden Gate with side-scan sonar and remote-operated underwater vehicles. But like the search, this three-and-a-half-month salvage operation, too, turned up nothing.
On May 8, a Wikipedia user appended a phrase to Gray's entry: "presumed dead." Gray's daughter finds this hard to accept. "I don't believe that my dad is dead. I don't think they're going to find anything," Heather Gray told me. "I think he could be adrift."
When a death requires a presumption, it's loved ones who can become adrift, says therapist Pauline Boss, author of two books on what she calls ambiguous loss. "The only way you can live is to keep two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time: 'He's dead' and 'maybe not.' The bad side of living that way is that the stress is unbelievable. We're used to being able to solve problems."
Gray was one of the best and brightest in a generation of problem-solvers, and also one of the most humble. When conference hosts tried to introduce him as a database guru or god, he would say gently, "I'm just a programmer." Even his disappearance proved to be an act of mentoring, providing a template for networked search-and-rescue methods that may save countless lives in the future. But for now, his family, friends, and colleagues at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NASA, and laboratories all over the world are left unmoored.
"Despite our knowledge and technology and the applied brilliance of scientists like Jim, we all ended up feeling helpless, " Carnes wrote in an email. "Of course, Jim would read what I've just written and say: Oh, Donna Lee, first you live and then you die. Then he'd crush me in a bear hug and we'd watch some boy action flick. But he is not the one left searching."
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What's Charlie Sheen's Health Problem?
Amid Sheen's recent claims that he's drug-free, Dr. Drew Pinsky suggests the 'Two and a Half Men' star could be bipolar, and his father Martin Sheen compares his addiction with cancer.
Monday, February 28, 2011 - As troubled star Charlie Sheen's downward spiral continues, other celebs have been quick to make claims about the roots of his apparent health issues — and the best way to treat them.
After observing Sheen's rants on radio shows and in the press, Drew Pinsky, MD, addiction specialist and host of Celebrity Rehab, suggested the star was bipolar. "These are bipolar, manic symptoms. The irritability, the agitation, the pressure in his speech, the anger and the aggression; that's all manic symptoms, " Pinsky told TMZ. "The thought process is unraveling. It's derailed. It's loosened. That's a serious symptom."
Sheen, however, disagrees with the allegation he has bipolar symptoms. "Wow, what does that mean? Wow, and then what? What's the cure — medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen," a chain-smoking Sheen said in an ABC News interview that aired this morning on Good Morning America. "I'm bi-winning. I win here and I win there."
Related: Could Sheen Be Bipolar? Top Symptoms to Look For
Meanwhile, his family has taken a different tack. "He's an extraordinary man," his father, Martin Sheen, told the UK's Sky News. "If he had cancer, how would we treat him? The disease of addiction is a form of cancer, and you have to have an equal measure of concern and love and lift them up, so that's what we do for him."
For his part, Sheen is convinced he's fine. In fact, the only drug Sheen claims he's on is himself. "I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen," the star told ABC News in an interview filled with one bizarre quip after another. "It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body." The star even credits himself with what he calls a quick recovery from any drug problem he may have had: "I blinked and I cured my brain."
Related: The Truth About Addiction Relapse
Sheen, who took and passed a drug test in front of ABC News, described his new clean life as perfect, but he doesn't regret his former partying ways. "It doesn't compare; they're whole different realities," Sheen said in the interview, which will air in a special one-hour 20/20 on March 1 at 10 p.m. ET. "There are great things about both, but what I'm harnessing now is absolute focus. It's exciting. I've just answered to a higher calling and it happened in a blink of an eye."
He explained in a separate interview with NBC that aired this morning on The Today Show that he had received treatment for addiction in his home after he was rushed to the hospital in January following an alleged two-day drug and alcohol bender. "It was a crisis management center we labeled the Sober Valley Lodge," he quipped.
Sheen — who seems to be coming more and more undone with each public outburst — sounded off last week in an interview with the syndicated radio personality Alex Jones that included this anti-Semitic rant against his Two and a Half Men producers. "There's something this side of deplorable that a certain Chaim Levine — yeah, that's [producer Chuck Lorre's] real name — mistook this rock star for his own selfish exit strategy, bro," Sheen said. "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time — and this includes naps — I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordnance to the ground."
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Royals Minor League report: July 12
Omaha Storm Chasers (43-52)
Round Rock 7, Omaha 6
LP: Francisley Bueno (1-3)
HR: None
12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez hit a solo homer in the ninth to lift Round Rock past Omaha. The home run followed a five-run eighth by the Storm Chasers. Chris Getz is batting .309 (17-for-56) after recording two hits and two RBI. Michael Mariot (2.0 IP, 1 H) made a spot start in place of Yordano Ventura, who is participating in Sunday's Futures Game at Citi Field. Sam Runion allowed four runs over 2.2 innings in his Triple-A debut.
NW Arkansas Naturals (11-10 2nd half, 36-55 overall)
Springfield 4, NW Arkansas 0
LP: Sugar Ray Marimon (5-10)
HR: None
The Naturals could not capitalize on nine hits in a shutout loss to Springfield. Brett Eibner, Roman Hernandez and Whit Merrifield had two safeties apiece. Sugar Ray Marimon struggled with his control, walking six over 4.0 IP, including three straight in the first for his lone run allowed. Noel Arguelles held the Cardinals scoreless over 2.0 innings.
Wilmington Blue Rocks (12-8 2nd half, 45-45 overall)
Lynchburg at Wilmington - Postponed
Wilmington's opener vs. Lynchburg was postponed. The clubs will play one tonight and a pair of seven-inning games tomorrow. 2012 second-rounder Sam Selman (7-6, 4.01 ERA) is scheduled to start tonight.
Lexington Legends (12-8 2nd half, 45-43 overall)
Lexington 2, Delmarva 1 (14 innings)
WP: Kevin Allen (1-0)
HR: None
Lexington scored two in the 14th to win a marathon series opener. Mark Threlkeld doubled home Raul Mondesi for the tying run and scored the game-winner on Cam Gallagher's single. Crawford Simmons fanned 11 Delmarva batters while scattering three hits and three walks over 6.0 innings. Simmons, 22, missed 2012 due to injury.
Idaho Falls Chukars (8-14)
Idaho Falls 6, Helena 3
WP: Josiel Martinez (2-1)
SV: Corey Rhoney (1)
HR: Elier Hernandez (2)
Elier Hernandez hit a go-ahead two-run homer, lifting Idaho Falls to a four-game series split at Helena. Hernandez added an RBI double while Humberto Arteaga doubled twice and drove in a run. Josiel Martinez (3.1 IP, 4 H, 0 ER) earned the win in relief.
Burlington Royals (11-7)
Bluefield at Burlington - Postponed
The Burlington grounds crew employed a helicopter in an attempt to dry the outfield grass, however, play was postponed once again. No makeup date was announced. The Royals are scheduled to host Kingsport tonight, if Mother Nature allows.
Surprise Royals (7-12)
AZL Diamondbacks 7, Surprise 4
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HR: Brawlun Gomez (2)
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Cost of rocking: Will locals pay to see big gigs?
If ever there were any doubts that Charlottesville has gone from sleepy little town to national concert tour destination, they died a quick death sometime between the morning of Monday, March 23 and the morning of Tuesday, March 24. Within that 24-hour span, three Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductees and a Country Music Hall of Famer all announced Charlottesville dates as part of their upcoming tours.
It began when the Charlottesville Pavilion heralded the coming of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Wednesday, June 10, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne on Tuesday, August 4, and honky tonk legend George Jones on Saturday, August 8. Those tickets will all go on sale on Friday, March 27 at 10am.
And then just when local music fans started counting their nickels and dimes, trying to decide which Pavilion show to attend, the John Paul Jones Arena announced that iconic rock outfit Metallica had scheduled a Charlottesville date on Saturday, October 17. Those tickets become available on Saturday, April 11 at 10am.
While these shows are great news for fans of live music all over town, a key question remains: With Americans cutting back on luxury spending due to adverse economic conditions, will local music fans buy tickets to all these shows?
Already, there are serious indicators that the local demand for big ticket gigs is waning. Last year, after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced they were coming to the JPJ, the more than 15,000 tickets sold out in mere minutes. Now, the Boss is making an encore appearance on Tuesday, May 5, and there just isn't the same clamor to see the show. Nearly two months after Springsteen's show went on sale, tickets are still available for purchase.
Add to that the factor that U2, arguably the world's most popular rock band, just made it official that they are coming to town, and Charlottesville promoters may see fans begin to pick and choose which big name bands they see.
For his part, JPJ general manager Larry Wilson is unfazed.
"People always pick and choose," says Wilson. "The good thing is that there's very little overlap in the demographics of all the shows that were just announced, and they're spaced out over a series of months."
The tickets for these new dates won't come cheap. The cheapest general admission ticket the Pavilion announced Monday was $25 for George Jones, ranging all the way up to $59 "gold circle" tickets to see Jackson Browne. Meanwhile, metalheads will have to whip out some serious plastic to see Metallica, at a price range of $51 to $71 before service fees.
And fans may just decide to skip all of the above in order to be able to see U2. Though the ticket prices for their upcoming stadium shows in Boston, New York, and Chicago have yet to be announced, tickets to catch their 2005 "Vertigo" tour averaged just under $100 apiece.
Wilson says that the concert industry at large has become more conscious of the bad economy's affect on fans and are adjusting accordingly.
"We're all realizing that when people are losing their jobs, we need to look at our ticket prices," says Wilson. "For example, for the Keith Urban show coming up, he's selling $22 tickets, which is way down."
Even before the economic meltdown, it looked as though Charlottesville might have a case of entertainment ennui. In October 2007, the Hook published a cover story that examined the issue of a local live music market oversaturated with big gigs. At that point, the Police were on the eve of bringing their top-grossing reunion tour to the JPJ, and yet tickets were still going unclaimed at the box office, and a Bob Dylan-Elvis Costello double bill did not play to a capacity arena (though JPJ officials would later tell the Hook they had not put every seat in the house on sale for that show).
Despite the dark clouds hovering over the global economy, Wilson says he's sunny about his arena and Charlottesville maintaining their collective status as major concert hub.
"My mantra has always been if fans buy tickets, artists will keep coming," says Wilson. "It remains to be seen what will happen in the current economy, but so far our sales are strong, and artists have kept coming."
–updated Tuesday, March 24 at 11:43am
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NIN was too expensive too, but the weekend before the show they started selling $20 tickets, so I went.
This local WON'T be attending any only because it's too expensive. Everyone who can afford it....enjoy!
Can't believe Byrne is coming to town. The Pavilion is one of the best things added to this town in a long time.
Cool, Metallica! That's a big score. How do you get floor tickets, do you just show up the day of the event? When I saw NIN I would have rather been on the floor, but I had a seat and they wouldn't let seat-holders go down to the floor.
I will pay big bucks to see GOOD performers. If JPJ hooked the cvillians up with Zeppelin or something like that, I'd pay big dollars, but frankly I could give a rat's butt about Metallica.
H8R, your prayers have totally been sort of answered.
A nurse where I work was busy on the phone today getting her friends together to buy tickets for David Byrne this Friday. I believe compared to traveling out of town or the price of dinner at many restaurants these ticket prices will seem affordable to many and give them something to look forward to.


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Posted by Editoress on 01/17/12
This Friday, January 20th, the regular Friday night races will see a prize purse for all women racers, U-17 racers and U-19 racers, courtesy of Superior Glass and Strada Cycles.
Superior Glass is a Port Coquitlam based custom residential and commercial glazier. They have been in business for 16 years with 40 employees. Superior Glass "Achieving extraordinary objectives while following unconventional paths". www.superiorglass.ca
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The top three women, U-19, and U-17 riders that accumulate the most points based on top five finish positions, regardless of the category they race in will be vying for prizes of $50, $30, and $20 for a total purse of $300.
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Хорошую статью на эту тему (на английском) можно посмотреть под катом. Разумеется, мейнстрим-пресса ее не опубликовала.
Call it an occupational hazard but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, "Who parented these people?"
As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political ramifications of the "movement" - now known as "OWS" - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: "Everything for everybody."
Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with serious designs on "transformational" change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.
Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed along.
Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will:
* Life isn't fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger [2] said, "You can't always get what you want."
No matter how you try to "level the playing field," some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they're dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.
* Nothing is "free." Protesting with signs that seek "free" college degrees and "free" health care make you look like idiots because colleges and hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and "slow paths" to adulthood and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.
While I'm pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.
* Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don't require loans or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It's a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.
* A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn't evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don't dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don't seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.
* There are reasons you haven't found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you.
((c) 2011 Marybeth Hicks)


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Published source code accompanying the article by Shamshad Ansari in which he uses the Java Communication API to send commands to and receive responses from RFID readers such as the TI S2000 Micro-reader.
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Because the last update of new coffees wasn't quite enough, I saved a few special ones for today
Costa Rica Dona Daisy Finca Don Pepe Red Honey Geisha
Black tea, white sugar, bergamot
In the cup this tastes like an Ethiopian washed coffee with lemon, black tea and bergamot. But then it remembers where it's from and finishes with hints of white sugar and melon.
£15.00 for 250g
Costa Rica Finca La Pira Red Honey Caturra
Candied lemon peel, white sugar, toffee
In the cup expect candied lemon peel, with a white sugar sweetness that's super clean and finishes with what I can only describe as a toffee stickiness.
£12.00 for 250g
El Salvador Finca La Ilusion Washed Bourbon
Macerated strawberry, white sugar, lime
In the cup this always reminds me of fruit salad sweets, with pineapple cubes and red apples, all with a delicious creamy finish.
£9.00 for 250g
El Salvador Finca La Ilusion Natural Bourbon
Fruit salad sweets, pineapple cubes, red apples
In the cup this has macerated strawberry notes with a silky mouthfeel and texture alongside a white sugar sweetness. Be sure to look out for the lime like finish that just goes goes on and on and on.
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We all love a good tool now don't we? Anything to make life easier and our work rate more efficient. When it comes to tools for SEO and related online disciplines it can be extra useful to have these tools to hand as browser extensions.
So if you're still fannying around in Firefox or Opera (dems jokes – cc Hannah Smith) then here's a list of useful Chrome extensions that we like to use at theMediaFlow.
SEO Site Tools
All you have ever needed in a comprehensive site tool plus a few other things you don't really need nowadays, but let's not split hairs. Also includes social shares and suchlike which can be quite handy for AW12.
Google Global
Handy little tool to search Google as if by magic from different countries, which is perfect if you just need a couple of local queries hand-checked and save you looking like a billy-no proxies.
Okay, so it's not *really* SEO but this awesome little extension-job tells you the cookies that drop as you visit a page; which is invaluable if you find you're advising clients on the EU Cookie Directive in a kind of "which does not constitute legal advice" way.
Also I have a BIG THING for adding "ery" to the end of mono-syllabic nouns as it makes everything better. Try it: "chipsery," "ginery," "sexery," "ryan goslingery".
Ayima Redirect Path
I like Ayima. I think they need their own theme tune, but let's not let that detract from this nice and simple header-check. It tells you when a page you are on redirects you (which you might not notice) and gives a header indicator.
PageRank Display
Yeah PageRank, whatevs… but we still like to know. Admit it. So do you.
Highlights where the link attribute rel=nofollow is used.
Actually an app rather than extension but once synced, has a wealth of information about your Twitter account. It facilitates far more analysis than Twitter on the web or other desktop clients I have come across.
Firebug Lite
Some useful little features like inspect HTML elements on mouseover.
Web Developer
Adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the Web Developer extension for Firefox.
Go Tooling
Number Search Engine Results
Supposed to do what it says on the tin, but doesn't always work of late. Give it a go and you can always uninstall if it won't perform.


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