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A closer look at the New Orleans Saints NFC divisional-round playoff game against the host San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Candlestick Park, and the game will be televised on FOX.
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With a couple of games left in the regular season, there was speculation about whether rookie running back Mark Ingram would return. Such talk has quieted, not so much because Ingram went on injured reserve but because Ivory has been as good as he was in 2010, when he led the team in rushing. Playing with power and a style that sometimes borders on reckless, Ivory has proved a more productive back than Ingram this season, matching the heralded first-round pick's 35-yard-long run for a touchdown and averaging almost a yard more per carry. Active for just six games, Ivory has rushed for 374 yards, and he had the team's only 100-yard rushing game against Carolina. Coach Sean Payton isn't likely to get that sort of performance from Ivory today, but he doesn't need it. Instead, Ivory will be the barometer for whether New Orleans can run the ball "efficiently," to use Payton's favorite description. As the Seattle playoff game proved last season, the Saints without any rush are not the formidable juggernaut they are when a team must respect the ground game. Running backs Pierre Thomas and Darren Sproles also have run the ball very well, but each can make big contributions as receivers, too. That means Ivory is almost exclusively a rushing weapon, and if he has any measure of success against the 49ers, it will be an enormously positive sign for the Saints.
If Ivory can grind out positive yards against the NFL's top-ranked rushing defense, the 49ers will face Saints quarterback Drew Brees and the New Orleans passing attack in full-blown glory, a thing no team has been able to withstand in the past two months.
vs. 49ers RB FRANK GOREThe Saints' defense has taken its share of criticism, but one thing they did exceptionally well was take away the other team's top offensive weapon. Or at least they did so after Rams running back Steven Jackson ran wild on them in St. Louis. Gore is a very good back, but probably not quite the equal of Chris Johnson or Adrian Peterson, two stars the Saints erased from the game when they played the Titans and the Vikings. If New Orleans can do a similar job on Gore, the 49ers and quarterback Alex Smith are in trouble. Vilma and Gore go way back -- the two have tangled since high school in Florida, and then went after each other on the practice field at the University of Miami. "It's been a very long time; nothing's changed," Vilma said, smiling. "He's still a tremendous athlete, highly competitive. You can see that when he runs the ball. We always enjoy these type of matchups. We'll talk about it in the offseason." The key to stopping him? "You need to be sound in gap assignment," Vilma said. "His vision is tremendous. You can't slip out of your gap, or he's going to cut right off of you. He's physical - he's not big like a Steven Jackson, but he's powerful. If we do that and maintain our gap integrity, it'll be a good day for us. If not, he'll have a good day."
SAINTS P THOMAS MORSTEAD vs. 49ers P ANDY LEE
The two best punters in the NFC go at it in a game in which both sides will place a premium on field position. Lee got the Pro Bowl nod over Morstead after having a net average of 44.6 yards per punt. But as Payton made clear, the Saints like their punter just fine."You can tell when Coach makes things an emphasis during the week and when he says, 'it's OK to punt; it's a good thing if we punt.' And it's kind of weird to hear an offensive coach say that, but just knowing that if we have to punt, that's fine, going into a game where you know the defense is very good and you may have more opportunities than normal, it's exciting for me to know I could have a big impact on the game if I do my thing."
Morstead said he has perhaps less worries than other punters because he drops the ball very close to his foot, a distance he shrunk learning to punt in Texas. "(Candlestick) is a tricky place to play. I remember playing there on Monday Night Football last year, and there was definitely swirling winds and unpredictable, gusty-type conditions. But we handled it pretty well that time."
This time, he plans to shadow Lee even in warmups. "Warmups are always different for an outdoors game, regardless of who you're playing against," he said. "But it will be interesting to see. I have to watch what the other guy does because he knows his stadium and how the wind is in that stadium. So I'm going to be tracking him a little bit to see, 'OK, if he's punting from back in this end zone why did he always punt it left? Or why did he always punt it right?' If you always play that course, you'll have a home-course advantage."
45-24-2: San Francisco's edge in the series all-time.
6-0: New Orleans' record vs. San Francisco in the past six meetings.
111: Yards St. Louis rushed for in the 49ers most recent game, the last-regular season game of 2011.
"I think it's more of a competitive nature of what we do, and it's exciting. There are a lot of good matchups. When you get into this round of the playoffs, all these teams are good. They're successful, and they've played well all year. I think we're all looking forward to the next challenge, and the focal point of the week is the challenge in front of you. I think that's one of the great things about sports." - Payton on the intellectual challenge of pitting his offense against one of the league's best defenses.


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Spring break. Time to hit the road and escape the last weeks of winter. However, the winter 2014 is making traveling tough. Another major storm packed with ice and snow will make that road trip a challenge.
Before hitting the roads to reach those spring break destinations resolve to travel smart and review the AAA and Consumer Reports recommendations for winter car care and safe driving. Suggestions designed to make traveling the roads these last few weeks of winter both safer and more enjoyable.
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* Make sure the gas tank and windshield washer fluid reservoir are full.
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* Never warm up a vehicle in an enclosed area, such as a garage.
* Driving a long distances - find out what kind of weather to expect. Visit the National Weather Service website at weather.gov to check the forecast. Also, check the road conditions posted by state patrols and transportation departments.
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* Slow down. Tires lose their grip in slippery conditions, so accelerating, stopping and turning all take longer on snow-covered roads. Give yourself time to maneuver by driving slowly.
* Increased your margin of safety by allowing longer distances for stopping.
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* Pay extra attention to other drivers and don't drive distracted. Do not text and drive. Also check local rules on cell phone use while driving. Keep both hands onthe wheel - use a hands free device for cell phones if you have to use them.


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This project focuses on identifying cell signaling pathways which are downstream of epidermal growth factor receptor activation which mediate fibroproliferation. The goal is to identify specific pathways which can be pharmacologically targeted that not only prevent lung fibrosis progression, but augment reversal of existing fibrosis.
Funding:NIH/NHLBI including RO1 and P50 grants.
Collaborators: George Thomas, PhDUniversity of CincinnatiDepartment of Cancer and Cell Biology
The goal of this project is to determine the origin of cells which comprise lung fibrosis. A specific focus of this project is to determine the mechanisms and roles of cells originating from the bone marrow that are found in fibrotic lung lesions.
Funding: American Heart Association - Grant to Dr. Madala
This project examines the role of interleukin-31(IL-31) in mediating skin and lung fibrosis and the relationship of IL-31 with other TH-2 cytokines and receptors including IL-4 and IL-13.
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This project focuses on understanding the biology of how lung fibrosis resolves and the mechanisms whereby lung fibrosis becomes an irreversible scar.
Pulmonary hypertension is a significant co-morbid factor in patients with pulmonary fibrosis. This project examines the mechanism whereby fibrotic lung tissue leads to pulmonary hypertension and explores pharmacologic and genetic mechanisms to reduce pulmonary hypertension in the presence of persistent fibrosis.
These projects are designed to provide preclinical data to identify novel approaches for treating progressive fibrosis. Many of these projects utilize pharmacologic agents that are currently in advanced clinical trials for a number of diseases. Therefore, important findings could be relatively rapidly translated into clinical trials in patients with fibrotic disease.
Lung biopsy from a patient with severe cystic fibrosis lung disease taken at the time of lung transplantation. There is severe lung fibrosis extending out from the diseased airway extending into the alveolar areas of the lung. An airway has been obliterated from the chronic infection and inflammation and replaced with mesenchymal and inflammatory cells and extracellular matrix (arrow).
Schemata (left) demonstrating genetic construct of transgenic mice overexpressing transforming growth factor-α (TGFa) which is overexpressed in airway and Type II epithelium only when mice are administered doxycycline (Dox). Pentachrome stain (right) demonstrating fibrosis is detected in adventitial regions of lung and progresses in the absence of detectable inflammation.
Trichrome stain from mice overexpressing TGFa for eight weeks demonstrating extensive adventitial (top) and pleural (bottom) fibrosis.
Hematoxylin and eosin stain of lung biopsy from a patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF, left) and TGFα transgenic mice following six weeks of Dox (right). Fibrosis in IPF and TGFα mice extends inward from pleural surface (top panels). Lower panels demonstrate focal areas of fibroblasts expansion in lung parenchyma.
Cell signaling pathways activated downstream of TGFα/epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) which mediate fibroproliferation. Sites of specific pathway inhibition with pharmacologic inhibitors or genetic knockout mice are indicated that the laboratory is in the process of studying.
Smooth muscle actin stain on lung sections from mice overexpressing TGFa for four weeks demonstrating extensive pleural fibrosis (middle panel) which is inhibited when mice are pre-treated with the PI3K inhibitor PX-866.
To assess the efficacy of PI3K inhibition in established fibrosis, TGFa transgenic mice were treated with the PI3K inhibitor PX-866 after four weeks of Dox while remaining on Dox for an additional four weeks. Controls were treated with vehicle while remaining on Dox an additional four weeks. Dox induced expression of TGFa for eight weeks caused progressive weight loss in vehicle-treated mice (red line), while mice treated with PX-866 four weeks after TGFa induction did not have changes in body weight (green line), but weights remained below CCSP/- controls (blue line), and CCSP/TGFa mice which received four weeks of Dox, then taken off Dox and treated with four weeks of vehicle (gold line).
Hematoxylin and eosin stain on lung sections from mice overexpressing TGFa for seven weeks demonstrating extensive pleural fibrosis (middle panel) which is inhibited when mice are pre-treated with the mTOR inhibitor Rapamycin.
Representative photomicrographs of lung plural regions from TGFα mice stained for α smooth muscle actin (aSMA, green) and phosphorylated ERK1/2 (pERK, Red). Overlaid and enlarged images show a co-localization of signals for pERK1/2 with aSMA positive cells, indicating that pERK-positive cells were mesenchymal cells.
Control (A) and TGFα (B) mice were irradiated and reconstituted with green florescent protein (GFP) bone marrow cells. Lung cryosections from fibrotic regions following four weeks Dox show GFP+ bone marrow derived cells accumulate in the lungs of TGFα mice but not in CCSP/- mice.
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He has logged over 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft and has over 200 V/STOL shipboard landings.
Birth Place: Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Total time in space: 36.32 days.
Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. 10 pilots and 25 mission specialists selected from over 2,400 applicants. 9 additional international astronauts.
The six tonne Airlock consisted of two cylinders of four meters diameter and a total length six meters. The Airlock could be pressurized by the externally-mounted high pressure oxygen-nitrogen tanks, and was to be the sole unit through which all future EVAs were to take place. (Until that point, all EVA entries/exits had been through a Russian module in ISS, with non-Russians having to wear Russian space suits). Another payload was the "EarthKAM" of middle/high school interest. It was to allow pupils to command picture-taking of chosen spots on Earth; they were expected to target 2,000 spots. The shuttle also carried out pulsed exhaust tests during maneuvers to enable better understanding of the formation of HF echoes from the shuttle exhaust. The echoes were obtained by ground based radars in an experiment called SIMPLEX (Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local EXhaust). The STS-104 crew returned to Atlantis on July 22, and undocked at 0455 GMT. After flying around the station they departed the vicinity at 0615 GMT. Atlantis landed at 0338:55 GMT on July 25, touching down at Kennedy Space Center runway 15.
During ascent a large chunk of external tank foam was observed to hit the underside of the orbiter. Examination in orbit using the robotic arm showed a hole in a heat shield tile that went down to the felt mounting pad. There was considerable press discussion of the danger, but as the mission drew to a close NASA decided that no lasting damage would be incurred during reentry to the orbiter structure, and called off a potential extra spacewalk to repair the tile.
Endeavour docked at the PMA-2 adapter on the Station at 18:02 GMT on 10 August; the hatches were opened at 20:04.
The 14036 kg of cargo broke down as follows:
Following successful completion of all cargo delivery and station assembly tasks, the crew returned to Endeavour on 18 August, undocking the next day at 11:56 GMT. Landing was moved up a day ahead of schedule because of concern a hurricane might force evacuation of the Houston Control Center on the originally-planned return date. Endeavour began its deorbit burn at 15:25 GMT on August 21 and lowered its orbit from 336 x 347 km to -28 x 342 km. It landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 16:32 GMT. Landing mass was 100,878 kg.


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The Four Fiends (四天王, Shitennō?, lit. Four Heavenly Kings" or "The Big Four) are a group of recurring enemies and characters in the Final Fantasy series. They are often associated with the four elemental forces—Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind. They can be seen as counterbalances to the four Crystals, as the Four Fiends often seek to subvert the influence the Crystals have on the world.
Final FantasyEdit
The Four Fiends are demons that serve Chaos. They sequester themselves in caverns around the world to drain the Crystals of their energy. Each are defeated by the Warriors of Light, only to be fought again in the final dungeon, the Chaos Shrine, before the final battle with Chaos. In the Dawn of Souls and the 20th Anniversary version, the Four Fiends of Final Fantasy IV can be fought in the extra Soul of Chaos dungeon, Hellfire Chasm.
Final Fantasy IVEdit
The Four Archfiends or Four Fiends of the Elements play a major role in this game, as they act as go-betweens between Golbez and Zemus, keeping tabs on Zemus's control of Golbez while serving the latter as minions. They are Scarmiglione of Earth, Cagnazzo of Water, Barbariccia of the Wind, and Rubicante of Fire. Cecil's group has to fight each one once, and then he must fight all four together near the end of the game inside the Giant of Babil. They can also be fought as a single entity called Geryon in the DS remake.
Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsEdit
The Four Archfiends of Final Fantasy IV return in the sequel, as do the original Four Fiends from the original Final Fantasy. If Golbez is in the party, he says a few very interesting and sad words to the Archfiends after their defeat.
Final Fantasy IXEdit
Referred to as "the Chaos Guardians", they are based on and directly named after the original Four Fiends of Final Fantasy: Maliris, Tiamat, Kraken, and Lich. Similar to the Chaos Guardians are the four guardians of the elemental shrines on Gaia that seal the entrance to Terra. The four of them appear very similar to the Chaos Guardians and bear the same elemental affinities.
Only Lich, the Earth Guardian, is fought by the player (using Zidane and Quina), while the other three are killed off-screen (Maliris by Freya and Amarant, Tiamat by Vivi and Steiner, and Kraken by Garnet and Eiko). In addition, only Kraken goes unseen prior to the final events of the game.
Kuja later recreates the four of them from the memories of the Crystal in Memoria to try and kill Zidane and his friends as they track down Kuja within Memoria. Much like in the original Final Fantasy, their fights are triggered by passing otherwise unmarked areas in the dungeon. Crystal palette swaps of the four are fought in the Crystal World, the game's final area.
Final Fantasy Tactics AdvanceEdit
An elite group of the Red Wings known as the Falgabirds appears. It consists of four powerful monsters representing the original Final Fantasy four fiends:
- Lich, who appears as a boss Zombie
- Marilis, who appears as a boss Lamia
- Kraken, who appears as a boss Ice Flan
- Tiamat, who appears as a boss Thundrake
Final Fantasy Mystic QuestEdit
The Vile Four are the servants of the Dark King and attack the resting place of the Crystals to drain their energy. They are named Flamerus Rex, Ice Golem, Dualhead Hydra, and Pazuzu.
As in Final Fantasy, stronger versions of these foes are fought in the final dungeon as palette swaps, but bear different names: Skullrus Rex, Stone Golem, Twinhead Wyvern, and Zuh.
Final Fantasy AdventureEdit
After Julius has seized control of the Pendant of Mana, he summons several powerful monsters. Three of these—Kary, Kraken and Lich—are based on the original Four Fiends. There are also three Dragons in the Temple of Mana, though none of them clearly analog to Tiamat.
The Final Fantasy LegendEdit
The Four Fiends of The Final Fantasy Legend are servants of Ashura, and through him, the Creator. They are based on the Four symbols of Chinese astrology and are given the Japanese names for those symbols. Each either guards or seeks a Sphere of their associated mythological color, which controls access to the Tower. When the party confronts Ashura, he tempts them with control of the four major worlds, essentially offering them the role of Fiends. When the party climbs the outside of the Tower, they face the Fiends a second time, each of who drops a single piece of top-tier Meat for the party's monsters.
- Gen-Bu, Black Tortoise of the North, who has sundered the Statue of Hero to guard the Black Sphere.
- Sei-Ryu, Azure Dragon of the East, who holds half of the Blue Sphere.
- Byak-Ko, White Tiger of the West, who searches for the White Sphere from a flying fortress.
- Su-Zaku, Vermillion Bird of the South, who has leveled the fourth world single-handed and guards the Red Sphere.
Bravely DefaultEdit
The spread of darkness over the four crystals has allowed them to be possessed by fiends, who must be defeated in order for Agnès to perform the Rite of Awakening on each crystal.
Final Fantasy DimensionsEdit
The Four Generals are the commanders of the military of the Avalon Empire. Baugauven, who controls fire, is a shrewd man who invents his own powerful techniques. Asmodai, who controls earth, is able to exude a miasma that renders him invincible. Styx, who controls water, is also a witch with knowledge of powerful curses. Vata, who controls wind, is the youngest of the four, and accidentally gains the power of the Dragoon. Their superiors are the four Divine Generals, who possess the elements of thunder, ice, light and darkness.
Final Fantasy Legends: Toki no SuishōEdit
The Four Fiends appear as the main antagonists of the first portion of the game. They are based on and directly named after the original Four Fiends of the original Final Fantasy: Kraken, Lich, Marilith, and Tiamat. The fiends attack Morrow and his allies throughout different periods of history before being defeated by the protagonists.
The fiends are fought in game's final chapter in Stream of Chaos and are defeated once again.
The Four Fiends also each appear as elemental Phantom Stones players can obtain through the use of summon drawing. Kraken is water-elemental, Lich is earth-elemental, Marilith being fire-elemental, and Tiamat being wind-elemental. In addition, three out of the four summons's player abilities are skills used by each fiend from their past appearances, Lich teaching Kill from the original Final Fantasy, Marilith teaching Sword Quiver from Final Fantasy IX, and Tiamat teaching Plasma Storm from Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings.
In addition, the Four Fiends appeared as additional bosses to fight along Kuja when he was available to fight as an event boss fight, hearkening to them serving him in Memoria in Final Fantasy IX.
Aside from the traditional Four Fiends from the original Final Fantasy, the four elemental Archfiends from Final Fantasy IV and the Four Avalon Generals from Final Fantasy Dimensions appear as Phantom Stones for the players to draw through in-game currency.
Dissidia Final FantasyEdit
Both the Four Fiends from the original game and the Archfiends from Final Fantasy IV appear in Dissidia as summons. The Four Fiends all have effects involving timers that activate an effect when it reaches zero, while the Archfiends activate in response to the opponent's summon. The two groups share effects based on their ranking of power in their original games - Lich and Scarmiglione reduce the opponent's Bravery to 0, Marilith and Cagnazzo freeze the opponent's Bravery, Kraken and Barbariccia swap the Bravery of both characters, and Tiamat and Rubicante triple the summoner's Bravery.
The Four Fiends are shown in portraits in the corners of the Old Chaos Shrine arena. Garland's original four HP Attacks, as well as the forms his sword takes, are based on the Four Fiends - an axe form for Earthquake, twin swords for Blaze, a chain flail for Tsunami, and an extended lance for Cyclone. The bonus sample voices that the player can unlock for Garland in the PP Catalog are of him speaking the names of the Four Fiends, as well as Chaos.
The Archfiends have an equipment set named for them that gives the "Elemental Archfiend" combination—Scarmiglione's Fang, Barbariccia's Wristlet, Rubicante's Cowl, and Cagnazzo's Carapace.
Each of the Archfiends and Four Fiends has a respective player icon depicting their debut appearance from their games' original releases.
Dissidia 012 Final FantasyEdit
In Dissidia 012, the prequel to Dissidia, the Archfiends now also appear as tutors for the in-game manual in the Labyrinth.
Final Fantasy All the BravestEdit
The Four Fiends Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante from Final Fantasy IV makes an appearance as enemies in Final Fantasy All the Bravest. They use the same sprites as their Super Nintendo counterparts.
demon in mythology.A fiend is an evil spirit or a
The original Japanese name is "four heavenly kings". Four Heavenly Kings refer to the four gods from Buddhist faith. Shitennō is also used to refer to a group of four leaders in a given field, i.e "The Big Four" or "Quadrumvirate".The
- A recurring trait between the Earth-elemental "fiends" is their affinity to status ailments and/or Death: Lich, Scarmiglione and Flamerus Rex are Undead, and Scarmiglione and Asmodai use powerful debuffing abilities.


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If you have ever seen Will Ferrell and Chad Smith, the drummer for the Chili Peppers, they look a lot alike...a lot. Jimmy Fallon was the first person to ever get them in the same room together and an epic drum battle broke out. It has a conclusion I didn't see coming. Enjoy.
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The crisis in Ukraine escalated this week after the pro-Russia Crimea region voted to secede. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Crimea's new pro-Russian premier on joining Russia even as the U.S. and European Union (EU) opposed the move and called it a violation of international law. The U.S. and EU are now considering several measures to punish Russia. After the U.S. conducted a test sale of crude from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) last week, there are calls for the U.S. to release more oil from its strategic reserves to push down oil prices. Proponents of the measure say that such a move will hurt Russia, given its reliance on oil prices. While that will certainly be one result, the move would also have implications for U.S. and European oil producers.
Tapping the SPR
The SPR has been set up by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to maintain fuel supply during an emergency. The reserves, which total 727 million barrels, were last tapped in 2011 when the civil war in Libya disrupted oil supplies.
Last week, the DOE tapped the SPR for a test sale, the first ever such sale since 1990. The DOE released 5 million barrels of oil from the SPR. Among the bidders for the oil were majors such as ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-A).
While the DOE said that the release was under discussion for a while, there was speculation that the U.S. tapped the strategic reserves to send a message to Russia that it could push prices lower by unleashing oil from its SPR. Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, denied that the release was related to the Ukraine crisis and said it was done only for operational purposes.
It is likely that the U.S. administration conducted the test sale for operational purposes only, and has no intention of using its SPR to push down oil prices and hurt Russia. But there have been calls for the U.S. to do so. In an op-ed in the Financial Times, Philip Verleger of the University of Calgary argued that if the U.S. released 500,000 to 750,000 barrels per day of oil, which would push down prices by $10 to $12 per barrel. Such a drop in oil prices would hurt Russia significantly, given that the country relies heavily on oil and gas revenues. According to professor Verleger, since Russian gas monopoly Gazprom (NASDAQOTH:OGZPY) links the price of the gas it supplies to Europe to crude oil prices, the move would also hurt Russia's revenue from gas exports to Europe. The move would make a significant dent on Russia's GDP, according to him. But, lower oil prices would also have a negative impact on U.S. and European oil producers' bottom lines.
Producers need higher prices
Western oil majors such Exxon, Chevron (NYSE:CVX), and Shell have spent heavily over the last few years to boost production. While their oil and gas production has not shown any significant growth, years of heavy investment has resulted in a substantial increase in their debt levels. At the end of 2013, Exxon had $22.7 billion in debt on its balance sheet at the end of 2013, almost double the amount of debt at the end of 2013. Chevron's total long-term debt rose from $12 billion at the end of 2012 to $20 billion at the end of 2013.
Reducing debt levels is a priority for oil majors as is maintaining shareholder distribution. For that they need to reduce capital spending and boost production. But they also need robust oil prices. Recently, Chevron and Exxon had modeled their projections on an oil price assumption of around $110 a barrel; a level which I believe is a little too high given the demand and supply factors.
As I noted in a previous article, Brent crude could average between $100 and $105 a barrel over the next two-three years. At that level, Chevron and Exxon could struggle to meet their cash flow projections, given that they are based on an oil price of around $110 a barrel. If oil prices are pushed another $10 lower as suggested by Philip Verleger by releasing oil from the U.S. SPR, it could have severe consequences for U.S. oil producers such as Chevron and Exxon. While the move would certainly hurt Russia, it could end up hurting U.S. and European oil and gas producers even more.
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The Houston Chronicle reported on Wednesday that the FAA has issued a "Record of Decision" that allows SpaceX to apply for a license to build a private space port at Boca Chica Beach near Brownsville. The FAA had previously issued an environmental impact statement that revealed that there were no environmental show stoppers for the space port. While no official announcement has been made, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has indicated that he intends to build in Texas once the FAA gives final clearance.
SpaceX faces a number of other regulatory hurdles from a number of federal and state agencies concerning various aspects of the space port. There is also some lingering opposition from a local group called Environment Texas. But the local communities surrounding the site of the space port are enthusiastic about the economic stimulus that launching rockets from south Texas will bring. State and local officials have moved heaven and Earth for the past two years to make sure that the facility comes to Texas and not some rival state, such as Florida.
SpaceX intends to launch up to 12 times a year from the south Texas space port its Falcon family of rockets, including the heavy lift Falcon Heavy. It will launch primarily commercial payloads, but also holds out the possibility that NASA satellites will fly from the space port to be located near mouth of the Rio Grande.
SpaceX had been very much in the news as of late. Besides launching cargo versions of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, it is awaiting approval to proceed with the crewed version under NASA's commercial crew program. If approved, SpaceX would begin launching astronauts to the ISS by 2017. The company is also involved in litigation with the United States Air Force with lucrative military satellite launch contracts at hazard.


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A St. Louis shooting has claimed the life of a young black male, who police said brandished a knife and charged at officers patrolling St. Louis, where protests and riots over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown have yet to be quelled.
Writes CNN: "According to the St. Louis police chief, the suspect was involved in an incident earlier in the day at a convenience store, where he is accused of walking out with two energy drinks and a package of pastries without paying."
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson recounted the shooting: "The suspect, who right now is described as a 23-year-old African-American, was acting erratically – walking back and forth up and down the street," Dotson said.
The police chief said the shooting was a "death by cop" showdown.
"As officers arrived, the suspect turned towards the officers and started to walk towards them clutching his waistband. He then pulled out a knife and told the officers, 'Shoot me now. Kill me now,'" the chief said.
The man kept coming at officers, getting within two or three feet – "lethal range for a knife" according to Chief Dotson – and the officers then opened fire, dropping him with multiple rounds.
Dotson, perhaps taking a lesson from the lack of immediacy in the release of details regarding the Michael Brown shooting, said he wanted information to be made public as "quickly and as truthfully as possible."
Dotson was asked why his officers didn't use tasers to incapacitate the man, rather than shooting him. In response, Dotson said: "If you're the family of a police officer and somebody approaches you within three feet with a knife, I think you have the right to defend yourself and protect yourself. So I think it certainly is reasonable that an officer has an expectation to go home at the end of the night," he said.
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said she will ensure there is transparency in the shooting investigation, and is prepared to deal with any resulting protests.
"We want to make sure this is handled in a transparent way," Slay said, adding that she is "fully prepared" to handle any copycat protestors who are already charged up over the events in Ferguson. "We are very aware of the high emotion," Slay said.
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2 dead, 20 hurt after apparent twister hits campground
Two people are dead and at least 20 were injured at a Virginia campground on Thursday after a possible tornado, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told CNN.
The casualties are the result of a severe storm in Northampton County.
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CLEVELAND – The Indians have been out of contention since the 2007 season, but they've become quite efficient at trading off veteran players the past three years.
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BEREA — Rookie cornerback Joe Haden agreed to a five-year contract Saturday afternoon, agent Malik Shareef confirmed.
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BEREA — Rookie running back Montario Hardesty, a second-round pick expected to compete for a starting job, didn't practice Saturday morning as the Browns opened training camp. He twisted his knee during rookie practices earlier in the week and will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks.
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BEREA — Cornerback Joe Haden, the No. 7 overall pick, wasn't on hand Saturday morning when the Browns began training camp. Haden is the team's only rookie unsigned.
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Indians crushed by Blue Jays; Kearns traded to Yankees
TORONTO – Jose Bautista doesn't want to get traded by Toronto. The way he's hitting right now, his Blue Jays teammates are just as eager to keep him around.
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The Indians placed right-hander Mitch Talbot on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain Friday and optioned right-hander Jess Todd to Triple-A Columbus.
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Graphml is a nice and widely used graph description format. This is a micro module to print OcamlGraph - graphs in this format.
The signature is minimal. Since in GraphMl all attributes are typed, we only need two functions to describe the name, type a default value for the attributes of each vertex and edge, and two functions to map the value of each vertex and edge to a key / value list.
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The dose3 code base is getting larger and larger and waiting 40 secs each time I want to recompile the library is not acceptable anymore. Recently I tried to understand why the ocaml compiler was so slow .
To compile dose, I use a combination of ocamlbuild, ocamlfind, camlp4 and Makefile to drive everything.
The first important problem was related to my naive use of camlp4. I extensively use the Camlp4MacroParser module for the conditional compilation of certain features and actually I use camlp4 to process all my source code.
Below you can find an implementation in ocaml of the algorithm described in this paper by D. B. Johnson
Finding all the elementary circuits of a directed graph. D. B. Johnson, SIAM Journal on Computing 4, no. 1, 77-84, 1975. http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/0204007the idea of this algorithm is to enumerate all cycles in a strongly connected component.
The other day I wrote about my experience to set up the build system for a simple library. However, since parmap includes only two simple stubs to syscall I didn't have the chance to talk how to convince ocamlbuild to build stubs that depend on an external dynamic library.
I'm sure, facing this problem you had a look at this example : http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Ocamlbuild_example_with_C_stubs
Despite providing all elements, the page is a bit scars of details and explanations (at least for me...).
Today I struggled once again to build a simple library with ocamlbuild, so once for all I decided to write something about it. I'm sure next time, googling for an answer I'll find this post and shake my head in despair :)
The library in question is parmap written by Roberto Di Cosmo to speed up computations on modern multi processors computers. We want to build everything: cma, cmxa and cmxs. Moreover, we want to build a shared library that contains stubs for a couple of bindings to C functions.
I've just released the new version of ocaml-buddy, my ocaml bindings to the buddy BDD c library. Thanks to a fruitful interaction with Jimmy Thomson, I've fixed a couple of memory leaks and cleaned up the code a bit.
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Lately I've been concerned about the performances of dose3. Soon we will have a package in the official debian archive (containing the new distcheck) and we also plan to use dose3 as foundation of an upcoming apt-get future (external solvers !). This week I tackled a couple of problems.
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What is the optimal linear regression (w and w/o y-intercept) for a quadratic curve w.r.t. mean square error.
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Amy Adams is just as surprised as the rest of us that the Today show pulled her scheduled interview over her alleged unwillingness to discuss the Sony hacking scandal.
Adams says she was reluctant to discuss the scandal but was willing answer whatever questions she was asked. "I expressed that I was uncomfortable. I said I would rather not add my voice to this conversation," Adams told USA Today.… Continue reading Amy Adams On 'Today' Interview Cancellation: 'I Still Don't Understand' What Happened!


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IMF Pledges Stronger Partnership to Help Africa Through Crisis
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- IMF pledges to help Africa through crisis "as a friend"
- IMF steps up lending to Africa, tops $1.5 billion in 2009
- Ready to further increase concessional lending
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has pledged a stronger partnership with African countries to prevent the global economic crisis undoing years of progress in their fight against poverty.
Speaking at the end of a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d'Ivoire on May 27, he said the IMF had already doubled borrowing limits for the poorest countries and was working to provide them with even greater and more flexible lending.
"Africa currently finds itself the innocent victim of a financial crisis that has its origin in advanced economies. Coming so soon after last year's food and fuel price shock, the global recession adds to the vulnerabilities of low income countries through falling commodity prices, reduced trade and investment, and threats to development assistance," said Strauss-Kahn at the conclusion of his visit to Abidjan.
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"In response, the IMF is strengthening its partnership with Africa," he said in a press statement. "Africa will find in the IMF a good friend, ready with support and candid in advice."
IMF's Strauss-Kahn (l) confers with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa May 24 (photo: Eugene Salazar/IMF)
After industrial countries and emerging markets, the poorest and most vulnerable countries are being hit hard by a third wave of the global crisis, causing Africa's export earnings to plunge and reducing foreign investment. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to decline from just under 5½ percent in 2008 to 1½ percent in 2009 before recovering to about 3¾ percent in 2010—still below its precrisis level, the IMF says in its regional outlook, released on April 24.
But progress made in recent years showed that Africa could respond by ensuring political stability and strengthening governance to attract investors.
Strauss-Kahn said that the IMF had "substantially increased our financing to Africa and are ready to do more."
African finance ministers and central bank governors at a meeting with the IMF in March in Dar es Salaam had mandated Strauss-Kahn to argue their case for increased aid flows and financial assistance at April's Group of Twenty (G-20) summit of advanced and emerging market leaders in London.
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TUCSON , Ariz. ? ?C ?The University of Arizona womenˇ?s golf team will host the Wildcat Invitational, Feb. 25-27, at Arizona National Golf Club.? It is the Wildcatsˇ? lone home event of the season.
One of the finest college golf events in the nation, the 2008 Wildcat Invitational is a 54-hole event, which will be contested at Arizona National, a par 71, 6,238-yard layout. Eighteen holes will be played each day with tee times scheduled from 8-9:40 a.m. MST.
Twelve of the 16 teams in the field are ranked in the top 30 of the Feb. 10 Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index ratings, including the top four teams in the nation.? The field includes (ranking):? Arizona State (3), Auburn (9), Brigham Young, California (10), Duke (2), New Mexico (24), Oklahoma State (17), Pepperdine (18), Stanford, Texas (30), UCLA (1), UNLV, USC (4), Vanderbilt (19), Washington and host Arizona (8).
The Wildcats collected two top-five finishes in five fall events, and finished tied for eighth in its last tournament, the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge on Feb. 13.
Live tournament scoring will also be available at www.golfstat.com .
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Trombonist Ernest Stuart has been organizing and raising money in order to bring Philadelphia one of the most authentic Jazz festivals we've seen in years, The Center City Jazz Festival. Saturday April, 19th, Philly will be a hot spot no doubt. Things get underway promptly at 1 pm, so get your lunch early as this will be a roller coaster ride of notes, phrases, and dynamics. Usually when we go to these events, they're held at a park with everyone laying around on blankets with snacks in the mid afternoon.You end up so far from the stage that it becomes background music to a picnic. The main act is usually some R&B group that everyone grew up on 30 to 40 years ago. The Center City Jazz Festival is about fresh music and fresh acts. People who are continually bringing us the latest in arrangements and styles. Held in four different venues, you must keep busy to see the bands up close, with times that overlap, your adrenaline will shoot through your veins like a double high C on a trumpet. You'll literally be running from venue to venue to keep up. Leave those stilettos at home.
Performers range from drummer Justin Faulkner to the sultry voicings of Rhenda Fearrington. The evening comes to a climax with saxophonist Tim Warfield ripping down the walls and shaking tables with his fire at Chris's Jazz Cafe. If you're looking for some great music in an authentic atmosphere, I highly recommend taking the train, the bus, running, or just a short drive into the city of Philadelphia for a day or total musical joy. Tell a friend to tell 10 friends. For more information on the venues, times, and performers, click this link, Center City Jazz Festival.


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Hotel Araxa is situated in the centre of Palma, 5 minutes from the Paseo Maritimo, the Castle and the Cathedral. Set in a beautiful garden, the hotel offers a good choice of facilities and amenities.
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Photos from the NFL preseason football game between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, August 17, 2014 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The Broncos beat the 49ers, 34-0. (Photos by John Leyba/The Denver Post)
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If you think fine dining means a stuffy restaurant with equally stuffy wait staff, think again. Oregon, in particular the Portland area, makes dining fun, interactive and creative. You may find that fine restaurant cuisine at a local cart pod, at an Internet-announced meal where tickets are snapped up in minutes, or in the middle of a farmer's field. If you want to relax and have a great time, consider some of these fun dining options:
Pop-Up Restaurants
Pop-up restaurants, long popular in Britain and Australia, are a more recent phenomenon in the United States. Chefs, many of them young fast-starters, borrow a restaurant, announce a dinner and sell a limited number of tickets for the event.
One very successful pop-up business was started by Jake Martin, the executive chef of Genoa. Chef Martin is known for his innovative cuisine. According to Portland Monthly Mag, Chef Martin had been "dreaming up a way to marry the experience of fine dining with the chilled-out vibe that defines much of the city's food scene. Martin's dream will come to fruition with the launch of Daphne, an 11-course pop-up dinner series that he's co-created with Levant sommelier."
Food writer, Wendy Bumgardner attended the inaugural Daphne Pop-Up Dinner, and was one of the 24 foodies who scored reservations. She reported, "The menu was laid out on the chalkboard, the minimal description not doing justice to the details of each dish. The chefs were precise with the artistic arrangement of each plate. Service was excellent, with new wine glasses for each of the 10 wines and fresh silverware for each course."
She was able to sit at the exhibition kitchen counter and watch the action and talk to the chefs as the courses were prepared.
If you don't use the Internet you won't be able to follow the pop-up scene and get in on the action. These tickets are announced via twitter, Facebook and chef's e-mail lists.
Farm Dinners
Field & Vine dinners, the brain-child of Chef Pascal Chureau, is part of his vision of linking farmer and restaurant to bring special dining experiences to the local diners, or, to take the diners out to the farm and vineyard.
Chef Chureau does this through his work at Allium, a neighborhood restaurant in West Linn. One Sunday each month, Allium offers Neighborhood Dinners, family-style dinners that explore cuisines from villages in France and Italy, and American cuisines from Oregon, Washington, and California.
And then, several times each season, The Farm Comes to Allium, and they invite a local farm and its farmers to share their offerings and talk with all of diners about what they grow and do in the community.
Most recently I experienced "The Diners go to the Farm," with a Field & Vine event headed up by Chef Chureau and Chef Paul Klitise, chef and owner of Willem's on Main in Vancouver, Washington. The two chefs created a relaxed family-style experience in a tent erected in the beautiful display garden at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in rural Woodburn, about an hour south of Portland.
The multi-course dinner, mostly sourced locally, was accompanied by local wines. The courses were served family style as diners sat at long tables and interacted with the Iverson family who own Wooden Shoe Bulb Farm.
Diners could wander over to the chefs' tent and watch Chef Klitise finish his spätzle in a huge cast iron skillet over an open flame. It was a great way to see the courses being plated and ask the chefs questions. Several times throughout the dinner, the chefs came over to the diners to explain what was going on and what they were going to experience. Winemakers talked briefly and, of course, the host farmers added to the experience.
Throughout the meal, the two chefs worked, joked and genuinely enjoyed what they were doing. And this convivial atmosphere extended to the diners who savored each course, enjoyed the flowing wine and got to know each other, the chefs and the farmers.
It is this interaction, over a plate of fine food, that you can't get in a traditional restaurant. You can't experience a drive through the countryside, past farms and farm houses and then duck rain drops as you enter a beautifully decorated tent for your dinner in the field. All Field & Vine dinners are different. At Wooden Shoe, we experienced flowers, some decorated with twinkle lights, and the rolling fields of the farm. Fresh cut tulips graced the tables.
Upcoming Field & Vine events for June will take place at wineries. You can make a reservation online.
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I am going to harvest some wild hops I found. Is there any way of determining the characteristics like alpha acid? I was thinking of maybe just using them for flavor/aroma/dry, since I have no idea what the contribution would be.
Your best bet is to use them for flavor and aroma, since then you can use them as is. If you wanted to use them for bittering you'd have to find some way of measuring the bittering acids, such as boiling in a light sugar solution for 30 mins, doing the same with another known AA variety and comparing/diluting until you can get some idea of the bitterness.
Quite a lot of work and guesswork, so best to play safe and use them for flavor and aroma. This is also where fresh hops really shine since they've not been processed, which causes dry hops to lose volatile oils. This makes fresh hops particularly suited to hopping in the secondary, aka, wet hopping.


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By vbkraemer on Dec 18, 2007
I have a rough cut of a write up that describes using the Test Agent to debug the ClickToDial sample app. It is screenshot heavy and verbage light. Since this is a wiki page, please feel free to extend it as seen fit.


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College Hockey:Merrimack's Johnson Breaks Chess Match With Niagara
His Goal Gives Warriors Sweep
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — It was a weekend of hockey that rivaled a Kasparov-Karpov chess match. Strategy and thinking replaced unbridled skating and fluid puck moving.
But in the end, thanks to a late goal by Tony Johnson breaking a 1-1 tie, the Merrimack Warriors earned a two-game sweep of Niagara with a 2-1 victory on Saturday. Merrimack won the opening game of the series, 2-0, on Friday night.
"It was a matter of who was going to turn the puck over more, who would make a mistake," Merrimack coach Chris Serino said. "[Niagara] is very similar to us."
What looked like a potential stalemate ended with Johnson's tally with 3:11 remaining in regulation. After taking a pass from Steve Moon at the right point, Johnson wristed the puck through traffic and beat Niagara goaltender Rob Bonk (33 saves) over the right shoulder.
"I was just trying to get in on the net," Johnson said about the goal, the first of his young career. "The next thing I knew, it went in."
Niagara coach Blaise MacDonald, who dressed nine freshmen after dressing 10 in the series opener on Friday, needed to play a trap-style game against Merrimack. Midway through the second period, things did open up for a while, but that's not something that bothered MacDonald.
"We wanted to take whatever game was given to us," MacDonald said. "We didn't mind playing a fast-paced game as well [as a slower, strategic game] because we've got some players who have some good speed."
MacDonald admitted, though, that it was faceoffs, and not the speed of the game that resulted in the loss.
"We couldn't win a defensive zone draw," MacDonald said. "Merrimack got all of their goals of us not winning faceoffs."
MacDonald also noted that Merrimack's defense contributing to the offense helped greatly.
"[Merrimack] has the ability to get the put to the net from their defensemen. Our defensemen don't do that."
Johnson's late goal spoiled an outstanding performance by Bonk, who was tested often from close range and allowed only the two goals, both through tough screens. MacDonald joked about Bonk's ability to help his club.
"The only thing I don't like about his is that he's a foot taller than me," MacDonald said about his 6-foot-4 netminder. "He squares himself well and makes all the expected saves. His one weakeness has been moving the puck, but tonight I thought he did that very well."
On the other end, Joe Exter (28 saves), a rookie for the Warriors, made his seventh consecutive start in goal. Including Saturday's game, Exter has allowed one goal or less in five of those seven starts, winning all of them. Saturday's win improved his record to 7-4-0, and lowered the 2.79 goals against average he held entering the game.
The opening period provided a bit more excitement than Friday's series opener, with Niagara outshooting Merrimack, 11-10. Likewise, the Niagara offense that struggled for quality chances on Friday, wasted no time getting the puck to the net.
Four minutes into the period, Chris Sebastian set up Thomas Clayton on the doorstep, but Exter, placing the paddle of his stick along the ice, stopped the quick wrister and turned aside the rebound.
Merrimack had its best chance late in the period, when an Anthony Aquino blast from the right wing was steered aside by Bonk, keeping the game scoreless.
The Niagara power play, which, at 4.8 percent has basically been non-existent all year, didn't get much puck luck on its only attempt in the first. John Heffernan's blast from the left faceoff dot beat Exter cleanly but rang off the post to the left of the goalie.
At 17:38, though, Niagara finally broke the deadlock when Mike Bozoian picked off a breakout pass by Merrimack defenseman Eric Pedersen. Bozoian walked into the high slot and fired a shot that beat Exter through a screen for Bozoian's first career goal, giving the Purple Eagles a 1-0 lead.
"After they scored the goal, I thought we woke up a little," Serino said about his Warrior squad. "We were a little bit lackadaisical early in the game but then we started to come on well."
Early in the second period, matching penalties created a four-on-four situation and the skating room on the small Volpe Complex ice that these two teams had wanted for two nights. And with that open ice Merrimack took advantage. The Warriors created a series of offensive zone draw, with this third one finally paying off.
Vince Clevenger won the draw to the right corner, where Ron Mongeau picked up the puck and quickly fed Johnson at the right point. Johnson pushed the puck across to Moon at the left point and he fired a quick wrist shot to the net. With a heavy screen in front of Bonk, the rookie netminder never saw the puck coming, getting beaten over the left shoulder, tying the game at 1.
The goal, ironically, was a mirror image of the game-winning goal that was scored in the third period.
When the teams returned to full strength, one thing was different — the chess match had virtually ended, for the moment. Both teams had abandoned the neutral-zone trap, adding a speed to the game that had been lost for nearly four-and-a-half periods.
The beneficiary was Merrimack — transitioning the puck well and getting the quality shots it had hoped for. But Bonk proved to be the wall guarding the queen, making stop after stop, finishing the period with 19 saves. No save was better than a toe save while moving across the crease on Alex Sikatchev near the end of a Warrior power play, keeping the game deadlocked through two periods.
Early in the third, Clevenger had the perfect chance to give Merrimack the lead, beating Bonk cleanly on a three-on-one. But his shot rang off the crossbar and post, allowing Bonk to breathe a sigh of relief, for the moment.
About the win, Serino said that his club "is starting to believe that they can win close games."
Merrimack has now won five of its last six games, with four of them coming by margins of two goals or less.
The win improved Merrimack's record to 9-8-1, the first time the club has been above .500 since Oct. 27. Important to Serino is that it gives the Warriors a chance to accomplish a goal.
"We've had a goal all year to have 10 wins at the Christmas break," Serino said. "Now we have a chance."
It's a chance that will be on the line when the club hosts Dartmouth next Friday night, the last game before break for Merrimack.
Niagara dropped to 6-9-3 with the loss, and will now take three weeks off for the holiday break. Niagara returns to action on Dec. 30 when it hosts Bowling Green.
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TC TO JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART ; 11 January 1842; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18420111-TC-JGL-01; CL 14: 10
5. Cheyne Row, Chelsea / 11 jany, 1842—
My dear Sir,
If you have yet got any certain intelligence about poor Charles Scott, may I claim of you to let me share in it. If not yet, then so soon as any does arrive. I have the liveliest impression of that good honest Scotch face and character, tho' never in contact with the young man but that once.1 Alas, so many histories are tragedies; or rather, all histories are! I pray you, let me know.
That is a capital Article on the Copyright Question:2 a conviction in it as deep and vivid as my own, or that of any other idealist; but embodied, with excellent dexterity, in the given element of practicalities, possibilities, and existing facts—which do and will exist, let us bless them or curse them! It cannot but do great service.— I fancy I know the hand very well: a most velvet touch; truly a patte-de-velours [velvet paw], yet here and there with a terrible claw in it! Mr R. Chambers's till is infinitely obliged.3
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The Standard Wing
The Suite Wing
|The Bliss is a stylish boutique hotel housing a unique,
contemporary design. We are a superb hotel with a serene atmosphere
that radiates comfort and ease. All of the rooms encompassing our four
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Sitting back in our local air-conditioned movie theater, on a sweltering hot summer day watching Andrew Garfield scale a sky-scraper in 3D, we are reminded of a recent graduate fast-forwarding from the world of for-profit animation education to the emergent career field of game design.
Video is changing the way we teach, learn, and do business on campus. How can you harness the power of online video—from lecture capture to campus events to student-generated content—to create new value? That was the focus of the Future of Video in Education Summit preceding UBTech 2012. Sponsored by Sonic Foundry, the summit examined those questions in a series of presentations and panel discussions.
Educator, inventor, author, and perhaps the most famous person with autism in the world, Temple Grandin addressed higher ed administrators in UBTech 2012's opening keynote—during which she called out politicians, top-down thinkers, and bullies and inspired the crowd with her experiences and perspective on everything from how labels hurt kids to how educational institutions should allow those with hands-on experience to teach, even without a teaching degree.
In May, MIT and Harvard announced a $60 million joint venture, called edX, to develop an open-source platform to deliver online courses. The descendant of MIT's OpenCourseWare project that made the institution's course materials freely available, edX offers significant improvements. For one thing, unlike OCW, edX will host full MITx and Harvardx faculty-led courses, with certificates of mastery at completion. In July, edX announced the addition of UC Berkeley to the project, and the formation of the X-University Consortium.
The VM0808H 8x8 HD matrix video switch from ATEN is capable of routing up to eight HDMI sources to a maximum of eight HDMI
What technologies and features do higher education favor for digital signage and video and web conferencing deployments? And what can be done to ensure that these technology purchases are used wisely? Here's what is happening on the AV technology scene.
It's been a surprise to see how eager many college trustees, foundation officers, and government officials are now for the same freedom students and faculty members enjoy on campus to try out new ideas. Many have become enamored with the idea of "disruptive innovation," drawn from Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma (1997). Arguing that incremental change is often inadequate when organizations face altered circumstances, he asserts that disruptive innovation is the best way to re-position an organization. His main examples relate to hard disk drives and excavators.
At Rollins College (Fla.), we're always looking for new ways to enhance student learning experiences. A signature feature of liberal arts schools is the intimacy and strength of engagement in the classroom. With this philosophy, you might assume that virtual classrooms don't have a place at Rollins. But technology's role in higher education isn't synonymous just with distance learning and online courses. Technology is a tool that can enrich the liberal arts learning experience and make it more meaningful.
Physical bookstores are in decline, and the signs of this are everywhere. Border's demise was the most prominent recent example but countless small independent bookstores around the country are experiencing the same fate.
Indiana University sees an opportunity to capitalize on the growing market for nonprofit workers with a formal School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Officials say nonprofits already account for 9 percent of U.S. wages and salaries, and are expected to grow as government and corporation philanthropy declines.
According to one recent study, nonprofit organizations with revenues of more than $250,000 will hire up to 640,000 more executives by 2016.
When President Obama set the goal of increasing the percentage of the population that has some postsecondary education, the assumed focus was on two- and four-year degrees. A new report, "Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees," from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce makes the argument that certificates should not be overlooked.
Students and technology go hand in hand, especially when you hand out smartphones at orientation. Seton Hall University (N.J.) did just that with Nokia Lumia 900 smartphones during orientation in June. "It's an exciting time here at Seton Hall," says David Middleton, assistant vice president for administration and executive director of the university's Center for Mobile Research and Innovation. "This is part of an ongoing effort we've been taking on for a few years," he says, adding that students also receive a PC.
Now that we have all waved our classes of 2012 on their way with pomp and circumstance—and hopefully with sunny graduation days—it's only natural to turn our attention to the classes of '13, '14, and '15. But to read the headlines of the past few months, there's still plenty to worry about concerning the graduates who are just entering the workforce and for whom the forecast is considerably cloudy.
Touch screens are taking over—and people expect to see them. In the years since Apple first popularized the technology with the iPhone in 2007, it has become almost rare to meet someone who doesn't own a touchscreen smartphone or tablet. This is becoming even truer among the college-bound and younger generation. Take, for example, the viral YouTube video showing a toddler who could easily operate an iPad, but seemed perplexed when she touched the pages of a magazine and nothing happened.


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GIS Map Gallery: November 2004
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Boating Accidents for 2003
The map of the month for November 2004 illustrates the distribution of boating accidents that occurred in 2003 around the Commonwealth. Spatial data on boating accidents are gathered and summarized at the end of each year. This information comes from law enforcement agencies performing watercraft investigations. Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (DGIF) & Virginia Marine Resources Commission are the agencies that most frequently investigate boating accidents. Year-end reports are used to visualize accident occurrence. The ability to see where these accidents occur allows law enforcement officers to adjust patrols and focus boating education efforts.
According to DGIF regulations: "The operator or owner of a boat involved in an accident must promptly notify a State Game Warden or marine patrol officer if: A person is injured requiring medical treatment beyond first aid or damage to the boat and other property exceeds $2,000. If a person dies or disappears as a result of an accident, the boat operator must also notify the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) without delay by calling (804) 367-1258, or notify the most immediately available Game Warden. In addition, a written report of a boating accident must be made. Written reports of accidents involving only property damage must be made within 10 days of the accident. However, you must file an accident report within 48 hours in cases involving a death, disappearance or injury requiring medical treatment beyond first aid. Boating accident report forms can be from any office of the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries or obtained online."
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