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The Democratic National Convention is in full swing, following closely on the heels of the highly-publicized Republican convention. The Democrats are meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, where President Barack Obama will announce his official acceptance of the party's presidential nomination.
Former president Bill Clinton spoke at the convention tonight, and, regardless of what you think of his politics, gave an absolutely rousing speech. As former Fringe writer Zack Stentz so adequately tweeted, "Content aside, Clinton's DNC speech finally made me understand how political oratory used to be a major form of public entertainment."
But what about the content? Clinton's speech was, of course, firmly pro-Obama. After all, his wife is the most prominent member of the president's cabinet (and a highly speculated contender for the 2016 presidential election).
Clinton started by paying tribute to Michelle Obama's speech from the previous night. "I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside," he said. "After last night, I want to nominate a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama."
Calling Obama "the standard-bearer of the Democratic party," Clinton didn't hesitate to criticize Republicans, not only for their policies ("You're having a good time, but this is serious. I want you to listen, because a lotta people believe this stuff"), but for their general attitude toward the president throughout his first term.
"Though I often disagree with Republicans," he said, "I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our President."
Clinton also laid into the controversial speech given by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan at the RNC, which was criticized by even the right-leaning Fox News for having several factual errors. "That $716 billion [Ryan claims Obama will take from Medicare] is exactly, to the dollar, the same amount of Medicare savings Congressman Ryan had in his own budget. You gotta give him one thing, it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did," Clinton remarked with his characteristic twang.
"If you want a 'you're on your own,' winner take all society, you should support the Republican ticket," Clinton added. "If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities, a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
It's hard to disagree with Stentz here; Clinton sure knows how to deliver a speech. The former president also made, in my opinion, some pretty valid points. I kind of want to see what politicomedy personalities like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher have to say about the speech, too, because Clinton made a lot of points about the rationality of the Republican party that both comedians have been remarking upon for years.
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February 19, 2009 — Phillip Burgess — http://www.PaintYourDragon.com/uc/
Update 3/16/09: Added Linux support.
If you've read my prior article on PIC32 development on Mac and Linux hosts, you know what a complex and costly endeavour it can be tooling up to work with this chip on "alternative" operating systems. But as the mighty 800 pound gorilla of the microcontroller world, it's well worth going to extreme lengths to have access to this device.
Some of the complexity stems from design decisions in Microchip's own seemingly affordable PIC32 Starter Kit. A mere $50 nets you everything needed to get started with this MCU: evaluation board, C compiler, sample code, even the USB cable. The board has a few buttons and LEDs with which a "Simon" type game can be written. For anything more complex, the board is "conveniently" equipped with a 120 pin Hirose connector that breaks out all of the MCU's signal lines. This is where the honeymoon ends. Trying to build something using the corresponding mating connector can be a nightmare. It's a fine-pitch surface-mount part of the sort that typically must be acquired from distant mail order sources, and will need to be fitted to a custom-etched board even for basic breakout functionality. Furthermore, if you're not a Windows user…well, I already wrote a whole painful article about that.
The solution to these problems has traditionally involved a somewhat pricey expansion board from Microchip and, if you're using Linux or Mac OS X, a separate PICkit 2 programmer. If you wanted to use Microchip's existing demo boards for things like audio and color LCD graphics, well that's great, you'd probably have ended up with the expansion board anyway. But for the simple hobbyist tinkerer, the cost of all these parts may be more than they can stomach, and most will just stick with the Arduino.
The path out of this mess has involved the fortunate alignment of a few planets:
Firstly, the availability of a new generation of PIC microcontrollers with USB support built in. Earlier PICs, or other microcontroller kits like the Arduino or even the PIC32 Starter Kit, have traditionally relied on external parts to interface with USB, increasing cost.
Secondly, the provision of USB bootloader code from Microchip. A bootloader is a small piece of code on a microcontroller that can load new programs into the remaining program space on the chip (over USB in this case). Traditionally this has required a separate programmer device (such as the PICkit 2) to transfer code to the chip. The bootloader — which makes this whole process simple and self-contained — is one of the things that's helped make the Arduino such a success. Microchip also provides a Windows program for communicating with the bootloader and transferring compiled programs to the chip.
Thirdly, the availability of Brian Schmalz's UBW32, a PIC32-based development board that not only addresses my biggest gripe with Microchip's PIC32 Starter Kit (instead of the zany 120-pin surface-mount connector, the UBW32 uses standard 0.1" pin spacing and, with the addition of inexpensive and easily-soldered headers, fits right into a standard breadboard), but also makes use of the aforementioned bootloader (as opposed to the closed and proprietary software interface of the PIC32 Starter Kit). And it's $10 cheaper. Win, win, win across the board. You can order the UBW32 from SparkFun Electronics.
Bootloader aside, the UBW32 is just plain neat, even if you're not planning on coding for the PIC32 directly. The board comes preprogrammed with software for interfacing devices with your PC (or Mac or Linux system). Plug in the UBW32 and it shows up as a virtual serial port. You can then use any serial communication program (such as PuTTY or CKermit) to type commands and control various I/O lines. Most programming languages — even the most simple BASIC interpreters — usually have native serial capabilities, so this becomes a simple way for beginners to create "smart" real-world devices using their PC. Most people will probably use the UBW32 this way, and that's great. But if you need something more intense, or something that operates stand-alone without a PC, you can replace this functionality with your own code. Thankfully they didn't skimp here: the UBW32 uses the current top-of-the-line PIC32 MCU with 512K program space, 32K RAM and support for both USB "client" and "host" modes.
Finally, if you are interested in the PIC32 programming aspect, and if you're a Mac or Linux user, the fourth aligned planet is a small utility I wrote that works with the UBW32's bootloader. Between all of these, and if you're not after the special PIC32 expansion boards mentioned earlier, the cost of development on the Mac and Linux has suddenly dropped from over $200 to just $40. Dude!
This route is not without its drawbacks; there's no debugger support, for instance. If you need to do Serious Development, there's no getting around using the Windows tools with a programmer/debugger such as Microchip's ICD3. But again, as I'm writing this with hobbyists and beginners in mind, most will be perfectly happy with the UBW32 and this bootloader approach. There's still a ton of great things that can be done.
Before you get too excited, I should explain that this is all based on command-line tools at present. I've never much cared for IDEs, which probably qualifies me as a crotchety old man, but in my little fantasy world want to believe this is "hardcore." Dang kids, get off my lawn! If this hasn't scared you away, read on:
First, Mac Users will need Xcode (Apple's developer tools) installed. This should be on your original Mac OS X install DVD, or can be downloaded at no cost from developer.apple.com (free registration required). Xcode supplies a whole fancy IDE, but we'll be using just the command-line portions here, in a Terminal window.
Linux users will need the libhid development library (and possibly other dependent libraries) installed. This can be accomplished with most package managers, or installed from the command line by typing:
sudo apt-get install libhid-dev
For either platform, you'll then need a C compiler for the PIC32. With a little effort (and using the aforementioned tools or libraries), this can be brought together at no expense. Read this prior article on the PIC32 for directions on acquiring and building the compiler; you can ignore everything after the "Hardware" heading and resume here.
Next is the Mac- or Linux-side bootloader utility for talking to the UBW32. You can download the source code package here…I'll explain in a moment how to compile and make this work.
Finally, once all the software components are acquired and working (I do recommend confirming that you can get all the software operating before spending money on the hardware), order the UBW32 from the SparkFun Electronics web site. You'll also need a USB A to Mini B cable (if you don't already have 50,000 around from other devices), and — if you want to use the UBW32 in a breadboard — some basic soldering aptitude and two 40-pin row headers (such as PRT-00116 from SparkFun) — possibly a third if you want to add a PICkit 2 programming header, though you'll snap off and use only five pins for that.
Extract the previously-downloaded ubw32.tar.bz2 by double-clicking the file in the Finder. This results in a folder called "ubw32". To make the directions consistent, move that folder to the Desktop if it's not already there. Then, open a Terminal window and type these two commands:
cd ~/Desktop/ubw32
This should process for just a moment and create the executable, called ubw32 (inside the folder of the same name). If all goes well, then type:
sudo make install
This asks for your administrator password in order to copy the file to /usr/local/bin, so you don't need to specify a complete path to the program each time.
Note to Linux users: on Linux systems, the ubw32 program must be run as root. One option is to use the sudo command each time ubw32 is invoked (i.e. sudo ubw32). Alternately, the setuid bit can be configured to always run the installed program as root:
sudo chmod +s /usr/local/bin/ubw32
A simple demo program confirms that everything is working. To build the demo UBW32 program, type:
cd example
Then, to transfer the demo program to the UBW32, connect the device via USB while holding the PRG button (or, if already connected, press the PRG and RESET buttons simultaneously). Make sure the PWR SEL switch is set to USB when connecting. The green and white status LEDs should be alternately flashing, indicating the unit is in Bootloader mode and ready to accept code. Then type:
make write
This will overwrite the firmware currently on the UBW32, so make sure you have a copy of the original firmware HEX file if you want to restore the original Bit Whacker functionality! (D32.hex, available from the project home page.)
If all goes as intended, the program space on the UBW32 will first be erased and the test program downloaded and verified. When finished, the demo program should run, smoothly fading four of the LEDs on the UBW32 board.
The code and makefile in the example directory show the basics of setting up your own UBW32 firmware programs using the C32 compiler.
When creating your own UBW32 programs, it is ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE that you place the file procdefs.ld alongside your source (copy this from the example directory). Failure to do so will almost certainly result in your UBW32 getting "bricked" and requiring re-flashing the bootloader (which, if you don't have a PICkit 2 or similar PIC programmer, you're screwed and will have to track one down to borrow, or buy one from Microchip for $35).
The ubw32 program is then used to transfer the compiled code to the UBW32 device. It's a fairly straightforward program with just a few options, each preceded by a hyphen. For instance, to display program help, type:
ubw32 -help
Or alternately:
ubw32 -?
Most important is the -write command (this can also be abbreviated -w), which specifies the name of a HEX file to download to the device, e.g.:
ubw32 -write test.hex
If you try the above command again while in the example directory, you might receive an error message to the effect that the UBW32 cannot be found, even though it is plugged in and the power LED is on. This is because the UBW32 needs to be placed in Bootloader mode before transferring new code. Press the PRG and RESET buttons simultaneously, then try again:
ubw32 -write test.hex
This will erase and then download the test program as was done before. But once done, you won't see anything else happen; the green and white LEDs are still alternately flashing as before. The UBW32 is still in Bootloader mode. To run the new code, press the RESET button (you should then see four LEDs fading in sequence). Alternately, you can issue a reset from the command line:
ubw32 -reset
Or perform the write-followed-by-reset in one step like this:
ubw32 -write test.hex -reset
A few other commands are available. If you're impatient and want to skip the write verification step, add -noverify (or just -n). To erase the UBW32 program space without writing any new code to it, use -erase (-e) (you can erase without writing a HEX file, but there is no option to write a HEX file without erasing; it is an required step). Finally, if for some reason your UBW32 (or other Microchip HID Bootloader device) is using a USB vendor and product ID different from the defaults (04d8 and 003c, respectively — you can find these in System Profiler on the Mac), the -vendor (-v) and -product (-p) commands allow alternate values to be used (each expects a hexidecimal value). A full command line might be:
ubw32 -vendor 04d8 -product 003c -write test.hex -noverify -reset
Commands are not necessarily issued in the order received; there is an implicit sensible order for each step which the program will follow. For instance, putting the -reset command first will not actually reset the device before attempting other steps; this wouldn't work, as the UBW32 will no longer be in Bootloader mode.
If multiple commands are received, only the last value will be used, e.g.:
ubw32 -write foo.hex -write bar.hex -write baz.hex
will NOT write three HEX files to the device; only the last in line (baz.hex in this case) will be used.
For Mac users: only OS X 10.5 (and later) is supported; this will not work in 10.4 or earlier OS X releases.
For Linux Users: as previously stated, you'll need to run the ubw32 program as root (either via sudo or by changing the program's setuid bit after installing), or it might be possible to avoid this if you can decipher the mojo of "HID blacklisting." Also note that multiple sequential invocations of the program may hang (for example, calling once with a -write command, then a separate invocation for -reset). I've not figured out the cause of this; an interim solution is to simply manually reset the UBW32 into bootloader mode prior to each program invocation.
For Windows users: there's no Windows port of this program, as Microchip's own PDFUSB.exe program already handles this task.
Much thanks to Benny Hsieh for donating development hardware which made the Linux port possible.


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TEMPE - Fresh off a six place improvement from No. 25 in the nation to No. 19, the Arizona State Sun Devils (16-2; Pac-12 3-0) women's tennis team will hit the road this weekend and travel to California to take on both Cal and Stanford in Pac-12 conference play.
Arizona State is currently riding a ten game win streak, with three of those coming against Pac-12 opponents.
In individual rankings, ASU boasts two ranked singles players -- sophomore Stephanie Vlad is ranked No. 60 in the country, falling ten spots from the No. 50 seat two weeks ago. Sophomore Desirae Krawczyk also carries a top-100 ranking in singles, earning the eighty-first spot on the list and improving 16 spots from her previous ranking.
In doubles rankings, the sophomore-freshman pairing of Desirae Krawczyk and Kassidy Jump cracked the top-100, coming at No. 56 and became the first doubles pairing to earn a national ranking this season thus far.
Coming into this weekend's match-ups, both Cal and Stanford carry a top-15 placement -- Cal is ranked No. 13 in the country, and Stanford is ranked fifth overall.
Cal is also undefeated in the Pac-12, with the same conference record as the Sun Devils, 3-0. Overall the Golden Bears are 10-4 on the season, topping Washington, Utah and Colorado.
Stanford is undefeated on the season, besting their opponents in eleven straight matches so far, with three coming in Pac-12 conference play.
Friday's match against Cal will take place in Berkeley, Calif. at 1:30 p.m. MDT, and Saturday's match against Stanford will take place at noon in Stanford, Calif.
The University of California will be providing live scoring available at their website and live tweeting from their @CalWomensTennis twitter account -- results from Saturday's match will be posted to thesundevils.com when available.


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Hormones are chemicals produced by glands, such as the ovaries and testicles. Hormones help some types of cancer cells to grow, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. In other cases, hormones can kill cancer cells, make cancer cells grow more slowly, or stop them from growing. Hormone therapy as a cancer treatment may involve taking medications that interfere with the activity of the hormone or stop the production of the hormones. Hormone therapy may involve surgically removing a gland that is producing the hormones.
Your physician may recommend a hormone receptor test to help determine treatment options and to help learn more about the tumor. This test can help to predict whether the cancer cells are sensitive to hormones.
The hormone receptor test measures the amount of certain proteins (called hormone receptors) in cancer tissue. Hormones (such as estrogen and progesterone that naturally occur in the body) can attach to these proteins. If the test is positive, it is indicating that the hormone is probably helping the cancer cells to grow. In this case, hormone therapy may be given to block the way the hormone works and help keep the hormone away from the cancer cells (hormone receptors). If the test is negative, the hormone does not affect the growth of the cancer cells, and other effective cancer treatments may be given. Always discuss the results of the hormone receptor test with your physician.
If the test indicates that the hormones are affecting your cancer, the cancer may be treated in one of following ways:
The type of hormone therapy a person receives depends upon many factors, such as the type and size of the tumor, the age of the person, the presence of hormone receptors on the tumor, and other factors.
Your physician may prescribe hormone therapies before some cancer treatments or after other cancer treatments. If hormone therapy is given before the primary treatment, it is called neoadjuvant treatment. Neoadjuvant treatments help to kill cancer cells and contribute to the effectiveness of the primary therapy. If hormone therapy is given after the primary cancer treatment, it is called adjuvant treatment. Adjuvant therapy is given to improve the chance of a cure.
With some cancers, patients may be given hormone therapy as soon as cancer is diagnosed, and before any other treatment. It may shrink a tumor or it may halt the advance of the disease. And in some cancer, such as prostate cancer, it is helpful in alleviating the painful and distressing symptoms of advanced disease. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) states that although hormone therapy cannot cure prostate cancer, it will usually shrink or halt the advance of disease, often for years.
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- Plural of basket is baskets.
- Plural of apple is apples.
Assuming there is more than one apple in each basket.
There are two baskets of apples.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Assuming there is more than one apple in each basket.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
The container is pluralized, and the content retains whatever number it had in a single container. So:
The same holds for forms:
This is, however, a comparatively recent 'rule'. In old texts, and in some present-day dialects, you may encounter two keg of brandy, two loaf of bread, two pound of sugar, two barrel of pilchards; and two dozen eggs (older often two dozen of eggs) and two brace of grouse are still standard.


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Adulterer Tiger Woods All Grins Again, Thinks He will "Win Masters"
If I were the president of the PGA, the only way I'd let Tiger Woods play golf again is to replace his standard Nike symbol with a giant, scarlet A for adulterer.
Look at it Tiger Woods, this is what you is! A for Adulterer cheater fornicator! Betrayer!
I remember the commercials where all the cute afro children would come on there and say, "I'm Tiger Woods." "No, no, I'm Tiger Woods."
They all wanted to be like Tiger Woods and be proper. They wanted to go to Stanford, where they would earn a good degree for four years and then go onto a professional career.
Tiger Woods was lovable and we let him play golf. Fuzzy Zoeller tried to warn us about Tiger Woods just being a typical collard greens black, but we all turned our backs on Fuzzy and said it wasn't true. We defended Tiger and said he was proper, just like the rest of the golfers aside from Muslim Vijay Singh who uses devil powers.
Now we see Tiger Woods giving a news conference where he appears smug and even went as far as saying he would 'dominate' this year's masters tournament.
Tiger Woods is a sick man who cheated on us. He betrayed our trust and cheated on his white Swedish wife Eileen and their beautiful children. Tiger Woods had sexual relations with whores and didn't confess until he was caught.
God does not approve of betrayal and it strikes a sensitive spot for God, because betrayal reminds him of when Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for just a few coins. Tiger Woods is no different than Judas and has no loyalty to what God holds most sacred; commitment.
Tiger Woods should realize he is fallen just like Satan and demons of hell. He has no favor!
He is trying to grow out a goatee to show his new bad boy side, not even considering the standards of grooming for golf. Golf was fine without Woods and his kind and never again will we make the mistake of allowing a fornicated cheater to be part of the ranks of proper men.
Be prepared to get embarassed at the Masters, Woods. When you think you have a good shot, perhaps a mighty gushing wind will knock the ball into the rough! You'll see when you put, the blades of green's grass suddenly shift direction and throw your putt off a few feet to the perhaps the right. This is all the work of God cursing your precious golf game!
That's because you are an unrepentant A woods, a fornicator. A betrayer of America. You have adulterated and not sincere apologized to me or the rest of America, and for that, you are judged. Guilty! Guilty Woods.
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Just days before he is scheduled to head to Indianapolis for the NFL combine, Missouri defensive end Michael Sam has made a shocking revelation. The SEC Defensive Player of the Year disclosed to the New York Times on Sunday that he was gay, putting himself on a path to become the first publicly gay player in the National Football League.
That truth was first revealed to his Missouri teammates after coaches separated players into small groups at a preseason football practice last year for a team-building exercise. Players were asked to talk about themselves, including discussing something that their teammates might not know about them.
It was then that Sam balled up a piece of paper in his hands and made his announcement. "I'm gay," he told his teammates and friends.
"I looked in their eyes, and they just started shaking their heads — like, finally, he came out," Sam said in his interview on Sunday.
The timing of Sam's revelation is certainly a bit questionable. It seems likely that Sam could have kept his sexual orientation under wraps until after May's NFL Draft. Instead, he will now face hoards of questions regarding his sexuality at the NFL combine.
Ideally, Sam's declaration will have no impact on his draft status. But realistically, there are coaches, General Managers, and/or owners who will be inclined to shy away from being the first locker room to welcome openly gay player, even if none of them would ever admit it.
Despite this fact, the All-American defensive end decided to take the courageous path and reveal his secret to the world. Sam indicated that he wanted to be sure to get his story out there before someone else did so for him.
"I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it," said Sam in an interview with the New York Times. "I just want to own my truth."
Sam also recognizes the magnitude of his revelation, and understands that he is on his way to uncharted waters. Much like San Diego Chargers linebacker Manti T'eo last season, Sam will become one of the most scrutinized players in this year's draft class until he shows his skills on the football field.
"I understand how big this is," he said. "It's a big deal. No one has done this before. And it's kind of a nervous process, but I know what I want to be ... I want to be a football player in the NFL."
Listed at 6 feet 2 inches and 260 pounds, Sam is projected to be a mid-round selection in this year's NFL Draft. In his final season with Missouri, Sam recorded 48 tackles with 19 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks as he led the Tigers to a 12-2 record.
Dan is an NFL correspondent for Examiner.com. Follow Dan on Twitter at @danpfeiffer74 for breaking NFL news.


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Todd Bertuzzi and Darren Helm scored within 44 seconds of each other late in the Red Wings' Tuesday night matchup with the Edmonton Oilers, carrying Detroit to a 5-3 win.
Bertuzzi's second of the night broke a 3-3 tie with 2:50 remaining and Helm added an insurance marker with 2:06 left in the game.
Bertuzzi scored on a shot from the left faceoff circle that deflected off of the skate of defenseman Ladislav Smid in front of the net and past goalie Nikolai Khabibulin.
Helm outwaited Khabibulin on a rush, cutting to the slot and snapping a shot into the top corner after Khabibulin went down.
The goals came after the Oilers had rallied from two down to start the period, tying the game.
On a delayed penalty 4:54 into the third, Theo Peckham jumped up and snuck into the slot, where he took a pass from Sam Gagner and snapped a shot past Detroit netminder Chris Osgood.
Gagner would tie the game with 8:29 left, slipping a shot from the left circle through Osgood's pads after a faceoff win.
Henrik Zetterberg opened the game's scoring just 3:43 in with a slap shot from the blue line.
Gilbert Brule responded with 8:22 remaining in the first, skating around Kris Draper to get to the slot and take a feed from Liam Reddox, backhanding a chance past Osgood.
Bertuzzi's first of the night made it 2-1 at 6:40 of the second, when he scored on a wraparound chance.
Draper raced to the net to take a feed from Helm and backhand a shot over Khabibulin with 9:17 remaining in the middle period to make it 3-1, setting up the third.
Though the Oilers did get a goal on a delayed penalty, neither team scored on the power play. The Red Wings had two tries while Edmonton had three.
Osgood stopped 22 of 25 shots in earning the win. Khabibulin made 32 saves on 37 chances.
The Red Wings now have two days off before they visit the Calgary Flames as their five-game road trip continues.
Notes: Detroit was without Patrick Eaves for the third consecutive game. Tomas Tatar continued to play in his place.
Just realized I never kicked off this thread.
Ozzie's in net, Eaves is back in the lineup. Tatar is out, supposedly headed back to GR. Mursak stays in.
First of five in a row on the road. Late start in Western Canada. I'm already tired.
Wings with the quick start but definitely let up. Oilers did a good job of taking advantage. Gotta play sixty damned minutes.
I seriously said aloud earlier tonight, "Bertuzzi's gonna get one soon, if not tonight." I was just thinking I needed to post it.
He's playing strong around the net right now.
I seriously said aloud earlier tonight, "Bertuzzi's gonna get one soon, if not tonight." I was just thinking I needed to post it.He's playing strong around the net right now.
Agreed. You know he was going to get something after that boarding call at the end of the first.
I just noticed that Nick is second amongst defencemen in scoring however, his +/- is at the lowest it has been in his entire career. He was a minus one for the last few games and now he is a plus 2.
Oilers did a great job of keeping the puck in on that power play. Wings did an equal job of blocking shots.
Both Edmonton goals have come when someone jumped into the play and wasn't covered. Peckham was Hudler's guy but he'd moved over to get the guy coming from behind the net.
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College Hockey:Black Bears Hold Off Surprising New Brunswick
ORONO, Maine — Usually, when a team of the caliber of Maine schedules a game against a Canadian college, you would expect an easy win.
Somebody forgot to tell the University of New Brunswick.
The Black Bears got everything they could handle from the Varsity Reds Friday night at Alfond Arena in the second game of the Black Bear Classic. New Brunswick was in the game throughout and only allowed Maine to eke out a tense 2-1 win.
"It's a real benchmark for our hockey team at this point in the year," New Brunswick coach Gardiner McDougall said. "It's a progression. We wanted to get as many good caliber teams on our schedule as we could."
Before the loss to Maine, the Varsity Reds tied the rookie squad from the American Hockey League's St. John's Flames, then beat last year's Canadian college runner-up, Three Rivers, 5-3.
Part of the reason for McDougall's ambitious scheduling is because New Brunswick is the host of Canada's collegiate national championship tournament. That means they got an automatic berth into the field, but because it is on home ice, they want to put forth a team that can win it all.
"They are a very good hockey team," Maine coach Tim Whitehead said after the game. "They've got an excellent goaltender, veteran defensemen, and they've got some threats up front. We knew as coaches that this would be a tough game. I'm not so sure our players did, but we gutted out a good win."
The goalies, New Brunswick's Gene Chiarello and Maine rookie Jimmy Howard, were the stars. Both goalies made some fantastic saves to keep the opposition off the board throughout the night. Chiarello stopped 34 while Howard turned away 29 in his college debut.
Howard credited his performance to making the other team play his game.
"I try to slow the game down as much as possible," Howard said, who froze the puck at just about every opportunity. "I want them to play at the pace that I want the game to be played at."
Howard had to stop many golden scoring opportunities down the stretch. New Brunswick had a few great chances after sophomore Ben Murphy was hit with a two-minute holding penalty with just 2:24 left in the game. Howard slowed the pace down and was able to kick out some good chances after New Brunswick pulled Chiarello for the extra attacker.
"I just wanted to relax mentally and not give one up," Howard said. "If you give one up there, it can really be a transition into the overtime, so I just try to bear down and keep the puck out of the net."
Bearing down something Howard knows a little about. Last April, he backstopped the U.S. Under-18 National Team to its first-ever gold medal at the Under-18 World championships in Slovakia.
Maine senior assistant captain Robert Liscak opened the scoring at 9:05 of the first period on the power play. He found the puck loose at the left side of the crease, where Chiarello thought he had already covered the puck. He hadn't as Liscak and Todd Jackson both kept jamming at it. Finally, Liscak was able to sneak inside the short side post to give Maine the early lead.
That lead evaporated early in the second, though, after New Brunswick won an offensive-zone faceoff. Defenseman Craig Mahon got the puck at the right point and riffled a hard shot to the net. Howard made the save, but the rebound came out to Todd Alexander all alone in front. He had the entire left side of the net open and didn't miss. That tied the score at one at the 3:22 mark of the second.
It wasn't until late in the second that Maine was able to get the winner. A grave defensive miscue cost the Varsity Reds dearly.
Mahon pinched in on Ben Murphy, but Murphy chipped the puck out of the zone to the right side. In an ill-advised attempt, the other defenseman, Brian Stewart, who was in the neutral zone, made a full-out dive to try and keep the puck in. He didn't and it caused a two-on-none breakaway for Colin Shields and Tom Reimann.
"The defenseman kind of dove, because he thought he could get it, but it went right to my stick," Shields said. "Tommy crossed over with me and I gave the puck. He knew I wanted it back, so I backed up, then he faked and passed it to me."
Shields buried the feed at 16:51 to give Maine its final margin.
"I cranked it pretty good to make sure the goalie didn't get a piece of it," Shields said. He was robbed on four occasions, coming both before and after his goal, by Chiarello.
"Because it was such a close game this is a good win for us," Shields said. "We all rallied behind each other. They had some good chances in the third and everyone stuck together defensively, and Jimmy came through for us."
Maine will play its first countable game Saturday in the championship against Lake Superior State at 7:00 p.m. New Brunswick next plays in the consolation against Quinnipiac.
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Enterprise Connect – UC in the Cloud
March 2nd, 2011 by Erik Rudin, VP Business Development
What an exciting day today at Enterprise Connect! The best element to this show is the caliber and candor of the Enterprise user of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) products. In multiple sessions today we heard directly from the end users of UCC products and their experiences with their rollouts, architectures, project challenges, successes and corporate culture for this technology. My particular interest was following the "take it to the cloud" mentality we hear so much about in IT. Since UCC relies so heavily on real-time transport of communication protocols and applications, I was curious to know if customers were hopping on the 'UC-as-a-Service' bandwagon.
It's notable that there were two UCaaS announcements made at Enterprise Connect: XO Communications announced a new cloud-based enterprise IP communications platform while Verizon announced a similar service which also has a Mobile UC client option. One important terminology distinction needs to be made when referring to UCaaS services as either public vs. private cloud vs. hosted services. Each have potential different characteristics and packaged options so you need to be clear which option meets your business objectives and offers the best options.
During a panel session on cloud adoption in communications, I heard from several large enterprises that cloud based services offer benefits by improving your agility to scale resources on demand, help with the transition off end-of-life communications equipment, reduce interoperability between disparate platforms when offered as a service, freeing up skilled workers to focus on other IT communications projects, and sometimes improving reliability compared to in-house datacenter services. They also suggested users considering cloud services to keep in mind some key aspects of planning before making this move:
- Understand how cloud delivery may impact and integrate into your corporate culture. Educate the value of moving IT services such as IM, web conferencing, contact center or unified messaging to a cloud delivery model within all levels of your organization.
- Cherry pick which apps or services you move to the cloud. As mentioned before, some UCC services don't play well in some deployment scenarios however others may suit this new model very well. Strong use cases include IP contact center with IVR and ACD functionality as well as IM and Presence.
- Know your security profile and posture. Many new cloud offerings come with good security options but you should consult with your compliance, HR, and legal teams on all aspects of your service provider contracts to ensure you're meeting corporate security obligations.
- Have a strategy and plan wisely. It helps to bring in the business units during your strategic planning with IT communications. In many cases users of the UC services will help solve some of the initial adoption issues through empowerment of collaboration wikis, user groups, and communities.
- Writing very detailed SLA's with your provider against core metrics that are key to service delivery. Leave little gaps of areas of the service that could impact your particular user. experience. Also, get to know the OLA's of the cloud providers and any dependencies they have in their 3rd party contracts.
All in all, today was full of rich information about UCaaS and the maturity of new deliver options. ScienceLogic is excited to be an innovator with monitoring cloud based services and look forward to working with our customers on expanding our own capabilities within this new market.Tagged with: Cisco, CiscoUCS, Enterprise Connect, enterprise it, UC, UCS
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Life of a hot music artist moves incredibly fast with success and with technology evolving at a geometric rate, the life is moving even faster. These days it's not just about who you know and what door to hurl your foot in that launches a singing career; you have to know everyone in a sense. It's all about marketing yourself and reaching out to your demographic in ways other than just booking performances at short-end venues in hopes of getting noticed by the right people who will make it all happen for you. An artist today needs to be a cybernetic trooper in the realm of social media. Social media is the big buzzword in the world of internet marketing and is the biggest part of the internet culture. Younger artists have used it to keep themselves at the peak of the marketing charts and it's helped them become more competitive with likes of other veteran music artists.
Today social media has become the most practical and popular way to ensure mainstream success for almost any business, particularly the music industry that makes up most of the twitter population – about 11.3% more followers and subscribers than any other medium in entertainment to be a little more precise. Competitive shows like The X Factor or The Voice have used social networks like Twitter to help save contestants from being voted off, or to simply have fun commenting on Adam Levine's new hair style. It makes for a fun engagement, but it's a heck of a marketing tool also. In the entertainment industry, it can be very powerful, and usually can showcase and be used as a means to maintain the number of followers that their reputation has brought them in their career. They can advertise what their latest project will be, exchange chit-chat with fans, and sometimes it's a good way to make a public apology to save face in worst case scenario. The point is that artists often say that they wish that they could get in touch with every single one of their fans who appreciate them, and thanks to social networking they have the means. "My fans get more of a insight to my personal life and how I am everyday!" says 19 year-old YouTube songstress Lexi Noel (https://twitter.com/Leximusic411). "They have a window into my world and I talk to them all the time."
Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and even simple blogs have changed the way we view young artists forever. There was a time when musicians had work painstakingly hard to build a reputation because methods of reaching out to fans were rather limited. But, thanks to social media artists are able to get the recognition they deserve on a broader scale. "I think social media definitely plays a huge role in success today," shares Josh Levi (https://twitter.com/joshleviworld) who drew huge numbers from his appearance on The X Factor and has the largest twitter following from the show and hashtag on the social network with #LeviNation. "It is basically the only connection people have with their supporters and fans off the stage. Therefore, depending on your own style of connecting with them, it definitely launches your career forward." The more the artist keeps up on their social networking accounts, the more they'll show interest in their fan and in turn, their fans show more interest in them. It's a formula that artists like Josh utilize and it works quite well.
Many talented artists have either built a successful reputation via the internet and social media or gained instant fame if they were lucky enough. Let's not forget how Justin Bieber drew in one of the highest number of Youtube viewers of all time just from posting a single video (which ultimately help lead to his successful career and life today). Not long after, this crazy thing called Gangnam Style helmed the crown for most viewers. Talk show queen, Ellen Degeneres loves publicizing talented people even on her own social network accounts and she believes that the internet is the place to find special folks like Aldrich Lloyd (https://twitter.com/LloydTalonding) and Greyson Chance (https://twitter.com/greysonchance). Much like Justin Bieber, a very promising young artist and Canadian native, Isaac Basal (https://twitter.com/isaacbmusic) has found social media to be a very useful tool in his profession. "I personally think that it would definitely be much harder WITHOUT the social media we have today," says Isaac. "Between Facebook, Twitter and YouTube only, there are over 1 billion users and accounts. The social media is definitely something that is very useful in helping me gain fans and interacting with them. I am not saying that it is impossible to be where i am today, but it would be a lot harder."
Though there's plenty of fan-base to be made with social media players, it's not without haters. Everyone at some point in their life has suffered criticism and the internet has unfortunately become a tool for conveying negative messaging. It might make you unfortunate victims of poor criticism feel a little better to know that even our entertainment icons have to put up with antagonists too. But, they generally have their methods for combating hateful messages that set positive examples for how people should respond to them. Isaac Basal shares with The Examiner how he deals with his own backlashes by stating to us, "Backlash is something that I cannot control but it IS something that I can accept and choose to ignore. However, feedback on the other hand, is always good, especially when it is something that will benefit me like constructive criticism. School is one place where I do get feedback whether positive or negative. There will always be hate that I cannot control but learn to accept, even at school. I guess it's a part of being connected to social media but as an artist you have to just keep doing what we love best, music…You can never be wrong with that!" "I actually never focus on the negative/ignorant feedback," says Josh Levi. "Most people add to tear you down. Constructive criticism on the other hand, is something completely different but most times this isn't the case. Most people with negative feedback on social media and the internet, are usually hiding behind a computer screen insulting you because nothing can be done about it." Now, if you're just looking for an easy way to shine on your antagonists, Lexi's solution is probably the simplest and sweetest, "Just smile and wave boys...just smile and wave!!!" What we as fans should be taking away from this is that so long as you have something that you love (like music) and know that there are people who care about you, then it's easy to just brush off the negative hooting.
When we asked 19-year-old Lexi Noel whether or not she'd be where she is professionally if not for social media, she replied proudly, "Yes because I was determined to get myself out there but twitter, facebook, YouTube and other social media have really helped to launch my career." Josh Levi believes that social media is an incredible career apparatus, but he had to set the record straight to remind people what it means to be an artist. "Personally, I believe true talent is calculated by the level at which you perform, not by numbers. A lot of people get lost in that today, and think that if they do something crazy and as a result gain a huge following, they are the best artist out there. To me true artistry doesn't come from solely from a large online following."
Indeed there's no doubt that outstanding artists like Lexi, Isaac, or Josh should ever need social media to let the world know that they are in fact artists – well deserved ones at that, but it has impacted their youthful careers in very positive ways by helping them reach out to fans in a ways that older artists couldn't have before. The first step to success is becoming an professional at your trade, then use the social media to share your gifts with the world!


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CORVALLIS, Ore. ?- The No. 2 Arizona softball team rebounded from its Friday loss to unranked Oregon with a 9-0 blanking of No. 7 Oregon State on Saturday in Corvallis.
Alicia Hollowell pitched her 23rd win of the season against the Beavers, throwing five strong innings and allowing just one hit while striking out three.
Arizona came to life on offense after posting just three hits against Oregon on Friday, touching up Beavers pitchers Amy Klever and Ta'Tyana McElroy for 11 hits and nine runs, all earned.
The Cats posted three runs in the top of the first. With one out, Autumn Champion walked and advanced to third on a Kristie Fox double to right. Senior Jackie Coburn then stepped up and sent a three-run homer over the wall in right center, her eighth knock of the season.
Arizona did much the same in the second inning. With two out, Caitlin Lowe and Champion hit back-to-back singles to shortstop, followed by a three-run homer by Fox to left field, giving the Wildcats a six-run advantage.
After scoreless third and fourth innings, the Cats posted yet another three-run inning in the fifth. Champion led off with another single to short and Fox walked before OSU brought in McElroy to relieve Klever on the mound. Coburn hit an RBI double, scoring Champion safely. Fox was thrown out at home on the play, and with two out, Crystal Farley walked to put a pair of runners on the bases. Freshman Callista Balko then hit a two-RBI double to left, giving Arizona a 9-0 lead.
Saturday's win marked the first time Arizona has mercy-ruled a team since March 20 vs. Fresno State, and the first Pac-10 mercy rule the Cats have been on the winning end of.
Arizona (34-7, 8-5 Pac-10) will take on Oregon State again on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Corvallis.


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Kim K., Kanye West Beneath Will Smith – Literally (Pic)
*Paps caught Kim Kardashian and Kanye West standing on their hotel balcony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil while a party was raging above them — hosted by Will Smith. The couple, who are expecting their first child together in July, were busy taking pictures of the crowd below celebrating Carnival, while Smith, 44, was hosting … Continue reading Kim K., Kanye West Beneath Will Smith – Literally (Pic)
Get Ready! 'Fast Five' Opens Nationwide April 29
*Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed in Fast Five. Newly joined by Dwayne Johnson, they take the series that hooked the world on adrenaline and amp up the action and spectacle on a global scale. In Fast Five, former cop … Continue reading Get Ready! 'Fast Five' Opens Nationwide April 29


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Is there a possibility to redirect all traffic to specified hosts behind NAT?
For example i have a server, a domain "mydomain.com" and 3 hosts behind NAT. I wish to configure 3 subdomains:
and each of them to redirect all ports to specified host in local net.
That redirection should provide funcionality like this:
http://host1.mydomain.com (can be achieved using apache)
ssh email@example.com (???)
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Programming for Friday, August 30, 2013
Today's conditioning program is a SICFIT style triathlon of sorts, with three speed and endurance-based tasks to be completed. Unlike a triathlon however, where steady pacing and energy conservation is key, each task in today's workout is only visited briefly. What's the strategy for this SICFIT trifecta, then…?
Sprint. Sprint up until the very end.
2K Partner row
One athlete holds top of push up
PVC mobility shoulders
Hip mobility
LIFE: 1000 row + 400 run + 100 singles
FITNESS: 1200 row + 400 run + 300 singles or 50 doubles
SPORT: 1200 row + 400 plate run 45/25 + 100 doubles + x3 burpee penalty for each miss


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Tilquin Meet the Brewer
On Saturday 9th November in The Craft Beer Co,. Clerkenwell. the magnificent Pierre Tilquin of Belgium's newest and most exciting gueuzerie will be with us as we meet the man behind the incredible Tilquin Gueuzerie.
P.S. If you can't wait until then to try some Tilquin then you can order some through our store!
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Why We Need a Keyboard Revolution
One of the biggest myths in America is that the QWERTY keyboard was scientifically designed to be the most efficient key layout. Look at the point values the next time you play Words with Friends or Scrabble. The letters with lower point values are the easy letters to play because they're used in the most words.... Continue reading


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8 'Game of Thrones' Braids, Twists, and Curls to Try Now
Transformation on a 1 to 10 scale, 10 being the most drastic: 9. Cersei's got the looks of a sweet fairy tale princess and the heart of a frozen b*tch; Lena, with her jet black hair, avant-garde hairstyles, and bicep tattoo, looks like one tough lady...but is probably a very nice woman, obviously.
Transformation: 2, because while Rosabell, a new season 5 addition to the cast, has a totally different eye makeup game in real life...but the rest? Yep, pretty much the same.
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The fourth week of January is a hectic one for the drivers and teams of the TUDOR United Sportscar Series, as well as the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. All the offseason testing, chassis development, and training culminate in a series of on-track races at the Daytona International Speedway, culminating in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
Following a week of ups and downs for driver Andrew Carbonell and his teammates at Freedom Autosport, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge competitor, and Miami resident, took a few minutes to sit down and answer a few questions from the West Palm Beach Motorsports Examiner about Daytona, racing in general, and the future.
1. What are your feelings about the opener at Daytona, and your hopes for the 2014 season as a whole?
"I thought the opener at Daytona went great! It is 24 hours of grueling racing that pushes man and machine to their absolute limits. This was the first race for the new TUDOR United Sportscar Series, which is a combination of last year's Grand-Am and ALMS classes. Even after combining two different series and running a 24-hour race, the competition was close enough to make us wait until the last lap to determine our winners! Now that's racing!
I hope that the 2014 season continues to provide this great racing. The series is working hard on making performance adjustments to each and every car. In theory this should keep the competition tight and exciting!"
2. How do you feel about the newly minted TUDOR United Sportscar Series, as opposed to Grand-Am and ALMS?
"It is a step forward for North American sportscar racing. There are only so many auto racing fans here in North America, and making them choose between two different series was somewhat difficult and complicated. Now with one unified series, it should be much easier to identify with sportscar racing here in America."
3. Aside from yourself, who are the drivers to watch out for in 2014?
"My fellow Mazda drivers in the new SKYACTIV-D Smart Diesel Prototypes: Tom Long, Sylvain Tremblay, Tristan Nuñez and Joel Miller."
4. Do your driving duties include other series in addition to IMSA? If so, which ones?
"Every now and then I compete in SCCA and NASA sanctioned events. These are usually regional-based Club Racing events where I provide coaching. "
5. What is your favorite racetrack?
"Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca"
6. With IMSA seeming to favor more strict enforcement of the rulebook, and imposing stricter penalties, do you think that this effort will stifle competition?
"It shouldn't; everyone there is very professional and knows what is right from wrong. Obviously, you have to be a little more cautious due to the new "strictness" but that's because it's a new series and they have to enforce their law. Once the ball gets rolling and everyone settles in, you wont even notice it. "
7. Do you see the series expanding in the near future, or will the 11 race season become the norm?
"The potential for expansion is definitely there. The series is already visiting most if not all of the popular North American road races. Any new races would probably come from a promoter who sees the potential in the series and wants to bring it to a certain city or track."
8. I recently completed the Competition 101 Racing School, driving 20 laps in a former NASCAR stockcar. Do you think that programs like this are important to help fans understand the sport more?
"Absolutely! What better way to understand what that driver is feeling inside the car at 180mph with three other cars around him than to do it yourself?! Not to mention how hot and mentally exhausting it could be inside!"
9. How was your off season?
"Off-season is always nice. To get a break from all the travel and feel like you have a home base again is an incredible feeling. With all this relaxation, it doesn't take long before you are thinking about next year. And in racing, many times what you're doing next year is uncertain, turning your offseason into a hunting season for sponsors."
The West Palm Beach Motorsports Examiner would once gain like to thank all the public relations personnel involved with the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship for making this reporter feel at home and at ease during the fifty-second running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Special thanks go out to Beth Dolgner and the Freedom Autosport team for helping to make this interview possible.
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Fishermen in Bangladesh are having an exceptional season. The native fish, Hilsa, which normally stays out in the Indian Ocean or the Bay of Bengal in the winter, is swarming along the coastal rivers and estuaries of this small country, and it's only February.
Trouble is, February is the wrong time of year for such massive schools, which only occur during spawning, or between June and October. The rest of the year, the government typically bans river fishing to allow Hilsa fry, or baby fish, to grow, which they do rather rapidly.
This annual ban is unfortunate for the Bengali fishermen and their families, who live along the rivers and either sell Hilsa fish for money or eat it themselves. The ban means long winters of subsistence living on the government dole. On the other hand, it's a very wise environmental practice for food stocks that need to replenish themselves or go extinct.
Examples of this abound. For example, cod was once an abundant fish along the Grand Banks (Newfoundland, off the Atlantic coast of Canada). Cod fishing literally built the entire Burin Peninsula, in fact, providing a living and a ready source of food for the approximately 30,000 residents.
By 1996, massive catches had virtually wiped out the cod, and the government was forced to close what had once been the world's greatest fishery.
Then it was salmon. Ocean fishing in the Pacific has been restricted for three years, because of low to virtually absent spawning runs. Even now, the salmon are depositing many fewer eggs in the N. California Delta region than were seen as little as a decade ago.
More recently, the problem is tuna. In each case, an abundance of fish led to dependence on the species for food, and overfishing was the result.
In the case of Bangladesh, even the fishermen enjoying the current glut of Hilsa (which has caused the government to lift the winter ban) realize that this may be too much of a good thing. However, the prospect of a winter without empty rice bowls and hungry children has largely overcome their concern.
Hilsa, a national favorite and related to chad, has a mild flavor like walleye, sunfish or trout. Last year, in season, these popular fish sold for about $6 per kilo. This year, in the off-season, but also largely because of the glut, the price is half that.
Not only are these migratory (anadromous) fish abundant, but their size defies explanation. Normally, Hilsa caught during winter are immature, ranging from 4 to 15 centimeters (or cm; 1.57 to 5.9 inches) in length and weighing half a kilogram at most. Mature Hilsa are generally 32 to 55 cm (about 12.5 to 21.5 inches) long and weigh from 1 to 1.5 kilograms (or 2.2 to 3.3 pounds).
The overabundance, scientists note, is largely due to changes in temperature in the Indian Ocean which transfer to the Bay of Bengal.
In fact, according to Dr. Sultan Mahmud, Associate Professor of the Science and Technology Department at Patuakhali University, the surfeit is the result of that warming pattern disrupting mating, migratory and spawning models, and the large fish may be coming into the Bay from the Indian Ocean to breed far out of season.
Dr. Mahmud and colleagues plan to study the problem intensively, but study will not rectify the fact that Hilsa are being found not only in shallow waters in winter, but outside their traditional fishing zones. And that the pressures disrupting their reproduction will also affect the entire food chain in the Bay.
The disruption of this ecosphere is perhaps best evinced by a tiny rock island, called New Moore Island, located in the Bay of Bengal that disappeared sometime around 2009, and another nearby island, Lohachara, that disappeared as early as 1996.
Given warming ocean temperatures, rising oceans that threaten endangered Irrawaddy dolphins and other species, ocean acidity due to CO2 (which destroys coral and the shell-building capacity of mollusks), pollution, and the persistent threat of tropical cyclones and tsunamis exacerbated by climate change, it's no surprise the native Hilsa fish is in trouble. What may be more surprising is that it has survived this long.
As Dr. Mahmud notes, the abundance of Hilsa this winter is both astonishing and alarming – a sort of early warning of the kinds of changes in store across species already under stress due to climate change, with no clear indication of where those changes will take us, and thus no clear plan to mitigate disaster.
According to him:
"It's not possible to forecast what the situation will be in five years time. The breeding ground of the Hilsa fish has been shifting downstream for decades, due to loss of proper environment. This climate change-induced shift is likely to have important consequences both for spawning patterns and the productivity cycle in fresh water systems, and could be the knock-out punch for many species which are already under stress."
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Investigating officers found that a 29 year old female had lost control of the 2011 black Ford pickup she was driving. Inside the vehicle was also the driver's female infant child. Both were not injured as a result of the accident.
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