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38 Days, 38 Sports: Men's Swimming & Diving
As a countdown to the start of the 2013-14 athletic schedule, GoPrincetonTigers.com will take a look at each of Princeton's 38 sports. A new post will be added each day Monday through Friday until the first Princeton athletic event on Aug. 31.
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Princeton Men's Swimming & Diving • Ten Fast Facts
1) Princeton competed in its first men's swimming and diving meet on April 21, 1906 against Yale. The Tigers won 41-23.
2) Since the NCAA swimming and diving championship meets began in 1924, Princeton has produced 22 individual champions. Most recently, the 1990 foursome of Mike Ross '90, Ty Nelson '91, Leroy Kim '93 and Erik Osborn '90 set an American record in capturing the 200-yard medley relay.
3) Nelson Diebel '95 took the 1991-92 school year off to train for the 1992 Olympics. The move paid off: Diebel broke the American record in the 100-yard breaststroke at the Olympic trials and went on to win the gold in world-record time in Barcelona. He captured a second gold as part of the medley-relay team. Three other Princetonians have won Olympic medals: Albert Vande Weghe '40 (1936, silver in the 100-meter backstroke); Jed Graef '64 (1964, gold in the 200-meter backstroke); and Ross Wales '69 (1968, bronze in the 100-meter butterfly).
4) Seven Tigers have won the Phil Moriarty Award/Ivy League Swimmer of the Meet as the highest scorer at the Eastern Seaboard Meet or Ivy League Championships: Andy Saltzman '80 (1971); Andy O'Hara '81 (1980); Dan Veatch '87 (1984, 1986, 1987); Naiden Kremenliev '93 (1993); Jesse Gage '03 (2002, 2003); Jon Christensen '12 (2012); and Paul Nolle '14 (2012).
5) Head coach Rob Orr will begin his 35th season this year, and he can reach the 300-win plateau with six victories in eight dual meets (seven Ivies + Navy) this season.
6) Princeton has won five straight Ivy League titles, dating back to the 2009 championship. That is the second-longest championship streak in program history; the longest was a nine-year run between 1984-1992.
7) Three rising juniors won Ivy League individual titles last season: Harrison Wagner (50 free), Michael Strand (100 back) and Connor Maher (200 back). Rising sophomores Teo D'Alessandro (200 IM) and Byron Sanborn (100/200 breast) both placed second in their respective finals.
8) Princeton sent six swimmers to the 2013 NCAA Championships, including individual qualifiers Harrison Wagner and Byron Sanborn. Princeton also had Sandy Bole, Teo D'Alessandro, Connor Maher and Michael Strand compete in several relay events.
9) Rising senior captain Daniel Hasler broke Nelson Diebel's Princeton record in the 200 breast at the 2013 US Open earlier this summer. He finished in 2:14.97 and placed 14th overall in the event.
10) In the last decade, Princeton has had 12 different All-America honorees, ranging from individual swimming/diving events to relays. The last championship finalist was Jon Christensen '12 (200 breast, 2012).
Princeton Men's Swimming & Diving • Five To Watch
|Sophomore Teo D'Alessandro set a Princeton record in the 200 IM at his Ivy Championships debut and already has four all-time Top-10 times.
|Senior Daniel Hasler is coming off a Top-15 finish at the US Open; he set a team record in the 200 breast, formerly held by Nelson Diebel.
|Senior Mark O'Connell is the most experienced diver and has made four straight 'A' finals at the Ivy League Championships.
|Sophomore Byron Sanborn was an NCAA individual qualifier his first season and figures to be one of the top breaststrokers in the Ivy League.
|Junior Harrison Wagner is the reigning Ivy champion in the 50 free and a former All-America. He is a key sprinter for Princeton's relays.
July 10 - Baseball
July 11 - Field Hockey
July 12 - Football
July 15 - Women's Tennis
July 16 - Men's Heavyweight Crew
July 17 - Women's Basketball
July 18 - Men's Outdoor Track
July 19 - Women's Open Crew
July 22 - Men's Lacrosse
July 23 - Women's Squash
July 24 - Men's Golf
July 25 - Women's Volleyball
July 26 - Men's Basketball
July 29 - Women's Lacrosse
July 30 - Men's Ice Hockey
July 31 - Women's Swimming & Diving
Aug 1 - Men's Tennis
Aug 2 - Women's Cross Country
Aug 5 - Wrestling
Aug 6 - Women's Indoor Track & Field
Aug 7 - Men's Cross Country
Aug 8 - Women's Outdoor Track & Field
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Movie goers showed this weekend (which began late Thursday night) that they were eager to see a big monster on the big screen. "Godzilla" punched the ticket and stomped out the box office competition by bringing in an estimated $90 million over the weekend.
According to YAHOO! Movies, initial number estimates for the popular green monster showed the Warner Bros.-Legendary Pictures' film on pace to gross about $35 million on Friday. That figure included an impressive $9.3 million from late-night Thursday viewings.
As with most films, Godzilla is projected to drop at least 10% on Saturday to the $31 million area, then bring in about $22 million on Sunday.
The movie news website MoreHorror.com recently posted their Godzilla 2014 review which stated that the movie was "EPIC, this is an adventure and a ride that does not let you go until the very end. This is the kind of Blockbuster film that is intelligent, it does not treat its audience as stupid, and it doesn't try to be overly complicated either." - Marcey Papandrea, MoreHorror.com.
Godzilla has a good chance at breaching the $90 million barrier for its opening weekend. This year so far, only two movies have breached that figure, Disney-Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" with $95 million and Sony's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ racking up $91.6 million.
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The world's most revered monster is reborn as Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures unleash the epic action adventure "Godzilla." From visionary new director Gareth Edwards ("Monsters") comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
Gareth Edwards directs "Godzilla," which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson ("Kick-Ass"), Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai," "Inception"), Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene"), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient," "Cosmopolis"), and Sally Hawkins ("Blue Jasmine"), with Oscar® nominee David Strathairn ("Good Night, and Good Luck.," "The Bourne Legacy") and Bryan Cranston ("Argo," TV's "Breaking Bad").
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Diane Reinhardt, Weatherization Director at COVER will be in the Tucker Foundation Living Room from 12 - 1 PM for Upper Valley Voices. Light lunch provided.
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Join us Tuesdays at noon in the Tucker Living Room for "Tucker Tuesdays: Simple Lunch and Good Conversation."
Most every week while classes are in session, we hear from Dartmouth faculty and distinguished guests in the "What Matters to Me and Why" series or from local community leaders in the "Upper Valley Voices" series.
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Israel arrests several suspects in killing of Palestinian teen
Several Israeli Jewish suspects were arrested Sunday in connection with the killing of a Palestinian teen, Israeli police said.
"Investigation continuing, strong indication a nationalistic incident, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted.
Rosenfeld told CNN that they were Israeli Jews.
Mohammed Abu Khedair's death came after the bodies of three Israeli Jewish teens were found in the West Bank. Israeli and Palestinian officials quickly suspected that it was a revenge killing, and condemned any such actions.
Rosenfeld also tweeted Sunday that police have arrested a "taxi driver from the north who admitted killing the girl Sheli Dadon in Migdal Haemek recently. Background nationalistic." The 19-year-old Jewish girl was killed last month. The suspect is an Arab resident of the Galilee, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Meanwhile, Khedair's American cousin was given house arrest by a court in Jerusalem Sunday after an incident in which his family says he was beaten by Israeli security forces.
Tariq Khdeir was detained at a protest following the death of his cousin. A15-year-old high school sophomore from Florida, he said he was standing around, watching protesters last week when he was accosted.
"I was attacked by police. I woke up in the hospital," Khdeir said as he walked out of court in Jerusalem on Sunday.
It's unclear why the teen is being investigated or what possible charges he might face.
The teen, who had bruising around his eyes, paid bail and was driven away with his parents to serve his house arrest in the Beit Hanina neighborhood.
"They (his attackers) came from the side of me and I tried to run away," he said, adding that he felt much better Sunday.
He will be kept under house detention for nine days, lawyer Ziad Haidimi said after a court session.
If the investigation ends without charges, he can travel back to the United States, Haidimi said. His mother, Suha Abu Khdeir, said the family "definitely" will sue Israeli authorities.
"I'm not really happy" with the court's decision, she said.
Israel's ambassador to the United States told "Fox News Sunday" there will be justice and that excessive use of force is unacceptable.
"I will tell you, from what I understand about the facts of the case, this is not just an innocent bystander who was pulled off of a schoolyard," Ron Dermer said Sunday. "He was with six other people. They were masked. They threw petrol bombs and Molotov cocktails at our police. Three of them had knives, from what I understand.
"That does not excuse any excessive use of force and our Justice Ministry is opening an investigation."
Tariq was visiting his Palestinian relatives in Jerusalem when he was detained on Thursday.
His relatives say he is the young man who appears in two separate videos being held down and beaten by men wearing the uniform of Israeli security forces.
According to his family, Tariq was among the Palestinians protesting in the Shuafat neighborhood over his cousin's killing. But he wasn't involved in the clashes, they say.
"I asked my son, 'Did you throw rocks?' He said no," Tariq's father, Salah Eddeine Abu Khdeir, told CNN.
The two videos, which were posted independently, say the beating occurred on Thursday.
One neighbor shot a video of the beating and distributed it to family and a TV station. Another video was shot from the other side of the street and posted to YouTube.
Relatives watched the video and told CNN that the teen is Tariq Khdeir. Relatives released pictures of the bruised teenager with swelling on his lips and nose.
The men delivered more than 20 blows to the youth over a period of two minutes. He did not appear to be struggling, and police carried away his limp body afterward.
Both videos start after the incident began, and it's not clear why Khdeir was attacked.
Palestinians have long complained of rough treatment by the Israeli police and double standards when it comes to justice, said Bill van Esveld of Human Rights Watch.
"The concern is that we've got plenty of evidence that this child of 15 was brutally beaten by Israeli law enforcement," van Esveld told CNN. "And instead of the law enforcement officials responsible for the beating being questioned and detained, the child who is the victim is being questioned and detained."
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the reports "troubling" and called for a "speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for any excessive use of force."


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This magnificent machine once belonged to a very dear late friend of mine, Mr. George Arents, III. Though somewhat obscure, the Arents family has a remarkable American history. From Dutch descent, they came over to The New World on the second voyage of the Mayflower. The family owned the Richmond Hotel; the lobby was copied for the final scene in "Gone With The Wind".
George's dad accumulated great wealth, even starting American Machine and Foundry (AMF) just for fun. He invented cigarette and bread wrapping machines among other things. A rose is named after Mrs. Arents; George III came along in 1913. Their home in Westchester County, New York, "Hillbrook," shown here, had 52 acres of mowed lawn. They eventually gave it to the Catholic Church, as nobody could afford to buy, maintain, and pay the taxes on it. My understanding is that the house was disassembled in recent years; we found the front door assembly in Chicago a year ago. They wanted $135,000.00. For the door.
I was the only one here privileged to drive the car, stalling it at the first intersection of course, as the clutch effort was a beast! While here, the car sprung a slight gas leak from a tube entering one of the six 2-barrel Weber carburetors on the massive V-12 (Yes, it also has two oil filters), and George handed me the original-equipment Prancing Horse tool kit to fix the leak. I was flattered, of course. The car had THERE on the California "personalized" license plate, a reference to Gertrude Stein's "Everybody's Autobiography" quote, "There is no there there." Perhaps George had met her while crossing the Atlantic on the RMS Olympic, sister ship to Titanic, one of his favorites and a setting in one of his books, "The Brass Nightingale."


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["Hedwig's Theme" plays]
David Heyman: Hello this is David Heyman and I'm the producer of the Harry Potter films and this is MuggleCast.
[Show music begins]
Andrew: Hello everybody! [laughs] Welcome to MuggleCast Live, September 22nd, 2010 and the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I was released and joining me via Skype is Micah Tannenbaum. Hello, Micah.
[Prolonged silence]
Andrew: Micah?
Andrew: Oh great, Micah. Don't tell me you just crashed too?
Micah: No, I was just on mute. Sorry.
Andrew: Oh, good job, geez. Okay, well, at least that wasn't my fault. So anyway, welcome everyone to the show. Matt's going to be joining us in a little bit. So, Micah, have you watched the trailer yet? [laughs]
Micah: Yes, I was actually able to watch the trailer once. I'm going through it right now, trying to pick out some things. But I do have to say, I am really impressed with this trailer. A lot of people were concerned about Part I not living up to the action of Part II and I think there's plenty of action in this trailer. What about you?
Andrew: Yeah, yeah. And, you know what? You are absolutely right. That was one of the initial concerns and I think W.B. has absolutely proven everybody wrong, there is a lot. And we learned that the split is so late in the book that we actually see – there's plenty of action to put into Part I.
Micah: Yeah, absolutely, and I think with this trailer they really did a great job focusing in on that action. There's no question about it. And I really do think this is shaping up to be a good movie.
Andrew: Well, thanks everybody for tuning in. Now, if you remember last time, our last trailer show, we basically just went through the trailer scene-by-scene and talked about every little thing. So, Micah, if it's okay with you, I think we should just do that same thing again.
Micah: If we don't encounter anymore technical difficulties then, absolutely, let's do that.
Andrew: Actually, I wasn't even going to give you any option.
Micah: Oh.
Andrew: I was just telling you what's going to happen.
Micah: Oh, okay.
[Andrew laughs]
Micah: See, this is what everybody doesn't hear when we record not live.
Andrew: I take out my whip and I crack it on the MuggleCast news desk and I say, "Micah! This is what we're going to do." Okay, so, let's get into it. I'm just going to load up the trailer right now and we're going to go scene-by-scene. Maybe for old time's sake we should watch it all the way through first?
Micah: Sure. You're going to play it for everybody?
Andrew: Yeah. I don't know if you're going to be able to hear it though.
Micah: I can press play at the same time. How about that?
Andrew: All right. Start it at the beginning. Everybody watching on UStream will be able to see it just fine through UStream. All right Micah? On three hit play.
Micah: All right.
Andrew: You're going to want to mute you're copy because you're going to hear it through my computer. Okay? One, two, three. Now, this is my favorite part. This vibrant green is the best color they've chosen for the warning - okay, here we go.
[Micah laughs]
[Deathly Hallows trailer plays]
Andrew: All right! So anyway...
[Trailer continues to play in the background]
Andrew: Get this off. I mean you can't watch that trailer and say that there is not enough action in Part I. There is plenty to go around. So let's start right at the beginning and just like we did for the last trailer - that major one that included both parts, we are going to discuss every little scene that we see. Okay, now we start with the W.B. logo here, and I think this is my favorite W.B. logo. Isn't it your's, Micah?
Micah: Oh yeah, the logo is great. It reminds me of all the pictures.
Andrew: Didn't Eric complain last episode about the way that W.B. logo swooped in - it was very odd.
Micah: I don't think Eric ever complains about anything.
Andrew: [laughs] Okay, so first scene is of the Ministry. We see them in the long main corridor. This is where everybody comes in via fireplace and we see Rufus Scrimgeour right at the front. And this is actually, I think, the first time we're getting a glimpse at his voice, right?
Micah: Yeah, I think so.
Andrew: And he sounds pretty good. He doesn't sound as bad as Barty Crouch Jr. did in Goblet of Fire, I was severely disappointed by that when I first heard his voice.
Micah: It was a little weird.
Andrew: Yeah.
Micah: And all the twitching that he did.
Andrew: Yeah, exactly. And we get the shot of the back of him again and we hear him say the following:
[Deathly Hallows trailer clip plays] "These are dark times, there is no denying."
Andrew: [laughs] And you get the good look at his face. And I love the way that he drones on. "These are dark times, there is no denying."
Micah: Yeah, and the other thing is, I think this is exactly how the movie opens up, from what Eric and Emerson told us...
Andrew: Did they say that?
Micah: ...is this scene. I believe they did. Am I making that up?
Micah: If they didn't say it on the podcast I think Eric told me this is how the movie opens up.
Andrew: Okay.
Micah: So you're getting that very ominous tone right from the get-go.
Andrew: So then we get the look at Dumbledore's tomb, which is - it looks like - [laughs] I'm sorry, but what's going on here? Why is Dumbledore's tomb the bottom of a Jenga puzzle?
Micah: [laughs] Yeah. I kind of was trying to think what puzzle to call it, but that's probably the most accurate. I think maybe LEGO Harry Potter got a little bit of a deal in this whole thing.
Andrew: Oh no! That's exactly what it is. Oh. Not good.
Micah: But yeah, it looked a little bit weird, like they were opening something out of The Da Vinci Code.
Andrew: Yeah. I - now of course I don't have the description off the top of my head, but - from the book - but surely J.K. Rowling did not describe it as a basic rectangle standing with two smaller rectangles underneath of it.
Micah: Probably not.
Micah: But you would think that wherever Dumbledore would be buried it would be very secure and only somebody who is as intelligent and as well-versed in magic as Voldemort would be able to open his tomb.
Andrew: Yeah. Okay, so that's disappointment one of this trailer.
Micah: But they're a little too close for comfort there, though.
Andrew: What do you mean?
Micah: In that shot with - it's very ominous, very eerie - of Voldemort hanging over Dumbledore.
Andrew: Oh, okay. Right. So we get to...
Micah: Did I jump ahead?
Andrew: Yeah, you kind of did. [laughs]
Micah: Sorry.
Andrew: The shot of Voldemort sticking his head into the tomb face to face with Dumbledore. And this was the preview we saw at Comic Con. We saw this shot. This is what I was trying to describe to you a few weeks ago. And I think it's fair to say this is one of the eeriest scenes that has ever hit the Harry Potter films, am I right?
Micah: Yeah, absolutely. It's just - what happens? Is this the exact same shot that they showed you, there wasn't any more after it?
Andrew: No, this is it. We saw...
Micah: He didn't say anything?
Andrew: During the Comic - we didn't hear him say anything, I don't think. During the Comic Con preview we just saw this shot right here of Voldemort and Dumbledore. A little bit wider, but - [laughs]. I wonder - okay. Do you think that's actually Michael Gambon, or is that a fake...
Micah: It may be fake.
Andrew: I'm thinking it's fake, too. Because if it wasn't, if it was a real Michael Gambon, he totally would have done a couple joke takes where he just wakes up...
Micah: Yeah, yeah.
Andrew: ...and just laughs.
[Andrew and Micah laugh]
Micah: I was thinking that, I was thinking that Michael Gambon wouldn't take that scene too seriously at the very beginning...
Micah: ...he'd be making the directors waste a lot of different takes and money, so.
Andrew: Yeah, exactly. [laughs]
Micah: Maybe it was a prosthetic Dumbledore.
Andrew: Yeah, I think so. I think so. My set report will reveal that information in due time.
Micah: Oh, okay. I'm glad to hear that.
Andrew: So [laughs] you know what we do - I do have to admit - what we do get a lot of in this trailer and in pictures that we've seen released, and the past two trailers is we get a lot of Harry, Ron, and Hermione standing in the middle of nowhere. Now, granted, that happens in the book, yes - and this was the concern, like you brought up at the top of the hour, Micah, or ten minutes ago. People are worried that there won't be enough action, and so we see this shot of Harry standing on a cliff, I believe this location was also used for the Pixar film "Up" And we see a tent in the background, presumably Ron and Hermione are in there, but what do you think is going to be going on during these scenes when Harry's just standing around?
Andrew: Micah, you're on your mute button again. You really need to stop putting that on your earbud.
Micah: No, no, what happened was I tried to bring up the UStream here, and an ad blasted on through the speakers, so I figured you didn't want to have to listen to that.
Andrew: Oh, okay. Well thank you, you're very thoughtful. But did you hear what I said?
Micah: No. [laughs]
Andrew: [laughs] Harry - what are they going to be doing during these scenes when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are standing in the middle of nowhere? For example, the shot I have up right now, at twenty-one seconds in, Harry is just standing on the cliff, on the rocks, staring around. There seems like there's going to be a lot of these during the film.
Micah: Yeah.
Andrew: So...
Micah: I think that's - that's probably what a fan's biggest concern is going to be going into this film, is having too much of these types of moments. It is a little bit worrisome, I'm sure David Yates did a great job mixing them in, but I...
Andrew: As long as they're all one to five seconds...
Micah: ...I wouldn't be too concerned.
Andrew: ...they can't be too long.
Micah: Yeah. The hard part is, though, for a large part of the beginning of Deathly Hallows, this is what is going on, though. They're traveling around from one place to another.
Andrew: Right.
Micah: I know Eric said that what made it was the fact that some of the places that they go to have these great landscapes, so I don't - to me, that's not going to help me like that scene any more, just because they happen to be in a really nice place.
Micah: [laughs] So...
Andrew: "The scene sucks, but at least it looks cool." [laughs]
Micah: Yeah, exactly.
Andrew: And if you're just joining us, thank you for tuning in. It's Micah and I here. We're discussing the Deathly Hallows trailer that was just released about forty five minutes ago. Of course, the Internet is in a frenzy over this trailer. I presume, Micah, it's the final trailer we're going to be getting for Part I, right?
Micah: I would say this is probably it. Yeah, I don't see anything else coming around, maybe a short thirty second...
Micah: ...deal, but they'll probably chop up parts from this. I really don't think that they can give away that much more at this point.
Andrew: Yeah, so then we see Hermione and Hermione is just - this is another one of those shots that I was talking about - Hermione is just standing there looking a little emo. Then, next shot we get - this is actually - something about this shot I really like - it's Ron standing in front of The Burrow and he's sort of just all alone, and you can see Mrs. Weasley and Ginny in the background, and there's something very artistic about it. There's nothing else really to say about it, but...
Micah: Now, this shot that you have up now of the river. [laughs]
Andrew: Oh, what about it? It's a split second long.
Micah: No, I was - I was just joking.
Andrew: [laughs] Oh, okay. Moving along, a couple quick flashes, then we get to ghostly Dumbledore and it's a very brief shot and we saw it in the TV spot so that was really nothing to...
Micah: That'd be cool on a ride, to have ghostly Dumbledore pop up...
Micah: ...as you're on the roller coaster or something.
Andrew: Yeah, well, if recent news is to be believed, then hopefully we will be seeing a double in size Wizarding World theme park but we'll save that for another episode of MuggleCast. As we move along, we get to Hermione and Harry in the cemetery looking at James and Lily Potter's grave. What does it say at the very bottom? "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Aw, isn't that nice. Now, I hope - has everyone gotten a good look at the grave yet? Because we want to make sure there are no issues like there was the Goblet of Fire grave scene when there was a major mistake on that that Warner Bros. had to fix. Do you remember that?
Micah: Yeah, yeah I do.
Andrew: Right, okay.
Micah: Little bit of a conflict, yeah.
Andrew: Oh my gosh, I noticed Harry has stubble and facial hair! [laughs] This really is a road movie, ladies and gentlemen.
Micah: Well, he is what? Twenty in real life?
Micah: So, I would hope that he does.
Andrew: I'm not saying that's a surprise.
Micah: Oh.
Andrew: It's just that they always are shaved, [laughs] but this is a road movie.
Micah: Well, yeah, they're on the road man!
Andrew: Tough times. I don't know, but Hermione's got that giant bag that you could put a...
Micah: Hermione doesn't have any stubble going on, which is good.
Andrew: We'll have to check to make sure in the hi-res version, but as of right now, it looks like no. Okay, so then we get the close-up shot of Harry and he's looking into the two-way mirror and you see Aberforth in it, but it totally looks like Michael Gambon. [laughs] Do you think?
Micah: Yeah. Do you remember when Harry first looks into it, he thinks he sees Dumbledore?
Micah: The Dumbledore that he knows, so perhaps, they did use Michael Gambon for that scene.
Andrew: Well, that's what I was just thinking. Are we seeing this through Harry's perspective, so we actually do see Michael Gambon?
Micah: It's possible, because the next scene is Dumbledore falling off the Astronomy Tower.
Andrew: Yeah, and you see the blackened hand. Of course, this is a clip from Half-Blood Prince. I can't remember the dialogue that was happening at this exact moment.
Micah: He looks comfortable there though.
Andrew: Dumbledore falling? [laughs]
Micah: He looks comfortable.
Andrew: Have you seen the end of the movie?
Micah: Yeah!
Andrew: Well, when you're dead, I mean you are kind of comfortable.
Micah: He's not, he's not - yeah, I guess.
Andrew: I mean, you can't show any emotion.
Micah: You're just kind of floating out there.
Andrew: Yeah, I guess. And then, we see Voldemort, he's casting a spell [laughs]. And honestly, he's doing it oddly, I think this is when he has, uh - who does he have? - could this be when he has Bertha Jorkins? I think this is when Bertha Jorkins is standing there, or is floating in the middle of the air. Or [Charity] Burbage! Thank you, to everyone in the chat. I've got my books mixed up. We're doing Goblet of Fire Chapter-by-Chapter right now. And I'm very confused. But, okay, so that's probably what's going on in this spot. And Matt is joining us.
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Andrew: Hello Matt!
Matt: Hello everybody.
Andrew: Hold on. Let's get you on camera, to make sure you're actually here. Oh, look, he is actually here! Welcome to the show.
Matt: Oh thanks.
Andrew: You're actually just in time because Micah's in New York City where there was just a power outage, so the power just died where he is.
Matt: Oh, nice.
Andrew: So, it's just you and me.
Matt: So you've been by yourself?
Andrew: No, like literally ten seconds ago, he left.
Matt: Hasn't New York already suffered a power outage too?
Andrew: Uh, they're suffering it right now.
Matt: No, but they did before, a tornado hit them or something.
Andrew: Ah, that's right, maybe they did. But this is not the WeatherCast, this is MuggleCast, so lets get back into the trailer here! Matt...
Matt: Okay, I haven't seen it yet.
Andrew: Well, good, you can play the role of the person who hasn't seen the trailer.
Matt: Great. Can I play the role of the person who's seen it though pretty soon?
Andrew: [laughs] Yes. So, we get the shot of Dumbledore. And - or sorry, Voldemort - we talked about that. We get to a shot of Harry. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is from the Order of the Phoenix.
Matt: Yeah.
Andrew: Because - and somebody brought this up on my Twitter feed - there's a couple of times when they actually reuse clips. And honestly, it's kind of annoying. Micah, welcome back.
Micah: Sorry about that. We had a huge thunderstorm come through here, and, of course, the power goes out after the fact, not during.
Micah: So, I think tonight is just a technical nightmare all across the board.
Andrew: I think it is too.
Matt: Hey Micah!
Micah: Hey Matt, what's going on?
Matt: Nothing much, just chillin'.
Micah: You chillin'?
Matt: Apparently, there's a trailer that just got released too.
Micah: Really? I had no idea.
Andrew: All right, so we're at 40 seconds in, if you're following along at home. We see a black crow. Or is this an owl? [laughs]
Micah: It's Hedwig, charred.
Andrew: [laughs] We fixed her, she's free! But she's charred. So, I guess that's a hard call. I think that's some sort of bird. I'm assuming it's an owl.
Matt: Can I just watch this freaking trailer or something?
Andrew: Yeah, watch it to yourself.
Matt: Okay, I'm going to watch it to myself.
Andrew: Okay, so then at 41 seconds, we get a shot of the - we see the Deathly Hallows symbol, and then we get a shot of Harry. This trailer's just full of [laughs] random, quick, one-second shots. We see the snake. We see Ron on the ground. We see the Gryffindor Sword. These are all, keep in mind, these are all happening second by split second.
Micah: Yeah, they try to sneak things in there.
Andrew: Yeah, but nothing really too discussion worthy, which is why I'm moving through it pretty quickly. We see Harry on the ground. It's...
Micah: What's the fire in there? Can you close in on the fire?
Andrew: The fire, I think, is when they - it's in Hogwarts when Draco sets the fire, isn't it?
Micah: Okay, well, is it all from Part I or...?
Andrew: Oh, yeah, you're right.
Micah: Or are they slicing in clips?
Andrew: You see the snake, so...
Micah: Could it be at Lovegood's home possibly?
Andrew: Yeah, it could be. You see some shrubbery outside.
Micah: Anybody in the chat? Any ideas?
Andrew: Some people are saying it's - yeah, they may be right. Bathilda, when she turns into Nagini, when she turns into a snake.
Micah: She can turn herself on fire?
Andrew: I don't know - that is - maybe she knocks over a lamp or something, and it catches fire! Then we get the shot of Harry. He's just laying there on the ground. And then we get - who's house is this? Is this Hermione's? No.
Micah: Where are we now?
Andrew: At 45 seconds in, we see the mansion.
Micah: I'm trying to bring the stream back up, but that stupid ad is playing again.
Andrew: I'm sorry. We're at 45 seconds in, where we see a mansion.
Micah: Is it Malfoy Manor or not yet?
Andrew: Oh, that must be it, yes. I think this is the first time we're getting a look at the outside of it, though, in the trailer, which is why I didn't pick up on it immediately.
[Matt laughs]
Andrew: But it's kind of odd. You see these two - Malfoy Manor, the front lawn, it's like they have two Christmas tree farms on either side of the front gate, and they're closed in. They're just sort of sitting there. Kind of strange. Okay, so Voldemort - and then we see this great shot of Snape talking to Voldemort, and he says the following:
[Deathly Hallows trailer clip plays] "...infiltrated the Ministry."
Andrew: Well, let's rewind that so we can hear that properly again. Snape says the following:
[Deathly Hallows trailer clip plays] "We have infiltrated the Ministry."
Andrew: "We have infiltrated the Ministry." And then we get our first look at Umbridge! I've been looking forward to seeing her for so long, and she's in a very white pink.
Andrew: Micah, your analysis on the white pink.
Micah: It still doesn't make her look...
Matt: Dobby!
Micah: I can hear the trailer in the background...
Andrew: That's probably from Matt's...
Micah: The playback.
Andrew: That's probably from Matt's mic.
Micah: Yeah, I'm getting some playback.
Andrew: Okay. So, at 48 seconds in, we get to the shot of the "Magic is Might" statue. Now, this is the first time we're getting a look at this, too. It's in the center of the Ministry of Magic, and we see what looks like Muggles holding up the statue. It's very eerie because - and this is obviously a very intense visual.
Andrew: Micah, are you there?
Micah: Yes, I'm here.
Andrew: Do you have anything to say about this "Magic is Might" statue?
Micah: Yeah, it's definitely creepy. That's for sure. And the picture you showed before with Umbridge looking hot in that pink dress, that was creepy, too, because you saw how everybody was lined up. It almost was reminiscent of what you would see in a movie that would have parts of the Holocaust in it. You know, the guy that's there with the clipboard, ready to check people in. And then you see this statue of, like you said, these Muggles supporting the "Magic is Might" statue, and we got a really good shot, a good photo of this statue, at least the top part of it where is said "Magic is Might," earlier today.
Andrew: Right, and at the bottom here of this shot, at 48 seconds in, you can see some Ministry officials running towards a wizard or two, towards the bottom of the shot. Do you see that? If you scroll back and forth, you can see them moving at the bottom, and it's hard to tell who exactly they're chasing after, but...
Micah: Oh yeah.
Matt: Well, there is a chase scene in the Ministry.
Andrew: Yeah, I wonder if this is - oh, I guess this is Harry and Hermione. Could it...?
Matt: Well, isn't it right after that shot when Harry does a spell towards the camera? I mean, it could be in sequence because right after that, they start running.
Micah: Now, who are these people next to Umbridge? One of them is Pius Thicknesse, who took over.
Andrew: Is one of them Ludo? I think the guy on the far right is Ludo?
Micah: Ludo's in Goblet of Fire. I don't think he's in...
Matt: Ludo Bagman?
Andrew: I'm trying to remember - oh, somebody...
Micah: There's Yaxley.
Andrew: Yeah, Yaxley, Thicknesse, and some people are saying - I don't know. Nobody's really sure. Thicknesse.
Matt: Thicknesse. Yeah, Thickness?
Andrew: Runcorn. People think it's also Runcorn. And we haven't seen these actors yet, so I guess we would have to go just by what's happening in the book.
Andrew: But Umbridge looks good, and it's refreshing to see Umbridge. I mean, you can tell Imelda Staunton, who plays her, she's still got it. She's still got that smirk.
Matt: She's thrilled to be there.
Andrew: She's got that smirk, that hair.
Micah: Somebody in the chat wants to know if you've read the books, gosh.
Matt: No, God - dang, she's right.
Andrew: Okay, so then we get the shot of the Ministry officials, and like Micah said, they got their clipboards, they're checking people in presumably. And they have that red armband around their shoulder on the left, I noticed. Micah, what is that reminiscent of?
Micah: Nazi Germany.
Andrew: Yeah, exactly. Now, I'm wondering if that was described in the book - with the red arm bands?
Micah: You know, I don't remember the arm - I don't know if that's something that Yates added to the film. I remember Eric talking about it when he did the short podcast with Emerson after they saw the film, and I forget - he said there was something on them, I forget what it was though.
Andrew: Maybe he was talking about that because that stands out! That was the first thing that I noticed in the wide shot that they were wearing those.
Micah: Mhm.
Andrew: Presumably, they have little "m"s on them.
Micah: Yeah, yeah. Maybe that was it.
Andrew: So then we see a shot of the trio and they're walking across the giant hilltop again with these scenic shots...
Andrew: ...so we're not sure what they're going to do with all these, unless it's going to be a nice long montage of all the scenic shots.
Matt: Well, isn't it in the book - a wizard is supposed to be sitting on a whole bunch of Muggles?
Andrew: Yeah, we talked about that before.
Matt: Was I not listening to it?
Andrew: The statue.
Andrew: When you were watching the trailer.
Matt: Sorry.
Andrew: So we get past those shots then we see a shot of Voldemort and he's petting Nagini. [laughs]
Micah: Yeah, that was a little creepy, a little weird.
Andrew: And you see his nails. He needs to wash out his nails or something, it's about time. Then Voldemort - to get back up to speed here, let's hear what Voldemort is saying.
[Deathly Hallows trailer clip plays] "I must be the one to kill Harry Potter."
Andrew: So, Voldemort says that and then it kicks off into another montage of fast action clips and we see Nagini - what's the correct verb - slithering down the table, [laughs] and you can see quite a few people in the shot. We can see Snape, Draco, his father, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and a couple other unknowns.
Matt: Purely shot for the sake of 3D though.
Micah: Is that Yaxley across the table from Lucius? Because we just saw him in the Ministry right?
Andrew: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Micah: Because it's Yaxley that chases them down and ends up on the foot - the doorstep of Grimmauld Place.
Andrew: Yeah, you're right, and speaking of that we're going to get to one of those shots soon. We see the trio - this is actually kind of clever, this will be a cool entrance - we see a shot of them Apparate into London, and as soon as they Apparate in they're right in front of a bus, [laughs] and it looks like in the next shot you see them back away just in time. [laughs] That's kind of funny.
Micah: That would have been a bad end to the movie.
[Andrew and Matt laugh]
Andrew: Yeah, it would have been. So then we see a couple shots and they're like "Oh my god, I cannot believe we just Apparated in front of a bus. Go figure!" So then we see a couple more shots and these were seen in the original teaser trailer too.
Matt: Right.
Andrew: And then we get to Grimmauld Place, and Harry lets Mad-Eye in. This is, of course - oh no, no, no.
Matt: No, this is the Dursley's home.
Andrew: This is the Dursley's home, right.
Andrew: Because I was going to say, wait, he's dead. Okay, so they get into the Dursleys' home, and this is where we see the Dursleys' home is evacuated, the Dursleys have left. As you can see, none of their furniture or kitchen appliances are - they're nowhere to be found.
Matt: Because they just moved.
Andrew: And the layout of this house - correct me if I'm wrong - this is different than what we saw in Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets.
Matt: We never see the left side of the living room.
Andrew: But look where the kitchen is in relation to the living room.
Matt: Well no, it's - it's not directly next to each other. I mean, it's - they're two different rooms.
Andrew: They're next to each other in the trailer though.
Matt: Are they? Oh.
Andrew: Yes, I'm looking at 1:05. Okay, so then we get our first look, finally, at the seven Potters and this too was in the Comic Con - Comic Con preview. But it was so fast you couldn't even see. [laughs] You couldn't - you didn't have a good chance to look at what was going on. So we see - so we see, of course, the seven Harrys and this looks good. It looks real. It doesn't look - it doesn't look digitized, it doesn't look fake.
Andrew: And in a couple of interviews Dan Radcliffe commented on, you know, some really cool technology, apparently that they used to create this scene where the camera just replicated the shot seven times and then they - they were able to, you know, do seven takes. Of course, it - it took multiple takes for each shot so - for each Harry. Micah, any comments about this?
Micah: Yeah, like you guys said, it looks really cool. I'm trying to make out who's in the background. It looks like Lupin, Hagrid...
Andrew: And Arthur.
Micah: I can't - and Arthur, yeah.
Andrew: Hagrid's head is just... [laughs]. He's just...
Micah: Just clears the ceiling.
Matt: Hitting the ceiling, yeah.
Andrew: Yeah, exactly [laughs].
Matt: It looks good. Harry looks really good in a female shirt or blouse. That - that has to be Fleur.
Andrew: Yeah. In the blue?
Andrew: Yeah. Okay, so moving along, we see the exterior of the wedding - the wedding scene, because we see the Burrow...
Matt: Mhm.
Andrew: And then there's the long pink carpet and then the party tent. And you can see Mr. Weasley's shack there, too, off the left.
Matt: Yeah, and the barn.
Andrew: Yeah. That made an appearance. So this is the - the scene where we hear Kingsley say the following:
[Deathly Hallows trailer clip plays] "They're coming. They're coming."
Matt: Oh, I was so excited.
Andrew: Now that's - that's definitely not how I pictured it in the - when I read it in the book. Was it for you guys?
Matt: Well it's not what he says. I mean he says "the Ministry has fallen, Scrimgeour's dead, they're coming."
Andrew: Right, well hopefully they - they included those other lines.
Andrew: They were just - they just cut it down for the trailer.
Micah: It didn't sound like Kingsley though.
Andrew: You don't think so?
Matt: I don't think we've seen enough of Kingsley to really connect it too, unless they do like an obvious, oh that's Kingsley's patronus.
Andrew: Well maybe you see him sending it.
Matt: Hopefully.
Andrew: So then we get a good look at the wedding party. Or, I mean, everybody who attended the wedding party. Oh wait, at 1:11 you see somebody's head in the Patronus but - and that does not look like Kingsley.
Micah: I'm trying to make this out.
Andrew: Do you see what I'm - I'm looking at? 1:15, there's this screaming head.
Micah: They brought back the shrunken heads? No.
Andrew: No, it's definitely not.
Matt: Is it not his patronus?
Andrew: Oh some people are saying it's Scrimgeour dying. I guess so, the nose looks a little - it doesn't - you know what it looks like, it looks like Jim Dale, to be perfectly honest [laughs]. But...
Micah: Yeah, it does.
Andrew: Oh they're saying it's Fudge. Some people are saying it's Fudge. But it doesn't really look like him either.
Matt: Is Fudge even credited in this film?
Andrew: Grindelwald...
Matt: Is he an actor?
Andrew: A lot of ideas going on in the chat on Ustream.
Micah: Well, no. Grindelwald isn't dead yet.
Andrew: Greyback. Pettigrew. Ehh...
Matt: Pettigrew?
Micah: Well, there is this scene later on I was trying to figure out who Voldemort and Pettigrew were going after.
Andrew: Well, somebody brought up in the chat a good point. In the USA Today article they have a bit of dialogue and they say it is Kingsley saying 'They are coming', so it's definitely him saying it.
Matt: Yeah! Why wouldn't it be. It's him in the book.
Andrew: Well, because Micah said it wasn't.
Matt: Oh. Micah.
Andrew: Okay, so...
Micah: What? What did I say?
Andrew: No. Nothing.
Micah: He's making shit up. I shouldn't [laughs] have said that either.
Micah: But we're live, and you can't edit anything out.
Andrew: So we get to - I just want to go back for a second and look at the party scene. We see all the attendees seeing the Patronus come in, and we see quite a few people here, and this is at 1:10. We see Hagrid, Ginny, Ron - jeez who else do we see? Fleur, Bill, perhaps Arthur.
Matt: That's going to be such an awesome scene. They're going through all the tunnels and stuff.
Andrew: Somebody said - oh yeah, there's Luna right there in the dress. I think that - we see her back at least. Madame Maxime, of course right next to Hagrid [laughs] looking very tall as always. So the Patronus scene again with the mysterious head that we have no idea who that is...
Micah: Maybe we can ask Eric at some point later for the next episode and get a little clarification on what's going on there.
Andrew: Yeah. Then we see the shot of Hermione and Mrs. Weasley, and they're staring at the Patronus looking all scared. [laughs] Oh, Mrs. Weasley. She looks great. [laughs] She looks so terrified, and look at that - who's that behind Mrs. Weasley? It's Aunt Muriel. Dun duh duh duh dah! First look. This is at 1:12 if you're following along at home.
Micah: So did you always plan on intro-ing her like that?
Andrew: No. It sort of just came to mind.
Micah: She - I don't know - I don't think she would like that kind of intro.
Andrew: Dun duh duh duh dah! First look. No?
Micah: Yeah. Maybe.
Matt: No.
Andrew: We then see Harry, and he's looking outside of the wedding tent and then the shot up into the clouds, and it's - I presume it's - yeah - Death Eaters showing up sending spells at the wedding. Now the way the trailer sets it up we see Hermione grabbing on to Ron. We see Harry. Then we see Lupin say 'Go go go'...
Micah: Is that Draco?
Andrew: Where?
Micah: Behind Ron and Hermione in that shot.
Matt: Oh. I'm trying to see.
Andrew: No.
Matt: No. It's not.
Micah: Okay. Looked like him for...
Andrew: It's a very - he's got the same hair, but it's not.
Matt: It seems like - in the book it seemed like it happened so fast, but in this they're going to like linger for a bit and show some damage.
Andrew: Yeah. Oh and look who it is. It's Fred! Is it? Oh wait no. Who is this with - is it Fred? It is Fred, he's got the headband around him. I was so looking forward to seeing the missing ear. Aw.
Matt: I'm sure you'll live Andrew. You don't want to see a disfigured head - wait what are you looking at? Because I'm looking at the feed and I'm not seeing anything. I'm seeing Lupin holding Harry.
Andrew: Yeah, but in the background right to Lupin's left. Oh George. George. Sorry I get them two confused. George is the one with the missing ear and you see him right here at 1:17 and he's wearing the headband, which kind of disappoints me I was hoping we'd just see this giant gaping hole in the back of his head.
Micah: Yeah the easy way to remember it is that Fred's dead.
Andrew: Fred dead. Right
[Everyone laughs]
Matt: That's so sad.
Andrew: Jeez. Okay so we see Harry and Harry's obviously - there's Ginny right here so this is when Harry's trying to run after Ginny, but Lupin insists that no you must go, you must run and this is the one scene that gave me chills in this trailer out of [laughs] Lupin's got kind of a funny face on him.
Matt: No!
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BOSTON CITY Council President Bill Linehan might have had to blush his way through some good-natured ribbing at this year's St. Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston; instead, he's just earning himself a reputation as a sore loser. After being passed over for the job of host at the breakfast, the Boston City Council president is passing up this year's event. Instead, Linehan will attend St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Limerick, Ireland, on March 16.
The jocular breakfast is normally hosted by the sitting state senator in a district that includes South Boston and much of Dorchester. But the duty fell to Linehan last year, after the so-called "Southie seat'' became vacant due to a resignation. Linda Dorcena Forry, a Haitian-American married to an Irish-American, won the special election and the right to host the event, which attracts prominent politicians from across the state. But Linehan balked at giving up the role. He argued that since Dorcena Forry did not hail from South Boston, it would be a break with tradition.
Linehan's resistance sounded petty. And it reflected poorly on a city that had moved ahead in terms of diversity since the St. Patrick's Day celebrations of past decades. He wisely backed off, amid widespread criticism. Dorcena Forry and Linehan ostensibly made nice; the official story was that the whole dustup had been a misunderstanding, that she would host, and that he would help. But he's chosen not to.
Ironically, this was the kind of episode that's regularly parodied at the breakfast, where caustic jokes about politicians' missteps are always on the menu — but where the underlying message is that public officials can put aside their differences. Given his desire to host the event, Linehan of all people should understand the value of using laughter to let bygones be bygones.


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#1: The person decided to carry illegally today: if proved, he gets in big trouble.
#2: The person carrying decided to shoot: if righteous, no problem (aside from lawyer fees, presumably). Note that bullets in the bad guy pretty much prove #1
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2011-12: All-American in singles and doubles ... Honda Sports Award recipient for women's tennis ... ITA National Player of the Year ... NCAA Singles and Doubles champion, becoming only the third player in NCAA history to capture both titles in the same season ... defeated teammate Mallory Burdette in three sets in the first all-Stanford final since 2001, becoming Stanford's first NCAA singles champion since 2004 ... teamed with Burdette to win NCAA Doubles crown, capturing Stanford's 15th overall collegiate doubles title ... Pac-12 Player of the Year, becoming Stanford's first honoree since 2009 ... All-Pac-12 First Team selection ... Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection ... finished the year 41-5 overall and 21-2 in duals, playing all her matches at the No. 1 spot ... earned a final No. 1 national ranking ... 29-4 against nationally-ranked opponents ... 6-3 in three-set matches ... 20-3 in tournament matches ... provided the clinching point in four matches ... won 17 straight matches to end the year ... pocketed two other singles titles, winning the ITA Northwest Regional Championships and Pac-12 Championships ... ITA National Doubles Team of the Year with Burdette ... in doubles, posted a 35-5 record overall and 18-2 in duals ... earned a final national ranking of No. 1 ... playing together for the first time, Gibbs and Burdette opened the season by claiming the title at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships ... the duo also earned a runner-up finish at the Pac-12 Championships.
2010-11: All-American in singles ... ITA Northwest Region Player to Watch ... NCAA Championships All-Tournament Team selection ... All-Pac-10 Second Team honoree ... earned a final national singles ranking of No. 12 ... advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championships, defeating back-to-back top-10 opponents before falling to eventual champion and top-ranked Jana Juricova of California ... produced a team-best 46-6 overall record, becoming first Cardinal player to reach the 40-win plateau since Erin Burdette and Gabriela Lastra both accomplished the feat in 2001-02 ... unbeaten in 27 dual matches, finishing 2-0 at No. 2, 16-0 at the No. 3 position, 8-0 at the No. 4 spot ... 21-4 against nationally-ranked opponents ... 19-6 in tournament matches ... 3-5 in three-set matches ... won 25 consecutive matches from Jan. 26-Apr. 30 ... won 19 sets by a score of 6-0 ... did not lose back-to-back matches all season ... highest-ranked opponent she defeated was teammate and No. 3 Hilary Barte 6-4, 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships ... notched a runner-up finish at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships ... advanced to the semifinals of the Freeman Memorial Invitational Championships and Pac-10 Championships ... ranked No. 32 nationally in doubles, teaming with Kristie Ahn to finish 21-9 overall and 14-4 in duals as Stanford's No. 2 team ... the duo was 5-4 against nationally-ranked opponents ... reached the doubles final of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in October.
Prior to Stanford: 2010 graduate of Crossroads ... advanced to CIF quarterfinals while at Mira Costa High School during her freshman year ... won a 50k doubles title with teammate Kristie Ahn ... during July 2010, while ranked among the top-500 in the world, advanced to second round of qualifying at the Bank of the West Classic.
Personal: Parents are Paul and Leslie ... has one sister, Shannon ... father, Paul, played tennis at Ball State and aunt, Karis, played tennis at Miami (Ohio) ... hobbies include listening to music and spending time with friends.
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College Hockey:Women's D-I picks: Jan. 27
Aside from a few puzzling results, Arlan and I both did pretty well last weekend, each going 14-3-3 (.775). The puzzlers were Boston University crushing Boston College, and Robert Morris beating Mercyhurst (See this week's Wednesday Women column). On the season, I am 133-46-20 (.718), while Arlan is right behind at 130-49-20 (.703). Some interesting games, including the Beanpot, coming up.
Friday, Jan. 27
Cornell at St. Lawrence
Candace: I don't think Cornell will lose the rest of the way. Cornell 3-1
Arlan: The Saints' two-month unbeaten streak ends. Cornell 4-1
Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-Jan. 28
Robert Morris home-and-home with Niagara
Candace: Niagara might get a tie, especially since Robert Morris could come out flat after the huge win over Mercyhurst, but there's no percentage in it. Robert Morris 3-2, 3-1
Arlan: I expect Niagara gets a split, but the CHA is too chaotic to attempt to determine the order. Robert Morris 3-2, 2-1
Syracuse at Quinnipiac
Candace: The Bobcats need better teams on their nonconference schedule. Beating up on Syracuse won't help them get in the NCAA tournament. Quinnipiac 4-0, 4-1
Arlan: It's impossible to pick an Orange team that last won in OT against Lindenwood. Quinnipiac 4-1, 3-2
North Dakota at Ohio State
Candace: Last time out, North Dakota crushed Ohio State. I think this will be a split, but picking the correct dates is a bummer, so I'll call North Dakota to sweep and figure I'll at least get one right. North Dakota 3-2, 4-1
Arlan: This could go about a dozen different ways, but in the end, UND is simply better than OSU. North Dakota 6-4, 3-2
Bemidji State at Wisconsin
Candace: Wisconsin continues to build toward another NCAA title. Wisconsin 4-1, 4-2
Arlan: BSU has more incentive, but the Badgers are still the Badgers, and the Bowl should be full. Wisconsin 2-1, 5-2
Saturday, Jan. 28
Cornell at Clarkson
Candace: See my comment about the St. Lawrence game. Cornell 4-2
Arlan: Good as it is, Cornell should lose one more regular-season game, and this one is the most likely. Clarkson 2-1
Northeastern at BU
Candace: The Terriers showed signs of life last week against Boston College. If Poulin plays and works magic with Tara Watchorn, it could spell trouble for Northeastern. Boston University 3-2
Arlan: One needs conditional code on the BU picks; e.g., "If Poulin exists." Huskies can grab HEA lead. Northeastern 3-2
Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28-29
Providence home-and-home with Connecticut
Candace: Providence is so up and down. I think one of these games will end in a draw. Providence 3-2, 2-1
Arlan: Can't pick Connecticut until they show some improvement, but Friars are far from a slam dunk. Providence 2-1, 4-1
Monday, Jan. 30
Robert Morris at Princeton
Candace: Princeton is very tough defensively. I think the Tigers will come out ahead. Princeton 1-0
Arlan: Goofy schedule — RMU playing third game in four days, while the Tigers haven't played in two weeks. Princeton 2-1
Tuesday (Beanpot)
Boston College versus Northeastern
Candace: Hockey East's two leading squads. The Eagles just got rocked by archrival Boston University. Maybe this wakes them up. Boston College 3-2
Arlan: It seems like the Eagles will be the hungrier team in this one. Boston College 4-2
Harvard at Boston University
Candace: The Crimson pull out a heart-stopper to return to the championship game. Harvard 3-2
Arlan: Overtime wouldn't surprise me, but BU has more firepower than Harvard once there. Boston University 3-2
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Mid-Day Update: Stocks Stay Sharply Negative Despite Word of Irish Bailout; Investors Shrug Off Holiday Sales
Here's where markets stand at mid-day:
-NYSE down 86.04 (-1.15%) to 7,414.50
-DJIA down 123.86 (-1.12%) to 10.968.14
-S&P 500 down 11.10 (-0.93%) to 1,178.53
-Nasdaq down 29.81 (-1.18%) to 2,504.64
Hang Seng up 1.26%
Nikkei up 0.86%
FTSE down 2.08%
NYSE Energy down 0.84% at 11,380.40
NYSE Financial down 0.62% at 4,584.36
NYSE Health Care down 1.62% at 6,181.12
NYSE Arca Tech 100 down 1.47% at 1,033.80
(+) NTSP (+2.4%) upgraded.
(+) NLST (+4.5%) tapped for storage center solution contract.
(+) THRX (+7.2%) gains as GSK ups stake in company.
(+) AKAM (+0.5%) upgraded.
(+) SHOO (+2.5%) gets favorable Barron's coverage.
(+) AMAG (+14.2%) reaches product label agreement with FDA for Feraheme.
(+) FDX (+2.9%) upgraded.
(+) AMP (+0.1%) covered in critical Barron's piece.
(-) DE (-0.2%) upgraded.
(-) EBAY (-2.3%) downgraded.
(-) SWC (-6.3%) says majority stockholder selling shares.
(-) BA (-1.1%) down as analyst JPMorgan cuts earnings view.
(-) WMT (-0.4%) offers to take stake in South Africa's Massmart.
(-) AEO (-0.24%) upgraded.
(-) LDK (-2.1%) upgraded, reaches capacity in specific plant.
(-) ADSK (-1.5%) gets favorable Barron's coverage.
(-) TSO (-1.5%) upgraded.
Stocks are sharply lower Monday as news over the weekend that the European Union will bail out Ireland failed to inspire confidence among investors. Adding to the mix is President Barack Obama;s announcement that he will propose a two-year freeze on federal employee pay as he looks to show he is serious about reigning in the U.S. budget deficit.
Irish banks are up sharply in the regular session in reaction to the weekend announcement of financial aid. Bank of Ireland ( IRE ) and Allied Irish Banks ( AIB ) are both higher. In a regulatory statement, Bank of Ireland said it would seek to raise 2.2 billion euros in capital by Feb. 28, via "internal capital management initiatives, support from existing shareholders and other capital market sources."
The dour mood set off by worries over Europe was not enough to dent Amazon.com ( AMZN ), which has kept marginal gains by mid-session on what's become known as Cyber Monday--the Monday after Thanksgiving when online retailers see shopping activity similar to their brick-and-mortar counterparts on Black Friday.
In company news, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised concerns over two drugs made by GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) and Merck ( MRK ), Reuters reported. Shares of both drug makers are trading lower in the regular session. The FDA said in documents released ahead of a public advisory meeting Wednesday that there was an "unexpected finding of an increased incidence of high-risk prostate cancers among men receiving" the drugs in question, according to the report.
In unrelated news, Merck said it will end a Phase III study based on the initial results from an investigation of the efficacy and safety of a treatment regimen including ISENTRESS Tablets once daily in treatment of adult patients infected with HIV-1 and following the recommendation of an independent Data Monitoring Committee.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) shares are down fractionally on plans to buy a controlling stake in South Africa's Massmart for about $2 billion. Wal-Mart will purchase a 51% stake in Massmart for $20.71 per share, the companies said in a statement. Wal-Mart backed off an earlier plan to buy the entire company for $4.25 billion.
Also, shares of UnitedHealth (UNH) are down after the company said it sees net 2010 EPS of $3.85 to $3.95 and FY11 revenues of $99 billion to $100 billion and net earnings of $3.50 to $3.70 per share. The Thomson Reuters mean for 2010 EPS is $3.97.
Shares of Exxon Mobil (XOM) are down after Canada's Husky Energy said it would buy oil and gas properties in Alberta and northeast British Columbia from the U.S. oil major for $860 million, Reuters reported. The move is set to boost near-term production for Husky, which is controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.
Microsoft (MSFT) shares are down amid word that the software giant is in talks with media companies to license TV networks for a new online pay-TV subscription service through devices such as its Xbox video game console, Reuters reports. The news comes as Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) and Netflix (NFLX) are all making inroads into TV-oriented services.
Amarin Corp plc (AMRN) are up 55% at mid-day, after the American/Irish biotech reported "statistically significant" reductions in triglycerides in patients treated with its AMR101 lead drug candidate. The prospective blood-cholesterol treatment also appears to be well tolerated, based on initial Phase III clinical results.
Shares of Netlist (NLST) are higher after the company said that Compellent Technologies has qualified and selected its NetVault NV for production shipments in the Compellent Storage Center solution.
Morgan Stanley (MS) shares are trending lower amid news that Mary Meeker, a technology analyst at the firm who gained notoriety for her prognostications on the Internet during the 1990s, is leaving to join venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Shares of Kraft (KFT) and Starbux (SBUX) are down in the regular session after Kraft said it initiated an arbitration proceeding to challenge Starbucks Coffee's attempt to end the agreement under which Kraft has built Starbucks' retail grocery coffee business. The partnership between Kraft and Starbucks dates back to 1998 when Starbucks' retail grocery coffee business generated less than $50 million in annual revenues.
Commodities are mixed. February gold contracts are flat at $1,365 an ounce while January crude contacts are up 1.45%, or $1.21, at $84.97 a barrel.
In energy ETFs, the United States Oil Fund (USO) is up 1.39% to $36.47 and the United States Natural Gas fund (UNG) is down 4.46% to $5.79
In precious metal ETFs, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is up 0.11% to $133.30. Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) is down 0.73% to $58.18. iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is up 0.84% to $26.35.


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Bank Of America: Gold Upgraded To AAAA, 12 Month Price Target: $2,000
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Ever notice how Mr. Potter and Buffett are never in the same room?
Michael Steinhardt for President. (BTW-Michael Lewis put it to Warren's wrinkly ass back in the early 90's on the same topic.)
quadruple A, gentlemen
"If you don't take our quadruple A, we'll blow quadruple holes in your A-hole"
Every time a bell rings, Ron Paul gets a vote.
The long term economic support for gold and silver is like a locomotive coming down the rails. It's amazing how most folks just don't see it. I am amazed when merchants still accept FRNs ...
Warren Buffet: "I beg you to raise my taxes"
That $80Billion net worth should come in handy to solve the deficit problem for about an hour.
Another token gesture. Warren Buffet and his billionaire pals won't pony up until they have to send their children to private schools in Armored Cars. That won't be too far off for these A-holes.
Actually he and the other libtards don't have to wait for a tax increase. They can donate any amount of money they want to reduce the debt and their phony guilt. They can do this anytime for any amount. Why don't they?
That is the $64 million dollar question isn't it (inflation you know---it used to only be $64,000 dollar question).
It must only feel really good when you advocate using someone elses money to give to the "poor".
The words "rats", "ship" and "jumping" (not necessarily in that order) come to mind.
These guys are always late.... Hell, they'd late to their own funeral...
Au and Crude are connected by a rubberband, can't pull too hard on one without the other coming along or getting a snap back...
Yeah, great call, as they are near bankruptcy, no less have any bullion themselves. The real question is why are they going mainstream with this now?
Pissed off is my guess. Notice how the media side of this, the interviewer, keeps mentioning bubble? Wait until they admit it's actually the bursting of other bubbles or an anti-bubble for fiat.
This is BOfA's struggle to stay relevant - must hurt them like hell to say this/admit the truth
put a rating on gold? ha, BofA does not have the right to rate gold. nobody has the right to rate true assets because they are not something that holds a 'risk' of defaulting on. this is a stupid ploy to get a mindset that something rated actually has value and to hide the true fact that what is rated is nothing more that trading debt.
Well put,
I'm going to put a rating on my cat. AA+. Those damned Ear Mites.
tried to rate myself, failed, there were no appropriate letters on the keybord.
+1 ! Debt (nothing) for something is DEAD. RIP
Inflation adjusted high for Gold is a lot higher than 2000!!! Accumulate more physical gold and silver.
I'm really pissed this morning. After watching the video i realised that i haven't been getting a dividend on my stash for the last 10 years. Bummer eh.
These fuckers are being cute, or they are plain dumb. Either way, jokes on them.
Warren "Oink! Oink!" Buffet: Never in the History of Crony Capitalism has one snout been buried in the taxpayer trough so deep for so long.
And now he's "begging" to give a fraction back - well aint that just peachy!
Sorry Buffy - Madame Defarge awaits.
As Hendry has pointed out, the uber socialists are putting motes around their castles now.
I hope grandma has some gold bars in her mattress.
If she did, if like mine was there is going to be some deep indentations pounded by the bedsprings and 4 posters while the 6 kids were cranked out back prior to world war two,
Weird accent? German?
I think they can't hide the elephant in the room anymore. Acknowledging gold will go higher, but capping it at a lousy $260 price gain IN A RIDICULOUS 12 MONTHS, makes it seem like just another trade and not the sea change that it really is. They hope they can keep gold to a 15% rise over the next year, but does anyone believe they can? Does this economic system even have another 12 months left of kicking the can?
The price action on the five minute chart on Friday looked like a daily chart of silver prices back in May. It was brutal, and yet, they couldn't keep gold below $1740. They can still employ margin increases, but they seem to be saving them for an emergency. Unless we see a lot more than a lousy 2% drop, people are not going to cover. Today will reveal if this is another May or not. My guess is anyone trying to hold down the price will have to give it everything they have today or risk watching prices climb right back to $1800+ in one or two days.
They hope they can keep gold to a 15% rise over the next year
Bingo! First thing I thought when I read the article is that $2,000, from BofA's point of view is NOT a price target, it's a (hoped for) price CAP! While it may appear somewhat bullish on it's face, a 15% increase over 12 months is anything but bullish, they're trying to dampen some bullish enthusiasm for AU to get those looking over the fence to say to themselves "I think I can get a better return elsewhere".
Personally I'm glad to see them rate gold AAAA. We're all mini-bullion banks stuffied with Tier 1.
If things weren't so fucked up, BofA putting a buy on gold (and JPM just did it too, along with most of the commodity complex) would scare the shit out of me. At worst, it means the bubble is starting.
I'm becoming wary...BofA is the latest in a long line of the big brokerage firms upgrading their gold price targets. All these firms are still bullish on the stock market.
When all the experts agree....
If anyone was looking for a sell signal, there it is.
Silver is taking off some here.
What about silver? Does anyone have a 12-month price target for silver?
Don't concern yourself with price target.
Accumulate, Always accumulate even if it is one coin on a finished bid/ask trade. Always accumulate right now.
What you dont want to do is sell for less any coin you purchased. Keep track of them.
I personally feel there may be a day coming where it's 400 dollars for a ASE. I just feel it.
Then again, I used to feel the same way as a Gambler waiting on the river card.
but, but, but.. it takes only $5 to get it out of the ground!
I see a lot of insider joking on ZH.
It's even funnier just thinking how ZH readers are so far ahead of the game that they even have long standing jokes for stuff that most aren't even yet aware of.
AAAA and 2000?
BULLSHIT. I say BULLSHIT!!!! *Pounds table...
Someone make a Hitler Paradoy film about this please.
I tell you why.
It will break 2000 by the end of this month. It was 1:1 on frigging Platinum last week.
This clown knows he will be looking for a job soon so he will need at least one public call that will be right. That is all.
I believe Gold will have a pump and dump soon( to $2000 in couple of months and then back to $1700) like silver.
All the Banks are now starting to pump it.
Bloomberg has the UGLIEST BITCHES!
what the FUCK??
with all of mikes money they could not get some better looking eye candy?
i hope he got a HUGE discount!
tight fisted fuck that he is!
i hope you're not counting Margaret Brennan in your comment ? ! ? ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFW0B9EBx0
STOP! WHAT IS MONEY? The money that the world uses today is created by private banks lending non-existent money called credit. This credit has never, does not and will never exist, except in theory on computer screens. People die and they starve all because they do not have enough digits on a computer screen. All of this credit, created by the private banks, is owed back to those same banks, plus interest. By design, there is never enough credit in circulation to pay back all the principal plus interest on the loans outstanding, which is why the concept of bankruptcy is built into the system.
Using the simple system above, banksters are given the ability to manipulate the world's economies into 'boom and bust' cycles. In essence, the only difference between a boom and a bust is the amount of credit in circulation, or rather, the net amount of numbers on people's computer screens. Initially, banksters create a boom by increasing the supply of credit in the economy. During this boom period, individuals and businesses are encouraged to take on more debt as they are more confident of increasing their income in the future. All this extra credit in the system leads to more activity, which in turn creates more confidence in the system, with many getting into more debt. This boom is akin to a fishing trawler, the bankster throws out a credit line and waits, once the bait has been taken the bankster begins to wind in the credit by taking credit out of circulation, it's gone. The economy then moves into a slump or recession, simply because there are not enough units of credit in circulation. The banksters are then able to trawl from people the wealth that does exist, in exchange for money that never existed in the first place.
with the massive spread in brent and crude, well, i just wish i had more dough with which to play this game...now that i'm learnin a little about it.
they'll soon be revising that 2000 number up, but after the fact...and, yes, you definitly can't eat it if you don't own it.


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Pudu puda
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|Pudu puda
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|Jimenez, J. & Ramilo, E.
|Black, P. & Gonzalez, S. (Deer Red List Authority)
This species is considered to be Vulnerable do to an ongoing decline and past population reduction of greater than 30% over the last three generations (12 years), estimated from a decline in habitat quality and availability and persecution my domestic and hunting dogs. It is suspected that this rate will continue and that the species will decline by at least another 30% in the next three generations (12 years).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Southern Pudu occurs in southern Chile (from Maule Province as far as the Strait of Magellan) and some adjacent areas of southwestern Argentina from southwest Neuquén Province, southward along the foothills of the Andes, into southwest Santa Cruz Province (Hershkovitz 1982). The confirmed southern limit in Argentina is south of the National Park Los Acerces in Chubut Province, around 43ºS (Ramilo 2001).
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Native:Argentina; Chile
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|The Southern Pudu inhabits dense temperate forest, between sea level and 1,700 m, where it browses mainly foliage and shoots (Miller et al. 1973, Hershkovitz 1982). It is also common in disturbed forests, as long as it is not harassed by people and especially dogs. It feeds on new leaves and shoots of native trees, avellanas fruit (Gevuina avellana), many forb species, and flowers (Jimenez pers. comm.). It is solitary, except during the rut, and in spring when young accompany mothers (Hershkovitz 1982).
|Major Threat(s):
|The species is thought to have undergone rapid decline in recent decades as a result of poaching and illegal collecting for zoos and private collections (DSG 1991). Habitat conversion, predation by domestic dogs, and competition with exotic deer and domestic livestock are serious associated threats (Eldridge et al. 1987). In addition, the species is hunted for subsistence use for food and skins, and heavily poached for the captive animal trade (Jimenez pers. comm., Toledo pers. comm.). In Argentina in the last three years there have been a number of road kills of pudus on the internal roads of the national parks. The increase in the number of roads within the distribution area of the pudu should be considered a threat, not only because of the number of road kills but also because of the interference with normal movements and isolation of populations.
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed on CITES Appendix I.
A captive breeding program is currently underway (Concepcion University, Chile) and there are plans to reintroduce animals into three national parks (Toledo pers. comm.). Recommended conservation actions include: initiate coordinated research to examine habitat requirements, food habits, and behavioral ecology; determine impact of feral dogs. Feral dogs are also very significant threats in Argentina. Also, determine effect of introduced wild pigs, whose distribution is greater than that of the pudu; there is 100% overlap of the distribution of wild pigs and pudus and undertake status surveys to establish extent of habitat decline and forest fragmentation; use information to identify priority areas for Southern pudu conservation and develop coordinated program to manage species throughout range; strengthen existing protected areas management; interchange of captive animals among captive breeding programs for self maintenance to reduce inbreeding, genetically manage the international captive population to reduce inbreeding; and conduct research on reproduction, nutrition, and behavior.
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Controversial Plan to Split Florida's Supreme Court Moves Forward
We recently noted the controversy in Florida over a move by legislators to split the state's high court in two, with civil and criminal branches.
The proposal received a vote of approval yesterday in the Florida Senate, the Tampa Tribune reports.
The court-splitting plan has attracted the ire of Democrats, because it would involve Florida's Republican governor appointing three new justices to the civil supreme court — to replace three Democrats who would move to the new criminal court.
Adding further intrigue the civil court is due to rule on upcoming legislative plans to draw new voting districts.
Members of Florida's Senate Budget Committee voted in favor of the court-splitting plan yesterday. The yes voted was designed try to curry favor with the plan's chief sponsor, House Speaker Dean Cannon, who will play a key role in the state's lagging budget talks, the Tribune reports.
The proposed change to the Florida high court, however, would require amending the state constitution, which would need to be approved by 60 percent of voters.
"To see this blatant attack on the balance of power . . . boggles my mind," Florida resident Stephen Sarnoff testified at a Florida hearing on the measure, according to the Tribune.
Anyone who "has learned the Constitution, has learned why we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers," he said. "We're going to blow all that away."
Champions of the court-splitting idea say that the state needs a new supreme criminal court so that death penalty appeals can be heard more expeditiously.


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Australia's ATOMIC magazine has recently fired up a separate online-only magazine as an extension to their printed version. They call it Kitlog and it comes out quarterly with guides to choosing and tweaking the best components for a PC.
Issue 2 has just been released which you can get to here. It's a great source of info if you're looking to upgrade your gaming rig, server, HTPC etc. over the xssy hols.