The oldest person in US has died at age 114 years, 294 days. Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland.

“She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all,” Katherine Ray said. “She was planning for her birthday party.”

The Gerontology Research Group says that Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world. She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.

Ray was born May 17, 1895, in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She moved to the United States at age 3. Ray’s husband, Walter, died in 1967. Survivors include two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.

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- Motion Picture: “The Hurt Locker.”

- Actor: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart.”

- Actress: Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side.”

- Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds.”

- Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.”

- Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker.”

- Foreign Film: “El Secreto de Sus Ojos,” Argentina.

- Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.”

- Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker.”

- Animated Feature Film: “Up.”

- Art Direction: “Avatar.”

- Cinematography: “Avatar.”

- Sound Mixing: “The Hurt Locker.”

- Sound Editing: “The Hurt Locker.”

- Original Score: “Up,” Michael Giacchino.

- Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart,” Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.

- Costume: “The Young Victoria.”

- Documentary Feature: “The Cove.”

- Documentary (short subject): “Music by Prudence.”

- Film Editing: “The Hurt Locker.”

- Makeup: “Star Trek.”

- Animated Short Film: “Logorama.”

- Live Action Short Film: “The New Tenants.”

- Visual Effects: “Avatar.

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Earlier next week, Harun and Yavuz Bolukbasi, the same brothers behind Meze in Adams Morgan, will open their latest venture, Ezme in Dupont Circle. The anagram-like name should tell you something about the restaurant’s concept: It’s Turkish/Mediterranean meze, just like at the brothers’ Adams Morgan spot.

The menus at both restaurants won’t vary much — unlike the brothers’ other new eatery, Bistro Cacao on Capitol Hill, which is very French country — but Ezme will do one thing that Meze doesn’t. It’ll offer tasting menus with wine pairings. It will, in other words, cater to the deeper pockets of Dupont rather than to the id-like aspirations of Adams Morgan.

Ezme officially opens on Wednesday, March 10.

Dangerously Delicious Pies, 1339 H St. NE, (202) 398-PIES

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The famous restaurant in Cranbury, N.J., Hannah and Masons has closed down. This restaurant which is known as a high-end French-Influenced New American place was rumoured to be having some financial problems lately.Hannah and Masons gained some popularity when it was featured on “Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares”, located in a beautiful old house on Main St. in Cranbury between New Brunswick and Princeton.

According to some sources, there was a couple who went there for a dinner and found out it was closed. The couple was shcoked to see the FOR SALE sign on the door of the French-inspired restaurant.

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Detroit Pistons’ Rodney Stuckey was rushed to the hospital after collapsed into a coach’s arms in the bench during timeout against the Cleveland Cavaliers. ESPN, which was which was televising the game nationally, said Rodney Stuckey was conscious, breathing on his own and in stable condition at the hospital. It was not immediately clear why he had collapsed.

“It’s very difficult,” Cleveland’s LeBron James said after the Cavaliers won 99-92. “When something like that happens, we’re all one family. Our prayers go out to him.”

On November 2008, Stuckey had to be helped to the locker room at halftime  against the Boston Celtics because of dizziness. He did not return to that game and missed the following two games.

The Detroit Free Press said on its Web site that Stuckey had to be helped to the locker room at halftime of a November 2008 game in Detroit against the Boston Celtics because of dizziness. He did not return to that game and missed the following two games.

Watch Rodney Stuckey Seizure Video:

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A monstrous wave hit the Mediterranean. The three waves that struck the Cypriot-owned ship Wednesday claimed two lives off the coast of northeast Spain. The vessel was carrying 1,350 passengers and 580 crew members, from a total of 27 countries.

“People were screaming, panicking. They were grabbing life vests,” Zanoni said. He said he saw one huge shard of glass hit a man in the face, killing him. It took a while to find the body because he was under the wreckage of the ceiling, Zanoni said. Two people died and 14 were slightly hurt when the vessel struck Wednesday by three “abnormally high” waves more than 33 feet (10 meters) high that broke glass windshields in the forward section on deck five, which is one of 10 used by passengers.

This accident happened in an area of the Mediterranean called the Gulf of Leon, which is known for big waves when storms hit.

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The Desarmes family survived after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.They left Haiti and came to Chile, fortunately survived.

“I left my country (Haiti) and came here because of an earthquake,” Seraphin Philomene, a 21-year-old student and cousin of Desarmes, said Wednesday. “And here, the same thing!”

Desarmes said that when the aftershocks come, his family refuse to stay in the house.

“I have to talk to them all day long telling them: `There are no problems, it’s a country that’s prepared for earthquakes, it’ll pass, it’s not so bad.’ But they don’t hear me. Psychologically for them, they’re still really affected by it.”

Philomene, his cousin, plans to stay, hoping to bring the rest of her family to Chile. She was the only member of her immediate family to get out because she was living with the Desarmes in the Haitian capital to finish her studies. Her mother, father, two sisters and a brother are still in Cap-Haitien, a town in northern Haiti about 90 miles from the capital.

“God is looking for out for us,” he said. “Our family didn’t die in Haiti so they aren’t going to die in Chile either.”

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The 11-day festival includes livestock shows, some of the biggest names in country music, and of course, strawberry shortcake.

“It’s a beautiful day. It is a great event and it looks like everyone is having a good time,” said Shelby Bender, president of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, which operates a shortcake booth.

Her morning customers included Olive Schoonmaker, who was visiting the festival for the first time. She said the shortcake was “absolutely fantastic.”

Dianne Benoit, who owns the Strawberry Barn concession, said coffee and hot chocolate were big sellers, partly due to the cold and partly due to the senior citizen discount she was offering. Today is Senior Day at the festival and patrons 60 and older get $2 discount on $10 gate admission.

The festival’s Web address is www.flstrawberryfestival.com. For information, call the ticket office at (813) 754-1996.

For directions, a midway and concert schedule and more, go to TBO.com, Keyword: “Strawberry 2010.”

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