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SEATTLE – Real Salt Lake earned a hard fought 0-0 draw at Seattle Sounders FC in the first leg of the Western Conference Semifinal series on Friday night at CenturyLink Field, setting the Claret-and-Cobalt up nicely ahead of the return leg at Rio Tinto Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 8.
RSL was led on Friday night by GK Nick Rimando, who made no less than four fantastic saves to keep the clean-sheet – RSL's fourth in a row and ninth in its last 12 games across all competitions.
The first half was played at a breakneck pace, with both sides getting up-and-down the field quickly and registering numerous chances. Seattle had the first real look of the match in the ninth minute. MF Mauro Rosales had the chance, getting on the end of FW Sammy Ochoa's cross at the top of the six only for RSL DF Kwame Watson-Siriboe – making his playoff debut for injured DF Jamison Olave – to thwart the effort with a solid sliding block.
RSL had its first solid opportunity in the 23rd minute. Combination play in the middle of the field allowed MF Javier Morales to slip MF Ned Grabavoy behind the defense, but Sounders FC GK Michael Gspurning was quick off his line, beating Grabavoy to the ball at the top of the box and clearing it out of danger.
Rimando outdid Gspurning with a huge save in the 25th minute. Sounders FC DF Marc Burch played a long diagonal ball to MF Brad Evans in the right side of the box, but Rimando aggressively came off his line to block Evans' eight yard effort.
The Claret-and-Cobalt had another chance in the 31st minute. Morales started the play, crossing from the right wing to FW Alvaro Saborio at the near post. The Costa Rican international masterfully flicked his header to an open Grabavoy at the back post, but Grabavoy – perhaps not realizing how much time he had – could only muster a seven yard header that Gspurning comfortably saved.
Rimando came up with two world class saves in the 33rd minute, both off of Rosales corner kicks. Ochoa had the first chance, heading a corner kick that looked ticketed for the back of the net only for Rimando to make an incredible acrobatic stop. Rimando was at it again seconds later, contorting his body to keep out Seattle DF Jhon Kennedy Hurtado's powerful header.
The 'keeper clinic continued in the 38th minute, when Gspurning made a good stop on RSL MF Will Johnson. The Canadian international collected a blocked shot in the right side of the box, ripping a 10-yard effort toward the near post that Gspurning parried away for a corner.
That chance took the sides into halftime. RSL made one substitution at the break, bringing off FW Fabian Espindola – who injured his left hamstring in the first half – and inserting FW Paulo Jr.
The second half was played at the same breakneck pace as the first. RSL had the first chance of the frame in the 47th minute. Saborio had the opportunity, getting on the end of DF Tony Beltran's cross at the spot and heading a shot on goal that Gspurning held.
Sounders FC should have gone ahead in the 49th minute through Ochoa. Evans set up the golden chance, dribbling down the left side to the end line and squaring a ball to an unmarked Ochoa eight yards out. He couldn't take advantage of the great opportunity, though, hoofing his shot well over the crossbar.
Seattle had another opportunity in the 51st minute, but Rimando snuffed it out with yet another huge save. MF Christian Tiffert had the look, powerfully snapping DF Adam Johansson's cross to the bottom-right-corner from the spot only for Rimando to somehow get down and block it.
RSL and Rimando endured a scary moment in the 66th minute. Tiffert collided with Rimando while both players were attempting to get to a Rosales cross, with Rimando taking an elbow to the right temple. RSL's medical staff attended to the bleeding Rimando for several minutes, and the veteran GK – who suffered a broken nose and had to have his right eye stitched up post game – was able to stay on the pitch.
Seattle kept the pressure on after Rimando's injury, but it wasn't really able to generate another opportunity until the 81st. Substitute FW David Estrada beat RSL sub DF Jamison Olave on the left wing, hitting a cross off of Beckerman that nearly deflected into the net.
RSL broke pressure in the 85th minute, when it nearly grabbed the lead through Saborio. The Costa Rican striker got on the end of a Morales cross at the left post, heading down to the near post to force Gspurning into another quality stop.
Seattle had another golden chance in the 85th minute. Substitute MF Mario Martinez whipped a ball in from the left wing to FW Fredy Montero at the near post, with the Colombian striker flicking the ball to the far bar. Estrada ran onto the flick, only needing to tap the ball into an open net to give Seattle the lead. He somehow couldn't manage that, though, whiffing his shot and letting the ball roll out of bounds.
Sounders FC kept the pressure on after Estrada's missed opportunity, but couldn't create a chance before referee Hilario Grajeda blew the final whistle after eight minutes of stoppage time.
Friday's result leaves RSL in great shape heading into the series' second leg, which will be played at Rio Tinto Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 8. Tickets for the game are on sale and can be purchased online at www.RealSaltLake.com, at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office or by calling (801) 727-2700.
Click here to access video highlights and the MLSsoccer.com MATCHCENTER for RSL 0-SEA 0
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 0:0 SEA
- RSL now has shutout four straight opponents. The Claret-and-Cobalt hasn't given up a goal since the 2-1 win at L.A. on Oct. 6, a streak of 433 minutes across all competitions.
- RSL has not conceded a goal against Seattle in four games (360 minutes) against Sounders FC this year. Seattle had 51 goals – the fifth-highest total in the league – during MLS play this year.
- GK Nick Rimando and MF Kyle Beckerman both played 90 minutes on Friday night. Both players have played every minute in all 13 of RSL's all-time playoff matches. MF Will Johnson also played all 90 on Friday – he's appeared in all 13 of RSL's postseason games.
- Rimando had three stitches and had a broken nose reset after the match. Rimando suffered a facial injury when he collided with Seattle MF Christian Tiffert in the 66th minute.
- RSL will face Seattle in the second and final leg of the Western Conference Semifinal series on Thursday, Nov. 8 at Rio Tinto Stadium. The winner of that match will advance to the Western Conference Final series against the winner of the San Jose-L.A. Semifinal. Should Thursday's match remain tied after 90 minutes, it will go to a 30-minute extra time period followed – if necessary – by a penalty kick shootout.
- Tickets for Thursday's game are on sale and can be purchased online at www.RealSaltLake.com, at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office or by calling (801) 727-2700.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 0 0
Seattle Sounders FC 0 0 0
Scoring Summary: No goals
Misconduct Summary: SEA – Jeff Parke (Foul) – 45 +1'
RSL – Kyle Beckerman (Foul) – 53'
SEA – Brad Evans (Foul) – 54'
RSL – Javier Morales (Foul) – 56'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2) – Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Kwame Watson-Siriboe (Jamison Olave, 76'), Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert; Kyle Beckerman (c); Ned Grabavoy, Will Johnson; Javier Morales (Yordany Alvarez, 87'); Fabian Espindola (Paulo Jr., 46'), Alvaro Saborio
Substitutes Not Used: Kyle Reynish (GK), Kenny Mansally, Luis Gil, Jonny Steele
Seattle Sounders FC (4-4-2) – Michael Gspurning; Adam Johansson, Jeff Parke, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Marc Burch; Mauro Rosales (Steve Zakuani, 94'), Osvaldo Alonso, Christian Tiffert (Christian Tiffert, 82'), Brad Evans; Fredy Montero, Sammy Ochoa (David Estrada, 57')
Substitutes Not Used: Marcus Hahnemann (GK), Servando Carrasco, Alex Caskey, Mario Martinez, Zach Scott,
Referee: Hilario Grajeda
Referee's Assistants: Paul Scott, Jeff Hosking
4th Official: Allen Chapman
Attendance: 34,941
Weather: Rain and 55 degrees


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James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. He is considered to be one of the greatest professional athletes the U.S. has ever produced.
James Nathaniel Brown was born to Theresa (a housekeeper) and Swinton Brown (a professional boxer).
At Manhasset Secondary School, Brown earned 13 letters playing football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball and running track.

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The concept of ecosystem services considers the usefulness of nature for human society. The economic importance of nature was described and analyzed in the 18th century, but the term ecosystem services was introduced only in 1981. Since then it has spurred an increasing number of academic publications, international research projects, and policy studies. Now a subject of intense debate in the global scientific community, from the natural to social science domains, it is also used, developed, and customized in policy arenas and considered, if in a still somewhat skeptical and apprehensive way, in the "practice" domain—by nature management agencies, farmers, foresters, and corporate business. This process of bridging evident gaps between ecology and economics, and between nature conservation and economic development, has also been felt in the political arena, including in the United Nations and the European Union (which have placed it at the center of their nature conservation and sustainable use strategies).
The concept involves the utilitarian framing of those functions of nature that are used by humans and considered beneficial to society as economic and social services. In this light, for example, the disappearance of biodiversity directly affects ecosystem functions that underpin critical services for human well-being. More generally, the concept can be defined in this manner: Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems, in interaction with contributions from human society, to human well-being.
The concept underpins four major discussions: (1) Academic: the ecological versus the economic dimensions of the goods and services that flow from ecosystems to the human economy; the challenge of integrating concepts and models across this paradigmatic divide; (2) Social: the risks versus benefits of bringing the utilitarian argument into political debates about nature conservation (Are ecosystem services good or bad for biodiversity and vice versa?); (3) Policy and planning: how to value the benefits from natural capital and ecosystem services (Will this improve decision-making on topics ranging from poverty alleviation via subsidies to farmers to planning of grey with green infrastructure to combining economic growth with nature conservation?); and (4) Practice: Can revenue come from smart management and sustainable use of ecosystems? Are there markets to be discovered and can businesses be created? How do taxes figure in an ecosystem-based economy? The outcomes of these discussions will both help to shape policy and planning of economies at global, national, and regional scales and contribute to the long-term survival and well-being of humanity.
Keywords: Ecosystem, ecosystem services, natural capital, biodiversity, economic and cultural valuation, policy instruments
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11:43 Closing with a video of those crazy skydivers in their wingsuits using Google Glass.
11:42 Gundotra is thanking everyone for attending. See you guys at the afterparty!
11:42 It's Christmas for Android devs!
11:41 Now, some more news from Barra, who's joined Gundotra onstage. To experiment early with what was seen today, Google has put together an Android develoepr pack. All 6,000 I/O attendees get a brand new Galaxy Nexus phone, a brand new Nexus 7 tablet, the latest OTA of the Jelly Bean preview version for both devices, and... a shiny new, Nexus Q.
11:40 They're kicking off Google Events with an event tonight, an after hours party that will be the first official Google+ event. Train and Paul Oakenfold will be there. Attendees need to download the new Google Play and Google+ versions tonight to partake.
11:39 "The best thing is for computers to have your back and then you don't have to worry about them you can focus on what makes people the happiest – on living and loving," Gundotra says. Google Events lets you focus on that, he says.
11:35 Brin's left the stage, and now Gundotra is back. He says he had a "Taylor Swift moment" today. We're wrapping up the events we've covered thus far today with a video of Google Events, which lets you share moments as they happen, before, during and after an event.
11:35 Preorders are limited to I/O attendees – this isn't available for consumers. It's $1,500, and it will ship early next year.
11:34 They want to involve the developer community in Glass. So starting today, Brin is announcing the Google Glass Explorer edition, something theyd like to get in the hands of people who are passionate about it. It's not a consumer device – it'll be rough around the edges, you have to want to be on the bleeding edge.
11:32 Sergei Brin is back onstage talking about how he wasn't sure if the whole skydiving shindig would actually work. "Capturing images, videos and sharing video, that's only a part of what a wearable computer can do," he says. "Why are we showing you this kind of utlity? There are three reasons: We just found it incredibly compelling, the second is it's one of the things we can show you because you all can't experience what it's like, and third, we're a pretty small team and we've only had so much time to try various kinds of functionality."
11:31 Now, a Google Glass video about a mother and her baby. The baby smiles at faces, not at devices, according to the video's narrator. Tons of cute and funny photos being shown off.
11:30 The whole Glass presentation is a focus on the future. It's not available now, it's all about possibilities, empowering us in the future. What's next, what we will be able to do.
11:29 Google Glass aims to make smartphone-like interactions so fast, you feel you know it. This is Google's aspiration. They want to empower people to access information very very quickly.
11:27 They've shared everything from a walk through the streets of New York, to a dentist's visit.
11:25 Google has shown a whole bunch of different footage of the team using glass in real-world scenarios. It provides a unique first-person perspective of the world, and it's easy to share its content.
11:22 Glass also needs to be super strong and sturdy, so you can go running or play tennis with it. The components are all pushed to one side, for an asymmetrical form factor. This means the frames can be designed different ways.
11:21 "We want to empower people to use technology naturally," she says. "We wanted to pack all this amazing technology into this product, but if it's not ridiculously light, it doesn't belong on your face. Lightness visually, and physically." They tried to reduce it to its core essence. The latest prototype weighs less on your nose than many sunglasses.
11:20 Isabel, the lead designer is telling us about how they designed the device. They positioned the display above your eye so it's close to your senses but not blocking them.
11:18 They used Google Glass prototypes on members of today's extravaganza. The device has a processor, with microphones and a small speaker, gyroscopes... It also has multiple radios for data communication. The Glass group started 2.5 years ago.
11:16 Now we're going to learn about how that actually happened. There's a girl onstage, a fellow ginger in fact.
11:15 I think everyone is kind of dumbstruck. Awestruck? Both? Now all we need is some celebrity being lowered from the ceiling, and the craziness will be utterly complete.
11:14 And they're inside the Moscone Center, biking up onto the stage.
11:14 I feel like they've watched the Bourne movies maybe ten too many times.
11:14 And apparently they're going to... rappel down the side of a building. The Moscone Center, in fact.
11:12 Now they've got cyclists wearing Glass, doing tricks on a rooftop.
11:12 "This is a hangout on air!" one skydiver says. Their parachutes have opened now. They'll be landing on a roof. Um. Good luck. This is happening live, Roberto Baldwin at the office confirms for us.
11:11 I'm not sure if Google has jumped the shark on this one or not, but I can't deny it, I'm engrossed.
11:10 Is this really happening live?
11:10 The doors are opening, they're about to jump out OVER SAN FRANCISCO. WHAAAAT!
11:09 I can see the Wired offices from their Google Glass streams. Ok, maybe not quite.
11:08 Now we're doing a Google+ hangout using just video from Glass. They look like they're flying over San Francisco and the Moscone Center. OMG are they going to skydive over San Francisco? With Wingsuits? Is that legal?!
11:07 We're going into a hangout with a group of Glass wearers that look like they're going to be parachuting from an airplane at any moment.
11:06 They've got a surprise for us. A demo of Glass.
11:06 Sergei Brin just stepped onstage wearing Google Glass glasses!
11:05 At the top of the stream, Google analyzes the photos that got the most engagement, +1's and comments, and those are shown as Event Highlights. In this case, the most engagement came from the "You may kiss the bride" kiss moment. Very sweet.
11:05 At the top of the stream, Google analyzes the photos that got the most engagement, +1's and comments, and those are shown as Event Highlights. In this case, the most engagement came from the "You may kiss the bride" moment. Very sweet.
11:03 Now, after the event. Google+ will send emails to friends to remind them to add photos they may not have added to the event, then you can see a chronological rendering of all the photos of all the guests with party mode turned on. In the bottom right hand corner, you can see who posted that photograph. This was demoed with a Google staffer's own wedding.
11:02 Party mode is indicated by a green icon so you know when it's on. On the event's landing page, you can see all the photos, which show up as they're added, streaming in real time.
11:01 During events, there is "party mode." Once enabled, all new photos get added to the event in real time. This gives your party a "visual pulse," apparently.
11:01 When you click into the event page detail, you can pull down on the invite and see photos, updates from the host, and photos.
10:59 You can add people whether or not they're on Google+, if you just invite someone using their email address. When you get an invitation, you can see if you have conflicts right away when you try to RSVP. If you click on the event on your calendar, that beautiful cinemegraph pops up, and you can see thumbnail images of friends who are going.
10:59 The interface for creating an invitation looks pretty simple, fill out the info, choose a cinemegraph theme. Cinemagraphs look similar to Facebook Covers, long horizontal images.
10:58 Before a party, you want to invite someone. Google+ events has lots of ways to send beautiful invitations – cinemagraphic themes. To manage the process, there's deep integration with Google Calendar. I live on Google Calendar, so this looks like something I may actually end up using for sure.
10:57 Today they're announcing Google+ Events.
10:57 Online event tools are glorified web forums, Gundotra says, glorifying who's invited to the party. They bail when you need them the most, during and after the party. Software should make all of that more awesome, before during and after your event.
10:56 There's one more Android announcement today. "Think about the time you spend with the people you love," Gundotra says, "And where you spend that time with them." THe common theme is that you spend time with them at events. Unfortunately, the substance of a real world event is lost online.
10:56 They also have an update for the Android smartphone app, even though they just updated that app recently. These updates are available for Android smartphones today.
10:55 Other improvements: new profiles to explore new content. Apple users, don't fret – everything they've just shown is launching on the iPad soon, too. That's the Google+ tablet app, rolling out for Android today, for iOS very soon.
10:54 Tablets make it easy to do hangouts on Google+ too. It'll switch video depending on whoever's talking so it's like a live conversation. The people in the demo look like they're having fun in their Hangout.
10:53 "I believe this is the best version of Google+ we've ever designed," Gundotra says. It makes it easy to scan, while still seeing what's important. They look for posts that are becoming popular, and make them bigger to help grab your attention. It looks gorgeous, with ciruclar avatar images, and big colorful photographs which you can scroll through sideways.
10:52 The growth of smartphones has been spectacular, Gundotra says. Same for Google+. We now have more users engaging in Google+ from mobile than from desktop. What about a native tablet version? That's what we're getting today, Google+ for tablets.
10:49 Google wants to provide us with a seamless experience, not a series of disconnected products. There are 150 million active users, 50% sign in daily. Active Google+ spend more than 12 minutes a day in the stream, up 9 minutes a day from a few months ago.
10:48 Tomorrow morning will be the one year anniversary of Google+. Taking a look at a Google+ video showing how Google+ is "capturing the whole earth."
10:46 And that's all for today's Google I/O keynote. Closing the keynote with Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure." Just kidding, that was just a brief break.
10:44 Now we're watching a YouTube video of people beat boxing. You can take over the TV using YouTube. Q streams music, movies and movies from Google Play and YouTube.
10:42 With Google Play, you can also bring movies wherever you go. You can control what's happening on TV with your tablet, and the movie is coming from the cloud.
10:42 That's music – multi-room playback, social streaming, amplifier built in.
10:40 You select songs to play on the Nexus 7, they appear on the queue of music of what's next to be played. At any time, anyone can move songs around the queue and take contorl of the listening experience. You can see the Q in real time on your device. Friends can play their music, in your living room. Hope they have good music taste.
10:40 Nexus Q is the first ever social streaming device, where you bring your music to the party. Friends can add their own music libraries to the Q.
10:39 If you have multiple Nexus Q's, you can play music around the house, in sync.
10:38 The hardware is pretty cool but what brings it to life is Android. You can choose a room to start playing music in, like the living room. It starts playing music right from the cloud. "We wanted the experience to be more than great quality sound. Music should be visual and interactive. It lights up with LEDs around the perimeter."
10:36 Check out our exclusive inside look at the Nexus Q here: wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/google-nexus-q-revealed/
10:36 Now a look at the design and engineering behind the Q. At 25 Watts, it can fill a room with clear, crisp sound. It has dual-band WiFi and ethernet, a microUSB to connect with accessories and encourage "general hackability."
10:36 Joe Britt is onstage. It's a small spherical Android computer designed to live in your home. It plugs into the best speaker and TV in your house, and it's always connected to the cloud, so you can easily stream music and video. It pulls content directly from Google Play, so you use your phone or tablet to control the cloud.
10:35 "This is really a third wave of consumer electronics, and it's all about the cloud."
10:35 "People can use their devices to control entertainment in a very simple way," the video says. People can be inquisitive, play with it, use it interactively. "Isn't this the right way music should be?"
10:33 Q is a small Android powered computer that connects to the media stored in the cloud, Joe Britt tells us in the video.
10:32 Now Google is releasing the first consumer electronics product they've built from the ground up: the Nexus Q. Were checking out a video.
10:31 Barra back on stage. Nexus 7 is available for only $199. You'll also be given a $25 credit for the Google Play store, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the book the Bourne Dominion, and a handful of magazine titles for free. You can order today, it'll ship in mid July in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.
10:28 The Nexus 7 is also a serious gaming device, we're told. We check out a few game demos, like Dead Trigger, a guns and zombies game. It creates everything from water droplets, realistic fogs, lots and lots of blood... "Who says mobile gaming has to be casual?" they say with laughs from the audience.
10:27 Google Currents is Google's Flipboard-like magazine app for reading your favorite websites and RSS feeds. It formats content for the Nexus 7. Google translate is baked right in, if you want to translate something to another language, like Arabic.
10:26 In Google Maps, there's turn-by-turn navigation, live traffic and street view. But now you can get to know a place before you head over there with information like Zagat reviews and a "see inside" view with compass mode – very cool, a panorama view tied to the gyroscope to show you what the inside of an establishment looks like.
10:25 The Nexus 7 is also the ideal size for checking email, and it's the first device to ship with Chrome as the standard browser. The new YouTube has also been optimized with a tablet friendly design.
10:24 Now there's a "What's this song?" widget, which gives you a link to the Play Store to download a song instantly when it's identified. Hm, Shazam anyone?
10:24 You can download TV shows for offline viewing. For discovering new content, there's a new recommendation engine that provides content that's relevant to you. You can set it up for the content you're most interested in. If you don't like a recommendation, swipe it away – the recs will get more intelligent as you give feedback.
10:22 Now we're taking a look at an episode of Parks and Recreation. "Video looks stunning on Nexus 7."
10:22 Interactive elements are also available, like in a demo from Shape magazine. I could get a bikini body if I did the exercises in the magazine. Alas, I'd likely be laying on the couch reading on my Nexus 7.
10:20 Content is front and center on the Nexus 7. You can tap on the cover of a book you were reading on another device, and pick up where you left off. A magazine experience on the Nexus 7 looks nice. You can swipe through pages and bring up an article that looks interesting. For a pure reading experience, you get the content of the article in a form optimized for the 7-inch display. You can also quickly pull up a table of contents.
10:20 Music, movies books magazines, apps and games, great content from Google Play right at your finger tips. Google's answer to the Kindle Fire, for sure. Take that Amazon!
10:19 Best of all Barra says, it weighs about the same as a paper book, 340 grams. "It just feels right," Barra says. That's Nexus 7!
10:18 The president of Asus is in the audience. The Nexus 7 has a lot packed in: 1280 x 800 HD display, a Tegra 3 chipset with a quadcore CPU and a 12 core GPU. That's basically 16 cores, which makes everything including games extremely fast and smooth. Front facing camera for hangouts, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, gyroscope and accelerometer, battery life – up to 9 hours of video playback and up to 300 hours standby time.
10:17 The Nexus 7 is built for Google Play, it runs 4.1 Jelly Bean, and now we're getting a look at it. It looks like a tablet.
10:16 "It's always been a goal of the nexus program to provide you with the best of Google experience," Barra says. "We wanted to take that model one step further." We wanted a device to immerse you in the Google Play medium. We partnered with Asus to help us build just that device, Barra says. Today, they're introducing the Nexus 7, a 7-inch tablet.
10:16 Tablet news! Barra is back onstage to talk tablet talk.
10:16 You can also enjoy hundreds of magazine titles (like Wired!). There are 14 day free trials on the most popular magazines to encourage you to try it out.
10:15 All of this is launching today on Google Play. They've partnered with Disney, ABC, Sony, Paramount, and other big names. I see Syfy, Bravo, NBC Universal on the list, too.
10:14 Google Play is also about great digital content: movies, music and books. There are thousands of movies to rent. It also has millions of songs. You can bring the songs you already own to Google Play and store up to 20,000 in your library. Google Play has over 4 million ebook titles available. It's all in the cloud. Today, more content for Google Play. Along with rentals, you can buy movie titles on Google Play so you can watch them as many times as you want. You can also purchase episodes or entire seasons of TV shows.
10:13 Android Cloud to Device Messaging: It's been amazingly successful with the developer community. Now, they're taking it to the next level with Google Cloud Messaging. This adds message multitasking, message payloads, and more. It's completely free for all developers, there are no quota limitations.
10:12 This makes downloads one third of the normal size, and it's handled automatically. This will be supported on Gingerbread and above.
10:12 Now they're introducing app encryption with Jelly Bean. ("You can love it!" they say onstage to some claps). Also, smart app updates. With smart app updates, users only download parts of the APK that have changed, not the whole dang thing again.
10:11 Now some new features for developers as part of Google Play.
10:10 More than 50% of billing stems from in-app purchases now.
10:08 Now, Google Play news. Google Play is Android apps, lots of apps – there are more than 600,000 apps and games, and 20 billion app installs across Google Play.
10:07 The SDK is available today as a developer preview.
10:07 When is it available? OTA updates to Galaxy Nexus, Xoom, and Nexus S, starting mid July.
10:07 That's an overview of Jelly Bean and Project Butter.
10:04 Now a demo of how Google Now is used in a typical day.Seems super useful. Your cards will get smarter as you use them more.
10:04 Now, currency conversion and translation, and you can learn what time it is back home when you're traveling.
10:03 For flights, it will keep you up to date on information for a flight you've searched for. Sports: You can stay updated on favorite sports teams in real time. You've set up your favorite teams already by searching on Google (but what if you Googled your nemesis team?).
10:02 For traffic, it figures out when you commute, it tells you how much the route normally is, and give you a faster route if there's a lot of traffic. Public transit: Google will tell you when the next bus or train will arrive (We approve). Places: Google will show you places of interest around you as you walk down the street, and tell what the restaurant is best known for menu wise. For calendar events, Google will tell you when you should leave based on how long it takes to walk, when the next bus will arrive, and how long that bus ride will be, for example.
10:01 The third part of the new Android search experience is Google Now. "Smartphones are only as smart as you tell them to be. They rely on you for everything," Barra says. "With Google Now, that starts to change." It finds relevant information at the right time, automatically. It uses your search history and calendar to find information you need and when.
10:01 Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys in the world.
9:59 In a demo, they ask who the prime minister of Japan is, and the phone replies back the answer. "What is the definition of robot?" It replies the definition of a robot, with the onscreen definition and other relevant information. It can also bring up pictures – "Show me pictures of pygmy marmosets." OMG THEY ARE ADORBZ.
9:59 Google Voice search is faster and better, and speaks answers back to you using Knowledge Graph, Barra says.
9:58 Last month, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph, that what you're search for are real things in the real world, not just words.
9:58 It's got a new UI, faster and more natural voice search, and a new feature called Google Now. First, the new UI.
9:57 Just like in ICS, you can dismiss all notifications at once with a single tap. "Simple tasks should never require complex procedures," Barra says. Now onto Search.
9:56 You can +1 or share a photo to Google+ without even opening the app. You can also check in to places without opening the app. You can quickly favorite a song on Tunein without opening the app too. JB is really letting apps integrate themselves into the entire OS experience.
9:55 You can call someone who's call you missed right from notifications. On a Gmail notification, you don't need to open up the Gmail app at all to see what's going on in your inbox. For a calendar notification, if you're running late, you can easily email everyone in the meeting and let them know. You can choose from a set of canned quick responses like "Be there in about 10 minutes" or you can write your own.
9:55 In JB, notifications show you more information, they're actionable, they're customizable, so you can build amazing notifications into your apps.
9:54 That's all on NFC improvements. Now, notifications.
9:54 In ICS, Google introduced Android Beam, so you can share web pages, maps and contacts between devices using NFC. Today, more than 1 million NFC enabled Android devices are shipping every week. JB gets two new Beam features: sharing a photo or video, or pair or connect your phone to a speaker or headset by tapping your phone.
9:53 If you delete a photo by accident, you can tap undo and bring it back.
9:52 Now, the Camera. ICS made it possible to snap photos super quickly. In JB, you can review photos you've taken very quickly as well. With a simple wipe, you can bring a snapped image back into view and look at the photo you just took. You can share it, or keep swiping to look at other photos. You can pinch to go to a film strip view and go much faster from there. If you don't like a photo, swipe it away.
9:52 Persian, Indian, and Thai will soon be supported. Android will enhance accessibility features, and platform support for external Braille devices.
9:51 Google presentations not quite as polished as Microsoft or Android's – we just had to go back a few slides. Oops!
9:51 Right now it supports English, but more languages will be added soon.
9:50 Now we're checking out a demo of voice typing with a Jelly Bean phone in Airplane mode.
9:50 We shrunk the Google speech recognizer to fit on the device itself, so if you have a poor connection or are offline, you can still use this feature.
9:49 Text input on Android is much improved too. It's got a predictive keyboard that learns intelligently over time, guessing the next word you're going to type before you type it. But sometimes your hands aren't free to type, so Android supports Voice Typing.
9:47 Barra's back onstage. Now we're seeing how ICS handles widgets. When you move a widget to a screen with a bunch of apps, it magically resizes on its own.
9:47 Lots of butter puns going on!
9:47 The JB device animates much more smoothly and consistently – that's the triple buffering and Vsync in action. These improvements are across the whole system, Burke says.
9:45 Now we're looking at a Systrace graph, part of the Android SDK. It shows how apps and processes are using the device. Now we're watching a video comparison of ICS and JB. "JB feels a lot smoother," Burke says.
9:44 The touch experience is also improved. In Jelly Bean, it anticipates where your finger will be at the time of a screen refresh. Battery use is also improved. In Jelly Bean, it puts the full power of the CPU at your fingertips.
9:43 "Our brain's visual cortex is especially sensitive to the physics of motion," Burke says. Project Butter is about making Android fast and smooth. First, they improved the system frame rate. Now everything runs in lock step. Jelly Bean introduces VSync and Triple Buffering for a more consistent rendering network – scrolling, animations, all buttery smooth.
9:43 They'll tell us about Project Butter, improvements to the system, and the new Google search experience on Android. Android engineering director Dave Burke is walking onstage to talk to us about Project Butter.
9:42 Today, they're going to share what they've been working on since they launched Ice Cream Sandwich... Drum roll please... Android 4.1 Jelly Bean! Jelly Bean builds on what was created with ICS – beautiful, simple and really smart are three focus points.
9:41 Now we're looking at a heat map of Android growth across the world over the last year. The developing world is adopting Android at a super fast pace – Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia all grew 500 percent over the last year alone.
9:41 Last year, they were seeing 400,000 new devices activated every day. Today, 1 million new devices are activated every day. "That's about 12 new Android devices every second of every day," Barra says.
9:40 Last year Android crossed 100 million devices, a huge milestone back then. This year, the latest milestone is 400 million Android devices. Yowza!
9:39 Last year, they talked about momentum, mobile and more, Barra says. This year, they're continuing with the same three things and picking up where they left off.
9:39 Let's get things started! Director of Android Product Management Hugo Barra was just welcomed onto the stage.
9:38 This is Google I/O's fifth year. "This conference is really about you, the developers," Gundotra says. "We owe in no small measure the success of our measures due to your support. Thank you for betting with Google, and thank you for supporting us."
9:37 Gundotra is welcoming the 6,000 people here at the Moscone Center. There are over 350 different viewing parties with over 30,000 people in attendance going on now, too. And over 1 million people will be watching the livestream of the event on YouTube.
9:37 Senior VP Vic Gundotra is stepping onto the stage to start today's keynote.
9:36 They're playing Deadmau5, Daft Punk... It's a dance party in here!
9:36 Google keynote is about to begin... Annnny minute now...
9:15 It's just past 9am and it looks like Google has accidentally lifted the lid on one major announcement of the day: the Nexus 7 tablet. Images are already posted on Google Play Store servers. (Hat tip: Android Police)
SAN FRANCISCO – Wednesday marks the beginning of Google's 2012 developer conference, Google I/O. Wired is here at the Moscone Center for the event, and will be liveblogging the keynote beginning at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time.
Google is expected to show off the latest version of its Android OS, Jelly Bean, version 4.1, as well as make announcements relating to Chrome OS and the Chrome browser. Google could also show off a new cloud infrastructure along the lines of Amazon's EC2, and we could also being seeing a flagship Nexus tablet that could give the Amazon Kindle Fire a run for its money. Additionally, we may see more updates to Google Maps that extend the strategy laid out earlier this month.
Our Gadget Lab crew – staff writers Nathan Olivarez-Giles (@nateog), Roberto Baldwin (@strngwys), Christina Bonnington (@redgirlsays), Alexandra Chang (@alexandra_chang) and editor Jon Phillips (@JonPhillipsSF) will be on-site, while the rest of our staff will provide support from Wired HQ.
Stay tuned and keep refreshing this page for the latest updates from the event.


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Time magazine's first ever Blog Index.
Damien Hirst + Andy Warhol + Levi's Pop-up Retail store at Fred Segal in the states. eerie and cool.
Friends of mine Jen and Cuan won a trip to Zanzibar in a design-off at Design Indaba this year (old news but at last i have found a picture of the ad):


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Authorities responding to a suicide in Florida have made a chilling discovery — a body stored in a carport freezer.
It's a tragedy that touches three generations of a Palm Beach County family.
Sheriff's deputies say they received a call Saturday morning after a man found that his father had stuck a suicide note in his door. The man found his father dead in a van in front of the home. When authorities arrived, they found the grandfather's body in a freezer. In the suicide note from the father, he said his elderly father was in his 80s and had died. He said he could not bear to let go, so he froze the body.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.
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I heard a song one time only on KROQ and have never been able to find it.
Here are some details on what I can remember about it:
1. 1984-1985
2. Most likely a female singing at least part of the song if not the whole song.
3. Song was electronic with some sections having sampled vocal bits played as notes.
4. Song had a darker but danceable feel to it and actually reminded me a little bit of old school break dance music ( a little bit).
5. I'm pretty certain that Swedish Egil was DJ during the set list.
6. It's not likely any well known band or song since I heard it only once on KROQ.
7. Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung was played during the set list (for 1984/1985 date reference)
8. It's possible that this song could've been more of an underground dance track. It was in no way a chart topping type of song.
I wish I could tell you more, but I'm hoping that someone may know what song this is. The DJ actually said the name of the band and the song, so I may actually recognize it once I see the name again.
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Rosetta: Cool science at a rare target
Steins, a rare E-type asteroid, holds clues on how the planets formed.
Steins is Rosetta's first nominal scientific target. Based upon ground-based observations, it has been classified as an 'E-type' asteroid, composed mainly of silicates and basalts, but its properties are not known in detail. For these reasons, it has been selected as one of the two asteroids that Rosetta will study, from among those that were within reach of the mission.
The study of asteroids is extremely important as they represent a sample of Solar System material at different stages of evolution – key to understanding the origin of our own planet and of our planetary neighbourhood. The spacecraft will rendezvous with the asteroid in the course of its first incursion into the asteroid belt, while on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


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Got an App For That?
App is a word that was barely even part of the public lexicon a few years ago, but now has become such an entrenched part of it that even my mom — quite possibly the least technologically inclined person on the planet — drops the phrase, "There's probably an app for that."
In the A/V world, apps enable cool streaming services like Pandora, Rhapsody, and Netflix on network-connected components. They also offer another huge benefit by allowing IP-based control of components over the network.
This is a good thing, because — let's be honest — the remote controls that manufacturers have included with their systems for years are pretty much garbage. And lest you think I'm picking on a particular manufacturer, please understand that I mean all of them. I'm especially talking about A/V receiver remotes so horribly designed that you might assume third-party universal remote control makers have them on the take. With tons of tiny, rarely used buttons with little or no backlighting, and more buttons hidden behind doors, they're about as intuitive and easy to use as the Large Hadron Collider.
Because of this, one of the first things most sensible people do after installing a new component is immediately put aside the included remote and program the device into their universal remote of choice. But many A/V receiver, Blu-ray, and media server manufacturers are now embracing app-based control. Such apps, which are usually free, often provide much greater feedback and incorporate a far slicker design than the traditional IR remote that's packed in the box. A control app can display things like volume levels, surround modes, and the title/time elapsed for the current track that's playing. Plus, since the apps communicate with components via Wi-Fi, they will control your gear even if?it isn't located within line-of-sight of the remote, a major limitation of IR-based controllers.
App-based control can also be terrific for accessing Web content via TVs and Blu-ray players, as some apps incorporate a QWERTY keyboard for faster surfing. Also, several apps allow navigation of things like menus or channel lists via up/down finger swipes, so you don't have to constantly look at your portable's screen.
Since the apps reside within your tablet or smartphone, they eliminate the coffee table clutter that comes from using multiple remotes and reduce the chance of losing the remote.
I use Marantz's Remote App on my iPad to control my Marantz preamp/processor, and I love that I can use it to browse my Pandora stations and networked audio library without having to turn the TV on. It's also great for rapidly adjusting volume using the slider bar or cueing the correct volume before starting a movie.
By far the slickest apps are the ones supplied by media server companies. These manufacturers push the envelope of what app control can offer, with loads of metadata and graphically?rich displays. Two of the best apps I regularly use come from Kaleidescape and Sonos (the latter is shown above), both designed to take advantage?of the iPad's larger screen size and retina display. Kaleidescape's app allows rapid access to every movie and album in your collection with cover art display, album reviews and artist bios, and full virtual remote control. A recent update adds reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and Common Sense Media information. Sonos's app puts the entire world of streaming audio at your fingertips, letting you jump among different services as well as rooms within your home in an incredibly intuitive manner.
One drawback to app control is that jumping in and out of individual apps to control each component creates a somewhat disjointed experience. But automation systems from companies like Control4, Crestron, Savant, and URC can cohesively tie?an entire system together, allowing one-button, "Watch Movie"-type control over your system from an app running on a tablet or smartphone. Other iPad- and iPhone-based universal control solutions like Logitech's Harmony Link and the ones reviewed in our Remote Control app feature on page 26 are growing in power and flexibility. And we're likely to see even more new, innovative offerings as the tablet market continues to expand.
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More than 330 Palestinians killed as Gaza ground offensive grows – NationalOn 24/09/2018 by admin
GAZA, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and battled Gaza militants on the second day of an open-ended ground operation Saturday, as the Palestinian death toll climbed past 330 and diplomats scrambled to revive cease-fire efforts.
The Israeli military said it had severely diminished the arsenal of Hamas, the Islamic militant group ruling Gaza, but the militants have continued to fire rockets.
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READ MORE: First day of Israeli ground offensive in Gaza raises death toll near 300
In the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials reported intensified Israeli airstrikes, shelling and numerous civilian casualties. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said the new round of strikes raised the death toll from the 12-day offensive to more than 330 Palestinians, many of them civilians and nearly a fourth of them under the age of 18.
In Israel, a Gaza rocket killed a man near the southern city of Dimona and wounded four people, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, marking the second Israeli civilian casualty from the fighting. An Israeli soldier was killed after the start of the ground operation, likely from friendly fire.
The Israeli military said during its first 24 hours on the ground in Gaza troops discovered 13 tunnels into Israel – some as deep as 30 metres – that could be used to carry out attacks. Israel says it launched the offensive to deal with that threat. On Saturday, the military said it thwarted a second infiltration attempt through just such a tunnel, killing one militant and forcing the others to return to Gaza.
The military also said it has hit 2,350 targets in Gaza, including 1,100 rocket launchers, during the 12 days of fighting. Militants have fired more than 1,600 rockets since July 8.
"We have struck hard on the two main strategic assets of Hamas: the rockets and these tunnels," Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said.
Israel says it has encountered little resistance on the ground so far, and has killed about 20 militants in sporadic gunbattles. Three soldiers were wounded in overnight fighting, one seriously, the military said.
Explosives-laden donkey
In one case, it said troops encountered a man who appealed for medical assistance before pulling out grenades and trying to hurl them at soldiers. He was shot dead, authorities said. Troops also encountered a donkey with explosives strapped to it.
Israel launched the ground operation late Thursday after its air campaign on the Hamas-ruled territory failed to halt the unrelenting rocket fire. The rate of Palestinian casualties has risen since the ground offensive began – Al-Kidra said more than 90 Palestinians have since been killed.
Casualties could quickly mount further if the military moves further into urban areas.
Some 50,000 Palestinians already are staying in United Nations shelters, according to UNRWA, the UN refugee agency for Palestinians.
Early Saturday, Israeli tank fire killed at least five members of the Al Zawaydi family at their home in Beit Lahiya, including two children. In a separate incident, tank shell fire killed three members of the Hamooda family in their home, among them two children.
In Gaza City, two boys and a one-year-old infant neighbour were killed Friday evening following the break of the Ramadan fast. On Saturday, at least two of the bodies were carried by sombre relatives during a funeral procession in Gaza City.
A neighbour described the damage to the home as a "world turned upside down."
"The blood is filling the place everywhere. Small kids, it's a shame, they're kids," Amer al-Jumaasi said.
An Egyptian truce proposal was rejected by Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007 and has demanded the lifting of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade as part of any cease-fire agreement.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Saturday repeated a call for the two sides to adopt its cease-fire initiative, saying it is the only offer on the table, despite efforts from Hamas backers Turkey and Qatar to broker a deal.
"This initiative still presents the chance for the two sides to cease fire, ending the bloodshed," he said. "It meets the needs of both sides. We will continue to propose it. We hope both sides accept it."
UN chief heads to Middle East on truce mission
In a fresh effort to broker a truce, UN chief Ban Ki-moon was to leave Saturday for the Middle East to help mediate the Gaza conflict. A ceasefire is "indispensable" for urgently needed humanitarian efforts to succeed, the under-secretary-general for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday.
Israeli officials have said the offensive could last up to two weeks. The military reported making steady progress but said dozens of tunnels remain and would not give a time frame for its operation.
Israel's military chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, visited troops on the Gaza border early Saturday and said "a strategic national patience is necessary" to complete the mission.
"Hamas and other terror organizations have been hit hard, painfully and extensively," he added.
But Gaza militants have remained defiant despite the heavy death toll.
"The Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip will not surrender to the enemy and will not raise the white flag," Ziad Nakhala, a leader in the Islamic Jihad militant group, told a Palestinian radio station. "We are open to all possibilities as long as the enemy does not respond to the demands of the resistance."
Hamas has survived Israeli offensives in the past, including a major three-week ground operation in January 2009 and another weeklong air offensive in 2012. It now controls an arsenal of thousands of rockets, including long-range projectiles, and has built a system of underground bunkers.
But Hamas is weaker than it was during the previous two offensives, with little international or even regional support from its main allies, Turkey and Qatar. Protests against the offensive took place Friday in Turkey, Jordan and the West Bank.
Heller reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Yousur Alhlou in Jerusalem, Sarah El Deeb in Cairo and Lefteris Pitarakis in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.
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Money Bee brings to the table, an insect themed mobile slot, that's just supposed to make you wonder at their tiny existence. All that it wants from you is to find the nectar of sweet wins of up to 1000 times your bet amount. Average graphics and sounds with a pretty simple gameplay, you will wish for more, from the Money Bee.
Money Bee Symbols
Even though it's bright and colourful, the graphics are ordinary, with the symbols looking as though they just popped out of bed with a drowsy look. The titular Money Bee flies all over the reels accompanied by the Caterpillar and the Ladybug symbols. The playing cards are the other low paying symbols seen on this 5 reel, 5 payline slots game.
Caratteristiche del gioco
Money Bee is a 5 reel, 5 payline mobile slots. Explore the unseen world of the insects on this slot. Looking a little googly eyed, get them to line up on the reels to drink up on the sweet nectar of gold coins. You can win up to 1000x times the bet amount, by making a wager anywhere from 0.10 and 5.0 per spin.
Wilds: The wild Money Bee acts as a substitute for the other symbols to form a winning payline. It does a wild dance on the reels, to indicate your stash of gold coins, when it is part of the winning payline.
Scatter: Adding the Scatter Musical Note on the reels, is a Money Bee slots idea of triggering the free spins. You will have to land 3 or more of them from left to right on the reels, to win 10 free spins. If the Ladybug wanders onto the reels during the free spins, then all the wins are doubled. The free spins cannot be re-triggered.
Gamble your way to double all your wins. Make an accurate prediction on whether the next playing card will be either red or black. A wrong one will win you nothing.
Puntata minima / massima per giro (£/$/€): 0.10 – 5.0
Jackpot (£ / $ / €): up to 1,000x coins (base game)
Closing Thoughts
Money Bee takes a long time to spin you a win. And the winning combination is not nearly enough, for you to keep playing the mobile slot. Add the low volatility of the game; you are left wanting for more.


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Gates open at 4:30pm for BPO Game
The Buffalo Bisons announced the following updates with regards to the team's KeyBank Independence Eve Celebration on Saturday, July 3rd against the Rochester Red Wings at Coca-Cola Field (6:05 p.m.).
Because of the expected crowd on Saturday, the Bisons announced that they will open the gates to Coca-Cola Field 30 minutes earlier than normal. All gates to the ballpark will be open at 4:30 p.m.
Print-at-Home and Outlet Will Call
To avoid long lines on game day, the Bisons are encouraging fans who purchase tickets online at Bisons.com to use the print-at-home technology.
Fans who have already purchased tickets online can pick up their tickets at Outlet Will Call at any Tickets.com locations until 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 3.
Tickets may also be picked up at the Coca-Cola Field Box Office prior to Saturday, July 3rd. The Box Office will be open on Thursday and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to the end of the Bisons home games those nights. The Box Office will also be open starting at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 3.
Ticket Sales and BPO 4-Packs
The Bisons announced on Thursday that less than 5,000 tickets remain for the KeyBank Independence Eve Celebration.
The team also announced that there are only a limited number of BPO 4-Packs available for the event. Fans can purchase four tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and one official souvenir for only $99 for a limited time on Bisons.com. The deadline to purchase the BPO 4-Pack is by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 2.
For more information, fans are encouraged to visit Bisons.com or call THE-HERD at (716) 843-4373.


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Manuel Pellegrini conceded that Manchester City's title hopes have suffered a serious blow after they were held to a 2-2 draw at home by bottom club Sunderland.
It could have been even worse for City who needed a late equaliser by Samir Nasri to avoid defeat, but Liverpool are now six points ahead having only played a single game more while Chelsea are four points in front.
Sunderland's survival chances remain slim but Connor Wickham's double - his first league goals for Sunderland since October 2011 - after Fernandinho had given City an early lead keeps their hopes alive.
Pellegrini blamed Sunday's defeat at Liverpool for affecting the players.
He said: "Of course the chances are less than before the match. It was very important for us to win the three points, for different reasons we couldn't but we continue fighting to the end.
"I think we couldn't take out of the mind the game against Liverpool and that was the consequence why the team didn't play well.
"We needed more intensity but our mind maybe was not in the moment to do it.
"Maybe at the moment Liverpool and Chelsea have better chances than our team because we are in third position but we still continue fighting until the last game."
Pellegrini insisted however the players would keep going to the very end of the season - and pointed out they had come from six points behind to win the title in 2012.
"We have to play five games more so we continue having chances, less chances than before this game, but we continue having chances," he added.
"Remember this team two years ago were six points behind the leaders and they won the title at the end. So it is difficult - but it is not the last game we play today."
Sunderland's boss Gus Poyet admitted his fellow Uruguayan Luis Suarez would be delighted with the result - and the Black Cats now have to face Chelsea away at the weekend.
Poyet said: "We got a point and now I'm sure all the players are believing they can get at least that if they play the same way at Chelsea.
"We are playing for ourselves - we are not playing for Liverpool. Maybe we helped them, and I am sure that Luis Suarez is going to be happy tonight because there is one team less."
Poyet did rue City's late equaliser - agonising for Vito Mannone who got a hand to the ball but saw it squirm over the line.
Poyet added: "It's one more blow. I tell you what, I'm testing my heart this year. Every week. I'm realistic and I'm not going to change now. We played a great game and took something from it.
"I thought for a few minutes we were going to get all three points, but we didn't because of an incredible moment again.
"I think everyone was expecting us to collapse and concede five or six, but we didn't. "We won't stop or give up because the players know how important it is for the fans and the club to keep going until the end."
Poyet also refused to be drawn on his own future, saying the speculation was just "stupidity".
He added: "There has been so much stupidity in the last two days about Sunderland that it's getting unbearable really. Apparently nobody talks about Sunderland apart from when we play against the top teams.
"Then everybody uses this time to talk stupidity and try to imagine things."


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Comic-con may be the first place that a lot of us will get to see Peter Jackson's The Hobbit in motion before we get closer to its December 14th release, but for now we'll have to settle for this new image of Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and Gandalf (Ian McKellen) on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. The magazine's annual Comic-Con issue also features interviews from Jackson and the actors. The story of The Hobbit, which will be split into two parts (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and December 13, 2013's The Hobbit: There and Back Again) tells the story of a younger Bilbo Baggins, before the adventures of his nephew Frodo (Elijah Wood) in The Lord of the Rings. Hit the jump to check out the cover image and to read some tidbits from Jackson and McKellen..
From EW comes these snippets of an interview with Jackson and McKellen. Jackson fielded a question about the differences in characters between the J.R.R. Tolkien novels and the films. Some characters never existed in the book and were created solely for the movie, ie Evangeline Lily's elf, Tauriel. Here's how Jackson put it:
"In the movie we want these characters to have story lines and a little more substance than they do in the book. Almost everything we're doing is from Tolkien somewhere, whether it's in the book or the subsequent development that wasn't published in The Hobbit itself."
McKellen also chimed in about the safety of your mind when watching The Hobbit on the big screen:
"A lot of people weren't even born when we were filming Lord of the Rings and only know the movies from watching them on DVD…. They'll see Middle-earth on the big screen in The Hobbit, and I guarantee there will be a lot of minds blown wide apart."
Sounds messy. Be sure to keep up with our continuing coverage of The Hobbit right here.


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Since last week, equity markets have erased most of 2018's gains. Equities got off to too strong and too fast a start in January and some sentiment indicators became overoptimistic. The market sell-off is, nevertheless, more systematic than fundamental. Investors' increasing fear of an end to the so-called Goldilocks environment is not justified and Candriam expects the supportive fundamental backdrop to prevail.
Since the end of last week, equity investors have been taking profit on their 2018 gains, initially because they feared the end of the Goldilocks environment, and especially an unexpected increase in US inflation. However, the real reason behind yesterday's US equity market flash crash was a technical sell-off, not an inflation scare, as witnessed by the bond-yield decline during the equity sell-off. It was the result of systematic selling and the buying-back of large short positions on the volatility index (Vix).
A much stronger-than-expected expansion only a few weeks ago, renewed US dollar weakness and rising commodity prices are just some of the many reasons to fear the return of inflation. After nearly a decade of uninterrupted deflationary surprises, the consensus view of below-trend inflation is getting hit. Candriam agrees with the Fed that US inflation is likely to move up this year.
The US cycle is the most advanced on the global scale – as testified by the unemployment rate – and the tax reform has injected an additional stimulus, leading perceptions to shift rapidly. Since end-November, US 10y bond yields – led by rising inflation expectations – have risen sharply. Nevertheless, US real yields have remained extremely low, constituting strong support for the economy and for equities.
Candriam envisions three scenarios for 2018-2019 in the US:
The US bond market finally acknowledges that there is no recession around the corner and quickly adjusts towards the projected path of three Fed fund hikes this year and another three in 2019. To some extent, rising bond yields are more in sync with rising equity values. Looking forward, we expect further normalisation, but no overshooting, as the US 10y bond yield could reach 3% in 2018, as implied by the strength of the expansion.
The fiscal reform induces firms to invest durably more (+10% both in 2018 and 2019) and productivity revives strongly. In this context, inflation remains tame and the Fed sticks to its plan. Profits are boosted and the stock markets continue to rise. Long-term rates move higher, as the potential growth rate rises and does not induce a slowdown in the economy.
Markets suddenly believe the Fed is behind the curve and start to fear an upsurge in inflation: long-term interest rates move up significantly, triggering a decline in the stock market. This fear is mainly based on inflation expectations, rather than on actual inflation data.
However, outside the US, there are few signs of inflationary pressures. In particular, the situation is very different in the Euro zone, as inflation is likely to converge only very gradually towards the ECB's 2% goal. The data published for the month of January confirmed the sluggish inflation trend, as the annual consumer price fell to 1.3% (core CPI at 1.0%). The upward movement in the currency over the past 12 months is easing tensions further.
There is no reason to question our fundamental scenario for the time being. Candriam still expects the Goldilocks environment to prevail throughout 2018 and fundamentals to remain supportive. Equities have become even more attractive following the recent correction. US equity markets are now trading at 17x 2018 earnings, while their forward price-earnings was still above 20x one week ago. In addition, strong earnings growth should remain supportive of equity market performance.
In this fundamentally sound market context, and although we might see a second wave of systematic sells, we are waiting for a stabilisation of market dynamics and looking for an attractive entry-point to further increase our equity exposure


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A New Orleans-style gallery that a local businessman hoped to build around a new downtown restaurant was rejected by city officials and by residents who spoke against the idea Monday night.
There will be no Bourbon Street in Sarasota.
A New Orleans-style gallery that a local businessman hoped to build around a new downtown restaurant was rejected by city officials and by residents who spoke against the idea Monday night.
The City Commission's decision came after many residents organized a campaign against the proposed gallery, overwhelming a few who spoke up for it.
Restaurant owner Chris Brown, who recently bought the building at 1400 Main St., former site of the Floribbean Restaurant & Lounge and Patrick's Restaurant, had asked the city Monday night to give its blessing to his plan before he went through the time and expense of pushing his design through the planning department. Downtown neighborhood groups said Brown told them he was planning to open a high-end steakhouse with the backing of a Chicago group that competes with the national Ruth's Chris chain.
To build a gallery around the building and open up more than 100 seats, Brown would need approval for an encroachment on the city's right of way, in addition to going through the usual city planning and development process.
He had come to the City Commission first to test the waters at City Hall, suspecting that he would face opposition from nearby residents.
He was right.
More than 20 residents opposed to the gallery addressed the commissioners, with several saying they feared an increase in noise from a restaurant with outdoor seating. But even more complained of what they saw as the gallery's unattractiveness.
"It's horrifying, a monstrosity, grotesque — let's say it's ugly," said Frank Brenner, who lives nearby on Central Avenue. "Kill this proposal in its tracks, and let it go no further."
But where some saw a monstrosity, others found a certain appeal. Sarasota resident Mary Ellen Kirkwood said she had loved the architecture of New Orleans when she lived there, and if the proposed gallery were akin to that, all the better.
"It would be beautiful," Kirkwood said. "I don't think there should be special rules and noise requirements applied to this restaurant. I think Main Street belongs to the entire city of Sarasota. Treat the man fairly, and please approve this development."
Brown did not appear at the meeting, but was represented by architect Chris Gallagher, who worked on the application and defended it Monday night.
Gallagher said that the city's code did not require Brown to get approval from the development review board, but he was aware of nearby residents' opposition. Taking the numerous complaints one by one, Gallagher sought to dispel them.
Rather than associate galleries with New Orleans, Gallagher said, it would be better to see how common they are around the U.S. "You will find them in resort communities," he said. "In Charleston, S.C., Mackinac Island, Michigan, Santa Fe, N.M., there are galleries. In Baldwin Park, outside Orlando."
In fact, Gallagher pointed out, old black-and-white photos of Sarasota show a downtown full of old-fashioned galleries.
As to the words "ugly," "grotesque," and other insults? "They pain me," Gallagher said, pointing to his career and other developments he has worked on, such as Citrus Square. "That's not what I'm about."
Brown can proceed to build on his own property. If he builds up to the property line, Gallagher said, the city code would actually require either an awning or a gallery.
"My client will have to make a decision about whether he wants to go through the public process again," he said.
It would be easier for Brown, he said, if the commission denied the encroachment, which had been Gallagher's idea.
That's just what the commission did. Commissioners Susan Chapman, Suzanne Atwell, and Vice Mayor Willie Shaw voted to deny the application for the encroachment, with commissioners Paul Caragiulo and Mayor Shannon Snyder voting the opposite. Caragiulo said he felt not enough was known about the plan to deny it.
But after more than an hour of public comments, Gallagher indicated that he and Brown had no appetite to pursue the encroachment further.
City officials had also been expected to decide on the future of the State Street garage, but delayed action until the commission's next meeting Oct. 21.
The city is obligated, through an agreement with developers of the stalled Pineapple Square project, to build a parking garage of at least 300 spaces by February 2015. City Attorney Bob Fournier told commissioners that he received a letter from the Pineapple Square developers raising legal issues, including a possible breach of that contract.
City staff proposed designs for the garage that vary from a relatively modest four-story structure with some retail space to a 10-story building with more room for condos or other private development. After some discussion of those options, and after the meeting had already been extended beyond its scheduled end at 9:30 p.m., commissioners voted unanimously to continue the discussion.


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Thinking about these ways of measuring consciousness makes me wonder if we are missing the point of consciousness.
Yes, one purpose of this exercise is to increase consciousness in general.But I think there are some overlapping ideas that are less advantageous to conflate with consciousness. I will say awareness is one because there are moments where you can be aware of multiple things at once, but it is only distracting for you to do so. So is consciousness only focusing on what is important as opposed to whatever else we could be aware of? In that sense, the measurement of depth creates ambiguity because it is measured by "how much" rather than "how little."If the point is to be aware of as much as possible, I don't think that is helpful. I would make the analogy of stretching and flexing a muscle. A muscle can't be stretched and flexed at the same time. I would say a balance is necessary between broad awareness and focus.
When we measure length [of consciousness], I again wonder what is the point? Is there a purpose to staying in any one place for longer than there is a purpose?
I'd like to take a sec to touch some of my own skepticism and uncertainty:There's all this talk about the "centers" - mental, emotional, physical... Each center is an "apparatus" or "mind" that dictates certain functions.A lot of people have chopped up the centers into various subparts. One system tells you that each center has its own intellect, emotion, and movement. Another system will tell you that the physical center (more often called the "moving center") has three parts: motor, instinct, and sex. Et cetera.I think this is kinda dodgy and hard to verify, especially since the centers are all working at the same time. If I want a healthy sandwich, is that intellect? emotion? body? a mix of all three, right? so how are these categories useful?The self is a funhouse mirror - if you go looking into your own mental processes through the lens that there are two centers, God and the Devil, you will be able to recognize your thoughts and behaviors as either belonging to God or the Devil. What you seek so shall you find. So how can any of these divisions be "real"?BUTWhat I think is key here is that we're trying to figure out where our thoughts come from.And through doing that, we're trying to develop something outside of those forces, which can moderate it.I used to think of emotions as these more or less automatic processes that get in our way. I saw the rational, logical mind is the real self we have to listen to. After all, of all the centers, the intellect seems the most under our control. So isn't that the self?But this line of self-observation illuminated to me the ways that my intellect is also mechanical, that it has its own needs which are sometimes in conflict with other parts of me. And if I focus on intellect, I become unbalanced. The consciousness we're working on is something outside of the intellect, something that can moderate it or make room for it as needed by the harmonious, combined self.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 19, 2017, 10:31:19 pmSo this all boils down to the (false) dichotomy that I am a meat machine, as you say, or I am not, as Kipling and Hemmingway say. The third option is that I am in fact a meat machine, but that one of the attributes of that meat machine is consciousness. The entire question is silly, because it's an observable fact that we are meat machines, but the fact that we question consciousness is an iron-clad proof of consciousness.So all of you fuckers are wrong, or at least not entirely correct.so, to clarify a littleThe OP's position -- that you're stuck in this meat machine, that consciousness is a lightbulb that appears above your head only occasionally, and only for a moment -- is not to denigrate you to mere meat. Nor am I saying that the meat machine is an illusion.I'm saying that most of us are stuck in routines, chasing physical needs, chasing emotional needs, chasing intellectual needs. And that I think that there's something else we can develop outside of that, another place (in an abstract sense) from whence behaviors can originate.I can think of times in my own life when that light shone brightly and it illuminated stuff that was invisible to me. Fight with a girl, go for a long walk, eventually when the emotional poison has run its course through my body, I can think clearly again, I can see the ways that I was a shithead. Or when I hit rock bottom in the job market, I had a long dark night of introspection and ultimately decided to make big changes in my life. In order to make those decisions I needed a certain perspective. That perspective was hidden until I detached from the routines I was running. The mind, the body, the emotions -- they are competing, but each of them has an incomplete perspective. With self-remembering, you can build a more complete picture, and operate based on that. There are lots of ways to cultivate that self-mastery. And it's not easy. You have to brace yourself for it like it's going to be a lot of work. The Fakir of India develop their self by transcending the body. Yoga also uses the body to develop awareness. In Zen, you learn to develop your awareness through control of the mind, sharpening its focus to a point. Monks work on self-mastery through control of their affections and emotions. But those are just a few of the methods. I am exploring a fourth way.
So this all boils down to the (false) dichotomy that I am a meat machine, as you say, or I am not, as Kipling and Hemmingway say. The third option is that I am in fact a meat machine, but that one of the attributes of that meat machine is consciousness. The entire question is silly, because it's an observable fact that we are meat machines, but the fact that we question consciousness is an iron-clad proof of consciousness.So all of you fuckers are wrong, or at least not entirely correct.
Oh yeah definitely! You can't escape that, and shouldn't. You can't just go about your entire life with awareness cranked all the way up. You self-remember, then you get distracted by something, and you're back into the habitual mind. And do you really want to be fully conscious while doing boring repetitive work?I <3 Huckabees: The Ball ThingBut on the other side, there are entire weeks that go by where I'm just running mental routines--awareness is just a flickering pilot light. While you're in the habitual, you never ask yourself "Why am I doing this?" It seems like we only ask ourselves the BIG QUESTIONS after a tragedy. Why is that?in part, it's because the everyday has been BREACHED


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Long flimsy tunic in moss crepe by Gordon King. The tunic has a round neck, buttons down the front and also on the sleeves. Matching gauchos and turban, Black only. Approximately 13gns. Also available are knickerbockers at approximately 5gns. Sizes 10, 12 and 14 at Miss Selfridge and Fifth Avenue (all branches). Fake snake belt 25s at Fenwicks, New Bond Street, London, W1. Long coloured beads 15s by Rosita. Thick black tights by Echo. Two-tone canvas and patent lace-up shoes 69s 11d at Bata. Photo: David Stanford.
By Mary Quant, "Calamity Jane" in knitted wool, satin blouse and short suede waistcoat. Sizes 5-13 (fits up to about a 14), in purple, pink, camel, black or RAF blue. Approximately £26 7s at Peter Robinson Top Shop, Oxford Circus; Harvey Nicholls; Debenham & Freebody Phase One, Elizabeth Grey, Oldham; Darlings, Bath.
By Shelana, mauve and white Jacquard design jersey top with knickerbocker trousers. Tunic in pink or brown or white. Sizes 10-16. Approximately £11 at 2007, London and Manchester; Bentalls, Kingston, Worthing, and Ealing. Wet look cap by Edward Mann. Approximately 46s at Selfridges, Dickins & Jones (Rainwear departments). Long cream canvas boots, 6gns at Sasha. Leather mittens, approximately £3 15s at Pindisport shops. Puch ''camping'' bicycle, £32 9s. at E. Chamberlaine & Sons Ltd., 75 Kentish Town Road, London NW1. - Photo by Robin Laurance.
Long wide gauchos with matching fitted waistcoat in heavy linen. Various colours available. Sizes 8-14. Gauchos 3gns. Waistcoat £2 19s 6d. Printed silk blouse with wide sleeves and high collar £5 19s 6d. Leather shoulder bag £7 19s 6d. All at Biba, 124 Kensington High Street, London W8. Long canvas lace-up boots 7gns at Bata. - Photo by David Stanford.
By Gladrags, short battlejacket with poodle wool bodice, long jersey wool sleeves, belt and matching gauchos. Available in various colours. Sizes 7, 9, 11, 13, (fits up to 38in hip). Jacket approximately £8 10s. Gauchos £5 10s. (Not shown; plain jersey trousers 5½gns.; jersey trousers with the poodle wool design from the knee 6½gns.; zipped, belted bush jacket in poodle wool with jersey collar and cuffs £10 19s 6d; coat with jersey bodice, poodle wool skirt £17). At Harrods Way In; Debenham & Freebody Phase One; Image Bath; Ricky's, Beaconsfield; Bizarre, York. Black felt matador hat 48s. Wet-look gauntlet gloves in black or white. By Dents 30s. Both at Fenwicks, New Bond Street, London, W1. Lace-up grannie shoes 5gns. at Bata. Photo: David Stanford.
All images scanned by Sweet Jane from an original fashion feature in The Guardian, Tuesday August 18, 1970., with thanks to Kirstin Sibley. Photographs by Robin Laurance & David Stanford.


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Jessie J Hopes to Sing With Beyonce
Jessie J recently stopped by Capital FM studios in the U.K., and while there, the bubbly songstress dished on her next career move. Since she's still enjoying the success of her debut album 'Who You Are,' the number one item on Jessie J's professional agenda as of right now is to perform with Beyonce.
When asked about what her next career move will be, Jessie J didn't speak of recording a new album or hitting the road to perform more — Ms. J is a dreamer, so it comes as no surprise that she spoke of her dream collaboration, which is "to sing with Beyonce." They haven't spoken about singing together, although Jessie has met the very "nice" vocalist. (She hasn't met Blue Ivy, though, comically saying, "I've not met the baby. I think that that's their thing.") But now that the idea is out there, maybe Bey will accept this sort of proposal?
Beyonce doesn't tend to do a lot of collaborations with other pop songstresses (minus Lady Gaga), and usually gravitates to rappers for features to offset her sultry R&B vocals. However, Jessie J would make a good song partner for Beyonce, since she can belt it out with the best of them and has that edgy, soulful quality to her voice.
During her Capital FM interview, the adorable Jessie J, who revealed she now has arthritis in her left foot after breaking it last year, also dished on performing at the radio station's Summertime Ball on June 9, 2012.
"I can't wait," she gushed. "I'm looking forward to being sandwiched between Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. That's quite a good sandwich." She also spoke about sometimes getting teary-eyed during performances, saying, "I'm quite an emotional girl. I wear my heart on my sleeve." Additionally, Jessie J confirmed that she'd never date a fan because "it would get a little strange," adding that most of the people the openly bisexual songstress dates haven't heard of her.


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Alzheimer's disease over-diagnosed: The well-known disease of Alzheimer's disease is often over-diagnosed. Patients tend to assume that any memory loss or forgetulness symptom might be Alzheimer's, whereas there are many other less severe possibilities. Some level of memory decline is normal with aging, and even a slight loss of acuity may be noticed in the 30's and 40's. Other conditions can also lead a person to show greater forgetfulness. For example, depression and depressive disorders can cause a person to have reduced concentration and thereby poorer memory retention.
Dementia may be a drug interaction: A common scenario in aged care is for a patient to show mental decline to dementia. Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions, such as a stroke or Alzheimer's disease, it can also occur from a side effect or interaction between multiple drugs that the elderly patient may be taking. There are also various other possible causes of dementia.
Tremor need not be Parkinson's disease: There is the tendency to believe that any tremor symptom, or shakiness, means Parkinson's disease. The reality is that there are various possibilities, such as benign essential tremor, which is mostly harmless. see the various causes of tremor and misdiagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
Rare diseases misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease: A rare genetic disorder is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease for men in their 50's. The disease Fragile X disorder can show only mild symptoms in the early years, and Parkinsons-like symptoms around age 50. See misdiagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
Some of the causes, which may potentially be dangerous or fatal if left undiagnosed, may include:
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Re-marrying your partner can re-kindle your attraction, fan the flames of passion, and let you re-live your wedding day — one of the happiest and most romantic days of most people's married life. With today's divorce rate sky-high, anything that couples can do to strengthen their bond is a wise decision. I believe that it's only after you're married, that you can totally and truly appreciate your partner and the ways in which he or she challenges you to grow.
With that in mind, we decided to have a destination marriage-vow renewal at one of the world's most beautiful places: The Fairmont Kea Lani Resort & Spa in the upscale destination of Wailea, Maui. Kea Lani means Heavenly White, and its oceanside location on Polo Beach — a superb slice of sand — made the ideal backdrop for our ceremony — and our photos.
We were celebrating 12 years of marriage, 16 years together as a couple, and almost 20 years of knowing each other in total. Our special day started when Polly Xiong, the hotel's Catering and Convention Services Manager, visited our suite to give us a detailed overview of our vow renewal ceremony and to drop off my bouquet — a magnificent arrangement of purple orchids of several varieties, proteas, roses in white and hot pink, and calla lilies. (The hot-pink roses perfectly matchedmy nail polish.) At 4:30 Polly escorted us down to the Kea Lani's Pacific Terrace for a sunset Oceanside ceremony.
The fun started at 5 p.m. when Bill and I walked down the lawn fronting beautiful Polo Beach, which was strewn with a carpet of rose petals, with the islands of Lanai and Molokai in the distance. Our non-denominational officiant, Reverend Alapaki "Al" Terry, greeted us at the top of the flowered lawn path and embarked on a beautiful journey of words describing our marriage and our sacred union, including a recitation of marriage vows in Hawaiian, which we repeated after him. Our 18-minute ceremony included a lei exchange in which Bill presented me with a lovely tuberose lei — followed by the traditional three kisses — and I gave Bill a lei of green maile leaves. Reverend Terry spoke of the beauty of our marriage, and how blessed we are to have found each other. Bill and I also recited our own personal vows to each other, which we had written and rehearsed privately in order for our vow renewals to be a surprise to each other. Among other things, we promised to give each other a "happy childhood," and to make the most of every day together.
After this moving ceremony, we walked a few feet where a special table had been set up, holding sparkling cider for us to toast with, and a delicious strawberry cream cake that the hotel's pastry chef had specially baked for us. We toasted each other and posed for photos, which were shot by Maui photographer Mike Sidney. We were thrilled and delighted by the professional manner in which Mike posed us, instructed us how to place our hands, where to look, and basically prompted us for beautiful photographs — and unforgettable memories.
After that, we ditched our shoes, and followed Mike onto the Kea Lani's Polo Beach, where we walked in the water, posed among the rocks, and drew our names in the sand. What fun!
But the best was yet to come. When we re-entered our suite, we saw that the entire area was strewn with rose petals and plumeria flowers, which all led to our huge queen-sized bed in the bedroom. There, we found an ice bucket holding a bottle of sparkling cider, our newly signed marriage certificate, and a plate of chocolate-covered strawberries, along with a gift of fragrant bath salts.
We had a dynamite dinner in a private cabana at the Kea Lani's signature restaurant, Ko, which means "sugar cane" in Hawaiian. This distinctive restaurant is inspired by the diverse ethnicities of Portuguese, Filipinos and Chinese who live in Hawaii. Ko is in a league of its own, under the direction of executive chef Tylun Pang. Here you'll find exciting entrées such as macadamia shrimp with local lavender-honey sauce, macadamia-nut butterfish (the best we've ever eaten), and delicious mashed Molokai sweet potatoes.
After this romantic dinner, we retreated back to our room.
The Fairmont Kea Lani offers oceans of advantages for travellers, including all-suite accommodations with living rooms and small kitchenettes with sinks, coffee makers, microwave ovens and refrigerators; and villas with plunge pools. The villas also include a complimentary luxury rental car.
As we sipped our sparkling cider and nibbled on strawberries, Bill and I read a meditation entry from a book we read every night: The Couples Companion by Dr. Harville Hendrix, who made scores of appearances on the old Oprah TV show.
We vowed, again, to each other, to stay together on the journey, always and to count every day — not just vow-renewal day — as blessed and special. How lucky we are to have each other – not to mention those beautiful photographs as memories! As far as our love goes, those photos are the ultimate romantic souvenirs of our Maui trip.