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'Murder in the First' review: TNT cop drama makes a killing
Series set against high-tech backdrop perfectly captures city's cultural divide
Murder in the First: Drama. 10 p.m. Monday on TNT.
The more television creators try to reinvent the tried, true and often tattered template that is the police procedural, the more we realize two things: First, the subgenre is never going away and, second, most attempts to put lipstick on this particular pig miss the mark.
It may be that the answer is not to try to reinvent the form, as Fox did with "Almost Human," but to look to what made police procedurals so popular in the first place. From "Dragnet" and "M Squad," through "The Streets of San Francisco," "Hill Street Blues," "NYPD Blue," "Southland" and, oh yeah, the ubiquitous "Law & Order" franchise, it was always about interesting, credible cases solved by interesting, credible cops.
That simple premise is why TNT's "Murder in the First" generally works, which stands to reason because it was co-created by Steven Bochco, the co-creator of "NYPD Blue." Bochco's first new series since 2008 premieres Monday.
The show follows San Francisco cops as they try to solve a pair of homicides that on the surface seem to have nothing in common - a junkie is found with a bullet through his forehead in a ratty apartment in the city's Tenderloin area, and a young woman is found, naked and with her neck broken, in a better part of town.
The setting is as up to date as tomorrow's Twitter feed (except for an aerial shot of the Bay Bridge, which is out of date: The new eastern span now has a tower). Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson, "Boss") is a divorced mother who packs her gun in her bag as she packs her daughter off to school. Her partner Terry English (Taye Diggs, "Private Practice") has a lot more going on in his personal life: His wife, Emily (Anne-Marie Johnson, "JAG") is dying of stage four pancreatic cancer. He does what he can to keep it together on the job, but he isn't always successful.
The investigation takes Hildy and Terry into the belly of the high-tech beast in the Bay Area - natch. Oddly enough, there's a connection between the junkie's death and young tech millionaire Erich Blunt (Tom Felton, "Harry Potter"). The show makes great use of the cultural divide between high tech and the rest of the world: Blunt wears T-shirts and hoodies and travels by private jet. When the cops track him down in the middle of his company near AT&T Park, they suggest going to his office for a discussion.
"This is my office," he says.
Blunt is a piece of work: Arrogant, unforgiving, ambitious and a womanizer. But did he commit either or both of the murders? His attorney David Hertzberg (Richard Schiff, "The West Wing") thinks Blunt needs to lawyer up big time and sets up a meeting with high-powered, and high-priced, attorney Warren Daniels (James Cromwell, "Babe"). If either murder case goes to court, Blunt's team will be facing the formidable San Francisco district attorney, Sonia Perez (Nicole Ari Parker, "Revolution"), who looks an awful lot like former real-life San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, now the state's attorney general.
Bochco co-created the series with newcomer Eric Lodal, but you can't help thinking of an earlier TV procedural that Bochco had nothing to do with: Quinn Martin's "The Streets of San Francisco." The greatness of that classic series owed to great performances by Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, but even more to the use of San Francisco as more than just the setting for the show: The series captured the texture of daily life in the city by the bay at an especially ripe period in its history, the 1970s.
Bochco and Lodal make similar use of the city in "Murder in the First." There's not only great authenticity in the show (that dated Bay Bridge shot notwithstanding), but "Murder" also mines an equally ripe period in the city's history, its status as the center of the 21st century technology revolution.
Unlike other procedurals, "Murder" is not structured with a new crime each week. Instead, it will follow a single case through 10 episodes this season. Presumably, that will mean wrapping it up in the 10th episode instead of making the mistake AMC made with season one of "The Killing."
The show is generally well written, expertly directed (Thomas Schlamme of "West Wing" directs the pilot) and most of the performances are solid. "Murder" strays into the weeds just slightly in the third episode, when we find out the district attorney is in a secret relationship with the supervisor of the homicide squad, Lt. Jim Koto (Ian Anthony Dale, "Hawaii Five-O"), and Inspector David Molk (Raphael Sbarge, "Once Upon a Time") blurs ethical lines with a potential witness in a way that suggests a high school geek pursuing a cheerleader.
But for the most part, we see Hildy and Terry as key parts of a homicide squad, not just the only two smart people in the room.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV


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"We are quite fortunate to have so many passionate participants walking around the track all night long," she said.
"And most of the participants are from right in the neighborhood," added Walter Sanchez, honorary chairman of the event. "It's a night out in the park where we get together for something good."
David Daraio, from Maspeth Federal Savings Bank, spoke as the event got underway late Saturday afternoon.
"The bank is quite proud to be a driving force behind this event," he said. Maspeth Federal had nearly 60 friends, employees and families participating in the overnight event.
In all, there were over 50 teams of 12 or more people raising more than $100,000. One person from each team had to walk the track at any one time throughout the night. The Relay ended at 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
The American Cancer Society wished to give special thanks to generous sponsors: Maspeth Federal Savings, George Ries - Sr. Vice President & David Daraio - Assistant Vice President; Penmark Realty, Mr. Bernard Friedman; Glendale Kiwanis, Mr. Fred Haller; Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Dr. Vijay Mattoo; Director-Hematology/Oncology; The Queens Ledger Weekly Newspapers, Walter H. Sanchez; Killarney's Cottage, Jason & AI; Lasting Impressions Entertainment, DJ; Ridgewood Moose Lodge #1642. Thanks also to: Amish Market (Shops at Atlas Mall); Arby's; Bauer's Bake Shop; John Benitez of California Pizza Kitchen; Jim Bolan (NYFD Engine 211); Chris Cielepak Construction; Community Board 5; CupcakeStop (NYC 1st Mobile Gourmet Cupcake Shop); Curves of Middle Village; Domino's Pizza; East Meets West; Ferrara's Lumber (Maspeth); Glendale Lumber; Grand Florist; Juniper Park Civic Association; Maspeth Town Hall Community Center; McDonald's (Metropolitan Ave); Middle Village Volunteer Ambulance Corps; NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; NY and NJ Sports Teams; NYPD 104th Precinct; Our Lady of Hope; Panera Bread; J & C Platz Hardware; Royal Collectibles; Schwalbach Building Supply; St. Matthias; and Starbucks (Shops at Atlas Park).

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An American soldier will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions while defending a remote outpost in Afghanistan overrun by hundreds of Taliban fighters, Stars & Stripes reports.
Staff Sgt. Ty Carter, 33, will be the fifth living recipient of the nation's highest award, and the second for the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh.
"I don't think it's for me," he told The Spokesman-Review. "It's for everybody in the unit who sacrificed and held their own, the soldiers that gave their lives for us to be here today. They and their families deserve it."
On Oct. 3, 2009, Carter was one of 54 members of B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment defending Combat Outpost Keating in Nuristan Province. Shortly before 6 a.m., the remote base was rocked with blistering enemy machine gun and rocket fire. More than 400 fighters were attempting to overrun the base.
Then-Specialist Carter sprinted across open ground to join his fellow soldiers on the perimeter, then ran back again to gather up necessary supplies despite withering enemy fire. Later, Carter noticed his fellow soldier Specialist Stephan L. Mace was wounded.
While Larson provided cover fire from within a nearby Humvee, Carter stanched Mace's bleeding and placed a tourniquet on his shattered leg.
He realized he couldn't carry Mace while he had his weapon. He returned to the Humvee and told Larson his plan. Larson got out of the Humvee and provided cover fire while Carter returned to Mace, picked him up and carried him through the hail of bullets back to the Humvee, and went back to firing.
During the 12-hour long battle, Carter continued to give medical aid to Mace, engage the enemy, and communicate with his fellow soldiers to retake the base. According to the Army's official narrative of the battle, "Carter's remarkable acts of heroism and skill, which were vital to the defense of COP Keating, exemplify what it means to be an American hero."
Carter first joined the military in 1998, enlisting in the Marine Corps and serving until 2002. After some time attending college and traveling, he enlisted in the Army in 2008, and continues to serve on active duty.
He joins fellow Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha as the second recipient of the Medal of Honor for the battle at COP Keating. President Obama will present him with the award during a ceremony at the White House on Aug. 26.


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Hard as he might try, Robert Pattinson has trouble getting away from the 'Jacobs' in his life. He might have escaped his lupine rival in the supernatural Twilight world, but one of his next big roles saw him taking on the name himself as his played love-struck veterinarian Jacob Jankowski in Water For Elephants. With one film set in the fictional past and the other in the supernatural present, let's see how Robert's Jacobs compare:
Any Twi-hard worth their salt will know that Jacob Black is a werewolf, a fact that gives him a rather unique viewpoint when it comes to human-animal relations. But he's not the only one to share a close bond with the animal world! There might not be many lycanthropes beneath the tents of the Benzini Bros but there's plenty of other animals around for Jacob Jankowski to look after. It goes without saying that vets love animals and Robert's character in Water for Elephants is no exception. Spending almost as much time with his furry patients as he does with his humanoid circus mates, having a close relationship with animals is a trait that both Jacobs share.
Jacob Black plays just one third of cinema's most memorable love triangles in Twilight, sharing the spotlight with Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. Having fallen in love with a girl already spoken for, Jacob's wolfish wiles often get the better of him as he fights to claim the one he loves. Jacob Jankowski faces a similar problem in Water For Elephants. Completely smitten with the beautiful and talented Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), Jacob never backs down in his pursuit to free her from her violent husband and give her the life she deserves.
After Jacob Jankowski's parents are killed in a car crash and his home is reclaimed by a bank, Jacob decides to up and leave, escaping into the forest where he has only the train tracks for guidance. When the Benzini Brothers' train comes along, Jacob jumps on and is soon swept away into a wild world completely at odds with his previous lifestyle. Surrounded by animals and constantly travelling across the country, Jacob fits right into the rustic lifestyle. Twilight's Jacob Black also loves life on the wild side. Frequently reverting to his wolf form to lope through the woods, Jacob is as at home among the trees as he is under a roof and laps up life outdoors!
Another thing the two Jacobs' share is their penchant for speedy transport! When Jacob Black isn't racing through the forest on four legs, he's shooting around Forks on his motorbike. Jacob Jankowski also hopped aboard a fast moving vehicle when he was picked up by the circus steam train which took him at great speeds across the US on an unexpected adventure.
As part of a wolf pack, Jacob Black's friends mean everything to him. Extremely loyal and fiercely defensive, Jacob would fight to the death to protect his own. When Jacob Jankowski joins the Benzini Brothers, he makes a new family (maybe not the kind he was expecting!) among the circus workers, earning their trust and becoming an integral member of the railroad family.
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Barry University Professor of Education Jill Farrell, EdD, has been appointed Interim Dean of the Adrian Dominican School of Education beginning July 1, 2015.
Christopher Starratt, Barry's Interim Provost and Vice President for Mission and Institutional Effectiveness, made the announcement on May 2, thanking Farrell for her willingness to continue to serve Barry University.
A veteran member of the Barry faculty, Farrell joined Barry University in 2001 as an assistant professor and Director of the Graduate Elementary Education programs.
In her 14 years at Barry, Farrell has held many roles including: Director of the MS Elementary Education program, Director of the MS, EdS, and PhD Curriculum and Instruction programs, Chair for the Curriculum and Instruction Department which included the undergraduate education program, MS, EdS, and PhD Curriculum and Instruction programs, and Montessori Education graduate programs.
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I effing hate you. You give me perma-frizz for like four months. You make my face look greasy enough to fry eggs on, if i still ate eggs. I hate sweating and being around humidity. I hate being in the sun and that whole "gotta get a tan" subculture. I also hate shorts and you will NEVER see me in them. Oh yeah, and i hate 'belly' shirts, too. First, I've had three kids so every shirt i own is a 'belly' shirt. Second, you would be hard pressed to find one square inch of my torso that does NOT have some sort of freckle or mole on it. This just occurred in the last few years. Even my own mother, who came to visit and happened to be around while i was getting dressed and only had my bra on, said, "Wow! When did THAT happen? You weren't ALWAYS covered in moles, right?" My mother. She is soooo going to Shady Pines when she gets older.
Also, I am as pale as the day is long. Like, see-through, I'm so damn pale. I like being pale, to tell you the truth. While everyone around me looks orange and unnaturally leatheresque, I am keeping my youth tightly in my grasp. I get people all the time who say things like, "YOU have teenagers? What, did you start when you were like 12?" To which I would love to reply "Actually, 11. And they have three different daddies, one of which is my brother. Oh, and I'm from Alabammer 'riginally." But, I digress. Not everyone can possess my sparkling social graces.
The only good part of summer is the fact that I can eat ice cream ten times a day, and no one (except my scale) looks at me funny. My fiend-oops, friend- at Bake and Destroy! got herself the ice cream attachment for her brand new Kitchen-Aid mixer. Well, I'm not one to be left behind trendwise, so I hopped on that bandwagon faster than you can say "Just TRY to keep up with the Slaters, I dare ya!" However, my old ass Kitchen-Aid was too small for that attachment so I bought the next best thing(I hope), the Cuisinart ice cream maker.
This recipe is actually from the magazine Vegetarian Times, which my daughter insists I subscribe to, or else. It's a good mag, I like it. This is called 'super chocolate vegan gelato.' It is the best vegan gelato recipe ever. I mean that. Here it is-
2 cups plain soy creamer, divided (I used Silk. I love that stuff. One container is exactly two cups. Plus, i found no reason to have this recipe 'divided' so i didn't do that.)
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 Tbsp cocoa powder
3 Tbsp cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup mini vegan choc. chips (the recipe actually said 4 oz. semisweet chocolate, finely chopped. Who has time for that?)
2 tsp vanilla
Combine soy milk, cocoa powder, cornstarch and salt over medium heat. Simmer until slightly thickened, stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips and vanilla until melted and combined. Cover and chill 4 hours or overnight. Mine looked a lot like pudding. Prepare according to ice cream maker's directions. Hooray! I can do THAT.
Oh, and at the end of mixing, which took about 25 minutes, i tossed in a teaspoon of Starbuck's coffee liqueur. Not because I'm a boozer or anything, but because I was too lazy to mix up some instant, but also because i have a giant bottle of this stuff so I'm always looking for places to use it.
Holy CRAP was this shizzle delicious!! It was creamy, rich, chocolatey, fudgey and just plain ol' heavenly. You could barely taste the coffee, which was fine, really. It just sort of gave it that little something extra. Also, next time, i think i will stick the mix in the blender before i heat it up because i did notice tiny clumps of cocoa powder here or there. Nothing serious, just here or there.
I insist that you try it. The Cuisinart was only $60 and I know they have them used on Amazon for like $30.
Also, i went to visit my friend Jackie today who just had a baby girl (named Natalie!) May 9th and ended up staying for less than one hour because Olivia is so scared to death of other kids, she wouldn't stop tantruming and banshee howling every time Jackie's little boy Trevor came within ten feet of her. Yes, I have one of THOSE children. Brat.


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Monday, February 19th 2018, 12:44am
Guild Showdown this week for S17 was 3 vs 4 for my team. We won the first two 3 vs 4. But in the finals lets just say it was embarrassing. I was locked down by 11th hour. A card that shouldn't exist in my opinion. Sure its easy to kill but if you can't its game over.
That's the full video of the 3 matches... Bohemia lost for once which is fine. Undisputed deserved this one?
My question here being for all the players. Why not bad or nerf certain cards? People complain about quilins... people complain about 11th hour and so on and so forth. There are a lot of broken cards... Nerf them at the very least if not ban a few? Like yu gi oh does with cards. They ban some and then un ban some when others come out. I don't know what I am implying here since it's useless and the cards will not be nerfed. That's up to china to do... I just want to see a fair game. For all not just the whales to have fun. Not trying to sound like a crybaby here. I am just stating a point.
There can be stuff done to improve the game all in all. However it's not being done very much. I hope the devs see this and understand my point. I hate seeing one or two cards win games. Weather its quillins, 11th hour that one girl that gives 8 resist and defence, or even modesty. I'd like to see something done. I think a lot would. But then again some might disagree on that. I just happen to dislike broken cards. So I wanted to say something about it...
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Monday, February 19th 2018, 2:42am
Well, what cards are everyone else ALLOWED to play against you then?
Monday, February 19th 2018, 3:16am
You must not have read what I posted and if you did... I am just asking that cards be nerfed and or banned. Not that they will be. For example quillins can be nerfed by making their cost higher. Instead of 1, 2 and 3 cost. Maybe 2, 4 and 5... That way they wouldn't be as easily used with spells. As for 11th hour it shouldn't make the cost of everything go up by one each turn. Maybe instead make it so it makes the cost of the two highest cards in hand go up? So at least that way you can play something. If 11th isn't killed right away and lasts till mid and late game which sometimes it does. That means close to certain death for the opponent(s)... Trying to give ideals not that it will help. I am not saying the cards can't be played. However just saying that something should be done to make them less over powered. Another example doomskar. There are ways to nerf it but they wont. So the whole point to this post is irrelevant in the end. Just giving the GMs and devs an ideal. Weather they use it or not is up to them simply put.
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Monday, February 19th 2018, 3:28am
There wouldn't be any variety left in the game if every card that got a complaint against it was banned.
Date of registration: Apr 20th 2017
Monday, February 19th 2018, 3:34am
A cool thing would be if they created cards for non-VIPs only , it doesn't need to be as OP but good enough so there's not such a big gap in power differences.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 3:37am
A good point by both of you. Yes they shouldn't ban cards per say. Maybe just nerf. But even if they didn't do that. Yes maybe there is an alternative to it. For example, what was just said. Make non-VIP cards. Which can be gotten by all players. However they can also make the gap between whales and non whales a little smaller. More competitive for both sides.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 6:02am
posting a video on forums that shows you swearing, you try to get towahli or urself banned here?
Monday, February 19th 2018, 1:10pm
You think there's variety currently?There wouldn't be any variety left in the game if every card that got a complaint against it was banned.
Date of registration: Aug 5th 2017
Monday, February 19th 2018, 3:55pm
If u went to make a change to 11 hour it's a really simple fix make it where it can't be effected by negative or position effects. That will stop the shield from void for 3 turns and stop that card that keeps it alive for 3 or more turns with out dieing. Than that only leave 1 problem left instead of a bunch and that's judgement and 11 hour. My vote is to change the card will stop a lot of problems with the card then we can all go back to making our own decks instead of monkey see
Monday, February 19th 2018, 4:50pm
Plus kaynie would cry cause his deck is also based on the card he runs 3 gl 11 hours.
Date of registration: Jul 6th 2017
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Monday, February 19th 2018, 5:00pm
well most card that are pay card sooner or later come out for free....it takes alot of diligence and persaverance but good decks can be made by non vip players.....making good friends with a whale helps to as you can buy his epic recharge cards for 1000 gold and become op that way
Monday, February 19th 2018, 5:29pm
lmao, you might be right, that we started it. But we would still prefer to play other decks again too, the issue is just that we will get murdered by all the towahli bombs if we try it. We won pretty much everything before, but now its just decided by draws, i think after all Alenka and me are getting screwed the most by the current Meta and would benefit by a removal/nerf the most imo.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 7:38pm
Okay so it got interesting on my thread while I was sleeping. I am from USA so can't respond very fast to this stuff. However Kayine sorry if I spelt your name wrong. I didn't swear in the video. The DJ that did that particular song swore on that song. Besides the video is on youtube and a lot don't watch it. I'll admit to the song having swearing in it. So ban me if you want I don't care. Game isn't worth playing anyways. Giving the example at the end of the Guild showdown. Where 11th hour clearly stopped me from playing anything. I have seen multiple 11th hours in one 4v4 so what makes you think I care if I get banned? After all GSD is all I got for fun in this game. I hardly 1v1 or 2v2 anymore.
Now for the guy that's with me and wants stuff nerfed and or banned. If I read right that sounded about what he wanted too. But I could be wrong seeing as I just got up. lol I hope more think this way. Sure it wont be done but we can also speak up to give the current GMs a thought on the matter. The devs in china can do something about it if they wanted to.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 7:43pm
Oh and one other quick thing that I could just add to my last post... I spent plenty on this game. My alts are VIP 4 and 5. My main is 9 and half way to vip 10. So I would loose out just like a lot that quit. If I get banned for a song thats on youtube that would be stupid. Now where I am actually going with this. Is some of the game could care less about other players. I get that too... However something needs to be done eventually about this game. Or it might not make it 2 years let alone 1 year. I for one want it to survive and live on longer.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 7:50pm
Might be best to remove the bit about alts...
Monday, February 19th 2018, 7:58pm
Whatever... At this point I don't care. Ban me if it's for a song and two alts. I'd like to see it happen. Not really just kidding. I'd like to play from time to time. However I don't take back what I say. It all has a purpose. Do whatever they want. I am just trying to help the future of the game. Some might see that as bad which is illogical. But that's them not me. So anyways I gotta go for now. Not responding to this topic for a few hours. If I get banned that's up to the GMs. I am just saying what needs to be said in my clear opinion.
The whole point to this thread was how to change the game to make it better for all. Some may think differently on that subject. Like Hexsus who messaged me something quite unsavory. Ban Hexsus from the forums not me. He is the one sending swearing in messages. I deleted that message. So no proof. DIdnt think of it till now lol.
Monday, February 19th 2018, 8:50pm
Well I'd happily see 11th removed or at least nerfed for what its worth
Monday, February 19th 2018, 10:27pm
watched the video without audio, no clue what you are talking about. I was refering to the "go fuck yourselves" at 39:40.
Tuesday, February 20th 2018, 3:05am
Ah yeah forgot that was said. I was just mad that 11th hour had me locked down the entire game. Understandable yet should not have been said. Sorry about that to whom it was directed to. Undisputed...
Date of registration: Jul 6th 2017
Location: canada
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Tuesday, February 20th 2018, 10:26am
one thing that should be fixed as it was on rom is judgement'....as someone can play 11th have judgement behind 11th dies judgement brings back and it hits you again in same turn....rom fixed judgement so when it brings back a creature it cant act for one turn...it was for a different reason but still it would be more effective....and less painful to the person involved...11th beilin combo is just as bad


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WASHINGTON — When the Spirit and Opportunity rovers arrived on Mars more than a year ago, it seemed as if their landing sites were worlds apart. But now that Spirit has taken the high ground, the mission's top scientist says both rovers are coming across similarly salty chemistry — and that hints at a tale of ancient, most likely acidic water on both sides of the Red Planet.
The latest discovery is a patch of bright soil serendipitously churned up by Spirit's spinning wheels in the Columbia Hills — a spot so thick with magnesium sulfate salt that Cornell University's Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the rover missions, described it as a "Martian salt lick."
The concentrations of salt lend further support to the view that Spirit's current surroundings in Gusev Crater, like those of Opportunity, were formed through interaction with water.
"The two places are looking more similar in terms of their chemistry," Squyres told journalists here Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "We're starting to see these high salt concentrations that we initially saw right away at [the Opportunity landing site at] Meridiani."
Does that mean that the Spirit site was once covered by a salty sea, as scientists believe was the case at the Opportunity site? Not necessarily, Squyres said. But the salt concentrations — found in the soil patch as well as in nearby bedrock — indicates at least that ground water was at work.
Squyres and his colleagues theorize that when Mars was young, water with a high concentration of sulfuric acid seeped through a type of basaltic rock containing magnesium, such as olivine. The chemical interaction would produce a "broth" of salty water, Squyres said.
"There was a lot of water flowing around, and it went away and left the salt behind," he said.
What's next?
The next step is to analyze layered rock outcroppings in the Columbia Hills for clues as to how they were formed. Particular patterns of cross-bedding could point to the lapping of an ancient sea, just as they did in Opportunity's case.
Squyres marveled that Spirit was just coming into the prime of its science mission, 400 Martian days after it landed in Gusev Crater. The rover's landing site was in the midst of some relatively unremarkable basalt deposits, and it had to travel 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) to get to the "good stuff," he said.
Meanwhile, Opportunity is plugging along, traveling southward toward some intriguing etched terrain and ultimately Victoria Crater, where a 130-foot-deep (40-meter-deep) geologic record awaits.
The rovers have spectacularly exceeded their original mission life of 90 days. "It shows you how important longevity and mobility are on a mission," Squyres said. The mission, which originally carried an $820 million price tag, is being extended in six-month chunks, with the next renewal due in April.
'Sense of urgency'
Even Squyres knows the rovers won't last forever — particularly Spirit, which is having more of a problem with dusty solar arrays and must be positioned to make optimal use of limited sunlight. He said mission planners must soon decide whether to send Spirit farther up Husband Hill, or downhill toward a feature that scientists have dubbed Tennessee Valley.
For the rovers, what was once a slow and steady exploration is turning into a race against time and chance.
"There's a sense of urgency," Squyres admitted. "We don't know how long they're going to be around."
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Galileo, the planned European rival to America's Global Positioning System (GPS), is in trouble.
Much of the ambitious project's construction is supposed to be privately funded, and plans call for a united pan-European company to oversee the set-up and running of the Galileo network.
But the various private companies involved so far cannot agree on the details. Delays caused by wrangling have effectively stalled the whole enterprise, with at least a year's delay already, and European Union (EU) officials are attempting to move things forward.
The main corporate players are EADS, the company which owns Airbus and has a substantial share in the controversial Eurofighter; Thales and Alcatel-Lucent from France; Italy's Finmeccanica; Aena and Hispasat of Spain; UK company Inmarsat; and a German alliance led by Deutsche Telekom. Most of these firms have substantial involvement with European national governments, and some commentators have suggested that the usual Euro struggle for national pie-slice is at the root of the trouble.
All this has led Jacques Barrot, the EU transport commissioner, to write firm letters to the companies demanding the reasons for the delays. And Germany, as the current holder of the EU presidency, is attempting to get the weight of the national governments behind the Brussels administration. German transport minister Wolfgang Tiefensee is to chair a meeting of his counterparts next week.
But national jostling for position may not be the whole story. Some are asking why the private sector should sink large sums into Galileo, when it is not clear how much revenue would ensue or who would get it. The current American GPS system is paid for by the US Department of Defense, and is free for users worldwide. This is hard to compete against.
The London Financial Times today quoted an unnamed corporate exec as saying "Why sell Pepsi when you can get Coke for free?" It also suggested that European governments might have to guarantee a revenue stream to get companies to invest, perhaps by requiring emergency services to subscribe to Galileo.
Galileo could offer significant advantages over the existing GPS constellation, however, which customers might pay for. GPS receivers often lose their locating signal where large areas of the sky are obscured, as in built-up areas, and new satellites may be able to eliminate or reduce this problem. Galileo is also intended to offer a paid-for signal accurate to less than 1 metre, which is much superior to ordinary GPS performance. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether or how much people will pay for this added functionality.
It isn't even clear that they will have to pay if they don't want to. GPS, for instance, was originally intended to offer its full accuracy only to US and allied forces, but workarounds were developed almost at once. One of the most popular is so-called "Differential GPS," (DGPS) where the regional error in the publicly-available GPS signal is constantly worked out by a ground station at a known location and transmitted to the DGPS receiver using any of a variety of comms links. Accuracy to rival the new Galileo signal is often achievable, and DGPS isn't hugely complex or expensive to set up.
There may be simpler ways to get Galileo pay functions for free. Galileo test satellites are already in orbit, and the encryption on their signals was cracked almost at once. This is not to say that the same will happen to the main system when and if it goes live, but it seems fairly likely. The situation is much the same as that with high-def DVD; legitimate customers must be able to get the content, so hackers will probably be able to as well.
And there are other foes for Galileo to face. The occasionally-erratic Russian GLONASS constellation has been around for a long time, and the nascent Chinese space industry is said to be moving fast with yet another rival. Meanwhile, other locator-tech solutions such as E-OTD have been implemented using existing mobile masts rather than satellites.
All in all, the Galileo companies' doubts over revenue seem quite understandable. Without a big injection of government cash, the route ahead may be a difficult one to navigate. ®
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Clothing Recycler USAgain Makes Spring Cleaning Easy for Pennsylvania
WILKES BARRE (May 11, 2015) –Wilkes Barre residents are looking to make more room in their closets this spring by ridding themselves of old clothing and shoes should think about the recycling bin instead of the garbage can.
USAgain, (pronounced use-again) is helping to make spring cleaning easy this year by equipping local communities with a convenient, accessible and earth-friendly resource to recycle their unwanted clothing and shoes and give them a second life.
"With textile recycling becoming more common throughout Pennsylvania, it's never been easier to recycle your unwanted clothes and shoes, which ultimately saves landfill space and helps protect the environment," said USAgain CEO Mattias Wallander. "More and more environmentally conscious consumers are looking beyond the trash cans because they now have a convenient, no-cost approach to ensuring their clothing gets recycled or re-used."
In 2014, seven million pounds of clothing and shoes were diverted from landfills thanks to Wilkes Barre area residents. By diverting 5,175,812 million pounds of textiles, USAgain and its patrons prevented 36 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and saved more than 7 billion gallons of water and 29,576 cubic yards of landfill space.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes that 85 percent of all unwanted clothing, or 12 million tons, end up in the garbage and make their way to the landfills every year.
"We are making progress but – as a green-focused company – our mission is to further reduce the amount of clothing that winds up buried in the landfills by changing people's mindset and behavior when it comes to disposing of their clothing," Wallander said.
About USAgain
USAgain, a leader in the textile recycling industry since 1999, is a for-profit company that recycles and reuses clothing, shoes and other textiles. Its mission is to provide consumers with a convenient and eco-friendly option to rid themselves of excess clothing, which is diverted from landfills. USAgain maintains more than 12,500 collection bins in 19 states. For more information, visit www.usagain.com to learn more and locate a recycling container near you.


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Last year, the MIX joined forces with Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company to launch our most comprehensive contest ever: The Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Our aim: to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers around the world to advance the cause of making all organizations more resilient, inventive, inspiring, and accountable.
We asked for real-world case studies (STORIES) and radical ideas (HACKS) to address the challenges of migrating to Management 2.0, Busting Bureaucracy, and Reimagining Capitalism for the Long-Term. We received some 400 robust contributions from every kind of management innovator in every realm of endeavor—and announced the grand prize winners earlier this summer. As we prepare to launch the second HBR/McKinsey M-Prize in September, we want to get you involved in the process even sooner—help us craft the Challenges we'll put to management innovators everywhere.
Along with our partners and editorial team, we've zeroed in on a handful of challenges we think will help us make real strides in the overall goal of making organizations fit for the future (and fit for human beings). But this is your endeavor as much as ours, so we're opening up the challenge nomination process to the world. We want to hear from you: What are the make-or-break challenges management innovators should focus their energies on this year?
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Like the M-Prize, this process is open to everyone. And, as always, we will be sharing the best contributions widely along with our partners at Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company.
Hack the M-Prize will run until September 16th. We'll announce the winning Challenge and kick off the M-Prize at the end of the month. Life's too short to work on inconsequential problems. Help us dream big. Help us hack the M-Prize.


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Winnipeg, Manitoba lead in murder rates: Statistics Canada
Winnipeg and Manitoba have once more made their marks as the country's hot spot for homicides, according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada.
New numbers reveal that Winnipeg had the highest rate of homicides per capita of any major city in the country in 2011, with 39 deaths.
"Winnipeg had the highest homicide rate among all census metropolitan areas. It was also the highest in Winnipeg since data collection began back in 1981," said John Turner from Statistics Canada.
And Manitoba has the highest rate of homicides for the fifth straight year. Manitoba had 54 homicides in 2011, more than 4.2 per for every 100,000 citizens.
Saskatchewan and Alberta were next with about 3.6 and 2.8 respectively.
Nationwide, the rate was 1.73 homicides per 100,000 people. Overall, Canada had 598 killings, almost 50 more than in 2010.
For the first time in three years, the homicide rate was up across the country. Most of the 2011 increase was in Alberta and Quebec.
"Most of the increase was in homicides committed by acquaintances. Homicides by family, intimate partner were fairly stable between 2010, 2011 and there's a slight decrease in homicides committed by strangers," said Turner.
The agency said the homicide rate in Canada as a whole has remained relatively stable over the past decade.
"The national homicide rate peaked in the 1970s. Since then, there's been a steady decline, but its somewhat stabilized over the last decade," said Turner.
Linda Kozlowski's son David Vincett, 20, was murdered in September 2011 in Winnipeg.
A 14-year-old suspect was charged.
She said the boy was convicted of attacking a postal worker the year before.
She points towards bad decisions made by young people as a key factor contributing to Winnipeg's high crime rate.
"They go into the system, they come out a harder person and they're already adults and they're set in their ways," said Kozlowski.
While crimes can be committed by people of all ages, she believes setting people on the right path at an early age is significant to curbing crime.
Kozlowski believes there needs to be more youth programming and opportunities for long-term mentorship.
Youth outreach workers said keeping kids off the streets and helping them set positive goals affects where they end up as an adult.
"You plant them the message and the picture of positivity and, yeah, statistics have shown, you can definitely avoid those particular pitfalls," said Ken Opaleke from West Broadway Youth Outreach.
Kozlowski said she hopes more programs such as the one at West Broadway will be able to help prevent other families from losing loved ones.


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Valerii Sumilov-Et Cetera Merlot Exclusive Quality Wine
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(Excerpt) Interview with Valerii Sumilov : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Valerii Sumilov : We had to create a unique concept, and on the other - to communicate the idea behind the trademark in an effective and original manner. When brainstorming on the idea I came up with the final conceptual solution, the rest was rather simple. The highlight of this design is the trademark's name, which is represented through the ellipsis sign. From there on it was all about the balance of elements and setting proper accents by applying different printing techniques. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Valerii Sumilov : The task was to create a stylish and minimalistic design that would make the product stand out on the shelves. Assuming that these are expensive quality wines, we also had to create the feeling of exclusivity through an original and unusual design. Besides, the project also required its own product placement, a concept that would be completely different from what the other local winemakers had to offer. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Valerii Sumilov : The future is very promissing - the product is already present on the shelves and it enjoys good sales. Which is what this design was aimed for. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Valerii Sumilov : It took several months to take this project from the initial concept stage to the final printed label. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Valerii Sumilov : The winemakers at Et Cetera approached me with the request of creating a label design for their new line if limited run wines. This was the main drive behind the project. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Valerii Sumilov : This design was commisioned by the Et Cetera winemaking company and is used exclusively by them. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Valerii Sumilov : This type of work is our agency's main field of activity, so the reason is rather obvious. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Valerii Sumilov : This design was made entirely by our agency. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Valerii Sumilov : Since this series of wine is exclusive and is available only in a limited run the main customer for this design is obviously a person who is able and willing to buy an expensive wine and wants the quality and exclusivity to be reflected in the label design. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Valerii Sumilov : The project's main trait is its simplicity. While the majority of other designs in this category strive to reflect nobility, traditionality and exclusivity, this particular design stands out with its seemingly simple, almost minimalistic layout that makes it stand out from the competition. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Valerii Sumilov : The name was determined by the very product the design was created for. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Valerii Sumilov : Standard design software tools. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Valerii Sumilov : The main selling point of this design is its simplicity and the fact that it reflects the trademark's name in a very minimalistic and elegant fashion. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Valerii Sumilov : This design was developed fully in-house. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Valerii Sumilov : Technology plays a very important role in this particular project since the application of different printing and post-printing techniques allowed as to create a very unique label that really stands out on the shelf and makes the trademark memorable. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Valerii Sumilov : The project required its own product placement, a concept that would be completely different from what the other local winemakers had to offer. So there was certainly a level of analytical research involved in terms of competition analysis. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Valerii Sumilov : The most difficult aspect was locating the fine line. On the one hand, we had to create a unique concept, and on the other - to communicate the idea behind the trademark in an effective and original manner. When brainstorming on the idea I came up with the final conceptual solution, the rest was rather simple - choosing the right fonts, outlining the .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Valerii Sumilov on Et Cetera Merlot Exclusive Quality Wine at design-interviews.com ]
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If you're a fall hunter like I am and you purchased your Missouri small-game hunting permit in early March, you may want to make additional permit purchases soon. Several permits become available for sale at permit vendors statewide as of next Wednesday, July 1. This is your reminder to purchase needed permits while you're thinking about it, so you don't get caught up in the rush of procrastinators this fall.
The Migratory Bird Hunting Permit ($6) is required for persons hunting doves, woodcock, snipe, rails, teal and other waterfowl. The opening day of dove season, Sept. 1, 2009, always garners a large turnout of hunters. You don't want to be standing in line at the permit vendor the night before when you could be at home hunting for your shotgun shells, stool and camouflaged clothes. This year the daily limit for doves is 15, up from the 12-bird limit of recent years.
Teal and other waterfowl hunters will also need a federal duck stamp ($15). These should be available in early July at post offices and at some permit vendors. The Conservation Department's "Migratory Bird Hunting Digest 2009″ will be online in early July with hard copies available at permit vendors in early August.
Deer and fall turkey hunting permits also become available on July 1. Permit prices for Missouri residents are unchanged from last year, but non-resident prices have seen increases. The "2009 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting Regulations and Information" booklet will be available at vendors in early July. It's a must-read for Missouri deer hunters, especially those planning hunts on areas owned or managed by the Conservation Department. A table in the back details available deer and turkey hunting opportunities on more than 500 conservation areas statewide.
Instead of just dreaming of cooler weather and the return of hunting seasons this fall, take steps in early July toward getting yourself ready for September hunting.


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Florence Wiley 1913 - 2009
Tonganoxie — No formal services are planned for Florence Wiley, 95, Tonganoxie.
Mrs. Wiley died Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
She was born Sept. 28, 1913, in East Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Alvin L and Edith C. (Koenig) Walko.
She graduated from Shaw High School in East Cleveland and was self-employed as a pet groomer until the age of 88.
She married Alexander B. Wiley on June 28, 1940, in Cleveland. He died Dec. 13, 1967.
Survivors include two sons, Alexander W. Wiley, Tonganoxie, and Peter R. Wiley, Long Beach, Calif.; a daughter; Enid Wiley, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and three grandchildren.
Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie, handled arrangements. Online condolences can be left at to quisenberryfh.com.


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LCH.Clearnet Ltd, the multi-national clearing house's UK-based CCP, has put in place best-in-class systemic risk mitigation for bonds and repo cleared through its RepoClear service by implementing formal loss allocation arrangements. LCH.Clearnet Ltd's loss allocation arrangements, which are unique to the bond and repo market, were designed in close collaboration with leading fixed income market participants.
In the event of a RepoClear member default, where exceptional losses have been incurred in excess of the financial resources available, loss allocation ensures the ongoing operation of other LCH.Clearnet clearing services by introducing a further level of protection to the default waterfall.
The introduction of loss allocation is the latest example of LCH.Clearnet's commitment to delivering world-class risk management capabilities and to supporting the objectives of regulators globally to strengthen governance and corporate structures at CCPs to ensure financial stability. In addition, through a dedicated default management group, the arrangement formalises the close involvement and commitment of clearing members during any default management situation. In a default scenario, LCH.Clearnet Ltd would benefit from the expertise of senior trading representatives from clearing member firms working alongside LCH.Clearnet Ltd executives to liquidate open bond and repo positions.
John Burke, Head of LCH.Clearnet's Fixed Income business, said: "The changes we have made to the RepoClear default waterfall highlight our commitment to providing world-class risk management solutions to the markets that we clear. Our clearing members overwhelmingly supported this development, with 98% of voting clearing members in favour of the scheme. This confirms the importance of our RepoClear service's resilience and highlights LCH.Clearnet's position as the industry-leader for risk and default management methodologies."
The loss allocation arrangements follow changes introduced in August 2012 to separate the RepoClear default fund in London from LCH.Clearnet Ltd's cross-asset class mutualised default fund. Both initiatives have been approved by the Financial Services Authority


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"Anything for You" is beautifully understated, with an overriding sense of sadness evoked by the soft pulses and occasional keys, while the yearning "I'd give you anything" vocal sounds like the epitaph to an expired relationship—rather than, say, the excited anticipation that comes with one newly formed. It's simple, but far from crude, with tiny filter fluctuations giving it an almost progressive feel.
"Secrets" is much darker in tone and displays another common feature of Crosstown tracks of late: The uneasy feeling generated by sliding metallic waves that seem out of key with just about everything else going on in the track. Whether it develops this unease enough or not will depend on just how creepy you like your house, but it's certainly engaging enough for me and will doubtless be the cause of a few nervous 5 AM grins.
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Light Housekeeping
Just off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, a 130-year-old lighthouse beckons travelers to a rare and charming experience: a week as keepers of a historic landmark.
Compared with other waterfront inns, the Rose Island Lighthouse isn't big on amenities. Electricity comes from a windmill. Water comes from the sky. And vacationing guests―such as the members of the Weatherbee family―well, they come to work.
The Weatherbees are Linda, husband Warren, and children Justin, 13, Dana, 11, Trevor, 8, and Casey, 6, from Lancaster, Massachusetts. As temporary keepers of this Rhode Island lighthouse, they tend the garden, track the weather, test the water, change the sheets, raise and lower the flag, and handle whatever else needs to be done around the place. "The kids think of this as their home," Linda says.
Just as at home, chores are part of the deal at the 130-year-old Rose Island Lighthouse, a year-round living museum where guests can stay for a night or a week as keepers. It's only a mile off the coast in Narragansett Bay, a 15-minute boat ride from Newport. But Linda will tell you that it's a world away. "We get over there, and no one wants to go back," she says.
So the family arrives every other year (the lighthouse is so busy, guests must wait a year between weeklong visits) with a stockpile of Pop-Tarts and other foods that'll get four kids and two adults through a week on an island.
The Weatherbees have been keepers three times. They even weathered a hurricane during their first visit. They have the retired, tattered lighthouse flag at home to prove it. The storm kept the kids off the lighthouse catwalk for a while, but it didn't keep the family from coming back.
"Can you think of a more picturesque place to spend a week?" Linda asks as they pull up to the island on a breezy, sunny day. "It's just ... heaven."
The Weatherbees don't mind that there's no television. Instead, they enjoy the rosebushes. The seagulls. The waves crashing over the island's rocky shore.
At this hideaway, pleasures come in simple forms. Justin scribbles the day's events in the lighthouse log. Casey pumps the old player piano. Trevor plucks tomatoes from the garden for a dinner salad. Dana climbs the lighthouse tower to read. The rooms smell of cedar, old books, and fresh linens. Handmade quilts cover the beds. Pictures on the wall tell tales of keepers past.
The two-story lighthouse has been restored to its look at the turn of the century, with antique furniture, a phonograph in one of the bedrooms, a coal stove in the kitchen, and an authentic pitcher pump at the pantry sink.
Justin, Dana, Trevor, and Casey forget about video games for a week and collect sea glass instead. "When we first came here, I thought, 'How are we going to do this?'" Linda says. "These are typical kids. They like TV." But pumping water from a cistern? Recycling? Harvesting mussels from the beach for dinner? "It was all part of the fun," she says.
The kids don't even mind their daily chores. Dana zips down to the basement to show off her chemistry set, which she uses to test the lighthouse water supply every day. "I feel like I'm in science class when I do this," she says, taking a water sample from the cistern.
The kids may have fun with the chores, but they're also getting a lesson in history and ecology. "We're trying to get to kids at a young age," says Charlotte Johnson, executive director of the Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation and tireless crusader for the lighthouse. She and other foundation members have been restoring the lighthouse for more than 15 years.
The building was left to deteriorate in 1971 when the Newport Bridge replaced it as a navigational aid. The foundation began rescuing the lighthouse in 1984 and relit the light in 1993. It now manages the entire 18.5-acre island and protects it as a wildlife habitat for migratory birds. With no animal predators and little disturbance from humans―lighthouse guests aren't allowed on the rest of the island―Rose Island is a nesting spot for little blue herons, black-crowned night herons, glossy ibis, and other wading birds. Hundreds of schoolchildren come every year to learn about island wildlife and the lighthouse's history. "People think of us as a historical foundation," Charlotte says. "But we're here for an educational purpose―and an environmental purpose."
All the lighthouse keepers become schooled in conservation while they're here. The Weatherbees use an outdoor shower and candles rather than lamps. They get by on about 10 gallons of water a day. Even Wiggins, a golden retriever and part-time Rose Island resident who stays outside in a miniature doggie lighthouse, lives by the rules. His water bowl gets filled up by the rain, and the light atop his doghouse is solar-powered.
Most of all, the Weatherbees learn how much they enjoy spending time together. "It's really nice to be stuck somewhere for a week," Linda says. "Here, I can sit and talk to Dana for hours about school and summer. I can spend two hours with Casey casting a fishing pole into the ocean. This is a place where I can stop―and remember what I love about my kids."
What's a kid to do without TV for a week? Chores, such as Trevor's faithful tending of the flag. As the following pages show, Trevor, Justin, Dana, and young Casey found plenty of fun as well. So did mom and dad, Linda and Warren―and Wiggins the dog.
The weekly rate for the lighthouse keeper's apartment (Sunday-Sunday) is $900 April-May and October-November, $1,200 June-September, and $650 December-March, plus one hour of chores per person per day. It sleeps up to four adults, or two adults and four children.
Overnight lodging is available in two downstairs rooms. Rates are $100-$155.
During the summer, you may reach Rose Island by ferry from Newport and Jamestown, Rhode Island. When the ferry is not in service, the foundation transports guests by lobster boat for a small fee.
The Rose Island Lighthouse Foundation also offers public tours of the lighthouse during the summer months and special events throughout the year. For lodging reservations, transportation arrangements, or information on lighthouse events, call the foundation at 401/847-4242 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. weekdays, or visit the Web site at www.roseislandlighthouse.org.


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You are purchasing 10 grams of Miyuki beads.
Miyuki 3.4mm Drop Beads
Colour Name: Transparent Topaz AB
Colour Remarks: AB=aurora borealis- northern lights.
Colour No: 257
Size 3.4mm max width.
Size 2.8mm max width.
Made in Japan, Miyuki glass beads are the best, most consistent size, and less rejects than any other manufacturer. This will make your beadwork look more even and you won't have to spend time looking over your beads to discard small and large beads, that you find in Czech or Chinese manufactured beads. Which means they're worth it, and as all ladies know, we ARE worth it!.
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text: Hi Charles, I support the idea of adding usemap to canvas as I have previousdly stated and have filed a bug to this effect ( http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9061). In another thread you also mentioned that it works with opera 10.5, is that a partcular OS? as i could not get it working on windows. regards stevef On 24 February 2010 11:00, Charles McCathieNevile <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:31:52 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer > > > After having read the URL that you pointed to, it seems to me that >> fallback content in canvas is different to fallback content in video. >> > ... > > It seems this is different for the Canvas since the canvas fallback >> content can also provide focusable content. >> >> At this point, I actually wonder if the Canvas' fallback content is >> not overloaded in meaning: it can both contain information for legacy >> browsers and it can contain focusable elements for accessibility >> reasons. I wonder if it would make sense to separate the two concepts >> somehow. Maybe some markup that would be invisible on screen if the >> canvas element is supported, but can still be accessed by the AT? >> > > Yes, I think this makes sense > > > Maybe it is possible to move the focusable elements into some other >> subelement of Canvas (similar to how the video element has source >> elements inside it)? >> > > This is what the map element has been offering for most of the lifetime of > HTML. And it works inside elements like object and canvas already. We had > a bug on it for canvas that we have fixed in 10.50, and the other browsers > I tested manage it, which is a lot more widespread than waiting for > implementation of a new attribute that interferes in focus management. > > HTML 4.01, about a decade ago now, was specifically tweaked to match what > browsers did, allowing for a mix of area elements or block elements. > > area elements have no visible rendering although they do have alt and can > have title. They have an existing behaviour in the focus management and > are handled by assistive technology, keyboard control of browsers, and > anything else I can think of. Updating an area element to change its > coordinates is pretty trivial if you are writing a dynamic canvas > application where you are already calculating coordinates for painting. > > You can also have block content inside an image map. Which means, > effectively, anything you want. > > So making your canvas accessible means providing information about what is > happening inside it, and a way to interact with it that doesn't rely on > the mouse. There is an authoring requirement here, that the author do the > right thing. And it may be that they build some more complex set of DOM > structures that have their own interaction behaviour, and don't need any > markup stub. > > But it seems to me that map allows everything we might get from adom. You > can build an structure that is not visible, allows you to dynamically > interact with the canvas, attach information that can be rendered by AT, > and has well-known focus management. And it's already described in > tutorials, implemented in browsers, familiar to users, working in > assistive technology. > > You can also build your fallback content inside canvas. If we reinstated > the shape and coords attributes on the a element, which were there > specifically to use block content instead of area elements in a map, we > would offer the possibility of defining fallback content that included the > hooks for making the canvas accessible - and thus allowing reuse of some of > the script logic where the ability to use a canvas itself isn't completely > integral to achieving the goals of the application. (E.g. a drawing > application based in canvas should, but in all probability wouldn't, offer > fallback with the accessible controls shared between the canvas and the > fallback. But a canvas application for dynamically putting objects in an > order the user likes could much more easily provide a fallback with shared > controls). > > As a complicated thought experiment, imagine a Tetris game written in > canvas. If you have something like > > <canvas usemap="#theMap"> > <map name="theMap"> > <area alt="current: L, pointing down, left 3 bottom 5" accesskey=" " > onclick="drop()" shape.../> > <button onclick="spin(cc)" accesskey="z"> alt="counter-clockwise"/> > ... >  > [some description of the state of the blocks at the bottom already] > </map> >


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I've been playing around with headers and templates. It's fun to freshen up the look and re-amp efforts to communicate a new message.
About the family...we've been pretty busy, but life is good. Halloween was a blast (although we're still drowning in candy!) and we're getting ready for a trip to NC for Thanksgiving.
Avery and Stuart are loving school at Crieve Hall. Avery is writing her name (and everything else she can find to copy) and Stuart has mastered the art of making funny faces on command.
I'll leave you with a few pictures...
Stuart checking out his studly reflection in his Bama jersey.
Avery and her ballet buddies
Me and my cutie at Alabama's homecoming game. Eli brought us into the booth with him during the broadcast!!!
Avery's Halloween party at school
The pink poodle's last showing (we hope) and Stuart as a lollipop-loving vampire


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ADVISORY: Kent State University Board of Trustees Special Committee Meeting Aug. 27
The Kent State University Board of Trustees Finance and Administration Committee will hold a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 27, to discuss issues related to future construction of a new building for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology as part of Kent State's Foundations of Excellence initiative.
The committee will convene at approximately 3 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library. The meeting is expected to last about 15 minutes.
The next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 18.
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Scientists Use Videogames to Improve Older Brains
In the future, your doctor may prescribe you a videogame.
In a groundbreaking new study at the University of California, San Francisco, scientists found that older adults improved cognitive controls such as multitasking and the ability to sustain attention by playing a specially designed videogame — and that the effects can be long lasting.
The study, to be published in the scientific journal Nature on Thursday, is part of a broader effort to understand whether specially designed videogames can help treat neurological disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and even depression. There is growing evidence, researchers say, that videogames could eventually become therapies on par, or used in tandem, with ingestible medications.
The new study "is a powerful example of how plastic the older brain is," said Adam Gazzaley, a director of the UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center and a co-author of the study. Gazzaley is also the co-founder and advisor of Akili Interactive Labs, a start-up focused on designing these types of videogames.


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This article also appears in the October 2013 Issue of RSVP MN Magazine. Click here to read it there.
Food Trucks have invaded your city. They park on busy streets in prime locations ready to serve their tasty wares, and have become quite successful in the last few years. Food trucks have been around since 1974 when Raul Martinez converted an old ice cream truck into a taco truck and set up in front of a bar. So why have they become so hot today? Their success is that by default, and the factors that shape their daily existence as a business, have forged them into razor sharp marketers. They leverage all the marketing tools available to them in their changing location each day. They have mastered the three tools that help them succeed in reaching their business outcomes through leveraging social, mobile, and local marketing. The following five skills they have learned can help you become a better tradeshow marketer:
Leverage or Overcome your Location It all starts in the planning. Food truck owners study maps of the cities before arriving, they determine foot traffic patterns, nearby attractions, and areas where people congregate during their hours of operation. You have that same ability in assessing tradeshow floor plans to determine where best to place your booth. If you are stuck in a poor location, you must use more tactics to draw your audience to you. You need to have a more disruptive or appealing presence to call out to your audience and draw them closer to your space.
Focus on Just in time messaging and Perfect the Limited Time Offer (LTO) You are in a tradeshow for a limited time. Messaging is best to capture attention or conversions right there as studies have shown that the further the time passes after the event before a sale or conversion happens, the odds of an actual sale or conversion decreases drastically. To a food truck, that means missed profit; what does it mean to your bottom line? If you are making a limited time offer for goods or services, make sure it is the best possible deal to induce the customer to become interested and buy right there. Many food truck operators know that missed sales on a day because of pricing may mean they can't open their doors tomorrow. Imagine if that was your motivation during the show.
Maximize your presence locally on Social Media Channels Food trucks comb social media channels well in advance just like they would assess a map. They identify the powerful social influencers in the area they are going to be and try to engage and entice them to pass their messaging on to their followers. They follow local trends and keywords and try to leverage those in their messaging.
Align with like-minded businesses that won't cannibalize your market Food trucks often partner to create their own mini event inside an event. Often creating a team effort to pull off creating a mobile food court. With the premise that a larger crowd of purchasers will be attracted, and that there will be a diversity of flavors and tastes, two or three will partner with the goal of raising the sales for all by attracting a larger group. The same tactic can work successfully in trade shows as well. Partner with synergistic vendors to draw a larger crowd and group of prospects to your area of the tradeshow. Banding together with others to cross promote, or sponsor a speaker or side event at the trade show will help you to stand out from your other competitors and can also allow you to have a larger presence than you may be able to have on your own.
Assess, Learn and Build relationships that will grow your Success Next Time Data is king. Building records and databases of places, vendors, venues and people in each city, will help you build quickly and exponentially each year. This is imperative in tradeshows that are stationary and annual. Learn what tactics worked, and where energy was wasted. You can change or replace these tactics for the next time. Food trucks build fan bases by returning often to locations that are lucrative for them to visit. How can your brand establish a fan base as well? Continue to show up with some sort of frequency. If one tradeshow is good for your company in an area, are there other shows there as well where you could have some form of presence? If so, then building your frequency of appearances in that market will increase your foothold there as well.
The keys to success in these situations is remaining nimble, innovative, and have the ability to strike quickly when the opportunity presents itself. You can use the same tactics of food trucks to maximize your presence and success at tradeshows. You have a limited amount of time to drive as much business as possible, and the clock starts now.


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'Dancing Bear' Lauder Heir Cuts Off His 'Debutramp' Baby Mama
Taylor Stein, the mother of Estée Lauder CEO William Lauder's love child, is going to court to get him to pay a $9.5 million settlement he agreed to in exchange for her silence.
On February 17, Stein's lawyer, Ed Hayes, filed a petition with a New York court which oversees trust funds, seeking to force out William's brother, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Gary Lauder, as its trustee. A court date has been set for March 20.
Update: After the publication of this post, a lawyer representing William Lauder contacted us. We made a few updates to the post, where appropriate, to note their concerns.
The complaint has emails (see below) sent by William, going by the handle "Dancing Bear," to Stein's "Debutramp" account. Debutramp is the name of an autobiographical novel that Stein, daughter of a well-known New York nightclub owner Howard Stein, is writing. Hayes's petition, which includes the original settlement agreement which Stein and Lauder signed in 2007, is posted here.
William, part of the mostly despicable Lauder clan,
resigned agreed to step down within two years from his post as CEO of the family-owned cosmetics empire in favor of a successor shortly after the New York Post revealed the existence of Lauder's daughter in 2007. (His successor, Fabrizio Freda, is currently president and COO, and is expected to take over Lauder's job this year.) The Post noted Stein's history of dating rich olds and reported negotiations over the settlement agreement, which was completed in November of that year. Stein agreed to move to California and not disclose the identity of Djuna's father to anyone, even Djuna herself.
The only hitch: William, who has two daughters with his wife, Karen, apparently decided he had to meet his new daughter. Last year, he flew to Los Angeles to visit Stein and Djuna. Hayes, Stein's lawyer, says Karen Lauder learned of the visit and ordered William not to contact his daughter or her mother again — yet, according to emails filed with the court petition, he continued to correspond with her.
William then asked Stein to fly with Djuna to New York, according to Hayes. They met in the Pierre Hotel, Hayes said, where William's father, Leonard Lauder, saw Stein and Djuna. (Lauder's lawyer says that Leonard and Stein did not meet in the Pierre, and that William did not arrange the meeting. Hayes agrees on the latter point. In an interview, he described the meeting as a "coincidence.") Evelyn Lauder, William's mother, then learned of her granddaughter's
existence and met presence in town and asked to meet her — a demand William found hard to refuse because, according to Hayes, she is ill from cancer. (Lauder is a noted breast-cancer survivor who has raised considerable money for cancer research. William's emails to Stein mention his mother's illness but do not specify the ailment. His lawyer say Evelyn Lauder does not have cancer.)
Karen then reportedly demanded Stein and Djuna stay out of New York. According to Stein's petition, Karen threatened to divorce William.
Hayes believes that Karen is less concerned about William seeing Djuna than her mother-in-law getting to know the child. Here's why: If Evelyn and Leonard Lauder write Djuna into their will, Karen's daughters will get a smaller cut of the family's estimated $3 billion fortune.
What makes William's actions seem especially cold: At the same time that he was sending tender-hearted emails to Stein, he was having his brother Gary move to cut off payments from her trust.
Here are William and Stein's emails:
In her email, Lauder's lawyer writes:
William Lauder is in complete compliance with his obligation to his youngest daughter. No payments due to the child by William Lauder have been "cut off;" to the contrary, he has made every payment he is obligated to pay. The dispute between Ms. Stein and William Lauder arises from Ms. Stein's failure to comply with her obligations under an agreement.
In the court petition Hayes filed for Stein, he writes:
William is now claiming that the encounters between his parents and Djuna are in breach of the Settlement Agreement, a ridiculous claim formulated to avoid his future payment obligations and to appease his wife, Karen, who threatens an immensely expensive divorce if William continues interacting with Ms. Stein and Djuna.
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lapack_int info, lda, m, n;
lapack_complex_double* h;
lapack_complex_double * w,* vr,* vl;
h = calloc(16*16,sizeof(lapack_complex_float));
vr = calloc(16*16, sizeof(lapack_complex_double));
vl = calloc(16*16, sizeof(lapack_complex_double));
w = calloc(16, sizeof(lapack_complex_double));
m = 16;
n = 16;
lda = 16;
bunch of voodoo that fills h to be a 16x16 matrix with skewed symmetry
info = LAPACKE_zgeev(LAPACK_ROW_MAJOR,'N','V', n, h, m, w, vl, lda, vr, lda); //find bug
Anytime I run this code I receive:
*** glibc detected *** ./test2: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0812b010 ***
+ a backtrace and a memory map
I'm almost positive that you have to preallocate things such as w, vl, and vr as anytime I comment that part out I get a seg-fault. I ran it with zgeev_work, and it would work so long as lwork = -1, anything else and I would receive the same error, but I would receive an output of everything being 0, which isn't true, so I've botched something.
Thanks in advanced, and sorry if I've left out something obvious/crucial
PS: completely new to LAPACK


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Make sure that your mobile device is connected to a PC with a USB cable.
Click Software update to start.
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DS-8 Moon Phase
Reference: C033.457.16.031.00
Diameter: 41.00 mm
In this model, Certina combines the classic moon-phase display with a distinct, modern design. The 41 mm case gives the traditional complication the perfect contemporary setting and harbours a highly precise quartz calibre with COSC chronometer certificate at the same time.
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HOUSTON � Kelcy Warren, the billionaire running the third-largest U.S. natural gas pipeline company, says the days of deal-making are returning.
Railroads and competing pipeline operators are taking market share, leaving networks with smaller regions and struggling to find business. To survive, companies need a geographically diverse portfolio of assets across an array of oil and gas products that can weather slowdowns in individual sectors or regions, Warren, chairman and chief executive officer of Energy Transfer Partners LP, said in an interview.
Mergers and acquisitions are the fastest way to grow now, according to Warren, who acknowledges getting a reputation as a deals-obsessed "cowboy" after leading a $13 billion buying spree in 2011 and 2012 to expand the reach of his company's group of master limited partnerships, or MLPs.
"You're going to see the resumption of some kind of M&A strategy that we deliberately shelved for quite a period now," Warren, 57, said Sept. 24 in his Dallas office. "I believe you're going to see some MLPs look for a warm spot to go curl up as early as next year."
Pipeline mergers and acquisitions fell this year to about half the $58.3 billion announced two years ago, the biggest spate since at least the start of 2001, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Warren said he expects deals to pick up industrywide as more operators feel financial pressure, creating growth opportunities for larger operators like Energy Transfer Partners, which has a $24.8 billion market value.
Companies organized as MLPs don't pay U.S. income taxes and distribute most of their free cash as taxable income to investors through partnership units, which trade like stock.
It's certainly a seller's market in the pipeline industry today, Ethan Bellamy, an analyst at Robert Baird, said in a phone interview. The larger MLPs that can weather a downturn are hungry for more assets to keep growing while the smaller players are struggling to keep up with the need to increase distributions to unitholders, he said.
"The competition for assets is intense," Bellamy said. "If you have something that's MLP-qualifying, whether it's held privately, whether it's a public corporation, there's an MLP that is probably sniffing around."
Warren isn't limiting his growth plans to acquisitions. Pipeline construction and conversion projects are still on the drawing board, including its Trunkline crude project. The line is planned to have a capacity to carry 420,000 barrels a day from Illinois to the Gulf Coast.
Energy Transfer and partner Enbridge Inc. extended the deadline to sign up customers for the pipeline to Sept. 30 after response was sluggish. If the project still fails to garner enough shipper interest and Enbridge decides against participating, Warren said he'll consider shrinking the pipeline capacity by about half and moving ahead with the project alone.
"Nothing has changed about our perspective on the project," Glen Whelan, a spokesman at Enbridge, said in an e- mail.
Warren also sees potential growth in Mexico, and said he is "aggressively" studying the possibility of a cross-border gas pipeline.
"We see a lot of opportunity to the south," he said.
Oil companies are spurning some new pipeline projects as the geographic spread between crude prices narrows to the smallest in almost three years, underscoring the risk for shippers when committing to traditional 10-to-15-year contracts. The drop in crude spreads from near-record highs to multiyear lows means lower profits for shippers, who want to sell their product for the highest price in a destination market.
Meanwhile, growing rail transport is filling the gap while offering greater flexibility for North American producers and refiners, who can now ship their crude on trains connecting Alberta and North Dakota producers to East and West Coast refiners not served by pipelines.
Pipeline companies concentrated in one producing region will have less resilience to survive the competition, Warren said.
"They're going to have their heyday and then they're going to have their decline," he said. "Unfortunately, I'm afraid we're going to have to feel some more pain for there to be great consolidation."
Energy Transfer's planned return to the deals table may alarm some investors who are concerned that the level of debt and would prefer to see Warren concentrate on making the most of what he's already got.
"They've bought enough assets at this point," Darren Horowitz, an analyst at Raymond James, said in a phone interview. "What they need to figure out how to do is effectively integrate all these assets," while paying down debt.
Energy Transfer Partners, the largest of four affiliated MLPs, carried $13.4 billion in net debt at the end of the second quarter, according to Baird analysis. That's 3.9 times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization over the past 12 months. Energy Transfer Equity, the owner of the general partner overseeing ETP, meanwhile had debt that's 3.4 times its distributed cash flow, according to Baird.
Energy Transfer Equity is up 43 percent this year, while Energy Transfer Partners has climbed about half that amount at 21 percent. The benchmark Cushing 30 MLP index rose 21 percent in the same period.
The industry has been good to investors. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp., the best-performing energy fund this year with more than $100 million in assets, has pipeline and "midstream" partnerships among its largest holdings. The fund has gained 29 percent year-to-date, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Warren promises that any deals he does won't hurt the group's investment-grade credit ratings. He's also determined to increase investors' distribution payments, which will be boosted by 1 cent per unit in the third and fourth quarters, the partnership said last month.
He declined to discuss future growth of the distribution amount other than to say, "We will continue to please the market in that regard."
Warren co-founded Energy Transfer Partners in 1995 with Ray Davis, who retired from Energy Transfer in 2007 and is now part-owner of the Texas Rangers professional baseball team. The company started with 200 miles of pipelines in East Texas, focused solely on moving the heating and power-plant fuel within the state boundaries.
As investors began to cool on the company late last decade, Warren said he realized Energy Transfer was too narrowly focused on one geographic area.
To broaden the business, he started a series of acquisitions in March 2011 with a $1.93 billion deal for LDH Energy Asset Holding LLC. Energy Transfer Equity prevailed in a bidding war against rival Williams Cos. to buy Southern Union Co. for $5.6 billion, while Energy Transfer Partners agreed to buy Sunoco Inc. for $5.3 billion last year.
"Ultimately he's a guy that likes to buy stuff and be an empire builder," said Bellamy, the Baird analyst.
Enterprise Products Partners LP and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP are the largest U.S. natural-gas pipeline operators based on market value. Energy Transfer Partners is third- largest.
Of the four publicly traded MLPs affiliated within the Energy Transfer group, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP is the best positioned financially to make deals, Warren said.
Gas exports rank among potential investments Warren is studying. Energy Transfer, along with partner BG Group Plc, is planning to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Lake Charles, Louisiana. As the joint venture works on obtaining the final government permits that will allow it to proceed, Warren said he's considering investing in other Gulf Coast LNG projects.
Because investors demand steady growth, acquisitions will remain an essential part of Energy Transfer's strategy, though don't expect deals the size of Sunoco or Southern Union, Warren said in the interview this week.
"You're going to see a very deliberate, careful, well- thought-out open-mindedness to M&A," he said.
_ With assistance from Eliot Caroom in New York.


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1 cup flour or graham cracker crumbs.
1 cube butter
1 cup chopped nuts
Cut butter into flour. Add half a cup of nuts. Press into 9x12 ungreased baking dish. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes until light brown. Remove and cool.
1 (12oz) carton of Cool Whip.
2 pkg. Instant pudding (1 chocolate & 1 vanilla)
(Cut down one cup of milk if using big boxes of pudding - that would be5 cups of milk)
1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese
1 cup powder sugar
Blend cheese and sugar. Add 1 cup cool whip. spread over crust. Mix pudding and milk; blend well. Spread over cheese layer. Spread the rest of the cool whip on and sprinkle the remaining nuts on top.
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Outdoor Voices was founded in 2013 by twenty-something Tyler Haney, a former track athlete and Parsons graduate. In opposition to the traditional power athletic brands, Outdoor Voices has a decidedly low-key vibe. Instead of neon and slick black, OV is known for sophisticated tonal greys. Although everything they do (sports bras, leggings, sweatshirts, etc.) is workout-functional, the best part about OV's line is it doubles as perfectly put-together casual wear. Or, as the company motto goes, you can wear OV whenever you are simply "Doing Things."