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Rose Steward woke up, certain someone else was in her bedroom. She saw a man, a red bandanna over his face and a knife in his hand, illuminated by a street light. She began to shake violently.
For the next five hours, the man raped and choked her, twice to the point she lost consciousness. She was certain she would die. She grieved she was too young, only 22, and that her murder would destroy her mother.
She struggled against panic and fought with her wits, pretending to like her attacker, cajoling him and sympathizing with him. When he finally left at dawn, she kissed him goodbye — then ran for help.
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Earle will be kicking off a 30-date national tour, accompanied by the Canadian Americana band The Sadies, to promote the new album, "Kids in the Street."
Justin Townes Earle – the son of songwriter Steve Earle, and middle-named for his dad's friend and mentor Townes Van Zandt – loves creating new music, while revering traditional forms.
That dichotomy made his partnership with producer Mike Mogis kind of a perfect pairing for his new album (due out May 26) "Kids in the Street." Earle has worked in the general Americana vein, fusing country, folk and rock elements in his work, while Mogis is more of a rock guy, but they found plenty of common ground.
Earle will be kicking off a 30-date national tour, accompanied by the Canadian Americana band The Sadies, to promote the new album this week, and it swings through the region next week, with a May 12 date at The Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, and a May 13 show at The Sinclair in Cambridge.
Performers securing the services of a producer for recording is normally no big deal, but Earle had produced all of his previous albums himself. Mogis is a veteran rock producer, perhaps best known for his work with Bright Eyes. The new album is Earle's first for the well regarded New West label.
"Being a producer myself was never one of those things I intended – I'm a singer-songwriter," said Earle from a tour stop in Midland, Texas. "But it was not my idea to have a producer either, it was the record label's idea, and I fought it. Why do I need to work with a producer on MY tunes, MY art? But I just don't like rules anyway. Eventually I came around to the idea, and felt like it was time to get outside of my comfort level. It was also good to get outside of Nashville, where if you don't like, or agree with, the way a musician is playing something, you can just toss them because there's 20 more sitting around ready to go.
"So I went to Omaha, met Mike, and made this album with a different producer and different players," said Earle. "As an artistic move it was actually more rewarding."
The new album has a variety of different styles, united by Earle's clear baritone vocals and evocative writing. Styles range from the thumping, full-bore rocker "Champagne Corolla" to the classic country two-step "What She's Crying For" to the broad dynamics of the soul ballad "There Go A Fool."
But perhaps nothing illustrates Earle's desire to meld old and new better than "Same Old Stagolee," a riveting re-working of the old classic (often spelled as "Stagger Lee") that goes way back to folk-blues giant Leadbelly. It is the classic blues tale of romantic rivalry, betrayal, and tragic violence, but Earle has updated it with contemporary lyrics. He keeps the dazzling fingerpicked acoustic guitar work of the tune's original versions, even as he places the story in a modern inner city milieu.
"I have always like carrying on that kind of tradition," said Earle. "There are probably 1,000 versions of that song, and now I've added another. If you listen to Leadbelly's take, it is quite slow, but then if you listen to (country star) Ray Price's, his is really quite fast, so it can go all over the place. But those lyrics have never been updated, beyond him getting that Stetson hat knocked off his head. I took all those old-timey details and updated them, to where Stagolee is now a crack dealer, and he talks to a girl from the top of the hill, while he's a guy from the bottom of the hill. Now there's a low-rise apartment building, and a motel in the story, and a guy from the top of the hill who resents Stagolee talking to the girl. It is an update, but the story continues, and you realize all those problems people have with each other keep repeating themselves."
A much more fun, or at least much less dark song on the new CD is "15-25," which brings out the kind of New Orleans flavor that lets you know Earle loves that city and its music.
"That song is absolutely my musical tribute to New Orleans," said Earle, 35, "and I should probably include my apologies to Professor Longhair for stealing his thing. I wanted to do a song with 'kind of' a New Orleans sound, and I realized you can't do 'kind of' New Orleans – it's all or nothing. There's no way to tiptoe around that feel, and even Paul Simon never found a way to adapt that style to his own; when he does a Cajun song, it's just flat out Cajun."
As far as evoking the past in new ways, "If I Was the Devil" is a delectable acoustic blues, dark and ominous, but redeemed by the sheer beauty of Earle's acoustic guitar work and vocal.
"That song came after I had read this great biography of the old bluesman, Skip James," Earle explained. "Skip James had this song, "I'd Rather be The Devil," that came up a lot in his life, almost a signature tune for him, adding to his mystery. I wanted to do something that said, 'maybe he was the devil.' So that song is essentially me trying to embody Skip James, and extend that metaphor.
"It's like Bob Dylan in the 1960s," Earle added. "He said he was not inventing anything new, but just dealing with existing forms and ideas. Our job is to partially help continue this folk tradition, and I don't want to see that die, or people like Skip James be forgotten. I know, for example, I would not be who I was, if at age 11 I had not watched MTV's 'Nirvana Unplugged' program, and heard Kurt Cobain do a song that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn't one of his songs – it was a Leadbelly song, not Nirvana's – but it changed my view of what made good music completely."
There is one cover on the album, a hidden track, which is a lovely acoustic take on Simon's "Graceland." Earle felt that song has a message that needs to be emphasized these days.
"I think in a time like this, of violent shifts and changes in our world and our lives, Paul Simon's song basically says 'change is unstoppable, but that doesn't mean we have to stop looking for the heart in our lives and fellow humans," said Earle. "I think if anything, we are losing our grip on the heart and soul these days, and focusing too much on the changes."
Earle has toured with a backup band before, and also as a solo act, but joining forces with the Sadies, acclaimed in their own right, makes for a superb double-bill. They will open the shows, and then serve as Earle's backing band.
"We met years ago, and we are both Bloodshot Records alumni," Earle said of The Sadies. "I think it was 10 or 12 years ago, when we met at a festival in Portland (Oregon), and we've been looking for an excuse to tour together ever since. When it turned out that we could work out our schedules for this tour, it was "Hallelujah!" The other night, we just played on a bill with Son Volt, and The Sadies and Son Volt was like an Americana dream to me. But I don't think anybody could find me a better band than The Sadies."
Earle continued: "I do play my songs differently than on record when I'm performing solo, so it does take me a minute to go back to the band versions. But a great band like The Sadies can adapt quickly. I'll throw stuff at those guys from Otis Redding to Buck Owens, and even some Gordon Lightfoot, but as a real live band, they genuinely can play anything."
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 8 p.m. May 12 at the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St #1, Fall River, $37, $42. 508-324-1926, www.narrowscenter.org; 7:30 p.m. at the Sinclair, 52 Church St., Cambridge. $25-$30, 617-547-5200, www.sinclaircambridge.com


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ASUS EAH6870 DirectCU Review
AMD has been expanding their 6000 series offerings with a growing list of high and midrange cards, the same can be said for their partners. ASUS has released several versions of the 6870 with a new high performance model dubbed DirectCU. This is a custom direct-contact heat pipe cooler for better heat dissipation combined with ASUS Super Alloy Power components that provide a 15% performance increase and longer life/cooler operation. The components include MOS, chokes, capacitors, and a hybrid engine. The fan design is dust- and particle-proof thus expanding its lifespan by a claimed 25%. This card design also comes equipped with GPU Guard, a full length backplate that stiffens and protects the video card from awkward pressures caused by the cooling system and sagging caused by installation, and also increases damage resistance to drops and shocks. Another safeguard are thermal fuses designed to protect the card from damage if the temperatures get out of hand. GPU core voltage is also adjustable which should allow end users to achieve a solid overclock. With all of these features, it is no surprise that this 6870 is already factory overclocked as well!
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The front of the box is definitely AMD colored. A knight with golden wings riding a horse in front of a castle adorns the imagery along with lightning and red clouds. Along with Voltage Tweak as an option for changing the GPU voltage through ASUS SmartDoctor, four more features show up underneath: 915 MHz core overclock, 1GB GDDR5, Full Microsoft DirectX 11 support, and Eyefinity Multi-Display technology. The back of the box lists several of the features in many languages, with four images underneath highlighting some of the important information. DirectCU is shown with the heat sink installed and a shot of it off the card with the heat pipe base. Super Alloy Power is also explained as to how it works and where it applies: MOS, chokes and capacitors all use the SAP fine metal designs. The card is able to overclock higher with voltage modification being readily supported through the ASUS SmartDoctor software. Two DVI ports and two DisplayPorts allow this card to be hooked up to a multitude of display devices.
The top of the box carries the cloud/lightning from the front, the design is the same as most other boxes as the top slips inside with a flap to keep it shut. The main features are boldly listed so there is no missing that this box contains a 6870 with 1GB of GDDR5. The side has a list of recommended system requirements, which sounds a bit counter-intuitive. The requirements are translated into several languages to help the package sell globally, placed nearby is the barcode label that has the serial/part numbers and UPC.
Since the text can be hard to read, a closer view of the recommended system requirements is added. The other side is very similar to the top with things just moved around mostly. With the outside of the box examined it is time to open it up.
The contents are encased inside a folding black cardboard box with the ASUS logo stamped in the center. Opening it shows a small folded cardboard flap sitting next to a piece of foam, the two work together to protect the graphics card underneath that sits surrounded by a form-fitting foam shell. A standard antistatic bag is the last line of defense for the card.
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Appropriate levels of nutrients in the soil are needed to achieve good sustained plant growth. The main elements of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are the most critical. As such, some of these elements may need to be periodically added to achieve that best plant growth. Of these main elements, phosphorus and potassium are the most likely to reach a level in the soil of home gardeners where future applications can be few and far between. This is because those elements are harder to leach from the soil and aren't normally used in such high quantities each season as nitrogen.
Submitting a soil test to a quality lab every three to five years will show you the levels of phosphorus and potassium in your soil and whether there is a need to apply more. Nitrogen is water soluble and can be leached from the soil with inappropriate watering. Since nitrogen is the nutrient responsible for rapid leafy green growth, it needs to be applied to the soil each and every year.
Should your soil test show that you need to apply any of these nutrients there are options for how to do so. Conventional fertilizers often offer all three main nutrients in similar amounts, such as a 16-16-16 application; in varying amounts, such as a 28-3-10 application; or as single nutrients, such as in a 21-0-0 application. These fertilizers are usually fast-release and provide nutrients to the plants quickly, but it is possible to find formulations that are encapsulated for slower release over time. You can also find conventional fertilizers with micro-nutrient packages, although rarely is this required for the home gardener.
There are also organic fertilizers that are packaged in a similar way as conventional fertilizers, with the three main nutrients – nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium – along with other minor nutrients. These packaged organic fertilizers can provide nutrients faster than other types of organic materials and so are similar to conventional fertilizers, although not quite as fast-release in nature.
There are also organic materials, such as manures, composts and cover crops, as well as other specific types, such as bone, blood, cottonseed, and fish meals or even grass clippings and leaves. All of these, in appropriate amounts, can be used as fertilizers and provide some nutrients or all three main nutrients. While some of these materials provide fast-release, most are slow- to very slow-release. More importantly, they usually have very low nutrient levels, meaning that substantially more of these materials is required to provide adequate fertilization.
The bottom line is that plants need nutrients, which means at some point you will need to fertilize. Understanding your soil nutrient levels and the materials you are using is critical to having good plant growth. However, regardless of the materials used to fertilize, the tendency is to add more potassium and phosphorus than is required but not enough nitrogen, which is a critical yearly need. Soil testing is a great way to make sure what you truly need for your garden.
Thought for the day: "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." —Author unknown.
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"Mir, Ubuntu's in-progress replacement for the X Window System, is being used internally at Ubuntu developer Canonical and will be available to all users in the next version of the operating system. Mir was announced in March, with Canonical saying that a new display server is needed to power the Unity interface across desktops, phones, and tablets." Anyone here experience with Mir? Is it any good? any downsides?


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Iran Won't Close the Strait of Hormuz
Direct hostilities would risk retaliation against Tehran's nuclear-weapons program. JANUARY 4, 2012 By BRADLEY S. RUSSELL AND MAX BOOT Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz last week, in response to U.S. and European Union moves to apply sanctions on its oil industry. Only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, the strait sees the passage of roughly 28 tanker ships a day, half loaded, half empty. Some 17 million barrels of oil—20% of oil traded in the world—go through this chokepoint. If Iran really could close the strait, it would do great damage to the world economy. But it would also damage its own already shaky economy because Iran relies on the strait to deliver oil exports to China and other customers. In any case, closing the strait is not nearly as easy as Adm. Habibollah Sayari, commander of the Iranian Navy, would have it. He said that closing the strait is "as easy as drinking a glass of water." Actually it would be about as easy as drinking an entire bucket of water in one gulp. Iran tried this trick before and failed miserably. In 1984, during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein attacked Iranian oil tankers and the Iranian oil-processing facility at Kharq Island. Iran struck back by attacking Kuwaiti tankers carrying Iraqi crude and then other tankers in the Persian Gulf. In 1987, after years of growing disruptions in this vital waterway, President Ronald Reagan responded by offering to reflag Kuwaiti tankers with the U.S. flag and provide U.S. naval escort. Iran shied away from direct attacks on U.S. warships but continued sowing mines, staging attacks with small patrol boats, and firing a variety of missiles at tankers. On April 14, 1988, the guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine; no sailors were killed but several were injured and the ship nearly sank. The U.S. Navy responded by launching Operation Praying Mantis, its biggest surface combat action since World War II. Half a dozen U.S. warships in two separate Surface Action Groups moved in to destroy two Iranian oil platforms. The Iranians responded by sending armed speedboats, frigates and F-4 aircraft to fire at the U.S. warships. AFP/Getty Images The Iranian navy firing a missile in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. In defending themselves, the American vessels sank at least three Iranian speedboats, one gunboat and one frigate; other Iranian ships and aircraft were damaged. The only major U.S. loss occurred when a Marine Corps Sea Cobra helicopter crashed, apparently by accident, killing two crewmen. The war all but ended less than three months later when the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes mistakenly fired a surface-to-air missile at an Iranian passenger airliner that it had mistaken for a fighter jet. The plane was destroyed and 290 people killed. Although this was an accident, the Iranian regime was convinced that Washington was escalating the conflict and decided to reach a truce with Iraq. The greatest loss suffered by U.S. forces during this whole conflict occurred in 1987 when an Iraqi aircraft fired an Exocet missile that hit the frigate USS Stark, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21. (Saddam Hussein claimed this was an accident.) The Iranians had little to show for their efforts: Lloyd's of London estimated that the Tanker War resulted in damage to 546 commercial vessels and the deaths of 430 civilian mariners but many of those losses were caused by Iraq, not Iran. While these attacks temporarily disrupted the free passage of oil, they did not come close to closing the strait. Despite the unveiling of a new antiship cruise missile called the Qader, Iran's conventional naval and air forces—on display during the Veleyat 90 naval exercises in the Persian Gulf which ended Monday— are still no match for the U.S. and its allies in the region. The U.S. alone has in the area two carrier strike groups, an expeditionary strike force (centered around an amphibious assault ship that is in essence a small aircraft carrier), and numerous land-based aircraft at bases such as Al Udied in Qatar, Al Dafra in the United Arab Emirates, and Isa Air Base in Bahrain. The U.S. and our Arab allies (which are equipped with a growing array of modern American-made equipment such as F-15s and F-16s) could use overwhelming force to destroy Iran's conventional naval forces in very short order. Iran's real ability to disrupt the flow of oil lies in its asymmetric war-fighting capacity. Iran has thousands of mines(and any ship that can carry a mine is by definition a mine-layer), a small number of midget submarines, thousands of small watercraft that could be used in swarm attacks, and antiship cruise missiles. If the Iranians lay mines, it will take a significant amount of time to clear them. It took several months to clear all mines after the Tanker War, but a much shorter period to clear safe passages through the Persian Gulf to and from oil shipping terminals. Antiship cruise missiles are mobile, yet those can also be found and destroyed. Yono submarines are short-duration threats—they eventually have to come to port for resupply, and when they do they will be sitting ducks. U.S. forces may take losses, as they did with the hits on the USS Stark and Samuel B. Roberts, but they will prevail and in fairly short order. The Iranians must realize that the balance of forces does not lie in their favor. By initiating hostilities they risk American retaliation against their most prized assets—their covert nuclear-weapons program. The odds are good, then, that the Iranians will not follow through on their saber-rattling threats. But this heated rhetoric does suggest how worried the Iranians are about the potential impact of fresh sanctions on their oil industry. All the more reason for the Europeans to proceed with those sanctions. Mr. Russell, a navy captain, is a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2010-2011 he was chief of staff to U.S. Navy Central Command/Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. Mr. Boot is a senior fellow in national security studies at the council.


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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
From the moment he became CEO of Apple, Tim Cook found himself in the shadow of his boss
Shortly afterTim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right thing—and not to think about what Steve would have done.
But Jobs's ghost loomed everywhere after he died from pancreatic cancer two months later. Obituaries of Apple's visionary founder blanketed the front pages of newspapers and websites. TV stations ran lengthy segments glorifying the changes he brought to the world.
In New York, publisher Simon & Schuster rushed out Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs a month early—with a sleek, Apple-esque cover featuring a photo blessed by the late CEO. Apple chose the same image as the tribute photo on its home page. The photo was so quintessentially Jobsian that his friends and colleagues marveled at how he still seemed to be orchestrating the narrative from beyond the grave.
Even the ritual remembrances unfolded as though Jobs had staged them himself. A memorial service on a Sunday evening at Stanford University was organized by his longtime event planner, and the guest list read like a Who's Who of notables in Jobs's life: Bill Gates, Larry Page, Rupert Murdoch and the Clinton family, among others. Joan Baez, Jobs's onetime girlfriend, sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Bono performed Bob Dylan's "Every Grain of Sand." Yo-Yo Ma brought his cello and played Bach—a personal request from Jobs before his death. Jobs was gone but not gone. Somehow he had transcended death to obsess over the launch of one last product: his own legacy.
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Tim Cook, whom Jobs had personally picked as Apple's new CEO, was at the service, but attendees gave the former chief operating officer little thought. Even as he took control of Apple's empire, Cook couldn't escape his boss's shadow. How could anyone compete with a visionary so brilliant that not even death could make him go away?
The genius trap had long been set for Jobs's successor. Apple had been defined by him for more than a decade. Design, product development, marketing strategies and executive appointments—all hinged on his tastes. Apple's accomplishments weren't Jobs's alone, but he had taken credit for most of them, which further fed his legend. One employee even owned a car with the vanity plate "WWSJD": What Would Steve Jobs Do?
The next CEO didn't have the quasi-religious authority that Jobs had radiated. Cook's every decision would be examined by current and former employees and executives, investors, the media and Apple's consumers. He would also have to contend with the sky-high expectations that Jobs had conditioned the public to have for Apple.
Cook was a seasoned businessman and arguably a better manager than Jobs. He was organized, prepared and more realistic about the burdens of running a company of Apple's size. But no one could beat Jobs at being Jobs—especially Cook, his polar opposite.
If Jobs was the star, Cook was the stage manager. If Jobs was idealistic, Cook was practical. But without Jobs, Cook had no counterweight to his dogged pragmatism. Who would provide the creative sparks?
The succession was complicated by the fact that no one knew who Cook really was. The new CEO was a mystery. Some colleagues called him a blank slate. As far as anyone could tell, Cook had no close friends, never socialized and rarely talked about his personal life.
The quiet, self-contained Cook grew up as the second of three brothers. In his early years, the family lived in Pensacola, Fla.; his father worked as a shipyard foreman, and his mother was a homemaker. They later moved to Robertsdale, Ala., a small, predominantly white town near the Gulf of Mexico that was quiet, stable and safe. In high school, he was voted "most studious." He represented his town at Boys State, an American Legion mock legislature program, and won an essay contest organized by the Alabama Rural Electric Association on the topic of "Rural Electric Cooperatives—Challengers of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow." Outside of class, Cook was appointed the business manager of the yearbook because he was meticulous and good with numbers.
Cook began his career at IBM after graduating from Auburn University with a degree in industrial engineering. Later he added an M.B.A. from Duke. After 12 years, he moved to a small Colorado computer reseller called Intelligent Electronics Inc., where he nearly doubled the firm's revenues. He was plucked by Compaq and moved to Houston. One day a headhunter called: Apple was looking for a senior vice president of world-wide operations. "Why don't you come and meet Steve Jobs?" the recruiter asked.
Cook joined Apple's executive team in the spring of 1998, while the company was in the throes of restructuring and desperate for a capable executive who could make Apple's manufacturing process more efficient. Unlike his predecessors, who sat with the operations team, Cook asked for a small office cater-cornered to Jobs's on the executive floor. It was a shrewd strategy—staying close to the boss to be attuned to his thinking.
From the start of his Apple tenure, Cook set colossally high expectations. He wanted the best price, the best delivery, the best yield, the best everything. "I want you to act like we are a $20 billion company," he told the procurement team—even though Apple then had only about $6 billion in annual revenues and was barely eking out a profit. They were playing in a new league now.
To some, Cook was a machine; to others, he was riveting. He could strike terror in the hearts of his subordinates, but he could also motivate them to toil from dawn to midnight for just a word of praise.
Those who interacted only passingly with Cook saw him as a gentle Southerner with an aura reminiscent of Mister Rogers. But he wasn't approachable. Over the years, colleagues had tried to engage him in personal conversations, with little success. He worked out at a different gym than the one on Apple's campus and didn't fraternize outside of work.
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Years earlier, when Apple was about to ship its movie-editing software, iMovie, Jobs wanted his executives to test it out by making home movies. Cook made his about house hunting and how little one got for one's money in the late 1990s in Palo Alto real estate. While amusing, the movie revealed nothing about him.
Apple under Jobs was a roller coaster, but Cook's operations fief was orderly and disciplined. Cook knew every detail in every step of the operations processes. Weekly operations meetings could last five to six hours as he ground through every single item. His subordinates soon learned to plan for meetings with him as if they were cramming for an exam. Even a small miss of a couple of hundred units was examined closely. "Your numbers," one planner recalled him saying flatly, "make me want to jump out that window over there."
Cook had made a particular point of tackling Apple's monstrous inventory, which he considered fundamentally evil. He called himself the "Attila the Hun of inventory."
Meetings with Cook could be terrifying. He exuded a Zenlike calm and didn't waste words. "Talk about your numbers. Put your spreadsheet up," he'd say as he nursed a Mountain Dew. (Some staffers wondered why he wasn't bouncing off the walls from the caffeine.) When Cook turned the spotlight on someone, he hammered them with questions until he was satisfied. "Why is that?" "What do you mean?" "I don't understand. Why are you not making it clear?" He was known to ask the same exact question 10 times in a row.
Cook also knew the power of silence. He could do more with a pause than Jobs ever could with an epithet. When someone was unable to answer a question, Cook would sit without a word while people stared at the table and shifted in their seats. The silence would be so intense and uncomfortable that everyone in the room wanted to back away. Unperturbed, Cook didn't move a finger as he focused his eyes on his squirming target. Sometimes he would take an energy bar from his pocket while he waited for an answer, and the hush would be broken only by the crackling of the wrapper.
Even in Apple's unrelenting culture, Cook's meetings stood out as harsh. On one occasion, a manager from another group who was sitting in was shocked to hear Cook tell an underling, "That number is wrong. Get out of here."
Cook's quarterly reviews were especially torturous because Cook would grind through the minutiae as he categorized what worked and what didn't, using yellow Post-its. His managers crossed their fingers in the hopes of emerging unscathed. "We're safe as long as we're not at the back of the pack," they would say to each other.
Cook demonstrated the same level of austerity and discipline in his life as he did in his work. He woke up at 4:30 or 5 a.m. and hit the gym several times a week. He ate protein bars throughout the day and had simple meals like chicken and rice for lunch.
His stamina was inhuman. He could fly to Asia, spend three days there, fly back, land at 7 a.m. at the airport and be in the office by 8:30, interrogating someone about some numbers.
Cook was also relentlessly frugal. For many years, he lived in a rental unit in a dingy ranch-style building with no air conditioning. He said it reminded him of his humble roots. When he finally purchased a house, it was a modest 2,400-square-foot home, built on a half-lot with a single parking spot. His first sports car was a used Porsche Boxster, an entry-level sports car that enthusiasts called the "poor man's Porsche."
Even his hobbies were hard-core: cycling and rock climbing. During vacations, he never ventured far. Among his favorite spots were Yosemite and Utah's Zion National Park.
Cook placed Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. among his heroes, and photos of both men hung in his office. In a statement that hinted at how Cook viewed his relationship with Jobs, he said that he admired the way RFK had been comfortable standing in his brother's shadow. The martyred senator embodied everything that Cook strove to be—hardworking, principled and charitable.
As tough as Cook was reputed to be, he was also generous. He gave away the frequent-flier miles that he racked up as Christmas gifts, and he volunteered at a soup kitchen during the Thanksgiving holidays. He had also participated in an annual two-day cycling event across Georgia to raise money for multiple sclerosis; Cook had been a supporter since being misdiagnosed with the disease years before. "The doctor said, 'Mr. Cook, you've either had a stroke, or you have MS,' " Cook told the Auburn alumni magazine. He didn't have either. His symptoms had been produced from "lugging a lot of incredibly heavy luggage around."
In August 2011, a few months before Jobs died, Cook sent his first email as CEO to employees. "I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change," he wrote. "Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that—it is in our DNA." He added, "I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is." He signed the memo simply, "Tim."
After Jobs's death, Apple's employees rallied around Cook. But privately, many were anxious. Employees in departments that had heretofore had little to do with Cook worried about how their jobs might change. The operations team, familiar with his tough management style, worried about life becoming even more intense.
In his first days as CEO, Cook made two key moves. First, he promoted Eddy Cue, Apple's enormously popular vice president for Internet services. Cue had been Jobs's guy, managing the iTunes group and eventually all of Apple's Internet services. He was Jobs's deal maker as well, negotiating with music labels, movie studios, book publishers and media companies. When Cook finally made him senior vice president, it generated goodwill inside and outside the company—and turned an important Jobs loyalist into a key Cook ally.
Cook's second decision was to start a charity program, matching donations of up to $10,000, dollar for dollar annually. This too was widely embraced: The lack of an Apple corporate-matching program had long been a sore point for many employees. Jobs had considered matching programs particularly ineffective because the contributions would never amount to enough to make a difference. Some of his friends believed that Jobs would have taken up some causes once he had more time, but Jobs used to say that he was contributing to society more meaningfully by building a good company and creating jobs. Cook believed firmly in charity. "My objective—one day—is to totally help others," he said. "To me, that's real success, when you can say, 'I don't need it anymore. I'm going to do something else.' "
The moves signaled a shift to a more benevolent regime. Though still shuttered to the outside eye, Apple felt more open internally. The new CEO communicated with employees more frequently via emails and town-hall meetings. Unlike Jobs, who always ate lunch with the design guru Jonathan Ive, Cook went to the cafeteria and introduced himself to employees he didn't know, asking if he could join them. Without Jobs breathing down their necks, the atmosphere was more relaxed. Cook was a more traditional CEO who infused Apple with a healthier work environment.
Cook proved a methodical and efficient CEO. Unlike Jobs, who seemed to operate on gut, Cook demanded hard numbers on projected cost and profits. Whereas Jobs had reveled in divisiveness, Cook valued collegiality and teamwork. Cook was also more visible and transparent with investors.
Not everyone was so enamored. The changes Cook made were perceived as signs of increasing stodginess. The yearning for more subversive days was also palpable. Skeptics soon began expressing doubts about Apple's future, especially after the rocky launch of Siri, its virtual personal-assistant feature.
"Without the arrival of a new charismatic leader, it will move from being a great company to being a good company," George Colony, the CEO of technology research firm Forrester Research , wrote in a blog. "Like Sony , Polaroid, Apple circa 1985, and Disney , Apple will coast and then decelerate."
Above it all, the specter of Steve Jobs still hovered—somewhere beyond reproach and accountability, beyond the tangle of human fallibility. His successors remained stuck here on Earth.
Ms. Kane is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. This piece is adapted from her new book "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs," which will be published on March 18 by HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins.
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There are no "results" for a race like Rugged Maniac.
Racers don't care about times; they're trying to survive. Most don't even choose to be timed.
Rugged Maniac is a 5K run/obstacle course designed by Navy SEALS. The point is not to win, but simply to complete its 20 obstacles — barbed wire, mud pits, free-fall jumps into ice water, rope climbs, walls of fire and more.
So the fact that 23 SouthCoasters started the Rugged Maniac 5K in Southwick this fall and all 23 finished — that's saying something.
"We were all about camaraderie. I don't leave that mountain until everyone is off that mountain," said team leader Liz Martins. "'No soldier left behind' is our philosophy."
Martins, a personal trainer, works at Work Out World and Pro Fitness gyms in Fall River. She trained all 23 competitors in the two Fall River gyms.
She led the Fall River teams on a 5K run over rugged terrain rigged with 20 obstacles. The competitors had to climb 12-foot walls, crawl under barbed wire, jump over fire, dive and swim through a tank of ice water, and crawl on their stomachs through body-hugging, pitch-dark tunnels.
So what did Martins think of it?
"It was fun, fun, fun, fun. I love these little races," Martins said. "The Rugged Maniac is great for the average person trying to obtain a fitness goal. It's basically just fire, water and lots of mud. And obstacles, like climbing 12-foot walls."
We'll leave it up to you to decide, but perhaps, just perhaps, Martins doesn't realize her own strength here.
"Really, it's mostly a mental thing," Martins insisted. "I'd say the toughest thing for people would be crawling through the underground tunnels for anyone who's claustrophobic. You're underground for about a minute in a tunnel. There's no light until you come out."
Martins said Rugged Maniac was just the preparation for her main event: Tough Mudder, coming up this spring. Martins will begin training people for that race in January. Last year she led 25 racers from the Fall River gyms.
According to the website, Tough Mudder events are "hard-core 10 to 12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. ... (It's) the premier adventure challenge series in the world."
For Martins, the most difficult event at Tough Mudder last year was The Icepack — a 30 foot jump into a plywood bucket of ice water.
"Many people are either afraid of water or heights. My fear is water," Martins said. "Even when you jump and swim through the ice, when you get out, you're soaking wet and you've got to run up a mountain."
One thing Martins prides herself on — no matter what the event — is camaraderie.
"For some teams there, it's all about the time. They'll leave the slower members behind. For us, it was all about doing it together, no matter how long it took us. We actually took on a team member that had been abandoned by her own teammates. She was scared of heights, and her team left her at an obstacle. So she finished the race with us."
Martins led a group in New Bedford's Santa Run 5K on Dec. 8 in preparation for Tough Mudder.
"We do these little races to keep us active. It's just so much fun when you have a team, it forces you to push a little harder, stay in the game a little longer," she said. "With group training, I feel like it's 10 times more magnetic than (one-on-one) training. It's just the amazing feeling of everyone coming together to accomplish one goal: to finish."
You might see Martin's crew in training.
Their preparation for extreme racing includes climbing walls next to The Herald News building, jumping down poles around Government Center, and running the Seven Hills' up President Avenue, along with running at Heritage State Park and Bicentennial Park.
They also train at Chaos Theory, an adult obstacle course in Berkley. Their training there includes flipping over 300-pound tires, jumping walls and climbing ropes.
Toni Delgado-Green, of Fall River, completed the Rugged Maniac as part of Martins' team. She said previously, "I'm intrigued by challenges. Fire to jump over, barbed wire. ... Just the thought of it gives me an adrenaline rush."
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Bennett learned OHL, emerged as best in 2014 classby Mike G. Morreale
TORONTO -- A little confidence went a long way in helping jumpstart the career of Kingston Frontenacs center Samuel Bennett.
There wasn't much pressure on Bennett entering 2012-13, his first season in the Ontario Hockey League, after being the ninth pick of the 2012 OHL draft. He played his game, learned the team's system and style of play, and gradually gained a familiarity with how he needed to perform in order to be successful.
"Entering my first year I didn't really know what to expect," Bennett told NHL.com. "I didn't really have too high goals for myself. But this year I definitely was expecting a lot more and I came into the league with a lot more confidence. Winning the World Under-18 Championship [in April 2013], getting that support from teammates and the coaching staff helped with my confidence."
Bennett began the 2013-14 season on fire, with 10 goals and 20 points in his first 10 games. He never really slowed down, finishing with 36 goals and 91 points in 57 games. He was ninth in the OHL in scoring, had a plus-34 rating and went on a league-high 25-game point streak during the season in which he totaled 17 goals and 46 points.
He then had five goals and four assists in seven OHL playoff games, and was named the top prospect for the 2014 NHL Draft by the Canadian Hockey League.
The 6-foot, 178-pound left-shot forward routinely played a 200-foot game and spent all season at No. 1 on NHL Central Scouting's ranking of the top North American skaters for the 2014 draft.
In a season where predicting the No. 1 pick has been no easy task, for Bennett to spend the season atop Central Scouting's midterm ranking in January and final ranking in April is impressive.
"It's quite an accomplishment [that Bennett was No. 1 from start to finish] because we have a core of solid players up to six deep in this draft that probably could challenge for the No. 1 spot," Central Scouting's David Gregory said. "You have a wide range of experts at Central and outside of this room saying a whole bunch of different players [could go No. 1]. By again earning the No. 1 ranking in our final release and hold up to the scrutiny of a large scouting staff like this and the hockey world in general, I do think that was quite an accomplishment."
Bennett improved his offensive numbers from his rookie season across the board, and went from a minus-2 last season to his team-best plus/minus total this season. He also proved he can be physical when needed, totaling 118 penalty minutes, well above the 87 he had last season.
Does Bennett, one of 119 prospects taking part in the NHL Scouting Combine this week, believe he's NHL-ready?
"I definitely have a lot of confidence and I guess it's up to the team, but this summer I'm going to work as hard as I can and when it comes to [training] camp, I'll do everything I can to prove to them that I'm ready to stay in the NHL," Bennett said. "I do feel my hockey sense and my compete level rivals any other in this draft class. The coaching staff has been very helpful all year, providing advice and telling me not to think about [the draft] too much. So whenever I was playing, I just wanted to put it out of my head and focus on my game."
Bennett's style of play has been compared to Kingston general manager and Hockey Hall of Fame center Doug Gilmour, who spent 20 seasons in the League with seven different teams.
"I have watched video of [Gilmour] and heard about him; he was my dad's favorite player," Bennett said. "My dad used to talk about him a lot. I'd say we have similar styles because my dad taught me to play like him. I've played feisty my whole life. I've continued to play that same style."
Bennett won three league awards in voting by OHL Eastern Conference coaches, including smartest player, best playmaker and best stick-handler. He also was voted third for best defensive forward.
"Being a two-way player is really important to me," Bennett said. "You can't play in the NHL if you're a one-dimensional player. I really take pride in the 200-foot game and playing both ends of the ice, so that's really important to me."
Spencer Watson, Bennett's linemate for much of the season, said playing alongside one of the best prospects in this year's draft class was a motivation for him. Watson, No. 59 on Central Scouting's final ranking of North American skaters, had 33 goals, 68 points and a plus-31 rating in 65 games.
"You are kind of forced to step up your game," Watson said of playing with Bennett. "I want to be at my best whenever I played with him; it certainly helped raise my game."
Bennett prepared for the Scouting Combine with athletic trainer Andy O'Brien, who has a number of prominent NHL clients, further preparing him for a possible jump to the NHL.
"He's so smart and it's really cool to train alongside players like Jeff Skinner and Jason Spezza," Bennett said. "It makes you even more determined when you see how hard those professional players train and how focused they are while training."


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Main suspect is owner of West Sacramento restaurant
(Sacramento) – State, federal and local law enforcement agencies today announced that "Operation Camaron" has snared 23 Sacramento-area suspects, several with alleged ties to a Mexican drug operation, and netted more than 550 pounds of methamphetamine and marijuana and $164,000 in cash.
In the most recent sweep, search warrants were served at 10 locations in the Sacramento area at the end of August, resulting in the arrest last week of 11 individuals, including Brandy Tellez, 24, owner of the El Venado restaurant in West Sacramento. Agents seized 20 pounds of methamphetamine, 450 pounds of marijuana, 15 firearms and $81,000 in cash. Earlier, 12 individuals were arrested and 85 pounds of marijuana and $83,000 in cash were seized.
Others arrested in the drug raid August 30 and 31 were: Edwin Balero, 26; Carlos Chaveste, 28; Ivan English, 23; Jose Noriega, 25; Armando Rivas, 32; Lorena Wong, 19; Anali Zazueta, 30; Jesus Zazueta, 26; Manuel Zazueta, 23; and Oscar Zazueta, 27; all of Sacramento. The suspects are being held at the Sacramento County Jail.
Operation Camaron was launched in November when agents began focusing on the activities of Tellez. It was determined that Tellez and other suspects had ties to a Mexican drug organization.
Operation Camaron is the joint effort of U.S. Customs and the Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team, which includes representatives from the Yolo County District Attorney's Office; Yolo County Sheriff's Office; the police departments of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters and Woodland; and the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. Assisting in the recent service of search warrants were agents from the California Highway Patrol and Sacramento Police Department.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Some Channel 4 viewers may remember John Palumbo -- he used to do a segment for The Morning Show where he would give financial advice.
Well now Palumbo is giving some traveling advice.
While traveling in Africa, a pick pocketer took his things. When Palumbo chased after him, he tripped and broke both shoulders.
Palumbo is currently living in an assisted living facility. Although this has not been an easy situation to go thorough, he is staying positive and said he wants to encourage everyone to get travel insurance.
He said it saved him tens of thousands of dollars and it made this whole ordeal a lot easier.
"There will never be another bad day for me. There will never be another bad day. Not after this," Palumbo said. "This ranks right up there with traumatic experiences."
It's hard to have another bad day after someone has gone through what John Palumbo has -- being pick-pocketed in Africa and falling and breaking both shoulders while chasing after the thief.
Palumbo said he is so thankful he is going to make a full recovery but is even more thankful that he had travel insurance.
"Good lord. Thank goodness I got it," Palumbo said. "I don't even want to fathom the thought of what it would have taken to get home without it."
Palumbo said he travels a lot but says anyone who goes more than a few miles from home, even if it's just once a year, needs travel insurance.
"All you gotta do is look at me," Palumbo said. "I'm sitting here with two busted arms. I have zero capability of moving for the next month or two and I got home safe and sound because I had travelers insurance that got me here."
Tens of thousands of dollars is what Palumbo said he saved because of his travel insurance. He had a skilled nurse by his side within hours who took care of him throughout his whole trip home to Jacksonville.
"Even as weird as I look in all these braces, I still feel very good and I see the end at the light of the tunnel and I look forward to a full recovery," Palumbo said.
Palumbo said there are many different types of travel insurance so there is an option for any kind of traveler. He encourages everyone to look into it so they'll be protected in an emergency situation just like he was.
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At SF State, students acquire these skills and this knowledge through General Education (GE) courses, courses in a major, and perhaps courses in a minor or elective courses. All are important parts of the overall experience of a baccalaureate education.
SF State awards three baccalaureate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), the Bachelor of Science (B.S.), and the Bachelor of Music (B.M.). Requirements for all three degrees are listed on the following pages. Consult your major department for specific degree requirements.
Completion of a major is a graduation requirement. A major is a study in depth -- a focused area of study that requires the student to take a specific set of courses that lead to a deep understanding of a particular subject matter. At SF State there are over 100 undergraduate majors. Choosing a major involves declaring this choice at the time of admission or consulting with faculty advisers and then submitting a Change of Major form to the department office of the intended major.
Typically, students declare their major during their sophomore year after completing most of their lower division General Education requirements. Students who are undecided about their major may identify themselves as undeclared. Being undeclared provides the opportunity to explore a variety of courses in different areas of interest. Students who enter SF State as freshmen must declare a major by the time they complete 70 units.
Some majors are identified as impacted, or high demand, majors. Generally, more students than can be accommodated have selected these areas of study as their majors. An impacted major includes supplemental admission requirements. When declaring a major, be sure to determine whether or not there are special requirements to enter that major. Such majors require that students meet specific prerequisites before gaining admission.
The following rules apply to all undergraduate majors:
Students may also elect to complete a minor if it is possible to complete the minor and major within 120 units. Like a major, the minor is a focused area of study; however, a minor does not require as many units. Currently, at SF State, only the Journalism major requires a minor to earn a bachelor's degree.
The following policies apply to completion of an approved minor:
Your major provides study in depth in one subject matter, often one directly related to a particular career. General Education (GE), on the other hand, involves study in breadth -- for acquiring knowledge and skills for a range of future experiences throughout life, for providing the intellectual agility to move from one career to another, and for making future contributions in a number of possible communities. The University requires students to complete 48 units of General Education requirements (GE).
Segment I of GE is designed to improve students' basic skills in writing, speaking, and reasoning. Segment II of GE provides a breadth of knowledge about human creativity past and present, about different ways of knowing, and about the role of science and technology in modern life. Segment III of GE draws upon several disciplines to study a particular topic. GE at SF State satisfies the General Education Breadth Requirements of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.
The Basic Subjects curriculum develops skills in effective written and oral communication, builds critical thinking abilities, and develops greater competence in mathematical analysis.
The Arts and Sciences Core helps students develop an understanding of the contributions to and influences on our world of the physical and biological sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. Students study human accomplishments past and present, are introduced to different ways of analyzing and understanding the natural and created environment, and may participate actively in creative endeavors.
Through study of the physical and biological sciences, students develop an understanding of the role of science and technology in modern life. Students apply the scientific method through a laboratory course or field experience.
Study of the behavioral and social sciences develops skills for analyzing and understanding human behavior -- individually and in groups, past and present, here and elsewhere in the world -- and fosters civic and global responsibility and an appreciation for diverse values and cultural traditions.
In the humanities and arts, students explore fundamental questions regarding human values, aesthetics, and expression. Such study stimulates reflective thinking, imagination, and creativity; increases civic and global responsibility; and cultivates moral and ethical action.
Within Segment II, students gain understandings useful to their lifelong personal development (LLD—Lifelong Development), to their development as active and constructive participants in a diverse society (AERM—American and Ethnic Racial Minorities), and to their awareness of the scientific method (L/F—Laboratory or Field component).
Segment III, Relationships of Knowledge, provides a focused and coherent study of a theme that challenges students to integrate and apply skills and knowledge. Each theme includes one or more courses that address the diversity of human experience, values, and contributions (CESD—Cultural, Ethnic, or Social Diversity).
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Segment II: Arts and Sciences Core (including AERM, LLD, and L/F components)
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Certificate programs provide individuals the opportunity to develop specialized skills in areas that may complement majors or minors. These programs focus on a narrow spectrum of knowledge or skills and require fewer units than a major. SF State's College of Extended Learning also offers certificate programs. Students who are pursing a baccalaureate degree and certificate at the same time may only do so if they can complete them within 120 units.
Pre-credential programs are offered for students interested in pursuing teaching credentials after completing the baccalaureate degree. Students may complete preparatory course work as an undergraduate student and are encouraged to seek advising from the College of Education's Credential Services Teacher Preparation Center, the Liberal Studies office and/or the Child and Adolescent Development Program.
Pre-professional programs are available for students who are interested in pursuing professional school studies after the baccalaureate degree.
For information and referral, consult the University Bulletin and/or the Advising Center.
Subject to restrictions imposed by the CSU Chancellor's Office, in rare instances a student who already holds a bachelor's degree may apply for admission to work toward a second baccalaureate degree. If approved, the student will be admitted to the undergraduate program, typically at the senior level. Check CSU Mentor (www.csumentor.edu) for programs open to second baccalaureate applications.
Students who have earned a bachelor's degree from a campus in the CSU system will be held to the residence requirement at SF State (30 minimum/24 upper division) and the requirements of the new major. An Advanced Standing Evaluation (ASE) and/or Degree Audit Report (DARS) will indicate that requirements in General Education, Written English, and U.S. History and Government have been met.
Students who earned a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution outside of the CSU system will be held to all SF State graduation requirements. Work completed in fulfillment of the earlier degree will be evaluated as transfer credit. An Advanced Standing Evaluation (ASE) and/or Degree Audit Report (DARS) will indicate requirements to be met (i.e., General Education, GWAR, Basic Information Competence Requirement, U.S. History and Government).
Whether or not the second baccalaureate degree is ever completed, none of the credits earned may later be considered for post-baccalaureate status at this University. The only possible exception is in the last semester before the award of the degree as provided for under the section Courses in Excess of Bachelor Degree Requirements.
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If I were to arrive at 12.30pm for a feed and my daughter was having a nap. Should I wake her? Or would it be better just to express at the childminder's home and then return to work?
A lot of babies will latch in their sleep -- or with very minimal rousing. (Mine did.) You could snuggle her to you and brush her cheek/lips with your nipple (maybe express a little milk so she can smell it) and she'll probably just start rooting instinctively. She might not even wake up - when done you might even be able to put her down and sneak away again so she continues napping
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Also, any advice on how can I ensure that my daughter will be hungry for her 12.30 and 3.00 feeds (when I will be with her)?
I used to ask my daycare not to give any bottles within 1 hr of pickup, so they knew to time that last bottle about 30 mins before that. I also gave them some small frozen packets as "toppers" (they were willing to keep them in their freezer) for "emergency use" -- that way, very occasionally when baby was clearly still hungry within 1 hr of pickup, they could give him a 1-2 oz snack, but it didn't interfere with our nursing on pickup.
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Racing fever has hit New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the entire staff is gearing up for a historic and highly anticipated season of speed. Executive vice president and general manager, Jerry Gappens joined the fun Saturday, by taking calls from fans and selling tickets for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series LENOX Industrial Tools 301.
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THE son and daughter of Valerie Graves have appealed for information to help the police investigation into her death after at a press conference today (January 3).
Detectives from Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team launched a murder inquiry after the 55-year-old was found dead in a house in Smugglers Lane, Bosham, on Monday (December 30).
Her daughter Jemima Harrison and son Tim Wood, said: "Our mum was much loved and will be sorely missed by the whole family.
"She was a free spirit who enjoyed her life and was a talented artist. She had lived in Scotland for about ten years, a place she loved and which inspired her passion for art.
"She had moved back to Sussex to look after her mum as family was important to her.
"We had been lucky to spend time with mum over Christmas and she had a lovely family time, especially with her two grandchildren.
"She had been looking forward to seeing her young granddaughter grow up and was interested in her grandson's musical ambitions.
"This has been devastating for the family and has come as a complete shock.
"We would appeal to anyone who has any information about this, no matter how trivial it is, to contact police to help them catch whoever has done this."
Miss Graves was house-sitting at the property with her sister, their elderly mother and her sister's partner, over the Christmas period while the owner was away on holiday.
She was found dead in a ground-floor bedroom at 9.50am on Monday by a member of her family.
A postmortem has revealed she died from significant head and facial injuries.
Detective Superintendent Nick May said: "We are interested in hearing from anyone who knows someone who may have come home wearing different clothes or with blood stained clothing on Sunday night or Monday. Also if you have been asked to wash any bloodstained clothes or been asked to dispose of clothing.
"We are keeping an open mind as to the motive but we are looking at different lines of enquiry including that this was someone who knew Valerie or someone unconnected to her.
"We are still appealing for witnesses who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously or anything unusual in the area from late afternoon on Sunday, December 29, to around 10am on Monday, December 30.
"Please call us if you know anything, no matter how insignificant you might think it is. It could be important to the investigation.
"This has been devastating and traumatic for the victim's family, some of whom have been brave enough to come here and make an appeal.
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Chief Inspector Tanya Jones, district commander for Chichester, said: "We are doing all we can to reassure the residents of Bosham.
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I was browsing one of my Google alerts today, and look what I discovered:
She had an extremely popular daytime talk show for 11 seasons and has just produced the new documentary, "The Business Of Being Born." Wednesday, RICKI LAKE will join me to talk about her incredible documentary that examines childbirth. I'll ask her how it feels to have a film of her giving birth in a bathtub, in theaters across America, why she thinks a homebirth with a midwife might be safer than in a hospital and how her new single life is going.
Ricki Lake will be on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday, December 19 if you're interested in watching it! Click here to find out when the show airs in your area.
Now if only we could get OPRAH interested in these sorts of topics . . .


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There's a popcorn shop in downtown Chicago that generates long tourist lines, and most locals, like me, don't get it. I don't think the popcorn is better than at any other place that puts a little effort into its popcorn, and if your time in Chicago is limited, waiting for this popcorn seems like a waste.
But, that said, checking out the views from atop the Willis Tower or John Hancock Center? Absolutely. Visiting Millennium Park? A must. The architecture boat tour on the Chicago River? Essential. Wrigley Field? There's no better place on a warm afternoon. Even deep-dish pizza is worth your time if you've never had it (I suggest Art of Pizza or Lou Malnati's).
Every great city has its tourism cliches, and some are worth doing while others are not. But which is which?
I reached out to experts, friends and social media contacts across the country to weigh in on some of the busiest tourism cities. Answers were edited for space and clarity.
Las Vegas
Do: 1. The Bellagio fountains still take my breath away. 2. A quick — and free — visit to the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign on the south Strip is worth doing for the people watching alone.
Don't: 1. Clubbing. Unless you have prearranged for table service, it really is just miserable. 2. I can't figure out the long line of people waiting to get inside the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop from "Pawn Stars."
Los Angeles
Do: 1. The Griffith Observatory. 2. The Getty art museum (it's free, but you have to pay to park). 3. For great people watching, the Venice Beach boardwalk.
Don't: 1. The Hollywood "Walk of Fame" is dirty and crowded. You'll be bored after 15 minutes. 2. Don't waste money on a "See the Stars' Homes" bus tour. All you see are giant fences and foliage.
New Orleans
Do: 1. Mardi Gras day on the Zulu route. 2. The Algiers ferry across the Mississippi River for the heck of it. 3. Commander's Palace. 4. Frenchmen Street is more interesting than Bourbon Street.
Don't: 1. Preservation Hall. I realize that some jazz fans can't resist, but for me, it's too often worn-out standards played indifferently in a city where there's livelier music every 10 feet. 2. I feel bad when I see people standing outside in the heat waiting at Mother's Restaurant. The food just isn't that good.
New York City
Do: 1. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan and up to Chinatown for dim sum. 2. Grand Central Station. 3. Stuff on the water (Governors Island, Roosevelt Island, Red Hook, bridges, boat rides). It's an island city. Appreciate that. 4. Katz's Delicatessen on the Lower East Side. The atmosphere is tops, and the food is still amazing.
Don't: 1. Magnolia Bakery, made famous by "Sex and the City" — mediocre and overpriced. 2. Stand in line for everything; the city has too many options to waste your day on one thing. 3. Shop at the same chain stores on Fifth Avenue that you find in any midsize American city.
Do: 1. Tour Independence Hall and see the Liberty Bell. 2. Cheesesteak at Dalessandro's, in the Roxborough neighborhood. 3. Run up the art museum steps just like Rocky. Everybody else in town has done it.
Don't: 1. Go to Pat's or Geno's for cheesesteak. Long lines, not great and too expensive.
San Francisco
Do: 1. Ride a cable car (preferably the Powell line, preferably hanging off the side). It's one of the best thrills $6 can buy.
Don't: 1. Fisherman's Wharf is all tourist shops.
Do: 1. The Pike Place Market. Go early to beat the crowds. Watch the flower sellers arranging their bundles. Have breakfast at Lowell's and enjoy the views of the passing ferries.
Don't: 1. The Space Needle. It's not that tall, and you can't see a thing if it's cloudy (remember this is Seattle). You can appreciate the architecture better from the ground.
Washington, D.C.
Do: 1. The Smithsonian, the Holocaust Museum, Lincoln Memorial (especially at night) and the changing of the guard at Arlington National Cemetery are all great and free. 2. The National Mall is a treasure, filled with tourists from across the world.
Don't: 1. Museums where you have to pay — the International Spy Museum, the Newseum — are a waste in a town with far better free museums.
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Loyola press release - April 3, 2012
Student cooking teams from southeastern Louisiana will return to Loyola University New Orleans to battle it out during the 2012 Iron Chef competition on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Danna Student Center's St. Charles Room. The free event is open to the public and presented by the Loyola Asian Student Organization and sponsored by Think Tank, Eiffel Society, the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans and local celebrity chef, John Besh.
Competitors this year include Loyola teams from the Asian Student Organization, Muslim Student Association, International Student Association and National Pan Hellenic Council, as well as the University of New Orleans Vietnamese American Student Association, Xavier University Asian Association and Tulane University Vietnamese Association.
The event will also feature special guest judges and a silent auction sponsored by the New Orleans Hornets and New Orleans Saints. Culinary offerings will be available for purchase from Sushi Brothers, Mikimoto, Five Happiness, La Thai, Bangkok Thai, Koz's, Come Back Inn and Bayou Hot Wings. Proceeds raised during the evening will be donated to LASO's spotlight charity, Children of Vietnam, a foundation that provides needy Vietnamese children with good nutrition, life saving medical care, safe and secure housing and access to education.
For more information on Iron Chef 2012, contact LASO Social Chair Loan Do at firstname.lastname@example.com.