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You can use our website and browse it to learn more about Early Music in Columbus without giving us any personal information. However, we are able to determine your IP address through website diagnostic tools. We must sometimes use this IP information to diagnose problems we may experience with our servers, to administer our website, and/or to to measure the effectiveness of our site in reaching our target market. The latter helps us to fine tune our marketing and adapt our content to serve our customers or prospective customers better. This is gathered as aggregate demographic data, rather than specific personal data.
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Where do top-rated chefs, sommeliers and bartenders hang out during their time off? A new app uncovers their favorite restaurants, bars and shops in cities around the world, from high-end eateries to dive bars.
The app, Find. Eat. Drink., for iPhones provides recommendations from industry experts. It includes suggestions from Fergus Henderson, the English chef who popularized nose-to-tail dining and the Roca brothers, who run El Celler de Can Roca in Spain, which Restaurant magazine dubbed the second-best eatery in the world.
"The idea was to reach out to people within the culinary community that were doing interesting and unique work, and who were passionate about what they do," said Robin Dorian, co-founder of Find. Eat. Drink., who is based in New York.
Chef Richard Blais, of television's "Top Chef" and "Blais Off," recommends a rotisserie chicken restaurant in a strip mall in Atlanta, and Floyd Cardoz, winner of "Top Chef Masters" Season 3, gives the thumbs up for a dosa restaurant in New York.
"You eat out of Styrofoam, but the food is incredibly delicious," he said in his recommendation for the Dosa Hutt.
Suggestions are made based on the user's location and can be viewed on a map. They are also filtered by price and user ratings.
The app can be used to research a city before setting off and to collect venues by creating customized lists within the app. It includes recommendations for more than 2,000 establishments in 120 cities around the world.
"If you go, for instance, to Chinatown in New York, there's all these places, so it kind of takes that guesswork out and makes it easy to go off the beaten track," Dorian explained.
Dorian got the idea for the company from an experience she had as a Food Network television producer and host. After a day of filming, a chef took her to a restaurant in New York, and she was amazed by the number of chefs she spotted there who were customers.
"I was wondering, 'How come all the chefs know to go here?'" she said.
In addition to restaurants and bars, there are also recommendations for Asian grocers and wine, cheese, candy and salt shops.
"It's about checking out places that inspire them - more interesting, ethnic unique places. That's how they eat and how they travel," she said.
Reservations can also be made at select restaurants from the app, which is available worldwide.
A similar app for iPhones called Chefs Feed provides a visual way of scanning photos of restaurant dishes recommended by top chefs.
The app has more than 600 chefs recommending dishes through the app, including Napa's Thomas Keller of French Laundry and Per Se, Los Angeles' Wolfgang Puck of Spago and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, and New York's Mario Batali of Babbo and Lupa.
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While the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks wage war in the NBA playoffs, the games are a far cry from the real battle going on at the University of Miami.
A pair of real hawks is terrorizing students as they walk through one section of the college campus.
One female student suffered a concussion after falling down from an aerial assault and others have reported lacerations to their heads and face from the talons of the menacing little birds.
The attacks curiously began around the same time the Round 1 playoff series started.
Coincidence? As Arsenio Hall would say, it's one of those "things that make you go hmmm."
The red-shouldered hawk is actually protecting a nest of chicks located in a tree right above a path used by students to get grub, wildlife officials said.
Spring is nesting season for the birds of prey, and this is the third year students have been the targets for the divebombing hawks.
When a student approaches, the hawk swoops down out of nowhere, going straight for the student's head. No eyes have been lost yet, but a few hairdos have been frazzled.
News of the unprovoked attacks has spread like wildfire across the campus and security guards have been on the lookout for the winged predators.
Signs are posted all over the campus warning students to watch their heads or carry an umbrella.
Turns out D-Wade and the boys had a good reason to be scared out of their jocks when Atlanta's mascot refused to fly down from the rafters before Game 2 last week.


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Empowering people to have a voice in conquering barriers and following their dreams is a concept that can be applied universally. The heart of this lively, interactive training helps acquire a deeper understanding of our individual passions in order to help pursue a richer, more meaningful life and gain respect for ourselves and others. Through the use of video, group activities and discussion, this training examines routines, activities, and relationships that are important to each individual.
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2013 NAIA Men?s Cross Country Runner of the Week - No. 6
By: Sam Knehans, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sam Atkin of Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) has been named the NAIA Men's Cross Country National Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Atkin was chosen for his performance during the week of Oct. 14 – 20 and was selected out of a pool of conference, independent, and unaffiliated grouping award winners.
Atkin, a junior from Lincolnshire, England, placed first among collegiate runners at the Inland Empire Championships at Lewis-Clark State's home course in Lewiston, Idaho. Atkin, who was paced by 2012 NAIA national runner-up Greg Montgomery, a graduate of College of Idaho, ran the 8-kilometer course in 23:25 finishing 14 seconds behind Montgomery but nearly 30 seconds ahead of his nearest collegiate competitor. Atkin's mark shattered the Warriors program record and led No. 4 Lewis-Clark State to the team title. The Warriors, who had four runners place among the top 15 individuals, outpaced a nine-team field that included current No. 8 Eastern Oregon and No. 22 College of Idaho.
With this week's selection, Atkin becomes the first athlete to earn multiple Runner of the Week awards in 2013. The last runner to claim multiple honors was Evans Kirwa of Embry-Riddle (Fla.), who was the Runner of the Week three times in 2012.
For the complete player of the week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Nathan Meeuwenberg , Milligan (Tenn.); Alex Stephens, Bryan (Tenn.); Wayne Smith, William Jessup (Calif.); Eric Avila, Southern Oregon; Isaac Updike , Eastern Oregon; Eric Alldritt, Concordia (Ore.); Justin Holden, Corban (Ore.); Stephen Duley, Cardinal Stritch (Wis.); Tyler Herber, Huntington (Ind.); Sancho Ridesatthedoor, Carroll (Mont.); Jace Kalbfleisch, Great Falls (Mont.); Johnny Rutford, Nebraska Wesleyan; Nicolos Jones, Tougaloo (Miss.); Etaslon Kabura, Graceland (Iowa); Laird Goertzen, Bethel (Kan.); Seth Prince, Indiana East; Matt McKenzie, St. Louis Pharmacy (Mo.); Jonathan Gears, Cumberlands (Ky.); Jeff Austin, York (Neb.); Nate McNamara, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Michael Lessor, Viterbo (Wis.); Jacob Reeves, Bethel (Tenn.); Paul Freese, Loyola (La.); Michael Holt, Bethel (Tenn.); Dylan McCoy, William Carey (Miss.); Jordan Travis, Spring Hill (Ala.); Doug Mumme, Belhaven (Miss.); Jacob Alplund, Northwood (Fla.); Alex Kitchin, Concordia (Mich.); Noah Roper, Lourdes (Ohio).
2013 Men's Cross Country Composite Award Winners
Week 1 (September 18): Mike Blaszczyk, St. Francis (Ill.)
Week 2 (September 25): Sam Atkin, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
Week 3 (October 2): Eric Avila, Southern Oregon
Week 4 (October 9): Paul Adams, Oregon Tech
Week 5 (October 16): Adam Godwin, Oklahoma Baptist
Week 6 (October 23): Sam Atkin, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)


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When BloodRayne: Betrayal was announced so close to April 1, we met the reveal with a healthy dose of scepticism. A 3D shooter turned into a 2D platformer? Seemed a little weird.
But here it is, in all its 2D, cel-shaded glory. A comment on the clip's YouTube page says "looks like castalvania now i hated blood ryane so this can only be an improvement", which must surely sum up most people's thoughts on the matter.
It'll be out on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this winter.


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As the year draws to a close many of us might take time for reflection. It is befitting to think about changes we would like to see for the better when the clock strikes midnight and the clean slate of a new year begins. Out with the old, and in with the new.
These past few months I heard way too many times, sound bites repeated about cats that are stereotypical, unfounded, and cruel. These same mundane statements are being echoed throughout almost every media outlet and social media venue. This repetition does more harm than good and it is frustrating to keep hearing these same old droll statements plunked down because it is easier to repeat than evaluate.
I might sound like I have lost my sense of humor, and I haven't I assure you, except when it comes to people mindlessly repeating the following things about cats.
1) Stop repeating that cats are aloof and don't love their humans.
Vocal recognition of owners by domestic cats (Felis catus), by Saito and Shinozuka and published in Animal Cognition early in 2013 caused an echo throughout the media claiming that cats don't care enough to respond to their owners, cats are aloof, and even your cat doesn't love you back. So as bits and pieces of the article were plucked out and repeated, in one sensational headline after another, the core of the article was left behind.


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Back to DR planning basics
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable.
- James Damoulakis, GlassHouse Technologies
Back to DR planning basics
There haven't been many recent disasters, but that doesn't mean you can forget disaster recovery practices.
In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and company, there's been a sharp rise in the overall awareness of disaster recovery (DR) and the desire to improve DR capabilities. But the 2006 hurricane season represented something of a reversal from last year, and without the same high-profile disaster coverage, some companies may have been lulled into complacency. So it seems like a good time to reconsider some DR basics and discuss a lingering concern: the business-IT expectations gap.
I've written about business and IT alignment issues, a topic that has become standard fare in CIO-targeted publications. In the storage arena, we're seeing progress among forward-thinking companies toward better alignment of primary data and the beginnings of true business-driven, data-retention policies. However, DR is still one area where there's often a significant shortcoming.
In an ideal DR scenario, IT personnel would be prepared to handle multiple disaster categories with their actions dictated by clearly defined and documented policies and procedures. Application recovery would be prioritized on the basis of service levels driven by well thought-out recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) metrics. Much of the recovery would be automated through replication and other recovery tools.
Unfortunately, that scenario is more the exception than the rule for several reasons. First, like every other area within IT, DR is a balancing act; there's a trade-off between what we want to do and what we can afford. And by its very nature, DR is one of the biggest challenges IT faces. You must perform activities that are seldom done and accomplish them under the worst possible circumstances. Toss in the inherent limitations on planning and testing, and it's easy to understand why many IT professionals cringe at the mere mention of DR.
One of the fundamental prerequisites of successful DR planning is to understand the real requirements. What does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost? As already noted, the key performance metrics to support this are RTO and RPO. Briefly, RTO is the maximum acceptable time to resume operations--not just to data recovery--and RPO is a measure of acceptable data loss.
The failure to understand and agree upon these metrics for critical applications, and the subsequent inability to invest in and develop capabilities to support them, is the basis for the DR gap between business and IT. Bridging this gap requires IT to meet with business and application owners to understand recovery needs so that the financial impact of outages can be quantified and then weighed against the cost of providing the necessary service level. This may require some negotiation, but the unavoidable truth is that without this conversation, DR success is impossible.
Building this capability goes well beyond a technology exercise. It consists of planning, identifying dependencies, developing processes and, above all, testing.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
A DR plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. It should incorporate actions that need to be performed before, during and after a disaster is declared. Among the more basic elements are defining the criteria under which a disaster is declared, who can declare it and how individuals are notified. The Gulf hurricane experiences reinforced the challenge and importance of communications, and a good plan should include contingencies; you can't assume e-mail, VoIP or even cell phone service is available.
We know that processes and procedures need to be documented, but we also know that most people hate to do it. Even the most carefully crafted DR plans will become useless without proper attention. DR needs to be baked into the standard change management process so that whenever systems are modified, software is patched or additional storage is assigned, the impact on DR is reviewed and the plan revised accordingly. Likewise, when reorganizations occur, the DR plan must be revisited.
It's clear that double-digit data growth rates dramatically impact the ability to recover within targeted time constraints, but application complexity and interdependence is an often-overlooked factor that has a major impact on recoverability. Today, major applications are spread across multiple servers and architectures. It's not uncommon for a mainframe application to feed other applications or subcomponents that reside on Unix or Windows platforms. Based on the traditional server-centric recovery perspective, it's possible to successfully back up or snapshot each application component but be unable to fully recover the application due to inconsistencies among the various components.
This situation can be avoided by first understanding the interdependencies among applications and then applying the appropriate data protection approach. The method could be the use of split mirror/replication technology featuring consistency groups that encompass the interdependent elements, or it might be continuous data protection (CDP) technology that can ensure highly granular, synchronized time-based rollback.
No testing, no DR
The planning part of DR is relatively easy compared to testing the plan. Testing is the part of DR that's often dreaded and, unfortunately, too often avoided. Yet without proper testing, one might as well not bother with the planning because the likelihood of successful execution is small.
Some fundamental considerations for testing include:
- Test application recovery, not just data recovery (think application interdependency)
- Let nonprimary individuals perform the recovery to validate procedures and documentation
- Construct multiple disaster scenarios and employ role-playing
- Establish a positive DR mindset: uncovering (and fixing) problems is a good thing
- Track metrics to measure and chart improvement
Expanding technology choices
It's easy to become disheartened when you consider the myriad challenges associated with building an effective DR strategy. But there's some good news: The number of available DR technology options is expanding while costs, though still not inconsiderable, are coming within the financial reach of more organizations. Rather than having to depend solely on backup tapes--and their associated multiday RTOs/RPOs--for DR, a variety of alternatives for budget-constrained companies are now available.
Replication services, for example, can be implemented at the application, database, host, network and storage array levels in ways that should address almost any combination of requirements and budget. For an environment with only a small number of critical applications requiring a short RTO, a host-based tool may do the job; in addition, many environments are successfully replicating databases using the log-shipping facilities native to many databases. Options like these are often overlooked in our storage-centric view. For environments needing to provide recovery services across a broader range of platforms and applications, storage-level replication services make sense; we're now seeing more robust replication, mirroring and snapshotting options offered for midrange arrays.
CDP technologies are also beginning to make their way into environments seeking to improve DR processes. Often introduced to protect a specific application or database, such as Exchange or Oracle, these tools can provide significant benefits especially with regard to ease of recovery.
The challenge is to not put the cart before the horse. Be aware that tool selection is the easiest (and--be honest--the most fun) part of the DR process, so there's a temptation to jump to this phase first. That would be a serious mistake. Without performing the heavy lifting first--the business-impact analysis and planning--the likelihood of overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable.


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In the late 1930s, as humans managed to launch yet another war that would fail to end all wars, H.G. Wells wrote a series of essays laying out a plan for a better world. Wells, a novelist, reformer and sometime historian, believed that technology could connect people in ways that had never before been possible, joining them in a network and uniting their wisdom into a kind of synaptic and singular mind. The structure Wells imagined would be, he declared, "a sort of mental clearinghouse for the mind, a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified, and compared."
Wells's "World Brain" would, sadly, remain unrealized in his lifetime. But the World Wide Web, built decades later on the foundations of the military-industrial Internet, was created for the express purpose of sharing ideas and connecting people around them—for building, essentially, a global mind of the sort envisioned by Wells. The web has since been organized (and, in some sense, humanized) by search engines operating under the assumption that information is, fundamentally, a means of connection.
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Today, thanks to Google, the most dominant of those engines, we have a tool that taps into humanity's hive mind better than anything Wells could have imagined. We have snapshots of the information people seek when there's no barrier between them and their curiosity save for an open field and a flashing cursor. We have … Autocomplete.
And Autocomplete offers much more than insight into people's queries about love ("why is love … so hard/important/so complicated") and life ("will life ever … get better/be like star trek") and mysterious rashes ("on face/on neck/on arms/on legs"). When it comes to politics, Google's crowdsourced search predictions are shockingly revealing, offering largely unmediated insights into people's investigations and observations of their elected officials: think of them as real-time push polls accessible and viewed by millions. Think the public is full of high-minded individuals who, in the privacy of their own browsers, turn to Google to understand the intricacies of our political system? Nope. It turns out many of us would rather know if, say, Secretary of State John Kerry has had plastic surgery than whether he's about to clinch a deal with Iran. The burning question about House Speaker John Boehner? Why he cries so often. About New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker? Whether he's gay.
Autocomplete is a microinteraction—a minor feature that has come to define, and standardize, our approach to the Internet—that ends up making some macro points about the American political system. And, like so many things built on the Internet, it manages also to be extremely meta. Type a term into Google's search bar—or, actually, type just part of that term—and you get, instantly, a little summary, ranked and snapshotted, of all the other search terms that have been entered into that same little box. Autocomplete is the collective questioning of the world, transformed into text. It is the curiosity of the Internet … made into Internet curiosities. It is glorious.
The auto-generated returns can offer, at turns, melancholy and hilarity and poetry and paranoia. But Autocomplete is more than simply a freeze-framed insight into the pulsing, pining soul of the world. Focused on politics, it can also be a kind of choose-your-own adventure story, courtesy of your clicks. So if I type, say, "Barack Obama is…" into Google's search field, I am presented (depending on my browser and its configuration) with four options:
At which point I click on "a reptile," obviously. Which connects me, if I click on the top return, to a helpfully named website, educate-yourself.org ( dot-org!), the tagline of which is "The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought ©" and the body of which contains a lengthy analysis, based on a childhood photo of our 44 th president, attempting to prove Obama's status as a reptilian humanoid. It is not convincing.
The point, however, is that—thanks to Google's aggregations of questions—I have found myself here on educate-yourself.org, and, now that I have done so, I can, indeed, educate myself—not necessarily about the president's supposed lizard brain, but about my fellow Americans' examinations of the alleged lizardry. Google, in giving me a peek inside its cyborg-style mind, has taught me that there have been enough people who have been curious about the president's status not just as an American, but as a human, that their curiosity has become publicly associated with searches about the president. And that curiosity, with the help of Autocomplete's infrastructure, has compounded as people like me—people who wonder not about Obama's humanity, but about those who would think to question it—click on "reptilian."
And on and on it can go—ad infinitum and, occasionally, ad nauseam.
Start to investigate the politics of Autocomplete and you head down a road with a mind-boggling array of possible iterations. You can take a similarly forking path with Hillary Clinton ("evil," "bi," "communist") and Joe Biden ("an idiot," "a moron," "from," "dead," "a dumbass") and Ted Cruz ("an idiot," "Canadian," "crazy," "a jerk," "a moron"). Search, click, site-surf (and then, should you choose, browse another site, and then another) … until you have gotten a synaptic education about the political wonderings and wanderings of your fellow citizens.
Even with Barack Obama, the reptilian path is far from the only road to take. Omitting the "Barack" in the search yields "gay," "an idiot," "a muslim," "a liar." Or you can add "why does" to your query about our president, to revealing effect:
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Here's a quick and healthy vegan recipe for one of my favorite salads. It's great for lunch on its own, or as an appetizer before a soup or lighter meal. Instead of quinoa, you can use other grains like couscous or bulgar, or use the dressing, avocado and tomato on fresh greens, like spinach or arugula.
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Guacamole for a Summer Day
Guacamole is simple, wholesome, refreshing and delicious. Everyone has their own unique recipe. I debated about posting my own online, but I'm such a fan of guacamole… and it's naturally vegan (unless you do something silly like add mayo to it – ick!) and all raw. So, I decided to write up this post to celebrate guacamole, avocados, and raw food in general. It also gave me an excuse to practice more food styling and play with some new serving dishes. I know, how domestic of me.
Guacamole is very well-known in North America, due in no small part to the proximity and popularity of Mexican and Latin American food – much of which can be made vegan quite easily. Guac is also one of those things, like hummus and other dips that shows up all the time at buffets and picnics.
Despite loving the versatility and flavor of vegan cooking, I try to eat a lot of raw food. Depending on the season it's usually about 30-50% of my daily food intake. In the summer, and when I'm traveling in warm climates (where safe-to-eat raw fruit and vegetables can be found) it's even more.
I try to plan a one-day fast every month to let my system detox and have a day off. I work with juices, tea, and raw snacks and simple things on the pre- and post-fasting days, to ease my digestive system into and out of the fast. Sprouts, salads, raw fruits and vegetables, and raw snacks like this work well not just for the fasting transition, but also to accompany cooked dishes.
Perhaps another time I'll explore in more depth the topics of juicing and fasting, but for now, let's get right to that awesome guacamole recipe.


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I have to solve analitically the Schrodinger equation in one-dimension with a barrier of potential (tunnel effect):
$$ih \frac{d}{dt} U(x,t) = \left[ \left(-\hbar^2 \frac{d^2}{dx^2} \right) + q V(x) \right] U(x,t)$$
where: $i$ is the imaginary unit, ($d/dt$) is the time derivative, $\hbar$ is the Reduced Plank constant, ($d^2/dx^2$) is the second derivative in space, $V(x)$ is an external potential function of $x$, $U(x,t)$ is the wave function of time and place. The barrier of potential is:
$$V(x) = \begin{cases} 0, & \mbox{if } -d<x<-L \\ V_0, & \mbox{if } -L<x<L \\ 0, & \mbox{if } L<x<d \end{cases} $$
with $d=10L$ and $V_0>0$; Also the boundary condition are: $U(-d,t)=U(d,t)=0$; and the initial condition is
$$U(x,t_{0})=\frac{1}{\sqrt{Dx}} \exp \left(i P_0 \frac{x}{\hbar} \right)$$
if $-d<x<-d+Dx$ and $U(x,t_{0})=0$ if $-d+Dx<x<d$; where $Dx<<L$ and $P_0$ is the quantum moment at t0. Also I know that at time $t_0$, the Fourier Transform of $U(x,t_{0})$ is a sinc centered in $P_0$, the aspectated value of position is $-d+Dx/2$ and the aspectated value of velocity is $P_0/m$, where $m$ is the mass of the particle.
Then I have to compare analytical results with results from FINITE ELEMENTS and FINITE DIFFERENCE method.
I hope that someone can help me to solve this problem.


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IMRT improves outcomes in patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck
Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils. Patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck often undergo radiation therapy, but this treatment frequently damages the salivary glands and causes dry mouth, which can lead to problems with eating, speaking and swallowing.
An advanced radiation therapy technique called Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) produces no major side effects and a high response rate in patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center. Aruna Turaka, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Fox Chase, presented the findings at the 2011 Pan Pacific Lymphoma Conference on Monday, August 15.
IMRT involves using a computer to deliver radiation doses with the optimal intensity and pattern so that the radiation beam conforms to the three-dimensional shape of the tumor and spares healthy surrounding tissue. The procedure is commonly used to treat head and neck cancer because it provides better local control rates and causes fewer side effects, such as dry mouth com pared with standard conventional radiation therapy techniques. But whether IMRT is the best radiation therapy for patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck had not been previously investigated.
"IMRT is a promising technique that should be used to treat extranodal lymphoma, in addition to chemotherapy," Turaka says. "Radiation acts as a form of local treatment that prevents loco- regional relapses, and chemotherapy helps to prevent systemic relapses."
In the new study, Turaka and her colleagues identified five patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and neck who were treated with IMRT at Fox Chase between 2007 and 2010. Four of these individuals also received chemotherapy. All of the patients had stage IEA disease, indicating that the cancer was located in a single region and there were no systemic symptoms, such as fever, drenching night sweats, and weight loss.
After treatment, the majority of patients showed improved outcomes and only minor symptoms. There were no occurrences of severe dry mouth, no relapses in the head or neck, and no evidence of tissue abnormalities appearing on positron emission tomography scans (PET) of these regions. Only one individual experienced a systemic relapse, and four people survived during the follow-up period. The findings show that IMRT helps to control local tumors while keeping side effects at a minimum.
In follow-up studies, Turaka will examine the effectiveness and side effects of IMRT, in comparison with conventional radiation therapy approaches, in a larger group of patients with extranodal lymphoma affecting various sites in the body.
"Though these types of lymphomas are rare, it's important to treat them using advanced techniques, such as IMRT, to achieve better results and give good symptom relief to patients," Turaka says.


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The programme used undercover reporters using hidden cameras, and they filmed the meetings and the conversations with the relevant entities.
The reporter first presented himself as a wealthy British resident tax-payer who had £6 million stashed in Switzerland, on which no tax had been paid, and on which he wanted to evade any other tax liabilities. For reasons of agreements between the UK HMRC and the Swiss authorities, he wanted the money moved urgently, into another secret facility.
He made an appointment with a firm of corporate servicing agents in York where he met one of the directors. He told him the story of the money and his wish not to pay any tax on it, so the company director was in no doubt that the putative client wished to engage in a piece of unashamed tax fraud.
He was offered a solution involving what was described as a scenario involving a secretive offshore tax haven, a series of companies and trusts and a Foundation in Belize. He was told that the structure would not enable any trace to be made back to the beneficial owner, and that the formation company were already operating up to 10,000 such similar structures already. He was told that in no HMRC investigations have the investigators been able to get to the money.
Jonathan Fisher QC was shown the structure which he then described as containing a number of serious criminal offences.
The programme went on the identify other corporate providers, in Dubai and later in Mauritius. The stories differed, one case involved a purported intermediary wanting to create a secret banking facility for his clients who were described as wealthy Indians who wanted a safe place to stash their commissions they were being paid for ensuring that relevant contract bidding projects went to the right bidders. For commissions, read 'bribes'. The undercover reported went to some lengths to spell out how these so-called 'commissions' worked, and it was made quite clear that they were clearly corrupt, and bribes.
Again, the help they were offered was immediate, constructive and 'for the right fee' potentially would have been very successful. Again, there was use made of offshore companies of various kinds. One of the jurisdictions fingered heavily was Guernsey, who would be making use of nominee directors to help disguise the beneficial ownership's of the corporate structures.
All in all, it was a very grubby tale of greed and as blatant a piece of criminal law-breaking as you could expect. In one scene, a corporate services provider proposed that he would invite a local bank officer to come to a meeting in his offices to meet the purported launderer, and complete the banking formalities. Easier than going to the bank, was how he put it.
What made it all so acutely depressing was that there was no evidence that HMRC had ever prosecuted any of the corporate services providers under their supervision, for any breaches of the Money laundering Regulations, or indeed for straight-forward money laundering itself.
This programme demonstrates the degree of contempt for the Money Laundering Rules and Regulations which exists in the corporate financing sector. The degree of blatant criminal complicity which is going on between potentially shady characters with weird stories, and dodgy cv's. (That's if anyone bothers to check)!
The real problem in all of this is that the Money Laundering Regulations have never been properly policed, and never effectively enforced. That is where the answer to money laundering interdiction lies, in the enforcement of the Regs, but why will no-one, absolutely fucking no-one, step up and take the lead on this?
I have written many times about the lack of willingness on the part of the FSA to take the lead. Their own enforcement arrangements are lack-luster and lukewarm at the best of times. They have consistently refused to accept their Parliamentary responsibilities to enforce the Money Laundering law within the financial sector. HMRC cover another sector, and other agencies have input, but absolutely nothing gets done, and eventually the industry realises that there is no point bothering with a compliance regime because no-one enforces it.
If company directors were getting criminal records for failing to comply with the Regs, there would have been a Gadarene-like rush to provide compliance systems and controls. It is so simple, but apparently so difficult.
I have been forced to come to the conclusion that Government does not really want the AML laws to be enforced - they cannot do so, because they spend such little time and effort insisting on enforcement. I am beginning to believe that they would rather turn a blind eye to the problem, coming up with weasel-worded statements when things get a bit warm about 'ensuring financial institutions have adequate systems and controls', but in practice, just keeping their noses out of the issue, for fear that too much regulation and compliance with international laws might mean putting off some of the slew of dirty money that is constantly flowing around the world looking for a safe haven, from coming to the UK.
I think that there may be a view that if we can't collect the bastard's taxes, then we might as well fill our coffers with the profits from the drug trade and other people's tax evasion, and as long as we pay lip-service to the FATF guidelines, and make sure that we don't get put on some nasty blacklist (which we won't because we make sure we are well-represented at FATF meetings), and as long as we keep pointing the finger of non-compliance at Iran or Pakistan or wherever, we will get away with it!
And all the while we play these silly games, we will have people like those named and shamed in the Panorama programme willing to take the risks to facilitate our ambitions..
What a reputation to have, but then, who really cares? It's only the rich and the big corporates who are fiddling while the financial infrastructure burns! And all the time the rich and the powerful are getting away with not paying their taxes, and pushing their bribes into offshore centres, and setting up their tax-avoision models, who is really losing?
You see, the rich don't use NHS hospitals, God, no! They use exclusive private health care facilities. They don't use public transport, when they have chauffers and big cars; they don't really come into contact with the police, they use private security instead; they send their offspring to private schools, so they don't bother the state education system, and they holiday away from the UK in the sun, so they don't really impact the state infrastructure at all.
As this gap between the haves and the have-nots grows, the rich will be less and less willing to part with their cash, and the kind of services that they are using to move their money around, away from the Chancellor's grasp, will become more and more important to them.
Chiseled over the portico of the IRS building in Washington are the words; 'Taxes are what we pay to live in a free society'! It is a fine statement and it has just as much resonance here in the UK as in the US, but as long as the government is going to be willing to continue to turn a blind eye to the lack of enforcement and what is really going on in the money laundering arena, it's validity is becoming increasingly debased.
When Leona Helmsley once said 'Only the little people pay taxes', I wonder if she really knew how accurate that statement was!
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Market Watch with Alan Brugler
November 15, 2013
Equities Sucking Out All the Money?
The US stock market hit new record highs this week, and several other markets around the world are on a roll as well. That has been a negative for the ag commodities, as new speculative money has been diverted to the equity sector. We need to remember that commodities as an investment asset class became popular starting back in 2004/05 because they were shown to be negatively correlated to the equities. If you were afraid stocks were about to go down, you were to put more money into commodities. Right now, investment money is not afraid of going into stocks since the Fed is still pumping up the money supply every month and inflation is still tame. The result has been a shortage of oxygen for the commodities bulls (the bears must have been issued scuba tanks!).
December corn futures were up on Monday, but that was all she wrote. We didn't even get an MACD buy signal on the weekly chart because the market was unable to hold the early week gain. The net change for the week was -1.1%. Demand is a bright spot, with weekly ethanol production rising to the highest level since February 2012. And ethanol stocks only 100,000 barrels above the lowest reading since reporting began in 2010. USDA reported strong weekly export sales of 1.203 MMT on Friday morning. Export commitments are already 66% of the newly revised USDA forecast for the year, hinting at another upward revision in the future. The EPA did announce a cut in the targeted 2014 ethanol volume of 13 billion gallons for corn ethanol on Friday, about as expected and subject to a 60 day comment period after posting in the Federal Register. This would imply corn consumption of 4.75 billion bushels before adding additional bushels for export and voluntarily blended ethanol.
Soybean futures were down 1.2% this week. Weekly US export sales were expected to be 700,000 MT – 1.3 MMT. USDA put the total for last week on the low end at 848,500 MT. Total Commitments as a % of total exports are now at 86%, which compares to 73% for last year and the 5 year average of 62%. NOPA member soybean crush in October was 157.06 mbu, which was a new all time high for October. Oil stocks were estimated at 1.491 bln bu, with the actual figure coming in at 1.356 bln bu. and revealing strong soy oil use. EPA announced a target of 1.28 billion gallons for biodiesel use in 2014 on Friday afternoon.
Wheat futures were lower in all three markets this week again this week. MPLS was off the most at 2.11%. USDA sees HRS stockpiles growing, due to a record Canadian crop competing with the US stocks. Total US export commitments are still a larger % of the USDA forecast than usual for this date, but USDA chose to leave the forecast UNCH at 1.1 billion bushels due to the slower pace of sales in recent weeks. The net for the week ending November 7 (announced on Friday) was only 288,700 MT.
Cotton futures were actually up 0.29% for the week despite a nasty sell off on Thursday. Global ending stocks are still projected to be record large at 95.71 million bales. Put another way, the world will have 87% of the 2014/15 consumption already in the warehouse on July 31 (assuming no growth from 2014 in that consumption). Chinese stocks are thought to be a whopping 160% of their annual use. USDA weekly Upland cotton export sales data reported for the week ending November 7 came in at 472,700 RB, along with 32,500 RB of Pima cotton. Total Commitments as a % of total exports (for upland cotton) are now at 35%, which compares to 38% for last year and lagging the 5 year average of 40%.
Cattle futures picked up $1.00 for the week. Beef production YTD is down 1.1% from 2012. Production this week was 1.2% smaller than the same week in 2012. Our calculations show that ready numbers should be below year ago into December, based on the Cattle on Feed placement data. Weekly slaughter dropped to 599,000 head from 607,000 head last week and 627,000 head a year ago. Wholesale beef prices were down 0.8% on a Fri/Fri basis in the Choice, and down 0.7% in the Select. Cash cattle trade began to develop at $132 in the south on Friday, up $1 from the previous week. USDA is anticipating that 4Q13 beef production will be down 4.2% from last year.
Hog futures were down 2.52% this week. Pork production YTD is down 1.2% from year ago. Pork production this week was 3% larger than last week, but only 0.8% larger than year ago. The slaughter run was larger than last week but was down 1.1% from year ago. Thus, you might conclude that average carcass weights were a little higher. USDA estimates them up 4 pounds vs. year ago but we are hearing a lot of 210 dressed numbers and USDA is using 209. The pork carcass cutout value was down $2.88/cwt this week, a 3.04% drop due mostly to a 7% slide in hams.
Market Watch
We will start the week with the regular Monday USDA Export Inspections and Crop Progress reports. Weekly Export Sales will be out on Thursday. Thursday will also mark the expiration of the November feeder cattle contract. Friday will be active, with expiration of December grain options. It is also first notice day for December cotton futures deliveries. On Friday afternoon, USDA is scheduled to deliver the monthly Cattle on Feed report and the monthly Cold Storage report at 2 pm CST.
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Vyjack storms to Gotham victory and into Derby picture
NEW YORK — Unbeaten Vyjack proved his versatility and burst into the Kentucky Derby picture Saturday with a decisive victory in the $400,000 Gotham at Aqueduct Racetrack.
After relying on speed to win his first three starts, the bay gelding settled far off the pace under new jockey Joel Rosario and rallied impressively over a track that had been kind to front-runners all afternoon. Running well off the rail, Vyjack surged past a half-dozen horses from the turn to the wire to beat 33-1 long shot West Hills Giant by 2 1/4 lengths. Elnaawi was third.
Trainer Rudy Rodriguez said he wasn't concerned when Vyjack was far back in the first six furlongs of the race. The jockey switch from Cornelio Velasquez to Rosario and the change in running style were the plan all along.
ROAD TO THE DERBY:Updated Kentucky Derby points standings
"I was hoping to see him that way," Rodriguez said. "That's why we gave Joel the mount and taught the horse the way we wanted him to run. You don't want to gun the horse all the time because a lot of horses have cheap speed. He was able to relax good and be comfortable. Joel said when he asked him, he went."
Futurity and Remsen winner Overanalyze, the 8-5 favorite in the field of 11, did not respond, though, and was a well-beaten fifth in his first start since November. Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez said the horse might have needed a race.
Vyjack, owned by David Wilkenfeld's Pick Six Racing, completed the 1 1/16 mile Gotham in 1 minute 44.09 seconds and paid $6.70 as the 2-1 second choice in the field of 11. He earned 50 points in the Road to the Kentucky Derby standings and put himself in a powerful position to earn a spot in the starting gate for America's most important race on May 4. Rodriguez said Vyjack will likely make his next start in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial on April 6 at Aqueduct.
Overanaylze drew the outside post, but Velazquez was able to move him toward the rail a few lengths off a moderate pace of 24.16 for a quarter mile and 48.68 for a half mile. When Velazquez urged him to accelerate toward the leaders, West Hill Giants and Transparent, the colt owned by Mike Repole idled.
"No excuses," Velazquez said. "He was in a perfect position, it was a nice pace and he was doing it right. When we got to the three-eighths pole in the turn, I let him go and he didn't come with any run."


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Looking for a Windows 8 Ultrabook with a 15.6-inch touch display and good battery life? For around $700, you could bring home a 15-inch Asus VivoBook S500, which just landed in North American online retailers today.
After teasing us with its full lineup of Windows 8 devices back in October, offering just the 11.6-inch (S202E) and 14.1-inch (S400) VivoBooks in America until now, Asus is finally bringing its biggest VivoBook to our shores. Like its smaller siblings, the S500 has a clean, business-like metal body without the fancy lid design of Asus' higher-end Zenbook Ultrabooks. It offers quite a number of expansion options for an Ultrabook: it comes with three USB ports (one is a USB 3.0), one HDMI so you can plug directly into a HDTV, a SD card slot plus a mic/headphone audio jack for video chats. At 0.8-inch thick, the S500 just meets the Ultrabook thinness requirement and should be light enough to tote around as it only weighs 4.6-pounds.
This VivoBook has a 15.6-inch LED HD touch display with 1366 x 768 pixel resolution that makes Windows 8 much more enjoyable to use, and is powered by a third-gen Intel Core i5 processor (1.7 GHz Core i5-3317U), 6GB of RAM, and a hybrid hard drive with 500GB of storage plus 24GB of SSD for fast boot-ups. Although the press release from Asus said the S500 could come with discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 635M graphics, the configuration that is available from American retailers only offers integrated Intel graphics (Intel HD Graphics 4000).
It's tough to say exactly if and when touch-based Windows 8 laptops will really see a price drop as rumored, but you can get this S500 VivoBook for a little less than $700 right away by shopping around. TigerDirect, for example, is retailing this particular machine at $680, which is $20 less than the 14-inch VivoBook. Other American e-tailers carrying this configuration include Adorama, B&H, Amazon, and NCIX.
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Newcomer Lacey Beaty handily defeats City Council incumbent Ian King
Military veteran, Visioning Committee member also bests community activist Alton Harvey Sr.
Based on primary elections returns on Tuesday night, it appears voters are ready to see a new face on the Beaverton City Council in January, as political newcomer Lacey Beaty pulled firmly ahead of incumbent Position 1 candidate Ian King.
Results from the Washington County Elections Division on Wednesday morning showed Beaty with 6,255 votes, or 55 percent, leading King's 3,863 votes, or 34 percent. Retired truck driver Harvey, a former commissioner of the Beaverton Human Rights Advisory Commission and chairman of the Neighbors Southwest Neighborhood Association Committee trailed the pack with 1,129 or 10 percent of the vote.
Lacey, who serves as vice chairwoman of the Beaverton Visioning Advisory Committee, said she was "overwhelmed" that voters supported her so enthusiastically.
"I'm super, super excited to win with a margin like that," she said Tuesday night from the showroom of Koeber's furnishings off Southwest Denney Road in Beaverton. "I think every vote mattered."
Beaty, a U.S. Army veteran who served during the Iraq War, held her election night gathering at her friend Jaann Hoisington's family business. She was joined by supporters, including Councilor Marc San Soucie, who handily defended his Position 5 seat against challenger John Somoza.
In addition to coaching lacrosse at Beaverton High School, Beaty, 29, serves on the HomePlate Youth Services Board of Directors and as a member of the Leadership Beaverton Board of Directors. Her motivation to run was based on a belief that the council was lacking a certain element.
"There is a voice missing, one of a younger generation," she said. "Ian (King) hasn't really extended himself into the community. Councilors need to be community focused. But this wasn't about him."
Moving on
While he could always find a way to critique his own campaign, King who inherited his Position 5 seat in May 2010, following former Councilor's Bruce Dalrymple death before winning a full term said he's happy to move forward and focus on the more than seven months he has to serve on council.
"Does a person ever say they campaigned as hard as they needed to?" he asked on Wednesday morning. "I suppose I could've knocked on a couple more doors. At this time, I'm just going to move forward.
"Hey, congrats to Lacey," he added of his opponent.
For him, that means focusing on supporting a bond measure to fund renovations of City Hall to accommodate a new Public Safety Building.
"My number one priority is getting the police bond passed," he said. "That's much more important election than mine. Councilors can come and go, but the police need to be supported. That's what will really help the community."
Once his term is over, King plans to remain civically engaged, while spending more time with his 2-year-old son, Samuel.
"The silver lining with this is I'll miss fewer bedtime stories with Samuel," he said. "Every evening I don't get to spend with him, I feel it."
Harvey, reflecting Wednesday morning on the election, reiterated the sentiment he shared in a recent candidate's forum.
"I told them whomever the public decides to elect, I'm quite confident you'll be well represented," he said. "I hope you'll consider me, but whomever it it, you'll get quality representation. And that statement still holds true."
Harvey said he has no intention of "relinquishing" his civic duties, including his roles as chairman of his Neighborhood Association Committee and serving on the Beaverton Traffic Commission.
"I don't run against someone," he noted. "I was seeking a seat. (Losing) doesn't mean my service will discontinue. I serve a need, and I do it well. Because I enjoy it, I'm going to continue to do it."
Victory ... and departure
Lacey credits her successful campaign with her and her husband, Ian yes, the same name as her opponent's tireless efforts, which included knocking on about 5,000 doors around town.
"We asked voters what was one thing you would like to change," she said. "Knocking on doors, I think that means a lot to people."
Beaty, who has lived in Beaverton and Washington County for more than five years, graduated with a bachelor of science degree in political science from Oregon State University and earned a master's in management and organizational leadership at Warner Pacific College. Before her lacrosse coaching role, she served as a U.S. Army combat medic.
She shares a military background with her husband, who, as it happens, will get no rest from the campaign. Early Wednesday morning, she drove Ian to the airport for his U.S. National Guard deployment to military operations in Afghanistan. Despite all the election efforts and excitement, Ian Beaty considers himself ready for his second year-long engagement overseas.
"I've spent the last eight months in training," he said. "I couldn't be more ready."


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WASHINGTON — At 19, Jon Huntsman arrived in Taiwan for a two-year gig as a missionary for the Mormon church. He didn't receive a warm reception. The Taiwanese government was furious at the United States for re-establishing diplomatic ties with China, and the people whom Huntsman was there to recruit to his faith weren't much happier.
"You don't know much of the language at all," Huntsman recalled of his first days, bunking in a squalid apartment, riding his bicycle by the U.S. Embassy, which had been pelted with tomatoes, eggs and rocks. "You're in a foreign environment. People are calling you names and spitting at you for reasons that you're not fully up to speed on."
Yet the teenage venture would serve as a defining moment for Huntsman. He learned Mandarin and later would return to live in the region three more times, including stints as the U.S. ambassador under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama.
"It was such a monumental, geopolitical event happening under my feet," Huntsman said. "At 19, I was able to see the power and the influence of the U.S. abroad and how it changes history."
Now 51, Huntsman is running for the Republican nomination for president, touting himself as the only candidate with foreign-policy experience, along with two terms as a popular governor of Utah, one of the country's most conservative states.
But he's struggled to break into double digits in polls, and he acknowledges that his decision to cut short his second term as governor and go to China for a Democratic president is a non-starter for "a certain percentage" of hard-core, anti-Obama conservatives.
In addition, his support for civil unions for same-sex couples, as well as what conservative commentators considered a snarky assertion in support of climate change — he tweeted in August that he believes in "evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy" — fueled Republican suspicion of his conservative bona fides, which supporters say include state tax cuts, passage of a flat state income tax and an anti-abortion record.
Huntsman and his family say that his decision to serve as U.S. envoy to Beijing wasn't complicated: The president asked him to serve his country during a crucial time. To counter critics, Huntsman raises the issue before his audiences at campaign events can.
"I know it's on people's minds, and I don't want them left wondering, 'Why would he serve?" Huntsman said in an interview at his campaign headquarters in New Hampshire, where he's staking his candidacy. "If the president of another party asks me to stand up, that's what I'm going to do. I think people relate to putting country before party."
He positions himself as a candidate of conviction — contrasting himself with fellow Mormon Mitt Romney, whom he portrays in a campaign ad as a wind-up, back-flipping monkey — and says at some appearances that it would've been unpatriotic to turn down Obama.
Such public service runs deep in the Huntsman family, one of the most prominent in Utah, friends say. His two sons serve in the military. His father, Jon Huntsman Sr., who made a fortune by inventing the containers that held Big Macs, is a major philanthropist and has said he wants to "to die broke" after donating much of his fortune to cancer research. (Huntsman Sr. also is said to be contributing to an independent political action committee that backs Huntsman).
"Jon very much comes from that cloth," said Jeff Hartley, a Utah lobbyist and adviser to Huntsman's gubernatorial campaigns. "It's genuine."
Huntsman — the eldest of nine — long has been his own person, friends say. Indeed, he may be the first presidential hopeful in recent history not to graduate from high school. As he tells it, he ended up a class short after "trying to make it big as a musician," a keyboardist for his teen rock band, Wizard.
A classically trained pianist, Huntsman "could play anything that a rock keyboardist would play and it would sound exactly like it did on the record," marveled Howard Sharp, a Utah physician who played the drums for Wizard. Huntsman "had the big hair," Sharp said, but then, as now, he was well-mannered and polite. Indeed, Huntsman kicked off his presidential campaign with a call for civility.
"We had a couple of guys that were wild and crazy, Jon was always a little bit more low-key," said Sharp, who still catches concerts with Huntsman when they're both in Salt Lake City.
Huntsman, who had a band as governor and played gigs across the state, said he returned to "normal civilian life" after 18 months with Wizard yielded no sign of stardom.
He got a high school degree at the University of Utah and went on to the University of Pennsylvania. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Kaye, and the two raised seven children, adopting two girls from China and India. He worked at his father's chemical company, the Huntsman Corp., as it expanded into Asia, and at 32 he was appointed the U.S. ambassador to Singapore, the youngest envoy in a century.
He was the U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, spending much time traveling abroad, when his eldest daughters, then in high school, told him they had a proposal.
"They said, 'We'd like our dad back. We haven't seen very much of you,' " Huntsman said. They suggested a job closer to home: governor of Utah.
That campaign was a family affair, as everyone piled into Suburbans to make the sell across Utah. It was no sure thing, despite the family name. There were nearly a dozen candidates in the primary and "no guarantee we'd survive," Huntsman said.
But he persevered. He won the primary and faced Democrat Scott Matheson in the general election. People in Utah still talk about that campaign, Sharp said.
"They never said a disparaging word against each other; cleanest campaign you've ever seen," Sharp said.
That's the tone Huntsman set out to strike when he opened his presidential bid, but voters have suggested that they're looking for more fight than he seems to want to offer; he tells audiences he won't "light his hair on fire".
"I am who I am," he told reporters last week. "I'm not going to pander; I'm not going to light my hair on fire. I'm not going to sign those silly pledges like everyone else onstage has signed. I'm not going to a Donald Trump debate. There are just some things I won't do."
With the tumult in the race, some prominent conservatives, including columnist George Will, have suggested a second look at Huntsman. Will said that Huntsman's platform, which includes ending taxes on capital gains and dividends, was the most conservative.
"He's been that way the whole way through; people are just now seeing it," said daughter Abby Huntsman, who helps with the press on his campaign. "He's always been who he says he is, and everything he's done, he's been a success."
This campaign is as much a family effort as his gubernatorial races. His wife often introduces him at events, and his daughters, who campaign with him, have become a Twitter sensation, with a sendup of a Herman Cain ad.
It's anyone guess, the candidate said, "who gets more YouTube hits: my foreign policy speeches or my daughters' YouTube videos."


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President Barack Obama privately told Democratic senators Wednesday he is now personally involved in resolving a heated dispute over how Obamacare treats Capitol Hill aides and lawmakers, according to senators in the meeting.
The president's commitment was delivered at the beginning of Obama's remarks to Senate Democrats during a closed-door session.
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On the one month anniversary of Jenni Rivera's death, new details are emerging about the alleged involvement that "La Diva de la Banda" had with a drug cartel in Mexico.
Various sources such as Univision, La Opinión and the Mexican daily Reforma are reporting that a new witness has come forth exposing Rivera's working relationship with the criminal organization.
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April 2013
Ramblers: Loyola-Chicago 1963—The Team That Changed the Color of College Basketball
By Michael Lenehan
When the 1963 Loyola-Chicago Ramblers basketball team stepped onto the court for the NCAA tournament as underdogs, no one expected it to be a history changing event. With a lineup that featured four African-American starters and a country torn in two by racial conflicts and the civil rights movement, the Ramblers defied the norm of an all-white team and accomplished one of the greatest victories in NCAA history against two of its rivals: Mississippi State and Cincinnati. On the fiftieth anniversary of this victory, author Michael Lenehan recounts the dramatic and empowering story in Ramblers (Agate Midway, 2013) [1].
Anthony deMello: The Happy Wanderer
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God Speaks in Many Tongues: Meditate with Joan Chittister on 40 Sacred Texts
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Joan Chittister, in her book God Speaks in Many Tongues (Benetvision, 2013) [3], accompanies readers through forty short meditations from sacred texts from people of all faiths, including some unexpected sources such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Navajo Indians, and Rumi. Enlightening and thought-provoking, these meditations provide room to write personal reflections after each of them. Chittister hopes that she can break down barriers that block spiritual bonds between people of all belief systems by choosing a few lines in each sacred text.
And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus
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Over the ages, religions have grown to incredible size and power which change the world. Each has influenced more than just its followers. Selina O'Grady attempts to makes sense of how what she dubs "the Jesus cult," initially having only about one hundred followers, grew to be a worldwide religion when it should have disappeared behind the other great world religions that were already developed at the time. And God Created Man (St. Martin's Press, 2012) [4] defines how religion is an integral part of the human history and politics across the empires of the ancient and present world.
Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI
Edited by John C. Cavadini
In this collection the theology behind the writings of Benedict XVI is examined by a group of scholars from a variety of different backgrounds. They reflect on his Augustine thought context, his ecclesiology, his Christology, his liturgical and sacramental theology, and more. This volume includes writings from when Benedict was a priest, professor, bishop, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and pope. Anyone interested in his works will be intrigued by Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012) [5].
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