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Soldier's insider attack story is part of training
Not a day goes by that Zach Camp doesn't replay that terrible August day over in his mind.
Was there anything he could have done differently? Were there any signs that an Afghan Army soldier was going to turn his machine gun on the American troops he had been training alongside for months?
Nearly three months after the assault that sent Camp home with a gunshot wound, the Army first lieutenant says he doesn't think there was any way he or his fellow team members could have anticipated the insider attack.
But after three surgeries to remove the bullet and fragments from his leg and months of physical therapy, Camp is turning his injury into a teaching tool for other U.S. troops heading to Afghanistan to work with Afghan forces.
"You get overwhelmed with a sense of betrayal, that you just got attacked by the same people you are trying to help," said Camp, who deployed to Afghanistan in April with an Army team assigned to train Afghans in the rugged mountains near the Pakistan border. "I didn't know who it was, I didn't know it was an insider attack. It was hard to tell even where it was coming from – you just didn't think it was coming from the actual place that we were going to."
But it was.
The American team had just stepped outside the gate of U.S. forward operating base Mehtar Lam to make their daily trek across the street to the compound where they would train Afghan troops when they were met with a barrage of machine gun fire. An Afghan Army soldier, who probably had been training with the Americans for some time, shot two U.S. troops – Camp and an unidentified soldier who part of a nearby helicopter crew.
Other U.S. troops quickly came to the team's rescue and killed the Afghan soldier.
At least 43 separate insider attacks, where members of the Afghan security forces or insurgents dressed in their uniforms turn their guns on U.S. and allied troops, have killed more than 60 NATO service members. That includes at least five attacks in the past two weeks.
The assaults have rattled the trust between the NATO and Afghan troops, raising questions about how effectively the allied forces can train the Afghans to take over security of their own country in 2014 and beyond.
In response, the U.S. has bolstered security surrounding its troops in Afghanistan and increased training on how to spot and prevent the deadly attacks, even as more of the training teams prepare to head to the front.
For the first time, the instruction for the teams involves a presentation from someone who's experienced such an attack. Part of Camp's message is that things can change very quickly.
"I think the fact that it's one of their own telling them that, yes, this has happened to me, and it is a very real danger, I think it does hit closer to home with a lot of people versus just having a power point slide saying this is a statistic," Camp said. "I know we see it on the news all the time, I saw it on the on the news just a few days ago, but I think when you have that real person sitting in front of you sharing that experience it become a lot more real."
The training at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., and the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., now includes scenarios modeled after actual insider attacks that have happened over the past year.
Gen. David Rodriguez, head of U.S. Army Forces Command, said analysts go through all the details of the attacks and build training exercises for the soldiers from them.
"So there's nowhere they go in the training center where there is not a training challenge that's like they're facing over there in Afghanistan," Rodriguez said. "We're putting a lot of emphasis on this. And any time we see a different situation over there, we adjust the training."
Some attacks have been linked to Afghans who have gone home, become radicalized and then returned to their unit. So the training reflects that and includes Afghan role players displaying the characteristics of people who have undertaken those types of attacks, Rodriguez said.
Army units going through the training are taught to keep a "relentless focus on building and maintaining rapport with their (Afghan) counterpart," said Col. Matthew McKenna, commander of the 162nd Infantry Brigade, which does much of the training. "So, your Afghan counterpart will let you know if something's wrong. The Afghans are able to track who's coming and going. When you do have that good relationship with them, they will let you know."
Members of the 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division who are at Fort Polk are getting two hours of classroom instruction and then frequent tests and training during exercises meant to replicate likely incidents, he said.
The teams get an eight-day course on security force training and then spend 14 days on exercises out in the training area, which includes mock Afghan towns and facilities. In one exercise an Afghan role player comes into a meeting with allied troops and is hiding a pistol. The team has to be able to screen the Afghans and find the one with the gun.
Camp's presentation offers a more personal message.
He tells them what happened to him, that he was lucky to be close to some security barriers he could crawl behind, and that even as he and a team member started performing first aid, he could hear bullets flying.
He remembers calling for help and that the quick reaction forces came right away. He knows that a medic was there and that when he got into the back of an armored truck, his body armor was pulled off and his wound was stuffed with gauze to stop the bleeding.
Only later, when Camp was in the hospital in Germany, did his team members fill him in with more of the details when they called to check on his injury. He said they all figure it had to be an Afghan they had known for a while because no one new had come in. But to this day, he doesn't know why.
"I'll be honest, I probably play this back in my head every single day, to think what could we have done to avoid this, could anything have been done to avoid it," said Camp. "But I feel like everything that my team and I did, and the training we received was spot on, so I'm not going fault anything that we did out there that day. It's probably just one of those that was unavoidable."


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UMBC head men's soccer coach Pete Caringi, Jr. has signed a contract extension through the 2018 season, Director of Athletics Tim Hall announced today.
Caringi earned the 2013 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Senior College Men's Northeast Regional Coach of the Year honor. In addition, the Retriever mentor and his staff earned America East Conference Coaching Staff of the Year accolades for the 2013 season.
"I am excited about staying at UMBC for another five years," Caringi said. "I appreciate all of the support from the administration, especially our President, Dr. Hrabowski, Nancy Young and our new AD Tim Hall. In addition, we have such a devoted, hard-working coaching staff and I am grateful to them for all of our program's success.
"I hope that we can continue to have success both on and off the field. The support from the UMBC alumni, fans, and supporters' group has been fantastic and I appreciate their dedication to the program."
In 2013, UMBC won its first America East regular season crown since 2003 after completing an undefeated (5-0-2) conference season, then captured its third tournament title and NCAA automatic bid in the last four years. The Retrievers received a first round bye and played UConn in the Second Round of the 2013 NCAA Men's Soccer College Cup at Retriever Soccer Park. It was the first time in school history that UMBC competed in and hosted an NCAA Division I Tournament contest. The two teams played to a 2-2 double overtime draw; but UConn advanced in a penalty kick shootout.
During the season, UMBC placed in the top ten in all media polls. At its highest point, UMBC reached the No. 5 slot in Top Drawer Soccer, College Soccer News and the Continental Tire NSCAA Poll and climbed to a position of No. 10 in Soccer America. The program finished at No. 8 in the final NCAA RPI rankings.
UMBC finished the 2013 campaign with the top winning percentage in the nation (16-1-5, 84.1%).
"I believe Pete Caringi is one of the finest coaches in all of collegiate soccer-at any level," Hall said. "He has built a top-notch, enduring program - one that others are attempting to emulate. He sees himself as an educator first, which is so important to us. I am confident Pete will continue to have our program compete, at the highest level, well into the future."
The Retrievers advanced to the second round in the NCAA Championships in both 2010 and 2012. The 2013 season marked UMBC's fourth NCAA Tournament appearance overall, having earned its first bid in 1999.
Caringi earned the 1999 South Atlantic Region Coach of the Year honors after leading UMBC to the best record in the nation at 19-1-2 and the school's first bid to the NCAA Division I tournament.
In 23 seasons under Caringi, UMBC has a record of 246-144-54 (.615). In 33 years as a collegiate head coach, including ten at the Community College of Baltimore County-Essex, he is 416-171-62 (.689).
Caringi has the most victories of any soccer coach in school history, and his 246 wins are the third-most of any Retriever mentor, regardless of sport. He was the Northeast Conference Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2002 and the America East Conference Coach of the Year in 2005.

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It seems the concept of an "infinite array" in my previous blog post prompted some interest. Two very good suggestions came from Chung-chieh Shan. As usual, his code was minimal but powerful.
- Use an infinite list of exponentially growing arrays.
- Use the following data-structure:
data Tree a = Tree a (Tree a) (Tree a)
I have to admit that I am not fully clear yet on how to encode it in the above tree. Conceptually it should be trivial to encode, for instance, [0..] to such a binary structure, after all it's just bits. However, momentarily it escapes me.
Another solution came up through a discussion on #haskell with dcoutts and sjanssen(Spencer Janssen). At first the idea was to deal with lazy arrays, but quickly the discussion turned to the concept of a generic caching policy, brought up by dcoutts. One can imagine a combinator library of caching policies. And then one would memoize a function as follows:
memo :: CachingPolicy -> (i -> e) -> (i :->: e)
With this structure, one would generate a memoized function that uses the caching policy to evict old entries. Obviously this would require the use of
unsafePerformIO under the hood to mutate the data-structure. It would definitely be an interesting paper, according to dcoutts, all that is required is an application as a strong showcase.
Potentially, a thread could even be used to do time-based eviction policies. However, here either a lock would have to be used, or the current
STM system would have to be modified to allow for STM transactions to run in
unsafePerformIO, something that is currently unsupported.
With the new concept of Type Families, it would even be possible to choose an appropriate data-structure based on the key-type, to guarantee optimal performance.


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1 9-inch graham cracker pie crust (ready to eat) or homemade pie crust (fully baked)
1/2 cup cornstarch
3/4 cup sugar
zest of 2 lemons
juice of 1 lemon
3 tsp lemon extract
In a medium sauce pan bring the coconut milk to a boil. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together cornstarch and a 1/2 can of very cold water, using a fork or a small whisk. Make sure that there are no cornstarch lumps left in the water. Pour the cornstarch mixture into the boiling coconut milk, whisking constantly. Lower the heat to medium-low, add the remaining ingredients and whisk constantly until the filling thickens, about 10 minutes.
Pour the filling into the pie crust, cool for about 10 minutes and then refrigerate for several hours, or overnight.
This Lemon Pie is so good! The texture is beautiful, thick, creamy but not too heavy. The taste is tangy, lemony and so rich. My husband and I loved it, I will be making it again soon. I might try a strawberry version or a Key Lime pie.


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Preparing Collections on the S Drive for Online Delivery and Storage
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
The following page assumes the content for upload has already been through the Quality Control process
Preparation Procedure
Choose one of the following checklists:
One-Shot Collections are small enough to be completed in one batch, so they require no batch numbering or batching process.
Ongoing Collections are those which will have multiple batches for upload, so they require "batching."
One-Shot Collections
- Move collection folder from Digital_Coll_in_progress to Digital_Coll_Complete
- Remove extra text in folder name so that it is labeled with just the collection number
- Example: u0003_0000633_HarperTimetables --> u0003_0000633
- Finalize collection documentation
- Tracking Data
- OLD/SEPARATE FILE: save TrackingFiles spreadsheet (see S:\Digital Projects\Organization\TrackingFiles) as tab delimited .txt file in Admin folder (see TrackingFiles for more)
- NEW/INTEGRATED: COPY Filename column from the metadata spreadsheet to a new sheet, MOVE Tracking Data columns to new sheet, SAVE as tab delimited .txt file in Admin folder (see Tracking Data for more)
- OCR List: see these instructions
- Metadata: save spreadsheet (minus the tracking data you should've already removed) as tab delimited .txt file in Metadata folder
- Tracking Data
- Create MODS
- Carefully check contents of the folders (see list below)
- Make sure to remove any unnecessary files created during the capture process (for example, test scans or supplementary metadata or text file notes about progress)
- Once everything is okay, you're ready to Upload Content!
Ongoing Collections
- Set up collection folder in Digital_Coll_Complete, and create inside it
- Admin
- Metadata
- Transcripts (if necessary)
- Move Scans folder from ongoing collection folder in Digital_Coll_in_progress to this new collection folder in Digital_Coll_Complete
- Follow the procedures for Creating Batch Documentation
- Create MODS
- Double-check contents of the folders (see list below)
- Once everything is okay, you're ready to Upload Content!
Checking Folders
The Collection Level folder contains subfolders and their content must adhere to certain specifications prior to the collection being considered ready to "ship" for online access and long term storage.
The collection number u0003_0000001 will be used as an example.
- This folder must exist.
- Must contain:
- u0003_0000001.xml
- If multiple Digital Collections spawn from the same Analog Collection, there can be more than one Collection Information XML file as follows: u0003_0000001.1.xml, u0003_0000001.2.xml, etc.
- Make sure to refer to the Collection_Information page regarding acceptable data values.
- u0003_0000001.log.txt
- Include a text version of the log file with every batch; previous versions of the log will be overwritten by the newest version.
- u0003_0000001.xml
- May also contain:
- Thumbs Icon - .png extension.
- OCR list - .ocrList.txt extension.
- u0001_0000002.ocrList.txt
- Other relevant documents saved as plain .txt (ANSI or UTF-8 without BOM preferred). If possible please incorporate any additional data into the log.txt file. For example, audio collections often have significant item-level notes that we want to retain. These plain text files can be saved with a ".notes.txt" extension - i.e. "u0008_0000001_0000001.notes.txt".
- This folder must exist.
- Must contain:
- u0003_0000001.m01.txt or u0002_0000001.m03.txt or u0008_0000001.m02.txt
- Note the type of spreadsheet is echoed in the segment before the ".txt" -- if this is a batch file, the batch number precedes the m0x value:
- example: u0002_0000001.1.m01.txt.
- check this file for: Diacritics, Quotes, UTF-8 encoding
- see [1] for more information.
- Note the type of spreadsheet is echoed in the segment before the ".txt" -- if this is a batch file, the batch number precedes the m0x value:
- A MODS folder
- This folder will contain all the MODS files created via Archivist Utility (see: Making MODS).
- u0003_0000001.m01.txt or u0002_0000001.m03.txt or u0008_0000001.m02.txt
- This folder must exist.
- Must only contain:
- Scans (tiffs/wavs) of non-compound objects and compound objects (inside respective subfolders). All other files types will not be retained. Temporary files and thumbs.db files do not have to be deleted since they will be removed upon transfer to Storage.
- This folder can exist only if transcripts exist.
- Must only contain one or more of the following types of files:
- u0003_0000001_0000001.tif, u0003_0000002_0001.tif, etc. - corresponding to non-compound and compound objects (inside respective subfolders).
- u0003_0000001_0000001.txt, u0003_0000002_0001.txt, etc. - plain .txt files corresponding to non-compound and compound objects (inside respective subfolders).
- u0003_0000001_0000001.ocr.txt, u0003_0000002_0001.ocr.txt, etc. - plain .txt files of OCRed tiffs corresponding to non-compound and compound objects (inside respective subfolders). If cleaned up .txt files exist, remove the corresponding .ocr.txt file.
- This folder always exists at the following location.
- S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\Pipeline\collectionInfo\forMDlib\needsRemediation
- Must contain:
- Excel formatted version of the batch metadata.
- example: u0002_0000001.1.m01.xlsx.
- Excel formatted version of the batch metadata.


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6-Month-Old Shot Five Times, Dies After Shooting in Chicago
A six-month-old died Tuesday morning, the day after she was the victim of a shooting in Chicago. The baby, Jonylah Watkins, was shot five times, reportedly while her father, the reported target of the shooting, changed her diaper in his mini-van in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. The father, Jonathan Watkins, was also shot several times and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
"I was trying to help. I was trying to help. I was trying to help her," Jonathan Watkins said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times shortly after learning his 6-month-old daughter, Jonylah, died.
"They told me she didn't make it," Watkins said in a brief phone interview, his voice cracking with emotion.
Jonylah was rushed by paramedics to to Comer Children's hospital, where she died the next morning. According to Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, the shooter was "firing at the father, and exclusively at the father." He also added that, as of Tuesday, no witnesses had stepped forward. "We don't have one individual who's stepping up to help us," he said in press conference. "We don't have cooperating witnesses."
Chicago police say the gunman walked up to the mini-van and fired at Jonathan, and then fled in a waiting blue van. Police sources told the Chicago Sun-Times that the shooting was likely retaliation from a rival gang.
The Chicago-Sun Times also reports that this wasn't Jonylah's first run-in with gun violence; when her mother, Judy Watkins, was eight months pregnant with Jonylah, she was shot in the leg, just three blocks from the location of Monday's shooting.


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If we were creating a list of the best free agents still available after the 2013 NFL Draft, former Atlanta Falcons pass rusher John Abraham probably would be at the top of it.
(Note to self: Write one of those lists.)
Abraham might not be a free agent for much longer. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Thursday that the Tennessee Titans will host Abraham for a visit over the next two days. Abraham also visited the Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots earlier in free agency but didn't find a deal that interested him.
The Titans would be an interesting fit. Abraham potentially could come off the bench behind Kamerion Wimbley and Derrick Morgan as a situational pass rusher, which suits Abraham well at this stage in his career.
Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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The new auto assign feature distributes tickets based on the existing load on your technicians. It also checks for their availability and SLA tied to the tickets before dispatching them appropriately.
Put your helpdesk coordinator for a better use by implementing business rules, which allows to categorize, classify and assign tickets based on any criteria matching your business environment.
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Stay informed about your tickets and keep your technicians and end users up to date on the status of the tickets by email and sms. You can also provide login information automatically to for all the users.
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I Think I Need A New Heart
Saturday, July 14, 2012
I'm going into the 5th day of my bed sentence, where my daily activities include icing my foot, elevating it, listening to the magnetic fields, facebooking, drinking a beer and falling asleep immediatly.
Got an email from my mom and it said "Jenny darling it can only get better from here." I hope she's talking about more than my foot. This is what my idea of better looks like.
I really love my friend Sarah's apartment. The day her photos popped up on Instagram, I actually found it difficult to sleep. The next day I rearranged the furniture in my bedroom into a MUCH more functional and appealing layout. I love her apartment in a creepy way! I stare at the photos when I'm feeling blue or need inspiration.
I'm currently studying for my m1 - the written test to get a motorcycle license.
Pictures from Elsa Billgren, Karlas Closet, Vintageladytron instagram, Calivintage.


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We talked to Yegor Novikov and Yana Blinova the winners of the Professional Rising Star Latin at the UK Open 2012. They represent USA in Professional Latin. See their profile page.
[Yana] Well, my parents are doctors and also dancers. They opened up a studio in Washington, DC. So I began dancing when I came to America. My last partner Krasi, we competed together in Blackpool two years ago...
[Yana] I started dancing at fourteen
[Yana] I know! I started doing all the 10 dances but with my previous partner we've only focused on Latin. I did not dance Standard with him. When I met Yegor we continued Latin.
[Yegor] We knew each other from the competitions in America. We competed in the same competitions. I started dancing when I was about ten years old in some after school classes. It was in Russia, in Samara. I was there till the age of seventeen and then I moved to USA. I was on my own, my parents remained in Russia. I turned Professional very early, I was almost eighteen, my previous partner was five years older than me and she turned Pro back in Russia. So we've started our first competition in ProAm division where I was Amateur. We competed in USA and also in England. We were finalists in Blackpool and in the UK Open.
[Yana] Not easy that one!
[Yegor] Basically, for me, there came a time when I thought I need to make a next step. I've seen Yana at the competitions and like her personality and style and energy. So we've got together...
[Yana] No, no, just in dancing
[Yegor] Let's be clear about this (laughing). It is a very easy partnership. Very easy, very fresh, no stress, very healthy
[Yegor] It is definitely one of our best results. We won also Professional Rising Star Latin at the International last year. This was our second victory at such a big event as both the UK Open and International are consider major competitions for the couples within the Professional Rising Star division. There is also big competition in the US called Ohio Star Ball, a major event for couples from the US and also international, where we ended up as finalists in the Open division.
[Yana] Yes, I do. We teach many hours and our energy level is depleted, bodies are aching... We have to push ourselves both mentally and physically to give our best every time we practise. It is challenging... But we help each other.
[Yegor] It is a bit different for me. I love teaching. I try to find things I enjoy in whatever level couples I teach: kids, adult amateur couples, Pro/Am... I find teaching beneficial for me.
[Yana] He is very respectful, very patient and very talented. He is willing to share and help me, our partnership, our team and I appreciate so much the fact that we never fight, we never disrespect each other, never raise our tone... The tone is always very calm, very understanding of each other. It is very exciting to me because I've never had this before where I did not have to fight with my partner! We are always happy to be around each other.
[Yegor] Absolutely! She is so easy going. She brings that fresh energy to our couple. We can come to any conclusion easily, with joke, with laughter, not making a big deal of small things. And I credit it to her.
[Yana] That he is so good! (laughing). He is so incredibly amazing!
[Yana] Really! I cannot say anything bad about him. He is very respectful, he is willing to listen which I appreciate a lot because... OK, when we first started I was thinking somebody as high up as he is, such a good dancer, he will not be listening to my point of view, to my suggestions... But he is open to anything I have to say...
[Yegor] I really have to pass that one!
[Yana] (laughing)
[Yegor] Come on, what is bad?
[Yana] I don't think there is anything bad. I really don't.
[Yana] We literally did not... we danced together now for eight months or so, and we did not fight once
[Yegor] We are dancing since May... Maybe it is long dancing honeymoon period but we never had any bad feeling about each other. I know it sounds weird, but somehow, with Yana, it just works. I find Yana extremely easy to talk to, to work with, to communicate with.
[Yegor] (laughing) Absolutely!
[Yegor] I know! Let's just put it this way. There is nothing I found as yet! Time will tell... (Yana is laughing).
[Yegor] I am not saying I will but give it time. It is just a joke! Honestly, if you talked to us behind the camera we would say the same things about each other.
[Yana] We are so much the same. It is funny, but we think so much alike. We don't even have to talk sometimes and we will come up with the same ideas, or we will do the same actions. We literally think sometimes of the same thing at the same time.
[Yegor] I agree, we are thinking the same things at the same time. We see things very often similar way but, talking about the personalities, we are very different. I am more calm, and she is more like a fire, more sparkling...
[Yana] Yet, sometimes I am more calm than you...
[Yegor] I actually thought back about your question of what might be a problem with me... I am actually taking too long time for everything.
[Yana] Yes! (laughing) Aha! But being a patient person as I am I can take it!
[Yana] No, no
[Yegor] I agree. It seems to be very convenient to be in relationship with your partner because you spend so much time together. But in the other hand I find it's great to have your personal life separate. And still have a mutual respect for each other. It's my personal feeling...
[Yegor] Actually, I don't even know Yana's friends!
[Yana] I am focusing on my dancing a lot now because it is very big opportunity for me to dance with Yegor and everything is going so well. Right now, I want to put all my energy to this partnership. When we are not travelling but practising, say six hours, I do find some time to see some friends. I have friends from my martial arts circle, rock climbing...
[Yana] Oh yes. I am very much into sports. I am sports junkie! So I get to see them, not as often as I used to but still... I try to focus at my dancing as much as I can to see where it takes me.
[Yana] (laughing) Well, it is definitely my passion. I love fighting.
[Yana] I have a degree in nutrition. I would go back to the Health field. I would also try the culinary school. I love to cook so I would probably work in the Health field but take the hobby of the culinary art.
[Yana] I love the exotic foods! So rather than doing the Italian, French I would love to do something exotic.
[Yana] Thai food maybe, some Indian... lots of different spices, maybe something like Ethiopian food, more exotic. I would love to play with flavours, learn about different ways of cooking, different textures, so much I haven't yet explored and I would love to explore.
[Yana] (with a sigh...) Russian food!
[Yegor] Definitely our Russian food (laughing).
[Yana] Yes, but it takes my back to my childhood, the safe place. It brings all these memories.
[Yegor] She is a woman and you cannot count on what she just said minutes ago!
[Yana] Oh!
[Yegor] She talked about exotic cuisines and now she wants to go back to the Russian, childhood food!
[Yana] What I mean is I would like to learn it because I don't know it, don't know how to create it!
[Yegor] Steak and potato (laughing), if we are still in the food subject!
[Yegor] Since childhood I was thinking of acting and then of becoming a script writer or a director. These sort of things involve imagination, they are some kind of art form. It would be interesting to be...
[Yegor] Absolutely! Being on the floor is like being on the stage. Often you have to do things which are foreign and uncomfortable and you have to find the way to to make it work. So you really have to believe in what you do...
[Yana] It is also a form of art! You have to use imagination to come up with different designs and colours. I took many art classes in school and college, in singing and acting, where I had to use my imagination. And I can see how much more you can put into culinary creations than just taste. And that's beautiful...
[Yana] Yes, very beautiful...
[Yegor] Also juicy and tasty (laughing)
[Yegor] You have to stay honest to yourself because there are so many things around you, either during practice or competition that can be disturbing, things which you do not really need, various influences... So it is so important to stay honest and true to yourself, just focus on what you are good at rather than trying to focus on other people around you thinking: oh, this person is good and that person does this so well... Just let all these things go, calm down and concentrate on your own strengths.
[Yana] For me, it is very important to express what I feel at that moment. Or, how I want the audience to see me, how to translate my emotions to spectators. It is important to me to transfer that energy I feel, my happiness, to my partner, to people watching me, to be able to transfer my feelings to the spectator.
[Yegor] Watching the videos of old masters is certainly a part of the experience... I think every dancer watches them thousands of times. Of course, when you teach, you show your students what is out there, you show the legends. Without those greatest dancers there would be no past, no present, no future. But I personally don't think imitating is a good idea. It's great to study but impossible to imitate. And at the end of the day it is up to the dancer to make their own choices.
[Yana] I agree. I think that in the beginning when you start teaching particular person you will show them technique but you will also teach them the style of dancing. Once the student has an understanding what the dance should be, they can try to find their own version of it.
[Yegor] Paso Doble
[Yana] For me, it changes. Sometimes I prefer Cha Cha, and another time I would be in a mood for the beautiful Rumba.
[Yegor] I love Ballroom. I used to compete in Ballroom until I was seventeen years old; since I came to America I do Latin only. I do both styles for Pro/Am sometimes. It is difficult for me to say which Ballroom dance is my favourite, it changes. Usually the one I focus on, practise more comes first...
[Yana] I really love Foxtrot. It is my favourite dance, for sure.
[Yegor] Tango? Why?
[Yana] Because of Paso of course!
[Yegor] I did a little bit of ballet in the past. My plan is when I am back in the US, I will do some contemporary dancing like jazz.
[Yana] I did one semester in college in ballet. I also do the martial arts, as I said before, and there is this Brazilian form of martial art called capoeira which I love. It is a bit like dance. I absolutely love it. I always wanted to try modern because it is funky and groovy.
[Yegor] We compete in the US and in Europe now but we plan to do the Asian Tour next year and Paris Disneyland. At this moment though, as we have started dancing together not a long time ago, we concentrate on English competitions more.
[Yegor] Normally, we just arrive at the competition, dance and go home. There are exceptions sometimes. For instance, my parents came to Bournemouth for the first time to see me and Yana dancing together. They came from Russia, they still live there and they did not have a chance yet to see me and Yana dancing live. They follow us on the internet, YouTube or dancesportinfo. So, we have decided to stay for a week here to see England. My Dad wants to see Liverpool for instance, because of The Beatles.
[Yegor] I think it depends. There are many Amateur couples who have their own style, their own idea about dancing, so they are, in this respect, like Professionals. They just chose to compete in Amateur field. But when you watching their shows, their dancing is just great, it is an art. When you put such Amateur couple next to a Professional couple nobody could tell the difference...
[Yana] I agree, it is your personal choice and I think that many Amateur couples are perfectly capable of competing amongst Professionals.
[Yegor] Sometimes you hear people saying that Professional dancing brings certain message, while it doesn't happen in Amateur dancing. But I do not fully agree with that. It very much depends on the level of dancing. You can definitely see a clear message from some Amateur couples and you don't see it from some Professionals... So it is very much their ability and personal choice where they compete. It may also depend on where they live. In US you rather be Professional as you will be dancing probably also Pro-Am and this is just part of your job.
[Yegor] I think it is good that there are many divisions or categories such as Rising Stars, Medallists or Open. Every couple has a chance to be a star, to shine and feel special because they are special. They are able to be the main couple of the event. It gives them opportunity not to get lost in this huge group of dancers. This is good for both Professionals and Amateurs. It gives you a well-defined series of steps you can climb and follow. It shows you a series of goals to reach. It guides you, it makes sense.
[Yegor] The International was our first competition in England together. We came to Blackpool to watch but we did not dance then. We did not have any expectations of course. But you never know... we were a new couple, anything could happen. We could only imagine how other people see us, we did not know.
[Yana] I literally had zero expectations! It was my first time at the International, first time in the UK. I decided to have fun, top go and enjoy myself, enjoy the experience. When we reached the final it was extremely exciting. When they were announcing the placings my heart was beating so fast I could not hear anything! Yesterday was also my first UK Open and I was hoping for the best but you never know... things happen.
[Yana] It did not disturb me. I do not get nervous and I do not feel any pressure when people watch me. I try to make sure I dance the best I can. I want to make sure that my coach and my partner are happy with my dancing. I also want improvement... With every competition I want people to come up and say: you got better. More people watch me, the better. I love it. I feel I shine more if there are more people staring at me! It helps me to come out of my shell more...
[Yegor] I did not know you had a shell! (laughing) I understand perfectly what you mean by saying that there were expectations... But things happen, you may have a good day or you may have a bad day. When you are going towards certain goal... this feeling can disturb you. When I am feeling that I am trying to convert this anxiety into some positive energy. So instead of freaking out, instead of worry you can try to redirect the same nervousness to positive feeling. I know when I am feeling good, I can shine. I know that my partner can get that positive energy from me. So, instead of disturbing me, it can give me more to work with.
[Yegor] Usually when I arrive at the competition I have an overall look at the floor. I want to see how things move around, what is going on, what is the atmosphere. But I am trying not look at any particular couple. I try not to analyse things but generally see if it feels good...
[Yana] I enjoy competing much more than doing a show because it is almost like a game. When you dance a show, you know everybody watches you. When you are competing, their attention is divided. So I always want to steal their attention as much as I can, and make them look our way. So it is always a challenge to me, how I can grab that person's attention, make them look at me and how to keep it. It is a game, a good challenge, it is exciting. I want to attract you and I want to ensure that you stay attracted and don't turn away to somebody else! (laughing)
[Yana] No, but I try not to think of judges but of public. I want the public to scream my name or my number! I want to see them cheering and excited. I understand that I cannot keep judges attention but there are so many people in the audience I can have! (laughing)
[Yegor] I think I would just give freedom to everybody so they can do whatever they choose, for instance, dance whatever competition they want as this is their own career. I like the idea of having many divisions or other categories so people can chose to compete the level they want. If they want to compete in Blackpool, why not let them. It gives couples so much experience that they cannot get anywhere else. Unfortunately, many people are missing out...
[Yana] When my sister first saw me getting ready for competition, with the make-up on, the false eye lashes she did not recognise me. She asked, is this Yana... I wish there was more freedom and more acceptance of different looks in Latin. Now, everybody has to be super dark, dark tan and long nails, your hair have to be glued on... But what if you want to have a lighter tan and don't want to wear long nails... I wish there was more acceptance of different styles. Often when the girl doesn't choose to fit into the perfect Latin style, the couple does not get marked very far.
[Yegor] It is part of the history and it is part of the development process. We would not be here now, if it wasn't for them then. It means we had moved forward... it means that it did not remain still and stagnant.
[Yegor] I definitely believe in idea of having a good team of two or three coaches. There are so many things you could learn from these people. I am not saying that you should be closed to what other people are offering but you do not need too many "close" teachers to be successful. It is important to have a team because this people know you so well, inside and out. When you trying to push yourself to maximum, to create something special in your dancing, every single thing matters. Your choreography, your technique, your grooming, your emotions, your physical side, every aspect is important. And with the small team of teacher who know you very well, it's possible to achieve.
[Yana] We always share what we learned from one teacher to another. It helps to make ideas from both coaches work and it helps to develop a style which fits us best. If one coach was focusing on the choreography and the other wants to make sure it is competitive enough or artistic enough we try to put these things together.
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Lifestyle Changes to Manage Infertility in Men
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Lifestyle factors can influence male fertility, and your healthcare provider may suggest that you initiate lifestyle changes when you are trying to conceive.
General Guidelines for Managing Infertility in Men
- ]]>Change the timing of sexual activity and avoid using lubricants containing spermicides.]]>
- ]]>Avoid using tobacco, marijuana, anabolic steroids, and "recreational" drugs.]]>
- ]]>Avoid excessive use of alcohol.]]>
- ]]>Maintain a healthy weight.]]>
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- ]]>Avoid testicular injury in sporting events.]]>
- ]]>Avoid exposure to excessive heat (steam rooms, saunas, hot tubs).]]>
- ]]>Wear looser fitting shorts and pants.]]>
- ]]>If you bicycle, try using a softer seat.]]>
- ]]>Learn positive ways to manage stress.]]>
Change the Timing of Sexual Activity
Sperm quality declines if ejaculation occurs more frequently than every 48 hours or less frequently than every five days. Your chances of attaining pregnancy are also improved if sexual intercourse occurs a day or so before ovulation. This gives sperm time to travel up the female reproductive tract and be in the fallopian tube—where fertilization takes place—when the egg gets there during ovulation. Many lubricants contain spermicidal ingredients, so you should avoid using these when trying to conceive.
Avoid Using Tobacco, Marijuana, Anabolic Steroids, and Recreational Drugs
The toxins in cigarette smoke reduce sperm count and motility and increase the number of abnormal sperm. Smoking also adversely affects hormone levels and may affect the cells in the testes that produce testosterone. Like cigarette smoking, use of marijuana also can adversely affect sperm count, sperm motility, and sperm morphology. It also reduces plasma testosterone levels. Anabolic steroids are sometimes used to increase muscle mass or strength, but they also influence production of reproductive hormones and can reduce fertility. Use of cocaine also negatively affects sperm parameters as well as the ability of sperm to penetrate cervical mucus. Opiates (heroin, morphine) may reduce fertility in men by altering hormone production.
Avoid Excessive Use of Alcohol
Although moderate alcohol consumption does not affect male fertility, excessive alcohol intake alters hormone levels and reduces sperm count and sperm quality.
High body fat can alter hormone metabolism. If you are overweight, consult with your doctor or a registered dietitian to find out what weight is healthy for you and to get help in attaining it.
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Moderate exercise increases sperm production and may have beneficial effects on fertility. However, excessive exercise, such as that performed by long-distance runners, reduces sperm production.
Avoid Testicular Injury in Sporting Events
The testicles are easily damaged during vigorous sporting events or fights. These injuries can cause inflammation that reduces the blood supply to the testicles, which can permanently damage sperm-producing cells.
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Some evidence suggests that heat exposure, such as occurs when using a sauna or hot tub, may affect sperm quantity and quality.
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Underwear and clothing that is tight and constricting may reduce blood flow in the groin and adversely affect sperm production.
If You Bicycle, Try Using a Softer Saddle
Certain bicycle seats may cause circulatory and neurologic damage in the groin that can affect erectile function.
Learn Positive Ways to Manage Stress
Psychological stress can be a positive or negative force in your life, depending on how you deal with it. High levels of stress hormones interfere with many physiologic processes and may influence your ability to attain conception. To help reduce mental and emotional stress in your life, consider learning relaxation exercises, yoga or tai chi, or talking to a counselor about problems or stressful relationships in your life. Talk to your healthcare provider about which stress management options may be best for you, and request a referral to a stress management program.
American Society for Reproductive Medicine website. Available at: http://www.asrm.org/.
International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination website. Available at: http://www.inciid.org/.
RESOLVE. The National Infertility Association website. Available at: http://www.resolve.org/.
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Varshitha here with our last post of this year. I am so surprised that 2016 is already over…. What an incredible ride this year has been! I'm so Thankful for everything what 2016 has brought me.. An opportunity for perusing my dream, being an entrepreneur, proud owner of Mudra Stamps, a own production unit and most wonderful Design team and stamp designers and our retailers, not to forget, deeply thankful for the kind comments and support of yours, as we all go on this crafty journey together!
Let's Welcome 2017 with a big happy smile.. I am excited what 2017 is gonna bring.. I am lots of plans and ideas to make the craft world more exciting.. Do tell us, what is your craft dream for the coming year.
The hardest part is to tell them goodbye!! I would miss those wonderful creations by these lovely crafty mates!! Honestly my 2016 team was not hand picked but heart-selected.. I am a fan of each one them in our team..
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The Met Gala isn't for everyone.
When it comes to Rei Kawakubo, expect the unexpected.
How do you actually pronounce Comme des Garçons? More importantly, why should you care about the fashion label?
What really goes down is more awkward than glamorous.
The annual Met Gala, one of the most anticipated events in the fashion world, will honor designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons.
The life and work of legendary fashion designer Rei Kawakubo will take center stage May 1 at this year's Met Gala spring exhibition, Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, and fundraiser in New York.


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Sebastian Vettel wins Japanese Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull moved to within four points of leader Fernando Alonso by winning Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.
While Vettel started on the pole and put on a dominating performance, leading from start to finish, Alonso from Ferrari crashed on the opening lap. Alonso suffered a punctured left-rear tire and spun around in the first corner after Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen made contact with him. At the same time, Raikkonen's teammate, Romain Grosjean, was involved in an incident with Red Bull's Mark Webber, Bruno Senna from Williams and Mercedes' Nico Rosberg.
The first lap accident led to the deployment of the safety car for two laps. Vettel easily pulled away from the field after the restart and then cruised to a 20.6 second margin of victory.
"Since yesterday in qualifying, nothing I think could be better," Vettel said. "You come across these kinds of races or weekends very rarely. Unbelievable. We had a very good start."
Vettel, the two-time defending F1 world champion, scored his third win of the season and the 24th of his career. He won the most recent grand prix two weeks ago in Singapore. Vettel came to Japan 29 points behind Alonso.
"In terms of the championship, this race was a big step, and it helped us, but we see how quickly things can change," Vettel noted.
Alonso's Ferrari teammate, Felipe Massa, finished second and made his first appearance on the podium since the Oct. 2010 Korean Grand Prix.
"It's nice," Massa said. "It's like a relief. It was great race and was able to push hard from the beginning to the end and show that we are here to fight for victory and for pole and not just to fight for a few points."
Japan's Kamui Kobayashi placed third in front of his home crowd. The Sauber driver held off McLaren's Jenson Button at the finish to earn a podium position for the first in his F1 career. Kobayashi also became the first Japanese driver on the podium for this race since Aguri Suzuki did it in 1990.
"Finally, we finish in the points and on the podium, and that's fantastic, especially in front of my home grand prix. That's amazing," Kobayashi said.
While Button finished fourth, his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, took the fifth spot. Raikkonen came in sixth, followed by Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Pastor Maldonado from Williams. Webber and Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo completed the top-10.
Alonso's misfortune in the Japanese GP also allowed Raikkonen, Hamilton, Webber and Button to gain ground in the championship points battle. Raikkonen is now 37 points behind Alonso, while Hamilton trails by 42. Webber is 60 markers behind and Button 63.
"It's a shame when you can't even get past the first corner," Alonso said. "When you get a (tire) puncture and have to retire, there's nothing you can do. We need to keep working well and not doing mistakes."
Five grand prix remain on this year's calendar, with Korean GP scheduled for next weekend.


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The parents of a New Market, Md. man with Down syndrome who died in police custody are suing the Frederick County Sheriff's Office and the owners of the movie theater where he died.
Patricia and Ronald Saylor filed the wrongful death claim Thursday in federal court in Baltimore. It stems from the death in January of 26-year-old Robert Ethan Saylor.
Saylor died as three deputies, moonlighting as mall security guards, tried to forcibly remove him from a Frederick movie theater because he didn't have a ticket for a second viewing of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty.''
The complaint alleges the deputies and the operators of the Westview Promenade shopping center and Regal Cinema violated Saylor's civil rights and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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ASSATEAGUE — Spring seems to be showing signs of new life everywhere, including on Assateague Island.
A new wild horse foal was born into the herd at Assateague Island on Friday March 9. A young filly, with pinto coloration showing mostly white hair with brown patches was born to 8-year-old mare April Star (also known by the alpha numeric name N2BHS-C).
The gangly long-legged newborn has been seen by many park visitors enjoying Assateague Island within the past week. She is one of the 114 horses that live wild and free on the barrier island. Park visitors Carol and Joshua Harmon of Salisbury were delighted to observe the new foal on Wednesday.
"We come to the park often and take tons of photos of these horses," they said.
The Harmons and other visitors from Ontario, Canada watched the foal, her mother and their band (the group of horses maintained by one stallion) from a safe distance across the road from the mare and foal. Numerous cars drove by slowly to catch a glimpse of the new foal. She spent her time doing what newborns do, nursing from mom, sleeping soundly for brief naps and making playful explorations in the areas around her.
National Park Service's Allison Turner clarified that people taking pictures is fine, but that it is the responsibility of everyone visiting the island to ensure all the horses remain wild without people interacting with them.
"If I could have people do one thing to help these horses, it would be to give them their space," Turner said. "When wild horses get crowded by people, especially at such a young and influential age, it changes their behavior and sets up many dangerous situations in the future — for both the horse and for people around them."
All visitors are expected to share the responsibility of allowing the wild horses to continue to live on the island without our interference and disturbance. To ensure that, the National Park Service has implemented new enforcement policies that will fine individuals who move closer than 10 feet towards the horses. Pony Patrol volunteers also bike the roadways to educate visitors about keeping a safe distance from the wild horses.
This new foal is identified as N2BHS-CK until she is named during a charitable naming rights auction held at the end of the year. The alpha numeric naming has been used by the National Park Service since the mid-1970s to trace the lineage and ancestry of the horses. All the foals born in 2011 had a J at the end of their alpha-numeric name, and any foals born in 2012 conclude their names with a K. Many horses also have a common name, like April Star, the dam (the term for a mother horse) of this new foal. She and about 90 of the horses on the island are in the Foster Horse Program managed by the friends group of the National Seashore, Assateague Island Alliance (www.assateaguewildhorse.org).
The program is an opportunity for visitors to pay an annual fostering membership ($31) and receive a portfolio with an 8×10 photo of their wild horse, biography information about their horse and an annual subscription to the "Horsin' Around' newsletter. Proceeds support the National Park Service's management of the wild horses.
This new foal will be added to the foster horse program after she receives a name during the annual charitable naming rights auction conducted by the friends group in November and December of each year. The highest bidder during a 10-day eBay auction is provided the naming rights for a foal. Once named, foals are introduced into the foster horse program.
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