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Short Version: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince might be the best Harry Potter film yet.
If you really care about Harry Potter, Ron & Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger as living, breathing characters then you're going to love Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Disclosure: I've only ever read the first book and while I've thought the previous films were "OK," I've never been a huge fan of the series. This latest film was directed by David Yates, the same fellow who directed the previous film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - and for perspective, I don't even remember was that one was about.
Having said that, I believe this latest installment is arguably the best Harry Potter film that's been released so far.
This is the sixth year Harry and Co. will be attending Hogwarts and they've all come a long way from the kids we saw back in the first film. They're certified young adults now and it's a pleasure seeing them on the screen with much more depth and complexity in themselves and their relationships with each other. As a matter of fact those relationships are what make this movie shine.
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe, of course) finds a book on potions that has copious handwritten notes by "The Half-Blood Prince." Whoever this person was, he was brilliant and creating potions - subtly modifying the recipes in the book to make them all work perfectly, was one of his skills. Harry's newfound "skill" at potion-making draws the attention of newly re-recruited professor Horace Slughorn. The professor is played by Jim Broadbent, who gives an excellent and surprisingly nuanced performance considering the (apparently) comedic nature of the role.
It turns out there is a very important reason that Slughorn was enticed to come back to Hogwarts, and professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) enlists Harry to pry some hidden information from the returning professor. Professor Snape (Alan Rickman, whose brief time on-screen is reason enough to go watch this movie with his mesmerizing screen presence) is involved, and his true(?) purpose becomes clear by the end of the film.
Much of the film is dedicated to the interrelationships between Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. There is much teenage romantic angst - something that would normally trigger my teen-soap-opera-eyeball-roll reaction, but it's handled so sweetly and deftly here that it's a pleasure to watch and really draws you in to what they're all going through. Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright and Rupert Grint all do a fine job.
In combination with that, the gorgeous, muted cinematography and fantastic visual effects (not just in execution but style as well) is just icing on the cake.
Is this film perfect? No. One complaint I've heard from others is that over the course of 2 1/2 hours nothing much happens to move the story forward - and that the ending of the film (which has a definite Empire Strikes Back vibe) could have been a bit more effective. However these points detract very little from the overall enjoyment of what I think is the best summer blockbuster film of 2009.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is rated PG and provides a few scenes that might be a bit intense for the littler ones, and there's one jump scene that will probably get them - but nothing too over the top. And frankly it was a pleasure to watch a movie aimed at the same age group as Transformers 2 without a single word of foul language to be heard nor anything that'll make a parent squirm while watching it with a child.
This may be the first Harry Potter film that I end up watching more than once.


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Stephen Colbert tried to transfer to University of Virginia in 1984, but never completed his application essay. Regardless, the political satirist delivered the school's commencement speech over the weekend, poking fun at university founder Thomas Jefferson, the popular not-so-secret study aid Adderall and the attitudes of Baby Boomers and Millennials.
Here, we present you some highlights: The silly, the serious and the somewhat amusing.
1. "You know this is an impressive institution because it rejected my application." (Though his wife, Evelyn, actually graduated from the school's College of Arts and Sciences in 1985.)
2. "As has been stated before, the most impressive ranking of all has once again has to be Playboy naming you the number one party school in America. Now to be clear, I only read Playboy for the rankings."
3. Referencing Time magazine's recent cover story about Millennials' navel-gazing: "So self obsessed," he says. "Tweeting your vines, hashtagging your Spotifys and Snapchatting your YOLOs. Your generation needs everything to be about you, and that's very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing. We're the original 'me' generation. We made the last 50 years all about us. We took all the money. We soaked up all the government services. And we deep-fried nearly everything in the ocean."
4. On the school's founder: "In Jefferson's public life as a founding father, we often see him as the embodiment of the white male patriarchy. But in his private life, he was known for, shall we say, embracing diversity. Very affirmative in his actions. Am I right? I am right. they did the DNA tests. I'm right on that one." He then pauses to tweet the following about "old Bible slicer" Jefferson:
5. "But my favorite thing about UVA has got to be it's secret societies. That's sexy. You got the Zs, you got, I think, the Illuminati, the Masons and Shield. But of course the most secret of all is the Sevens Society. Nobody knows who's in it. I'm not going to say I'm a Seven. I'm not going to say I'm not a Seven. I'm just going to say eviganblumencroft. Benedictcomberbachen [referencing the Star Trek villain played in the new movie by British thespian Benedict Cumberbatch]? Now I have to have all of you killed."
And for the obligatory advice portion of the speech:
6. "You may learn sooner than most generations, the hard lesson that you must make the path for yourself. There is no secret society out there that will one day tap you on the shoulder and show you the way."
7. "If you must find your own path, and we have left you no easy path, then decide now to choose the hard path that leads to the life and world that you want. And don't worry if we don't approve of your choice. In our benign self-absorption, I believe we have given you a gift. A particular form of independence because you don't owe the previous generation anything. Thanks to us you owe it to the Chinese."
Watch the speech in its 17-minute entirety below.
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5 things to watch in Monday's debate
The greatest show on earth meets for one last time tonight in the Sunshine State.
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have had two of the most memorable debates in modern presidential history, and they get together for the last one in Boca Raton, Fla. tonight.
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Obama needs to keep Romney from looking like an acceptable alternative as president, as Romney has — to varying degrees — in the last two debates. Romney needs to narrow Obama's edge on foreign policy and national security with voters, and to argue that the president's policies in the Mideast have failed.
( Also on POLITICO: Full coverage of the debate)
Below, POLITICO's five things to watch:
1. Who's the first to bring home foreign policy
The issue of the day remains the economy, despite a final debate that is focused on global issues.
The candidate who is best able to relate the foreign policy questions back to jobs at home is likely to emerge with an edge in the final showdown.
( Also on POLITICO: 6 questions that will settle the election)
For example, Paul Ryan was the first to raise John Kennedy's tax policies in the vice presidential debate — and was quickly mocked for it by Joe Biden in "you're no Jack Kennedy" fashion.
Expect either Romney or Obama to try to make the Kennedy case about U.S trade policy, such as China's effects on manufacturing in the Midwest. For Romney, this is an extension of an argument he's made on the campaign trail — and an opportunity to move away from an ill-phrased claim that Russia is the nation's greatest geo-political foe.
Obama's response on China in last week's debate was to point to Romney's personal investments in Chinese companies. A more specific case about how to address China — which Romney has dubbed a currency manipulator but hasn't detailed what he would do for an encore — will need to be made here, especially to lure an audience for a debate that, to quote Ryan, is likely to get "wonky."
( Also on POLITICO: Romney's toughest debate)
"This is not a foreign policy debate," said Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. "That's the trap for both these candidates. For Obama it is the natural urge to explain what he has done on foreign policy. For Romney it is the natural urge to prove he is competent on this turf and not just a businessman. Message to both candidates: Get over it. Don't worry about compensating for your weaknesses on foreign policy. Tell me how you would restore our economy at home so we can project American strength in the world."
2. How they handle Libya
Even without moderator Candy Crowley's controversial handling of a Libya question at last week's debate, there was general consensus among Republicans that Romney muffed a chance to make a broad case against the Obama administration.
But his rough outing last week doesn't mean Romney will leave Libya off the table tonight.
( See also: Battleground tracking poll: Romney takes lead)
The drip-drip of information raising questions about the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi continued up until the end of last week.


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Why Should I Use the WordPress Twenty Ten Theme?
Bundled with every WordPress installation is the default Twenty Ten theme. Because the Twenty Ten theme is the default theme, it's worth your while to explore its features before you decide on the theme to use for your WordPress site.
The Twenty Ten theme was created by the core WordPress team and named for the year it was released to the public. It's a starter theme that gets new users up and running with their web sites quickly. This clean-looking theme utilizes many of the built-in display features standard to a basic WordPress install, allowing you to make simple, yet elegant, tweaks to the theme. The Twenty Ten theme includes the ability to:
Use different header images (such as your own custom header graphics)
Change the background colors or to add an image
Build custom navigation menus easily with the Custom Menu feature
By working with the Twenty Ten theme, you gain an understanding of the features WordPress users are accustomed to seeing in themes. If you plan to create your own WordPress themes, you can find out a lot by exploring these common features so you can implement them in your own themes.
As you can see, the Twenty Ten theme offers a clean design style that's highly customizable for the millions of WordPress users who want a simple look that focuses on the content for their sites. As such, the font is sharp and easy to read.
The Twenty Ten theme contains built-in features, such as different layouts, headers, backgrounds, menus, and widgets. Using the page templates provided in the Twenty Ten theme, you can choose how many columns you want to use for your design layout—two columns (with a content area on the left and a sidebar on the right) or one column (in which the content area fills the screen from left to right).


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When you use Rover to discover dog walking services in Dallas, TX, you'll be surprised at how easy it can be to find a dog walker who's the ideal match for you, your dog, and your schedule. If you're the sort of dog parent who doesn't like to miss a minute of your puppy's day, your dog walker can send you dog walking updates including the time they started and stopped the walk, a map showing the distance and route of their outing, details on food and bathroom breaks, and real-time action shots of your dog's experience. And to give you even more peace of mind, each Rover-booked dog walk includes the Rover Guarantee, 24/7 support, and a reservation guarantee.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Music will present its second annual Brass Symposium Feb. 8-9, 2013. The Brass Symposium is a two-day event that involves clinics, rehearsals and performances by high school and college-level students. The deadline to register is Jan. 25; registration is closed.
International trumpet soloist and Shires Trumpets Performing Artist Vince DiMartino will be the featured clinician and guest artist, and will perform in two free public concerts. DiMartino, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, taught trumpet, brass and jazz ensembles and jazz history until 2012 at Centre College, where he is now the distinguished W. George Matton Professor of Music Emeritus. As an artist, he has been the lead and solo trumpet in the Lionel Hampton Band, the Chuck Mangione Band, the Clark Terry Band and the Eastman Arranger's Holiday Orchestra. He has been an artist/faculty member with the Empire Brass Quintet-Tanglewood summer program, Spanish Brass Festival in Alzira, Spain, and Kalavrita brass course in Greece, and has given seminars in England, Ukraine, Thailand, Germany and Canada.
At 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, DiMartino will perform with the UAB Jazz Ensemble under the direction of UAB Assistant Professor Steven Roberts, D.M.A., in the Jemison Concert Hall of UAB's Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC), 1200 10th Ave. South.
At 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, the symposium will culminate with a "Festival of Brass" concert in the ASC. DiMartino will perform with the UAB Brass Choir under the direction of UAB Assistant Professor James Zingara, D.M.A. The UAB Trumpet Ensemble and several honors brass ensembles, made up of area high school students, also will perform. The event will offer the ceremony, scope and variety of a typical band concert, and will conclude with a spectacular mass finale of more than 150 performers. Contact Zingara for more details at 205-934-6625 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Light source accessories
Our optical and mechanical accessories facilitate the delivery of the desired radiation to your sample or additional processing equipment.
They allow you to reimage the source or filter, attenuate the beam, or turn it up, down or 90° along the horizontal plane.
You can also add a fiber optic to carry the light to a hard-to-reach place. All accessories couple directly to the output of the lamp housing condenser and to each other.
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Hotel Wall-Mounted Medicine Cabinet
Earn $37.90 (10%) back in rewards* on this item when using your Pottery Barn Credit Card.Learn More
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Bring fine spa quality and style to your bathroom with our wall-mounted medicine cabinet.
- Expertly crafted with a solid birch frame.
- Fitted with a beveled mirror.
- Equipped with adjustable tempered-glass shelves.
- Nickel hardware included.
- Professional installation recommended.
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Regular Wall-Mounted Medicine Cabinet
- Overall: 23" wide x 6.5" deep x 30" high
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Temple vs. Wyoming! Maybe you're watching this? If so, feel free to use this space to chat about it.
Here's an interesting conversation starter: "X-FACTOR: Adjustment to the altitude. University Stadium in Albuquerque is roughly 5,000 feet above sea level, creating an atmosphere that many athletes over time have had difficulty adjusting to in regards to getting enough oxygen during competition. With only two bowl appearances since 1979 - and the last one played in nearby Washington, D.C.- it is safe to assume Temple is not used to dealing with extraneous climate factors on a regular basis. On the other hand, Wyoming stormed back from a 28-17 fourth quarter deficit to eventually beat the Ryan Matthews-led Fresno State Bulldogs in double overtime in this same bowl game two seasons ago. As Temple's touted defense works to contain Brett Smith late into the fourth quarter, they'll need every gasp of air they can get to pull out a victory in Addazio's first season at the helm." [CBS]


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How Many Browsers Do You Have On Your Machine?
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Waipu Golf Club
Play golf at Waipu Golf Club with one of the best views in the world! Golf carts and Golf clubs available for hire.
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- Ranked 36 in New Zealand
- Fantastic winter course
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Come and play golf at the magnificent Waipu Golf Course with panoramic views of Whangarei Heads, the Hen and Chicken Islands, Bream Bay Beach and the South Pacific Ocean.
Waipu Golf Club has a number of holes with challenging layouts and a links course that is unique in the area. Always dry underfoot, good grass cover, testing rough and superb greens with a bar and café serving lunch make this course well worth visiting and playing at any time of the year.
The signature hole is No 10 facing Bream Bay. Check the weather as this is a true coastal links course and a strong wind from either east or west can a make a difference to club selection. There are three tees for men and two tees for women suiting all abilities.
The Golf Course
Four sets of men's tees and three sets of women's tees
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Super Rugby
Kirwan relaxed ahead of Blues debut
February 19, 2013
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Blues coach Sir John Kirwan is keeping cool before his Super Rugby coaching record opens against the Hurricanes on Saturday night.
His band of youngsters faces an arduous task against the highly regarded Wellington outfit, but he was showing no signs of pressure during a light-hearted field session on Tuesday morning.
Kirwan was quick to pin the "underdog" tag to his men, saying the game was all about making a start and working to improve each week.
"We just need to go down there and have a go; no pressure on us, all the pressure on them," Kirwan said.
Simplicity in the game plan should allow raw talents such as fullback Charles Piutau to play a natural game, Kirwan said.
"We're not ready yet but we will be by the time we get onto the plane to Wellington," Kirwan said.
"I think we've had a pre-season where we wanted to make sure that everyone understood their roles and responsibilities, and we've done that. For me it's about creating an environment where they can express themselves. I want to see Charles [Piutau] smiling and I want to see him doing what he does."
With the exception of All Blacks lock Anthony Boric, who will return to rugby in a game for the Blues development team on Friday night, the Blues will start their 2013 campaign with a full contingent of troops.
"We just need to make sure he gets through that then he'll be available," Kirwan said of Boric. Chris Noakes is set to don the No. 10 jersey for the opening rounds of the season, but Kirwan said that he and replacement Bayden Kerr were each carrying a groin strain that would limit their goal-kicking abilities. Piri Weepu is expected to take on those duties instead.
Kirwan said that "real competition" for positions had made the selection of a starting XV, which will be revealed on Thursday, extremely difficult.
"I've asked the guys that they put us under pressure; they're a young team, everyone had a fair crack at it, and it was a hard team to pick," Kirwan said. "There will be guys that will be disappointed, but that's what we need."
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How to Boost Job Contacts with Online Social Networking
Job seekers and employers are now using business-oriented online social networking sites (such as LinkedIn), where people post career profiles and recruiters search for prospective employees. The only way to understand the newfangled online social networking sites is to use them. With a little practice, it's easy.
Some online networking sites are free of charge; others charge fees for contacting other members and certain other services. A few are fee only.
What's an online networking service?
Online networking services offer you help in three ways:
Enabling you to locate contacts, who, working inside a company you covet, are a potential source of referrals, names of managers, tips on company culture, hiring mode, and other useful information. You may have to hop from one person's profile to another to another and so forth until you reach your objective.
Helping find managers in a company to whom you can send your unsolicited resume (after breaking the ice with an exchange of e-mail; a resume sent out of the blue likely will be considered spam mail and deleted).
Introducing you to recruiters, who can see your profile in a virtual networking service and contact you.
LinkedIn is the best known of the business-oriented virtual networks. Others with a business focus include Jobster, Ryze, Ecademy, and ExecuNet.
Eons is a virtual network for Americans aged 50-plus, with broad content that sometimes includes job suggestions. Classmates.com is more for "that old gang of mine" connections but sports a work-and-career section where you can look for acquaintances by company. Zoominfo isn't a virtual network, but can deliver some of the same results for job seekers in that it is a search engine for discovering people, companies, and relationships.
Indiscreet postings on a social network can mean really big trouble for job seekers. Many employers review profiles on social networking sites when considering candidates for jobs. The safest bet is to assume future employers will read everything you post, including extreme political or religious views and rants on any controversial topic. Here's an easy guideline to stay out of job market trouble: Treat every online profile with the respect you give a resume.
Getting started with online networking services
Think about online networking as comfortable connectivity. Instead of dealing with faceless strangers whom you wouldn't know if you tripped over them, you deal with individuals you now or soon will know, and whose faces you can see and identify.
The essential process to hook up with an online social network follows this pattern:
Someone who's already in the network invites you to join.
You may also be able to join without an invite — most virtual networks also let users join on their own.
After selecting a virtual network that appears to include your kind of people, register, create a password and fill in a career profile.
For privacy and safety, do not include your street address in your profile.
Explore the range of other network members who have registered with the service.
Make contacts as appropriate to your job search.
The job referral sites themselves are your best source of additional information.


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The problem is as follows. Given a set $S$ of natural numbers of size $n$ where each $x_i \in S$ is from the set $[n^2]$. Elements of $S$ are not necessarily pairwise different, i.e., there can be duplicates in $S$. Given an input number $y \in [n^2]$, find the first occurrence of $y$ in $S$, if any. That is, suppose $S$ is an array of numbers, find minimum $i$ such that $x_i = y$, if any.
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Pat Mora
The author of over 20 books of poetry, non-fiction and children's stories, Mora has received numerous honors for her work, including an NEA poetry fellowship, the Civitella Ranieri fellowship, four Southwest Book Awards, the Premio Aztlán Literature Award, the Ohioana Award, and the Pellicer-Frost 1999 Bi-national Poetry Award. She has also served as a consultant on U.S.-Mexico youth exchanges, a museum and university administrator, and a teacher of English at all levels. Mora is known as well for her promotion of "El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros," a celebration of books and children, languages and cultures, which takes place on April 30 each year. She has three grown children and divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and northern Kentucky.
"Family, Mexican American culture, and the desert are all important themes in my children's books as well as in my poetry and nonfiction for adults," writes Mora. Several of her children's works bring to life her personal family stories. In The Rainbow Tulip, Mora tells of her mother's bicultural experiences: "At home I'm Estelita. At school my name is Stella." In her memoirs and poetry, she introduces readers to her extended family and ponders the nature of her relationships with her relatives and ancestors.
The desert landscape provides a vibrant backdrop for much of Mora's work. She writes that she loves "the open spaces, the wide sky, all that sun and all those animals that scurry across the hot sand or fly high over the mountains." In her poem "Desert Women," Mora writes that "Desert women know / about survival," and, "like cactus," can hide behind thorns. But, she warns at the end of the poem, "Don't be deceived. / When we bloom, we stun."
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Excess vs. Excessive
When excess is used an as adjective, are these words the same. Is there a case for using one over another?
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My sense is that excess means "more than is necessary" whereas excessive means "too much." The two are very close in meaning, but there is a shade of difference. Excess is normally used with materials, where the unnecessary matter can be disposed of. Excessive is more frequently used in an abstract sense, when there is some quality that is way over the top and should be dialed back.
The plastic model of the car had excess flashing, which we trimmed off with a utility knife.
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Kim Jong Il may have been able to control the weather, invent the hamburger and shoot 34-under in a round of golf, but he (probably) never rode a narwhal, a unicorn and a zipline. Nor did he realize the dream of toppling U.S. imperialists.
The video-game version of his son accomplishes all of that.
Thanks to Moneyhorse Games, it looks like Kim Jong-un will take his place alongside Leisure Suit Larry, reaching digital immortality when the company releases the retro-styled "Glorious Leader" for download near the end of the year.
In it, players control the North Korean boss while he sets out to destroy America, and, as you can see below, sink the Statue of Liberty in the process.
CEO Jeff Miller told the Guardian that his Atlanta-based company is trying to "carefully walk the line of satire without being an apologist for the regime." As one of Kim Jong Il's old foes once decreed, "Mission Accomplished!" Maybe.
"Glorious Leader! is coming soon to PC and something called a mobile device [Android, not Apple ]. Finally, you will know why North Korea truly is the best Korea," the teaser on the website says.
Here are some screenshots sure to offend and entertain. That's our man Dennis Rodman in the corner. He shows up later with Kim Jong-un on the hardcourt.
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DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire School of Law Library, recently designated as the New Hampshire Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), will host a Grand Opening on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office and UNH Law have a wide range of activities planned to appeal to New Hampshire inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, and lawyers. This free day of events is open to anyone interested in learning more about intellectual property. CLE credits are pending.
"PTRCs serve as the face of the USPTO on a local level and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that ensures that potential filers have the resources necessary to draw on for support as they begin their quest for commercial success with their intellectual property. We look forward to working with the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and its Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, to better serve New Hampshire's IP community" says David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and Director of the USPTO.
Currently, PTRC-designated libraries can be found in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This network of more than 80 public, academic, state and special libraries assists a variety of patrons including inventors, intellectual property attorneys/agents, business people, researchers, entrepreneurs, students, and historians.
In addition to offering free electronic services and resources designed to support the intellectual property needs of local and state patrons, the UNH Law Patent and Trademark Resource Center will employ USPTO-trained librarians to provide customer assistance on the use of the agency's patent and trademark databases and public seminars on intellectual property topics for novice and experienced users.
The modern PTRC network has its foundations in the 1800s, when Congress provided printed copies of patents to libraries for use by the public. The USPTO established training support and membership standards for these diverse libraries in 1977.
The grand opening will feature two USPTO experts, Douglas Salser and Michael Hydorn, who will present the following sessions: "Primer on Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs, IP Professionals and Inventors"; "Essential USPTO Web Tools for Success"; "Searching Patents and Trademarks;" and "Using your IP to Leverage Capital."
Salser has been with the USPTO for over 38 years, and is currently the Manager of the Public Search Facility. He holds a BS in Physics, and a MS in Technology Management. He is a former patent examiner, patent classifier, project manager and management analyst.
Hydorn has been with the USPTO for 21 years, and is currently an Analyst for the PTRC program office. He holds a BS in Chemistry & Marine Biology, a MS in Asymmetric Organic Synthesis, Biophysics & Molecular Genetics, a PhD in Biological Oceanography and a PhD & DSc in Medicinal Chemistry. He is a former patent examiner, and manager of the Partnership PTDL program.
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DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire School of Law Library, recently designated as the New Hampshire Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), will host a Grand Opening on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.


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Hospitals contribute $20B to Conn. economy: BRBC
BRIDGEPORT -- In an effort to convince lawmakers to eliminate the state hospital tax, the Connecticut Hospital Association recently commissioned a study to determine the hospital industry's economic impact on the state and individual regions.
That study found that hospitals contribute $20.2 billion annually to the state and local economies -- or $11 billion in annual local payroll, $8.1 billion in goods and services and $1.1 billion in capital spending.
"Connecticut hospitals serve as the economic lifeblood of our communities," said CHA spokeswoman Michele Sharp. "They are a magnet for other businesses and commerce, generating more than 110,000 jobs and contributing more than $20 billion to the state and local economies."
Locally, Bridgeport Hospital and St. Vincent's Medical Center were found to contribute more than $1.5 billion to the economy here.
Bridgeport Hospital was found to have a direct economic impact of more than $765 million, while St. Vincent's impact totaled more than $813 million. This includes the millions the hospitals and its employees spend on things like supplies, food and electricity.
"I think that it has sort of been a little bit of a secret almost about the importance the spending of a hospital employee or a hospital has on an economy," said Dianne Auger, senior vice president and chief corporate affairs officer for St. Vincent's Health Services. "We're obviously impacting the economy in a big way and maybe we should look at that more deeply."
Beginning in 2010 state hospitals paid the state a tax under an expanded Medicaid program. In return, the state paid them a subsidy. Last year, the state reduced that subsidy while continuing to collect the tax.
"The net impact of the tax alone, to Bridgeport Hospital, has been $11,850,000 in the last two years," said William Jennings, the hospital's president and CEO.
Sharp said the study shows that eliminating the tax will not only preserve patient care but will also save jobs and keep the economy strong.
"Starting in July, the tax on hospitals for the care they provide to patients will cost $235 million per year, resulting in additional job loss, reduced staff salaries and benefits, reduced services, and postponements in technology and infrastructure investment," she said. "In short, the tax negatively impacts not only patients but our local and state economies."
In March, the CHA said that collectively, state hospitals saw their operating income decline by $175 million in 2013.
"It is increasingly clear that the over 5,000 people directly employed by the hospitals in our region and the thousands of indirect jobs created is one of the major drivers of our regional economy," said Paul Timpanelli, president and CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council.
This month, the BRBC's board decided to become an active advocate for both local hospitals in support of the elimination or reduction of the tax.
"The state of Connecticut continues in its renowned tradition of being unfriendly to businesses that can build and drive our economy," Timpanelli said. "This added new tax will support jobs loss rather than jobs growth in our community."
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Invariant spacetime - distance - Circular Motion
This is a question that I thought up a few years ago when I was taking mechanics. I asked the professor but didn't really get a straight answer.
Imagine a record spinning at relativistic speeds. In the lab frame, the circumference of the record should decrease according to the Lorentz contraction. However the radius of the record should remain fixed since it is orthogonal to the direction of motion. So does the shape of the record appear distorted since the circumference is smaller but the radius is the same? What would it look like?
I have a feeling the answer is obvious and/or well known since it would seem to be similar to the situation of relativistic particles traveling around a circular accelerator but I can't think of how it can be solved.


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Lucky Lucky Lavender by OPI A girly blend, somewhere between lavender and pink, this demure color will be perfect for a bridal shower or afternoon tea. See the last image.
On Collins Ave by OPI When I want to be noticed, I'll be sporting this loud, reddish orange.
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This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.
One of the world's biggest arms markets, the Arab Middle East, has lagged as a developer and producer. That is in part because oil-exporting nations do not have to worry about the balance-of-payments impact of importing expensive weapons, and partly because of a lack of industrial infrastructure and experience. However, that dynamic is slowly changing, starting with arrangements in which Middle Eastern companies, often government-backed, are becoming active partners in the development of systems tailored to local needs.
The United Arab Emirates, through the Mubadala and Tawazun groups and Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding, has led the trend. Both Mubadala and Tawazun are involved in a major new program, announced in July 2012, under which the Italian-built Piaggio P180 Avanti business aircraft is being enlarged and upgraded into a compact maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). Mubadala is part-owner of Piaggio, while the program is being managed by Abu Dhabi Autonomous System Investments (Adasi), a subsidiary of Tawazun. At the end of 2012, Saab was awarded a €15.5 million ($20.6 million) contract to integrate the MPA's mission system, based on its 340MPA demonstrator, which will include internal consoles, a radar and electro-optical systems.
Piaggio is building two prototypes, with the first to fly in 2014. The Piaggio MPA will have a bigger wing than a standard P180, greater takeoff weight, more fuel capacity and more power, retaining the 350-kt. cruise speed and 41,000-ft. service ceiling of the basic aircraft. As such, it will occupy a unique market slot, with higher performance than other modified light commercial aircraft. The first version will be a maritime patrol aircraft, but Piaggio says it is being designed so it can be equipped for ground surveillance, tactical ISR or communications/signals intelligence.
Adasi has played a similar role as partner and venture capitalist in the adoption by the UAE armed forces of the Austrian-developed Schiebel S-100 Camcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAE was one of the first customers for the S-100, while Adasi helped adapt the system to local requirements, integrating payloads with the air vehicle and ground control system and providing training and logistics support. Additionally, Adasi has signed agreements with Boeing's Insitu subsidiary and iRobot, covering UAV and unmanned ground vehicle applications in the region.
Another Middle East-sponsored UAV program is the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Predator XP. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the UAE's International Golden Group at the 2011 IDEX to offer the Predator XP for the UAE government. Discussions between the three parties are continuing, and there will be a full-scale model of Predator XP at Idex this year. Long-term support would be carried out locally by a joint venture involving Tawazun and other local companies, and regional customers are showing interest, according to General Atomics.
The XP itself is tailored to the local market (where Global Atomics' main global competitors are, for obvious reasons, not active) by the removal of all weapons capabilities banned under the Missile Technology Control Regime, and the replacement, where possible, of technology controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations with commercial off-the-shelf equipment. It also features improvements such as small winglets, which restore some lost endurance due to changes required for export and accommodate new UHF/VHF antennae.
In the missile field, the UAE has been one of the leaders in funding improvements to the Raytheon Patriot surface-to-air system. Big-ticket investments by the UAE and South Korea have funded 90% of a recent modernization effort to upgrade the radar, battle management system, missile and launcher, as well as a touch-screen display. With leaps in technology, the system has even more room for growth in processing capacity.
The supply chain has filtered away from Raytheon's Massachusetts facility, as well. Ten years ago, 60% of Patriot was produced in-house. Now the ratio has shifted to suppliers including in seven other countries.
As Raytheon courted Turkey as a buyer for Patriot, executives touted its partnership with Roketsan, which is producing missile flight-control elements of Patriot's GEM-T missile, and Aselan, which is producing part of Patriot's command and control system.
Another missile-related venture was launched last September, when Tawazun and South Africa's government-owned Denel Dynamics formed Tawazun Dynamics LLC, to develop and build a new range of precision-guided bombs. Details are expected to be announced at IDEX, but it has been disclosed that the main product will be the Al-Tariq family of strap-on guidance kits, based on Denel's Umbani design. The kit includes high-aspect-ratio wings and GPS-INS guidance, with optional imaging infrared and semi-active laser guidance.
Boeing expects its business model in the Middle East to develop in the direction of partnerships and collaboration, says Paul Oliver, vice president of international business development for the Middle East and Africa. "Partnerships are the wave," he says. "The days of guerilla marketing are over—you don't just parachute in and sell products."
In Saudi Arabia, where Boeing signed a massive deal centered on 84 new F-15SA fighters and 70 F-15S-to-SA rebuilds in late 2011, one of the company's biggest partnership vehicles is Alsalam Aircraft, in which it has a controlling stake. Saudi Arabia "is very much about investment, participation and the "Saudization" of the product," Oliver says. Alsalam, which provides depot maintenance for the nation's F-15 fleet and operates the final assembly line for Eurofighter Typhoons, will be heavily involved in the rebuild program, which includes new radars and defensive avionics and other changes.
The AH-6i armed reconnaissance helicopter was also part of the 2011 package and is Boeing's first military aircraft variant to be launched by a Saudi order. However, it is being delivered as a Foreign Military Sales deal, and any Saudi industrial participation will be in support.
While establishing manufacturing "is not a quick process," Oliver says, it is expected that Alsalam will evolve into building components for the F-15. Boeing also has the option of meeting its offset commitments via its commercial business—which in terms of parts ship-sets is a clear order of magnitude more valuable than military aircraft deliveries. "With offsets, we look at the capability that the customer wants to achieve. If their strategic vision is to get into high-end composite or titanium, that can come from military or from Boeing commercial."
The UAE also developed an active warship industry around Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding. ADSB's biggest current project is the construction and fitting-out of the UAE navy's Baynunah-class fast corvettes. They are built to the Combattante-class design from France's CMN shipyard in Cherbourg: CMN constructed the first hull but the remaining five ships are being built by ADSB. The 915-ton, waterjet-powered boats have a top speed of more than 30 kt. and are heavily armed, with an Oto Melara Super Rapid 76-mm gun, MBDA MM40 Exocet Block 3 antiship missiles and an air-defense system carrying up to 32 Raytheon RIM-162 Enhanced Sea Sparrow missiles.
Last year, too, ADSB launched the first of 12 Ghannatha Phase 2 27-meter (23.7-ft.) missile boats in partnership with Sweden's Swedeship Marine. Some of the diesel/waterjet boats will be armed with MBDA Marte antiship missiles, and others will carry Patria 120-mm mortars, which are intended for land attack.


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Exposure to loud sound can damage hearing. The louder the sound and the longer the exposure, the more dangerous the sound is to hearing.
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is usually painless and occurs over time as a result of frequent exposure to loud sounds. But it can occur from just one exposure to an extremely loud noise.
Adults who engage in behaviors that expose them to loud sound - such as iPods and MP3 players, concerts, power tools, lawn and garden power equipment, gunfire, loud recreational vehicles and motorcycles - should be fitted with custom-made ear protection.These services are available through the UT Dallas Callier Center.


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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Seminole County deputies arrested 50 people, including teachers, tourists and college students, in Central Florida in a weeklong online child sex exploitation sting.
According to deputies, the undercover operation, "Operation Cardea," had officers chatting online, through email and phone with people who believed they were talking with a minor or with an adult that had a minor available for sexual activity.
Arrestees ranged from ages 19 to 60 years old and including a Volusia County high school teacher, a tourist visiting from Turkey, school employees, college students and residents from out of state, according to a release.
Investigators say Jorge Ferreira, a science teacher at Ocoee Middle School, went to meet the undercover officers at a 7-Eleven thinking he was going to be meeting up with a 14-year-old boy.
David Miller, who works as an interpreter for deaf children at Lake Sybelia Elementary School in Orange County is accused of posting an online ad seeking a 13-year-old boy, according to investigators.
Anthony Wilks, a Seminole County school maintenance worker allegedly sent inappropriate pictures of himself to a detective he thought was an 11-year-old girl.
New Smyrna Beach High School English teacher Duncas St. Gelais is accused of bringing condoms to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
"He sent us his actual photograph and was quoted by saying he had a lot to lose," detectives said.
Investigators said St. Gelais told them he had never propositioned any of his students.
It's the teachers who have made parents angry. One parent told Local 6 that her son trusted his teacher, and now he doesn't know who he can trust.
Rebecca Emery said, "My son's face was very distraught and he started to say, 'How do I know there's no more people working there that are doing this?' He also said, 'I trusted him.'"
Emery said St Gelais taught English at New Smyrna Beach High School until his arrest last week. Parents said the school never told them why the teacher was gone. It's unclear what the district has done with St Gelais since his arrest. Local 6 asked the district those questions and we're still waiting to hear back.
Deputies said the the offenders traveled from various cities and counties in Florida, the farthest away being from Pasco County, to have sex with children as young as 11 years old at a house in Oviedo.
Deputies made contact with the men on a variety of websites, with some of the men posting on classified ads looking for sex.
When the 50 men are released from jail on bond, they will be prohibited from having contact with children, including the school employees. At least two of the school employees have resigned.
The operation was a partnership with agencies from Casselberry, Longwood, Orlando, Oviedo and Sanford police officers, along with Brevard, Orange, Lake Manatee, Osceola, Polk, Sarasota and Volusia County Sheriff's Offices. The FBI and the FDLE also contributed to the investigation.
Additional safety information can be found in the FBI's "Parent's Guide to Internet Safety."
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Am I man enough? Am I powerful enough? Men put their bodies at risk to cover up pain, fear, and vulnerability.
Last year, climate activist Tim DeChristopher went to jail for bidding $1.7 million (that he didn't have) to save 22,000 acres of public land from corporate extraction.
Number of companies controlling 90 percent of the media in 1983: 50. In 2011? 6.
A quote from Eduardo Galeano, from It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Download it here.
Musical inspiration while putting out the Fall 2012 issue.
The "Vagina Monologues" author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
It's more than buying stuff. It means reckoning with the intersection between our humanity and the political and environmental decisions our society makes.
After the release of a report on links between extreme weather and climate change, Americans may get what polls show 80 percent of us want: more environmental reporting in mainstream news.
It's official. Droughts, floods, heatwaves, and hurricanes can, indeed, be tied to a climate made increasingly chaotic by human activity.
Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the "green economy."
It won't be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.
Now the U.S. has to gut a law that protects consumers from imported mystery meat—or pay the price.
California's new law gives increased protection to people threatened with foreclosure. Will other states follow?
How to fight diabetes with better policy—and cut your own diabetes risk by 93 percent.


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Books Every UNIX/Linux/AIX Person Should Already Have Read
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Yes, I admit it I am a "hacker" in the old sense of the word i.e. Definition 4 = A person who is good at programming quickly.See Hackers Dictionary below.
I was think that there are certain books every one in the computer industry should have read before they can claim any level of computer expertise. If you have not read them don't tell any one and quickly get yourself a copy and read it quickly.
My five top books all computer people should have read
Neuromancer by William Gibson
One of the original cyber punk books which in 1984 predicted the modern Internet and cracking computers over the network with automated tools and some that is only coming true now.
I thought of this book when looking into PowerSC Security tools and noticing one of them includes a reference to ICE.
This book includes references to the same Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (the "thanks to" in Neuromancer, attributed this term to Tom Maddox).
There is also Black ICE which has behind it an Artificial Intelligence mind that can, if necessary, kill the intruder although I am ot clear if this is only the virtual person or includes the actual person.
I looked around for Black-ICE on the Internet and found a company with such a product name and guess who now owns it !!
IBM withdrew the firewall product with this name a few years ago. Perhaps, due to the Neuromancer connection.
Don't get this confused with Necromancer. That is something else entirely, just don't go there.
The New Hackers Dictionary by Eric Raymond
A fun book to just read a page "now and again" or read cover to cover. Who knew computers were so much fun.
Take a look at the definition of "hacker" = originally "one that makes furniture with an axe".
I was and still am proud to be a hacker in the original computer sense and it is nothing to do with cracking into computers.
Oh how I laughed at "IBM discount" before joining IBM myself 20 years later and then realised it was actually true. It means a price increase.
Buy a second hand copy for that certain "beaten up" look and extra street-cred points and save 20 bucks.
No idea if the updated later edition is any good.
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Fascinating account of the development of a new mini computer at Data General (you know a mini computer has multiple boards to make up the actual CPU, right, of course you do, silly me). This book includes great fun and inter-team rivalry like the renaming of one develop teams files to include a full stop at the front - I am sure I don't need to tell you what happens when the user tries to list their files in the morning, right?
Also include the "fight to the death" competition across the computer industry main players - what happened to Data General in the end?
Probably the same as Pyramid, MIPS, Norsk Data, DEC, Sun and all the others down through the decades.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award.
The Mythical Man-Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brook Jr.
The story of IBM betting the whole company on the creation of OS/360. Lots of insightful thoughts on common mistakes and how large projects can go wrong with bad thinking.
The Mythical Man-month is based on the idea that if a woman takes 9 months to make a baby then 9 women can make a baby in just one month!! Stupid right but thinking like this is why many managers desperately trying to get software finished sooner throw more bodies at the problem and make the problem worse. It also covers why writing generic software for a range of machines and various sizes (instead of a single machine) is nine times harder and not the expected twice or three times.
I read this years before joining IBM and sounded wise beyond my years for a decade -when working in large software teams :-)
I would read the new edition with extra thoughts.
Lions' Commentary on UNIX with Source Code by John Lions
If you can read C source code (even if you can't write it yourself) then this was an exciting find. It is the actual source code for UNIX in the days when it was small enough that one person could read and actually understand the whole thing. And I mean every single line of code. It includes the tiny bit of assembler that UNIX needs to do the actual changing of registers for virtual memory, process context switch and user to kernel mode switches. All the code is explain by John Lions notes. I will not tell you that I had a prized 4th generate photocopy of the original University Course hand-out ... until I found everyone could now just buy a copy now. It is the UNIX 6th Edition, so pretty old, but all of the UNIX kernel is there. Don't forget Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie (K & R) wrote the C compiler (another great book C Programming Language) and Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson wrote the UNIX Kernel, so the code here is a master class in design and coding style.
For an extreme view: I don't understand how any one can use UNIX without being a C programmer :-)
Now three books about the near future including computing, Internet and virtual reality . . .
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
A great book about life in the future and part of it covers an uneducated poor girl given a very special book that transforms her life.
This book inspired me to make 100+ technical hands-on movies on the AIX operating system, the POWER6 and 7 processor and related technologies catch this if you have not already at http
I decided that it is better to watch some one else use a product "hands-on" and explain it as they go. this can include what and why they do things that way. Much better than endless manuals and "death by Powerpoint" presentations. It is more of a conversation and story. This is what the special book in The Diamond Age uses to education the girl.
OK, the book does get a little "mushy" two thirds of the way in but it is very interesting in covering an extreme 3D printer technology that we are starting to see today. Just look at the Raspberry Pi cases becoming available now - the first cases available were via 3D models ready for a 3D printer. Regular cases took 3 months longer to become available.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Wow!!! What a start to the book - you will never think about extreme pizza delivery, swimming pools, burbclaves and levitating skateboards quite the same way again. Nor forget the main characters names of Hiro Protagonist and Vitality Chernobyl for their impact. Snow Crash is the pattern you get on a screen once the computer failed and "oh no" the pattern is not so random after all as it taps in to your mind and ....
In this book the heroes have a life and a virtual life too that get strangely mixed up and they life in a world rich in new technology and terms and vocabulary. It is so vivid I thing the world is reading this book and trying to catch up by adopting it.
The word on the street is the guys at Second Life read this book and said "OK, lets do that and actually build it". And they did!
The future in this book could very easily be the future we all see.
This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams
Another near future book but this one could happen this year. It is a murder mystery techno- thriller where they people involved are fed up with the the slow results of the police investigation to figure what happened when their friend died. So they harness the resources they have available to them. They are an Internet gaming company running a semi real life, semi online problem solving game.
If a dozen cops can't get to the bottom of the clues - what about 12 million Internet users research skills, imagination and ability to follow every possible avenue? What about a million webcams and 1000s of people that can give you an hour or two to help out.
It is only a matter of time before this actually happens.
OK, so that is my choice - what have I missed?


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Rachel Dines, an analyst with Forrester Research, discusses important recent developments in dedupe technology, including deduplication accelerators.
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The latest and greatest in dedupe technology, in my opinion, are deduplication accelerators. These software agents allow deduplication appliances to combine the best of source and target deduplication, while also adding improved integration between backup hardware and software.
By utilizing the latest in deduplication technology, these deduplication accelerators allow users to shift deduplication processing workloads between the source, the media server and disk libraries, which in turn can speed the backup process and reduce network traffic. Some of these solutions can also be used over the WAN for branch-office backups without local hardware.
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Love it and happy I stumbled across it!
Yabla is a great tool to help you along with learning a language. Easy to use and has some great features. It's very reasonable and I enjoy using it.
Next best thing to a private teacher.
The site is easy to navigate. The short TV episodes and subjects are excellent. I like being able to repeat in a loop and to change the speed if needed.
Fantastic for listening and increasing your modern vocabulary by listening to various interesting pieces from guitar lessons, to city tours, to TV excerpts to songs.
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Chilling 911 tapes of shooting at 7-Eleven released
Haunting screams for help can be heard on recently released 911 recordings surrounding the last week's fatal shooting at 7-Eleven.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Albuquerque police released the 911 call made by a 7-Eleven employee, who was reporting a robbery. The caller described a robbery, but moments later, a clerk inside the store would be shot to death.
"Oh my God. He was shot. He's on the floor right now. Can you get someone here?" said the caller.
Within moments of the call, Albuquerque police arrived at the 7-Eleven on University Boulevard and Central Avenue to find Chard Mercer, 37, dead.
The store employee made the call for help while hiding behind the Dumpster. He described the suspect's car but couldn't say much about the shooter himself.
Three men have been charged in connection to the crime. Police said Eloy Aguilar went inside to rob the store while Dylan Villarreal and Julian Deherrera were outside robbing a car full of customers.
Police said Aguilar is the one who pulled the trigger.
Chad Mercer's funeral was held Monday.
All of the suspects in the case are still in jail.


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Ontario Premier Says Cellphones In Class Could Be Useful
from the smart-comments-from-politicians? dept
With schools, cell phones and a politician in the same headline, you'd think the story would be about another attempt to ban technology, but in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty is telling schools to be open to uses for cellphones in the classroom.
McGuinty, who won't even let his ministers keep the devices during cabinet meetings, said he understands they can be a major distraction, but there is a "right way" to use them in class.
"Telephones and BlackBerrys and the like are conduits for information today, and one of the things we want to do is to be well-informed," he said. "And it's something that we should be looking at in our schools.
The issue came up in light of the Toronto District School Board rethinking its blanket ban, and "exploring ways to make [mobile devices] more acceptable."
Political opponents are already mocking McGuinty, and his government does have a really mixed track record on technology... but the comments here are actually quite reasonable. There's room between the "discipline theater" approach of a total ban and the teacher's nightmare scenario of a total free-for-all. A good acceptable use policy would attempt to reduce distractions while not precluding ways in which mobile technology can be helpful in the classroom.
I attended a strict private high school in Toronto from 2001-2005, and we had a blanket ban on electronic devices... but teachers were smart enough to know when it made sense to ignore the ban. I used my PDA to take notes and manage homework in every class, and another student in my year often used a tablet computer. The ban was eventually lifted after I graduated, acknowledging the fact that more and more students were using laptops and mobile devices in ways that helped them learn, while I'm sure they still have a no nonsense policy for students goofing off or distracting others. Rules are needed to minimize bad uses, but that shouldn't prevent people from exploring good uses.
So, good for McGuinty for recognizing that we're better off exploring applications for mobile technology in the classroom than simply trying to ban it.
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Like a jazzed-up suit, Eric Parry's Eagle Place redevelopment cuts a showy dash in London's fashionable West End, writes Jay Merrick
In a period when facadism has given a great deal of British architecture bogus auras of quality and vivacity, it is daring for an architect to base the meaning of an important building in one of London's most cosmopolitan streets on what are, essentially, uncompromisingly vivacious surface effects.
There is a good deal more than that to the architecture of Eric Parry's redevelopment of five buildings on the Crown Estates site at the eastern end of London's Piccadilly. Yet the decorated facade of the centrepiece building so dominates the ensemble that it has effectively created a new and highly extraverted commercial building type in London.
In pragmatic terms, the £45 million Eagle Place development, on the south side of Piccadilly in territory defined architecturally by Nash and Blomfield, has delivered a skilful 11,500m2 arrangement of ground floor retail frontages, optimised office floorplates, luxurious apartments, and an overall BREEAM Excellent rating.
This has involved the demolition and raising of the building at the corner of Piccadilly and Eagle Place; the demolition and redevelopment of 212-214 Piccadilly, 3-4 Eagle Place, and 18-21 Jermyn Street behind a retained facade; and the retention and internal remodelling of 27 Regent Street, which now contains luxury apartments designed by the practice. The first four elements are in the St James's Conservation Area, the latter in the Regent Street Conservation Area.
This degree of functional worth has become a given in Parry's commercial work over the past decade. It's more challenging to judge Eagle Place in terms of his overarching interests in the city as an amalgam of history, architectural artefact and artifice, and art in general. Parry brings these conditions together with an outré combination of precision and ambiguity.
The defining centrepiece of the scheme is the main Piccadilly facade, equivalent to a Savile Row suit coat cut and sewn by Anderson & Sheppard, and then jazzed up by Ozwald Boateng. The well-known British architect who suggested to me that Parry's ribbed and faienced extension of Bath's Holburne Museum was 'simply vulgar' will regard the elevation of the 212-214 Piccadilly segment as paroxysmal proof of his opinion.
The Piccadilly facade is ordered like a commercial palazzo: a plinth of ground floor retail; a band of Nash-like mezzanine windows; a Blomfield-inspired layer of double-height windows with inserted, one storey-high oriels; deeply-punched windows suggesting a piano nobile under the cornice; and an attic level recessed behind a loggia. The horizontal ordering is based on a 3.75m grid that produces six bays.
This is the most startling major facade in London since the PoMo-Gothic blancmange off Fenchurch Street known as both Minster, and Munster, Court; and we might also compare its sheer visual voltage to James Stirling's No.1 Poultry.
For an architect so fascinated by the poetic depths of Adolphe Appia's 19th-century stage set designs, the Piccadilly facade comes as a surprise. The tidy surrealities of Parry's faienced elevations at the Holburne, and in New Bond Street, have been upstaged by a stage-flat. It's the apotheosis of Parry's familiar combinations of refined decorousness, artistic decor and, most significantly, experimental instincts that have already produced inversions of classical and Corbusian orders in the elevations of his Bath and Finsbury Square buildings.
There is something temporally tense about the Holburne's deliberately hyper-distinct juxtaposition of 18th-and 21st-century architecture. In Piccadilly, the tension is greater, despite a facade that very logically imposes a grander 19th-century classical-urban scale on what had been a huddled set of four compressed, unremarkable frontages with dropped cornices that broke the longer streetscape perspectives. Parry's raised cornice reinstates the perspective, jutting out like a thick cicatrice from a flesh of the mug-white faience, producing a building as singular as Joseph Emberton's 1936 Grade I-listed Simpsons building (now Waterstones) a bit further west along Piccadilly.
Emberton was a Modernist. Parry, who has introduced a Crayola sheen to Piccadilly, is harder to define, though we can be certain of his refined appreciation for architectural craft and his daring selection of collaborating artists. The chunky, asymmetrical modillion-cum-dentils of the Piccadilly cornice feature riotously blotched decal glazes by Richard Deacon; and a 6.5-tonne granite face by Stephen Cox gazes gnomically out across St James's from the fourth floor of the new corner facade of Jermyn Street and Eagle Place.
The sculpture has the same Vedantic otherness as his Lingam of aThousand Lingams at the Cass Sculpture Foundation.Parry himself has contributed artwork - the rather bloody speckling of the double-height window casings. These are extremely adventurous admixtures of public art and they deserve better than the bland bread-and-circuses justification by James Cooksey of the Crown Estate, who talks of 'creating an exciting retail and business destination based around a vibrant local community. Public art, like this piece by Richard Deacon, can inspire community connections.'
But, to return to tenser matters, what about temporal connections? Deacon's and Parry's decorative glazing decals could be seen as no more lavishly convivial than the ornate stone urns on the facade of Norman Shaw's last work, the 1908 Piccadilly Hotel (now Le Meridien); or the carved Portland stone pendants of fruits, flowers and festoons on the rather squashed attic storey of Lutyens' 1925 Midland Bank building at 196 Piccadilly, now inhabited by Hauser & Wirth.
But the classical and the colourist qualities of Parry's Piccadilly facade are not incidental. The beautifully crafted oriel window bays, the gleaming softness of Shaw's of Darwen's faience, the fineness of the lime mortar joints and the inwardly radiused double-height window casings create the sense of a perfectly cast foreground object in a street of grand, but not overwhelming architectural backgrounds. The formal civility of Parry's building remains beneath the decals, an architectural make-up baked on at 1,200°C.
This is not the case with the rebuilt building that wraps around the corner of Piccadilly and Eagle Place, whose raised brick structure is now linked to the steel frame of the pièce de résistance. The new facade in Jermyn Street and the asymmetrically modelled facade facing Eagle Place show Parry's skill as an architectural collagist, and they add something very fresh and historically alert to what was an unremarkable alley and to the oddly muted eastern end of Jermyn Street. The Eagle Place elevation is particularly engrossing; if only more secondary spaces in our cities were graced with this degree of design originality.
Where does Eric Parry go from here? One must hope that the commercial success of the Eagle Place ensemble does not trigger a demand for copycat buildings from him - or, indeed, from lesser architects, which would be a truly hideous prospect. The tensions of Parry's arrangements of craft, detail and subversions of type that give his work its teasing fusions of virtuosity and strangeness surely preclude obvious repetitions.
What would Lutyens have made of Parry's Piccadilly palazzo? Perhaps Stephen Cox's meditative Vedic sculpture might know the answer: it overlooks a point midway between Lutyens' bank building and the mews studio in Apple Tree Yard, between Jermyn Street and St James's Square, where he designed his New Delhi projects. There is nothing in the Vedanta about Mannerism, but it must charge the Floris-scented air here, playfully and provocatively.
Jay Merrick is architecture critic at The Independent
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The Eagle building makes more sense to me as the 'interior" face of the rooms of each street, almost like one has split a Pomegranate open and turned it inside to out. Quite a different thing to Jim Stirling's work that was more concerned with the object.
The cleverest aspect of the design is doing the continuity part required for an infill, whilst making it special and of its time. This used to be something architects did with ease, but like hand drawing is disappearing. Perhaps the two are connected, as taking the time to make hand drawings of one's buildings surely makes them more considered and particular.
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Mourinho explains pragmatic approach
Jose Mourinho believes his pragmatic approach in recent weeks has been necessary to bring success to Chelsea.
Upon his return to Stamford Bridge in June, Mourinho had a wealth of attacking talent available to him, including Eden Hazard, Oscar and Juan Mata.
Samuel Eto'o and Andre Schurrle were added to the forward ranks as Chelsea started the season playing an expansive 4-2-3-1 system.
Consistency was tough to find early on for the London club though, as they fell to two defeats against Basel in the UEFA Champions League and suffered reverses at Newcastle United and Stoke City domestically.
Mata's sale to Manchester United and a subsequent switch to 4-3-3 - the system used by the Portuguese in his hugely successful first spell at Chelsea - has yielded better results, as Chelsea made the Champions League semi-finals and remain in the hunt for the Premier League title.
Mourinho has been pilloried for a seemingly negative outlook recently against Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, but he feels his tactics have been justified.
"I feel that in a conscious way I knew what I was doing at a certain moment of the season," he told the club's official website.
"I made the decision to stop the evolution in the style of play and I went in a direction that with these players we have we could get results.
"I felt we couldn't arrive where we did in the Champions League if we didn't change our style of play. The team became more strategical and less intuitive because we went for results.
"There was a moment where I felt this Premier League was so dangerous that it was a big risk for every one of the big teams to be out of the top four. The reality is that this Premier League is a big risk and next season will be the same.
"Man United are out, I think Arsenal will do it but they were in trouble, Everton are a threat, Tottenham are a threat."
Mourinho believes his top performers this season have been in defence, and hailed his backline's efforts when facing some of the game's most potent attacks.
He added: "When everybody thinks about players of the season people normally go to the creative ones and strikers. I look to (Cesar) Azpilicueta, (Gary) Cahill, (John) Terry, (Branislav) Ivanovic, they had an amazing season.
"Look how many goals the Liverpool strikers score, they didn't score against Chelsea. You see how many goals Diego Costa has scored this season but over two games he only scored a penalty against Chelsea."


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Restoration of a deteriorating forest road and construction of a wooden lookout tower in order to protect 1500 ha of forest from forest fires.
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Restoration of a deteriorating forest road and construction of a wooden lookout tower in order to protect 1500 ha of forest from forest fires.
A young farmer used RDP support to expand and diversify the range of products and services offered by her beekeeping holding.
An ambitious entrepreneur used business start-up aid for young farmers in order to modernise his farm and create a series of innovative products.
A dairy farm combined three RDP supported operations to increase and modernise milk production and secure one full-time job.
Tularù is an organic and multi-functional closed-cycle farm born that began life as a centre for sustainable production. It offers an alternative approach to solving current environmental, social and economic issues for farms.
project focusing on the protection and promotion of a breed of cattle specific to Western Macedonia, the Greek Red Kastoria-Kristalopigi cow.
Poland's RDP allocated a 'lump sum' funding package for LEADER Local Actions Groups to help them prepare their Local Development Strategies for the 2014-2020 period.
An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
for sustainable rural areas
The Danish Managing Authority commissioned an online tool used for evaluating applications for LEADER support, taking a baseline and measuring interventions, in addition to scoring against priorities.
The Czech Republic's RDP has introduced simplified administration systems that improve transparency and reduce risks of errors concerning eligibility.