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College Hockey:NCAA D-III First Round: Babson vs. Amherst
There are only 11 teams left standing at this point and after Wednesdays first round games, the list will be down to the eight quarterfinalists vying for the 2009 NCAA Division III national ice hockey championship. While both Babson and Amherst respective champions of their conferences, they took very different routes to the national tournament. They also bring a sense of familiarity based on the interlock schedule that exists between the ECAC East and NESCAC.
Babson Beavers (13-13-1 overall, 9-10-0 in ECAC East)
Babson outdid themselves this year by winning the ECAC East league title as the seventh seed. Back in 2007, the Beavers won the league from the six spot, so the seniors on this team can lay claim to two titles in their four years to go with two trips to the NCAA tournament.
You really realize just how special it is to be playing for conference championships and on a national stage, noted head coach Jamie Rice. I am really proud of these guys. While we didnt necessarily have the results we wanted or expected in the regular season we are among just a few select teams that still has practice in March. Thats pretty special.
That several Babson players have played in the NCAAs on the road is experience their coach is hoping will be valuable on the trip to Amherst.
We have a sense of familiarity with Amherst obviously, said Rice. We played them in the regular season. Everything is normal in our schedule with a bus trip the day of the game. We know where the rink is and where to eat so this shouldnt be so different like we were going to play and ECAC West opponent with an overnight trip–the familiarity is a good thing.
Babson will look to several key seniors to provide the right atmosphere in the locker room as well as set an example on the ice. Last weeks hero with the overtime winner against the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Brad Baldelli (10 goals, 14 assists, 24 points) along with defenseman Alex DiPietro (8-19-27) will look to extend their March winning streak to four games.
Junior Jason Schneider (11-22-33) and sophomore Terry Woods (7-13-20) will also look to build on their strong showing in the conference tournament.
In goal, freshman Andrew Peabody (11-7-0, 2.33 goals against average, .907 save percentage) has become the main man between the pipes for Babson, running off a nice streak of wins in the second half of the season. Peabody earned some practical experience in the conference tournament including stopping 70 of 76 shots for a .921 save pct.–a number certainly in the ballpark of where you want your goalie to be to have a chance to win a playoff game.
The Babson special teams have also been very good all season, scoring at better than a 22% rate and killing off penalties approximately 85% of the time. This may be a key to the game as the regular season match-up saw the Beavers drop a 6-3 decision at home to the Lord Jeffs where they scored three on the man advantage but surrendered two in the loss.
At the end of the day we just want to go out and play, Rice said. Two years ago at Manhattanville we got in a hole and our back-up goaltender who didnt say anything all season told the guys: its just a hockey game. We were really loose going into overtime against UMass last weekend and I hope that carries over to Wednesday night.
Amherst Lord Jeffs (21-4-1 overall, 16-2-1 in NESCAC)
This season has been one of many firsts for the Lord Jeffs. First regular season top seed, first NESCAC conference championship, and now its first NCAA game in a decade.
Its been great, but hopefully we have learned some things along the way, said head coach Jack Arena. When we defeated Middlebury to clinch the top seed in the league we had a little letdown the next day against Williams. Now that we have won the conference title, I hope we dont have that experience on Wednesday night against a tough Babson team that we are very familiar with. We wanted to have a three game winning streak in March–that was accomplished. Now we want to start a four game winning streak starting on Wednesday.
The nations best defensive team in the country will look to netminders Jonathan LaRose and Cole Anderson to continue their torrid goaltending play. Nationally, they are the top in goals against average and save percentage and collectively give up just 1.55 goals per game to the opposition. Supporting this stingy effort is a solid and experienced defensive corps led by seniors Shane Lennox, Rylan Burns and NESCAC Player of the Year, captain Jeff Landers.
Amherst is unbeaten at home this year at 11-0-1 and they dont beat themselves. Up front Ted Vickers (11 goals, 11 assists, 22 points), Luke Arnold (7-9-16) and Brendan Powers (10-11-21) will look to continue their hard hitting and aggressive offensive play that earned each a pair of points and all five goals in Saturdays conference title game 5-2 win over Middlebury.
The Lord Jeffs will need to replace the speed and shot of freshman Mark Colp (9-13-22), who will miss the remainder of the season with a leg injury. They do, however, have a revitalized Joel Covelli (four goals and 15 assists just in the seasons second half) playing his best hockey heading into the NCAAs.
The special teams for Amherst are deadly with the power play scoring almost 26% of the time and the penalty kill delivering 90% efficiency. In fact, when down a skater, the Lord Jeffs have tallied three shorthanded goals this season and had several grade A chances this weekend in the NESCAC final four.
Its great being at home, stated Arena. We dont have to travel–we know and respect the opponent and can stay really consistent with our schedule–keeping things normal. This will be a great hockey game as Babson has a lot of talent and is obviously playing very well right now. I think our effort on Saturday may have been our best overall this season. Hopefully we can play to that level on Wednesday night.
While the familiarity is there–these two teams have not seen each other in almost exactly two months–a lot has changed, especially for Babson. With their consistent play and road warrior mentality forged in the playoff run, they will need their best game of the season to topple Amherst, ranked fourth nationally. Its defense and goaltending versus experience and offensive firepower–definitely worth the price of admission.
Both teams are more than ready. Drop the puck!
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|Dennis Seidenberg out with lower-body injury
|01.21.13 at 12:16 pm ET
Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg will not play in Monday's matinee against the Jets due to a lower-body injury, according to the team. Aaron Johnson is in the lineup in his place. The team said Seidenberg is day-to-day.
Based on pre-game warmups, Dougie Hamilton, Seidenberg's partner in the season-opener, will skate on a pairing with Zdeno Chara. The other pairings are Andrew Ference–Adam McQuaid and Johnson-Johnny Boychuk.
Claude Julien said prior to Monday's matinee that it will be Tuukka Rask in net for the B's. Rask, who inherited the No. 1 netminding job with Tim Thomas taking the year off, made 20 saves on 21 shots in the season-opening win over the Rangers Saturday.
|Claude Julien: Dougie Hamilton-Dennis Seidenberg pairing not 'carved in stone'
|01.16.13 at 1:46 pm ET
WILMINGTON — Bruins rookie defenseman Dougie Hamilton has been paired with Dennis Seidenberg from the start of training camp, and with little time to mix and match in a shortened camp, it would appear that the two will be partners as the season opens this weekend.
Claude Julien did his best to pump the brakes on the buzz the pairing has created, saying Wednesday that while the two are partners for now, there's still the possibility that Hamilton will play with another B's blueliner in the coming days or weeks.
"You put those guys with the guys you know you can trust, but this is just a start," Julien said. "I don't want anybody thinking that it's carved in stone that that's his partner. You're probably going to see throughout the year pairs moved around a little bit, but certainly he can benefit from the wisdom of those veteran players around him."
Julien did say that he's liked the job that Seidenberg, 31, has done helping the 19-year-old along.
"Any time a young player plays with a veteran you can gain a lot, especially if the veteran is a good veteran that will share his experience, his expertise with the player and help calm him down when maybe he gets running around a little bit or he gets uptight, whether it's on the bench or on the ice. Coaches do a lot, but a teammate with some experience can do a lot as well."
Though Hamilton and Seidenberg seem to be the pairing for now, it wouldn't be crazy for the B's to try to get some games out of the usually reserved-for-playoffs pairing of Seidenberg and Zdeno Chara early on. That would certainly be an easy way to prevent getting off to a slow start in the 48-game season.
|Dennis Seidenberg back from Germany after family-filled lockout
|01.08.13 at 2:26 pm ET
Dennis Seidenberg had a great time reuniting with his brother, Yannick, in Germany during the lockout. He's just surprised he had to spend so much time there.
"It was nice to play with him for the last three months — longer than I expected — but it was a good time and a good experience being back with him on one team," Seidenberg said Tuesday after joining a group of his teammates at Agganis Arena. "It was fun."
Seidenberg, who arrived in Boston on Monday afternoon, played for the Mannheim Eagles of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Seidenberg's younger brother, Yannick, has played for the Eagles since 2009-10 (all but 67 games of the 28-year-old's 12-year career has been played in the DEL), while the Bruins' defenseman spent parts of three seasons playing for the Eagles before coming to the NHL.
In 26 games for the Eagles during the lockout, Seidenberg had two goals and 18 assists for 20 points and a plus-15 rating. He didn't play the heavy minutes he's been accustomed to logging for the Bruins — Seidenberg averaged 24:02 of ice time per game last season — but he thinks that will be a good thing when the B's really need him during the season.
"It started out slow. I wasn't even on the power play for the first few games," he said with a laugh before adding, "I'm not saying I'm an offensive player, but they [rotated] through six, seven, sometimes eight guys. It was good. You got your shifts in, you got your ice time, but you never really tired yourself out too much."
Seidenberg said he was "crazy" as he sat in front of his laptop throughout the lockout awaiting its end. He was in town in November and was hoping he would only have to practice in Germany a couple more times before returning for good. That obviously didn't happen, but the biggest letdown was when talks blew up between the two sides last month after player/owner-only meetings that had brought about an optimistic vibe.
"Like everyone else, in the middle of December, when they had the stretch of talks, a lot of guys thought to get ready, but that was a false alarm again," Seidenberg said. "'¦ They finally worked it out and I think everyone's excited."
Though Yannick was sad to see him go, Dennis is obviously glad to be back in Boston. The 31-year-old didn't like the lockout, but he's happy with the experience he got out of it.
"I hadn't been home [for an extended period] for seven years," Seidenberg said. "Just being able to enjoy hanging out with people I hadn't hung out with for a long time and playing for the team I started with was a good time."
Now his attention is on the upcoming season. Seidenberg is happy he's in shape, but even happier he's in Boston and days away from competing in what should be a hectic season.
"I just drove by [TD Garden] this morning and I got a real good feeling in me when I passed the Garden, just imagining going back out on the ice in front of the fans and being able to play here again," Seidenberg said. "I think everybody feels the same way and is excited to get going."
|Players more educated, but no more confident after returning from New York
|09.14.12 at 2:12 pm ET
WILMINGTON — Two-hundred-eighty-three players left this week's NHLPA meetings in New York without any promising news about the start of the season, but they came away from the meetings a heck of a lot smarter.
It isn't exactly easy to understand the nuts and bolts of the league's labor dispute as the owners and NHLPA try to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement, so players who entered the meetings as confused as the next guy at least left them a bit educated.
"I was taking notes," Tyler Seguin said on Friday. "Obviously there's a lot of stuff I'm not going to understand. We do the meetings and obviously I'm not going to get into much detail, but then we split up into our teams and talk about it amongst ourselves and our questions. It was good. I learned a lot. Going into that, I don't think I knew too much about HRR [hockey-related revenue] or anything like that and all the percentages and statistics, but I know a lot more about it now."
Dennis Seidenberg said that while the meetings were beneficial given the unity the players showed and the things they learned, he doesn't see any more reason for optimism now than he did before.
"The feeling is it hasn't really changed much," the defenseman said. "We were hoping that going to New York, we'd get some news in a positive way, but the main thing we did was get educated on what's going on and what our proposal looks like and how we're going forward from here. Other than that, not much has changed."
Said Gregory Campbell: "I think it's important to go to those meetings and definitely get the knowledge on what's going on. As players, it's really important to be informed. It's one thing to hear it on the phone or hear it from somebody else, but to actually go there and really be informed — this is our livelihood, so we really have to make sure that we're all on the same page."
The owners are set to lock the players out at midnight on Saturday. A vote led by Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs yielded unanimous agreement for the move on Thursday.
"Going to New York was probably a good idea at this point in time, just because with this date looming, I guess it seems like the inevitable that there will be a lockout," Campbell said. "We all have to be in the right frame of mind if and when this happens."
|Dennis Seidenberg knows one person who wants a lockout
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WILMINGTON — There aren't many people rooting for an NHL lockout, but Yannic Seidenberg is one of them.
Seidenberg, the younger brother of Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg, plays left wing for Adler Mennheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. His team has reached out to Dennis saying there's a spot for him if he wants somewhere to play during the upcoming NHL lockout, and Dennis has indicated he would interested if it came to that.
"I was definitely happy that they were interested," he said. "There's an opportunity for me to go over once I decide to do that, but for now I'm just trying to hold tight and see where things are going."
As if the team hasn't pressed hard enough for him to go back to Germany to play, Yannic has been anxious to get his brother over there.
"Every day," he said with a laugh. "He's very excited. He keeps calling me every day and asking if I talked to them yet, to his team and got anything going, but I keep telling him I'm going to hold tight and see what's going to happen here."
Seidenberg spent the last lockout playing in the AHL for the Philadelphia Phantoms. While he doesn't to see a work stoppage in the NHL, there's a silver lining for him that doesn't exist for most of the other players.
"The last time I played with him was like 10 or 11 years ago," Seidenberg said of Yannic, "so it would be nice to get back there if you could take one positive out of this."
|Bruins players discuss plans for potential NHL lockout
|08.22.12 at 8:39 pm ET
LOWELL — Several Bruins players weighed in on the NHL's situation regarding the collective bargaining agreement prior to Milan Lucic's Rock & Jock softball game Wednesday night. Among the things discussed were their potential plans for the coming season in the event that there is a lockout. The current collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on Sept. 15.
Lucic hasn't been able to attend any meetings thus far, but he said he has paid close attention to the negotiations between the league and the players' association. Executives from the league and NHLPA, including league commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, met in Toronto Wednesday, but got nowhere. The negotiations were cancelled before they began, and the two sides will meet again Thursday.
"Obviously there's a lot of stuff that needs to be resolved," Lucic said. "There's a lot of issues that are being talked about and there's a lot of things that from a player and a union standpoint, that we want and obviously from an owner's standpoint, what they want. You've heard Don and Gary talk about it, that there's still a wide gap between the two sides coming together. Like I said, hopefully it can get resolved sooner than later, but from a union standpoint and a player standpoint, we're just trying to make sure we get a fair deal and have whatever's right."
Dennis Seidenberg played in the AHL during the 2004-05 lockout, but he hinted at playing in his native Germany next season if the NHL isn't an option. One draw of playing in Germany would be the opportunity to play with his younger brother, Yannic, who is a forward for Adler Mannheim of the German Hockey League.
"Well, my brother plays in Germany, so it would be nice to play with him if it gets to that point," Seidenberg said, "but for now I haven't put enough thought into it to say what I'm going to do."
Added Seidenberg: "It would be nice to play with him again, but I hope it's not going to happen."
Finland native Tuukka Rask said he also isn't sure where he'd play, but did say it's unlikely that he would play in Finland. Tim Thomas played in Finland during the 2004-05 lockout.
"I'm sure a lot of guys are thinking Russia and stuff like that, but I don't think I'd go to Finland," Rask said. "Maybe I'd try something new, because I played in Finland and I know what it is. Nothing against the league or anything, but maybe I'd try something else."
Lucic said he knows he might have to consider alternative plans for next season, but he isn't doing so yet.
"I'm still hopeful that there will be a season," Lucic said. "'¦ I'm still hopeful that hockey will be played [in the NHL] this season, but that's something that I'm going to have to think about and make a decision on at a later date."
Another noteworthy bit of information from the players is that they still plan on having informal practices in early September, as they do each season.
"I've talked to a lot of guys on the team, and it seems like a lot of guys are coming back — especially the ones with kids going to school — as if everything's going to plan," Lucic said. "The CBA only lasts until September 15, so we don't have much time even if we do start in Wilmington, but definitely for us guys that are on the Bruins and are here in Boston, we'll definitely be skating together and doing whatever until whatever needs to be resolved."
|Looking back and ahead: Dennis Seidenberg
|05.29.12 at 8:47 pm ET
With the Bruins' season in the books, WEEI.com will take a look at each player on the roster one-by-one to provide some perspective on what went wrong this season and what the future holds for the 2011 champions.
Age: 30
2011-12 stats: 80 games played, 5 goals, 18 assists, 23 points, plus-15 (career-high)
Contract status: Signed through 2013-14 season ($3.25 million cap hit).
Looking back: Seidenberg followed his best offense season (career-high seven goals and 73 points) with another solid campaign for the B's, playing on the second pairing for the Bruins once again and posting the best plus-minus of his career.
Seidenberg's rating didn't come close to that of his postseason partner (Zdeno Chara had a plus-33), but consider that Seidenberg spent most of the season paired with Joe Corvo, who struggled in all areas of the ice but was especially turnover-prone, leading to scoring chances for opposing teams.
The German defenseman enjoyed his second straight healthy season, as 2011-12 was the second consecutive campaign in which he played at least 80 regular-season games and every playoff game.
In the playoffs, Claude Julien reunited Chara and Seidenberg to make a shutdown pairing, much like he did with great success in the Bruins' 2011 Stanley Cup run. Seidenberg had a modest plus-1 rating in the Bruins' Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the Capitals, but was arguably the best player on the ice for the B's in the first round. Given that the pairing played against Washington's first line, Seidenberg got to know Alexander Ovechkin very well through a series of big hits and collisions.
In the end, the Bruins didn't get a chance to see how the Chara-Seidenberg pairing would fare against other opponents, and while there was plenty of blame to go around for the Bruins' first-round failure, it would be hard to place any on Seidenberg.
A productive 2011-12 season goes down as the latest piece of evidence that teams didn't fully understand what was there when Seidenberg remained unsigned as training camp for the 2009-10 season began.
Looking ahead: Seidenberg has two years remaining on his deal, and given what a well-conditioned athlete he is and the fact that he's gotten better with age, the Bruins won't want to see him leave.
He's an absolute steal at $3.25 million annually, making his contract signed following the 2009-10 season easily one of the best deals Peter Chiarelli has pulled off since coming to Boston. The trade to get him certainly worked out for Boston too, as Chiarelli got Seidenberg and Matt Bartkowski for Byron Bitz, Craig Weller and a second-round pick.
Next season, Seidenberg will likely remain on the second pairing during the regular season, separated from Chara until the postseason. The question is who he will have as his defensive partner. The Bruins figure to have a different mix of blueliners next season, as Greg Zanon, Corvo and Mike Mottau are all free agents and Dougie Hamilton should be a safe bet to make the team out of training camp.
If Hamilton shows early on that he can handle the workload, perhaps the Bruins could trust the former ninth overall pick with Seidenberg. Hamilton projects to at the very least be a top-six defenseman, and once he gets comfortable in the NHL after a season or two, the idea of having Chara, Seidenberg and Hamilton (plus Johnny Boychuk) would make the Bruins' defense stellar regardless of who else is there.


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First variant of the problem: Add to the original problem: "all disks have the same radius $R$".
Second variant of the problem: Add to the original problem "all disks have the same radius $R>1$ and every center has the coordinates $(x,y)$, where $x,y \in\mathbb Z$"
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7:19 p.m.: South Tippah School District is closed Monday.
6:36 p.m.: Tupelo Superintendent Randy Shaver said there was flooding at Rankin and Thomas Street Elementary and the Middle school, but crews have cleaned it up. – Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal.
5:52 p.m.: From New Albany Superintendent Charles Garrett:
Most of the district's buildings took on water.
– At New Albany High School, 5 or 6 English classes got water on the carpet from flooding that came under the doors.
– The Vocational Center got a lot of wet carpets from water that seeped under the doors
– New Albany Middle School cafeteria got water from some roof leaks
– The football field house got a good bit of water that seeped under the doors.
A lot of school personnel, administrators, custodial staff and coaches were at the schools on Sunday trying to clean them up. They were using dry vacs on the wet carpets.
Other observations from Garrett:
A lot of bridges in New Albany were under water
Sam T. Barkley Drive was one of the worst spots.
The Sportsplex got a lot of water
The Tallahatchie River is really wide (he said it looked like the Mississippi River).
He said that the Tallahatchie River Bridge downtown (on Bankhead Street) had become a tourist attraction with several people on the side of the road taking pictures
He said that WNAU radio station looked like it was on an island.
– Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal
5:50 p.m.: Alcorn County schools will be closed Monday.
4:56 p.m.: For Tishomingo County, Supt. Malcolm Kuykendall said they will have schools starting at the usual times. However, they are instructing bus drivers to not go down any road where they see danger, and they will not count the children who are affected as absent. The only facility damage was a roof leak at Burnsville, and crews are expected to have problems there cleared up today. – Lena Mitchell/Daily Journal
4:51 p.m.: Marshall County schools will be be open, but buses will not be running. Parents are asked to bring their children to school if they usually ride the bus.
4:50 p.m.: Prentiss County School District closed Monday.
3:39 p.m.: Most of Corinth is under water and an unidentified fatality has been reported in the worst flooding seen in many years, the police chief said.
The body of a person who ran off north Shiloh Road into a ditch near Shiloh Ridge Golf Club was recovered from deep, swift-running water that resulted from the heavy rainfall, said Chief David Lancaster. The person is not being identified at this time pending notification of family.
At different times several areas of U.S. Highway 72 have been impassable, including at the Fulton Drive, Cass Street and Harper Road intersections, he said.
According to another report, the Alcorn County Sheriff's Office also was under water with phones out of service still at 3 p.m., and inmates had to be taken out of the facility.
Patty Tucker, exec director of Red Cross said she is at the shelter at Crossroads Arena in Corinth. She said there are 9 residents at the shelter now and she expects more.
Monetary donations are being accepted. Folk can mail them in to the Red Cross in Tupelo at 4127 Westside Drive, by going to redcross.org or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS. – Lena Mitchell and Sheena Barnett/Daily Journal.
3:09 p.m. – From The Associated Press –
ASHLAND — A weather system packing wind, rain and possible tornadoes killed three in Mississippi on Sunday, about week after a deadly twister left 10 dead in another part of the state.
Gov. Haley Barbour has declared a state of emergency for Benton, Lafayette, Panola, Tippah and Union counties, where heavy downpours and strong winds damaged numerous homes and flooded streets. Thousands were without power.
Latoya Long, 25, and Thomas Catrell Cowan, 26, were killed when their mobile home was blown apart by winds after 2:30 a.m. Sunday, said John Riles, the coroner in Benton County, which borders Tennessee.
"It looks like you stuck about four sticks of dynamite on it and it just disappeared," Riles said of the home. "There was a two-story house across the road and it didn't leave the foundation. If you didn't know the house was there, you'd just think it was a vacant lot."
William Tipler, 68, and his son escaped their home unharmed, even though the structure was badly damaged.
"We were laying in bed when the roof came off," Tipler said.
About 50 miles away in Abbeville in Lafayette County, another person was killed. Lafayette County Emergency Management Agency coordinator David Shaw said the person's home was demolished by the storm. Shaw wouldn't release the victim's name, pending notification of relatives.
Heavy rainfall hampered cleanup efforts in Benton County, where hundreds of trees were toppled or their tops snapped off.
Shaw about 20 homes had been damaged and some trees were down, but otherwise there was no major destruction.
The National Weather Service was surveying damage in Abbeville and Benton County to determine whether tornadoes had been spawned by the system, said Marlene Mickelson, a meteorologist in the agency's Memphis, Tenn., office.
The system developed across Mississippi and moved into Tennessee, where six people were killed, said Mickelson. She said the system was a tornado supercell — individual storms — that caused the probable tornadoes in Mississippi.
She said flooding was reported across northeast Mississippi on Sunday. The rain was expected to move out of the state by Sunday night, and the threat of more tornadoes was minimal, Mickelson said.
The powerful weather system comes on the heels of a killer tornado that struck parts of central Mississippi on April 24. The twister left 10 people dead in Choctaw, Yazoo and Holmes counties.
"We're moving into the recovery phase of last weekend's storms. Of course, we lost three more lives," said Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeff Rent. "While we are spread thin, we're getting it done."
Rent said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was assisting with the recovery from the April twister, and state partner agencies were mobilized for the latest weather emergency.
MEMA personnel were deployed to Benton County. The agency sent tarps to Benton and Lafayette counties.
The Tippah Electric Power Association reported 4,500 outages in Tippah County and 500 outages in Benton County. Northeast Mississippi Electric Power Associated said there were 1,200 outages in Lafayette County and 160 in Marshall County.
Ron Stewart, spokesman for the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi, didn't know how soon the power would be restored.
2:46 p.m. – Old Saltillo Road has been closed to allow some flood waters to go down. It is expected to be open again later this evening. – Danza Johnson.
2:30 p.m. – Gov. Haley Barbour has declared a State of Emergency in Lafayette, Union, Tippah, Benton and Panola Counties.
2:13 p.m. – Flood waters are almost up to tractor supply in Corinth, which is located next to a creek. On US Hwy 72 Harper Square Mall Parking lot flooded. Saw two vehicles totaled. Difficult driving due to water everywhere. Walmart park lot standing in water. Belk store is flooded. – Pam Maness from the NEMS Daily Journal advertising department tells us.
2:10 p.m. – Flooding update in Tupelo from reporter Carlie Kollath. Mill Village has gotten heavy flooding on South Church Street. Kings Creek is flooding and causing residents problems. Town Creek swollen under bridge at South Green in Tupelo. Fast moving and stinks like sewage.
1:57 p.m. – Errol Castens reports from Ashland – Officials think the two confirmed deaths are the only fatalities. They said everyone else is accounted for, although several people were sent to hospitals.
Around the town, tops of pine trees, snapped off by the winds, and insulation were scattered in several spots. Lots of trees were down in path of tornado and a steel high-voltage power line tower was crumpled.
A team from the National Weather Service suspect that the tornado that hit Ashland was the same one that hit Abbeville and killed one person there.
Benton County Coroner John Riles said, "That thing tore down two-story houses like they were matchboxes."
1:45 p.m. – Report of levee breach at Tallahatchie River north of New Albany. Not confirmed.
Click view slideshow link below photo on the left to see photos of flooding and damage. More coming in.
1:35 p.m. – Daily Journal photography chief Thomas Wells reports that a section of state Highway 4 between Ashland and Holly Springs has collapsed and the the westbound lane is gone. MDOT and law enforcement officials are on the scene.
1:33 p.m. – In Tupelo, North Gloster is closed in front out Outback. It was the scene of two-car accident with one minor injury. Lumpkin Avenue is also closed because of the flooding, police said. – Danza Johnson/Daily Journal.
1:30 p.m. – Brief flash flooding on Jefferson Street in front of All Saints Episcopal Church just before noon. Water rushing down street and water in some yards in Pinecrest subdivision – quite rare. – Lloyd Gray/NEMS Daily Journal
1:21 p.m. – Thomas Street from McDonalds down to Spanish Village office complex is still closed. – Deste Lee/NEMS Daily Journal.
1:07 p.m. – Journal's Sheena Barnett confirms Corinth's Crossroads Arena has been opened as a shelter for those with weather damage. More as we get it.
1:06 p.m. – From MarathonKoach Major on Titter – Flashfloods in Corinth. Water 1/4 in from office. Still raining Evacuating some areas via boat.
1:05 p.m. – A few officies at Spanish Village in Tupelo flooded – Deste Lee/Journal.
1 p.m. – Ole Miss and Mississippi State baseball to begin at 1:45 p.m. at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville.
12:42 p.m. – No damage has been reported in Pontotoc County, but much of the county is flooded.
According to 911 dispatch for the county, several roads in the county are impassable and have up to 5 feet of water. These roads are scattered across the county, and some are in Sherman, Ecru and Pontotoc.
Flooding has also been reported throughout Union County.
Roads are flooded all over the county, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Department. A culvert on County Road 2848, near Baldwyn, in Lee County is washed out.
A portion of the Natchez Trace is flooded at Road 900, a caller has advised Lee County Dispatch. – Sheena Barnett/Daily Journal
12:41 p.m. – Bridge is washed on CR 2848 in northeastern part of Lee County near Union community. In Tupelo, part of Thomas Street, just south of Main Street, is closed because of flooding. – Danza Johnson/Daily Journal.
12:17 p.m. – Journal reporter Emily Le Coz tells us a car is submerged on North Gloster. The road is blocked off north of Vanelli's all the way to Green Street.
12:03 p.m. – Union County Sheriff asking people in that county not to travel unless it is an emergency.
Noon – Parts of South Church Street flooded in downtown Tupelo, Daily Journal reporter Carlie Kollath tells us.
11:58 a.m. – Water up over the sidewalks in Ballard Park. Streets on West Main flooded near Todd's Big Star. Rain hard in Tupelo right now in western part city, Daily Journal reporter Danza Johnson reports.
11:51 a.m. – Highway 4 about six miles east of Holly Springs is about to wash away according to Daily Journal reporter Errol Castens. It is closed, but now water is doing even more damage.
11:22 a.m. The Associated Press reports – ASHLAND — Benton County Coroner John Riles says two people were killed when severe weather tore through early today.
Riles identified the victims as 25-year-old Latoya Long and 26-year-old Thomas Catrell Cowan. He said the two lived in a mobile home.
Riles said several other people reported injuries after the storm blew through about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. He said it could have been a possible tornado.
The deadly weather comes a week after 10 people in Mississippi and two in Alabama were killed by tornadoes.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeff Rent says he was checking on reports about other injuries in Lafayette County.
11:08 a.m. – National Weather Service team was en route to Abbeville and Ashland after severe early morning weather today caused at least one fatality and widespread destruction.
Phyllis Ann Sabbatini, 45, of Abbeville died after what is believed to be a tornado hit here home, Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy said. Sabbatini was a substance abuse conselor in Oxford.
A man and a woman were killed in Benton County a half mile east of Ashland on Hwy. 370 when a possible tornado hit their home. They were in a mobile home. No names have been released.
"It looked like you stuck a stick of dynamite under all four corners and blew it up," said Benton County Coroner Bob Riles.
The tornado hit around 2:30 a.m. and went from east of Ashland on the ground all the way to Tennessee line. Authorities are still looking for people going house to house and having to cut people from homes in some cases.
At the moment Hwy. 370 on the Tippah-Benton County line is closed due to the weather damage. Several road closed in Benton County.
A Tippah County sheriff's deputy also reports a possible tornado around 2 a.m. a few miles east of Walnut off Hwy 72. Also on north end of County Road 301 at County Road 303.
NEMS Daily Journal newspaper carrier says severe flooding in Holly Springs and lots of destruction in Ashland.
New tornado watch includes Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster & Winston counties until 3 p.m.
The National Weather Service team today will assess damage in both Abbeville and Ashland and will determine if a tornado hit the areas, and if so, the strength of the storm.
The team will visit Ripley on Monday.
>> Click here for weather forecast and radar of storms now. <<
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[artist id="2427571″]Wiz Khalifa[/artist] has a warning in the new video for his "Black and Yellow" remix : Caution! The Pittsburgh rapper premiered the video online on Friday (January 7), and rap stars Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Three 6 Mafia's Juicy J all turn up for Wiz's "G-mix" visual.
Directed by Bill Paladino and shot in Los Angeles, the visual features plenty of police-style caution tape (Get it? Black and yellow?) as the green-thumb lyricist spits choice rhymes about baked goods and such.
"Never treat you wrong, to each his own," Snoop, sporting a black-and-yellow varsity jacket embossed with a giant "S," raps on the breezy number. "Snoop and Wiz, the new Cheech and Chong/ We up in smoke, making street schemes/ Smoking sticky green, having sweet dreams."
"Black and yellow, ahh, black and yellow/ See me now they treating me like I'm somebody special," Wiz follows Snoop on his verse. "Smoking on that good, know it's me soon as they smell it/ You can chill/ I'm the one who get it, not the one who sell it/ I grind every day, I'm balling/ I can't help it/ N—as on that bullsh–, my pockets full of Celtics."
The pair recently re-teamed for "That Good," which arrived online last week; the track is the first offering from the duo's forthcoming movie .
The "Black and Yellow" remix clip is set to premiere on MTV this Sunday and on MTV Jams as a "Jam of the Week" and will also appear on MTV2's "Sucker Free" at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday.
What do you think of the new "Black and Yellow" video? Tell us in the comments!


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If you're a connoissuer of great comic books who regularly dreams of indulging in amazing art and brilliant writing you're going to enjoy what The Comic Pimp is serving up this week. If you are a sequential art epicurean and names like Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Ted McKeever, Steve Pugh, Glen Fabry, Steve Parkhouse, and Dave Johnson are your cup of tea… this column is for you.
There has been a low rumble buzz building about a certain indy comic publisher recently, one that was until very recently thought to be long dead and buried. But one look at the most recent solicitations and it's pretty apparent… Atomeka is anything but dead.
"A1 Big Issue Zero" and "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook" seemed to come out of nowhere and were magically transported onto the pages of the most recent Diamond Previews, with a collection of creators that read like a comic fan's wish-list and a retailer's wet dream.
Clocking in at 48 pages, "A1 Big Issue Zero" might have a slightly silly sounding name, but what Atomeka is printing on those pages is anything but inconsequential. Featuring a superheroic examination of demi-godness by Dave Gibbons and Ted McKeever, and a submersive adventure drawn by the amazing Steve Pugh and authored by the script writer for the first (and best) Alien movie Ronald Shusett. If that isn't enough to whet your appetite, the new "A1" features the resurrection of the long-lost Alan Moore Steve Parkhouse classic "The Bo Jefferies Saga," an everyday tale of everyday freaks in and everyday house, nearly completely re-drawn by the pen of Parkhouse himself. All for $4.99? Sounds almost too good to be true…
Also sounding unfathomably good is "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook." Cracking the safe on Johnson's Eisner-award winning art vault, "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook" features 56 pages of behind-the-scenes goodness with Johnson's sketchbook art, never before seen designs, and unpublished works for only $6.99. Anyone who appreciates great comic covers will know Johnson's name from his cutting-edge covers on books like "100 Bullets" "Captain America" and "NYC Mech," not to mention Johnson's stunning interior work on the sales juggernaut "Superman Red Son" and the ever-missed "Superpatriot."
|Cover to "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook"
According to comic legend Atomeka was spawned in an English pub when two intoxicated creators went bar stool to bar stool asking the comic creators who were there downing pints to make something for their anthology. I'm not certain if the legend is true or not, but sometime during the late 1980s Garry Leach and Dave Elliott decided to make their own comic anthology. Be it from personal connections, shrewd business strategies, a creator friendly approach, or free pint refills hugely popular comic creators flocked to the project and soon the duo had enough the first issue of their anthology "A1," which came out in 1989.
The title "A1" was meant to say nothing about the genre (and therefore make any genre a perfect fit), but to tell anyone all that they would ever need to know about the creative roster. A1, the top of the line, the cream of the crop. While it lasted, "A1" certainly lived up to its promise and the anthology was showered with accolades and awards. Atomeka published unique, individualistic creations from comic industry heavyweights like Neil Gaimen, Alan Moore, Simon Bisley, Jamie Hewlett, Martin Emond, Phillip Bond, Eddie Campbell, John Bolton, Warren Ellis, Alan Davis, Doug Braithwaite, Bob Burden, Glenn Fabry, Kelley Jones, Dave McKean, James Robinson, Michael T. Gilbert, Brian Bolland, Peter Milligan, Moebius and many, many more.
Now "A1" and Atomeka are back. And they're strutting their stuff with the same kind of superstar creators in tow as before. And they've got a bright-eyed new public face in the form of a third Atomeka partner. The retailer and curious comic fan in me had to find out more about this re-vitalized comic publishing juggernaut, so I got in touch with the man responsible for putting the "new" in the new Atomeka, MAGE movie producer and Atomeka publisher, Ross Richie.
(And I figured while I was at it I'd score myself and my readers some exclusive sneak peeks at the new "A1" and the upcoming "Dave Johnson Sketchbook" which I've generously distributed throughout this very article!)
James Sime: Thanks for taking the time to talk to me about all the exciting stuff Atomeka's got up its sleeve. What's your vision for the new Atomeka?
Ross Richie: Garry Leach, Dave Elliott, and myself want to build a creator-friendly boutique known for its quality. We don't have a massive publishing roll-out that we're launching; we're not setting our sights on crushing Marvel overnight and ramming eight titles a month out into the marketplace. We plan to do great material from great creators as each project presents itself. Small and steady.
|Comic Pimp exclusive image from "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook"
A1 started in 1989 by Garry and Dave going through a pub, creator by creator, and asking them, "What do you want to do? Cool! Why don't you do it?" A1's original success was fueled by the enthusiasm of that creative community and they ended up creating an outpouring of intelligent, sharp, eye-popping comics from the best of the best: Alan Moore, Steve Parkhouse, Glenn Fabry, Steve Dillon, Simon Bisley, Ted McKeever, Eddie Campbell, Dave Dorman, Brian Bolland, Barry Windsor-Smith, Peter Milligan, David Lloyd, John Bolton, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, etc. And they were all creator-owned, creator-driven comics.
We want to build off that foundation and create a company that's not driven by licensed books and not driven by company-owned shared-universe comics, or spandex. We want to build off the flavor of the original A1 series and let each series and each project stand on its own two legs, powered by the quality of the story and art, and honed by the vision of the creator who birthed it.
|Comic Pimp exclusive image from "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook"
James Sime: Why did you decide to resurrect the company? Where do you see Atomeka's place in the industry and why now?
Ross Richie: The time was right. As I talked to different retailers across the country, I was surprised and happy to learn that most of them remembered Atomeka. There was a real brand recognition, and Garry and Dave had struggled long and hard to build a reputation for publishing quality books.
Garry and Dave wanted to re-publish the original A1 series as graphic novels, with lots of new stuff mixed in, and approached me about the possibilities, as Dave and I had worked on various ventures together throughout the years. I couldn't believe that other companies weren't snapping the project up. The more that I looked around, the more it was impressed upon me that this was a niche in the market that no one was addressing. Marvel and DC do super hero books. Dark Horse is a licensing juggernaut. Image was an eclectic blend of newcomers and the company founders. But no one was really doing what Atomeka wanted to do. I'm a child of the 80s - I skipped out on buying the latest issue of "Iron Man" or the "Avengers" to blow my cash on "American Flagg!," "Mage," "Grendel," "The Elementals," and the original series of "A1" graphic novels. Here was a chance to re-launch a company and bring high profile, quality creator-driven projects to the market again.
|Comic Pimp exclusive image from "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook"
Ross Richie: It's the exceedingly low page rate!
But seriously, I think creators are drawn to Atomeka because of the track record the company has had with the books Garry and Dave have published previously - Dave and Garry have always been concerned with quality production values and creating a good-looking comic, once a great creative team has handed it to them. And they've always been sensitive to affording the creative team as much freedom as possible.
James Sime: How much involvement do original publishers Dave Elliott and Gary Leach have in the new Atomeka?
Ross Richie: Here's another reason I think Atomeka is different to everyone else. It's Dave and Garry and me, all of us working together. We make every decision together. When I assumed certain duties that are traditionally the role of publisher, I think it freed Dave up from some of the more uninteresting technical and logistical aspects of the business so he can focus on editorial. Dave's quite a writer himself - he created the well-received "Sharky" comic for Image a while back - so don't be surprised if you see him writing a bit more with the new Atomeka.
So Atomeka's very much a three-way hand-in-hand collaboration between Garry, Dave, and myself. While Dave's been very visible in the freelancer community and to fandom before, Garry's a bit of a secret weapon - not only is he a brilliant, ground-breaking comic book artist (the Survivor cover for "A1 Big Issue Zero" is all his) with an impressive resume that includes stuff like "Marvel/MiracleMan" and "Warpsmith," he's a top-flight designer and co-controls the editorial content on "A1" with Dave. Whenever we approach a new creative team for A1, Dave and Garry are the ones that approve the choices. It's their book, equal measure, so Garry's an editor as well as being a designer…
|First three pages of "Sharkman" by Ron Shusett who wrote "Alien" and "Total Recall" and artist Steve Pugh "Generation X" and "Animal Man" from "A1 Big Issue Zero"
James Sime: You're coming out the gate like gangbusters and making a huge splash with the new line. Tell me where the future of the company lies.
Ross Richie: We've got some great material lined up.
In the immediate future, we've got a one-shot 32 page comic from Glenn Fabry, the brilliant cover artist for "Preacher," who's recently returned to penciling the interior of comics with "The Authority: Kev" and "Thor: Vikings." Then we have a fantastic 48 page color one-shot of what has to be the biggest, eye-poppin' "Mister Monester" story ever. We're all huge fans of George Freeman's from way back to the days of "Captain Canuck" and that great "Batman Annual" #11 he did with Alan Moore, as well as his old "Jack of Hearts" mini for Marvel. The chance to run a full story drawn and colored by him and written by Michael Gilbert that features Martians, giant insects, and of course Hitler's brain was just too much to pass on!
We're publishing "The BoJeffries Tome of Terror" with material from Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse, Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, legendary painter John Bolton, horror novelist Ramsey Campbell, Dave Lloyd of "V for Vendetta" fame, Steve Pugh writing and drawing his own strip, and a whole whackload of other impressive creators. Something we have managed to put together for the 'Tome' is a tribute to "Mister Monster" and "Flaming Carrot," as they are celebrating their respective (20th and 25th) anniversaries this year. So we're doing a two-part crossover with these two characters. Michael Gilbert will be handling Mr. Monster's dialogue and Bob Burden will script the Carrot's.
I'm especially excited about a new creative team in the form of Andrew Cosby and Troy Nixey creating a new character called WitchHunter that will preview in the Terror Tomes. Andrew is a screenwriter who put together a TV show called "Haunted" that used to follow "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on UPN. Troy's a brilliant artist who's worked on everything from the "Matrix" TPB to "Grendel: Black White and Red" to the "Simpsons Treehouse of Horror."
Moving past that, we've got all sorts of stuff cooked up. Screenwriter John Rogers - he wrote "Rush Hour 2" and just turned in a draft of "Rush Hour 3," he's adapting the comic book "Global Frequency" for television - will be doing a series for us. And my old troublemaking pal Keith Giffen's going to turn up, but in a very surprising way…
James Sime: Wow, you've certainly got your work cut out for you! I'm really looking forward to getting to put these books in my people's hands. This is going to be a damn good couple years for Atomeka!
Ross Richie: You bet it is!
I'm sure I've only ignited your curiosity, so for more information on "A1 Big Issue Zero," "The Dave Johnson Sketchbook" and everything else Atomeka check out page 231 of the May Previews and visit the Atomeka website at: http://www.atomekapress.com
A tip of the Comic Pimp scotch glass out to Mister Richie for taking the time to give us his insight into the relaunch of the Atomeka line, and also for all the terrific preview images. I'd wish you guys good luck, but frankly, I don't think you're going to need it!
And I'd certainly be remiss in my duties if I didn't remind you to be sure to place your pre-orders for these books with your local comic retailer!
And before I sign off this week I'd like to make a small correction to last week's column. The "Supernatural Law" silent tale "Words Can't Do IT Justice" was Harvey-nominated, but didn't quite get to take home the gold. My bad!
And while we're talking about "Supernatural Law" I'd like to point you to the Exhibit A Web site where Batton Lash and Jackie Estrada are showcasing their photos from WonderCon and the Isotope's Wonder-Kon-Tiki event where we threw the "Supernatural Law" 10 year anniversary bash. They've got some great photos over there, including one that shows off a pair of my favorite Marco Viccis…
Until next week, pontificate on industry issues, preach the gospel of the great comic books or discuss this article on the Comic Pimp Forum.
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Appeals court: Court can debate Say's residency
HONOLULU — A state appeals court says Circuit Court can hear a legal challenge to the residency of state Rep. Calvin Say.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday that the Circuit Court was wrong to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Say's residency. The lower court judge had said the Honolulu city clerk, not the court, had jurisdiction to say where Say is a registered voter.
The Hawaii Constitution requires House lawmakers to vote in the districts they represent.
Layers for voters in Say's district say it's an open secret that Say lives in a different district in Honolulu. Attorney Lance Collins says Say owns a vacant house in Palolo and claims residency there.
Say says he shuttles between homes for family reasons, but maintains Palolo as his residence.


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8 Shab Hair Style Trends Pictures for Fall 2011 by Giannandrea
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