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You've been pegged at times as a horror writer, though clearly you've written all different sorts of fiction. Is there a label you like for the kind of writing you do?I was having dinner with some publishing people and one of them, an editor, asked me how I'd describe what I write. I said I mostly did two kinds of fiction, fantasy and magic realism. So he asked me what the difference was, and I said if I published a story in a genre magazine it was fantasy, but if I published it in a literary journal, it was magic realism. That's the difference.
I read an essay about six years ago, by Bernard Malamud, "Why Fantasy?" Malamud basically made an argument that every fictional world is an artificial construction, a work of fantasy. The world in Norman Mailer's fiction isn't any more real or valid or "true" than the world Lewis Carroll wrote about. Mailer's characters only seem more real because they're more familiar. Whereas no one has ever run into a talking white rabbit. Malamud's position was that writers should be willing to use all the tools offered by the imagination, to explore the fantastic and the surreal. And his reasoning really freed me to be myself, to write about ghosts and inflatable children and murderous man-eating locusts.
Before encountering Malamud's essay, why had you avoided fantasy elements in your writing? What caused that restriction for you?Fear. I was trying to play it safe. For example, I wrote a story called "The Entire Weight of Tacoma" about a man in late middle-age coming to terms with the idea that he's at least partly to blame for the disaster his grown-up daughter has made of her life. It was well-written, on a sentence-by-sentence level. It was psychologically convincing, I think. It was safe...it was a story I could show to any editor at any literary journal in the country, without fear of embarrassment. It had only one problem. It was boring. I didn't want to risk anything -- of myself. I was afraid to ask interesting questions because I was worried I hadn't lived enough to provide interesting answers.
It's probably no accident that I've written all my best stuff since I became a dad. Having a kid -- that's taking a real risk. It probably helped me see that the kind of gambles I was afraid of taking in my fiction were really no big deal. What, is someone going to tell me I'm uncool because I wrote a ghost story? I am uncool. Fathers are the uncoolest people in the world.
Were the writers you read primarily mainstream?I used to read everything. D.H. Lawrence. Elizabethan poetry. Modern short fiction collections about suburban malaise. But ever since I had my first son, there's been a definite swing in my reading habits. I have three boys now, and maybe it's all the testosterone in the house, but these days I mostly stick to manfiction. Elmore Leonard. Walter Mosley. James Ellroy.
I don't read too much of what's commonly labeled horror fiction, or fantasy. I don't know why. I usually like it when I do. I just started Anansi Boys, and if I had the time, I'd sit around and read that all day.
In the story note to "Pop Art", you write, "As patiently as I worked at [my mainstream] stories, few of them ever seemed satisfying to me. They refused to come to life, to surprise and excite, in the way of short stories by the likes of Ethan Canin, Richard Bausch or Tobias Wolff." What qualities make a story come to life for you?There's really two things, and they have to work in concert. They're like positive and negative on a battery, and without one, you've got no charge.
Before I can get started on a story there has to be a hook, a concept that feels fresh and exciting. But it can't just be a clever idea for its own sake. Somewhere along the line I picked up the idea that a story has to be about more than just itself... that it has to ask the kind of questions that maybe can't be answered.
So in "20th Century Ghost," the hook was this: what if someone loved the movies so much, they went on visiting their favorite theater even after they died? But along the way, the story wound up looking at some other, bigger, more meaningful questions. Like what happens to us after we die? And why are movies (and other works of art) so important to us anyway?
So that's one thing I need, a hook I can use to snag some interesting thematic material. The other thing, though, is I need a main character with something interesting going on inside. A lot of the people I write about are not living the lives they want to be living. They've painted themselves into corners. They're their own worst enemies. They drive away the people who want to help them, burn bridges, blow off their futures. And if they do happen to be happy, or content, or lucky, then they're willing to do awful things to stay that way. I don't mean to say that all my characters are anti-heroes, or villains. That's a kind of black-and-white thinking I try to avoid. I mean they're in jeopardy. I like to write about people who are morally or spiritually or psychologically adrift, because right from the start I'm rooting for them to make themselves well, to find their way out of the hole they've dug for themselves. Some of them don't, but I always hope.
How did you go about finding markets for your stories? Did you have any trouble placing them?For a long time I couldn't sell a story to save my life. I was lucky to manage one story acceptance a year. But there's been a steady shift ever since I wrote "20th Century Ghost" about four years ago. I wrote it very quickly. Everything just dropped into place. And right from the start, it seemed to work in some way a lot of my other stuff didn't.
"Ghost" sold the third place I sent it -- to a lit. magazine, The High Plains Literary Review. I can't remember what I wrote right after it. "You Will Hear The Locust Sing," I think. And that sold quickly as well.
When I was writing more mainstream stuff, I saw a lot of warm, supportive, personal rejections. Editors liked my stories, but something was missing. I wasn't excited about them, that's what was missing. Those mainstream stories were muscle cars with no fuel in the tank. The fantasy element was a hit of high octane. So lately it's become much easier to place my stories. With a little luck, hopefully I can continue to build on the good things that have come my way in the last couple years.
What sort of high octane does fantasy add to your writing?On a practical level, it tends to create situation. Fantasy involves asking an interesting what-if. What if you went to a movie, and someone sat down next to you and started whispering to you, and then you realized the person talking to you was dead? That you were being whispered to by a ghost? Now you've got somewhere to go. You need to answer that question.
On an emotional level, introducing an element of fantasy helps to remind me what I'm doing. That I'm sitting down to perform an act of make-believe. Right from the start I have to put any idea of playing it safe out of my head. I try always to take some big leap of the imagination on the very first page. I'm either telling you something incredible -- "when I was in junior high, my best friend was an inflatable boy" -- or I'm putting the main character in terrible, unlikely danger. Like at the beginning of "The Black Phone," when the kidnapper sprays John Finney in the face with a can of wasp poison. Either way, we're putting the pedal down and leaving normal behind as quickly as possible.
How did the collection come about?My agent said it would be a hard sell and he was right. The conventional wisdom is that there isn't any kind of market for a first book of stories. That you can only launch a writer with a novel. Part of me questions that, especially when you're talking about short stories of the supernatural. Kelly Link did pretty well with Stranger Things Happen. And Clive Barker made out okay with Books of Blood.
Anyway, 20th Century Ghosts was turned down by all of the big mainstream publishers. Quickly. But it was a different story on the small press level. Pete Crowther at PS Publishing had a look, and really liked it, came on with a lot of enthusiasm. As a writer of surreal and fantastic tales himself, he just responded to what was going on in the stories. But every small press editor who looked at it -- Richard Chizmar, Bill Schafer, Paul Miller -- responded with interest and excitement. They're a remarkable bunch... I'd throw Kelly Link and Gavin Grant in there too. They play an entirely different game than the editors at the big publishing houses. The guys with the small presses, they get excited about a book and they want to publish it. They don't stop to think how much money they're going to lose.
How did you go about organizing the contents of the collection?Well, another thing I picked up while poring over Malamud's essays is his idea that a collection should be a single, unified, artistic statement, just like a novel...not an archive of each and every story you've written in however many years. I was choosy about what I put in. And I tried to make sure that each story pointed to the story that followed it, in some way. So "Pop Art" is about an inflatable boy, an eleven-year-old kid made out of plastic and filled with air. He's hated and feared and lonely, the ultimate outsider. The story after it is "You Will Hear The Locust Sing" about another outsider, a greasy, abused loner who turns into a man-eating insect out of a 1950s giant bug movie. There are a lot of upsetting father issues in "Locust" and so the story after it is "Abraham's Boys," which is about the difficult relationship between Van Helsing and his two teenage sons.
Because most of the stories had been previously published, there wasn't a whole lot of editing to do. The stories pretty much were what they were.
I did do some more work on the collection, though, after Pete accepted it for publication. "The Cape" was a last minute add, something I wrote a few months before the book went to press. "Scheherazade's Typewriter," the hidden story, also went in relatively late, although the story itself was over two years old. "Typewriter" was originally twenty-five pages long, and I considered it a failure, a story that didn't do any of the things I wanted it to do. It went in a drawer but I never forget about it. Then, a few months after I sold the book, I tried rewriting "Scheherazade's Typewriter" from scratch. I didn't even reread my first draft, just worked from memory. And I was able to polish the story off in only five pages and this time it felt right.
Are there any plans for a U.S. release?I don't know. It isn't too hard to get a copy over here if you want one. You can find the book at -- koff koff -- Amazon UK, Shocklines, or order straight from the PS website. If Pete sells out, that'll be the time to think about another, possibly American edition.


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Michel Torres says the opportunity to take graduate-level classes in social work while completing her bachelor's degree at Dominican University helped confirm her plans to earn her Master of Social Work and become a school social worker.
Through Dominican's Bridge program, which allows qualified Dominican seniors to take classes in the Graduate School of Social Work, she was able to complete both her bachelor's degree in psychology and MSW.
Through the program, her internship at a school in Berwyn North School District helped her land her current job at an elementary school.
"I was at the internship for the full school year. It really provided me with the experience necessary to know what it's like to be a school social worker," Torres said. "Being a school social worker is really rewarding. Because I get to work with kids every day, I get to see them grow. I get to see them learn. I get to be an active participant in helping them change and better their lives."
She also completed another internship through the social work program with a youth social services agency that provides counseling to teenagers.
"My internships provided me with supervised guidance from caring professionals in the field of social work, and my graduate assistantships gave me the opportunity to give back to students and gain valuable experience," she said.
Torres was originally attracted to Dominican as an undergraduate because of Dominican's size and location. She majored in psychology with a minor in criminology.
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Sept. 3, 1962: Boston police detectives worked through the night trying to solve the Strangler case after Jane Sullivan, 67, was discovered on Aug. 30, 1962, throttled to death in her apartment. She was believed to be the sixth victim. On this night, news stories reported police were searching for a 56-year-old Brookline man who had been arrested more than once for trying to choke women. This suspect had a history of mental illness, and had worked as a practical nurse in at least seven hospitals in the city, getting the jobs through false documentation. A common thread with five victims was that they had some connection with hospitals or medical clinics. Jane Sullivan had worked as a night-shift nurse at Longwood Hospital.
Sept. 3, 1962: Boston police detectives spent hours seeking new leads and running down hundreds of tips and suspects. Several suspects were taken into custody for questioning and the Brighton division arrested a 27-year-old man found sleeping in the bushes near where Nina G. Nichols, the fourth victim, had been killed on June 30, 1962. No one on this night was held for any of the murders to date.
Sept. 29, 1962: Mrs. Mary Coltin of Uphams Corner in Dorchester took her new shepherd, Duke, home to serve as a watchdog as fear drove women to protect themselves from the Boston Strangler. Coltin's friend Mrs. Florence Nyles, left, of South Boston, joined her.
Feb. 25, 1967: Suspected Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo, wearing sailor's garb, is shown leaving the Lynn police station. His capture ended a nationwide manhunt begun when DeSalvo and two other inmates broke out of Bridgewater State Hospital the previous day. DeSalvo was captured at Simmons Uniform Co. at 741 Western Ave. He had spent the night in a nearby cellar and had found a sailor's pea jacket and trousers to replace his prison gear. He entered the store at 2:35 p.m. and asked salesman Frederick Waldron for permission to use the phone. DeSalvo told him, "I want to call F. Lee Bailey." When Waldron heard the name of DeSalvo's attorney, he told the manager, James Trelegan, to call the police. DeSalvo was arrested shortly thereafter.
Feb. 25, 1967: As news spread that DeSalvo had been arrested, crowds of newspaper reporters and photographers, as well as curious onlookers, lined the street outside Lynn police headquarters to get a glimpse of the alleged Boston Strangler in the State Police wagon. Within an hour of the arrest, DeSalvo was taken before Judge Cornelius J. Moynihan in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge. The judge committed DeSalvo to Walpole State Prison (now called Massachusetts Correctional Institution Cedar Junction at Walpole) for life. DeSalvo had been convicted on armed robbery and morals charges on Jan. 18, 1967, and had been remanded to Bridgewater State Hospital, from which he had escaped the previous day. The judge revoked the previous order, which had suspended execution of a life sentence to Walpole. In a six-car caravan crammed full of deputy sheriffs and state troopers armed with shotguns, the high-speed ride to Walpole ended at 7:15 p.m. as DeSalvo was placed behind bars.


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Since our first set of statistics, Berlin has lost the Berliner Kammeroper, and Wien has lost the Wiener Kammeroper and the Musik Theater Schönbrunn. As the Wien companies were significant ones in terms of numbers of performances, Berlin overtakes Wien to be the city with most opera.
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After the first three (Verdi, Mozart, Puccini), who dominate the listings, there's a gap to the next three (Wagner, Rossini, Donizetti).
Good news for Benjamin Britten: at position 13, he is the highest ranked composer born in the 20th century even before the celebrations of the centenary of his birth in 2013.
Compared with our statistics from 2009/10, the order of the composers remains pretty much the same, but there have been big increases in the numbers of performances of works by the composers at the top of the table. This is possibly due to some companies choosing safer programming due to the global financial situation. There were big increases for composers with approaching centenaries: Verdi 3020 performances (up from 2259 in 2009/10), Wagner (1292 up from 920).
Perhaps the most surprising — yet most welcome — single item of data to come out of these statistics is the proportion of the opera composers who are living. Of the near 1200 composers programmed over the last five seasons, over 640 are alive — not bad for an art-form that is sometimes thoughtlessly described as ready for the museum.
Compared with our previous statistics in 2009, the top 10 works remain the same with small changes in the order but with big increases in the numbers of times the works have been programmed. The biggest change is Verdi's La traviata, which was second in the 2009 stats with 447 runs, and which now is the most commonly programmed opera with 629 runs over the 2007/08 to 2011/12 seasons.
Britten's Turn of the Screw (#73) overtakes Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth (#82) for the most frequently programmed opera from a composer born in the 20th century.
There are five works by living composers in the top 200 most frequently programmed works: Grigory Frid's monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (#129), Weill's opera-ballet Die sieben Todsünden (#153), the opera Dead Man Walking from Jake Heggie (#174), Il prigionero from Luigi Dallapiccola (#182), and the children's opera El gato con botas from Xavier Montsalvatge (#193).


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**If you've been a regular visitor to my blog, I thank you! Welcome to my remodeled Blog Kitchen. We've repainted it, decluttered it, and added some update social media buttons-- from Pinterest to Google +. I'm very happy with the new and modern look, and I hope you find this to be user friendly.I'm still seeing a boatload of "Healthy Recipes" on the cover of food magazines, and on a lot of the food blogs that I visit. I keep pinning them, and promising that I'm going to make at least
It just doesn't seem right that the height of Diet Season falls smack in between Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl or Valentine's Day, does it? So, I don't feel guilty that I'm sharing a cake recipe, a few weeks before the next onslaught of holidays are almost upon us. Do you really want to know that Super Bowl Sunday is just a tad over three weeks away? Hello, Guacamole, Chili and all the non-health food fixin's!
Ina Garten's and America's Test Kitchen's Coconut Cake. Both of those recipes do have their virtues. Ina's is good-- especially if you love cream cheese frosting--but it's really more of a white cake with coconut flakes in the frosting. ATK's cake was also good, albeit a bit "dry" (and I'm pretty cautious about not overbaking my cakes). However, the Coconut Swiss Buttercream is the star of this cake-- silky and loaded with four sticks of butter!
This time, I wanted to try a different route. I wanted a moist white cake, that tastes like coconut. I also wanted a frosting (with only one stick of butter) that would taste like coconut--and then I wanted to add toasted coconut to finish off the whole cake. If you absolutely hate coconut, just leave out any coconut related ingredients. This cake will yield a moist white cake.
I adapted a recipe from King Arthur Flour, because I had purchased a bag of their Coconut Milk Powder, and a bottle of Coconut Flavor. I didn't have a bag of their Queen Guinevere Cake Flour, but I always have their Unbleached Cake Flour on hand, so that's what I used.
bands" around the cake pan? I believe they really do work! My cakes bake more evenly.
For the frosting, I used powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and coconut extract-- and about 1/2 cup of coconut cream (not to be confused with coconut milk).
Lemon Curd is super easy to make, and I'll show you how right here. Or, you can buy a jar of it, which you can easily find at most grocery stores. I figured that the lemon tartness would tone down the sweetness of the buttercream frosting.
Here's a really cool frosting tip that works great! I'm not fond using disposable frosting bags (they're expensive and wasteful), and the zip-loc bag things works "okay". I just prefer a frosting bag. So, here's what I do-- on a sheet of plastic wrap, I plop a mound of frosting. Then, I grab both ends and swing it around until the ends look like this.
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The United States should apply price theory to immigration and charge immigrants a fee to gain citizenship, said Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology. "When I mention this to people, they sometimes go hysterical," Becker told a packed house during the inaugural Becker Brown Bag Series lunch discussion hosted by The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at Hyde Park Center on March 1 and sponsored by Vishal Verma.
"They say, 'Are you selling citizenship?'" Becker continued. "Well, we're restricting citizenship, but we're doing that now. Almost any criticism you have of the idea, you'd have to apply to the present system, which is also restricting entry. The real issue is, does it have good attributes and do these dominate any downside?"
If terrorists, criminals, and the unhealthy are eliminated from the pool of immigrants, the fee would provide a long list of benefits, Becker said. For example, a one-time fee of $50,000 would generate $50 billion a year from the current 1 million immigrants admitted to the U.S. each year, he said.
Such revenue would reduce opposition to immigration by blunting the argument that immigrants draw on U.S. resources, such as welfare, Medicaid, and schools, Becker said. "This would lead to a greater willingness to accept immigrants," he said. "No longer could people say they're not paying their way. They would be paying their way, not only in income taxes but in the entrance fee, so to speak."
Such a fee would appeal most to the young, who are healthier and more likely to invest in their own human capital over a longer horizon, and to the skilled, who would likely generate more taxes, commit fewer crimes, and use fewer government entitlements, Becker said. "Think of the advantages: young, skilled people who want to come, who are concerned about their children's future, who are interested in freedom and family members," he said. "Those would be people who are more likely, all things the same, to be willing to pay for the opportunity to come."
In order to prevent limiting immigration to only the wealthy, the government should modify the federal college loan program to help finance entry to the U.S., Becker said. "This is a form of human capital and investment, namely migration to more productive areas," he said. "It would be natural to extend this program to help finance immigration of people who may only be willing to put up $10,000 or $15,000 of the required amount and finance the rest with a loan."
The loan could be collected through income tax in absolute amounts or as a function of a person's earnings, Becker said. "Employers might pay the fee," he said. "The H1B [visa] program goes through employers entirely. Immigrants don't have to pay anything for it. Employers might say, 'Gee, I can get you to work. I'll pay the $50,000. I'll work it out with the worker, as long as you're going to repay me for this later on.'"
The effect a fee would have on illegal immigration is not clear, Becker said. "Some who are coming legally now, for free so to speak, may decide to come illegally," he said. "On the other hand, some workers now who come in illegally because they can't get in legally might decide to pay the fee. They could come legally, work above ground, advance, and so on."
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It's what the interns get to work on when they're not making demo apps or creating documentation for the MSDN library.
Miguel de Icaza: Mono, Open Source, Visual Studio, and Xamarin
Microsoft should just hand over the entire developer stack to Miguel. He gets it. Help the developer write great software for the customer rather than help Company X sell more devices, OS licenses, and/or advertisements. Glad there are people like Miguel working in this space.
Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS
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Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript
Putting on my favorite fall edition Microsoft Apologist Hat I'd have to say that this is Microsoft providing another option to JS and not trying to herald in "the one true scripting language". It's all about tools and options and not knowing what to trust will be around in a year or two.
John Sheehan: Windows 8 Platform
@DeathByVisualStudio: Your opinion is not based on actually developing on the platform. This is just hot air...
That's strange; most people I know call it common sense. Even having the most joyful development experience does not mean your work won't get stuck on an island of Windows Store app fail.
I can see two issues here, and I don't expect either to be addressed here. First that the Windows store is terrible. I find it amazing how terrible it is. Sure things like this are subjective, but they are no more so than the recognition that Gerard Depardieu has a big nose.
Secondly, Visual Studio 2012 has fallen down the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down -- again, another perfectly good example of subjectivity.
Both of which are so blatantly obvious that they will likely get patched out-of-cycle. Regardless, I believe that connect is a better venue for these kind of observations.
LOL! That's a great Connect feedback. Too bad they closed it already. Denial is bliss.
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@jaimer:I have the RTM bits installed on a desktop PC and tablet. It still feels like a beta. Lots of unexpected white screen repainting in Windows Store IE -- needs more work like so many others things.
My point above is why would I want to quit watching videos and start developing apps for W8 (as John conveyed in the video) if only to be locked into such an unfinished product? This is especially true of the Windows Store app side of the house. Are the dev tools and WinRT much more refined than W8 itself and the apps that Microsoft as provided to date? If the front door is shabby I'm going to be hesitant to enter the building. Just eyeballing around VS 2012 I am lost amongst the wireframe-esk new stark look -- visual cues are all but gone. But hey it does look "MODERN"...
If W8 fails to take off on the Windows Store app side of the house I really don't want to be trapped on that island of fail. Just my opinion...
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Let's see... I want to build a W8 app because as a developer I love the new simplified WinRT over the old Win32s that I wasn't using directly and because WPF/SL was so hard? Oh and I want to limit my application's reach to W8 PCs because WinRT is locked into W8? Sounds encouraging! When is the beta test over?
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I think this little article sums it up well. And here I though Microsoft couldn't make people any more confused on their branding than in the past. How wrong I was...
Code Snippets for Windows Store Apps
What's a Windows Store App? Is that like a desktop app that I find in the Windows Store? You know the kind that links back to the developer's web site so you can purchase the app? Are these snippets helpful for those kind of apps?
Channel 9 now has a Windows 8 app!
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Championship day in the three divisions of the CMHL tourney at Chesswood Arena Involved a pair of shutouts wins, along with a playoff final that was two game in one.
Culture Cup (Women's) Championship: Macedonian Sun 5-0 win over Japanese Typhoon was their third championship (including 2012 and 2013 Cup) in the past four CMHL tourneys. The score was not indicative of how competitive this game was for nearly two periods, as Arashi netminder Naomi Katsumi made 20 consecutive saves including a few of the outstanding variety.
However two Sun goals in the last minute of the second period by forwards Emily Popelar off a rebound scramble and Missy Kennedy's 32 foot slap shot off Katsumi's shoulder, broke the game wide open in the third period. Popelar's second goal off a turnover roofed top corner, forward Jordanna Peroff's goal and an unassisted goal from forward Natalie Babony closed the scoring. Netminder Victoria Saunders stopped 21 shots for the shutout.
CMHL Founder and Commissioner remarked about Arashi forward Cass Kobayashi "who is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet and doesn't look like a mother of four children, when you see her play ice hockey."
Sun head coach Lou Misketis acknowledged the fact "there were many good CMHL female players in the tournament." He credited Arashi for "stonewalling our team for a long period of time. I told our players to keep the pressure on, be confident and that we would eventually score." Misketis acknowledged the leadership and playing contributions of Sun co captains Shannon Misketis and Diana Cholakov that led to the team championship. "I coached the Macedonian men's team for some years before being asked to take over the girls team,|"said Gus Misketis. "I've coached girls hockey the past 10-12 years, so I gotten know the skills set of many players that have competed for us, since the beginning of our team's involvement in the CMHL tourney."
Cholakov stated the CMHL tournament gives her a chance" to pick up and develop new skills for my regular woman's hockey league." Misketis, who also plays in a woman's hockey league, remarked "it's nice to play with different players in a tournament. When we get together at the CMHL it's like family, and pick up where we left off the previous year." As for the playoff final Cholakov stated the team knew "by posting near the front of the Typhoon net waiting for a shot going through that a goal would come, and it did."
Heritage Division: To paraphrase author Charles Dickens, it was a tale of two games in the one game playoff final between Russian Kremlins and Filipino Islanders. Despite the shots being 12-12 in the first period it was Kremlins who set the tone with three goals.
Forward Valeri Borschevsky opened the scoring from 18 ft. off the left wing. Right Winger Dima Lavrenov took a pass from center Egor Mironov (who tied with Kremlins forward Mark Borszcz in Heritage Division points with nine each), dashed around the Islanders defence, cut in across near the top of the goal crease and tucked the puck in the lower left corner. Borschevsky's second goal was set up by centre and team captain Evgeniy Feldman and defenceman Max Zubrik.
Whatever Islanders discussed in the intermission certainly worked on the ice, outshooting Kremlins 18-9 in the second period and tying the game. Defenceman Dakota Domines (who also added an assist) had a wide shot bounce right back to him off the boards to the right side of Kremlins goaltender Evgeny Luchko's goal crease, for the easy tap in goal. Defenceman Sean Featherstone scored on the power play and forward Adam Ferrer's goal tied the game. Islanders forward Aaron Broughton added two assists.
After killing off a penalty that started near the end of the second period, Kremlins became more confident and took the game to the Islanders in the third. Lavrenov came down the wing and passed to Forward Yuri Nagaev, who buried the shot to break the tie. Consecutive goals from forward Alexeev (defenceman Dmitry Semenov assisting on both goals) closed the scoring at 6-3 providing Kremlins with consecutive Division titles. Kremlins head coach Lev Soudat acknowledged some line changes were made prior to the third period. "We all talked about playing a little stronger especially in front of our net to help our goaltender." Assistant Manager Sergei Gudzik said the "coaches spoke to the players about not taking penalties for about 30 seconds about not taking penalties They then left the dressing room, as our captain Evgeniy Feldman spoke to his teammates."
Gudzik added Luchko "played unbelievable and made big saves when needed it." He acknowledged the team enjoys playing in the CMHL tourney "because of a love of hockey by everyone in Canada and especially by Russian immigrants. We want to give back to our community and playing hockey and being champion in a tournament like this is great. We thank the CMHL for a great tournament, and we look forward to our kids taking our spots in the roster in the next couple years."
Feldman acknowledged the message related during the closed door meeting with teammates "was to stick to our game plan, stay out of the penalty box and buckle down to play as a team unit not as individuals." He credited Luchko, who plays in a weekly league, for "battling hard and played great to give us the best chance for victory, especially after suffering a lower body injury early in our first round robin game."
Premier Division –Israeli Stars of David's 6-0 victory over Japanese Arashi was basically decided in the game's first minute where Arashi was penalized. Stars Captain Adam Weinberg (who also had an assist) took a slick pass from Right Winger Seth Klerer (first of two assists)on this power play, and shot from 14 feet into the open left side of the Arashi net at the 48 second mark. Klerer finished first period scoring right after a power play ended off a rebound shot, as Stars outshot Arashi 18-5. Left Winger Sergei Frenkel (first of two assists) set up Right Winger Jesse Schwartz's goal. Defenceman Sam Gilbert's goal, set up by Centre Alon Eizenman (first of two assists), concluded second period scoring.
In the third period Left Winger Bryan Weinberg (who also had an assist) and Right Winger Thomas Zubrick's goals concluded the scoring with Stars netminder Jake DiDimenico stopping 18 shots for the shutout. Thanks to a fan who informed that Arashi's Forward Tommy Sumi scored a hat trick, in the round robin versus Macedonia Lions.
Stars captain Adam Weinberg acknowledged the team was somewhat surprised to play against Arashi in the final "but we knew we couldn't take them lightly. We match up quite nicely with their team speed. Our first goal in the game's first minute definitely put the pressure on Arashi, as they became the underdog right away." He added not too many "CMHL team have as strong a dominant three lines and four defencemen setup as we had. The hockey gods definitely smiled on us in our last minute semi-final win against Poland Hussars, but there was no let down going into the championship game."
Stars head coach Alex Voihanski acknowledged "we were the better team and came out flying from the start. It was probably our most complete game at all levels in all my CMHL tournament years. We had great transition and cycling the puck around the boards resulting in our team domination. Our specialty teams on the power play and penalty kill were terrific throughout." Voihanski also commended Arashi "who are a very classy group of individuals and played a classy game as best possible. With our goaltending and player depth, we knew would not lose to any Division team."
A trophy was presented on the ice after to the winning team after every Division championship game. Designer jackets were presented to Division MVP players by 2013 CMHL's main sponsor Hockley Valley Brewing Company (HVBC) located in Orangeville, Ontario. Kathy Stanton and Rob Carrick from HVBC did the presentations, accompanied by Papulkas and CMHL Tournament Coordinator Claire Tsolkas.
Heritage Division MVP – Right Winger Yuri Dyanchenko (five goals and one assist Russian Kremlins; Premier Division MVP – Right Winger Seth Klerer (four goals and six assists) Israeli Stars of David; Culture Cu (Women's Division) – Defenceman Ashlyn Karapalidis, Macedonian Sun.
After the last trophy and MVP presentation, Tsolkas thanked all teams and on ice officials for the efforts and participation. "Also thanks to Hockley Valley Brewing Company for the MVP jackets and to all our other sponsors. Special thanks to all our fans for their attendance throughout our tournament."
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Ready or Not? 2011
Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
December 2011
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism finds key programs that detect and respond to bioterrorism, new disease outbreaks and natural or accidental disasters are at risk due to federal and state budget cuts.
The report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), identifies some key programs at risk due to continued cuts to federal public health emergency preparedness funds include:
- 51 of the 72 cities in the Cities Readiness Initiative are at risk for elimination; the Initiative supports the ability to rapidly distribute and administer vaccines and medications during emergencies;
- All 10 state labs with "Level 1" chemical testing status are at risk for losing top level capabilities, which could leave the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with the only public health lab in the country with full ability to test for chemical terrorism and accidents; 24 states are at risk for losing the support of Career Epidemiology Field Officers - CDC experts who supplement state and local gaps to rapidly prevent and respond to outbreaks and disasters, such as during the H1N1 flu pandemic and responding to the health impact of the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010; and
- The ability for CDC to mount a comprehensive response to nuclear, radiologic and chemical threats as well as natural disasters is at risk due to potential cuts to the National Center for Environmental Health. All 50 states and Washington, D.C. would lose the support CDC provides during these emergencies.
"We're seeing a decade's worth of progress eroding in front of our eyes," said Jeff Levi, PhD, Executive Director of TFAH. "Preparedness had been on an upward trajectory, but now some of the most elementary capabilities - including the ability to identify and contain outbreaks, provide vaccines and medications during emergencies, and treat people during mass traumas - are experiencing cuts in every state across the country."
Combined federal, state and local budget cuts mean public health departments can no longer sustain a number of basic elements of preparedness. In the past year, 40 states and Washington, D.C. cut state public health funds - with 29 of those states and D.C. cutting their budgets for a second year in a row and 15 states for three years in a row. Federal funds for state and local preparedness declined by 38 percent from fiscal year (FY) 2005 to 2012 (adjusted for inflation) - and additional cuts are expected under budget sequestration.
"Americans expect the public health system to have the capability to competently protect their health during emergencies. This is not an optional service," said Mel Kohn, MD, MPH, State Health Officer and Public Health Director of the Oregon Health Authority. "We will be unable to absorb reductions of this magnitude simply by finding efficiencies. We have reached the point where our ability to do this work will be seriously compromised, with life and death consequences."
"During the anthrax attacks and Hurricane Katrina, we witnessed what happens when public health doesn't have the technology, resources, workforce or training needed to respond to emergencies," said James S. Marks, Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Group of RWJF. "The old adage is that it's better to be safe than sorry. Unfortunately if we ignore preparedness now, we'll be sorry later when the next emergency strikes."
The report includes a series of recommendations that will be important for improving America's preparedness, including:
- Assuring dedicated funding and strengthening the public health preparedness core capabilities;
- Improving biosurveillance to rapidly detect and track outbreaks or attacks;
- Improving research, development and manufacturing of vaccines and medications;
- Enhancing the ability to provide care for a mass influx of patients during emergencies;
- Providing better support to help communities cope with and recover from disasters; and
- Coordinating food safety with other preparedness efforts through the strategic implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011.
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The 51 cities at risk for elimination from the Cities Readiness Initiative include: Albany and Buffalo, NY; Albuquerque, NM; Anchorage, AK, Baltimore, MD; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, LA; Billings, MT; Birmingham, AL; Boise, ID; Burlington, VT; Charleston, WV; Charlotte, NC; Cheyenne, WY; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; Columbia SC; Des Moines, IA: Dover, DE; Fargo, ND; Fresno, Riverside, Sacramento and San Jose, CA; Hartford and New Haven, CT; Honolulu, HI; Indianapolis, IN; Jackson, MS; Kansas City, MO: Little Rock, AR; Louisville, KY; Manchester, NH; Memphis and Nashville, TN; Milwaukee, WI; Oklahoma City, OK; Omaha, NE: Orlando and Tampa, FL; Peoria, IL; Portland, ME; Portland, OR; Providence, RI; Richmond and Virginia Beach, VA; Salt Lake City, UT; San Antonio, TX; Sioux Falls, SD; Trenton, NJ; Wichita, KS.
The 21 cities NOT at risk for elimination from the Cities Readiness Initiative include: Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; District of Columbia; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, CA; Miami, FL; Minneapolis, MN; New York City, NY; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Seattle, WA; St. Louis, MO.
The 10 state labs at risk for losing "Level 1" chemical testing abilities: California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin.
The 24 states at risk to lose Career Epidemiology Field Officers: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming.
The 14 universities at risk to lose Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center funds: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Harvard University School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health; University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health; University of Albany SUNY School of Public Health; University of Arizona College of Public Health; University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; University of Iowa College of Public Health; University of Minnesota School of Public Health; University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health; University of Oklahoma College of Public Health; University of South Florida College of Public Health; University of Washington School of Public Health.
The nine universities at risk to lose Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center fund: Emory University; Harvard School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; University of California at Berkley and Los Angeles; University of Minnesota; University of North Carolina; university of Pittsburgh; University of Washington.
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TFAH Release: Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
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Superior quality, 99% cocoa content, dark chocolate couverture (cooking chocolate) chips. An extra bitter dark chocolate not for the faint hearted.
These dark chocolate chips are Ideal for baking, desserts, decoration, making chocolates, mould making and hot chocolate. Due to the very high cocoa content, a little of this dark chocolate will go much further, also with the added benefit of being able to add sugar to taste. A much healthier option.
These dark chocolate chips are not suitable for chocolate fountains.
Why not take a look at our chocolate recipes
• Dark chocolate Min 99% cocoa
• Sugar
• Cocoa butter
• Cocoa mass
• Bourbon vanilla pod.
• Trace amounts of Ginger and spices
These dark chocolate chips MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTS, DAIRY AND GLUTEN.
Nutritional information per 100g:
Energy 2546.73kj / 609.26kcal
Fat 54.81g of which saturates 33.88g
Carbohydrate 23.85g of which sugars 0.81g
Protein 11.86g
Salt 0.02g
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Man dies after 'atomic wedgie'
A fight between an Oklahoma man and his stepson ended with the 58-year-old being suffocated by his own underwear and the younger man facing a murder charge.
An autopsy found Denver Lee St. Clair died on Dec. 21 from asphyxiation and blunt force trauma, NewsOK reported.
Brad Davis, 33, was arrested Tuesday for the murder.
Police said the men were drinking at St. Clair's home and fought after disparaging remarks were made about Davis's mother, KOCO TV reported.
In an affidavit, Davis told police his stepfather swung first and Davis retaliated with an "atomic wedgie," the station reported.
The medical examiner said St. Clair died of "asphyxiation caused by the elastic underwear band being stretched over his head and left around his neck," as well as head trauma.
Police told KOCO their investigation found evidence that the altercation was more than just a fight, and said it was possible the crime scene had been altered.


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Playing a vampire remains his biggest calling card, but Robert Pattinson makes another big move to expand his screen image in this adaptation of a classic Guy de Maupassant story.
The actor plays a soldier who decides to change his circumstances for the better in late 1700s Paris, working his wiles on powerful men's mistresses. Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci play several targets of his emotional scheming. Colm Meaney and Anthony Higgins also are in the cast. DVD extra: "making-of" documentary. *** (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray)