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College Hockey:McKay turns aside all 31 to lead Miami's shutout of St. Cloud State
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Ryan McKay entered Friday's game coming off his first shutout of the season, one in which he made 20 saves to blank one-win Canisius.
The Miami sophomore goaltender found himself in a much tougher environment Friday.
The seventh-ranked RedHawks faced unbeaten No. 3 St. Cloud State on the road and walked away with a 2-0 victory.
McKay made 31 saves to earn his seventh career shutout and hasn't allowed a goal in his last 156:09 of playing time.
"It was really just a team effort thing," said McKay, who last gave up a goal early in the second period of an Oct. 26 game against Providence. "We blocked more shots than we did in the first few games of the season. I thought it was our best complete game we've played this year."
McKay allowed four goals in that 4-4 tie to Providence, bringing his total goals allowed to nine in three games. He had only two scoreless periods in that stretch.
"The four goals he gave up against Providence is not indicative of how he plays," Miami coach Enrico Blasi said. "Ryan and Jay [Williams] work their butts off all week and spend a lot of time studying the game and now, they're getting outcomes."
Williams has split the starts with McKay all season, just as they did in 2012-13. McKay is 4-0-1 this season and Williams is 2-2-0.
"McKay played well and he's your best penalty killer," St. Cloud State defenseman Kevin Gravel said. "He had a great game tonight and he wasn't giving us much to work with."
After Riley Barber scored to make the score 2-0 early in the third period, McKay faced a barrage of SCSU shots.
McKay stopped everyone he faced and was fortunate the Huskies couldn't capitalize on Grade-A scoring chances in front of the crease.
"When things are going well and you're making saves, you don't really think about it," said McKay, who made 12 saves in the third period. "You have to welcome those situations as a goalie."
After a scoreless first period, the RedHawks began the second with four minutes left on a Ryan Papa major penalty for checking from behind.
SCSU killed the penalty off to preserve the scoreless tie despite Miami finishing the major with seven shots on goal.
Matt Joyaux got the RedHawks on the board at the 7:08 mark of the second period. Alex Wideman hit Joyaux on a pass from down low out to the high slot and Joyaux beat SCSU goalie Ryan Faragher five-hole.
Barber increased the lead with a goal 8:42 into the third period. Austin Czarnik won the draw back to Barber and he sniped a laser shot past Faragher.
Czarnik and Barber are tied for the national lead in points with 15 each.
"We knew we had to come in and play hard and play our game," Blasi said. "We had to limit our mistakes and we did that for the most part. I thought we played a pretty good road game."
Faragher finished the game with 29 saves.
Miami complemented McKay's play in net with a strong penalty kill that came in struggling at 80.5 percent. The RedHawks killed off five Huskies' power plays Friday.
"I thought we blocked a lot of shots and our sticks were in good position a lot of the time," Blasi said. "You can't give SCSU second-chance opportunities and we did a good job of that tonight and our penalty killers kept them off the board."
Added Gravel: "It's tough to win against a team like this when you go 0-for on the power play. It's really tough. We're going to have to look at some film tomorrow morning."
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The good news for the Calgary Hitmen is there will be little time to dwell on Friday night's game.
A third-period goal by Mark Stone, brother of former Hitman and Phoenix Coyotes prospect Michael Stone, was the decision maker in a 4-3 loss to the visiting Brandon Wheat Kings at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
It was an unfortunate ending for the Hitmen, who dominated the first period, and bounced back after giving up a 2-1 lead in the second and tied it 3-3. All of this after falling 8-4 Tuesday to the Western Hockey League-leading Saskatoon Blades.
"We had the start we wanted," said Calgary head coach Mike Williamson. "I had a good feeling before the game. I think the guys put the preparation they needed to into it. It doesn't matter what happens, you have to regroup after the first period whether you're up or down.
"You know there's another 40 minutes to play, but we just never found that gear."
The Hitmen wrapped up their fourth and final regular-season meeting against their 2010 Memorial Cup foes with the series tied 2-2. Brandon
(18-26-1-7) slid into the eighth WHL playoff spot while Calgary
(15-31-2-1) fell 11 points behind the Wheat Kings, occupying last spot in the WHL.
The Hitmen have to pick up the pieces quickly. Tonight's assignment is on the road against the Red Deer Rebels (7:30 p.m., FAN 960) while the team returns to the Dome on Sunday to host the Prince Albert Raiders (5 p.m.).
If the Hitmen play like they did in the first period Friday, Williamson said they will be on the right track: "We were incredible in the first period. I thought our guys had a great amount of energy. We didn't get rewarded and weren't able to regroup after."
Goals by Kris Foucault and Alex Roach, on a power play, put Calgary ahead 2-1 in the second period. Just over two minutes later, Brandon's Rene Hunter and Calgary native Matt MacKay connected to put the Wheat Kings up 3-2, then Brooks Macek scored the equalizer for the Hitmen with 2:29 remaining.
All that hard work went up in smoke, though, as Stone was gift-wrapped a back-handed pass from MacKay and wired the game-winner past Calgary goalie Brandon Glover.
"It's signs of a good team that we can come out after a big loss like that (against Saskatoon) and bounce back," Foucault said. "It also shows a lot of immaturity in a lot of us that we can't sustain it through a whole game."
The Hitmen set the tone, dominated play, outworked the visitors and badly outshot them in the opening period. But with 46.6 seconds left before the game's first flood, Brandon's Shayne Wiebe pounded in a rebound after MacKay's shot forced Glover to drop into the splits. The Hitmen ended the period ahead 18-7 on the shot clock.
"I think something we've been working on lately is work ethic," Foucault said. "But I think we could have been a lot better in the third period, especially how desperate we should have been.
"I think the first period and a half, we were great."
They were also physical.
With 4:34 left in the first, Ben Wilson dropped the gloves with Calgary Flames prospect Michael Ferland. Meanwhile, Nathan MacMaster had a spirited second-period bout with Spencer Galbraith.
NOTABLES: Calgary scratches were: F John Lawrence, F Brendan Santini and D Keaton Lubin. . . . F Tyler Fiddler, who has been battling a nagging ankle injury, left in the second period. The Hitmen co-captain was walking in a boot cast after the game. . . . Calgary was outshot 34-31.

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Just a few hours after I posted my guesses (I just thought I should not name them 'predictions' anymore ), the German jury has published the list of nominated and recommended games for the award that still has the most influence on our board gaming hobby.
Spiel des Jahres:
The only game I thought was sure to get nominated, Codenames indeed got its nomination. Good luck for the award!
Karuba was the game I put on the shortlist; I thought it should be recommended but not nominated. Still, a good game.
Imhotep is the usual title for me - the one of the three nominees I haven't even heard about before (edit: I was lying; looking at the images it seems to be a nice family eurogame that I have been following for a while now.)
One of the games I guessed would be good for a third nomination, Animals on Board, got a recommendation. Also I wanted to add Spyfall yesterday but then I saw it was a 2014 release so I did not - it seems it became eligible only last year. Also there are some less known titles, Qwinto which builds on the success of Qwixx, Krazy WORDZ (another creative communications game) and Die fiesen 7, which looks as crazy as Spyfall.
After all, nice list, but given the current weight rating of Imhotep I just can't help wondering what made Imhotep a SdJ nominee while Isle of Skye is a KdJ nominee. Maybe Imhotep has a simple family ruleset as well? I'll see - I definitely want to give it a try. Still, I vote for Codenames as the winner.
Kennerspiel des Jahres:
Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King was the game where I wasn't sure about the category. My guess has proven to be wrong as even though it's not more complex or heavier than Kingdom Builder, it was nominated in this category. I should add that probably it was Kingdom Builder that was in the wrong category, not IoS.
Many signs showed Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 should be nominated (I listed a few of these) so I started my guesses with this title but I also thought it would not get the nomination, only a recommendation.
I also thought T.I.M.E Stories would not get the nomination but it seems the jury responds to new trends quicker than I thought.
Recommendations include 7 Wonders: Duel (correctly guessed and I'm happy it was included as it's different enough from the KdJ-winning big brother), Mombasa (correctly guessed - it's too heavy for the award but it's a well-made, well-developed one for Eurogamers who love complexity) and Blood Rage (surprise only because of the theme). Here I can't vote for the winner as I just have no idea what the jury finds most important; each of the three games might grab the win (that is going to surprise those who rooted for the others for different reasons).
After all, the list is rather progressive for the jury; while I just start to think nowadays they don't like Days of Wonder for some strange reason, it is always interesting to see how they break their own rules when it comes to nominees. Long-time replayability has always been a factor and now two of the three nominated games clearly don't have it; also, Blood Rage has a theme that could not have gotten nominated a few years ago. But well, I think gamers can't complain much about this year's nominees at least, and the award remains as important as ever.
Kinderspiel des Jahres:
Congrats to My First Stone Age (the one I mentioned; it's a really good 'adaptation') and Mmm! (the one I did not mention as it won Austrian Game of the Year award a year ago and was published March 2015 (!), but it's really good nonetheless, Knizia scores another nom) and Leo (of which I don't know much...) for the nominations.
I have not played any of the recommended games but they all look fun and cute - Castle Flutterstone, Sleepy Castle, Die geheimnisvolle Drachenhöhle, Dschungelbande, Harry Hopper, Mein Schatz and Time's Up! Kids.
Suddenly and surprisingly, it seems Knizia might have a chance to win an award this year. Of course Stone Age was also a SdJ nominee and the kids' game 'version' is great too, but in my experience Mmm! is more of a peaceful (but tense) (and cooperative) experience for kids than Stone Age Junior (where they can get angry for taking stuff away from each other). Here I vote for Mmm!, although Leo (Colovini)'s Leo might be even better (haven't played).


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Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart are done, reports state. After a week long of speculations, on the tail end of the recent story breaking alleging a not so smart Casper being busted hitting up a transsexual busty beauty named Sofie Vissa, JLo's camp confirms the split – via a "source."
What? You knew it was coming…
44-year-old Lopez's relationships all come with an expiration date. It's inherent to her humble beginnings. But this marks the 1st time it's been due to her man looking to mount some tranny-tail! Allegedly.
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Score: Twinks 2!
In a grand runway entrance executed by Ms. Thing for a press conference, a few days ago, Singleton single-highhandedly managed to steal the spotlight from accuser number one, Sheldon Stephens, and left the audience gagging.
We admit we marveled at his attempt to sell a line of being dupped at the hands of a predator. His thought that their relationship was unique and how if he had known that it hadn't been a special bond, he would've come forward sooner.
Little doubt there…
Not to mention his prompt suit filing for damages to the tune of $5 Million.
Now, as far as we can so far tell, this here Singleton would constitute the dick-tionary poster boy for being one attention needing greedy-ass bottom! And hell if you couldn't easily attach her being an upstaging bitch title as well.
But our personal judgements aside there are a few side points which keep nagging at our psyche.
Like, for instance, how he claims to have encountered Clash in a gay chat-room at 15. Hmmmm, we say. Plausible. Bitches start younger and younger…
Singleton's allegations intimate that he was seduced by the expensive dinners and cash allowance stemming from the May-December tryst.
No doubt. It's hard out there for a ho…
And how, like accuser number one, Singleton also met Clash in NYC.
And this is where we come to a full stop.
Yes, granted NYC is a heavily populated metropolis, but – wait for it – accuser number one and two share a variety of similarities that are not too easy to dismiss.
These two are the same age and demeanor and even in a Metropolis there are a limited amount of venues that cater to the likes of these two bitches.
Trust us! We know this part well.
Were these two to be polar opposites – like let's say one from the suburbs and one out of town'er – we'd grant Clash the "predator" moniker easily. But these two are sisters of the same hood.
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This is us telling you that we don't easily dismiss the likelihood of Singleton and Stephens being sisterly acquaintances.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - The Pac-10 today announced its track and field All-Academic selections, with twenty-seven Huskies honored for their scholastic achievements, and six Huskies earning a spot on the first or second teams.
Nine of the UW selections competed at the NCAA West Prelims two weeks ago in Eugene, and Jeremy Taiwo, Scott Roth, and Joe Zimmerman will all be in action this week at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
To be eligible for the Pac-10 All-Academic team, athletes must carry at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and be in their second year of residence at their current school.
Taiwo was voted to the first team for the first time in his career. The Pac-10 decathlon champion owns a 3.66 GPA in international studies. On the second team was sophomore Jimmy Brookman, who was fourth at Pac-10s in the javelin before an elbow injury ended his season early. Brookman maintains a 3.54 GPA in business administration.
Christine Babcock, a sophomore athletically but a junior academically, was a first team selection on the women's side with a 3.93 GPA in early childhood and family studies. Also earning her first All-Academic acclaim was sophomore javelin thrower Ally Mueller, who has a 3.95 grade point average in pre-health sciences.
Making the women's second team was junior pole vaulter Taylor Fjeran, her second straight selection. She has a 3.72 GPA in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Redshirt freshman distance runner Alison Ponce also earned second team status with a 3.85 GPA in pre-science.
PAC-10 ALL-ACADEMIC TEAMS (UW Only)
Men's First Team
Jeremy Taiwo, Jr., 3.66, International Studies
Men's Second Team
Jimmy Brookman, So., 3.54, Business Administration
Men's Honorable Mention
Peter Follmer, Jr.; James Johnson, So.; Conner Larned, So.; Max O'Donoghue-McDonald, Jr.; Scott Roth, Sr.; Dan Sanders, So.; Ryan Styrk, Jr.; Brad Whitley, RS Fr.; Charlie Williams, Jr.; Joe Zimmerman, So.
Women's First Team
Christine Babcock, So., 3.93, Early Childhood and Family Studies Ally Mueller, So., 3.95, Pre-Health Sciences
Women's Second Team
Taylor Fjeran, Jr., 3.72, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Alison Ponce, RS Fr., 3.85, Pre-Science
Women's Honorable Mention
Alana Alexander, RS Fr.; Jordan Carlson, Jr.; Johanna Carr, So.; Lindsay Flanagan, So.; Lindsey Fleishman, Jr.; Justine Johnson, So.; Kelly Mudlo, Jr.; Kenna Patrick, Sr.; Laura Schmitt, So.; Sarah Schireman, So.; Elaine Tran, So.


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Quote #1
The waiting room was full
of grown-up people. (7-8)
Here Elizabeth makes a distinction between herself and the other people in the waiting room. They're "grown-ups"; she's definitely not one of them.
Quote #2
and while I waited I read
the National Geographic
(I could read) (13-15)
Elizabeth sounds like a smarty-pants here. She's not even seven years old and she can already read a magazine for adults. She seems pretty proud of this.


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Utility worker punctured pipe in Mass. explosion
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A utility worker responding to reports of a natural gas leak in one of New England's largest cities punctured a pipe and an unknown spark ignited a massive explosion that injured 18 people and damaged 42 buildings, the state fire marshal announced Sunday.
Friday night's natural gas blast in Springfield's entertainment district was caused by "human error," State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said at a news conference. He didn't name the Columbia Gas Go. worker who pierced the high-pressure pipe.
The worker was trying to locate the source of the leak with a metal probe that tests natural gas levels when the probe damaged the underground pipe, Coan said. A flood of gas then built up in a building that housed a strip club, and a spark touched off the blast, officials said.
Columbia Gas planned a news conference for later Sunday afternoon. A message left for a company spokeswoman wasn't immediately returned. Columbia Gas, a subsidiary of public company NiSource Inc., announced earlier Sunday that it planned to open a claims center for residents and businesses affected by the explosion at City Hall on Monday.
Preliminary reports showed the blast damaged 42 buildings housing 115 residential units. Three buildings were immediately condemned, and 24 others require additional inspections by structural engineers to determine whether they are safe. The building that housed the Scores Gentleman's Club was completely destroyed.
Gaza cease-fire raises hopes for reconstruction
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mohammed Falah Azzam has been through this before.
His mother's home was bombed in the 2008-09 Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which left hundreds dead and thousands of homes destroyed. In renewed fighting last week, an entire block of buildings housing his extended family was badly damaged in an airstrike that Israel said was aimed at a militant.
While none of his relatives was hurt, the 61-year-old retired schoolteacher once again has to worry about providing shelter for his family. Some relatives are sleeping in an empty shop, squeezed in with other family members. Others are spending their nights in rooms covered in plastic wrap to shield them from the winter rain because all the windows were blown out.
"This is going to cost thousands," Azzam said. "The longer I wait, the more damage will happen," he added, pointing to a heavily damaged building sitting atop tilting concrete columns.
Azzam finds himself caught again in a pile of paperwork to seek assistance, trying to secure hard-to-get construction materials. This time, he hopes the process will be smoother, thanks to both Israel's pledges to ease its longstanding border blockade and the newfound political clout of Gaza's Hamas rulers in the region.
Will NYC act to block future surges?
Think Sandy was just a 100-year storm that devastated New York City? Imagine one just as bad, or worse, every three years.
Prominent planners and builders say now is the time to think big to shield the city's core: a 5-mile barrier blocking the entryway to New York Harbor, an archipelago of man-made islets guarding the tip of Manhattan, or something like CDM Smith engineer Larry Murphy's 1,700-foot barrier — complete with locks for passing boats and a walkway for pedestrians — at the mouth of the Arthur Kill waterway between the borough of Staten Island and New Jersey.
Act now, before the next deluge, and they say it could even save money in the long run.
These strategies aren't just pipe dreams. Not only do these technologies already exist, some of the concepts have been around for decades and have been deployed successfully in other countries and U.S. cities.
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I am using this matlab package http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html#examples to project the latitudes,longitudes of my data to a specific projection.
For this particular case I am using albers equal-area. Now when I do the projection, I am using the following code
m_proj('albers equal-area');
[x y] = m_ll2xy(longitude,latitudearray);
My question is when I specify the projection method, do I need to specify the geographical bounds. I mean do I need to pass the latitude, longitude bounds to the function m_proj
I have got the following results. I am not sure if these points are correct.
lat lon x y
24.590960444058823 -119.6310020520101 -0.0778982228028 -0.3893279
Can anyone provide some suggestions?


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Director Kasi Lemmons to Adapt Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty'
*"Eve's Bayou" helmer Kasi Lemmons will adapt and direct "On Beauty," based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith. The book has been described as an academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two families with different but increasingly intertwined lives, race and sexual politics. It's also been called a modern day … Continue reading Director Kasi Lemmons to Adapt Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty'
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*At the pre-pubescent age of 11, actress Jurnee Smollet was already receiving critical acclaim for her breakout appearance in "Eve's Bayou," where she played the title character and held her own opposite screen veterans Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield and Debbi Morgan. Thirteen years and dozens of child roles later, the soon-to-be 24-year-old will debut … Continue reading Jurnee Smollett on 'Defenders' Role: 'Definitely a Stretch'


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Martin Johnson Heade was born in Buck County, Pennsylvania. His father, a prosperous farmer, encouraged him to paint, even sending him to Italy to study. By the time he was 22 years old, he had won professional recognition. He traveled extensively and as one of his contemporaries noted, "few of our artists have roved more about the world." For the first forty years of his life, he rarely stayed in one place more than a few years.
Heade had the longest career of any American artist in the 19th century and one of the most varied. He worked in his early life as a portrait and genre painter, later turned to painting landscapes, especially the salt marshes. Then in the 1860's after traveling through Central and South America, the hummingbird and orchid became major subjects in his work for the rest of his life.
In 1883 Heade, at the age of 64 got married, bought a house in St. Augustine and settled down. The tropics appealed to him, and for the first time he had a wealthy patron. Henry Flagler, the developer of Florida's East Coast, had built a great luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon, which opened in 1888. He furnished Heade with a studio at the hotel and filled the hotel with guests who could easily afford to purchase paintings. However, the last ten years of Heade's life showed a decline in his popularity and income as Flagler extended the railroad further south from St. Augustine and hotel patrons continued on south with it.
Heade was an unsuccessful land speculator before and during his tenure in St. Augustine. Just as age contributed to the decline in his ability to paint, his lack of business acumen thwarted his efforts at financial stability. His work was overlooked for half a century, until 1945 when a Museum of Modern Art exhibition included one of his paintings. Several St. Augustine organizations possess these now valuable works.
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A tribal leader says Sarin gas has been used to quell an uprising near Tripoli. The allegations are being lodged against the Libyan provisional government that is backed by both the U.N. and the Obama admin.
Sheik Hassan Ajeely who is a leader of the Wershevana tribe says the government launched sarin gas attacks on its citizens. It was used in an effort to stamp out the uprising known as the Libyan Green Flag of Resistance.
WND says it had an exclusive Skype interview with Hassan, and he told them: "Last month, the United Nations-backed al-Qaida-related Islamic militia has begun killing civilian members of our tribe with Sarin gas attacks."
He alleged that the government backed by the U.N., NATO and the United States, has "paid a bounty to recruit al-Qaeda militia and related Islamic militants to launch the gas attacks."
Hassan added:
The gas attacks killed many people in the Wershevana tribe and many others were taken to the Al Zahra Hospital in Tripoli. The international press are reporting nothing even though all the Libyan militia are armed with sarin gas missiles."
WND claims they received copies of two reports written in Arabic from Al Zahra Hospital which seems to verify the gas attacks. The documents were translated for WND by an Arabic-speaking linguist. They read that two different patients were treated as "victims of a chemical gas attack of an unspecified nature." The documents are dated Jan. 23, 2014; 9 p.m.
The reports indicated the victims were treated for "fainting and difficult breathing due to inhaling an unknown gas" [sic].
Hassan also alleges that Dr. Tark Mitri who is head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, (UNSMIL), has ignored the provisional government paying bounties to recruit Islamic extremists from Tunisia, Qatar and Sudan.
The Islamic extremists are used to attack citizens who oppose the NATO and U.S. backed Libyans. WND also reports they have been able to document the claims by various Libyan tribal leaders about the recruited Islamic extremists.
WND recorded, using Skype, that Sudanese military aircraft piloted by Tunisian militants had been bombing tribal areas in southern Libya. They also obtained a photograph of a police car in Tripoli painted with the black flag of al-Qaeda.
Hassan says tribal forces are in the process of rising up against the provisional government headed by Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. It appears the government is corrupt and working in conjunction with al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups.
It would appear this is the result of U.S. liberation we brought Libya in 2011. Libya isn't the only country in chaos, Iraq has been since troops were pulled out in. December 2011. Since then Iraq has been on the verge of civil war with sectarian violence occurring weekly, if not daily.
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After a largely uneventful day of Saturday hoops, the college basketball world was lit on fire with one simple push by Marcus Smart. CBSSportsline.com writer Gary Parrish wrote a column about Marcus Smart being wrong for shoving Texas Tech "super fan", Jeff Orr. Sorry, but Gary Parrish is completely wrong.
If you think Marcus Smart should not have approached this fan, you better have solid reasons why he shouldn't. Marcus Smart was getting up from making a play on the ball, and he didn't just go push a fan. Something vile was said as he was getting up and he turned to confront the fan. The whole Texas Tech fan base was jubilant. He didn't confront the whole fan base. He confronted Jeff Orr.
Everybody likes to say it's just a game, and you can't compare it to real life. Well, with six seconds left in the game, it looks like "real life' happened just beyond the baseline. So, if any racist rant was thrown at Marcus Smart, he should've done more than shove Jeff Orr.
There is only one reason why Marcus Smart should not have reacted in that manner. Oklahoma State was only down two points at the time, and they still had a chance to win. Other than that, Smart could've choked out the fan MMA style and it would be okay.
As long as we act like the fan can say and do anything they want, then the players have a right to do anything back
When Richard Sherman says "hell of a game" and gets pushed in the face, half the country will act like he deserves it. Yet, we'll act like some out of shape fat dude can say anything he wants because he's a paying customer.
If reports are true of what was said to Marcus Smart, we should commend him for standing up.
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Tiny Tim?
Or Tim Terrific?
Which version of Tim Connolly are the Maple Leafs getting?
The brittle, injury-plagued guy who has missed 190 games since the lockout, causing certain individuals around the team to nickname him "Tiny Tim?"
Or the extremely gifted center who his former coach, Lindy Ruff, described as being a potential game-breaker, when healthy?
In order to better understand the player the Maple Leafs inked to a two-year, $9.5 million US deal on Saturday, here is a break down of western New York native Tim Connolly.
Check that. Maybe "break down" is not the best phrase, given his injury history. Let's go with "analysis" instead.
Here is the skinny on Connolly's game courtesy of a veteran NHL pro scout who was contacted by the Toronto Sun on Saturday night.
THE GOOD: "He has got real good skills ... A great skater with great hands ... He sees the ice very well ... He moves the puck easily ... One of his greatest assets is his ability to find his teammates around him and get them the puck ... Has a real good stick ... Excellent special teams player, both on the power play and on the penalty kill."
THE BAD: "He does not have outside speed ... If he was a consistent player who performed to his ability every night, he would not keep getting just two-year contracts, which his past two have been ... His injury history is an issue. Sure he has had some flukey ones but there have been some serious concussions too."
THE VERDICT: "When you look at it, it's an upgrade from what they had ... It should be fun to watch how he dishes the puck to Phil Kessel, who hasn't really had a playmaker like this during his time in Toronto ... They might have trouble going up against big physical defencemen though ... He got a slight bump in salary from the (two-year, $9 million) deal he had in Buffalo ... His injury history keeps landing him short-term contracts, which is the case here ... All in all, not a bad risk/reward pickup with an upside."
Connolly has registered 395 points in 627 career NHL games, which averages out to .63 points-per-outing. Over an 82-game schedule, that equates to 52 points, which would have ranked him fifth on the team behind Kessel, Clarke MacArthur, Mikhail Grabovski and Nik Kulemin in 2010-11. Of course, playing with Kessel should pad both their point totals.
On the down side, despite landing an annual salary of $4.75 million, he has never scored more than 18 goals in a season. Only once has he recorded more than 55 points, that coming in 2008-09 when he had 65.
When you've missed 190 games since the 2004-05 lockout, you've obviously suffered more than your share of injuries.
While he has been concussion free since 2006-07, he had a couple of scary ones early on. One caused him to miss the entire '03-04 campaign; another kept him out of the lineup until the final two contests of the '06-07 regular season.
Since then, check out this laundry list of ailments: Bone spurs on his hip; a broken foot; a broken rib; two cracked vertebrae; a broken nose; a separated sternum.
Is there a doctor in the house?
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In the end, there is no one better to evaluate Connolly than his long-time coach with the Sabres, Lindy Ruff.
"All in all, I like Tim," Ruff said in a phone interview on Saturday night. "I've coached Tim his entire time in Buffalo and you can sum it up this way: He's had periods of brilliance and he has had the most brutal injuries. He's had an up-and-down career.
"He can be fearless at times, which caused his first concussion when he was cutting over the middle. On the penalty kill, he's very good and doesn't hesitate to block shots.
"He's had some injury problems. But when he's healthy, he alone can be a difference maker in games."
When he's healthy ...
In the end, that will be the ultimate factor in whether this turns out to be a good deal for the Leafs.
Or not.
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"Electron microscopy has already played, and will continue to play, a key role in the signature scientific discoveries of this century, for instance, in helping to identify the structure-function relationships in biological systems that could lead to improved diagnostics and more effective drugs," said Dominique Hubert, FEI's vice president and general manager of the Life Sciences Division. "FEI is committed to providing life scientists with the tools they need to explore this new territory."
Hubert adds, "In particular, we are very excited to announce a correlative workflow utility that helps to bridge the gap between light microscopy and electron microscopy. Now researchers can use a routine light microscope to locate a feature of interest, and then transfer the sample to an electron microscope, which can be used to easily navigate to the feature and view the cellular ultrastructure. Correlative platforms such as this could actually speed the process from research to discovery."
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Correlative Navigation Utility for the correlation of navigational coordinate systems between different types of microscopes, such as optical and electron microscopes. Investigators can leverage the strengths of each platform, for example, in using the resolving power of electron microscopy to image structures localized by fluorescent tags in a light microscope.
EPU is an automated data collection procedure that facilitates the acquisition of large data sets (from thousands or tens of thousands of nominally identical particles) used to reconstruct high resolution 3D models with the single particle analysis technique.
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Then they began to question what they were doing. "That third boy really threw me," says Abby. "I didn't know what I was going to do with these boys. I worked on a farm. I saw our little quarter acre in Kaysville and wondered how am I going to teach these boys to work?"
Other questions arose. They saw a bumper sticker that read: "It's 99 percent of the attorneys who give the other 1 percent a bad name." It started a discussion. "Is the world a better place because of what I do here?" he asked Abby.
"Absolutely not," she said, taking the direct approach.
If all that weren't enough, Cox's father, Eddie, invited him to run the family business in Fairview — CentraCom, a telephone company (now telecommunications) his grandfather bought in 1919 that his family continued to manage after selling it in 2001.
"I'm going to manage the phone company another 10 years," he told Spencer. "How about moving back here and raising your kids here and take a big pay cut?"
Cox's peers thought he was crazy to consider such a move. He sought advice from U.S. District Court Judge Ted Stewart, for whom he had once clerked. Stewart, who is from Logan, told him, "If you get a chance to go back home, I promise you you'll have more fulfilling opportunities to serve the community, your family and the church. You won't regret it."
Those words would prove prophetic.
Spencer not only took a 25-percent pay cut by leaving the firm, he gave up the chance to make partner and left a bonus that was nearly as much as his yearly salary at CentraCom.
They lived in Fairview proper for two years and made plans to move into their dream home on seven acres carved out of the old family farm. Before that could happen, Cox received a call from his church asking him to serve as bishop of the local ward. It meant he couldn't move for five years — he needed to remain in ward boundaries. The Coxes continued to live in town. After serving as bishop for five years, Cox finally moved the family into their new farm home on the bench north of town.
Finally, everything was working out just as the Coxes had hoped. The kids had their farm work, Abby had her dream home, Spencer was making good money again as vice president and general council with CentraCom. Long hours at the law firm had left him little time at home; now he was coaching his kids' baseball, basketball and football teams and he was home for dinner. The Coxes were surrounded by family, with his father's home a couple of football fields away from his back door, his brother's home next door and other relatives nearby.
"Life was good," he says. "We loved it."
Then politics called and complicated his bucolic plans. Politics run in the family blood. Their parents on both sides were active civically. Eddie had even served as county commissioner. "We were taught to give back," says Cox. "There were volunteer firefighters and EMTs in my family." A political science major at USU, he was soon drawn into local politics.
Cox was appointed to fill a vacancy on the city council for nine months and that was the beginning. He was voted in as mayor and then county commissioner and finally state representative.
Then Gov. Gary Herbert called him, ostensibly to ask for input on candidates to replace Lt. Gov. Greg Bell, who was resigning to address personal financial problems. Later, Cox would learn that Bell had suggested his name to the governor. After Cox suggested several candidates to Herbert, the governor said, "What about you?" No one saw that one coming. Cox had served in the state legislature less than a year. Now he was being considered for an office that could be a stepping stone to the governor's office (two of the last three governors served as lieutenant governors). LaVarr Webb and Frank Pignanelli, the Deseret News' political columnist team, listed more than 30 candidates for the job; Cox was not one of them.
Two days later the governor called Cox again and asked to meet with him and his wife. They talked for 90 minutes. Five days later he offered him the job.
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Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas finally pulled into the Port of Galveston today -- three days later than originally scheduled. The ship, which typically sails seven-night Western Caribbean voyages from Galveston, has amended the cruise that had been slated to depart on Sunday, September 25. Rhapsody of the Seas will depart at 5 p.m. this evening for a four-night sailing featuring one port call, in Cozumel.
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I've had lots of emails and phone calls in the last year asking me how to secure a book deal and so as promised I'm going to share my experience (such that it is... I'm only on my first book and still learning).
First of all, not all ideas are equal. A subject that you find important and fascinating may not catch the imagination of many readers, so before you start developing your thoughts too much, it helps to do a quick calculation of how many people would be likely to buy it. The marketing bumpf in a book proposal is almost as important as the idea itself. So for example, if you would like to write a history book about the Spanish Civil War, then find out what other books have been published on the topic, how well they did, who bought them, and whether there might be any special reason for people to buy that book now (like an anniversary).
Now that's not to say that something obscure wouldn't sell: The Cloudspotter's Guide doesn't sound like it would be an immediate hit, but it has turned into a runaway global bestseller. And this brings me to my next point: how are you going to tell the story? Seemingly dull subjects can be transformed by a wonderful treatment. Sometimes the skill lies in the writing, but sometimes it's also about your approach. Why not tell it from a different point of view? Find an interesting device, character or narrative? Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, for example, is a book about biology told through the story of an amazing woman and her family. It's more fun than reading a boring explainer about genes.
Lastly, follow the rules. Publishers are quite explicit about how they would like to receive book proposals so if you just do exactly what they say, your odds of getting a deal go up immediately. Usually, you will need a well-written proposal that includes an introduction, chapter outlines, your biography (why should you write this book and not someone else), marketing information and a draft chapter or two. Don't skimp. If you mess up the proposal once then you damage your chances of someone looking at it again.
These days most submissions also have to go through a literary agent. So send your proposal to those you feel would best represent your work. The one I plumped for, for example, is Peter Tallack because his agency focuses particularly on science writers. Also, don't just settle for the first publisher who offers you a deal. Figure out which one is most enthusiastic about your work. I accepted a deal with Hodder not just for the money, but because they loved my idea from day one and have shown nothing but passion for it.
Simples! Hope that's useful! If you have any extra questions than leave a comment and I'll reply as soon as I can.
8 November 2010
How to get a book deal
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- Brian Clegg said...
The only suggestion you missed was talk to an author of great wisdom, already published in your area. Say.
- 8 November 2010 at 11:41
- Angela Saini said...
Well, that goes without saying! Of course I went straight to the best possible authority in the science writing world when I wrote Geek Nation.
- 8 November 2010 at 11:45
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As a training professional for more than 25 years, I'm frequently asked how to track completion. Often, a simple checklist does the trick. Using tools, such as Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can add checkboxes to turn a plain old document into an interactive checklist.
Employees frequently complain that they don't know where to start, and their managers express similar frustration in providing guidance. A checklist provides a simple solution. First, identify the courses that enable an employee to develop the right level skills and knowledge to perform a role at a basic competency level, such as business acumen, finance and accounting. Many free Internet courses provide these basics. Then, set up a similar list of courses to help develop personal effectiveness in areas such as time management, decision making, process improvement and leadership. The next task you might want to complete is meet with the employee. Explain the process and timeline for completing the curricula, demo the course registration process and set criteria for achieving the overall objectives! You may also want to develop a final exam, specific to the needs of your company.
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April 5, 2013
SEATTLE -- No. 30 Washington made it interesting right down to the final point, but fell to No. 47 Stanford, 4-3. The Dawgs dropped the doubles point, but fought back in singles to take a 3-2 lead, but fell in the final two matches to drop its first Pac-12 match of the season.
Washington dropped to 15-7 on the season and 2-1 in conference, while Stanford improved to 8-7 and 1-2 in the Pac-12.
The Dawgs dropped two of three doubles matches to fall behind, 1-0. The win came from Marton Bots and Kyle McMorrow who defeated Daniel Lin and John Morrissey, 8-3.
In singles, the Dawgs responded and took the lead after Bots and McMorrow again came through, winning in straight sets. Bots fought back in the first set and then dominated set two to defeat No. 88 Nolan Paige, 7-5, 6-2. At the No. 1 spot, McMorrow improved to 17-2 with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 54 John Morrisey.
Leading 2-1, the matches at No. 3 and No. 6 finished almost simultaneously with each squad winning one. Max Manthou got the Dawgs their third point when he dominated set two, winning 7-5, 6-1, over Maciek Romanowicz. Over on court six, Nicholas Kamisar fell to Trey Strobel, 7-5, 6-3, and Stanford had its second point.
Needing one more point, Emmett Egger battled deep into the second set, while Viktor Farkas sent his match into set three with a second-set win. Egger was the first to fall as he played a second-set tiebreak and despite leading the breaker 4-1, fell 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
Finally, it was Farkas who trailed in the third set when Egger's match ended. The sophomore battled back holding serve to stay alive, but eventually fell, 7-5, 6-3.
It was a tough ending for the Dawgs, who had their chances against the Cardinal. They will now regroup and face another tough challenge in less than 24 hours as the California comes to Seattle on Saturday at 1 p.m. The match will also be senior day as Bots and McMorrow will be honored before their final home match.
Washington Men's Tennis
April 5, 2013 - Seattle, Wash.
Bill Quillium Tennis Stadium
No. 47 Stanford 4 - No. 30 Washington 3
1. Bots/McMorrow def. Lin/Morrissey, 8-3.
2. Romanowicz/Stineman def. Egger/Hawke, 8-6.
3. Paige/Strobel def. Barnhart/Manthou, 8-3.
Order of finish: 3,1,2.
1. Kyle McMorrow def. John Morrisey, 6-4, 6-4.
2. Marton Bots def. Nolan Paige, 7-5, 6-2.
3. Max Manthou def. Maciek Romanowicz, 7-5, 6-1.
4. Robert Stineman def. Emmett Egger, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
5. Daniel Ho def. Viktor Farkas, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
6. Trey Strobel def. Nicholas Kamisar, 7-5, 6-3.
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Beautiful all-over Lace Wedding Dress by Allure Bridal style# 9021. Details: sheath trumpet silhouette with dramatic low back, charmeuse satin lining with a lace overlay, a sweetheart neckline, princess seams, spaghetti straps, floor length with train (It does bustle in the back) and its in color Ivory. Zipper back closure with covered buttons.
I wore this dress once on my wedding day in July of 2013. It has been dry cleaned and pressed. No tears, no rips. Please note it does have one button in the back that's missing and would need to be replaced. I can send extra photos if you'd like. I purchased it for $1300 and selling at $650 or best offer.
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Book Buy-Back
The Campus Stores will conduct a course book buy-back on each campus at the end of each semester. The buy-back is presented as a service to TCC students. It is an opportunity afforded to the student to reap some benefit from the sale of those course books no longer wanted or needed.
Buy-Back Policy is as Follows:
- The buy-back will be held the last five days of finals during the fall and spring semesters and the last two days of finals during the summer semester.
- The student will receive up to fifty percent of the established TCC new book price for any book the College Stores need.
- Books not needed by the TCC Campus Stores that are of marketable value may be sold at a price established by the Wholesale Book Company.


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Uncovering the Power in Power Calculators
By BluePrints Editor on Sep 25, 2008
Jacques Bessoudo, Systems Technical Marketing
There has been much confusion over what power calculators are and I have run into differing opinions about what they should be or should do. Some expect power calculators to be datacenter planning tools, others expect them to be a guideline of how much power a system will consume.
Both are valid expectations, but when using a specific tool, no matter which vendor, it is of the utmost importance to understand what it provides: this should be specified by the vendor that publishes the calculator in order to disclose the intention of the calculator.
What They Are
Power calculators are tools that provide information about the power consumption of a system. They come in many different forms and each vendor has its own way of providing the data. Until recently, there was no industry standard benchmark for power consumption, so vendors did what they thought was right in order to provide useful information to customers - of course, most vendors didn't agree on what was useful to the customer, so most power calculators available on websites provide data that can't be compared across vendors because they are based on different assumptions and workloads. Below is a summary that indicates where these power calculators can be found and what they use to obtain the data.
\* Workload: SPECjbb, SPEChpc
\* Where to find it: Online or downloadable calculator
HP blades
\* Workload: Undisclosed - see article
\* Where to find it: Online or downloadable calculator
HP rack
\* Workload: Undisclosed - see article
\* Where to find it: Downloadable calculator
\* Workload: Prime95
\* Where to find it: Downloadable calculator
\* Workload: SPECjbb
\* Where to find it: Online calculators
Ideally, the data in the power calculators is obtained from running a workload in a real system and measured at the power inlet - between the wall and the power supplies. It is not modeled or inferred from product specifications, but measured data using instrumentation and real systems.
What They are NOT
Power calculators, unless specifically stated, are not datacenter planning tools. The reason for this is that not all workloads have the same behavior. The power calculator will provide a specific reference, but if the workload is any different, then the power consumption characteristics will change. Even environment variables like the room's air density, humidity and temperature will affect the results of these measurements.
System documentation typically includes a datacenter planning guide that specifies what needs to be provided for the correct operation of the system. In most cases, the data included in that document can also be found in the power supply or system label; if there is no datacenter planning guide, this label may come in handy to determine how much power a system is likely to draw as a maximum, since power supplies are designed specifically for the systems they will be energizing.
What They Provide
Systems vendors (Dell, HP, IBM and Sun) provide in their calculators at least two data points - idle power consumption and max power consumption. Max power consumption is specific to the workload run on the platform. Idle is typically the power consumption of a server that is running an OS at the login prompt or that has been logged in with no workload running.
Some vendors provide additional information, like:
\* More than one workload, such as SPECjbb and/or SPEChpc and/or Linpack on specific products
\* BTU's/hr to help calculate the air conditioning that will be required for that workload (this can be manually calculated by multiplying Watts by 3.41). BTUs/hr=3.41\*Watts
\* Datacenter power requirements, which is typically higher than 'calculated power consumption'
\* A slider or a % input box that allows the user to 'fine tune' the output of the calculator based on the expected utilization of the server
\* The ability to configure a rack with the hardware and obtain total rack parameters
\* Suggestions on the type of Power Distribution Units that will be necessary for the configurations in the rack
Things to be Aware of
Power calculator result comparisons
It is very tempting to take numbers from one vendor's power calculator and compare against another vendor's power calculator, but they don't work that way because systems are not running the same workload in the same environment. The closest you can get to compare data between calculators is to compare idle power and even then, the numbers aren't 100% apples-to-apples, because even the operating system running on these servers might not be the same.
On redundant power supplies
Power supplies in an enterprise class system can be configured in redundant mode for higher availability to prevent the system from shutting down in case of a power supply failure or a power grid failure - if the datacenter is equipped with redundant power grids.
Redundancy is very beneficial for the uptime of the server, but not always ideal for the power efficiency, because of the power curves of power supplies. Some power supplies don't hit reasonable power efficiencies until a high load is demanded from them; at Sun, high efficiency power supplies are prolific in the product line.
Not all power supplies are equal and each has it's own load / efficiency curve. Ideally, a power supply will reach a reasonable efficiency, say 80%, under reasonably small loads, say 20-30%. From this point on, as the load increases, efficiency should stay above 80% and ideally reach or surpass 90%.
This is a very important aspect to consider: a fully loaded system running all components at maximum will only achieve 50% of the power supply capacity because the load is balanced between the two power supplies. Power supplies that are not efficient from a small load will waste a lot more energy when they are idle, as the load on each of the power supplies might be as low as 15-30% of the total capacity.
Idle systems are inherently the most inefficient systems, because they are wasting energy without producing any work. The higher the utilization of a system, the more work it produces and the better the efficiency in all aspects - electrically efficient by design and [work]/watt whether 'work' is queries per minute or web transactions.
Measuring power on your own
The best way to figure the power consumption of a system is to run it in its actual environment and measure the power it consumes while running the typical application. In order to do this, the internal sensors of the servers can be of great use, since they provide power consumption information with reasonable accuracy. The data from these sensors is usually available from the ILOM remote management interface (depending on the system) under the System Monitoring > Power Management tab.
For rackmount servers, a simple meter like the ones available from Watt's-up can be very useful; their products include simple meters that provide the information on an LCD display, as well as more sophisticated ones that have serial ports for power monitoring, or even a web interface.
Yet another way to do this is to use the Real Time Power Monitoring and Management Service that was recently released for a limited set of products. It requires no hardware and only a small lightweight package to be installed on the servers to be monitored.


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Corvettes on eBay: 1954 EX87 Corvette Test Mule Replica
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Over 100 Salvage Corvettes Heading to the Auction Block
If your looking for a project C3 or C4 Corvette, check out this auction of over 100 salvage Corvettes that will be sold on Saturday in Forest City, North Carolina. Whittington Auction and Appraisal is handling the gavel duties for this collection of mostly insurance salvage Corvettes and parts. The sale is actually the first
Corvettes on eBay: a $400K 1954 Corvette Nomad Recreation
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler riff on the 'sloppy loud party' that is the Golden Globes
Are you ready Seth MacFarlane? Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are ready to make the 70th Golden Globe Awards the funniest and most entertaining telecast of the year.
The off screen BFFs and former "Saturday Night Live" colleagues appear in a new video released by NBC in which they admit they love "sloppy, loud parties" like the Globes and wonder if "Avatar" is the big movie this year everyone will be talking about. It ain't perfect, but it they are improving on the fly and at the worst (and we mean worst) Fey is going to have enough self-deprecating wisecracks to make everyone forget Ricky Gervais. And at best? Well, needless to say the duo are making the Globes must-see TV. Who thought that was every possible?
Of course, look for complete coverage of the 70th Golden Globe Awards on HitFix Sunday, Jan. 13 beginning at 8 PM ET, 5 PM PT. HitFix's Dan Fienberg will be doing his always entertaining and informative live blogging, Alan Sepinwall will be trying not to laugh if "Newsroom" wins best TV series - drama and Tapley, Lodge and I will wonder if these wins mean any more or any less than the Critics Choice Awards.
You can get a hint of what Fey and Poehler expect to bring to the Beverly Hilton in the video embedded at the top of this post. Oh, and here's their latest NBC promo below.
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