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Spokane Weekend Wine Time June 18-20
Hey, you, sitting there in the bathrobe. Put down the bacon and the powdered donut and get busy! Busy with what you say? There is a lot of wine to taste and you only have a few days to do it. You work hard all week, you need to treat yourself to some liquid art! I suggest a cure for the cubicle, corporate and blue collar blues is a nice glass of purple pleasure! You can thank me later.
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- June 18-20 Spokane Symphony Best Fest: A fantastic three night event featuring the best of Spokane Symphony, wine, beer and ice cream. Tickets are available for each night and for the full three day event. www.spokanesymphony.org
- Friday: Best of the classics with wine tasting
- Saturday: Best of the stage and screen with brew fest
- Sunday: Centennial celebration of Father's Day with Brain Freeze ice cream
Take a tour of the local wineries. Most are open. Visit this link for hours, reviews, wine recommendations and more. http://drinknectar.com/2010/01/24/spokane-wine-tour/
- This week's highlight of places you may have never been is Nodland Cellars. Located in a little business park off of I-90 and Montgomery, Nodland produces small lot high quality wine. Most years, Tim and Tracy make just one red blend. It is a special wine.
Enjoy great local wine at The Davenport, Left Bank Wine Bar, Niko's Wine Bar
Friday, June 18
Friday, June 18 – Grape and Grain: Grape & Grain is a wine and beer tasting event, along with a silent auction that benefits the American Advertising Federation of Spokane. AAF Spokane puts on a number of events each year benefiting great causes like Project Share, TASC (Teens Against Substance Abuse), and more. Lincoln Center, $40 in advance. 13 local wineries and breweries are participating.
Music at Whitestone Winery: Enjoy music and the wine of Whitestone from 6-9pm at 111 S. Cedar. No cover
Vino Wine Shop: Mercer Estates Columbia Valley 3:00-5:30pm
Davenport Hotel: Live music from 8pm – midnight
Left Bank Wine Bar: Live music every Friday starting at 8pm, no cover
Rocket Market: 7pm Wines of Spain and Portugal (8 amazing wines, food, cheese, and bread) Reservations requested, $18 343-2253
Saturday, June 19
Angel Ball at the MAC: Join this great event to support the fight against Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes; 6:30 pm $25 per person
Vino Wine Shop: June Wine of the Month Club selections 2:00-4:30pm
Rocket Market: Saturday drop in tasting with Whitestone Winery 3-6pm; Stay for live music at 7pm from Matt Russell
Sunday, June 20
It's Father's Day!
Get out to a winery! – Always a handful of Spokane wineries open. Enjoy! (Trezzi, Robert Karl, Townshend, Lone Canary, and Caterina are open)
Arbor Crest Summer Concert Series – Singlewide 5:30 to dusk; $5 cover
On the Radar
- June 21: Ghetto Gourmand Mid-Summer Night's Dream – A food revolution is cooking in Spokane. Super exclusive, secret and limited engagement dinner parties with four course meals, music, art, performance and more. Get in on the underground!
- June 26: Soiree on the Edge – The Spokane Symphony is combining two of its most popular programs to create an exciting new event located on the stunning grounds of the historic Cliff House, home to Arbor Crest Wine Cellars.
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Bacon AND a powdered donut?? You must live a priveledge life to assume all of us are enjoying a breakfast of such lofty deliciousness. Or, maybe the standard of living in Spokane is just that much higher.
Hoping you'll have some of this Spokane juice in tow when you come down to Walla Walla, champ!


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LONDON: The return of the Premier League this weekend cannot come quickly enough for English fans still lamenting their national team's worst-ever World Cup showing. With the league's riches, global reach and non-stop drama, it remains England's projection of footballing power.
But as the waning impact of English sides in Europe last season demonstrated, the Premier League's allure remains under threat from Spain. Gareth Bale left Tottenham for Real Madrid last year, and the new season begins with Luis Suarez at Barcelona rather than Liverpool.
Liverpool cashed in around $130 million for the Uruguay striker, who is banned from football until the end of October for biting an opponent at the World Cup in Brazil. But Liverpool is now without the player who led the club to a rapid return to the elite, and the Premier League marketing machine is without one of its most recognizable names.
Replenishing the Liverpool squad with a trio of players from eighth-place Southampton at a cost of $80 million doesn't seem the obvious way of turning last season's second-place finish behind Manchester City into a first championship since 1990. The 27-year-old Suarez, whose 31 goals earned him the player of the year titles, has been replaced by 32-year-old Southampton striker Rickie Lambert, who played just three minutes for England at the World Cup.
"(Suarez) left Liverpool after his time as a world-class talent," Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said. "But we will move forward."
Manchester United seems more likely to make a big jump forward than Liverpool. Louis van Gaal has replaced David Moyes, who took over from Alex Ferguson as manager last season but wilted in the Old Trafford spotlight as the team fell from champions to seventh place.
Moyes arrived a year ago without a trophy to his name, but Van Gaal already has an aura of authority gained from years at Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. He also led the Netherlands to a third-place finish at the World Cup last month. With United out of the Champions League for the first time since 1995 — and out of Europe completely — the 63-year-old Dutchman can focus on returning United to the top four.
"He'll find the competition in this league will be different to any other league that he's worked in," Rodgers said. "This is a league where the top team plays the bottom team and on any given day you can lose."
Van Gaal has set about repairing a squad he described as imbalanced and "broken" in a summer that has seen veteran defenders Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic leave and Ryan Giggs retire.
United spent about $90 million on signing Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao and teenager defender Luke Shaw from Southampton, which has seen an exodus of players to rival clubs and manager Mauricio Pochettino leave to take over at Tottenham.
Dithering in last summer's transfer window contributed to United's unexpected fall. The unwillingness of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger to spend early in previous off-seasons has contributed to title challenges collapsing since 2004. Jolted by the failure to claim the trophy last season — finishing fourth after spending more time at the top than any rivals — Wenger seized the chance in July to take Chile striker Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona for $60 million.
Wenger opens the season without the burden of failure, having ended a nine-year trophy drought in May by winning the FA Cup. Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski went on to become World Cup winners with Germany, but must now swiftly return to the Arsenal fold.
"It always makes it difficult mentally to be sharp and hungry straightaway again," Wenger said.
It is a challenge Manchester City must also confront in trying to defend its second title in three years. By winning the Premier League and League Cup, City enjoyed its most successful season since 1970, but only sustained success will confirm the Abu Dhabi-bankrolled team as England's new force.
While City hasn't made any headline-grabbing additions, goalkeeper Willy Caballero, midfielder Fernando and defender Bacary Sagna should add depth to make a greater impact in the Champions League.
Few managers have been as shrewd as Jose Mourinho over the summer. He has generated $115 million for Chelsea by offloading out-of favor defender David Luiz to Paris Saint-Germain and striker Romelu Lukaku to Everton. Raising cash to reinvest in the squad was vital after Mourinho ended his first season back at Stamford Bridge empty-handed, unable to replicate the glory years of 2004-07.
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas was enticed to join Chelsea from Barcelona rather than returning to Arsenal, striker Diego Costa and defender Filipe Luis were bought from Atletico Madrid, and 36-year-old Champions League winner Didier Drogba is making a crowd-pleasing return to the Blues.
"Why I like the Premier League so much is that at this moment, nobody knows who is going to win the title," Mourinho said.
The favorites to be relegated are the newly-promoted trio. Leicester is back after a decade away, Burnley returns after a five-year absence and Queens Park Rangers won promotion after one season out of the top flight. The three will earn $100 million-plus from the league even for finishing at the bottom, a windfall that highlights the Premier League's status as the world's richest football competition.
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What do Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Joel Coen and Spike Lee have in common? They were all winners at the First Run Film Festival, sponsored annually at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and the oldest continuous film festival in New York.
Now in its 71st year of premiering the work of some of the country's top student filmmakers, the festival kicks off with the announcement of the First Run Craft Award winners on Tuesday, April 2, through which students are awarded over $50,000 in cash awards presented by the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation.
Festival screenings take place Thursday, April 4 through Sunday, April 7, and will feature 131 advanced films, videos, multimedia, and animation projects by both graduate and undergraduate students.
Screenings are open to the public and will take place at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, located at 36 E. 8th Street in Manhattan. Screenings take place from 5:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Admission is $5; students with ID, $3. No tickets will be sold in advance. For more detailed information, call 212.998.1795; or visit www.firstrunfestival.com.
The festival will culminate in the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards and screening of the winning films. The screening will take place at Cantor Film Center on Thursday, Apr. 11 at 7 pm.
Each year, following First Run, the finalist films and videos are screened in Hollywood for industry professionals and the public. This year's Los Angeles showcase will be held June 6, 2013 at the Directors Guild of America.
Underwriting support for First Run Festival 2011 has been provided, in part, by a grant from the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation for the creation of 10 awards. They are, for both graduate and undergraduate divisions: 1st place, $10,000; 2nd place, $7,000; and 3rd place, $5,000. In addition, two Wasserman Awards for $2,000 each for Best Director and two King Awards for $3,000 each for Best Screenplay will be presented in the graduate and undergraduate divisions. A distinguished panel of judges representing the film industry will select the winners.
First Run is the debut venue for most Kanbar student films, and many will later go on to screenings at international film festivals, cable television, and Sundance. This year's entries range from traditional dramas and documentaries to experimental shorts and animation. Most are 15 minutes or more in length and are finished in video format with others completed in 35-mm. Coming of age stories chronicling the misadventures of youth and relationship-driven dramas predominate as well as comedic approaches to slice-of-life stories.
The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts provides an intensive and professional education in filmmaking. Approximately 150 graduate and 1,050 undergraduate film students pursue degrees in film and television production, photography, cinema studies, dramatic writing, and interactive telecommunications. Distinguished alumni of the Kanbar Institute include Joel Coen, Chris Columbus, Billy Crystal, Martha Coolidge, Ernest Dickerson, Amy Heckerling, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Brett Ratner, Nancy Savoca, Martin Scorsese, Susan Seidelman, and Oliver Stone, among many others.


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TEHRAN — Ahead of the start of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, an official in the Islamic republic called limiting uranium enrichment and diluting its stockpile the country's "most important commitments", state radio reported Sunday.
The comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman of Iran's atomic department, show how the government of moderate President Hassan Rouhani welcomes the deal, which begins Monday. International inspectors also already have arrived in Tehran, preparing for the government opening its facilities to them.
"Implementation of mutual commitments in the framework of the Geneva deal will begin from tomorrow," Kamalvandi said. "Under the agreement, suspension of 20 per cent enrichment of uranium — and the diluting of the current stockpile of enriched uranium — are the most important commitments of our country."
Iran struck the deal in November with the so-called P5+1 countries — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. Negotiators agreed to final terms of the deal January 13.
Under the agreement, Iran will limit its uranium enrichment to 5 per cent — the grade commonly used to power reactors. The deal also commits Iran to stop producing 20 per cent enriched uranium — which is only a technical step away from weapons-grade material — and to neutralise its 20 per cent stockpile over the six months.
In exchange, economic sanctions Iran faces would be eased for six months. Senior officials in US President Barack Obama's administration have put the total relief figure at some $7 billion.
During the six months, negotiations between Iran and the world powers would continue in hopes of reaching a permanent deal.
The West fears Iran's nuclear programme could allow it to build an atomic weapon. Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, like power generation and medical research.
On Saturday a team of international inspectors arrived in Tehran in preparation of beginning their inspections. They will visit Fordo, where Iran enriches its 20 per cent uranium, as well as its Natanz facility, which produces 5 per cent enriched uranium, to ensure the country complies with the deal.
Kamalvandi said Sunday that Iran will use centrifuges now producing 20 per cent enriched uranium to instead produce 5 per cent enriched uranium to comply with the agreement.
But suspicions remain high in both Tehran and Washington after decades of hostility dating back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran that ousted the US-backed shah dynasty. Rouhani, Iran's new reformist president, has reached out to the West, but must depend on support from Iran's top decision-maker, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for his initiatives amid criticism from hardline factions.
Hardliners in Iran have already called the deal a "poison chalice" and are threatening legislation to increase uranium enrichment. Meanwhile, US lawmakers have threatened to pass new sanctions legislation against Iran that would take effect if Tehran violates the interim nuclear deal or lets it expire without a follow-up accord.
Writing a post on his Facebook page Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reassured the world that the deal will begin on time.
"I am hopeful that implementation of the first phase will have positive results for the country and peace and stability in the region and the world while preparing the ground for essential talks on a final solution," Zarif wrote.


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And thanks to H&M, Christmas comes a bit early this year if you're into their new designer collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela. Warning, Margiela is not the typical fashion brand, and the line for H&M stands by that point.
Some might be a bit afraid of these looks, while others will flock to them like binders full of women. But that all depends on your taste, as these pieces will be available in 230 H&M stores and online starting Nov. 15!
And since this is the season of giving, Target and Neiman are donating $1M to the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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It seems like everyone's discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it's "secretly" "monetizing" — a fact unearthed when LLSocial revealed that the startup was using a service called SkimLinks in order to drive affiliate revenue from purchases that originated on Pinterest.
Some reporters (ourselves included) used this opportunity to imply that Pinterest had funded itself through affilate revenue for two years and then ditched the service after it received serious venture capital — provoking an interesting counterpoint article in the WSJ about "Pinterest's Rite of Web Passage—Huge Traffic, No Revenue."
The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal, admittedly not knowing the company's financials, takes issue with the WSJ, and postulates that Pinterest could rake in $45 million in annual revenue using affiliate links with its current traffic.
Madrigal's logic:
1)We know Pinterest is driving truly massive traffic to retail sites, by some accounts more than YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+ combined. It is, after all, a platform that's perfect for shopping!
2) We know Pinterest used SkimLinks to add affiliate links.
3) Affiliate links generate revenue.
Should this add up to chump change? Let's do the math just to get an order of magnitude estimate.
Commissions on sales for affiliate links vary widely, but they average around 5 percent. After SkimLinks cut, that'd be 3.75 percent (although SkimLinks says they can sometimes negotiate deals that would keep the percentage closer to the original number).
So, Pinterest has 10 million users. Let's say that the average across all of them is that they buy items valued at $10 in a month through affiliate links on Pinterest. That's $100,000,000 of sales for which Pinterest would get credit. That's $3.75 million in monthly revenue, or $45 million of annual revenue.
This runs counter to what we've heard about the actual amount of revenue brought in to Pinterest by SkimLinks, which was modest for an Internet company — between 10 to 20k a year according to one source. Using Madrigal's formula, this would represent somewhere between $300,000 – $615,000 in transactions coming through the service.
The truth is that the use of SkimLinks on Pinterest was more a question of the analytics it provided than any serious effort at monetization. Word on the street is that EVERYONE in the Valley passed on Pinterest when it was raising initial capital, something that wouldn't have happened if it had indeed already discovered a viable business model.
The story of Pinterest right now is exactly what it looks like; It really is "hot startup gets venture funding, uses it to scale" not "startup hides the fact that it's already profitable." And with its kind of scale (and coffer) it could be losing a million dollars a month and still be a good bet.
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"That's when I came in and helped Mom and I took over one of the skeeball lanes. I took tickets and kept score and gave out prize tickets and handed out the little animal erasers to the kids when they missed and everything. And I did it the whole time. The balls were going everywhere and kept going off the lanes and under the booth and outside in the alley and we would have to go get them and do it fast. We were sweating from how hot it was outside so dad brought us ice drinks."
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The Annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. This year, due to engagements in Durango Colorado, I skipped the opening weekend October 2nd and 3rd. I was able though to catch the final Morning Glow, and Farewell Mass Ascension of October 10th. Southward Winds this morning prevented the famous "Albuquerque Box" from forming over the field, so the balloons quickly drifted towards ABQ and out of sight. Even with these conditions, the event was nonetheless spectacular.Read More


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Lawmakers: 'Redskins' is insulting
Two lawmakers are calling for the National Football League to back a name change for the Washington Redskins, saying the name is offensive to Native Americans.
"Saying the Washington football team 'honored Native Americans' perpetuates a charade that dishonors Native people and their governments and erodes the reputation of the National Football League," wrote Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Indian Affairs Committee, and Rep. Tom Cole, member of the Native American Caucus, in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell obtained by The New York Times.
"We believe that the fact that this term does not honor — but rather disparages — Indian people and tribes is what will and should guide federal policymakers," they wrote in the letter, which they plan to send Monday.
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The letter raises the teams status as a tax-exempt organization, saying that it is "not appropriate" for a tax-exempt group to "perpetuate and profit from the continued degradation of tribes and Indian people."
It also mentions that the Patent and Trademark Office recently determined that the term "redskin" was a "derogatory slang term."
"The National Football League is on the wrong side of history," the lawmakers concluded.
In response to the letter, a spokesman for the team wondered if Congress has "more important issues" to occupy its time. "With all the important issues Congress has to deal with, such as a war in Afghanistan to deficits to health care, don't they have more important issues to worry about than a football team's name?" Tony Wyllie wrote in an email to the Times.


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The mission of INROADS is to identify under represented / under served talent, develop their leadership capabilities, and equip them with the tools to deliver value in their careers.
Celebrating over four decades of excellence.
It's no secret that for years, people of color — Blacks, Hispanic/Latinos, and Native American Indians — were noticeably absent from the ranks of corporate North America. By June of 1970, it was time to make a change.
It was at that time that Frank C. Carr, our late founder, planted the seeds for what INROADS has become today. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark "I Have a Dream" speech, Frank quit his executive-level corporate day job and committed to taking swift and decisive action to increase ethnically diverse employees in corporate management in the U.S., and to help change the way these candidates gained entry into the business world.
Moonlighting evenings as a computer tape disk operator, Frank spent his days creating INROADS by calling in favors from his former corporate colleagues and setting out to cultivate new partnerships. The INROADS mission that Frank advanced was — to develop and place talented minority youth in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership.
Frank launched INROADS in his hometown of Chicago with just 25 college student Interns and 17 sponsoring corporations. Today, INROADS is an international organization with over 28 offices serving nearly 2,000 Interns at over 200 companies.
There are three keys to success for INROADS students: Selection, Education & Training, and Performance. For over four decades, INROADS has helped businesses gain greater access to diverse talent through continuous leadership development of outstanding ethnically diverse students and placement of those students in internships at many of North America's top corporations, firms and organizations.
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He might have also enjoyed knowing of his own contribution to the Washington Monument. For more than a century, a system of lightning rods has protected it from the strikes it gets, on average, once a year.
The monument will be under a sheath of scaffolding until next spring. The National Park Service is cleaning the marble and making general repairs. Although it will replace the lightning rods, it will make no improvement on Franklin's invention. The new rods, in fact, will be closer to those of Franklin's time.
The Army Corps of Engineers installed the sytem in the 1880s, during the second phase of construction. The copper rods have a coating of gold, which protects the marble from stains, and tips of platinum.
"The platinum was excessive," said Steve Lorenzetti of the Park Service. "We believe it was put there because they thought it would better withstand a direct strike. But we've found that a copper rod will do the job just as well. We're keeping the copper and gold coating."


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"Look at this! How really weird," I exclaimed to a colleague. We were standing on the tilted deck of an old, wrecked merchant ship partly submerged off the coast of Papua New Guinea, near the capital city of Port Moresby. At my feet, a hundred or more sea snakes lay on the rusty deck, some stretched out side by side, others in tangled clusters. All were more or less still. Yellow-lipped sea kraits they were (Laticauda colubrina), their two- or three-foot-long bodies dressed in alternating bands of gray-blue and black. It wasn't their aggregation on dry land, as it were, that surprised me—sea kraits are amphibious and known to gather in large groups occasionally. But, like shipwrecked sailors, nearly all of them appeared emaciated, and I could not imagine the reason. It would be more than passing strange for so many in a single population to be unable to find enough fish to eat.
That was in 1975. In the intervening decades I've replayed the scene in my mind now and then, each time returning to the question: what was wrong with those sea snakes? In hindsight, and with the benefit of additional research into sea snake physiology, I'm almost certain it wasn't hunger plaguing them. Although surrounded by the vast waters of the Pacific Ocean, they were most likely severely dehydrated. They might even have been early harbingers of climate change.
Of the myriad and diverse creatures of the sea, most evolved right there in the saltwater. But a handful of them, including sea snakes, are secondarily marine, having evolved from terrestrial ancestors. The evolutionary transition from one medium to another is difficult, and the switch from air on land to seawater presents special problems.Chief among them is obtaining enough water to stay properly hydrated: the high concentration of salts in seawater poses a challenge to maintaining the less-salty body fluid that most terrestrial organisms and their marine descendants possess.
Ancient mariners learned that we humans become seriously dehydrated if we drink seawater (an act called "mariposa"). Our kidneys cannot concentrate urine sufficiently to conserve enough water while eliminating the excess ingested salt. Marine mammals, by contrast, can excrete more concentrated urine than ours, and they have digestive-system adaptations that enable them to extract the maximum liquid from their food. As a result, marine mammals have no need for freshwater. It remains unknown whether they, and most other marine vertebrates, drink seawater directly.
Marine birds and reptiles have come up with a different solution for eliminating excess salt: specialized glands that secrete concentrated fluids of sodium chloride, the principal salt constituent of seawater. Desert animals, too, are subjected to osmotic stresses, and some excrete potassium salts as well. The list of species known to possess salt glands includes desert birds and reptiles, along with seabirds, marine turtles, the marine iguana, some crocodilians, sea snakes, and terrestrial reptiles living in coastal zones. In marine birds and iguanas a salt gland near each eye excretes through the nostrils; in marine turtles the gland is in the eye socket and excretes salty tears; crocodilians have salt glands in the tongue; and sea snakes have them beneath the tongue.
Salt glands have been studied almost exclusively in the laboratory, largely by infusing excess salt into an animal—either intravenously, or by pumping saltwater into the stomach—and demonstrating that salt glands secrete highly concentrated salt solutions in response. But there is little information concerning when and how effectively salt glands work in free-ranging animals. Physiologists have assumed that animals possessing salt glands are able to maintain water balance by excreting excess salts ingested in salty substances, such as marine prey or seawater—no freshwater required. It has been standard textbook dogma, for example, that sea snakes drink seawater and, in essence, distill it with their salt glands. But there is always drama in science, and my recent work shows that at least some sea snakes' salt glands are insufficient to that task, and their water balancing act more complicated than expected.
In the 1990s, my colleagues and I studied an unusual marine reptile called the little file snake (Acrochordus granulatus). It is the sole marine species in the file snake family, the Acrochordidae, which also contains two freshwater species. The file snakes are only distantly related to the group herpetologists call sea snakes, which includes the sea kraits. Through a series of observations and experiments, we discovered that the little file snake not only drinks freshwater but requires it to maintain water balance. Most populations of little file snakes live in tropical southern Asia among mangroves or in other nearshore marine habitats. They spend their entire lives in seawater, where they can potentially dehydrate despite possessing a functional salt gland.
We further demonstrated that little file snakes eliminate much of their nitrogenous waste in the form of ammonia or ammonium rather than uric acid, as terrestrial reptiles typically do. That is important because the ammonia—a product of protein metabolism—is highly toxic and cannot be allowed to accumulate in body fluids. Nor can it be concentrated or precipitated, as uric acid can be, and it requires comparatively more water to eliminate via the kidneys. Thus the high protein load of the little file snakes' diet of fish exacerbates their need for freshwater. Indeed, little file snakes that are partly dehydrated cease to eat, presumably to conserve water that they would otherwise expend ridding the body of ammonia.
The unexpected freshwater requirement of marine file snakes piqued my curiosity about how sea snakes manage to stay hydrated—particularly in light of that oddly emaciated group on the Port Moresby wreck. Whereas the little file snake is the only marine species in its family, sea snakes have diversified considerably in the sea. Scientists recognize about sixty species in two distinct lineages. The taxonomy is somewhat in dispute, but here, for simplicity, I'll follow a popular classification that regards those two lineages as subfamilies within the family Elapidae. Sea snakes are thought to have evolved from terrestrial elapids, which today include cobras, land kraits, coral snakes, and numerous other venomous species in Australia. The subfamily Hydrophiinae contains more than fifty sea snake species that are entirely marine. A few are pelagic, but most live near shore, and they all give birth to live young in the water. The subfamily Laticaudinae contains another seven species, all in the genus Laticauda and called sea kraits. The group is amphibious: sea kraits come ashore to rest and to lay eggs in moist, rocky places along the seashore.


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When someone first shows me how they're using SharePoint I look for a sure sign whether they understand and have implemented the SharePoint paradigm to document management—I look for a folder. Granted using an occasional folder here and there is not the end of the world and doesn't prove someone doesn't know how to use SharePoint effectively. But if folders are used in a similar fashion to one's hard drive it is indicative in a lack of understanding.
This isn't entirely the fault of the end users mind you. Often they are simply thrown SharePoint without a thorough understanding of how to leverage it effectively. The end user simply starts uploading and managing documents they way they've known on the file share and/or their local hard drives. The solution to the problem is found in proper and complete training.
Let's take a look at the major reasons to avoid folders in document libraries.
Improved Findability
If you've ever tried to traverse someone else's folder structure looking for a document you know what a terrible experience it is. We often end up frustrated and still without what we set out to find. Often folder titles take on something meaningful to the original user, but even when using a standard template to folders it still becomes difficult to find documents.
Using a single Documents library that comes out of a new SharePoint site does little to explain the information contained therein. Users then look at this single document folder as the root to an endless array of folders. The better approach would be to separate out your documents into multiple document libraries with titles more indicative of their contents. It also provides a better solution for your quick launch navigation in finding the information.
Content Type Effectiveness
Content Types are the backbone of categorizing and rolling up data in SharePoint. Content Types are limited to applying only to an entire document library so if you wanted to limit a content type to appear or not appear on a folder level isn't easy nor is in intended to do so. Content Types are made for the document library and should be a representation of the data within the library. Remember that a folder is also a SharePoint content type, and putting documents within folders limits their ability to be surface through methods such as the Content Query Web Part (as you wouldn't query all documents inside of the folder Content Type).
The Reasons for Views
Views in SharePoint provide the alternative to viewing data within a library without the use of folders. They are based largely on metadata set on the documents from (usually) the Content Types. When adding folders it renders views in SharePoint ineffective. Views provide powerful ways to view data and switch them quickly and easily. I wish more and more I had views and metadata instead of folders in my local computer.
Another big reason to not use folders is the way SharePoint handles security. You'll notice that security is done on the list level. You can set permissions on a folder which seems like a good solution, but it's only temporary. As your sites grow it turns into an administrative nightmare to manage all your disparate security settings. The best way is to use the groups for security on the list which inherit on up the site collection, and when you need to aberate you can do so in a cleaner fashion.
This is a small sampling of why folders aren't the best method in SharePoint document libraries. While not exhaustive it provides a basis for using the powerful paradigm presented in SharePoint to collaborate and share documents inside of SharePoint.


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Dear lazyweb,
I've been reading about what the rest of the world seems to be calling "quantified self". In essence, it is tracking of personal data like activity, usually with the goal of data-driven decision making. Or to take a less abstract common example: counting the number of steps you take each day to motivate yourself to take more. I wish it'd been given a less annoying woolly name but this one seems to have stuck.
There are a couple of interesting devices available that track sleep, activity and overall health. Probably best known are the FitBit and the jazzed-up armband pedometers like the Jawbone UP and the Nike Fuelband. Unfortunately all existing devices seem to integrate with cloud services somehow, rather than giving the user direct access to their data. Apart from the usual privacy concerns, this means that it is hard to do your own data crunching or create a dashboard that contains data from multiple sources.
Has anybody found any devices that don't integrate with the cloud and just provide raw data access?Go Top


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CNNMoney webmaster Belinda found Spotify sharing much more than she intended in Facebook's ticker -- and cutting the updates off to protect privacy was tricky.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Go install streaming music app Spotify on Facebook. Now brace yourself for a flood of comments and quips about your musical tastes -- including the track you fired up just seconds ago.
One week after Facebook rolled out major changes across its website, users are starting to wrap their heads around just how much data the site's new "social" apps broadcast. The answer: Everything.
Every track you listen to on Spotify. Every story you read on Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) News. Every video you watch through "Hulu on Facebook."
Those running updates show up in three places. First, they scroll through Facebook's new real-time Ticker, a column of short news blasts. Some of the updates show up in your friends' News Feed pages. Finally -- and most dramatically -- they have a featured spot on the new Timeline page that will soon replace Facebook's existing Wall and Profile pages.
Right now, only developer accounts and some early adopters have Timeline pages, but Facebook plans to roll the Timeline feature to all of its 800 million users in the coming weeks. When it does, members could be surprised by just how detailed their updates get.
For example: Reading an article on Yahoo.com sends an update back to Facebook if you have the "social sharing" feature turned on. E-book reader Kobo is readying "Kobo Pulse," an app that will broadcast what you're reading every time you fire up a book.
What if you don't want to share?
"We think that there will be a class of apps and a number of verticals that are designed around being social," says Carl Sjogreen, Facebook's director of product management. "If you don't want to use it in a social web, don't use that app. The entire purpose is to share with your friends."
Spotify is the most extreme example of the looming forced-sharing trend. The company moved this week to require new users to sign in with a Facebook account. If you don't want to use Facebook, you can't use Spotify.
"We already use Facebook as part of our backend to power our social features and by adopting Facebook's login, we've created a simple and seamless social experience," a Spotify representative said.
Spotify notes that you can adjust your preferences and sever the Facebook sharing connection. But that requires rooting around in settings -- by default, users are opted in.
That sparked a quick backlash.
"You've lost my trust, so for now I'm keeping my Spotify account and Facebook account separate," one user wrote on Spotify's blog.
"I stupidly agreed to the new changes which publish every song I listen to at the top of everyone's news feed," another wrote. "After realizing I don't want this to happen any more, I've tried to revert back to just being able to see my Facebook friends at the side of Spotify so I can look at their playlists and they mine, but it's impossible."
That complaint hits the nail on the head: Most of these privacy settings can be adjusted, but it's not intuitive. (Early Thursday morning, Spotify responded to users' critcism by adding a "Private Listening" mode that temporarily stops transmitting your playlist. The setting lasts until you next log in.)
Facebook has left it up to each individual app maker to set their own privacy defaults -- which means Facebook users can't set one global "do this for all my apps" policy.
By default, most apps of the new social apps choose to broadcast your movements quite broadly. For example, take the Guardian's new social news app. If you install the app without customizing anything, it will broadcast what you're reading to anyone in your "friends and networks" list -- which means people who aren't on your friends list, but share a "network" like your workplace or college, can see what you've read through the Guardian's app.
Want to broadcast your reading choices to absolutely no one? That option isn't available as a one-click setting. Getting there requires a kludge: On the app's "this activity is visible to" list, choose "Custom." That brings up another drop-down list: "Make this visible to." Choose "Only Me" -- but don't forget to also uncheck all the networks that are listed.
To make changes to the settings on apps you're already using, click the "Home" button on the top of Facebook's page, and choose "Privacy Settings." Then click "Edit Settings" for "Apps and Websites" -- and be prepared to root around in the settings for every single app you have installed.
Making things even trickier: Each app maker sets their own policies on where and how they choose to track your actions.
"App developers can decide what activity they want to publish -- for example song or album names in a music app, or the food you recommend in an app like Foodspotting," Facebook said in a written statement. "They can also offer a control right in the experience to turn sharing on and off. When first installed, apps explain what time of activity will be shared and how it will appear on Timeline."
For example, Hulu only broadcasts messages about the videos you watch through its "Hulu for Facebook" application. It doesn't currently send back to Facebook messages about what you watch on Hulu.com.
But Spotify sends out Facebook status messages about the songs users stream through its desktop and mobile apps. Likewise, Yahoo takes the approach that its website is the app. Go to its Facebook app page, click "Go to App," and you'll be redirected on to Yahoo.com. Link your Facebook account up and every story you read on Yahoo.com will show up in the Facebook Ticker unless you switch your "Social" setting to "off."
This is by design. It's exactly how Facebook wants the Web to work.
"We think this is going to make it so that you can make an order of magnitude more connections than you could before," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said at last week's f8 developer gathering.
Media apps -- TV, movies, music, news and books -- are just the first step.
"The next is what we call lifestyle apps. They're apps for helping you keep track of and expressing all kinds of different things about your life. Your runs, your bike rides, your cooking and eating, your sleeping, your happiness, your fashion -- anything you want."
What if you don't want? There's one surefire way to stop all the sharing: Delete your Facebook account.
To turn your account off, go to the "Home" menu at the top of Facebook and click "Account Settings." From there, click "Security" and then "Deactivate your account."
But even that won't wipe out your account data. Facebook keeps it saved in case you change your mind and want to come back.
To drop the nuclear bomb on your Facebook account and obliterate it for good, you have to use Facebook's "Delete My Account" form and submit a special request.
Do that, though, and you'll be swimming against the tide. Even as its privacy issues grow thornier and more complex, Facebook's audience keeps expanding.
That's another stat Zuckerberg dropped into his f8 speech: Just last week we had a pretty cool milestone at Facebook. For the first time ever, in a single day, we had half a billion people use Facebook."
All 500 million of them are about to start doing a whole lot more sharing -- whether they realize it or not.
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Ah, the Coachella Music Festival, where folks flock to the desert and pay big bucks to pretend they're at Woodstock! Over the weekend, High School Musical sweetheart/Disney juggernaut Vanessa Hudgens attended the event with boyfriend Josh Hutcherson (from The Kids Are All Right). Vanessa, clad in ridiculously low-slung pants and a floppy felt hat, was spotted sticking her finger into a bag of something white, and then putting said finger in her mouth.
A 22-year-old high-profile celebrity at a crowded public event — fresh off of a nude photo scandal — wouldn't really do cocaine in broad daylight, would she? We don't know what this is. Is it even powdery? Does it look kind of…creamy?
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Whatever it is, it came from a small baggie. Maybe it's not coke! It's entirely possible that California starlets are hooked on packets of sugary icing from Toaster Strudels. Mmm, icing.
[Photos via Pacific Coast News Online.]


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Source: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Scientists do, however, have some ideas. And at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists last week, one group led by Issaku Ueda described laboratory experiments with fireflies and goldfish that support one leading theory about general anesthesia's molecular actions. And if this explanation holds true, it could lead to anesthetics with fewer side effects and better drugs for bringing patients back up out of anesthesia-induced sleep.
Ueda and his colleagues at the University of Utah-Salt Lake City performed a series of experiments building on the observation--first made in 1942--that an increase in hydrostatic pressure can reverse anesthesia's effects. In particular, they set out to test the implication that under anesthesia, individual protein molecules in the brain somehow become larger than normal and that shrinking them rouses a person awake again.
Source: after UEDA et al.
To do so, the group initially examined luciferase--the same chemical that makes fireflies light up. Using calorimetry and spectroscopy, they calculated how the luciferase enzyme responded physically to anesthetics and found that it was extraordinarily sensitive. The anesthetics relaxed the molecules, making them expand in size. In contrast, myristic acid--a fatty acid common in many foods--tightened them back up. "Without volume expansion," Ueda explained, "anesthesia does not ensue." Thus, they concluded that the increase in protein size was most likely responsible for anesthesia's powers.
More recently, they re-tested the opposite theory--that shrinking proteins reverses anesthesia--in living subjects. Instead of using hydrostatic pressure, though, Ueda and his co-workers exposed anesthetized goldfish to myristic acid. First they bubbled the anesthetic gas halothane into four jars of goldfish. One jar contained plain water; three others contained water and varying concentrations of the fatty acid. And after 30 minutes, they gauged how unconscious the goldfish were by stimulating them with a weak electrical current.
In the tank with the highest levels of myristic acid, more goldfish started swimming after the shock--suggesting that they were more recovered from the dose of halothane. And in other tanks, fewer and fewer fish responded as the concentrations of myristic acid decreased. This steady correlation seen across the four tanks only further confirms the idea that anesthesia works its magic by expanding protein volume in the brain.
The researchers plan to continue investigating myristic acid and possibly other similar substances in the lab. The ultimate goal is developing drugs to reverse general anesthesia quickly and safely--so that patients recovering from surgery do not have to simply wait for the residual grogginess to wear off. These medications could also help treat malignant hyperthermia, a rare but sometimes fatal reaction to anesthesia.


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A 17-pound, 6-ounce northern snakehead snagged by a Virginia man has been certified a world record catch of the invasive species some call "Frankenfish."
The monster was hauled in by Caleb Newton in Aquia Creek on June 1.
The International Game Fish Association confirmed the record catch, The Free Lance-Star reported Wednesday. It beat a 17-pound, 4-ounce snakehead caught in Japan in 2004.
"His record has been approved and we'll be sending the certificate later this week, or early next week," said Jack Vitek, world-record coordinator for the Florida-based IGFA.
Newton, 27, was fishing with a friend in a tournament when he hooked the monster. "It took me about a minute to get it in the boat," the Spotsylvania County plumber said after the catch.
The 3-foot-long fish barely fit in his cooler.
The snakehead is native to China, Korea and Russia. It can breathe air, survive on land and adapt and thrive in foreign environments.
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It was first discovered in a Maryland pond in 2002 and since then has spread into several Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Some have dubbed it "Frankenfish" for its fearsome appearance and adaptability.


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A loud boom rings outside as a battle sorcerer sets off a magical entourage of spells pointed towards the trainees. In the wonderful city of , the training facility for the Greate army is in full swing. Thankfully, the new members of the elite platoon had already finished the intensive boot camp course. Today is the day that they will meet their commanding officer. And they were late.
Jordhel sat in the meeting room, watching the timekeeper. As the water moved up and down the apparatus, it powered the timekeeper and kept it running. And it told Jordhel that they were all, for one reason or another, twenty minutes late, and he hated waiting. Jordhel had been opposed to the idea of bringing in mercenaries to join an "elite†platoon in the army, but his superior officers thought it would be best. They told him that there were many very strong fighters in the world, but they did not want to join the army because they didn't want to be paid so little for their services. As far as Jordhel was concerned, they just wanted money, regardless of whether they had to kill an innocent or open a gateway to the devil planes. Greedy bastards.


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Isner, Querrey to play Davis Cup singles for US
John Isner and Sam Querrey will join Bob and Mike Bryan on the U.S. team to play Brazil in the first round of Davis Cup World Group matches from Feb. 1-3.
U.S. captain Jim Courier announced the team in a statement Wednesday from Melbourne, where he is working at the Australian Open. The match against Brazil, the first tie at home for the U.S. team since the 2011 quarterfinals, will be played on an indoor hard court at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.
Isner pulled out of the Australian Open with a right knee injury, while Querrey lost in the third round.
The Bryan brothers, the Olympic doubles gold medalists, won their quarterfinal match Wednesday at the Australian Open.
According to the USTA, Brazil has announced its team as singles players Thomaz Bellucci and Thiago Alves, and Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in doubles for its first World Group tie since 2003.
The winner of the match will face either Serbia or Belgium in the quarterfinals from April 5-7.


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Homemade gift series: handmade ornaments
Use cookie cutters to create homey ornaments for your tree, around the house, or to attach to other gifts.
This year, we decided to make a big batch of handmade Christmas tree ornaments for our home, just to make some "homey" Christmas items to decorate with. We decided to make them in the style of Christmas sugar cookies, with dough that would harden and look roughly like such cookies.
As we were making them, though, Sarah had the brilliant idea of making extras and giving them away as "add-ons" on some of the gifts we'd already made. "We could just put a ribbon through them and tie that ribbon around a jelly jar," she suggested, referring to the jellies and jams we had already made for gifts.
Sounds like a good idea to me!
The ingredients for the dough are simple enough. One cup salt, two cups flour, five teaspoons of cinnamon, and 3/4 cup water (with maybe a bit more).
Mix the dry ingredients together, then add the water slowly. Mix it together until it forms a ball, like so.
If you find the ball to be crumbly, add a bit more water, a teaspoon at a time, and knead it between teaspoons. If you find it to be sticky, add a bit more flour, a teaspoon at a time, and knead it between teaspoons. Eventually, you'll find a happy medium – not too sticky, not too crumbly. That's just what you want.
A note on the cinnamon: it's added mostly to give the "cookie" ornaments a cinnamon smell. I felt that the five teaspoons didn't give a very strong smell and if we were to make another batch of cookies, I would use at least ten teaspoons of cinnamon.
Once the dough is ready, wrap it up and put it in the refrigerator for thirty minutes to stiffen the dough. Then, roll the dough out to roughly 1/2″ thick (about 1.25 cm) – you can be approximate on this – on a lightly floured surface.
Use cookie cutters to cut the dough into shapes, then use a straw (or another device) to make a small hole on the top of the ornament shape. Then, bake until dry at 325 F – this usually takes about an hour. I recommend using parchment paper on top of a baking sheet to bake the ornaments.
We turned the leftover dough – the pieces between shapes that didn't quite amount to enough to roll out again – into candy cane shapes for our own use.
Most of our ornaments were snowflakes, which we chose (for the time being) not to paint. We could have painted them white, of course.
The kids painted several of the ornaments, which turned this into a bit of a family art project. They went pretty over the top with the colors, though, which means these will make good additions to our tree and perhaps the trees of their grandparents, but maybe not the trees of others…
After the ornaments were painted, we sprayed them with a matte finish sprayable varnish so they would keep for a long time. We then slipped ribbons through some of the holes to look at our finished ornaments.
One important thing to note – these ornaments are actually surprisingly sturdy. One was dropped from a height of six feet onto a hardwood floor and as it fell, we fully expected it to break into bits. It seemed almost completely unharmed by the drop, perhaps losing a tiny crumb.
We look forward to tying these onto some of the handmade gifts we give out this year – and we also look forward to putting some of the ornaments on our own Christmas tree.
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Ethan A. Huff
A significant health freedom victory has taken place in the European nation of Poland, where all plantings of Monsanto's MON810, a genetically-modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) that produces its own built-in Bt insecticide in every kernel, have been officially banned.
The decision comes after thousands of protesters recently took to the streets in demonstration of the undeniable fact that both MON810 and the chemicals applied to it are at least partially responsible for causing Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the worldwide phenomenon in which entire swarms of honey bees disappear or turn up dead.
"The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in Poland," said Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki, who also explained to the press that pollen from MON810 appears to be responsible for further devastating the already dwindling bee population throughout the country and elsewhere.
According to reports, Poland's decision to ban MON810 makes it the first nation to formally acknowledge that Monsanto's GM corn is definitively linked to CCD. It also affirms the findings of several earlier studies that have identified a link between Bt GM crops and bee deaths, including independent research conducted by Pennsylvania beekeeper John McDonald.
McDonald's research found that bees foraging near Bt crops did not gain the proper amount of weight, and failed to produce honey in their honey supers (honey storage bins) when they should have. Their non-Bt crop counterparts, on the other hand, produced more than double the amount of honey they needed to survive the winter (http://www.naturalnews.com/025287.html).
Back in early March, nine European countries — Belgium, Great Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, and Slovakia — successfully blocked an effort by the Danish EU presidency to allow expanded cultivation of GM crops in Europe. And around that same time, France imposed its own ban on MON810.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to forge ahead in the unmitigated, and largely unregulated, cultivation and use of GM crops. Despite countless grassroots efforts to put at least some restraint on GM agriculture, including a number of state initiatives that would require GMO labeling on food, Monsanto's products continue to dominate much of the American agricultural landscape.
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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A 22-year-old medical student suspected of killing a woman he may have met through a Craigslist online ad was arraigned Tuesday and will be held without bail.
Medical student Philip Markoff, 22, appears in court Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts.
Philip Markoff, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, listened intently but did not speak during the hearing in Boston Municipal Court. Dressed in a blue-striped shirt and slacks, Markoff was handcuffed and wearing leg irons.
His attorney, John Salsberg, told reporters after the hearing that Markoff is "not guilty of the charges. He has his family's support. I have not received any document or report or piece of evidence other than what I heard in the courtroom. All I have at the moment are words -- no proof of anything."
A woman identifying herself as Markoff's fiancee also maintained his innocence in an e-mail sent to ABC News. Megan McAllister said Markoff "is the wrong man" and "was set up."
"Unfortunately, you were given wrong information as was the public," McAllister wrote. "All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!"
She accused Boston police of "trying to make big bucks by selling this false story to the TV stations. What else is new??"
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley told reporters, "This was a brutal, vicious crime -- savage. And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them."
A procedural not-guilty plea was entered on Markoff's behalf, Conley said.
A Boston University spokeswoman said the school suspended Markoff, who has no criminal record, when it learned of the charges on Monday.
Markoff is charged with killing 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York on April 14 at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel. Evidence from the scene suggests that Brisman "put up a fight," prosecutor Jennifer Hickman said during the hearing Tuesday. Police said Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service.
She sustained blunt head trauma, Hickman said, and was shot three times at close range. One of those bullets passed through her heart, killing her, she said.
Markoff is also charged in connection with the robbery four days earlier of a woman at a Westin Hotel. In that case, the woman made arrangements to meet a man through Craigslist for a massage at the hotel, but was held at gunpoint and bound, Hickman said. She was robbed of $800 and personal items, and left tied to a door handle with duct tape over her mouth, Hickman said in court Tuesday. Police said earlier the Westin victim was 29. She was not identified.
Authorities believe the motive in Brisman's death was robbery, Conley told reporters, and she was killed during a struggle. In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said. Watch police say assailant has perused Craigslist ads »
Surveillance videos from the hotel where Brisman was murdered showed a tall, clean-cut young blond man in a black windbreaker leaving the property, according to Boston police, who sought public assistance identifying the man.
Police traced the Internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account opened the day before her death, Conley said. Using Internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in Quincy, Massachusetts, he said. Authorities put the home under surveillance, Conley said, and "the case just begins to build from there."
"This poor woman, Julissa Brisman, no matter what choices she made or decisions she made in life, she is a human being who's entitled to dignity and respect," Conley said.
There may be more victims that authorities are unaware of, he said, adding that the prosecutor's goal is to hold Markoff accountable, not to pursue women who may be advertising on Craigslist. "If you have been a victim like these victims have, please come forward," he said.
Markoff is "bearing up," according to attorney Salsberg.
"It's obviously a difficult time for anybody in these circumstances with the charges that have been brought against him. ... He's pleaded not guilty. He is not guilty," said Salsberg.
McAllister, in her e-mail to ABC, wrote, "Philip is an intelligent man who is just trying to live his life, so if you could leave us alone we would greatly appreciate it. We expect to marry in August and share a wonderful, meaningful life together."
The couple's wedding Web site had been taken down or was unavailable as of Tuesday afternoon.
Authorities in Boston are working with police in Warwick, Rhode Island, on what could be a related case. On April 16 at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, a man tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement, Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney said.
The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room. After pointing his gun at the husband, the suspect fled, McCartney said. He said no conclusions could be made yet, but allowed that the incident "may be related to similar crimes occurring in the Boston area."
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told CNN the company is "horrified and deeply saddened that our community services have been associated in any way whatsoever with a crime of violence." He promised that Craigslist will evaluate the incident to see if additional measures could be introduced to protect users.
CNN's Mary Snow and Jason Kessler contributed to this report.
All About Craigslist Inc. • Boston Police Department


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Everypoint is launching a mobile application platform Monday called Nemo, which is intended to give Java-based phones iPhone-like visual capabilities.
Nemo enables development and distribution of interactive graphical mobile applications for use on Java devices from companies such as Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Everypoint hosts applications built on its platform.
Keys to the product are high-performance vector graphics and "push-sync" capabilities, Everypoint said. Nemo is available in a preview beta release, with general release anticipated for early-2009.
Companies are bringing the iPhone to Java in part because Java as well as Flash are still shut out from the iPhone.
"The visual look and feel has parity with the iPhone," said Allan MacKinnon, president, founder and CTO at Everypoint. Nemo applications do not add touch capabilities similar to iPhone but can leverage touch capabilities if these already exists on a particular phone.
An embedded graphics vector graphics engine provides a rich look and feel to applications, the company said. "It's a vector graphics engine so that we can draw applications, we can display applications that look very polished, and that was a feature that was never before available on mass-market devices," MacKinnon said.
Also featured are a runtime scripting language, compiler, and a software development environment. "You can use your existing editors if you want," such as NetBeans or Eclipse, said MacKinnon.
Cloud deployment services are highlighted as well. The Nemo runtime and applications are delivered over the air without the need for a PC.
A push and sync database is featured in the Nemo runtime for delivering data to Nemo-enabled phones in real time. Data updates are provided via Everypoint cloud servers on the Internet. An example of an application enabled by the database would be a stock-checking system in which only data that has changed is delivered.
Applications developed using Nemo sit on top of the Everypoint runtime, which links to the Everypoint cloud system. Applications are free to download and hosted by Everypoint.
Developers who want to distribute applications commercially enter into an agreement with Everypoint, which takes 10 cents per copy of each application sold or 10 percent of the sale price of the application, whichever figure is higher.
So far, Everypoint has developed a stock application for Nemo and 23 snippets—or parts—of other applications.


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Reasons HTML and CSS might make you say what the fuck. A curated list of commonly frustrating HTML and CSS quandaries, miscues, and dilemmas.
Created by @mdo.
<input> buttons
type on
Always include a doctype. I recommend the simple HTML5 doctype:
<!doctype html>
Skipping the doctype can cause issues with malformed tables, inputs, and more as the page will be rendered in quirks mode.
Elements that have a set
width become wider when they have
padding and/or
border-width. To avoid these problems, make use of the now common
box-sizing: border-box; reset.
While Mobile Safari supports the use of
rems in all property values, it seems to shit the bed when
rems are used in dimensional media queries and infinitely flashes the page's text in different sizes.
For now, use
ems in place of
html {
font-size: 16px;
/* Causes flashing bug in Mobile Safari */
@media (min-width: 40rem) {
html {
font-size: 20px;
/* Works great in Mobile Safari */
@media (min-width: 40em) {
html {
font-size: 20px;
Help! If you have a link to an Apple or WebKit bug report for this, I'd love to include it. I'm unsure where to report this as it only applies to Mobile, and not Desktop, Safari.
Floated elements should always come first in the document order. Floated elements require something to wrap around, otherwise they can cause a step down effect, instead appearing below the content.

Float

If you float it, you probably need to clear it. Any content that follows an element with a
float will wrap around that element until cleared. To clear floats, use one of the following techniques.
Use the micro clearfix to clear your floats with a separate class.
.clearfix:after {
display: table;
content: "";
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
Alternatively, specify
overflow, with
auto or
hidden, on the parent.
.parent {
overflow: auto; /* clearfix */
.other-parent {
overflow: hidden; /* clearfix */
Be aware that
overflow can cause other unintended side effects, typically around positioned elements within the parent.
Pro-Tip! Keep your future self and your coworkers happy by including a comment like
/* clearfix */ when clearing floats as the property can be used for other reasons.
A parent element that has only floated content will have a computed
height: 0;. Add a clearfix to the parent to force browsers to compute a height.
Elements with a
float will automatically become
display: block;. Do not set both as there is no need and the
float will override your
.element {
float: left;
display: block; /* Not necessary */
Fun fact: Years ago, we had to set
display: inline; for most floats to work properly in IE6 to avoid the double margin bug. However, those days have long passed.
Top and bottom margins on adjacent elements (one after the other) can and will collapse in many situations, but never for floated or absolutely positioned elements. Read this MDN article or the CSS2 spec's collapsing margin section to find out more.
Horizontally adjacent margins will never collapse.
Table rows,

s, do not receive
borders unless you set
border-collapse: collapse; on the parent

. Moreover, if the

 and children
s or
s have the same
border-width, the rows will not see their border applied. See this JS Bin link for an example.
<input> buttons
For reasons unknown, Firefox applies a
line-height to submit and button
<input>s that cannot be overridden with custom CSS. You have two options in dealing with this:
<button> elements
line-height on your buttons
Should you go with the first route (and I recommend this one anyway because
<button>s are great), here's what you need to know:

<input type="submit" value="Save changes">
<input type="button" value="Cancel">

<button type="submit">Save changes</button>
<button type="button">Cancel</button>
Should you wish to go the second route, just don't set a
line-height and use only
padding to vertically align button text. View this JS Bin example in Firefox to see the original problem and the workaround.
Good news! It looks like a fix for this might be coming in Firefox 30. That's good news for our future selves, but be aware this doesn't fix older versions.
Firefox adds an inner outline to buttons (
<input>s and
<button>s) on
:focus. Apparently it's for accessibility, but its placement seems rather odd. Use this CSS to override it:
button::-moz-focus-inner {
padding: 0;
border: 0;
You can see this fix in action in the same JS Bin example mentioned in the previous section.
Pro-Tip! Be sure to include some focus state on buttons, links, and inputs. Providing an affordance for accessibility is paramount, both for pro users who tab through content and those with vision impairments.
type on
The default value is
submit, meaning any button in a form can submit the form. Use
type="button" for anything that doesn't submit the form and
type="submit" for those that do.
<button type="submit">Save changes</button>
<button type="button">Cancel</button>
For actions that require a
<button> and are not in a form, use the
<button class="dismiss" type="button">x</button>
Fun fact: Apparently IE7 doesn't properly support the
value attribute on
<button>s. Instead of reading the attribute's content, it pulls from the innerHTML (the content between the opening and closing
<button> tags). However, I don't see this as a huge concern for two reasons: IE7 usage is way down, and it seems rather uncommon to set both a
value and the innerHTML on
Internet Explorer 9 and below have a max of 4,096 selectors per stylesheet. There is also a limit of 31 combined stylesheets and
 includes per page. Anything after this limit is ignored by the browser. Either split your CSS up, or start refactoring. I'd suggest the latter.
As a helpful side note, here's how browsers count selectors:
/* One selector */
.element { }
/* Two more selectors */
.other-element { }
/* Three more selectors */
.form-group > input { }
Elements with
position: fixed; are placed relative to the browser viewport. Elements with
position: absolute; are placed relative to their closest parent with a position other than
static (e.g.,
absolute, or
Don't set
width: 100%; on an element that has
position: [absolute|fixed];,
left, and
right. The use of
width: 100%; is the same as the combined use of
left: 0; and
right: 0;. Use one or the other, but not both.
Browsers break
position: fixed; when an element's parent has a
transform set. Using transforms creates a new containing block, effectively forcing the parent to have
position: relative; and the fixed element to behave as
position: absolute;.
See the demo and read Eric Meyer's post on the matter.


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Page 119
1 Friday, 19 March 2004
2 [Status Conference]
3 [Open session]
4 [The accused entered court]
5 --- Upon commencing at 2.00 p.m.
6 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Good afternoon to one and all.
7 Madam Registrar, would you call the case, please.
8 THE REGISTRAR: Case Number IT-96-23/2-PT, The Prosecutor versus
9 Radovan Stankovic.
10 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you, Madam.
11 May we have the appearances for the parties. The Prosecution
12 first, please.
13 MR. WUBBEN: Good afternoon, Your Honour. My name is Jan Wubben
14 for the Prosecution team, together with my co-counsel Ms. Patricia Sellers
15 and Manoj Sachdeva. And the case manager, Djurdja Mirkovic.
16 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you very much. And for the
17 Defence, please.
18 MR. RADOVIC: [Interpretation] Good afternoon, Your Honour. I am
19 Milenko Radovic, lawyer, and the Defence counsel for the accused,
20 Mr. Stankovic.
21 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you.
22 Mr. Stankovic, can you hear me in a language you understand?
23 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Yes, I can hear you in the Serbian
24 language. Yes.
25 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you.
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1 I should like to remind the parties that we are here today for a
2 Status Conference pursuant to Rule 65 of the Rules of Procedure and
3 Evidence. I think that the Prosecution has agreed to the demand for an
4 amended indictment. I don't want to go into details. But I think that
5 we're now at a stage where we have a final -- actually, we're in the final
6 stage. And my question to the Prosecution would be as follows: Does the
7 Prosecution envisage filing its pre-trial brief, and if so, when?
8 MR. WUBBEN: Thank you, Your Honour, for starting this issue.
9 Yes, as a subsequent phase, we would like to draft our pre-trial brief.
10 And we can file it within a couple of weeks if you requested us to do so.
11 So we might even anticipate filing our pre-trial brief by the latest at
12 the end of this month.
13 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] For the 31st of March? You will
14 be ready by the 31st of March. Is that right?
15 MR. WUBBEN: Yes, Your Honour.
16 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Very well. Since we're here, I
17 should like to receive assurances that the Prosecution has fulfilled its
18 tasks pursuant to Rule 66, 67, and perhaps even 68 of the Rules of
19 Procedure and Evidence.
20 MR. WUBBEN: I can confirm, Your Honour, we are on a basis of
21 continuing communications with Defence counsel with that view. We give
22 Defence counsel an overview of our disclosures, and we also check with
23 counsel on a regular basis whenever he has additional needs for it.
24 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Yes. And perhaps a final remark
25 with respect to the Prosecution: Have you received a follow-up to the
Page 121
1 letter sent out by the Defence raising the possibility of presenting a
2 defence by alibi?
3 MR. WUBBEN: One moment, please.
4 [Prosecution counsel confer]
5 MR. WUBBEN: Your Honour, we didn't receive any explicit follow-up
6 on that letter. Thank you.
7 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you. I am now going to
8 turn to the Defence. Could you please confirm whether what the
9 Prosecution said is correct, and has the Prosecution fulfilled its tasks
10 pursuant to the articles I mentioned? That is to say, Rule 66, 67, and 68
11 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence?
12 MR. RADOVIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, as my learned colleague
13 has just said, Mr. Wubben, in between the two Status Conferences and in
14 keeping with the agreement we both are signatories to, we exchanged
15 documents, and there were no problems on that score. The exchange of
16 documents was conducted pursuant to Rules 66 and 67 of the Rules of
17 Procedure and Evidence. The Defence intends at the earliest possible
18 opportunity to supply the Prosecution with some more evidence that was
19 collected by our investigators and which we will certainly be using as
20 evidence in the Defence case.
21 With respect to a Defence of alibi, you asked me to say a few
22 words about that as well, the Defence is processing that evidence, too,
23 and it will be informing the Prosecution in due course pursuant to
24 Rule 67(i)(A). For its motion, the Defence was ready pursuant to your
25 ruling of October. So we are ready to file that motion once the
Page 122
1 Prosecution does the same. Thank you.
2 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Yes, but just so that we agree,
3 if the Prosecution is proposing to file its motion on the 31st of March,
4 file its brief by the 31st of March, do you need two months, three months
5 in order to file your pre-trial brief as a response to the Prosecution's?
6 MR. RADOVIC: [Interpretation] At this point in time, I can say for
7 certain. I think that we should need at least two months. But once I see
8 the brief filed by the Prosecution and can read through the facts, then I
9 shall be able to tell you exactly. But I think two months is the minimum
10 time that I should require. Thank you.
11 MR. WUBBEN: Your Honour, if I may.
12 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Yes, please.
13 MR. WUBBEN: Your Honour, I learned now, and that's new to me, not
14 the alibi evidence as a possibility, but new to me is that there is an
15 announcement that the Defence counsel will process evidence in that
16 regard. When I informed you that we are ready to file by the end of the
17 month, then it's also, without any question, of importance for us to
18 include in our pre-trial brief our position that we take with a view to
19 that alibi evidence. So I would like to request through you to the
20 Defence counsel whether it's possible to process this evidence in time so
21 that we are able to anticipate in our pre-trial brief with a view to that
22 defence.
23 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Yes. Thank you for those
24 remarks. But as far as I was able to understand as to what the Defence
25 said, at this point in time, we are not ready to pronounce ourselves in
Page 123
1 the matter. It will require research. So, therefore, I think that we
2 will not have to declare ourselves at this point in time, at this stage.
3 What I'm suggesting is that you can present your pre-trial brief by the
4 date we mentioned, that is to say, the 31st of March, and then the Defence
5 has asked for at least two months - I think they said that was the minimum
6 time they would need - and then the possibility is open to the Defence of
7 presenting a defence of alibi.
8 But the Defence cannot be obliged to state its views at this point
9 in time, but I do understand your concerns. In as far as filing your
10 pre-trial brief, you would, of course, like to be able to respond to the
11 Defence arguments in that respect. But I think that the Defence is quite
12 clear, and I should like to have confirmation from the Defence that I
13 followed his argumentation properly, which was that the Defence can't
14 state its views definitively at this point in time.
15 So I propose that you file the pre-trial brief by the date we
16 mentioned, that is to say, the 31st of March. And then the Defence will
17 have, shall I say, at least two months. We can give them three months a
18 priori from this date forward. And I think that the Defence will be able,
19 then, to state clearly what its position is with respect to the defence of
20 alibi, because if I have understood you correctly, and please tell me
21 whether I have followed your arguments correctly, sir, that at this point
22 in time you are engaged in research. But you are not ready to establish,
23 to draw up a document here and now, or to state your position here and now
24 with respect to that matter. And that you are, in fact, waiting to see
25 how your research develops.
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1 MR. RADOVIC: [Interpretation] Your Honour, you have understood me
2 completely. And the Defence at this point in time, as I said, is not
3 ready. We are working with certain witnesses. We're looking into which
4 witnesses we shall be calling and what evidence we shall be using in our
5 defence of alibi. I shall try, I shall do my best, that in the pre-trial
6 brief, we indicate the facts and circumstances that we're going to focus
7 on and which witnesses the Defence will be calling for its defence of
8 alibi. But at this point in time, we can't do that. It is an ongoing
9 process that we're working on at the moment.
10 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Very well. Now my final question
11 is this: Would three months be sufficient? Do you agree to a period of
12 three months? Would that suffice to file your pre-trial brief within that
13 period of time?
14 MR. RADOVIC: [Interpretation] I think that will be sufficient. I
15 think three months will suffice for our pre-trial brief, yes.
16 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Thank you. So we have reached
17 our first decision, and that is that the Prosecution will file its
18 pre-trial brief on the 31st of March. And following that, after the 31st
19 of March, that is to say from the 1st of April in actual fact, the Defence
20 will be given a period of three months to do the same, which makes it the
21 end of June.
22 I should now like to address Mr. Stankovic, to ask him -- or
23 rather to ask him a few questions. First of all, with respect to your
24 health, what is your health situation? Would you like to raise this
25 matter in open session, or would you like us to go into private session,
Page 125
1 closed or private session, whichever?
2 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] I have already spoken about my
3 health situation. The health situation is as you wish it to be. You have
4 incarcerated me. And this state continues, so I cannot be good. My
5 health cannot be good in view of that fact. But if you will allow me to
6 continue with what I wanted to say here today, I have prepared a short
7 address for this Status Conference. May I be allowed to proceed?
8 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Just a moment, Mr. Stankovic.
9 Let's take first things first and one by one. First of all, your state of
10 health. You have nothing particular to note in that regard, to tell me
11 with respect to your health situation. Is that it?
12 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Yes, precisely.
13 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Very well. Now, this brings me
14 to my second question. I'd like to take advantage of this opportunity to
15 clear up some misunderstandings between you, it appears, and the
16 Registrar. That is to say, the other side, the other party. And I think
17 it is that matter that you wish to address. Before you do so, I should
18 like to explain my point of view. What I have understood
19 personally -- Madam Registrar, is there a problem?
20 MR. WUBBEN: Sorry. I apologise, Your Honour, for being so rude
21 to interrupt for a moment. But as I notice from the correspondence in
22 this affair, the decision-making and also the decision-making by ICTY and
23 the request from the parties had made on a confidential basis. It's just
24 that fact that I know that is from a confidential basis that I give you
25 into consideration to take in this phase already a decision whether or not
Page 126
1 you proceed in closed session or a more or less confidential way. That's
2 the reason. Sorry to...
3 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] No, it can't be closed.
4 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Just a moment. Nobody has the
5 right to speak before I give them permission to do so officially.
6 Now, I'm following what you have said. And I should like to
7 proceed with prudence with respect to what you're trying to draw my
8 attention to, that aspect of the matter. And I think that everybody here
9 is very wary and vigilant and would like to see the procedure evolves in a
10 proper form. If I see that matters are progressing in the manner in
11 matters which would require a private session, then I shall do so. But I
12 think that Mr. Stankovic, and you yourselves, as indeed I do, I am, we are
13 all fully conscious of the importance and sensitivity of the issue. And
14 it's a good thing that you drew my attention to that. And I should like,
15 Mr. Stankovic, in his response to bear in mind the character, the
16 sensitive character, of the subject matter we're going to discuss. We
17 know what it's all about. We're not going to enter into details because I
18 have no intention of going into the details. Rest assured about that.
19 I should just like to give you my personal impressions. And that
20 is -- those are that Mr. Stankovic did not have the intention when he
21 spoke his thoughts, if I can put it that way, they were spontaneous
22 thoughts that were uttered. He didn't have the intention of violating the
23 protective measures we put in place for certain subjects. So I should
24 like to receive assurances on that point. Have I understood that
25 correctly? I had the impression that Mr. Stankovic was convinced, or
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1 rather I had the opportunity of reading exchanges and correspondence
2 between Mr. Stankovic and other departments and instances of this
3 Tribunal. I think his position is clear. What he wants to say is
4 that -- or rather, I don't think he has any intention of violating the
5 rules, but wanted to respect them. And it is in that respect that I
6 should like to receive confirmation from Mr. Stankovic that I understood
7 him properly, that indeed that is what he wanted to do. That he, like all
8 of us here, is vigilant and respects all the measures that have been taken
9 by the Tribunal, put in place in these proceedings, protecting
10 information, whatever that information may be.
11 So I personally didn't gain the impression that Mr. Stankovic
12 actually wanted to say anything other than that. And that is the point I
13 would like you to give me assurances on, to tell me yes or no. Have I
14 understood you correctly? Did I understand your line of thinking
15 properly, that it was not your intention at any point?
16 THE ACCUSED: [Interpretation] Mr. El Mahdi, you have understood
17 things very well. May I just be allowed to expound this in greater
18 detail.
19 JUDGE EL MAHDI: [Interpretation] Just a moment, please,
20 Mr. Stankovic. I understood that you wanted to go into details. If you
21 go into details, then we'll have to go into private session. I think that
22 would be prudent.
23 So Madam Registrar, may we go into private session for this
24 portion of the proceedings, please.
25 [Private session]
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4 (redacted)
5 (redacted)
6 (redacted)
7 (redacted)
8 (redacted)
9 --- Whereupon the Status Conference adjourned
10 at 3.15 p.m.