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What if new functions could protect cell phone carriers from toxic chemicals?
Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate's (S&T) Cell-All is an initiative to equip cell phones with a sensor capable of detecting deadly chemicals. A chip costing less than a dollar is embedded in the phone and programmed to either alert the carrier to the presence of toxic chemicals in the air, and/or a central station that can monitor how many alerts in an area are being received. One might be a false positive. Hundreds might indicate the need for evacuation.
"Our goal is to create a lightweight, cost-effective, power-efficient solution," says Stephen Dennis, Cell-All's program manager.
How would this wizardry work? Just as antivirus software bides its time in the background and springs to life when it spies suspicious activity, so Cell-All would regularly sniff the surrounding air for certain volatile chemical compounds.
When a threat is sensed, an alert ensues in one of two ways. For personal safety issues such as a chlorine gas leak, a warning is sounded; the user can choose a vibration, noise, text message or phone call. For catastrophes such as a sarin gas attack, details—including time, location and the compound—are phoned home to an emergency operations center. While the first warning is beamed to individuals, the second warning works best with crowds. And that's where the genius of Cell-All lies—in crowd sourcing human safety.
Currently, if a person suspects that something is amiss, he might dial 9-1-1, though behavioral science tells us that it's easier to do nothing. And, as is often the case when someone phones in an emergency, the caller may be difficult to understand, diminishing the quality of information that's relayed to first responders. An even worse scenario: the person may not even be aware of the danger, like the South Carolina woman who last year drove into a colorless, odorless, and poisonous ammonia cloud.
In contrast, anywhere a chemical threat breaks out—a mall, a bus, subway or office—Cell-All will alert the authorities automatically. Detection, identification, and notification all take place in less than 60 seconds. Because the data are delivered digitally, Cell-All reduces the chance of human error. And by activating alerts from many people at once, Cell-All cleverly avoids the long-standing problem of false positives. The end result: emergency responders can get to the scene sooner and cover a larger area—essentially anywhere people are, casting a wider net than stationary sensors can.
And the privacy issue? Does this always-on surveillance mean that the government can track your precise whereabouts whenever it wants? To the contrary, Cell-All will operate only on an opt-in basis and will transmit data anonymously.
In 2007, S&T called upon the private sector to develop concepts of operations. Today, thanks to increasingly successful prototype demonstrations, the Directorate is actively funding the next step in R&D—a proof of principle—to see if the concept is workable. To this end, three teams from Qualcomm, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Rhevision Technology are perfecting their specific area of expertise. Qualcomm engineers specialize in miniaturization and know how to shepherd a product to market. Scientists from the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA's Ames Research Center have experience with chemical sensing on low-powered platforms, such as the International Space Station. And technologists from Rhevision have developed an artificial nose—a piece of porous silicon that changes colors in the presence of certain molecules, which can be read spectrographically.
Similarly, S&T is pursuing what's known as cooperative research and development agreements with four cell phone manufacturers: Qualcomm, LG, Apple and Samsung. These written agreements, which bring together a private company and a government agency for a specific project, often accelerate the commercialization of technology developed for government purposes. As a result, Dennis hopes to have 40 prototypes in about a year, the first of which will sniff out carbon monoxide and fire.


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Everyone looks better with a tan, and the Whitecaps FC squad was filled with finely darkened skin tones at training on Tuesday. Two weeks in Casa Grande, Arizona, will do that to you. But Martin Rennie's bunch were on no vacation, and it showed at training. Two 1-1 results with upper-echelon MLS clubs Seattle Sounders FC and Real Salt Lake have given the team confidence, and now they look to carry that forward through the rest of preseason. There was also a new face at Tuesday's session, with Ghanaian trialist Nuru Suley (pictured) added to the mix.
Hear from an assortment of players, as they talk about returning to Vancouver and continuing to build towards the 2012 MLS season.
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Out of the heartache of her own personal tragedy, Kristen Brown discovered her inner strength and the ability to help and inspire others.
Out of the heartache of her own personal tragedy, Kristen Brown discovered her inner strength and the ability to help and inspire others.
Brown, the former Kristen Larson, a 1994 Montevideo High School graduate, has written two books — "The Best Worst Thing" and "The Happy Hour Effect: 12 Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life" — that have both hit the Amazon bestseller list.
Brown's first book, published in 2011, chronicles her journey through her early years of widowhood, following the death of her husband, Todd Brown, a 1995 MHS graduate.
Todd was 30 years old and seemingly a picture of health when he died on Sept. 7, 2007, at the age of 30.
"I was widowed at the age of 31 when our daughter (Brooke) was just a baby, followed a couple of weeks later by a challenging job situation and then the downfall of the economy," said Kristen. "I had major personal and professional stress happening all at once and it was not pretty. But I realized after a few months of suffering, illness and near mental collapse, that I had to find a way to manage my stress and be a role model for my daughter.
"I started reading, writing and taking classes on wellness, psychology, grief, stress and every other self-help topic you can think of."
It was through writing "The Best Worst Thing" that Brown discovered her true calling of writing and speaking to inspire others. In 2009, she started a company called Happy Hour Effect that "helps people to minimize stress and maximize life despite the challenges that come along every day."
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Blackstone Backs Out of Fight for Dell, and More
Blackstone Group has ended its pursuit of Dell; The FAA is expected to end a three-month grounding of all Boeing 787 Dreamliners; Boston authorities conduct a city-wide manhunt for a suspect in the marathon bombing. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Getty.
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Relatives of the honeymooning bride killed in a car crash are still stunned by what happened. They remain "devastated" by the incident and say it's "unfathomable" that within a week's time the bride and her husband experienced both the best and worst days of their lives.
ROLLINSFORD — Relatives of the woman killed in a car wreck by an alleged drunken driver on Route 4 while on their honeymoon say they are "devastated" and that it is "unfathomable" that within a week's time, the newlyweds had both the best and worst days of their lives.
According to WMUR, the family of Leah Fonda Preiss, 30, of St. Paul, Minn., released a public statement about the incident.
"We all are left with a gaping hole in our lives, and there are no words to describe our sudden loss of an amazing woman," the statement reads.
Her family said she was a woman who fell in love with a man she had known for many years as a friend and was a kind, loving person with a "quiet strength."
She was killed just one week after her wedding and a little more than a week before her 31st birthday "at the hands of someone who acted carelessly and irresponsibly by drinking and driving," the statement reads.
Matthew Tsopas, 43, of Somersworth was arraigned Monday on felony charges of negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated after allegedly causing the crash that killed the new bride on her honeymoon and injured her husband, Brian Preiss, also of St. Paul.
Preiss, 30, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is recovering from internal injuries and facial cuts. He was in surgery Wednesday and his condition has been upgraded to good, according to WMUR.
Tsopas is being held on $250,000 cash bail at the Strafford County Department of Corrections, according to Strafford County Administrator Raymond Bower.
Tsopas has been an inmate since Tuesday after being released from Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, where he was arraigned bedside while recovering from crash-related injuries.
Strafford County Attorney Tom Velardi said Tsopas was alert and able to answer questions from Judge Stephen Morrison, who traveled to the hospital to preside over Monday's arraignment.
Police say Tsopas was drinking at the Martel Roberge American Legion Post No. 47 in Rollinsford on Saturday afternoon before he got behind the wheel of an Infiniti G35 and departed.
Police say Tsopas was driving west on Route 4 when he crossed the centerline and slammed into an oncoming Kia Spectra. A witness reported the Infiniti was attempting to pass another car at the time.
Inside the Kia were Preiss and Fonda, Minnesota natives who were traveling through New England on their honeymoon. Fonda, who was in the passenger seat, was gravely injured in the crash. She succumbed to her injuries after being transported to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital.
Tsopas faces two counts of negligent homicide. One alleges he is responsible for the death because he drank alcohol or took drugs before driving on Saturday. A second charge alleges he failed to maintain control of the car.
He is also charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence and two complaints regarding conduct after an accident, Velardi said.
Speaking outside the hospital Monday, Velardi said it is likely that Tsopas will face additional charges in connection with conduct at the American Legion building before the crash.
According to a state police affidavit, Tsopas assaulted an employee and another individual at the Legion building, located at 319 Foundry St., and struck four cars in the parking lot with his Infiniti before leaving Saturday.
Police say he crashed his Infiniti on Route 4 a short time later, near the intersection of Old Mill Lane. Tsopas attempted to flee the crash scene but was confronted by a man who lives in the neighborhood, according to court documents. Police allege Tsopas struck the man in the face and attempted to hit him with a stick, then fled into a gully, where he was eventually detained by a Dover police officer.
"Officer Sean Kennedy could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person," the police affidavit states.
Tsopas was then taken to the hospital and later arrested. Velardi said police administered a blood-alcohol test, but he declined to comment on the results.
Tsopas was an employee of Executive Furnishings in Stratham, according to Velardi, who quoted from a brief biography contained on the company's website while speaking with media outside the hospital.
Information regarding Tsopas was gone from the website by Monday afternoon. A cached version available on Google indicates Tsopas was an operations manager overseeing interior design at the company, which he joined in 2003. He grew up in the Seacoast area, according to the website.
A portion of Route 4 in Rollinsford was blocked off for several hours on Saturday as emergency first responders worked at the scene.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Tournament of TV Fanatic: Jared Padalecki vs. Paul Wesley!Steve Marsi at . Comments
Welcome back, fans, to the 1st annual Tournament of TV Fanatic!
It's time for you, TV Fanatics, to choose your favorite CW star! We will be conducting surveys among fan favorites from across the network. The concept is easy: Pick your favorite of the two pairs in each poll. That's it!
Round two began with Ian Somerhalder and Rachel Bilson, then Leighton Meester and Shane West squaring off. Today, it's Supernatural's Jared Padalecki against TVD's Paul Wesley, who each cruised in round one.
So which star do you love most, Jared or Paul? VOTE!
Jared Padalecki or Paul Wesley: Which CW star do you love more? Cast your vote right here, right now in this second round Tournament of TV Fanatic matchup! View Poll »
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REMINDER: If your favorite didn't make the cut, there will also be a wild card round, on top of CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC and miscellaneous (HBO, USA, etc.) brackets! The winners will then compete for the overall tournament title!
Here's the CW bracket through round one:
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Burger ban begins at Forest Green Rovers football club
Burgers and sausages have been banned from being sold to fans at Forest Green Rovers football club.
The move was introduced for players at the Blue Square Bet Premier club a few weeks ago but now the policy has been extended to the whole stadium.
What could possibly inspire this lurch towards health faddism?
The Gloucestershire club is owned by Dale Vince who is a vegan who runs green electricity company Ecotricity.
Say no more. Never let it be said that vegan eco-mentalists are the type to inflict their lifestyle choices upon the unwilling.
Free-range poultry and fish from sustainable stocks will continue to be served.
From which you might rightly infer that this is not just about hamburgers. There will be no sale of any red meat at the theatre of dreams that is Forest Green Rovers' football ground.
Communications director Tom Williams said: "Following discussions with the manager and on nutritional advice, it was decided to no longer feed our team red meat for health and performance reasons."
And how's that been working out for the players? Let's have a quick look at the league table...
Narrowly avoiding the drop in the nation's fifth division, Forest Green might want to get a second opinion on the nutritional advice they've been receiving. But since that advice has been coming less from "discussions with the manager" as from discussions with the club's tree-hugging chairman, a second opinion might be out of the question.
There are, of course, no "health and performance reasons" why football players shouldn't eat red meat and no Premiership manager enforces such a ban. So you have to ask who knows how to get the best out of their players—Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, or the owner of a club currently making up the numbers in the Blue Square league.
"[It has now been] decided that this policy should be extended to the stadium, at least in part as a further step in establishing ourselves as a "green" organisation.
Mr Vince added that "if red meat was not good enough to feed our players, then it wasn't good enough for our staff, fans and visitors too".
Firstly, red meat is good enough to feed the players. Secondly, there's nothing green about refusing to use livestock that has been bred locally in favour of fish that has brought back to land using dirty great trawlers. And thirdly, even if we leave aside the futile, faddish and scientifically unenlightened dietary regime inflicted on the bemused journeymen who make up the Forest Green Rovers team, the spectators are not playing the game. There is no requirement that people watching sport have to measure up to any standard of athleticism. What other form of entertainment demands the audience adopt the lifestyles of the performers?
This is exactly the sort of garbage we heard when football clubs started unilaterally banning smoking everywhere in their stadiums (including at the bar)—this ridiculous fantasy that everyone involved in the sporting spectacle has to stay fit and healthy. They don't, they aren't, and if they were they'd be playing it instead of watching it.
He said: "At its worst it means once every two weeks watching a football game without being able to eat red meat.
"Anybody that [sic] really needs it can bring a ham sandwich or something if they wish - that's no problem."
Well, it will be a problem for you, Mr Vince, if everyone does bring their own food—and I dearly hope they will—because it will lose you a source of revenue on match day. But then, as the owner of a "green electricity company" which can only be kept afloat with massive government subsidies, the workings of real-world economics may yet be a mystery to you.


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- How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes
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Apple Does Not Have More Cash Than The US Gov't; Stop Saying That It Does
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This is wrong. And it is stupid. Please stop repeating it.
The US government can print cash. It does not run out of cash. The numbers being talked about concerning the debt ceiling represent an artificial limit, set by the government, on how much the US can borrow (debt) in order to finance its operations (set in a budget by the federal government itself). What the Apple comparison treats as government "cash" is just the difference between what the government is (artificially) permitted to borrow and what it has borrowed already.
None of this has anything to do with how much cash the government has on hand. Comparing the distance to the debt ceiling with the amount of cash anyone has is comparing two totally different things, and while it sounds nice, it's a silly political ploy and it makes you look silly. A more accurate comparison would be of something like how much money I have in my wallet right now to how much money Bill Gates' arbitrarily promised his wife he would take out of the bank this year. The comparison is totally meaningless and stupid. Please stop making it.


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An apologetic burglar who stole a lawn mower returned it to the victim and confessed his crime.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Monday, March 17, how Rhys Morton, 18, of Hill Tops View, Matlock, stole the lawn mower from a neighbour's home as well as tools from another home's shed.
But prosecuting solicitor Bill Taylor said: "Morton turned up at a complainant's home and said I'm sorry I've stolen this lawn mower. He said he felt guilty and returned the items."
Morton was in court for breaching and failing to comply with a community order and unpaid work originally given to him in November for the admitted burglary and theft and for a separate robbery.
Defence solicitor Steve Brint said Morton has mental health issues and domestic difficulties. Magistrates sentenced Morton to 16 weeks of custody suspended for 12 months and placed him under a supervision requirement.


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A new book entitled Classic Ford Tractors: An Album of Favorite Ford and Fordson Farm Tractors is designed as a photo album packed with images and detailed captions to provide a colorful overview of these popular farm tractors. Written by Cletus Hohman, the book covers the all-American vintage machines from the lightweight "mechanical mule," which was the pioneering Fordson, to the 9N and 2N and the refined model 8N.
It covers the history of the revolutions in farming brought on by Henry Ford and provides colorful stories about key Ford personnel, such as Harry Ferguson and Harold L. Brock, who were involved in engineering Ford tractors.
The book is organized chronologically and includes a list of sources of information about specific tractor models.
The Field Guide to Farmall Tractors by Robert N. Pripps and Andrew Morland is an easy-to-use pocket guidebook to Farmall tractors. The book provides brief histories, model runs, specification details and color photos of more than 50 models of Farmall tractors. It contains a wealth of information about the row-crop tractor of the 1920s that could literally "farm all."
Classic Ford Tractors and The Field Guide to Farmall Tractors cost $19.95 each and are available in bookstores. If you have problems finding a copy, call Voyageur Press at 800/888-9653 or visit wwwvoyageurpress.com.


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New music from The Polyphonic Spree and Gogol Bordello this morning. We also heard sisters Jaspar Lepak and Janelle Loes in advance of their concert at the Harriet Bandshell, both visiting songwriters although Jaspar has maintained her connection to the Twin Cities since moving out west.
You heard new Buddy Guy featuring Beth Hart, Robert Randolph presenting The Slide Brothers, and new music from a seasoned singer who's done supporting stints with many well-known pop artists and is finally getting some traction on her own: Carsie Blanton. Look her up, it will be worth your while.
New music from Superchunk and Tedeschi Trucks Band (both out this week), as well as new Garifuna Collective, Trombone Shorty, mellow tones from Hiatus Kaiyote (thanks Radio Pocho for the tip) and good ol' Reverend Horton Heat in advance of their show at First Avenue on Thursday.
This morning's show started with a beautiful Temple of Sound piece dedicated in memory of Hussein Samatar, founder of the first Somali-language program on KFAI and an incredible force in our community who will be dearly missed. We heard new music this morning from Franz Ferdinand, Moreland & Arbuckle and Baltimore's Red Sammy—likely not heard anywhere else but worth a listen! Check the playlist for more fun new and not-forgotten not-so-new music…
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The use of robots has increased dramatically in the past three decades, transforming industries and jobs around the world.
Now, the technology is increasingly turning up in hospitals alongside doctors, radically changing the future of surgery.
Saima Mohsin travels to Eindhoven in the Netherlands to meet a team based at Technische Universiteit which has robots that help surgeons carry out complex eye surgery.
The system uses robotic arms that translate the surgeons large movements into precise incisions, whilst also allowing the surgeon to feel the force of his or her actions.
The technology - which could greatly reduce the risk of damaging the eye - could be found in hospital operating theatres within the next five years.
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by Tom Utescher
The men's soccer team at Chestnut Hill College progressed three games into the season without a loss against some good competition, but the host Griffins hit a roadblock in their fourth outing, playing under the lights at Victory Field last Tuesday.
Visiting St. Thomas Aquinas College scored twice in the opening half and the Spartans padded their lead in the second frame for a 3-0 victory over CHC, which saw its record slip to 2-1-1 overall.
Chestnut Hill had opened its Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference schedule with a 1-0 win over Nyack College, and had defeated West Chester University, a long-established Division II program, by the same score. The Griffins had also forged a 0-0 tie against California University of Pa., which was ranked 12th in the nation in Division II at the time.
The Spartans of St. Thomas hail from about 15 miles north of New York City, and like many teams in that vicinity, they have a sampling of foreign talent and a high soccer IQ overall. They were physically compact, but well-skilled and very fit.
The northern division of the CACC includes a number of suburban New York schools, and after the St. Thomas match Chestnut Hill head coach Keith Cappo pointed out, "When we get more into our conference schedule, we'll see teams similar to this. They're well-coached, they're very well organized on the field, and they have a lot of depth.
"Our schedule is set up on purpose to challenge our guys," he went on. "We can't really look ahead at any game and say we're going to run away with this one or that one."
Through much of the first half, the Spartans beat Chestnut Hill to the ball in the air and on the ground, and when they didn't have it, they kept the pressure on the host team. The visitors consistently were able to deliver the ball to the feet of their team mates, while at times it was difficult to determine where the Griffins were aiming their passes.
At least the teams were even on the scoreboard for about 25 minutes, then the Spartans pumped in a pair of goals in a five-minute span. Remmington Lee ran onto a loose ball in the right side of the box and scored inside the left post, then the visitors' Daniel Davron converted a cross from Ethan Evans.
"We were a little antsy and we weren't playing our game," commented CHC's Cappo. "We pressed a little too much trying to just get the ball forward, and when that opened up space for them they took advantage of it. We hadn't been behind in any of our first three games, and we need to learn to respond to that."
Chestnut Hill got loose in transition to pose a few serious scoring threats, but these rushes were always followed by another stretch where the Spartans controlled the ball for several minutes.
Cappo related, "We made some changes at halftime and I think we controlled the run of play for much of the second half, but when you're already down two goals it's tough to get back in it."
The hosts were able to sustain attacks on the St. Thomas goal and get off multiple shots, as opposed to their one-and-done charges of the opening half.
One of the changes Chestnut Hill made at the intermission was to replace veteran junior goalie Michael Goldstein (eight saves), who stands 5'8", with 6'2" freshman Dave Sullivan.
"The goalie change," Cappo explained, "was simply because they were trying to play a lot of balls high. We tried to take some of that away with Dave, who gave us a little more height in the cage. It was part of a tactical move to give us a different look out there."
Sullivan wasn't credited with any saves in the box score, but he did pull down some long balls served into the penalty area.
Despite their improved look on offense, the hosts couldn't make a dent on the scoreboard, and late in the game the Spartans asserted themselves once more. A clump of players massed near the right post of the CHC goal with a little over seven minutes remaining, and Sean Devito bodied the ball across the line for St. Thomas, fixing the final score at 3-0.


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The Brentwood Country Mart opened on November 18, 1948. Designed by architect Rowland Crawford and built (in a mere six months) by the Baruch Corporation, the red-board structure evokes early American and English country marketplaces, with shops and stalls arranged around a central courtyard.
Intended as the West Side version of Los Angeles's famed Farmer's Market (at Fairfax and Third), the Brentwood Country Mart was even more ambitiously conceived as "a new type of all-in-one service center" with its 27 shops and stalls offering an impressive slate of products and services, from the everyday to the exotic.
A vigorous advertising campaign followed the opening, touting the market as an "innovation in modern merchandising," and establishing the sign of the golden ram as an emblem of quality and economy.
Simultaneously, celebrities were deployed to imbue its image with a glamorous cachet which, indeed, it soon possessed, as evidenced by its frequent mention in society columns as a favorite haunt of Hollywood stars. At the end of its first year, the Brentwood Country Mart was proclaimed a success in the local press, and the public invited to share in its first birthday celebration, with "entertainment galore and fun for everyone."
By 1950 it had become home to groups of Brownies, pharmacists, dancers, plant aficionados, and charities, which, in addition to regular meetings, held classes, exhibitions, rallies, fundraisers, parties, fashion shows, afternoon teas, and pet parades in the courtyard and auditorium. Within a few years, the number of community groups who utilized the Mart had swelled considerably (and now included the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, artists' and theatre groups, the Red Cross and the Cancer Society), as did the number of informal societies who adopted the patio as their "headquarters."
Often, the Brentwood Country Mart hosted special events for the community, particularly parties for children and teenagers that featured Santa Claus and (oddly enough) Bozo the Clown in the guise of the Easter Bunny (1951). The liveliness of the place led the Los Angeles Examiner (August 12, 1953) to observe that "the Brentwood Country Mart... is fast becoming a community center."
And because this community center is in Brentwood, the "regulars" included many luminaries. Joan Crawford, Betty Hutton, Robert and Dorothy Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Burt Lancaster, Shirley Temple Black, and Greta and Gregory Peck, were mentioned in the press in connection with the Mart, among many others, including Olivia de Haviland, Edgar Bergen, Leslie Caron, June Haver, James Whitmore, Leo Carillo, JanePowell, and Marsha Willis. Many of these celebrities engaged in the philanthropic work for which the Mart was well known, and some of them simply shopped in their own neighborhood.
Existing establishments such as the Barber Shop, the Post Office and the Shoe Repair remain to provide exceptional service for the community they are as popular and busy as ever. Reddi Chick offers the best rotisserie chicken and french fries in Los Angeles.
In today's world of mega-stores and mega-malls, the Brentwood Country Mart feels cozy, familiar and is a place where it is easy to shop. The Brentwood Country Mart is being renovated and restored by James S. Rosenfield and Daniel I. Bercu of JS Rosenfield & Co. JS Rosenfield & Co specializes in the preservations of unique Los Angeles environments. The firm is also responsible for the preservation of the historical Aero Theatre in Santa Monica on Montana Avenue.
For further information, please contact James Rosenfield at 310-458-6682.


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2013 British & Irish Lions
Kearney: Halfpenny is leading the way at fullback
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March 13, 2013
Leigh Halfpenny has been one of the standout players in this season's Six Nations © PA Photos
Ireland fullback Rob Kearney has conceded that his Wales counterpart Leigh Halfpenny is winning the race to be the British & Irish Lions No.15 come the summer.
Both Kearney and Halfpenny look set to tour to Australia but following the Welshman's performances in the Six Nations, which have put him in the frame to be one of the players of the tournament, he seems to be the leading contender to start for the Lions at fullback.
Halfpenny has proved to be deadly with the boot and also picked up Man of the Match awards for his performances against France and Italy. The pair both toured with the Lions in 2009 but it was the Irishman who featured in the Tests with Kearney playing in all three.
But come 2013, events have conspired against the 2012 European player of the year, who has been playing in a team decimated by injury against opposition that have worked out it is best to keep the ball out of his hands.
"Leigh's goalkicking alone has made him the standout full-back of the Six Nations. Wales have won a huge amount of games with his kicking skills," Kearney said. "For me it's quite frustrating because receiving kicks was always a great way to get into games, get some ball and display my strengths.
"That's something I've definitely struggled with throughout this campaign. It shows a little bit as well in terms of my own touches. It's a case of trying to not get too frustrated by it and trying to find other ways to get into the game, although that hasn't been helped by the conditions we've been playing in.
"Last weekend against France was only my seventh start this season because of injury. I always think it's around six, seven or eight games that you start getting back into the run of things."
There are few more reliable full-backs than Kearney, whose displays in challenging weather conditions against England and France were exemplary, even if he was inevitably muted in attack. Saturday's clash with Italy presents a final chance to impress Warren Gatland on the international stage, but the 26-year-old believes the Kiwi will look beyond the Six Nations to inform his opinion.
"Of course it crosses your mind that this weekend is the last major stage to impress Lions selectors, but selection will have been going on throughout the last year," he said. "Although a huge amount of emphasis has been put on the Six Nations, it's not the be-all and end-all.
"It's not the only shop window to stake your claim. It's important to recognise that when the team does well, individuals do well. Once you start trying to play as individuals, that's when the team suffers. Ultimately then the player will suffer."
Rob Kearney reflects on the Lions' 2009 series defeat © Getty Images
Ireland will go into the final weekend of Six Nations action looking to avoid the wooden spoon while if they win against Italy, then they could finish third in the tournament. "My message to the team going to Rome is 'win'. There's a big difference between finishing third and finishing sixth. That's a big jump there," Kearney said. "There are a lot of guys in the team who haven't really experienced what winning for their country feels like.
"Winning Six Nations games outweighs winning big Heineken Cup matches for your province enormously. We're looking to rebuild, get back on track and start competing for silverware again.
"Where we finish this year will have a huge bearing on that. It's about finishing on a high, finishing with a win and getting this team back on track. To an extent it's unfair to judge the performance of the team and management on this Six Nations.
"But when you look at the likes of the Scotland game when players just didn't finish things off, we need to be held accountable for that. Against France we produced an improved performance and played quite well, but injuries cost us a little bit at the end and that's maybe the time to allow us more leeway in terms of analysis. But we should have beaten Scotland and didn't, so that's a day when we should have been judged more harshly."
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WASHINGTON – Unemployment rates fell below 7 percent in a majority of U.S. cities in November, suggesting steady job gains are benefiting most parts of the country.
The Labor Department says rates fell in November from October in 215 of the 372 largest metro areas. Rates were unchanged in 33 and rose in 124.
Rates dropped below 7 percent in 192 cities. That's the first time since the recession ended that more than half of large cities had rates below that threshold. The department says 52 areas had rates below 5 percent.
Nationwide, the unemployment rate ticked down to 7.8 percent in November from 7.9 percent the previous month. That occurred mostly because more Americans out of work gave up looking for jobs and were not counted as unemployed.


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Beachcomber Concept MINI crosses borders with new dimensions of driving pleasure, and winner of several hearings by expanding the model range and creativity of the MINI design. MINI shows growth potential of the product range of more and more driving pleasure with improved MINI Concept Beachcomber. This new concept vehicle will be proudly presented by MINI at the Salon of 2010 North American International Auto (16-24 January 2010) in Detroit.
The new four-wheel drive, and a flexible internal All4 make Beachcomber Concept Mini is an active and spontaneous. It 'was designed without doors or a conventional roof and all the other parts of the body, which may limit the intensity of the residents in their encounter with the world around them. This allows the driver and up to three passengers to connect with their surroundings - whether cruising through town, enjoying the rough tracks in the mountains, or breeze along the beach. Vehicle use of space, a partnership with a modern transmission technology ensures a very exciting.


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Cuomo Uses Craigslist To Bust Prostitution Ring... Still Blaming Craigslist
from the think-about-that-for-a-second... dept
"Unless craigslist gets serious about putting real protections in place, it will continued to be an environment where criminal operations thrive with impunity,"Does Andrew Cuomo even realize what he's saying? He's saying that they'll operate with impunity right after he showed that's not true by arresting them. Given the fact that Craigslist cooperates with the police (and one assumes it did in this case as well, given that Cuomo approached them about it "weeks ago"), then Craigslist actually helped the police catch these criminals. Does Cuomo blame AT&T after AT&T helps him get a wireptap in a criminal investigation? After all, AT&T provided the phone system, which allowed the criminal operations to thrive with impunity.


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Eighty years ago this week, President Herbert Hoover signed a resolution establishing an American anthem: Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner.
On Tuesday, in preparation for its anniversary celebration, Key's original handwritten poem left the Maryland Historical Society — its home since 1953.
The paper, suspended in argon gas in a specially designed case, traveled in a Dunbar Armored car with an escort of police and dignitaries to the state Capitol building in Annapolis.
To avoid damage caused by sunlight, the document is displayed for only 10 minutes each hour.
On Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the law, it will go on display to the public for three months at Fort McHenry, the site of the ferocious battle that inspired his depiction of "the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air."
Key wrote the iconic words 197 years ago in a Baltimore tavern. The country was in its second year of war with the British, and Key had just witnessed the War of 1812's Battle of Baltimore on Sept. 13 and 14, 1814.
He crammed four verses onto a piece of paper smaller than a school notebook.
"It represents the spirit of America," says Burton Kummerow, president of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. "To have the document around is really a remarkable thing. It's part of the fabric of America."
Key, an attorney, had been sent to meet with British officers on their ships in the Chesapeake Bay to negotiate the release of William Beanes, a physician from Upper Marlboro, Md., as part of a prisoner exchange. He dined with the British officers, who eventually agreed to the exchange.
But Key and his companions had spent enough time on the ship that they were now aware of the British plans to attack Baltimore, and they had seen the strength of the British fleet.
The British held Beanes, Key and other Americans on the ship so they couldn't divulge the attack plans.
Key watched from his vantage point in the bay as 50 British warships shelled Fort McHenry for 25 hours, firing nearly 1,800 bombs and rockets, Kummerow says. American soldiers repelled the land and sea attacks. The British retreated.
When the smoke cleared, Key could see the American flag still aloft over Fort McHenry. "He was really taken when he saw the flag was still flying," Kummerow says. "It was one of those incredible, magnetic moments."
Key wrote the poem that became The Star-Spangled Banner the night he was released, Kummerow says.
"He obviously had it well in mind," Kummerow says, noting the original sheet of paper has just two cross-outs.
It was published in several local papers as The Defence of Fort McHenry and became popular. It was set to music written in the 1770s.
"Francis Scott Key knew about the song. He probably had the song in mind when he wrote it," Kummerow says.
The Maryland Historical Society also owns the original sheet music.
"When Francis Scott Key wrote this song and the flag became a great symbol, it really launched that feeling of patriotism in the country," he says.
It caught on as a patriotic song by the Civil War, but it wasn't until March 3, 1931, that Hoover signed the law that made The Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem. Kummerow marvels, "It took more than 100 years."
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Today was by far the hardest and most exhausting day for the team. After playing a late game the night before, we were more sore than we could have ever thought possible. But still, we pushed on knowing that one, God had something huge planned for us and two, that He could help us push through the soreness and stress of playing two more games.
After our daily morning meeting, we departed to the Youth Training Center, a center that held young men from the ages of 16-25 to help them get their lives back on the right track, to play them in a little game of football (or soccer as you may know it). The guys there were more than excited to be able to play us and hardly talked to us before the game. However, once the game got under way, you could see smiles on their faces and how much fun that they were having.
Afterwards, we got the opportunity to sit down and talk to them for a few minutes and find out about their lives. By the way that they talked to us, the questions that they asked, and their reactions to some of the things that they said, it was easy to tell that it wasn't very often that they had a complete stranger be interested in getting to know them. Because of that, they really thought a lot about us and were disappointed when we had to part ways.
No one wanted our time together to end but we said our goodbyes knowing that not only were we impacted but that we impacted them as well. We finally arrived back at Anton's castle after our match against Trinidad's 20U team and ready to go to hit the hay. But before we did, we were blessed to be able to listen to Anton's amazing story about the many things that God has blessed him with and that every day is a mission. It was one of the most inspiring and touching testimonies that I have ever heard and even trying to describe it doesn't give it justice. Once again, it was another successful day for the Kingdom of God and for us coming together as a team.


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Twitter, with more than 200 million active users, is rewriting advertising rules and uniting activists around the world. The Wall Street Journal's Deborah Kan speaks with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo about the power of 140 characters.
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First gold: 400 IM -- Aug. 10
Michael Phelps didn't feel like himself Sunday morning in China. In the ready room, just a few meters from the pool inside the 11,000-seat Water Cube, he sat in silence by himself, listening to music with his head down.
Something was amiss. He looked, in every sense of the word, nervous, the rarest of emotions for Phelps. But minutes before the start of the 400-meter individual medley final, something unusual happened.
"I started getting these chills up my body," Phelps said. "Right then, I knew I was starting to get more and more excited."
The excitement translated into another historic performance by Phelps, as the 23-year-old from Rodgers Forge won his first gold medal of the 2008 Olympics.
It was an event that most expected would be one of his toughest races of the week, but Phelps showed just how ready he is to chase history, blowing past Hungary's Laszlo Cseh and American Ryan Lochte.
Leading by half a body length going into the final 50 meters, Phelps shot off the final turn as if he had been rocketed forward by a trampoline.
He increased his lead over Cseh and Lochte by a margin so overwhelming that he even allowed himself to get a little emotional over the final few meters. As he stroked toward the wall, he said he had something of an out-of-body experience, thinking back to his race in Athens, when he won his first gold medal.
"I remember coming off the last wall in Athens, and it was kind of the same feeling," Phelps said. "I saw myself out there. I sort of started smiling, and then I realized I was hurting and they could catch me if I didn't start moving."
After he finished, Phelps pumped his arms and scanned the crowd, trying to find his mother, Debbie, and his sisters Hilary and Whitney. He couldn't figure out where they were sitting, but he did make eye contact with President Bush.
-- Kevin Van Valkenburg
Silver: Laszlo Cseh, Hungary
Bronze: Ryan Lochte, USA
Phelps' time: 4:03.84, WR
Previous world record: 4:05.25 (Phelps)
Key to the victory: The breaststroke. After a close 200 meters, Phelps took care of business in the breaststroke, posting what he said was "his fastest breaststroke split ever."
Highlight: President Bush waved a tiny American flag, gave Phelps a thumbs-up and then nodded to him after he climbed out of the pool.
Quote: "I couldn't stop crying. I was just thinking about everything I've been through this year. It was just really emotional." -- Phelps, on his emotions on the medal stand


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With trout season opening Saturday, thousands of anglers will be lining the banks of Pocono rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in hope of connecting with a trout.
With trout season opening Saturday, thousands of anglers will be lining the banks of Pocono rivers, streams, lakes and ponds in hope of connecting with a trout.
Some will be hooking up with trout in some of our most pristine streams, but most will find trout stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission tugging on the end of their line.
Some anglers practice catch and release, but the vast majority of anglers will be hoping to creel a couple of trout to take home for the table. After all, fish is a delicious source of protein.
Fish provide valuable vitamins and minerals and beneficial oils that are low in saturated fat. Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are also beneficial, particularly in terms of cardiovascular health. The Federal Food and Drug Administration recommends that consumers eat a balanced diet, choosing a variety of foods including fruits and vegetables, foods that are low in trans fat and saturated fat, as well as foods rich in high fiber grains and nutrients.
A diet that includes a variety of fish and shellfish can be an important part of a balanced healthy diet. The U.S. FDA, EPA, the American Heart Association recommend eating two meals (12 oz) of fish per week. Following these advisories means that you should feel comfortable making one of those meals (up to 8 oz) a Pennsylvania sport fish.
Having said that however, you should also be aware of what you might be ingesting when you eat those fish. After all, not all of the waters where the fish come from or are found in are clean and pure. Chemicals such as mercury and PCBs have been found in some fish from certain waters.
Pennsylvania has issued a general, statewide health advisory. That advice is to eat no more than one meal (one-half pound) per week of sport fish caught in the state's waterways. This advice was issued to protect against eating large amounts of fish that have not been tested or that may contain unidentified contaminants.
The amounts recommended are also for fish that have been skinned and trimmed in a manner that removes those parts of the fish most likely to contain the highest concentrations of contaminants.
PCBs and most other organic contaminants usually build up in a fish's fat deposits and just underneath the skin. By removing the skin and fat before cooking, you can reduce the levels of these chemicals. Mercury, however, collects in the fish's muscle and cannot be reduced by cleaning and cooking methods.
Trout stocked from Fish and Boat Commission state hatcheries are also subject to the blanket "one-meal-per-week" consumption advisory that applies to sport fish in Pennsylvania. None of this information is meant to scare anyone away from eating the fish they catch, but rather to keep you aware.
I will be putting some trout in the smoker next week and enjoying the fruits of my endeavors like I always have. These are not new advisories; they have been in place for years.