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After satisfying the Olympic Committee of Israel's qualification criteria at the recent European championships, Felix Aronovich told IG he is heading into this summer's London Olympic Games with hopes of making the all-around final.
The International Gymnastics Federation awarded Aronovich a berth to the London Games based on his performance at the Olympic test event in London in January. The OCI, however, set its own Olympic standard for him at the Europeans that took place May 21-27 in Montpellier, France.
To compete at the London Olympics, the OCI mandated that Aronovich place among the top 12 all-around or make an apparatus final in Montpellier. No all-around final was scheduled for this year's Europeans, so Aronovich's Olympic fate was to be based on his results in the qualifications round for the team and apparatus finals.
"I was in the last subdivision and I already knew the scores of the two subdivisions before, so I kind of knew the score I needed to make the top 12," Aronovich said. "I wasn't really nervous. I knew that, if I did the same as in practice, I would be golden. So I just took it one event at a time, not really worrying about my scores."
Aronovich found his Olympic dream in jeopardy after a poor performance on pommel horse in the fourth rotation.
"At that moment I actually thought I was out of the race because I scored really low, around 11 (points)," said Aronovich, who moved to Israel from his native Ukraine at age 2. "I got nervous, but my coach told me not to worry about it and keep fighting through rings and vault. And I did."
Aronovich said he was unsure that he made the top 12 until well after the qualifications ended.
"Most of the teams had already left the competition area, but the all-around scores were not posted on the big TV above the floor, so I didn't know my position," he said. "I was pretty sure I didn't make (the top 12) because of pommel horse, and I was really angry at myself. Then we spotted one of the Israeli judges at the main judges' table and asked him if he had the scores. He said, 'Oh, I thought you already knew. You finished 11th.'"
Aronovich said the reality of qualifying for London literally took a weight off his shoulders.
"I felt like a huge massive rock was lifted off me," said Aronovich, who also competes for Penn State University. "I wasn't precisely happy. Relieved would be the proper word."
Aronovich is one of three Israeli artistic gymnasts who have qualified for London. The others are Alexander Shatilov, who earned his Olympic berth by tying for the bronze medal on floor exercise at the 2011 World Championships; and Valeria Maksyuta.
Like Aronovich, the Ukrainian-born Maksyuta technically earned her Olympic berth at the test event in January but satisfied the OCI's qualification criteria at the women's Europeans in Brussels last month.
Aronovich is now focused on London, where he is targeting an ambitious goal.
"A final on an event will be impractical for me," he told IG. "I will try to make the (24-gymnast) all-around final. If I have a good day and things go as they are supposed to, I think I can do it."
International Gymnast Magazine Related Features:
"Aiming High" - Shatilov profile (January/February 2009)
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When we reach the first of May, Earth has moved along its orbit to where the Northern Hemisphere is receiving an ever increasing flow of energy as each day is longer than the one before. The Sun is climbing in our sky, and everything in the Northern Hemisphere responds to its light. Indeed, we best be careful not to overdose on its luminosity that can burn and even cause cancerous effects that doctors warn about. We have reached the cross-quarter date that some past ages have considered to be the start of summer.
In Celtic tradition, the night of April 30 was thought of as the darkest of the year, when witches flew to frighten, spawning evil throughout the land. In response, people pounded on kettles, slammed doors, cracked whips, rang church bells and made all the noise they could to scare off the corruption they imagined to be moving on the moist air. They lit bonfires and torches and witch- proofed their houses with spring boughs. Such vigils were kept throughout the night until the rising of the May-dawn.
Beltane–the word means "brilliant fire" in reference to the Sun–became more commonly known as May Day. People danced around bonfires on hilltops, moving in a clockwise, or "sunwise" direction. Later generations would dance around a pole instead of a fire.
In the British Isles young men and maidens would go a-Maying on the eve of May Day, spending all night in the forests to return at day-break, "bringing in the May," adorning villages with spring boughs and blossoms. They might carry with them the stem of a tree, place it in the village, and decorate it with flowers, vines and ribbons. In later generations, people would dance around this phallic of the earth as participants in the fertility of crops, flocks, herds and humans. The celebration was for regeneration of life that comes with increased sunlight that is so noticeable when we reach the junction between vernal equinox and summer solstice.
Maypoles remain common in Scandinavian countries, and the trimmings are often left through summer and winter as a gesture to symbolically insure the coming of spring the following year. The meanings of the day have continued to change. In 1887, socialistic countries established May 1 as a day for working people to show unity in public demonstrations. In communist Russia, the day became one of political speeches and military parades. It is difficult to imagine drifting much farther from the origins of the occasion of reaching the point in our annual travels around our star when we feel the urge to celebrate the increase of starlight that falls upon our portion of ground to amplify the symphony of life around us. Maypoles seem so much more appropriate than do missiles aimed at the sky.
It is, after all, the location of Earth in its solar orbit that we celebrate on any anniversary. Your birthday, Independence Day, Christmas and all the others that are date specific are established by Earth's orbit and are marked by reference to the Sun in our sky. If you wish, you could mark these days by knowing where the Sun would rise as viewed from some specific observing station. Your horizon calendar would be defined by the limiting northern and southern gateways for sunrise or sunset at summer and winter solstices. The equinox would mark the mid-point, and the cross-quarter dates could provide additional reference points for visualization of the passage of the year. You could add your own personal anniversaries that you wish to celebrate with the entrance and exit of the Sun on those particular days.
Native Americans occupying this land before us were watching the Sun migrate on the horizon. When it reached the place we have named "May" they were singing the songs that brought them into harmony with the fertility of Mother Earth and Father Sky. Their rewards were gentle rains, mixed with sunlight. Successively, as the Sun reached established "houses" on their horizons, they placed seeds in the soil: several plantings to assure good crops.
Calendar keeping people also watch the stars. In early May the evening sky in the west is marked by an arc of brilliant stars. Sirius in Canis Major, brightest star of the night is low to the southwest, setting in the dusk. Higher and a bit farther north is Procyon in Canis Minor. Then we come to the bright pair, Castor and Pollux, the Twins of Gemini. Still farther north is yellow-cast Capella in Auriga. Capella being the last of the group to set gives its name to this star- lit arch–"Arc of Capella."
Underneath the arch, vanishing from the evening sky, are famous winter stars. As May comes in, the Pleiades, a tightly-clustered group in the constellation Taurus, vanishes in the evening twilight, and mighty Orion follows them. Both groups have long been used for agriculture. The Navajo people refer to the Pleiades as Dilyehe'. "Never let Dilyehe' see you plant," they say. Once the Pleiades are gone from the evening it is time to begin planting in Navajoland, and crops must be started before Dilyehe' is back in the early morning sky before the dawn.
The cross-quarter day that is only vaguely remembered these days in the form of May Day certainly signals the onset of the most pleasant of times in our part of the world. Leaves are bursting out on trees, flowers in all the colors of the rainbow appear on deserts and make their way into the mountains. Farmers work fields and backyard-gardeners plant vegetables and herbs. This is a good time to look around at earth and sky with greater sensitivity and appreciation of emerging abundance that initiates the harvest we will surely enjoy in a few short months.
This article was modified from the original Von del Chamberlain to serve as an information source for all May Day cross-quarter events.

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Home Page Chess Life Online 2010 July The Scoop on the World Open
|The Scoop on the World Open
|By Jennifer Shahade with Dim Mak Films
|July 6, 2010
The Top Guns
At the World Open, Czech GM Viktor Laznicka took home the first place prize of $17,413.
Luke McShane, Ilya Smirin and Pentala Harikrishna tied for 2nd-4th with 7/9, for a payday of $5028.67 each. Tied for 5th-8th were GMs Loek Van Wely, Jan Gustafsson, Vladimir Potkin and Aleksandr Lenderman. See final standings on worldopen.com
Lenderman talked about his result, his favorite win over GM Mark Paragua and his plans for the US Open.
Norms Past and Present
Conrad Holt earned the only norm of the World Open, his second IM norm.
Conrad also had a great win against GM Evgeny Najer.
Too bad Najer didn't play 41...Ka3, allowing Conrad to execute the final blow over the board.
Despite this flashy finish, Holt's favorite game was a slow grind against GM Kazhgalayev.
Although brutal, we also include Holt's loss against the top seed of the tournament, Paco Vallejo (2703 FIDE). Testing his lines against such opposition must be good for Holt's development.
IM-elect+two GM norms Mackenzie Molner talked to CLO about his nonstop summer of chess and how he made a recent jump in his playing strength.
Victor Nicked Only by Women in the Under 2400
In the highly competitive Under 2400 section, another "Victor" took first place, Victor Shen of New Jersey. The US Chess Scoop caught up with Shen just before the final round, when he had clinched at least a tie for first place.
In the final round, Shen was paired with WIM Alisa Melekhina. Needing only a draw for clear first, Shen offered one a few moves into the game. Melekhina, playing with Black, agreed, though only a win would give her a chance at the big first place money, or a guarantee of second place money. After the game, Shen told CLO he estimated there was a 50% chance his draw offer would be accepted. He took home over $11,000.
IM-elect Farai Mandizha won his final round game to earn clear second for over $6,000. Melekhina tied for 3rd-6th with IM Chandrashhekhar Gokhale, Oladapo Adu, and WIM Iryna Zenyuk, good for a little over $1700 each. See complete Under 2400 crosstable. WIM Iryna Zenyuk talked to the Scoop about her tournament and her preparation for the US Women's Championship coming up in Saint Louis.
On the topic of women in chess, check out additional footage from our Amanda Mateer interview, where she talks about what it's like to be one of the only girls in chess and her work with 9queens.
A Chess Life Magazine Preview
Author and college student Jonathan Hilton also played in the Under 2400, and despite a year away from the board, came into the final day with great chances for a major cash. He talked to CLO about his play, his upcoming Chess Life Magazine article and the series of books he is co-authoring with IM Dean Ippolito, Wojo's Weapons.
The Next Generation
Youngsters stormed the World Open in search of upsets and prize money. One of the strongest was NM Kayden Troff of Utah. Troff, the top 11-year-old in the country, will represent the US in the World Youth this fall. Kayden was recently featured on the Little Chocolatiers, but took a step down from the major networks to join the US Chess Scoop.
Philadelphia high schooler Dwayne Darby won the Under 900 section, good for $862. In an excited mood, Dwayne, talked about his win.
The polite and talented Nieto brothers of Colombia provided a pleasant contrast to the screaming children aiming soccer balls at our equipment. Guillermo and Manuel both played up a few sections in the Under 2400, scoring 3 and 2.5 points respectively. Manuel gives some advice to aspiring chess whizzes:
You can watch our first batch of videos from Valley Forge here. For results in all sections and a pgn file from the Open, see the official website. Also look for Jonathan Hilton's upcoming Chess Life Magazine article on the event.


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The Navy Good Conduct Medal (NGCM) is a decoration presented by the United States Navy to recognize members who have completed three years of honorable service. Medals awarded before January 1, 1996 required four years of service. Members who serve just one year, but during a time of war, are also eligible for the award. Successive awards are denoted by Service Stars worn on the award medal. After 12 years of noble service, a member is authorized to wear a gold Petty Officer insignia.


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Improvements to DreamSpark and FREE store access for Windows 8 student developers
Today we are announcing the following changes to www.dreamspark.com
1. An new site design which is the result of improvements to the user experience based on internal and external feedback. Notably creating more clarity around the fact that the DreamSpark program is both a direct to student program and a subscription based program for academic institutions. As a result we have created two hubs with distinctive colour branding through the site to direct users to the right information and software access depending on their role:
a. DreamSpark for Students – direct access to the individual students experience (www.dreamspark.com/Student/default.aspx )
b. DreamSpark for Academic Institutions – information about the DreamSpark subscription such as program benefits, EULAs, usage guidelines, and the steps to purchase a subscription etc. (www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Subscription.aspx )
The site today is going live in English only. Customers selecting other languages will fall back to English UI. The DreamSpark team are working as fast as we can to launch the localized versions. They should become available in the week of 24th of Sept.
As part of this site redesign we are rebranding the DreamSpark subscription to DreamSpark Standard in response to the feedback received by customers and to avoid confusion with DreamSpark for students.
2. The new site has shifted from focusing purely on software downloads to bringing tools and resources related to development on our platforms (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Games) and most importantly a new section under Student dedicated to App Development) also accessible from the Student sub-navigation .
3. A page dedicated to Windows 8 App Development where students can find the resources and tools they need to start developing Windows 8 apps, including a pointer to downloading the getting started guide. .
4. Free access for students to the Windows Store: From the Windows 8 App Development page, users will be direct to the Windows Store Access Page on DreamSpark where they can verify their user status and then get a Registration code to use in the Windows Store to register for FREE.
Additional Resources
a. Overview of the DreamSpark program explaining what it is? www.dreamspark.com/what-is-dreamspark.aspx
b. New Software Deployment guide for institutions, www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Software-Deployment-Guide-en-us.pdf , detailing step by step how administrators can provide software access to students, faculty and labs via a DreamSpark MSDN Subscriber Portal and ELMS Webstores
c. ELMS overview: www.dreamspark.com/Institution/ELMS-Overview.aspx
d. DreamSpark Standard usage guidelines page added to academic institution overview section, www.dreamspark.com/Institution/DS-Usage-Guidelines.aspx
e. DreamSpark Premium usage guidelines page added to academic institution overview section, www.dreamspark.com/Institution/DSP-Usage-Guidelines.aspx
f. STEM definition page, www.dreamspark.com/Institution/STEM.aspx
g. New DreamSpark Standard EULA:www.dreamspark.com/Institution/DS-EULA.aspx
h. DreamSpark Premium EULA page to www.dreamspark.com/Institution/DSP-EULA.aspx
i. Revised FAQ's; more information, more relevant to each audience (student, educator, and institution) accessible from top nav bar.
j. Separation of Student support from Subscription support with two dedicated pages: www.dreamspark.com/student/support.aspx and www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Support.aspx
k. DreamSpark for Academic Institution, and the Academic Institution Hub nav bar explaining how access an existing subscription:


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- Mark Coleman: September brought Cassette Store Day. Why celebrate this? Let's play along
- Organizers wanted to stimulate a resurgence of cassette tapes, first sold in the '60s, he says
- He says cassette tapes warred with vinyl and 8-track tapes for dominance, sometimes winning
- Coleman: Their quality improved, though they fell from favor. But still a cultural touchstone
The cassette tape is back! Or at least this is what the organizers of Cassette Store Day, held in September, would have us believe. Cassettes? Really? Let's play along, if only for nostalgia's sake.
Fifty years after the prototype cassette was introduced at the 1963 Berlin Radio Show, a group of independent labels that release new cassettes have pulled together the global event celebrating and, they hope, stimulating the resurgence of prerecorded tapes.
The day was observed, according to the group's website, at roughly 100 retail stores and music venues in the U.S., Europe, Canada and South America, with tie-ins, new cassette releases and live performers pushing new tapes. Cassette releases from established bands like At the Drive-In and Flaming Lips were vended, as well as tapes from underground artists like Grape Soda and Gold Bears on the Hope for the Tape Deck label.
Anyone who remembers fumbling with a cassette deck while driving or listening as a tape unspooled and self-destructed in the tape deck or having to insert index finger or pen into the cassette in a usually vain attempt to rewind the hopelessly twisted tape must be asking a simple question: Why?
In the seamless age of digital music, when seemingly every song ever recorded is available at the stroke of a few computer keys, why would anyone revive such a clunky and outmoded physical format?
But consider: Even with the convenience and sheer abundance of music stored on MP3 files, cassettes (and vinyl) offer tangible and tactile pleasures that aren't readily available in the digital world. There's a sizable, and growing, subset of consumers who lust for musical objects that they can hold in their hands (and their hearts) as well as their ears.
"Metal and punk and noise people never stopped releasing cassettes," says Scott Seward. He is a music critic and owner of John Doe Jr. Used Records and Books in Greenfield, Massachusetts. "Fans of that music have always collected tapes. Same with jam band and Grateful Dead fans until recent years. It's still a common format for a lot of Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian street or folk music too, because cassettes are so cheap to reproduce."
It's true. Cassettes have always been an alternative and were for many years something of an underdog in the musical format wars. Not long after prerecorded cassettes emerged in the vinyl-dominated marketplace, the 8-track tape format eclipsed them in popularity. That was largely because the Ford Motor Co. started offering 8-track players as an option on some of its cars beginning in 1966.
The automobile would power sales of the 8-track format past the cassette in the music-mad '60s and '70s. Drivers could insert and remove the bulky 8-tracks with one hand. By 1975, incredibly, 8-track tapes were second only to vinyl records in terms of sales figures.
Cassettes had already been a tough sell to audiophiles because until the advent of Dolby noise reduction in the '70s, their sound quality was muffled compared with vinyl records. Gradually that improved, just as new tape playback options emerged.
Even before the Walkman, the portable stereos known as boom boxes boosted the popularity of cassettes in the urban areas where these hulking radio/tape players (aka ghetto blasters) were most often used. Boom boxes made music consumption a public event (often whether the public wanted it or not) while advancing the notion of portability.
But consumers began to demand portable music players. In late 1979, Sony introduced the proto-Walkman. Retailing for $199, the Soundabout was a 14-ounce playback-only device that came with headphones and used standard-size cassettes. By 1981, the smaller and cheaper Walkman II was available.
When it comes to recorded music formats, portable equals personal. So it's no accident that the Walkman and similar devices became known as personal stereos in the early '80s. Soon, Walkman headphones were as ubiquitous as boom boxes on city streets.
Thanks to the Walkman, the boom box and the cassette (and later the CD), sales of vinyl records plummeted during the '80s. In 1981, more than twice as many vinyl records as prerecorded cassettes were sold. By 1984, the numbers had flipped, and cassette sales outpaced vinyl for the first time.
Despite the unsuccessful "Home Taping Is Killing Music" campaign of the early '80s, the ability to record one's own tapes was always a huge part of the cassette's appeal. Homemade mix tapes became a cultural touchstone for a generation (or two), functioning as diaries or journals and figuring in courtship rituals (see Rob Sheffield's affecting memoir "Love Is A Mix Tape"). When cassettes faded from the scene in the early '90s in the conquering wake of the CD, something unique -- personal -- got left behind.
Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. The pull of nostalgia is not the only motivation behind the recent cassette cult resurgence, but memories and recorded music are deeply -- some say neurologically -- intertwined.
"There is that True Cult aspect," Seward says. "It's an exclusivity thing. Cassettes just seem like a cooler thing to have for sale at your punk or noise show than a CDR. Black metal and power electronics sound fab on tape, though. Same with Miami bass music. I still listen to a lot of metal and rap on tape, and I make mix tapes from vinyl that sound amazing."
Even if Cassette Store Day fails to bring prerecorded cassettes back to commercial prominence, the event made a telling point about our music consumption. Despite the digital revolution, if you dust off those outmoded physical formats like cassette tapes and vinyl records down in the basement, they produce more than memories: They play music. They still work. Their appeal, however sentimental, is stronger than mere nostalgia.


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Now-a-days people are more focused on buying gifts with a specific purpose in mind. Gone are the days of purchasing an impractical gift just for the sake of saying you gave someone a present. We understand what it's like to streamline our household budgets, but at the same time we are savvier about giving gifts that will be remembered and appreciated for years to come. Filters Fast offers 10 functional and reasonably priced gift-giving suggestions to consider:
Water Filter Pitchers: This gift is ideal for college students or apartment dwellers who want filtered drinking water that is convenient, portable and reusable. See our selection of space-saving water filter pitchers available from Brita, Mavea, Pur, GE, Omnifilter and 3M Filtrete.
Klean Kanteen Wine Karafe: This 27 ounce wine carafe is made from BPA free, food-grade brushed stainless steel, wine enthusiast who wants to avoid taking a heavy wine bottle or decanter on a hike, carriage ride or picnic. that does not impart any unsavory flavors into your wine or other beverages. This gift is ideal for the wine enthusiast who wants to avoid taking a heavy wine bottle or decanter on a hike, carriage ride or picnic.
Sprite Baby Shower: The Sprite Baby Shower is the perfect gift for parents with infants. It features a small easy-to-hold handle and uses an adapter to attach to your kitchen sink faucet to easily bathe your infant. Replacement filters are available for continued use.
Fluval C3 Aquarium Power Filter System: This high performance system produces optimum aquarium filtration foryour tropical fish lover. The Fluval Aquarium Filtration System is designed for quick and easy maintenance with built-in features to remind you when components need to be cleaned or replaced.
Crane Animal Cool Mist Humidifiers: These ultrasonic cool mist humidifiers features assorted fun animal designs to choose from. Crane humidifiers will help a child breathe easier at night, while preventing dry skin and chapped lips triggered by dry indoor air.
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Plane Clean Air Filter: The Plane Clean Air Filter is just the thing for the frequent flyer in your family. This airplane air filter is designed to help you breathe easier while you fly. It easily attaches to the overhead nozzle in most planes and helps to remove approximately 99.5% of bacteria and viruses from the air stream.
Watersafe Science Project Kit: This gift is great for your science aficionado. This test kit compares water quality and is easy for elementary students to use, yet scientifically sophisticated enough for high school experiments or projects. Available in a 4-pack or 10-pack value set.
Klean Kanteen Sippy Cup: Kids can now enjoy their favorite drink from an environmentally safe, stylish and BPA-free water bottle. This 12-ounce water bottle can easily provide a cool drink for younger kids and comes in a marine blue or pastel pink finish.
Katadyn MyBottle Water Purifier: This gift is perfect for the hiker, camper or outdoor enthusiast. The Katadyn advanced water bottle filtration system can be used with untreated fresh water sources such as lakes, rivers and streams. This water bottle purifier includes the technology of a microbial purification filter cartridge and is ideal for emergency and natural disaster situations.


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Organic beers and wine aren't your only option for greening your drink choices at your holiday party. There are many organic holiday spirits you can offer your guests, too. Green holiday spirits – sounds a bit corny, doesn't it? Let's face it. It's green booze. Vodka, gin, tequila – whatever your pleasure, there's a good chance there's a greener option.
MNN's got a list of Conscious Cocktails including wine, beer, spirits and mixers that's worth checking out. One of the spirits on the list is VeeV.
VeeV Açai Liqueur ($35; veevlife.com for stores) is a spirit created from the antioxidant-rich açai berry; for every bottle sold, the company donates $1 to rainforest preservation groups.
First we drank it straight. It definitely tasted alcoholic going down with slight burn, but then it had a nice fruity aftertaste. 4 of the 5 of us tasting thought it was pleasant and were willing to keep on experimenting.
Next, we mixed it with a little club soda and a squeeze of lime. Not too exciting. Kind of bland. Perhaps we put in a little too much club soda. I was sent some recipes for Veev, but we decided to try our own concoction.
At the beginning of summer, I had frozen some cut up strawberries in sugar that were the last of the local picking. We defrosted them and made a frozen drink. In a four cup blender, we filled the blender with ice. Then we poured Veev up to the two cup line, mixed together the strawberries and a little fruit punch Juice Juice and poured that in the blender to the top. We (and when I say we, I mean my friend Mike who was the master mind of this drink) also squeezed a little fresh lime juice in. Blended it all together and it was good. Mike felt the need to add a little more Veev, but I thought the proportions were fine.
If you are looking to green your alcoholic beverage intake, then I suggest you give VeeV a try and experiment with your own ingredients or use one of the recipes found on the website.
If you're hosting a holiday party this season, it may be fun to throw VeeV into your mix of options. Something new and hip. Your guests may not notice that the vodka or gin you are serving is organic (that doesn't mean you shouldn't serve it), but they will probably notice this simply because it's something new. It could open up a conversation about greener, better beverage options that are becoming increasingly available.


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Sorry it's been so quiet around here lately! It's been a busy few days, with Jeff out of town and some fun behind the scenes happenings that I can't wait to tell you about. Until then, here are some photos of my latest work-in-progress, a new pattern that I'm working on. I think I sketched it out over a year ago and it feels good to finally be getting started on it. I'm using five printed fabrics, all designed by Denyse Schmidt, and one solid. I really love these fabrics together.
The pattern I'm working on requires lots of half-square triangles...
...which mean lots of tiny little dog ears.
I'm still playing with fabric placement, but I'm really excited to get this one finished!


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Bowing to community pressure, the owners of Richard Neutra's Kronish House in Beverly Hills have agreed to postpone its demolition until at least Oct. 10 to give preservationists a chance to devise a plan to save the residence...and the City seeks to draft a preservation ordinance.
Designed in 1955, the Kronish Residence was one of the largest Neutra residential projects. Built for tract developer Herbert Kronish and his new English bride, the design included unusual requirements such as mirrors on the ceiling of Mrs. K's dressing room. Rare Carrara Glass lines the walls of the master bath, and there are many other unique features.
After some months on the market, where the original listing characterized the property as a 'tear down' and no mention of the Neutra design, the owners had decided to tear the structure down and sell as an empty property of land. The home, along with another hundred or so Neutra-designed properties, has no official landmark or historic property designation.
For more on this developing story and photos of the house visit the Neutra blog or Curbed LA.


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In the 1980s, the world was flooded with cheap-ass teen sex comedies, in the wake of Porky's. Cheap to make and incredibly formulaic, these films about a handful of teenage stereotypes encountering life and naked breasts made tons of money and helped propel the rise of premium cable channels. Until the formula got stale, the umpteenth Porky's knockoff wasn't fun any more, and the subgenre died.
Right now, it feels like we're in the midst of a similar wave of cheap, brainless horror movies. And Intruders, in theaters today, is emblematic of just how boring most horror has gotten. Spoilers ahead...
Sure, there have been waves of horror movies in the past — like the horror-movie glut of the 1970s, or the craze for villains like Freddy and Jason in the 1980s. But still, the current horror glut reminds me more of the post-Porky's sex-comedy boom, for some reason. Maybe just because they're so, so dull and formulaic, and there are so many of them.
People tend to draw a distinction between "found footage" horror, like Paranormal Activity, and regular "invisible camerman" horror, like The Intruders. But in fact, both types of films are the same when you get down to it — made super cheap, without any memorable characters, or an interesting story to tell, or a goddamn memorable monster or real existential threat. Just boring jump scares, flickering shadows, gray weird imagery that suggests something fucked up is going on... and then a horrendous letdown ending. For every inventive horror movie like Last Exorcism, there seem to be a hundred dull, paint-by-numbers outings.
And The Intruders, directed by 28 Weeks Later's Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is exhibit A for bland horror. Here are all the things that The Intruders does that reminds us of Obama-era horror at its most boring:
It's got a contrived setup, with boring tortured characters
In a nutshell, Intruders follows two kids who are both tormented by the same weird menace. One is a tween girl in England, who finds a story about Hollowface and says his name aloud, after which he apparently starts stalking her. The other is a little boy in South America who has nightmares and is convinced that Hollowface is in the shadows, lurking and preparing to steal him away. Eventually, the little girl loses the power to speak because of the monster, and can only communicate by writing stuff down. Oh, and Clive Owen plays the girl's father, with a constant look of incredulity on his face.
And the two children turn out to be linked in an unexpected way. Sadly, all of this focus on terrified children and worried adults never quite becomes really scary, and it certainly never makes for a compelling drama.
It uses boring visual tricks.
They're all in evidence, including the fat gray raindrops, the scary shadows that morph and change, the blurry flashbacks, the dream sequences that might be real, etc. The movie tries to use shadows and trickery to suggest that something scary is lurking — but it never quite gels. And I get what they're trying to do here... they're trying to suggest the way a child's imagination can heighten the scary stuff in the world. It's an attempt to simulate the scary world that kids actually live in. But it doesn't ever quite click, sadly.
There's a derivative monster, who might not be real.
A lot of time is spent on Hollowface and his mythology, which evolves throughout the movie. He's sort of the Candyman meets Jason meets a few other things, and in the end none of it really matters. See below. But we also get long stretches of the movie from Hollowface's POV, which only add to the feeling that none of this really makes sense in the end.
CG effects you've seen a billion times before are trotted out again.
There are Dementors and tentacle porn and inky blood that falls from the ceiling, and weird shapes in the rain, and it all feels like the demo reel of a VFX person who's already swiped a copy of all the software that's been used in every other Hollywood movie.
The ending is a total horrendous letdown.
I won't actually give away the ending, but it's both ridiculous and disappointing — and it never quite makes sense. I feel as though the movie wants to leave some ambiguity as to whether this all just happened in people's heads, but it feels ultra-contrived and honestly silly. And like too many other horror movies I've seen lately, the whole thing becomes just a metaphor for facing your inner trauma and facing down your "demons." Because everything must be therapeutic.
I feel as though the writers of this film had a clever concept in their heads, and then they twisted the characters and the story around to make it work — and the notion that two kids on different continents are tormented by the same horror is a clever one, on the surface. It's just half-baked. And there's also the fact that you never care about any of the people in this film and their struggle to cope with Hollowface.
That was the downfall of teen sex comedies, too — the lack of truly memorable characters or anything like a real character arc that you could latch onto. It would be nice if more horror film-makers built their movies around just one or two really memorable characters, and created a terror that made you fear for this person's survival, as well as wondering how the horror might change this person. Until then, we're just going to be stuck with more gimmicky drek.


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Table of Contents
Research and general acceptance
A high-fiber diet is a diet in which the individual consumes foods that meet or exceed the dietary reference intake (DRI) for dietary fiber set by the United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.
No single person developed the high-fiber diet. Over the years, researchers have compared the rate of various chronic diseases in populations that had high-fiber diets with those that had lower dietary fiber intake. They found, for example, that native Africans who ate a high-fiber, plant-based diet are rarely bothered by constipation However, in industrialized countries where a lot of animal products are consumed, constipation is common. Observations like
Common diets based on eating a diet low in carbohydrates and an increased consumption of proteins and fats. (Illustration by GGS Information Services/Thomson Gale.).
this encouraged researchers to look at other roles that dietary fiber might play in health. From their findings came a consensus that a high-fiber diet is a healthy diet. This is reflected in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, which encourage people to eat more high-fiber foods such as whole grains.
The United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences has set dietary reference intakes (DRIs) for fiber based on research data that applies to American and Canadian populations. DRIs provide nutrition guidance to both health professionals and consumers. The current daily DRIs for fiber are as follows:
- children ages 1-3 years: 19 grams
- children ages 4-8 years: 25 grams
- men ages 14-50: 38 grams
- men age 51 and older: 30 grams
- girls ages 9-18: 26 grams
- adult women ages 19-50: 25 grams
- women age 51 and older: 21 grams
- pregnant women: 28 grams
- breastfeeding women: 29 grams
The average American consumes only 14 grams of fiber each day, despite extensive research that shows that higher levels off fiber provide increased health benefits. The purpose of a high-fiber diet is to encourage people to eat more fiber in order to receive the advantages of those health benefits. The high-fiber diet is not designed specifically to be a weight loss diet, although weight loss may occur as a side effect of the diet.
Dietary fiber is the collective name for a group of indigestible carbohydrate-based compounds found in plants. They are the materials that give the plant rigidity and structure. Two types of fiber are important to human health, insoluble fiber and soluble fiber.
Insoluble dietary fiber from the plants moves through the digestive system essentially unchanged. It is not digested, and it does not provide energy (calories). Instead, fiber adds bulk to the waste (stool or feces) in the large intestine (colon). Increased bulk causes the walls of the intestine to contract rhythmically (peristalsis), so that waste moves through the large intestine more rapidly. In the colon, most of the water in digested food is reabsorbed into the body, and then the solid waste is eliminated. By passing through the colon more rapidly, less water is reabsorbed from the waste. The stool remains soft and moist and is easy to expel without straining.
Good sources of insoluble fiber include:
- whole grains and foods made of whole grains, such as whole wheat bread and whole wheat pasta, couscous, or bulgur
- bran and bran breakfast cereals
- brown rice
- carrots, cucumbers, and other raw vegetables
Soluble fiber is found dissolved in water inside plant cells. Like insoluble fiber, it is not digested and does not provide energy, although it may be consumed by bacteria that live in the digestive tract. In water, soluble fiber forms a gel-like substance. This gel absorbs water and helps to keep the stool soft. Good sources of insoluble fiber include:
- oatmeal and foods made with oats
- foods such as chili or split pea soup that contain dried beans and peas
- lentils
- apples
- pears
- citrus fruits
Because fiber is so important in the diet, the amount of fiber in canned goods, frozen foods, and other processed foods sold commercially must be shown on the label. A food that is labeled "high in fiber" contains 5 or more grams of fiber per serving. As of mid-2007, manufacturers were required to show only the total amount fiber in each serving of food. However, at this time regulations were under consideration that that would require soluble dietary fiber to be listed separately from total fiber. This is because soluble fiber has health benefits that insoluble fiber does not. A good list of high-fiber foods can be found at <http://www.gicare.pated/edtgs01.htm>.
Perhaps the most important health benefit of a high-fiber diet is its potential to protect against heart disease. Multiple large, well-designed studies have shown that soluble fiber can lower blood cholesterol levels. High levels of cholesterol can lead to the build up of plaque, a hard, waxy substance, on the walls of arteries. This can block blood flow and result in stroke or heart attack. The mechanism for lowering cholesterol appears to be connected to the fact that cholesterol binds with soluble fiber in the intestine and can then be eliminated from the body or bile acids. Soluble fiber in oats and oat products appears to be more effective in lowering cholesterol than soluble fiber from other grains. This finding has been accepted by the American Heart Association which recommends a high-fiber diet to maintain or improve heart health.
A high-fiber diet can prevent digestive system problems such as constipation, hemorrhoids, and diverticulitis by keeping stool soft and easy to expel. Hemorrhoids are swollen veins around the anus caused by straining to eliminate stool. Diverticulitis is a disease in which, sections of the intestine bulge out to form pockets called diverticuli that collect food and become infected. Increased bulk and moisture from
dietary fiber helps materials move more easily through the intestine and not become trapped in these pockets.
Claims have been made that a diet high in fiber reduces the risk of colon cancer. The theory is that fiber speeds up the elimination of waste from the colon. This decreases the time that cells lining the intestinal wall are exposed to potential cancer-causing agents. However, in the mid-2000s, a study that followed 80,000 nurses for 16 years found no relationship between dietary fiber and colon cancer. More research remains to be done in this area.
Fiber should be increased in the diet gradually. If fiber intake increases suddenly, abdominal pain, gas, and diarrhea may result. Also, when eating a high-fiber diet, it is important to drink at least 8 glasses (64 oz or 2 L) of water or other fluids daily. People whose fluid intake must be restricted for medical reasons should avoid a high-fiber diet.
Few risks are associated with a high-fiber diet in healthy individuals. However, in people with gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease, a high-fiber diet may irritate the bowel and worsen their symptoms. Likewise, people who have had a surgical weight-loss procedure may be unable to tolerate a high-fiber diet. Adding bran fiber to foods is not recommended due to the risk of poor intakes of some vitamins that bind with phytates aor oxalates in many high-fiber foods.
Research and general acceptance
Many large, well-designed, long-term studies have been done on the health effects of a diet high in fiber, as noted in the Benefits section. The almost universally accepted result is that health benefits result when individuals meet or exceed the DRI for fiber for their age group. This concept is so well accepted that it has become the official position of the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. government agencies charged with improving the health of the nation. Increased fiber intake is included in the government-promoted goals for Healthy People 2010.
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- I'll Have Another's trainer Doug O'Neill recounts conversation with Triple Crown winning trainer Billy Turner; Team O'Neill to attend Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals
- Romans consults with Jerkens on preparing a horse for a 1 ½-mile race; Dullahan gallops 1 ½ miles
- Guyana Star Dweej turns in four-furlong breeze
- Fans can enter drawing for free I'll Have Another merchandise
After watching Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another gallop Wednesday morning over Belmont Park's main track, trainer Doug O'Neill recounted a conversation he had outside the barn with Billy Turner, trainer of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew.
"We spoke for 30-40 minutes," said O'Neill. "What a great man and a cool guy! He gave us a lot of helpful tips on how to prepare our guy for the big one. The one thing Billy said was … having the horse here earlier than later is a big edge. The fact that we're here is huge. We talked about how not only do jockeys need to kind of figure out the oval, but horses do as well. Between the surface and the horses getting used to the oval, the earlier you're here, the better.
"I had asked him about breezing, because I'm not planning on breezing I'll Have Another. He said he only breezed Seattle Slew twice between the Preakness and Belmont because he needed to take the edge off him, because he was such a high energy horse. As you see I'll Have Another is a pretty mellow horse, really.
"It was a great conversation and I let him know how much I appreciated him sharing his experience with us."
O'Neill said he sees signs every day that I'll Have Another is growing accustomed to Belmont Park's unique 1 ½-mile oval.
"I think every day he's gone a little better," he said. "He's switching leads perfectly, [exercise rider] Jonny [Garcia] is happy with him. Cooling out every day, he's recovering quicker, so that's a great sign. We're very happy with the way he's maintained his stride and the way he's handling his daily gallops."
Wednesday evening, members of Team O'Neill will head to the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. to watch the New Jersey Devils host the Los Angeles Kings in Game One of the Stanley Cup finals.
"We're all pumped up," said O'Neill. "We might even put a little black on a couple of our teeth and have the hockey look where you have the missing-teeth thing going on. We're just pumped. A close second [to horse racing] would be a hockey playoff. Just the energy in the rink is going to be absolutely crazy. With the fact we're from L.A., we have to be very conscientious to not be rooting too much for L.A. if we want to make it out of there alive. But, no, we're pumped. It's going to be a blast."
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Not to be outdone by Doug O'Neill and Billy Turner, trainer Dale Romans consulted with Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens on Wednesday as he prepares Donegal Racing's Dullahan for the 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes.
"If anybody knows how to get one to go a mile and a half, it's The Chief," said Romans.
Jerkens was skeptical he could provide much help, citing how his best finish in three Belmont Stakes starts was Best of Luck's fourth in 1999.
The Chief's record in other races at 1 ½ miles or longer would suggest otherwise, considering how he won the Jockey Club Gold Cup twice at two miles (Prove Out in 1973 and Group Plan in 1975), the Gallant Fox twice at 1 5/8 miles (Choker in 1965 and Dance Caller in 1983), the Man o' War once at 1 ½ miles on soft turf, (Beau Purple in 1962, defeating Kelso), the Woodward once at 1 ½ miles (Prove Out in 1973, defeating Secretariat), and the Brooklyn once at 1 ½ miles (Hechizado in 1981).
To build Dullahan's stamina for the Belmont, Romans had the two-time Grade 1 winner breeze one mile in 1:43 on Saturday at Churchill Downs.
"I see you breezed him a mile," noted Jerkens.
"Yep. What did you think?" asked Romans.
"Well, that's good."
"Old school. Let him gallop a mile and an eighth, too."
"I remember one time we had a horse run in the [1981] Brooklyn. We breezed him a mile and a quarter."
Jerkens said there is no standard way to prepare a horse for a race like the Belmont Stakes.
"The only thing you can do is to do what works for you," said Jerkens. "It's the only thing to do. Do what works for you."
On Wednesday, Dullahan galloped 1 ½ miles under exercise rider Faustino Aguilar.
"Looked good, looked good," said Romans. "He was bouncing out there. It looked like he liked the racetrack."
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After having his workout cut short, Guyana Star Dweej was credited with a 50.03 four-furlong breeze on Wednesday at Belmont.
Owner/trainer Doodnauth Shivmangal planned to have Guyana Star Dweej breeze five furlongs, but the colt had his workout truncated as he was pulled up earlier than expected by jockey Eddie Castro.
"For some reason, the jockey didn't let him go around the turn," said Shivmangal. "We planned to go five-eighths, but we didn't get the full work in. But it's OK. He's not a work horse. He loafs in the morning, but in the afternoon he's a different horse. He came back, we scoped him, he scoped fine."
Shivmangal said he has Guyana Star Dweej tentatively scheduled to breeze on the Wednesday or Thursday prior to the Belmont Stakes.
"I want him to do it fast," said Shivmangal. "I'll put him in company, and from there I'll make my final decision. I would love to run him in the Belmont."
Guyana Star Dweej, second to Unstoppable U in an April 27 optional claimer at Belmont, is also under consideration for the 1 1/16-mile Easy Goer overnight stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
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Racing fans can enter a free drawing to win commemorative I'll Have Another merchandise that includes hats, T-shirts and buttons as they watch I'll Have Another attempt to become the 12th Triple Crown winner when he competes in the June 9 Belmont Stakes. Five lucky winners will receive an I'll Have Another baseball cap, featuring I'll Have Another's name and silks prominently on the front.
An additional 10 will receive an I'll Have Another t-shirt, while 20 third-prize winners will get an I'll Have Another button.
The official I'll Have Another Collection is located at http://allpro2.stores.yahoo.net/ihaanco.html. To enter the contest, visit http://www.facebook.com/thenyra?sk=app_28134323652.
The contest closes on June 5. Winners will be contacted via email.
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TomCat wrote:ok. So if it was identified as bug why the game itself use it in campaign? It is very strange isn't it?
No it is not, as the AI in campaing are pulled from multiplayer players, so they may contain the bug.
And why was it identified as bug? Because it makes sg faster or because it confuse enemy bots as somebody said here?
haven't you read the topic? If you want to discuss you should read what was said already.
It is a bug because it is not meant that the sg can pick a resource not being over it. Either all the classes can do it, or none. The Sg is the only class that can do it. Also GFX declared it as bug. If tomorrow GFX says "is it not a bug, it is a feature". Then is it still lame but a bit more official.
But I want to confuse enemy bots. Is this ok for You?
If you wouldn't capture anything it would be ok. As dancing between ranges. But you pick the resource and go to your base, you don't just mess around. So nice try but no.
However, this discussion made me quite scared about future. Because when someone starts to invent some unwritten rules over the rules and exclude players who do not follow his the only correct rules, it's the way to hell imho.
But this is normal. You have a playfield (a game, a playfield and what not) and then you have accepted behaviors. The "scared" feeling that you want to write is just a way to let others feel guilty of something that is completely ok.
If you play soccer, could you physically pick the ball with your hands? Yes.
Does someone stops you to do it? No.
Would you end up playing alone if you do it often? Yes.
Same with vollebay.
Can you physically kick the ball? yes.
Does someone stops you to do it? No.
Would you end up playing alone if you do it often? Yes.
Should I make more examples?
Again, it is not what you can possibly do that defines the rules (of course in the best case should be so, but it is difficult as bugs are always around the corner), rather what the community defines as rules.
And it can also be that you find enough person that say "no! we want our community of bug users! An alternative community". In that community could be that not using the bug is a bad thing.
Once again, I am not speaking for all (although several players said that the bug is making the game less attractive), I speak mostly my opinion. I nonetheless play also against bug users as they still provide data, but I'd like to see it fixed.


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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Turnout and the Ontario by-elections
A few weeks ago, I discussed how a simple turnout model was able to significantly increase the accuracy of polls in some recent elections. Depressingly so - the model requires ignoring the voting intentions of those under the age of 35. But nevertheless the model worked. Can it be applied to the Ontario by-elections that will be taking place on Thursday?
The first question to ask, however, is whether the turnout adjustment should be applied. Earlier this month, I took a detailed look at Forum Research's by-election track record and found it to be decent. If we take those same polls and apply the turnout model, we see that it turns these decent polls into very good ones. (You will need to click on the chart in order to magnify it.)
Now that it is quite clear that the turnout model can improve polls, let's apply it to the latest set of by-election polls Forum has recently released.
In fact, across the board it appears that turnout will work against the Liberals. The adjustment is nowhere worth more than two points, but with the PCs gaining between two and four points due to turnout it puts the OLP in a much more precarious position. Without the adjustment, the Liberals could expect to win Scarborough-Guildwood and have a shot at Etobicoke-Lakeshore and, maybe, Ottawa South. With the adjustment, the Liberals are out of the running in every riding but Scarborough-Guildwood. If these sorts of trends hold, the Progressive Conservatives could pick up three seats (maybe even four) and the NDP one. That would be quite a blow against the government.
Final by-election polls are to be expected this week. I will be interested to see how the NDP is doing in London West and whether the Liberals will remain competitive in Scarborough-Guildwood, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, and Ottawa South. But as it stands, Thursday is setting up to be a difficult day for Kathleen Wynne.
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Let's see if this is a Whynning solution ?ReplyDelete
To borrow from The Spy Who Loved Me:
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best
And what are the Ontario PCs good at? Namely, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- not to mention coming up with phony e-mail scandals that carry about as much water as a bucket filled with a myriad of holes...need I say anything more?
Have to agree with you Ron. The party has some decent people but with the top taken by Hudak it's game over. Let alone the hangover from Mike Harris !!ReplyDelete
I think your turnout model is too radical. It assumes that not a single person under the age of 35 ever votes and that is just not true. I also really don't think your turnout model can be particuarly true otherwise the Tories would pretty much have won every general election every single time and that's not true either.ReplyDelete
Peter I loath Hudak. Don't underestimate voters ability to hold their noses to be rid of the Liberals. Wynne continues to support to many of McGuinty's wacky policies. I'll vote for her but only because I think the alternative is far worse!ReplyDeleteReplies
I think the Harper principle applies here even though in my estimation, it no longer applies federally. People tend to vote for the most credible of unlikely and normally unappreciated alternatives. In my book that means either Kathleen or Kathleen + Andrea in the general.
I have never read nor heard of this "Harper principle".
The Conservative party of 2006 was not an unlikely alternative but, as has been its position for most of Canadian history, the likely alternative or the preferred alternative to a Liberal government.
In Ontario historically the situation is reversed, the Liberal party is the likely alternative to a Tory government. A similar pattern exists in most provinces
Generally speaking "unlikely alternatives" rarely do well. The NDP or Liberals in Alberta, the NDP in Newfoundland at the last election, the BC Conservative party in 2013. Once in a while a change does occur; the NSNDP wins Official Opposition and becomes the "likely alternative" after two subsequent elections they form government.
I think we have to make a distinction between the federal Progressive Conservatives and Conservatives -- hardly the same animal, IMHO.
Given the CPC's minority win in 2006, I would qualify it as a somewhat likely alternative. Again, in my estimation, the CPC is further right on the spectrum than the PCP was.Replies
I agree the CPC win in 2006 was the likely alternative and so I am confused why anyone would label it or the elections of 2004, 2008, 2011 as the "Harper principle"?
I do not make mention of the Progressive Conservative party. One may infer that I indirectly make reference to the PC party of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
You may think the CPC and the PCP are different animals but, essentially they cover the same political terrain and have similar supporters. I would agree the CPC is slightly further right than the old PCs but, only just. Both cut budgets, both tried to stay away from "social issues" like abortion both had the largest deficits in Canadian history at the time. The CPC has returned to more traditional terminology towards the monarchy and Canadian Forces but, this is consistent with their red Tory roots. Mulroney's PCs were more successful in Quebec but, that was an aberration from traditional voting patterns. The current Tory weakness in Quebec follows the history of the Tory party since 1917.
I appreciate your insight. What I refer to as the Harper Principle is nothing more than a political qualifier by someone being a little too cute and admittedly it's a stretch.
My contention (which doesn't apply to 2004) is that Harper won each election basically on points. Voters had no great enthusiasm for the man, or his party, but he was perceived as the necessary change agent.
There was no Harper mania even when winning a majority. Voters saw Harper as credible but went for the CPC with reservations. It's my contention (or rather supposition) that after almost eight years, Harper is not likely to maintain that support in the next election. His government can no longer be recognized as a change agent that previously enjoyed qualified support among the electorate in sufficient numbers to be returned to office.
That's why I see Wynne's Liberals as still viable either standing alone or with its left-of-center partner. Hudak will never command Harper's previous conditional acceptance with the voters. Harper was given the benefit of the doubt something I believe Hudak can never accomplish. He remains a drag on his party -- box office poison if you will, and will likely drag down his party on election day. In other words, the Harper Principle is not even a remote possibility for the PCs under Hudak's leadership.
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Jim Boyd (1933 - 2013) was an actor best known for his work on The Electric Company, staying for the entire run from 1971 to 1977. Boyd had originally been a puppeteer on the WPIX-TV series The Surprise Show and was hired by CTW to reprise his puppet character Lorelei the Chicken, perform the suit character Paul the Gorilla, and providing off-screen voice-overs, notably as the angry caller J. Arthur Crank. Beginning in the second season, Boyd brought Crank before the cameras and expanded his repertoire to include the Blue Beetle, The Wolfman, and the puppet Maurice the Plant.
Crank remained Boyd's signature character, however, and had the privilege of meeting two Sesame Street Muppets. He proved fairly sympathetic when encountering a tearful Grover at Vi's Diner, but later rejoiced in paying tribute to his mentor and role model, Oscar the Grouch.
Boyd also appeared in the 1974 prime-time network special Out to Lunch, reprising most of his characters and playing bit parts in the Electric Company/Sesame Street crossover segments, such as the ABC studios stage manager in the intro and a beaten gambler in the "Kookamunga Kid" sketch with Cookie Monster. Boyd later would make a brief cameo in Episode 3470 as a customer of a lemonade stand.
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In my work there can be no final "this means that." It is my belief that which sustains in painting is the evocative; that which calls to mind both the artist and the viewer. My aim is to evoke a sense of the unknown where final meaning is withheld, thus the mind is incited to allow a journey beyond ourselves toward that which we sense but cannot explain; that which we know but cannot prove.
German born Irene Belknap received a BA degree in History of Art and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. "Painting is like poetry," says Belknap, "it allows for simultaneity of meaning." Entanglements is a giclée print limited edition of 150 signed and numbered by the artist, available on paper or canvas.


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LORETTA E. LYNCH, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, GARY MATHISON, Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Area, and JOHN P. O'NEILL, Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York, today announced the arrest of Donna Santa, the director of the PSC - School for Careers, located at 97-77 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park, New York. Santa is charged with making false claims to the U.S. Department of Education in connection with the receipt of federal Pell grants. The amount of the fraud is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Santa was arrested at her apartment in Hartsdale, New York, earlier this morning.
The arrest was made pursuant to a criminal complaint alleging that Santa instructed employees at the school to falsify student attendance records in order to maintain a flow of federal aid to the school. According to the complaint, the school is a postsecondary school training center, offering programs in computerized accounting, paralegal and medical assistance. It is directed by Project Social Care, a charitable organization providing social services to Holocaust survivors and immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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Santa allegedly directed employees to create phony make-up sheets, sometimes hundreds each week, for students with attendance problems, falsely crediting the students with having attended make-up classes that they never attended. In other cases, students were told that if they attended one hour of make-up class it would be credited as six hours of attendance, and Santa allegedly directed employees to credit students with these extra hours. The complaint quotes a student who stated that during make-up classes no formal instruction was given, instructors were only sometimes present, and students could essentially do whatever they wanted -- including reading a magazine or painting their fingernails -- so long as they did not create a disturbance.
The complaint quotes a confidential source associated with the school who stated that the school has an abnormally high graduation rate because few students are allowed to fail, and that Santa instructed teachers to change students' failing grades to passing grades. According to the same source, approximately 25% of the school's graduating students are not ready to be placed in externships due to language difficulties and lack of skills, attributable in part to frequent absenteeism.
The school has received approximately $900,000 in Pell grants since April 1999 and derives most of its income from those grants and the New York State Tuition Assistance Program ("TAP"). It is alleged that students who did not qualify for financial aid were ordinarily denied enrollment.
According to the complaint, Santa earned approximately $175,000 annually, which amount included bonuses based on the number of students enrolled, and an additional $500 per month for payments on her Mercedes Benz automobile.
In announcing today's arrest, United States Attorney LORETTA E. LYNCH stated: "Prosecuting fraud against federal programs is a priority of this Office. Every misappropriated dollar results in one less opportunity to help those in need."
This criminal investigation, which is ongoing, is being jointly conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Santa is charged with conspiracy and presenting fraudulent claims upon a department of the United States, charges that carry a possible sentence of up to five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and restitution.(1)
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Macht. Pedigree information for the defendant is as follows:
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Hartsdale, New York
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G. Watts Humphrey Jr.'s homebred Centre Court collected her third graded stakes win of the year with a convincing two-length triumph over Leading Astray in Saturday's 22nd running of the Grade II, $202,175 Mrs. Revere at Churchill Downs.
Centre Court, ridden by Julien Leparoux and trained by Rusty Arnold, ran 1 1/16 miles over "firm" turf in 1:42.54. "That was fun," Humphrey said. "She comes with her race every time."
English Class was quickest from the gate and led the field of 12 three-year-old fillies through fractions of :24.39, :48.57 and 1:13.15 with Centre Court tracking in second while in the clear down the backstretch. The eventual winner drew even with the leader around the final turn and kicked home powerfully under slight urging from Leparoux.
"I rode her like she was the (3-2) favorite," said Leparoux, who also rode Acoma (2008) and Marketing Mix (2011) to Mrs. Revere victories. "She kicked on very nice at the end and won pretty easy. When I asked her, she kicked away and I knew that if someone could beat me at that point it would have been a very good filly."
Centre Court paid $5, $3.20 and $2.60. Leading Astray, sent to post at 8-1 under Eddie Perez, returned $6 and $4.80. Colonial Flag, with Joe Rocco Jr. up at 10-1, was another three-quarters of a length behind the runner-up and paid $6. Solid Appeal, Miz Ida, English Class, Somali Lemonade, Peace Preserver, Regalo Mia, Volcat, Lateegra and Charged Cotton completed the order of finish.
Centre Court, who won the Lake George (Grade II) and Regret (GIII) this summer, banked another $116,545, which pushed her career earnings to $476,012. It was her fourth win from nine starts, and the Kentucky-bred daughter of Smart Strike, out of the A.P. Indy mare Let, remained perfect in three outings over Churchill Downs' Matt Winn Turf Course. She won the first race of her career on May 19 beneath the Twin Spires.
"She's been there all year," Arnold said. "She's had eight starts on the turf and has never been worse than second. I haven't had one much more consistent. She just hasn't run a bad race on the grass. Sometimes you'll have a bad trip or you'll get in trouble, but she's just been there all year for us.
"She's going to Palm Meadows (in south Florida), but she won't run 'til April. We'll point her to the Jenny Wiley (at Keeneland)."
The Mrs. Revere, which honors the four-time Churchill Downs stakes-winning mare owned by Dr. Hiram Polk and Dr. David Richardson and trained by Bill Mott, was one of two graded stakes events on Churchill Downs' special "Downs After Dark" program – the only nighttime racing event during it's 21-day Fall Meet. Earlier on the card, Claiborne Farm and Adele B. Dilschneider's homebred Lea prevailed in the ninth running of the Grade III, $117,100 Commonwealth Turf.
Also on the night, a 70-year-old track record fell. The rarely-contested distance of 1 3/16 miles on dirt was clocked in 1:58.12 by Ron Winchell's 3-year-old Tritap, who carried 118 pounds. Shaun Bridgmohan rode the winner for trainer Steve Asmussen. The previous track standard was 1:58.60 by 5-year-old gelding Bonnie Andrew, while toting 110 pounds, on Nov. 14, 1942.
Racing at Churchill Downs continues Sunday with a 10-race program that begins at 12:40 p.m. ET. Only six days remain at the 21-day Fall Meet. Closing Day is Sunday, Nov. 25.
G. Watts Humphrey Jr., owner of Centre Court, winner: "That was fun. She comes with her race every time. One of the first mares that I bought with my mother (Louise Ireland Humphrey) when she decided she wanted to get involved was the dam (Let). My mom was in New York working with the (Metropolitan) Opera and said she wanted to get back into racing. We went out and bought three yearlings and one of them was the dam of Centre Court."
Rusty Arnold, trainer of Centre Court, winner: "She's been there all year. Dayatthespa, you have to give her the credit, she's been the best probably. We took a big shot at her at Keeneland, but couldn't get by her. We beat Stephanie's Kitten, twice, so I put mine right below the top one. She's had eight starts on the turf and has never been worse than second. I haven't had one much more consistent. She just hasn't run a bad race on the grass. Sometimes you'll have a bad trip or you'll get in trouble, but she's just been there all year for us."
Q. What's next? "She's going to Palm Meadows, but she won't run till April. We'll point her to the Jenny Wiley (at Keeneland)."
Julien Leparoux, rider on Centre Court, winner: "I rode her like she was the (3-2) favorite. She ran a big race at Keeneland with a slow pace and kicked on very nice at the end. Today, she did the same thing. She kicked on very nice at the end and won pretty easy. When I asked her, she kicked away and I knew that if someone could beat me at that point it would have been a very good filly."
Eddie Perez, rider on Leading Astray, runner-up: "I had a good trip and my horse tried pretty hard. No excuses. She was just second best. I can't complain."
Joe Rocco Jr., rider on Colonial Flag, third: "He (trainer Michael Matz) wanted to be a little closer than last time, which we were able to do. I was tucked in, saved ground and more or less followed the winner the whole way. I just tried to stay right behind her. When (Centre Court) quickened, I asked my mare and she picked it up. She dug in hard and I thought she was going to get second."


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The Ohio Supercomputer Center offers researchers a diverse array of computer platform and software environments. The Center also provides the staff expertise to help port codes to specialized hardware configurations at OSC or national petascale centers, or to develop customized software or web portals for increased throughput on larger projects. In fact, OSC maintains more than 30 software applications and provides access to more than 70 different software packages in the areas of biosciences, computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics and mesh generation, among others.
In August 2009, OSC more than doubled the capacity and memory of the Center's flagship IBM 1350 "Glenn" Cluster with the addition of a Biosciences Cluster. The expansion brings OSC's peak computational capabilities to 75 teraflops, boosting the machine's ranking to ninth among U.S. academic systems. The Center's capabilities were further enhanced in recent months with the addition of the robust "Csuri" Advanced GPU Visualization Environment. The deployment increased the Center's ability to serve advanced large-scale remote visualization and batch-rendering applications, as well as GPGPU and advanced visualization applications.
A prime example of recent GPU utilization involves the work of Umit Catalyurek, Ph.D., associate professor in The Ohio State University Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Catalyurek accessed OSC's GPU nodes to develop a componentbased runtime system for various biomedical image analyses and synthetic aperture radar image formations.
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The benefits from the Csuri Advanced GPU environment also extend to the work of its namesake, Charles "Chuck" Csuri, the "father of computer graphics and animation," whose sophisticated digital art involves rendering of thousands of giant frames. Over the years, Csuri founded the Computer Graphics Research Group, the OSC Graphics Project and ACCAD, an OSU academic unit dedicated to the development of digital art and computer animation.
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Vance, John Jr. Continue Torrid Paces
Vance turned in yet another outstanding performance by a Phillies starter. Phillies have won their last 12 games started by the rookie. That's the longest streak (single season) for the Phillies since Lefty won 15 straight in 1972.
John Jr. continued his torrid hitting. He's a former No. 1 selection (Seattle, 2002) who may be one of those late-bloomers. That's the same path Jayson Werth took.
KK goes to the mound today as the Phillies seek a sweep. Fans began lining up at 8:30 this morning for the standing room tickets.
Phillies are 26-9 against LH starters, best record in the NL; they've now won their last nine . . . Thursday is a day off, leaving the Phillies with one more day off, Sept. 15 . . . Weekend series with the Marlins starts Friday night . . . The Phillies have only one other weekend series at home this season, Sept. 16-18, vs. St. Louis.
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Five weeks from today the regular season ends. Only races still alive are the AL Central and NL West.
If the season were to end today, the Phillies would host the Diamondbacks and the Braves would travel to Milwaukee in the NLDS. The Brewers are baseball's hottest team right now. Phillies have to keep working for the home field advantage in the NLDS and NLCS. Because the NL won the All-Star Game, that league has the advantage in the World Series.


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