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DoD Updates Deployment Health Requirements Policy
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2006 - Defense Department civilians and contractors who are deployed overseas will be included in military health protection measures for the first time as part of an upcoming new policy, senior DoD officials said here today.
The new policy, DoD Instruction 6490.03, titled, "Deployment Health," leverages technological advances like electronic medical recordkeeping in the quest to improve the quality of military healthcare, Dr. William J. Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told Pentagon reporters during a telephonic news briefing.
"No military in history has done more to reach out to its servicemembers with respect to their physical and mental health," Winkerwerder said.
"We will keep working to improve our system," he said. "It's important that we do it right, because of the great people that we are serving."
Use of pre- and post-deployment health assessments and the implementation of globally transmittable electronic health care records are making a major impact on preventing, identifying and treating health care problems for deployed servicemembers, Winkenwerder said.
The new policy specifies mandatory post-deployment health reassessments across the services and updates health care policies for overseas deployments. It also improves the capability of computerized records to keep track of localized health trends among deployed servicemembers, defense civilians and contractors.
"What is more robust today, and more granular and detailed and documented, is both the medical information, as well as the environmental and location information," Winkenwerder said.
Because defense civilians and contractors are being sent overseas along with military members in support of the global war on terrorism, officials decided they should be part of the military's deployment health system, Winkenwerder said.
National Guard and reserve members also are included in the new deployment health policy, said Ellen P. Embrey, deputy assistant secretary of defense for force health protection and readiness.
The new policy seeks to obtain and document deployed reserve-component members' health care information while they're on active duty, Embrey said. After departing active-duty status, reserve-component members can work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to address post-deployment health care concerns, she said.
The VA provides health care for veterans of combat operations for up to two years following their deployment, Embrey said.
"That, in combination with a series of new programs offered to reserve-component members here in the department, provides a wide array of opportunities to seek care for their health issues, both physical and mental," she said.
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Looking at most of today's American playgrounds- a single hulk of plastic and metal equipment that directs the way kids play and that sits on an inert surface in a caged setting - it is hard to recall how distinguished this building type was decades ago. In the late 1960s, there was an overlap of two vital traditions for play: product design and unique environments. The achievements of the former were winding down and the possibilities of the latter were just emerging.
Figure 1 (left): Richard Dattner, Adventure Playground in Central Park (1966, renovated in 1997). Photograph by Susan G. Solomon, 2009.
Playground equipment for kids became a specialized consumer good in the 1920s and 1930s when play areas for kids became a discreet zone. [Earlier Reform Era equipment, "apparatus," in urban public spaces was for exercise for the entire population]. The new pieces induced thrills: kids could swing fast and high or raise each other up (or dump down!) on intimidating see–saws As Brenda Biondo forcefully shows in her wonderfully evocative (and informative) photo essay, Once Upon a Playground: a Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1925-1970, decorative themes arrived after World War II and often reflected the popular culture of the times. Playground equipment began to resemble fairy tale figures, fantastical animals and, eventually, airplanes, space ships, and radar screens. Biondo has written that all of these are disappearing so quickly that she has sometimes identified a site and then found that the equipment was removed before she returned to make a photographic record.[1]
Designers in the 1960s sought a different type of experience for kids. Factors that led them to new conclusions included post war economic expansion, the growth of schools and other amenities for the "boomers" who were no longer toddlers, research into creativity, and the emergence of America as the leader in the art world. [2] Evidence can be seen in the Adele R. Levy playground that architect Louis Kahn and sculptor Isamu Noguchi designed for Riverside Park in New York City (1961-1966). Noguchi used this plan, which was never executed, to consolidate his previous ideas about integrating functions and Kahn acknowledged his interest in the spontaneity of play. The design, an abstract concrete hardscape of interconnected slides, truncated pyramids, steep steps, and ramps, became a force in the proposals of younger designers and ushered in a time when architects, landscape architects, and sculptors began to create unique examples for outdoor play.
Architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect Paul Friedberg, who worked independently, interpreted the Noguchi and Kahn scheme. Their iconic designs have met varied fates in New York City where they first worked. It is ironic and sad that these artists, whose playgrounds were an interwoven ensemble of abstract pieces that linked play horizontally and vertically, have seen their originality devolve into the simplistic off the shelf equipment that has dominated American playgrounds since the 1980s. Today's lurid colors and cheap materials are a long way from Dattner and Friedberg's use of a muted palate and natural materials.
Many of Friedberg's creations have been obliterated. One of his most revered was for the New York Housing Authority's Riis Houses (Pomerance and Breines, 1949). The play area, part of an enlightened program that included fountains and an amphitheater, was an interconnected collection of stone mounds and pyramids, wood stumps, metal climbers all of which were joined together and sat on a bed of sand. It was altered dramatically in the 1980s and is no longer recognizable. Both Friedberg and the Housing Authority cite the urban crack epidemic as a reason for the demise since the intimate spaces became handy for drug dealers and there may not have been enough oversight to change the situation. (M. Paul Friedberg, e-mail to author, 4 December 2013; Len Hopper, former project administrator New York City Housing Authority, e-mail to author, 5 December 2013). Other Friedberg work- including a vest pocket park for 29th Street in New York City that had multiple wood and metal frames for climbing- has been removed because we have become a society overly dedicated to safety (the term "surplus safety", meaning more than is necessary, has become common).
Figure 2 (right): Richard Dattner, Heckscher Playground in Central Park (1969, renovated in 2006). Photograph by Susan G. Solomon, 2011.
Richard Dattner's work, especially the five remaining playgrounds of the seven he designed for Central Park, have fared somewhat better.[3] His Adventure Playground (named to honor the post war movement of letting kids play with leftover scrap materials) has stayed intact, having survived a demolition threat in the 1990s.[Fig.1] There is still a low serpentine concrete wall, perfect for climbing and sitting, that outlines the perimeter of the play area. The interior still has sand surfacing, countering a trend by many parks departments to forgo it. A truncated steeped wood pyramid used to have room for storage, "loose parts", that children could manipulate. Dattner designed most of them. His creations no longer exist although his interlocking panels have been recreated and are currently in the exhibition, The Playground Project at the Carnegie Museum of Art and incorporated into the 2013 Carnegie International (until March 16, 2014; Gabriela Burkhalter, e-mail to author, 6 December 2013).
Figure 3 (left): Richard Dattner, Ancient Playground adjacent to Central Park (1972, renovated 2009). Photograph by Robert S. Solomon, 2011.
It is telling to compare Dattner's Adventure Playground, which is largely intact, with two of his other Central Park play sites, the Heckscher and Ancient playgrounds. While it is remarkable that Heckscher (1969, renovated 2006) still has easy access to the enormous rock outcropping of the surrounding park (Fig 2), it is unsettling that the Ancient Playground has undergone major changes. The sand surface is now relegated to a small section at the rear (Fig.3). Perhaps the most troubling comparison is among the stone mounds of each project. At the Adventure Playground, stone mounds for climbing are a bit lower than they used to be (with the addition of a railing at the top) but still rough and irregular and require climbers to pay careful attention as they scamper to the top; at the Heckscher playground, they are flatter and not as uneven; at the Ancient playground, the mounds have a flat surface with just a few regularized protrusions; these are almost a cartoonish version of what Dattner had first designed. Dattner noted: "As urban life becomes a more crowded, contested, and often litigious experience, the consequences for playgrounds have been lower, possibly safer, certainly more –risk-adverse designs." (Dattner, e-mail to author, 6 December 2013).
Figure 4 (right): PlayCubes (Richard Dattner) and Timberform structure (M. Paul Friedberg) at South Park, San Francisco. Photograph by Robert S. Solomon, 2009.
It will be revealing to see how Dattner's keen assessment unfolds at South Park in San Francisco. Plans are underway for a $3 million reconstruction, initiated to remedy a drainage problem. The bad news is that the manufactured modular pieces- continuation of product design- that Dattner and Friedberg designed (PlayCubes cubo-octahedrons and Timberform wood climbers) are either no longer there or will soon be gone (Figs. 4, 5); the good news is that the landscape architect David Fletcher (Fletcher Studio) is committed to providing a playground with pieces that he will design and that will continue the innovation of PlayCubes (which were removed before he was hired) which he admires (Fletcher, phone conversation with author, 8 December 2013). He is also dedicated to creating custom pieces that will appeal to adults as well as children in ways that had characterized the old equipment.
Figure 5 (left): Timberform structure at South Park, San Francisco. Photograph by Robert S. Solomon, 2009.
There is one unconditional long-lived success on the west coast. The concrete embankment slides in Golden Gate Park (Michael Painter, 1970s) and in other parks in the Bay Area remain viable and are the synthesis of good design and challenging play. (Fig. 6) Kids need to have the sensation of doing something dangerous and embankment slides offer thrills with little chance of actual danger. In spite of numerous signs asking parents and kids to forgo cardboard, both age groups carry sheets of it to the top and use them to slide down. The important lesson to take away is that it is possible to retain older pieces, that they offer encounters that help bring families to play areas, and they can be quite safe. It is disheartening that many of today's versions of embankment slides are slight reflections of the past; these are short plastic chutes which are embedded into the ground at very shallow angles.
Figure 6 (right): Michael Painter, embankment slide (1970s) at Golden Gate Park. Photograph by Robert S. Solomon, 2011.
We have to look to the past and be aware that so many groundbreaking pieces have been altered or lost. These were cultural markers that portrayed thinking of their time. We also should consider what is worth saving in the future from today's manufactured sites. The present off the shelf equipment does not have aesthetic appeal and it is very limited as to what it offers kids for their development. In a bizarre way, it captures our over attention to safety and our collective lack of faith in how kids can make wise choices. Too bad for us, on both counts.
Susan G. Solomon is author of American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space and the forthcoming The Science of Play: How to Build Playgrounds that Enhance Children's Development (both from University Press of New England).
[1] Biondo, Brenda (forthcoming 2014). Once Upon a Playground
a Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1925-1970.
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Susan Solomon wrote the foreword to this book.
[2] Ogata, Amy F. (2013). Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
[3] Trainor, James (2012). Reimaging Recreation. Cabinet 45 (Spring)


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A Spotlight on Junior Intern, Hannah StenbackMeet Hannah Stenback! Hannah is a Junior Intern with CTC's Theatre Arts Training. We sat down with Hannah to talk about her experience as a Junior Intern and hear about her plans as a future educator.
CTC's Junior Internship program allows high school students with an interest in theatre education to learn alongside our veteran teaching staff and industry professionals here at CTC. Click Here for more information about this and other teen opportunities at CTC!
How did you become interested in theatre and theatre education?
My love for theatre first began when I played the nursery rhyme character, Little Miss Muffet, in my school's annual 2nd grade musical. I was only onstage for a brief moment in which I screamed and exited offstage quite dramatically, but I absolutely loved it! My parents signed me up for various community education plays and this is where my passion grew. Through the guidance of excellent theatre teachers, I found out about Anoka Middle School for the Arts, a magnet school in which I was able to take theater and dance classes at school, and then St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists where I currently attend and am lucky enough to take a multitude of classes geared towards a career in acting. I am greatly appreciative of all the teaching artists that have influenced and guided my passion and this led me to jump at the chance to work as a junior intern. I love the idea of being able to impact a child's love for theater in the same way so many others have done for me.
What are your future plans/goals?
Next year I plan on attending college where I hope to double major in elementary education and theatre. With the help of this junior internship I have discovered another passion of mine, teaching. I am not simply interested in theatre and possibly pursuing a career as an actor, but also in teaching the next generation of students, whether it be in a traditional classroom or in a theatre class similar to the ones at CTC. I am not positive of my exact career path after college, but I hope to combine my two passions and have many opportunities to do so.
How has this experience challenged you and prepared you for your next steps in life?
Being a junior intern has allowed me to improve my leadership capabilities and grow in my confidence. The teaching artists often give us an opportunity to lead several classroom activities, which can be quite daunting. As I have had more experience, I have grown more comfortable in my abilities and have evolved quite a bit. Immersing myself in the classroom and working alongside several teaching artists, I have been able to learn from experience rather than traditional classroom style lessons. This will allow me to look for learning opportunities in everything I do and to always be curious.
What inspires you to work with young people?
As an actor, I feel it is our job to constantly play and break out of the societal conventions that have been ingrained in us. Working to be authentic and vulnerable onstage takes a lot of work and imagination. Young people hold on to such incredible imaginations and ideas. They have not yet been told these dreams and thoughts are not always "realistic" so they are able to come up with highly intricate and unique stories. I am constantly being inspired by the stories they tell and love being able to foster their imaginations.
What is the best part about being a Junior Intern with Theatre Arts Training?
Working with the students. It is so much fun to connect with them and learn what they are passionate about and hear them share their stories. It is always exciting when a student who is having a harder time in class starts to open up and gain confidence after I have worked with them more individually. All the students bring their distinct energies to the class and it is exciting to see what they can create and how they all learn together.
What advice do you have for people thinking about being a Junior Intern?
Even for people who know working with kids is not their passion, I would say to try it anyways. It is an excellent opportunity to meet teaching artists within the community and be inspired by the ideas the students come up with. It allows you to grow a new set of skills that you might not get the chance to exercise often and grow in your confidence. I think it is always important to learn new skills and see how these can impact your current work and passions.


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The Crimson won their second consecutive game Sunday (Erik Williams).
HOUSTON, Texas - Sean Poppen hurled a complete game three-hitter, and the Harvard baseball team capitalized on seven Houston Baptist errors to knock off the Huskies, 6-1, Sunday afternoon at Husky Field to conclude its annual spring break trip.
Poppen went the distance, allowing just one earned run while striking out three and walking three, to earn his first victory of the season and give the Crimson (3-14) its second consecutive win.
At the plate, Harvard struck for single tallies in the fourth, sixth and seventh before breaking the game open with three runs in the ninth, taking advantage of a series of Husky miscues to score five unearned runs.
Mike Martin paced the offense with a double, two walks, three runs scored and two RBI. Ethan Ferreira added two singles and a RBI, while Robert Wineski drove in a run and D.J. Link and Jeff Hajdin each had a single and a run scored.
Houston Baptist struck first in the second inning. Following a walk, a hit batter and an error, the Huskies had runners at the corners with nobody out; however, Poppen induced a 6-4-3 double play, which allowed the run to score but cleared the bases. The next two batters singled before the freshman fanned Jordan Hebert to end the threat.
In the fourth, the Crimson evened up the score. Martin walked, moved to second on a wild pitch and stole third. Ferreira plated him with a ground out to third to even up the score.
A series of Houston Baptist miscues in the sixth give the Crimson the lead. With one out, Martin reached on a walk. He moved to second when Brandon Kregel reached on a fielder's choice and throwing error by the pitcher before advancing to third when Ferreira got on base after a fielding error by the shortstop. Wineski grounded into a fielder's choice to drive in another run and make it 2-1.
Another Husky error and a fielder's choice in the seventh inning scored the Crimson's third run. Jeff Hajdin had an infield single to begin the frame and advanced to second on a throwing error. Carlton Bailey had an infield single of his own to place runner's at the corners before Martin grounded out to third to extend the advantage to three.
Four Houston Baptist mistakes in the ninth allowed the Crimson to break the game open. Link reached on a fielding error by the shortstop. The freshman moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and to third on a ground out to short. A wild pitch then allowed Link to score to push the lead to 4-1. Following a walk to Klug, Martin ripped a double to center and moved to third on a fielding error by the center fielder to drive in another run. He then came in to score on another wild pitch to account for the final run.
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Deadline Day: What did we learn?
Roman Abramovich's money does not just buy the best players; it buys the best negotiators
More than a week before the window actually closed, manager Jose Mourinho said there would be "no tick tock" for Chelsea, no pressure.
All their business was done. The latter ended up changing, as Loic Remy replaced Fernando Torres, but there was still no pressure, "no tick tock."
Almost as soon as the deal became public attention, it was wrapped up. Chelsea resolved the issue almost before anyone realised it. That stealth was a feature of their summer, right down to the speed with which deals for Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas were done.
The quickness was matched only by the quality. They got virtually maximum value with every transfer, and all were completed with the minimum of fuss.
That is another longer-term feature. Some officials at other European clubs have privately enthused about the slickness with which Chelsea conduct their transfer business. It is not just about the money they can throw around. It is how it is wielded and used. The consequence is a window in which, virtually unlike any other club, absolutely every deal was a positive and has created perhaps the most balanced squad.
The purchase of Fabregas and sale of David Luiz might well be the best moves of the market, and they even struck the right balance in the move for Remy.
The forward is probably not quite good enough to cause a commotion in demanding a first-team place over Costa, but thereby provides the perfect backup, while also offering the side a different option: his pace and that ingenuity of finish.
This summer, few finished deals like Chelsea. Only Manchester City are their equals. That is not coincidence.
There was undeniable progress, but some of Manchester United's problems remain -- and not just on the pitch
As eye-catching and positive as the signings of Radamel Falcao and Angel Di Maria are, there remains one awkward fact: The club signed two massive names but ultimately failed in their two main objectives.
United started the summer wanting a commanding centre-half to replace the leadership of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand and a dominant midfielder above all else.
They were meant to be Mats Hummels and Arturo Vidal. United got neither and didn't quite get players close to them, either.
Sure, Marcos Rojo and Daley Blind have signed and are undeniably fine options in similar positions. There is also the dynamic Ander Herrera, but United wanted another midfielder alongside him.
As with Falcao and Di Maria, there is still the slight feeling of only touching around the main areas rather than directly addressing them. It might yet have an effect on play, given that United need to get the ball out to the likes of Di Maria to get it to Falcao in the first place.
Summer transfer window roundup
- Premier League: Team-by-team ins and outs
- Transfer Centre: All the done deals
- Marcotti: Mind-boggling transfers
- Delaney: What did we learn on deadline day?
- Horncastle: European transfer grades
- Smith: Transfers more important than the game?
- Macintosh: We worship goals, not balance sheets
It also raises a few questions about their effectiveness on the market, in contrast to Chelsea.
Several sources state super-agent Jorge Mendes was key to bringing in their two biggest deals, and manager Louis van Gaal obviously had the connection with Blind.
It wasn't quite a case of the club learning from last year and completely nailing the market.
Some issues remain, as is the case on the pitch. At the same time, there should not be too much negativity. Falcao offers the star quality United craved and is one of the world's great players. He might also help solve a problem that could have grown to the size of the others, given that Robin van Persie is seeing a specialist about his knee.
Blind is an excellent addition, Rojo a promising one and the brilliant Di Maria offers the pace they were badly missing.
It is just not what they were most missing. It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to see them hit the top four, but Van Gaal at least has a far better base than a month ago. That is unquestionable.
Wenger still can't fully escape that self-defeating purism
It was perhaps appropriate that the last deals of the window involved United and Arsenal, because they have had very similar summers.
So much of what was said about the Old Trafford side could have described Arsene Wenger's, except for the fact it has all been said about Arsenal before.
Yet again, they failed in bizarre fashion to address key areas and are left with a squad inexplicably short of the quality it should, and could, have. The most frustrating aspect is that it initially looked so different.
An FA Cup had been won, and an elite signing in Alexis Sanchez quickly followed. Then ... nothing, until they absolutely had to sign forward Danny Welbeck because of injury.
Given both of their main purchases kind of only add to or enhance what was already there, the improvements feel cosmetic rather than deep.
They did not buy what was missing, most notably a properly top-class defensive midfielder that could have really lifted the team from Champions League qualifiers to proper title challengers.
That was because Wenger couldn't quite move off those ingrained ideals. Sources state William Carvalho was desperate to come, only for any deal to fall down because of a difference of between five and eight million pounds.
At that point, the question does arise over where the real value lies. Was a defensive midfielder worth more to Arsenal than saving that cash on principle? Probably. It's hard not to think of this summer as something of a wasted opportunity.
Loans are here to stay
As many as 18 of the players signed by the 20 Premier League clubs came in through loan deals, the most striking of which was United's move for Falcao.
The glossiness of that move alone displays the increasing prominence of transfers structured like that. Loans are no longer just about young squad players getting time elsewhere. They are how the big boys build their teams.
The reasons for this have already been mooted, as clubs look for ways to get around financial fair play regulations. Unlike the players they involve, loans are here to stay.
One sale doesn't make a summer
Looking across the window, it's difficult to dispute that Liverpool and Southampton endured the exits that were most damaging to their teams.
Brendan Rodgers lost one of the best players in the world, and the south-coast side lost the entire core of their best team in decades.
At the time of the sales, it would have been fair to think both would drop from last season's positions. Yet, now that the window has actually closed, both look to have had two of the better windows in the league. Most of their main issues have been covered, and they have both added some real quality.
Miguel Delaney covers the Premier League and Champions League for ESPN FC. Twitter: @MiguelDelaney.
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As the fitness industry tries to anticipate the big trends for 2014, Google is offering a look back at the 10 most popular workouts of 2013 (based on search volume). Although queries about exercises for specific areas have dominated the list in the past, Google users were more interested in learning about high-intensity workouts and functional training this year, according to the recently released list.
Beachbody's Insanity workout claimed the top spot thanks to a high number of searches from across the country. Searches reached a high point in March, the same month the Santa Monica, CA-based company announced it would be offering Insanity certifications for personal trainers and group exercise instructors at health clubs. Insanity workouts also are now available through Xbox Fitness, which provides a library of workout videos from top fitness trainers and brands to Xbox One users.
Not surprisingly, CrossFit was the second-most searched workout of 2013. Although CrossFit remained a popular search term throughout the year, many states showed little interest, according to Google. Ab workouts were No. 3 on the list followed by bicep workouts at No. 4.
The 7-minute workout, which consists of 12 exercises that require only body weight and a chair, ranked No. 5. The quick training routine was featured in the May/June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) Health and Fitness Journal and appeared in The New York Times Magazine around the same time. That likely led to the spike in populairty that the search term experienced over the summer.
Exercises involving functional equipment also carved out a place in the top 10. Kettlebell workouts came in at No. 6 on the list, which also consists of shoulder workouts (No. 7), back workouts (No. 8), plank exercises (No. 9) and TRX workouts (No. 10).
Although not all of the most-searched workouts of 2013 seem to have staying power (we're looking at you, 7-minute workout), it's likely that most of them are not going anywhere, since high-intensity interval training, body weight training and functional training all were featured on ACSM's list of 2014 fitness trends.
Which fitness trends are you hoping to see take off (or fade away) next year? Let us know in the comments section below.


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Harvard dropped its Monday-night contest to No. 12 Californica Baptist (photo courtesty Gil Talbot).
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Harvard men's volleyball team rallied late, but fell short in its quest for victory at No. 12 California Baptist University on Monday night in Van Dyne Gym. The Crimson was defeated, 3-1.
Harvard (12-6) looked to Nick Madden for a team-high 12 kills on an impressive .333 hitting percentage and Kyle Rehkemper was flawless in his 5-for-9 (.556) attack. Rob Lothman registered 27 assists and tied Chris Gibbons with a team-best eight digs. Caleb Zimmick led all players with three blocks.
The Crimson posted more blocks than the 12th-ranked Lancers (11-11), 6.5-6, but a strong hitting night for CBU (.318) was too much for Harvard to overcome late. Levi Cabral charged Cal Baptist with 13 kills and a .308 hitting percentage.
Kills by Madden, Zimmick and Rehkemper helped Harvard go point-for-point with Cal Baptist early in the first set. After the sides exchanged service errors at 7-9, the Lancers used a 10-3 run to pull away. Harvard produced its highest hitting percentage of the night (.240), but the margin was maintained behind a .476 attack and Cal Baptist won, 25-16, in the first frame.
The Crimson was subject to another run in the second set. The Lancers stretched their lead by five, 14-9, before kills from Madden and Branden Clemens helped pull within three, 15-12. From there, CBU managed to out-hit Harvard, .258-.231, to take the set, 25-17.
Harvard found itself trailing again early in the third, but Madden delivered three of four Crimson points to close the margin at 10-9. The Lancers distanced themselves once more, but Harvard rallied around a .231 attack to erase a six-point deficit and pull even at 22. The sides then traded points, with the Crimson serving for the set at 25-24, but a block and kill tipped the set in favor of Cal Baptist, who went on to win, 28-26.
Harvard wraps up its time in California tomorrow night at Concordia. Match time is set for 10 p.m. (EDT).


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Deaf Racer, Thank you for your thoughts on episode 1 of AR19. I enjoyed them a lot. I would like to take a moment to focus on one of your comments:"Ernie and Cindy were pretty smart enough to write a clue down. I cannot recall if few other teams did the same thing but I know there were few teams that did not write the clue down. I know it is not easy to write Chinese words down. But, it's better to play safe to have a clue written down!"Now, did you not have a Calligraphy task in AR14 episode 9 in Guilin? Could you have managed to copy them if they were 20 yards away and 20 feet high instead of on a table where you could practically trace them? I think you are far too hard on all the AR19 teams besides Cindy's. She after all is of Chinese descent so it should have been much easier for her.
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Training: It changes everyday. Cardio and strength in the AM. Boxing or Jits in the afternoon. Muay Thai or jits at night. I always put the most emphasis on conditioning. One thing that always stuck with me that Randy Couture taught me when I first got into this is that there is only one thing you can control during a fight, and that's your conditioning.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started January 2003. I couldn't play soccer anymore due too to many injuries so I took a grappling class to fall back on my wrestling background to stay active. Went to a fight and was convinced that I could beat the guy fighting in the main event so I took a dare from my best friend to put up or shut up and here I am.
What ranks and titles do you hold? USMMAA Middleweight Champion.
What is your favorite technique? Knocking people out.
Most memorable professional fight? My most memorable fight was against a guy name Ted Govola in 2003, and he's the reason I got into the sport. I saw him fight and I was determined that I could beat him. It was only my third fight, the guy was undefeated and nobody gave me a chance, but I went in there and knocked him out in the first round.
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Vassily Ivanchuk
NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
Ivanchuk vs Shirov, 1996 1-0
Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1991 1-0
Kasparov vs Ivanchuk, 1995 0-1
Ivanchuk vs Karjakin, 2008 1-0
Topalov vs Ivanchuk, 1999 0-1
Ivanchuk vs Jobava, 2010 1-0
Ivanchuk vs Topalov, 1996 1-0
Ivanchuk vs Morozevich, 1996 1-0
Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, 1994 1-0
Ivanchuk vs Topalov, 2007 1-0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2001/02 (2001)
FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)
NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
Linares (1991)
Linares (1995)
5th Individual European Chess Championship (2004)
XVII Torre Memorial Knockout (2004)
M-Tel Masters (2008)
Canadian Open (2005)
Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup (2007)
Capablanca Memorial (Elite) (2005)
Tradewise Gibraltar (2011)
World Cup (2011)
Trophee Anatoly Karpov (2012)
9th Edmonton International (2014)
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Cap d'Agde (2008)
Chess Olympiad (2010)
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GAMES ANNOTATED BY IVANCHUK: [what is this?] RECENT GAMES:
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🏆 European Team Championship Ivanchuk vs I Saric (Nov-02-19) 1/2-1/2
Ivanchuk vs Nisipeanu (Nov-01-19) 1/2-1/2
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NORFOLK, Va. -- The president of the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) rolled out major changes to the frequency and grading method of the INSURV program effective Jan. 1.
Rear Adm. Robert Wray, INSURV president, said changes to the frequency of the inspections and the grading system were implemented to improve the readiness of Navy ships and crews and to provide Navy and congressional leaders with an accurate reflection of that readiness.
Under the old program, INSURV teams conducted exhaustive inspections and surveys of ships every five years and reported their material readiness to Congress. Now ships will be inspected about every 30 months.
"The Navy is always working to improve how we assess our ships. Over time, we came to the conclusion that ships aren't being looked at often enough to give leadership the readiness information we want, and to give ship's crews the practice they need to get through the inspections on their own," said Wray. "Hence the move to double the frequency of inspections."
Under the new inspection timeline, INSURV inspectors will conduct a traditional "Material Inspection" during a unit's Fleet Response Plan (FRP) cycle. In the alternating cycle, a similar inspection will be conducted by the unit's type commander with INSURV support.
The other notable change comes to the overall grading system. Previously, the program utilized a grading status of Satisfactory, Degraded or Unsatisfactory, which oversimplified inspection results with a coarse one-word descriptor attempting to describe a ship with nearly 200 sub-systems. The new system will use a more quantifiable INSURV "Figure of Merit," which is a weighted average of 30 scores used to provide a final grade and report on the overall readiness of a ship.
In the past, Sailors could spend up to two years preparing their ship for an INSURV inspection. "Come as you are" is one of the goals of the revised process.
It means that rather than exhaustively preparing for an INSURV, ships will prepare for deployment, and the INSURV process will measure their material condition as a part of that process.
Changes to the scope, breadth and rigor of the INSURV process have already been fully implemented.
Wray said Navy leadership felt the grading system and the five-year time span between inspections under the old system were not effectively meeting Navy material readiness objectives.
"The major change for the average Sailor will be two-fold," Wray said. "First, each ship, prior to each deployment, will have a full-blown material inspection in which the ship will be expected to get underway, do full power, anchor, shoot guns, operate combat systems, etc., for a team of external inspectors. Second, ships will be expected to do this on their own, without months of external preparation and assistance."
While twice as many inspections may sound like a bad thing, Wray stressed that the new process will benefit the Sailors who have to prepare the ship for INSURV.
"We want the pre-deployment material inspection to be a normal part of doing business, like the Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), something ships know how to do on their own," he said. "In a larger sense, we want to create a 'culture of material readiness' in which ships and their crews are always thinking about being ready for INSURV. The concept is to create a culture for material readiness, in which any ship, at any time in the appropriate part of the FRP, could successfully shoot their guns, do full-power runs, anchor, and demonstrate her combat systems."
Wray said the goal of these changes is very simple.
"In a perfect world, every ship will complete a rigorous material inspection prior to every deployment, conducted either by INSURV or by their TYCOM, using INSURV methods. Ship's crews will be able to prepare for, and successfully complete, the inspection on their own. Navy leadership will also get true, accurate, unvarnished readiness information upon which to make resourcing decisions."
INSURV's primary purpose is to fulfill Title 10 responsibilities to examine the material readiness of U.S. Navy vessels and report the findings to the secretary of the Navy.


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I've talked a bit previously about alternative windows shells. However, sometimes they are not available and I have no wish to learn powershell so I use the old dos command prompt.
I set up a batch file to configure the path which will be called from Console2. And I use my usual trick of removing unwanted paths and duplicates by calling perl. As dos doesn't have the nice backtick syntax from the unix shells how do you capture the output from an external command? It turns out you need the dos
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Bard remains in roster limbo while refining mechanics
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Though there have been some encouraging developments from reliever Daniel Bard this spring, the right-hander is still searching for consistency. And that's why there's no assurance at this point that Bard will crack Boston's Opening Day roster.
If there's an area the Red Sox have considerable depth at, it is right-handed relief. Bard also has Minor League options, meaning the club has an easy way of giving him more time to refine his mechanics.
When asked if the decision on Bard was one of the toughest to make in the latter stages of camp, manager John Farrell nodded affirmatively and added, "And we'll take every day that we have available to us to make it. I guess the best way I can answer is we haven't decided yet."
Bard worked in a Minor League game on Friday and was scheduled to pitch in a Grapefruit League contest Sunday against the Phillies. He's on the schedule to pitch again on Wednesday against the Marlins.
In Friday's Minor League outing, Bard walked two batters.
"He felt good warming up," Farrell said. "Obviously the numbers and the overall inning didn't turn out as intended. He missed up to his arm side a number of times. There's still some continuing work to be done there. It's still part of the process to get him back to the reliever we've known him to be."
There are still times Bard takes a batter or two to gain his command of the strike zone.
"To me, part of that evaluation is attacking the first hitter rather than taking a hitter to get into the inning," Farrell said. "To me, that sort of lends to that consistency that we're talking about."
When Bard was at his best, his velocity was in the upper 90s. He was even known to reach triple digits at times. This spring, he's improved from where he was at last year, throwing in the mid 90s for the most part.
"That will continue to increase just by virtue of repeating his delivery and gaining some confidence along the way," said Farrell. "It's important to note that while he's had a couple of less-than [stellar] outings these last two, the three previous were what we had hoped to see. I think it's important to note - and Daniel is well aware of this -- that this isn't a flipping of the switch. This is a step process that he's making solid progress in."


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Stornoway, UK
What has about 40 legs, drinks tea, laughs and writes furiously? Well, on a good Tuesday night, that's us.
We're a friendly group of writers who meet weekly at An Lanntair in Stornoway. We're open to anyone over the age of 16, writing in any genre or style, and at any level of ability.
If you want to join us, come along to one of our meetings (no need to book in advance, just turn up) or contact us if you want to know more.
We meet on Tuesday evenings, 7-9pm in the community room on the 3rd floor of An Lanntair, Stornoway.
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Exponential growth of unstructured data continues to spur file storage growth and network-attached storage (NAS) deployments. According to a research study done by Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), one-fifth of users report NAS capacity growth of more than 50% per year, and 54% of organizations with NAS installations said their storage capacity is growing by at least 20% per year. Most companies opt for NAS storage rather than file shares on servers because of the reliability, performance, scalability and storage management advantages of NAS, as well as features such as replication, snapshotting, thin provisioning and efficient cloning. Available as gateways to front-end block-based storage and as complete systems with their own storage, NAS systems are now used by companies ranging from very small outfits to large enterprises.
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Low-end to midrange NAS appliances that are usually found in smaller organizations are the next level up. Capacities can range from a few terabytes to more than 100 TB, with some supporting SAS in addition to SATA drives. These systems usually offer some high-end protocols and features such as various RAID levels, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) support, snapshots, replication and a dedicated backup interface. Appropriately sized with multicore CPUs, sufficient memory, SAS drive options and multiple gigabit ports, they deliver decent performance. Usually priced under $25,000, they're intended for small offices and remote offices of larger organizations with limited IT staffs and budgets. Usability and support options are key requirements in this segment. The various Microsoft Windows Storage Server-based NAS offerings, Netgear ReadyNAS and Nexsan E5000 families, and Overland Storage SnapServer family are examples of systems in this NAS segment. At the higher end of the spectrum NetApp, with its FAS2000 family, is also targeting this space.
"The focus of low-end to midrange NAS systems is to combine ease of use with affordability and pertinent NAS features, such as AD integration, replication and snapshots," said Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at Stillwater, Minn.-based StorageIO Group.
Moving farther up the ladder are NAS systems for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises. This segment has been dominated by EMC and NetApp, with BlueArc (now part of Hitachi Data Systems) and emerging scale-out NAS vendors on their heels. "In enterprise deals you always see NetApp or EMC, or both, and sometimes some of the other players," Schulz said. EMC's acquisition of Isilon Systems and NetApp's support of scale-out deployments in Data Ontap 8 help tilt the odds toward EMC and NetApp.
High performance, support for hundreds of terabytes up to petabytes of capacity, high availability (HA), enterprise-level support and an ever-growing list of NAS features are characteristic of this product class. Enterprise NAS systems are pushing the feature envelope in a seemingly continuous attempt to expand feature requirements. For instance, support for both block- and file-based protocols, the ability to scale horizontally and deduplication are changing from nice-to-haves to must-haves. Enterprise NAS systems are usually optimized for traditional corporate apps, that is, to excel in serving a large number of small files and to display good performance with back-office apps such as Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and SQL Server; but they're usually not the first choice for applications that push throughput limits.
Certain applications and industries -- such as the media/entertainment industry and gas/oil exploration, where very large files rather than a lot of smaller files prevail -- require very high throughput and massive scalability. This has been the sweet spot of scale-out and high-performance NAS systems, such as EMC Isilon, Hewlett-Packard (HP) StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems, IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) and Panasas.
NAS features in depth
Regardless of your company size or file-storage needs, it's essential to consider the key NAS attributes and features to ensure you'll arrive at a buying decision you won't regret later. These are the key areas to look at when evaluating NAS systems:
- Dual controller vs. scale-out NAS architecture
- Storage efficiency
- Unified storage
- Virtualization
Dual controller vs. scale-out NAS architecture
Fully redundant dual-controller NAS systems have dominated the enterprise space since they first appeared on the market in the early 1990s. They scale vertically by adding disk spindles, and all components are tightly coupled and share a common pool of resources. Once the performance limit is reached, the only scaling option is to add additional NAS systems that operate independently of each other. Because they scale by adding spindles, they perform well with workloads that primarily consist of random access of small files, which represents the prevailing workload in enterprise data centers.
Conversely, scale-out NAS consists of loosely coupled processing nodes, starting with as few as two, that operate in parallel and scale horizontally by adding additional nodes. Even though the degree of parallelism among scale-out systems varies, in general, processing nodes work in concert to deliver files. Each time a node is added, performance of the overall system increases proportionally. For the most part, a scale-out NAS approach eliminates the need for expensive forklift upgrades to replace existing systems; instead, it makes it possible for the existing single NAS system to expand to multiple petabytes. The benefits of scale-out NAS are pretty compelling: improved performance of both I/O and throughput, improved scalability, cost reduction, simplified management by only having to manage a single large system and elevated high availability. "We predict that by 2015, 80% of all storage systems [NAS and block based] will be based on scale-out designs," said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at ESG.
The ability to support scale-out deployments is increasingly becoming a requirement for enterprise NAS systems, and traditional scale-up systems will be gradually relegated to the SMB space. But even in the SMB space they'll face the scale-out threat, especially from NetApp with its scale-out deployment support in Data Ontap 8. Perhaps the strongest indicator we've reached a scale-out inflection point is that the leading NAS vendors have all signed up to the scale-out paradigm: Dell through its acquisition of Exanet and having released initial gateway products based on Exanet (the NX3500, a NAS gateway for the PowerVault iSCSI arrays; and the NX7500, a NAS gateway for the EqualLogic array family); EMC by acquiring Isilon; HP with StorageWorks X9000; IBM with SONAS; and NetApp.
The state of NFS
The Network File System (NFS) protocol was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and quickly evolved to the standard on Unix- and Linux-based operating systems. Supported by most NAS systems in addition to Server Message Block/Common Internet File System (SMB/CIFS, used with Microsoft Windows systems), it's becoming even more relevant as a result of several recent developments. Currently, NFS Version 3 is prevalent and used by most companies. "Very few of our customers use NFS Version 4 at this point," said Drew Schlussel, EMC's director of product management for VNX.
NFSv4 has been available for several years and stands out for its advanced security features and better performance. NFSv4.1, which was ratified in 2010, supports clustered systems and the ability to provide parallel access to files distributed across multiple nodes via the parallel NFS (pNFS) extension. As scale-out NAS architectures move into the mainstream, NFSv4.1's support of pNFS will likely spur adoption. VMware's NFS storage support and enhancements are further popularizing NFS. "We're seeing NFS becoming more popular for VMware rather than going with block-based storage [iSCSI/Fibre Channel]," Schlussel said.
Storage efficiency
Features and capabilities that allow you to store more data on physical disks should be a central piece of any storage array evaluation. The cost savings of having to buy less physical storage can be significant and can easily offset higher acquisition costs. In other words, a more expensive NAS may cost you less over its lifetime than a less-expensive one with inferior storage efficiency features, such as thin provisioning, efficient snapshots, thin clones, deduplication and compression. Implementation and efficacy of these features vary among NAS products. One area of differentiation is the granularity at which these features operate. In the majority of NAS systems, they're applied to volumes, but in some they can be applied to directories or even files. "The EMC Isilon supports snapshots, replication and quotas at a file and directory level," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing at EMC Isilon.
The following NAS storage efficiency features should be considered to minimize physical storage requirements.
Thin provisioning. The ability to allocate more storage than is physically available is pertinent to achieving high storage utilization. This is especially important in systems that support both file- and block-based protocols, where thin provisioning enables volumes and NAS pools to be sized independently of actual physical storage, and where physical storage is assigned from a common storage pool on an as-needed basis. Without thin provisioning, sufficient physical storage has to be allocated to each volume and storage pool ahead of time. In systems that support thin provisioning, physical storage is allocated dynamically when needed.
Efficient snapshots. Snapshots in NAS systems are invaluable for data protection. They're scheduled to be taken periodically and can optionally be replicated to other NAS systems for disaster recovery (DR) or other data protection purposes. Supported by most contemporary NAS systems, efficient snapshots copy data changes and use a system of pointers to reference the initial full snapshot. Efficient snapshots not only save valuable disk space, but also reduce the time it takes to complete them, minimizing the performance impact while snapshots are taken.
Thin clones. Relevant in NAS systems that support block-based protocols, thin clones require little to no storage on creation. Similar to efficient snapshots, thinly cloned volumes refer to the original volume via pointers. Only data on the cloned volume that changes needs to be stored. Pioneered by NetApp with FlexClone, thin clones are now supported by a growing list of NAS vendors.
Deduplication and compression. Standard in backup and archival products, data deduplication and compression are becoming more prevalent on primary storage systems. While support for deduplication in NAS storage is still sparse, it can be implemented as a post-process scheduled task or in real-time. For instance, deduplication in NetApp filers can be enabled on a per-volume basis and is performed by a scheduled process that deduplicates 4 KB blocks of data, usually during off hours. On the contrary, the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage 7000 series performs deduplication in real-time while data is written to disk.
Automated storage tiering. The ability to keep active data on fast, expensive storage and move inactive data to less-expensive slower tiers helps to limit the amount of expensive tier-1 storage needed without significantly impacting performance. For any NAS system you consider, data movement between the different tiers (solid-state storage, fast SAS tiers and slower, high-capacity SATA tiers) should be automatic with block- or byte-level granularity rather than the volume-level granularity at which data is moved. The more granular, the better. Some systems, like EMC's Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), depend on policies that define when data should be moved; others, like NetApp and Oracle (in the Sun ZFS Storage 7000 series), advocate that the storage system should be smart enough to automatically keep data on the appropriate tier without requiring user-defined policies.
Unified storage
With the two leading NAS vendors -- EMC in its VNX array family and NetApp in all its systems -- supporting file-system protocols (NFS and CIFS) and block-based protocols (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) in a single storage array, the unified storage approach is gaining popularity. This is especially true for SMB companies looking for a single storage system that meets all their storage needs: deliver file shares and services, but also serve as storage for virtualized servers and back-office applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and databases.
"Small and midsize companies are usually looking for a jack-of-all-trades storage system that's easy to manage and affordable," said Drew Schlussel, EMC's director of product management for VNX.
Storage and virtualization
With the accelerated deployment of virtualized servers, integration with and features that aid virtualized computing infrastructures are becoming important storage evaluation criteria. It starts with determining how quickly and efficiently volumes can be assigned to virtual machines (VM). "With FlexClone, we can rapidly clone VMware VMDK images with the click of a button," said Jason Blosil, NetApp's product marketing manager.
The simplicity of deploying virtualized servers whose VM images are stored on a single NAS and, if created as thin clones, share many of the same physical storage blocks, can easily result in performance problems. Identifying the mechanisms a NAS system has in place to support the unique requirements of virtualized servers is crucial to preventing unpleasant performance surprises as the number of VMs increases. Some vendors use a combination of solid-state storage and automated storage tiering via policies or cache to keep hotspots in the fastest storage tier.
VMware has been providing the vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) to offload storage and associated management functions from vSphere to storage systems, but prior to vSphere 5, support was mostly limited to block-based storage. In vSphere 5, VAAI has been enhanced to better support NFS and network-attached storage for tasks like thin provisioning and snapshots. VAAI support helps remove storage bottlenecks by offloading resources of intense storage and management tasks from the hypervisor to the storage system.
Finally, hypervisor plug-ins for VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) that provide storage management and reporting from within hypervisor consoles enable IT generalists and server administrators to perform storage tasks.
Evolving NAS systems
Because of their many merits, NAS systems, in the form of gateways to block-based storage and standalone systems with their own storage, have become an essential component of today's data centers. With increased support for scale-out architectures, block-based protocols along with file-system protocols, tight integration with virtualized environments and storage clouds, and an expanding list of features, NAS system are moving closer to becoming a storage system nirvana: a single, fast and massively scalable storage system for all applications and data.
BIO: Jacob Norbel Gsoedl is a freelance writer and a corporate director for business systems. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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In Haifa in 1968, matchmaker Yankele Bride (Israeli stand-up comic Adir Miller) makes the strategic error of hiring 16-year-old Arik Burstein (Tuval Shafir). Yankele is full of street wisdom. "You don't know what you want. Yankele knows what you want," he tells his clients.
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The cops bust Yankele, both Yankele and Clara skip town, Arik has destroyed two lives and even his patriotic father scornfully explains that "everyone knows what Yankele does," and how an incident during the Holocaust explains why he does it.
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(In which she expresses her assurance that Anatolius is orthodox, and begs him to assist her husband in arranging for the Synod, and announces that Flavians body has been buried in the Basilica of the Apostles at Constantinople and the exiled bishops restored.)