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You are not required to hire an attorney, but legal matters can be complicated. Consider talking to an attorney to go over your options. See the Finding Legal Help page for information about free and low cost ways to get legal help.
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3rd District Juvenile Court - Assessment and Diversion Unit
Assessment and Diversion Unit
3636 S. Constitution Blvd.
West Vallery City, UT 84119
(801) 957-7840
Fax (801) 957-7897
Assessment & Diversion Contact List
Criteria for Assigning Cases to Assessment and Diversion
- All Class B and Class C misdemeanor charges and charges of lesser severity which do not meet the criteria for intake.
- All cases involving a weapon must be screened with a supervisor or senior probation officer.
Accelerated Misdemeanor Program
The Accelerated Misdemeanor Program has been developed to expedite consequences for juveniles charged with offenses generally considered to be of a "less serious" nature. This includes; Class B and C misdemeanors, infractions and status offenses. The process begins when an officer issues a citation to the juvenile and gives the youth a date, time and location to appear for a preliminary inquiry. This appearance will be within approximately two weeks of the issuance. The police agency will have five working days to turn the document over to the Assessment and Diversion Unit (Accelerated Misdemeanor Program) and the Unit will then have five working days to prepare the case for a preliminary inquiry.
Due to the volume of cases and past success with the group process, grouping these referrals will be the standard practice of the program. If a case is determined to be more appropriate for an individual inquiry, every effort will be made to handle the case in this manner. It is our goal to conduct an inquiry into the case, provide basic information about juvenile delinquency, explore a non-judicial closure of the matter, follow up on non-judicial contract agreements, and petition cases and forward cases to existing court staff when appropriate. In order to meet this goal with such a diverse group of cases, the groups will be very structured, but flexible enough to allow for the individual styles of each presenter.
The following is an outline for these group proceedings:
- The CHECK-IN involves verification of information provided by police and existing juvenile court data.
- The INTRODUCTION serves to acquaint the client and family with the presenter and assistant as well as to outline the meeting.
- The BODY of the presentation consists of educational instruction/discussion relevant to juvenile delinquency and to the specific charges included in the group, as well as an overview of commonly violated laws of the state.
- During the CONCLUSION, there is a general discussion of who is affected by crime and a response by the juvenile to the specific offense is solicited.
The final component to the group process must be maintained and must take precedent over any individual detractions from clients. If a client or family member is uncooperative after a warning, consideration will be made to remove the case from the group and explore the following alternatives:
- immediately conduct an individual inquiry if staff is available.
- reschedule for an individual inquiry.
- petition the case for a hearing.
Only legal guardians and the charged juvenile should attend the meeting. Attendance by other immediate family members will be taken on a case by case basis with consideration given to group size and potential disruptions to the group. Friends, distant relatives, neighbors, enemies, pets, etc. are not to be in attendance. A youth must be accompanied by at least one parent. The only exception will be if a youth has turned eighteen since the offense.
Note to Parents
Many youth are referred to juvenile court once or twice and then never commit another crime. Parents should not assume that their child is on their way to a life of crime after being referred for a criminal offense. Many youth are referred to juvenile court before their 18th birthday and less than 5% are what would be considered repeat or habitual offenders. The statistics point to the fact that the large majority of kids are "good kids" who slip up once or twice and learn their lesson.
ADU Statistics
The Assessment and Diversion Unit (ADU) receives all charges issued in Salt Lake Valley. ADU then codes the charges and forwards them to the appropriate agency (Intake, Probation, Juvenile Justice Services etc.). If the case meets the requirements (see above), it remains at ADU and is handled through their Accelerated Misdemeanor Program.
Citations received from police agencies 11,752
Dealt with at ADU 8,625
Citations received from police agencies 11,356
Dealt with at ADU 8,273
Citations received from police agencies 11,639
Dealt with at ADU 8,137
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Light & Heat: A Passion for the Holiness of God: 2011 National Conference
Essential doctrines of the Christian faith are under attack, even from within the church, and it is important that we be well grounded in biblical truths so that we may have a deep affection for our holy, triune God. Join …Read More
Together for the Gospel 2008
Celebrate the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and its centrality to the task of faithful, biblical pastoring, with Thabiti Anyabwile, Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, John MacArthur, C.J. Mahaney, Albert Mohler, John Piper, and R.C. Sproul, as …Read More
Contending for the Truth: 2007 National Conference
Ligonier Ministries' 2007 National Conference,Contending for the Truth, will equip believers to answer the false claims of postmodernism, naturalism, and our culture's other atheistic theories. Dr. Sproul is joined by other Christian scholars, pastors, and leaders, including …Read More
Together for the Gospel 2006
"We have come together for the gospel." With these words Mark Dever welcomed the more than 2,800 men assembled for the 2006 Together for the Gospel conference for pastors in Louisville, Kentucky. Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, C.J …Read More
Upsetting the World: 2000 National Conference
When the Gospel is presented boldly and without compromise it will always encounter opposition. In this series of lectures from Ligonier Ministries' 2000 National Conference, "Upsetting the World," Sinclair Ferguson, Al Martin, R. Albert Mohler Jr., John Piper, R.C …Read More
John Piper
Dr. John Piper is founder and teacher of Desiring God and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis. He is author of many books, including When I Don't Desire God and Living in the Light. He is on Twitter @JohnPiper.


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Thanks for joining us today. We have one week left of school and I think I speak for all of us, we are ready for the end. With that in mind, my finds reflect my excitement for summer.
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Nearly a month after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils, the major dietary source of trans fat in processed foods, are no longer GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe), a prominent consumer advocacy group is calling for an end to the use of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
In a press release, Citizens for Health called HFCS "the most dangerous ingredient in the nation's food supply," and stated that it has filed a petition with the FDA to "take action against food and beverage manufacturers that use HFCS concentrations above approved limits, and to require accurate HFCS labeling information."
Citizens for Health claims that both trans fats and HFCS are "highly-processed industrial ingredients" and "cause excessive damage to the liver." In its release, the consumer group included a statement from Dr. Michael Goran, Director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center, who reported "HFCS found in many soft drinks are at excessive concentrations not Generally Recognized as Safe by the FDA."
The American Beverage Association and the Corn Refiners Association (CFA) have long argued that HFCS is not uniquely responsible for the country's obesity epidemic and that sugar and HFCS are nutritionally equivalent. In an October statement, the CFA, citing data published in Nutrition Journal, reported that it is an "increase in total calories that is driving the increase in obesity rates."
"Virtually all of these additional calories are in the form of grains and fats, whereas fructose-containing sweeteners such as sugar and high fructose corn syrup account for only 1.3% of the increased calorie consumption since 1970," the CFA stated.
Here is the full release from Citizens for Health:
High Fructose Corn Syrup is Deemed "The New Trans Fat"
Researchers Link Questionable Sugar Substitute to Serious Health Risks
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Following the Food & Drug Administration's recent decision that it no longer considers the man-made additive "partially hydrogenated oils," (commonly referred to as "trans fat") safe, consumer groups and independent doctors are now targeting the highly controversial sugar substitute High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) as the most dangerous ingredient in the nation's food supply.
Jim Turner, who chairs Citizens for Health, a leading consumer awareness group, believes the demise of HFCS will soon follow the fate of trans fat:
- Both are highly-processed industrial ingredients shrouded in secrecy.
- Both cause excessive damage to the liver.
- Both spent millions on lobbyists, TV ads and highly paid advocates to try and convince consumers that their products are safe.
- As health concerns escalated, food companies, supermarkets and restaurants voluntarily removed these ingredients.
- Communities began banning or restricting these ingredients to stem the burgeoning medical costs associated with them.
- Lawsuits piled up, claiming these ingredients cause serious health damages.
As clinical evidence against HFCS mounts, independent researchers are going on record to alert consumers about its health risks:
- Obesity expert Dr. Robert H. Lustig stated, "Type 2 diabetes was unheard of in children prior to 1980–when High Fructose Corn Syrup began to be incorporated into processed foods."
- Dr. Mark Hyman, Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine, said HFCS "is driving most of the epidemic of heart disease, cancers, and diabetes."
- Dr. Michael Goran, Director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center, reported that the HFCS found in many soft drinks are at excessive concentrations not Generally Recognized as Safe by the FDA.
Citizens for Health has filed a petition asking the FDA to take action against food and beverage manufacturers that use HFCS concentrations above approved limits, and to require accurate HFCS labeling information. Concerned consumers are encouraged to visit the Citizens for Health website to submit their comments and sign the petition.
About Citizens for Health
Funded by concerned consumers, non-profit partners, food growers, and businesses, Citizens for Health is a non-profit organization providing over 130,000 supporters with news, action alerts, and ways to demand access to healthy food, non-toxic products, and truthful, non-misleading health information. More information is available at www.citizens.org.


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Our Fitness Blog
Fitness is Not an Event
Did you know that January 15th is the official date that 90% of New Year's Resolutions are dropped?
Think of it. It only takes 15 days for most people to give up on their fitness goals. Why is that?
When it comes to fitness, media has unfortunately perpetuated for YEARS the false idea that you can get fit in two weeks, 10 days, one month or some other ungodly short amount of time.
Many of us are now subconsciously seeking that magic fitness solution and so, when results aren't showing up by 10 or 15 days or even a month, our human nature gets discouraged and says, "This stuff doesn't work! I need to find something else!"
This is so sad to see because if people only knew that results ARE happening under the surface, even though they cannot be seen today, they would keep on going.
Every before and after that you see went through the "15 day doubt". They went through not seeing results for weeks at first. The difference? They kept doing it.
What's unfortunate is that no one sees the events between the before and after picture! A real before and after would need to be an album of hundreds of pictures.
- They would need to show all the mornings that person woke up too sore to want to move.
- They would need to show that person hitting snooze too many times, more than once, and almost missing their workout.
- They would need to show all the parties and social events they attended and didn't have dessert or alcohol.
- How about showing the hundreds of meals with their family where they didn't eat the appetizer in front of them or eat more than one roll, or when they made sure the waiter put the dressing on the side and didn't brush their steak with butter, or when they ordered their baked sweet potato plain.
- It would need to show all the nights they sat on the couch with their spouse and didn't have their nightly glass of wine and had hot tea instead.
But no one sees that. They just see the amazing after.
The truth is that the journey to weight loss isn't that sexy or fun. The sexy fun comes after all the hard work is behind you! It does require that you have a very, very deep WHY, or you are likely to give up quickly when all the above temptations hit you.
Figure out your why and make that your new standard in life. When something is your standard, it isn't an option anymore. It's who you are.
Take a deep breath and read the next sentence: the size you are right now is really, deep down, ok with you, or you wouldn't have allowed yourself to get there. That's the hard honest truth. We can think we HATE our size, but until we hate it enough we won't change it.
Until you decide that this size is no longer acceptable by your standards, you probably won't change. Or, you'll change and then quickly be back to the larger size again.
Truly change by changing your why, and changing your standards. It is the only true way to success. Up your standards for yourself and watch your life change as a result!
Fitness doesn't have an end. It is a lifestyle. When you make your lifestyle reflect a fit person's lifestyle, you have unleashed the magic that will change you and your life.
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ParaScale and Alfresco Partner to Deliver Content-as-a-Service in the Cloud
High-Availability Cloud Scale-Out for Content Storage and Access
CUPERTINO, CA and LONDON, UK – June 17, 2009 — ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, and Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution co-locating Alfresco Content Management and ParaScale Cloud Storage software on the same hardware. Unlike traditional ECM architectures, the combined solution enables organizations to store and access content without adding management overhead or cost; offers simple configuration and setup; and ensures high-performance and easy scale-out.
Managing content effectively has become an indispensable part of running an efficient business. Content growth requires a sophisticated ECM solution that can scale users and content volumes simply and at low cost without massive up-front capital expenditure. Legacy applications may run in the cloud but modern Content-as-a-Service approaches consuming services resident in the same cloud are required to inherit the benefits of a Cloud Service Architecture. Only then can users achieve on-demand scalability, fault tolerance, cloud-wide network security and cost efficiency.
"Integrating the Alfresco ECM solution with the ParaScale cloud storage platform significantly improves manageability and performance for ECM users, while lowering costs both by eliminating a layer of servers to run Alfresco as well by allowing the usage of commodity priced storage," said Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScale. "ParaScale's storage nodes are standard Linux servers and it took zero effort for Alfresco to bring up their application directly on ParaScale's storage servers. Alfresco and Vembu are early ParaScale partners in an ecosystem we intend to develop to reduce the total solution costs of storage intensive applications by running qualified applications directly, affordably and scalably on our storage servers."
"Alfresco's Content-as-a-Service platform is designed to take full advantage of a Cloud Service Architecture and the ParaScale platform which enables any node in the cloud to serve requests for data," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software. "This gives enterprises the ability to simply and rapidly setup cloud-based content management by running one instance of Alfresco software per node within the cloud and to scale-out and grow their ECM solution in both performance and capacity."
The ParaScale cloud also supports policy based replication to ensure high availability for content access. Users can set policies to configure the number of copies of a document that are replicated within the cloud. When a new document is created, the ParaScale software propagates the new version within the cloud to another storage node based on the policy. This makes the Alfresco ECM solution extremely reliable by ensuring users can still access documents from an available copy if parts of the cloud are unavailable.
The integrated ParaScale/Alfresco cloud-based ECM solution is available immediately. Customers can download a free 4 TB cloud from the ParaScale website and integrate the free 30 day Alfresco Enterprise trial software with the cloud. For more information on the complete ECM solution registration at www.parascale.com or visit the Alfresco wiki at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Parascale.
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Even the clear facts are controversial
If you have a strong opinion on the release of Bowe Bergdahl, you are wrong.
The only thing you could possibly be basing that opinion on is a set of partial facts, the reactions of others and the same opinions you held before this previously unknown soldier was released.
The facts are unclear. Even the clear facts are controversial.
First, the soldier wrote some incendiary stuff before he apparently deserted his post. I understand how even a dedicated young man in that situation can become disillusioned. He crossed some lines in belittling the country and other American soldiers in his emails.
Clearly, this is no hero.
His dad is an idiot and a PR nightmare. If your son is "captured" by the enemy and your response is some sort of Stockholm Syndrome by proxy that causes you to become a Muslim or at least sympathize and empathize with the cause of your son's captors, you likely have more than a few issues. Thanks to the good old duck hunters in Louisiana, it is hard to differentiate rednecks from radical Muslims in America.
Regardless, the President should never have held a joint press conference with these particular parents. That was a major mistake.
There are also problems with the release of what is being called the Taliban Dream Team in exchange for our one sheepish soldier. We didn't get a great deal and it does seem to encourage capturing more troops in the future.
But do the people who lie awake at night worrying about whether negotiating with terrorists will make terrorists behave poorly really believe that those same people weren't already trying to capture American troops in Afghanistan?
Do you really think they are sitting there in a Taliban department head meeting and some mid-level manager has a great idea to impress the boss, "Hey, maybe we could abduct a soldier and then arrange a prisoner trade for the guys holed up in Guantanemo."
I'm sure the idea had been discussed a couple of times before the deal to release Bergdahl was announced.
Many are justifiably worried about what these former captives will want to do now that they are on the outside again. I get that.
But something tells me President Barack Obama also had that thought cross his mind. I would wager that the CIA is probably aware of these concerns and I will be less than surprised if a few drones aren't offering free wake up calls to the villages where the Dream Team finds refuge soon.
It takes a great deal of hubris to sit in suburban Kansas and question how people who have all of the information– some of which would terrify you – handled this situation.
I know this, if Bergdahl would have starved to death or died due to preventable illness because this deal was turned down by the administration or if he became the next person featured in one of the Taliban beheading videos, the outcry against our government for allowing that to happen to one of our soldiers would have been overwhelming.
I don't think Obama was right to sign off on the deal or circumvent Congressional notification to get it done. But I also don't think he was wrong.
I do think he knows a lot more of the facts than those that have been released so far.
I won't pretend to know better. If you think you do, you are wrong.
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34th Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House Opening Night Gala benefiting the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx
Monday, April 24, 2006, 6-8 PM, TOP DECORATORS CREATE EAST SIDE DREAM HOUSE TO BENEFIT KIPS BAY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, Venue: 4 E. 75th Street at Fifth Avenue�Tours of the Show House, Ukrainian Institute, 2 East 79th Street�Cocktails and hors d�oeuvres: One of the season�s most elegant, glittering and visually stunning events took place on Monday, April 24, 2006 in an unoccupied $55 million Upper East Side townhouse at the 34th annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House Opening Night Gala. The home (located at 4 E. 75th Street) has been transformed into a fantastic dream residence by 26 of the nation�s leading decorators, including Mario Buatta, Thom Filicia, Costas Kondylis, Larry Laslo and Charlotte Moss -- all to benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. The designers have each created a trend-setting masterpiece in one of the townhouse�s rooms � 26 magnificent spaces in all. Six hundred social figures and celebrities previewed the design magic at the annual gala, chaired by Robert Couturier and Tony Ingrao. The evening concluded with a cocktail reception at the nearby Ukrainian Institute (2 E. 79th Street) This year�s participating designers are Barbara Ostrom Associates, Campion Platt, Charles Pavarini III Design Associates, Charlotte Moss Interior Design, Christopher Maya Associates, Eric Cohler Design, Joel Allen Design, John Landrum Bryant, Katina Arts-Meyer, Katherine Newman Design, Kenneth Hockin Interiors, Kondylis Design and Costas Kondylis and Partners Architects, Larry Laslo Designs, Mario Buatta, Richard Mishaan Design, St. Charles of New York, Schermerhorn Interior Design, Shaver/Melahn Studios, Sherrill Canet Interiors, Susan K. Gutfreund, Thom Filicia and Tonin MacCallum A.S.I.D. Proceeds benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, a non-profit organization that provides after-school and enrichment and development programs for close to 12,000 Bronx children ages six to 18. The Show House project will raise approximately $1.5 million for the club, with public viewing April 25 through May 23, 2006. Please visit the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Web Site for more information. MEDIA INQUIRIES: Tom Kowalski | Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, Public Relations | 212-575-4545 or email@example.com PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2006 by Gregory Partanio |tel:718.614.7740 |e-mail: email@example.com More


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Google leads fight to limit government access to email on cloud
oogle Inc. (GOOG), which says it gets about 1,400 requests a month from U.S. authorities for users' e- mails and documents, is organizing an effort to press for limits on government access to digital communications.
The company has been talking to advocacy groups and companies about joining a lobbying effort to change the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, said Chris Gaither, a Google spokesman. He declined to elaborate.
"Given the realities of how people live and where things are going in the digital world, it's an important time for government to act" to update the law, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said in an interview. "It's a bipartisan issue and I think the momentum is going to build because citizens are expecting this."
Google officials say changes in the law are needed to prevent law enforcement from obtaining certain e-mails and other content without search warrants, and to give documents stored on cloud services the same legal protections as paper documents stored in a desk drawer. Cloud services, which didn't exist when the privacy law was passed, let users store and process data on remote servers via the Internet.
Spending on public cloud services is expected to reach $100 billion globally by 2016, from $40 billion last year, according to technology research firm IDC.
Last year, the owner of the world's largest search engine helped lead an Internet protest movement that derailed anti- piracy legislation in both houses of Congress. It began drawing attention to the privacy law last week, disclosing that more than two-thirds of 8,438 requests for user data it received from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year took place without a search warrant.
Netflix Bill
The privacy law sets out how law enforcement can get access to e-mails and other forms of digital communication. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and one of law's original architects, said it's been made outdated by technology advances and expanded government surveillance powers.
Leahy's committee, over the objections of law enforcement groups, passed a proposal in November requiring government officials to get a search warrant to obtain e-mails and other communications regardless of their age.
That eliminated a provision in the law, written at a time e-mail was rarely stored by service providers, allowing authorities to obtain messages more than 180 days old with only a subpoena.
Law Enforcement
Leahy attached the change to a measure backed by Netflix Inc. (NFLX) to allow online sharing of video-rental information. The language was stripped out before the Netflix bill passed both chambers of Congress in December and was signed by President Barack Obama.
The senator, in a Jan. 16 speech, said he'll reintroduce electronic-privacy legislation this year. He said he stayed on as judiciary committee chairman to continue that effort.
Groups representing federal, state and local law enforcement officers say Leahy's proposal could impede investigations.
"It changed the rules and operating procedures without conferring any advantages," said Konrad Motyka, president of the FBI Agents Association, an Alexandria, Virginia-based group representing 12,000 current and former FBI special agents. "Don't just make our jobs more difficult."
Motyka said any move to increase the legal standard should be paired with measures to aid law enforcement, such as requiring companies to respond to warrants within a specified period of time, and making exceptions for cases of child abuse, violent crimes and terrorism.
Justice Department
The U.S. Justice Department provided "technical assistance" on Leahy's bill, including "examples of problems that would be created for the executive branch in order to comply with legislative mandates," Beth Levine, a spokeswoman for Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's top Republican, said in an e-mail.
Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, didn't respond to a phone call and e-mail requesting comment.
Google is part of an existing coalition, called Digital Due Process, formed in 2010 to seek changes to the privacy law. The coalition cuts across political ideology, with members including the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans for Tax Reform, the anti-tax group led by Grover Norquist. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business lobby, joined last month.
Other members include Facebook Inc. (FB), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
'Same Rights'
"It's critical that we start to have the same rights in the online world that we do in the offline world," Chris Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel, said in an interview. A paper letter has more protection against government searches than an older e-mail under current law, he said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, has said Congress should look at the privacy law, while saying he hasn't committed to specific changes. He said he expects to hold a hearing on the law this year.
Goodlatte, who sponsored the Netflix bill, said his willingness to work on the privacy law helped convince Leahy to get the video-sharing measure passed and "not hold it hostage" to broader privacy changes.
Leahy and Goodlatte backed the anti-piracy bills in Congress that Google opposed and helped defeat last January. Google said the measures would lead to online censorship and chill innovation.
Google spent $16.5 million on lobbying last year, up from $9.7 million in 2011, according to Senate lobbying disclosures. Google's political action committee gave $9,500 to Goodlatte during the 2012 election.
Gmail, YouTube
The U.S. made the most requests for Google user information among governments in the second half of 2012, according to the company's transparency report released Jan. 23. Google is posting additional information for users today about what kinds of data it discloses to U.S. agencies from its Gmail, YouTube, Google Voice and Blogger services under ECPA legal processes.
While the law "seems to allow" the government to force service providers to turn over some digital content with a subpoena or court order, Google requires a search warrant before disclosing e-mail text, private videos or blog posts, and voicemail messages, according to a company fact sheet.
Google will release information other than content, such as user registration data and Internet-protocol addresses, under subpoenas or court orders, the company said.
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Fed Expert: What Are Challenges Ahead for Yellen?
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's two terms were historically difficult. What challenges await Janet Yellen? Donald Kohn, Brookings Institution senior fellow and a 40-year Federal Reserve veteran, joins MoneyBeat.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... mm ... welcome to MoneyBeat I'm Paul vignette ... president Obama later today we'll nominates Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen ... to succeed Ben burn Anqi as Chairman ... burning keys to terms are historically difficult night is actually over yet either ... what challenges await the Yellen Fed were very fortunate today ... that doll called who sat in the seats than Janet Yellen now occupies ... on the show today to talk about this top banks are ... taken a few minutes really appreciate it ... thanks for having me on my pleasure ... so that the market likes Janet Yellen because they perceive her to be a dull Leon the whole scale hawkish dovish the receiver to get done ... he is an accurate way to look at our ... so I think Janet Yellen the first of all it this is an outstanding nomination are will be announced and a nomination by the president ... I think Janet Yellen is that her riffic macroeconomists to her analysis or experienced or devotion to the public interest ... she's the whole package so I'm very very pleased that the president decided to nominate for ... in terms of her um dovishness ... I think the first two I expect this to be mostly about continuity ... I think she's been ... she and Chairman burn Anqi have been on the same page through ... most of this crisis is I can as I can determine from the outside ... of both of them have a emphasize the cost of unemployment ... not only the near-term costs for the unemployed but the long-term costs a lot of these people are unemployed the more they're likely to ... drop out of the labor force reduce ... our country's economic potential over time ... so think ... old but I don't see any change in the trajectory of monetary policy ... under Janet Yellen ... and I do think she has emphasized on many occasions the dual mandate ... that is both employment and inflation right now all the focus is on employment because inflation is below two percent target ... and ... unemployment is of all ... of the long-term unemployment rate but I don't see any evidence that she would ignore the second part of that ... mandate ... the inflation pardon back she was ... an important force putting the two percent inflation target and please ... know you were the vice chairman I immediately preceding Janet Yellen to succeed you you are involved in some Mostafa lots of a good thing ... that happened into thousandeight two thousandnine two thousand ten ... if you are halted this point that the biggest challenge she faces is unwinding everything the Fed has had to do over the last five years ... how big a challenge is that really how big is it going to be to wean this economy off all the stimulus ... so I think it is going to be a considerable challenge there's the ... tying me and trajectory of exit from ... these unconventional monetary policies ... and then there's the communicating about the timing and trajectory and trying to present as clear of ... as clear a message as possible to the outside world so they can anticipate the feds ... the Fed's actions that tightening is very difficult anytime you change ... the direction of monetary policy is very hard you have to be confident ... that you're not changing ... too soon ... so that in this case ... are ... changing too soon would ... undermine the ... trajectory of the economy to rebuild and increase employment and increase economic activity ... changing to wait might cause the economy to overshoot and have inflation down the road ... so I think it's it's gonna be extremely ... extremely challenging to get the timing right and then to add jobs ... the trajectory of some ... of the exit wants one since undertaken based on the incoming data ... write ... what you think is one thing people don't know about Janet Yellen that is really going to be a big asset to hire in this job as Fed chairman ... well I don't know that there's much people to go after all the ... press attention ... I would say of the one thing about her that always impressed me was her ... um ... high powered economic analysis ... and her preparation for meetings ... so when she came into the meeting ... you do that she had to analyze the problems ... and analyze them thoroughly in terms of ... the objectives that we were trying to read that the Federal Reserve in terms of what economic analysis told you was the way to get those objectives ... and in terms of the empirical ... evidence about how the best way to achieve those objectives were ... and she has some very sharp mind ... a very disciplined mind ... so I think people will be very impressed ... with her ... ability to ... um understand the economic situation and then to explain it in ways and ways people can under the ... current Dow clone senior fellow Brookings institution think you're a much feared


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Delaware Treasurer Chipman L. "Chip" Flowers Jr. has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, following a Dover police investigation into a harassment complaint filed by a former deputy treasurer.
Erika Benner initially filed the complaint on July 6 after an alleged confrontation between Flowers and Benner's 16-year-old son before Dover's Fourth of July parade.
Benner claimed Flowers had harassed her over the phone after the incident. She then filed a follow-up report on Aug. 7, claiming Flowers was continuing to contact her against her wishes.
Dover Police Department spokesman Cpl. Mark Hoffman said detectives subpoenaed phone records from both parties and determined their contact had been mutual.
"We worked with the Dover Police and other law enforcement officials to present a complete picture," Hoffman said Wednesday, soon after the Dover Police Department announced that no charges would be filed against Flowers. "Once that was presented, it was clear Ms. Benner had never been harassed."
Hoffman said detectives had no luck in getting Benner to come to police headquarters for an interview.
"Dover police made numerous attempts to contact Ms. Benner, but efforts to reach her for the investigation were unsuccessful," he said. "However, having reviewed the phone records, we're certain we've made the right determination."
Benner, who resigned her deputy treasurer post in August 2013 amid allegations that she misused a state credit card, did not return multiple messages seeking comment about Wednesday's announcement.
Flowers, meanwhile, said he knew all along that his name would be cleared.
"I always knew her claims to the Dover police were false and that she had presented only a small part of the story," he said.
Flowers, who had been running for a second term as state treasurer when Benner filed her complaint, dropped out of the race on Aug. 15.
During a press conference to announce his withdraw, Flowers categorized accusations against him as "lies."
Flowers said it was suspicious Benner would contact law police less than two months before a primary election, which he said he would have won if it weren't for Benner's allegations.
"I hope this serves as a strong warning to any individual or political campaign that seeks to resolve political disagreements by using our legal system that this should never happen again," he said.
Now back on the job for the remainder of his term, Flowers said he plans to put the episode behind him.
"My fiancée and I can move forward now and start a new chapter in our lives," he said.


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Green with Envy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 100 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We are launching an edgy and stylish event planning company with an organic twist. We are looking for a logo that will translate well to our business cards, website and marketing materials. Artistic direction: Organic, Progressive, Stylish, Unique, Flowy, Clean, Simple, Slightly feminine.
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We are open to different ideas--such as a separate logo art next to our name, or incorporate the art into the text. (just text is ok as the logo, if done right) The colors we would like to see are bright lime green and deep purple with a bright salmon pink as an accent color. We would like to logo in 2-3 colors (if 2, leave out salmon), but it should look good in one color as well. The logo should look good small or big. We would also like "Green with Envy" to be featured and "Events" to be smaller font or an afterthought.
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Dartmouth College Marching Band
This is not your high school marching band! Founded in 1889, the oldest in the Ivy League, the Dartmouth College Marching Band celebrates the Ivy League tradition "scatter bands," which means the band marches onto the field, then "scatters" into formations while a member reads from a student-written script. The DCMB is an integral part of many Dartmouth sporting events including football, basketball, hockey and even rugby. In the fall, we open every home football game with a parade through Hanover, concerts at alumni events, a show on the field, the national anthem, and the alma mater. During games we inspire the crowd and the team by playing tunes in the stands, and take the field again at halftime. After the game, if Dartmouth wins, we celebrate by marching through the library playing our school fight songs. In the winter, we continue to play as the Pep Band!
To join the DCMB, you don't need much musical experience, but you do need a lot of enthusiasm, plus black marching shoes and a white button down shirt (we provide the rest and can help you get the other parts if needed). The band has a complete supply of instruments for students to use while performing, so don't worry about that either. Membership in the DCMB entitles you to perform at all Dartmouth home (and some away) football games, march with pride in pre-game parades, play in the stands at home hockey and basketball games, travel to exotic places UNH, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, and Princeton (depending on the football schedule), sing the Alma Mater in Times Square, and take part in band social events throughout the year.
Ready to join the DCMB? Visit the Marching Band's website to learn more, meet the student directorate, see the DCMB in action and get more information on our rehearsal and performance schedule for the season.
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A total of 66 official singles tournaments were contested in the ATP in 2012. The role call of winners looks and reads like this...
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Most titles in 2012:
7 Ferrer
6 Djokovic, Federer
4 del Potro, Monaco, Nadal
3 Murray
2 Almagro, Berdych, Cilic, Isner, Raonic, Roddick, Seppi, Tsonga
1 Anderson, Andujar, Bellucci, Dolgopolov, Gasquet, Haas, Haase, Klizan, Kohlschreiber, Melzer, Niemenen, Nishikori, Querrey, Simon, Tipsarevic, Youzhny
Points to note:
31 players won titles this season, and 15 players were multiple-winners this season.
Ferrer was the most titled player all season, but Federer could have joined him by winning the ATP World Tour Finals in November.
2012 saw the first time that Niemenen had won a tournament since 2006.
Retiring this year, Roddick goes away with a total of 32 singles titles to his name.
The 2 titles Isner won this year were the same two he won last year, and both are in the USA.
Klizan was the only first time title winner this season.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Major Storm: Heavy Rain, Flooding and Very Strong Winds Along the Coast
Here is the forecast precipitation over the next 48h over the region and over western Washington.The Olympics, the north Cascades, and the mountains of southwest Washington and NW Oregon are going to get hammered with 5-10 inches of rain (reds). Even Seattle will get nearly 4-5 inches if this forecast verifies.
Folks, this will be a major event.
The other threat of this event is wind--HUGE winds along the Washington and Oregon coasts (worst along the Oregon coast). Take a look at this forecast of sustained winds for 1 AM on Wednesday morning. Sustained winds of 50 kts with gusts heading to 70-80.
The Washington coast will get the strong winds earlier...tonight...see below:
Anyway, I believe a major storm event is about to unfold...and it will be fascinating to use the new Langley Hill radar.
26 comments:
- kevinfreitas said...
Thanks for the update Cliff. Riding it out here in Tokeland. There's a serious chop out on Willapa Bay right now but we'll see how bad it gets. Follow along via my webcam pointed right at the bay over at http://tokeland.me/?view=h20
- November 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
Wow... glad I don't live on the coast any longer.
Stay safe out there everyone.
Heed the warnings, stay warm, and get your flashlights and batteries.
- November 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Tracey said...
Thanks for this post! Great graphs and info! I'll pass it along!
- November 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- JennyM said...
What about snow in the mountains? Will it be cold enough for that?
- November 21, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- JennyM said...
What about snow in the Cascades? Will it be cold enough for that?
- November 21, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Scott K. said...
Excellent update, Cliff. I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm down in Spanaway and hope to get some good winds if not rain as well. We have enough candles to last us through the winter already, heat will be the only issue.
It is rather unfortunate that the really fun winds are going to occur overnight. It would be fun to watch the trees.
- November 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- weatherlover said...
Where do you think the rain shadow will dominate?
We definitely missed out on rain today over by Anacortes where we haven't even got a tenth of an inch and I'm hoping that we get some good rain before this is all over.
- November 21, 2011 at 3:39 PM
- Carol {Everyday Delights} said...
Thanks for the post and info Cliff! I'll be wearing my rainboots!
- November 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- Michael DeMarco said...
Sequim in full rain shadow today. Some stars our right now at 630 PM. Dungeness River is still low-we could use some of that wet,
- November 21, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Mattster said...
What's this about a storm coming on on Thanksgiving now? Is it time to check out our gas grills?
- November 21, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
Typical November around here... in East Olympia / Lacey winds sustained 20mph and gusting 31mph .
Raining hard.
- November 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Yay! I love stormy weather! I was enjoying the rain shadow up in bellingham today. Tomorrow I'll have to get my kite out take it for a ride! I've got 2 questions:
1. What are the units for rainfall in the figures you posted (I cant quite read it, but it looks almost like cm or cin. Researching online I can only find mm and in as standard units (but that seems like past rain, not predicted.) Anyone?
2. Where do these figures come from? Do you put them together yourself? NOAA doesnt seem to have much of anything like this on their website. It would be nice if I could see this without having to have you post it!
- November 21, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Chris said...
So, I'm supposed to head out to Idaho Tuesday night (have engagements until 8pm, leaving straight afterwards). Do you think Snoqualmie will be passable?
Any bad weather forecasted for central WA?
- November 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM
has all the graphics he uses
- November 22, 2011 at 12:01 AM
- AndrewM said...
Cliff, grabbed a screen shot from the UW radar page at 3:22AM 11/22/11. Any information on the almost 200 mile long band of precipitation from BC to off Astoria?
- November 22, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- Skokomish said...
Looks like the Langley Hill Radar went offline for a bit at 4:22 A.M. Tuesday morning. You can see the difference from our old view to our new view. Interestingly enough, I wasn't sharp enough to notice initially and I thought "well, I guess that's the end of the plume of moisture." We used to be blind!
- November 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM
Very strong frontal passage early this morning with high winds from the southwest. Wind has died down to light. Clear sky to the north. Canadian Coast Mts. clearly visible. Most of the weather to the south of the San Juan Islands now.
- November 22, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Carter said...
is the rain spigot shifting to the south, or is the radar just fooling me?
- November 22, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- John Marshall said...
We got 0.71 inches of rain out of this storm in our neighborhood, located 900 feet up on Bell Hill in Sequim. Not much wind though.
That's a really good rain for us, but less than the 1.6 inches that was predicted for Sequim. Seems the storm either fizzled or went further south than predicted.
Hopefully the Dungenness has a little more flow today. Its been little more than a stream during this (so far) dry Fall. We need water.
John M
- November 22, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Colleen said...
Quite boring up here north of Bellingham. Incredible south winds overnight, but without the frigid temps that accompany our standard northeaster, nothing particularly notable. Nothing more than a light breeze right now ~ and no rain, either. Still cold enough to snow at Baker, so our river (Nooksack) is manageable, too. I suppose I should be grateful, but I confess I was anticipating something a bit more interesting!
- November 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Aaron M. said...
Looks like NOAA blew the snow level in the passes. The forecast calls for rain but it's clearly still dumping with a general cooling trend at all telemetry sites in Snoqualmie and Stevens passes. This should make for fun travel over the Cascades for Thanksgiving...
- November 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Interesting tidal anomoly today on Kilisut Harbor (south of Port Townsend)of about +2 to +2.5ft. We are conducting a study of beach spawning baitfish and could barely get a sample off of the beach at a +8 level when the tide was predicted to be +5 to +5.5 Low pressure and onshore flow! The NOAA tide gauge at Port Townsend showed the anomoly peaking at about +2 this morning. Nice that they have all that info online.
- November 22, 2011 at 2:13 PM
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- November 22, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- Ansel said...
Cliff, I thought this was going to be a Pineapple Express! That usually means 50-60 degrees. What's up with this 40's stuff? I was looking forward to some subtropical mild weather after those frosty nights.
- November 22, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Thompsonized said...
Cliff, I just want to say that you are clearly "The Man" when it comes to deciding if I should go from Ellensburg to Seattle. Being from Texas, I always had a fascination with severe weather down there...but you have taught me with your blogs how to predict the weather over Snoqualmie Pass much better than the official ones. Thanks again, I wasn't stranded in the I-90 mess all day!!
- November 22, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- Tulipbabette said...
I'd like to know why the Weather Service had no wind watch or warning out for the high winds in Grays Harbor County, particularly Montesano, on Tuesday evening. They only posted flood watches and warnings. Quite the shock to hear the wind blasting away at 2:30 this morning and find power was out here and all over the county because of the wind.
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I came down with a cold this weekend. I wasn't feeling very well,
I'm a bit better now, just eat lunch and crochet a few squares.
While hanging on the couch this weekend I tried to make a plan for the swap.
or BLUE...
Or maybe mix colors up...
I found this pattern I thought i lost forever.
It would be lovely to use for the spring swap.
Ofcourse I won't tell here what it is.
It's a BIG secret!!!!
So to make it up I sent to you my monday tulips..
Have a good start of the week!
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Sadly it's not possible to glue or restore the teapot. I put it on a shelf in my cupboard for eyecandy, so I still can enjoy!


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A week and a half after the death of his best friend Corey Haim, Corey Feldman found the comfort he needs at an L.A. nightclub this weekend ... in the arms of 2 platinum blonds.
Feldman hit Voyeur nightclub Saturday night ... where he mustered up the energy to leave with two very supportive women.
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My other tagine has a different shape. It's a Berber tagine, with a domed top. It's terra cotta too, but it's not glazed. This is the one I cook in. The inside has developed a lovely patina from the food that's been cooked in it. After I wash it (NEVER with soap!) I rub it with oil and heat it gently in the oven to keep it seasoned. It's made us some wonderful meals. Today was no exception.
As I write this recipe, I realize that I have access to a wonderful variety of food. It makes me very grateful.
I had a saddle of rabbit. This is the back of the rabbit, from about the armpits down to about the waist. Rabbit is a lovely meat, a little like chicken but it has a slightly wilder flavor. In this tagine it was perfect. If you can't get rabbit, you can use chicken. I'd probably use the thighs in this--you want a piece that will stand up to long cooking.
To go with the rabbit I bought two merguez sausages. I've written before about these spicy lamb sausages. We love them. There's a butcher in a nearby village who makes his own. Most of the lamb available here now is from New Zealand. Since I don't like to eat food that has jet lag, I asked him where the lamb came from. From the Netherlands, he said. Then he told me the farm and the name of the farmer and the breed of the lamb. Oh, yes. I like this shop!
In this same shop I bought a citron confit, or preserved lemon. This one was preserved in salt and had been rinsed so that it felt like a little yellow balloon that would burst if I squeezed it. It was mildly salty and veryvery lemony. The wonderful thing about these lemons is that you can eat all of them: peel, seeds, pulp. They have a uniformly fresh, lemony taste and they don't turn to mush when they're cooked. They add little morsels of bright lemon taste to the rich umami of this dish.
If you can't find merguez, you can use any spicy sausage. Or just leave it out and go with the rabbit. Or the chicken--I'm not fussy. The wonderful thing about tagines is that you can use what you have. Like most of my recipes, this one is very flexible. You want to be sure that you have things with definite flavors, though, or you'll be disappointed.
I used grenadine juice for the liquid in this dish. I liked the deep tang that it added, but you could use any fruit juice or stock or even water. In the recipe I put harissa, a spice paste from Morocco. In fact, I was out of harissa (how did that happen? Heads will roll...) so I used a spoonful of Indian lime pickle--very hot and spicy. You want something to add a little fire to the dish. You won't be sorry, I promise.
1 saddle of rabbit
2 merguez
1 Tablespoon oil
3 cloves garlic
1 onion
2 carrots
1/2 cup olives
3 stalks celery
fresh ginger
1 citron confit
6-8 prunes
1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
1/2 tsp fresh ground cardamom
1 teaspoon harissa or hot lime pickle
- Preheat oven to 200 C / 400 F
- Cut up the rabbit: begin by opening it out and cutting off the thin side muscles. Cut those into strips and set aside. Cut the remainder in half down the backbone and then cut each piece into four. Don't worry about the bones, just cut it in four pieces.
- Chop the onion and the garlic.
- Heat the oil in a large pan over medium high heat. When it's hot, add the large pieces of rabbit and the sausages. You want to brown them on all sides, giving them some color. They won't be cooked through, but should have some nice color on them. Remove the rabbit to a plate. Remove the merguez and cut it into pieces.
- Add the onion, the garlic, and the strips of rabbit. Cook until the rabbit and the onion has some color. Remove.
- Deglaze the pan with some of the pomegranate juice and reserve the juice (you're just re-capturing the flavor from the pan in this step)
- Cut the carrots into rounds and slice the celery. Put them in the bottom of the tagine.
- Peel the ginger and cut it into thin sticks. Add them to the tagine.
- Coarsely chop the prunes and add them to the dish.
- Add the meats, the onion and the garlic to the dish. Scatter the olives over this
- Chop the citron confit into small pieces and add them to the dish
- Mix the pomegranate juice (don't forget the juice from the pan) with the cinnamon, the cardamom and the harissa. Pour this over everything in the tagine.
- Cover the tagine and put it into the oven for about an hour.
Serves 4 if they like it and 10 if they don't
- We served this over couscous with fresh veggies. My wonderful husband found me some gluten free couscous made from rice and corn, so I could eat it.
- I used a mixture of pink and black olives. They had pits in them. We didn't care.
- The rabbit had bones in it. We didn't care. We just put a bone/seed bowl on the table and have at it.
- Likewise we put the pieces of cinnamon stick in the bone bowl.
- This is one of those wonderful dishes that can cook for a long time or a shorter time. I think it probably needs at least 40 minutes or so. It can keep in the oven for a long time though. Great for those dinner guests you know are always late...


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Healthy Cueto set for third straight Opening Day start
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- There's nothing like starting Opening Day, Reds right-hander Johnny Cueto said on Thursday. The nicks, the aches and six weeks of Spring Training are all behind you.
"It's a great feeling, so much energy," Cueto said through an interpreter about his start against the Cardinals on Monday at Great American Ball Park. "It's the greatest thing in the world. The fans are fantastic, fanatic. Everybody wants that opportunity, to open the season."
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- There's nothing like starting Opening Day, Reds right-hander Johnny Cueto said on Thursday. The nicks, the aches and six weeks of Spring Training are all behind you.
"It's a great feeling, so much energy," Cueto said through an interpreter about his start against the Cardinals on Monday at Great American Ball Park. "It's the greatest thing in the world. The fans are fantastic, fanatic. Everybody wants that opportunity, to open the season."
Cueto learned he had the honor for the third consecutive season from his new manager and old pitching coach, Bryan Price, on Wednesday. Price wanted to make sure that Cueto was healthy before making the decision public on Thursday morning.
There was the matter of some shoulder and back soreness that had caused him to miss a couple of Cactus League starts this spring.
"It wasn't anything really serious," Cueto said. "Just a couple of nicks, and they took me out for precautionary reasons."
There was the matter of those three separate stints on the disabled list last year with a strained right lat muscle that limited him to just 11 starts.
And 2012 didn't end very well, either. Before Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the eventual World Series champion Giants in San Francisco, Cueto felt a sharp pain in his lower back making his last two warmup pitches. He threw another eight pitches and never pitched again that postseason.
Cueto said on Thursday that he can't dwell on the injuries that have happened in the very recent past.
"I'm not worried about it at all," he said. "Those are last year's injuries and I'm prepared and ready to go. It was a difficult year for me because I wasn't able to help the team. That's the toughest part. Everyone goes through injuries, unfortunately."
It's not as if Price didn't have his qualms.
Cueto's six-year big league career has been one of unrequited promise. He was all-everything in 2012 prior to his physical collapse in the playoffs. His 19-9 record, 33 starts and 217 innings pitched were all personal highs.
"When he's healthy, he's been our No. 1 starter legitimately for the previous four years," Price said. The Reds starters have been beset by pitching injuries this spring, and Cueto has been among them. It started with Mat Latos, who had right elbow surgery in the offseason and then had to have a left knee scoped after his first bullpen outing of the spring. Mike Leake has had an abdominal injury and Homer Bailey has been dealing with a strained right groin. Both are in the rotation and are being counted on.
The Reds are opening the season with pitchers Latos, Sean Marshall, Jonathan Broxton and undoubtedly Brett Marshall on the disabled list. Marshall hurt the tendon on the middle finger of his right hand, pitching in a game against the White Sox on Wednesday.
"I think it was the third inning when he first felt it and that was it," Price said about Marshall. "I don't know. You're throwing a baseball and you strain a tendon in your finger. I just don't want anyone crossing the street right now."
Cueto pitched in a Minor League game on Tuesday, and Price held his breath. He allowed six runs on seven hits over five-plus innings against Cleveland's Class A Advanced Carolina affiliate, striking out 11 and tossing 89 pitches.
It wasn't the results but the length of the start that day that convinced Price he was ready to name Cueto his Opening Day pitcher.
"I talked to him [Wednesday] and told him I wanted him to go out and play some catch to make sure everything was OK," Price said. "And he said everything was fine. I didn't want to announce it yet. I wanted a little bit more time to make sure he was OK. So I'm comfortable now being able to make that declaration."
Cueto is slated to make his third consecutive Opening Day start for the Reds, all at home, the longest streak since Aaron Harang pitched five in a row from 2006-10. Cueto was the winner of a 4-0 victory over the Marlins in 2012 and wasn't credited with a decision last year in a 3-1 loss to the Angels that went 13 innings.
His Opening Day numbers are 1-0, with an 0.62 ERA -- 14 innings pitched, six hits, one earned run, four walks and 13 strikeouts.
That is the huge upside of a healthy Cueto and why Price is investing so much confidence in him.
"I'm happy that the club thought of me so highly and I'm honored to have that opportunity," Cueto said.
Barry M. Bloom is national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.


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— We tend to snub our noses at the word "fusion" when it comes to food.
After two decades of chefs mashing up every cuisine imaginable to create one too many fried wonton-topped chicken salads, the food professionals who want to be taken seriously have backed away from using the f-word.
But that doesn't mean they've stopped blending cuisines. The truth is, even the most "authentic" foods are the result of combining one food culture with another, says David Joachim, the prolific cookbook author whose newest book, Cooking Light Global Kitchen, explores international cuisines from Chile to China.
Now, instead of calling it fusion, we're calling it "global food," Joachim says.
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So why are tacos, which we think of as Mexican even though many Central and South American countries also serve them, so frequently fused with other cuisines?
"Tacos are an interesting case study in global cuisine because every culture has some sort of bread wrapped around food," Joachim says.
Tortillas aren't that different than pita, which is just a stone's throw from flatbread.
When people move from one place to another, even one continent to another, they continue to cook the foods of their homeland but start to incorporate some new techniques and ingredients. Over generations, these small changes become widespread, and suddenly no one remembers an Italy in which there was no tomato sauce.
Take tacos al pastor, Joachim says, which is actually a descendant of the Middle Eastern gyro. A wave of immigrants from Iraq and Lebanon moved to Mexico in the first part of the 20th century, and before long, they were putting meat sliced from an upright pit into corn tortillas instead of pitas.
Americans are cooking more globally than ever, Joachim says, either fused with foods they already know or re-creating dishes they've tried elsewhere.
"There's so much flavor available now, thanks in part to the global economy and the skyrocketing interest in food, plus the changes in immigration in our country," Joachim says. "There's just so much available in mainstream markets that many [cooks] might not have been aware of even 10 years ago."
And he's not just talking about Sriracha: In urban areas, it's easy to find chile pastes from India, Africa and Asia, or spices like cardamom, turmeric and exotic peppercorns. As soon as you have access to an ingredient like lemongrass, Joachim says, you have access to the flavor of an entirely new cuisine that you previously couldn't prepare at home.
But don't expect your dish to taste exactly the same as the street food in Thailand. "You're making concessions any time you cook outside the home country because the ingredients are slightly different," he says.
The quest for authenticity, though noble, is almost always quixotic because "authentic" only exists in the minds of those seeking a singular beginning. Food, however, is a collective, collaborative experience.
"You have to look at cuisine as a flowing river of flavor with different tributaries coming in," Joachim says. "Over the course of history, that river is always changing."
In his book, the most "authentic" taco recipe is one with potatoes, poblanos and chorizo on a corn tortilla, but Joachim also shares an unexpected mash-up of cuisines: a fiery Kung Pao chicken taco seasoned with sambal, an Indonesian chile paste.
The book also features a recipe for Joachim's spin on what has become a Los Angeles classic: the bulgogi Korean taco. Traditional bulgogi is beef that has been marinated and grilled and is often wrapped in large lettuce leaves. Serve it in a tortilla instead, and you have one of the hottest food truck trends of the past decade.
That taco is an excellent example of just how simple fusion can be.
To explain, Joachim breaks a taco into its core building blocks: a tortilla, meat (or other protein), something crunchy and something tangy. Change just one of those elements to incorporate an unexpected flavor or texture — kimchi instead of lettuce, raita or chutney instead of salsa, smoked pork instead of ground beef — and you're on your way to fusion taco nirvana.
These are building blocks that cooks can play around with, but the key is not overdoing it because swapping out too many familiar elements takes away from the "taco-ness" of the taco, Joachim says.
So, where is the line between a taco and a wrap? It gets more blurry by the week, Joachim says.
At a youth sporting event recently, he said he came across a "walking taco," a small bag of tortilla chips topped with chili, a spin on the Frito-pie-in-a-bag that Texans know well.
"That's not even a wrapped food but they call it a taco," he says.
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Any one has experience in renting vacation villas or long-terms stay possibilities in Bali? Also interested in "home stay".
I would like to be able to add "Bali by Bicycle" http://users.chariot.net.au/~gloria/indonesia.htm
as an external link..but there is no box for this ! Any advice for a new user ?
I can't really see where Bali is on the map (it's the light green one). I'm not much of a picture editor - can someone fix it, maybe paint it a different color? Not sure what the standards are for this.--justfred 13:15, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
I just upgraded to usableregion status for the Bali page. It seemed a bit cheap to keep it at outline status with all the information that is on it. Cheers The Snackmaster 07:02, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
True, the current map does not make Bali visible ! (Feb 2008)
After having read the comments on the spa page http://wikitravel.org/en/Spas I figured that this would be the best page to include the entries for Hyatt's 2 spas in Bali. Hyatt has some wonderful spas all over the world, so I'll post some more in the relevant destination pages, assuming no one objects...? Christiantc 07:08, 4 October 2007 (EDT)
Suggest knowledgeable contributors make appropriate entries for this major topic. Most other travel sources wax extensively about shopping opportunities there and need for bargaining.
The Bali article and several sub-article "suffer" from advertisements from hostel and hotel. They are usually written in broken English. Please have a look as some guys seem to re-insert their ads we I delete them. Any ideas to handle this? Jc8136 07:59, 3 July 2008 (EDT)
Layout Bali
The general Bali page is in very bad shape as some vandals seem to have pleasure in destroying that page. Please help to turn it in a porper shape Jc8136 09:49, 29 October 2008 (EDT)
Perhaps one example is the editing link for Get In - By Boat. Takes you to wrong location.
Anyone know Bali well enough to figure out a proper WT region structure for it? It's currently a mess.... including articles for mountains and temples! – cacahuate talk 23:44, 6 June 2009 (EDT)
I have drawn and added a map showing the regions of Bali as per Wikitravel definitions and colour coding. --Burmesedays 10:44, 9 September 2009 (EDT)
With the couple of new ones I have created in the past week, there are now 31 Bali destination articles. Any suggestions for others? I will get around to Klungkung (Semarapura) right away. In the past Munduk has been suggested but I think that should be covered under Bedugul. There are several sizeable towns that do not have articles (Tabanan, Gianyar and Karangasem are the most obvious ones) but these are of limited interest to visitors. --Burmesedays 10:13, 12 September 2009 (EDT)
Also Globe-trotter's recent edit to Pemuteran has made me realise that each of the 31 articles should have their IsPartOf or IsIn changed to reflect their assigned region....... Good spot. --Burmesedays 10:13, 12 September 2009 (EDT)
Bali Culture
A key reason why Bali s such a popular tourist destination is its culture. There are a few cultural snippets in the article but not enough IMHO. Certainly not enough when compared to the enormous amount of private villa listings for example... yawn :). I will expand this in the appropriate places.
I also want to write a piece on the Bali Aga for Wikitravel focusing on a truly unique cultural tourism experience. See for example [1] and [2]. Any thoughts on where that piece should live in the Bali article? --Burmesedays 12:28, 5 September 2009 (EDT)
Bali Articles - some suggestions
1. Tanjung Benoa is just not a destination and I have gone ahead and re-directed that page to Nusa Dua as I cannot think anyone will object to that. Tanjung Benoa is really just a continuation of Nusa Dua which offers more of the same type of hotels, the odd decent restaurant and little else. There was no content in the article.
2. For discussion about Besakih please see here. I would like some other opinions before merging Besakih into Mount Agung. --Burmesedays 04:40, 15 September 2009 (EDT)
Push for guide status
It's extremely difficult to get a large region like Bali up to guide status, but since we have people working hard on these articles, it might be nice to outline what would be needed to accomplish this. The following articles need to be bumped up to usable status:
That part isn't too hard. The big obstacle would be getting all six subregions up to usable status. Each would need a developed get in section, an adequate "see" section, and (crucially) all the important linked destinations (cities, islands, other destinations) would also need to be at usable status. --Peter Talk 14:02, 12 September 2009 (EDT)
You are doing some really awesome work on this, I tip my hat in your general direction sir! :) When you feel like you're done getting the regions up to guide status, and the cities are in a decent shape, remember to nominate it for Destination of Month as our only 2nd region after we featured Northern Territory as our first in May. There are few glitches but I think it's nearly there, and a nomination is a good way to root out anything missing. --Stefan (sertmann) Talk 09:29, 24 September 2009 (EDT)
All six regional articles now to up to speed I think:
Of the 28 Bali destination articles, 7 are at guide status with the rest usable. Some the usable articles are much better than others and could be guides were it not for style and formatting issues. That's where we stand.--Burmesedays 09:36, 27 September 2009 (EDT)
I have now changed the status of this article to guide. --Burmesedays 06:39, 30 September 2009 (EDT)
Nusa Tenggara
It passed us all by that this article has skipped one level of the Indonesian regional structure. The IsPartOf assignment should be Nusa Tenggara and not Indonesia. Have changed.--Burmesedays 11:48, 24 September 2009 (EDT)
Change of geographic scope of Nusa Dua and Uluwatu
I have plunged forward and changed the area covered by Nusa Dua. This was not really logical and definitely not how the Nusa Dua area is normally thought of. I have proposed that Nusa Dua covers only the Nusa Dua enclave and the Tanjung Benoa spit plus a few villages just to west of the enclave (to include notably The Bale and The Nikko Bali Resort). The rest of the Bukit Peninsula south of Jimbaran should therefore now covered by the Uluwatu article (which I still think should be called the Bukit Peninsula and not Uluwatu - there was some resistance to that proposal previously though). --Burmesedays 09:31, 28 October 2009 (EDT)
New Bali Map
Bloody marvellous job Peter. Looks great and the article has just stepped up several notches. --Burmesedays 22:40, 28 October 2009 (EDT)
And a large chunk of the Bali maps project is now complete. The following are all done:
That leaves 8 more definite must-haves: Kuta, Ubud,
Crime to be wary of
I have been to Bali 4 times and love it. But I was a victim of a drugging robbery. I was offered food with a drug (most likely Rohypnol) that made me lose consciousness and ended up in the hospital after being robbed and having my hotel room robbed. Do not accept food or drink from strangers. But of course this applies to anywhere on planet Earth!188.8.131.52 03:59, 7 November 2009 (EST)
Push for star (audit)
Sub-articles that need to be promoted to guide status:
In addition to the above, it looked like many eat & drink sections could be improved, but you are likely already aware.
Main article issues:
4) If I'm not mistaken, prices should only be listed in one currency, the rupiah. (Although it might still be useful here and there to show the rough equivalent USD amount in parentheses?)
1) All articles at guide status, IMO, should have a lead image at the top.
2) It would be ideal to not repeat photos across articles.
3) It's certainly not listed as a requirement for star status, but it would be nice if we had at least a usable Balinese phrasebook to complement all these great articles!
I'm sure the additional scrutiny of a star nomination would turn up a few more tasks and adjustments, but if you satisfy the above (in addition to your own goals), then I have little doubt that we'll have our first ever region article star! --Peter Talk 22:38, 7 November 2009 (EST)
I think I have devised a reasonable work-around on the cities/OD issue. Nusa Dua swaps places with Jimbaran as Peter suggested. Singaraja is a place I personally like but frankly, few visitors ever go there other than to pass through and it rarely gets much of a feature in travel guides. There are no hotels or restaurants to speak of. Therefore I propose dropping Singaraja from the cities list and replacing it with Candidasa. Then Candidasa is replaced by Amed on the OD list. Amed really should have been in the 18 anyway as it is a popular visitor destination. It fits the OD definition as it is a 12 km stretch of tiny villages, rather than a specific town. I have made those changes and think it works well and makes sense for the traveler. --Burmesedays 21:30, 8 November 2009 (EST)


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It may be very obvious around here, but I'm taking a little hiatus the Summer. For me that means making a strong effort to focus on home and family vs. work. I love sharing here and building my store, but every now and again, I need to regroup. I need to simplify our routine, simplify our obligations and take it down to basics. Summer is the perfect time for that. I feel like this whole idea of beautifying by simplifying is the root of my brand and it really helps me get back to it when I make an effort to truly live it.
Busyness is a problem in this world. Most of us have to/feel like we should be busy all of the time. Such the rebel as I am (eh?) I try to reject this as much as possible. I would like my family's life to be less busy, less obligated, less committed and consequently, more full. I want Emma's summer to be full of downtime and "her" time so she can be comfortable not running at a full tilt her entire life. I'm hoping that teaching her to be content with simplicity and content making due with just being (instead of being entertained) that she will spend less of her days chasing what's next, depending on others for her content-ness and more time just enjoying and being responsible for her own joy.
So, this is the first summer (since middle school...?) that I have taken off from work. Emma is going to camp one morning a week so I can come here and make sure the boat is still afloat. Thanks to Laurie and my pack/ship team, the store can run without my daily help - yay!
Emma is working on her cartwheels.
I'm enjoying watching her become more independent, stronger and resilient.
Summer Smoothies
Each day we take a walk and have a smoothie. I'm much better at exercising when food is involved. There is no kale or protein powder in here, just yummy fruit - so yummy and smooth. When we were in Seaside this spring, I was spending $8 each morning on one of these at a food truck - yikes! These cost about $0.75/each at home : )
This has become my favorite formula to make :
- Orange Juice with Mango
- Frozen Organic Berries (cheaper that fresh!) : I keep them in my kitchen containers in the freezer for easy access. I buy mine at Target, about $10 for a giant bag of blueberries and strawberries.
- Banana
- Chia Seeds (recent addition, not pictured) : Bought a huge bag of organic at Costco for $7. They add iron, omega-3s, etc. Taste like tiny strawberry seeds.
Plastic Kitchen Containers are restocked.
When we lived with Mike's parents during our reno, I was convinced that I needed a fancy ($$$) blender after using his mom's. But, when we moved back in, I was more interested in furniture than smoothies so I settled for this $20 one from target. I have to say - works so good! I'm glad I didn't spend $500 on a blender just for smoothies.
So far, our summer diet consists of Tomatoes and Mozz salads, BATs (avocado instead of lettuce), waffles or muffins for breakfast and cheeseburgers on the grill for dinner. And these healthy smoothies... all about balance ; )


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Rivendell Poster
Grant Petersen is opening a pop-up in the SF Mission District June 1-9, 3 blocks from the 24th & Mission BART Station. Open daily noon to 7pm with several Rivendell bikes to see and touch, art from our other showroom in Walnut Creek in the East Bay, plus bags and handlebars. Get some free schwag, brochures, coupons, a secret "have-to-be-there-to-get-it: super deal.


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Two WPP shops – Grey Healthcare Group (ghg) and digital specialty VML – are collaborating on an answer to Publicis' digi-behemoth Digitas. The new shop, Healix Digital Health, will be led by representatives from both companies and will offer "enterprise digital marketing" for healthcare companies.
"This is really being established due to client interest," said ghg chief Lynn O'Connor Vos. "There's room for one or two more big players in the healthcare digital space, and we're at a tipping point where most clients recognize that this is an area they've got to be competitive in, with mass consumerization of healthcare, with electronic medical records, with 87% of doctors getting information online and 25% of medicine potentially being practiced online by 2012."
The new shop will have offices in New York, where ghg is based, and in Kansas City, MO, where VML is headquartered. Vos will sit on the agency's board along with ghg chief engagement officer Erin Byrne, VML CEO Matt Anthony and VML managing director Jim Radosevic. Agency leadership and founding clients will be announced in January and will report directly to WPP chief Martin Sorrell.
The agency's Kansas City office will boast a "communications lab," Vos said, through which Healix will keep ahead of the curve on emerging technologies like the iPad and electronic medical records.
"This is going to be a new medium for us to communicate with physicians and potentially with patients," said Vos. "We want to look at all technologies."
VML and ghg have a longstanding relationship, she said, sharing business with Colgate and Hill Science, the dog food brand. VML boasts a roster of blue chip clients and recent work including Gatorade's G2 campaign, while ghg has executed the text4baby and Think About Your Eyes efforts.
"This is definitely the moment to establish something this big and well-recognized for depth in digital and mobile for healthcare," said Vos. "Clients are all looking for strategic solutions. They want a digital strategy – they don't just want to buy a website but to understand where patients and docs are online, what's that journey look like and how can they get there."


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Maryland coach Mark Turgeon can thank Nikki Reed for her 7-foot-1 son's decision to play basketball for the Terps beginning in 2014.
While Trayvon Reed's mother didn't push him toward College Park when the Powder Springs, Ga., native was choosing between the Terps and Florida, she did end his blossoming career as a wide receiver before it took hold.
Given the number of 7-footers playing in the NFL, it was probably a good thing.
After committing to the Terps on Wednesday, the younger Reed talked about how tough it was for him to stop playing football in the eighth grade. The family was living in football-crazy Mobile, Ala., at the time before moving to the Atlanta area shortly after Reed entered high school.
"When my mother told me I couldn't play football anymore, I didn't want to turn it into a negative," Reed recalled. "I didn't even like basketball. I was playing football and baseball. I just started playing basketball. It was cool. It was kind of different for me."
Reed, rated as high as the sixth-best center in the country despite a fairly unrefined offensive game, joins shooting guards Dion Wiley and Melo Trimble, as well as small forward Jared Nickens. Reed took the last scholarship currently available.
Nikki Reed might also have something to do with her son's height. According to her husband, Daniel Moore, Trayvon Reed's mother is 6-3 and she has a brother who is 6-10.
Trayvon Reed, who measured 6-8 after a five-inch growth spurt between seventh and eighth grade, said Maryland started recruiting him heavily last year, and by this summer, "I had my mind up that I was going to go there."
While Turgeon loves shooters -- the rest of the 2014 class falls into that category -- he also knows the importance of rim protectors. It's interesting to note that Reed is the first big man to commit to the Terps since Alex Len. The Ukraine native came to College Park with limited skills, but was drafted No. 5 overall after two years with Turgeon.
Reed said he followed the progress that Len made from a raw freshman to NBA lottery pick.
"When I saw that, I said, 'That could be me,' " Reed said.
There was some confusion last week, when a reporter tweeted that Reed had committed. Reed said the reporter asked him "if I liked Maryland, and I said, 'Yeah, I do.' But I said it was down to Maryland and Florida."
Reed's visit to the campus Wednesday sealed his decision.
"Me and coach [Turgeon] had a good relationship, and after seeing the campus, I just thought it was a good situation for me," Reed said.
As impressed as he was with Turgeon and the campus, Moore -- who accompanied his stepson on the visit to Maryland -- said what convinced him on the school was a member of the athletic department's academic support staff.
"The thing that won me over was that they have a great woman named Tasha [Criss] who's the team's academic advisor," Moore said. "I believed what she was telling me, that was the highlight for me. When they're done playing basketball, you need to have your degree."
Moore said the family closely monitored the progress Len made last season.
"He came in and was about the same size and weighed 218 pounds, about the same as Trayvon weighs now," Moore said. "I really liked the way he panned out."


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Among Baltimore's neighborhoods, the hip community of Hampden is forecast to see the most home value appreciation this year, according to data-driven real estate search website Zillow.
Home values in that North Baltimore district should see a 4.2 percent increase over the next 12 months, according to a report the firm recently released. Zillow considers an annual appreciation of about 3 percent to be the national norm.
Locust Point and Highlandtown are tied for second place in the Baltimore forecast. Zillow estimates that values in those neighborhoods will increase 4.1 percent by the end of the year.
In addition to Highlandtown, several other neighborhoods surrounding Patterson Park — Ellwood Park/Monument, the Patterson Park Neighborhood, Upper Fells Point and Butchers Hill — are among the forecast's top 10.
Other neighborhoods in the top 10, all predicted to appreciate at 3.3 percent or more, are Washington Village/Pigtown, Mount Vernon and Remington.
As a group, metro Baltimore's homes are forecast to increase in value 1.4 percent this year, according to Zillow.
"Nationally, home values are projected to increase 3.3 percent over the next year," Zillow's report said.
Baltimore's home values bottomed out in the first quarter of last year — one quarter later than the nation as a whole, which has now had five consecutive quarters of home value appreciation, Zillow said.
Home values in metro Baltimore just returned to levels last seen in December 2004, the firm's report said.
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