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On a cold night, Venus Williams battled into the early hours of the morning before finally succumbing to the Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 6-1 5-7 6-3. In a match that featured so many ebs and flows, twists and turns, and obviously momentum shifts, Williams just couldn't muster up enough of the goods to take down the red hot Slovak.
Williams, having probably the best start to a year since 2010, came into the 2014 Sony Open fresh off her title run in Dubai; she was confident and playing decent tennis this week and things looked to be going well. At the Sony Open, Williams was able to secure the last few seedings which was crucial for someone at her stage in their career; with the secured seeding, Williams avoids a top seed in the opening rounds and gets a first round bye. So after two quality wins, the 2nd round in straight sets and th third round in three tough sets against Dallecqua, Williams looked to continue her momemtum.
As Williams walked on to stadium court at Crandon Park, she looked out of it; Williams looked like something was off and the match hadn't even started. Then, as the match finally kicked off on the blustery and chilly Miami evening, Williams lacked the proper footing, speed, and control to properly try this match.With the cold air, the ball seemed to fly through the air and with the loose nature that Williams strings her racquet, that was a proplem. The ball seemed to float long on too many occasions during the first set and it looked as though it would be a quick night as Cibulkova raced to a 4-0 lead and eventually closed out the first set 6-1.
Things looked to continue the same way as Williams opened by dropping serve, but she somehow found some form and some confidence and managed to break back and hold; she started to gain some kind of strength. There was a look about Williams in the second set, a look of determination, a look of straight dogged-ness. Williams tracked down balls and threw her entire weight into every shot, pummeling the ball and realy forcing the issue. As the set progressed, Williams found herself at break point at the tail end of the set, 5-6 Cibulkova serving under immense pressure and what does Williams do? She rockets a backhand return passed Cibulkova and just like that, a decisive set was upon us.
Unfortunately for the elder stateswoman of the WTA, Williams lost momemtum at the beginning of the final set and found herself down a quick break and eventually a double break at 4-1; Williams had invested so much energy into battling for that middle set that a let down was practically inevitable. Even though Williams managed to give her absolute 100 percent of effort by drawing near in the final set, the deficet was too big and ultimately insurmountable; Cibulkova would eventually finish of the fighting Williams 6-1 5-7 6-3.
It was a match of so much cosmic proportion, and which has been the case this year, a match that Williams should have probably won. But all credit to the Slovak, she played immensely well, especially in the first set.
So where does Venus Williams head from here? Well, she has to take the positives and look to continue to rise up the ranks. Yes, she came in confident after a title run in Dubai; yes, she lost a match she could've won. But all in all, she continued to play decent tennis and she improved her result from last year, so the ranking will continue to rise. Next week she's in Charleston at the Family Circle Cup where she made the semifinals losing to eventually champion little sister Serena Williams. If she can at least match her result there from last year, then there's no reason she can't be seeding at Roland Garros and possibly inside the top 15 by the US Open; Venus has literally no points to defend after the Family Circle Cup, so this is her chance to make a push to get back to the games elite.
Like I stated earlier, for the most part, it was a good tournament for Venus Williams; he should take the positives from the two wins she got and continue moving forward. Continue putting herself in winning positions and eventually things will fall into place for her because she can still hang with these ladies and as she said after her third round win, "I don't think anyone wants to play me or see my name near theres in the draw, so I have that on my side."


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Macomb County advertised the "Make Macomb Your Home" campaign all over the place. People moved to the county in droves. Most of Michigan's fastest growing communities are located in Macomb County thanks to County Executive Mark Hackel's no-shame advertising tactics. He wants you here, and you came.
One of the hot spots is Macomb Township. Within the 36 square miles of the township, new neighborhoods are popping up all over the place. If you've cruised any of the mile roads you've probably banged your steering wheel a few times wondering why they haven't widen the streets to acomadate all the new traffic.
With all this new growth comes new neighbors, someone has probably asked you, "Where's a good place to eat around here?" Staying away from the fast food joints, where do you go? There's not a lot of grills, taverns, dive bars or restaurants in the township, but the ones that are here are pretty good.
Here's a dozen of the popular restaurants around Macomb Township:
Aspen Restaurant & Bar - 20333 Hall Rd. (586) 226-8838
Golden Bowl Carryout - Chinese - 16707 21 Mile Rd. (586) 226-8022
Goldie's Saloon - 45330 Romeo Plank Rd. (586) 286-6991
El Charro - Mexican - 21519 21 Mile Rd. (586) 598-7556
HUB Sports Bistro - 16780 21 Mile Rd. (586) 226-3399
Leo's Coney Island - 20257 Hall Rd. (586) 286-2300
National Coney Island - 15555 Hall Rd. (586) 566-9558
New Moon Restaurant - Chinese - 16840 21 Mile Rd. (586) 286-0078
Orange Leaf - ice cream - 21501 21 Mile Rd. (586) 329-4228
Paulee's Family Diner - 48964 Hayes Rd. (586) 247-8200
Shields Pizza - 50750 Romeo Plank Rd. (586) 228-1400
The Tavern at Tina's Country House - 50870 North Ave. (586) 949-2288
So the next time you're stuck in traffic staring at the sign to one of these restaurants, pull in and grab a delicious dinner. Who knows, maybe you'll see your new neighbor in there. Plus you can support the local economy by keeping the money in Macomb Township.

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Family History - Tayla Shepherd is the first of Bill and Sue Shepherds eleven grand children of Bill and Sue Shepherd to turn 21years old.
Sue is a very keen photographer, and a passionate hockey supporter. She has spent a life time in administration, coaching, and supporting her family through their own hockey careers. While in London for the Olympics she became the "unofficial foreign correspondent for the Northern Advocate, a daily newspaper based in Whangarei, New Zealand.
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Stem Cells Grafted Into Rat Spinal Cords Show Growth, Study Says
Recent study results indicate neurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and grafted into rats post-spinal cord injury (SCI) produced cells with tens of thousands of axons, extending virtually the entire length of the animals' central nervous system.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran's Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, conducted the study, a recent UC San Diego news release states.
According to lead scientist Paul Lu, PhD, UC San Diego department of Neurosciences and colleagues, the human iPSC-derived axons extended through the white matter of the injury sites, frequently penetrating adjacent gray matter to form synapses with rat neurons. Similarly, rat motor axons pierced the human iPSC grafts to form their own synapses.
Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, professor of Neuroscience, director of the UC San Diego Center for Neural Repair, explains: "These findings indicate that intrinsic neuronal mechanisms readily overcome the barriers created by a spinal cord injury to extend many axons over very long distances, and that these capabilities persist even in neurons reprogrammed from very aged human cells."
The current study reportedly builds on past research conducted by Tuszynski and colleagues, and earlier works have suggested grafted stem cells reprogrammed to become neurons can form new, functional circuits across an injury site, with the treated animals exhibiting some restored ability to move affected limbs.
In the current study, the release says, Lu, Tuszynski, and colleagues converted skin cells from a healthy man, aged 86 years old, into iPSCs. The release notes that the iPSCs were then reprogrammed to become neurons, in collaboration with the laboratory of Larry Goldstein, PhD, director of the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center. The new human neurons were subsequently embedded in a matrix containing growth factors and grafted into 2-week old SCIs in rats.
A total of 3 months later, the researchers say they investigated the post-transplantation injury sites. The researchers reportedly found biomarkers indicating the presence of mature neurons and extensive axonal growth across long distances in the rats' spinal cords, even extending into the brain. The axons crossed wound tissues to penetrate and connect with existing rat neurons. Similarly, rat neurons extended axons into the grafted material and cells, the researchers state. The transplants also produced no detectable tumors, the release says.
Despite the numerous connections formed between the implanted human cells and rat cells, the release reports that no functional recovery was found. Lu notes in the release that the tests assessed the rats' skilled use of the hand, however simpler examinations of leg movement may still show benefit.
Tuszynski adds that he and his team are working to pinpoint the most promising neural stem cell type for repairing SCIs, and are testing iPSCs, embryonic stem cell-derived cells and other stem cell types.
Photo Caption: This image depicts extension of human axons into host adult rat white matter and gray matter three months after spinal cord injury and transplantation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Green fluorescent protein identifies human graft-derived axons, myelin (red) indicates host rat spinal cord white matter and blue marks host rat gray matter.
Photo Credit: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Source: University of California, San Diego


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Lala, a grandmother, shares her travels through her photos.
I come from a "traveling" family. My parents were born in Canada, my grandfathers were born in England, and one grandmother's family came from Germany while the other grandmother's family moved across the United States and Canada. I have 2 children, 4 stepchildren and 16 grandchildren. I love to travel and take pictures of my travels. The Lala Travel Series is written to share my travels with my grandchildren and with other children. Each book contains pictures I took and information that I noted in the journals I kept. I hope that reading these travel books will help children develop love and respect for this wonderful planet.
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With over 25 years of program, project and agile development experience, McKenna has worked for a number of corporations in Canada and the United States. McKenna has worked for many firms, such as Research in Motion (RIM), OpenText, Thoughtcorp, Expertech, Bell Canada and Bell West. He brings to his classes a strong academic, research and practical project management background.
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Managing in a Time of Crisis
"This county has been pillaged with bad deals for the taxpayer," Mangano tells the Press. "We have been fixing them.
That's the real story, and because I've been fixing them and stepping on a lot of toes, this is why you get all this guff in the paper. Everyone's nervous politically and governmentally that we're actually doing this the right way. And that's what's happening. And some want to stick their fingers in it and slow it down for the special interests so they make more money. Well, the taxpayers can't afford it. Not on my watch. We've governed this county correctly in 2010 and we're going to do it in '11, '12, '13 and beyond, if the people of Nassau County will have me."
A prominent Democrat with intimate knowledge of the budget battles in the Suozzi years begged to differ—and asked not to be identified due to his continuing dealings with the current administration.
"The problem with the county is not some big ideological issue," this person tells the Press. "It's about the day-to-day blocking and tackling and managing of a $2.6 billion enterprise that's not being managed by anybody right now! It's a giant fucking operation that nobody is running! And it has to be run on a day-to-day basis and it's not being run on a day-to-day basis."
The view from the previous administration is that Suozzi would have been in better shape fiscally for 2011: first, sales tax revenue came in $50 million more than was budgeted for 2010; he would have had $40 million from the home energy tax and $20 million from the red light camera program going forward. The Mangano administration counters that the county executive has taken steps to cover those shortfalls and expects to close the $350-million budget deficit.
"This is the worst the county has ever been," says Schmitt. "The level of spending in the county is unsustainable. So, let's start cutting it. I'm not cavalier about this. It's going to be hard, and there's going to be a lot of pain. And it will affect a lot of people. But we don't have the money."
Finding agreement on where the money will come from is daunting.
As for labor cost savings, Jerry Laricchiuta, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, said that the county executive had been talking to the public unions "for quite a while to come up with a reasonable plan that would help the county structurally." But the two sides are far apart from coming up with the $60 million Mangano says he wants from them in give-backs. The public employees unions may have managed to cough up $25 million, some labor leaders say, but that number is subject to change.
Still, Laricchiuta does not want to see NIFA in charge of the county's finances, given that its oversight could mean further wage freezes and possible contract abrogation.
"No county executive can claim success if they're working under a control board," Laricchiuta tells the Press. "But I don't think he's been given enough time. The guy's been the county executive for only 11 to 12 months. He inherited a huge deficit. And he's been working with the unions, although the messages coming out of his office have been a little confusing.
"You get a different message every day," he says. "I really do believe that in his heart he would like to solve this peacefully and work together with labor."
Laricchiuta mentions that Mangano has reduced the workforce to the lowest it's been since the 1950s. "We can't cut more there. So where else you cutting? The bottom line is you gotta raise revenue."
Schmitt says that raising property taxes is "off the table" even though that's what he believes the Democrats want. "They want a tax increase, that's the bottom line. That's what they would do."
But James Carver, the president of the Nassau Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents police officers, says there should be a mixed approach.
"You cannot solve this whole thing by labor savings alone," Carver says. "There's got to be a combination. Suozzi had the right idea… And trust me, we all hated to agree with Suozzi on this, but he had the right idea. You had to have savings for a few years. You had to have recurring revenue to get us out of this economic downturn until you come back up again."
So far, Mangano's efforts to extract more concessions from labor have not borne fruit.
Recently, his office announced that he had made improvements to the county's assessment system, one of his campaign promises. It didn't look so promising back in October when an embarrassing story broke that the county's historic courthouse, where the lawmakers have their offices, was put on the tax roll by mistake, costing the county $1.3 million to refund the Garden City school district. It also cost Nassau Assessor Ted Jankowski, a Suozzi holdover, his job.
But the error actually occurred in 2008 on the watch of Harvey Levinson, a Democrat who was the last to be elected before the job became an appointed position. The culprit reportedly was a Republican "party hack," according to a former Suozzi official who asked to be anonymous, and that sparked rumors among Nassau insiders that Jankowski was "scapegoated."
Mangano has made reforming the assessment system "a hallmark" of his administration, because it costs the county some $100 million in refunds annually. Critics noted that some of the people Mangano appointed to his Assessment Review Team (ART), which released a report last month touting his efforts, were from the same firms that benefit from challenging the too-high property tax assessments. "It's like putting the fox in charge of the hen house," said one former Nassau County government insider.
The ART announced recently that it had gone through 110,000 grievances filed in 2010. But is that enough?
"At the end of the day, you want values on the property that people can have faith in," says former Nassau County Deputy Assessor Tony Brita. "If they got through all the challenges, that's great, but does that really improve people's confidence in the values being placed on the properties? In all fairness to Mangano, I don't think this is something that can get fixed in 12 months. It will take a good three to five years of concerted effort in order to get this fixed, and that's if everything goes according to plan. Firing Ted was a big mistake. He was the most experienced assessor that the county had in at least 20 years."
Asked to comment on Jankowski's departure, Majority Leader Schmitt says the former assessor "was a boob." He insists that the county has made great strides in reforming the assessment system but he knows there's still a lot of work to be done. One estimate is that there is a potential $250 million backlog in tax assessment challenges. It's a figure like that that gives NIFA board members something to mull over.
Mangano's allies see a different picture.
"So far in the first year, Ed's shown he has what it takes to manage out of the fiscal crisis he inherited," says Santino, the Nassau GOP spokesman. "He has already done a tremendous job tackling the county's fiscal problems and the deficit. He's got more work to do, but again these are problems that he inherited from Suozzi and the Democrats."
"Forget the politics," says Schmitt. "He's done some very good things in the last 11 months and he gets absolutely no credit for it. I would give him high marks for cutting the budget. I would give him high marks for constantly being innovative in trying to jumpstart our local economy."
Nassau residents will be paying close attention to see whether he makes the grade a year from now, and whether he sinks or swims—because ultimately it's the county taxpayers who will be taking the plunge along with him.


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This week's repertory screenings in Nashville is highlighted by the premiere of a new series at the Belcourt Theatre, celebrating Academy Award winners to coincide with Oscar season. The series kicks off with an all-new 4K digital restoration of the very first Best Picture winner, 1927's "Wings," directed by William Wellman. The Oscar Picks series will run every weekend in January and February.
For news on repertory films playing in middle Tennessee, subscribe to the Nashville Classic Cinema Examiner today!
Also starting this week is the Regal Cinemas Classic Film Series, every Sunday and Wednesday at Opry Mills.
Two classic cult films will be playing at Cult Fiction Underground this week: Kinji Fukasaku's hyperviolent classic "Battle Royale," as well as David Cronenberg's bizarre cult sci-fi/horror/social critique "Videodrome," starring James Woods. This week's midnight movie at the Belcourt Theatre is the excellent comedy "Mean Girls," written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay Lohan.
A complete list of this week's repertory screenings is below.. The descriptions are taken from the screeners' respective websites, which you can click on below:
Cult Fiction Underground at Logue's Black Raven Emporium
Regal Cinemas Classic Film Series
Are you screening classic films in the middle Tennessee area? If so, drop me a line, and I'll add you to this weekly feature. To keep track of repertory screenings in the Nashville area, subscribe to the Nashville Classic Cinema Examiner today.
Big - 2:00pm and 7:00pm at Opry Mills - Tom Hanks stars in the classic tale of a boy who wakes up one day in a man's body.
Battle Royale - 8PM and 10PM at Cult Fiction Underground - Hey, look: I got no beef at all with THE HUNGER GAMES. I'm just saying: a) BATTLE ROYALE did it first, gruesomer, meaner, and better, and b) why develop such a complicated backstory to weed out a bunch of stupid weiner kids? Just put 'em on an island and let 'em go! Also? Beat Takeshi is a BOSS. -jack
Mean Girls - 11:59PM at Belcourt - Cady (Lindsay Lohan), raised by her anthropologist parents in sub-Saharan Africa, now finds herself having to navigate the treacherous terrain of American high school, and in particular the shifting loyalties and objectives of a trio of presiding girls. Mathletics, subterfuge, and an ethically-induced riot all ensue in Tina Fey's feature screenwriting debut.
Videodrome - 8pm and 10pm at Cult Fiction Underground -'m not gonna lie to you, kids: me and Anthony and Mike saw BLONDIE at the RYMAN a little while back, and the whole time through, I was kind of wondering where she was going to pull a videotape and/or a pistol from. Because... you know... you kinda want to know these things in advance.
So you know it's from CRONENBERG, and you know he's kind of my FAVORITE... so... yeah, you'll be there, right?
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!. - jack
Wings - Time TBA at the Belcourt Theatre - Part of Oscar Picks.
"It Girl" Clara Bow loves Buddy Rogers, but Buddy—and buddy Richard Arlen—loves planes. All get their fill when the U.S. of A. enters WWI. The very first Best Picture Academy Award-winner (then called "Most Outstanding Production") is a super-spectacle, with hair-raising aerial footage matched with massive battle recreations—its authenticity guaranteed by real life Great War flyboy vets Wellman, Arlen, and screenwriter John Monk Saunders—and a star-making cameo by Gary Cooper. This all-new 4K digital (DCP) restoration, created to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Paramount Pictures, incorporates the film's original 1927 score by John Stepan Zamecnik, color tinting (and a re-creation of its "Handschiegl" color effects, originally stenciled right onto the prints), and sound effects authentically re-created by Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt (E.T., STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, etc., etc.)
Mean Girls - 11:59PM at Belcourt
Wings - Time TBA at the Belcourt Theatre
The Princess Bride - 2:00pm at Opry Mills
Mystery Movie - 7pm at Cult Fiction Underground
Suggested Links
- Nashville classic cinema this week: Lawrence, Leatherface, Pee-Wee and pussycats
- New on Netflix Streaming: Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Disney and more
- The Criterion Collection on Hulu: 5 great sci-fi films
- The Top 10 'Breaking Bad' episodes on Netflix Instant
- The Top 10 'Friday Night Lights' episodes on Netflix


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kadal heroine thulasi nair images are here for the first time on the net. Radha's second daughter thulasi pics have been kept as a secret by maniratnam for quite some time.
As moonramkonam.com reported earlier, Gautham Karthik, son of veteran actor Karthik and Thulasi Nair, daughter of yesteryears heroine Radha Nair and sister of Karthika Nair are debuting in Kollywood film industry with Mani Ratnam's upcoming directorial Kadal under Madras Talkies banner.
Mani Ratnam, director of kadal, has started releasing posters of kadal.
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Kadal is slated to release for Pongal. Maniratnam has roped in veterans like Arjun and Arvindswamy . AR Rehmans songs for kadal have already become a craze.
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Has a hairstyle ever changed your life?
If you think that sounds silly, you won't after today's amazing Before and After.
Eliza is a bold, striking beauty in my Beauty Profiling program. As a Type 4, she looks great in a style that's clean and structured, which she kind of has going on in her Before picture. Her hairstyle had simple lines, along with her clothes.
But look at what a new hairstyle can do! Eliza transformed her hair to reveal her gorgeous, striking features. And WOW! Can you even believe this is the same person?
Even without any extra accessories, she looks absolutely striking. In fact, her hairstyle itself becomes a fabulous accessory in her After picture.
I love the way her new hairstyle keeps the simplicity and throws out the blah! Doesn't she look sensational?
What do you think of her makeover? Please share your thoughts in a positive comment.
A Dressing Your Truth makeover helps a woman embrace her true beauty. And I love every single one!
Go From a Beauty Industry Hairstyle…
The fashion and beauty industry gives hairstyle advice that treats you like you're flawed. Only certain face shapes are supposedly ideal. When you look at it that way, you only get a hairstyle to minimize your imperfect features.
But what if you saw your face as already perfect and your features as something worth highlighting?
…To a Dressing Your Truth Hairstyle
You might not have thought of it this way before, but your hair cut and color acts as a sort of frame for the movement of your face. It should highlight and support your features, not minimize them!
If you haven't started Dressing Your Truth, a life-changing hairstyle is waiting for you. My easy-to-use online training program will give you all the tools you need to create a hairstyle (and wardrobe and personal style) that really expresses you. It's simple and sensational!
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SCend Offs
Each summer, USC Alumni Clubs around the world host SCend Off receptions to welcome incoming USC students to the Trojan Family. SCend Offs help connect new students, their families and friends to local alumni and alumni groups. On occasion, USC faculty or administration guests attend SCend Offs to greet and welcome the new students and their families. Whenever possible, we will include the names of these special guests with our SCend Off information.
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Oct. 19, 2007
The No. 19 UCLA men ran away with their fourth meet title of the season on Friday at the Titan Invitational in Fullerton as the Bruins swept the top-five places in the team race. UCLA scored 15 points with the second-place finisher, UC Irvine, scoring 74.
Spencer Knight led an all freshmen team with his second-place run of 25:03. His twin, Dylan, followed in fourth-place (25:12). Marc Hausmaninger (6th, 25:52), Jun Reichl (7th, 26:02) and Danny Benson (10th, 26:20) rounded out the Bruin sweep.
Due to the unattached runners competing, or athletes not running with a full team, the Bruins were able to post their first sweep of the season.
Scott Crawford had to pull out of the race midway through after suffering from some severe sideaches.
"I am so excited for this freshmen class," said head coach Eric Peterson. "We have noted all season long the depth of talent that we have in this class. This performance is a very good indication of the potential for our program having an extremely bright future as we look forward.
"A lot of these guys have completed their cross country season because they won't factor into our post-season team, but they finished their season off in style. A sweep in any race is a great accomplishment, and for a group of true freshmen to do that makes me feel proud of the work we are doing.
Team Scores (top-4 of 7 teams)
1. UCLA, 15 points; 2. UC Irvine, 74 points; 3. Loyola Marymount, 75 points; 4. Long Beach State, 94 points.
UCLA Individual Results
2. Spencer Knight, 25:03; 4. Dylan Knight, 25:12; 6. Marc Hausmaninger, 25:52; 7. Jun Reichl, 26:02; 10. Danny Benson, 26:20; Scott Crawford, DNF.
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College Hockey:Goalies Are Strong in Tie for Irish, Falcons
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — After a high scoring affair last night which saw Notre Dame and Bowling Green combine for 11 goals in the game, defense and goaltending came to the forefront of Saturday's contest as the Falcons and Irish skated to a 1-1 tie.
The Irish picked up another important point in the race for first round home-ice advantage in the CCHA playoffs. Notre Dame is hanging on to the eighth and final home-ice position with two league games to play.
The Irish are now 3-0-1 in their last four games and have been playing well since the beginning of January.
"It's extremely important," said Irish coach Jeff Jackson of his team picking up three of four points on the weekend. "We're still trying to fight for home ice in the playoffs. Every point we get is crucial for us because the league is so tight. From one night to the next, you don't know who's going to win."
While the Falcons know they will be traveling during the first round of the playoffs, Saturday's game was still an important step for them.
"We're disappointed we didn't get a win tonight, but we got a real good bounce-back effort," said Bowling Green coach Scott Paluch. "It's a step in the right direction in terms of what we were able to do defensively. We didn't give up nearly the type of chances we gave up last night. We were still able to generate some real good chances of our own."
The goaltending of freshman Jimmy Spratt, combined with a stellar defense and good penalty kill, kept the Falcons in the hunt for the win all night. Spratt made 31 saves on the night, earning first star honors.
"Jimmy did a great job of making himself pretty doggone big in (the net)," said Paluch. "Every time there was a shot, he seemed to take up a lot of net. His catching glove was very good tonight. He kept a lot of pucks close to him, jumped on a lot of pucks. There weren't any holes in there. That's two weekends in a row where he was very good."
"I was very impressed with Spratt," said Jackson. "I thought he looked big, he looked confident. Tonight, he showed what he's capable of and why Bowling Green recruited him."
In the other net, David Brown returned after a one-game hiatus and made 34 saves. His only goal allowed came on a power play in the opening period. Brown was shelved just moments before game time last night due to sickness.
"He was sick all week," said Jackson. "He had a stomach virus. I wasn't going to put him into the game last night because he only had two days of practice. He's still feeling some of the effects of it, so I give him a lot of credit for battling through that. I'm glad we got him in there. I didn't want him to lose too much as far as the confidence. He put in a great performance for us (tonight)."
Bowling Green struck first at 8:31 of the opening period with a power-play goal. Jonathon Matsumoto picked up a loose puck just inside the left circle and shot it toward the net, where Alex Foster was waiting to tip it past Brown. The goal was Foster's 10th of the season. Brandon Svendsen also assisted on the play.
The Irish tied the game at 11:43 of the third period off a rush. Matt Amado, skating in on Spratt, fired a shot from between the circles. The rebound came out to Josh Sciba, who was skating in left of the goaltender. He found the back of the net for his 17th goal of the year. Wes O'Neill added an assist on the play.
The Falcons finished the night 1-4 on the power play, while the Irish were 0-5.
Notre Dame closes out its regular season at home next week against Alaska-Fairbanks, another team in the hunt for the final home-ice playoff spot.
The Falcons will play the CCHA regular season champion Miami RedHawks on Thursday at the Ice Arena before heading to Oxford on Saturday in the last regular-season game ever at the Goggin Ice Arena.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude Chapter 1 Summary
- Okay, kids, here's how you start a novel. Colonel Aureliano Buendía is facing a firing squad. That's right, you're already hooked.
- While he's waiting to be shot, the colonel remembers his childhood in the town of Macondo.
- This is where things start to get a little weird. One of the things this novel does a lot is play around with our normal sense of time. So get used to doing a lot of, wait, this is happening when? And it's set in what century? Huh? For example, in this chapter, when we learn all about the founding of Macondo and its beginnings as a little village, it's really, really hard to figure out when everything is happening -- mostly because you're not supposed to. Don't take that 100 years thing too literally. Not only does the novel span the years from around 1850 to 1950, it also envelopes all of history since the dawn of time. (What on earth? Swing by "Setting," where we try to explain.)
- Macondo seems to have its origin in the Biblical book of Genesis. That's what it sounds like, at least, since this is taking place so long ago that they even don't have words for everything yet. Or maybe that's a joke or an exaggeration.
- Every year, a caravan of gypsies comes to town, bringing with them the most up-to-date scientific discovery of the time. This year it's magnets.
- But hang on, you say, isn't it the nineteenth century? When were magnets discovered? Yes, indeedy: naturally occurring magnets were already known in the time of ancient Greece. But in Macondo, the people are astonished at the magnets' power of attraction. So maybe we're not in the nineteenth century after all. Maybe instead, what we're getting is a fast-tracked metaphorical journey through the development of knowledge.
- Everyone thinks the magnets are super-awesome, especially José Arcadio Buendía, Colonel Aureliano Buendía's dad.
- Oh, and guys? The names are hard in this novel. The basic rule of thumb is that all Buendía dudes have one of two names. And there are seven generations of them. (Why? Check out Shmoop's "Symbols" section for some juicy thoughts.)
- Daddy Buendía decides to use the magnets to find gold deep in the ground. Melquíades, the leader of the gypsies, tells him it won't work, but he's ignored.
- Buendía's wife Úrsula tries to talk him out of it, too, but it's no use.
- So they drag the magnets around and they find… a rusted suit of fifteenth-century armor with a calcified skeleton inside. Oh, the fifteenth-century – so now we're back in the 1400s? Argh!
- The next year the gypsies come back and bring a telescope and a magnifying glass. Ooh, this is the cutting edge of science in the Middle Ages. So we're moving forward.
- Again, the Macondoans are bowled over by the awesomeness.
- But José Arcadio Buendía decides that the giant magnifying glass with its solar burning properties should be made into a weapon. (Don't tell us you didn't set fire to a few ants back in the day.)
- He spends forever drawing up plans for it and sends them off to the government by courier.
- Now we get another important tidbit about Macondo: not only is it held back in time, it's also geographically isolated. The courier goes through hell just trying to get to the mail route to send José Arcadio Buendía's message. Why? Because Macondo is surrounded by mountains on one side and swamps on the other. It's basically cut off from the outside world.
- Anyway, the government doesn't answer, and eventually the gypsies come back again. This time they've got a compass, an astrolabe, and a sextant. Melquíades is a nice guy, so instead of taking money from José Arcadio Buendía again, he just trades him these instruments for the magnifying glass.
- So, astrolabe. That's a device for observing and measuring the planets and starts in the night sky. We've just about arrived at the Age of Reason, science-wise.
- José Arcadio Buendía watches the skies for a very long time and finally shocks all of Macondo with the announcement that the earth is round, not flat.
- Okay, so we've slipped back in time again, since in the nineteenth century this would not have been a shocking statement.
- Macondo is shocked. The earth is round? José Arcadio Buendía must be crazy. But soon Melquíades comes back and reveals that actually he's right.
- Melquíades is starting to look a little worse for the wear, all old and diseased. He gives José Arcadio Buendía an alchemy lab. (Shmoop brain snack: alchemy is the attempt to chemically turn base metals into gold. It, um, doesn't work. Gold is an element, so unless you can actually move the electrons and protons around somehow, you ain't gettin' gold from anywhere but the ground.)
- José Arcadio Buendía gets carried away again. He melts down some of Úrsula's ancestral gold, trying to create more gold, and ends up with gooey, useless metal soup.
- Melquíades returns again, this time with a set of false teeth that seems to make him look decades younger. José Arcadio Buendía is dismayed at how much Macondo is missing out on by being so completely cut off from the world.
- Back in the beginning, when he first founded the village of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía was all energetic and an excellent city planner. Now he's kind of become the village nut with all his scientific obsessions.
- Úrsula, meanwhile, who has always been super-industrious, is even more so.
- José Arcadio Buendía decides to clear the land and create a road out of Macondo to the rest of the country. But which way to go? He and the other Macondo families (there are 300 people living in the town) originally came from the mountains to the east of the city, so no one wants to go back that way. But to the south and west are swamps.
- Our main man José and a group of men decide to make their way north. They quickly find themselves in a depressing and hallucinatory jungle or rain forest. No sooner do they clear a path than the plants grow right back over it. It's maddening.
- Finally they come out and immediately see… an ancient Spanish ship, petrified onto the rocks. They've hit the sea! There's no path out of Macondo to the north!
- José Arcadio Buendía is infuriated and makes a map of Macondo as a peninsula. It's not really a good map, since they haven't actually explored anything, but it's an idea that sticks for a while.
- He then decides to go ahead and move the town.
- Úrsula organizes all the wives to resist this new insanity and the plan fails.
- She tells José Arcadio Buendía to start paying attention to his sons. And he does, for the first time in his life.
- His sons are: José Arcadio (we'll put a II next to his name just to distinguish), who is fourteen and just like his dad (which might be why he's got the same name), and Aureliano, who is six and more introverted and quiet. Aureliano might also have some ability to predict the future.
- José Arcadio Buendía starts to spend time with his kids, teaching them to read and write, math, and whatever he knows about history and the world – mostly legends, myths, and fantasies.
- The gypsies come back again, but this time without Melquíades. He's dead. Man, we were really starting to get attached!
- They have brought an amazing thing with them: a huge block of ice. José Arcadio (II) won't touch it, but Aureliano gives it a go before pulling his hand away quickly.
- José Arcadio Buendía pronounces ice to be the greatest invention of our time (and we're back on the right timeline, since ice was first shipped as a commodity around the world in the 1810s).
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Ticket Books- Once in Omaha, fans may purchase general admission ticket books sold by local service clubs, Hy-Vee supermarkets , the TD Ameritrade Park Omaha box office, and other locations around the Omaha area. For a complete list of locations visit the College World Series ticket website.
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Inventory at Plum moves fast, so chances are if you're looking for something one day, you might want to check back later in the week for more new arrivals. And depending on your style, it's easy to shop. Williams does a great job at organizing the racks – black and white staples here, bright, bold prints there – so it's easy to browse by taste. Williams hopes that she'll host shopping events that will keep the shop open late, for ladies that can't get into the store until after 5 p.m. She doesn't want anyone to miss out on what Plum has to offer.
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Nolan: So you got yourself paroled from Camp Reverie, huh? How exactly did you manage that?"
"Beasts of Burden" is the July 10 episode of "Defiance." Warning: this article does contain spoilers. "Defiance" airs Thursday nights at 7 p.m. CT on Syfy.
Amanda and Niles open up to each other. I have to admit, I didn't see the two of them sharing as much as they did. Well, I didn't expect Amanda to do so. I can see Niles opening up to Amanda in order to grow closer to her. They have an interesting dynamic. Personally, I don't come away from this episode liking Niles any better, but I enjoyed hearing Amanda's tale. We rarely see her that vulnerable. This is the best thing to come out of Niles being around. Are you a fan of Niles yet or do you still dislike him?
Okay, I don't really remember the Tommy and Nolan feud being this intense. It's been awhile since last season, so it is possible that I am forgetting something. Still, the feud is getting annoying. There needs to be some resolution or something. Berlin doesn't hate Irisa and Nolan as much as Tommy does. There needs to be some mediation or counseling or something. Maybe now that Nolan has taken a bullet for Berlin, Tommy will come around. Berlin and Nolan's partnership is much more interesting. The dynamic is great. The writers should work her into their team more.
It seems like right before I start every episode, I have forgotten how messed up the Tarr family is. Datak is back, and so is his messed up views on life, family, and honor. The family feud is more scarring than entertaining. Datak never really changes, except for now he is reading the Casti bible. It seems like the writers are suggesting that Datak's decision to scar Alak's hand came from his reading of the bible, but it is unclear. Is anyone else getting tired of the all the power struggles and fights in the Tarr house?
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I have never seen any headphonamplifier manufacturer backing up his product with so much details. And he not only makes the amplifier, with his blog he is educating the whole community, so they do get a completely new view on what is going on in the Head-Fi business. No wonder he is scaring a lot of headphone equipment makers, selling "Snake Oil". In discussions he is backing up his messages with math, and numbers. While the opponents lacks his education and knowledge, they just try to defend their failures by putting up a lot of bullcrap. After reading his blog, I have stopped reading Head-Fi, except the part considering his O2. I think this O2 amplifier is going to revolutionize the business. And I myself will buy several of them, when there is a ready board. It is very nasty to see how people with lack of proper engineering skills and knowledge of Head-Fi engineering, are attacking this person. But I think they will lose in the end. They banned, maybe the most knowledgable forum member of Head-Fi and amb, because certain interests were threatened. Thanks for abi forums, letting the inventor of O2 write here. This forum is serving their members and not their advertisers, and with this intention more and more people will leave head-fi and participate here instead..
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Thanks everyone for all the support and positive comments. It's especially timely as one or more people have resorted to trolling/spamming my blog comments in much the same way objective threads are often attacked at Head-Fi. I've tried to publish and respond to the posts, but it's become bad enough I've just stopped approving the comments. It's kind of sad really as previously I have approved all but a small handful of posts and most of those were due to offensive language.
Rather than have a rational discussion about the facts, it seems some of my critics prefer a much more childish approach. It reminds me of some "dumb jocks" I knew in high school. When confronted with something they didn't understand or agree with, their first response was to blindly go on the offensive. For now it's easy enough to click the "select all" box and the Delete button in the comments management panel. If it continues, I'll talk to my friends at Google as I know Google tracks all the IPs.
In other news, the new PCB is supposed to be here today so I should be able to get the Version 1.1 O2 built up and start testing it. I have my fingers crossed I didn't mess anything up and it will perform at least as well as the previous version.
Once I approve the new board, I'll release the PCB files into the wild, and that includes the vendors who have expressed an interest in offering the O2 bare board, possible kits, assembled boards, etc.
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Anyway, really nice that we non-DIYers will be able to experince the O2 soon ! Nevermind the crazy hype-fi people, that's just the way some of them react. They are envious of the fact you know more about audio than most of them ever will, even with their $10 999 power cords, $790 DAPs and $959 voodoo paperweights, all heard through their superhuman, magical golden ears.
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I am waiting for Kindle 4, new Sony reader, New ipod releases, but most of all I want the Objective 2. It is a pity that you are experiencing all the spam at your superb blog. But there are a lot of people losing a lot of money and credibillity, and they try some desperate attempts to stop you. It is not a long time since Singlepower amps were "state of the art". But someone managed to open his amp, and after that his success was over. You managed to find problems with Nuforce, Schiit and amb projects among others. They sure take this hard. You even exposed Head-Fi, so people got to see who they are supporting. Keep on! I am sure most of the people are on your side. It is the good vs. evil.
The anonymous comments lately have been on the original O2 Headphone Amp article and the Subjective vs Objective Debate article. The ones I haven't published have been sent to Blogger's spam folder and are not visible.
First the argument was made people should somehow embrace distortion as it's unavoidable and intentionally added to recordings. Then they tried to argue that reactive loads make measurements invalid. Then they tried to argue music was more complex than sine waves. Then they switched to all amps have distortion and there's no perfect amplifier so why even bother to measure them. Then there were several posts with things like "well I listened to the UberAmp the other day and it clearly sounded different than the EconoAmp so you're obviously wrong". Etc.
It seems to me they're just trying to pick fights and/or throw up the same tired audiophile arguments that have never stood up to any reasonable scrutiny. And when I refused to publish a few the tone switched to being more subtle and trying to seem like they would "like to believe in me" but somehow just can't.
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Its kind of sad you've had to start doing that. On the one hand, you're basically sinking to their level. On the other hand trying to keep up with it is basically a full time job.
In 5 minutes a skilled BS artist can write something it would take 5 hours to properly rebut. There really isn't a winning move...
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#Maverick It is sad, but let's not dwell on the guys trying to crash to party. The whole idea is to let the O2, assorted facts, measurements, proven research, blind tests, etc. stand on their own merits. There will always be critics/skeptics/etc no matter what.
@Cain, the sad part, to me at least, is having to censor comments. I honestly can't tell if some of them are genuine or a carefully veiled attempt to just dilute the comments as so often happens on Head-Fi. And I'm sure that might be their intent. But, as Maverick said, there really isn't a winning move here. If I publish everything the comments sections become ungainly and nobody will want to read them. If I don't some will accuse me of censorship.
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Sensoring spam is a must. What it is all about, is bringing out the message to the people. We don`t want to be cheated anymore. People have wasted thousands and maybe millions of dollars on garbage Head-fi equipment. And the more these evil people try to destroy for you, the more people will see who is the genuine expert here. They are so frightened now, that they hardly know what to do. It took One Man to destroy the credibillity to several well known main actors in this head-fi business. And i guess several others that have been cheating, are scared to find out that suddenly your next review will be of one of their items. Don`t let them ware you out, you get more and more followers for every day passing.
Disclaimer: Since the internet is such a terrible way to convey emotions, let me state it right now before someone misinterprets this post: I am being sarcastic.
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The point is that by Poe's Law there's no way to distinguish something put forth as an actual argument from someone just trying to get a reaction out of you. No matter how brain-dead the argument is, there is probably someone who seriously advances it so you can't assume they're trolling just because they're being stupid and whoever gets their comments blocked will accuse NwAvGuy of censorship.
I do think that after accusing another forum of censoring content for profit you are morally obligated to not censor anything other than outright spam on your own site. Of course, such high ideals rarely survive unscathed after contact with reality so I can forgive NwAvGuy for being slightly hypocritical after he's been bludgeoned into it. After all, unless you're as adept at one line comebacks as Christopher Hitchens or something it will literally be a full time job to rebut each "argument" and if he doesn't do that the comments will become bloated and useless.
I actually think that the idea of a separate thread or post somewhere to discuss this kind of stuff is a good idea. If the stupidity is all collected in the same place it can be dealt with collectively instead of NwAvGuy wasting all his time writing individual responses to individual comments.
Thanks guys. And Maverick, are you suggesting I have a new article devoted to the critics and direct everyone to leave their questionable comments there? Or a new thread here on ABI? Or ???
I like the idea but I don't know how well it will work in practice. And, unfortunately, Google's Blogger doesn't let me "re-direct" comments to a different article. So if people post them in the wrong place I can only publish or not publish the comment as-is.
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Knowing the Internet, the best approach is probably to let everything through except blatantly offensive posts. You don't necessarily have to reply to everything, but censoring is asking for trouble most of the time.
Nah, delete everything.
It's commonplace at Head-Fi. You end up with 400+ posts in a thread and only 40 of them have any substance. The other 360 were seemingly added by those trying to derail the thread and bury the facts.
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I suppose you could remove redundant comments as well. Things like questions that have already been answered, or so-called doubts that have already been raised. Most of the junk is just repetitive, after all.
I'm not really sure where the best place to condense everything might be, and with most people leaving them anonymously and not having the ability to redirect them it will be hard to keep everything straight.
What might work is to have some sot of clearly stated comment policy for different types of posts and warn people ahead of time that certain posts may have their comments pruned for readability and that if they have one of their comments not approved they should post it somewhere else like a post about your critics on your blog or maybe a dedicated thread on another forum.
After that you need to make sure the policy is clear and have a link to where such things should be debated instead within the post (like a disclaimer at the end) so no one can accuse you of trying to hide whatever the "critics" say.
Something like:
"The comments on this post will be moderated for usefulness and readability. Comments in this post are primarily for the purposes of answering questions and providing constructive criticism. If you have a fundamental disagrement with the methodology I use or wish to engage in some sort of debate then please post such comments here instead. Because I can only approve or deny comments instead of editing or moving them, those comments I feel are off topic will be disallowed. If one of your comments is disallowed then feel free to post it here instead where comments will only be moderated for spam and abusive language."
Thanks Maverick. I've already put some guidelines at the end of the Subject vs Objective comments. I can always revise them if I set up a suitable repository as you suggest.
Obviously a solution to being unable to edit/move comments is to move to Wordpress, self host, etc. But I have other priorities for my time, and having friends at Google, I'm somewhat partial to their platform. Regardless, the basic problem remains: I'm always going to be a threat to the beliefs of some and, given the chance, they'll go on the offensive.
Anyway, thanks again to everyone all for the input. I need to get back to the soldering iron and hopefully we can get this discussion back onto the O2.
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Since $f(x,y)=g(x)h(y)$ must a proper pdf, it must integrate to one. However, the single $g$ and $h$ need not necessarily integrate to one (just their product; thanks Dilip for pointing that out). To obtain the marginal w.r.t. $y$ you can integrate out $x$ as before (which gets you rid of $f$) leaving you with some constant times $h$, i.e. $\int f(x,y) = c h(y)$. $h(y)$ is also not necessarily a pdf and must be normalized to be a proper marginal. This is done via $$\frac{h(y)c}{\int h(y) c dy} = \frac{h(y)}{\int h(y) dy}.$$
Therefore, the constant you got from $g$ is not important since it cancels.