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A man who stabbed his mother to death on Mother's Day last year has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
John Charles Coburn (35), from Rossburn Manor in Connor, appeared at Antrim Crown Court last Thursday, where he entered the guilty plea.
He appeared in the dock wearing a white and yellow polo shirt, flanked by a psychiatric nurse.
Coburn stabbed his mother Lyn, a former Antrim High School student, on April 3, 2011 at her home in Connor.
[Source: Antrim Guardian]
The news that the Narrow Water Bridge project, the first major infrastructure link between Ireland, North and South, has secured $22.6 million of European funding from the Cross Border INTERREG IVA Program, has been met with much delight from political representatives and involved agencies alike.
This major capital investment will see the development of a 640 meter single carriageway cable-stayed bridge across Carlingford Lough linking Counties Down and Louth and will be an opening bridge to enable tall ships, leisure craft and other marine vessels access to Victoria Lock and the Albert Basin in Newry.
Supporters of the bridge have long heralded its tourism and economic potential, citing it as a "gateway to the Mournes," which will also open up greater trade links between North and South.
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
A two-day search of the River Barrow was called off on Friday, October 26, when the body of an elderly man was found.
Seán Dowling (79) from Spahill, Borris was found in the river at 12:40 p.m., following extensive searches since early Thursday.
Gardaí (police) had begun a search of the area at 9 a.m. on Thursday after the popular Borris native was reported missing.
His car was found parked in Aldi in Bagenalstown and local groups, including the Civil Defence, were on hand to help search for Mr. Dowling.
[Source: Carlow Nationalist]
A four-man gang made off with a large haul of cigarettes from a supermarket in Kingscourt last Tuesday morning, and a high-speed chase ensued with Gardaí (police), during which the patrol car was struck, The Anglo-Celt can reveal.
The gang smashed a large window at the SuperValu premises on Church Street, and then proceeded inside and made their way to the strong room, and are understood to have cut it open with cutting equipment. They took the haul of cigarettes from that room.
They also damaged a cigarette vending machine on the shop floor and took the cigarettes from it. The Gardaí received an alarm call at 1 a.m. on Tuesday to go to the SuperValu.
[Source: The Anglo Celt]
It is believed that Ryanair is to increase its traffic at Shannon significantly, with sources indicating that a deal will be announced following the separation of the airport from the Dublin Airport Authority (D.A.A.).
It's understood Ryanair has made contact with local business people and indicated that as many as six planes could be based at Shannon, where currently there is only one. Having that many planes at Shannon would indicate a huge level of traffic and would give a massive boost to the airport and the regional economy. However, that number seems unlikely given the economic crisis gripping Ireland and Europe.
Ryanair have refused to comment on the matter and in a statement to The Clare Champion on Wednesday the company said, "Ryanair does not comment upon, or engage in, rumor or speculation."
[Source: Clare Champion]
A Cork woman who suffered the tragic loss of her two young daughters after her husband took his own life and theirs revealed last Wednesday that the H.S.E. conducted an inquiry without telling her.
Almost two years ago in November 2010, John Butler killed Zoe (6) and Ella (2) and then himself in Ballycotton. Mr. Butler had been suffering from depression and had been receiving medical attention, until three months before his death.
In a statement released by a solicitor acting for Una Butler, it was revealed that she first became aware of the investigation only after meeting Minister of State with responsibility for mental health Kathleen Lynch in May.
[Source: Cork Independent]
Thousands took to the streets of Derry on October 31 for the annual Banks of the Foyle Halloween Carnival.
Upwards of 30,000 revellers descended on the city for the world's biggest Halloween party.
From early afternoon families of all ages were putting the final touches to their costumes and soaking up the unique atmosphere in the city centre.
As the Carnival Parade meandered through the city centre, onlookers watched as spirits, creatures and beings of "the other world" joined them for their annual party through the streets of the city. The parade concluded with a stunning fireworks display over the River Foyle.
[Source: Derry Journal]
A baby who was given minutes to live over four years ago continues to thrive after being given a kidney by his father last Monday.
Christian McCullagh rushed into this world five weeks early and at birth was diagnosed with serious medical conditions which included under developed lungs, a leaking valve in his heart and was at the end stage of renal failure.
Christian McCullagh was born in Letterkenny General Hospital (L.G.H.) on February 6, 2008. His family bid goodbye to their little bundle of joy twice before they discovered the baby's ability to fight for life.
[Source: Donegal Democrat]
For the politically-minded, there can be no more exciting event than the U.S. presidential election.
And so, when the idea was floated that our politics department should organize a trip to Washington this November, naturally a large number of boys leapt at the chance.
It isn't the first time Bangor Grammar has visited the political capital of the free world – we were there back in 2008 to watch the election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama.
And while there hasn't been quite as much hype surrounding the Democrat campaign this time round, it promises to be a much closer and equally exciting race.
[Source: BBC News]
A man accused of raping a woman after breaking into her Dublin home threatened to bury her in the back garden, she told a court last Wednesday.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the woman on two occasions, falsely imprisoning her and making a threat to kill or cause her serious harm at her Dublin home on June 17, 2011.
He also has pleaded not guilty to entering the woman's home as a trespasser with intent to commit theft and carrying a screwdriver and hammer on the same occasion.
Paul Burns, prosecuting, in opening the case to the jury, said the woman normally had a roommate, but on this night she was alone in her apartment and had fallen asleep in bed after a phone-call from her sister.
[Source: Evening Herald]
Urgent action is needed if the recent spike in suicides is to be addressed within the county.
The call comes from Caroline Teague, originally from Lisnaskea, who now works for the Public Institute for the Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm.
Six people within the county, between the ages of 15 and 69, have taken their own lives in the last three weeks.
This dramatic increase makes for stark reading when set against the 15 suicides that have occurred in Belfast in the last four months.
[Source: Fermanagh Herald]
Galway's most renowned sports horse breeder has been left paralyzed after sustaining a broken neck and severe spinal injuries following a horrific accident at a horse show.
Deirdre Bourns, who runs Bourns Sport Horses on Lisbeg Farms in Eyrecourt outside Ballinasloe, was working in the warm-up area of the Cavan Equestrian Centre during the indoor championships on September 19 with her horse and rider when a young horse bolted across the ring.
Deirdre was in a line of people when she and another woman were knocked down by the out-of-control horse which had a rider on top.
[Source: Galway Bay FM]
Kerry Group has reported year-on-year revenue growth of 10.9 percent for the first nine months of this year, to $5.7 billion, with trading profit up by 12.1 percent.
In its latest interim management statement, the Tralee-headquartered food group last Wednesday said that the third quarter of the year saw the business continue to achieve "good organic growth."
"Performance was solid across all regions, notwithstanding the challenging market conditions in Europe and the continuing competitive consumer foods market situation in Ireland and the U.K."
[Source: Irish Examiner]
Fears that the people of Athy and south Kildare will have to wait longer for an ambulance in an emergency due to changes at the local ambulance base were expressed last week.
However the H.S.E. has moved to allay the fears and say the cost saving changes will not impact on front-line services.
Speaking at the recent meeting of Athy Town Council, Clr. Mary O'Sullivan called on the H.S.E. to provide reassurance that the present ambulance service in Athy would not be curtailed or withdrawn.
[Source: Kildare Nationalist]
Kilkenny City is to benefit from a €5.5 million investment for the "Medieval Mile" tourism project, as was announced last Tuesday morning by Failte Ireland and Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan.
The Medieval Mile will stretch from Kilkenny Castle to St. Canice's Cathedral, with the first phase of the plan – three specific projects – set to come about from this funding. A museum at St. Mary's Church, a "Great Garden" along the River Nore, and the upgrading of the visitor experience, are part of an overall $19.5 million scheme to make the city a "must-see" destination for overseas visitors to Ireland.
[Source: Kilkenny People]
In the on-going search for missing Laois woman Aoife Phelan, Gardaí (police) have again spoken to a number of her friends and family, one week after her disappearance.
To date, searches in and around Portlaoise and Mountmellick have yielded nothing, while an examination of her phone records, bank account and Facebook account show no activity since Thursday, October 25.
Gardaí conducted inquires in housing estates around the Colliers Lane area of the town last Tuesday evening, October 30 where the missing woman was last seen five days previous.
[Source: Leinster Express]
A new Irish documentary about movie-going in Ireland throughout the decades, called "See You at the Pictures," will film in Carrick-on-Shannon on November 14.
The documentary for R.T.É., expected to be 90 minutes in length, received $136,000 from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland earlier this year.
Planet Korda Pictures is a Temple Bar-based production company who see this project "as a social history project as well as an entertaining film and hope that the stories we collect will form part of a nationwide historical resource on Irish cinema going."
[Source: Leitrim Observer]
A Polish woman who is dying from leukaemia received her final wish last week, after donations from the public allowed her to fly home to Poland.
Marta Salacka (27), a mother of a four year-old son, needed $26,000 to fly home to Poland on an air ambulance, as she was not permitted to travel on routine flights because of her condition.
The young woman, who hails from Gorzow Wielkopolski, near the German border, wanted to be at home with all her family in her final days.
There were emotional scenes in Limerick as she and her family bid farewell to their close friends, whom they have known for the past seven years.
[Source: Limerick Leader]
The death of a 58-year-old Longford man on New Year's Eve 2009 was caused by the enlargement of his heart after he suffered a heart attack brought on by an unprovoked assault, the Coroner's Court in Longford has heard.
Mr. Noel Keegan of 31 Farnagh, County Longford died shortly after he was attacked by Martin McDonagh of 55 Mostrim Oaks, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford at Park Road, Co. Longford on December 31, 2009. Mr. McDonagh was subsequently sentenced to five-year imprisonment.
Mr. Keegan, who was accompanied by his wife Marie on the evening of his death, was on his way to PVs on Ballymahon Street to meet with friends. The couple were followed by Mr. McDonagh and a female friend and the inquest heard that the Keegans tried to "lose" Mr. McDonagh and the woman by heading in a different direction.
[Source: Longford Leader]
Ardee Baroque, Ireland's only festival of orchestral baroque music, will take place over the weekend of November 16-18 in Ardee.
"It's going to be a fabulous three days of Handel, Bach and other composers," said Ardee Baroque chairman John Rountree.
"We will have concerts by the Irish Baroque Orchestra, soprano Deirdre Moynihan, baroque guitarist Eamon Sweeney, as well as other events. The sheer quality of the music will be exceptional."
Ardee Baroque is now in its ninth year and has established a reputation for exceptional music in atmospheric venues.
[Source: Dundalk Democrat]
Fifteen men who are accused of various charges relating to violent scenes at a Confirmation mass in St. Mary's Church in Ballinrobe last February have indicated that they will be pleading not guilty.
Sixteen men appeared before Castlebar District Court on Friday, October 26 in relation to incidents in Ballinrobe on December 25, 2011 and February 18, 2012.
Four men were charged with affray on December 25, 2011, while fifteen men were charged with incidents at St. Mary's Church in Ballinrobe on February 28, 2012. Four of them were charged on two counts – that of possession of an article and of threatening and abusive behaviour – while eleven other men are charged with violent disorder at the same location.
[Source: The Mayo News]
Thirteen students, three teachers and two parents from Eureka Secondary School in Kells, who were stranded in New York because of "Superstorm Sandy," have made it home to Ireland.
The Eureka students had travelled to New York to take part in the world finals of the Empire Mock Courtroom Trials competition along with their teachers Principal Caroline O'Reilly, Gabrielle Moran and Ronan Fahy, and parents Eileen Cunniffe and Lorraine Parry.
The group was due to depart from Newark Airport on October 29, but the arrival of Superstorm Sandy saw their flight cancelled.
At that stage, they were told that they would not be able to get another flight until November 9, and this was then revised to November 6. After spending many hours on the phone making frantic calls to seek alternative flights, Ms. O'Reilly got the good news that they were booked on a flight last Wednesday evening with their original airline and they arrived back in Dublin early on Thursday morning.
[Source: Meath Chronicle]
A man has pleaded guilty to the possession of a sawn-off shotgun and two cartridges.
Eamon Lennon (36), of Iniskeen, County Monaghan, pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to the unlawful possession of a sawn-off 12-gauge side-by-side shotgun and possession of two 12-gauge Eley shotgun cartridges at Ecco Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth on August 8, 2010.
Presiding judge Mr. Justice Paul Butler, sitting with Judge Margaret Heneghan and Judge William Hamill, remanded the accused man in custody, to appear before the non-jury court on December 6.
[Source: Evening Herald]
Police in Wales searching for missing Offaly woman Catherine Gowing have discovered human remains.
Search Teams and the Regional Underwater Search Team deployed in Sealand, Flintshire discovered the remains in a shallow pool within the field known locally as the "Lum."
The search targeted the area following information received from members of the public.
Senior Investigating Officer D.C.I. Mark Pierce commented, "At this time those remains have yet to be formally identified as this will require medical as well as forensic examination. A post-mortem is planned for later today (Thursday, November 1). At this time we are not able to comment further however Catherine Gowing's family have been informed of this distressing development and clearly our thoughts are with them at this very difficult time. I would ask that they be allowed privacy to come to terms with this news."
[Source: Offaly Express]
The alleged "inappropriate use" of monies from a fund held by prison officers at Castlerea Prison is being referred to the Garda (police) commissioner, the Herald can reveal.
The alleged "inappropriate use" of what is believed to be a significant amount of money was raised for discussion at a recent Oireachtas committee meeting.
At a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee earlier last month the committee confirmed receiving information from an anonymous source regarding the alleged "inappropriate use" of funds.
[Source: Roscommon Herald]
A 27-year-old man carried out two unprovoked assaults on two other men in quick succession, Sligo Circuit Court heard.
As a result, Eriks Melnis, Abbot's Close, Seapark, Dungarvan, County Waterford, was given a three-year suspended sentence on one charge.
He was ordered to carry out 240 hours of community service, in lieu of two-year imprisonment, on the other.
Judge Hunt was told the incidents in July 2011, were "totally out of character" for Melnis.
[Source: Sligo Champion]
Patients and medical staff in Cashel are "gravely disturbed" that an x-ray machine in Our Lady's Hospital is out of action due to a mechanical defect, according to a local medical doctor and county councilor.
Mayor of Cashel Dr. Séan McCarthy also said passengers travelling through Thurles Railway Station could not use the car park without fear of being fined, or having their cars clamped, as the ticket vending machines are out of order.
Dr. McCarthy told the Tipperary Star the x-ray machine on the grounds of Our Lady's has been out of order for the week or so, and there is mounting concern.
[Source: Tipperary Star]
Police and Fire Service personnel are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal incident on Friday evening, October 26 at a farm in the Killybracken Road area of Dungannon, which claimed the life of a popular local farmer.
Mr. Jackie McCoey (76) died in an incident involving a piece of cattle-feeding equipment.
A very well-known man who farmed in the area for most of his life, Mr. McCoey is survived by a wife and seven children to whom sincere sympathy is extended.
He is the 24th person in Northern Ireland to die in a farming accident in the past 20 months.
[Source: Tyrone Courier]
A meeting took place last Thursday evening between the Master of the City and County Infirmary Trust, Mr. Gordon Watson, and elected representatives from the city and county to discuss growing gears that hospital services in Waterford and the region could be seriously eroded.
The meeting at Waterford Institute of Technology had been called amid fears that approval is to be given for a recommendation for the complete break-up of the regional hospital network.
That would mean a downgrade of W.R.H. and Waterford networking with Cork and Clonmel while people from Wexford and Kilkenny requiring hospital care would have to travel to Dublin.
[Source: Waterford News & Star]
The Minister for Agriculture Marine and Food Simon Coveney has officially launched Moate-based Irish Rural Link's new Farm Safety Mentor Program.
The initiative is a new and innovative approach in the communication of the farm safety message according to Seamus Boland, C.E.O. of Irish Rural Link, who expressed his delight at Minister Coveney's endorsement of the campaign.
"Sadly fatalities and injuries remain way too high on Irish farms and part of the solution is to actively involve farmers themselves in the change process," he commented. This new and innovative approach to saving lives will engage farmers to become change makers, supporting safer farms and the development of farm to farm advice and mentoring systems.
[Source: Westmeath Independent]
New Ross Town Council has been asked to consider reviewing its existing bye-laws with regard to drinking in public places.
Town Clerk, Ger Mackey, made the suggestion during a recent local authority meeting in the Brandon House Hotel.
Speaking to councilors, Mr. Mackey said, "There is a need for a review in light of the enhanced town park facilities and quayside plan."
"These particular bye-laws are useful in combating anti-social behavior and allows for the full enjoyment of the town's amenities," added Mr. Mackey.
[Source: Wexford Echo]
A 34-year-old Wicklow man charged with murdering a young father told his arresting detective that the Gardaí (police) had made "a catastrophic error," his trial has heard.
Father-of-two Séamus O'Byrne was shot five times in front of his girlfriend and baby son outside their home at Tymon Park North, Tallaght in Dublin.
Garrett O'Brien, of Clover Hill in Bray, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the 27-year-old and to possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life on March 13, 2009.
Detective Garda Camon Ryan gave evidence to the Central Criminal Court last Wednesday of arresting Garrett O'Brien for the murder.
"Yous made a catastrophic error," said the defendant in reply to his arrest on March 4, 2010.
[Source: Irish Independent]


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its first home match of the 2011 campaign, the nationally-ranked No. 8 MIT men's volleyball posted a 25-21, 25-19, 25-13, victory over Newbury College in a North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division contest on Tuesday night. With the win, the Engineers improved to 4-0 on the year and in conference action while the Nighthawks saw their ledger dip to 1-2 overall and 0-1 in the league.
After MIT established a 4-1 lead, both sides traded points until three straight brought Newbury within one (11-10). The Cardinal and Gray picked up the next point courtesy of a service error, but Danny Kim and Dan Davison collaborated for a block to keep the one-point deficit. A 4-1 spurt, featuring back-to-back kills from Matt Hohenberger, gave the Engineers some breathing room and moved the score to 16-12. A James Beck kill paired with an MIT hitting miscue narrowed the Nighthawks' gap to two (18-16), which was maintained by both squads trading serves as late as 21-19. MIT went on to score four of the last six points to close out the set.
With the score knotted at three in the second stanza, the hosts mounted a 9-3 run to secure the lead. Newbury countered with five straights points, cutting its deficit to one (12-11). Following a timeout by MIT, the Engineers posted a 4-1 spurt, which was replicated by the Nighthawks to preserve the one-point margin (17-16). MIT responded by tallying six of the next seven points to seize control of the set. Beck pounded a pair of kills in an attempt to generate a late rally, but the Engineers' Malcolm Bean sealed the game with two strikes of his own.
The early stages of the final set were closely played as a kill from Newbury's Chris DeMarco evened the score at five. Sparked by a Hohenberger hit, MIT went on a 12-4 run to break open the game. After trading points, the Engineers rattled off five in a row as an ace by Tim Lee resulted in match point. A blast by Matt Talamantes extended the frame, however a blocking error clinched the victory for the Engineers.
Hohenberger finished with 13 kills and an ace as Bean posted seven kills and three blocks. Patrick Vatterott registered five blocks, five kills, and two aces while Ken Siebert notched seven kills and four blocks. Garrett Winther bolstered the blocking corps with four stops as Caine Jette recorded five digs, and an ace. Lee tallied 28 assists, 12 digs, and an ace for MIT.
Beck paced the Nighthawks with 13 kills to go along with four digs as Talamantes compiled 26 assists and four kills. Max Daley chipped in four kills while Mike Biuso added nine digs.
Both squads continue conference play on Thursday, Jan. 20. MIT will visit Regis College while Newbury will host Wentworth Institute of Technology.

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Assuming everybody sees time on the floor, it will mark the first time since the first game of the season that Detroit's entire roster is available for minutes. John Kuester, Pistons Head Coach, hasn't announced a starting lineup, but it's expected to consist of Prince at small forward, rookie Jonas Jerebko at power forward, Ben Wallace at center, Hamilton at shooting guard and Rodney Stuckey at point guard.
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p4wn06124ff171 wrote:bigstrads wrote:LMAO!.............no-one has replied to this.
Actually Bigs, im glad i made the thread and encourage others to post there details.. it's a great little board we have here and ive made some super cool friends so far.
I've had GSW United add me on MSN and (suprise, Suprise) SFSFSFGiants added me on fbook.bigstrads wrote:
Ps: Im still not giving Pawno my facebook name though!
Don't need your name though dude... i could probably dig up a last name somewhere in this forum "James" something...
But for someone who's suppose to be MVP of the board, kind of take offense to ya not showing us lower folks any fbook love
Ah no worries BIGS... everyone knows that I USE FACEBOOK to try and seduce young 18+ girls straight out of high school and stepping up to the big bad world of College and University Never really been into Hairy Englishmen that enjoy there cigarettes and coffee (but am willing to experiment)
Ahh I was only kidding bud..............I just thought it was funny/weird how wed had loads of threads regarding myspace and facebook, and chats/name reveals in the random babble thread but no-one had posted in this one yet.
So atleast now we have.
If you have a look in the random babble thread, I revealed my name in there a couple of weeks ago.............and actually got a facebook email from sfsfsfgiants from it, it was an interesting read I can tell you.


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COL. CITY K9 FOUND: Allen Co. deputy finds Stryker
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City's missing police dog was found Wednesday morning.An Allen County Sheriff's Deputy spotted Stryker, who had been in hiatus since Tuesday afternoon. The police dog was found on Hathaway Road in Allen County at approximately 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.The canine got out of his kennel Tuesday, and was spotted by a passing motorist at approximately 3 p.m. — sparking a search that lasted until dark.Stryker had last been seen in the area of Ind. 205 and County Road 200 East, and was found a few miles into Allen County on Hathaway Road.Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh said Stryker appears to be uninjured and healthy and doesn't have any injuries."We are very thrilled to have him back," Longenbaugh said.The chief said Stryker's handler, Master Patrolman Tim Pittenger, will be taking him to the veterinarian this afternoon."I am very thankful for all of the departments and volunteers that helped us look for him," Longenbaugh said. Longenbaugh said along with Columbia City Police Officers, the Whitley County Sheriff's Department, Indiana State Police, Churubusco Police Department, Allen County Sheriff's Department, Indiana Conservation officers, Churubusco Fire Department and other volunteers assisted in the search.After the CCPD was tipped off about the escape, Pittenger, Stryker's handler, came home to his residence in the Collins area to find the dog's kennel door ajar.Longenbaugh said the department received two calls Tuesday night of possible Stryker sightings, but neither turned up the K9.Longenbaugh said the department received tips that the dog was spotted near Eel River Golf Course and along U.S. 30.For a more in-depth look at this story, see the Jan. 30 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook.


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Odemwingie left in cold on deadline day
Peter Odemwingie faces an awkward return to West Brom after the club admitted they were "disappointed" by his "unprofessional" attempts to secure a deadline day transfer to QPR.
Odemwingie - seemingly of his own volition - made the drive down to Loftus Road on Thursday evening, in a bid to push through a move to the relegation-threatened Premier League club, despite West Brom refusing to grant him permission after a deal had proven impossible to agree.
The Midlands side were forced to issue a statement confirming that they had not granted Odemwingie permission to travel to London, while QPR did not allow the Nigeria international to enter their stadium as they were eager not to "disrespect" the Baggies.
The statement read: "Albion can confirm that no agreement was reached with QPR over the transfer of Peter Odemwingie before the closure of the January window and that the striker remains under contract at The Hawthorns.
"The club were extremely disappointed to witness TV footage of Odemwingie arriving at Loftus Road on Thursday evening despite further talks between the two Premier League sides proving fruitless. Odemwingie was also never given permission to speak to QPR about a potential move."
Meanwhile, West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace claims Odemwingie has tarnished his reputation and must see out the remainder of his contract.
"This evening's developments have brought a conclusion to what has been an unsavoury affair," Peace said. "The only way we would have considered letting Peter leave was if an acceptable offer was forthcoming and if we had found a suitable replacement at relatively short notice.
"Neither materialised and, in the end, the matter became a point of principle as much as anything. Peter has acted wholly unprofessionally. He must now accept the fact he remains under contract for a further 18 months and has to focus on his Albion commitments."
The saga prevented any prospect of the two sides reaching an agreement before Thursday's 11pm transfer deadline, with Odemwingie likely to face tough questions upon his return to The Hawthorns.
Redknapp defended Odemwingie against suggestions the striker knew what he was doing in making the trip down, suggesting that the unusual incident was a result of mis-communication.
"I think he probably felt the deal had been agreed between the clubs and it hadn't," Redknapp told Sky Sports. "Just a bit of a mix-up really. I feel sorry for the lad and the way the whole thing has turned out.
"It wasn't any of our doing. I think maybe he was advised that he should turn up here, that an offer had been accepted but the wires got crossed somewhere. It's too late [to do a deal] now."
QPR's disappointment surrounding Odemwingie was tempered by a number of acquisitions on deadline day, however. Having completed the signing of Christopher Samba earlier in the day, QPR further strengthened with the addition of Jermaine Jenas from Tottenham on an 18-month deal.
The Spurs midfielder was joined by a former team-mate, Andros Townsend, who has moved to Loftus Road on a loan arrangement until the end of the season.
"We've got the two lads from Tottenham," Redknapp added. "The two loans. Andros I think has good potential to be a good player so it's good to get him in."
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Apple has proven time and time again that they're driven to innovate regardless, that they can successfully compete against themselves, but nothing drives them to innovate and compete faster and in a more focused fashion than a successful rival. Sadly, when it comes to iPad, rivals are proving anything but successful at the point.
- Sprint has canceled plans to launch a WiMax BlackBerry Playbook citing lack of interest from enterprise customers. [WSJ
- Best Buy is rumored to have only sold 25,000 of the 270,000 HP TouchPad's they received in stock, and that number might not include returns. AllThingsD
Meanwhile the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from Samsung can now once again be stocked in the EU, but the Motorola Xoom LTE update has been once again delayed, this time until fall, and we've yet to get sell through numbers in any meaningful volume for any of the them.
Part of this is certainly the unbaked nature of virtually all iPad competitors to date, so perhaps the race should now switch from who can ship a rival tablet first, to who can make a much better, much more compelling tablet at a much better value first?
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Monsanto Rejects Shareholder Proposals, USDA Closes Plant
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One sought a report on seed contamination of non-GMO crops including costs of seed replacement and crop and production losses. The second resolution called on Monsanto to work with government regulators to set a standard threshold for foods containing GMO ingredients that should be labeled.
- The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) urged a reversal of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to lower the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Renewable Volume Obligations.
RFA's Bob Dinneen expressed that the group is strongly opposed to the proposal and encouraged EPA to reconsider the proposal and finalize the requirement for renewable fuel at the level set by Congress which is 14.4-billion gallons.
- Another undercover video led USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service to pull its inspectors from a veal processing plant in New Jersey and shutting the plant down. According to USDA - the video shows two egregious violations of federal law.
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LA HABRA, Calif. (AP) — An explosion and fire possibly caused by a dust buildup at a Southern California metal-polishing shop injured 11 people Tuesday, including two men who were critically burned, fire officials said.
The blast occurred in an overhead duct system shortly before 10 a.m. in an industrial area of La Habra, a Los Angeles suburb. It took more than 50 firefighters about 40 minutes to douse the resulting fire.
TV news reports showed workers with blackened faces and hands outside the plant, which was identified on a company website as Gorilla's Polishing Corp. It is part of Gorilla's Chrome, Inc., which plates and polishes metal, particularly car wheels.
Mike Bremer, an operations manager at the neighboring VIP Rubber Co., told the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/S7cZAO) that he felt the explosion in his office.
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"This felt like a bomb going off," Bremer said. "It was one big, loud explosion and a steam sound after that."
Bremer ran outside and saw about 20 to 30 employees from Gorilla's Polishing standing outside the burning building.
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The blast and fire injured 11 people, including two men who were burned and taken to hospitals in critical condition, while most of the others suffered smoke inhalation, Miller said.
A preliminary investigation suggested lint and dust in a duct system caused the explosion, Miller said.
Employee David Lopez, 32, told the Register that the employees were polishing tire rims at the time of the explosion.
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I noticed that everyone on this site is sooooo nice and polite and blah blah blah blah blah. EFF THAT! There's a good reason that this discussion group has so many members relative to the others. Do I have to spell it out to you?? Geeeez! Aren't you guys are sick and tired of dating churchie girlz and wanna-be alter boyz! I know I'm sick of it! You're all here because you want to find someone who shares your world view; right? Someone who youtubes Chris Hitchens videos on their lunch break, just like you. Someone who gives copies of The God Delusion as Christmas gifts, just like you. Someone who gets all the subtle humor on Family Guy, just like you. Someone who has at least 5 relatives praying for their immortal soul every night, just like you. And someone who rocks the scarlet "A" like a f#%*ing badge of courage, JUST LIKE YOU! You don't want someone who has to go consult their pastor after a night of ruff sex do ya??
Well then get your head outta your tailpiece, click on the pic of that hot guy or girl and send them a friend request. Believe me, they want you just as much as you want them. At the time of this writing, there are almost a thousand members in this group. In the next 72 hours there better be at least 250 replies to this post telling me about how you just scored a date with that certain somebody. DO NOT REPLY UNTIL YOU'VE MET SOMEONE!!!
If I have to be the goddamned fire starter, I'll be the goddamned fire starter. If you get rejected, blame it on me and try again with someone else. Don't be a lame either, there'll be plenty of time to talk about Obama's health care package and Donald Trump's candidacy after you hook up. Focus! For the next 72 hours you only have one mission. And that mission? Duh, Winning!
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Heh heh heh heh heh. You oversimplify just a bit. Of the thousand or so members of this group, how many do you think are actually active? Granting that a third of the group is active would be generous, in my opinion. I think it's a bit below that.
So, that would be 328 people, probably only half of whom are in the US. So, you've got 164 people, spread out over 50 states ... just over 3 people per state, on average, in other words. What are the odds of someone of the opposite sex, in the right age range, being in the right half of the state as you? Not good, I think.
Good sentiment, though. So, should I be expecting some traffic in my inbox (nice metaphor, by the way) from a special someone? :-D
Lol, It's a nice idea, but I've honestly asked out at least one of the other members here--I don't know if any other the other atheist guys from UA are on here, but he is, and he turned me down after I asked him if it would be possible to go on a date, with "no, just not interested in you."
It's almost amusing, really, to see someone suggest this--that's what they always suggest, as if they have a magic bullet to end loneliness and cure all the problems with human pair-bonding. "Why don't you just date each other."
There was a complaint about single women being rushed by guys at atheist conventions. First, I had no such issue, then, every guy I showed interest in was offended by it. *shrug* It's not like I expected much more, but it is amusing to see how little guys change even if their beliefs are different, I still find and see plenty who are single and complain about it, but if I ask them out on a date, the answer is still "no, never ever."
Jonel, No magic bullets here. It's still a numbers game baby. The more you spin, the sooner you win. I'm the fire starter, but universal laws of mating still apply. My suggestion is to keep putting in applications and showing these dudes what a catch you are. Diligence will be rewarded!
Well I'm usually the one asking guys out, and I'm always the one getting turned down--I take the risks because I often key for guys who are shy and somewhat quiet("slick" guys who think they can do whatever they want make me sick-feeling), and I understand that it's not so easy for them to make the first move, however, even if it is the numbers game, if the numbers are stacked against you(overwhelming majority amount of males dislike fat chicks, especially death fatties, like me, and would never date one), you're probably not going to beat the odds--the house always wins.
I will say I have tried dating guys who fetishize women my size before, but it's...complicated and a little humiliating, they often just want sex, they consider me as a sort of property, and most of the time they don't want me around their friends/family, which, on top of that, they'd really just like to have sex, that's about it--I make a concentrated effort to date guys not on appearances, but on personality and ease of getting along--I don't want a guy dating me just because I fill his fetish box, I've been told that those relationships work but they don't for me, since I -really- am not interested in sex and consider myself asexual.
The odd part is, you think the fetish route would turn up a bunch of suitable dudes, but no, especially not around here. Alabama really hates their fatties, which is funny considering how many we have. I think it's a combo of the racism thing and obsessions with class--everyone is poor, so any way you can put someone down is automatically dragged into regular use.
... but they don't for me, since I -really- am not interested in sex and consider myself asexual.
Hmm, yeah, that's a bit of a problem. I'm very sexual. I was with you up until that point.
*shrug* It's not like that's something that I can just change or "work on", either, and that's often the problem I run into---they're fine with me as their friend, but the moment I talk about dating and further companionship they run away.
And yeah, every guy who -has- been interested in me is always extremely libidinous compared to myself--it's a little overwhelming and disconcerting, especially considering the stereotype of the "oversexed fat chick who will do anyone."
I know. I was just saying. That's a bit of a problem within a relationship. If I wasn't getting sex at least a couple of times a week, I'm sure I would stray. My girlfriend is quite libidinous, herself, but I'm still a couple more times more so. She seems to be pushing for another girl or two to help with the overflow libido. :-D
Personally, I haven't really run into your stereotype, though. I've run into a few girls like that, just not the stereotype about them.
Currently it's at once or twice a week, for me, that I can manage--but I've talked with guys before who were all "SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, EVERY SINGLE DAY."--which I can't deal with. :\
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Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably - "well, use a compression algorithm - right?".
Right! Well, yes, well, not exactly. Read on.
Your second thought might also have been - "Why bother? Just buy more disks." Which in the big picture is also not a bad answer. But for Mailinator that doesn't work - if you have read previous Mailinator tech articles you might know that Mailinator stores all it's email in RAM.
There were good reasons for that when Mailinator started. One was the use case - which was always disposable email that lasts a few hours (rather longer nowadays). Secondly, when Mailinator started, disks and datastores weren't as sophisticated/fast as they are now.
Also, Mailinator is/was always a free service so keeping costs down was always important. To this day, Mailinator runs on a single server. It averages about 4-5Terabytes of bandwidth a month and the peak incoming email rate I've seen is about 3500 emails/sec (this is just a production observation, server limit is bandwidth, not CPU).
And finally - last but not least - to me, much of web and application development today is utterly devoid of any fun algorithms. I spend a non-trivial amount of time in interpreted/dynamic scripting languages that do a fantastic job of hiding (or at least lure me away from thinking about) algorithmic complexity. I've probably inadvertently written more n^3 algorithms than, um, (n^3)-for-some-large-value-of-n.
Mailinator has always been my test bed for trying fun ideas, algorithms, and datastructures. In other words - I probably didn't need to do all the work I'm writing about here - but I definitely did have fun doing it (probably should have been out talking to girls, but alas).
Ok - so back to 90% compression.
So to start testing, I grabbed a few hundred megs of the Mailinator stream and ran it through several compressors. Mostly just stuff I had on hand 7z, bzip, gzip, etc. Venerable zip reduced the file by 63%. Not bad. Then I tried the LZMA/2 algorithm (7z) which got it down by 85% !
Well. OK! Article is over! Everyone out! 85% is good enough.
Actually - there were two problems with that result. One was that, LZMA, like many compression algorithms build their dictionary based on a fixed dataset. As it compresses it builds a dictionary of common sequences and improves and uses that dictionary to compress everything thereafter.
That works great on static files - but Mailinator is not a static file. Its a big, honking, several gigabyte cache of ever changing email. If I compressed a million emails, and then some user wanted to read email #502,922 - I'd have to "seek" through the preceding half-million or so to build the dictionary in order to decompress it. That's probably not feasible. And, as I said, the Mailinator cache is constantly throwing out old emails and putting in new ones.
In other words, an algorithm that relies on previous entries to build a dictionary can't work given that we keep purging the front of the stream never to be seen again.
Hence, we cannot compress emails "together". But we can compress them individually. Sadly, this hurts our compression ratio - and by a lot. The algorithm now must start building a new dictionary with each email. And emails are small so the dictionary isn't very mature by the time we're done compressing in many cases.
We can help this situation by giving the compression algorithm a pre-built dictionary. That is, scan a typical piece of data to be compressed, find common sequences and create a list of them. Then we give that dictionary to the compressor/decompressor as it takes off.
Woopsie. Again, the Mailinator stream is a living and breathing entity that's always changing. One minute might be a few million viagra spams, the next minute might be all about fake rolex watches. In other words, there is no "typical piece of data" - a static dictionary built off a sample of emails will be obsolete in relatively short order.
So, the first idea was to build a sliding dictionary builder. Each email is scanned for string occurrences and we keep a count of them. Then every so often (minutes or hours), the compressor switches to using the most recently constructed dictionary. Every compressed email is given a reference to its dictionary so when/if it needs to be decompressed, it knows what dictionary to give the decompressor. Many thousands of emails share the same dictionary so RAM to store dictionaries isn't particularly significant.
Well, that's great and does restore LZMA back to about 60-70% but remember I mentioned I had another problem with LZMA? Speed.
The C++ version of LZMA by Igor Pavlov compresses at about 1.7MB/s per CPU core on my test machine. Um. no. Firstly, Mailinator can pull down tens of MB per sec at times. Secondly, no component of our processing pipeline can be allowed to take up this much CPU (my rule, not yours). We need our CPU for other things when large volumes of mail arrive. (The java version by the way was about the same speed).
Simply - LZMA is pretty awesome - but it's too slow for this purpose.
So the for the moment, I fell back to using a fast but simpler compression (zlib/LZW) on individual emails - and we sink down to about 40-50% savings from compression.
A Bigger Idea of a "Dictionary"
The next step for me was to think about email composition. We get lots of different types of email - but we get lots of the same types too. For example, we get lots of newsletters (people send them to Mailinator then read them via POP or RSS).
The nice thing for us is that a newsletter email blast could be 10,000 emails that are, all the same. Well, ok, not exactly - no two emails are ever the "same" because headers have times, dates, message-id's, etc. within them. But if we remove the headers, you can get 10,000 emails going into 10,000 different inboxes that all have the same message "body". Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Right - store each email with it's own headers plus a pointer to ONE system-wide byte-array containing the newsletter body. What's the "compression" ratio of that? Well over 90%. And just to be a snot we can then apply compression to that byte array to eek out another few percent. We're reusing memory here so it's not exactly "compression" but we are reducing the size of the data sent to by some fantastic amount for this happy use case.
This isn't a revolutionary idea (online music libraries do the same thing) but it does fit pretty nicely in the Mailinator paradigm. Sadly apart from newsletters, not many other email sets, spam or otherwise have email bodies that are identical. In fact, spammers specifically change the subject line and destination url of every email they send for tracking and spam-detection-thwarting purposes. So what you get is something like this (headers omitted):
Email 1:
Buy vi4gra now!
Happy man are you will be!
Email 2:
Buy vi4gra now!
Happy man are you will be!
So much for simply detecting identical email bodies. And this goes for less nefarious things too. Sign-up emails from websites will contain the same surrounding text with different names and validation urls inside.
What we could use here is a Longest Common Substring (LCS) algorithm. Basically, it would compare the two email bodies and be able to break them up as:
Common string 1:
Buy vi4gra now!\r\nhttp://
Disparate strings:
Common string 2:
\r\nHappy man are you will be!
Nice .. each email is stored as 3 (compressed) byte arrays where 2 of those can be shared.
Unfortunately, classic LCS algorithms are expensive. Comparing two sequences is an O(nm) algorithm. And we're not interested in comparing two sequences, we're interested in comparing each new sequence (er.. each new email) with the few million that preceded it. Also, the LCS algorithm is also very memory expensive in the creation of trie datastructures - again, scaling to millions of emails just doesn't fit in our parameters.
Generally speaking, there are a lot of tricks I've noticed in analyzing algorithms. A few off the top of my head are: if you see an easy O(n^2) algorithm, it's rather likely there's an O(nlogn) one hiding in there somewhere. In contrast, if your dataset is small, you might be better off sticking to algorithms that make your CPU's cache and instruction pipeline happy instead of worrying about algorithmic running time (i.e. bubblesort > quicksort for small data). Lastly - if you can make assumptions about your data, you can often short-cut the classic algorithm with an good approximation.
Caching Lines
Cool, so let's assume something about the data. For emails, as it turns out, disparate parts of emails often occur on line boundaries (as you see in lines 1 & 3 above). A few same lines, a different one, a few more same. Instead of looking for common sequences based on individual characters, we can treat individual lines as units. Then we can attempt to find multiple occurrences of those lines. It cannot be as precise as LCS proper as in our above example (we would not find the identical portion "http://" in line 2) but we're basically settling for a greedy approximation, and one that works pretty well.
How do we store it though? LCS's tries would kill us. I know - let's use an LRU cache. Those darn things work for everything! We can use an LRU cache that caches full email-lines. It will inherently flush out old email lines as the spam stream evolves (nice!) and will provide quick look- ups to compares thousands of lines at once (happy!). Specifically in Java, an LRU-cache is a synchronized LinkedHashMap with true as the last constructor parameter and an overridden removeEldestEntry.
So we store a few 10's of thousands of email lines in an LRU cache and then as each new email comes in, we check to see if that line is in the cache. If it is, we reuse the one in the cache instead of creating new storage for this email. By assuming all common sequences are bounded at newlines, we remove the boundary-discovery work LCS must do. Strictly speaking, we're cheating and losing some opportunity, but it's a good enough guess for this type of data.
This had a dramatic effect on our "compression" (again, it's slighty dubious to call it compression but, as you consider the big picture, our entire machinery of the LRU cache and bastardized LCS-in-spirit algorithm is creating a reuse-dictionary, it might not actually be compression - but it goes through several of the motions).
Caching Multi-lines
Caching lines is great - but what about caching multi-lines? Say we have a few emails - for brevity, assume each character in the following examples are email "lines":
Email 1:
Email 2:
Email 3:
Email 4:
So the first 3 lines are all the same in each email (ABC), the 4th lines are numbers which are not the same. Our algorithm:
1) Load a LINE and see if it's in the cache (if no more lines, quit)
2) .. if it's not there, put LINE in the cache, and store LINE in the email - GOTO 1
3) .. If it IS there:
4) .... see if LINE + NEXT_LINE is in the cache
5) .... if its not there, put LINE + NEXT_LINE into the cache and store LINE (which is a cache hit) in our email - GOTO 1
6) .... if it IS there, LINE = LINE + NEXT_LINE, - GOTO 4;
So if we run our 4 emails above through this algorithm. We get the following:
Running through all of email 1 - we get:
- Cache HITS stored in email: none
- Cache MISSES stored in email: A,B,C,1
- Cache contents afterwards (lru order): 1,C,B,A
Running through all of email 2 - we get:
- Cache HITS stored in email: A,B,C
- Cache MISSES stored in email: 2
- Cache contents afterwards (lru order): 2,C2,C,BC,B,AB,A,1
(notice how '1' (which didn't cache hit) has worked itself to the end)
Running through all of email 3 - we get:
- Cache HITS stored in email: AB,C
- Cache MISSES stored in email: 3
- Cache contents afterwards (lru order): 3,C3,ABC,AB,A,2,C2,BC,B,1
Running through all of email 4 - we get:
- Cache HITS stored in email: ABC <-- very cool result, note coolness
- Cache MISSES stored in email: 4
- Cache contents afterwards (lru order): 4,ABC,AB,A,3,C3,C,2,C2,BC,B,1
So what happened? The system has realized that ABC is cacheable and is now pointing to that. All subsequent emails with the set-of-lines ABC will reuse the same memory. Note that the disparate lines 1,2,3, and 4 will always be stored separately, but the algorithm will then pick-up any common line-sets later in the email too (if there were any).
This elaborate system to find equal email lines and reuse them drags out compression of the entire flowing email stream down to about 80%. What about 90%? Well.. one more trick.
Back to LZMA
Remember LZMA from above that we abandoned because it was too slow to happen inline? As you'd guess, the biggest impact it had was on bigger emails. And although it's a CPU hog, we do actually have a few cores laying around. So let's give it one (but seriously, just one).
We setup one core (i.e. thread) to trail behind and scan incoming email for ones that are over some size (say 20k) and re-compress those using the sliding dictionary LZMA we mentioned earlier. While 3 of our cores average 5-10% utilization by receiving, analyzing, and storing incoming email - the 4th core sits at 100% re-compressing emails where it will find benefit. If it gets too far behind, it simply leaps ahead and leaves some compression on the table.
(Note that empirically, LZMA is an order of magnitude faster decompressing than compressing, otherwise that would have been a new problem as it could take too long when someone wanted to read an email)
Voila. 90%. (Two notes: 1: that's a reasonable average at least... sometimes better, sometimes worse and 2: I realize I'm not exactly sure what "Voila" means, looking that up now).
There are also some other important notes. Storing a byte array in Java costs something. The pointer alone (64bit) is 8bytes. Then there is the byte length field, padding, etc. In other words, I limited the system to never store email lines under 64 bytes. Small lines get concatenated together straight away.
Second, there are more email-idiomatic tweaks we can do to improve the situation. Base64-encoded attachments are effectively un-cacheable, so we pass over those.
Third, although from our cheeky example it may seem like we're finding optimal line sets (i.e. ABC). We're not. We could end up caching ABC and destroying an opportunity for a more optimal BCDXYZ or something. I'm guessing this doesn't happen often but would be an interesting future consideration.
Edit: Wow, sincere thanks to an Anonymous commenter for making me reconsider the above algorithm. I had originally stated it was O(n^2). My first version was indeed O(n^2) (which wasn't written about) and after a few changes it became O(n) and I failed to see that. I find its very easy to find tech reviewers once an article hits Hackers News, before then though - not so much. :) My apologies for the error.
So for the end-user, this whole diatribe simply means little except their emails are sticking around longer. They have no idea that when they click to read an email we may be LZW or LZMA decompressing tens of byte arrays shared by thousands of emails with a custom-sliding dictionary built by scanning emails that arrived hours ago and then catenating them together so they can be shown on their webpage all in a few milliseconds. And they likely don't care, they're probably too busy signing up for Minecraft or something.
But that's ok. I know.
And if you got this far, you know too.
Ok.. now back to real work. What was I doing again? Oh yeah, writing some slick one-liners in Ruby. No clue on the running times - probably like O(n^4) or something, but if I fiddle with it a bit more - I bet I can cut the character count of the code by half!
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas Eve Update
I think we will see some more snow tonight...particularly at higher elevations. Temperatures warmed a great deal during the day, and lower elevations (less than 500 ft) generally switched to rain. Some of you at higher elevations did have snow most of the day...although it was generally the wet, sloppy variety. Anyway, the freezing level is starting to drop due to cooler air moving in from the NW and normal nighttime cooling. Right now the snow level is between 500 and 1000 ft and will drop during the night and during intense showers--so even the lower elevations will see snow showers by morning.
Looking at the satellite picture, another disturbance is making landfall...associated with an upper level trough and cool, unstable marine air (see image). You will note that the clouds are not continuous like the system earlier...because it is made up of convective showers. The radar shows the showery nature well (see radar). Because the winds in the lower atmosphere are from the SW, there is a clear rainshadow north of Seattle and extending towards Everett...greater amounts of snow will be north and south of shadow, of course.
Anyway, the snow will not be uniform....because of the showery, hit or miss nature of the precipitation...so some of you will get a few inches and others nothing. This should be the final snow chapter of this week. And most of us will be happy to be able to get around again--my family is running out of groceries! And I hope all of you have a good holiday season and a good new year.
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1st! Go BSNYC!
- December 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM
- srexecmark said...
Wow, you are dedicated! 8 PM on Christmas Eve and you are updating the Blog! I am at 3500' on the nose and still getting light to moderate showers. Thank you for your dedication to this weather science. Have a great holiday tomorrow.
- December 24, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Jamie on BI said...
Merry Christmas, Cliff. Thanks for all the great information during this storm, I'm hooked on your blog and will turn here first when the next storm heads in!
- December 24, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- Jason said...
Thank you for this latest report, Cliff. As we are about to head out for midnight Mass, it is helpful and appreciated information. Yep, a true White Christmas...
- December 24, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- AnnieD said...
Thanks so much, Cliff, for your good-humored and enlightening information over the past ten lively days. It's been great to learn something while keeping track of what new surprises are in store for us all. Here in Freeland on South Whidbey we had NO snow last night, to my delight this morning, and none during today, though we had lots of wind and some rain. The depth of the existing snow shrank by about half today. I'm not sorry. A very happy Christmas to you and your family.
- December 24, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Cliff, you're awesome! Thanks for the information! Hope you and the family have a great Christmas.
- December 24, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Olalla: Snow became rain around noon; it rained most of the afternoon with enough wind to make a lot of big, heavy snow masses drop out of the fir trees. Now at 9 pm it's still 35 out and we can hear water dripping everywhere. Still half a foot of slush/ice in the culdesac, more on the lawns. Merry Christmas!
- Pete
- December 24, 2008 at 9:18 PM
~550ft or so, really 580ft of elevation in Sammamish, 9:30pm, Christmas Eve, we have nearly an inch of new snow.
Our earlier afternoon snow was definitely snow, not slush. We did get a bit of rain in the evening, but it's now clearly back to snow.
Merry Christmas and thank you Cliff Mass for this wonderful site.
- December 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Cliff. May you have a healthy and happy 2009.
Thanks for all the information... I've been reading you for a while but now I'm truly hooked. I am going to be so bummed out if my husband didn't manage to get me your book for Christmas... that and a real weather station (as opposed to this $75 3-station wireless temperature and barometer Oregon Scientific thing) are the two presents I most eagerly hope to get.
I do hope we get some more snow tomorrow for the "pretty" factor, but then it would be fine with me if the lowlands didn't see another flake until Dec 2009. Rain is fine by me... but I guess you haven't placed your order yet, so it's unclear what we'll get for the rest of the winter. ;-)
- December 24, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- Jeff said...
Sammamish Plateau - 32.5 light snow. When we left home at 2:30 it was snowing. Spent all afternoon and evening in Lynnwood where it was drizzling. The roads have become sloppy, rutted, slushy, dirty, messes! Coming home it rained all the way to the bottom of Sahalee. As soon as we turned up the hill it started to snow and the road became quiet because it had started to freeze. Probably received 5" today with more to look forward to tonight and tomorrow. It's still a winter wonderland here!
- December 24, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Thanks and Merry Christmas.
- December 24, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Correction from my previous post:
Happy Holidays, rather than Merry Christmas. It's presumptive to assume that we all celebrate Christmas....
- December 24, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Whoops! Presumptive, um, I mean presumptuous....and I haven't even been drinking!
- December 24, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Newbie to this blog, thanks!
off topic, sort of, where could i find decent 'snowfall' totals (my ruler into the driveway isn't very accurate)
- December 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- fjblau said...
Sammamish... 10:45PM... big hurkin flakes coming down like mad. So much so that they set off my motion detector camera for catching a glimpse of the gorgeous coyote that's been hanging around lately!
- December 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
- Chris said...
Have a good holiday, Cliff and family!
Now you know why we do not live more than five blocks from a grocery store. We trekked the whole two blocks from our house to the Safeway at 5-corners at least three times this week.
Oh, and our very new outdoor thermometer sitting on our porch still in its plastic package reads 38 degrees. We are at 100 feet above sea level.
I just want 5-corners by the U-Village, Montlake, 520 westbound, I-5 southbound and the rest of the route to the airport clear at 5 am Friday morning when Peter, Terry and I head down to Disneyland.
Chris (mom to Peter, who played on the same Little League team as your younger kid)
- December 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM
- John-Michael said...
Thanks heaps for all the incredibly accurate updates for our area in Kitsap Co. Am very impressed also with your professionalism! Have a very Merry Christmas and look forward to reading more.
- December 24, 2008 at 11:33 PM
11:50 p.m. and it is snowing HARD in downtown Snoqualmie, just like it did all day. Cliff - you control the weather right? Please make it stop!
- December 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- she said...
Many thanks for all the great info and insights. Still slushy/icey here in Kent. I haven't been able to get out of my driveway for almost a week. Your blog is wonderful and obviously very appreciated--thanks again. Happy Holidays to Cliff and everyone!
- December 25, 2008 at 2:48 AM
Merpy Kwanhanukmas.
Happy New Year to everyone, regardless of when yours starts.
Great blog. Thank you.
- December 25, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Sammamish-Early Christmas morning-Just awoke to another round of new snow. No rain and slush up here...pure snow. Sammamish is keeping the main roads very clear, unlike downtown Redmond, which is a mess! We're able to move around up here just fine.
Cliff, if you can make your way up to the Plateau, you're welcome to have dinner here. We have plenty. Merry Christmas
- December 25, 2008 at 4:31 AM
Thanks Cliff. My wife said she ordered me your book for Christmas but weather held it up. Ironically a book on local weather got held up by local weather. Hope you manage to get your fridge stocked up and have a great holidays.
- December 25, 2008 at 6:50 AM
Looks like Totem Lake got nailed. We got 2" here in 2 hrs.
- December 25, 2008 at 7:14 AM
Northgate, 31 degrees. Snowing hard. Sigh. The streets around here are still a nightmare, though at least Northgate way finally cleared yesterday... Merry Christmas everyone.
- December 25, 2008 at 7:16 AM
So much for your highfalutin, fancyschmancy computer models. Cliff, I want my money back. Your models have ruined Christmas, and Santa is not happy. No coastal radar for you, Cliff.
Thanks for contributing to my internet addiction. You are an enabler.
- December 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM
East Woodinville elev 500ft
Woke up to GOBS of snow - the pile on the picnic table that has never gotten above 15 inches because of settling is up to...............21 inches!!!!! And still snowing hard. Thank you Santa, Buddha, Weather Gods, Cliff, all of you...... it looks like Dr. Seuss silly white blobs everywhere... just goofy and unbelievable. I can die now. And I just might when I try to go pick up grandma. It's 34 degrees, isn't that ominous
- December 25, 2008 at 7:43 AM


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