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Canada's junior team won't parlay NHL lockout into gold this time
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, January 3, 2013 6:59AM EST
Last Updated Thursday, January 3, 2013 12:34PM EST
UFA, Russia -- An NHL lockout has helped lift Canada to gold at past world junior hockey championships.
But not this time.
Canada dominated en route to gold in 1995 and 2005 when the NHL also locked out its players.
Another labour stoppage this year, meant coach Steve Spott had most of the country's top 19-year-old talent available to him, minus a forward and defenceman injured before the tournament.
But bronze is the best this Canadian team can do after a 5-1 loss to the United States in Thursday's semifinal.
The Americans and defending champion Sweden will play for gold, while Canada takes on Russia for bronze Saturday in Ufa. The Swedes edged the hosts 3-2 in a shootout in the other semifinal.
Canada must find solace in extending its run of medals in this tournament to 15 consecutive years.
"We've got to come home with a medal," captain Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said. "It's not the one we want to come home with, but we've got to do it for our country."
Canada beat both the U.S. and Russia en route to finishing first in its pool at 4-0 and earning the bye to the semifinal. But for the second straight year, Canada failed to parlay the bye into a berth in the gold-medal game because of a semifinal loss.
"For it to happen again, it's pretty heartbreaking," said second-year forward Mark Scheifele.
The International Ice Hockey Federation is doing away with the bye starting in 2014, so the tournament will feature four quarter-finals instead of two.
Playing a quarter-final doesn't seem to be an impediment to gold. Three of the last five champions played a quarter-final and the U.S. could do that this year too.
So while the Americans flexed their goal-scoring muscles in a 7-0 win over the Czech Republic in Wednesday's quarter-final, the Canadians vowed after their practice the same day they couldn't have a slow start Thursday.
They then went out and did just that. The firepower that Canada purportedly had up front did not fire.
Scheifele, Jonathan Huberdeau and Ryan Strome would probably have joined Nugent-Hopkins in the NHL this season if not for the lockout. All four were held off the scoresheet.
When Spott chose his 23 players at selection camp in Calgary last month, he said he did so with speed in mind. It was the Americans who made Canada look like they were standing still for two periods Thursday.
Led by swift Calgary Flames prospect John Gaudreau and American captain Jake McCabe, the U.S. beat Canada to the puck at both ends of the ice for 40 minutes to build a 4-0 lead.
Unlike last year's 6-5 semifinal loss to Russia in Calgary, where Canada scored four third-period goals, this Canadian team didn't rally to make it close.
Ty Rattie's short-handed goal early in the third might have provided the spark, if Gaudreau didn't then score his second of the game and Canada didn't take two minor penalties in the last five minutes.
"They came out hot. We came out not so hot," Rattie said.
Canada had beaten the U.S. 2-1 in pool play despite missing two forwards because of suspensions.
Spott wanted his team to generate more even-strength scoring chances in the medal round with 13 forwards in the mix, but the Canadians didn't have the puck on their sticks very much against the U.S.
"We feel our preparation was right," Spott said. "Why we were flat today, that's something we'll have to address.
"Maybe we should have gone in before the game and kicked up a little bit more of a storm, but we haven't done that yet. We haven't had to so we didn't want to go in there today and do anything different to alarm the kids or get them on edge. Maybe that's something if you go back in time, you'd do different."
Defenceman Dougie Hamilton and forward Boone Jenner were also candidates to play in the NHL this season. Canada had six players returning from the team that won bronze in 2012 and an NHL player in Edmonton's Nugent-Hopkins.
It begs the question: What would this Canadian team have looked like if not for the lockout?
With all the best 19-year-olds available to him, Spott named 17-year-old forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin to this team and moved Drouin to the top line for the last two games.
That may speak to the talent level of the two NHL draft prospects, but also signals a lack of talent depth among Canadian players born in 1993.
Canada lost defenceman Ryan Murphy, the No. 2 pick in this year's NHL draft, to a shoulder injury prior to selection camp.
After naming forward Charles Hudon to the team, Spott sent him home from training camp in Finland with a back injury and hastily summoned Mark McNeill from the Prince Albert Raiders.
Canada's travel to the tournament was the most arduous since Moscow hosted the event in 2001. Hockey Canada had a comprehensive plan to deal with jet lag and travel fatigue.
For the third time in four years, Canada switched goaltenders during a game that determined a medal colour, although starter Malcolm Subban can't be faulted for the loss.
Canada's defence was in complete disarray in front of him on the first U.S. goal and was porous on the next two scored by the Americans. After a fourth goal by the U.S. on 16 shots, Jordan Binnington made his first appearance in the tournament and made 25 saves.
"It had nothing to do with Malcolm at all," Spott said. "We left him out to dry and the goals they scored were quality goals. It was more than anything trying to give our team a little bit of a shot of adrenaline. I was not disappointed with Malcolm at all."
Spott knows U.S. goaltender John Gibson well because the American plays for him on the OHL's Kitchener Rangers.
But Canada couldn't solve him even with that knowledge. Gibson stoned an all-alone Strome in the second period and made 33 saves for the win.
Canada has won gold in this tournament 15 times, including a run of five straight from 1993 to 1997 and 2005 to 2009.
Spott says even with the players he had at his disposal, winning gold was never a given here.
"It's not our divine right to win gold medals," he said. "This is a global sport now.
"I understand the pressure, as a staff we understand the pressure that comes when you have a team with some of the firepower we have. But these are all quality teams and they're all world-class teams and when you get down to one game, anything can happen in junior hockey. We've all seen that."


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For more than a hundred years, scientists have used the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) to study the fundamentals of developmental biology and genetics.
But as biological understanding and techniques have improved, we are now able to do sophisticated genetic experiments in animals further along the evolutionary scale, such as mice.
What role, then, for the fly today?
At the entrance to the Fly Facility at the University of Manchester, there is a poster on the wall. It proudly proclaims that Drosophila (a genus of fruit flies) has won six Nobel Prizes. All were won in conjunction with human collaborators, of course, who took the glory (not to mention the cash).
The Fly Facility, which is funded by the university and the Wellcome Trust, brings together the university's collective expertise in fly husbandry and research techniques. It supports a community of 13 research groups who consider the potential of the fly stronger than ever for informing us not just about basic biology but about human diseases as well. I suspect they dream of one day adding a seventh Nobel to Drosophila's trophy cabinet.
Dr Andreas Prokop, the head of a laboratory in the Faculty of Life Sciences and an unashamed proselytiser for fruit flies in research, is keen to show them off. He takes me around the Fly Facility's specialist microscopes and the breeding rooms where the flies are grown. One room is kept at the scientific standard temperature of 25°C, while the other is at 18°C for experiments in which researchers want to slow down Drosophila's usual development cycle (this works both ways: some experiments are done at 29°C to speed up development).
Inside each breeding room, the shelves are full of trays and incubators with different fly stocks. The flies live in plastic vials – one genetic stock per vial – with food and a cotton wool plug to stop them flying away. These are no house flies: each adult fly is only a couple of millimetres long, their bodies are pale with black markings and they have bright red eyes.
Fertilised female flies can lay hundreds of eggs over several days. Embryonic development takes 21 hours (at 25°C), at which point each egg hatches to release a Drosophila larva. After a few heady days of continuous feeding at the bottom of its vial, the larva wanders up the side of the vial, away from its food source, and forms a hard shell called a pupa. At this stage, all of its organs are broken down and restructured in their adult forms. Eventually, a mere ten days after the egg was laid, an adult fly emerges from the pupal case.
Pretty fly with a white eye
The first of the Drosophila Nobels was awarded in 1933 to Thomas Hunt Morgan, whose 'fly room' at Columbia University laid the groundwork for pretty much all Drosophila research that has followed.
Morgan was interested in problems of development and how heredity might help him understand them. He spent two years searching for Drosophila with clear, heritable variations in characteristics so that he could start to unpick how the differences had been inherited. At last, in 1909, he found white-eyed male flies among his normally red-eyed stock. Crucially, eye colour was a sex-linked variation, which meant the gene responsible had to be on the Drosophila sex chromosome (Drosophila have four pairs of chromosomes, whereas humans have 23; in both species, the sex chromosomes are either XX for females or XY for males). It was the first unambiguous link between a chromosome and a characteristic.
Morgan's style in the lab was democratic. It spawned a school of pupils and collaborators who spread the techniques he developed around the world, training the next generation to do the experiments that would connect characteristics to chromosomes and, in time, to specific genes.
One of Morgan's protégés was Hermann Muller. In the 1920s, Muller began looking for ways to change genes artificially rather than relying on spontaneous mutations. His research showed that X-rays caused widespread genetic mutation and chromosomal damage. It won him Drosophila's second Nobel, in 1946.
It was some time before Drosophila's next Nobel, but then it won three in the same year. Innovations in the 1970s and 1980s meant that DNA could now be manipulated directly. Using such techniques, Ed Lewis discovered genes that controlled the fly's 'body plan', whereas Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus identified and classified genes that were crucial for early development. At around the same time, studies in other species showed that these genes had closely related analogues in other vertebrates. Such genes are described as being 'conserved', and it confirmed that Drosophila research had direct relevance to human biology.
Lewis, Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology for their work. As news of their success spread around the world, it's possible Jules Hoffmann would have taken inspiration from it. In 1995, Hoffmann was director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, part of France's National Centre of Scientific Research. At the same time, he was attempting to unravel the fly's immune system.
Humans have two lines of defence against infections, one of which is conserved from simpler organisms such as Drosophila. This is the innate immune system. Hoffmann discovered that a gene called Toll is central to the fly's innate immune system, controlling the response to certain bacterial infections. Soon, related genes – so-called 'Toll-like receptors' – were discovered in other species, including humans. As well as contributing to our innate immune system, human Toll-like receptors activate our second line of defence, the adaptive immune system, which is slower to respond but incorporates components such as antibodies that 'remember' infections and establish immunity.
Reflecting on his work at the Euroscience Open Forum conference this summer, Hoffmann said that "no one in the medical field would have believed the systems [of fly and human] were so close in evolution", but work in both species was needed to uncover the control mechanisms for our immune systems. Hoffmann shared the 2011 Nobel Prize with two of the scientists who had subsequently worked on Toll-like receptors in mice and people.
Despite such an illustrious history, Prokop says researchers began to drift away from Drosophila in favour of other species, most notably the mouse, in which exciting new techniques were continually being developed through the final decades of the 20th century and into the 21st. As genetics became easier to do in mammals, many scientists thought that experiments should be done in as highly evolved a species as possible.
However, Prokop thinks there is more to be gained by combining these new molecular and cell biology techniques with genetics in the fly. Mice, and indeed humans, tend to have multiple genes with overlapping functions, so when you 'knock out' a gene to see the effect on the organism of not having it, the results can be ambiguous. Drosophila has little or no such redundancy in its genes, plus the added advantages of having a rapid reproduction cycle and being relatively cheap to maintain.
Return of the fly
Prokop's own research focuses on the cytoskeleton: the architecture of actin filaments and microtubules woven into structural networks inside all our cells. Far from being static scaffolding, however, these networks are dynamic, constantly rearranging and interacting with other proteins.
"The cytoskeleton is involved in every aspect of every single cellular function you can think of," he says. Many of its components have been studied for decades but many fundamental questions remain.
"We know what these components do biochemically, but in the cellular context, we are not sure why those interactions are necessary. For example, the protein Tau was discovered in 1975. Today, we know it has a role in Alzheimer's disease, but we still don't really know what Tau is doing in the cell in the first place.
"One thing that blocks a lot of this type of research is that we do not have a proper understanding of the cell biology."
Numerous proteins are known to bind to actin and microtubules, which implies some degree of regulation. But how do all these different functions and regulators combine in one coordinated system of cytoskeletal function? Prokop's approach to finding an answer is to narrow down the question. He is studying the cytoskeleton in one specific context and, from that, aims to work up a general conceptual understanding that can be tested in other contexts and other species.
"I made three decisions," he explains.
"First, study axonal growth. This is the best context for understanding what the cytoskeleton does because we know the principal roles of actin and microtubules, and there are drugs we can use to manipulate axonal growth – there aren't many other places where we can get such meaningful results."
Axons are the wires and cables of the nervous system. They connect neurons, the most important cells in the nervous system, and carry electrical signals between cells. Problems with axonal development lead to impaired cognition; damage later in life, from strokes or dementia for example, can cause sustained paralysis, permanent loss of basic brain functions such as coordination, or changes in personality.
Axons grow out of neuron cell bodies, led from the front by specialist structures called growth cones. Chemical gradients – varying concentrations of substances that attract or repel the growth cone – determine the direction of growth and help each axon find its target. How these external cues are translated into changes in the behaviour of the growth cone remains unclear. What we do know is that the actin and microtubule structures of the cytoskeleton are constantly rearranging at the axon tip and that they must be regulated in response to certain signals.
"There are probably hundreds of genes that regulate the cytoskeleton," Prokop says. "But the really essential ones are relatively few. Those genes, and the targets they regulate, present us with a common mechanism dependent on a limited number of factors. Focusing our research on these genes and proteins within the context of axon growth is a good strategy for learning about their function in general. It is simpler than trying to tackle the entire cellular machinery."
Laud of the flies
His second decision was to work on Drosophila, for the usual reasons: "Efficient genetics, low redundancy. If you knock out one gene, there is less opportunity for compensation than there would be in higher species. Plus you can take out combinations of classes of genes simultaneously and it would be extremely challenging, even impossible, to do that in the mouse. In flies, it takes between a couple of weeks and a few months, so you can create and generate possibilities, test hypotheses."
Prokop stresses that this is no longer the simple fly genetics of years gone by, when a gene would be knocked out and the gross effects observed. Moreover, combined with modern Drosophila genetics are other sophisticated techniques, developed and well established in mice, for studying what is going on inside cells. Many of these techniques, which have now been adapted for use in fly neurons, visually label specific proteins within cells so that researchers can watch the dynamics of microtubules, actin and other proteins as they operate.
I see this for myself when Dr Natalia Sánchez-Soriano, a postdoctoral researcher in the Prokop laboratory, shows me around. As well as looking at neurons in developing fly embryos, they grow Drosophila neurons in culture. "It takes around 30 fly brains to make four cultures," she explains, holding out one of many round agar plates, a few centimetres in diameter. "Within six hours, the neurons have grown enough to start analysing them."
Cultured neurons lack the external signals that would normally direct their growth in the fly but their cell machinery is intact and axons grow, although in a less organised way. Sánchez-Soriano puts a plate under a microscope and focuses on a small area in the middle. At 10x magnification, I can see clusters of neurons on the screen.
"These are young cultures," she says, showing me the cell body of a neuron and the axon growing from it. We zoom in. The neurons have been marked with fluorescent markers. "Looking in green light, you see the microtubules. If we look in red, you can see the actin.
"I always find it amazing to look at one of these cultures where they have formed a network, a mature network. It looks very messy because they are cultures but you can see how they connect. Now you have this complex neural network with lots of synapses, which are the contacts between the neurons."
Microtubules are found in abundance at synapses, so the fluorescence also reveals the neurons' connections. I can see synapses all the way along the axons, not just at the tip, which is how I remember having seen them portrayed in simplified textbook diagrams.
We are supposed to be going to lunch with other scientists from the lab. They hover at the doorway, but Sánchez-Soriano waves them away – she wants to show me one more slide.
"This is a Drosophila embryo. It's completely different to the cultured cells – the axons of the neurons are all organised. These axons connect to the muscles; their cell bodies are in the spinal cord. We can see where these axons are growing, and we can be very specific about developmental time. We can look at embryos after 21 hours of development and the axons are always in these positions, so we can detect tiny changes in axonal growth.
"The beauty of this system is that we can go back and forward all the time between neurons in the organism and in culture, and that's what makes it very attractive for me. And it's easy to have expertise in both. That makes it a really nice model."
Prokop's third decision was which component of cytoskeleton regulation to focus on. He chose a protein called Shot, which, he explains, "sits at the heart of the machine". Shot is one of a family of proteins called spectraplakins, which have so many different functions that they are sometimes also called 'the Swiss Army knives of the cell'. In this context, Shot regulates microtubules during axonal growth.
In a normal growing axon, microtubules are constantly joining together, elongating and pushing against the cell membrane in the direction of growth. Actin networks provide some control over microtubules by blocking microtubule extension in the wrong direction. Proteins like Shot that bind actin and microtubules are therefore likely to be involved in regulating that interaction and, indeed, without Shot, microtubules become disorganised and axons are severely shortened (and when they do grow, it is often in the wrong direction).
The very model of a research model organism
Having shown that axon growth cone behaviour, cytoskeletal dynamics and the underlying functions of actin and microtubule regulators in Drosophila are well conserved with higher animals, Prokop's group is using the Shot system to discover the mechanisms by which it all hangs together. They work mostly in the fly but regularly do analogous experiments in mice to confirm the general relevance of their findings.
They have already begun to show how Shot performs its role in cytoskeletal regulation during axon growth. In research published this summer, Prokop and his team showed that Shot links the tips of microtubules to actin networks, providing a physical connection that points the microtubules in the right direction. It also binds along the length of the microtubules, providing structural stability as they push out along the path of the growth cone.
Understanding how Shot works at a molecular and cellular level in one biological process in Drosophila will inform research on many other aspects of spectraplakins' functions. For example, these proteins have roles in neurodegenerative diseases, skin blistering, and cell migration during wound healing and brain development.
In humans, the equivalent of Shot is dystonin, which causes neurodegeneration if it is impaired. In mice, loss of the dystonin gene in neurons produces exactly the same effect as loss of Shot in Drosophila: the microtubules are disorganised and unstable. Studying Shot may therefore be relevant to explaining the processes of neurodegeneration.
"We are beginning to study neurodegeneration in the Petri dish," says Sánchez-Soriano. "We can cultivate neurons for a month, two months – they make connections and have active synapses, so we can look at matters that affect more mature neurons and study how they become disorganised and degenerate."
Prokop's model system certainly seems to be on the right track. "If you can establish a concept in Drosophila neurons, it is easier to verify it in other cell types," he says. "Drosophila is an efficient system to narrow down what you are looking for. Then you can go and look for it in higher animals, including humans. Our system can be used to develop the whole concept rather than piecing together evidence from lots of different models and trying to construct a concept that way before seeing if it maps on to other species."
When, a little later than planned, I go to lunch with members of the lab, I discover that the postdocs and PhD students are as evangelical as Prokop in championing Drosophila. These researchers are the latest generation of TH Morgan's intellectual descendants, eager to celebrate the fruit fly's contribution to science and persuade you that it is the pre-eminent model organism.
Prokop sums up the philosophy: "The task of Drosophila is to produce ideas that can then stimulate research in mammalian systems. That's what it has been doing for a hundred years, and that's what our system can do too."
In part 2, 'Fly on the wall', I visit a second Drosophila lab at the University of Manchester to see how the fly is actually used in experiments, and how relevant they can be for understanding human diseases.
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Devesh permalink4 Dec, 2012 2:26 pm
Very nicely portrayed.
P.S. Big discoveries comes in small packages !


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While this meal is so easy that it can't go wrong, a little attention to detail will hit it out of the park.
First, salt the pasta water. Unsalted pasta is bland and boring. Salted pasta tastes interesting and compliments the sauce. About one tablespoon of salt to four quarts of boiling water will do the trick. It seems like a lot, but the pasta will only absorb a little. And that little will make all the difference.
And this will sound strange, but undercook the pasta just a little bit. Simmer the noodles until they barely qualify as al dente and you still feel a bit of hardness in the very middle when you bite into a sample noodle. When added to the sauce, the pasta will cook the rest of the way and soak up flavor at the same time.
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Fifteen-minute shrimp scampi with angel hair pasta
Serves 2
1 pound frozen shrimp
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons salted butter
2 shallots, minced
3-4 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 cup dry white wine, such as pinot grigio
1/2 pound angel hair pasta
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1/4 cup chopped parsley
Salt and pepper
Place the frozen shrimp in a bowl of cool water to thaw for about 5 minutes. Fill a 4-quart or larger pot with water and bring it to a boil for the pasta.
Warm the olive oil and the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, garlic and red pepper flakes, and cook until the shallots have softened, about 2 minutes. Drain the shrimp and then stir them into the pan along with the wine. Turn to coat and then spread the shrimp out into a single layer. Cook for 2 minutes and then flip the shrimp. Cook for another 1-2 minutes until the shrimp are pink and completely opaque. Reduce the heat to low.
To your pasta pot, add one tablespoon of salt for every 4-quarts of water. Add the angel hair pasta and stir gently until the noodles soften into the water. Cook for another 2-3 minutes until just barely al dente. Drain the pasta and add it to the skillet with the shrimp. (If the sauce has reduced too much, scoop out a little of the starchy pasta water before draining and add this to the pan so you have a half cup or so of sauce.)
Sprinkle the lemon zest, 1 teaspoon of the lemon juice, and parsley over the pasta and stir to coat. Taste and add salt, pepper or more lemon juice as desired. Serve immediately in individual pasta bowls.
Note: Leftovers can be refrigerated and reheated for one week.
Cheater's chocolate mousse
Serves 2-4
4 ounces (1/2 cup) good-quality dark chocolate
8 ounces (1 cup) heavy cream
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Optional: 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier, creme de menthe, rum, bourbon or other favorite liquor
Fresh fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or other seasonal fruit)
Chop the chocolate into small pieces with a serrated knife and transfer to a medium-sized heatproof bowl. Heat the cream and the sugar in a medium saucepan until just beginning to boil.
Pour this over the chocolate and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Gently stir with a spatula until all the chocolate has melted into the cream. (If the cream isn't quite doing the job of melting the chocolate, it's OK to microwave in 30-second bursts, stirring in between, until the chocolate has melted completely.)
Cover and refrigerate the mousse base for at least 1 hour or overnight.
When ready to serve, stir in the liquor (if using) and beat the base with an electric mixer until it forms stiff peaks like whipped cream. Scoop it into individual bowls and top with fresh fruit. The prepared mousse is best served immediately, but can be refrigerated for a short time without loss of texture.
Note: The un-whipped base for the mousse can be prepared up to a day ahead.
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|Performs in a drama
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|"Greetings, amiga!"
|"Beat it!"
|27-/37-Across won her first Grand Slam title (the 2018 US Open) by defeating this tennis legend: 2 wds.
|Mind reading: Abbr.
|Quarterback Dawson who's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
|Leave speechless
|Hamm who's in the National Soccer Hall of Fame
|Animal pal of Tarzan
|With 37-Across, first Japanese tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world
|Person who's neither higher nor lower than you, socially
|___ Wayne ("Uproar" rapper)
|German fashion designer Hugo
|The alphabet, to preschoolers
|Bed that might be added to a hotel room for an extra guest
|See 27-Across
|Pandora station that plays songs by I Prevail and Fall Out Boy
|Number of something that's unique
|They're often affixed to living room walls
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|Healthful vacation spot
|In 2019, 27-/37-Across won her second Grand Slam title at this Melbourne tournament: 2 wds.
|"___ something I said?": 2 wds.
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|Vocal feature of Clint Eastwood
|"Rock of ___" (1983 Def Leppard hit)
|Historic event of WWII: Hyph.
|Florist's container
|Female half of a flock
|Wild West lawman Wyatt ___
|Dark-colored loaf
|"___ It Off" (Taylor Swift hit)
|Hauls off, as a wrecked car
|Mahershala who played Don Shirley in "Green Book"
|"Rah-rah" assemblies for political candidates
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|Half of a ballroom dance
|Male turkey
|Emergency signal at sea
|"___ lay me down to sleep ...": 2 wds.
|Mad king in a Shakespeare tragedy
|Six-time Oscar nominee Adams
|Military meal
|"L.A.'s Finest" actress Jessica
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|Queen of Arendelle, in a Disney movie
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|Where a proton is
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|Hog with tusks
|Appliance made by KitchenAid and Whirlpool
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|Start of most Internet addresses
|Terminate from a job
|Drove too fast
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|Actor Garcia of 2018's "The Mule"
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|MADE IN ___ (marking on American-produced items)
|Female version of "bro"
|Where to find the quadriceps muscle
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Children enrolled in a program at Defcon, the annual hacker convention, in Las Vegas early this month learned computer security, coding and, yes, hacking. The program is run by r00tz Asylum, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching children to think outside the box.
"The ultimate goal of r00tz Asylum, like any other part of DEF CON, is to push the envelope on learning, go as lateral as possible," said James Arlen, a senior security advisor with Leviathan Security Group. "We spent so much time in parenting and education trying to stick to the rules, and Defcon has been for the last 21 years about breaking the rules.
"Maybe if you put a bunch of science and math and technical stuff in a play setting, the kids will accidentally learn something," he said.
This year, 175 children participated.
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Editor's note: Howell Raines is an author and former executive editor of The New York Times. He is working on a novel set during the Civil War.
(CNN) -- Who says the media aren't interested in good news? Fox News has been broadcasting lots of it for Mitt Romney this week. Never have so many gray clouds had silver linings as those hovering over the hapless Republican candidate and his deflating campaign.
I bring you this report after having ventured into Bill O'Reilly's "No-Spin Zone," and believe me, his initial shout-out urging viewers to exercise "caution" before watching is fully, if unintentionally, appropriate. Apparently in Fox World, "no-spin" means "I am now going to share my news-based fantasies."
The Wednesday broadcast featured Dick Morris, Karl Rove and Dennis Miller, an a-cappella chorus humming O'Reilly's favorite tunes: that the mainstream media is rooting for Obama; that the polls consistently misrepresent a race that is still a dead heat; that Romney will re-emerge from this autumnal swoon by winning the October 3 debate through his superior if often-invisible oratorical skills; that Romney is in decline simply because voters don't yet understand the necessity of top-end tax cuts, the sanctity of corporate profits and the horror of social welfare spending run amok.
Across its programs, the Fox News mantra is "there's still plenty of time." That's a truism, but chanting the obvious is not among the standard definitions of journalism. Institutionally, Fox is in denial about the state of the campaign. Romney is looking very weak very early. The attempt to avoid reporting this state of play in a "fair and balanced" way is producing comical results.
Stylistically, the O'Reilly quartet may be on to something new. We've had mainstream journalism, alternative journalism, conservative journalism. This appears to be vaudeville journalism. Wednesday, the verisimilitude of the performance was maintained by the illusion that of the four, only Miller is a stand-up comic.
Toobin: Why are candidates silent on Supreme Court?
Rove's role is nuttily professorial. He has adopted one of those erasable white slates popularized by the late Tim Russert. On it he scribbles integers with plus or minus signs. These, he alleges, are the amounts being added to President Barack Obama and/or subtracted from Romney by such daredevil organizations as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS, NBC, CNN, Gallup and the co-opted poll-averagers at the website RealClearPolitics. Bottom line: This vast conspiracy is downgrading Romney three to nine points by using screens that overstate the votes of blacks, Latinos, Asians, women and the young.
Morris, who is beginning to bear a waxen resemblance to Orson Welles, explained, I think, that pollsters cheat by using false baseline figures from previous elections. Morris didn't have time to explicate fully how every news organization except Fox has signed up to help Obama by disseminating these cooked figures. Even so, O'Reilly thanked Morris for explaining polling mysteries he said he had not previously understood.
Opinion: Why Romney's rallies are a waste of time
The effect was somewhat spoiled by an unscripted guest from reality, Larry Sabato, the scholarly political scientist from the University of Virginia, who immediately dismissed Morris' rant as "grassy-knoll" statistics. He added that the poll averages on RealClearPolitics had things about right. Obama was ahead by about four points nationally. Of the big-three swing states, Sabato said, perhaps in order not to appear rude to his host, only Florida is still close.
The presence of Miller is apparently driven by commercial considerations. He and O'Reilly now have a lecture-circuit act that is selling out in such venues as Houston and Las Vegas. The closest I've heard Miller come to elegant public-policy analysis was to call Obama a "crap president" earlier this week. As a nod to factuality, O'Reilly does call Miller a "satirist" and, less plausibly, an NFL expert, due to his badly reviewed stint on Monday Night Football. In any event, it's hard to imagine anyone with a master's in public policy from Harvard, which O'Reilly has, consulting Miller on an important national election -- unless there's money in it.
Which brings us to the interesting case of O'Reilly himself. O'Reilly is no dummy, and he did work as a broadcast news professional before veering into infotainment with "Inside Edition" and the Fox gig. For all his pugnacity, these days O'Reilly has the look of a man doing beautiful pirouettes on increasingly thin ice. He's clearly angling to survive a Romney train wreck with some credible deniability by leaving the delusional commentary to Rove et al. and hinting at his suppressed misgivings about Romney's chances.
Opinion: For GOP, it's the social issues, stupid
He's not a man easily knocked off balance by contrary evidence. Thursday he opened with Fox's own poll, which presumably lacked the evils defined by Rove and Morris. It showed Obama's favorability up by 51% to Romney's 48%. It was, from a Foxian point of view, a nicer number than Obama's five point head-to-head lead, 48% to 43%.
Cannily, he drops in terms such as "in fairness to Obama," praises the president's campaigning skills and takes note of criticism of Romney by other conservatives. He hangs his hat on the observation that October 3 is Romney's last chance to get back in the race. This leaves him room to turn around if the polls -- we're talking the real ones here -- don't.
O'Reilly's newest hedge, unveiled with Fox's bleak new poll, is that the "likability" factor gives Obama an advantage with "uninformed, casual voters."
I think there's a secret behind O'Reilly's trademark smirk. Were it in his interest to say what's on his mind about the candidates' performance to date, he'd almost certainly admit that Obama has come on like a superstar candidate of the Reagan ilk, and so far Romney is one of the biggest duds in post-World War II presidential elections.
Right now, Fox News' general excuse for Romney is that he's not getting his "message" across. I'll tune in from time to time to see when the news from the real world arrives in the Fox studios. The message of Romney's tooth-and-fang financial-market capitalism is driving down the polls, and the messenger is coming across as an unlikable empty suit, even when he ditches his tie and jacket.
At a certain point, campaigns in early decline begin to reek of impending defeat. I can't wait to see how they spin that in the no-spin zone. Meanwhile, we can contemplate the dilemma of another O'Reilly regular, the Loneliest in the Public Opinion Trade, aka pollster Scott Rasmussen. He's telling O'Reilly the race is tied within the margin of error around 46% or 47%.
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Austrian pair advance to second round of youth continental cup final
The teams of Ukraine, Norway, Russia, Poland and Germany also topped their pools to move directly to the crucial final step of qualification for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
Pool F proved to be the toughest one out of the six pools in the competition, where two-three set matches occurred during Friday's program.
In the first match Lithuania's Edvinas Vaskelis and Matas Navickas upset the sixth-seeded Czech duo Tomas Cermak and Jiri Kraffer with a 2-1 (21-19, 18-21, 15-9) victory. Vaskelis/Navickas then lost to seventh-seeded Austrian pair Paul Buchegger and Moritz Bernd Pristauz-Telsnigg by a landslide 2-0 (21-9, 21-18).
When the two top seeds locked horns in the last match of the pool, they staged a 55-minute battle – the longest game of the day – that ended in favour of the Austrians 2-1 (21-14, 16-21, 15-10).
"The first game of today was easy for us because our opponents were not that tall and we locked too many balls," Austria's Buchegger commented. "In the second game we played really well. We do not know who we will be playing tomorrow, but there are many good teams so it will be a difficult game. We know most of the teams here from previous tournaments. I believe we can win and qualify for the Youth Olympic Games."
"We played really well today, except in the second set of the second match," Pristauz-Telsnigg said. "I am satisfied with the results. Tomorrow's game will be difficult for us, but we will stay focused because it is the last decisive game and we definitely want to go to China."
The other five winners clearly dominated their pools and made it through to the second round without losing any sets. No. 1 seed Oleh Plotnytskyi and Illia Kovalov from Ukraine, scored victories over Finland and Cyprus to top Pool A.
Second-seeded Latvians Raimonds Linins and Karlis Kaulins were upset by both opponents in Pool B, allowing the Norwegian tandem of Anders Berntsen Mol and Mathias Berntsen to emerge as pool winners.
In Pool C, the 2013 U18 European champions Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin from Russia demonstrated their superiority over the teams of Bulgaria and Slovakia. There were no surprises in Pool D either as Poland's Dominik Kmiecik and Jakub Macura shut out both Spain and Turkey.
Pool D featured the other clashes between pool winners from last year's zonal phase, but Germany's Niklas Rudolf and Eric Stadie were very convincing in beating Italy's Manuel Alfieri and Paolo Di Silvestre by 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) following a straight sets win over Turkey's second duo.
Unfortunately for home fans, the two men's and two women's duos of Turkey did not succeed in winning any sets in their pool matches but are certainly hoping to make amends in the second elimination round.
"We had problems in the pool games because of our lack of experience," Turkey's Sencer Urer explained. "If we decrease our unforced errors we can be better. Our goal to go to China is still alive, we can win both matches tomorrow."
"We are a new team so that makes everything harder for us," Urer's partner Berkecan Bildircin concurred. " We will be better in time. We want to display a much better performance in the following matches and qualify for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games."


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Greg Kasavin is a writer/designer at Supergiant Games, the small independent studio that created Bastion. Prior to joining Supergiant, Greg worked at 2K Games, Electronic Arts, and GameSpot. He's @kasavin on Twitter.
My list surely would have been different had I spent more time playing some of this year's big AAA titles (especially Max Payne 3, Dishonored, Halo 4, and Far Cry 3), as well as a couple of Japanese RPGs I've been meaning to get to (namely Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 4: Golden). But then, the games on this list--especially my #1--pulled me away from most everything else. Here are my favorites from this year:
10. Spec Ops: The Line
I debated whether to include this on my list since I worked on it for a year of my life. But it was a much bigger project than just my one year, and it spent long enough in the works after I left that I felt a detachment from it when I finally sat down to play the finished version. What I found in it was the only shooter of 2012 that compelled me to play all the way through from start to finish. I respect the narrative ambitions of this game, and the story turns at the conclusion were memorable and poignant.
9. Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dust quickly won me over with its good-natured humor, beautiful animation, well-crafted controls, and heartfelt storytelling. It felt like an homage to classic side-scrolling action games, without being nostalgic for the sake of it. That the game was built almost entirely by just one person still boggles my mind. This was easily my favorite of this year's Summer of Arcade lineup, and was the only game this year that my daughter (who was six at the time) enjoyed almost as much as I did.
8. FTL: Faster Than Light
Legendary game designer Sid Meier said that a good game is a series of interesting choices. FTL: Faster Than Light is an excellent example of this. The premise of managing the small crew of a doomed starship voyage is already good. But the way this game is structured, as a series of unpredictable, exciting, dangerous hyperspace jumps, is flat-out brilliant. FTL strikes an excellent balance between having a crafted tone with tantalizing bits of narrative along with a randomized structure that ensures no two sessions ever play out the same way. For good measure, the soundtrack is fantastic. Very inspiring stuff.
7. Hotline: Miami
The violence in Hotline: Miami is at times shocking and at times numbing, at times exciting and at times sobering. This is a game that uses violence fully, not just for thrills. It knows what the violence is there for, and every gory detail seems deliberate. And the feel of the whole thing is just so fast and brutal, like a cross between Super Meat Boy and Smash TV. Then there's the soundtrack, a pitch-perfect score for all the depravity, probably my favorite game soundtrack of the year. This game was made by just a couple of people. Maybe it shows, considering it's quite simple, but unlike most games released this year, I won't soon forget this one. Hotline: Miami and its dizzying nihilism reminded me of Killer7, one of the most memorable games I've played in the last decade.
6. Fez
I loved exploring the deceptively lighthearted, serene, and mysterious world of this game, and felt its central mechanic of perspective-shifting was ingenious and interesting all throughout. I really admire that Fez manages to be so enthralling and challenging despite being completely devoid of enemies or combat. The entire presentation is beautiful in a way that's very true to games. While many games aspire to standards of beauty from other media, Fez has the confidence to be a game through and through, and every aspect of it is gamelike in the best sort of way.
5. Journey
I had high hopes for the next game from the creators of Flower, and Journey lived up to all my expectations. This is a game whose themes are communicated with complete fluency yet without depending on any traditional methods of storytelling. The brevity of the experience felt wholly appropriate given the subject matter, and even so, Journey gave me numerous moments of stunning beauty. Few games manage to create a sublime feeling, especially without resorting to intense action, but Journey did this for me.
4. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
I'm old enough to remember the original classic that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is based on, and couldn't have been more impressed by how well this remake captured the tension-filled emotional roller-coaster experience that made the original so memorable. Not only is the new game's presentation outstanding, but the distinctive X-COM feel is there. You wouldn't expect for a turn-based game to be this scary or suspenseful but XCOM really delivers those feelings as well as a genuine sense of triumph when, once in a while, good tactics combine with a little luck.
3. Hero Academy
This asynchronous turn-based tactics game for iPhone and iPad is the first free-to-play game that earned my time as well as my money. I played this game for months and months, each day looking forward to my opponents' next set of moves so I could try to outsmart them once more. It's both deterministic and random in all the right ways, resulting in matches that always feel different. The design is simple and brilliant--you can experiment as much as you want, trying different tactics before committing your turn. The cartoony look is welcoming and the different armies and units are surprisingly different and interesting. This is an elegant game, very well designed and executed. It's very fun.
2. The Walking Dead
At first I was reluctant to start playing this series, because I feel like I know how these types of stories are going to end. I'm not really a fan of the comic or the TV show, or at least, I wasn't before I played through these games. Going in, I figured I wasn't going to let myself get emotionally invested in a bunch of no-doubt-disposable characters. But I did get invested, thanks to lots of great writing and a cast that couldn't be more unconventional for a game. This is powerful stuff. I rarely get emotional when I play games, but at several points in The Walking Dead, I came close. As far as I'm concerned, The Walking Dead picks up the baton from last year's The Witcher 2 for having the best, most meaningful character interactions of any game, in a plot that keeps hurtling forward. I loved the conclusion of this series, which made me look back on the whole experience in the best sort of way.
1. Dota 2
Nothing else comes close. Not this year. For the first time in as long as I can remember, there's really no contest when I think back on what was my favorite game of the past 12 months. I first tried Dota 2 back in January, on the recommendation of one of my colleagues who's been a fan ever since the Defense of the Ancients mod started gaining popularity in the Warcraft III days. Valve's take on that game looked intriguing, but then, I knew it was immensely complicated and I figured my days of sinking countless hours into competitive multiplayer games, from fighting games to real-time strategy games, were behind me. Well... I was wrong. Dota 2 hit me very, very hard. I've logged hundreds of hours with the game this year, and often played it long into the night, losing track of time. Here is a game that combines my love of fighting games with my love of strategy games, along with that special touch that Valve games tend to have. I think the thing I most love about Dota 2 is that it's so complex that it takes up seemingly 100% of my mental capacity just to play it. Though the experience is very intense, at the same time it's just completely engrossing. I love almost everything about this game – the design quirks, the cast of characters, the distinct feel of different abilities, the pace of a given match. It's an intimidating game to learn, but it's the best, most rewarding game I've played in a long time.


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Propagation by stem cuttings is the most commonly used method to propagate many woody ornamental plants. Stem cuttings of many favorite shrubs are quite easy to root. Typically, stem cuttings of tree species are more difficult to root. However, cuttings from trees such as crape myrtles, some elms, and birches can be rooted.
Stems that are still attached to their parent plant may form roots where they come in contact with a rooting medium. This method of vegetative propagation is generally successful, because water stress is minimized and carbohydrate and mineral nutrient levels are high. The development of roots on a stem while the stem is still attached to the parent plant is called layering. A layer is the rooted stem following detachment (removal) from the parent plant.
Some, but not all, plants can be propagated from just a leaf or a section of a leaf. Leaf cuttings of most plants will not generate a new plant; they usually produce only a few roots or just decay. Because leaf cuttings do not include an axillary bud, they can be used only for plants that are capable of forming adventitious buds. Leaf cuttings are used almost exclusively for propagating some indoor plants. There are several types of leaf cuttings.
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Annual flowers offer the gardener a chance to experiment with color, height, texture, and form. Besides providing a massive display of color, annuals are useful for filling spaces where perennial flowers have died, to cover areas where spring-flowering bulbs have died back, and to fill planters, window boxes, and hanging baskets. Annual flowers bloom more quickly and for a longer period than any other group of plants. They are easy to grow, sturdy, and relatively inexpensive.
An herb is any plant used whole or in part as an ingredient for health, flavor, or fragrance. Herbs can be used to make teas; perk up cooked foods such as meats, vegetables, sauces, and soups; or to add flavor to vinegars, butters, dips, or mustards. Many herbs are grown for their fragrance and are used in potpourris, sachets, and nosegays; or to scent bath water, candles, oils, or perfumes. More than 25% of our modern drugs contain plant extracts as active ingredients, and researchers continue to isolate valuable new medicines from plants and confirm the benefits of those used in traditional folk medicine.
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Bearded iris is a hardy, long-lived perennial that requires a minimum of maintenance. The flowers have six petals; three upright petals (called standards) and three hanging petals (called falls). A fuzzy line or beard runs down the middle of each fall. Flowers come in many colors including blue, pink, purple, reddish, white, yellow, and bi-colors. This leaflet offers some information on growing irises for the home garden.
If treated properly, many herb plants will survive in the garden for a number of years. Others are sensitive to frost or severe cold weather and must be brought indoors, protected, or replanted each year. Annual herbs will be killed with the first hard frost in the fall. Remove dead plants in order to minimize overwintering insects and disease problems. Some frost sensitive herbs, such as basil and geranium, can be brought indoors for the winter. Take cuttings to root or pot the entire plant.
The nutritional content, freshness, and flavor that vegetables possess depend upon the stage of maturity and the time of day at which they are harvested. Overly mature vegetables will be stringy and coarse. When possible, harvest vegetables during the cool part of the morning, and process or store them as soon as possible. If for some reason processing must be delayed, cool the vegetables in ice water or crushed ice, and store them in the refrigerator to preserve flavor and quality. The following guidelines can be used for harvesting vegetable crops.
Herbs should be harvested when the oils responsible for flavor and aroma are at their peak. Proper timing depends on the plant part you are harvesting and the intended use. Herbs grown for their foliage should be harvested before they flower. While chives are quite attractive in bloom, flowering can cause the foliage to develop an off-flavor. Harvest herbs grown for seeds as the seed pods change in color from green to brown to gray but before they shatter (open). Collect herb flowers, such as borage and chamomile, just before full flower. Harvest herb roots, such as bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and goldenseal, in the fall after the foliage fades.
Poinsettias are the traditional Christmas plant because of their colorful bracts. The bracts are actually modified leaves and the yellow cyathia in the center of the bracts are the true flowers. Plant breeders have introduced many new cultivars over the past few years and there are more than 100 cultivars currently available. The array of colors range from red, pink, white, salmon, to bicolors. With these new, longer lasting cultivars being available, it is possible for a properly cared for poinsettia to remain beautiful in the home for 2 to 3 months.
Mulching trees and shrubs is a good method to reduce landscape maintenance and keep plants healthy. Mulch helps conserve moisture - 10 to 25 percent reduction in soil moisture loss from evaporation. Mulches help keep the soil well aerated by reducing soil compaction that results when raindrops hit the soil. They also reduce water runoff and soil erosion. Mulches prevent soil and possible fungi from splashing on the foliage - thus reducing the likelihood of soil-borne diseases. They help maintain a more uniform soil temperature (warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer) and promote the growth of soil microorganisms and earth worms.
Two hydrangea species are native to the southeastern United States -- Hydrangea arborescens and Hydrangea quercifolia. Both are bold-textured, deciduous shrubs which produce small, fertile flowers. Many selections are considered more garden-worthy than the native species because they display large, sterile florets.


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On the 12wbt all of the exercise programs are at least 50 mins long and over the last few busy weeks I've found myself exercising a little less because of this. Exercise is much easier to fit in around a baby & work & well, life, when you are carving out a 30 min block, rather than 50 min. So after not exercising on boxing day for this very reason, I decided that at this point in my life there is nothing wrong with exercising for only 30mins each day. And I have fit in exercise the last two days in a row.
Monday - Earn Your Burn Michelle Bridges 50 min work out video - Lulu went back to sleep for two hours after a bottle at 5:15 so I had time to do the full 50min workout.
Tuesday - Christmas Day - Not on your life am I exercising on Christmas Day.
Wednesday - Boxing Day - No exercise on this day either
Thursday - nothing, not sure why, probably because I had no time to fit in the perfect 50 min workout
Friday - Week 3 of the 30 Day Shred - These workouts are only 30mins & I managed to do all of the advanced moves including half of the walking push ups. Had to do the other half at non-advanced level, but yay me for getting to the advanced level.
Saturday - Lulu woke up 5mins before the end of my workout after only having a 40 min nap. She was super tired so we went for a 2km walk to get her back to sleep. She, of course, only fell asleep when we were 500m from being back at our house.
How did you go with exercise this week? Of all the weeks of the year to take a break from exercising, this is probably it.


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Paul Parkinson
In 2009, Paul Parkinson suggested that Cornwall would be an ideal site for the 2010 Birthday Rides and CTC warmly accepted. Paul organised the publicity and arranged the event's centre at the Exeter University campus at Penryn. Accommodation and camping facilities were found and he obtained help from Falmouth Wheelers and CTC Cornwall to pre-test the rides.
350 attendees had to be registered at the start and Paul and his team made sure that CTC members from all over the country could find their way around. The extensive programme included talks, entertainment and films for each evening and Paul also organised a raffle raising over £1,000 for the local charity Shelter Box.
Thanks to Paul's drive and determination, the CTC Birthday celebration at Pendenis Castle was a huge triumph. The event was a credit to CTC and raised the profile for cycling tourism in Cornwall.


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Idaho Public Utilities Commission
May 30, 2008
Contact: Gene Fadness (208) 334-0339, 890-2712
Website: www.puc.idaho.gov
Commission adopts Idaho Power rate adjustments
State regulators today approved several rate adjustments to Idaho Power Co. customer bills that become effective Sunday.
The largest is an increase in the annual Power Cost Adjustment (PCA), which this year is a surcharge that increases rates for all customer classes by an average 10.7 percent. For residential customers, the increase is 8.45 percent.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission also approved an increase to base rates of 1.37 percent for $63.4 million in costs for the new Danskin natural gas plant near Mountain Home. There is also a 1 percent increase to the energy efficiency rider to fund an expansion to Idaho Power's demand-side management (DSM) programs. Finally, rates for residential and small-commercial customers will decrease by eight-tenths of 1 percent as a result of the Fixed Cost Adjustment.
Combining all four adjustments, an average residential customer who uses 1,050 kWh per month will see an increase of about $6.80 per month.
Power Cost Adjustment
IPC-E-08-07, Order No. 30563
Every year on June 1, customer rates are adjusted either up or down to reflect the Idaho Power's annual power supply costs, which vary from year to year depending on changes in Snake River stream flows and the market price of power. Snow pack and river flows from the winter of 2006-07 were below normal and reservoirs were low. In addition, temperatures broke the 100-degree mark 14 times in July alone. Idaho Power's record for customer demand was broken five times before setting an all-time high of 3,193 megawatts on July 13, 2007. Due to better snow during the winter of 2007-08, the forecast for next year is normal.
Due to lack of hydroelectric generation, Idaho Power had to go to the wholesale market and buy power. It had to fire up its natural gas peaker plants to meet load during those peak-use days. Consequently, the company spent about $163 million buying power and natural gas to serve its customers.
During some years, the PCA is a credit rather than a surcharge. During 2006, customers got an average 16 percent PCA credit. Unlike a change in base rates, which can increase company profits, the annual PCA surcharge or credit does not affect company profits. Revenues collected from the PCA are kept in a deferred account, audited by the commission, and used only to pay power supply and fuel expenses.
The impact of the PCA was mitigated slightly by a commission decision to apply about $16.5 million in revenue the company earned from its sale of surplus sulfur dioxide emissions credits toward reducing the PCA. Without that, the average PCA increase would have been about 12.8 percent.
The commission declined a request by the Industrial Customers of Idaho Power to spread recovery of this year's power supply expenses over three years. "As stated by the parties in this case, Idaho has experienced unprecedented drought and forecasts for water are, at best, uncertain. It is simply too risky, and potentially compounds the problem, to seek recovery from ratepayers across three future years," the commission said.
The commission said it remains concerned about the increased use of natural gas-fired peaking plants. "In previous orders, the commission has noted concerns with the volatility of natural gas prices. We are also increasingly concerned with the persistent high price of natural gas this year," the commission said. The commission asked the company to provide more information about Idaho Power's daily decisions on whether to run its gas-fired peaker plants to meet demand or to purchase wholesale power.
Danskin power plant
IPC-E-08-01, Order No. 30559
Danskin, part of the Evander Andrews Power Complex near Mountain Home, is a 170-megawatt natural gas plant scheduled to be in operation next week. Expenses related to plant construction totaled $56.7 million and expenses related to transmission and interconnection upgrades to deliver the power generated from the plant totaled $7.54 million.
A commission staff audit of contract costs and change order costs, as well as transmission and interconnection facilities costs, found them to be reasonably and prudently incurred. About $422,000 in anticipated plant costs were not able to be verified and thus removed from the company's original request.
Costs in this case do not include two components of anticipated transmission upgrades: a new Hubbard substation and a 230 kV transmission line between Danskin and the new substation. These are estimated to cost $19.5 million and may be included in a future rate case.
Energy efficiency rider
With today's order, the energy efficiency rider increases from 1.5 percent of base revenue to 2.5 percent. On an average customer bill, the increase is about 78 cents during the non-summer months and about $1 during June, July and August. This will allow Idaho Power to increase funding for conservation and efficiency funding from the current $9 million to $16 million.
The commission approved the rider increase because the company saves more in energy costs than it spends on the programs, benefiting all customers. "We commend the company for increasing its commitment to DSM programs that apparently are actually resulting in energy savings to customers," the commission said. "Even if the company's DSM program costs increase, all cost-effective DSM programs will delay the need to construct new, costly generating facilities."
Demand response programs are designed to reduce the actual megawatts the company needs at specific times of the day and year when electricity is in short supply and at high cost. Through the use of load control devices installed on customer meters, Idaho Power can reduce the amount of power it needs during peak periods when electricity is most expensive. Idaho Power was able to shave 57 megawatts of off peak demand during 2007. One megawatt is enough to power about 700 average-sized homes during the non-summer months and 350 average-sized homes during summer.
The surcharge also funds energy efficiency programs that reduce megawatt-hours consumed. These programs include cash incentives and information and services that aid in the construction of energy-efficient buildings and installation of energy-efficient appliances. During 2007, Idaho Power was able to reduce consumption by 91,145 megawatt-hours through energy efficiency programs.
Several organizations supported an increase in the rider including the Northwest Energy Coalition, the Renewable Northwest Project, the Idaho Conservation League and the Snake River Alliance.
The commission declined to approve Idaho Power's request to allow rider funds to be used for small-scale renewable projects, such as photovoltaic systems. The commission said it would need more information about the projects and their costs before allowing already limited rider funds to be directed toward them.
Fixed Cost Adjustment
IPC-E-08-04, Order No. 30556
To encourage utility investment in conservation, the commission last year authorized a three-year pilot program called the Fixed Cost Adjustment (FCA). The rationale for the FCA is that utilities aren't encouraged to promote energy efficiency among its customers when the company recovers its costs primarily though energy sales.
The FCA allows the company to recover costs through a surcharge if it under-collects fixed costs because of reduced electrical use. Conversely, if the company over-collects fixed costs, customers get a credit instead of a surcharge.
During 2007, the company claimed it over-collected $3.5 million from residential customers and under-collected $1.2 million from small-commercial customers. Thus, it proposed a 1.17 percent monthly rate credit for residential customers and a 3 percent monthly surcharge for small-commercial customers. Recovery of the full amount from small-commercial customers would require a 7.3 percent surcharge, but part of the FCA pilot program is a 3 percent cap on any increase.
Commission staff, however, said it could not endorse Idaho Power's fixed cost assumptions, largely because fixed costs per customer class were not established in the company's last rate case. Until a future rate case can more firmly verify fixed costs, the commission adopted the commission staff's proposal to split the net $2.4 million deferral balance (the $3.5 million over-collection for residential customers minus the $1.2 million under-collection for small-commercial) to both customer classes. The result is an approximate 0.8 percent rate decrease for both customer classes.
Commission orders are final, but interested parties may petition the commission for reconsideration on any of the orders by no later than June 20. Petitions must set forth specifically why the petitioner contends the order is unreasonable, unlawful or erroneous. Petitions should include a statement of the nature and quantity of evidence the petitioner will offer if reconsideration is granted.
Petitions can be delivered to the commission at 472 W. Washington St. in Boise, mailed to P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID, 83720-0074, or faxed to 208-334-3762.
A full text of the all the orders, along with other documents related to each case, are available on the commission's Web site at www.puc.idaho.gov. Click on "File Room" and then on "Electric Cases" and scroll down to the above case numbers.


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The liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. ends his column this way:
Which leads to this observation from Gingrich: "I think there's a real difference," he said, "between people who believed in the free market and people who go around, take financial advantage, loot companies, leave behind broken families, broken towns, people on unemployment." Yes, there are different kinds of capitalism.
Romney's victory speech suggested that he hopes that the campaign will be about whether President Obama wants to turn the United States into Europe. A more relevant discussion would be over what American capitalism is — and should be. Thanks to Gingrich and Perry, this debate is now unavoidable.
So it appears as if Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have done a masterful job of securing what most political strategists consider to be the key demographic in South Carolina's Republican Party: E.J. Dionne voters.
When Dionne, who is about as reliable a liberal and as passionate a supporter of Barack Obama as you'll find, is praising Republican politicians for their comments on capitalism, it tells you almost everything you need to know.
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In 1967 Pierre Paulin designed Le Chat. Its taut curves spring out of a single point. A design made with one flowing stroke of the pen. You feel the power of an animal ready to leap. But it's also inviting and completely shaped to the human body. Dynamic and yet restful. Reintroduced to the collection in 2007.
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Pierre Paulin
France, 1927 - 2009
Pierre Pauling was a French furniture designer and interior designer. His uncle Georges Paulin was a part-time automobile designer and invented the mechanical retractible hardtop. He was later executed by the Nazi's in 1941 as a hero of the French Resistance. After failing his Baccalauréat, he trained to become a ceramist in Vallaurius on the French Rivera and then as a stone-carver in Burgundy. Soon after, he injured his right arm in a fight, ending his dreams as a sculptor but attend the Ecole Camondo in Paris. He had a stint with the Gascoin company in Le Havre where he gained an interest in Scandinavian and Japanese design. He was famed for his innovative work with Artifort in the 1960s and interior design in the 70's.
At the time, his chair designs were considered very modern and unique and kick started the successes of his designs among the younger population. Even today, his pieces are still being made and are sought after at auctions.
Pierre Paulin had his debut exhibition at the Salon des arts ménagers in 1953. Afterwards, his would appear on the cover of the magazine La Maison Française. A year later he would be employed by the Thonet company and began experimenting with stretching swimwear materials over traditionally made chairs. Around 4 years later he would join the Maastricht-based Dutch manufacturers Artifort. Working at Artifort he would become famous worldwide with his Mushroom chair (1960). At his time working for Artifort, Paulin quoted "It represented the first full expression of my abilities. I considered the manufacture of chairs to be rather primitive and I was trying to think up new processes" he said in 2008, he worked with foams and rubbers from Italy all worked around a light metallic frame. He would then use a new stretch material over the chair. His designs were focused on applied design rather than focusing on form with comfort as his chair's starting-point. The combination of these materials made Paulin's chair designs made rounder, and comfortable shapes that are still being used in chairs today.
During the 70's and 80's he was invited to decorate and furnish several important places for important people. He redecorated the living, dining, smoking and exhibition rooms of the Elysée's private apartments for Pompidou in 1971. In 1983 he furnished the office of François Mitterrand. In 1979 he launched his own consultancy and worked for Calor, Ericsson, Renault, Saviem, Tefal, Thomson and Airbus.In 1994 he would retire to the Cévennes in southern France but would still continue on designing furniture. He died on the 13th of June, 2009 in a hospital in Montpellier, France.


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On this Saturday, I'm going into my closest Amoeba Music, and I'm buying a CD. For the same reason I am going into my local bookstore to get an art book from them: I look around our communities, and I am tired of empty store fronts. So on days like this, when I think of the people at all these locally owned and independent record stores, my heart warms. Local jobs, here in our neighborhoods, keeping the flavor of life vibrant.
There's lots to do today in all the Amoebas, here's a link to check out the cool stuff. If you're not in California, check out the official website for RECORD STORE DAY. No matter what, you'll find something cool and beautiful. Just like you.
Paul McCartney :
There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store. When I recently played Amoeba in LA, I realised what fantastic memories such a collection of music brings back when you see it all in one place. This is why I'm more than happy to support Record Store Day and I hope that these kinds of stores will be there for us all for many years to come. Cheers!
Joan Jett
The indie record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose owners and staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.


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Sandusky Lee's 600 Series Classic Teacher's Desk is an attractive, space-maximizing solution. Instructors will appreciate the three roomy drawers with a central locking system. The full extension file drawer fits hanging folders, the box drawer includes a divider and the center drawer stores small supplies. The desk features rounded corners and vinyl edges for safety. A 6" rear overhang makes conferencing with students easy. Adjustable leg levelers ensure the steel desk is even on any floor. Sandusky Lee's 600 Series Classic Teacher's Desk comes with a one-year manufacturer's warranty.
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- Three locking drawers
- Student conferencing overhang
- Adjustable desk levelers
- Pedestal: Single
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- Frame Finish: Powder coat
- Desktop Material: Laminate
- Width: 48"
- Depth: 30"
- Overhang: 6"
- Height: 29 1/2"
- Warranty: 1 year
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- Warranty: 1 year
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Homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Here's a yummy recipe for yeast bread that doesn't require kneading! The cereal in it adds moisture and a slight crunch, and the swirled cinnamon filling looks and tastes good.
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + rising Bake: 40 min.
Makes2 loaves
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1 cup warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup uncooked Malt-O-Meal cereal
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 to 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- In a bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add milk, butter, egg, cereal, sugar, salt and 2 cups flour; mix until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Do not knead. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/4 hours.
- Punch dough down; divide in half. Roll each portion into a 12x7-in. rectangle. Brush with egg white.
- Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over rectangles. Starting with a short side, roll up tightly and seal edges. Place each in a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Bake at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to cool on wire racks.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 120 calories, 3g fat (2g saturated fat), 15mg cholesterol, 185mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
Originally published as Cinnamon Swirl Bread in Country Woman Christmas 1999


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The Egyptian pound has lost 10 percent of its value against the dollar in the last six months, with its slide especially sharp in September, financial sources said Sunday.
The pound dropped from 3.48 to the dollar in April to 3.62 at the end of August before sliding to 3.87 on October 1, according to exchange bureau rates quoted by the EFG-Hermes financial house.
The Egyptian currency has traditionally been pegged to the greenback at 3.4 to the dollar.
The decline translates into a depreciation of 10.07 percent over six months, and 6.4 percent in September alone, the figures revealed.
The currency's depreciation is less drastic according to the rate set in the state-run banks.
It declined from 3.44 pounds to the dollar in April to 3.55 at the end of August, then dropped to 3.54 at the end of September, which amounts to a depreciation of around three percent in six months.
By letting the pound slide, the Egyptian government is seeking to give flexibility to the market to ease a year-long liquidity crisis, an EFG-Hermes analyst told AFP in August.
The decline of the Egyptian currency boosts exports, which rose to $1.1 billion in the first quarter of 2000 compared to $800 million in the first quarter of the previous year.
President Hosni Mubarak said at the end of April that the country was suffering from a liquidity crisis because of excessive spending on infrastructure projects, state banks' bad loans, a flight of capital and a lack of investment from abroad .— (AFP)
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