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HANOVER, N.H. - MIT men's track and field competed in a championship event for the third consecutive week by taking a small contingent of athletes to Dartmouth for the NEICAAA Championship. MIT totaled 10 points and finished 20th out of the teams that scored in the all-divisional meet.
Junior Omari Stephens authored Tech's top highlight during the weekend, finishing third overall in the pole vault after clearing a personal-best 15'4.5". Greg Tao cleared 14'8.75" on his first attempt at that height, but was unable to move any further up the charts and finished just out of scoring in ninth place.
The Engineers also secured points in the triple jump as freshman Stephen Morton established another personal record by leaping to fifth place. Morton made it out of the unseeded flight to qualify for finals and land on the leader board with a mark of 46'4".
Although they didn't garner any points, several other MIT competitors enjoyed solid performances. Rookie William Fedus grabbed the lead in the first section of the 800-meter run with 100 meters to go, and didn't look back en route to a new personal best of 1:55.44. Yermie Cohen also ran to a personal record. Knocking two seconds off his previous best clip, Cohen finished 12th overall in the 1500m with a time of 3:55.33.


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Macro lenses are not an issue as it is easy to add a reflective filter that blocks UV and IR. That type of filter is only good for a FOV of 60 degrees or less. Right now, I'm personally concerned with the 10-17, split shots, and possibly a midrange zoom like the Sigma 18-50. I may want a rectilinear wide but not immediately.
Craig. What lens are you shooting with? Unless it is quartz glass, the lens itself should act as a UV cut (unless it's a really, really old manual lens). Also, from what I've read in the UV shooters forums, the 300 chip isn't sensitive in the NUV, stripped or not.
What is the nm range in the maxmax NIR pass filter you had installed.
It sounds like a fun experiment. Keep us posted on your findings.
I'd like information to be useful to more than one body, lens, or strobe. If there is information that current lenses do not pass UV or that some DSLR sensors aren't sensitive to UV I'd love to see it. What UV shooters forum are you referring to?
If lenses do not pass UV then I don't understand why the hot mirror blocks UV. I suppose it could be for compatibility with some lenses but I'd really like to see details. If lenses have blocked UV for some time then why are there haze filters? I would love not having to tape a UV Haze filter onto the back of my 10-17. UV does exist underwater and it could be detrimental to split shots.
I did not install any MaxMax filter, the conversion I used is clear glass only. For my IR testing I am using a 62mm Hoya R72 on a macro lens.


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What does a son say when his father becomes one of the most reviled criminals in modern American history?
If you're Ariel Anthony Castro, who shares a first and last name with the man who kidnapped and kept three young women in captivity for about a decade, you say it's time to look forward, not back.
In a guest piece written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer this weekend, the son of Ariel Castro asked, "Now what?"
"If my father's life and death can lead to changes in how we deal with sexual predators, domestic violence, mental illness and, yes, prison safety, then we should have those discussions," wrote Ariel Anthony Castro. "If we can prevent a repeat here or anywhere, then justice truly will have been served amid all the broken pieces my father left behind."
His father, Ariel Castro, 53, committed suicide on Sept. 3, a month after a judge guaranteed he would die in prison by handing down a life sentence plus 1,000 years. Castro had pleaded guilty to rape, kidnapping and abuse, ostensibly to avoid the death penalty; in exchange, his victims were spared having to testify about their suffering in court.
In the end, Ariel Anthony Castro, who said he was unaware of his father's victims before their escape in May, also became a kind of victim of his father's notoriety.
"Cameras showed up at my workplace, reporters blasted my Facebook friends for information about me," Ariel Anthony Castro wrote in the Plain Dealer. "The national networks set up shop, and I watched as person after person who barely knew my father lined up to get their moment on national television. I hid at a friend's house after the news broke because I was shaken to the core, and I didn't want to be forced to grieve with cameras and microphones pointed at me."
Ariel Anthony Castro eventually went on NBC to talk about his father, where he confessed that he probably would never visit his dad.
"I have no trust in him," he said then. "I can't see myself going to visit him and giving him the opportunity to face me and lie to me again."
Over the weekend, the Cleveland Plain Dealer also ran a long feature about the day Ariel Anthony Castro discovered that his father had been arrested. The disappearances of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus in particular had gripped Cleveland, and in that story, the younger Castro recalled talking to elated friends and family members about their rescue.
Shortly after, he realized that his father had been responsible for their kidnappings, and his personal hell began.
Now, with his father dead, Castro wrote that he had been unable to bring himself to go see the man who had raised him. After the suicide, he once again found himself facing a media gauntlet.
"I had reporters, in revoltingly poor taste, seeking me out for a knee-jerk reaction, wanting to know the whereabouts of my father's remains, waiting for me outside the Franklin County coroner's office," Castro wrote. "I just wanted to get through those horrible days without NewsChannel 5 breathing down my neck."
But ultimately, he said, "I am not my father, and I can't explain his actions or be held accountable for something I never knew he was doing."
Castro wrote of feeling "horrified and disgusted and angered when I got the news of the unthinkable crimes my father committed," and said his father deserved to be punished. Now, he added, "my father's punishment is between he and his maker."


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The skin is a selectively permeable membrane. This means the body has some control over what substances pass through the skin's surface, and what substances are ushered out through sweat. Your baby's skin becomes more selectively permeable as she grows, but since the most marked difference in thickness seems to occur around the 30th week of gestation, the skin of premature babies can be so permeable that the baby can become easily dehydrated, infected and even accidentally poisoned. To prevent toxic exposure, be sure to avoid pollutants in the environment like chlorine from tap water and contaminants like 1,4-dioxane found in personal care products made from petroleum byproducts such as mineral oil.
Different skin types vary significantly in permeability – natural features, like thickness and skin color are important factors, as well as environmental considerations like humidity, temperature and level of hydration. Darker skin tends to be less permeable because it is thicker due to more layers of horny cells (the outermost layer of densely packed skin cells that eventually turn into keratin.)
As the skin thickens, its ability ward off unwanted ecological intruders improves, but it is not necessarily more effective at keeping toxins at bay. The skin's job to determine what substances should and should not pass through into the body has become exponentially more difficult. Since World War II, more than 87,000 new chemicals have been placed on the market, and more than 2,400 new chemicals are introduced yearly. Most of these are not properly tested for toxicity to the environment or human tissue before they are put into use.
The number of newborns experiencing skin disorders is on the rise, and the transdermal capabilities of skin can allow contaminants to enter the body at an alarming rate. Because the skin is susceptible to all kinds of environmental toxins, from ammonia in cleaning supplies to off-gassing from foam mattresses, parents need to be especially careful not to put toxins directly on the skin through toiletry products, bedding, and clothing. This awareness becomes even more important when deciding how to treat compromised skin that is dry or presents with a rash.
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Connecting with customers in today's digital world is a challenge. You have to remain relevant to your customers and profitable for your business, while delivering measurable results. Managing the customer experience from beginning to end can seem like an insurmountable task – unless you have the right technology to get the job done.
SAS solutions manage the customer journey across all channels, boosting customer satisfaction, reducing churn and increasing revenue. SAS Customer Intelligence 360 helps marketers create relevant customer experiences by infusing marketing decisions with valuable customer insights. For the third consecutive year, SAS is a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Analytics.
"Digital marketing is no longer a single customer interaction on a website. With this evolution, successful marketers rely on analytics to better understand their customers and pivot marketing strategies appropriately," said Wilson Raj, Global Director of Customer Intelligence for SAS. "We believe our continued leadership position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant showcases SAS' analytics pedigree, which helps marketers propel their customer intelligence efforts."
Through a comprehensive digital marketing analytics suite, SAS helps marketers address the full digital marketing analytics life cycle from data collection through to measurement - and gain real-time insights that help create personalized interactions across every channel.
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Honey Dishes
One of the most well-known traditions on Rosh Hashanah and on Shabbats during the Jewish month of Tishrei is the dipping of apples in honey and the recitation of a short prayer for a "sweet New Year." Because of this tradition that dates back hundreds of years, honey dishes have become Judaica items that are common and can be found in most Jewish homes.
Are you looking for a gift to give a loved one in honor of the New Year or for a unique way to decorate your holiday table? Consider a honey dish made from sterling silver or red stained glass that is shaped like a large apple and decorated with apples, Jerusalem and the phrase "Shana Tova" or "A good year" painted or engraved into its side. As an alternative, choose a honey dish made from porcelain that is shaped like an apple and has floral patterns on its exterior.
Honey Dishes can also take the form of small bowls. These bowls are often made from sterling silver and are decorated with Jewish themes. We at World of Judaica invite you to browse our selection of honey dish bowls that have the seven species, apples, Jerusalem and different phrases relating to the Jewish New Year engraved on the sides. Would you like to give a newly married couple a beautiful wedding gift? Consider a honey dish that is engraved with the couple's names and a wish for a happy, successful new year.
Browse our gallery of stunning honey bowls decorated with intricate designs. To learn more about Rosh Hashana and its significance in the Jewish calendar, browse our thorough education pages. If you have any questions about a product or if you are unable to find the answer to your question, please feel free to contact us via email, phone or live chat and a customer service representative will be happy to address your concerns.
Honey Dishes Guide
Rosh Hashanah is a day of repentance, but it is also a happy day. We crown God as our Merciful King and are excited to begin a new year of good deeds and positive experiences. Much of this day's joy is reflected in the assorted foods we eat. For example, we eat pomegranate and ask to be fruitful and multiply like the pomegranate seeds; we dip the Challah bread in honey before blessing over it; and, of course, we dip an apple in a honey dish and ask God to make this year extra sweet.
What is a Honey Dish?
Honey dishes are serving pieces that are used to serve the honey that apples are dipped into during the Rosh HaShana meal.
Material Used
Honey Dishes are usually made of ceramic, glass or sterling silver. Silver honey dishes tend to be more expensive than other materials, but despite this Sterling silver-fanatics remain undeterred. For example, a 4? honey dish can cost hundreds of dollars. However, ceramic and glass are also quite popular are often molded to look like apples and are decorated with them.
Honey dishes come in various colors and shapes, most popularly that of an apple. Apple-shaped honey dishes are often bright red with a matching lid, very often complete with a green leaf on top. Of course, it also comes with a matching spoon. Honey is very sticky and you don't want it to spill on the table, and Judaica stores and artists know that. Therefore, many honey dishes also come with matching saucers.
Lately, a popular trend is seen in more and more homes: serving honey in a number of miniature apple & honey dishes. For example, you can find an adorable set of four pewter hand-enameled miniature apple honey dishes with matching leaf spoons for a very affordable price. These are not only useful when there are a few guests at the table, but they are so stunning that, while they are not used at the table, they can be used as accessories for the living room!
Many Judaica stores offer honey dishes with an added bonus. As you can probably guess, the most common one is a jar of honey. Additionally, while most honey dishes come with a matching spoon, some people, and especially children, like their honey with a wood dipper. Since everyone loves apple dipped in honey, honey dishes with a matching wood dipper or leaf-shaped spoon are great gifts for the holiday, house-warming and many other occasions.
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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb freshman distance runner Kendra Lobley has been named the Atlantic Sun Female Most Outstanding Freshman Performer for the 2012 outdoor campaign, the conference office announced Thursday.
Lobley earned two A-Sun titles at last weekend's Outdoor Championships. She broke the school 3000m steeplechase record on the first day of the event, earning gold with a 10:32.79s run that broke the previous conference-best by nearly five seconds and the school record by more than 30 seconds. She was the only freshman in the top-10 in the steeple.
The Poland, Maine native won gold again on the second day of competition, dusting the 5000m run field by nearly 13 seconds with a 17:16.69s mark.
"She's had an amazing freshman campaign in every way," said Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor. "I was hoping she would get that honor; I felt like she deserved it. Apparently, the other coaches in the conference felt that way too.
"That was a pretty extraordinary double for her at conference. She's had a freshman of the year-type season and we're very proud of her."
Lobley owns three school-records after just one spring of competition for the Lady Bisons. In addition to the steeplechase mark, she owns the 5K record (16:41.84s) and the 3000m run (9:40.80s).
Lobley ranks second in the A-Sun in the 5K and first in the steeple based on times. Her steeplechase mark is nearly 20 seconds better than any other time posted by an A-Sun athlete this season.
Lobley's marks are reflected in the regional standings and give her aspirations of reaching the NCAA East Regional and beyond. She ranks 67th in the East Region in the 5K and 37th in the steeplechase; the top 48 athletes qualify for regional competition.
Among freshmen, Lobley is third in the East in the steeple and eighth in the 5000m run.
On the national scene, she ranks 64th in the steeplechase and fifth among freshmen.
"She's by far the most advanced freshman I've ever coached," Taylor said. "She's got a load of talent. We take the credit for the system, the coaching and the team but Kendra has figured things out as far as maturity and race tactics. She deserves a load of credit for developing herself mentally."
Jacksonville's Akeela Bravo was named Most Outstanding Field Athlete of the Year, while North Florida's Brianna Frazier took the track honor. Jacksonville's Ron Grigg took home Coach of the Year honors.
Lobley and a number of her Lipscomb teammates will be at the Oxy Invite in Los Angeles next weekend, looking to improve their marks in hopes of reaching the May 24 regional round.


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Schwartz Authors New Book, Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Janelle Schwartz is the author of a new book, Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism, published this month by University of Minnesota Press.
The publisher's website describes the book: "Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous and multiform worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in anthropocentric anxiety. So there is always something muddled, or dirty, or even offensive when talking about worms. Rehabilitating the lowly worm into a powerful aesthetic trope, Janelle A. Schwartz proposes a new framework for understanding such a strangely animate nature. Worms, she declares, are the very matter with which the Romantics rethought the relationship between a material world in constant flux and the human mind working to understand it.
"Worm Work studies the lesser-known natural historical records of Abraham Trembley and his contemporaries and the familiar works of Erasmus and Charles Darwin, William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats to expose the worm as an organism not only reviled as a taxonomic terror but revered as a sign of great order in nature as well as narrative. This book traces a pattern of cultural production, a vermiculture that is as transformative of matter as it is of mind. It distinguishes decay or division as positive processes in Romantic era writings, compounded by generation or renewal and used to represent the biocentric, complex structuring of organicism.
"Offering the worm as an archetypal figure through which to recast the evolution of a literary order alongside questions of taxonomy from 1740 to 1820 and on, Schwartz unearths Romanticism as a rich humus of natural historical investigation and literary creation."


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UNICEF invites you to take a stand by taking a seat during the UNICEF Tap Project! When you dine out at a participating restaurant between March 19-25, you'll be invited to donate a minimum of $1 for the tap water you would normally be served for free. For every dollar raised, a child will have clean water for 40 days.
Clean water is essential, yet nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to it—and nearly half of those people are children. In alignment with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, UNICEF is working with its partners to reduce the number of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation by 50% by 2015, which will also save children at risk from waterborne illnesses, the second highest cause of preventable childhood deaths. Every day, 4,000 children die from waterborne illnesses, and UNICEF is committed to doing whatever it takes to make that number zero.
Since its inception in 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project has raised nearly $3 million in the U.S. and has helped provide clean water for millions of children globally. In its sixth year, the UNICEF Tap Project has become a dynamic movement that affords everyone the opportunity to help provide the world's children with safe, clean water. The 2012 UNICEF Tap Project Funds will specifically target Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and Cameroon.
We've rounded up participating restaurants in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. Make a restaurant reservation now and donate $1 to do your part to support the UNICEF Tap Project!


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Gudda Gudda Gets His Chain Snatched In Minnesota, Jumps In Crowd To Get It Back & Nightclub Turns Into Brawl!
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Michael Cohen met with a Kremlin-connected Russian billionaire in Manhattan 11 days before President Trump's inauguration to discuss their mutual interest in improving U.S.-Russia relations, according to a report.
Cohen, Trump's longtime personal fixer and attorney, facilitated the Jan. 9, 2017 meeting in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower to talk foreign policy with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch whose closeness to the Kremlin landed him on the Treasury Department's sanctions list earlier this year, Vekselberg's cousin told the New York Times.
The cousin, Andrew Intrater, attended the Trump Tower sit-down and described it as brief and casual. He also said Cohen and Vekselberg made plans to meet again at Trump's inauguration.
Intrater's private investment firm, Columbus Nova, awarded Cohen a $1 million consulting contract shortly after Trump's inauguration, which is under scrutiny from federal investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Vekselberg is Intrater's biggest client and invests in business ventures on his behalf.
Intrater told The Times Vekselberg played no role in hiring Cohen as a consultant. In hindsight, Intrater said he wishes he would have never contracted Cohen because of the legal trouble the Trump attorney has found himself in.
"Obviously, if I'd known in January 2017 that I was about to hire this high-profile guy who'd wind up in this big mess, I wouldn't have introduced him to my biggest client, and wouldn't have hired him at all," Intrater said.
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen for bank and wire fraud. He's also facing scrutiny over potential campaign finance violations as it relates to a hush payment he issued to porn star Stormy Daniels after she threatened to go public with claims she had sex with Trump in 2006.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who's investigating possible collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin, has also shown interest in Cohen's business dealings.
It's unclear if Trump was aware of Cohen's meeting with Vekselberg. A White House spokesman did not return a request for comment. Cohen's attorney did not respond to emailed questions.
The meeting adds yet another tangent to Trump's various connections to Russia.
The President's eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., hosted a meeting at Trump Tower during the campaign attended by a Kremlin-tied Russian lawyer who had promised political dirt on Hillary Clinton. That meeting has drawn sharp scrutiny from Mueller and congressional committees probing Russia's role in Trump's election.


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Hello there,
Got a question concerning the EN_AdminGroup with 'Queue' mode turned on... we have a <user> we use for a scheduled task to run the DeliveryScript.pl file. This user is in the "Email_Admin" group and the user database has been 'upgraded' with this group. We created a udb_property of EN_AdminGroup with a value of "Email_Admin". Still, when executing the DeliveryScript.pl file from command line we get the error:
Permission Denied. This function can only be called by a user with SuperUser privilege or from a schema hook script. At include_1.6\EN_Notification.pl line 541.
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Vote for Babe of the Week — Nicolette, Denise, Tina, Audrey, Emily, Ali and Case
We've got a lot of variety this week: from actresses to costume models to former UFC babes, our contestants run the gamut but have one thing in common: babeliness.
Only one of these six stunning ladies can be named Babe of the Week and go on to fight for the title of Babe of the Month. Click their names to check out even more hot pics of each lady and then cast your vote at the bottom!
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Starkville, Miss. - Tennessee State lost both games Saturday afternoon at the MSU Bulldog Kickoff Classic. The Tigers led early, but saw Troy comeback and steal a 7-3 victory. In game two, it was Mississippi State earning a six inning, 8-0 win. TSU has started the season 0-3, while Troy improved to 2-2 and MSU climbed to 2-1.
In the first game, the Tigers struck first with three runs in the top of the third inning. Freshmen Kiarra Freeman and Jayna Hanawahine led off the inning with back-to-back singles. After both runners advanced a base on a sacrifice bunt, fellow freshman Lindsey Burgess grounded to short giving Freeman a chance to break for home. Freeman beat the play to the plate and gave TSU an early 1-0 lead. Two batters later, sophomore Kate Morris dropped a two-out single into left center to bring home Hanawahine and Burgess.
Troy started to chip away at the Tiger lead with a run in each of the third and fourth innings. Starter Olivia Gamache (0-1) saw her lead slip away as the Trojans scored three unearned runs in the fifth inning for a 5-3 lead. Two more Trojan runs in the sixth provided the final score.
Morris finished 1-for-2 with a walk and two RBI, while Ashley Haynes was 1-for-2 with two sacrifices. Freeman scored a run as she was 1-for-2 with a sacrifice.
Hanawahine recorded the fourth hit for TSU and was 1-for-3 with a run and was hit by a pitch.
The second game started as a pitcher's duel for the first four and a half innings, as both pitchers refused to allow a hit until freshman Brianna Roberts delivered a two-out single into center in the top of the fourth inning. The hard line drive was the first career hit for the Culloeka product.
Pitcher Shea Morris (0-2) cruised through the first four innings not allowing a hit and surrendering just one walk, while fanning five Bulldog batters. But MSU took advantage of a couple of Tiger miscues to explode for six runs in the fifth inning. The SEC opponent added two more in the sixth to close out the game in six innings.
Roberts claimed the lone hit for TSU and added a walk in a 1-for-2 performance.
The Tigers will conclude play in Starkville on Sunday at 1 pm against Georgia State. Live action can be heard on tsutigers.com.


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Best movie ever! Love musicals, just simply amazing. Love every song and the dancing is incredible also. If this movie bores you, you have no taste.
Wonderful story with many unexpected twists! I loved all of it.
Only movie I have EVER watched '5' times!!
Absolutely AMAZING job by director, and all of the cast gave 100%! I LOVED IT!!!
Absolutely wonderful movie. I am going to see it again for the 4th time. Wonderful uplifting story with terrific music that leaves you in a joyful, happy mood.
It was good but did not expect it to be a musical. Reminded me a lot of La La Land but I knew that was a musical. Would have preferred much more dialogue and much less singing. Otherwise, a touching show that was well done and wholesome. Proves again that crude language, sexual content , and violence are not necessary for a good film.
AWESOME! Love it. Loved the music, story, costumes and the dancing! Everyone did a great job! Can't wait to watch it again!
Simply magical! Amazing cinematography, beautiful music, spellbinding choreography, everything about this movie just engulfed me!
esta super increible la pelicula
this show was awesome really enjoyed the characters and the story.
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Behind this championship game, however, is an interesting story. Namely that the five-time champions had senior Ashley Stewart, a 2012 Dover-Sherborn High School graduate and defender on its team, and the newly minted champions of Middlebury College fielded freshman Alex White, a 2015 Dover-Sherborn graduate, also in a defensive field position.
The battle for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 3 women's lacrosse championship was a tough one, with Middlebury College emerging victorious against a strong Trinity College team by a score of 9-5.
The Trinity Bantams had won five straight titles, and the Middlebury win broke this streak on Sunday, May 29.
Behind this championship game, however, is an interesting story. Namely that the five-time champions had senior Ashley Stewart, a 2012 Dover-Sherborn High School graduate and defender on its team, and the newly minted champions of Middlebury College fielded freshman Alex White, a 2015 Dover-Sherborn graduate, also in a defensive field position.
Stewart, 22, was a three-year starter for Trinity and three-time Division 3 All-American; she had won three New England Small College Athletic Conference titles with Trinity.
They were both Academic All-Stars as Dover-Sherborn seniors as well.
White aided Middlebury in winning the NESCAC championship in Philadelphia, but for her it was also about something else: the love of the sport.
She made the decision to try out for the Middlebury College lacrosse team because of that passion.
White said, "I have always loved playing lacrosse and thought it would be a fun way to meet new people and enrich my college career."
She said playing college lacrosse is fulfilling because "you get to meet a bunch of upperclassmen and people you might not have otherwise."
White said a strong bond develops with one's teammates.
She said, "By spending hours and hours together every day, we all became extremely close, and it was especially fun winning such a big game with 29 of my best friends."
Stewart expressed a similar sentiment about playing on the Trinity College team.
Of the camaraderie, she said, "For me, it was about having 30 other girls you cared about."
She added that part of playing lacrosse is "pushing yourself to go that extra mile" and finding people who want to work toward a common goal.
They work together to achieve that goal, according to Stewart.
She noted, "There's a leadership aspect to it."
The foundation for these two players was laid in the Dover-Sherborn lacrosse program.
Stewart said she began playing offense as an attacker on the field, but playing on the high school team changed her gameplay.
She noted, "Playing for Dover-Sherborn definitely shaped how I play."
In particular, Stewart worked with Erin Newton and Katelyn Barry, who coached her at Dover-Sherborn, to transition to defense.
Stewart's love of playing on the team contributed to her decision to try out as a walk-on player at Trinity.
Stewart said, "I love the sport. I love the camaraderie that comes with the sport."
The program at Trinity College was attractive to Stewart because they had a strong team and had captured a title that year.
She said, "I definitely wanted to be a part of that."
On a tour of the school, Stewart ran into a familiar face from Dover-Sherborn in Kate Livesay, who now coaches at Middlebury College.
Stewart contacted Livesay, who encouraged her to try out for the Trinity College team.
The next time she saw Livesay was at the tryouts in February of her spring semester, which lasted three days.
Of making the team, Stewart said, "It felt very good."
She was one of four members of the 2016 Trinity team who joined the team as walk-ons in their freshman year.
She explained meeting another Dover-Sherborn alumna on the field is not unusual as there are "a lot of Dover-Sherborn players" in the division.
And, although she said once the games starts the focus is on playing and other things fade away for her, there is a chance to catch up with fellow Dover-Sherborn players after the game.
Stewart said, "It is nice to see a friendly face."
White played lacrosse for her entire high school career and club lacrosse for Mass Elite.
She said, "In fact, Ashley Stewart was my senior captain for my freshman year at Dover-Sherborn."
Going head-to-head with Stewart on the lacrosse field was "pretty exciting because Ashley has always been a really great role model for me."
White reached out to Stewart the night before trying out for Middlebury, and Stewart was helpful in giving her advice on "how to stand out and go the extra mile" at tryouts.
She said, "I know it sounds incredibly cheesy, but she was my inspiration for trying out for the Middlebury team since she was such an influential and important player on the Trinity team as a walk-on."
Stewart said it was great that she had such a positive influence on younger players at Dover-Sherborn as a tri-captain with Dana Swaffield and Andrea Marx.
She added, "I remember that the captains of my freshman year really made sure that every single teammate understood that they were important parts of the team, regardless of age. That's what Dana, Andrea and I tried to achieve when we were seniors, to make sure, regardless of age, everyone felt included and valued on the team."
Stewart said she was flattered to be considered a mentor in White's pursuit of playing college lacrosse.
She noted, "It's always so fun to compete against other Tri-Valley League players, especially when they were your teammates in high school. I wish her the best in her college career."
Stewart reflected on her wins at Trinity, but is looking forward as well, in terms of her career.
She said, "Those titles are really important."
She called the conference that Middlebury and Trinity plays in "one of the toughest conferences."
In fact, winning takes a lot of teamwork because it is so competitive.
At the end of the day, however, she said, "It's just an honor to hold up that trophy at the end of the game."
Stewart's goal in terms of her career is to use her bachelor's degree in economics and studies in international relations to work for a nonprofit organization and make a difference.
She said, "I want to do something that benefits others."
Stewart hopes to get her master's degree and to work in the economics field in the meantime.
As for advice for any aspiring college lacrosse players, Stewart said, "My advice for any high school player who hopes to play lacrosse in college is to stay determined and dedicated, act in the best interests of your teammates, love the game and take advantage of every opportunity to play."
Of her title with Middlebury, White said it felt "amazing" that all the hard work she put in during the season paid off with the championship.
She added, "Middlebury obviously has been an incredible program, and it was so exciting to know that I would be a part of the Middlebury women's lacrosse team and tradition."
As she just completed her freshman year at Middlebury, next up for White are her studies and of course, playing lacrosse for Middlebury.
White plans to major in political science with a minor in psychology.
In terms of lacrosse, she looks forward to having "another incredible season next year" and going all the way to another championship.
Although she said there will be players graduating this year, she noted that other great players will step up to the challenge.
White said, "The team grows and develops in different ways."
She is excited to see where the team goes next season and in the future.
White noted, "Our coaches, KP Livesay and Alice Lee, are such amazing mentors and teachers, and they will definitely have great ideas for which direction to take the team in."
She added, "It will definitely be exciting to see what happens in the future for our program."
All in all, she expressed her joy playing for Middlebury.
White said, "It was just a super exciting experience, and I am honored to play for the Middlebury women's lacrosse team."


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Bennet, Udall to host deficit forum
Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall will host a bipartisan forum in Denver April 8 with Alan Simpson to discuss the nation's fiscal condition.
Colorado's Common Sense Forum on the Nation's Debt and Deficit Crisis, as it's called, will feature an array of speakers such as former Colorado U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, former U.S. Rep. David Skaggs and Alice M. Rivlin, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton.
The event will be held at the University of Colorado-Denver with Simpson, co-chair of the Presidential Fiscal Commission. Last year, the Fiscal Commission submitted a plan to Congress that proposed reductions to discretionary spending, changes to entitlement programs and tax reform to reduce the country's deficit. However, the proposal failed to receive the votes needed for Congressional consideration.
Still, both Bennet and Udall have called for the proposal to be sent to Congress for debate and a yes or no vote. Earlier this month, Bennet teamed with Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) leading 62 other senators in calling on President Obama to include a comprehensive deficit reduction package in any budgetary negotiations.


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JHotDraw is a Java GUI framework for technical and structured Graphics. It has been developed as a "design exercise" but is already quite powerful. Its design relies heavily on some well-known design patterns. JHotDraw's original authors have been Erich Gamma and Thomas Eggenschwiler.
There is a JHotDraw 6.0 beta 1 release available for download!
You find the project page under http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jhotdraw.
It includes a download page with an index of all releases and several discussion forums about JHotDraw-related topics.
The aim of making JHotDraw an open-source project is:
to gain a wider audience for this framework among developers
to build new applications based upon JHotDraw
to let application development influence the development of JHotDraw
to add new and advanced features
to drive its further development
to port JHotDraw to new Java GUI toolkits
to enhance and refactor the exisiting code
to identify new design patterns and refactorings
to make it an example for a well-designed and flexible framework
to examine the relevance of new Java APIs to JHotDraw (e.g. usefulness of Java 2D API for JHotDraw)
to learn and to have fun
Any developer and software designer who wants to contribute is welcome! Please have a look at the list of applications that have been built using JHotDraw.
latest version to download: JHotDraw
6.0 beta 1
You can download the latest packaged version (currently version 5.3) or earlier versions (most notably 5.2).
There is a new JHotDraw 6.0 beta 1 release available which uses the new package structure of "org.jhotdraw" instead of the old "CH.ifa.draw" package structure. This release is identical to the 5.4 beta 2 release except for the package structure. Both give you a preview of some up-coming features.
JavaWorld published an introductionary article "Become a programming Picasso with JHotDraw". The accompanying example application JModeller - a simple UML editor built using JHotDraw - shows some of the described design patterns and demonstrates how to use and extend existing classes. An updated version of JModeller is compatible with JHotDraw 5.3. Furthermore, JHotDraw 5.4b1 requires some changes as well (many thanks to Christian Ullenboom and Peter Morch for their updates). The most recent version of JModeller is a CVS snapshot and is based on JHotDraw 6.0.
Besides the documentation which is included in the download package more information about the internal architecture of JHotDraw and guidance for using the JHotDraw can be found here:
A description of the design patterns used in JHotDraw in the form of a pattern language by Douglas Kirk. Especially, the pattern index in form of a clickable pattern map shows the relation of different patterns.
A case study about an older version of JHotDraw can be found in the dissertation of Dirk Riehle.
The results to the survey "Applications for JHotDraw" may give you some impressions about the usability and applicability of the JHotDraw framework to your requirements. Of course, the result serves as starting point for our further development as well. Please note that some of the problems and difficulties related to the framework have been removed already.
JHotDraw is hosted on SourceForge. You can have a look at the internal JHotDraw developer web page and register as developer at SourceForge. Please contact one of the admins for the JHotDraw project to get added as a developer.
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(Cooking Light) -- Summer means outdoor activities and more cookouts, so it also means more hamburgers.
But a good burger doesn't have to be oversized or loaded up with condiments to be tasty. Here's a recipe that cuts the fat but brings out the flavor.
Two secrets to the perfect burger are contained in this recipe: Salt the meat and let rest so the salt can penetrate, and shape lightly into patties that just barely hold together for a tender final product.
A horseradish-mustard-mayo-ketchup sauce and bacon-caramelized onion relish for toppings don't hurt, either.
These take a bit longer than your standard burger, but the magnificent results are worth it.
Serving size: Four burgers
Patties: 1 pound ground sirloin
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
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Horseradish spread:
1 tablespoon canola mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
2 teaspoons ketchup
2 applewood-smoked bacon slices, chopped
3 cups vertically sliced yellow onion
1 tablespoon finely chopped chives
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Other ingredients:
Cooking spray
4 (1 1/2-ounce) hamburger buns or Kaiser rolls
4 (1/4-inch-thick) tomato slices
1 cup shredded lettuce
(About 70 minutes)
1. To prepare the patties, divide beef into four portions, lightly shaping each into a 1/2-inch-thick patty. Sprinkle evenly with salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
2. To prepare horseradish spread, combine mayonnaise and next three ingredients (through ketchup) in a small bowl. Set aside.
3. To prepare relish, cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan with a slotted spoon. Add onion to drippings in pan; cook 15 minutes or until golden brown. Combine bacon, onion mixture, chives, Worcestershire sauce, and pepper in a small bowl.
4. Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add patties; cook two minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness.
5. Spread 1 1/2 teaspoons horseradish spread on cut sides of each bun half.
6. Top bottom half of each bun with 1 patty, 1/4 cup relish, 1 tomato slice, 1/4 cup lettuce, and top half of bun.
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Nutritional Information
Calories: 351
Fat: 12g (sat 3.5g, mono 3.4g, poly 3.2g)
Protein: 29.2g
Carbohydrate: 32.7g
Fiber: 3g
Cholesterol: 66mg
Iron: 3.7mg
Sodium: 788mg
Calcium: 91mg
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea warned South Korea's new president to "watch her tongue" on Wednesday, as tension between the two sides mounts, reprising the kind of vitriolic language that it dished out to her predecessor on a regular basis.
North Korea has in recent days threatened the United States with nuclear war and rehearsed drone attacks on South Korea, prompting Washington, involved in military drills with the South, to say it is ready for any contingency.
Park Geun-hye, South Korea's first female president, marked the third anniversary of the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors by calling on the impoverished North to abandon its nuclear ambitions to save its starving people.
The South, backed by an international commission, blames a North Korean torpedo attack for the sinking although Pyongyang denies it was responsible.
"The owner of Cheongwadae (South Korea's presidential office) had better... watch her tongue," North Korea's official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as saying.
North Korea has made no secret of its hatred for Park and earlier this month referred to the "venomous swish" of her skirt.
Tension between the two Koreas has risen sharply since the North conducted its third nuclear test in February, just days before Park took office, in a move that triggered new sanctions against Pyongyang.
North Korea regularly attacked Park's predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, with bellicose rhetoric. It referred to Lee, who cut off aid to Pyongyang during his five years in office, as a "rat-bastard" and shot and hanged him in effigy.
Park, 61, put the building of a new relationship with Pyongyang at the centre of her 2012 election campaign, but has always said that any improvement in relations depended on the North giving up nuclear weapons.
North and South Korea are still technically at war after their 1950-53 civil conflict ended with an armistice, not a treaty, which the North has since said it has torn to pieces.
Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Nick Macfie


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text: The attractive-but-you-can't-tell-why Jeremy Renner will be hosting SNL this weekend with musical guests Maroon 5, making this the most bro-y lineup the show has had all season. Whether he's a bro or not, there's something so darn likable about Renner. Remember when he was just a struggling actor on Bravo's The It Factor? And now he's hosting Saturday Night Live! Let's get excited like we actually know him.


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Panel: Ditch Cover Oregon online exchange, switch to federal
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) After months of deliberation over what to do with Oregon's botched online health exchange, an advisory panel on Thursday recommended that the state drop its trouble-plagued online health exchange for private policies and have Oregonians instead shop for them on the federal online marketplace.
A top Cover Oregon official, Alex Pettit, said fixing the existing system would be too costly at $78 million, would take too long to implement, and would be too risky. He said switching to the federal system would cost $4 million to $6 million.
Oregon would continue using its current technology for Medicaid enrollments, but not for people who are buying private policies.
The full Cover Oregon board on Friday will take up the recommendation, which comes nearly seven months after Oregon's online site was supposed to go live.
Oregon's exchange is seen as the worst of the more than a dozen states that developed their own online health insurance marketplaces. The state is the only one where the general public still can't use an online enrollment system to sign up for coverage in one sitting despite an early start building the site and millions of dollars from the federal government.
The website was supposed to go live Oct. 1, but Cover Oregon and the technology vendor that built it, Oracle Corp., have been unable to work out all the glitches. Instead, Oregonians must use a costly, time-consuming, hybrid paper-online process to sign up for insurance.
The state has spent nearly $7 million on the paper processing efforts, in addition to $134 million in federal funding paid to Oracle.
Oregon was the only state to receive a monthlong enrollment extension because of the technology problems.
The federal Government Accountability Office has announced an investigation of Oregon's exchange, including looking at whether the federal government can reclaim grant money given to Cover Oregon if taxpayer funds were mismanaged.
Separately, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked for an inspector general's investigation into problems with the rollout of the health care law.
An independent investigation ordered by Gov. John Kitzhaber found state managers repeatedly failed to heed reports about technical problems that prevented the exchange from launching. It also found that Oracle did a shoddy job in building the exchange. Four Oregon officials connected to the development of the Cover Oregon portal have resigned.
Kitzhaber has insisted that communications about the portal's troubles never reached him as the planned Oct. 1 launch neared.
So far, about 240,000 Oregonians have enrolled in coverage through Cover Oregon. More than 69,000 of those enrolled in private health plans, while 171,000 enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan, the state's version of Medicaid.
An independent investigation ordered by Gov. John Kitzhaber found state managers repeatedly failed to heed reports about technical problems that prevented the exchange from launching. It also found that Cover Oregon's main technology contractor, Oracle Corp., did a shoddy job in building the exchange. Four Oregon officials connected to the portal's development have resigned.
Cover Oregon has paid $134 million in federal funding to Oracle and has spent another nearly $7 million on the paper processing efforts.
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Judge Rules P2P Legal In Spain Yet Again
from the proper-liability-placement dept
Of course, this isn't over by a long shot. Late last year, entertainment industry lobbyists got Spanish politicians to propose new copyright laws that would (of course) ratchet up copyright to make it more like it is in other countries (i.e., more draconian). And, as we recently noted, a bunch of Spanish record labels have sued the gov't for not doing enough to stop file sharing. But, hopefully, this country that has explicitly rejected three strikes laws will stick to its guns and recognize that perhaps the court rulings make sense -- and that the first response to an industry unwilling to adapt to a technologically-changed market isn't to change the laws, but to ask those companies to start adapting.


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Halifax Regional Health System to merge with Sentara Healthcare
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South Boston-based Halifax Regional Health System has agreed to merge with Norfolk-based Sentara Healthcare.
Halifax Regional includes a a 192-bed hospital, three long-term care facilities comprising 348 beds, including The Woodview, Seasons at The Woodview and MeadowView Terrace, Halifax Home Health and Halifax Regional Hospice, and the Physician Hospital Enterprise.
Halifax Regional officials said merging with Sentara will strengthen its physician and staff recruitment and retention efforts, enhance computer and technology upgrades, clinical services expansion and quality improvement initiatives and enable the purchase of expensive supplies and equipment at a lower cost.
"Sentara is an excellent health system with a solid reputation for providing outstanding services to its patients. We are thrilled to partner with this outstanding organization to ensure HRHS can continue to meet the healthcare needs of our community and region and offer even more services than before," David H. White, Jr., chairman of the Halifax Regional 36-member board of directors, said in a statement.
The board has been studying health care trends, talking with industry experts and colleagues, and exploring partnership and affiliation options for over 18 months before deciding to merge with Sentara. Hospitals across Virginia and the country are increasingly looking for relationships with one another as a means to share or reduce costs, increase the variety of clinical services they offer and ensure the long-term mission of the organization is achieved. Halifax Regional Health System is one of only seven independent hospitals remaining in Virginia.
"After more than 18 months of considering a number of strategic partnerships, we were presented with an opportunity to secure the long-term success of our health system and enhance the services offered to our community and region by merging with Sentara. We knew it was a positive step we should take," Chris A. Lumsden, CEO of Halifax Regional, said in a statement. "We couldn't sit idly by watching trends in the healthcare industry and not thoughtfully examine ways to strengthen our outstanding health system. Sentara is an exceptional organization that has an excellent reputation inside and outside Virginia. We are convinced our merger with Sentara will be positive and yield long-term benefits to both organizations and to the patients we serve."
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The Hangover Part III
It started as a challenge. A patently absurd challenge. Could one writer keep up with a real-life Wolf Pack—comic star Aziz Ansari, top chef David Chang, and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy—as the hipster trinity partied through Tokyo, arguably the food capital of the world? (It's definitely the drunk-karaoke capital.) Brett Martin remembers what happened next. Most of it
Jet lag is a funny thing. It plays tricks on the mind. For instance, right now I could swear that I'm crammed into a tiny karaoke room on an upper floor of a building somewhere in Tokyo. The narrow table is covered end to end with empty bottles of Asahi beer and Zima, jugs of whiskey and vodka, buckets of ice, huge clear-plastic bags of luridly colored Japanese candy. There are about ten of us in here, packed thigh to thigh on the U-shaped banquette, under a ceiling of peeling geometrically patterned wallpaper that seems to strobe in the fluorescent light. That's not including the trio of waitresses in tiny fur-trimmed Mrs. Santa Claus dresses, peering in curiously from the door. All this is more or less plausible. The strange part is what we're all staring at, to all appearances a surrealist pop-culture mash-up, bizarre even by the standards of a country known for bizarreness: the comedian and actor Aziz Ansari (of Parks and Recreation), the musician James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem), and the chef David Chang (of Momofuku), in suits, arm in arm, belting out A-Ha's "Take On Me."
But that can't be right. I mean, who drinks Zima?
It began with a photo: three men, snapped from the waist up. On the left, Chang, rosy cheeked and grinning. On the right, Murphy, gray bearded and Zen, raising one hand in a gesture of mahalo. Between them, a head shorter, with one arm on each of the others' shoulders, Ansari, mouth and eyes wide open in his trademark "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?" gape. The three were at The Breslin, at New York's Ace Hotel, for the afterparty of an Arcade Fire show; none were especially sober. Ansari tweeted the photo with a message: "David Chang, @lcdsoundsystem, and myself want to go to Tokyo and eat food. Can some magazine/Travel Channel pay."
To be clear: We are not accustomed, here at GQ, to acting as a celebrity Make-A-Wish Foundation. But something about this tweet captured our attention. The grouping was unlikely, yet it made an instant kind of cosmic sense, as though you had been waiting for the picture long before it appeared. The Venn diagram of their fame might have a small overlap—I found that most people knew two of the three—but that intersection was a particular pocket of smart, inventive, forward-looking cool. The destination, too, made a certain intuitive sense, Tokyo being both a fun-house mirror of pop-culture iconography and a place where generations of Western seekers have gone to feel both reverently awed and gloriously disoriented.
And so, a week before Christmas, I found Chang in a business-class lounge at JFK. He informed me that for our upcoming flight to Narita, where we would meet up with Ansari and Murphy, he'd just downed a cocktail of pills, timed to kick in upon takeoff. "I just hope we're not delayed," he said, "or you're gonna have to carry me to the plane."
That was not half as frightening as the next thing he told me, which was that he was afraid: Ansari, not yet 30, is a coiled wire of comedic energy and late-night stamina; Murphy may be 40, but he's also a rock star, with a rock star's ability to go till dawn. Chang was not sure he could hang. This was worrisome, because Chang is a chef, not a profession known for teetotaling. Later he would tell me matter-of-factly that his preferred cure for a really bad hangover was to check into the nearest emergency room for intravenous rehydration. If Chang was concerned about what was to come, I was terrified.
In varying states of bleariness—Ansari had arrived from Los Angeles, Murphy from Shanghai—we converged fourteen hours later in the vaulted lobby of the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, a sleek monolith with whisper-soft elevators hurtling forty stories up, toward vertiginous views of the surrounding neighborhood of Shibuya. By name and appearance, the place belonged in Lando Calrissian's Cloud City.
We trundled into a taxi, handed the white-gloved driver a paper scrawled with indecipherable directions by our concierge, and went shooting down a long neon-lit avenue toward Setagaya Ward. Even if you're accustomed to a big city like New York, it's hard not to get overwhelmed by Tokyo's mile after mile of intensely vertical density. It's a sprawl of Times Squares, punctuated by multiple city centers—Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza. Every room in the city feels like an adaptation to that crushing crowdedness, an attempt to carve out spaces that are either tiny and nichelike, hidden out of sight, or exclusive in more traditional ways—like our destination that night, a members-only dining club, Yakumo Saryo.
We turned into a hilly neighborhood of smaller shops and houses. Several blocks later, a waiter in a flowing white apron suddenly appeared, apparitionlike, in the headlights. He waved the car over, and we followed him down the street and through a gate marked only with a hanging flag bearing a symbol that looked like a cross between a crab and an inverted fleur-de-lis.
Inside we were ushered into a rectangular room seemingly constructed entirely from perfectly sanded, unfinished blond wood—a space where Basho and whoever founded Ikea might get lost in each other's eyes. A silent chef labored over small, precise dishes in the style of the traditional, elaborate Japanese tea ceremony, or kaiseki. Each arrived at the table accompanied by an explanatory piece of rice paper the size of a fortune-cookie fortune.
I looked around the table. Ansari's passion for food had been the force that brought this triumvirate together. When confronted with an especially delicious bite of something, he would go into sensory-deprivation mode, bowing his head, closing his eyes, and folding his arms inward as though shutting down, the better to focus on the taste. Sometimes he would even start to shake a little.
Chang, Ansari, and Murphy, anime-ed
Murphy and Chang knew each other only slightly. But both had found themselves, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, responsible for large, sprawling businesses—Chang the ever expanding empire of Momofuku restaurants, which have been at the vanguard of casual/fine dining in New York, Murphy both the perpetually touring LCD Soundsystem and his independent label, DFA Records. Both wore their more obsessive, perfectionist neuroses on their sleeves, though Murphy projected the hard-won calm of a handsome, aging Irish barfly, while Chang, a decade younger, could seem as tightly wound as a taiko drum. Their kinship on this trip seemed instant.
"My dad would say like two things a year to me, and they'd be mean," said Murphy as we tucked into a delicate handkerchief of raw sea bream.
"That was very Korean of him," said Chang.
Our mission, we decided over lumps of red and green tea-flavored mochi ice cream that resembled unfired balls of clay, was to seek out those moments in which Japan manages, in its sublime Japaneseness, to exceed even one's most exaggerated expectations. Before dinner was over, I'd already had two:_ (1) We'd eaten something truly transcendent: a Kyoto daikon, beveled and lathed into a shape like a piece of smooth industrial machinery, simmered in seaweed broth until achieving the uniform texture of custard and served in a simple white bowl atop a clear pool of bonito dashi. And (2)_ I'd been momentarily startled by the mouth of the men's-room toilet swinging open to greet me, in what I believe was a gesture of goodwill rather than menace. Everything you've heard about Japanese toilets is true: I did not have time to push every button on this commode's war-room-size operations panel, but I'm pretty sure one activated a mechanical arm that would reach up and gently palpate your bladder while playing soft, cooing lullabies. From then on, I would have a new shorthand to describe the kind of experience we were after: "Toilet Moments."
We were standing on the sidewalk, blinking in the winter sun, heatedly debating where to eat lunch. Deciding on ramen hardly settled the matter, ramen taxonomy—chicken versus pork broth, miso versus soy-sauce base, and so on—being one of the more serious matters to occupy Japanophiles. Years before, Chang had spent a not-very-happy, mostly penurious nine months working in Tokyo and slurping widely in noodle shops around town. Now he proposed a small chain called Ramen Jiro.
"What style is it?" Murphy asked.
"It's its own thing," Chang said. "It's gnarly."
"Can you be more specific?"
"Gnar. Ly."
The morning's shopping expedition may have contributed to our crankiness. We'd originally contacted the company N. Hoolywood about procuring matching suits for all of us. As its name would indicate, N. Hoolywood, and head designer Daisuke Obana, is intent on taking weird fragments of American culture and refracting them back, transformed into something just slightly off and utterly Japanese. Past collections had been inspired by such sources as Detroit auto workers, 1940s gangster mug shots, and a collection of Yosemite photos by Ansel Adams. One would cry Zoolander, if arriving in Tokyo didn't mean surrendering one's notion of the border between parody and reality at the airport.
In Japanese culture, it's customary to high-five mannequins...
It took us a half hour to find N. Hooly-wood's main showroom, in a nearly unmarked house a block or two off of the shopping boulevard known as Omotesando Dori. Once we were inside, the staff had embarrassedly explained that while they could accommodate Ansari's Japanese-size frame, there was nothing in their sample wardrobes, perhaps in the entire city, that could fit the rest of our grotesquely elongated and bloated bodies. So we hung around, and watched Ansari bounce around in taunting, giddy bliss, tended to personally by Obana himself. At one point, the two disappeared upstairs to a storage area, and we could hear them laughing hysterically. Following the sound, we discovered Ansari clowning with a mannequin he'd found in a corner: white skinned, naked, potbellied, and sexless as a Ken doll. I had the uncomfortable suspicion that it was meant to represent what the rest of us looked like with our clothes off.
Finally, lunch: The nearest Jiro was staffed by unsmiling men who lifted their eyes only to glare at our party. Every seat was taken, but the place was silent except for the sound of slurping. We shuffled in line toward a machine that dispensed the tickets you handed to the chefs. There was a bewildering array of choices. Ansari, clad in his new brown suit, was the first to reach the front. "I'm scared," he whispered. "Just close your eyes and push a button," said Chang.
Eventually we were all seated in front of steaming bowls of thick, almost gravylike broth. Pieces of cabbage and ragged chunks of pork protruded here and there, like half-submerged bog creatures. The taste bore the looks out—deep, swampy, and warming to the core. After one sip, we all straightened and looked at each other, goofy smiles slippery with grease.
The meal demanded a nap. Then it was off to Bar High Five, owned by Hidetsugu Ueno, who has become the foremost ambassador of the Japanese cocktail movement. Stepping into the closet-sized space on the fourth floor of a building in Ginza, the ritzy shopping district, was like arriving on an advanced planet whose sole sacred text was a 1960s American bar manual—like stepping at once back and forward in time. Ueno wore a magnificent pompadour and worked from strange bottles of the kind you see gathering dust under American bars—sloe gin and blended whiskeys and odd liqueurs. His technique was astonishing: When he poured, it was in a thin stream from high above the golden wood bar, somehow perfectly filling each glass to just its meniscus point.
"Well, he does do this every day," Ansari reasoned.
"I pee every day," said Chang. "But sometimes I miss."
As we drank in reverent silence, I could see Murphy blinking hard and sweating. The gnarliness of the ramen, it seemed, was wreaking gnarly havoc on his insides. With apologies, he dashed back to the hotel.
In retrospect, this may have been a canny strategic bailout in the face of the cultural awkwardness on which we were about to embark. At one point, while brainstorming which Toilet Moments we'd seek out, Chang had offhandedly said, "Find Mrs. Chang." Since we were in the wish-granting business, it seemed obvious what to do: Organize a gokon.
...and your own forehead.
I will not pretend, even after having been through one, to fully understand what a gokon is. It had been explained to us as a ritualized group blind date—usually organized by a couple either hesitant to have a first date on their own or worried about their bachelor and bachelorette friends. Each brings an even number of men and women to meet and talk. Whether the expectation was to facilitate hookups, long-term relationships, or just pleasant company was left unclear.
We arrived early at Tachimichiya—a basement izakaya, or beer hall, decorated with punk-rock posters—in the neighborhood of Daikanyama. In preparation for small talk, I'd downloaded a conversational-Japanese app to my iPhone, though it seemed to specialize solely in phrases along the lines of "I like to paint and sketch" and "Do you like pizza?" We were awaiting the arrival of Tatsuya Mizuno, a journalist and apparent expert in arranging _gokon_s. Where exactly that put him on the continuum between popular and pimp I could not quite pinpoint.
The door flew open and in walked Mizuno, followed by four women around 40, all in low-cut but otherwise demure dresses. At almost precisely the same moment, it dawned on the three of us that this was going to be as excruciating as any other blind date.
"I need to get drunk. Fast," said Chang, reaching for a bottle of soju.
Mizuno ushered the ladies over. He wore a Vandyke and a brown leather blazer. His voice sounded like it was being dragged out through five feet of gravel, a low, drawn-out growl that lent even his most innocent sentences a leering dirtiness. I nicknamed him the Goat.
"Thees is Haruka, Kyoko, Chie, and Yumiko," he growled as the women expertly slid in among us. Kyoko and Chie squeezed close on either side of Chang, who was on his third drink in as many minutes. "Now you ask each other questions," the Goat said, making it sound like something that might well end in pregnancy. Chang suddenly took an inordinate amount of interest in a Ramones poster on the wall behind him. He poured another drink.
"You are on television?" one of the girls asked Ansari. He allowed that he was.
"What program would I know about?"
"Have you seen Friends?"
"Yes!" all the girls said simultaneously.
"I played Chandler," said Ansari. "Indian Chandler."
The girls looked confused.
"Let's not talk about TV. Let's talk about movies," one said.
"Have you seen Pretty Woman?" asked Ansari.
The table filled up with plates: piles of sashimi, crisscrossed Jenga stacks of yakitori. The drinks kept flowing.
On my left was Yumiko. She wore a green drapey dress and had long hair that framed her oval face. Had she been to many _gokon_s? I asked. Oh, yes, she said. And what did she do for a living?
"I'm a Buddhist monk," she said earnestly.
"Okay," I said. She also had a boyfriend. Who was a mid-martial-arts fighter.
"But he's not a champion yet," she said, pulling up a picture on her phone.
"Looks a little small to me," I said.
"Oh yes," she said, kindly. "He is only six feet two inches."
Across the table, Haruka, the shyest of the group, peered up at Ansari through her bangs. "I am also an actress," she said in a tentative voice.
"Really? What do you do?"
"I am a model." She dug in her purse, came up with her phone, and showed him a picture. He stared at the phone for a moment and then passed it without comment to me and Chang. Sure enough, there was Haruka, several years younger, soaking wet, wearing a tiny, clinging tank top that barely covered her large breasts. She was looking at the camera with what could only be described as "gokon eyes."
We were silent. The girls giggled.
"Do you like pizza?" Ansari said.
Around midnight the girls excused themselves, but the Goat led us on. Outside it was pouring, sheets of cold rain washing down the street. Chang wanted to go back to the hotel, but we forced him into a cab back to central Shibuya—a district known, in the cosmology of the city, as loud, bright, young, and Westernized. We got out near an elevated train track and entered a street of a totally different scale: Nonbei Yokocho, "Drunkard's Alley," a dark, narrow circular alley of tiny bars that sprang up during the postwar occupation. Through the windows, draped with Christmas lights, we could see dry and cozy groups of two and three people, leaning close and laughing, successfully keeping the crush of the city at bay. The Goat seemed to know everybody and picked up friends as we walked, until there were ten of us ducking into a bar the size of a bathroom. A small bathroom. In a dollhouse. In Lilliput.
Chang said he was going to pee. Too late, we realized he'd given us the slip. One of the three regulars, older men whose space we'd suddenly invaded, went scurrying into the night. Another stuck around to tell Ansari, at great, repetitive length, that while Chinese were no good, Indians were fine by him, because they are clever.
"Give these guys wheeeskey," growled the Goat. "Cheeeep wheeeskey."
Suddenly Chang was back, having either discovered a second wind or failed to find his way out of the mazelike alley.
"You are the coolest man in the world," Chang told the Goat, clasping him around the shoulder. They did a shot of Jägermeister.
Rain streamed down outside the open door. Impossibly, more people pressed into the bar, forcing some in the back to climb on chairs and squash themselves close to the ceiling.
Chang insisted on buying a round of vodka shots, which was the last thing we needed at 3 A.M. No was not an option. "Kanpai!" he yelled, as Ansari and I artfully poured our glasses out on the floor. Chang eyed us suspiciously.
Eventually we spilled, like clowns from a Volkswagen, out into the alley. I stopped to tie my shoe, and when I looked up, everybody was gone. Stumbling around a corner, I saw Chang disappearing into another shoebox-sized bar, but when I followed, it was empty except for a couple talking with the bartender. I stood in the doorway, swaying confusedly, until the bartender pointed at a tiny staircase. I squeezed up and emerged inside a music box designed by a demented gay Austrian prince. It was a room entirely upholstered and painted in bordello red. Every inch of wall and ceiling was covered with dripping ornamentation: taxidermied antelope heads and crystal chandeliers and glowing glass bunches of grapes and gilt-framed oil paintings of zebras and lions and sad clowns.
Ansari was slumped on one of the red leather banquettes. Chang was sitting next to him, holding out a glass of whiskey.
"Kanpai, motherfuckers," he said.
Too early the next morning, I was seated next to Murphy, staring dully at the barista at a coffee shop the musician had discovered near the Cerulean. The man shuffled slowly back and forth between a Bunsen burner and a glass tube that seemed to have been lifted from a nuclear-physics lab, administering the coffee with what, at that moment, seemed like criminally excessive attention. Having rested while we had our adventures in gokon Land, the rock star was much refreshed. "God," he said, shaking his head. "It's amazing the care he takes. So cool."
Coffee was just one of a seemingly encyclopedic collection of Murphy's obsessions and areas of expertise. He was wearing a gray suit he'd had custom made in Shanghai. He showed off the breast pocket, which had overlapping pockets for an iPhone and regular cell phone.
It was his own design. I kept waiting for my coffee.
Murphy seemed to know about most things Japanese. He'd first come here around 2000 as a sound mir for the Beastie Boys. This was a time, he said, when he would routinely take Ecstasy and simply walk the streets in a state of intensity and rage, and Tokyo must have provided the perfect level of assaultive sensory overload. As he mellowed, the city had become a regular stop on LCD Soundsystem's relentless tour schedule, the perfect place for a man with a fetish for perfection and an omnivorous appetite. I kept waiting for my coffee.
Drop by painstaking drop dripped the coffee. Murphy watched, transfid. I made a note to always get coffee before going out for coffee with James Murphy.
It was a day of Toilet Moments and dazed wanderings and an incessant soundtrack of synthesized holiday music:
through Kappabashi, the crowded kitchen-supply district where Chang, looking like a dog thrown into a room filled with tennis balls, filled his bag with knives and other gadgets to be given as holiday gifts to friends and staff.
to a lunch of tonkatsu, fried pork cutlets the size and shape of Mini Cooper hubcaps; Ansari begged Chang to spit in his food, so that he could preserve an appetite for dinner.
into a video arcade—a multilevel orgasmatron of strobing lights, wild beeping, and screaming, cheering anthropomorphic cartoons that made Chuck E. Cheese's look like a Christian Science reading room. Upstairs was a floor filled with photo-sticker booths screaming CUTE! and PARTY! and LOVE GIRLYS! in a riotous palette of fuchsia, peach, and kittycat.
and into a booth with a control panel that allowed you to touch up your photos before printing. You could instantly Westernize each pair of eyes. "Oh no. That is the worst," said Murphy as Chang was transformed into a startled geisha, Ansari a cartoon gopher. Chang took the electronic pen and scrawled Team Roundeye, with a little pink heart.
It was a day that an essential truth about Tokyo became newly, exhaustingly clear: You may start out smugly amused and amazed, noticing all the ways in which it steals, cracks, and reassembles Western culture. But ultimately you come to realize it is not about you; it has no need for you; you will never understand it and it will roll on whether or not you're there to appreciate it. For an American—perhaps most for those in the American spotlight—this is a strange, exhilarating, wonderful thing.
By the time we reached dinner that night, at Nihonryori Ryugin, the restaurant of the prodigiously talented young chef Seiji Yamamoto, it has to be said that we were running a little ragged. Before we'd left, I'd come across Chang and Ansari in the Cerulean lobby, both sprawled out dozing in padded leather armchairs. Now we shuffled into a long dark hallway with a desk at the end, behind which sat a dubious and severe young woman with hair in a swept-up bun. She looked us up and down, spoke into a Secret Service–style earpiece, then reluctantly ushered us into the hushed dining room.
When Yamamoto opened Ryugin, he served wildly inventive dishes like burdock roots carved to look like wine corks and plates decorated with bar codes painted in squid ink. (Scanned with a phone, they led to an explanatory web page.) Lately—rumor had it in response to disapproving pressure from the Japanese culinary establishment—he'd reined in the more fanciful flights of his imagination in favor of more subdued, classical fare. We were at Ryugin at Chang's urging. Working in Tokyo as a young man had left him with mid feelings about the city at best, but he worshiped the discipline Japanese chefs brought to cooking in all vernaculars, high and low, East and West. Someday, he predicted, as labor laws and dreams of easy stardom made Western cooks soft and slow, all classical technique would reside in Japan. "It's going to be like the Library of Alexandria here," he said as we sipped champagne and dug into an appetizer of soft, buttery monkfish liver painted with miso.
"You're Oates." "No, you're Oates!"
Ansari and Murphy battle it out over a round of
"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)."
It was a quiet meal. The trip was winding down. So was the year. And our mood might have been a premonition of how momentous 2011 would turn out to be for all. Murphy had decided to fold LCD Soundsystem, feeling that the band had grown too large for him to have a full life. "It's not good for me anymore," he said. "I like being successful. But I never expected that success would mean only being able to do one thing." The farewell concert he went on to stage at Madison Square Garden in April felt like the end of a particular era of New York underground life—perhaps the last such era—a measure of which was the mournful panic the announcement set off in Murphy's fans; the concert sold out within minutes.
Chang, too, talked about escape, in his case to Australia, where he'd been spending time working on a Sydney branch of Momofuku. New York had grown frustrating: He couldn't actually cook in his restaurants, because diners insisted on taking his picture. "I've got all these great kitchens now, but I can't work in any of them," he said. And yet plenty more was already brewing. That coming summer, Chang would launch a new food journal, Lucky Peach, along with a companion iPad app. He'd take on an improbable featured-acting role—as a heroic bohemian artist-chef—on HBO's Treme. He'd attend a state dinner at the White House. He'd have morphed into an unlikely King of All Media.
As for Ansari, the third season of Parks and Recreation would debut and finally move from the safe corner of "beloved but unwatched" to the glare of mainstream expectation. By the end of the year, it would generally be considered one of the best comedies on TV. For what it's worth, I myself was only a few weeks away from putting all my belongings in storage and boarding a train to live in New Orleans after nearly twenty years in New York.
In short, we were four men on the cusp of Further Complications, and for the first time it began to feel that this trip was more than the product of simple gluttony or a social-media accident. Strange times lay ahead, stranger even than the lurid landscape in which, paradoxically, we were finding a moment of suspended peace before the storm.
The final courses arrived, seeming to encapsulate both poles of Japanese culture. First, humble sublime simplicity: a bowl of rice tossed with rough cubes of Wagyu beef, the melted fat from the meat just barely slicking each perfectly al dente grain. Then, gleaming futuristic fireworks: In front of each of us, waiters placed a plate on which sat a tiny perfect shining apple, as though it had been lifted directly from Snow White. Chang figured it out first: "It's not an apple," he murmured. He took his spoon and cracked the top of what was actually a thin shell of sugar. Inside was a deep-frozen thimbleful of powdered-apple ice cream. It sent off a glistening little puff, like fairy dust. We all were suddenly grinning.
Then someone said, "We should go do karaoke."
I'm told that Zima, that strange clear drink so ridiculed Stateside, is actually quite popular in Japan—so much so that when MillerCoors discontinued American production of the malt beverage in 2008, it continued to be sold in the Land of the Rising Sun. This does nothing to diminish the shock we all feel when the elevator doors open and we are presented with a maintenance man wheeling a huge trough of ice and clear bottles.
"Zima!" cries Chang, eyes gone wide. He falls upon the shocked janitor, pries the top off a bottle, and downs it. "Better than Four Loko," he declares, perhaps the least helpful tasting note ever issued by a renowned chef.
Once we cram into the room, having picked up some of Murphy's friends from previous trips along the way, the other guys show off their own special powers, like some kind of ninja superteam: _Whap! _Power of Hyperkinetic Comedian! Ansari climbs up on a banquette and goes bouncing around on the upholstery, performing both parts of B.o.B and Bruno Mars's "Nothin' on You." _Zing! _Power of Lead Singer! Murphy dials up Lou Rawls's "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" and launches in with a rich, rolling, buttery vocal that brings the room to a dead halt. The Mrs. Claus girls appear in the door as somebody dials up "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Ansari wanders into the room next door and sings the Backstreet Boys to the shocked party. Their group joins ours. Or maybe we end up in the hallway. More Zima. Candy spills out across the floor. Somebody dials up A-Ha, and Murphy, Ansari, and Chang join arms:
_Take on me _
(Take on me, echo the rest of us.)
_Take me onnnn _
I'll be gone
In a day or two
Somehow it's become 4 A.M. We roll out into the wet, shockingly empty streets, still singing, and try to orient ourselves home by the blinking roof lights of the Cerulean. What began with a pleading tweet from Ansari ends with a triumphant one: #WeDominatedTokyoKaraokeTonight.
Five hours later, Chang and I are back at Narita, spending our remaining yen on whatever we can find: bowls of ramen, katsu curry, bento bos of premade sushi. It is Christmas Eve, and the terminal is mostly empty. As we walk down the boarding ramp, I can already feel the dreamscape of Tokyo falling away. Chang puts a pill in my hand; a twinkly-eyed male flight attendant with a beard and a Scandinavian accent takes my jacket and hands me a glass of champagne. I close my eyes, and when I reopen them we're already on our final approach to JFK, coming down out of the clouds, back to the real world, banking in over the placid, gray winter sea.
_ Brett Martin is a GQ correspondent._


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