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"I've never been taught defense in my whole career," said Amar'e Sotudemire before gushing about current coach Mike Woodson's success with the New York Knicks, who are 22-10 under him this season. "Just having a defensive coach for the first time in my career is going to help."
While Mike D'Antoni was glad that Amar'e Stoudemire was catching up with the defensive side of the game, he refused to take accountability.
"I think it's great that he's listening… You know, if he's learning, great. He needs it. That would be super,' said Mike D'Antoine on Friday. "Hopefully, that's another step he can take forward and help his game."
"I don't think he meant it bad," Mike D'Antoni, who still felt the concealed sharp edges in Amar'e Stoudemire's comments. "But it's mind boggling."
I mean, come on. He just threw Frank Johnson, myself, Alvin Gentry and actually Mike Woodson (under the bus)," Mike D'Antoni continued making a stand that Amar'e Stoudemire failed to make the most of previous coaches as well. "Was (Woodson) saving the good stuff? Because he coached him eight months and he was the defensive coach."
"So it was like, 'You know, I won't tell him that, I'll save that until I really coach him.' It doesn't make any sense," added Mike D'Antoni. "Anyway, a lot of times players will say things just to say things. I have a good relationship with him. He's a good guy and I hope him the best."
The 12-year veteran Amar'e Stoudemire served five seasons with the Phoenix Suns as well as a season and a half with the New York Knicks under Mike D'Antoni's coaching. In truth, Mike D'Antoni has never been known for his lock-down defense.
The Phoenix Suns were averaging 94.4 points allowed per game during Amar'e Stoudemire's rookie season, when Mike D'Antoni took over months later. Over the next four seasons, the Phoenix Suns ranked 20th or below in scoring defense. However, it may have much to do with Mike D'Antoni's fast paced offense, with little-to-no defensive backing since the higher number of possessions tipped the scales of the opponents points allowed per game. Additionally, although Amar'e Soudemire's four All-Stars came under Mike D'Antoni and stirred no issues in the pick-and-roll sequence with Steve Nash in Phoenix, he was known for a weakness on defensive side of the ball, often looked lost on rotations and lacked the energy to matchup competition inside the paint.
During Amar'e Stoudemire's first season with the New York Knicks, in NBA team defense after allowing 105.7 point per game. As for the last eight games under Mike D'Antoni's tutelage, the New York Knicks were 107.7 points per game.
Mike D'Antoni has carried his desire to often overlook the defensive aspect of the game to Los Angeles, where the Lakers rank last in the league in terms of defensive transition points allowed.
Depending on the way you see it, the argument could go both ways, especially with the numbers backing up Amar'e Stoudemire, but it definitely would have been better for Stoudemire if he'd shown some spark at rebounding.


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While Dallas Cowboys superstar WR Dez Bryant was able to get back on the practice field after getting a day of rest yesterday, Miles Austin was absent from practice today after being able to practice on a limited basis yesterday. Austin has had a history of hamstring issues in his career, and he suffered a hamstring injury in Week 3 against the St. Louis Rams that has been much worse than initially expected. It looked like a simple one-week injury at first glance, but Austin has been extremely ineffective since coming back from the injury after initially missing a couple of games.
In fact, Miles Austin hasn't even recorded a reception since the injury, and it's clear that this latest hamstring issue is really hurting his productivity. The Cowboys coaching staff is reportedly considering shutting down Austin altogether until he is fully healthy, and I wonder if they have already starting doing that. I mean, they have decided to hold him out of practice today after he was able to practice yesterday, and they have already been doing everything they can to manage his practice reps since the injury first occurred.
The incredible play of Baylor rookie and top deep threat Terrance Williams, as well as breakout slot WR Cole Beasley has rendered Miles Austin a luxury in the Cowboys offense. Austin was usually just a possession receiver on the outside for Tony Romo, but Romo now has an elite wideout in Bryant, two chain-movers between the numbers in Jason Witten and Beasley, and a speed demon in Williams. Austin will still have a role with the offense when he comes back, but it will be a diminished one; he's not as important as he used to be due to his hamstring issues and the rise of two WRs. As Austin misses more games and as those two continue to succeed, the cries from Cowboys fans for a trade will continue to get louder.
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'House of Lords Journal Volume 10: 10 May 1648', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 10: 1648-1649 (1767-1830), pp. 250-252. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32805 Date accessed: 31 October 2014.
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DIE Mercurii, 10 die Maii.
Collection for Dublin College.
Message from the H.C. with an Ordinance.
Letter to be wrote to the D. of Lorrain.
Additional Ordinance, concerning the Admiralty Jurisdiction.
Ly. Lyttleton versus Smith, Booth, &c.
Reduced Officers Petition:
Message to the H. C. with it; and for a Letter to be sent to the D. of Lorrain.
Leonard, presented to Denford, to be examined by the Assembly.
Ordinance to rectify superstitious Habits and Customs in the Universities.
Ld. Goring a pass;
and Seymour.
Fisher and Blaithwayte.
E. of Northton, a Witness in Rawleigh and Vivers' Cause.
Scots Desires.
Bowles to be instituted to Stanstead;
and Thomas to Plaxton.
Order for 500£. for Bristol.
Ly. Littleton versus Smith, Morris, Booth, & al.
Gifford to be instituted to Geyton;
and Goodricke to Overston.
PRAYERS, by Mr. Ash.
Domini præsentes fuerunt:
Comes Manchester, Speaker.
Upon reading the Petition of the Ministers of London; desiring, "That some Collection may be made, for
the College of Dublin, in Ireland:"
It is Ordered, That there shall be a Collection in
the City of London, for the supplying the Necessity of
that College.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
To desire Concurrence in an Ordinance concerning
Bristoll. (Here enter it.)
Agreed to.
The Answer returned was:
That this House agrees in the Ordinance now
The Earl of Warwicke reported a Paper from the
Committee of Foreign Affairs, concerning the Business
of the Duke of Lorraine; which was read, with a
Paper concerning the Matter of Fact:
(Here enter them.)
It is Ordered, That the Committee of Foreign Affairs (fn. *) do write a Letter to the Duke of Lorraine, in Answer to his Letter; and that the Matter of Fact now
read be sent in it; and the Concurrence of the House
of Commons to be desired herein.
The Earl of Warwicke reported from the Committee,
an (fn. †) additional Ordinance concerning the Jurisdiction of
the Admiralty; which being read Once, it is ordered
to be committed to the Committee of the whole House,
to be taken into Consideration To-morrow Morning, at
which Time the Judges are to be present.
Upon reading the Petition of Dame Audrey Poyntz,
alias Littleton: (Here enter it.)
It is Ordered, That Isabell Smyth, now a Prisoner in
the Prison of Newgate by Judgement of this House,
shall be committed, and removed from Newgate, to the
Prison of The Gatehouse at Westm. there to remain close
Prisoner, in the same Condition as now she stands committed to Newgate: And it is Ordered, That Andrew
Booth, Under Keeper of Newgate, shall appear forthwith before this House, to answer the said Charge
against him; and that Mr. Ryly, Officer of the Records
in The Tower, shall give an Account to this House, how
the forged Parchment came into his Office; and that
he forthwith bring the said Parchment into this
(fn. ‡) House.
Upon reading the Petition of many Reduced Officers:
It is Ordered, That this Petition be specially recommended to the House of Commons.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Dr. Bennitt and Dr. Aylett:
1. To deliver to them the Report, and the State of
the Matter of Fact, concerning the Duke of Lorraine's
Business; and desire their Concurrence, that it may be
referred to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, (fn. ||) to prepare a Draught of a Letter to be sent to the Duke of
Lorraine, in an Answer to his, and the same reported
to this House.
2. To recommend to them the Petition of the Reduced Officers.
Ordered, That Arthur Leonard Clerk, being presented by the Countess of Peterburgh to the Church of
Denford cum Ringsted, in Com. North'ton, is hereby referred to the Examination of the Assembly of Divines
fitting at Westm. who are to certify their Opinion to this
House, concerning his Abilities and Conversation.
An Ordinance was brought in, for rectifying many
superstitious Habits and Customs in the Universities;
and, being read, was committed to the Consideration of
these Lords following:
Any Three; to meet when they please.
Ordered, That the Lord Goringe shall have a Pass,
to go out of England.
Ordered, That Mr. Henry Seymour shall have a Pass,
to go over into France.
Ordered, That the Cause between Fisher and Blaithwayte shall be heard, the 26th of this Month, by Counsel on both Sides.
Ordered, That a Letter be written from this House
to the Earl of North'ton, to desire him that he would
please to come up to London, to be a Witness in the
Cause to be heard by this House, the 26th of this
Month, between George Rawleigh and Vivers, &c.; and
that his Lordship, in so doing, shall not suffer any Prejudice in coming and returning.
Ordered, That this House will take into Consideration the Scotch Demands on Friday Morning next.
Ordered, That Dr. Aylett give Institution and Induction unto Richard Bowles Clerk, Master of Arts, to
the Rectory of Stanstead, in Com. Kent; Salvo Jure, &c.:
Granted under the Great Seal.
Ordered, That Dr. Heath give Institution and Induction unto Wm. Thomas Clerk, Master of Arts, to
the Rectory of Plaxton, in Com. Kent; Salvo Jure, &c.:
Grant under Great Seal.
"Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled
in Parliament, That the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds
be charged upon the Moiety of the Receipts of the
Excise (not engaged, in Course), with Interest for
the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Centum
payable every Six Months, to be employed for Reparations and other necessary Occasions at Bristoll; and
that the Principal, and Forbearance as it shall grow
due, be paid unto Jeremiah Hallaway, or his Assigns:
And the Commissioners of Excise for the Time being
are hereby authorized and required to make Payment
of the said Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, with Interest as aforesaid, accordingly; and the Receipt of
the said Jeremiah Hallaway, or his Assigns, shall be
their sufficient Discharge in that Behalf."
"To the Right Honourable the Lords in the High
Court of Parliament assembled.
"The humble Petition of Dame Awdrey
Poyntz Littleton, late Wife of Sir Adam
Poyntz Littleton Baronet, deceased;
"That whereas your Lordships were pleased, by
your Order of the 7th of October last, to commit one
Isabell Smith close Prisoner to Newgate, for forging
an Exemplification of a pretended Act of Parliament
under the Great Seal of England, thereby to restrain
her from further Prosecution of her former lewd
Practices, whereof she was found guilty, and sentenced
by your Lordships.
"Yet, notwithstanding, the Keeper of the said Prison, one Andrew Booth, taking Part with and justifying the said Isabell Smith, John Morris, and others
of that Party, as innocent, whom your Lordships
upon just Grounds have adjudged guilty, doth permit her the said Isabell (the most restless and wicked
Spirit of all the rest) to be at Liberty; whereby
your Lordships said Order is utterly frustrated, and
she still encouraged in her Wickedness: Whereof
your Petitioner's Son taking Notice did, in a civil
Way, admonish the said Booth, and pressed Obedience
to your Lordships said Order; but he, vilifying the
same, did, in Contempt thereof, after much ill Language, assault and strike your Petitioner's said Son.
"Since which, the said Isabell hath been at The
Tower (together with the said Booth and others their
Confederates), where a late Forgery is shuffled in,
and, as your Petitioner hath great Cause to believe,
either by the said Isabell Smith or And. Booth, it being
the very same in Substance, and almost in Terminis,
with the Forgeries already damned by your Lordships, which she the said Isabell foisted into the Court
of Wards, and written with the very same Hand; by
Means whereof, the said Parties do still unlawfully
procure and deceive divers People of great Sums of
Money, [ (fn. *) and had the Impudence] to bring Four
Causes to be tried at the last Assizes in Essex, notwithstanding the Sentence which your Lordships pronounced upon them, and ordered to be published
there in the Face of the County, where he the said
Andrew Booth, William Penred, Gabriell Marriott,
Abell Tash, and such as they had procured, came to
countenance and uphold the said Forgeries, and (as
much as in them lay) to suppress and quash your
Lordships said Order, with Imputations of Injustice
and Oppression.
"And now lately, (videlicet,) 5 Maii Instant, the
said Booth, with the said Isabell Smith, Wm. Penred,
Gabriell Marriott, and their other Partakers, have,
in a forcible and riotous Manner, entered into the
Houses of divers of your Petitioner's Tenants, in
Bevis Marks, London, and, by Menaces and Threats,
have compelled some of them to acknowledge themselves indebted in great Sums of Money, upon Pretence of Rent due to the said Morris, which he hath
no Colour to demand but by these damned Forgeries;
but the said Monies are in Truth to be paid to the
said Booth, to satisfy such Debts as are owing to him
by the said Isabell, and reimburse what he hath advanced and procured to maintain and defend this
forged Title: And such of the said Tenants as would
not acknowledge themselves so indebted had their
Goods, by Force and strong Hand, taken away by the
said Parties.
"Now, in regard the said Keeper, to whose close
Custody a Prisoner of that Nature was committed (chiefly to restrain her in her wicked
Courses), hath not only, after divers Admonitions, in Contempt of this Honourable House,
let her go at Liberty, but hath himself also
gone along with and assisted her to execute
her wicked Purposes, which of herself perhaps she could not bring to pass, whereby
vexatious Suits are set on-foot and maintained, to your Petitioner's great Trouble
and Expence;
"Therefore your Petitioner's most humble
Suit is, That the said Booth may forthwith answer this his high Contempt and
Misdemeanor; and that the said Isabell
may be removed to some other Prison,
where she may be more safely kept; or
else some other Person (who will give
better Obedience to your Lordships Orders) may be appointed Keeper of the
said Prison; and that, by your Lordships Order, the Forgery so shuffled into
The Tower may be brought into this
Honourable House, which appearing to
be as gross as any of the former Forgeries, may be likewise damned and canceled.
"And your Petitioner shall pray, &c.
"Audrey Poyntz Litleton."
Ordered, That Dr. Heath do give Institution and Induction unto Richard Gifford Master of Arts, to the Rectory of Geyton, in the County of North'ton, void by the
Death of William Berkett, the last Incumbent there;
Salvo Jure cujuscunque: Presentation under the Hand
and Seal of Sir Richard Samuell Knight, Patron.
Ordered, That Dr. Heath do give Institution and
Induction unto Lyonell Goodricke Master of Arts, to the
Rectory of Overstone, in the County of North'ton, void
by the Resignation of Henry Wilkinson, the last Incumbent; Salvo Jure cujuscunque: Presentation thereunto
under the Hand and Seal of Carewe Harvy, alias Mildmay, Patron.
House adjourned till 10a cras.
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On Monday our pal Corey Pronman published his "midseason top-50 NHL prospects" list (Insider only) over at ESPN, and three Canucks prospects made the list (or two did, and a third player was an honourable mention). While CanucksArmy favorites Ludwig Blomstrang and Brendan Gaunce were inexcusably snubbed (and now Pronman has to fight Tom Sestito, which sucks for him); Frank Corrado, Bo Horvat and Hunter Shinkaruk all made cameo appearances in the top-50.
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For fans of the team, Vancouver's power-play has been extraordinarily frustrating to watch this season (and for a couple years now, truth be told). While the Canucks are generating shots-a-plenty with the man-advantage - in fact they're generating 5-on-4 shots at an elite rate this season - the finish just hasn't been there. The club ranks in the bottom-10 in the league in percentage of converted power-play opportunities after 46 games, a ghastly number that makes zero sense when you consider the skill possessed by the club's top-end personnel.
Some of the club's lack of power-play success is a result of pure, unadulterated bad luck; and indeed Vancouver's 5-on-4 team shooting percentage is second worst in the league. While the puck has begun to bounce in Vancouver's favour somewhat more often over the past month, and will probably continue to do so, I tend to think there's more going on here than just "bad bounces".
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Yesterday we took a glance around the league and looked at how 15 former Canucks forwards were performing. Though there were a few useful pieces scattered between St. Louis and Long Island, and a couple of other quality depth players in Toronto, San Jose and Dallas, overall the team hasn't lost too much of value upfront over the past few years.
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With the New Year now upon us and with Sami Salo having been fondly welcomed back to Rogers Arena on Wednesday night, we figured we'd heed that age old call from Robbie Burns and take a brief look at how ex-Canucks skaters are performing around the league this season.
We'll do it as a series, actually, with a post today on ex-Canucks forward and then another post on ex-Canucks defensemen and goaltenders tomorrow. Read on past the jump.
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It wasn't pretty and it certainly wasn't exciting (for the most part), but the Vancouver Canucks got the job done with a 2-0 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. Vancouver's NHL club looked a bit rusty early on - especially on a painful five minute power-play opportunity early in the contest - and a couple of defensemen, most notably Andrew Alberts, got banged up; but otherwise it was a quality return to action for the team following a week long Christmas break.
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Google stock in weird, spurious plunge to $200 mark
For traders still reeling from Monday's massacre on Wall Street, it must have looked like manna from heaven: shares of Google for as low as $200. Alas, it turned out to be a cruel mirage after Nasdaq OMX, which operates the Nasdaq Stock Market, canceled a block of transactions in late trading and reset the closing price to $400. …
It's Osama Bin Virus attacking the stock market! I swear it is!!!!!!11oneone
It took Bin Laden seven years, but he finally got his suicide cyber bombers to attack the stock market and mess with Google and with Rohm & Haas.
I hope they enjoy their seventy-two cyber-virgins in cyber-valhalla or whatever.
OK seriously, nice to see human errors from another exchange in play on this one. Who needs Osama Bin Virus when we have real people?
sounds awfully high :)
They are normally about 70 bucks, with a market cap of about 13.5 billion.
So that was a quick way to raise about 19,000 billion or 19 trillion.
That would clear the US national debt twice over and still have change for a couple of hot fudge sundaes and a banana split :)
Alternatively, in an unheard of moment of sanity, the market started to approximate Google's true worth. But someone got to it before the price actually got there.
@Gordon Fecyk
I think it was Fred MacAulay on Mock the Week (a UK current affairs comedy programme on BBC for those outside the UK) who said:
Al-Qaeda must be kicking themselves, they've spent years blowing themselves up tring to bring about the fall of Western Capitalism and it turns out all they had to do was take out a few mortgages.
(I also heard it on Clive Anderson's Chat Room).
Hopefully they heard that comment as it might stop our idiotic politicians going on about saving us from the Evil Ones(TM).
Pleasing symmetry
Last month: Airline share prices whacked by "erroneous" items, thanks to an automated system run by Google.
This month: Google share prices whacked by "erroneous" items, thanks to an automated system run by the stock exchange.
Next month: RoTM makes share prices irrelevant ?
naked shorting and hacks ?
So which aspects of these markets can't be hacked for profit in the current situation where taxpayers are being taken for $700,000,000,000 dollars in the US and banks can devour other banks with full impunity from the monopolies and mergers commission in the UK ?
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This project is devoted to significantly extending the limits of hydrogen storage technology for practical transportation applications. To meet the capacity goals set forth by the DOE for hydrogen storage systems, solid-state materials consisting of light elements are being developed. Although light-metal hydrides have compelling gravimetric and volumetric capacity advantages, two major hurdles that must be overcome before those materials are acceptable for on-board reversible hydrogen storage applications. First, in contrast to the delocalized metallic bonding that characterizes transition metal hydrides, the chemical bonds in light metal hydrides are predominately covalent, polar covalent, or ionic. These bonds are often strong, resulting in unacceptably high thermodynamic stability and therefore, low equilibrium hydrogen pressures. Second, the high directionality of the covalent/ionic bonds in these systems leads to large activation barriers for atomic motion, resulting in prohibitively slow hydrogen sorption kinetics and, therefore, limited reversibility.
We are addressing the thermodynamics challenge through the use of hydride destabilization strategies in which alloy or compound formation in the dehydrogenated state reduces the overall energy for the reacting system, resulting in an increase in equilibrium pressure. Although a system that meets all of the thermodynamic requirements has not yet been demonstrated, hydride destabilization provides a compelling approach to developing a materials system that meets those goals. In addition to the experimental efforts being conducted in this project to investigate the changes in thermodynamics that accompany destabilization of binary and complex hydrides, theory and modeling efforts by project team members are being used to identify new systems and predict how destabilization will alter the thermodynamic properties of those systems.
The slow hydrogen sorption kinetics in light-metal systems poses an even more challenging problem. The project team is exploring approaches that employ nanoscale materials to reduce diffusion distances, thereby increasing rates for hydrogen exchange. Hydrogen sorption kinetics are being investigated in nanoscale systems formed by both "top-down" (e.g. mechanical attrition by energetic ball-milling) and "bottom-up" (e.g. gas condensation, chemical vapor synthesis) processes, and combinatorial methods are being used to evaluate the effects of nanoscale catalysts on the hydrogen exchange rates in wide range of destabilized hydrides. Basic studies of hydrogen transport and phase formation in nanoscale light metal hydrides are being conducted using thin-film model systems, and methods for incorporating metal hydride reactants into nanoporous "scaffold" structures (e.g. carbon aerogels) are being investigated. For example, Figure 1 shows thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data that illustrate reduction in the dehydrogenation temperature of LiBH4 when the material is confined within nanoporous carbon scaffold structures with different pore sizes. Studies are currently being conducted to optimize the scaffold and to incorporate hydride destabilization agents and catalysts into the framework. In all aspects of this project, the experimental work is being supported by advanced diagnostic capabilities to probe material structure, phase formation dynamics, and hydrogen sorption behavior in the destabilized hydride systems.
Figure 1. Thermogravimetric analysis of LiBH4 dehydrogenation. Data are shown for LiBH4 mixed with nonporous graphite, and incorporated into 13 and 26 nm pore size carbon aerogels and activated carbon.
A summary of the participants and the R&D activities in the Destabilized Hydride project is provided in Table 1. The project comprises 11 organizations within the MHCoE with expertise in experimental studies, theory and modeling, and materials and process diagnostics. The team is currently focusing on three major areas: 1) new destabilized systems, 2) kinetics, and 3) advanced diagnostics and characterization.
Table 1. Participants and research activities in Project A, Destabilized Hydrides
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HRL Labs
Greg Olson, John Vajo
LiBH4-based destabilized systems
U. Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon U., U. Illinois
Karl Johnson(Pitt) David Sholl (CMU) Duane Johnson (UIUC)
Theory and modeling (mainly DFT): thermodynamics and new systems
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Caltech, JPL
Channing Ahn, Bob Bowman
Ca alanate systems
HRL Labs
Greg Olson, John Vajo
Nanostructured materials, scaffold systems, sorption behavior of nanoscale materials
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Bruce Clemens
Thin film model system, nanoscale structure and kinetics modeling
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Combinatorial studies, nanoparticle synthesis, catalysis screenin
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Zak Fang, H.Y. Sohn
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Channing Ahn
Nanoparticles by gas condensation
U. Hawaii
Craig Jensen
Novel catalysts
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Terry Udovic
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Channing Ahn, Bob Bowman
Stanford U.
Bruce Clemens
Synchrotron x-ray diffraction
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Ian Robertson
in situ TEM
Sandia Natl Labs
Ewa Ronnebro
High pressure P-C-T measurements
Some selected recent presentations and publications on work conducted by team members in the MHCoE Destabilized Hydrides Project are given below.
Sudhakar V. Alapati, J. Karl Johnson, and David S. Sholl, "Identification of Destabilized Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage Using First Principles Calculations", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, 8769-8776 (2006).
R.C. Bowman, Jr., S.-J. Hwang, C. C. Ahn, A. Dailly, J. J. Vajo, T. J. Udovic, M. Hartman, and J. J. Rush, "Studies of Thermodynamics and Phases Produced in the Destabilized LiH-Si System", invited presentation: Nordic Energy Research Meeting, Krusenberg, Sweden, 17-18 June 2005.
R. C. Bowman, Jr., S-J. Hwang, C. C. Ahn, A. Dailly, M. R. Hartman, T. J. Udovic, J. J. Rush, and J. J. Vajo, "Reversibility and Phase Compositions of Destabilized Hydrides Formed from LiH", Spring 2006 Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 2006.
B.M. Clemens, "Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage," invited presentation: Fall 2005 Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December 2005.
A.F. Gross, J.J. Vajo, S.L. Skeith, and G.L Olson, "Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Properties of Metal Hydrides using Nanoporous Carbon Scaffolds" atAmerican Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA (March 27-31, 2006).
M. R. Hartman, T. J. Udovic, J. J. Rush, R. C. Bowman, Jr., J. J. Vajo, and C. C. Ahn "Neutron Scattering Investigations of a Destabilized LiH:Si System for Hydrogen Storage Applications," Fall 2005 Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, December, 2005.
J. Karl Johnson, S. V. Alapati, B. Dai, D.S. Sholl "Computational Study of Metal Hydride Destabilization" invited presentation: American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March, 2006.
U. R. Kattner, "A Thermodynamic Database for Metal-Hydrogen Systems," Plenary presentation: TMS 135th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 2006.
J.J. Vajo, "Destabilization of Strongly Bound Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage Applications" Invited presentation at Gordon Research Conference Hydrogen-Metal Systems, Waterville, ME, July, 2005.
J.J. Vajo, T.T. Salguero, A.F. Gross, S.L. Skeith, and G. L. Olson, "Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Destabilized Hydride Systems", Invited presentation: Spring 2006 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 2006.
John J. Vajo and Gregory L. Olson, "Hydrogen Storage in Destabilized Chemical Systems", Invited "Viewpoint Set" article, to be published in Scripta Materialia.
N. Zarkevich, A. S. Alapati, D.D. Johnson, "First-principles prediction, and proper comparison to experiment, of enthalpies and van't Hoff plots of complex metal-hydride destabilized hydrogen-storage reactions," submitted to J. Phys. Chem. B (Letters), May 2006.


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I went to the theater and saw both Wall-E and Hellboy II and both experiences reinforced why the only truly enjoyable theater experiences I have anymore are at art house cinemas.
The theaters were noisy and disruptive. Teenagers have better things to do than sit silent for a movie screen. Laser pointers thankfully turned off during the space between the opening and closing credits. People getting up to go get over-priced popcorn.
You'd kind of hope that the atmosphere of a movie theater would actually be somewhat conducive to watching movies. The only place I find that anymore to be true is in the theaters running indie and foreign films.
While a lot of times, I'd like to go to the theater, I'm rarely all that broken up over missing a film and having to wait for DVD.
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I am ridiculously interested in the caduceus but I can't find anything about why it would be on the uniform or what the other symbols stand for.
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Pistons: 6-13
Magic: 14-4
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Las Vegas projection
Spread: Pistons +4.5
Over/under: 185
Score: Magic win, 97-88
Three things to watch
1. A new rotation
Keith Langlois of Pistons.com:
Pistons starting lineup WILL NOT change for tonight, Kuester says, but rotation will. Shorter? No. Combinations will change, he said.
The starters will be the same. The same number of guys will play.
But some of the backups might be different. Or everyone might be played in different combinations. Or…
This is too broad, and there's really no point of speculating. We'll just have to see what happens.
2. Marcin Gortat
Dwight Howard will miss tonight's game with a stomach virus, according to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel. The illness will also keep Mickael Pietrus out, and Jameer Nelson and J.J. Redick are questionable.
On the bright side, that should increase the Pistons' chances of winning.
On the downside, defending Dwight Howard was the a bright spot in the Pistons' loss to the Magic on Tuesday. Detroit won't get the chance to repeat that tonight.
I'd say the bright side outweighs the downside.
3. Point-guard duties
Expanding from the end of their loss to the Knicks, the Pistons gave Tayshaun Prince the responsibility of initiating the offense once the Pistons got into the halfcourt against the Magic on Tuesday.
Detroit went away from that strategy against the Heat on Wednesday. Tonight, we'll get a better idea what the Pistons want to do.
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Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic beat teenage qualifier Annika Beck of Germany 6-1, 6-1 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Luxembourg Open. Hradecka has never won a singles title but was runner-up in Quebec City last month. She next faces either second-seeded Julia Goerges of Germany or Romania's Monica Niculescu. Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain made it into...
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Flipkens and Hradecka Move into Québec City Final
BELL CHALLENGE Québec City, Canada September 10-16, 2012 $220,000/International Hard/Indoors Results – Saturday, September 15, 2012 Singles – Semifinals Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d. (3) Mona Barthel (GER) 76(6) 76(3) (8) Lucie Hradecka (CZE) d. (Q) Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 75 76(5) Doubles – Semifinals (3) Malek/Mladenovic (GER/FRA) d. Dabrowski/Riske (CAN/USA) 63 61 Order Of...
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Serena Williams, Andrea Hlavackova/Lucie Hradecka and Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond qualify for WTA Year End Championships
Serena Williams (photo from FamilyCircleCup.com) NEW YORK, NY, USA – The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that Serena Williams and the doubles teams of Andrea Hlavackova/Lucie Hradecka and Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond have qualified for this year's TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, which will be staged at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. The WTA's...
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American wild card Burdette into US Open 3rd round
American Mallory Burdette is through to the third round of the U.S. Open in her Grand Slam debut. The 252nd-ranked Stanford All-American beat Lucie Hradecka 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday. The 21-year-old from Georgia was this year's NCAA singles runner-up to teammate Nicole Gibbs. Burdette got in on a wild card as the American woman who earned the most points on the USTA Pro Circuit...
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August 29, 2012 | Discuss
Czechs top Russia for 1st Fed Cup title since 1988
MOSCOW - The Czech Republic won its first Fed Cup title in 23 years on Sunday after Lucie Hradecka and Kveta Peschke...
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Doubles win gives Czechs first Fed Cup title since 1988
Lucie Hradecka and veteran doubles specialist Kveta Peschke beat Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-2 in the decisive doubles match Sunday to secure a 3-2 win for the Czech Republic over Russia in the Fed Cup final.
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Courtesy AAxanderrOf course, by "the skies," I mean "space." And by "eyes," I mean "money." "China" means "China," though.
So, by "China sets its money on space," I mean that China has announced its intentions to court that sweet maiden (or charming lad) we call space. (Also, it turns out that I like space travel/dating analogies quit a bit.)
China, already one of only three countries to send a human to space (after Mother Russia and the United States of Awesmerica), has big plans to expand its space program in coming years. While the US is cutting back its program, China intends to launch manned vessels, freighters, and space stations in just the next five years. (Space stations, plural, seems kind of strange to me, but that's what the article said.)
China's space program is run by the country's military, which freaks some folks out, but China claims that the venture is purely scientific, and, being one of the big boy countries, it's eager to make its own contributions to space exploration. Also, and this is a rough translation from the original Chinese, it has all this money, and the cool kids all have (or had) sweet space programs, so ….
Despite the impressive goals and Chinas recent rapid progress in space exploration, spokespeople acknowledge that China has a lot of work yet to do to get to the level of Russia's and the USA's space programs, seeing as how those institutions have a 50-year head start. So if you're feeling defensive or jealous, you can keep that in mind.
But are you feeling defensive or jealous? Or are you just excited that more people will be going to space, and more science will be happening up there?
Courtesy NASAVoyager 1, an unmanned NASA space probe is nearing the outer edge of our solar system and will soon enter the vast, unknown region known as interstellar space. The crossover will remove the spacecraft from the influence of solar winds (from our Sun), into a relatively empty expanse of cold space influenced mostly by countering pressures created by supernovae, collapsed stars that died in immense catastrophic explosions. Voyager 1's primary mission, when it was launched 34 years ago on September 5, 1977, was to visit and photograph the giant gas planets in our solar system. It accomplished that goal and sent back spectacular images of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Right now Voyager 1 is about 11 billion miles from the sun, its cameras switched off, and poised for the next stage of its journey. The edge of the heliosphere is estimated to be somewhere between 10-14 billion miles from the Sun, so the probe could crossover anytime soon. NASA's Voyager program included two probes sent out with data gathering instruments and cultural souvenirs from the inhabitants of planet Earth, just in case they somehow got intercepted by some extraterrestrial lifeforms. Voyager 2, although launched two weeks before , trails some 2 billion miles behind Voyager 1, and will cross the boundary after its twin. You can read (and hear) more about it at the NPR website.
Courtesy NASANot a real dragon, of course. I mean, that would be awesome—just picture it, trying to fly around up there, starting things on fire and eating up all the astronaut food—but actual non-alien monsters in space never work out the way you would hope.
Don't believe me? I present to you exhibits A and B: Jason X and Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun in Space. Jason and Leprechaun were really out of place up there. Sure, they did a lot of damage, but so did I on Labor Day weekend. It's just a lot of confusion and flailing—nothing to get very excited about.
No, the dragon I'm referring to perhaps is something to get excited about. It depends on what sort of things get you worked up, but seeing as how this dragon, or Dragon, is a spaceship, I think I can put some good money on somebody out there getting excited. A spaceship!
We clever humans have made plenty of spaceships, but what's special about Dragon is that it's the first commercially-built and –operated spacecraft to be recovered from orbit. About a year ago, the private company SpaceX launched the Dragon craft into orbit around the planet, and safely brought it back down a few hours later. Dragon was unmanned on that launch, but the vessel is constructed so that it could carry up to seven human passengers into orbit (its pressurized cabin space—where humans would have to be—is about 350 cubic feet, and it has an additional 490 cubic feet of unpressurized cargo space.)
Given the success of the test launch, Dragon is on its way to another first: docking with the International Space Station. Never before has a commercial spacecraft rendezvoused with the ISS. This is like … like a billionaire's son going on a date with the president's daughter. (Not the current president's daughters, though. They're too young to be dating.)
Before this billionaire gets to take out the First Daughter, however, it has to complete safety checks and a flyby of the ISS (like making sure the kid is dressed appropriately, doesn't smell of cognac, and doesn't crash into the Whitehouse's garage door). Assuming everything checks out ok, the ISS will use its huge robotic arm to grapple the Dragon, and connect it to one of its modules, where the dragon can unload its cargo. Sort of like the president's daughter using her giant, cybernetic arm to … actually, let's abandon this analogy. The point is that for the first time a ship that doesn't belong to the US or Russian government (or any government) will hook up with the ISS, ushering in a new era of Earth to orbit transportation, etc.
As I understand it, the plan was originally to do three launches—the initial one, where Dragon was shot into orbit, and then recovered; a second one that would include a flyby of the ISS and a test of Dragon's onboard systems, and then finally the launch that would have it connect with the ISS. However, it looks like NASA and SpaceX have decided to combine the second and third missions. Dragon will be launched on February 7, 2012, and if the flyby and system tests go well, it will dock with the ISS on the same trip. It will not be carrying any passengers on that launch, but—assuming everything goes well—that's in the plans for future flights. And there will be future flights. In fact, NASA has a $1.6 billion contract with SpaceX, requiring SpaceX to provide them with at least 12 resupply flights to the ISS.
Any thoughts, Buzzketeers? What about commercial spaceflight? What about commercial spaceflight replacing government-run spaceflight? And how do you feel about dragons?
Courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)Hey look! Somebody made a snow angel in outer space! How appropriate and wonderful it should occur during this festive holiday season. This remarkable image was captured by the Hubble Telescope, and actually shows a star-making region of our Milky Way galaxy some 2000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. It's a nebula (known as Sharples 2-106) that contains massive clouds of gas spreading across several light-years of space. The imagined perception of images (religious or otherwise) in nature or in ordinary, everyday objects isn't something new. The Ancient Greeks called it simulacra and there's even a scientific explanation for the phenomena . Still, it's a pretty dang cool-looking celestial image, apropos for the season, and another item to add to the list.
Courtesy NASAHistory has shown us time and time again that careless exploration of backronyms can be a dangerous mistake. Think of Sir Isaac Newton, who had a mild stroke while constructing his theory of Green Round Apples Veer Inward To Dang. Or consider the vicious beating Roald Dahl received after founding his youth literacy and mentoring program, Real Everyday Adults Delivering Intelligence Not Gum. Constructing an acronym to fit an already decided upon word or phrase is a process fraught with the threat of physical harm (or, at the very least, mild embarrassment).
Thank goodness for the ironically straightforwardly acronymed NASA and MIT, who are braving the field of wild, retroactively applied acronyms so the rest of us don't have to.
NASA's and MIT's current research in the field centers on its SPHERES project. SPHERES stands for "Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites." Or perhaps it's the other way around. For the time being, NASA is attempting to sneak up on the principles of causation by pretending that it was a coincidence.
In addition to stressing linguistic credibility to the extent that its breaking point may become clear, the SPHERES project has a physical component with secondary objectives. SPHERES is actually composed of three separate robots, each about the size and shape of a bowling ball (get it?! "SPHERES"?!) The robots will be taken to the International Space Station, where they'll just kind of float around together.
Or, I guess, they won't just be floating around. I mean, if you're in space and not tied down, you'll float around. But if you, like the SPHERES robots, have your own onboard power supply (AA batteries), navigation and propulsion system (CO2 jets), and computer system, you can do a lot more than just float. The SPHERES robots will practice flying around the ISS in tightly controlled formation with each other.
I suppose it doesn't sound all that tricky—after all, dumb ol' birds can fly in formation, and they're dumb. But, then again, birds have evolved for millions of years to do that sort of thing, and being in space—where there really isn't a true "up" or "down"—presents its own challenges. These simple little robots have to coordinate with each other and their surroundings perfectly to stay in formation. And once they (that is, the people that make and program the robots) get the hang of that, there are some pretty slick applications for objects in space that can automatically stay in perfect formation.
For one, it should make the processes of servicing, re-supplying, reconfiguring, and upgrading the ISS and other space systems easier, because these things all involve two or more extremely expensive floating objects that need to be oriented just right to get a job done and avoid smashing each other up while doing it.
Also, it turns out that a formation of itty-bitty satellites (sort of like the SPHERES spheres) can do some of the work of a much bigger, more expensive satellite. For example, instead of using a satellite telescope that relies on one huge mirror, a formation of lots of small satellites could gather bits of light that could be put together into an image. That way, if one small satellite was damaged, it wouldn't wreck the whole project. Also, the formation of satellites could potentially be larger than a single mirror (or mirror array on one satellite).
And then there's also the notion that each astronaut could have his or her own fleet of tiny floating robots. They could be used to feed and clean the astronauts, and, of course, fight for their amusement.*
Here's a video of the a recent (recent-ish—it's from 2009) test run of the spheres. Watch as they do what they do best:
And here's MIT's SPHERES website, where they delve more into the motivations of the SPHERES project (but not so much into the acronym issue.)
For more pictures of the spheres floating in the ISS, scroll to the bottom of this page.
*This paragraph contains no NASA endorsed ideas. It just seems to me like the obvious thing to do.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. PyleNASA announced this week the discovery of two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star 1000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. The star system, called Kepler 20, is orbited by five planets. The two planets of interest, named Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are the first exoplanets their size to be discovered around another star resembling our own.
Francois Fressin, the lead author of the study which appears in the journal Nature, said the Kepler mission's main goal is to discover Earth-sized planets located in the habitable zone of other star systems. "This discovery demonstrates for the first time that Earth-size planets exist around other stars, and that we are able to detect them," Fressin said.
Kepler 20e is slightly smaller than Venus, while Kepler-20f is slightly larger than Earth. The exoplanets' host star is smaller than the Sun and a bit cooler in temperature, however, the orbits of Kepler-20e and 20f are closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun, which makes them far too hot to support liquid water and too inhospitable to support life.
But the discovery is a big step in the three-and-a-half year Kepler mission, which uses ground-based telescopes and space telescopes to search out possible planet candidates.
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This cool timelapse of Comet Lovejoy rising in the morning skies over Western Australia was created by Colin Legg. The comet's dust tail and secondary plasma tail can be seen rising out of the treetops in the lower right of the frame. You can see more of Legg's meteorological videos on his Vimeo link below.
Courtesy NASA/Carla CioffiAs a brand new year approaches, It's the time for making year-end lists, so here's Space.com's contribution for 2011. Russia's TMA-03M Soyuz spacecraft (pictured at right) blasted off just today - December 21 - with three astronauts aboard and headed for the International Space Station. It wasn't included in this year's list. Cool photo nonetheless.
Courtesy Stratolaunch SystemsBillionaire and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, was always told that the sky was the limit.
Oh, and how those words chafed at him. They chafed and they chafed, until one day Allen finally pushed his nay-saying assistant into the koi pond and shouted, "'The sky's the limit'? I'll show you limits!" And on that day he founded Stratolaunch Systems, a company that would create a plane that would help propel a craft beyond the sky, to space!
And those people who still argued that space is part of the sky, depending on your definition? Allen had them frozen in carbonite and turned into coffee tables for his vast mansion. (The assistant eventually crawled out of the koi pond, but he kept his mouth shut after that, because he had already spent a summer encased in carbonite, and didn't intend to repeat it.)
All of that may be true. But the parts that are certainly true are those directly concerning billionaire Paul Allen's plan to build a gigantic plane that will carry a space rocket high into the atmosphere (about 6 miles up), where the rocket can more easily launch itself into orbit. And, by "gigantic," I mean that the plane will have a wingspan of 385 feet, and a total weight of 1.2 million pounds.
This is an interesting thing because, a) a rocket-carrying plane has seemed like a good idea for a while, but has never been tried on this scale; and b) with the end of NASA's shuttle program, we're going to be looking for new (and hopefully cheaper) ways to get people and equipment into space. Private companies like Stratolaunch Systems and its partner on this project, SpaceX, will likely be a big part of the solution.
(SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk, one of the folks behind paypal. There's also Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. So Paul Allen's motivation could also have been that he didn't want to be the only eccentric billionaire without his own spaceflight company. Which is understandable.)
While this plane/rocket system won't be able carry quite as much cargo into space as other rockets, the Stratolaunch plane has other advantages. (Together, the plane and the rocket weigh more than one and a half million points, and they're using repurposed engines from 747 jets, so they think the payload limit should be around 13,500 pounds.) For one, it doesn't require a complicated and stationary launch pad, meaning that launch costs should be lower, and the process of getting the rocket launched will be more flexible—if weather isn't cooperating at the launch site, the plane can be flown somewhere else (with a 12,000-foot runway) and sent up there. Also, once a rocket is released, the plane can just turn around, land, and be fitted for another launch by the next day. So, you know, if you have a lot of stuff to get up into space, and not so much time, maybe this is yer bird.
But what's the point? For that, let's go back to "interesting thing b)." Aside from every billionaire's dream of having a spaceship, Allen and co. expect the very costly project to be profitable (eventually). NASA may be done with the shuttle program, but they aren't done with their work in space—currently astronauts rely on Russian launches to get into space, but contracts with companies like Allen's could give them some more options.
And, of course, who isn't interested in space?
The Stratolaunch system could be tossing rockets into space as soon as 2016. It'll start with unmanned rockets, but assuming that those launches prove to be safe and reliable, they hope to move to launching manned spacecraft. (And check out Stratolaunch's site for more on the launch system.)


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May 29, 2013 | by HS News Staff
A California man says he regrets calling police after his wife bit his penis during an argument. Over the holiday weekend, Christina Salinas and her husband Anthony Hill continue reading »
Spanish Woman Steals Money from Son's Bar, Loses it Gambling
May 29, 2013 | by HS News Staff
Police in Spain say a woman claiming her son's bar had been robbed actually stole the money herself. Investigators say the 56-year-old woman stole money from the bar located in Artana, continue reading »
LATINO BLOTTER: Burger King Bandits Foiled When Employee Hides Their Car
May 28, 2013 | by HS News Staff
A pair of robbers were easily captured by police last week after an employee of the fast food restaurant they were robbing managed to hide their getaway car. continue reading »
Seat Beat Extenders, Shoelaces Help Restrain Passenger Attempting to Open Plane Door
May 28, 2013 | by HS News Staff
A man by the name of Alexander Michael Herrera was arrested after attempting to open an airplane door mid-flight on Monday. According to authorities, as Alaska Airlines flight began its decent into Portland continue reading »
LATINO BLOTTER: Man Shoots Daughters, Kills Self - Grandkids Still in House
May 28, 2013 | by HS News Staff
California authorities have confirmed that three children were home when their grandfather opened fire on his adult daughters over the holiday weekend. continue reading »


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