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PASSCAL Instrument Center Deploying Greenland Network
SOCORRO, N.M. Sept. 17, 2009 – New Mexico Tech will play a crucial role in a new project to install and operate a vast network of seismic sensing stations in Greenland.
|Kent Anderson, a Tech graduate student and IRIS employee, with a seismic sensing station in Greenland. Photo by Guy Tytgat/New Mexico Tech
The IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech will design, program and install 25 state-of-the-art seismic stations as part of a new ambitious ice sheet monitoring project. IRIS is the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, a consortium that supports collaborative research and facilities and supports the Instrument Center. PASSCAL is the Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere, an IRIS Program devoted to supporting portable seismic instruments and data collection throughout the world via the PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech.
The $1.9 million Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network, or GLISN, project, funded by the National Science Foundation, will include deployment and data collection from 25 seismometers on and around Greenland.
"This is by far the most ambitious seismological instrumentation of Greenland ever done at this scale," Dr. Rick Aster said. "This project will generate a whole new suite of data for scientists to interpret related to Greenland's geological, glacier, and climate system."
Aster is the principal investigator for the PASSCAL Instrument Center and the chair of the Earth and Environmental Science Department at New Mexico Tech. He said Greenland is important glaciologically because it contains about 10 percent of Earth's ice and contributes more sea-level raising ice to the oceans than all other sources in the northern hemisphere put together.
"It's a big fish," Aster said. "These glacial events – calving, movements of the ice sheet and water moving underneath – they all have seismic signatures, and we can study them with seismology. If you want to understand a system like the Greenland icecap you have to see how it is changing."
|Guy Tytgat, polar project senior engineer, with a solar-powered seismic station in Greenland. Photo by Kent Anderson/New Mexico Tech
The seismic network will help monitor Greenland's icecap and glaciers, how they evolve and how the ice sheet responds to global climate change. The seismological community has a basic understanding of the underlying geology of Greenland, but the new project will also provide much better data on how geological processes, such as the loss of heat from the deep Earth, affect the icecap and its stability with time. Besides the underlying geological and geophysical processes affecting the Greenland Ice Sheet, the data will also advance studies on interactions between oceans, climate and the glaciers and other multidisciplinary areas of interest to climate change studies.
The staff of the New Mexico Tech PASSCAL Instrument Center has already scouted locations in Greenland and is developing sensors that are capable of withstanding the Greenland climate. Aster said the Instrument Center staff has ample experience designing seismic stations currently deployed in Antarctica and other very harsh environments.
Polar projects senior engineer Guy Tytgat of New Mexico Tech will be in charge of preparing the seismic stations, and the logistics and installation at several of the sites. He scouted locations in Greenland in August and is confident that the project will be successful. He said the instruments will be assembled and prepared for installation over the next six months, with deployment scheduled for June 2010.
Tytgat said the project presents quite a few technical and logistical challenges related to extreme climate and remote locations. He and his fellow engineers are drawing on their experience working in Antarctica to develop the Greenland project.
|An aerial view of the Greenland Ice Sheet and glaciers flowing off the plateau into a valley. Photo by Guy Tytgat/New Mexico Tech
"Any time you deal with polar regions, it's very challenging," Tytgat said. "In Antarctica, there are basically two types of sites: the ones that are cold and the ones that are really, really, really cold."
While Greenland is warmer than Antarctica, frigid weather is still a concern for seismic equipment and batteries during the winter. The batteries and recording equipment will be ultra-insulated in a high-tech enclosure. All stations will use solar power, but during winter the stations are shrouded in darkness for up to three months at the northernmost latitudes.
"One of the challenges is keeping the equipment running in very cold temperatures," Tytgat said. "A second challenge is having batteries that produce power at those temperatures. If those batteries fail, we're dead in the water."
In Antarctica, this has meant designing battery systems that operate at temperatures below -100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tytgat and Kent Anderson, a New Mexico Tech doctoral student and IRIS employee, will, when possible, select coastal locations that are close to settlements so they can tap into electricity and telecommunications. However, the stations can't be so close that human, or "cultural," seismic noise overpowers the faint, natural signals that the scientists are tracking.
"It's always a dilemma finding a 'quiet' spot but not too far from a community," Tytgat said.
IRIS and New Mexico Tech will spend three years in the initial development of the Greenland network. The project is a coordinated international collaboration of eight nations – Denmark, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the United States.
Data from the Network will be freely and openly available to anyone in real-time, without restriction, Aster said.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Designer Tom Ford sent Hayden Panettiere a bouquet of white roses after discovering she had paid to wear one of his creations to the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
The actress walked the red carpet in a black-and-white Tom Ford number and was more than happy to reveal she had bought it "off-the-rack" rather than send her stylist chasing the designer for a dress.
She explained, "It's the first time I've ever worn him, because I've been begging… I feel sexy in it, I feel comfortable in it, and I'm in Tom Ford. I would wear a plastic bag if it was designed by him."
Ford, who dressed Naomi Watts for the Globes, was so taken by Panettiere's dedication, he sent her a floral gift and a note thanking her for her kind words about him.
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Tweeting a photo of the bouquet and message, the actress wrote, "Such an honor to wear one of this man's masterpieces! Thank you for my beautiful flowers!"
Ford's note read: "Dear Hayden, You looked beautiful last night. Thank you for your kind words. Much love, Tom."
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Students from the departments of Public Health, Nutrition and Wellness, Physical Therapy, Medical Laboratory Sciences and Nursing work alongside their professors and medical professionals at the HERBIE Clinic in Benton Harbor.
The clinic, founded four years ago, is a not-for-porofit organization with a mission to show God's love in a very tangible way to the people of Benton Harbor, and offers free healthcare to adults who are without health insurane.
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TV and radio host Ryan Seacrest has confirmed he is single again after splitting from his actress girlfriend Julianne Hough.
The stars dated for two years, but recent reports suggested they had ended their romance and are no longer living together.
Seacrest has now confirmed the break-up after he was put on the spot by a young fan during a charity event in California on Friday.
The "American Idol" host helped launch a media center for kids at the Children's Hospital of Orange County, and during the facility's inaugural broadcast, a young fan asked Seacrest whether he has a girlfriend, and he replied, "The answer is actually no, I am single."
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SALT LAKE CITY — A day after President Barack Obama touted his drilling-friendly public land policies in a presidential debate, Gov. Gary Herbert's adviser on energy policy criticized the federal government over the amount of land it controls in Utah and flayed environmental groups for their assault on the oil and gas industry.
Cody Stewart, appointed by the Utah governor in August, also made a blunt admission Wednesday to members of the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Interim Committee about his current employment:
"My job as energy adviser to the governor is something of a farce," he said. "It is a challenge to advise the governor on policy when we are not in control of policy in this state on this much land."
Stewart pointed out that the entire state of Florida would fit within the boundaries of Utah.
"That reflects the amount of federal land in Utah," he said.
In a meeting that detailed the deployment of the state's various agencies in the arena of energy development, Stewart conceded it is impractical, given current federal policies, for Utah to achieve competitiveness with other states.
The fundamental truths about energy development in Utah, he added, is that energy resources are abundant and significant — both renewable and nonrenewable — and they remain largely untapped.
"And we are largely second-class citizens in regards to our energy. We are not North Dakota," which Stewart pointed out has 5 percent of its land in federal ownership and is home to the Bakken Oil Field, the largest oil discovery on American soil in 40 years.
As a result of being able to tap into that resource, Stewart said energy production in North Dakota has increased 250 percent over the past five or six years, and the state unemployment rate has dipped below 3 percent.
"It's a different world we live in," he said.
That different world is driving developers to seek private land, added Kathleen Sgamma, because projects take such little time to launch under that scenario, in contrast to exploration efforts that have to go through the federal permitting process.
Sgamma, executive vice president of governmental affairs with the Western Energy Alliance, pointed to the Uintah Basin's GASCO Project, approved earlier this year after eight years of review.
Throughout the Western region, Sgamma said, natural gas production is up 26 percent on state and private lands from 2010 to 2011, but down 4 percent on federal lands. For oil, it is up 54 percent on private and state-owned lands, but only up 26 percent on federal lands.
"Production is up dramatically, but it is in spite of the federal government, not because of it," she said.
Stewart said the Herbert administration will continue to focus on "responsible energy development" and noted that it "is not hostile to one source," including the array of renewable energy opportunities that exist.
What he said is hard to combat is is the "short-sighted" views of opponents to the natural gas and oil extraction industries.
"One of the challenges we face is there is an active and concerted campaign against fossil fuels in this country and to demonize the industry," Stewart said.
With Utah so rich in natural resources yet to be developed and technology and infrastructure yet to overcome on the renewable energy front, he said the administration's position is clear.
"We proudly and staunchly defend fossil fuels use now and into the future," Stewart said.
Herbert's intransigence on his support of the coal, oil and gas industries and return of federal lands to Utah has already put him in the crosshairs of a strident campaign launched by environmentalists, climate activists and others who want more emphasis put on development of clean energy like solar and wind.
Organizers of the Outdoor Retailers convention, which brings in millions of dollars in revenue and thousands of visitors to the Salt Lake City area, have threatened to pull out because of land-use policies pushed by the governor's office. High-profile members of his Balanced Resource Council or in other key positions have left as well, because of squabbles over public lands.
Herbert's pursuit of more autonomy of public lands in Utah has led to frequent meetings with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, an Obama appointee who has instituted a number of regulatory reforms, particularly in the Bureau of Land Management, which manages nearly 23 million acres of land in Utah, or 42 percent of the state.
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The proposal to build mega-casinos in South Florida never made it to a final vote in the last session of the Florida Legislature. Now it looks like the issue may not be coming up again for at least another year.
Senate President Don Gaetz is setting up a new committee to examine Florida gambling which he says is both over- and under-regulated. But Gaetz is considered an opponent of gambling and he's in no hurry to pass a casino gambling bill.
"We need to have a thoughtful approach to this," he says. "We need to make sure that we know what we're doing before we either regulate or deregulate any aspect of gaming and certainly before anything is expanded."
Call For Patience
House and Senate leaders also want to take gambling off the table for now because each chamber's proposals were so far apart during the last session. One sticking point was what to do about internet cafes, also known as strip mall casinos. The Senate considered ways to regulate them, while the House wanted to ban them completely.
Tallahassee attorney Marc Dunbar tells his gambling-industry clients that they need to be patient. "I've pretty much told them that you're going to see a one year moratorium on anything related to gambling," Dunbar said.
"The best thing to do is take advantage of that time to work with the legislators as they go on basically what's going to be a listening tour."
A Petition Bypass?
Carol Dover, who lobbies the Legislature for hotels and restaurants, says big casinos would pull workers away from other businesses and could force smaller surrounding businesses to shut down. She's glad lawmakers are taking a break from the gambling debate.
"I think it's a very smart move," she says. "You have to remember that anything that the Legislature does as it relates to gambling in our state could change the face of this state for decades to come."
New gambling legislation could also run afoul of the compact that allows Seminole Indians to operate casinos but -- in another possible complication -- the Genting Group could move it forward. Genting is the big Malaysian gambling conglomerate that bought the Miami Herald's bayfront headquarters with a plan to build a resort casino on the site.
With enough petition signatures, Genting could get a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2014. If that happens, voters – not lawmakers - would decide whether to approve mega casinos.


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For parents, there is nothing as precious as their children. So deciding who will care for the kids when mom or dad are at work is an important — and increasingly expensive — decision.
For parents, there is nothing as precious as their children. So deciding who will care for the kids when mom or dad are at work is an important — and increasingly expensive — decision.
As a result of the mounting costs of child care these days, the issue has gone well beyond just a personal decision for parents — to an issue with significant public policy implications.
There are several factors contributing to the increased costs and demand for child care. These factors all need to be considered as policy makers decide how best to address Massachusetts' child care crunch today.
With both parents working in most two-parent families, coupled with a larger prevalence of single-parent families, more parents have come to rely on child care options.
Further adding to the demand for professional child care is that people tend to move around more these days, and we don't have the close associations with neighbors and other community members that we once did. So while grandparents, other relatives or trusted neighbors may have taken care of Junior in "the olden days," that's just not always an option these days.
Increasingly — particularly in traditionally more expensive urban areas — child care is becoming unaffordable, often eclipsing the cost of housing and even, in some cases, college tuition. Child care in Massachusetts is the most expensive in the nation, coming in at a whopping average yearly cost of $16,430, according to Child Care Aware of America's 2013 report.
To help lessen some of the burden on families, the commonwealth does offer some financial assistance, including child care subsidies. But there are far more parents seeking subsidies than are available, with 53,000 income-eligible Bay State families receiving subsidies and more than 40,000 on the wait list.
A greater emphasis from a "babysitting" model for child care to more of an early childhood education focus is certainly beneficial to a child's educational and social development, but it also comes at a cost, including expensive licensure and regulatory fees that get necessarily passed along to parents.
"There's a sense that quality can only be achieved in certain settings," said Tom Weber, commissioner of the state Department of Early Education and Care. "The fact is high-quality is achievable across all those domains."
As the state grapples with the availability and affordability of child care options, it will be important for lawmakers to balance society's natural desire to offer the best we possibly can for our children with the necessity of expanding the availability of options that are safe, adequate and affordable for families of different means.
While Weber does not believe fees and regulations directly drive the cost of child care, they could be one factor contributing to the high costs. Further study of the factors driving the costs of child care in Massachusetts could help state officials determine the best ways to address the issue.


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The third annual Perfect Game National Games will be held Aug. 13-14 at Triton Ballpark on the University of California San Diego Campus.
This year's two-day event, formerly known as Perfect Game at Aflac, showcases many of the top prospects in the high school class of 2014, as well as some of the very best from the class of 2015.
It is held in conjunction with the Perfect Game All-American Classic presented by Rawlings, the prestigious all-star game for the top 2013 prospects that will be played Sunday, Aug. 12, at the San Diego Padres' PETCO Park.
The prospects participating in the PG National Games will be split up by region and placed on four teams, and each team will play two games. The two winners from the first day of play on Aug. 11 will meet in a championship game on the 14th, and the two first-day losers will meet in a consolation game on the second day.
The first Perfect Game at Aflac showcase was held in 2004 and hundreds of top underclass prospects have been showcased during the event's seven-year run. 26 PG National Games alumni have been selected in the first round of the MLB draft, and more than 160 others were selected in rounds after the first.
Budding young star and 2009 PG All-American Bryce Harper attended the event in 2008. Fellow young sluggers Anthony Rizzo and Pedro Alvarez have also attended the events in past years as they continue to make a name for themselves in the big leagues.
In the last three drafts, 23 Perfect Game at Aflac alumni from the 2007-2010 events were first round or first round compensation picks. In June's 2012 draft, seven alumni – Gavin Cecchini, Jeff Gelalich, Lucas Giolito, Daniel Robertson, Marcus Stroman, Walker Weickel and Mike Zunino – were all first round picks.
Zunino, the third overall player selected, was a PG All-American in 2008, and was named the SEC Player of the Year in 2011 and was named the Golden Spikes Award winner this past year for his incredibly successful season for the Florida Gators.
From last year's event, 13 of the players that participated are now members of the 2012 Perfect Game All-American Classic, including catcher Reese McGuire, who was named the 2011 PG National Games No. 1 prospect.
For more information, including rosters and the event schedule, visit the 2012 PG National Games event page:


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The snow has been piling up around here, and that generally means one things: comfort food. In an effort to keep things healthy around here, I turned to this soup recipe for something warm, comforting, and most of all - filling!
I didn't have any marjoram (and wasn't about to go out to the store for some), but I found a spice blend in my cabinet that seemed like it would work well. I also used chicken broth, since that's what I had on hand. This is a delicious soup that is so easy to throw together. It's a great way to get in some vegetables and grains, so you can feel a little less guilty about some other comfort foods calling your name!
Quinoa Vegetable Soup
Yield: Approximately 4 quarts
Source: The Gracious Pantry
- 8 cups vegetable broth + 8 cups vegetable broth on reserve
- 2 cups uncooked quinoa (rinsed well, unless you buy pre-rinsed)
- 4 large carrots, peeled and sliced
- 1 small bunch celery, cleaned and sliced
- 1 small head broccoli, washed and chopped
- 2 lbs. mushrooms, washed and sliced
- 1 red onion, peeled and diced
- 2 tbsp. garlic powder
- 2 tbsp. onion powder
- 1 tsp. thyme
- 2 tsp. celery seed
- 1 tbsp. marjoram
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 vegetable bouillon cube
Step 1 – Saute the onions and mushrooms over low-medium heat in the olive oil until the onions are translucent and the mushrooms have completely wilted.
Step 2 – In a large soup pot (a 4 quart pot), combine 8 cups of broth, carrots, celery, broccoli, onion/mushroom mixture, bouillon cube and spices. Bring to a boil.
Step 3 – When the soup is at a full, rolling boil, add the quinoa.
Step 4 – Reduce heat to a simmer. Cook until the vegetables are soft and the quinoa is transparent.
Step 5 – Add extra vegetable broth as needed to maintain a soupy consistency.


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GRANADA, SPAIN — Group A of the FIBA Basketball World Cup not only has the most NBA players, but also four of the best teams in the tournament. So every day of pool play in Granada will bring at least one big game. Four teams from the group will advance to the knockout rounds, but a higher placement will likely get you an easier opponent in the round of 16.
So Brazil was the big winner on Saturday, holding on for a 65-63 victory over France in the second game of the day in Granada. It was an ugly game throughout, with the two teams combining for 19 turnovers in the first half and shooting just 11-for-35 from 3-point range for the game.
But point guard Marcelo Huertas had enough in his bag of tricks to get the job done in the fourth quarter.
France actually led by nine late in the first, but scored just 10 points on its final 20 possessions of the first half, as Brazil took a two-point lead into the break. The Brazilians led by as many as eight early in the fourth, but couldn't put France away, because they couldn't put together more than two straight scores.
"The zone was back all the time," said Tiago Splitter, who scored just six points on 2-for-5 shooting. "Nobody was getting easy shots. And our shooters didn't have a good game outside. "
Huertas was basically the only guy who could get anything going offensively. He scored 11 of Brazil's 19 points in the period, hitting a three off a Nene post-up, finding space around the foul line for a couple of runners against the sagging French defense, and sealed the game at the free-throw line in the final minute.
"They were deep into the zone," he said afterward, "so we could attack, either for a shot or to find the open man."
France got a big game from Boris Diaw (15 points, six rebounds, five assists), but Nicolas Batum (13 points) didn't shoot well and the other French bigs didn't get much done inside after the first quarter. Though they closed to within one in the final seconds, they never got a chance to tie or take the lead.
The French are missing Tony Parker and a couple of their NBA centers. They don't have any time to recover from this first loss, because they play a very tough Serbia team in Sunday's first game.
Brazil gets Iran on Sunday before facing tougher tests against Spain (Monday) and Serbia (Wednesday). It's passed the first one, knowing that any win in the first game was important.
"For us, it's a big win, even if it wasn't France," Huertas said. "It's not a definite step, but it's a great step."
More notes from Brazil 65, France 63 …
- Orlando Magic coach Jacque Vaughn is in Granada to see Evan Fournier (whom the Magic got in the Arron Afflalo trade in June) play. But Fournier was the 11th guy to get in the game for France, entering with 3:06 to go in the first half. He went scoreless with two turnovers in just 8:25 of action.
- Utah's Rudy Gobert has potential. He didn't look comfortable when there was someone between him and the basket, but he had a couple of athletic dunks off feeds from Florent Pietrus and blocked two shots. A few seconds after missing an ugly jump hook, he actually blocked Splitter without leaving his feet.
- Nene got a couple of buckets off pick-and-roll feeds from Huertas late in the third quarter and grabbed eight rebounds, but otherwise had a rough night. He shot 2-for-6 and committed four turnovers.
Other games of note …
Group A: Serbia 85, Egypt 64
As expected, this was an easy win for Serbia, which pulled away with a 25-12 third quarter. Milos Teodosic led the way with 15 points, hitting four of his six 3-pointers.
- Miroslav Raduljica is a hoss, and much bigger than anyone on Egypt's roster. Starting at center for Serbia, he racked up 10 points and six rebounds in just 12:32 of playing time. He made like Moses Malone on a first-quarter possession that was going to end with either a layup by him or a foul, because he kept missing and Egypt had no chance of outmuscling him for the rebound. It properly ended with an and-one.
- Raduljica was waived by the Clippers (via the stretch provision) on Friday, just three days after they had acquired him from Milwaukee. After one season in the league, he said he wants to stay (though it was "a little cold in Milwaukee"). He said he's only heard rumors about any other teams that may want him and "I'm waiting to see what's going to happen next."
- Suns draft pick Bogdan Bogdanovic is listed at 6-6, but appears to be a bit shorter. He played neither great nor poorly on Saturday. He dished out four assists and was a game-high plus-23, but took just three shots (all 3-pointers). And it would have been hard to tell how NBA-ready he really is against this opponent anyway. France (Sunday), Brazil (Wednesday) and Spain (Thursday) will provide better tests.
- After Brazil's win over France, Splitter was asked about Serbia. His response: "I would say they are more talented than France. France is a very talented and athletic team, but Serbia, they know how to play basketball. They have a very good school of basketball, always."
Group B: Croatia 81, Philippines 78 (OT)
This was the game of the day, as the Philippines came back from 15 points down to take a three-point lead with a little more than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter. After Croatia came back to tie it, the Philippines' Jeff Chan missed a jumper at the buzzer that would have given Gilas the huge upset.
They took a two-point lead in overtime, but Bojan Bogdanovic put Croatia up for good with four free throws and the Philippines didn't get a foul call on the game-tying three at the buzzer.
- NBA free agent Andray Blatche, playing for the Philippines, scored the team's first two points, but was 1-for-9 from the field early in the second quarter, settling for jumpers. He then got the Croatian big men to bite on a couple of his shot fakes, got to the rim a bit more, and hot nine of 15 shots after the slow start. He was 3-for-4 from 3-point range, hitting a big one to tie the game late in the fourth. He finished with 28 points and 12 rebounds.
- Croatia's Bogdanovic, not to be confused with Serbia's Bogdanovic, looks like he could be a solid player for the Brooklyn Nets this season. He led Croatia with 26 points on 7-for-14 shooting, getting his buckets in a variety of ways.
- The Philadelphia Sixers look like they'll be getting a player (eventually) in Dario Saric, too. He'll have better tests later in the tournament and was able to take advantage of the size discrepancy (the Gilas power forwards aren't very big) in this game. But he he also made some nice off-the-ball cuts and showed an ability to handle the ball in the open court, as he did in this highlight from Tuesday's exhibition win over Lithuania.
- Pacers incoming rookie Damjan Rudez had one smooth-looking, step-in jumper, but didn't look too good otherwise. He shot 0-for-4 from 3-point range and finished with just four points in 14 minutes
More Day 1 notes
- Serge Ibaka sat out Spain's game against Iran. According to Spanish TV, he has a sore hamstring.
- Group B saw a matchup of #FIBAArroyo and #FIBAScola, who are both *better than their NBA counterparts. Carlos Arroyo didn't have it on Saturday though, and Luis Scola led Argentina to a 98-75 win over Puerto Rico with 20 points (on just 10 shots) and nine rebounds. J.J. Barea led Puerto Rico, which totaled only five assists, with 24 points. Pablo Prigioni had 10 of Argentina's 22 assists.
- * The opposite is true of #FIBANene
- Giannis Antetokounmpo took just two shots from the field, but filled the box score with 11 points, five rebounds and three steals in Greece's 87-64 win over Senegal. Gorgui Dieng led Senegal with 21 points and 14 boards.
- Goran Dragic paced Slovenia to an important 90-80 win over Australia in Group D with 21 points on 8-for-12 shooting. The Cavs' Matthew Dellavedova shot just 1-for-7 for the Aussies.
Big games on tap for Sunday
- Dominican Republic-New Zealand (6:30 a.m. ET) could ultimately be for fourth place (and a trip to the knockout rounds) in Group C.
- Argentina-Croatia (7:30 a.m. ET, NBA TV) will be an important game for seeding in Group B, though it could be a mismatch given the way the two teams played on Saturday.
- Serbia-France (9:30 a.m. ET, NBA TV) will be the day's big matchup in Granada, with France needing to rebound from Saturday's loss to Brazil.
- If Dieng's Senegal team is to have any chance of making the top four in Group B, it probably needs to beat Puerto Rico (1:30 p.m., ET).


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HANG TIME, Texas — Pity poor Jessica Nowitzki, who is not a fan of the Mavericks drive-for-.500 beards.
"It's not a good look," husband Dirk admitted the other day. "My wife doesn't like it that much. But I guess we've all got to suck it up and reach our goal."
It might be time to wonder how tolerant Mrs. Nowitzki will be by October, when the Mavs have a more realistic shot to reach the break-even mark after their spectacular 136-103 flameout in Houston? By that time Dirk and his teammates could look like so many Rip Van Winkles or extras from the cast of "Lincoln".
The Mavs hardly resemble a team that is sharpening its razors or its playoff claws as a lost season staggers toward the finish. They couldn't defend, get enough shots for their biggest gun or do much of anything right against the Rockets.
"At the clip, we're losing and losing (close) games at home, and those are the games you have to win if you want to be in the playoffs," Nowitzki said. "We haven't shown consistently that we can big games. We have to fight and we have another game on Wednesday and we'll see what we got."
What they've got is a season that jumped off track when Dirk missed the first 27 games following knee surgery and has never developed a sense of rhythm or direction. Now a team that has not won more than three consecutive games all season would have to go 15-8 over the final six weeks just to get to the .500 mark and it's unlikely that 41-41 would be good enough to make the playoffs anyway.
It's the end of an era. Assuming there is no postseason basketball in Dallas this spring, it will bring an end to the best stretch of basketball in franchise history, ending a playoff streak that stretches back to 2001, the first full season under Mark Cuban's ownership.
The Mavs string of 12 consecutive playoff appearances is tied for the 13th-longest in league history and is the second-best active streak in the NBA, trailing only San Antonio's 15 and counting.
The highlight, of course, was the 2011 championship, but more than a decade of always reaching the playoffs is a worthy feat that marks consistency and constant striving by what has become a model franchise.
How long has it been? Consider that the first year of the playoff streak, coached by Don Nelson (53-39), had a roster that included Shawn Bradley, Christian Laettner, Juwan Howard, Vernon Maxwell, Wang Zhizhi a rookie named Eduardo Najera and a 27-year-old Steve Nash, along with Nowitzki who was in his second NBA season.
Now only Dirk remains as the Mavs close in on coming full circle to his non-playoff rookie season.
"If you want to be in the playoffs we haven't showed consistently we can win big games," Nowitzki said. "It was a nice win in Brooklyn [on Friday], and we can't follow it up.
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Leo Alvarez and Men The Master Nguyen confront one another across an oval poker table in an unadorned tournament room at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens. Its 10 p.m. on a weekday evening, and a crowd of 20 people largely Vietnamese, mostly rooting for the man named Men lean in after every shuffle and watch the hands of seven-card stud unfold. Earlier in the day, at around 3 oclock, this space, which resembles nothing so much as a Holiday Inn ballroom, was full of players all 118 of them, each of whom put up $330 apiece to enter the tournament, angling for a share of the $35,400 pot.
Now its down to two guys at a table, holding all the chips, vying for the lions share of the proceeds ($14,160 for the winner, $8,140 for the runner-up and the rest of the money split among the top six finishers below them).
Men, 49, rolls up the sleeves of his white dress shirt, pushing the cuffs past his elbows. He wears black pants with yellow monogrammed letters along the legs. Lemon-colored Buddha beads ride low on one wrist; on the other is a thin, gold watch that commemorates Mens $280,000 first prize from the 2001 Tournament of Champions poker match at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. On Mens feet: square-toed elevator boots, custom-made in Chinatown. His face is a slightly pocked full moon. His hair is like barbed wire. Light glints off his pinky ring. Suddenly, Men karate-slices the felt-covered tabletop. Aiming to bully his opponent into ending things right here its been a long day and his stomach just rumbled . . . hes hungry Men looks at Leo and says, Lets chop it, meaning that they should split the money.
Just one problem. Leo, a 30-something hipster with slicked-back hair, a goatee and shades, has never won a tournament. He is a sharp player and wants to leave with the first-place finishers ring. But Men has more chips and would be the de facto winner. Lets take $10,000 apiece and play for the last $2,000 and the ring, Leo suggests, pumping his right knee at 120 bpm.
Men looks at Leo. Then he shoots a leer toward a Vietnamese hottie, wearing a black miniskirt sitting in Leos corner. Diminutive but bombastic, the 5-foot-tall Men loudly jokes, We play for $2,000 and the girl.
The girl, sitting a few seats behind Leo, blushes. Mens got plenty of women. He doesnt need me, she softly cracks, then reaches into a bag of shrimp chips and crunches away.
All of this gets a big laugh from everyone except Leo. Hes focused on the ring.
The next hand is dealt and the head games begin in earnest. What are you doing, Leo? Men asks after Leo, with two high pairs, bets into him. Men raises. Leo considers his options and folds. Men cackles and reveals his two fours, which would have lost to Leos stronger cards.
For the next hour, Men the Master plays like a high-stakes David Blaine, producing the right cards in a way that seems magical if not impossible. But he is not controlling the cards. He is controlling his subject in this case, poor Leo. When Leo signals uncertainty by making a medium-size bet, Men raises with gusto, leaving the impression that he is running a bluff. Yum, yum, Men says, licking his chops, nervously glancing at his cards.
Then he unveils a full house. Leo, Leo, Leo, he tsk-tsks. You should have known better than to go in against me when I say yum.
A few hands later, he showily bluffs. After that, he sets a trap, leading Leo to believe that he can win against daunting odds. You are making big mistakes here, losing opportunities, Leo, Men scolds, raking in chips. Piling a big stack, he adds, Now you have no chance to beat the Master.
All this showboating is possible because Men feels no emotional attachment to the money at risk. High-stakes poker players cant. Care about it too much, and your hands will shake as you push, say, $20,000 toward a pile of chips that you hope to take from a player who most certainly has a stronger hand than you. For Men, money is a tool. He looks at a $100,000 stack the same way a home builder might view a parking lot full of heavy equipment: Its actual value is a lot less than what it can build.
By 11 p.m., Men is posing for Polaroids with a pile of cash in front of him and, in a velvet-bottomed case, the commemorative ring it actually looks a little like what you get when you graduate from high school. People see me play and say, Hes lucky. Or they think I talk too much and needle people. But I dont care, says Men, exiting the poker room with such jubilant strides that hes practically dancing. I came to this country with empty hands. Now, I got everything I want. All I need to do is say, Call, Raise, Call. And people give me their money.
Can it really be that simple? Men shrugs. Americans made me who I am today. I love America. Without America, I would probably be dead.
Men at work
Near the Bicycle Casino entrance, Men huddles with half a dozen of the Vietnamese players who had been watching him in action all evening. They crack up at Mens jokes and review the hands that have just been played, dissecting how everything went down. For most people, poker is a game of chance, played with a seat-of-the-pants strategy. For Men and his cartel of Vietnamese poker players, the game is as choreographed as tai chi, with each situation demanding a correct move and countermove.
Local expat Vietnamese poker players love Men the Master. He is their don, their father, their teacher. Unlike most poker pros, Men rarely travels without his retinue in tow. They provide him with the kind of unquestioning respect granted to strongmen everywhere. They rise to their feet and cheer when Men enters a casino. They call him Master with no irony. They savor every word that comes from his mouth. Westerners on the circuit view him with less exaltation. One of Europes hottest players snickeringly calls him Men the Monkey. A top pro in Las Vegas characterizes him as a sleazy guy. And one New York player suggests that Men and his Vietnamese acolytes engage in ugly forms of collusion.
Whether you view Men as Master or Monkey, however, its impossible to ignore his success. At poker tables in Southern California and Las Vegas, Men has won more than 75 major poker tournaments and raked in prize money in excess of $4 million over 17 years thats just a fraction of what he has also won in cash games. In 2002, he was ranked number five on Card Player magazines list of the winningest players in poker; a year earlier, he was number one. Mens got a special ability to read opponents cards, says Barry Shulman, publisher of Card Player. Plus, he has some kind of photographic memory. Why the derision from other players? He wins their money and doesnt give a shit what anybody thinks.
Beyond his own game, Men has also proved to be a deft mentor, training and financing a posse of Vietnamese poker pros who hit the tables and operate with the single-minded precision of trained assassins. Guys whove never before gambled, who speak broken English but have mathematical instincts, are tutored by Men in the ways of flushes and full houses. In exchange, the players that Men calls my boys abide by his rules: 2 a.m. curfew, no drugs, no sex with other players girlfriends, and, most important of all, if Men tells you to do something, you do it.
Their success and attendant loyalty have imbued Men with riches and power that poker itself never could provide. Hes trained more tournament winners than anyone else in the business, says Benny Binion Behnen , grandson and namesake of the founder of legendary Binions Horseshoe in Las Vegas, the setting for the current best-seller Positively Fifth Street, about the 2000 World Series of Poker and the concurrent murder trial of troubled family scion Teddy Binion. Men is the best money manager in poker, the only guy I know whose money is taller than he is. Hes got a piece of everything going. I call him the Vietnamese Godfather. One of his players, skinny Chau Lee, who has a stringy map of Vietnam tattooed down his bicep, puts it more militantly: We are Men the Masters soldiers.
An hour or so after his victory against Leo, Men takes his crowd out for a celebratory dinner. As always, Men pays and chooses where the meal will be eaten. Try to pick up the tab, and he will say, Please, you are my guest. This is my way. Its about Men getting off on being the host, the big man, the father figure.
On this particular night, Mens table at NYC Seafood, a big Monterey Park Chinese joint, groans under a lazy Susan jammed with platters of lobster, giant clam, steak with peppers and onions, pork in sweet-and-sour sauce, tuna sashimi, seaweed, fried rice, and little bottles of Vietnamese hot sauce that these guys never leave home without. Among the Vietnamese poker players crowding the big, round table are Van Pham, a tough and blustery poker pro in his own right; Hai Tran, a scraggly-haired older gent who owes his poker career to Men and serves as first lieutenant, largely because his distaste for craps makes him a good person to hold the teams money; and David The Dragon Pham, who is both Mens cousin and the most convincing evidence that Men is a masterful instructor. In 2000, Card Player magazine named Pham player of the year; in 2002, he ranked a totally respectable 14.
I hooked up with Men in 1988, says Pham, slender, mustachioed, speaking with a dragging stutter. Plucking a fat shrimp from the lazy Susan, he snaps off the crustaceans head and explains, I came from Vietnam and worked for a dry cleaner that Men owned. Every night I see Men coming home with big money. He tells me the money comes from poker. Pham smiles a big, toothy grin: I say, Teach me to play poker.
Asked precisely what it is that Men has taught him, Pham whispers conspiratorially, How to read peoples hands. I read other peoples cards even more than I read my own. Then, when I have a worse hand than my opponent, I can still win by making him think Ive got something better.
Though the advice sounds simple, its difficult to do proficiently and impossible for most players to teach; its about having a card sensibility and savvy the gamblers equivalent of good taste which develops through costly trial and error. Elusive as it is, this sixth sense is essential for successful play in a game where you cannot survive simply by hoping for the best cards every day.
High-stakes poker is about sensing what your opponents are doing, then telegraphing back select pieces of information and disinformation. Its a multilayered game of traps, subtle deceptions and perfectly timed balls-to-the-wall bluffs; whoever X-rays deepest gets the money. Its been said that the very best poker players, guys like the late Stu Ungar and the legendary Doyle Brunson, can win without even looking at their cards. In fact, the best players win through sheer manipulation of opponents regardless of who really has the winning hand. Its what Men did earlier this evening, against Leo, and it is what one seasoned Western player, a motion-picture location manager named Steve, who tries to supplement his income through poker, hopes he can learn from the Master.Men schools his posse
A late arrival at tonights dinner, Steve wants to become Mens first Caucasian student. In exchange for the tutelage, Men wants 5 percent of Steves future winnings for life. Steve refuses to give up that much. Steve, Men begins, refilling his plate with food, the reason I dont want to take you on for less than 5 percent is because my people here, they are all Vietnamese, all Buddhist, and they all swear to our god, to Buddha, that they will not betray me. What remains implicit is that Steve is not Buddhist and there will be little to stop him from eventually taking Mens secrets and blabbing them to the world never mind reneging on the 5 percent agreement, which would seem impossible to enforce anyway.
Not bothering to make eye contact with Steve, Men casually adds, You say that 5 percent for life is too much. But you get to many final tables and do not win tournaments. I will teach you to win. Men chews, swallows and asks, How come you didnt play today?
Steve turns his beefy face down to his plate of food. He runs a hand through thinning gray hair and admits, Im too disgusted. Im losing a lot of money.
Men considers this, then proposes what sounds like a magnanimous offer: Steve, you come to my house tomorrow. I will give you a free lesson. We come up with situations, and I will tell you whether you play the hand wrong or right. Youll love it.
Steve agrees to be there at 2 p.m. Men turns away and jumps into the middle of a Vietnamese conversation. Steve cranes toward me and says, I have seen Men fold kings, queens, flush draws when he senses hes beaten. He lays down hands that I cannot believe. Hes the best at reading other players. Another lesson for Mens students: Cutting your losses is almost as important as winning.
An hour or so later, tummy no longer rumbling, Men drives me to my hotel, a Ramada Inn near the Bicycle Casino. I step out of the car, and so does Men. He leaves the engine running and the lights on. He comes around to the passenger side, where I stand, and reaches into his pants pocket. Extracting an enormous wad of hundreds, Men looks up at me and fingers five bills. Then he hands them toward me. You came here and I won the tournament, he says with a big smile as I hold up my hands and back away. You brought me a lot of luck.
After hearing that I cannot possibly accept his money, Men looks offended. Its lucky money, he says, fanning the cash. Take it.
I rebuff him again, and he disappointedly returns the bills to his wad. This may be the only time someone has refused Men The Master Nguyens money.
It is raining Rolexes, Movados and Tag Heuers in the long, dim living room of Men the Masters townhouse. Situated in smoggy Bell Gardens, its a modest spread for a Master. But nobodys complaining. Upstart players Minh Nguyen, Van Pham, Hai Tran, David Pham and the luckless Steve are among those who pass around seven boxed wristwatches that signify various tournament wins. They sit on black leather sofas and chairs, marveling at the timepieces, fiddling with poker chips, absently shuffling cards on a shiny, low-slung coffee table.
At the other end of the room sits Mens very pretty wife, Tuyet, 33, a recent arrival from Vietnam. He married her 12 years ago, but brought her to the States only in 2000. I didnt want her to come to this country right away and change, says Men. I like the Vietnamese way. I tell her to cook for me, she cooks. I tell her to sit, she sits. She makes me happy. Other people bring their wives here from Vietnam and get divorced. Tuyet sips apple juice and talks on a cordless phone while keeping track of their rambunctious 3-year-old daughter, Tiffany.
Back at this end of the room, Men passes around a big cardboard bank. The guys slip in $10s, $20s, $50s each members tithe. The money, Men says, will go toward building schools and temples in his Vietnamese hometown. On a black-lacquer shelving unit crowded with poker trophies alongside bottles of cognac and snake wine reside framed snapshots of three single-story buildings that he says he has already had con- structed. After eyeing each persons tribute, Men deals poker hands, divvying cards face-up so he can critique each students play. The session operates like a law seminar, with every hand getting taken apart, analyzed, strategized and absorbed.
After a few rounds of this, Men offers a Texas Holdem scenario: You have pocket nines. The guy who raised in front of you has $30,000 in chips. You have $40,000. What do you do?
Steve considers this. That depends on how many people are at the table, he says.
Final table in a tournament, six players, Men says impatiently. What you gonna do?
Two nines at the final table? Steve pauses to think, as all eyes focus on him.
What you gonna do? Men demands to know. He put in half his stack.
Either I fold or raise, says Steve, believing that itd be best to retreat or else to telegraph a strong hand and encourage the other player to fold.
What about you? asks Men, turning to a pillowy-lipped player without commenting on Steves response.
Raise, says pillow lips.
You? Men says to Hai Tran.
I fold, he says. If you are in the hand, he might hurt you. Why take the chance?
Men verbally circles the room, asking each player the same question. Then he offers a proclamation: Best thing to do with two nines is fold. There are only six people in the tournament. Let somebody else get hurt. Or let somebody hurt the bettor.
This is followed by a flurry of Vietnamese, as the guys energetically offer their own analyses. Then Men holds up his hands, and all talk stops. Okay, okay, he says. Now weve got the same cards with a different situation: There are four tables left, the guy has $3,000, you have $2,800, and they pay two tables. The guy in front of you calls. One guy raises to $2,000. What are you gonna do?
It goes on like this for a couple of hours. Guys propose various situations, everybody contributes an opinion, and Men the Master offers his final analysis. Its a deep-think, almost Talmudic, session that could last through the night. But some things take precedence over all else. Hai Tran looks at his wristwatch before telling Men, Master, it is time to play poker.
Conversation ceases. The guys hustle outside and speed off to their promised land: the Bicycle Casino.
While its not unusual for players to stake one another, the group dynamic Men has created is altogether different from the often-cutthroat world of high-stakes poker, where information, advice and tips are guarded like precious gems. Mens cabal is more like a family (whether or not that is with a capital F is open for debate) with a patriarchal banker. One afternoon, between matches, he opens up a small spiral notebook and exposes his operations finances.
He currently has six players on his team. They not only get poker coaching, theyre funded out of a bank containing around $400,000. That money gets used to finance travel and enter tournaments. But its all divvied out as an advance against future earnings. In exchange for putting up the money and teaching, I get 50 percent of everybodys wins, Men says, explaining that after positive days his players also pay back the money they owe, off the top. Men flashes 20 Visa cards and a half-dozen keys to casino lock boxes, which can be employed to produce several hundred thousand dollars in cash immediately. Aside from the bank for my boys, I have a personal bankroll of $100,000. If I need more money, I can take it from the players bank. But Id be more likely to stop playing for a while. When I run bad, I take time off and let these guys play for me.
Running bad and going broke are occupational hazards that help explain why Men lives economically. The place hes got in Bell Gardens is no dump, though with his poker proceeds, Men could presumably afford a more upscale address. But he likes it here just fine, only a few minutes from the office and surrounded by working-class Vietnamese who treat him like God.
Plus, the location allows him to keep his overhead low. Like many professional gamblers, Men will not think twice about betting the farm on a solid wager, but he cant see living with crippling expenses and having to juggle the kinds of bills that would put his bankroll in jeopardy.
For all of that, Men says hes gone bust only once, back in 1994. I lost $100,000 in a single night, he remembers. I was playing $200/$400 Holdem and got myself killed. I should never have lost that kind of money. At $10,000, $20,000, $30,000, I should have stopped. When a former student refused to loan money to Men, he turned to the credit cards and withdrew cash at usurious interest rates. Less than one year later, I won $300,000 at a Binions Horseshoe tournament, and I havent looked back since. But now Im careful not to get in the deep shit again.
Twenty-four stories above downtown Las Vegas, the living room in Men the Masters three-bedroom suite at Binions Horseshoe is a clutter of coolers filled with food and drink. Between poker games, Men pads around in a red T-shirt and checked boxer shorts. He reaches into a tub full of icy-cold Coors, pulls one out and jams in a piece of lime.
He takes a big swig, and the hem of his shorts rides up a bit, revealing a crude, blocky-lettered tattoo on his right thigh: Pulau Besar, the name of an island in Malaysia. It serves as a daily reminder of tough times and humble origins. His earliest recollections are set in the South Vietnamese seaside town of Phanthiet, 150 miles outside of Saigon. During Mens formative years there, he saw American soldiers slicing ears from wounded Viet Cong and slipping the souvenirs inside their star-spangled shirt pockets. Dead bodies, bomb blasts, midnight interrogations those things were regular occurrences in young Mens world. A friend was about to get married, he remembers. The night before his wedding, a bomb dropped on his house and he died. Things like that happened all the time.
Men quit school at 13, worked odd jobs and eventually landed a steady gig as a bus driver. But he hated living under a communist regime. In 1977, Men escaped on a boat to a refugee camp on Pulau Besar; during five days at sea, he lived on handfuls of rice and sips of water.
Six months later, he was relocated to Los Angeles, where he shared a Koreatown studio with another guy from the camp. A month after that, Men found an apartment at Eighth and Catalina, attended ESL classes and worked as a machinist for Sun Net Tool. Before long, he moved in with a Salvadoran woman, they had a daughter together, and Men felt like he was part of a family. Then she dumped him and took their kid. For the next several years, Men worked hard, dated a succession of women and felt unsatisfied with his life.
In 1984, a friend suggested that Men join him on a junket to Las Vegas. He was making decent money with Sun Net by then, and Vegas sounded like a good break from the monotony of his life in L.A. Besides, the price was right: In exchange for several hours of gambling, airfare and meals were comped. He met his friend at Burbank Airport, and they caught the charter to McCarran. Their group, mostly senior citizens, was shuttled directly to the Dunes. Numbers were slapped on their shirts, and they were expected to lose their money by playing slot machines, blackjack, craps and roulette all sucker games with odds tilted in the casinos favor.
By sheer serendipity, however, Men wandered into the poker room. He asked what was going on and discovered that poker is the one casino game where you compete against other players instead of the house; the casino makes money by raking a percentage out of every pot. The game looked similar to xiphe (pronounced say-feh), a Vietnamese variation of five-card stud played with only 28 cards. Men watched for a little longer and decided to try his luck. I asked how much money I would need to put down if I want to play, remembers Men. They told me $300. The game was $15/$30, which is a big game for somebody whos never played before. He cashed in and promptly dropped $1,600. But I didnt feel bad about that. I liked poker right away. I thought it was a game that Id be able to learn and become good at.
Men junketed to Vegas every weekend. Poker players called him Money Machine. The nickname was double-edged: Not only was Men continually jumping up from the table and retrieving money from the casino ATM, but he was also being a money machine, literally dispensing hundreds of dollars to others at the table. I chased cards and lost a lot of money, Men recalls, adding that he devoted weekdays to endlessly analyzing hands and figuring out how they could have been better strategized. Other players laughed at this hard-gambling Vietnamese guy, continually getting rousted out of the poker room by junket people who wanted him to play the slots. But then I learned the game. I got good. People played tight and I played loose. I took pots away from them. They were surprised to see this weekend guy from L.A. suddenly beating them.
Men won his first tournament in 1987, pulling down $23,000 in a single day. Later that year, he won $44,000 at Caesars Palace by outplaying World Series of Poker champ Johnny Chan. Men took his winnings and bought a dry-cleaning business. He worked at Sun Net Tool all day, checked in at the dry cleaner each evening and spent his nights playing poker at the Bicycle Casino. I never saw poker as gambling, he says. Its about talent and patience and reading people. You dont play each hand; you weigh each hand. But the Orientals, they think of poker as gambling. I go back to Vietnam and dont tell anyone that I play poker. I told my father that I am a machinist. He looked at me and figured that machinists make good money in America.
Men soon developed a reputation in the Vietnamese community. He sold his business, quit the day job, began playing poker full time, and became the go-to guy for other Vietnamese immigrants who hungered for seven-card stardom. But in a game where everyone is supposed to play their own cards and keep their own counsel, Men evolved into a troubling character. There are stories about Mens people slipping their tournament chips off the table during bathroom breaks and dumping them to other players on the team; thats cheating, maintains a former World Series of Poker champion. Some of Mens tournament wins were tainted because people dumped to him. Weve been unable to prove this, but its public knowledge in poker circles. Theres collusion in which he plays partners and has his guys squeeze players out of key hands. They work out signals and do all kinds of dishonest things.
While this player is obviously no fan of Mens and, its worth restating, the allegations have never been proved he nevertheless allows, You still have to give Men credit for being among the top-ranked players every year. Even if he gets a little bit of help, he still needs to be a damned good player to win as much as he does. Plus, hes an excellent teacher who, by financially backing his students, puts his money where his mouth is.
The most blatant accusation against Men centers around an incident that took place in Mashantucket, Connecticut, at Foxwoods Casino. Men was there with his guys for a poker tournament. As is their norm, they arrived with coolers full of steak, fish, rice and Coors. They shared a suite and set it up with hot plates, steamers and a fridge. After a team member overcooked dinner, the room filled with smoke and fire alarms went off. Hotel workers rushed inside and asked Men and his guys to leave while they dealt with the situation. The fire was put out, but rumors spread that tournament chips were found in the room. If true, thats a terrible infraction of poker-tournament rules. It means that players on Mens team had been pulling chips from the tournament as their likelihood of getting knocked out became more and more of a certainty, and they then provided those chips to the groups winning players, who could surreptitiously supplement their chip stacks.
Men denies this completely. He insists that he got thrown out due to the fire, not for cheating. (Foxwoods has confirmed this, but, as one player puts it, Of course, they would; the last thing they want anybody to think is that their tournaments can be corrupted.)
Cheating, Men fumes, goes against my Buddha. Its against my religion. I cheat you once and it comes back to me. I have a family, I have a nice thing going, you think Id cheat you to make my life better? No! God punishes people like that. He leans forward and looks me straight in the eye. People say things, but nobody can prove anything. If they caught me with chips, Id never be allowed to play anywhere, not ever again. I travel all over the world, I play poker, I win. That is what I do.
Its the kind of blazing noon in Vegas that sends sweat trickling down your face. At the entrance of Circus Circus, a rundown casino on the northern end of the Strip, tired acrobats swing overhead, performing not-so-exciting feats with safety nets between them and the Middle American gamblers below. Seeming oblivious to it all, wearing an impossible-to-miss, sun-colored N Sync T-shirt (hes not a fan, but yellow is his favorite color), Men the Master materializes from a swell of tourists, struggling under a burden of half a dozen enormous plush toys. He walks with fast, choppy steps, hands me a SpongeBob SquarePants as big as my torso and says, The casino has a game arcade upstairs. But they threw me out. Said that I win too much.
Mens family is visiting him here in Vegas for a few days, and hes thrilled to have snagged some goodies for his kids. But that is not the only thing making Men happy. During a recent series of tournaments at the Bicycle Casino, Men cleared $200,000 in personal winnings, not to mention cuts from his team members. David Pham did so well that he also earned a bonus offered up by the casino: a 2002 Mercedes SUV ML500, which he sold to Men for $42,000.
Men would like to hang out with his family. But business beckons and his other family awaits. So he heads up to his hotel room and runs a half-dozen players through a quick poker review. Theyre disassembling hands from the night before, discussing how they could have been handled better. Steve is nowhere in sight, and stringy-haired Hai Tran just won $40,000 at a no-limit Holdem tournament. Men himself is having no success here in Vegas. He hasnt come close to winning a tournament, and the cash games have been unproductive.
But the losses dont dog him. People say I should not be happy about leaving when I am $5,000 behind [after a session of poker]. They think I should try to get it back. But Im not winning. So what should I do? Wait until I lose $10,000? he asks, with a fey wave of his hand.
Then Men reaches below the coffee table and pulls out a fancy, hard-angled liquor bottle that contains a cobra floating in rice whiskey. He pours a healthy shot and hands it to me. It make you strong here, he insists, grabbing his crotch. I down the shot without thinking too much about the cobra. Now augmenting his shirt with a bright-yellow sport jacket, Men downs his own glass of snake wine, testifies to a sudden rush of steely strength, and leads his guys across the street to the Four Queens casino, where theyll play poker and aim to make American dreams come true.
Just before we walk in, Men suggests that I try entering a tournament. He insists that I shouldve picked something up from the tutorials. His words leave me thinking that maybe I have. Its my last night in Vegas, so, what the hell.
Theres a 10-man freeze-out about to start (you play until your entry stake is gone, freezing you out). The game is no-limit Holdem. Everybody puts up $80, and the last man standing leaves with $400 while the rest gets split between the next two finishers. Fine. I slide four 20s across the table and buy myself a seat. The other players riffle their chips like extras from Rounders, second-guessing one anothers hands. Me, Im not saying much. Im trying to recall all the poker tips Ive photosynthesized from Men.
Stunningly, once the game begins, I realize that some of the lessons have stuck. I seem to be bluffing at the right moments, pressing people to fold when they should. Backing out when others have me beat. I even toss away a pair of pocket queens when an ace comes on the flop and somebody makes a sneakily small bet in early position. Men sees me do it and pumps me on the shoulder. Then he slinks away from the table after another player expresses displeasure at Mens gleefulness (his exact words: Who the fuck is this guy in the yellow jacket? Am I playing against one guy or two?).Who the fuck is this guy in the yellow jacket? Am I playing against one guy or two?
Finally, its just me and three other players. All I need to do is outlast one of them and I will finish in the money. Amazing. Men sees whats going on, and he materializes back at the table, this time maintaining a respectful distance. I get dealt ace/10 of spades in early position. What do I do? Figuring its a good hand but not a great hand, I make a medium-size bet. Two players fold, one player calls me. Men inches closer to the table. A king of spades, a 10 and an off-suit deuce come on the flop. The other player goes all in. Now what? I call the bet. Of course, hes got two kings. Of course, he wins the hand and knocks me out of the game, out of the money. As I pull back from the table, other players are congratulating him and theyre figuring out how to chop up the proceeds.
Meanwhile, Men is apoplectic. That was terrible! he tells me, raising his voice with frustration. Shaking his head in disbelief, he adds, That should never have happened.
He calls over a Vietnamese pro named Vin. Youre playing four-handed, you get ace/10 suited in early position. What do you do with your first bet? Men demands to know.
Go all in, Vince correctly answers in a flash.
I didnt think ace/10 was that great, I plead.
Short-handed, in your position, it was great. You would have won the antes. The other guy would not have gone in.
Now Mens voice gets even more agitated. You sent him the signal that you had shit.
Well, I say, feeling a bit embarrassed and not sure what else I can offer, at least I know for next time.
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Men raises his eyebrows and hugs me. After a moment, he steps back a couple inches and softly says, I only yell because I care.
Then he takes off, searching for a game of his own.
At this writing, Men Nguyen was playing in the 2003 World Series of Poker at Binions Horseshoe Casino.


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A collection of rabbit pellets made at the end of October has turned up some interesting fungi, as well as the common ones one often encounters. These inluded Delitschia winteri (seven previous Yorkshire records) and Coniochaeta leucoplaca (one previous Yorkshire record).
The most interesting one has now appeared after 7 weeks. Clearly a Chaetomium in the broad sense. This is a large and often critical genus, often isolated from soil, damp paper etc., and often from domestic settings - see the open access http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 1616300197 for example. Over 400 species have been described in this and closely-allied genera; they are primarily cellulose degraders and accordingly are often more frequent on dung-straw mixtures than on pure dung - that said rabbit dung is often quite rich in only partially digested plant material. Doveri (2004) lists over 60 species which have been listed as strictly or occasionally associated with dung.
This particular fungus was keyed down as close to Collariella (Chaetomium) bostrychodes based on unbranched coiled hairs, a darkened ostiole, and pale grey broadly limoniform spores 6.1-6.7 x 4.8-5.4µm, with a single germ pore. Indeed if only using Ellis & Ellis II that is what I would have named it. However after further delving into Doveri (2004) and von Arx et al.'s 1986 monograph my attention was drawn to a Chaetomium robustum (now transferred to Collariella), very close to C. bostrychodes, but differentiated by the fact that while the whole peridium of the latter species is composed of textura angularis; that of Collariella robusta has the upper cells, as one approaches the ostiole, comprised of textura prismatica.
This can be seen in the top right image in the accompanying plate, where the contrast between the cells at the bottom and the upper cells can be seen. I am very grateful to Dr Paul Cannon at Kew who has confirmed the identification:
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