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Cathryn Perfetti, LCPC
Phone: (815) 207-8243
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Website: www.awakeningcenter.net
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In front of a large, partisan St. Cloud crowd, the Crusaders' Phil Imholte singled in the winning run for a dramatic victory over Glencoe-Silver Lake.
ST. CLOUD - The situation was set up too perfectly, almost as if the outcome had been preordained.
With the score tied in the bottom of the seventh inning, St. Cloud Cathedral, playing in front of a largely home crowd estimated to be around 1,200, had a runner at second base, its best hitter at the plate and momentum squarely on its side.
So when Phil Imholte lined a single to center field to score Brace Hemmelgarn with the game-winning run, giving the Crusaders a 7-6 victory over Glencoe-Silver Lake in the Class 2A championship game at Dick Putz Field in St.Cloud on Friday night, it was as if it was expected.
"With Phil up there, I felt really good about our chances right there," St. Cloud Cathedral coach Bob Karn said. "He's been hitting around .500 all season and he seldom strikes out."
Imholte's single ended a wonderful back-and-forth contest befitting a championship game.
Glencoe-Silver Lake, with ace Cody Hallahan on the mound, took a 2-0 lead with single runs in the first and second innings off Cathedral starter Billy Sommers.
St. Cloud Cathedral (24-6) battled back to take a 4-2 lead, scoring three times in the bottom of the third inning. Imholte had the big hit, a run-scoring double, and also scored a run in the inning.
Glencoe-Silver Lake (24-4) responded nearly immediately, retaking the lead 6-4 by scoring three times in the top of the fifth inning, But the Panthers squandered a chance to tack on an important run on a botched squeeze play.
Cathedral tied the score 6-6 on four singles in the bottom of the sixth inning, with Tom Spaniol's liner to right driving in the tying run.
Hallahan, who had pitched five innings in the quarterfinals, got the first two outs of the seventh inning, but issued back-to-back walks to Hemmelgarn and Nate Schmidt, setting up Imholte's seventh-inning heroics.
"I was ready for that situation," Imholte said. "You only get so many chances like that in life and I wasn't going to let this one pass by."
The championship was the sixth for Cathedral, all of them under Karn, who has coached the team for 37 years.
"I'm fortunate to coach a team like this," Karn said. "I never have to say anything to get them ready. They get out of bed ready. They love to play ball."


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I noticed the other morning when I woke up that there was condensation in the airlock. I have Southern Comfort in it (only alcohol I had to fill it up with), and was wondering if this is due to the weather changing outside (getting colder) or what? Any suggestions?
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For further refinement of your question though it is helpful for us to know if you are using a 3 piece airlock or a snake shaped airlock...
No matter how rich you are, you can still only drink 16 or 17 liters of beer a day.
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That fourth Maple Leafs defenceman, and other Leaflets
Cam Charron
September 26 2012 02:49PM
Today on Twitter there was an informal discussion, as is wont to happen on that particular medium, about the fourth Leafs' defenceman on the penalty kill. Ryan wrote about Komisarek earlier today, while I broke down a Pittsburgh zone entry that paints Komisarek in a bad light. Here's the rest of the entry, and some added thoughts and afternoon links:
The addition of Jay McClement and the penalty kill
Cam Charron
September 26 2012 11:30AM
I wanted to look a little bit at how Toronto's penalty killing can improve with the arrival of Jay McClement, so I took to watching a pair of games to see how the Maple Leafs reacted against one of the better powerplay teams in the league, Pittsburgh, versus a team that had some shorthanded success against them in, coincidentally, the Colorado Avalanche.
The Avalanche, McClement's former employers, had twice the success against the Pittsburgh powerplay as Toronto did, despite playing just as much shorthanded time against them as the Leafs in just two games versus four.
The season of Mike Komisarek
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September 26 2012 06:58AM
The Leafs are coming up on the final two years of the thorn that's been stinging their side since 2009.
Mike Komisarek's salary dips in 2012-13 to $3.5M, which saves the Leafs $2M compared to last season in actual cash. We've now entered (or will enter, when hockey starts) that window where a lot of people believed he could be dumped to a floor team who won't mind paying him $3.5M and taking on the extra cap dollars along with it.
That idea was thrown around for a while, but fizzled out quite quickly.
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If you're anyting like Detroit Red Wings' Senior VP of Barnyard Operations, Jim Devellano, it's sometimes hard to tell elite hockey players apart from the rest of the herd. But never fear, the handy chart above should help you out if you ever get into a pinch.
Now, far be it from me to judge a Lester Patrick Trophy winner like Jimmy Devellano, but the cattle comment was a bit over the top. If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's that you don't poke the bear. You lure it with some bait, and then shoot it while it's not looking.
Wait. No. Not only is that the wrong analogy, it's the wrong animal.
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September 25 2012 03:03PM
Today I went and picked up Jonathan Gatehouse's new book The Instigator that chronicles Gary Bettman's rise as the most powerful man in hockey. Yet to make my way through it, but I found an interesting passage pertaining to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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OTTAWA -- The son of a woman who was raped, strangled and left to rot in the woods has been blacklisted from the killer's parole hearing.
Jeremy Mead, who was six years old when he watched his mom brutally assaulted at gunpoint, is barred from the May 27 hearing in Toronto because he wrote a victim's impact statement deemed "disturbing" by officials at Correctional Service of Canada.
Now 28, the Windsor man says he was only venting his anger in writing for the first time and has no intention of acting out violently.
"If you've been through what I've been through, you're probably going to say some stuff you shouldn't say," he told Sun Media.
Mead wrote the first impact statement this past December, after learning Richard Raymond Babinski was permitted day passes to attend cultural events. It was the first time Mead had put pen to paper to express how his mom's murder traumatized him for life.
Mead wrote that he wished Babinski was dead, and that he would be the one to do it. Realizing the threats were inappropriate, he rewrote the statement and offered assurances he would not disrupt parole proceedings.
But CSC refuses to reverse its decision -- a position Mead calls a "slap in the face" to him and his mother's memory.
"They're going to give him a second chance, but they're not going to give me a second chance," he said.
"His rights are overpowering my rights."
A letter from Pittsburgh Institution Warden Lynne VanDalen said she has a responsibility to ensure security of staff, visitors and inmates.
"Until such time as Mr. Mead seeks assistance for dealing with his emotions and grief, my decision will not be revisited," she wrote.
"It is extremely unfortunate that Mr. Mead has suffered such a devastating loss, and I hope that he will be able to find a method of coming to terms with this."
Eva Marie Mead was a 27-year-old widow working at a Toronto bank when she disappeared on Oct. 19, 1988 -- abducted by the stalker who had become obsessed with her.
Already armed with a substantial criminal record, Babinski was out on bail for sexually assaulting Mead and had broken into her home just days before she went missing.
It was seven months before her skeletal remains were discovered behind the factory where Babinski worked. He had raped and strangled her with such force her larynx was broken.
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I have lived many places but for now I live in Brooklyn,NY. It is an absolutely incredible city with its own identity from Manhattan. I love the smaller feel of it, the lower buildings, neighbors talking to neighbors, helping neighbors. I love the FOOD in Brooklyn. The range is dynamic but always top tier. You can settle into a hole-in-the-wall authentic Italian restaurant in Carroll Gardens or Chinese restaurant in Bay Ridge and it will blow you (me:foodie) out of the water.
I love being near the water. Running along the water. I love to run. The Brooklyn Half is coming up! We start at the Brooklyn Museum, run around Grand Army Plaza, around Prospect Park ( the park Olmsted and his critics agreed he got right compared to his design of Central Park) and then down Ocean Ave all the way to the boardwalk of Coney Island. Beers on the boardwalk circa 10am after running 13.1 miles. Ha, yes.
The other time I ran a half marathon it was when I lived in Santa Barbara and I did the Wine Country Half up there. Those rolling hills were out of this world gorgeous. That one finishes with glasses of wine... a little more difficult after a race than beer in my opinion.
I lived out in CA while I was in school studying photography. Photography is my other love along with food and running. If I had the means, I would travel around the world endlessly shooting, eating and connecting with people I meet along the way. I had the privilege to go to Nepal this past fall. I shot for a non-profit organization who builds schools, e-libraries and orphanages around rural Nepal. It was an unbelievable experience for the the beauty and the curiosity of that special piece of land and those special special people.
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I just wanted to let any interested users know. I purchased 2 gorgeous upholstered Jessica Charles chairs and they are comfortable.
BUT since delivery, the upholstery has been wrinkled in an unacceptable fashion on the skirts of the chair and the back of the chair. The company has indicated this is acceptable. It is clearly evident in the pictures I have taken and differs from the way the fabric lays / drapes on the pillow casing.
Also the casings of the unattached pillow on the back of the chairs does not conform to the shape of the pillow case. The pillow case is cut in a very elegant arch at the top and the pillow is just a rectangular pillow. This results in the fabric of the casing hanging and folding in the middle. It looks older than the pillows on the 7 yr old furniture we were replacing.
A JessChls rep was sent out, reported to the company and they are saying it is industry standard.
I had heard excellent comments @ Jessica Charles and it is the sister company to Hancock and Moore. I am astounded at this. If anyone has any recommendations, I would be interested in the best way to resolve these issues.
For the $ I paid, it is not worth it.
Uh-oh, we've been looking at JC chairs online & thought they would be perfect for our house.
Did you order through a store or decorator? I would think the retailer would have some responsibility to provide a satisfactory resolution.
Could you post pictures?
I think in this case your best course of action is to work with your retailer. Manufacturers are not set up to work with consumers.
How long have you had the chairs?.
If it were my chairs i would ask to have them returned to the factory to be repaired. This would be an easier course of action than asking for replacements.
I am really sorry to hear about this and hope to hear about how it is resolved. I really thought that the Jessica Charles chairs I have been yearning for were quite near the top of the line. They are beautiful, really comfortable, and have nice fabrics choices.
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The crime rate is really bad. The cruise ships have all but stopped going there because of it. Headlines in the papers here about sewage running in the streets in Christiansted (which is a beautiful town.)
You've been to St. Thomas, so why not try St. John?
You might try the other St. Croix Island, between Maine and New Brunswick. It's celebrating the 400th anniversary as the first French settlement in North America where not everyone was massacred, etc.
Here is a link that might be useful: St. Croix International Historical Site
Yes - have been there and chose to live there!!! Do NOT listen to GingerStThomas. St. Croix actually has LESS crime than St.Thomas, St. Thomas pays the cruise lines money to stop there!! St. Thomas is known as "Little New York City" in our neck of the woods and fine for maybe a day or at the most two. St. Croix is a laid back island that LOVES visitors. We have a wonderful history, have preserved our historical sites, have the best diving and beaches in the Caribbean, and the nicest people.
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This color is a must-have neutral. Like other reviewers have mentioned, it does have peach/orange undertones. Soft Brown isn't overbearingly peach/orange... It's just slightly more complex than it's name. :)
The texture of this shadow is terrific like all of MAC's shadows, particularly their mattes. Soft Brown is terrific paired with darker neutrals and is especially beautiful when used in the "inner v" accompanying a more dramatic color on the outer part of your lids. You need this in your traincase if you're a neutrals girl AND if you like a dramatic look without looking like Mimi from Drew Carey. :D
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — With a reputation for arrogance and illusions of European-styled grandeur, Argentines have long been the objects of scorn and the butt of jokes across Latin America
Latin Americans reluctantly rally behind Argentina
But for at least 90 minutes on Sunday, when Argentina takes on Germany in the World Cup final, most Latin Americans will put aside their irritation with their proud neighbors as they look to Lionel Messi and his teammates to salvage what's left of the region's soccer pride.
A defeat for Argentina would be historic: Never has a European team been crowned champion on this side of the Atlantic.
But in the wake of Germany's 7-1 thrashing of host Brazil even the most-devoted believers in the spontaneous and stylish Latin American brand of soccer are wondering if the region is outmatched.
"My heart wants Argentina to win, but my brain says Germany will," confessed Alberto Ramos Salcedo, a Colombian journalist and author who frequently writes about soccer.
That Argentina has stepped into the role as the region's flag bearer is a cruel reversal for many.
An online poll in 19 countries taken by YouGov together with The New York Times prior to the World Cup found that in most Latin American countries surveyed people said the team they rooted against was Argentina, which has won the title twice.
In the early days of the tournament, as Argentina was slow to come to life and underdogs like Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico rained goals on their opponents, a group of Mexican fans in giant sombreros could be seen on Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana Beach playfully provoking anyone dressed in Argentina's blue and white who crossed their path. Their taunt: "Fiesta Latina, sin Argentina, Fiesta Latina without Argentina."
The animosity toward Argentina stems from the country's settlement by waves of European immigrants beginning in the late 19th century, a demographic marker that long fueled perceptions of economic and cultural superiority over their more indigenous or African-descended neighbors. Even the Italian-influenced Spanish spoken on the streets of Buenos Aires is out of step with the language elsewhere.
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The fate of Manston Airport is still - excuse the pun - up in the air.
But the MPs on the transport select committee lifted one or two interesting stones on what seems a very complex issue of who owns the airport site when they quizzed a variety of witnesses at a hearing this week.
The hearing made for an uncomfortable experience for Pauline Bradley, the director of Manston Skyport Ltd and the two interim directors of Kent Airport Ltd who were repeatedly pressed on the issue of the extent to which the former owner Ann Gloag was involved and how she potentially stood to benefit on the back of the business park scheme envisaged by the new owners.
MP Tom Harris articulated what many people think about the sale when he asked Ms Bradley if she could understand "why people might look at this and think it looks slightly fishy" given that "a lot of people are about to get very wealthy on the back of a £1 purchase?"
In a reply that lacked a great deal of conviction, she said that there had never been any attempt to disguise Ms Gloag's financial stake and there was no question that she would exercise any financial control. Which is of course an important distinction but it took a while to prise out the fact that Mrs Gloag has a 20% stake.
In one of the more dramatic moments, Sir Roger Gale read from a report which he said revealed that Mrs Gloag had no intention of running the airport for two years. While it was unclear who wrote it, the MP quoted a section which stated that "in the process of creating the JV [Joint Venture] steps should be taken to restructure the HGT shareholding such that it cannot be easily identified" and that "the perception that the site is under the conrol of a non-controversial JV partner would be commercially advantageous from a planning perspective."
I got the distinct impression that the committee members were not awfully impressed or totally convinced by the evidence put forward by the owners but we will have to wait and see. And it is likely that we may have to wait until after the election to find out what the select committee recommends.
If you can hear the sound of car gears crashing around County Hall, it is probably connected to the latest policy U-turn.
After a reversal on plans to axe the number of communty wardens comes the news that the great streetlight switch-off is to be effectively scrapped.
We were told when it was first introduced that a pilot scheme would run for a year and then be reviewed. But the Conservative administration has clearly got the jitters and are to phase it out. There will still be a review which as I understand it will focus on issues.such as whether the switch-off has led to more crime and if so, where.
The new policy is to invest £40m in replacing every single streetlight with new LED bulbs, which have the advantage of being more energy efficient and can de dimmed and are cheaper to run - once you have made the initial outlay.
KCC invested an awful lot in its pilot swith-off scheme and there will be some questions about why it went to such great lengths to do so.
The odd thing is that when KCC first announced about deciding to replace the bulbs in its 120,00 streetlights in October, there was no mention of the possibility that it could be an alternative to the night-time switch off.
But the switch-off has gone down badly in many communities and there have been claims it has led to increased crime rates. When opposition parties at KCC called for an end to the scheme last September, they were told by the Conservative Mr Brazier that "most rational people know there is nothing to fear."
The fear that seems to matter among Conservatives is the fear that it will cost them votes at the forthcoming election.
Al Murray hit the campaign trail in Thanet South this week and rival candidates were probably gritting their teeth as he effortlessly secured a huge amount of media coverage.
There were plenty of jokes, repartee with reporters and mugging for the cameras. It is all slightly surreal and you have to wonder whether, by May 7, the joke may have worn a bit thin.
But he is doing a good job of pricking the pomposity of politicians who, during interviews, like to preface their answers to questions with the refrain "I am glad you have asked me that" - normally followed by an answer that has absolutely nothing to do wth the question.
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If the election battle for the key Kent constituency of Thanet South was not already interesting, the news that comedian Al Murray - or his alter ego the pub landlord - is throwing his hat in the ring has made it even more so.
Announcing his intention to stand via a video address in which, among other commitments, he pledged to make beer a penny a pint came out of left field. Interestingly, an interview he gave to The Independent in 2013 criticised comedians who embraced politics, saying their role was to lampoon them.
It appears his main target is Ukip - his party's logo is an inverted pound symbol in gold - and his opening salvo in the video was to declare that the time was right for a tilt at Westminster.
"It seems to me UK is ready for a bloke waving a pint around offering commonsense solutions," he declared, leaving no ambiguity as to who is in his sights.
His confused rivals reacted in the only way they could - by adopting a jocular tone saying it would liven up the campaign and desperately trying to avoid looking either panicked or po-faced.
Ukip to its credit came up with the best one liner, saying it welcomed the news of "a serious rival at last" while its leader Nigel Farage saying "the more the merrier." Laura Sandys, the out-going Conservative MP, said there were already enough comedians standing - note the plural.
How will all this go down with the voters in Thanet South is anyone's guess. His parody of a hyper-nationalistic landlord is sometimes affectionate, sometimes cutting.
Is he serious about winning? Or simply standing to poke fun at politics and politicians? If it is the latter, there is a good case for arguing that his candidacy is unnecessary.
Many voters already look on politicians as a joke and don't need a comedian to remind them of that or deflate the egos of those standing for office.
There was an interesting debate about fracking at County Hall this week. Or rather, there should have been but in the grand tradition of council meetings, our elected-representatives decided that it was more important to debate whether there should be a debate.
This stemmed from a petition submitted by the Faversham and Mid Kent Green Party candidate Tim Valentine and signed by nearly 3,000 people. Under KCC rules, this automatically triggered a debate at the meeting of the authority's environment scrutiny committee.
The only problem was that, according to the council's legal eagles, no such debate could be permitted as to do so and to adopt a presumption against any fracking applications, would compromise the council's position because it was the relevant planning authority dealing with them.
So, we were treated to one of those debates about constitutional procedures which councillors seem to relish. A clearly exasperated Cllr David Brazier, cabinet member for the environment, said he could not understand why "intelligent people" had signed the petition" when a cursory glance at KCC's website would have indicated why such a call was not likely to succeed.
I am not sure how that would have gone down that well with the public but that's County Hall politics for you.
As it was, after some ill-tempered exchanges, the Conservative majority on the committee voted to close down the debate much to the irritation of the opposition representatives.
Tags: ukip, Al Murray, the pub landlord, election, Conservatives, Thanet South
Categories: Politics
It being the pantomime season, it was a smart move by the makers of BBC's Question Time to rope in Russell Brand and UKIP leader Nigel Farage for its final programme of the series.
I am not sure whether it left the audience desperate for a re-run and neither was it clear who was the villain and who was the hero.
It began with a question that seemed to offer Brand an open goal - was the adverserial nature of politics leading to its decline - but he appeared unusually nervous and fluffed it, which must have taken David Dimbelby by surprise.
Still, at least the audience was in a rather frisky mood and a few more than heated exchanges from the audience seats only served to remind those watching how tame the panel seemed.
At some points you sensed that Russell Brand and Nigel Farage had more in common than they were prepared to admit and couldn't decide who was the villain - both characterising themselves as "outsiders" - but Brand stuck the knife in with a good one-liner about Farage being a "Poundland Enoch Powell."
Although I did wonder whether, like Blue Peter, this was something he had prepared earlier. The cameras at one point showed him leafing throuh what could have been cue cards - who would have thought he needed those?
Farage generally kept his cool but was rather less animated than he usually is. He correctly surmised that it would be counter-productive to try to best Brand.
Instead, he chose to focus his attack on Labour's Mary Creagh and the floundering government representative Penny Morduant, who had she been playing in a football match, would have been substituted very early.
Creagh was reasonably good but too often lapsed into a recital of Labour's commitments that has most people tuning out and wondering about other things.
I expected Penny Morduant, who gamely appeared in the ITV programme Splash, to be rather better. After a belly flop like that, she may be inclined to turn down future invitations.
But she was on the defensive from the start after Dimbleby chose to remind the audience and viewers that she had been found out for making a speech in Parliament in which she used some rather fruity words - apparently as a dare from certain Naval friends.
Not a good position to debate a question about how mainstream politics might be in decline.
Dimbleby crowbarred a question about social mobility and whether we ought to have more grammar schools right at the end, which was a mistake as the panel only had a few minutes to debate what could well be an election flashpoint next May.
Brand lamely admitted that he "didn't know much about grammars" and opted for a rambling riff about other issues, leaving Farage with the easiest of tap ins at goal.
It was all entertaining stuff but the audience seemed more up for a fight than the panel.
The curtain dropped after what seemed no time at all but the audience was probably thankful the cast did not come back for an encore.
And if you wanted me to name the person who came across the best, it was the journalist Camilla Cavendish, who was easily the sanest person there.
Tags: UKIP, Farage, Queston Time, Canterbury, Russell Brand, Conservatives, immigration
Categories: Politics
We are, as football commentators like to say, at the business end of the by-election battle for Rochester and Strood.
You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks it is anything but a two-way fight between Ukip and the Conservatives, with the former still ahead on points as they continue sparring.
Conservatives sources say that although the party is behind, the gap is not as wide as the recent opinion polls have indicated and it could yet be a tight race.
I think that may be an optimistic assessment but the last thing any party is going to do or say is anything that could be construed as running up the white flag.
The biggest difficulty facing the Conservatives is persuading undecided or floating voters to opt for them rather than Ukip, along with cajoling their own supporters to get out and vote on polling day rather than sit on their hands in protest.
It does appear the party's strategy is geared towards pushing Ukip as hard as it can on November 20 and closing the gap to a point where it can depict the result as a by-election blip and a good platform to recapture the seat next May.
Unless, of course, it finds a way to deliver a decisive knock-out blow in the next two weeks.
Meanwhile, Ukip remains bouyant but underlying its outwardly confident mood, there are jangling nerves.
It cannot afford to be seen as complacent and cannot afford to make any high-profile gaffes that could be exploited by its opponents to renew the "fruitcake" charge.
It slipped up this week at its open hustings meeting when Mark Reckless rather clumsily described dictator Colonel Gadaffi as "good for immigration" - trying to make a wider point that in so doing, he had stopped migrants leaving Libya and entering Europe through Italy.
And there continues to be plenty of mud being thrown in Ukip's direction about Lodge Hill, with the Conservatives in particular ensuring that the apparently contradictory positions held by Mark Reckless remains in the public domain.
It has just released an American-style attack ad video outlining what it believes to be his flip-flopping on the issue - an interesting development in its strategy.
This is undoubtedly a faultline for Ukip and while it has tried to counter by suggesting that the position of the Conservative candidate Kelly Tolhurst is ambiguous, it has looked defensive on the issue.
Still, Nigel Farage - who we haven't seen as much of in recent weeks - gave a turbo charge to its hustings meeting in Hoo this week and is said to be returning for a rally to ramp up the Ukip campaign next week.
The last thing Labour wants in the run-up to polling day is for questions to be asked about its leader Ed Miliband.
But that is what it has got and the danger now is that its prospects in a seat it held for 13 years until 2010 are even worse. Bookmakers are now offering odds of 80-1 against it wininng the seat.
If there is a plan for Ed Miliband to make a return visit, I would expect it is being reconsidered rather urgently.
The party is working on a result which would give it a creditable third place but even that is at risk.
And although it is a long shot, might the Green party pull off a shock and squeeze it into fourth place?
A crushing defeat like that would have huge repercussions for the party - and take some of the heat off David Cameron.
Tags: byelection, Rochester, Strood, UKIP, Reckless, Conservatives, Labour
It is almost impossible to discern which way the political wind is blowing in the Rochester and Strood by-election but if you are to believe what some commentators are saying, the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a loss.
I don't necessarily subscribe to that view but there is no avoiding that the convergence of various issues is not offering the party a particularly propitious backdrop to its campaign.
The by-election is being dominated by the twin issues of immigration and the UK's membership of EU as much as anything else.
So, to say it was unhelpful to have been ambushed by the EU demanding an extra £1.7bn is something of an under-statement. The fact that the Prime Minister had to truncate a campaign visit to Rochester because he was still in Brussels at a press conference last Friday only served to underline the seriousness of the issue.
Of course, it is possible this could play to the Conservatives if the PM manages to negotiate a reduction but for many, the demand for the money is another illustration of the suspicion we put in rather more than we get out, which plays to Ukip's appeal.
On immigration, Conservative spirits would not have been helped by the comments made by the Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchard, who gave evidence to the Home Affairs select committee this week.
In fairly blunt remarks, she told MPs the reason so many migrants were gathered at the French town was because the UK was seen as "El Dorado" and there were jobs to be filled and benefits to be claimed.
This was followed by a set of figures suggesting that there was a growing backlog of asylum seeker claims and 50,000 asylum seekers were "lost" - exactly the kind of thing Ukip laps up to suggest that the governemnt has and is losing control over its borders.
Finally, it seems the government is preparing for a revolt by Conservative backbenchers over the European Arrest Warrant, with MPs believing that it hands other countries too much power to detain UK citizens.
In 2012, the Dover MP Charlie Elphicke organised a letter to the Daily Telegraph signed by more than 100 MPs which outlined their concerns over the EU Commission's ambitions for "a pan-European code of Euro Crimes" - and "deep concerns" over the EAW.
Among the signatories were eight Conservative Kent MPs but I rather suspect they will be brought round to support the government when a vote is held.
With all these issues heaping pressure on the Conservatives, perhaps the question is not so much whether it can win but whether Ukip can lose.
A chirpy Ed Balls followed his leader down to Rochester to rally support ahead of November 20 but it does seem that their objective is not outright victory but not to lose so badly that it undermines their prospects in Kent at the general election
It is a measure of the changing political landscape that it has almost been forgotten Kent has, over the last four elections, been a battle between Labour and the Conservatives rather than a contest between Ukip and the Conservatives.
But Ukip's growing appeal is drawing support away from Labour as much as it is from the Conservatives. Yet the party knows that to form a government, it will have to win seats in Kent - it is not enough to base your strategy around general national poll ratings which put you marginally ahead of the Conservatives.
It seems the party has one eye on next May but it does seem curious it has allowed the impression to form the contest is a two-way battle between the Conservatives and Ukip while it plays for a decent third place.
Tony Blair recognised the secret to the party's success over his three terms was to ensure it won over "middle England" voters who are now peeling off to Ukip in large numbers. Ed Miliband seems to be concentrating on shoring up its core supporters, a more defensive strategy.
Perhaps there is some consolation in the fact that a new poll out today puts the NHS as top among voters' concerns in Rochester and Strood - one issue that Labour is strong on.
If you want an indication of how difficult it is to read this by-election, take a confrontation that William Hague and Kelly Tolhurst had with a disgruntled former Conservative voter in a walkabout in Rochester.
Donna Ripley confronted the pair to demand why a "mega" mosque in Gillingham had been given planning permission and asked whether "this was the way you want England to go?"
She was rather underwhelmed by the reply.
So, would she be voting Ukip? Not at all. "I think they are racist and bigoted."
Tags: Rochester; Strood; UKIP, Labour, by-election, Conservatives, EU, Calais
It's no surprise the by-election battle looming in Rochester and Strood is shaping up to be one of the most acrimonious and fiercely-contested in British politics for decades.
The vitriol pouring from Conservatives towards Mark Reckless is an indication that they will fight tooth and nail to see him off.
The stakes are high: for UKIP, a win would give their prospects at the general election a huge boost. For the Conservatives, victory would send out a strong message it is capable of resisting UKIP's purple wave.
So, who will get over the finish line first?
Why UKIP could win:
Why UKIP could lose:
The unknown factors:
Tags: UKIP, Mark Reckless, Conservatives, Cameron, Farage, by-election, Kent, immigration
Categories: Medway | Rochester | Strood
The saga over Manston Airport has already thrown up plenty of surprises but perhaps the biggest one came this week.
Just days after minister Grant Shapps declared his unwavering support for the airport and left campaigners in a euphoric mood came the news of its sale.
And the new owners dropped a bombshell: in their grand masterplan, regeneration specialists Chris Musgrave and Trevor Carpenter declared there was no place for an airport or any aviation-related services.
There has inevitably been speculation that the idea of a "mixed-use" commercial development outlined by the new owners means something else, namely a sprawling housing development.
The owners firmly reject the claim of uncontrollable housing sprawl insisting they are genuinely committed to establishing a site which has a variety of commercial uses, as well as some residential development.
Either way, Thanet Council is facing both a quandary and an opportunity. The ruling Labour administration is in the throes of deciding whether to push for a CPO in partnership with the American company RiverOak.
The latter has said that so far as they are concerned, the sale of the site to new owners makes no difference to their plan and a commitment to the council to underwrite the costs.
In a sense, RiverOak is right but the same cannot be said for the council.
From a position where there was only one offer on the table, the council now has another, which looks on the surface to have some credibility and would dovetail with the work underway to redevelop the former Pfizer site, the Discovery Park.
The difficulty for the Labour leadership is that it has, until now and very publicly, stood four square behind those who want to see Manston retained as an airport.
Behind the scenes, we know, however, that there is some disquiet among Labour councillors about supporting a CPO even if it is underwritten by RiverOak. Some of that disquiet is also felt by members of the Conservative group.
The report council officials will present to next month's cabinet meeting cannot overlook the new owners' plans, and neither should it.
The political quandary is which option to back. Support a CPO which is bound to lead to a lengthy legal tussle with no guarantee of success or swing behind the alternative business park scheme with its promise of jobs (albeit rather imprecise) and investment.
The consolation for Labour is that precisely the same conundrum faces the Conservative party, which has also been fairly explicit in supporting those who want Manston to be retained as an airport.
The odds last week were on the council backing a CPO. This week, I would say those odds have lengthened considerably.
But next week? Who knows.
Tags: Manston, airport, UKIP, Labour, Conservatives
Finally, the speculation over where UKIP leader Nigel Farage is going to stand at the general election is over. And, as expected, he is to go for the nomination in Thanet South, where the party feels it has a better than evens chance of making a long-awaited parliamentary breakthrough.
Of course, he has yet to go through his party's selection process but even allowing for the occasionally perverse choices made by local constituency associations, it is inconceivable that activists would want anyone else.
I will stand for nomination in Thanet South, says UKIP leader Farage>>>
So, can UKIP win? National polls would suggest not but that is to ignore local circumstances and demographics.
The current MP Laura Sandys is standing down, meaning that any personal vote she may have carried is gone.
UKIP can legitimately claim to have established Thanet as a power base after the county council election last year, when it won seven of the divisions up for grabs. it has a well organised local association and won't have difficulty in mobilising foot soldiers to pound the streets come election time.
The fact that the Conservatives have chosen a former UKIP member, Craig Mackinlay, to be its candidate is an indication of how anxious they are about the challenge - underlined vividly by the share of the vote UKIP took at the recent European election - 45.9% - compared to 22% for the Conservatives, albeit in an election with a low turnout.
The charismatic Farage will bring some stardust to the campaign but that is a double-edged sword: plenty of people like him as a plain-talking, unspun "man of the people" but equally, many see this as precisely the opposite and a carefully contrived - but entertaining - act.
Labour will also have some anxieties over a strong UKIP push in a seat they have eyed up as a target for some time. The worrying scenario for them is that some polls are suggesting that UKIP is drawing as many votes from them as it is from the Conservatives - which will play to UKIP's claim that Thanet South is a tight three-way marginal.
UKIP's prospects for an historic parliamentary breakthrough in Kent are probably about as good as they will ever be. The party has momentum, a high profile and a leader who enjoys popular support and knows that the issue of Britain's membership of the EU will be centre stage in the election campaign.
Perhaps the only prediction about which there can be an certainty is that Thanet South will be a key electoral battleground. And if you are not enthused by politics or politicians, it could be a place to give wide berth to next May.
Tags: UKIP, Nigel Farage, election, Craig Mackinlay, Thanet, Conservatives
Categories: Politics
Whatever other qualities Craig Mackinlay may have, it is pretty clear that when it came to the Conservatives choosing their prospective candidate for Thanet South, his former involvement with UKIP was a trump card.
Ordinarily, would-be MPs who have dallied with other parties are often treated with suspicion by constituency activists but in this case, it worked to his advantage.
Former UKIP man to contest Thanet South for the Conservatives>>>
The threat of a significant challenge by UKIP in a key UKIP target seat in 2015 may not have caused a meltdown in Conservative ranks but there is no doubt there was a certain sense of panic about how to respond.
The prospect of the charismatic leader Nigel Farage being UKIP's candidate only served to add to the Conservative anxiety. The indignity of possible defeat next May and becoming a footnote in parliamentary history was beginning to cast something of a dark shadow.
So, handing the candidancy to the avowedly Eurosceptic Mackinlay, who fought two elections as a UKIP candidate and was briefly leader, was a shrewd tactical move.
He didn't lose much time in getting on the front foot and suggesting there was no reason why Nigel Farage should stand, now there was a Conservative running who was equally scepticalabout the EU. We can expect more of this in the run up to the election.
For his part, Nigel Farage has a dilemma. Had UKIP got through its selection process and adopted the leader as its candidate earlier, it could have argued that it was forcing the Conservatives' hand.
If Nigel Farage now looks elsewhere in Kent, he faces being accused of running scared - ironically, the charge levelled by the party when current MP Laura Sandys, who is on the pro-European wing of the Conservatives, announced she was standing down.
He has responded to questions about his intentions by saying that Thanet South is one of several constituencies in the mix.
But he has also been compelled to say that he will announce where he wants to stand in a few weeks, which does make it look like he is responding to events rather than leading them. The suggestion is that UKIP will seek to depict Mackinlay as "UKIP-lite" and depict their candidate as the real deal.
I have until now thought that he would opt for Thanet South above Folkestone and Hythe or Dover and Deal.
On balance, I still think he will but the odds have lengthened a little and strangely, UKIP are for once on the defensive.
Tags: Nigel Farage, UKIP, Conservatives, Thanet, Kent, Craig Mackinlay
Categories: Precept
It is perhaps a measure of UKIP's spectacular growth as a political party - or movement - that when Thanet Conservatives meet this week to decide who they want as their prospective parliamentary candidate for Thanet South, the name many will be thinking of first is Nigel Farage rather than the three shortlisted for the role.
He is, as one Conservative put it, "the elephant in the room." Which is what makes the selection of someone to succeed Laura Sandys so intriguing. On paper and under different circumstances, this probably would be a seat where the Conservatives would be in a two-way battle with Labour and the Conservatives might expect to win.
The Thanet South Conservative shortlist>>>>
But there is a fly in the ointment. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has dropped several hints that this is a constituency he may contest at the general election and the Conservatives are acutely aware that would present a major challenge. Thanet is now an area where UKIP is well entrenched, with seven county councillors, all elected last May and in the process, ousting some long-standing Conservatives.
So, one of the key considerations of association members will be which candidate would be best placed to neutralise UKIP and the Farage factor? The association has already made clear that is after someone prepared to champion an 'in-out' referendum even earlier than David Cameron has committed the party to, although a statement to that effect on the association's website is no longer there.
One of the three shortlisted candidates is Craig Mackinlay, who was a leading figure in UKIP for 12 years and fought a couple of elections for the party before rejoining the Conservatives in 2005. His credentials on this front are therefore sound and if the UKIP threat is uppermost in members' minds, might be considered a favourite.
UKIP would find it awkward to contest a seat where the Conservative candidate is a hardline Eurosceptic whose views are barely any different from Nigel Farage.
On the other hand, UKIP might feel that they can exploit a candidate by suggesting that if voters want the real thing when it comes to the election, you can't get a much more authentic voice of Euroscepticism than Nigel Farage.
Away from Europe, another factor is that Conservative Central Office is known to be anxious for there to be more women candidates at the election as several current MPs are standing down.
There have been some rumours that this view has been communicated rather firmly to Thanet Conservatives. As the only female candidate, if this factor comes into play, then the odds might swing towards Anna Firth, a barrister and Sevenoaks district councillor.
In terms of their CVs, the shortlisted trio are all very able and whoever gets the nomination will be a good candidate.
But if Nigel Farage does eventually opt for Thanet South, the Conservative candidate will be pitchforked into the cauldron of an election contest where they will be taking on a party determined to secure an historic parliamentary breakthrough.
Tags: Thanet, Conservatives, Laura Sandys, UKIP, Nigel Farage, Kent
Categories: Precept
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Why is it that when using CUDA, if I perform a FFT with a size of 1 million, I get somewhat subtly different results every time?
My hardware has the Fermi architecture.
This might have an easy answer. CUDA programs frequently use the float variable type, as it can be considerably faster than double. The order in which operations are evaluated can significantly affect the final value of a floating point computation; this isn't unique to CUDA, but you might notice the effects particularly acutely since it is such a massively parallel paradigm (and with parallelism comes nondeterminism, at least when doing things like global reductions).
EDIT: Just to be clear, it is a necessary (though insufficient) condition that CUDA not guarantee that the same kernel will be executed in the same order across several executions. If CUDA does guarantee this, then it should not be possible for the order in which arithmetic operations are executed to vary from run to run, and as such, one would not expect to see different values for the same floating-point computation.
Here is a simple C program demonstrating the above claim. Try the code
on Linux and see what you get (I'm using 64-bit RHEL 6 and gcc version 4.4.4-13). My output is the following:
EDIT: Note that while this program may suggest that the underlying issue is that floating-point addition is non-commutative, it is actually the case that floating-point addition is non-associative (since C evaluates addition operations from left to right, it just so happens that the first addition is performed as (a + b) + c and the second is performed as (b + c) + a). The reason for non-associativity is that floating-point representations can represent only finitely many significant digits (in base 2, but the discussion for a base-10 system is essentially equivalent). For instance, if only three significant digits can be represented, we get (100 + 0.5) + 0.5 = 100 + 0.5 = 100, whereas 100 + (0.5 + 0.5) = 100 + 1 = 101. In the first case, the intermediate result 100 + 0.5 must be truncated (or rounded up, possibly) since it is impossible to represent the intermediate value 100.5 with only three significant digits.
There are a number of important implications of this phenomenon; for instance, you will get a more accurate answer by adding numbers in increasing order of size (exponent). The real take-away is that you shouldn't expect the results to be identical unless the computations are being performed in the same order, which may be hard to guarantee using CUDA on a real GPU.


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There will be tickets and yes I understand it sucks to pay more than face value, but if that's what it comes down to, I'll do it. How do you even know the scalpers will end up with all the tickets in the lottery? They're chances are just as good as yours, technically. If you're so worried about it, buy season tickets and you will get first stab at them. I wish I lived in Detroit, I'd already have season tickets, bar none. My point is, if you want to go, you can.
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Every Israeli has an opinion about falafel, the ultimate Israeli street food, which is most often served stuffed into pita bread. One of my favorite spots is a simple stand in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem, adjacent to Mea Shearim. The neighborhood was established in 1891, when wealthy Jews from Bukharan engaged engineers and city planners to plan a quarter with straight, wide streets and lavish stone houses. After the Russian Revolution, with the passing of time and fortunes, the Bukharan Quarter lost much of its wealth, but even so the area retains a certain elegance. There, the falafel is freshly fried before your eyes and the balls are very large and light. Shlomo Zadok, the elderly falafel maker and falafel stand owner, brought the recipe with him from his native Yemen.
Zadok explained that at the time of the establishment of the state, falafel the name of which probably comes from the word pilpel (pepper) was made in two ways: either as it is in Egypt today, from crushed, soaked fava beans or fava beans combined with chickpeas, spices, and bulgur; or, as Yemenite Jews and the Arabs of Jerusalem did, from chickpeas alone. But favism, an inherited enzymatic deficiency occurring among some Jews mainly those of Kurdish and Iraqi ancestry, many of whom came to Israel during the mid 1900s proved potentially lethal, so all falafel makers in Israel ultimately sopped using fava beans, and chickpea falafel became an Israeli dish.
The timing was right for falafel in those early years, with immigrants pouring in. Since there was a shortage of meat, falafel made a cheap, protein-rich meal and people liked it.
Rachama Ihshady, daughter of the founder of another favorite Jerusalem falafel joint, Shalom's Falafel on Bezalel Street, told me that her family recipe, also of Yemenite origin, has not changed since British times. Using the basics taught to me by these falafel mavens, I have created my own version, adding fresh parsley and cilantro, two ingredients I like and which originally characterized Arab falafel in Israel. Give me mine wrapped in a nice warm pita bread, swathed in tahina sauce an overflowing with pickled turnip and eggplant, chopped peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, amba (pickled mango sauce) and make it harif, Hebrew for "hot." The type of hot sauce used, of course, depends on the origin of the falafel maker.
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Yummy! I'm no falafel connoisseur, in fact this was my second time, but this recipe was easy and tasty. Next time I will use crushed cumin seeds for a little more punch.
i have yet to try this recipe, but it seems so simple that it's almost too good to be true! i'm excited to try this one, as i haven't had much luck in the past with other falafel recipes.
These were delicious! I served them at a party where they were a huge hit, and my mother (who spent three weeks in Israel last summer) said they were very authentic. The only change I made was to deep-fry them instead of pan-frying.
Holy moly! This falafel is awesome! I was out of ground cumin (bummer), so I substituted turmeric. I also left out the parsley, and used more cilantro. It was very good in pita sandwiches with homemade hummus (recipe found here), cucumbers, tomatoes, and lettuce. I did find the onion to be a bit over powering because it stayed very raw. Next time, I might cook some of the onion in a saute pan before adding it to the other ingredients. On day two of eating the falafel, I put it in a 420 degree oven for about ten minutes after browning it in a saute pan. It was more "cooked through" that way. Next time, I'm also going to make the homemade wheat pita bread (recipe on this site, too). Anyway. YUM!
best falafel I've ever eaten. accompanied with a nice tahini sauce: 1/2 c plain yogurt, 1/2 c tahini paste, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 large clove minced garlic, 1/4 tsp ground cumin.
This dish was amazing. My boyfriend is still talking about days after I made it! I paired this with the cilantro yogurt sauce from one of the other falafel recipes. Absolutely delicious!
This is, by far, the best falafel I've ever had. Terrific. I followed the recipe exactly, except to exclude the cilantro. Our guests raved and I was so pleased. Two thumbs up! I'm making it again this weekend. It's that good.
I loved the flavours of the falafel. I found it took a lot of flour to stop it sticking to my hands which resulted in the falafels being quite heavy, any advice?
I own the book now for 2 years and I am from ISrael myself, lived there for almost 6 years. The food is delicious there, this book is highly recommended. It's a mix of all midetaranian flavours to its own unique tastes. I have no even once done a recipe from her book that I did not like, just a joy to open and this falafel is truly Israeli and never tasted better


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i can't believe it's already april, but that means that it's time for a new d*s desktop wallpaper! this month the lovely karen combs of nama rococo wallpaper is sharing a calendar and non-calendar design with us, as well as some fun downloadable artwork just for fun. i love the rich oranges she used in this month's design, and hope you'll enjoy her wallpaper as much as i am.
CLICK HERE to download karen's wallpapers for this month!
I look forward to the desktop calendar every month – this is so refreshing and modern and SPRING!
I had to move my desktop icons out of the way of the calendar, but it was well worth it. I love the colors and big graphic shapes used.. awesome!
Love these desktop calendars, this one is great, the warm, sunny colours are fabulous, I can feel the sun on my face already!
it is so generous for you to share these with us, and we couldn't ask for a more delightful image. thank you to grace and karen!
LOVE IT!!!! Thanks for always offering a calendar option also!
That makes this orange-lover very happy.
I love the calendars you put out…but in future months, can you make them in a larger variety of screen resolutions? They are so beautiful but don't fit my monitor size so I don't get to enjoy them. Thank you!
Not all artists are up for offering them at larger sizes and higher resolutions because they could be stolen and used for print or web work at those sizes/resolutions. Sorry :(
I always look forward to the month calendar and the works submited are always lovely . . . Nowadays I´m updating my illustration portfolio, what should I do if I want to publish some of my work?
if you'd like to submit artwork/products to be considered for coverage on d*s you can send info via email to designsponge at gmail dot com


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