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Texas ranks high among 6.5 million coastal homes at storm-surge risk
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An estimated 6.5 million homes on the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coast are at risk this year of storm-surge damage.
If, in the worst-case scenario, they were all damaged, the reconstruction cost would be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a new report by CoreLogic, a data analysis firm in Irvine, Calif.
Fifteen major metro areas, including Houston, would account for about two-thirds of that staggering amount, or more than $986 billion.
Storm surge is more than water that accumulates due to heavy rain. As defined in the CoreLogic report, storm surge is a "complex phenomenon that occurs when water is pushed toward the shore through the force of powerful winds associated with cyclonic storms."
As a storm moves across the ocean, the strong winds inside it "act as a plow, causing water to pile up along the front of the storm, with the highest water levels accumulating along the right-front quadrant as the hurricane spins counterclockwise," the report states.
Houston is ranked No. 8 in the list of 15 metro areas, with 216,880 properties potentially affected by all categories of hurricanes and $41.9 billion in total reconstruction value, the report said.
Among 19 states on the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coast, Texas ranks No. 3 in the number of properties at risk, with 434,400 homes in the path of destruction.
The situation will only get worse as population and development increase in coastal communities, officials say.
"Our job is to be able to respond to that development," said Francisco Sanchez, spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
By the same token, Sanchez said, coastal residents need to remember two things: They will be the ones most likely asked to evacuate for a major storm, and every storm is different, regardless of category.
"The storm surge is not reflected in the current category system," he said. "Forget category and focus on the surge. Local emergency managers will make recommendations based on the uniqueness of the storm and the topography of the community."
Anyone who is likely to be asked to evacuate needs to know the designated evacuation routes and understand that the return home will depend upon how bad the storm's impact is, Sanchez said.
In the CoreLogic report, hurricane-prone Florida tops the at-risk list with 2.5 million homes vulnerable to storm-surge damage. It also has the highest total reconstruction cost -- more than $490 billion.
Second on the list of number of homes at risk is Louisiana, followed by Texas, New Jersey, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Massachusetts.
In the ranking of the reconstruction value of properties at risk, New York is second to Florida, followed by Louisiana, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, South Carolina, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Maryland.
Storm-surge areas are not the same as flood zones delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, although many home owners have that misconception, the report states.
Your house may not be in FEMA's designated floodplain, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can relax about your flooding risk.
"In fact, varying levels of flood risk for both fresh water and storm surge can and do extend beyond the FEMA boundaries," the CoreLogic report states.


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The fifth-ranked Harvard women's hockey team will host No. 9 Northeastern in the 32nd Annual Women's Beanpot championship game. The Crimson, which will be closing out the home portion of its regular season schedule against the Huskies, has won five straight games.
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GoCrimson.com will provide live statistics for this week's games, all home games and most road contests this season. Live audio and video is available for both Beanpot games with a subscription on GoCrimson.com. WHRB's Brendan Roche and Raafi Alidina will handle the broadcast of Harvard's Beanpot game, while Bryan Dunmire and Charlie Hobbs will call the Boston University vs. Boston College Beanpot contest.
Beanpot History Lesson
Last week, the Crimson defeated Boston College, 5-0, in the semifinal round of the Beanpot. Liza Ryabkina netted four goals, including three in the third period, while Laura Bellamy earned the shutout, stopping all 15 shots she faced. The Huskies earned a 4-4 tie against Boston University, but advanced to the championship with a 2-0 win in the shootout. Northeastern has won the most Women's Beanpots (14), while Harvard has claimed 12, the second most of any school. The Crimson last won the Beanpot in 2008, while the Huskies have not claimed the crown since 1998.
Series History
Harvard and Northeastern have met 51 times, with the Huskies owning a 33-16-2 record. The Crimson has won the last six meetings with the schools dating back to 2002. In the last meeting, Harvard topped Northeastern, 3-1, in the opening round of the 2008 Beanpot. Jenny Brine '09 scored twice, and Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 added a goal, while Christina Kessler recorded 18 saves to earn the win. Harvard went on to win the Beanpot that season, defeating Boston University, 3-1, in the title game, hosted at BU's Walter Brown Arena.
Last Time Out
Harvard completed a two-game sweep of Ivy League and ECAC Hockey rivals Brown and Yale, by holding off the Bulldogs, 4-3, Saturday at Bright Hockey Center. For the second straight game, four different Harvard players found the back of the net, as the Crimson netted three power-play goals in Harvard's fifth straight victory. Laura Bellamy continued her dominant play between the pipes, stopping 15 of 16 shots she faced. Harvard opened last weekend by defeating Brown, 4-1, and finished the Ivy League portion of its schedule with a 6-2-2 mark.
Hall of Fame Inductee
Former Harvard standout Tammy Shewchuk '00-01 will be inducted into the Women's Beanpot Hall of Fame during a ceremony between the consolation and championship games at Bright Hockey Center Feb. 9. Shewchuk is second all-time in Women's Beanpot history with 25 points in eight games, having scored nine goals and handed out 16 assists. She helped Harvard win three Beanpots in 1999, 2001 and '01. Other Crimson Beanpot Hall of Fame Inductees include Jennifer Botterill '02-03 (2008) and Cheryl Tate '82 (2009).
Harvard Head Coach Katey Stone
Katey Stone is in her 16th season as the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's Ice Hockey, and she brings a 334-141-26 (.693) record into Tuesday's game. Stone, who ranks second all-time in Division I victories, has led Harvard to all seven of its NCAA tournament appearances and has guided the Crimson to nine Beanpot titles. Stone is also the active leader in victories among Division I women's hockey coaches.
Stone is only three wins shy of tying the all-time Division I record, held by Laura Halldorson (337 victories).
Hot Hand
Liza Ryabkina established a new career high, scoring four goals, including three in the third period alone, in Harvard's 5-0 win over Boston College in the semifinal round of the Beanpot Tuesday evening. Ryabkina, who also added an assist in Harvard's 4-3 win over Yale Saturday, notched two power-play tallies and scored two even strength goals. Her four goals mark the most for a Harvard player since Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 lit the lamp four times in a 5-2 win at Cornell Feb. 13, 2009.
Down The Stretch
With four conference games remaining entering the weekend, Harvard sits in third place in ECAC Hockey with a 11-5-2 record and 24 points. The Crimson stands one points ahead of St. Lawrence (23 points) and two points in front of both Quinnipiac and Rensselaer (22 points). Harvard only trails Clarkson (29 points) and Cornell (26 points) for first in the conference.
Clean Sheets
With its 5-0 win over Boston College Feb. 2, Harvard now has recorded six shutouts this season. Laura Bellamy has earned two clean sheets, shutting down Union Jan. 22 and Boston College. Five of the Crimson's six shutouts have come at Bright Hockey Center. Senior Christina Kessler has recorded 25 shutouts during her career at Harvard, a program record.
License to Kill
The Crimson boasts the nation's seventh-best penalty kill unit, stopping 87 of 97 opponent power plays (.897). The Crimson also has a shorthanded goal to its credit this season, coming off the stick of Jillian Dempsey in a 4-0 win over Union Jan. 22.
Crimson Leading The League
Kate Buesser is tied for an ECAC Hockey-best 28 points in league games and also stands first in assists with 18. Buesser is also tied for fourth with 10 goals in ECAC Hockey contests. Rookie Jillian Dempsey (9-11-20) ranks fourth in conference points among all players and first among freshmen in the league. Defender Leanna Coskren is tied for fourth with eight power-play points (4-4-8) in ECAC Hockey contests. Coskren is also tied for first with three game-winning goals and tied for third with three power-play goals to her credit. during Cori Bassett, meanwhile, stands third in defender scoring with 15 points on four goals and 11 assists. Coskren ranks fourth among defenders with 11 points (6-7-13).
Buesser is also the Ivy League leader with 16 points (5-11-16) in Ancient Eight games, while Bassett is tied for first among defenders with nine points (2-7-9). Dempsey has been the league's most prolific freshman, leading the way with 12 points (6-6-12).
The World's Best
A trio of former Harvard standout skaters have been named to the 2010 U.S. Women's National Team, which will compete at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Angela Ruggiero '02-04, the Patty Kazmaier recipient in 2004, Julie Chu '06-07, the winner of the Patty Kazmaier trophy in 2007, and former All-American Caitlin Cahow '07-08 were named to the American team. On Team Canada, Harvard will be represented by two-time Patty Kazmaier Award winner Jennifer Botterill '02-03, and Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09, who was named the top women's college hockey player in 2008. Overall, Harvard has had nine current and former women's hockey players represent their countries in the Olympics since 1996.
When The Game Is On The Line
Nine different Harvard players have scored a game-winning goal this season -- Kaitlin Spurling, Liza Ryabkina, Jillian Dempsey, Leanna Coskren, Anna McDonald, Cori Bassett, Kathryn Farni, Kate Buesser and Randi Griffin. Coskren, Ryabkina and Spurling lead the team and ECAC Hockey with three game-winning tallies apiece.
Scoring In A Bunch
As a team, Harvard ranks second in ECAC Hockey with 3.33 goals per game, having scored a league-best 60 tallies in 18 conference games entering the week. The Crimson is averaging 3.60 goals per contest in Ivy League games, good for first in the Ancient Eight.
A Balanced Attack
The Crimson has had 14 different players score at least one goal this year, as the team has netted a total of 71 goals. Sixteen players have at least one point to their credit. Harvard had 15 different players light the lamp last season, scoring a total of 95 goals.
First Thing's First
The Crimson was 18-0-2 when scoring first and 1-10-1 when the opponent lit the lamp first last season. So far in 2009-10, Harvard is 13-1-2 when netting the game's first goal and 2-4-2 when the opposition scores first.
It's All Over
Harvard is 107-1-5 (.969) since the start of the 2004-05 season when leading after two periods. The Crimson is 13-0-1 (.964) in this category this season.
Spreading The Puck Around
The Crimson has 11 players who have reached double digits in points: Kate Buesser (31 points), Jillian Dempsey (22), Liza Ryabkina (16), Cori Bassett (16), Leanna Coskren (14), Kathryn Farni (13), Anna McDonald (12), Randi Griffin (12), Kaitlin Spurling (10), Katharine Chute (10) and Josephine Pucci (10).
Just Win, Christina!
Senior goaltender Christina Kessler is 64-16-6 (.779) in her career in net, placing her first on Harvard's all-time goalie wins, as she passed Ali Boe '06 with a 5-1 victory against Colgate Jan. 16. Kessler currently holds the NCAA career record with a .9413 save percentage, as she has stopped 1,863 of 1,979 shots faced during her career. Jessie Vetter (Wisconsin 2006-09) owned a .941 save percentage to set the record (2,175 of 2,312, .9407).
Harvard Against The Ivy League
The Crimson owns a 6-2-2 against opponents from the Ancient Eight this season. In its last eight games against Ivy League teams, Harvard is 6-0-2, most recently defeating Yale, 4-3, Feb. 6 The Crimson is tied with Yale for first place in the Ivy League with 14 points. Cornell has two games remaining against Brown and Yale. If the Big Red drops both games, Harvard will earn a share of the Ivy League title.
Welcome To The Show
Harvard freshmen have had the scoring touch this season, led by Jillian Dempsey who is second on the team with nine goals, 13 assists and 22 points. Josephine Pucci (4-6-10) and Kaitlin Spurling (7-3-10) have also been scoring threats. Spurling is also tied for the leam lead with three game-winning goals.
Storied Program
With its 3-0 victory over St. Lawrence Nov. 7, Harvard earned the 500th victory in program history. The Crimson owns a 513-292-42 (.630)record over its storied 31-year history.
A Stone Wall
The Crimson earned back-to-back shutouts against Minnesota Dec. 4-5, marking the first time that the Golden Gophers were held scoreless since Feb. 2, 2007. The Crimson had not recorded consecutive shutouts since holding Cornell without a goal during the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals Feb. 27-28, 2009.
To Be The Best ...
With its 2-1 win over No. 9 Providence Jan. 29, the Crimson stands at 4-2-3 against ranked foes this year. Harvard was 2-6-1 against top 10 opponents last season.
Bright Spot
The Crimson was 9-4-2 at Bright Hockey Center last season, while posting a 9-5-1 mark on the road. In 17 games this season, Harvard owns a 11-3-3 record on home ice, and is 4-2-1 in road contests.
Hot Streak
Entering Tuesday's game against Northeastern, Harvard has won five straight games and is 5-1-1 in its last seven games.
Red Lights
Harvard ranks second in the nation in scoring defense, allowing only 1.46 goals per game. The Crimson also ranks fourth in scoring margin (+1.50), seventh on the penalty kill (87 of 97, .897), ninth in scoring offense (2.96 goals scored per game), 12th in combined special teams (106 of 211, .502) and 15th on the power play (19 of 114, .167).
Rank And File
Harvard is ranked fifth in the latest USCHO.com national poll and sixth in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine national poll.
Solid Start
In nine career starts, Laura Bellamy owns a 6-2-1 record with one shutout. She has stopped 169 of 180 shots faced for a .939 save percentage. She also sports an impressive 1.21 goals-against average and has won her last five games in net, stopping a career-high 37 shots in 4-1 win at Dartmouth Jan. 29.
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It's been nearly a decade since the Memphis medical community and city leaders teamed up to create a master plan for what they called the Memphis Medical Center.
The district – which follows the main corridors of Union and Madison avenues and extends from Danny Thomas Boulevard to Cleveland Street and from Peabody Avenue to the Interstate 240 loop – already was home to more than 40 organizations that specialized in everything from clinical care to research. But the Memphis Medical Center organizers wanted to improve safety and promote overall economic development, including commercial, retail and residential real estate.
While Memphis medical leaders say there is still plenty of work to be done, today cranes and construction sites are cropping up throughout the Memphis Medical Center at a rapid clip.
"If you just look out this window, you'll see $200 million being spent right now," Memphis Medical Center Director Beth Flanagan said from the organization's headquarters on South Dudley Street as she ticked off a long list of projects in the works. "That's just continuing – we don't see a slowdown."
Key to luring organizations to the Downtown medical center is The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the large research enterprise tied to the school, said Steven Bares, president and executive director of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation.
"The kinds of organizations that are going to be in a Downtown medical center – that are going to come and relocate to a research park – probably want some affiliation with that," he said. "Anybody who comes to Memphis and is in the biomedical area is going to have one eye on the Downtown medical center, because that's where the research is going on."
UTHSC is in the midst of a five-year master plan that includes more than $200 million alone in both requested and fully funded capital expenditures over the next few years. That's not including other long-term plans, including building a $200 million women's and infant's hospital adjacent to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital to serve expectant mothers from all over the Mid-South.
While some of the renovation plans are focused on modernizing older educational spaces, there are also plans to improve everything from community outreach and economic development to research infrastructure.
"One of our fundamental tenets is growing our research capabilities," said Dr. Ken Brown, executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer at UTHSC. "We need grade-A research space to recruit the kind of faculty that we need, to get private and institutional funding from the National Institutes of Health and to get other types of federal research grants."
Key to those plans is a $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building under construction at the corner of Manassas Street and Union Avenue. The Translational Science Building is slated for completion at the end of the year and will be home to researchers working on multidisciplinary research that can be applied to clinical health care delivery in the Mid-South.
"They'll be doing science research that you can take from the bench to the bedside," Brown said. "We try to keep our primary research status local. We are not researching Australian fruit fly disease."
Brown said researchers will focus on local health care concerns such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, women's health issues, cancer, obesity and mental health. The new research space will allow teams of health care experts to tackle issues such as the impact of oral health on other health care conditions.
"The silo model doesn't work anymore," Brown said. "When you use a multidisciplinary approach, you have a much better chance of getting proposal funding."
That facility will complement UTHSC's already completed Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, one of only 13 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-funded labs in the nation. The lab is used to develop vaccines for infectious diseases that pose serious health threats and to investigate drug-resistant tuberculosis, tularemia, streptococci, cholera and other pathogens.
While many of the UTHSC's plans are focused on adding and modernizing research infrastructure, Brown says the other core focus is updating the university's educational spaces.
"The infrastructure at UTHSC is much older. So that's one of our first and foremost concerns," he said. "When we recruit students, they are looking at Wake Forest, they are looking at Duke and other high-end private educational spaces. We want to shore things up so we can continue to recruit the best and the brightest."
Steven Bares, president and executive director of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, says The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is key to the Medical Center's future success. (Memphis News/Andrew J. Breig)
That includes recent updates to the General Education Building, including installing 100 station computer testing spaces and renovating student study spaces. UTHSC also has modernized some areas of a cluster of facilities dubbed the Madison Buildings, including relocating the College of Nursing, and overhauling the facilities that house the clinical departments of the College of Medicine, including surgery, psychiatry and dermatology.
Area medical organizations also have teamed up to promote more pedestrian-friendly streetscape improvements and more green spaces and to improve aesthetics throughout the district, said Flanagan.
"While the clinical might be at the top of the game, you want to make sure the overall campus holds up," Flanagan said. "Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is a great example. When you walk into that hospital with your child, it is so welcoming. We want everything in the district to look that nice."
Sometimes that means getting health care organizations to band together to target blight and to demolish or find new uses for older, abandoned buildings sprinkled throughout the Memphis Medical Center, she said.
That's also been a goal at UTHSC. The university recently received state-appropriated funding to demolish four older, unused structures: the Beale Building, the Randolph Building, the Feurt Pharmacy Research Building and the Goodman Dormitory, which no longer meets the needs of the school's professional student population, Brown said.
The Fuert Building at 26 S. Dunlap St. is the future site of the $25 million Multi-Disciplinary Health Education Building, which is currently in its design phase and will eventually connect to the General Education Building. Brown said the facility will be used to train physicians, pharmacists and health professionals.
"You'll be able to simulate patients and medical conditions, and they can repeat the scenario as many times as it takes – without the burden of exposing them to the real patient situation," he said. "When you have someone's life hanging in balance, you would rather replicate that in a simulation experience."
The demolition of the Goodman Dormitory also opens up new possibilities to recruit local developers to build condominiums near campus, Brown said.
"Many of our professional students live on Mud Island and Downtown, but we'd much rather they live near campus," he said. "By the time they come to us, they are professional students, so they don't really want to live in a dormitory. They are very comfortable living in condos and apartments."
Brown said some local developers have expressed an interest in building apartments in the region, which also builds on the university's plans to continue encouraging economic development in the area, including luring new restaurants and entertainment.
"We hope we can be the nucleus around which we can develop a vibrant medical district," he said. "Our hope is that it would develop into a community kind of atmosphere over the next few years, where employees at The Regional Medical Center at Memphis, Le Bonheur and throughout the area would enjoy the luxury of where they work."
Construction also is underway at other organizations throughout the Memphis Medical Center.
Methodist University Hospital is expanding its emergency department. (Methodist University Hospital)
In July, Methodist University Hospital began construction on a $33.5 million expansion and renovation of its emergency department. The renovated emergency department will treat as many as 70,000 patients a year, up from 30,000 to 40,000. The project was approved by the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency last fall and is expected to be completed next summer.
Meanwhile, The MED has plans to overhaul much of its campus, beginning with the build-out of Turner Tower – one of the younger buildings on The MED campus. The $32.4 million project includes adding more acute and rehabilitation inpatient beds, renovating the critical care assessment area in the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center and expanding the burn center. The entire project is slated for completion in December.
There are also large capital infrastructure expenditures underway at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Southern College of Optometry, Southwest Tennessee Community College, UT/Baptist Research Park, and the Memphis VA Medical Center.
"You've got large clinical assets all around," said Bares as he outlined the selling points for recruiting organizations that are considering relocating to the Memphis Medical Center. "This is where your workforce is being generated, and they are going to be watching this area as a proxy for whether they want to be here."
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The Celtics' problem through 12 games is defense, and the San Antonio Spurs spent all Wednesday night reinforcing that to a sold-out TD Garden crowd, which was repeatedly silenced by the wizardry of Tony Parker.
That silence turned into disgust when Spurs reserve Tiago Splitter scored at will in the second half, mostly on layups, as Boston's small defensive cracks turned into craters. The Spurs flirted with 60 percent shooting the entire game and not even a late Celtics rally could camouflage their early-season weakness.
Parker scored 26 points and Splitter, averaging 6.7 points, scored 23 points in 26 minutes as the Spurs turned the Celtics into a .500 team again (6-6) with a 112-100 victory. San Antonio shot 58.4 percent and was 23 for 38 shooting in the second half.
It was the third time in four games the Celtics allowed at least 100 points, and they lost each of those games.
Rajon Rondo was brilliant offensively with 22 points and 15 assists, but he was battered by Parker's dribble penetration. In one fourth-quarter sequence, Parker dribbled around Rondo and Jason Terry, and sped past a screened-out Kevin Garnett for an uncontested layup.
The crowd reacted with jeers.
Coach Doc Rivers was befuddled. The Celtics have had nearly two months to work on defense and are now allowing 99.3 points per game. Thirty-point quarters, once as dated as a BetaMax in Boston, are now common. The Spurs registered two Wednesday.
"Offensively, you score 100 points, shoot 53 percent, you're pretty happy," Rivers said. "We just let a team shoot 58 percent against us. We let a team shoot 50 percent from the 3 [-point line] against us. It's tough to win a game. You shouldn't win a game if that happens.
"We have to play smarter. We have to know our coverages better and when that happens, everybody is on the same page. It allows our rotations to be freer. I thought it was a lot of that [we didn't do]."
Paul Pierce scored 19 points but was held scoreless in the fourth quarter as the Celtics sliced a 14-point deficit to 104-98 with 3:16 left. Tim Duncan countered with a runner and the Celtics had no more responses. After entering Sunday's game against lowly Detroit looking to seize more momentum and confidence (another loss), they are now again bewildered.
They shot 53.2 percent and all five starters scored in double figures but it was all overshadowed by the embarrassing defensive effort.
"We give up 100 points the last couple of games, it's definitely not our identity or something we want to build on," Pierce said. "So that's the things we really have to look at, how to control penetration, how we could stop pick and rolls. It just seemed we gave San Antonio pretty much everything they wanted on offense. No matter how much we score the ball, if you can't defend the ball, it's going to be tough on us all night long."
In their last three losses, the Celtics have allowed the Nets, Pistons, and now Spurs to shoot 51.2 percent and average 105.6 points per game.
"It damages [our identity] a little bit, but it won't be the first time," said Garnett, who collected three rebounds in 31 minutes. "A good offense is always going to get the best of a better defense."
The primary first-half issue was the inability to contain Parker, who scorched counterpart Rondo for 15 points and four assists on 7-for-10 shooting. He drained a wide-open 3-pointer to extend the Spurs' lead to 56-48 as they ended the first half on a 14-6 run.
Rondo appeared to be pressing, especially offensively, missing five of his first six shots and forcing runners against two and three defenders. The good news for Rondo, however, was that there was no suspense about his assist streak. He collected five in the first half and five more in the first 3:09 of the third quarter to extend his streak to 35 games with 10 or more dimes.
He had eight assists in the third quarter and the offense began clicking because the emphasis was on Garnett, who scored 6 early points in the period. But each time the Celtics made runs, the Spurs would counter, primarily because of defensive slippage.
Rondo's jumper gave the Celtics their first lead since the first quarter at 62-60 but the Spurs simply relied on Duncan and Parker, who scored all 9 points in a 9-0 spurt for a 69-62 advantage. The Celtics again climbed back, using a Jeff Green layup and Pierce technical free throw to slice the deficit to 76-74.
Rivers went with a strange lineup to end the period, including Jared Sullinger, Leandro Barbosa, Courtney Lee, and Rondo, and they allowed a critical 6-0 run to end the quarter, 4 of those by Splitter, who was nearly unstoppable on back-door plays.
His dunk extended the lead to 82-74 and the Celtics didn't have enough left to get consistent stops in the fourth, when the Spurs converted 12 of 19 shots.
"Yeah, we were right there because nobody could stop anybody on either team," Rivers said. "Hell, again, we shot 53 percent, so the reason we were there is because our offense allowed us to stay there. But to me, that was fools' gold, because the way we were playing defense you're not going to get a stop, you're not going to win a game.
"And I think we cut it several times and either we had a turnover and they went and scored or late-clock possessions, I think they got them all. They got all the loose balls, all the late-clock scores, and that hurt us."Gary Washburn can be reached at email@example.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @gwashNBAGlobe


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The former longtime Carpentersville fire chief who was on paid administrative leave just before he retired last month said the village didn't pay him to leave. Moreover, the separation agreement he signed says that he could be asked to consult with the village when it hires a permanent replacement.
John Schuldt, who was with the department for 33 years, said he retired to pursue other opportunities. He has not said what his next career move will be.
"I chose to retire," Schuldt said, adding that he has a good working relationship with Village Manager J. Mark Rooney. "The department can function without me. Nobody's irreplaceable, and I chose to seek out other opportunities."
Schuldt, 53, received nearly $29,000 in unused sick and vacation days, according to the agreement he signed with the village. He said his reasons for retiring are between him and his family.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Daily Herald requested copies of all correspondence between Schuldt, the village manager and the board of trustees within the previous month. The village partially denied the request, but did release the separation agreement and several emails, none of which outlined why Schuldt was retiring. The Illinois Attorney General's office is now reviewing whether the village will need to release the information it initially withheld.
Schuldt's retirement came nearly two weeks after he had been placed on paid administrative leave.
In exchange for signing the agreement, Schuldt received:
• $14,621.54 for 30 accrued sick days.
• $14,354.70 for 235.62 hours of earned vacation time.
• Health benefits for him and his family through March 31 that cost $1,669 a month, according to Linda Mogren, the village's director of human resources.
• Assurance that the village board and officials will not hurt his reputation by making negative comments about him. In return, Schuldt cannot make any disparaging statements about the village to any third party.
Both parties also agreed not to take the other to court and that the agreement should not be interpreted as an admission of liability or of any wrongdoing by Schuldt or the village.
Schuldt won numerous accolades during his time in Carpentersville.
Last year, he helped the village secure a Governor's Hometown Award for a Sept. 11 monument dedicated to the village's firefighters and to those who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks. Schuldt and the department raised more than $15,000 to create the monument.
In 2011, Schuldt was named fire chief of the year by the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association for his help in creating a healing field in Carpenter Park that honored 1,900 Vietnam War veterans missing in action.
In 2005, he deployed several firefighters to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina to help fight fires and rebuild homes.
For many years, Schuldt also helped raise thousands of dollars for locals battling breast cancer.
He was hired in 1980 as a full-time firefighter in the village. With the exception of a one-year stint as acting village manager, he had been fire chief since 1996.
As part of the agreement, Schuldt will assist with the transition if the village hires a new fire chief -- Assistant Fire Chief John Skillman is now acting chief.
Rooney said the village is required by state law to issue vacation payouts and that the village's personnel manual has a policy that pays departing employees for some of their sick days.
"He didn't get a special deal at all," Rooney said.
Schuldt was among the highest-paid employees in the village.
His total compensation last year was $177,984.73, which includes his $129,509.09 salary.
He made $3,981.70 during the 11 days he was on administrative leave, Mogren said. Officials said he was eligible to retire several years ago at 75 percent of his salary.
Village President Ed Ritter declined to say why Schuldt's retirement required a separation agreement. He referred those questions to Rooney, who said he doesn't discuss personnel matters.
John Regan, an Elgin-based municipal attorney who has drafted multiple separation agreements, says he has never written one for a fire chief. They typically don't need one because they have a good pension and benefits, he said.
"It's not common," Regan said. "(But) if you're running a fire department or you're a police chief, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a separation agreement of some sort. It's basically buying peace between the parties."


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Welcome to our third Mini Quilt Monday! This week I decided to dive right into the book Word Play Quilts by Tonya Ricucci. I recently discovered Tonya's blog, and wow, there is a lot of inspiration on there!
I have future plans to make a quilt with some words on it, but I was a bit intimidated when it came to making letters. I'm *pretty* sure I've mentioned that geometry and I don't exactly get along. And this style of letters looked like you needed to know something about that. Tonya's book makes it SO easy! She has step-by-step instructions for all letters and numbers.
I also followed tips that I learned during Malka Dubrawsky's Improvisational Piecing class:
1. I followed basic color rules when making my letters. Each letter/number is made with either warm or cool fabrics. I alternated warm/cool/warm/cool/etc.
2. I didn't use my ruler once when making this mini quilt. I freehand cut all pieces with my rotary cutter. If a piece had a slight curve to it, I incorporated that curve into the next piece I sewed on.
3. When sewing letters together, if one letter was smaller than the next, I added fabric to the smaller piece rather than trimming fabric from the larger piece.
4. I used mostly solid fabrics, but incorporated a few prints to add a bit of interest.
I know this improvisational style of sewing makes some of you break out into a cold sweat. I won't name names. You know who you are. LOL But I just love how it turned out!
I quilted this mini using straight lines in varying directions on the background portions of the letters. As for the fabric, I used a selection of solids from my stash: Kona cottons, Kaffe Fassett shot cottons, Moda crossweaves, Free Spirit Designer Solids and Pat Bravo's Pure Elements solids. Phew! The binding is a Kei Honeycomb. The final size is 14″ x 12.5″. This is one mini quilt I think would look great hanging up in a nursery with little clothes pins. I've added it to my shop.
So let's see what you made this week. Link 'em up!


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New Britain (29-21) – 3
Portland (20-30) – 0
WP: Blake Martin (2-2, 2.50)
LP: Chris Hernandez (2-4, 3.21)
S: Caleb Thielbar (2)
HR: New Britain – Chris Colabello (8)
HIGHLIGHTS: David Bromberg was scheduled to start for New Britain, but was called up to Triple-A Rochester prior to the game, giving Brett Jacobson the spot start, his first of the season. Jacobson threw four scoreless innings and allowed only two hits and a walk … Rock Cats first baseman Chris Colabello hit a two-run homer. In his last ten games he has five hits, three of which are long balls … New Britain's Aaron Hicks went 2 for 4 with an RBI, run and walk … Sea Dogs shortstop Derrik Gibson went 1 for 3 with a walk. In the four game series he went 7 for 13 with an RBI and a run … Portland's Brock Huntzinger pitched three perfect innings with two strikeouts, his best relief appearance of the year.
New Hampshire (20-29) – 2
Binghamton (24-25) – 6
WP: Collin McHugh (5-3, 2.17)
LP: Deck McGuire (2-6, 6.80)
HIGHLIGHTS: Fisher Cats starter Deck McGuire retired the first 15 batters he faced. He went 5 1/3 innings allowing 4 runs on only 2 hits and a walk … New Hampshire DH Kevin Howard went 2 for 3, his fourth 2-hit game in his last six played … Third baseman Mark Sobolewski went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI.
Norfolk (21-29) – 6
Pawtucket (32-20) – 4
W: Zach Clark (1-0, 3.00)
LP: Doug Mathis (3-3, 4.86)
S: Jon Link (2)
HR: Norfolk – Jai Miller (5), Blake Davis (1), Jamie Hoffmann (3)
Pawtucket – Josh Kroeger (6), Nate Spears (4)
HIGHLIGHTS: For the second time in his last three starts Doug Mathis allowed 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings. He came into the game having allowed three home runs over his first nine starts, before allowing three on Monday … Jose Iglesias sat out for the third straight game with an undisclosed injury. He is reported to be out for Tuesday's game as well …The rehabbing Darnell McDonald went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts … Right fielder Alex Hassan went 2 for 4 for his second straight 2-hit effort … Nate Spears' third inning, 2-run homer, was the third round-tripper in his last twelve at-bats.


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After the close on Monday, the
markets received some good news from Europe. It appears the expected deal to
once again "save Greece" is in place. From the Washington
Euro-zone finance
ministers and the International Monetary Fund clinched agreement on a new
debt target for Greece on Monday in a breakthrough toward releasing an
urgently needed tranche of loans to the near-bankrupt economy, officials
Partly due to expectations of a deal
in Greece, markets have stabilized over the past five trading sessions. As
shown below, the NASDAQ held at the lower end of a weekly trend channel
formed by lines A & B. Williams %R, used to monitor market momentum, has
improved in a manner similar to early June.
The primary driver of the recent
shift back toward risk-on was the fiscal cliff press conference held on
Friday, November 16. Since then, technology stocks have led the push higher.
Last week, the NASDAQ ETF (QQQ) cleared the downward sloping blue trendline on the right side of the chart below. Notice a
similar break occurred near the June 2012 low in stocks. A popular momentum
indicator, MACD, experienced a bullish cross last week similar to the one
that occurred at the summer low (see bottom of chart).
The real test for the bulls will come
when the almost inevitable "bad news" starts to surface related to
difficult cliff negotiations. The tone of the Sunday talk shows hinted that
the road to compromise could be difficult at best. From Reuters:
Republicans in the
U.S. Congress on Monday called on President Barack Obama to detail long-term
spending cuts to help solve the country's fiscal crisis, while holding firm
against the income tax rate increases for the wealthy that Democrats seek.The White House has been equally firm in its
position, threatening to veto any bill that does not include the tax rate
increases opposed by Republicans.
Our weekly technical review of the
markets shows a mixed bag. From a bullish perspective the technicals
have improved noticeably. Concerns remain relative to possible "trend
exhaustion" as measured by DeMark counts and
long-term resistance for European stocks. This week's video contains:
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As shown below, the broader S&P
500 Index has also seen improvement from a technical perspective.
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16 we postulated the markets were positioned for a rally attempt. Last
week the rally did indeed transpire. Our approach has been to scale back into
risk assets primarily via the beat-up technology sector. If the markets can
continue to digest developments in Europe and Washington, D.C. in a fairly
positive manner, we will continue to reduce our cash position by "buying


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The Chicago White Sox announced that outfielder Dewayne Wise has declared free agency in lieu of accepting an outright assignment to Class AAA Charlotte. Wise, 31, hit .225 (32-142) with two home runs and 11 RBI in a career-high 84 games with the White Sox in 2009. In two seasons with the Sox, Wise batted .236 (64-271) with eight homers and 29 RBI. The White Sox 40-man roster is at 36.
Wise: .225/.262/.366/.628 with 27 K / 3 BB and a perfect game saving catch.
How about the guy the Sox chose to trade and keep Wise: .243/.328/.347/.674 with 54 K and 23 BB.
UPDATE: Ha!
In a move sure to rock this winter's baseball landscape, White Sox outfielder Dewayne Wise declared free agency today, thus making the 31-year-old career .216 hitter free to explore employment options outside the city of Chicago. Wise, as readers of this site will recall, has assembled a fine portfolio on the South Side, including one catch, one single and not giving a **** what you think of him. So what, we ask, comes next for D-Wise, that most Tenacious of D's? …


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Sounds like they're hypothesising that all the "dark matter" is actually made of planets, or did i miss something...
Also - frist prost!!!
Scientists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) had uncovered something surprising — there are likely many more planets in the Milky Way than stars.
Why is that surprising? Our own solar system contains at least 8 times more planets than stars.
If human of Planet Earth can think of nomad planets being vehicles to cruise the universe, you think sentient aliens from other planets wouldn't think of he same thing?
Perhaps they already are doing that
If human of Planet Earth can think of nomad planets being vehicles to cruise the universe, you think sentient aliens from other planets wouldn't think of he same thing?
Perhaps they already are doing that
As I see it, there are a couple of big problems with nomad planets. Available energy is hard to use. The environment would probably be very close to 4K (the temperature of the cosmic microwave background). I guess that there would probably be some sort of fusion, fission, or gravitational resources available for many of these places. But I doubt much energy will be available without serious technology.
Alternately, you might have life adapted to this environment with extremely slow metabolism (here, I include Earth nonlife examples such as electronics/integrated circuit systems and clockwork mechanisms). Such adaption has a price. The beam of a flashlight or the warmth of a human body even through an insulated suit might be lethal to them.
But over a long enough time, there's probably a nomad planet traveling close to you at a decent rate of speed and traveling in a direction you want to go.
We must stop the bug meteors!
Seem too low. The solar system contains only 8.2 planets. Why are so many planets in such a small volume of space?
a small volume of space?
Space is big. Really big...
Sounds like they're hypothesising that all the "dark matter" is actually made of planets, or did i miss something...
DM cannot be made of planets because it cannot be made of atoms (it was not part of the plasma which filled the universe ~380k years after the Big Bang) nor does it have the same distribution as matter in a galaxy (rather than a disc it forms a spherical halo). The "gravitational effect" the summary misleading refers to is not the gravitational field of the galaxy but the local gravitational field of the object which bends light creating a lens effect. If the object passes between us and a distant star then the field will bend more light towards us causing the star to get brighter which is how you can detect them without seeing them.
The summary indeed strongly suggests that these planets form (part of) the missing dark matter. So let's take that idea and run with it.
Iirc, dark matter is thought to contribute something like 80% of the total mass in our universe - several times the mass of visible matter. Without looking up the actual masses I am quite certain that the mass of the sun is several orders of magnitude larger than the mass of the planets and asteroids in our solar system together. So based on just our solar system's composit
So the chance of meeting one of those unbound planets should be pretty high.
It takes 80 years for Haley's comet to traverse our solar system, and that's a distance of light-minutes. The nearest stars are light-years out.
We found Pluto because it caused a wobble in Neptune's orbit... unless a planet was actually in our solar system we're not going to get any clues as to its existence.
Nearest stars are light years out indeed. The nearest is something like four light years away.
Assume there are 100,000 planets for our Sun, assume those to be in a four-light-year-radius sphere around us - volume some 270 cubic light years - there are about 400 planets in every cubic light year.
That's when they're evenly distributed, with the Sun's gravity distorting anything. So near to us there will be a much higher concentration of those hypothetical nomadic planets nearer to the Sun.
Halley's comet reach
there are about 400 planets in every cubic light year
Turns out a cubic light year is, well, mind-bogglingly big. I wondered how an average density of 400/ly would compare with the density in our solar system.
Mind... blown.
Sounds like they're hypothesising that all the "dark matter" is actually made of planets, or did i miss something...
You missed the fact that the total mass of all these little objects is negligible compared to the amount of dark matter that needs to be accounted for. You also missed the fact that "Maybe it's all cold baryonic matter!" was the first thing the physicists thought of but when they went through the calculations they could not make the numbers work out.
My understanding that MACHO (ie: brown dwarf and small planet) object dark matter has been pretty much ruled out by microlensing experiments. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO [wikipedia.org]. Essentially if you stare at a distant star for long enough, you should see lots of gravitational microlensing (peaks in brightness) as all the small planets pass in front of the star.
Any hypothesised large amounts of dark matter would have to be fine tuned carefully to get around this data.
No, they are not. There are nucleosynthesis limits [caltech.edu] that show that baryonic matter (us, stars, planets) are only a small fraction of the total dark matter (somewhere in the 4 to 10% range).
Now, there also is "missing" baryonic matter (about a 50% difference between what we can see and what nucleosynthesis indicates), so it must be part or even all of that. Note that stars etc are only about 10% of the baryonic matter, so I would be surprised if the planets were more than another 5% or 10% to that total, and
Al Jazeera that brown dwarves and nomad planets
I see what you did there.
Sometimes I wish there was a "+1, Troll" option.
When did a light year become a unit of time?
When did a light year become a unit of time?
Ever since the Millenium Falcon made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.
Han was lying.
The Kessel run was 16 parsecs through real space, was it? Uh huh.
It's a route optimization problem, sort of like traveling salesman. Getting the route done in less than 12 parsecs is really good.
Yeah, I can't really think of how this would make sense either. You really shouldn't need a lot of fuel when you're in interstellar space, because you've already expended your fuel to build up velocity; you'll just need to keep half your fuel to slow down during the second half of the voyage. These aren't ocean ships here; there's little to no resistance in space, so your ship will continue at the same velocity until you start decelerating. Maybe they're worried about running out of supplies for the people on board (like with a generation ship), but betting your survival on some random brown dwarf or starless planet along the way having usable supplies (like water, oxygen, things to convert to food) seems rather idiotic; instead, you better have the technology for near-100% recycling of all the things humans need to survive, or not bother making the trip.
And who ever said "decelerating" isn't correct any more? The same person who thinks light-year is a unit of time?
You really shouldn't need a lot of fuel when you're in interstellar space
You might need fuel to keep the passengers alive, and that is assuming that we even develop a power system that can provide power long enough to even reach such a planet.
<pedantry>In relativistic terms, what we call "deceleration" is simply "acceleration" with the opposite vector (i.e. the other direction).</pedantry>
It's absurd to say it's an "incorrect" term, though; we are allowed to have words for opposites, after all.
But yeah: stopping at a brown dwarf or other nomad planet on an interstellar journey makes even less sense than pulling off the expressway and stopping at a gas station to walk around, when you were going 80mph and had a full tank of fuel (i.e.
In relativistic terms, what we call "deceleration" is simply "acceleration" with the opposite vector (i.e. the other direction).
It's absurd to say it's an "incorrect" term, though; we are allowed to have words for opposites, after all.
It seems to me that it's actually a more useful term. "Acceleration" just means you're accelerating; you have to use extra words to specify more information such as the direction. With "deceleration", you're combining the fact that you're accelerating, and the direction (the
Well, you could use them as slingshot accelerators, much as current interplanetary missions use the solar system's planets.
Which gives the slightly ridiculous possibility of interstellar travel being something like a vast game of snooker, slinging your craft around a few hundred nomad planets to build up speed then using a few hundred more to decelerate as you get close to your destination.
That's what I was talking about, using it for gravity assist.
And your snooker game is pretty much exactly how interplanetary probes get where they're going within the solar system.
Well, you could just walk around there for one generation or 50, while the newly aquired fuel lasts. Then you are nearer another star, and move.
Accelerating and decelerating on an interstellar trip using only fuel you start with suffers from an exponential growth of fuel vs velocity. Look up the "Rocket Equation". If you send resupply robots ahead of the main ship, who mine these nomad objects and place fuel pellets or fuel tanks in your path so you can pick them up as you go, that turns an exponential fuel problem into a linear one. Yes, it takes work to accelerate fuel pellets, but less work than accelerating an entire ship with all it's cargo
If you find a planet traveling in the same direction and velocity you are traveling in, as you are going in you could land without needing much fuel to stop. Refuel on the planet, then take off again. You'll now be traveling twice as fast.
Sounds good, but it seems like the chances of finding a planet traveling in the right direction and speed are pretty slim.
If the planet is travelling at more than the escape speed from the galaxy, it won't be in the galaxy any more. If it travelling at less than this escape speed and your ship is travelling at the same speed, you're taking at least a couple of thousand years to get to the nearest star. (And this is all before considering the chances of finding such a fortuitously placed planet.)
(Orbital speed of the sun around galactic center = approx 220 km/s, on approx circular orbit. Escape velocity = sqrt(2)*circular orbit
If you want the trip take less than a few lifetimes you wants lots of fuel, ideally enough to accelerate at 1g the whole way. That's a lot of fuel even if it is anti-matter.
How bout sending an unmanned daughter ship to rapidly slow down (high G forces), look around, pick up some needed minerals, and then rapidly speed up to catch the mothership? Granted, this might not make sense given today's technology, but maybe with ramscoops / fusion / who knows what rockets, this could work?
You have to think outside the spaceship.
Actually my ship will have a force-field extending out half a light year ahead, which is incorporated into the mass-convertor. We won't need to slow down at all to pick a planet up for fuel. I heard some ethecists mention the need to stop and check for life forms but I'm not sure if they were going to be on board for the first trip.
This was my thought too. If you're going to reach the alpha Centauri system in under a thousand years, you need to be going faster than 1200 km/s. How do they propose to refuel from something they're passing at 1200 km/s? The alternative -- expending fuel to slow down, refuel, then expend fuel to get back to speed -- is more than a little self defeating.
Galaxies having a gravity apparently bigger than their visible mass is not news, but that this effect is caused entirely by planets is unlikely. The extraordinary numbers they got are not "surprising results", but rather proof that their initial assumption was wrong. There ratio of heavy elements is too low for that many planets to form.
I don't have the essay collection on hand, but Freeman Dyson suggested something like this a long time ago. He imagined space-adapted life spreading through archipelagos of interstellar objects.
It might have been in the essay "The Greening of the Galaxy," in his collection Disturbing the Universe.
So what, it would hardly matter since a human arriving at even the first "stepping stone" is likely be totally blind as a result of prolonged exposure to deep space, which causes severe permanent deformation of the human eyeball and degeneration of the optic nerve. This effect begins to occur on even much shorter trips, much less one into interstellar space. Dyson is a physicist, so its not surprising he doesn't know much about space biology.
That effect is caused by living in microgravity, not exposure to deep space. We have the technology today to build ships that do not require the crew to live in microgravity.
This discovery is brand new; you likely read about it a day or so ago, like I did.
Yet you're judging Dyson and his ideas on that?
Enough has been spent focusing on finding life outside out planet. Let's colonize space already!
We can look for life once we get there.
Worked well enough for the crew of the Nostromo...
Plus the delta-V to land and take off from it.
If you can match speed with the planet then you don't really need to land on it. You are already moving as fast as the planet, and in the same direction. The only benefit of bothering to land would be in order to mine it for energy and for shelter.
However what are your chances of finding convenient supplies of fissible or fusible elements on a random piece of rock? These are largely iron - which is the end of the line, not very usable for production of ener
Here's the best starship concept I have come up with, based upon the assumption that there are no major undiscovered principles of physics. (aka no way to cheat basic material science or travel faster than light or cheat conservation of momentum, and relativity holds)
Technology needed : with a form of nanotechnology known as "molecular manufacturing", you can produce anything of any size with control over every atomic bond. The only limits are materials and energy. You can also deconstruct any frozen object and determine it's molecular structure.
For departing Sol, use mass drivers. Either build a gigantic mass driver that can accelerate the entire starship in one go, or give the starship a mass driver that can "catch" pellets of iron fired from a smaller one you leave back at Sol.
Either way, you want to accelerate to the desired speed as rapidly as possible. This means hundreds or thousands of Gs of acceleration. The ship is mostly solid state at this point.
At 90% of the speed of the light, the ship cruises until it gets close enough to the destination star. At this point, it reconfigures the matter about the ship into a bussard ramscoop and uses this as a brake to slow down. This way, you use free floating interstellar particles as the reaction mass instead of mass carried aboard the ship. Antimatter is used as a power source, the antimatter being burned inside a power reactor inside the ship. (antimatter does not work very well as a direct source of propulsion)
The same nanotechnology used to construct the ship can also conduct perfect repairs and quickly respond to damage (given sufficient materials and energy). That way, during the many years of travel time when the ship is cruising through the space between the stars, you can repair damage from particle impacts. Also, the ship splits into dozens of pieces separated by thousands of kilometers, enough spacing so that if part of the ship collides with a large mass at 90% of the speed of light, the rest of the ship survives.
Once at the destination star and decelerated to rest relative to the star, the ship finds a small asteroid or comet near the star. It docks with it and uses the asteroid/comet as raw materials to begin expanding infrastructure. The star provides an energy source. With exponential growth, each asteroid or comet consumed increases the infrastructure (aka a swarm of various types of robots) available, allowing bigger objects to be consumed. Eventually, there would be enough equipment built to start tearing down moons for raw materials, and eventually even planets.
Once all the mass in the star system is consumed and converted into more robots, processors, etc more ships are built and sent off like seeds to more stars to continue the process.
In principle, the entire galaxy would be nothing but dyson spheres within a million years or so.
The ultimate Fermi paradox is why has this not happened yet. We are nearing the technological capability to do this. I think we will have molecular manufacturing within 100 years. Once we find a way to copy the complexity of human brains to far faster solid state circuitry, we will create super-intelligent beings who would have the ability to solve all the engineering problems within a matter of years. If the Singularity happens, then after that event this kind of expansion would be expected to start right away. Worst case scenario, within 1000 years this should start happening.
The ultimate Fermi paradox is why has this not happened yet. We are nearing the technological capability to do this. I think we will have molecular manufacturing within 100 years. Once we find a way to copy the complexity of human brains to far faster solid state circuitry, we will create super-intelligent beings who would have the ability to solve all the engineering problems within a matter of years. If the Singularity happens, then after that event this kind of expansion would be expected to start right away. Worst case scenario, within 1000 years this should start happening.
You're assuming a hyper-intelligent being would have the same motivation to build this that you have, and no better ideas. Also, Dyson Spheres around other starts would likely block signals of their intelligence, even if those signals were detectable by our technology, or recognizable even if they were detectable. Another solution to the Fermi Paradox is found in the Outer Limits episode "Final Exam."
And none of this takes into account that we may all be a giant simulation, anyway.
Well my assumption is that if, say, 1000 years from now, 100 separate entities have the resources to start on this kind of expansion. You know, different corporations, political entities, group minds, whatever.
Only one of them has to start it, and in another million years, the galaxy will be nothing but copies of that entity.
Basically, over the long run, if life can replicate exponentially it will do so, because the variants of life that fail or refuse to do so are quickly swept aside.
However, yes, this Fe
"We are nearing the technological capability to do this."
BS. The molecular biology is nowhere near there and is unlikely to be for decades if not centuries, especially considering that even routine sequence alignments constitute an NP complete problem for even modestly sized proteins and nucleic acids.
In contrast, what we do currently know about space biology strongly suggests that prolonged space travel is a contraindication for human life.
? what does that have to do with anything. Molecular manufacturing won't depend on molecular biology, for the reasons you just mentioned.
Once all the mass in the star system is consumed and converted into more robots, processors, etc more ships are built and sent off like seeds to more stars to continue the process.
It would be a sad story for inhabitants of that star system...
...The ultimate Fermi paradox is why has this not happened yet.
We could be the first civilization in our galaxy with such grand aspirations, but with so many stars and planets around the odds are very much against that. IMO a likely explanation is that what you propose is actually much harder than you think and therefore much less likely to ever happen.
There are many serious obstacles that any such project would have to overcome before even a fleet of robots of our manufacture were ever to reach the closest nomad planet. Some obstacles are close to home, such as hum
Gravitational microlensing surveys have been looking for brown dwarfs and dim stars (sufficiently low luminosity they are not visible from Earth) in the galactic halo, but not enough were found to explain the mass difference (between luminous and non luminous galactic matter) to explain the observed galactic rotation curves. Planets around such low mass stars can also be seen (and have been seen, see the results by Microlensing Observations in Astrophyics [MOA] Project and associated collaborators - disclaimer I'm a former member). Depending on how small the planets are, they also could be detected (if you get very very lucky, due to the optical alignment required between observer, missing mass, and background luminous object). Given the constraints of the proportions of baryonic matter during the primordial nucleosynthesis (Big Bang/early universe) and the observed microlensing rate brown dwarfs are unlikely to account for the dark matter (AFAIK, I've been out of the game for a while). The baryonic constraints eliminated small rocks and gas clouds etc too. (I'm no expert on the nucleosynthesis calculations, however).
It would not be unusual for someone to come up with a theory that didn't take into account the known observations. For example, during the 1990's the early gravitational microlensing surveys 'rediscovered' the fact that our Galaxy is a 'barred spiral' - something the search teams were not aware of at the start of their studies (although astronomers, a different type of scientist, did know this). So it would not be unusual for someone to be missing key observations that invalidate this 'many planet theory'. Fortunately for the microlensing surveys their observations and results lead them to the correct conclusion (barred spiral galaxy), which instilled confidence in their methods and results. It doesn't take away from the fact that what was already known by astronomers was not at the time commonly known amongst the astrophysicists/particle physicists who designed the early microlensing surveys. It wouldn't surprise me if this was also the case in the paper
The fine article says that this result is extrapolated from microlensing survey results.
I have a peripheral connection with MOA myself. Phil Yock was my MSc cosupervisor (pre-MOA) and later I travelled to the telescope and helped with some setup, mostly of the computers. I also told them that I didn't think using "sleep 30" to control the exposure time was a good idea.
Fortunately things have changed with regard to acquisition.
And the baryonic composition of the dark matter?
Interesting idea (not sure it's necessarily a *good* idea, but nevertheless worth consideration), but there's one issue I can foresee:
How do you *find* the things?
Planets don't emit light. They don't really do much of anything to draw our attention. It can be difficult to spot planets even in our own solar system - Neptune, far from the smallest planet, is invisible to the naked eye, and Pluto (a dwarf planet, I know) is extremely tricky for the amateur astronomer to observe due to its distance and, more im
You put a giant telescope on space, and use gravity lensing to detect them.
Probably better done with a RF telescope.
I was taught in school, and thus assume to be the gospel truth, that planets are formed by a spinning disk of excess matter being thrown off by a young star. So where do nomad planets come from? And are they actually solid, or just mini-gas giants? After all, the galaxy is composed primarily of gas, with all the higher numbered elements being created exclusively within stars, right?
I'm having trouble seeing how these planets could form at all, let alone be so ubiquitous.
Those spinning disks may not be dense enough to ignite into a star, but dense enough to form these plants that wind up "going rogue", is my understanding. I could be wrong. Or maybe the stars were destroyed in a war. You never know.
You are imperfect! You know what you must do.
it's called Fleet of Worlds
after a while technical civilizations start noticing that a star is more of a liability than an asset, so they just... get rid of the star.
With all the resources that only a civilisation like Magrathea might have, we could build our own Rama cylinder! w00t!
Step One: Find a big chunk of floating planet.
Step Two: Reconfigure the resources
Step Three: ???
Step Four: Profit
Step Five: Let your next generation prodigy meet the humans who got to whichever star or another in two weeks.
Step Six: What? You're probably dead now anyhow. Great time to be a joke.
Step Seven: This step intentionally left blank.
I'm writing a book on that subject. There are way more than gravity slingshots. That's #73 out of 83 on the list so far, and I'm only 1/3 of the way to a first draft:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Space_Transport_and_Engineering_Methods [wikibooks.org]
"What do you think, Helena?"
"Oh John, those poor aliens need our help!"
"So be it. Victor, can you reprogram Computer to land this planet on a planet?"
"Oh I don't know, John. Maybe we should go down in an Eagle instead?"
"Good thinking. Alan, lift-off in 5 minutes!"
want to play "Spaceward Ho!"
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351


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Maurice Ravel - L'Heure Espagnole, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Glyndebourne, 2012
Kazushi Ono, Laurent Pelly, Elliot Madore, François Piolino, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Alek Shrader, Paul Gay, Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Méchain, Julie Pasturaud, Kathleen Kim, Natalia Brzezinska, Hila Fahima, Kirsty Stokes
Live Internet Streaming - 19 August 2012
It seems only natural to bring together the two short one-act operas by Maurice Ravel, the only two opera works written by the French composer, but they are strangely - perhaps on account of the different challenges presented by the two works - more commonly performed separately or alongside short works by other composers (Zemlimsky's fairytale Der Zwerg is often seen as a younger audience-friendly companion for L'Enfant et les Sortilèges than the risqué comedy of L'Heure Espagnole). Glyndebourne's production for the 2012 Festival therefore provides an interesting opportunity to compare two works that aren't often performed, all the more so since they are both directed for the stage by Laurent Pelly, a director with a good affinity for the works who is able to highlight both their commonalities and their contrasts.
One thing that both operas have in common, even if they use different means of expression, is Ravel's playful and inventive approach to musical accompaniment. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges might be made up of apparently more conventional set pieces for singing, while L'Heure Espagnole is more declamatory in recitative than sung, but both make use of American influenced jazz and ragtime and other unconventional arrangements and instruments in order to express the variety of situations, movements, gestures and attitudes that take place from moment to moment over the course of both of the works.
Set inside a clock shop in Toledo, if the music of L'Heure Espagnole isn't conventionally rhythmic outside of the famous synchronised ticking of three different clock times at its intro, there is nonetheless a definite metronomic timing to the pace of the opera itself. While the clockmaker is out of the shop for an hour - by deliberate arrangement - checking the town clocks, the presence of a customer, the muleteer, forces his wife Concepción to have her lovers transported pendulum-like back and forth to and from her bedroom inside grandfather clocks by the unwitting but brawny muleteer. The opera has all the timing and rhythm of a typical French farce of slamming doors and hiding of a succession of lovers in wardrobes, and the rhythm of all these comings and goings even reflects the sexual implications that are suggested but not shown.
If that seems a bit of a limp subject for an opera, well imagine how this only reflects the disappointment felt by the clockmaker's wife at the disappointing performances of the poet Gonzalve and the banker Don Iñigo Gómez who talk a good line but prove to be not really up to the job - unlike the muleteer Ramiro who handles all the exertions demanded of him by Concepción unfailingly. All such considerations are taken into account by Ravel, as lightweight as they might seem, including the suggestive double-entendres that come along with talk of pendulums, and the work is scored accordingly with flirtatious melodies, bursts of bluster, and shrill lines of frustration and disappointment, everything moreover seeming to play to the deliberate pace dictated by the presence of the muleteer. Ravel's knowing treatment belies the apparent lightness of the work - the nod-and-a-wink ensemble finale offers no moral other than the intention of the work to "stress the rhythm, spice up the lines, with a soupcon of Spain" - but it's never so clever as to get in the way of the genuine comic potential and satire of the subject.
L'Heure Espagnole is not an opera that you would think requires much in the way of sets or props, but set designers Caroline Ginet and Florence Evrard pull out all the stops for this Glyndebourne production, fitting out the Toledo clock shop with a variety of timepieces, religious icons and assorted junk. It serves the purpose of being eye-catching as well as perfectly functional for the farcical operations of the plot, but it also serves that perfect sense of situation that you find in Laurent Pelly productions, where you feel not so much in a real-world location as in the world of the music itself. Evidently, in such a work it's all about the timing and Pelly, along with conductor Kazushi Ono, find that ideal pace of rhythm and direct the five-person cast through the work wonderfully well.
The singers too realise that it's all there in the music and match the tone of their performances to the sense of comic timing and the intricacies of the score. Stephanie d'Oustrac is alternately flirtatious and ferocious as the man-eater Concepción, commandingly delivering lines that demand obedience and satisfaction. Alex Shrader puts on a fine comic performance as the poetry-spinning Jim Morrison-lookalike Gonzalve, with a lovely tenor voice to match his lyrical musings, while Paul Gay's bass-baritone seems better suited to the lighter comic delivery of Don Iñigo Gómez here than the heavier dramatic roles such as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust that I've seen him sing before. Elliot Madore was excellent in the vital role of Ramiro, as was François Piolino as Torquemada.
With its surreal imagery, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges is a stage designer's dream (or perhaps nightmare), but there is a deeper psychological element to author Colette's original libretto of a naughty schoolboy and its treated to some ravishingly beautiful as well as inventive and playful arrangements by Ravel. In the case of the Glyndebourne production, it's definitely a dream to have the imagination of Laurent Pelly set loose on a work like this. You get a sense of being somewhere unique with Pelly at the best of times, but it's even more the case with a work like this. By the laugh raised from the Glyndebourne audience right from the moment the curtain opens on an over-large table and chair that miniaturises Khatouna Gadelia as an 'enfant', you can tell that the stage design has already made the right kind of impact. But there are still considerable challenges that have to be met not only to have the child's mother appear as a grown-up within this set (it's very well done), but in the rapid changes of scene that are required over the course of the rest of this short work that also relies on the keeping of a regular rhythm.
Having a tantrum at being told he has to do his homework, the victims of the child's violent and selfish actions come back to haunt him as enchanted objects, each forming a little scene of their own. A dancing Sofa and an Armchair give way to a spinning Clock, than a Teapot and a China Cup, the Flames from the fireplace and then the Shepherd and Shepherdess from the wallpaper that the child has torn in his bad temper, each of them scolding the child for his behaviour, the Princess from the ripped-up storybook making him tearfully aware of the consequences of his actions. The separate pieces slip in and out of the dark like flitting figments of a child's imagination, each imaginatively assembled, but contributing to create a surreal mood that has more sinister, or perhaps just deeper psychological significance that becomes clear with the final cry of 'Maman' at the arises out of the musical arrangements as much as from the psyche of the child.
The challenge of staging the work then is not just in keeping that procession of scenes moving, but in linking them together in a way that they lead to that natural conclusion. That progression is there in the music too, which seems to be made up of a variety of styles, some melodic, others less so, some abstract and playful, such as the song of the Cats, whose mewling vocalises their discontent just as effectively as an words. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges does feel at times like it's trying to be too clever in this regard - and exercise in mood expressed very precisely and evocatively in musical and visual terms - all the more so considering the light subject of a naughty child being scolded by the objects that he has inflicted his anger upon, and it might indeed come across like that were it not for the ending in Colette's libretto and the interpretation placed on it by the strong combination of Pelly's direction and Ono's approach to the score.
That really comes together then, as it should, in the final scenes where the knife-scored trees and the creatures of the woods - squirrels, dragonflies and frogs - bring us back to nature and, through them, to the essential nature of the child itself. L'Enfant et les Sortilèges isn't just a clever theatrical show of animated objects and anthromophism - well, it is and it needs to be, but it's also more than that. The director and conductor have their part to play in making the work more meaningful than that, in making its meaning come to life, but the singers have a large part to play in that as well, and it's a work that is just as challenging in that regard. Khatouna Gadelia isn't the strongest of singers to rise above this cacophony, but she doesn't have to be, and it's much more important that she gets across that this is the journey of a child's experience. Kathleen Kim takes on the challenge of the coloratura Fire, Princess and Nightingale roles well, but there's strong work here also from L'Heure Espagnole's team of d'Oustrac, Gay, Madore and Piolino. The work of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Chorus was also instrumental in maintaining that continuity within the work as well as in the combination of the two works as a fascinating double-bill.
The Ravel Double Bill was reviewed here from the Live Internet Streaming broadcast via The Guardian.


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Helpless and powerless, like being on a roller coaster with no one at the controls to make it stop.
That's what it's like to deal with mental illness – someone else's mental illness.
Our three-part series earlier this week brought back memories for me of the struggles of two of my dear friends who are coping with bipolar disorder.
Memories of visits to hospital rooms. Of long conversations at all times of the day and night. Of the terror of not knowing what would happen next. Of tears, both theirs and mine.
It's exhausting and scary. Very, very scary.
Yet, today they both are doing well. They are living with and successfully managing their mental illnesses.
In the end, mental illness is just a chronic condition that must be dealt with, just as one deals with diabetes, Crohn's disease or lupus.
Just as in those other instances, the failure to get treatment can prove fatal.
Yet, unlike with those other conditions, mental illnesses often carry a stigma that causes many people to either refuse to get treatment or to stop the treatment they are receiving.
People who are struggling with mental illness aren't automatically violent. In fact, most are not. Neither of my friends ever posed a threat to anyone but themselves.
The stigma, however, can be particularly dangerous for those who refuse to get help.
That's the message that I hope readers got from the very powerful story told by Trish and Mike Neal, whose son, Ryan, took his own life in January.
Ryan Neal stopped taking his medications, his parents say, because he no longer wanted to deal with the "labeling that went with it."
The Neals' story resonated with me because so many of the things they went through with Ryan were things that I experienced with my friends.
"I tried so many times to get him to go to the doctors," Trish Neal told reporter Chelsea McDougall.
That conversation, repeated over and over again, is one of the most frustrating things about trying to help.
Sometimes you can get through; sometimes you can't. No matter how much you want to will your loved ones better, it's out of your hands.
And even when they finally get help, the journey is far from over.
There are stops and starts while doctor and patient find the right drug and the right talk therapy to make it work – a process that can take months or years.
For me, researching therapies and treatment options put me in a better position to help my friends. I wanted them to know they were not – and are not – alone.
I applaud the Neals for speaking out and telling Ryan's story. More of us need to make our voices heard.
Ryan Neal succumbed to an illness, one that in too many instances goes untreated because of perceptions that also need to change.
"Mental health issues are very real," Mike Neal said. "Society needs to get its head around that."
I couldn't agree more.
• Joan Oliver is the assistant news editor for the Northwest Herald. She can be reached at 815-526-4552 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Story highlights
- Google, known historically for its Web products, is now making popular gadgets
- Over the last year, Google has released a string of incredible hardware products
- The Chromebook Pixel laptop and Chromecast TV-streaming device are big hits
- To endure in the tech world, a company can't just rely on doing one thing well
Here's a brief history lesson for you.
Three years ago, Google was where you turned to look up a recipe. To check your e-mail. To chat with your friends when you were supposed to be working.
But in the tech equivalent of a blink of the eye, things today are much different. Throughout the last year, Google has released a string of incredible hardware products, not just a bunch of virtual services you use through another company's device.
Google really kicked it into gear in July 2012 with the Nexus 7, its first-ever tablet, that was priced at just $199. Reviewers went nuts. It wasn't just a great tablet because it was so cheap, it was simply a great tablet. Even the iPad mini, which came out a few months later and sold for $130 more, wasn't as good.
Then came another string of winners: The Nexus 4 smartphone, which you can buy unlocked and without a contract for just $299. The Chromebook Pixel, a beautiful laptop with a stunning high-resolution touchscreen. And more recently, the Chromecast, a dongle that plugs directly into your TV and lets you beam video from your Android device, iPhone or iPad.
There's also the Moto X, a new smartphone from Google-owned Motorola that's one of the most accessible and easy to use Android phones I've ever tested. And don't forget Google Glass, the promising, Internet-connected eyewear that should hit the market next year.
As Apple keeps its head down and works on iterative (but great) updates to its iPhone and iPad line, and as Microsoft struggles to find a way to make Windows 8 devices like its Surface tablet resonate with the public, Google is releasing some of the most interesting and innovative hardware we've seen recently.
As a high-level executive at a very large tech company recently told me, no company can hope to be successful these days unless it can offer an ecosystem of software, services, and great devices to run them all on. Yes, that's the Apple model, but it's a model that's been proven to be a hit with consumers in the new mobile computing era.
And Google, a company that most people still associate with Gmail and Web searches, has been crushing it in both respects. It's always done well with the data, apps, and services part of things, but stringing all that together with affordable, high-quality hardware is a new and exciting trend for the company.
In some ways, Google has done a better job at this than Apple. For example, unlike the Apple TV, which requires you to have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to beam video, the new Chromecast will work with any major laptop, smartphone, or tablet no matter who makes it. And it does it all for a very reasonable $35, or $64 less than Apple's product. There's massive potential here for Google to build TV-watching ecosystem built around the device.
Apple may make great hardware, but it's biggest challenge is still making reliable software and services. (Remember the Apple Maps debacle from last year?) Meanwhile, Google is already a pro at such services, and it's packaging them along with great devices that are affordable and appeal to average users, not just the tech elite.
To endure in the cutthroat tech world, a company can't just rely on doing one thing well. It has to push forward, experiment, and get messy. In the last year, Google has proved it can do all that -- and make some quality gadgets at the same time.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steve Kovach.


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Together with contributions from the government of British Columbia, CN Rail and the Prince Rupert Port Authority, this C$90-million (US$90.097 million) project will expand capacity and operations at the Port of Prince Rupert, a vital part of the transportation network that makes up Canada's Asia-Pacific Gateway.
The RRUC project is a joint public- and private-sector investment that will provide road and rail access, along with utility services, to 1,000 acres of multi-user heavy industrial land that is accessible through the deep-sea terminals at the Port of Prince Rupert. The project features the development of a common user rail corridor, roads and access to port property. This infrastructure investment will solidify the development plan for the Ridley industrial site by creating the required transportation and logistical framework. Investments at the Port of Prince Rupert will support Canada's international trade with Asia.
"Building capacity at the Port of Prince Rupert is necessary for the expansion of Canada's trade with fast-growing Asian economies. This investment unlocks the sustainable development of port infrastructure and industrial waterfront that will benefit industries across Canada," said Don Krusel, president and chief executive officer of the Prince Rupert Port Authority.


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April 8, 2011
Box Score
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -
Fresh off of their first night victory at UNLV in over four years, the Cal State Northridge Matadors (15-15) could not repeat the performance against the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners (21-7), dropping the first game of the series 15-5 at Matador Field.
Things got out of reach for the Matadors early in the game as the Roadrunners were able to put across five runs in the first inning thanks in part to a three-run homerun. After adding another run in the second, Bakersfield held a 6-0 lead over Northridge.
The Matadors cut into the deficit in the bottom half of the second inning with two outs to bring the game within four runs. With two outs in the inning, centerfielder Andrew Muren singled up the middle for the Matadors' first hit of the game. The next batter, sophomore third baseman Tommy Simis, drove a pitch over the left field wall for a two-run homerun, his second of the season.
Bakersfield responded in the next half inning by matching the production of the Matadors and adding on two more, extending the lead to 10-2. In the inning, two runners scored on bases-loaded walks and another via a sacrifice fly with one out.
Northridge pushed across its third run of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning after designated hitter Marty Bowen reached first on a throwing error with one out. Adam Barry singled Bowen to second and Muren grounded out to advance the runners to second and third. With two out, Bowen scored on a wild pitch by the Roadrunners' starting pitcher Mike McCarthy.
Leading 10-4, Bakersfield piled on more runs in the top of the seventh, as four runs came around to score before an out was recorded. A fifth run scored on a groundout to shortstop Kyle Attl for the first out.
Matador starter Justen Gorski (3-4) pitched 2.0 innings, allowing eight runs on eight hits. Junior Chris DeBoo pitched 4.0 scoreless innings for Northridge, striking out one. Simis finished the game 3-for-4 with two RBI and the homerun as the only Matador with more than one hit. De Marco ended the day at 1-for-4 with two RBI.
The series will continue in Bakersfield tomorrow evening, as the Matadors and Roadrunners will head north for game two at 6 p.m. The series finale is scheduled to be played at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Bakersfield. Click on the "Listen Live" link on the homepage of GoMatadors.com 15 minutes before the scheduled start time for a preview of the game and full play-by-play coverage of the rest of this weekend's action.


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News Feature
Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, April 26, 2012
DIS State chess champs head to San Diego for K-9 nationals
by Richard Powell
Starting on Friday, April 27, Deer Isle-Stonington state chess champions in the K-3, K-6 and K-8 divisions will compete in the National K-9 Scholastic Chess Championships in San Diego, Calif. The tournament hosts between 1,000 and 1,500 young chess players from all 50 states.
In the K-8 under 1,000 section, DIS will field a five-member team headed up by Bethany Humpfrey, with a 995 rating. Humpfrey has the highest rating in her section, so she has to be considered one of the favorites. Other team members are the brother-and-sister combo of Isaac and Orly Vaughn, Krisford Melanio and SooZin Cha. Vaughn and Cha are sixth graders, while the rest of the team are in eighth grade.
In the 750-and-under category, Alyssa Chesney, with a 563 rating, leads DIS. Other players include Avery Reynolds, Tyson Rice, Ennis Marshall, Colby Haskell, Philomena Mattes and the three Stewart brothers: Cam, Ross and Cole. Ross is the K-3 Maine individual runner up.
Cameron Wendell, with a rating of 1022, will compete as an individual against mostly higher-rated opposition in the K-9 under 1250 category. The team minimum is two players, thus Cameron will be looking to improve himself.
Matches will be held on April 27, at 1 and 7 p.m.; April 28, at 9 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m.; and April 29, at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Donations to help defray expenses of this trip may be sent to Suzette Billings, Chess Boosters, P.O. Box 67, Stonington, 04681.


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Madness at the Theatre studies the
theatrical representation of madness from the classical Greek
period through to the 21st century.
Professor Oyebode charts the portrayal of madness by the world's
great playwrights across the centuries and argues that whereas acts
of madness are described but unseen in Greek drama, Shakespeare
brought these behaviours to centre stage. In the 19th and early
20th centuries aberrant behaviour was portrayed in domestic
settings by Ibsen – theatrical madness became a family drama.
Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill drew on their own families
for their explorations of madness and addiction, which lent a
freshness and authenticity to their characters. Pinter's masterful
use of the ambiguity of language finds strong echoes in the
psychiatric clinic. Soyinka approached the subject from a different
perspective, emphasising the social context – the personal malady
as reflection of a greater malaise in society. Finally, Sarah Kane,
whose own mental illness shaped her work, created plays that were
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This book deals with an aspect of drama that
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Readership: It will be
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