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Looking after someone you care about can cause many different feelings and emotions. Some people find that coming to terms with cancer brings them closer together. Others may find it very difficult. Everyone's experiences are different, but we have included some feelings and emotions that most carers say they have felt at some point.
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Grains finished stronger with wheat leading the way again. May corn finished 4 cents higher at $6.73, May soybeans finished 5 cents higher at $13.74, and May wheat finished 7 ¼ cents higher at $6.72.
Short term supply concerns are still the main driving factor behind the recent price jumps. Old crop soybeans have had the largest rally as the market is concerned with South American soy production. Yesterday's strong export sales report helped keep the rally going. Now that we have the South American crop coming on board, we can expect them to pick up much of this upcoming world demand. We can see this supply concern in the July-November soybean spread as it has been moving higher since November and closed at +52 ½ cents today. That level actually happens to be right at a long term trendline (see chart) which could provide some resistance here.
Corn has also been gaining support and is now above the 200 day moving average for the first time since November. Commitment of Traders data shows the "managed money" didn't have much of a position change over the past week and they remain with a net long position of 245,327 contracts. For soybeans, the "managed money" increased their net long by another 19,716 contracts! This makes their net long position 176,091 contracts, a net increase of 143,071 (715.355 million bu) soybeans since the beginning of the year. Obviously they have placed a massive bet on expectations of a short supply and so far it has been working for them. At the beginning of the year, we felt the same way, soybeans were underpriced to corn, especially in the new crop when the corn/bean spread was 2.05 to 1. Now two and a half months later we are already back to a 2.31 to 1 which will help soybeans hold/gain many of those available acres. My point is that this rally may be getting a little overdone to the upside. For old-crop soybeans, we are still running behind pace (comparatively for this time of year) to get to the USDA's projected export sales estimate. Unless we do a lot more export business than expected this summer, we don't think that the current USDA's expected US soybean carryout is too high.
If you need to hedge old crop soybeans, the option volatility is still quite low (relatively speaking) which means buying option protection may not be a bad idea.
For new crop corn we are back above the 100 day moving average. This has been a very strong resistance level indicator for the past couple of months. The next target for the market may be up at the 200 day moving average at $5.95 (see chart).
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have had a kidney stone seem to have a heightened risk of gallstones — and vice versa, according to a new study.
Researchers already know that obesity, diabetes and having a generally unhealthy diet put people at risk for both types of stones. But even when those common risks were taken into account, the link remained.
The report "raises our antenna to this shared relationship between these two disorders," said Dr. Brian Matlaga, a urologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
"From an anecdotal standpoint, certainly it's not an uncommon scenario that a patient would have had both," Matlaga, who wasn't involved in the new research, told Reuters Health. But, he continued, "I'm a little bit at a loss trying to define what that relationship would be."
That's because stones in the kidney and gallbladder form differently, he said, and are made of two different things — kidney stones of calcium and gallstones of cholesterol, most of the time.
Data for the current analysis came from three different long-term studies of nurses and doctors who completed a health and lifestyle questionnaire, then reported any new medical conditions every two years afterward. In total, more than 240,000 people were followed for between 14 and 24 years.
Over that time, there were about 5,100 new kidney stones diagnosed and close to 18,500 new cases of gallstones.
Depending on the population — male or female, older or younger — people with a history of gallstones were between 26 and 32 percent more likely to get a kidney stone than people who hadn't ever had gallstones.
And the link also went in the opposite direction. A past history of kidney stones meant study participants were between 17 and 51 percent more likely to report a new gallstone.
That was after factoring in the impact of age, diabetes, high blood pressure, weight and certain aspects of diet on the risk of both kinds of stones.
Researchers led by Eric Taylor from the Maine Medical Center in Portland said it's possible that a shift in the type of bacteria in the intestines might somehow predispose people to both kidney stones and gallstones. But, Taylor said, "the fairest thing is that we just don't know" why the two would be linked.
In their report in the Journal of Urology the researchers echoed Matlaga's call for more detailed research into any explanations for a common cause — which might help doctors prevent or treat both kidney stones and gallstones, they added.
"They are really two different kinds of stones, so the relationship is not going to be simple between the two conditions," Taylor told Reuters Health.
Matlaga said that for now, there are steps people can take to reduce their risk of both gallstones and kidney stones, even if they've already had one condition.
"You'd like to try to minimize those common risk factors and work on things like weight loss and cholesterol control," he said.
Taylor agreed that the findings "emphasize the importance of healthy diet and healthy weight."
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What began this summer as a search for a legendary underwater town off the coast of Penghu by members of the Underwater Archeological Institute (UAI,
The expedition failed to locate the town they were searching for, but in late July, the group instead stumbled, or rather swam across, a 100m-long wall-like structure 28m beneath the murky waters of the archipelago's Hsichi (
Measuring 50cm in width, one meter in height and 100m in length and positioned on an east-west axis, the mysterious underwater edifice might not have been what the team was searching for, but the find has still managed to stoke imaginations across the nation.
The public was so enthralled with the news that after Public Television Service (
"It was a huge surprise. Scores of people called in wanting more information and a longer, more in-depth show [about the wall]," said Ke Chin-yuan (柯金源), PTS news assignment editor. "Because the existence of such things in Taiwan is not mentioned in history books, is not common knowledge and is rarely, if ever, the topic of TV a documentary, the program sparked a huge amount of interest."
Home to roughly one thousand predominantly elderly civilians and a coast guard detachment, the Hsichi and Tungchi islets -- which together have a land mass of less than two-square kilometers and no paved roads -- were, until earlier this week, Taiwan's most forgotten outposts.
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The rest of Taiwan may have been awe struck by the find, but the island's residents remained blase about the events that took place on their doorstep. They've been trying to get people to believe in stories of sunken cities for years.
"The stories are part of Penghu's unwritten history. I've known of other such structures in the area since the late 1970s. But it was in 1992 that I first began to hear stories of a submerged town and the possibilities of an entire temple somewhere in the area," recalled expedition leader, Steve Shieh (
Regardless of the stir it has caused, the recent find is not the first such discovery to take place in Taiwan's territorial waters. In 1982, a Japanese research team discovered a 100m-long cross-like structure in waters off of Penghu's Hujing Island (虎井島). Since then three other underwater wall-like structures have been pinpointed by independent underwater survey teams.
Widespread acceptance of the recent expedition's findings owes a lot to the fact that it is the first such expedition to receive assistance from the nation's only official marine archeological team -- the National Museum of History's Marine Archeology Team (
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The Florida sheriff's office in charge of the case missed evidence that someone in the Anthony home did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day Caylee was last seen alive.
Orange County sheriff's Capt. Angelo Nieves said Sunday that the office's computer investigator missed the June 16, 2008, search. The agency's admission was first reported by Orlando television station WKMG. It's not known who performed the search. The station reported it was done on a browser primarily used by the 2-year-old's mother, Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of the girl's murder in 2011.
Anthony's attorneys argued during trial that Casey Anthony helped her father, George Anthony, cover up the girl's drowning in the family pool.
WKMG reports that sheriff's investigators pulled 17 vague entries only from the computer's Internet Explorer browser, not the Mozilla Firefox browser commonly used by Casey Anthony. More than 1,200 Firefox entries, including the suffocation search, were overlooked.
Whoever conducted the Google search looked for the term "fool-proof suffcation," misspelling "suffocation," and then clicked on an article about suicide that discussed taking poison and putting a bag over one's head.
The browser then recorded activity on the social networking site MySpace, which was used by Casey Anthony but not her father.
A computer expert for Anthony's defense team found the search before the trial. Her lead attorney, Jose Baez, first mentioned the search in his book about the case but suggested it was George Anthony who conducted the search after Caylee drowned because he wanted to kill himself.
Not knowing about the computer search, prosecutors had argued Caylee was poisoned with chloroform and then suffocated by duct tape placed over her mouth and nose. The girl's body was found six months after she disappeared in a field near the family home and was too decomposed for an exact cause of death to be determined.
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Election nay: Anti-Bush vendor shirts the issue
"Damn straight, buddy!" says a voice from across the Downtown Mall. Mac Schrader's ears perk up, and he smiles, greeting the approaching pedestrian as both a political comrade and a potential sale.
"Oh. Wait." The incoming smile turns to a grimace as it becomes apparent that the scarlet letter on the t-shirt is a "J," not an "L."
The guy doesn't buy a shirt, but Schrader considers the encounter a victory because he's not just trying to make a few bucks, he's hoping to stimulate discussion.
"Reeject Bush" is a simple phrase, but that single letter substitution has made it clever enough to revive doubts about the current president's legitimacy four years after the disputed election. Schrader loves the ambiguity: "It's more memorable because you have to think about it," he says.
For the past year, Schrader, 37, has been camped near the center of the Downtown Mall with a cart full of merchandise. Naturally, not everybody approves.
"The people who disagree with me, they're more likely to just walk by and make a snide remark," he says. "One woman said, 'You should just write 'I'm a terrorist' on there.' I've even been called a communist."
Not all critics are so eloquent. "If I'm out here on a Saturday, and it's 11pm, there's a good chance that I'm going to get somebody who's had a few drinks," he laments.
Schrader says he falls into the "Dissent Is Patriotic" camp and considers these attacks unfair. "I guess the biggest thing has been the group of people who don't understand that I can be against the administration and be supporting the troops at the same time," he explains.
Recent weeks have seen the arrival of a second like-minded vendor. At the next table, Charles Jabbour now hawks shirts emblazoned with a somewhat less refined anti-Bush slogan: "No more Bushit." The two exchange perfunctory cordial greetings in a commercial rivalry made somewhat unusual by the mutual understanding that, at the end of the day, it's as much about the ballot box as the pocketbook. "I'm all for getting the word out," Schrader says.
Jabbour thinks the two fill different niches. "The people buying shirts from me are not the people buying shirts from him," he says.
And there are more– "I've also seen one that says 'Redefeat Bush,'" says one browser – but for the time being, there's no sign of that one downtown.
A conservative response is likewise missing. "Somebody could come out here and sell shirts that say 'Support Bush, Support the Troops,'" Schrader suggests, "but they haven't. I just don't think it's the truth."
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After I woke up this morning, I saw a weird login prompt on my phone asking me to log in. I tried entering my password a couple of times but it didn't work. I then turned on my laptop and saw that I've been logged out of Gmail. After I tried logging in, this is what I saw:
"Account has been disabled." I'm sorry, what?! Yes, indeed, Google has disabled my account for some reason.
I tried looking around the web for solutions, and found out that there are lots of other people who have faced this same problem. In some cases, the situation had been resolved in a few days, but in some cases people's accounts were never recovered. I tried contacting somebody at Google support ("Surely they should have a support department, right?" Nope, wrong!), but the only thing I could find which did not require one to be logged in to Google was a simple form which took an alternate email address from me (which Google already had), and didn't even tell me that I will be contacted about this. That was it.
It was around that time which I started to stress out. I don't use a lot of the Google services (thankfully), but the two things which I relied on were Gmail and Google Docs. I have been a Gmail user probably since 2004, and I have tens of thousands of work-related and personal emails stored in my account, some of which being extremely important to me. I also used Google Docs to store a bunch of very important documents which I won't be able to recover by other means. Fortunately I don't use other services such as Blogger, Picasa, Google Talk or Google+, so other parts of my online life such my ability to speak my mind freely on my blog, share photos with friends, talk to them or otherwise interact with them have not been affected by this. There are also other relatively minor nuiances happenening as a result of this (I won't be able to use the Market to install or update applications on my Android phone, and my application purchases are in an unknwon state at this point), but given the other problems I am dealing with right now, these seem pretty minor.
Now I understand that these Google services are free, but I've been paying for the Gmail+Docs shared storage, but apparently that does not help me to get customer support, have any rights over the data I have stored on the Google storage for which I am paying, or at least get notified on the reason why my account has been disabled.
Now time to get to the gist of what I want to say in this post. We've all (yours truly included) heard about the importance of owning your digital data, the downsides of vendor lock-in, and how if you're being provided a free service, you're the product, not the customer. But I honestly never understood how deep this problem is, and how severe the consequences can be ("surely this cannot happen to me", right?!). But starting today, I look at this problem from an entirely new angle. The issue of user sovereignty for our data was always close to my heart, but this time it's personal.


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Major/Minor: Environmental Studies / Economics
Campus Involvement
- Peer Mentor
- President of Men's Club Volleyball
- Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Hometown: West Chester, PA
What do you do for a campus job or work study?
I am a Peer Mentor.
What are you up to this summer? And what are you most looking forward to?
I will be participating on the Bermuda experience with the college this summer. We will be staying at the BIOS (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences) center in Bermuda where we will be doing research on the coral reefs around the area, as well as learn about the local aquatic animals, invertebrates, and plants. I will also be attending a leadership conference for the Kappa Sigma Fraternity in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, I will be participating in workshops to learn how to be an effective leader in the fraternity.
How has WC changed your life? Or, what does WC mean to you?
Choosing Washington College was single handedly the smartest decision I have ever made in my life. I love the campus size and the amount of students per class. You get individualized attention, which has greatly benefited me. I have made some great friends, and I feel like I have gained more confidence from attending Washington College. I started a new club and even rushed a fraternity, which I feel would not have happened if I did not attend WAC. I always tell people that attending Washington College forces you to be social and meet people, or your experience would not be as enjoyable or memorable.
What should every student do before they graduate?
Every student should try to study abroad or do a summer program before they graduate. College is only for a short time and you should take advantage of all the opportunities that are presented to you. It will make your overall experience that much more memorable.


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The Harvard men's basketball team will continue its four-game road trip this weekend as it heads south to face Penn and Princeton. The Crimson will first take on the Quakers Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. live on the Ivy League Digital Network before facing the Tigers Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. live on ESPNU.
Harvard rolled to an 80-50 victory over Penn in the first meeting between the teams this year, The Quakers got the best of the Crimson last season when they squared off in Philadelphi, 75-72, but Harvard has won four of the last five contests between the two at the Palestra.
• At 20-4, Harvard has reached the 20-win plateau for the fifth straight season. Penn was the last Ivy League team to post five straight 20-win seasons, doing so a record six times from 1970-75.
• Siyani Chambers was named one of 23 watch list finalists for the 2014 Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award on Monday. Chambers joins Jeremy Lin '10 and Penn's Zach Rosen '12 as one of only three point guards in Ivy League history to be named a watch list finalist for the award.
• Harvard shot 58.7 percent (27-46) from the field at Cornell on Saturday, the second-highest field goal percentage for the Crimson this season, while Cornell to 44 points in the victory, the second lowest total for a Crimson opponent this season and the fifth time an opponent has scored fewer than 50
• Harvard will attempt to break a 24-game losing streak at Princeton when the teams square off at Jadwin Gym on Saturday. Harvard's last win at Princeton came on Feb. 3, 1989 by a score of 63-57.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's basketball team earned its 20th win of the season Saturday night, knocking off Cornell to complete the weekend sweep, 67-44.
Harvard had four players in double-digits for a second straight night led by Brandyn Curry's 14 points. The senior also dished out three assists and matched his career-high with five steals on the defensive end. Laurent Rivard, meanwhile, notched 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting from behind-the-arc to go with four boards and two assists.
Wesley Saunders and Steve Moundou-Missi totaled 11 points and 10 points, respectively, with Saunders also chipping in three assists. As a team the Crimson shot 58.7 percent (27-46) from the field, the squad's second-highest percentage of the year, and was 8-of-16 from three.
Ivy League Digital Network
For the first time ever, all of Harvard's home games and road Ivy League contests which are not being televised will be streamed in HD quality featuring a live scoreboard, new graphics package and play-by-play commentary through the Ivy League Digital Network. Subscribers to the network can watch games both live and On-Demand on their computers, tablets or smart phones, and will have access to live and On-Demand content for all Harvard events throughout the duration of their subscription.
Follow Harvard Athletics on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay connected with all the breaking news from around Cambridge and to get inside access to your favorite Crimson programs.
Rank and File
Harvard was listed as receiving votes in the Associated Press Top 25 each of the first 14 weeks of the season. The Crimson also received votes in the USA Today Coaches Poll in eight of the first 14 weeks. The Crimson last appeared in either poll the week of Feb. 6, 2012 when the AP had the squad ranked No. 25 and the coaches had it at No. 21.
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Harvard has consistently been among the nation's best in the RPI rankings, regardless of which service you follow.
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Cousy Award Watch List
Siyani Chambers has been named as one of 23 watch list finalists for the 2014 Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award. The annual honor, named for Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic Bob Cousy, recognizes the top point guards in men's college basketball. The list of 23 watch list finalists will be narrowed down to a final five by early March. The Cousy Award winner will be presented the honor on Championship Monday in Dallas at the Hall of Fame's Class of 2014 Announcement and Press Conference.
Joining Elite Company
At 20-4, Harvard has become the first Ivy League program to reach 20 wins in five straight seasons since Penn did so a record six times from 1970-75. The Crimson's 110 wins during this time, meanwhile, represent the sixth highest win total in Ancient Eight history over a five-year span.
Should Harvard win a fourth straight Ivy League championship this year, it would become the first program to do so since Penn did it from 1993-96.
Getting Off on the Right Foot
Harvard began Ivy League play with five straight wins, marking the third year in a row the Crimson has begun the conference slate 5-0 or better. The 2011-12 squad owns the program record for best start to the conference schedule at 7-0.
Home is Where the Wins Are
Harvard recently enjoyed a 20-game home win streak at Lavietes Pavilion which spanned from Dec. 1, 2012 to Feb. 7, 2014. At the time, the streak stood as the sixth-longest in the NCAA.
The program record for consecutive home wins stands at 28 games set between Feb. 19, 2010 and Feb. 24, 2012.
Making a Stand
Harvard's defense is shaping up to be one of the best ever under head coach Tommy Amaker. Opponents are scoring just 60.8 ppg, second best in the Amaker era, while shooting 41.1 percent from the field and 31.8 percent from beyond-the-arc, the lowest total under Amaker.
Harvard is 10-0 this season when holding opponents to fewer than 60 points, and is 9-0 when opponents shoot under 40.0 percent.
Protecting the Paint
Kyle Casey grabbed nine rebounds against Brown to join Brian Cusworth '07, Matt Stehle '06 and Keith Wright '12 as one of four players in Crimson history to record 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 100 blocks. Casey currently ranks 18th in program history with 1,173 points, 11th with 617 rebounds and third with 118 blocks.
Pouring It On
Harvard scored at least 80 points in three straight games against Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn, marking the first time the team had done so since February of 2010. The Crimson has scored 80-plus points in at least four straight games nine times in program history, including in 1971-72 when it accomplished the feat six games in a row.
The Crimson averaged 80.7 ppg during this stretch while shooting 56.9 percent from the floor, 59.6 percent from three, and outscoring its opponents by 22.0 ppg.
All-Around Effort
Wesley Saunders' full arsenal of skills was on display against Princeton as the junior led the Crimson in points (24), rebounds (9), assists (7) and steals (3). Saunders shot 9-of-13 from the floor for his fifth 20-point performance of the year while notching his fifth game with five or more assists.
Saunders became the first individual to lead Harvard in points, rebounds, assists and steals since Jeremy Lin '10 did so on Dec. 30, 2009 against George Washington. Saunders has led Harvard in points, rebounds and assists three times in his career.
Stuffing the Stat Sheet
Wesley Saunders, a unanimous All-Ivy League first team selection a year ago, entered the weekend ranked in the Ancient Eight's top 10 in seven categories; scoring (7th, 14.8 ppg), assists (3rd, 3.9 apg), steals (1st, 2.0 spg), blocks (6th, 1.0 bpg), field goal percentage (10th, 47.5 pct.), assist-to-turnover ratio (4th, 1.6), minutes (5th, 34.2 min.).
Top Shot
Laurent Rivard found his shooting touch against Princeton and Penn, making 11-of-17 attempts from deep to average 20.0 ppg for the weekend. Rivard matched his career-high with six makes against the Quakers, while his 11 combined three-pointers represented the highest total over two games of his career.
Rivard's 265 career three-pointers are the most in Harvard history and rank him fourth in Ivy League annals. Rivard also own's Harvard's single-season record, making 80 from long range in 2012-13.
They're On Fire
Harvard shot 71.4 percent (10-of-14) from beyond-the-arc at Dartmouth to set a school record for highest three-point percentage with a minimum of 10 attempts. The Crimson's 65.9 percent performance from the field, meanwhile, was the highest field goal percentage for Harvard under head coach Tommy Amaker.
Harvard won nine straight games overall between Nov. 28 and Jan. 4, the third longest win streak in program history. The Crimson enjoyed a program record 13-game win streak in 1945-46 en route to a 19-3 record and the team's first trip to the NCAA Tournament, and won 10 in-a-row in 1904-05 to finish with an 11-5 mark.
Born to Assist
Siyani Chambers, who entered the weekend ranked second in the Ivy League in assists (4.3), has dished out at least five assists 10 times this season and has dropped eight dimes or more three times. The sophomore boasts 30 career games with five or more assists and has eight games of eight or more assists.
Players of the Week
Wesley Saunders (Dec. 3, Dec. 9, Jan. 6) and Siyani Chambers (Dec. 23, Dec. 30) have combined to earn five of the last six player of the week awards handed out by the Ivy League.
Saunders' eight career player of the week honors are the second most in league history, trailing only Princeton's Ian Hummer and Brown's Earl Hunt who own the all-time mark with nine. Saunders' latest accolade also tied him with Kyle Snowden '97 for the most by a member of the Crimson.
Chambers' two honors, meanwhile, were the first of his career after having been named the conference's rookie of the week six times last year.
Moving on Up
Head coach Tommy Amaker, who recently won his 300th career game, continues to move up the ranks of the Ivy League's winningest coaches. Amaker's 132 wins at Harvard are the 13th most in the Ancient Eight since the conference began competition in 1956, while his 61 Ivy League victories rank 15th.
Balanced Attack
Six members of the Crimson scored in double-digits against Fordham; Siyani Chambers (19 pts.), Kyle Casey (17 pts.), Agunwa Okolie (17 pts.), Wesley Saunders (14 pts.), Steve Moundou-Missi (11 pts.) and Laurent Rivard (10 pts.).
Shootout Champs
Harvard defeated Denver, Green Bay and TCU en route to winning the 2013 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. Wesley Saunders was named the tournament's most outstanding player after averaging 14.3 ppg, 8.0 rpg and 4.7 apg, and was joined on the all-tournament team by Siyani Chambers (10.3 ppg, 4.7 apg) and Steve Moundou-Missi (12.7 ppg, 8.3 rpg).
This marked the first tournament title for the Crimson since taking the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis in 2011, and was the first Great Alaska Shootout title for Tommy Amaker after having also coached in the tournament with Seton Hall (head coach, 1997) and Duke (assistant coach, 1995).
Lock Down
The Crimson held TCU to just 25.0 percent (14-56) shooting in the Great Alaska Shootout championship game, marking the lowest opponent field goal percentage in the Tommy Amaker era. Harvard also limited Brown to 27.3 percent (15-55) shooting and MIT to 27.9 percent (12-43) this year, the second and third lowest totals under Amaker.
Block Party
Evan Cummins recorded six blocks against TCU, setting a new Great Alaska Shootout championship game record. The previous mark of five had been held by Sheldon Williams (Duke, 2003) and Keith Owens (UCLA, 1990).
Hoop And The Harm
Senior Laurent Rivard, who ranks first in program history with 261 career three-pointers, has been fouled 29 times while shooting from beyond the arc. Nine of those fouls have resulted in an and-one.
Join the Club
Seniors Kyle Casey and Laurent Rivard each eclipsed the 1,000-point plateau against Green Bay, bringing Harvard's total number of 1,000 point scorers to 30. Rivard currently ranks 16th in program history with 1,188 points while Casey is 18th with 1,173.
Grand Theft
Harvard recorded double-digit steals in four straight games from Nov. 12 - Nov. 24, matching the longest stretch of double-digit steal performances under head coach Tommy Amaker, and has come away with at least 10 steals in five contests this season.
Blown Out
Harvard picked up lopsided victories versus MIT (79-37) and Howard (76-44), marking the first time under head coach Tommy Amaker that the Crimson has won back-to-back games by 30-plus points. This also marked the first time since January of 2012 that Harvard had allowed fewer than 50 points in consecutive games.
D-ing Up
Harvard's home-opening 79-37 win versus MIT was highlighted by the Crimson's play at the defensive end, which resulted in several noteable statistics;
• Harvard's 42-point margin of victory was the second largest under head coach Tommy Amaker, behind only a 94-51 triumph against Daniel Webster on Dec. 28, 2008.
• The Crimson allowed just 37 points to MIT, marking the third time under head coach Tommy Amaker that an opponent has scored fewer than 40 points (most recent at Yale, 65-35, 1/27/12).
• The Engineers shot just 27.9 percent from the field, which at the time stood as the lowest opponent field goal percentage in the Amaker era.
• Harvard forced 29 MIT turnovers, the most for the Crimson under head coach Tommy Amaker.
• Harvard's 19 steals versus the Engineers were one shy of the program record of 20, which has been accomplished four times (most recent vs. Hartford, 1/30/01).
2013-14 Dunk Tally
Kyle Casey
Steve Moundou-Missi
Wesley Saunders
Jonah Travis
Agunwa Okolie
Kenyatta Smith
Evan Cummins
Dee Giger
Michael Hall
Brandyn Curry
Milestone Marker
The Crimson is approaching or has already reached several milestones this season;
• Laurent Rivard became the program's all-time leader in three-pointers (264) and currently ranks fourth in Ivy League history.
• Kyle Casey (1,173) and Laurent Rivard (1,188) became the 29th and 30th members of Harvard's 1,000-point club. Wesley Saunders is on pace to become the next member of the Crimson to reach the milestone with 912 career points.
• Kyle Casey became just the fourth member of the Crimson to record 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 100 blocks.
• Laurent Rivard (115 app.), Kyle Casey (110 app.) and Brandyn Curry (105 app.) have each appeared in 100 career games.
• Head coach Tommy Amaker moved into third place for wins by a Harvard head coach (131) and registered his 300th career victory.
• The Crimson won its 250th game at Lavietes.
Lou Henson Preseason All-America
Wesley Saunders was named to the 2013 Lou Henson Preseason All-America Team as one of the top 25 student-athletes from mid-major conferences. Following the season, the Lou Henson Award is presented annually to the top Mid-Major student-athlete in Division I college basketball. The award is named in honor of Lou Henson who retired after a spectacular coaching career that lasted 41 years.
This season, Harvard has teamed up with the 3PointFoundation to participate in the Coach4aDay program, helping to raise funds and awareness in the fight against illiteracy. The3PointFoundation teaches and mentors urban boys to prepare them for success in academics and life by concentrating on reading, writing, mathematics and character development for underserved youth who have demonstrated commitment, discipline and enthusiasm by playing in organized basketball programs.
For more information on the Coach4aDay program or to learn how you can get involved, click here.
National Pride
Three Crimson had the honor of representing their country over the summer as a member of their respective national teams; Steve Moundou-Missi (Cameroon Senior National Team), Agunwa Okolie (Canadian Men's Junior National Team) and Laurent Rivard (Canadian Developmental National Team).
In The Spotlight
Twelve of Harvard's 30 games have been picked up for national or regional television broadcasts this season. The Crimson appeared on TV a program record 17 times last season, including a record four televised games at Lavietes Pavilion.
Sold Out
Harvard has played in front of five sell-out crowds at Lavietes pavilion this season, bringing the total number of sell outs over the last three years to 21. This includes a record 10 sell outs during the 2011-12 campaign.
Home Court Advantage
The Harvard men's and women's basketball teams have combined for a 106-12 record at home in Lavietes Pavilion since 2009-10 while going 56-8 against the Ivy League. The Crimson men are 58-5 (.921) overall, 29-4 (.879) against the Ancient Eight, with the women going 48-7 (.873) overall, 27-4 (.871) in conference. The men's team's run of dominance includes a program record 28-game home win streak that lasted more than two calendar years between Feb. 19, 2010 and Feb. 24, 2012.
On The Sidelines
With 132 victories under his belt, Tommy Amaker ranks third all-time in Harvard coaching annals.
Frank Sullivan, 1991-07
Amaker's .653 win percentage, meanwhile, ranks first among Harvard coaches who have spent at least two seasons at the helm of the team.
Tommy Amaker, 2007-present


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Property Details
3 bedrooms: Main with queen bed, ensuite and walk-in robe, 2nd bedroom with queen bed and built-ins, and 3rd bedroom with 2 singles and built-ins, all beds have quilts and pillows. Open plan kitchen/dining/living, stainless steel appliances: dishwasher, electric stove, fridge/freezer, microwave, rainwater to sink. TV, DVD, Stereo/CD player, R/C Airconditioner, 2 seater and 3 seater lounge and dining setting. Bathroom with shower and vanity and separate toilet. Laundry with auto washing machine. Paved Alfresco area with BBQ and outdoor setting. Enclosed yard. Sorry - No access to double garage.
Strictly 6 guests only and no smoking inside house.
Fees & Surcharges
A cleaning fee of $110.00 will be added to the rates total to cover the expenses of cleaning the property before & after your stay.
When paying with a debit card, credit card or via PayPal, a payment surcharge of 1.5% will apply to the booking total. The total payment surcharge will be displayed during the quote process.


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Q: Isn't my fountain enough aeration for my pond?
Kelly – Harrisville, WV
A: Fountains deserve a lot of love. As they launch water into the air, they add dramatic movement and visual appeal to the landscape. The sound of stirring water makes anyone within earshot relaxed and tranquil. Fountains add a good deal of oxygen to the pond as the tiny droplets make contact with the air and fall back into the pond. But do they provide enough aeration? It all depends on your pond's depth.
More Than 6 Feet Deep…
If your pond is more than 6 feet deep, your fountain does not provide enough aeration. Why? The best way to aerate the pond is to circulate the entire body of water at the same time. Because a fountain draws water from the top of the water column only, the water deeper than the 6-foot mark remains untouched – and oxygen deprived.
An aeration system, like the Pond Series™ Aeration System, will pump air to the diffuser plate positioned at the bottom of the pond. The rising bubbles then lift and aerate the water from the bottom up, ensuring that the entire pond is circulated and oxygenated.
Less Than 6 Feet Deep…
If your pond is less than 6 feet deep, your fountain is good to go. Because enough oxygen is exchanged at the pond's surface, you don't need additional aeration – but you do need to worry about the fountain's spray pattern and horsepower.
The most effective shape for aeration is the "V" shape or "Classic" pattern, like the one included in the AquaStream™ fountain. It does the job simply and effectively. The more decorative the spray pattern, the less likely it is to adequately aerate your pond because more energy is spent on creating the patterns than on moving the water.
As for horsepower, when using a fountain for aeration purposes, go with a 1.5 HP motor per acre. Remember that depending on your pond's size and shape, you may need more than one fountain to properly aerate. If you're using a fountain for decoration only, you can go with a 1 HP per acre motor instead.
Weighing the Cost
A fountain can be costly to operate, but an aeration system – which has lower operating costs when compared to a fountain running 24/7 – is an affordable alternative. Whichever method you choose, don't go without aeration, because that could cost you more in the long run!
Pond Talk: What's your favorite fountain? What makes it stand out to you?
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The Secret to Success
I love working with the great friends I have in Forever - whether it's a member of our staff from around the world, a Country Manager, an FBO or a member of the Global Leadership Team. These are meaningful and powerful relationships I value and that have helped to shape the company that we have today. In fact, we just finished a great couple of days meeting here at the Home Office with our EGLT. Rolf and Dominique, John and Jayne and Bheki and Gabi helped us to make some decisions and gave us some advice about the plans we have for the future.
What a unique opportunity for us to be able to bounce these incredible ideas off the best networkers in the world - not just in our company but in our industry. Like I said, we love these relationships and are grateful to them for their example and willingness to give of their time and talents. Forever is unique that way, trust me! All of our leaders are remarkably committed to Forever's future and the way that we do business.
During our conversations we became more and more convinced that, although we are doing great and setting new records around the world, there is so much more we need to do. The potential for Forever is simply off the charts and we, all of us, need to realize that we are just scratching the surface of our potential in our global marketplace. We have an exceptionally generous and fair marketing plan and we have a proven, pure and effective product range. I cannot see any reason why every home in the world could not benefit from using them. When you think of it like that, we do have a lot of work to do!
Many people, when they enter our business, look for the key to success. They speak to our leaders and attend and watch all of the trainings they can get their hands on to try to discover the ONE thing that makes them successful. What is the secret? I think most of you know by now, the secret is that there isn't one.
In fact, our most successful leaders and those that have quickly built large, sustainable businesses have done so by replicating the same fundamental behaviors that we introduce to each new FBO right from the beginning. Retail the products. Become a product of the product. Introduce two new people a month to the opportunity and teach them to do the same. And so on and so on and so on. It's not complicated. In fact, one of the most beautiful parts of our business is the simplicity. But these simple habits need to be done CONSISTENTLY.
I was sitting next to Rex at the Forever Experience that was held last month in Scottsdale and he leaned over and said, "I am as excited today as I was 40 years ago when we started this business!" I 100% agree. Our potential for growth is incredible right now!
I honestly believe (and our leaders around the world agree with me) that with a dedication to consistency, we can double our sales.
I can't wait to see you in Dubai!
Keep Smiling,
Gregg Maughan
President, Forever Living Products


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Biodiesel fueling stations are sprouting like weeds across America, where production of the alternative fuel rose 66 percent in 2003. Experts say the rapid growth of the renewable fuel will stretch the country's tenuous petroleum supply while helping people breathe a little easier.
Damon Toal-Rossi of Iowa City, Iowa, jumped on the biodiesel bandwagon after a friend outlined the benefits of using a fuel made from soy or vegetable oil. The software programmer liked the idea of a cleaner-burning fuel that reduces dependence on foreign oil so much that he traded in his gasoline-powered pickup truck for a diesel-powered Volkswagen Golf.
After a few months of driving 10 miles to a biodiesel fueling station, Toal-Rossi went online to find a recipe and began making his own fuel. Because Toal-Rossi gets the primary ingredient – used cooking oil – from a nearby restaurant for free, he spends just 41 cents per gallon to make his 12-liter batches of biodiesel.
"I feel good about reducing my environmental impact, and besides, it's a great fuel for my car," said Toal-Rossi, noting that he now gets 44 miles per gallon, a big improvement over his 14-mpg pickup.
Biodiesel enthusiasts like Toal-Rossi may soon find their oil-alternative fuel easier to acquire. According to the National Biodiesel Board, the number of consumer biodiesel fueling stations rose nearly 50 percent last year to 200. So far this year, 25 new stations have opened, including 10 in Colorado and five in New Hampshire.
Ron Heck, president of the American Soybean Association, said biodiesel can be blended with regular diesel in any ratio, or can be used as a fuel by itself. "It has almost the same amount of (energy) as petroleum diesel," Heck said. Using biodiesel will clean an engine's fuel injectors and cut down on the number of required oil changes, according to Heck. "I buy it because it's better fuel."
The reintroduction of diesel vehicles into the U.S. market is expected to increase the demand for biodiesel, according to the National Biodiesel Board's Jenna Higgins. After abandoning the U.S. market for almost 20 years, Mercedes-Benz and DaimlerChrysler are delivering new diesel vehicles in 2004, and Volkswagen has expanded its lineup of diesel-engine vehicles.
Higgins said most diesel vehicles do not have to be modified to burn biodiesel, and auto manufacturers support fueling their vehicles with biodiesel, which burns cleaner than standard fuel.
Passenger vehicles, private vehicle fleets and farmers used 25 million gallons of biodiesel in 2003, up from 15 million gallons the previous year, and new federal Environmental Protection Agency emission rules could further increase demand, according to Higgins.
Starting in 2006, the EPA will require that diesel producers reduce nitrogen oxide emissions and remove up to 99 percent of the sulfur content in the fuel used by passenger cars and trucks. In May 2004, the EPA announced that these same rules would apply to diesel for off-road vehicles starting in 2007.
While the EPA estimates that cleaning up the diesel will prevent 4,300 premature deaths per year, removing the sulfur also reduces the fuel's lubricity. Diesel producers need to regain that slipperiness to prevent engine clogging, and biodiesel is a likely additive, according to Galen Suppes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
"Biodiesel is cost-competitive" with the chemical alternatives, said Suppes, adding that a 2 percent biodiesel mix restores lubricity. "Technology-wise, (biodiesel) is a good solution." But Suppes said diesel refiners sometimes prefer to produce solutions internally rather than rely on external suppliers. "It's difficult to predict what the refiners will do."
The biodiesel board's Higgins said the market for the alternative fuel could climb to more than half a billion gallons per year if diesel refiners add just 2 percent biodiesel to their products. This could provide the economy of scale that would lower the price of the renewable fuel for everyone, Higgins said.
"Could we meet that demand instantly? No," said Higgins. She estimated that the 21 existing biodiesel production plants in the United States could produce up to 80 million gallons a year, and another 20 plants could quickly go online. Higgins said 90 percent of today's biodiesel comes from soy oil, and 10 percent from recycled cooking oil. Other feedstocks, such as animal carcasses, could be used to fill any gap, according to Higgins.
Biodiesel currently costs between 20 cents and 30 cents more per gallon than standard diesel, Higgins said, but pending legislation may help to make it more economical. In May, the Senate passed a bill that would give a 1 cent tax credit for each percent of biodiesel blended with petroleum diesel.
Higgins said that if gasoline prices continue to climb and the tax credit becomes law, biodiesel could become cost-competitive with petroleum. "Anything that lessens our demand on foreign oil helps," Higgins said.
Green Cars Strive to End Oil Era
Diesels Rolling Back Into U.S.


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ARLINGTON — Officials have identified a woman who was found dead June 9 on a relative's property in the Arlington area.
Karen E. Harris, of Arlington, was 53, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office. Her cause of death is under investigation.
Harris' brother, 50, is being held at the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree murder.
Their mother's body also was found at the property along 240th Street NE. Her name and other details have not been released. Her death also remains under investigation.
The case is being handled by the Snohomish County sheriff's Major Crimes Unit.


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Case Of Doctor Accused Of Fondling Patients Heads To Grand Jury
Dr. T. Daniel Caddell Appears In Court
An Upstate doctor, who's accused of fondling five of his female patients, was in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing.
Dr. T. Daniel Caddell is accused of fondling five patients; one in 1987, another from May 2001 to December 2003, another between January 2009 and June 2010, another between January 2009 and Nov. 7, 2011, and another on June 30, 2011.
Caddell is charged with two counts of first-degree assault and battery and three counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
In court Thursday, Travelers Rest police detectives said the alleged victims claimed Caddell "touched their breasts inappropriately." They also claimed he commented on their breast-size and asked if they knew any single women he could date. At least two of the alleged victims claimed Caddell pressed his genitals against their bodies during their exams.
After testimony was heard, Judge Adam Fisher determined there was enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury.
Caddell's attorney insists his client is innocent.
"Dr. Caddell has been a great doctor in Travelers Rest for 25 years and has seen thousands and thousands of patients. Many of them have come forward telling me (they) want to testify for him at his trial," said Beattie Ashmore, Caddell's attorney.
Caddell did not testify in court. Neither did any of the women who claimed he fondled them.
Ashmore has alluded to the accusations against his client, saying they stemmed from Caddell refusing to treat patients who Ashmore says were selling pain pills that Caddell prescribed to them.
Caddell lives in Greenville, but has a family practice in Travelers Rest. His medical license has been temporarily revoked pending the outcome of his trial.
Many patients have come out in his support since his arrest.
The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation says Caddell has temporarily lost his license to practice in the state, because "the Office of General Counsel has provided probably cause warranting an Order of the State Board of Medical Examiners" to suspend Caddell.
The suspension is effective immediately.


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Pampanga's Culinary Destination
--- Bale Dutung experience is strictly by reservation ---
If you do not have reservations and just want to sample the food, you can go to Downtown Cafe
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LINAMNAM: Eating One's Way Around the Philippines
by Claude Tayag and Mary Ann Quioc.
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Ummmnn Claude'9.
So good.
Nothing comes close.
Bale Dutung, a unique culinary experience.
Chef Claude's specialties, from concept to creation, a delightful occasion.
Announcement: Due to popular demand and clamor, Bale Dutung now serves a third menu, called the Anthony Bourdain Menu.
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09175950218 for the menu.
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Bale Dutung is selling "Bagnetta", Pan de Bagnet, a generous serving of crisp bagnet on toasted ciabatta bread with the Ilocano KBL (Kamatis, Bagoong and Lasuna). This is Claude's Pinoy version of the popular Porcheta, the roast pork sandwich of the Italians.
Also available is Bale Dutung's popular Lechon Tortilla.
Now available for catering service. Contact: 0917-5950218
At Large : An epic epicurean experience
By Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: April 05, 2011
LUNCHING AT Bale Dutung (Old House), where couple Claude and Mary Ann Tayag has set up a successful dining outlet, requires one to commit almost a full day to the experience.
We traveled to Angeles at mid-morning and arrived at the Tayags' at noon. By the time we traversed the NLEX to Manila after our lunch, the sky had turned leaden, for it was almost evening. We banished all thoughts of or desire for dinner.
As Claude, who is a multi-slashie chef/writer/artist/sculptor/photographer/collector tells it, most folk who drop by Bale Dutung think they have stepped into an ancestral home. In truth, he built the home only in the 1990s, "from scratch and scrap" when he felt he had collected enough "old stuff" to build the home of his imagination. "I sourced most of my materials from an old church that was being torn down," he recalled, pointing to the limestone posts, brick walls and wooden panels.
On an earlier visit, I recall him telling us that he had sourced the floorboards of his second-floor living area from a bowling alley, which explains the patina of age and use that no amount of floor wax could duplicate.
Originally, said Claude, he had planned to use the silong or ground floor of Bale Dutung as a display area for his sculpture and furnishings. But since he was also exploring his culinary boundaries, he invited a group of Ateneo faculty, including the late great Doreen Fernandez, "dean" of Filipino food critics, to a "degustation" lunch in the silong. That first banquet was the first of many "by invitation" or "by reservation" meals that have been served at Bale Dutung.
It also marked the baptism of Claude's signature dessert: a trio of balls ("I used to call it 'Tatlong Bola' until Doreen named it," he says, laughing) of yema (custard), ube and macapuno in a mascarpone sauce that, upon first bite, caused Fernandez to exclaim: "Claude, this is Paradise!" And so "Paradiso" the dessert was born.
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I HAD invited myself to the excursion which was meant as a farewell feast for Micky Fenix who was leaving her post as editor-in-chief of Food Magazine (Nana Ozaeta, lately of Hinge Inquirer's F&B World, is taking over). Until about a year ago, my husband Pie was Food's creative director and he is still considered a member of the family.
To my surprise I found that Bale Dutung's once-exclusive premises have since gone "public" in a big way. Apart from our party of 14, Claude and Mary Ann were hosting a smaller birthday party, two tables with relatives, and at least two other tables including some late walk-ins.
Still, the Tayags refuse to call their place a restaurant. Diners need to make reservations, and a minimum party of 10 is required. When I asked Claude how long a lead time one must allot for a reservation, he laughingly remarked "sometimes as much as six months," since his schedule is erratic and he (often with Mary Ann in tow) travels abroad quite often.
BUT THE experience of Bale Dutung is well worth the wait.
Our lunch began with the serving of dalandan juice over cubes of "muscovado ice," actually calamansi juice sweetened with muscovado (unprocessed sugar) and frozen. The "muscovado ice" cools the fruit juice while ensuring the flavor isn't diluted. Bits of crackers served with toppings of aligue sauce, buro and pesto served as appetizers, with Mary Ann, who served as the annotator of the meal, suggesting that we mix and match the toppings to explore the blend of flavors.
This was followed by a salad of pako (fiddlehead ferns) with tomatoes, quail's egg and a mango vinaigrette dressing. Time was, said Mary Ann, when pako was looked down upon as a mere weed, adding that her lola would be amused today to know that the ferns now command much respect.
Fried lumpia ubod encased in a lettuce leaf was our next appetizer, with Mary Ann entreating us to "give us the first bite," that is, taste the dish without any sauces or embellishments, before fine-tuning the dish with vinegar or chili sauce. Next came roast chicken cooked "inasal" style and served with a small serving of aligue rice, liver sauce and a small pan de sal. After we were all done, the servers passed around platters of a kind of lumpia: buro and slices of fried hito encased in a mustasa (native mustard) leaf; as well as Claude's take on sushi, nori-wrapped rice topped with a dollop of aligue and a sliver of kamias. The contrast between the salty/fishy aligue and the tang of the kamias was surprising and refreshing.
Then we were asked to stand up and serve ourselves. First was to the long table where the "bayabaisse," the Tayags' humorous take on the bouillabaisse, was being served. The dish consists of a thick broth made from mashed native guava ("We refuse to call it sinigang na bayabas because you might expect sourness," said Mary Ann), into which one could include slices of bangus belly, ulang (river shrimp) and vegetables. The other long table served what my husband dubbed "Pampango shawarma," actually a dish that included influences from various cultures: tortilla onto which one spooned re-fried slices of lechon belly, topped with kimchi, onions, tomatoes, pesto and wansuy (coriander).
BY THIS time, our bellies were full to bursting, but would you believe, we heroically made room for the main dish: sea food kare-kare that came presented in an attractive arrangement of mussels, squid and prawns in a bed of vegetables and rich orange sauce.
"Paradiso" capped our meal, and I was glad to find that it hadn't changed since I first tasted it over a decade ago. Still, the Tayags had one more surprise for us: small towels drenched in scented water and frozen, giving us a most refreshing close to an epic epicurean experience!
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Published in Tangled Noodle Blog, March 29, 2011
Bale Dutung, Part I: Setting the Table...
We clambered out of the van and huddled in the driveway, a dozen eager diners of varying ages hungry for a promised feast but uncertain that we were in the right place. There, in the middle of a tidy, quiet residential neighborhood in Angeles, Pampanga, was where we'd been told we would find Kapampangan cuisine unlike any served in Manila restaurants. Yet, it felt as if we had arrived for lunch at a relative's home. Only the colorful carved wood sign above the gate confirmed that we had found the spot: Bale Dutung [BAH-leh Doo-TOONG]. Read more
Bale Dutung, Part II: Setting the Table...
There are bound to be high expectations for a meal when it involves making reservations several weeks in advance, choosing a multi-course menu enjoyed by a certain famous gastronome, then hiring a large van to ferry a dozen hungry diners to another province an hour and a half away just to eat lunch. In between, there are the articles and blog posts, all raving about the cook, his wife, the food and their love of art and cuisine, to sharpen anticipation to a keen edge. With that kind of set up, a modicum of disappointment is inevitable.
Or not. Read more
Hey Cloud," the jean-clad, salt-and-pepper-haired man said as he entered our house. "How are you? I'm Tony."
"Hey, my man!" I said, trying to sound cool, but I was actually very nervous about meeting this legendary culinary figure in the flesh — and rather surprised that he knew how to pronounce my name.
There is something about Anthony Bourdain that makes you like him right away! Maybe it's because you know right away that this celebrity chef will eat anything that's put in front of him.
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ALFRED, Maine — The attorney representing Mark Strong Sr., who is charged with conspiring to run a prostitution operation in Kennebunk, alleged in court Thursday that "johns" charged in the case were offered lesser punishments in exchange for testifying against his client. A prosecutor said one alleged john visited the suspected prostitute "42 times." Daniel Lilley, representing Strong, 57, of Thomaston, also alleged that the hard drive on which his client had evidence of an investigation into the Kennebunk Police Department has vanished. He said he is planning to use allegations of retaliation by the Police Department against his client in trial, and is seeking to have all but 13 counts against Strong dismissed.
ALFRED, Maine — The attorney representing Mark Strong Sr., who is charged with conspiring to run a prostitution operation in Kennebunk, alleged in court Thursday that "johns" charged in the case were offered lesser punishments in exchange for testifying against his client. A prosecutor said one alleged john visited the suspected prostitute "42 times." Daniel Lilley, representing Strong, 57, of Thomaston, also alleged that the hard drive on which his client had evidence of an investigation into the Kennebunk Police Department has vanished. He said he is planning to use allegations of retaliation by the Police Department against his client in trial, and is seeking to have all but 13 counts against Strong dismissed.
Justice Nancy Mills held a hearing Thursday on motions in the trial of Strong, who is facing 59 counts — 12 counts of promotion of prostitution, one count of conspiracy to commit the crime of prostitution, one count of conspiracy to commit the crime of violation of privacy, and 45 counts of violation of privacy.
Jury selection for Strong's trial is under way, but was halted Thursday after the Supreme Judicial Court ruled the process should have been conducted in public.
The trial for Strong, who has pleaded not guilty, could last three weeks. Prosecutors allege he conspired with Alexis Wright, 30, of Wells, to tape her sexual encounters with men without their knowledge. They say the two ran a prostitution operation out of Wright's former Kennebunk Zumba studio and a nearby office space for more than a year and a half.
On Thursday, Lilley argued that the counts of invasion of privacy against Strong should be dismissed since the individuals who allegedly engaged in prostitution came to Wright's business to commit a crime, and therefore, should not expect privacy.
"The johns, or patrons of prostitution, went there to commit a crime and, in fact, they've pled guilty and are on the witness list, so they are criminals. Minor. But they are criminals," Lilley said. "I don't believe that anybody can make a rational argument that people who are breaking the law, namely sex for money, are entitled to privacy so they can commit their criminal acts. There is no precedent for it." Approximately 60 men have been charged with paying Wright for sex, including 21 who have pleaded guilty. Eighteen men who have pleaded guilty are included in the state's list of potential witnesses.
The law regarding privacy violations is in effect in private places where one may reasonably expect to be free of surveillance, Lilley said, but it does not apply to "bordellos, whorehouses or the like." Assistant District Attorney Patrick Gordon said both the Constitution and state statutes can protect a person's privacy rights whether or not they are engaging in illegal activity. The question in this case, he said, is whether the individuals expected privacy.
"Where a person goes to engage in sexual activities is a place where they expect to be free from surveillance, whether or not what they are doing is criminal," Gordon said.
Gordon said all the counts of invasion of privacy against Strong are similar in that they include an alleged client arriving at either Wright's residence, Zumba studio or nearby office space and staying for anywhere from "30 minutes to several hours." The frequency of client visits, he said, ranges from "one to two times," to 42 visits.
"I think our largest number is 42 times," he said. "It's that high."
Mills did not rule on Lilley's motion to dismiss the counts of invasion of privacy, saying she had to study the issue further.
Lilley began the hearing with a request for a record of "inducements, promises, compensation, leniency and/or rewards" that prosecutors may have offered to 18 men who have pleaded guilty to paying Wright for sex and are listed by the state as potential witnesses. Lilley told the judge that he has heard from attorneys for suspected johns that they were told if they plead guilty to one count of engaging a prostitute, that the state would not pursue additional counts in exchange for testifying against Strong.
"Some of them have pled guilty to one count, but yet the evidence would seem to suggest several criminal acts, potentially," Lilley said. "That promise and reward would suggest bias, or at least potential bias, on the part of the witness."
Gordon said the individuals charged were fined based on the number of times they allegedly engaged in the act of prostitution. The offer made to those who pleaded guilty, he said, is that even if they had engaged in the act a number of times, the state would only bring one count against them.
"If they come in and plead guilty, they will not receive more charges, but they will receive a different fine based on how many times they engaged," Gordon said. "They were not told whether they would be called (as witnesses) or not." Prosecutors said they sent letters to individuals suspected of engaging in prostitution, which would include any plea deals offered. Mills told prosecutors to provide those letters to Lilley.
Prosecutors have filed their own motions, including motions to prohibit discussions of Strong's financial difficulties or an investigation he was allegedly conducting into the Kennebunk Police Department. Strong and Lilley maintain that the charges against Strong have been in retaliation by police for Strong's investigation, which they say uncovered an affair between Audra Presby, the department's lead investigating officer, and her then-superior, Nick Higgins, as well as an officer-involved shooting.
The shooting, which occurred in 2011, was investigated by the Attorney General's office and ruled justified, while Higgins resigned and Presby was disciplined at the time of the affair in 2009.
Lilley also raised allegations that Presby sexually assaulted one of Higgins' children in 2011. He said the allegations were reported by a counselor and have been "swept under the rug by the KPD." At the time, a judge ruled that the allegations were unfounded.
The judge sided with the state in saying Strong's financial situation is not relevant to the case, but said the discussion of Strong's investigation and alleged retaliation is allowed.
"The timeline favors the defendant, because these alleged situations with regard to officer Presby and other instances with the Kennebunk Police Department occurred prior to the instance with Mr. Strong," Mills said. "At this point, this is cross-examination material with regard to officer Presby, certainly with regard to her credibility, with regard to bias." Lilley has said a hard drive containing evidence of Strong's investigation was seized from his property, but has since vanished.
He said an officer with the Maine Crimes Division of the State Police is on tape stating there is a hard drive that was taken to the Kennebunk Police Department. Lilley said it has not been catalogued like other pieces of evidence.
"As far as we can tell, this particular computer or hard drive was taken, we believe to the Kennebunk Police Department by officer Presby or one of her colleagues," Lilley said. "It had the investigation that Mr. Strong was doing on the Kennebunk Police Department, and it was never to be found again."


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Following the outcry in Israel after the Eurovision Song Contest's 2nd semifinal, in which Israel was the only country whose map was not shown prior to its song, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted the Norwegian hosts of this year's contest to convey their message. During tonight's final the Israeli map was indeed shown – albeit missing the west bank. Sources in the MFA told Ynet that they insisted Israel "will be shown as a country with borders, and not some amorphous entity".
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Blowhard silencer, dead-fish brain science win spoof Nobel Prizes
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO — Psychologists who discovered that leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller, neuroscientists who found brain activity in a dead salmon, and designers of a device that can silence blowhards are among the winners of Ig Nobel Prizes for the oddest and silliest real discoveries.
The annual prizes are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes, which will be announced early next month.
Former winners of the real Nobels hand out the Ig Nobel awards at a ceremony held at Harvard University in Massachusetts.
Ig Nobels for 2012 also went to U.S. researchers who discovered that chimps can recognize other chimps by looking at snapshots of their backsides, and to a Swedish researcher for solving the puzzle of why people's hair turned green while living in certain houses in the town of AnderslJov, Sweden. (The culprit was a combination of copper pipes and hot showers.)
Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals and architect of the Ig Nobels who announced the winners Thursday, said one of his personal favourites was this year's Acoustics Prize.
Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada created the Speech Jammer, a machine that disrupts a person's speech by playing it back with a very slight delay.
"It's a small thing you aim at someone who is droning on and on," Abrahams said. "What the person hears is just off enough that it completely disconcerts and discombobulates them, and they stop talking. It has thousands of potential good uses."
Abrahams' panel of experts also cited the work of Dutch psychologists Anita Eerland, Rolf Zwaan and PhD student Tulio Guadalupe for their study, Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller.
The work explored how posture influences estimations of size: with leaning to the left correlating with lower estimates, and leaning to the right correlating with higher estimates.
The team tested this by placing 33 undergraduates on a Wii Balance Board, which tilted slightly to the left or the right while they were asked to guess the size of objects, including the height of the Eiffel Tower.
As expected, those who leaned left had lower guesses than those who leaned to the right or stood up straight.
One of the more infamous studies winning an Ig Nobel was for research detecting meaningful brain activity in a dead salmon.
It started as a lark, explains Craig Bennett of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies adolescent brain development using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI, a technique for measuring brain activity.
Before starting tests on people, scientists first check their equipment using a phantom object, typically a sphere filled with mineral oil. But since any object will do, Bennett and colleagues had been trying out a variety of items, including a pumpkin, a Cornish game hen, and finally, an Atlantic salmon.
In the salmon test, the team showed photos to the dead fish and asked it to determine what emotion the person was feeling.
"By random chance and by simple noise, we saw small data points in the brain of the fish that were considered to be active," said Bennett. "It was a false positive. It's not really there."
The often-quoted study exposed the perils of fMRI science, which can be prone to false signals, and underscored the need to do statistical corrections to safeguard against such silly findings.
"It's a great teachable moment for how we should process the MRI data," he said.
Physicists at Unilever led by Dr. Patrick Warren and at Stanford University led by Professor Joe Keller for their use of mathematics to explain why ponytails take on their distinctive "tail" shape. The Ig Nobel is Keller's second.
Igor Petrov and colleagues at the SKN Company in Russia for using technology to convert old Russian ammunition into new diamonds.
Rouslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for illuminating why carrying a cup of coffee often ends up in a spill.
French researcher Emmanuel Ben-Soussan on how doctors performing colonoscopies can minimize the chance of igniting gasses that make their patients explode.
The U.S. Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report recommending the preparation of a report to discuss the impact of reports about reports.


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Faust: A new low for Liddick
Re. "Boy Scouts' honor attacked by 'tolerance,'" by Morgan Liddick, May 28:
Summit Daily, you have reached a new low in both journalistic integrity and being decent human beings when you published Morgan Liddick's homophobic rant.
Providing a platform for opposing viewpoints is far different than printing incendiary hate speech. In the third paragraph, Liddick equates being a gay teen as no different than a rapist. How could you print something so awful? Does your editorial department even bother to read his submissions before you print them, or are you so concerned with fanning the flames to increase controversy (and by that increase social network presence) that you just don't care? Either way, you owe the public an apology.
I am an Eagle Scout. I earned the rank of Eagle when I was 14. I have considered the Scout Oath, particularly the line "morally straight," and considered what that means to me. I cannot find a circumstance in which discrimination based on how a person was born can ever be considered "moral."
In a recent vote, it turns out that 60 percent of current BSA members felt the same way. This change came from within the Scouts. People have claimed that it is the result of outside pressure, but what isn't?
There is a long history of people in this country arguing that certain type of bigotry are indeed moral. Prior to the 1960s the Boy Scouts denied membership to non-whites and Jews. You could argue that they bowed to pressure when they allowed them in. However, "outside pressure" is just another way to describe society's changing attitudes.
Although, it does make me wonder… If Mr. Liddick was a columnist in the 1960s writing about whether the Boy Scouts should cave to outside pressure by allowing black and Jewish kids to join, which side do you think he would be on?
Timothy O. Faust
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February reports due for Denver candidates; Romer way ahead
Chris Romer has more than $500,000 in the bank for his campaign, far more than any other Denver mayoral candidate who has reported their totals so far.
Financial reports for February were due today and here is the breakdown so far:
Romer raised $252,710 last month and has $565,354 in the bank and has not made his main advertising purchase yet. He spent a total of $102,162 in February, including $6,000 to hire the political consulting firm run by David Axelrod, President Obama's senior advisor. The company, AKPD Message and Media recently handled the campaign of Rahm Emanuel, who was elected mayor of Chicago.
City Councilman Michael Hancock was second in fund-raising in February with $108,670 raised and now has $122,127 in the bank after his $175,000 advertising purchase in January. He spent $58,645 in February.
City Councilwoman Carol Boigon raised $92,311 in February and has $306,211 in the bank, a total that includes a $100,000 loan from herself. She spent $87,391 in February.
James Mejia raised $66,457 in January for a total of $175,256 in the bank. He made a $30,000 loan to himself and has repaid $5,000 of that. He spent $65,442 in February and also has yet to make his big media buy.
Theresa Spahn raised $22,431 in February and spent $17,646, leaving her $49,619 in the bank.
City Councilman Doug Linkhart raised $19,104 in February, spent $31,024 and has $51,898 in the bank. Linkhart and his father have contributed $65,000 to the campaign.
Eric Jon Zinn raised $200 last month, spent $603.04 and has $125.88 in the bank.


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Charles Sidney "Sid" Bayless, 79, of Amarillo, died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Hillside Christian Church Chapel with Roy Wheeler, Mike Nuthman and Bob Schroeder officiating. Family burial will be
private. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Sid was born Aug. 19, 1932, to Charles and Ardell Bayless in Clovis, N.M., and grew up in Canadian. He earned his master's degree in education and a Bachelor of Business Administration from West Texas State University.
Sid was a member of the Navy, where he was stationed on the USS Valley Forge aircraft carrier. He was a member of the naval Seabees. He retired as a commander after 25 years of service with the Naval Reserve.
Sid had a lengthy career involving both business and education, starting as a stock controller for Diamond Shamrock Corp. Following Diamond Shamrock, he began work as an educator in Amarillo with the following positions: Amarillo Independent School District High School chemistry teacher, science department chairman, assistant principal of Austin Junior High School, principal of Crockett Junior High School and assistant superintendent of personnel for AISD. In 1978, he accepted the position of corporate manager for Mesa Petroleum Co. Before retiring, he worked as the law firm administrator for Culton, Morgan, Britain & White.
Among his community involvement, he held the following positions: elder of Paramount Terrace Christian Church, now Hillside Christian; a member of Fisherman Sunday School Class for 42 years; Amarillo Bible Chair member; member of Amarillo Rotary West, where he served as president; Golden Spread Council; board president of Boy Scouts of
America; Amarillo Community Center board of directors; Amarillo Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse board of directors; First Care board of directors; Faith City Mission board of directors; West Texas State University Alumni Association board of directors; and U.S. Naval Academy regional representative.
Survivors include his wife, Leta Bayless; a son, Charles Barton Bayless and wife Kimberley Lynette Bayless, and their
children, Sidney Lynette Bayless, Gracie Belle Bayless, Charles Samuel Bayless and Berkley Anne Bayless; and a daughter, Michel Olds and husband Scott Olds, and their two children, Michael Olds and Cody Olds.
The family suggests memorials be to Faith City Mission, 401 W. Second Ave., Amarillo, TX 79101.
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After an ugly breakup and several robberies, Khaled Tabarra had a wealth of song-writing material.
"I was the victim of some violent crime and I was dealing with a lot of heartbreak," The Zou's lead singer explains. "That was good inspiration for a lot of songs. When I'm out and about, I'm just enjoying my life, but when I'm writing, it's usually kind of a therapy. So I write a lot when life is handing me terrible things."
The dark tinge to The Zou's artsy prog-rock comes from Tabarra's cathartic creative process, but the band's penchant for dramatic ebbs and flows is a product of each member's experience in theater, as well as a shared desire to draw afflatus from nontraditional sources.
"If you know your theater, you can hear it in our music," Tabarra says. "We like to get inspiration from non-rock-influenced rock. In other words, I don't like turning to rock songs for inspiration. I'd rather turn to other types of music, because you get kind of boring if you don't."
Depending on the song, The Zou can be a straightforward pop group or a flat-out jam band. It all depends on the lyrics. "The song will reflect the topic," Tabarra says. "If it's a complex topic like death or post-traumatic stress or something, we'll add layers. Or sometimes, we'll take a real melodic song and juxtapose it against more disgusting lyrics so you'll have people singing along to this song, not even realizing the ugly words they're saying."
Because of its sonic meanderings, it can be tempting to label The Zou as self-absorbed. But if you strip the songs down, they're all pop. "We describe our sound as pop music for artsy fuckers," Tabarra says. "There are bands out there who make us sound like John Denver or The Carpenters. But I think there needs to be somebody who can bridge that gap to where pop music fans can sing and dance to our songs and then their hipster friends will buy our CD."
With more musical ground to cover, The Zou's musical direction could be determined by who it plays with next. Each one of the hundreds of bands it's played with has rubbed off on The Zou and, for Tabarra, there's no better way for the band to grow. "We get truly inspired by the CDs we've gotten from the bands we've played with," Tabarra says. "When you're playing with young or upstart bands that don't have 900 people telling them what to sound like, it can keep you out of any kind of restrictive mold."
The Zou's next source of ingenuity could be Albuquerque, where the band will play an all-ages show on Thursday, Jan. 3, at The Cell Theatre with The Dirty Novels, Dear Oceana and Zagadka. It'll cost you seven bucks to get in.


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Anthony Keegan and Richard Christiansen's one-year-old label Commonwealth Utilities staged one of the more unique shows of the season: The Spring/Summer 2010 collection at the legendary Astor Place Hair barbershop.
Spotted was "It" boy and Official Crush Object TM Chad White, who returns to Rod 2.0 after a too-long hiatus. Chad was last seen in bondage-themed gladiator sporno and was also spotted this week at Baby Phat.
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Laziness is often accompanied by guilt. But when it comes to your lawn, there's ample justification to do less rather than more—saving time and money and being kinder to Mother Nature while you're at it.
The deep green, meticulously groomed, Wimbledon-like front lawn is undeniably attractive. It's also undeniably useless compared to a garden of vegetables and fruit-bearing plants, and undeniably bad for the environment if it's loaded with chemicals and requires near-constant watering.
As an alternative to devoting abundant time and attention to your lawn weekly (or hiring a landscape company to do the same), Consumer Reports has consulted several university professors to find out which efforts are necessary to keep a decent lawn, and which are overkill. The result is the "Slacker's Guide to a Great Lawn," published in the May 2012 issue.
(MORE: Front Yard Garden Controversy Revelation: Lawns Are Useless)
Among the tips, which all save time and money, are that homeowners should fertilize less, perhaps once or twice a year, rather than the five times annually recommended by (who else?) fertilizer companies. It's also unnecessary to go overboard getting rid of all the dandelions, clover, and other weeds on your lawn. Their presence often helps improve the soil structure.
There are limitations to the do-less or do-nothing approach, though. The experts say there are a few proactive steps that really will help your lawn over the long haul, and they don't require too much time. These steps include keeping a sharp blade on your mower (otherwise the grass will be frayed and won't grow well) and getting rid of grubs (they feed on grass roots).
(MORE: The Fashionable Do-Nothing Approach to Grooming, Hygiene, Landscaping, and, Um, Fashion)
If Consumer Reports doesn't address all of your lawn issues, chances are This Old House does with its piece, "Your Toughest Lawn Questions Answered." It's an in-depth primer that's a bit more obsessive about lawns and lawn maintenance (there are 37 entries in the Q&A), but the TOH experts also advise homeowners there's no need to freak out about something as minor as a few weeds on the lawn. In a question about the topic, the editors' answer states:
Keep in mind that a few weeds won't ruin your lawn. We all have a picture in our minds of the "perfect" lawn. I think we should redefine the "perfect" lawn as a lawn that is useable and chemical-free, where we use as little fertilizer and water as possible to achieve this "new" look.
A lawn that requires less time, money, and effort is a lawn that's perfect indeed.
Brad Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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I have compiled a list of brilliant films, exquisite works of art, that I feel everyone must watch. The thing is, these movies are so emotionally drenching, gut wrenching and hazardous to a delicate heart, I can never bring myself to watching them a second time as now I know what's ahead of me and cannot go through such turmoil again.
Compliance (2012) – Director: Craig Zobel
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) – Director: Lynne Ramsay
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) – Director: Kurt Kuenne
Dancer in the Dark (2000) – Director: Lars von Trier
Requiem for a Dream (2000) – Director: Darren Aronofsky
Boys Don't Cry (1999) – Director: Kimberly Peirce
* As with any of my 'Top 10' lists, upon publishing they usually don't have 10 items in them as I like to leave room for future additions.