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November 19, 2012
Brett Bruneteau, UVM (Sr., F, Omaha, Neb.) Had the game-winning goal vs. Northeastern on Sunday.
Doug Carr, UML (Jr., G, Hanover, Mass.) Stopped 54 shots (.915 save%) on the weekend vs. UNH and UMass.
Mike Collins, MC (Jr., F, Boston, Mass.) Scored his team-best sixth goal of the season and had a team-high four shots on goal at BC.
Paul de Jersey, PC (Fr., F, West Vancouver, B.C.) Posted a pair of assists against Northeastern on Friday.
Sean Escobedo, BU (Sr., D, Bayside, N.Y.) Scored a highlight-reel goal in win at UVM on Friday and blocked a combined seven shots over the weekend.
Johnny Gaudreau, BC (So., F, Carneys Point, N.J.) Notched the primary assist on each of Steven Whitney's goals in the 4-3 win over Merrimack Friday.
Maxim Gaudreault, UNH (Fr., F, Annapolis, Md.) Scored the game-winning goal in UNH's 3-1 win over No. 11 BU on Sunday afternoon.
Jon Gillies, PC (Fr., G, South Portland, Maine) Stopped 22 of the 24 shots he faced (.917 save%) in the home win vs. Northeastern on Friday.
Kevin Goumas, UNH (Jr., F, Long Beach, N.Y.) Had three points (2g,2a) in UNH's four-point weekend, including a pair of goals on Sunday at BU.
Brody Hoffman, UVM (Fr., G, Wilkie, Sask.) Made 33 saves and picked up his second career win on Sunday night vs. Northeastern
Mark Jankowski, PC (Fr., F, Dundas, Ont.) Had his first career three-point night on a goal and two assists on Friday vs. Northeastern.
Sean Maguire, BU (Fr., F, Powell River, B.C.) Stopped 29 shots (.935 save%) to earn first collegiate win in BU's 6-2 road victory at UVM on Friday.
Chris McCarthy, UVM (Jr., F, Collegeville, Pa.) Scored three goals over the weekend, including two in a 3-2 win over Northeastern on Sunday.
Wade Megan, BU (Sr., F, Canton, N.Y.) Scored the game-winning goal and added an assist in 6-2 win at Vermont on Friday. Was a +2 on the weekend.
Danny O'Regan, BU (Fr., F, Needham, Mass.) Scored BU's lone goal on Sunday vs. UNH and assisted on BU's first goal in 6-2 win at UVM on Friday.
Martin Ouellette, Maine (Jr., G, St.-Hippolyte, Que.) Earned the second star as he stopped 30 shots in Maine's 2-2 tie with UMass.
Michael Paliotta, UVM (So., D, Westport, Conn.) Had a pair of assists vs. No. 11 BU on Friday
Joseph Pendenza, UML (Jr., F, Wilmington, Mass.) Scored two goals in UMass Lowell's 8-2 win at UMass Sunday night.
Kevin Roy, NU (Fr., F, Lac-Beauport, Que.) Scored his first two-goal game and his fourth multi-point performance at Northeastern.
Tim Schaller, PC (Sr., F, Merrimack, N.H.) Got the Friars on the board versus Northeastern and later added an assist for a two-point night.
Steven Whitney, BC (Sr., F, Reading, Mass.) Scored twice in BC's 4-3 win over Merrimack, including the game-winner in the third period.
CAREER FIRSTS/MILESTONES/WHO's HOT
Casey DeSmith, UNH (ROCHESTER, N.H.) broke a program record with 203:32 of scoreless play between the pipes for the Wildcats
Christian Folin, UML (Gothenberg, Sweden) Registered HIS FIRST TWO COLLEGIATE POINTS in the 8-2 win at UMass ON SUNDAY WITH TWO HELPERS
Johnny Gaudreau, BC (CARNEYS POINT, N.J.) has at least one point in all 10 games and HAS 14 points overall (7G,7A)
Maxim Gaudreault , UNH (ANNAPOLIS, MD.) scored his first collegiate goal netting the game-winning goal on Sunday at Boston University
Kevin Goumas, UNH (LONG BEACH, N.Y.) is riding a five-game point scoring streak with two goals and six assists for eight points in that span .
Matt Grzelcyk, BU (Charlestown, Mass.) Earned an assist in each game this weekend to extend point streak to six games (1g,6a)
John Gustafsson , MC (Ljungby, Sweden) Notched his first career goal, assist, point and multi -point game at Boston College Friday
Sean Maguire, BU (Powell River, B.C.) Made 29 saves at UVM FRIDAY to earn first collegiate win Sam Marotta (Bridgewater , Mass.) Had a career-high 38 saves at Boston College FRIDAY
Chris McCarthy, UVM (COLLEGEVILLE, PA.) Two points shy of 50 POINTS in his career
Wesley Myron, BU (Victoria, B.C.) Recorded first collegiate goal at Vermont Friday
Jake Rutt, MAINE (Scarborough, Maine) tallied his first career goal Friday night VS. UMass
Dmitry Sinitsyn, UML (Moscow, Russia) Scored his first collegiate goal in the 8-2 win at UMass
Patrick Wey, BC (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has six points (1G,5A) in five November wins
UNH penalty kill has killed off 17 straight power play opportunities. The 'Cats are 35-of-37 ON THE PK (94.6%)
Boston College: BC has won nine straight and 28 of its last 29 games dating back to last January. The victory over Merrimack in the team's lone game of the week on Friday night extended the team's home unbeaten streak against Merrimack to 27 games. BC is 24-0-3 against the Warriors at home since Halloween Night 1997 Sophomore forward Danny Linell scored his first goal of the season, and each player that factored in the scoring Linell, sophomore Cam Spiro and sophomore Michael Sit, registered their first point of the season on the score; Spiro's assist marked his first collegiate point...Senior defenseman Patrick Wey's goal marked his first since the team's 4-0 win over Minnesota-Duluth in the NCAA Regional final last March and the fourth of his 106-game collegiate career Steven Whitney's multiple-goal effort marked his first of the season. He last scored twice against Ferris State in the 2012 NCAA championship game in Tampa, Fla. Whitney and Mullane each have at least one point in nine (of 10) games this season The victory over the Warriors marked career win No. 922 for head coach Jerry York.
Boston University: Matt Grzelcyk leads in the nation in scoring amongst freshman defensemen with 10 points (1g, 9a)...Through 10 games, BU's defensemen have combined to record 32 points (10g,22a)...BU has gone 120 straight games without being shut out - the longest such streak in the country... Senior Sean Escobedo has a team-best 30 blocked shots this season and his d-partner, sophomore Alexx Privitera (Old Tappan, N.J.), is close behind with 27... No Terrier has more than 12 penalty minutes so far this season, as the team is averaging only 11.2 penalty minutes per game after averaging 19.1 last year (2nd in nation)...BU has had 17 different players record at least one point this season and 15 of them have scored at least one goal... Linemates Wade Megan and Cason Hohmann (Arlington, Texas) have totaled 22 points (9g, 13a) and a combined plus-18 rating through the first 10 games.
Maine: Maine skated to a 2-2 draw with UMass in its lone game of the week Martin Ouellette earned his third straight start in goal and has been named one of the top three stars of the game in each of those starts It is just the second time in his career, and first time since his freshman season, that he has started three straight games Joey Diamond (Long Beach, N.Y.) set the school record on Friday night for career penalty minutes with 361. He surpassed Prestin Ryan (2001-2004) who finished his career with 359 Senior defenseman Mark Nemec (Rouses Point, N.Y.) did not tally a goal during his junior season, but currently is one of just two Black Bears with multiple goals on the season On Wednesday, Nemec was named one of 20 official candidates for the Senior CLASS Award Both of Maine's goals on Friday night were scored via defensemen Rookie Devin Shore (Ajax, Ont.) leads the team in scoring with a goal and five assists. Shore and classmate Ben Hutton (Prescott, Ontario) have each tallied a point in three straight games, the longest streak by any Black Bears this season.
Massachusetts: The Minutemen had their eighth and ninth straight games scoring power-play goals and now have 11 in nine contests on the year to hold the No. 2 power play in Hockey East and the No. 11 power play in the country at 22.9% (11-for-48)...All four of UMass' goals over the weekend were scored in man-up situations, including three power-play tallies and one with an extra attacker to net the game-tying goal at Maine on Friday. The Minutemen now have 24 goals on the year, 14 have come in non-5x5 situations.
UMass-Lowell: UMass Lowell's 8-2 win at UMass Sunday was largest output against the Minutemen since a 9-3 win Nov. 28, 1978, and broke a goal-less streak of 80:46 Riley Wetmore recorded his first career hat trick in the win, and first since David Vallorani's hat trick in a 5-3 win over UMass on Dec. 5, 2009.
Merrimack: Merrimack nearly snapped its 15-year, 25-game winless streak at Boston College, but the top-ranked Eagles rallied from a 3-0 hole to defeat the Warriors 4-3 Friday. They are now 0-24-2 in their last 26 games at Conte Forum Merrimack was looking to upset a #1 ranked team for the first time since defeating BU twice in the Hockey East Quarterfinals in March of 1998. Merrimack did tie then No. 1 BU in November of 2010 twice Making his collegiate debut as a defenseman, Justin Mansfield (Arlington, Mass.) had two assists and was a +1 Paired with Hockey East leading scorer Mike Collins, John Gustafsson tallied his first career goal, assist, point and multi-point game After not losing three straight games since 2009-10, Merrimack has lost three straight twice this season.
New Hampshire: UNH is off to its best start through 10 games since the 1968-69 season when the team went 10-1-0 over the first 11 games. The Wildcats didn't garner their eighth win until Jan. 14 against Dartmouth UNH defense is first in the nation allowing just 1.22 goals per game. The 'Cats have allowed 12 goals in 10 games this season. Last year, the Wildcats allowed its 12th goals in the third game of the season... Through 10 games in 2011-12, UNH let in 36 goals (three times as many goals as this season) UNH broke a program record with 204:40 of scoreless play breaking a previous mark of 181:31 set in 1968-69. Additionally, it was the first time since the 1928-29 season the team had three-straight shutouts Casey DeSmith was in net for 203:32 of that streak to set the program's record for scoreless play by a goaltender. DeSmith stopped 111-straight shots during that span. He is 8-1-1 with a 1.19 goals against average and a .961 save percentage and a .86 GAA and a .972 save percentage in Hockey East play Kevin Goumas is riding a five-game point-scoring streak with two goals and six assists for eight points in that span Austin Block is on a four-game point streak with five goals and an assist in that span Goumas is first in league in assists, while Block is first in Hockey East in goals.
Northeastern: Northeastern continues to search for its first road victory of the season after dropping a pair of games at Providence and at Vermont this weekend. After Chris Rawlings surrendered the first three goals, junior goaltender Clay Witt made his first appearance of the season and stopped 17-of-20 shots in 37:02 minutes of play. At Providence, the Huskies scored a pair of late power play goals marking their first multi power play goal performance of the season. At Providence, Kevin Roy tallied his first two-goal game as a Husky and fourth multi-point effort of the season. The Lac-Beauport, Quebec, native leads the team in scoring with 11 points (5-6-11). He also scored Northeastern's first extra attacker goal of the season and first since Mike McLaughlin turned the track at New Hampshire on Feb. 10, 2012. Junior Cody Ferriero matched his longest-career point streak at four games and has accounted for as many points (1-3-4) within that stretch. It marks the Essex, Mass., native's longest point streak since scoring four points from Nov. 18 to Dec. 2, 2011. Vinny Saponari extended his point streak to a career-best six games and has scored seven points (3-4-7) along the way. Saponari assisted on Kevin Roy's extra attacker goal with 13.4 seconds to play.
Providence College: Providence's six goals versus Northeastern was its highest goal total in a Hockey East game since posting a 6-1 win at top-ranked Merrimack on Dec. 3, 2011 Freshman Nick Saracino played his first career game for the Friars making him the 11th player to debut for Providence this season...Derek Army registered his first career hat trick in the win over Northeastern, and the first hat trick for the Friars since Tim Schaller scored three against Vermont on Nov. 4, 2011. Army's hat trick was also the first by a Hockey East player this season...The Friars snapped a five-game winless streak (0-2-3) against Northeastern, recording their first win over the Huskies since Oct. 8, 2010 (PC 3, NU 2). It was Providence's largest margin of victory versus Northeastern since a 5-1 road win on Jan. 25, 2008...With senior Chris Rooney scoring his first goal of the season on Friday night, 15 Friars have scored at least one goal this season...Freshman Jon Gillies made his tenth consecutive start in goal versus the Huskies...The Friars are now 4-0-0 at home this season...Mark Jankowski registered a career high three points (1g,2a) Freshman Paul de Jersey registered his third two-point game of the season with two assists against Northeastern.
Vermont: Billy Faust made his Vermont debut on Friday night vs.
No. 11 Boston University, playing the final 35 minutes in net
McCarthy leads the Catamounts with seven points after a three-goal
He now has six points in his last five games
Sunday marked
the 50th all-time meeting in the series between Vermont and Northeastern,
as the Catamounts now leads the series 25-20-5
UVM snapped
a four-game losing streak to Northeastern with the win
goalie Bryan Mountain is the older brother of sophomore forward Kyle
Mountain...Vermont was 9-11 on the penalty kill over the weekend,
including a 5-5 showing vs. Northeastern, and has now killed off 24
of the last 27 opponent power plays
UVM moved into sixth place
ahead of Northeastern and Massachusetts in the league standings on
The Catamounts are in a stretch of five games in nine days
and will play Massachusetts in the annual pre-Thanksgiving matchup
on Tuesday (Nov. 20).


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Bush's 9/11 Storytime Kids Are Now 16 and Happy Bin Laden's Dead
The students of Sandra Kay Daniels' 2nd grade class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, in Sarasota, FL., were accidental footnotes to history — eyewitnesses to President Bush's stunned, seven-minute reaction to the news that the World Trade Center had been struck by hijacked passenger planes on the morning of September 11, 2001.
They were too young to fully comprehend what was happening, but not so young as to not figure out that something was very, very wrong. With the bearded bogeyman finally out of the way, Time magazine approached the students — now 16 and 17 (!!!) — for their recollections of that terrible day.
Lazaro Dubrocq's heart started racing because he assumed they were all in big trouble — with no less than the Commander-in-Chief — but he wasn't quite sure why. "In a heartbeat he leaned back and he looked flabbergasted, shocked, horrified," recalls Dubrocq, now 17. "I was baffled. I mean, did we read something wrong? Was he mad or disappointed in us?"
[Chantal Guerrero, 16] admits to feeling an added rush when she woke up to Monday morning's news: the SEALs operation, she says, "was very, very cool."
"I don't remember the story we were reading — was it about pigs?" says [Mariah] Williams, 16. "But I'll always remember watching his face turn red. He got really serious all of a sudden."
Pigs? No! It was about goats! "The Pet Goat," remember? I guess that's understandable, though. Had it been my seven-year-old self listening to Ronald Reagan delivering a spirited interpretation of There's a Monster At the End of This Book on a morning like that, I probably would have wiped Grover completely out of my memory banks, too. [Time, YouTube]


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MINNEAPOLIS — The Lakers managed to make it to Friday's game from their hotel directly across the street.
It was their only victory of the day.
They certainly didn't do anything after arriving at Target Center, suffering their largest loss in 25 years of playing the Minnesota Timberwolves, 143-107.
Nothing's surprising any longer. It's only boring.
Even Kevin Love tapped the brakes on all the talk about him coming to the Lakers as a free agent in July 2015.
He was born in Santa Monica, played at UCLA, still spends some of his off-season in Los Angeles. But everybody should just calm down, he implied.
"You know, my parents lived there and they had me there. It's not my fault," he said. "I don't really care about that right now. I just go out there and play and don't think about it."
But, yeah, it is kind of strange to see a Lakers team this sad.
"Sure," he said. "It would be like the [San Antonio] Spurs coming out and having a bad year. Stuff like that doesn't happen. I guess it's a little weird."
The Lakers have done this anti-history thing a lot lately.
Stumbled through their worst loss ever to San Antonio two weeks ago (34 points). Allowed Houston to bludgeon them by 26 last month, their largest home loss to the Rockets. Endured their worst loss ever — period, to anybody, in their 66-year history — this month to the Clippers (48 points).
No, there aren't many nice things to say about the Lakers. Friday too.
Steve Nash played his 12th game this season. Nick Young had four steals. Jordan Hill made almost half his shots.
Back to reality, Minnesota (36-35) had never scored this many points against anybody or shot this well in a game (67.1%). Love drilled the Lakers for 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, his second triple-double this season.
It's no secret that the Lakers and Love make sense as future business partners.
The Lakers, who used to win a lot of games and then sometimes championships, will have plenty of money to give him in a little more than a year.
So Coach Mike D'Antoni was asked almost as many questions about Love as the Lakers before the game. D'Antoni was an assistant coach on the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the London Olympics. Love was usually the first reserve to enter the game.
"I just remember being on the bench, we couldn't wait to get him in the game," D'Antoni said. "He was complementary just because of the names out there but he played as well as anybody. He was as instrumental in winning the gold medal as anybody. He's a little atypical where he can go out on threes and he can do so much that it puts a lot of pressure on the defense."
D'Antoni then ran down everything that Love could do. He's averaging 26.3 points and 12.6 rebounds this season, not to mention 2.5 three-pointers a game. And he's 6 feet 10.
"He's got a great outlet pass, he rebounds the ball, knows great position," D'Antoni said. "He's relentless on the boards, he's relentless in attacking you. There's just a number of things that makes him great."
He's the type of stretch power forward that would go well in D'Antoni's system, no?
"I would rephrase that and say everybody wants something like that," D'Antoni said. "When you're talking about one of the best players in the league, yeah it makes sense."
To be fair to the Lakers, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol weren't on the trip. Xavier Henry was declared out because of a sore knee.
But, still, a 26-7 deficit halfway through the first quarter?
"I thought we had a total breakdown," D'Antoni said. "I can't explain it. It shouldn't be explainable. It shouldn't happen. It did."
It got worse, the Lakers trailing after three quarters, 111-77. Kent Bazemore had 21 points. Nash had four points and six assists in 15 minutes.
Perhaps the best news came via some quick postgame math. There are 10 games and 19 days remaining in the Lakers' season.
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Accel Partners, the venture capital firm, is hosting its annual soiree for the 350 attendees of the World Economic Forum at the Kirchner Museum in Davos tonight reports Frances Dinkelspiel for The Wall Street Journal.
It's the hottest ticket in town, in no small part thanks to the A-list crowd.
But it's also known for having a killer wine list. Joe Schoendorf, the Accel partner who started the party 17 years back, works hard with the other Accel hosts and the Napa Valley wine company Soutirage to curate the wine offerings for the evening Dinkelspiel writes.
This year, they've chosen to highlight California wines made before 2000. We've looked up the retail prices for a bunch of these bottles at Wine.com, and they blew our minds:
Krug Grande Cuvée - $175
White Wine
2001 Peter Michael Chardonnay Cuvée Indigène - $128
Red Wine
1999 Bond Vecina - $143
1999 Colgin Cariad - $199
1996 Williams Selyem Rochioli River Block Pinot Noir - $219
1994 Dalla Valle Maya - $499
1992 Harlan Estate - $480
1984 Ridge Monte Bello - $160
Check out the rest of the list over at the WSJ.


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UConn men end season with 20th win
STORRS (AP) — Ryan Boatright scored 23 points, including a key three-point play in overtime, as Connecticut finished its season with a 63-59 win over Providence on Saturday.
DeAndre Daniels added 19 points and Shabazz Napier, playing despite an injured right foot, chipped in with 16 points as UConn (20-10, 10-8 Big East) earned its 20th win. Daniels and Napier each had eight rebounds.
Kadeem Batts had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Providence (17-13, 9-9), and Kris Dunn added 11 before fouling out in the extra session.
The teams were tied before Boatright's fade-away basket with 19 seconds left, which drew a foul on Bryce Cotton. The free throw gave the Huskies a 62-59 lead.
Cotton missed a 3-point shot on the other end and Napier sealed the win with a free throw.
Napier gave UConn the lead to open overtime with a fade-away jumper, and Boatright hit two foul shots to push the lead to four.
Connecticut's defense kept the Friars without an overtime point until Fortune hit a put-back to cut the deficit to 59-57 with 1:32 left. LaDonte Henton hit two foul shots with 46 seconds left to tie it, setting up Boatright's big play.
Providence opened the second half on a 10-2 run, taking its first lead of the game on a Dunn layup that made it 36-34.
After going 9 for 25 in the first half, the Friars hit seven of their first 11 in the second. A 3-pointer by Josh Fortune pushed the lead to 43-39.
Boatright gave UConn a 47-46 advantage with a short jumper and the teams went back and forth from there.
Boatright's two free throws with 32 seconds to play tied the game at 55.
Providence held for the last shot, but Daniels blocked Henton's base-line jump shot with a second to play, sending the Huskies to their seventh overtime game of the season. They improved to 5-2 in those games.
Napier led the Huskies on an early run, scoring five quick points as UConn jumped out to a 10-5 lead.
Batt's, Providence's big man, didn't touch the ball in the paint until midway through the half. His layup cut UConn's lead to 17-14. But the Huskies used a 7-0 run, highlighted by a 3-pointer form Daniels, to push the lead back to 10, and led by six, 32-26, at the half.
Daniels, who averaged 22 points over the Huskies last three games, had 12 points at intermission
Providence, which opened 2-7 in the Big East, came in having won seven of its last eight games and three in a row.
The loss drops Providence to the eighth seed in the Big East tournament, after being picked to finish 15th in the league in the preseason.
UConn also beat the Friars in overtime on Jan. 31, 82-79.
The Huskies played this one short-handed.
Niels Giffey, the Huskies' top player off the bench, broke his right index finger in the next game, a 61-56 loss at Cincinnati, and is out for the season. Center Tyler Olander followed him to the training room on Wednesday, breaking his left foot in the 65-51 loss at South Florida.
Freshman star Omar Calhoun, who had been playing despite a sprained right wrist, was in a soft cast Saturday and also on the bench in street clothes.
UConn already was playing without 7-foot-1 center Enosch Wolf, who was suspended after being arrested on Feb. 11 during an on-campus domestic disturbance.
Napier had been listed as questionable for the game after missing the last two with a foot injury suffered in UConn's double-overtime loss to No. 7 Georgetown.
"It'll be my favorite group forever — how they battled, played with each other, nobody expected anything but the guys in this locker room," coach Kevin Ollie said.
UConn wasn't expected to come close to 20 wins after losing five underclassmen to transfer and the NBA and seeing Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun retire in the offseason.
They were picked to finish ninth in the conference, and were banned from the NCAA and Big East tournaments based on a low academic performance rate, scores that involved no player on the current team.


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The rover's antennas
Curiosity has three antennas that serve as both its "voice" and its "ears." They are located on the rover equipment deck (its "back"). Having multiple antennas provides back-up options just in case they are needed.
Most often, Curiosity sends radio waves through its ultra-high frequency (UHF) antenna (about 400 Megahertz) to communicate with Earth through NASA's Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiters. Because the rover's and orbiters' antennas are close-range, they act a little like walky-talkies compared to the long range of the low-gain and high-gain antennas. Using orbiters to relay messages is beneficial because they are closer to the rover than the Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas on Earth and they have Earth in their field of view for much longer time periods than the rover does on the ground. That allows them to send more data back to Earth at faster rates. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter relays most of the data between the rover and Earth.
Curiosity uses its high-gain antenna to receive commands for the mission team back on Earth. The high-gain antenna can send a "beam" of information in a specific direction, and it is steerable, so the antenna can move to point itself directly to any antenna on Earth. The benefit of having a steerable antenna is that the entire rover doesn't necessarily have to change positions to talk to Earth. Like turning your neck to talk to someone beside you rather than turning your entire body, the rover can save energy by moving only the antenna.
Curiosity uses its low-gain antenna primarily for receiving signals. This antenna can send and receive information in every direction; that is, it is "omni-directional." The antenna transmits radio waves at a low rate to the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth.


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The next two weeks of XBLM content includes Ghostbusters, Swarm, Rush'N Attack Ex-Patriot, and discounts on Sonic 4, Keflings, Halo: Reach, and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Microsoft has once again outlined the next two weeks of Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade games, discounts, Games on Demand, and other assorted goodies.
Halo: Reach delivered digitally through Games on Demand will be $49.99 for one week only, starting today, no doubt to promote the launch of the Defiant Map Pack. And if you love Batman but don't yet own Arkham Asylum, you don't exist -- but the game is getting a price drop to $29.99 starting today anyway.
After Full House Poker hits Xbox Live Arcade next week, we can anticipate Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime and Swarm on March 23, followed by Seisou Kouki Strania, Islands of Wakfu, and Rush'N Attack Ex-Patriot on March 30. Each game is $10 except for Swarm, which will go for $15.
If you're more in the mood for Arcade discounts, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 will go down to $10 the week of March 22. Then, the week of March 29, A World of Keflings, Raskulls, Worms 2: Armageddon, and the Armageddon DLC "Battle Pack" will all be 50% off. Keep in mind these discounts are for Gold members only.
In what has to be one of the stranger pairings we've seen, Call of Juarez, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will come to Games on Demand on March 22. Then H.A.W.X. 2 and Split/Second will hit on March 29.
Finally, you can dress up your Avatars with aviator duds, baseball gear, and zombie pets on March 17, 24, and 31, respectively.
Comment on XBLM sale on Halo: Reach, Sonic 4, and more, by Steve Watts.


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Because this suggestion was so unpopular, I have proposed a new synonym request here: Request GCD synonym to Greatest Common Divisor
Original question:
I notice that the gcd tag is defined on the main site as "greatest common divisor" and bears a wiki entry that says:
GCD generally refers to problems regarding greatest common divisors. This should not be used for Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (use grand-central-dispatch for that).
The thing is, "GCD" is, with no offense to the 8th grade math students out there, is definitely best known in this forum as the abbreviation for Grand Central Dispatch. In fact if you look at the GCD tagged questions, most of them are Grand Central Dispatch related, despite the current admonishment of the gcd tag excerpt.
I would like to propose changing the gcd tag be redefined to be a synonym for Grand Central Dispatch. But I hesitate to just blithely edit the definition to be the precise opposite of the existing definition. Clearly I could just make the edit and see if it's approved, but that doesn't feel quite right.
What the correct protocol is here?


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John Wayne Airport saw its 14th straight month of passenger growth in July, a run not seen since 2004-05.
The airport reported that 834,328 travelers went through its gates in July, a 2.2 percent increase over July 2012. It was the best July since 2007, when traffic topped 913,000.
Although year-over-year passenger traffic has grown every month since June 2012, the rate of growth has fallen this year from a peak of 9.7 percent in January.
Airport spokeswoman Jenny Wedge attributed the continued growth to a boost in travel to Mexico. AirTran initiated once-a-day flights from Orange County to Mexico City and to Cabo San Lucas in June 2012. The airline added a second daily Cabo flight in June for this year's summer travel season. In October, Interjet, the Mexican carrier, started daily flights from John Wayne to Mexico City and Guadalajara.
"While we've seen a continued increase in passenger traffic this year, fewer passengers traveled to domestic and Canadian markets this July but more traveled to Mexico" including the second flight to Cabo, Wedge said.
With the boost in Mexican service, the airport had 15,701 more international travelers in July than a year earlier. International travel overall jumped 159 percent through the first seven months of this year.
General aviation at the airport continued its slow slide in July. Landings and takeoffs by private planes and jets fell 1.8 percent, to 14,448. General aviation was down 4.6 percent for the year.
John Wayne has only two air cargo flights a day. Total tonnage on those two and in the belly of commercial airliners fell 7.5 percent in June, but was up 1.9 percent for the first six months of the year. (Air cargo tonnage statistics lag passenger traffic by one month.)
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"Support is one of the most important things you can have during birth," says childbirth expert Lael Stone. "But when things start to get tricky, you want a woman by your side who has been through it before and can tell you what you're feeling is normal."
Here's who can help – and who might hinder – during childbirth:
Best friend
Your best friend might have been everywhere with you – from your first day of school to your gap year, but unless she's a mum, it might be best not to ask her to be there at the birth of your baby. "Women might want their best friend there – after all, they went to high school together. But if she's never had a baby, she won't know what's going on," says Lael. "You need people present who can bring something to the birth. She adds that birth is a very emotional time and a childless friend may not know how to react to labour. "If you want a natural birth but your friend believes in drugs, she'll tell you to take the drugs."
While most men want to be present at the birth of their child, don't expect your partner to have all of the answers when transition hits and it's just you and him in the labour ward. "Women often look to their partners - but your partner is having a baby, too, and might not know how the medical system works," says Lael, advising women (and their partners) to read books, write a birth plan and enrol in classes to empower themselves before childbirth. She adds that some partners may feel helpless and encourage you to have an epidural because they don't know else to help with the pain, which is where a birth plan helps. "It's an unfair expectation on men – how do they know what's normal and what's not?"
If you have a great relationship with your mum, asking her to be present for the birth of her grandchild could well be a mind-blowing experience for you both. However, if you've never recovered from the tumultuous teenage years, didn't have a great childhood yourself, or just have a tense relationship with your mother, it might be safer not to extend the invitation. "A lot of women think they'll bond with their mother and that it'll be lovely – but if you haven't bonded with your mother yet, childbirth might not be the time," advises Lael.
Doula or midwife
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"I'm a big advocate of having a doula, private midwife or someone experienced in birth with you – if you climbed a mountain, you'd want a sherpa to show you the way. Birth is the same thing."


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Students and teachers at Hutchison Elementary School will be able to purchase and use additional supplies for their STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) initiatives as a result of a $70,000 donation from Time Warner Cable. The company donated the proceeds from its third annual Time Warner Cable Charity Golf Classic to the school.
Now in its third year as Hutchison's partner, Time Warner Cable has donated a total of $102,000 to the school to support instruction. The company is an active partner at Hutchison, where nearly 70 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced price meals. Students participate in career experiences through Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds initiative, and employees hold monthly career day lunches to expose students to possible careers. Time Warner Cable also supports the school by initiating an after-school robotics club, distributing books on Read Across America Day, supporting the Collect for Kids school supply drive, and sponsoring a Math Literacy Night, which attracted 350 families who learned math strategies and support they could provide at home.
Time Warner Cable employees serve as mentors to Hutchison students; in the first two years, mentors have donated 700 service hours to the school and students.


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Have you heard the news? 3D versions of the Star Wars movies will begin rolling out in 2012. I know some sci-fi geeks…ah, friends…who can hardly wait.
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But what really grabs my attention in their video below is that Force 3 gets it, they truly do. As a thriving Cisco Master Partner, pushing products isn't on their intergalactic radar— it's not even within low-earth orbit.
So if it's not selling gear, what's Force 3's strategy for success?
Force 3's strategy for success isn't telling everyone who'll listen, "May the Force be with you." It's hard work, dedication, and, most important, listening to their customers.
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"At that point, we can sell everything from hardware to professional services to managed services," says Greaney. And they do just that, specializing in networking, wireless, security, data center, and unified communications and collaboration.
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An electric-field induced semimetal-to-metal transition is observed based on the temperature dependence of the resistance for different applied gate voltages. At small gate voltages the resistance decreases with increasing temperature due to the increase in carrier concentration resulting from thermal excitation of electron-hole pairs, as it is characteristic of a semimetal. At large gate, voltages excitations of electron-hole pairs are suppressed, and the resistance increases with increasing temperature because of the decrease in mean free path due to electron-phonon scattering, as is characteristic of a metal. The electron and hole mobilities are almost equal, so there is approximate electron-hole symmetry. The data are analyzed according to two different theoretical models for few-layer graphene. A simple two band (STB) model, two overlapping bands with quadratic energy-versus-momentum dispersion relations, is used to explain the experimental observations. 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Good or bad, nothing really. Pretty quiet.
In this day and age of twitter, 10 million camp updates, 24/7 sports coverage, if he were struggling we'd have heard of it. So there is that. There are bigger stories with this team though, maybe it's better he will not have a spotlight on him during camp. Think about the coverage guys like RG3, Luck, Blackmon, etc. are getting already
Rex said during a press conference in the last day or two that Coples is exactly where he thought he would be at this point in time. Said that he is pushing the pocket. I think that given Rex's high expectations, saying that he is "where he thought [Coples] would be" is an encouraging remark.
3-4 DE doesn't really make eye popping plays.
I heard Rex is a little upset with how slow he is progressing. Thought he would at least be a Pro Bowler by now.
I've heard nothing on Devito, Pouha, Wilkerson, Bart Scott, Harris, Bell, D'Brick, Mangold, Moore etc. I guess they all suck. Same Ole Jets.
he's swimming in a pool of versatility. he's being asked to learn i think every position on the D-Line, 34 and 43. he has the size and athleticism for it, just hope he has the head for it as well.
I kind of missed the days where we had to wait for an actual pre-season game and the games themselves to evaluate the progress of a player.
Now we have Twitter, and ESPN Tebowmania coverage dissecting every fart and shower the players have during camp...
Why do you need to hear reports. Rex and Beany drafted him--he can't miss.
I would tend to think that as the preseason progresses we will start to hear a lot more Coples. On report that I have heard, is that he really hasn't stood out much..... but honestly. after a few practices.. some not in pads... need to give rookie time to get a bit comfortable... Frankly we haven't heard much of anyone on defensive line... Maybin and Sapp seem to have gotten some good press early in camp.. Bart Scott receiving some as well..
I heard reports yesterday on WFAN that he was consistently being controlled at the LOS by Vlad.
Didn't sound good.
Maybe he's simply struggling early in camp. Rex's comments are similar to what he said about a disappointing player a couple years ago.
Coples is a non-story as far as media types are concerned. Tebow, Sanchez, Holmes, Rex, and Revis are the real stories. Throw in a occasional Cromartie, and you got your stories.


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There is a reason why you hear Christmas songs endlessly in every store from mid-November until New Years: People spend more money when they hear them! It's a proven fact. That is why you are going to continue to hear Christmas songs in every public place you visit for at least 6 weeks a year. Merry Christmas, I guess.
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from the don't-you-feel-healthy-now deptThe pharmaceutical industry is a huge mess, which has little, if anything, to do with making people healthy. The way the system is currently designed, if it's more profitable for a pharmaceutical company to put you at greater risk, it will do so. And sometimes the US gov't will help them brush it under the rug. Reader Bill Pickett points us to a recent investigative report concerning the big, high-publicity lawsuit the US gov't filed against Pfizer, after the company blatantly went against FDA approvals and marketed a drug for all sorts of alternative uses, which the FDA had specifically noted could be dangerous and could put people at greater risk.
The FDA approved Bextra only for arthritis and menstrual cramps. It rejected the drug in higher doses for acute, surgical pain. Promoting drugs for unapproved uses can put patients at risk by circumventing the FDA's judgment over which products are safe and effective. For that reason, "off-label" promotion is against the law.Where the story gets scary is in what happened when all this came out. Federal officials announced a criminal case over this, but they didn't actually sue Pfizer directly. Instead, they sued a (not kidding) subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Pfizer, which was basically set up just take the brunt of this lawsuit:
But with billions of dollars of profits at stake, marketing and sales managers across the country nonetheless targeted anesthesiologists, foot surgeons, orthopedic surgeons and oral surgeons. "Anyone that use[d] a scalpel for a living," one district manager advised in a document prosecutors would later cite.
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Pfizer said in court that "the company's intent was pure": to foster a legal exchange of scientific information among doctors.... But an internal marketing plan called for training physicians "to serve as public relations spokespeople."
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Why did they do this? Well, if Pfizer itself had been found guilty then it would be barred from Medicare and Medicaid, and prosecutors figured it would effectively close down Pfizer -- and Pfizer was deemed "too big to fail" like that. Why? I have no idea. If the company really did have to close down, it seems likely that others would have picked up the company's various products -- and perhaps done so without putting people's lives at risk.
Really, the problem here is the way the entire system is set up. The FDA requires expensive and involved clinical trials. This is very good, because we want to make sure that any drugs actually do what they're supposed to do, and don't have serious side effects or cause even worse problems. But, the system is currently set up so that the pharmaceutical company itself is in charge of paying for and running those clinical trials, which creates two very problematic situations. First, it gives the company all sorts of incentives to fudge the results or to pretend the results said something different than they really did (see the example above, or Merck with Vioxx) and second, it contributes to the "expense" that a drugmaker can claim comes from developing a new drug, which is part of why it demands patent rights. But if you break out the costs of the clinical trials, the marketing-hidden-ad-development-costs, and the amount of research that's actually funded by gov't grants -- you find that pharmaceutical firms really aren't spending nearly as much as they claim. A big part of the issue is the clinical trials, and that's leading to all sorts of questionable behavior. In the past, some have suggested that such trials should be conducted by the gov't, rather than by the pharma companies themselves. While I'm not sure that's the answer, it's pretty clear that the existing system is not working, if our end goal is to make people healthier.


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3 1000 yard seasons in Cinci?
Bring the ****er in and get him to work. Greene is going nowhere fast. We NEED another RB and badly.
Link: http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/3139/cedric-bensonESPN's Adam Schefter mentioned on SportsCenter Tuesday that the Jets have "spoken" to free agent Cedric Benson.
Schefter also reiterated that the Raiders and Packers have sniffed around Benson, but "nothing has materialized just yet." This was the first we'd heard of the Jets' interest, although their running back coach, Anthony Lynn, talked up current starter Shonn Greene Tuesday as if he were one of the best backs in the league. The Jets will probably continue to overrated and misevaluate Greene, but they still ought to give Benson a long look.
3 1000 yard seasons in Cinci?
Bring the ****er in and get him to work. Greene is going nowhere fast. We NEED another RB and badly.
Jets interested in almost anyone at RB and RT.
A 1-2 punch of Greene and Benson could become a perfect duo in regards to a smash-mouth/ground and pound style of rushing attack. We could also use Joe McKnight all over the football field, without risking injury to our #2 back. Special teams, kickoff returns, coming out of the backfield with screens and swing passes, lining up coming out of the slots etc, etc.
Can't stand Rotoworld anymore, all they do is trash the Jets and take smarmy little shots whenever they can.
As for Benson, I'll pass. I'd rather the money to toward a veteran WR or RT.
I would take LT back before benson
In my opinion, this is a common misconception.Originally Posted by Rotoworld
Don't trust what the Jets say publicly, they always talk up their own players. Instead, look at some of the team's actions since Greene was drafted.
Drafted Joe McKnight
Drafted Bilal Powell
Drafted Terrance Ganaway
Started an aging LaDainian Tomlinson
Traded for Tebow
The Jets know full well what they have in Greene. They are just not going to admit it publicly.
Benson: 273 rushing attempts, 1,067 rushing yards, 3.9 yards per carry, 6 rushing TD's.
Tomlinson: 75 rushing attempts, 280 rushing yards, 3.7 yards per carry, 1 rushing TD.
L.T may be able to pass protect and catch out of the backfield, but he's completely shot. Benson isn't. There's a reason why Tomlinson retired; he couldn't do it anymore.
Sparano likes his running backs and mixing things up, so this wouldn't shock me. I'm not crazy about it though.
Benson is going to be 30 this season... Running backs 30+ generally aren't a good thing. Of course there are exceptions...
One of the situations that can limit a young RB from getting a lot of carries, and limiting their roles in the offense, is their inability to be dependable in pass protection.
If Greene was to be injured and out for several weeks, an experienced veteran RB like Benson can get the majority of carries, and keep the QBs upright when pass protecting.
He's 29 y.o., and has three straight 1000+ seasons. Benson is a viable alternative to carry the load, if Shonn gets hurt.
I think Greene/Benson is a tough combination for a defense to deal with all game. However, I'm not cool with bringing in benson if Powell or McKnight get cut b/c of it.
In my opinion, the Jets do a lot of talking to FA's to get a sense of what they believe their value is, not because they are interested in signing them. They wanna know what a player like Benson is willing to sign for and then they document that in order to bring that information up at a future date.
"Well Benson was worth X amount of dollars and put up similar numbers as your client. This is what we are willing to offer."
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No thanks. I think the RB's we have will do a great job.


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This is a pic of the early stages of my Kaffe Fassett collecting. This picture was taken in May of '08, and pretty much shows all I had of his fabric at the time. Today, we'd have to have a mighty wide lens to see what I've added to this particular stash. I have it all neatly folded and stacked in a gi-normous clear plastic tub. It is so full that I cannot lift this tub, and the lid will not attach, as I've overflowed the top.
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I've not forsaken the traditional, however! I still collect reproduction fabrics - to excess! - but I've branched out to romantic florals and batiks, in addition to the Kaffe. This quilt on my design wall is of fat-quarter batiks I collected over the course of a few months. I have since finished this top and it is ready to be taken to a long-arm quilter.
As for the romantic florals, what do you think of the "shabby chic" quilt above? It is a Carrie Nelson pattern called Tag Sale. I had a large pack of fat quarters with no intended purpose, so it went into this quilt. I needed to augment just a bit with eight or 10 additional fabrics from my stash. So this is truly a quilt made entirely from fabrics I had on hand. See, there is a reason to hoard! This quilt came together super-fast. I was so into it! It is definitely a pattern that begs to be made again and again.And I think I will!
Okay, I'm going up to the sewing room to take a picture of the overflowing tub of KF fabrics. It will illustrate to all just how far I've fallen into my fabric-collecting addiction. Will add shortly...promise.
Here it is! The heaviest tub of fabric in my sewing room: the Kaffe Fassett tub. It's sitting in the middle of the floor because 1) as I said before, I can't lift it, and 2) the closet is full. Of fabric. Yeah, I know. I already admitted to the addiction.


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Friday, November 13, 2009
Major Pineapple Express
The numerical forecast models are consistently calling for a major pineapple expresss/atmospheric river event starting Sunday and extending through early Wednesday. These are amazing phenomena....I have an active project now studying them with a graduate student Michael Warner. Huge flux of moisture in what appears from satellite imagery (vertically integrated water vapor, above) as a narrow plume of moisture.
Check out the 24-h precipitation from the 12-km WRF run at the UW for the periods ending 4 PM on Monday and Tuesday (graphics). Vancouver Island and the Cascade/Coast Mountains on the mainland get hammered with a number of areas getting 5-10 inches and more. The Olympics and the northern Cascades also get large amounts..but less. The central Cascades receive far less (good for the Green River).
A major issue is that the freezing levels will move way up, with warm rain falling on some of the nice snow in the Cascades. Well, we can't escape Cascade concrete for long!
11 comments:
- Must read blogs said...
on the 1st graphic, why is the plume on the bottom ( the one ppointed down) of concern to the Pac NW?
- November 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- Chris said...
It's "consolidating" and stabilizing all the new snow...
- November 13, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Cliff Mass Weather Blog said...
Its not. Just an illustration that several atmospheric rivers can occur at one. That image is not for this situation..cliff
- November 13, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- smokejumper said...
I like that above map. Where would one find a precipitable water value map?
I agree on the pineapple express is an interesting phenomena and needs to be reasearched.
But I don't know when or where it started, but the Seattle media use that term too often and too loosely today to describe any event of it raining more than 2 hrs.
With this storm, you can see how the upper flow is perpendicular, then diagonal, and finally parallel to the coastline. Wherever along the axis that line decides to rotate, it will rain hard for a long time. Let's hope its stays north. Express, definately, but maybe missing some pineapples.
- November 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Douglas Tooley said...
Here comes the November '09 flood!
- November 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- ozujsko said...
Cliff, can you please comment on the current Madden Julian event and its possible effects on our precipitation now and into the early winter? Can't find info anywhere. Thanks!!!!
- November 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Scott K said...
In the images it doesn't look like much of western washington will get hit by any of the jet stream of moisture. Am I just reading the images wrong or am I looking at the wrong images?
It looks like it's all going north into BC.
- November 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Tom said...
Can you cite some references (if any) in the literature to previous work on these "plumes" of moisture. Alternatively, can you post some .pdf files where this published literature can be accessed?
- November 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Scott K said...
4:15pm Lake Stevens approx 300'
We just had a Massive Hail storm hit us...actually it's still going. Dropped about pinball sized hail or larger and it's coming down HARD.
Been going for a good 15 minutes. Looks like snow everywhere!
- November 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- Corie said...
Ok I saw it!...the first KIRO weather story that showed 5 pieces of slush on Snoqualmie Ridge, people buying snow shovels at Home Depot, etc. 5:05 pm November 13, 2009. The silly weather reporting season has begun!
- November 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- Seattle Pickup Soccer said...
I think of a pineapple express as a series of warm, wet storms that hit our area. At this point, it doesn't look like that will occur. Instead, this will be a big, solitary event, followed by colder weather systems. For snow lovers (and folks who don't like floods) this resembles more of a coconut thrown at us (Ow!) not a pineapple express.
- November 15, 2009 at 3:55 PM