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It goes without saying that home attendance is vital to the survival of an NHL franchise. If you don't have the fans in your own city to sell out a building or to draw enough revenue to keep you out of the "red", then there may need to be more aggressive strategies pursued to fix the problem. With that said, twelve teams averaged 100% + attendance records at home during the 2010-2011 season, with four teams at 99% or better and three more with 94% or better. Your Terrific Twelve:
Chicago: 108.7%
Toronto: 102.9%
Philadelphia: 101.1%
Pittsburgh: 100.9%
San Jose: 100.4%
Vancouver: 100.3%
Boston, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, St. Louis, Washingon: 100%
No Detroit? Most would be surprised at this fact, but the truth is the economic turmoil of the past few years has hurt the team's home attendance. As the Puckfather Greg Wyshinski pointed out two years ago, if the best team can't sell out their conference championship games, it spells trouble for other teams. Fast forward to a couple years later, where the attendance at Joe Louis Arena is still 98.1%. We're not perfect anymore. Sound the alarms!
Getting back to the main point, none of the bottom ten teams are overly surprising given their age, location, or on ice (lack of) success. I'll spare the bottom teams the indignity of being identified, but you can find all the attendance numbers I used here on ESPN's website. Safe to say the bottom teams are either a product of relocation or are rumored in some part to be in serious trouble or are in need of relocation themselves.
Perhaps using percentages is unfair to teams that still draw huge crowds like Tampa Bay, where 17,268 is their average attendance, good for 18th place, but their percentage of 87.4% find them 21st. Not a huge leap backwards but by comparison, Edmonton sports a 100% attendance at 16,839, leaving them in 19th place in the league by the numbers. Confused yet?
To keep it simple, some teams have huge arenas they can't fill every night while other teams have smaller-by-comparison arenas that sell out every game. Edmonton is one of those "small market" teams that will never worry about not selling out their games, unless somehow the team is mismanaged into oblivion. Even then, I suspect that's happened before...
Adversely, the new Winnipeg team is destined to skyrocket from 28th place in attendance with a paltry 13,469 average attendance and a dismal 72.6% to at least 86% with their 13,000 season tickets sold. I think we can all bank on that building being packed to the roof every game this season, but without getting too presumptuous the Atlanta/Winnipeg situation is about to take a dramatic turn for the best with the relocation.
To conclude, If you can't keep you own barn full of happy fans willing to throw their money at your face in exchange for gear, hot dogs, beer, and other paraphernalia, then your team might need to introduce some more aggressive marketing. Or, like Atlanta, move somewhere else. Sorry Atlanta fans. You deserved better.
Now that I've convinced you all (and myself) that home attendance is important I'm going to argue that road attendance is equally, if not more, important. A team needs to be able to draw sellout crowds at home, but they need not rely solely on their own on-ice product to do so. The team that comes to town to play has a small but crucial role in bringing in fans. Typically, a team will still have tickets available for the fans travelling to watch their team play on the road. Perhaps there is a small contingent of Red Wings fans in Chicago or Toronto already; it may not be likely but a more reasonable suggestion would be that Red Wings fans make the three or four hour drive across the border. The central issue when it comes to road teams is this: how good is your team and is it worth a fans' money to watch you play?
For road attendance, the news is pretty good all around the league. There are no teams who sell out every road game, but the lowest capacity percentage are the Nashville Predators at 87.6%. The Detroit Red Wings are the NHL's most popular road team, bringing in 99.9% capacity rates on average in the league. Unfortunately, as great as the numbers are for the league for road attendance, it must be pointed out that the numbers are deceiving for a few reasons. First, unlike the home attendance numbers, the road numbers don't work with a consistent number of seats. Montreal's Bell Centre will always have a capacity of 21,273. Road calculations include an "average" capacity and an "average" attendance that varies based on the size of the arena. If Detroit plays a historic rival like Chicago in Chicago's massive United Center and helps to sell it out twice times, but plays Edmonton at Rexall Place twice and sells that out as well, then the numbers become skewed:
Game @ Chicago: 21,423
Game @ Chicago: 21, 423
Game @ Chicago: 21,423
Game @ Chicago: 21, 423
Game @ Edmonton: 16,839
Game @ Edmonton: 16,839
Game @ Edmonton: 16,839
Average attendance: 19,131
Detroit gets a boost from playing a rival with a huge arena, so much that the average attendance of the games is almost 3,000 more than the capacity of Edmonton's arena! This is sort of an extreme example because as of the 2010-11 season these two teams were the highest and lowest maximum capacity arenas, but the point should still be clear. Some teams can benefit from having division rivals with huge arenas and others will reap the rewards of an arena that will be packed regardless of who is in town.
It does, to an extent, come down to the entertainment value of the on ice product. There is a reason Detroit is the top road team in terms of attendance in the league. They are a fast, dynamic, and highly skilled team whose roster boasts a lot of future Hall of Famers, some of which have been doing their victory laps the past few seasons. Who wouldn't want to get a last look at a guy like Yzerman, Lidstrom, Modano, or others? I don't believe this is as important a factor as the quality of the team but my point is that if you can make your on ice product attractive, you will draw wherever you go.
The bottom five teams in road attendance reiterate the very points Adam Proteau made in his article from last week. Teams without an identity or a lack of explosive star power are stuck making the "hard sell" to get fans to buy tickets. Atlanta/Winnipeg, Minnesota, St. Louis, and Nashville all have mixed or unclear identities. Minnesota and Nashville have been consistently defense-first teams since their inception, which makes for a less exciting product but has helped both teams achieve some success on the ice. Atlanta/Winnipeg is slowly shaping an identity associated with young, skilled players but the big move north could change all of that. St. Louis is a surprise on this list but it's been a long time since the Hall and Oates era, and Al MacInnis isn't coming back to shoot the puck 100 miles an hour anytime soon. I shouldn't have to point out the obvious here but these teams all have one thing in common: they have never won a Stanley Cup and with the exception of Minnesota's agonizing cup run in 2003, none of them have significant playoff success to talk about since the lockout.
To conclude, the road numbers are a little deceiving to the naked eye. Unlike the home numbers, the road numbers are an average based on the average attendance divided by the average capacity. It's good to see that a huge chunk of the league can draw fans in any city. I can't help but look back at the home numbers and wonder if they aren't more reflective of a team's product since they are solid figures that don't lose analytically value because they represent an average based on where they play. Every team could stand to benefit from playing in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Montreal three times a year, where games will surely be sold out. Meanwhile, the Southeast division struggles mightily with attendance, arguably due to poor on-ice products.
There is another can of worms in the attendance question that I feel ill-prepared to ask and answer: what about pre-season and neutral location games? Do teams benefit from hosting an All-Star game? Information for the international games can be found here. Sadly there are no attendance numbers, but typically European rinks are smaller in terms of attendance capacity. As for neutral location pre-season games, They would not indicate much other than local interest in NHL exhibition games. I have my tickets already purchased for a preseason game between Montreal and Boston in Halifax. Should be a good time seeing the champs play their heated rivals.
In conclusion to the bigger questions this article aimed to address, it would appear that home attendance is more relevant statistic. I cannot be certain that the road numbers are entirely reflective of how well a team draws on the road, but it's interesting to see that on average, most teams play to a nearly full road barn. On-ice success and team identity contribute to bringing in fans in a road city, that much is sure. After all, it's simple logic; do you want to watch a recent Stanley Cup winning team, a historic franchise, a team stacked with skill, or teams who are almost always on the bubble of relocation and abysmal finishes? There is something to be said about watching the home team lay a beatdown on a weaker team, but you can only enjoy that so many times before you elect to stay home and watch Jersey Shore instead.

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My wireless router is more of an exhibitionist than a shrinking violet. Given the location of my cable hook-ups and a few tricky reception spots, that black flashing box has become an unusually prominent feature of my decor. And let's not even mention the tangle of TV cords, the pride of place of my game systems, and the real estate taken up by my printer. But if you're like me and are tired of seeing tech devices everywhere you look, perhaps these few affordable, effective, and sometimes surprising solutions can help you on your way.
We all need (and love) our tech gear, but let's face it, these utilitarian objects are not always attractive, nor do they always fit our design aesthetics. Here are some ways to turn what is often purely utilitarian into a more organic part of your home.
1. How to restyle your wireless router using an old book
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4. How to hide flat-screen TV cords in decorative trim
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The anything-goes Dutch hosting provider CyberBunker, which has been accused of backing a DDoS disruption campaign against anti-spam site Spamhaus, as of Thursday morning found its own supposedly bulletproof website knocked offline, making it the apparent victim of a sustained DDoS attack.
That's an ironic twist for CyberBunker, which has been one of the most outspoken proponents -- and, some have alleged, sponsors -- of a week-long series of massive DDoS attacks against Spamhaus.
Attempts to reach CyberBunker for comment failed, in part because the company's Web-based contact form remained offline. Likewise, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, a spokesman for CyberBunker, didn't immediately respond to a message sent to his personal Facebook account, seeking comment about the apparent DDoS campaign targeting the hosting provider.
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CyberBunker, which says it's headquartered in an ex-NATO "former military nuclear warfare bunker that is currently utilized as bulletproof data center," made a name for itself by advertising services to any website "except child porn and anything related to terrorism." The company previously gained notoriety for providing hosting to the Russian Business Network cybercrime gang, which the FBI ultimately helped dismantle.
Lately, CyberBunker has backed the so-called Stophaus.com campaign, which is designed to knock anti-spam organization Spamhaus offline. As of Thursday morning, however, the Stophaus.com website was also unreachable, with the homepage resolving to a page that read only "database error."
CyberBunker spokesman Kamphuis claimed that his company isn't responsible for the DDoS attacks that were first launched last week against Spamhaus. "Well, it's not us, it's a group of Internet providers which goes under the name Stophaus.com. It's basically a collective of a lot of people and Internet providers, and they've had previous issues or current issues with Spamhaus," Kamphuis told broadcaster Russia Today Wednesday. "Spamhaus pretends to be spam fighters, but effectively they're just a censorship organization which worked itself into a position where they can just look at a website and shut it down," he said.
But CyberBunker appears to have few backers outside of pro-spam circles. "These guys are just mad," Patrick Gilmore, chief architect at digital content provider Akamai Technologies told The New York Times. "To be frank, they got caught. They think they should be allowed to spam."
The target of the Stophaus.com campaign is the Spamhaus Project, which is based in Geneva and London, and which was founded in 1998 by Steve Linford. Currently it's run by about three dozen investigators and forensic specialists. Numerous service providers, as well as government and military network operators, rely on Spamhaus' real-time spam-blocking databases to help them block spam. "Spamhaus is directly or indirectly responsible for filtering as much as 80% of daily spam messages," according to Matthew Prince, CEO of DDoS prevention service CloudFlare, which last week announced that Spamhaus had become a customer.
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- 4 ounces bacon, chopped
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- 10 ounces spinach, cleaned, stemmed, and chopped
- 1 cup kimchi, chopped
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 4 tablespoons sliced green scallions
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted
Cook bacon in a large 12-inch skillet set over medium heat until fat has rendered and bacon is crispy, about 6 minutes. When done, remove bacon pieces with a slotted spoon, leaving as much of the fat behind as possible. Drain bacon on paper towels.
Increase heat to medium-high. When fat starts to smoke, add as many of the rice cakes as will fit in one layer, approximately half. Cook undisturbed until crusty on the bottom, about 20 seconds, and then flip the pieces with a spatula. Cook until crusty on this side, another 20 seconds. Remove the pieces with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat process until all the rice cakes are cooked. When done, turn the heat off.
Discard all but one tablespoon of the fat, and heat over medium heat until shimmering. Add half of the spinach, and cook, tossing occasionally with a pair of tongs, until wilted. Add in the other half, and cook until wilted. Add the kimchi, and cook until any liquid has evaporated.
In a small bowl, whisk together the rice vinegar and the sugar. Pour this into the skillet, along with the cooked rice cakes. Toss until everything is mixed together and warm.
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Arsenal fullback Keiran Gibbs says he is frustrated to have been left out of England's recent friendly matches against Ireland and Brazil.
The 23-year-old, who has two international caps, insists he will do all he can to persuade Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson that he deserves a spot in his squad for the 2014 World Cup.
Chelsea defender David Luiz has hailed Brazil's match winner against Uruguay, Paulinho, as a 'complete' player.
Paulinho, linked with both Chelsea and Tottenham, scored a towering header to help Brazil earn a place in the Confederations Cup final last night.
Gareth Barry admits the sale of Carlos Tevez to Juventus will be a massive loss to Manchester City.
The Argentine striker completed a move to Juve on Wednesday evening after the clubs had earlier agreed a fee of around £10m.
Michael Keane was full of praise for Leicester City after the Manchester United youngster spent last season on loan with the Foxes.
The 20-year-old defender thinks the first-team football stands him in good stead for next season, and he hopes to play a role on the upcoming United first-team tour of Australia.
Tottenham midfielder Aaron Lennon took to Twitter this morning to deny rumours he was involved in an altercation with Theo Walcott in Las Vegas.
The England duo were alleged to have squared up to each other in a nightclub in the MGM Grand, with the Arsenal forward accused of head-butting the Spurs wide-man.
And finally, Barcelona are stepping up their bid to sign Roma defender Marquinhos.
Barca have long been interested in the Brazilian centre-back - who is still only 19 years old - and are willing to offer cash plus Alexis Sanchez in order to sanction a deal.


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The brikwar that we decided to do was capture the nuke. Basically the game mechanics were that there was a switch that allowed the team, when the switch was brought back to their starting point, would nuke the other teams.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Over a few months, neither steroids nor platelet injections are any better than injections of inactive salt water when it comes to treating tennis elbow, according to new research.
Despite its name, tennis elbow - which is caused by overuse of tendons in the elbow - often affects people with strenuous jobs, not just athletes.
Common treatments include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy and steroid injections. Recent research has also shown platelet injections to be a "promising" alternative, according to the study's authors.
In the new trial, those experimental injections were the most painful and after three months hadn't lessened patients' elbow pain or improved their function any more than steroids or a saline solution. But a Dutch orthopedic surgeon not involved in the study said it may not have lasted long enough to see an effect of so-called platelet-rich plasma, or PRP.
"Most of these studies… they look at the results after three or six months. And if you want to have a good sight of what PRP does, I think you should have a longer follow-up," said Dr. Taco Gosens, from St Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg.
In his own research, about twice as many people with tennis elbow were better two years after a platelet injection than after standard steroid treatment - despite there being no difference between the groups at three months.
The current study, from Dr. Torkell Ellingsen and colleagues from Region Hospital Silkeborg in Denmark, included 60 people who'd had elbow tendon problems for at least three months.
The researchers randomly assigned each participant to an injection of platelets, steroids, or saline. Although Ellingsen's team originally intended to track pain and function in study volunteers for a year, most had dropped out of the trial or underwent other treatment by then.
After one month, pain had dropped by almost 10 points on a 50-point scale among people who'd had steroid injections, compared to less than two points for the platelet and saline groups. Elbow function had also improved significantly more for people injected with steroids.
However, at three months, any extra benefit due to steroids had disappeared and pain and functioning were similar across all three groups. Pain scores improved by between three and seven points from the start of the study, the researchers reported in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
There were no serious side effects linked to any of the treatments.
Stanford University orthopedic surgeon Dr. Allan Mishra agreed with Gosens that the new study didn't follow patients for enough time to see the long-term effects of platelets, a treatment he uses often.
The findings are "interesting but inconclusive, or incomplete," he told Reuters Health. "I don't think 12 weeks is particularly helpful for patients or providers."
In his experience, Mishra said, "The PRP patients continue to improve, and the glucocorticoid patients revert back to normal."
Mishra and Gosens both said steroids only provide short-term relief - and may actually damage the tendon further with repeat injections.
For people who have had tendon problems for weeks rather than months or years, "watchful waiting" might be the most appropriate treatment, according to Gosens. After a year, he said, 80 percent of people with tennis elbow will be cured with that strategy.
For the rest, he recommends PRP or surgery. The platelet treatment does not require FDA approval - although the devices to purify the platelets do. PRP isn't covered by insurance, Gosens said, and should only be done as part of a clinical trial for now. The treatment runs for about $1,000.
"Patients should be aware that it's experimental still," Gosens said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/WTvGSE The American Journal of Sports Medicine, online January 17, 2013.


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I wasn't surprised, I knew this place had been slowing down and Jeff had been publishing his reviews in DPreview for a while. Last week I saw a statement by DPReview staff that they would be hiring one or two experienced reviewers to their full time staff, and there aren't really that many expereinced camera reviewers around. At that point I pretty much knew.
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Madonna Not Doing a Promo Tour for 'MDNA'
Madonna is hunkering down and rehearsing for her sold-out 2012 World Tour in support of the to-be-released 'MDNA.'
Since Madge is otherwise occupied and in performance mode, her manager Guy Oseary, who is active on Twitter and is prone to sharing information about his famous client in her stead, revealed several nuggets for fans to feast on, over the course of multiple tweets, which you can check out via his Twitter feed. If you are a Madonna superfan, we suggest you follow him, since he posts updates and directly engages Madge-a-holics.
He first tweeted, "she's in full on rehearsals.. a teaser of video coming soon.. and video being edited now.. other things in the works.." So there's clearly a lot of activity surrounding Madonna and tons of content on the horizon.
When a fan asked if Madge will embark on a promo tour, which would bring her to radio stations, press outlets and intimate, underplay venues to promote 'MDNA,' Oseary remarked that the schedule is just too tight.
He tweeted, "there is no time for promo tour.. We are in full on tour mode.. Need to get it ll together.. working on other ideas.."
Oseary shared that a teaser of the video is on the way, and stated that "we don't have any tv currently scheduled."
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Science in the Pleasure Ground
An Exhibit Celebrating 125 Years of Discovery
Frederick Law Olmsted, a designer of parks for the people, believed that beautiful landscapes provide moral and spiritual sustenance. Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum, was devoted to the scientific study of trees. In 1872 their separate visions came together on an old farm in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston to create the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
The Arnold Arboretum, a link in Boston's Emerald Necklace park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, has given pleasure to thousands of visitors for well over a century. True to its mission, the Arboretum has developed, curated, and maintained a superbly documented collection of living woody plants; research using this collection is supported by a herbarium and library. Science in the Pleasure Ground tells the story of the Arboretum—of its evolution over time and of the knowledge and enjoyment that many people have derived from its landscape and plants. Copies of the original Olmsted drawings for the Arboretum, "then and now" photographs, and a nine-by-fifteen-foot scale model of the landscape illustrate the story of this unique design collaboration.
Science in the Pleasure Ground is located in the Arboretum's Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.


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What do I have in common with a growing list of authors that include Salman Rushdie, Lemony Snicket, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker? If you said we're regulars at Mario's deli, you'd be wrong. Except in my case, where you would have nailed it.
The correct answer is we are part of a rapidly growing list of writer types who are represented on occupywriters.com, a simple online petition that supports the Occupy Wall Street movement that's spreading around the world.
As social media, biased news stations and video games vaporize society's mindshare and intellect, I would like to think there are two groups of people, writers and readers, who must carry the torch of intelligent debate and keep it from twittering out altogether.
While I can't speak for the other writers, it is my hope that supporting the Occupy Movement will help advance much needed change. Without delving into specific agendas of either political party, I think we can all agree there is much to improve and we all need to work together to get something done.
Perhaps this is why there are people protesting on four continents, donations are starting to pour in and even the White House is publicly commenting.
Agree with us or not, a writer's job is to express ideas, thoughts and theories. But without readers, those insights are nothing more than ink on paper.
I have said this before and I will continue to maintain, as a general rule, those of you who pick up this paper or any other publication are more invested in critical thought than much of society. Whether you agree or oppose the Occupy Movement is not as important as taking part in the advancement of healthy debate.
To that end, I am most grateful to the readers who sent me passionate and thought-provoking letters in response to last week's litany of complaints I piled onto this growing political amoeba. I didn't agree with all of them, but I appreciate the effort it took to respond either way.
Longtime reader John Lajeuness took time to address my gripes about the state of our union by offering some financial tips that got him through tougher times. The Khassakhian brothers, Ardashes and Vazken, voiced their hopes for positive change and distributed the column to friends far beyond Glendale. And Robert Buniatyan sent me a passionate letter filled with facts to support his opinion about the Federal Reserve System and our free market society. Pro and con, I loved their abundance of passion and lack of arrogance.
There were a few exceptions, of course. There always are.
Some readers believe it is their unique duty to personally insult those of us with a differing opinion. While I don't get it, I understand that insults are part of life in the spotlight. Fortunately for me, junk mail filters exist, allowing me to enjoy the overwhelming majority of healthy discussion without being distracted by the knuckleheads more than once.
As far as living life in the public eye is concerned, Glendale lost a real champion in Larry Zarian. I was extremely saddened to hear of his passing, but ultimately so grateful to have gotten to know the man, if only for a brief moment. Larry interviewed me earlier this year on his TV show.
Aside from his contributions within City Hall, I will always be personally grateful to Larry for helping me connect with members of the Glendale Public Library during the taping of his show. As a result, I've been discussing with library staff the opportunity of taking part in a book signing at the library in the near future.
The possibility to promote my work in that forum inspired me to make major edits and publish a revision of my first novel. Doing that then led me directly to the book I am currently writing, about the causes and effects of a dysfunctional divorce.
Without it being his intention, Larry moved me to a more positive place in my work. I have no doubt the path he unknowingly helped put me on is going to move me to a better place in life.
I can only hope the opinions I and other writers express will in some small way help others to move —even if it is to become more informed about the polar opposite of what we believe. So keep thinking about the Occupy Movement. Figure out what you believe needs fixing.
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Keeping tabs on invasive shrimp in local waters
Old Saybrook — On just her third sweep with the long-handled dip net, Ellie Bors found what she was looking for.
"Guys," called Bors, a doctoral candidate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to the four marine sciences interns working with her at the Town Dock. "There's huge ... lots of shrimp here. And you know what's interesting? I got all these from the sediment."
She emptied the net into a shallow metal bin, examining each of the translucent, antennaed shrimp, the smallest about the size of a teardrop, before placing them into a sealed container for lab analysis.
"Sometimes it's really hard to tell what kind of shrimp they are until you get them under a microscope," said Bors. "On some level, shrimp just look like shrimp."
Bors and the four interns, part of the Williams College maritime studies program at Mystic Seaport, sampled three sites on the Connecticut River in Old Saybrook Friday as part of an East Coast survey this summer for three types of invasive shrimp, two from Europe and one from Asia. They were also looking for a fourth type native to Florida that was found last year at Woods Hole, far north of its normal range. The purpose of the surveys is to determine the distribution and abundance of these shrimp, and at the same time assess how populations of native grass shrimp are faring.
"It's a matter of whether the invasive shrimp will disrupt the role the grass shrimp play," said Nancy Balcom, associate director and extension leader at Connecticut Sea Grant, which is helping fund the surveys along with other Sea Grant branches from Maine to New Jersey and the state of Massachusetts. Connecticut Sea Grant is based at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus in Groton.
There are multiple efforts to try to prevent invasive species from entering estuaries such as Long Island Sound, including controls on where ballast water from shipping vessels can be discharged, Balcom said. Once a species enters an ecosystem, there is little that can be done to stop its spread, other than to keep tabs on how it's affecting other marine life, she said.
The European and Asian species, first found on the East Coast in 2001, are important parts of fish diets in their native ecosystems. Locally, the invasive shrimp project is being led by James Carlton, professor of Marine Sciences and director of the Mystic Seaport-Williams College program. Each week since June, the four interns have been sampling the Mystic River near the Seaport, at high and low tide and various times of day, to establish baseline data on the invasive shrimp and any changes in their abundance.
Since June, the group has collected one set of samples at brackish waters throughout the Northeast, finding them in some places they expected and others they didn't, Bors said, and are now working on their second set. Before coming to Old Saybrook, the group had been to Maine, New Hampshire, Cape Cod and Rhode Island, and were heading next to three sites in Milford before traveling to New York and New Jersey next week.
"It's not uncommon for invasive species to be in estuaries, because they have higher tolerances" for differences in salinity, Bors said. "And also a lot of ports are in estuaries."
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- Ronald Weasley: "Oh come on! All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's aren't they? The Fountain of Fair Fortune… The Wizard and the Hopping Pot… Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump…"
- Hermione Granger: "Excuse me? What was the last one?"
- Ronald Weasley: "Come off it! You must've heard of Babbitty Rabbitty —"
- Hermione Granger: "Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles! We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Cinderella —"
- Ronald Weasley: "What's that, an illness?"
- — Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger on children's fairy tales[src]
Cinderella was a popular Muggle fairy tale by Muggle author Charles Perrault. In it, the protagonist waits for the return of a lost shoe.[1]
Squib author J. K. Rowling has noted the difference between this fairy tale and wizarding children's stories: fictional witches are much more active in seeking their fortunes than the Muggle fairy-tale heroines. Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbity are all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than waiting for someone to return a lost shoe, as the protagonist of Cinderella does.[1]
Hermione Granger mentioned it to Ron Weasley in 1997, as an example of something that she and Harry heard as children, instead of the classic wizarding tales by Beedle the Bard. Ron mistook "Cinderella" for an illness.[2]
Behind the scenes
- Kenneth Branagh, who played Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter films, directed a 2015 film adaptation of Cinderella. This film also starred Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter, who portrayed the role of the Fairy Godmother and narrator.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Introduction
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 7 (The Will of Albus Dumbledore)


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Wabash College will present a talk by Nadja Halibegovich, often called the "Anne Frank of Bosnia. Nadja will give her talk at 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 17, in the College Chapel.
Nadja is an internationally known peace advocate and speaker whose diary, My Childhood Under Fire, was written as a 12-year-old huddled in her family's apartment in Sarajevo. During her days as a student at Butler University, Nadja attended a peace conference in California during which she decided to dedicate her life to speaking and advocating for peace in all of its forms.
She now resides in Toronto with her Canadian-born husband and travels through the U.S. and Canada visiting and speaking at schools, churches, and universities, peace conferences, including at the Holocaust Museum.
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So I've been a little behind on the rumor that the Astros are interested in Rockies' utility man Jeff Baker, mainly because I'm having a hard time buying it. In trying to find a voice this off-season I bit on every little rumor that was out there, but I'm trying to be a little less reactionary. I don't know. Maybe that doesn't lead to hits, but it's still newsworthy.
So this OOO (out-of-options) 28-year old Jeff Baker holds a .303/.373/.508 line in the minors, and last season in Colorado hit .268/.322/.468 in 299 ABs with 85Ks to 26BBs. Not a bad bat, at all, just a little free-swinging.
It was reported that the Rockies were interested in Kyle Kendrick from Philadelphia for Baker, and the Rockies are hoping to trade him as opposed to releasing him. Who would the Astros trade? If the Rockies are looking for a pitcher (and they deserve to have it stuck to them because of the Jason Jennings trade), perhaps they may desire one Brandon Backe?
I'm trying to think of a good reason to keep Backe on the roster - other than as a fairly cheap insurance policy - than as trade bait. You don't receive compensation for a guy you released, so perhaps the thinking was to sign Backe, hope he had a good Spring, and then trade him. Well, he hasn't had a good Spring. He hasn't had much of a Spring at all, though he did throw for eight minutes today from 75 feet.
The next question becomes: what do you do with Jeff Baker once you trade for him? Fourth infielder? He can play most every position (1B, 2B, 3B, LF, RF), and that would send Smith and Maysonet down to Round Rock and put some heat on Blum.
Thoughts? Questions? Comments?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Jeff Baker dilemma
Labels: Jeff Baker, Rumors
3 comments:
- The Unofficial Official said...
I'm still trying to solve this puzzle as well. I couldn't see that we would trade for him. If he is released i'm fairly confident Wade would pick up his 400K contract, not that he would comment on it or lead you to believe he isn't interested. Anyhow, I posted something about it a couple minutes ago. Tomorrow I should have a couple other names than Baker and Teahan.
- March 25, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- cardsjason said...
Apparently Houston is shopping Geoff Geary. Do the Rockies need relief?
- March 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- The Constable. said...
I think with the emergence of Wesley Wright and Jeff Fulchino, the Astros can shop Geary and his $1.7m. As long as someone needs a reliever, I think Geary is available.
- March 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM
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His after game interview is a no nonsense, we are a very good team and I don't care what anyone thinks attitude.
I have never been as impressed with him as I was watching this interview, this is a man that his team mates can look up to. There is no "woe is me," or the sky is falling attitude like you see in so many other places.
Oh yea... "Go Hawks"


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Think clean, simple and stylish.
Everyday people who appreciate and "purchases" brand name labels, goes to art galleries and museums, but has a half sleeve tattoo under their Prada coat.
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Universal Uses Copyright To Censor Bad Lip Reading Parody; Why Not Embrace It?
from the bad-lip-reading-war deptOver the last couple of months I've been hearing more and more about Bad Lip Reading, which is a phenomenally funny site by a guy who takes music videos and video of politicians, and redubs them by (you guessed it) doing a "bad lip reading" of what they might be saying, to make the videos absolutely hilarious (though usually totally nonsensical). It's a little addictive to watch the videos, and every time someone sends me one, I end up going on and watching a bunch of others.
It seems like most of the subjects of these videos (at least the ones who find out about them) find them pretty funny. For example, the singer Michael Buble absolutely loved it when he discovered that BLR had turned his song, "Haven't Met You Yet" into "Russian Unicorn". And that kind of response has led many people to appreciate Buble even more. Seriously, a bunch of folks have been sending me that link and pointing out how Buble really seems so cool about it.
But, of course, not everyone is so cool about such things. A bunch of folks have been sending in this Slashdot snippet about how Universal Music issued a DMCA takedown over BLR's recent video called Dirty Spaceman, which was a bad lip reading of a of Nicki Minaj and will.i.am song and video. It's a little unclear what happened here. The Facebook post that Slashdot links to has been taken down. However, the Slashdot summary states:
Two days ago, Universal Music Group succeeded in getting his parody Dirty Spaceman taken down from YouTube, and despite BLR's efforts to appeal, in his words, 'UMG essentially said "We don't care if you think it's fair use, we want it down."' And YouTube killed it.The actual details here are important, so it's too bad that no one seems to have them. In a recent interview, the anonymous music producer behind BLR notes that he makes all his own music (so he's not just using the original songs). So there's no infringement on the music. But, of course, the video itself is copyrighted too, so there is a claim there. It's entirely possible that it was caught by YouTube's ContentID filter (i.e., passive catching of infringement, rather than a proactive decision by Universal Music). In fact, if it had been a real DMCA takedown, and BLR filed a counternotice, then UMG's next move would have to be to file a lawsuit if it disagreed with the counternotice. Since that didn't happen, it seems likely that this wasn't the result of a DMCA takedown, but the ContentID filter (which, yes, matches video too).
That said, once he appealed, Universal could have let it go. And, frankly, it should have. Whether or not this actually is "parody" is a bit tricky -- and depends on whether you think the commentary is on the original video. I would argue that it is, and separately argue that if we were to run the basic four factors test on this, you could make a good case that it was fair use (certainly, the BLR video didn't harm the commercial appeal of the original video, a key part of the four factors test).
But, leaving aside the legal issue, let's just talk about the practicality of the whole thing. As the Buble incident showed, embracing this kind of thing wins you fans. Insisting that such a video stays down does the exact opposite. It's emblematic of the sorts of bad decision-making coming out of the major labels like Universal Music these days.
Oh, and of course, in typical Streisand Effect fashion, others have uploaded the video. Amusingly, BLR even included one of the uploads by someone else in his own playlist -- so it's still there if you look on BLR's YouTube... even if the upload wasn't by him.
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WASHINGTON — A review ordered by President Obama of the troubled Veterans Affairs health care system concluded that medical care for veterans is beset by "significant and chronic system failures," substantially verifying problems raised by whistleblowers and internal and congressional investigators.
A summary of the review by deputy White House chief of staff Rob Nabors says the Veterans Health Administration must be restructured and that a "corrosive culture" has hurt morale and affected the timeliness of health care. The review also found that a 14-day standard for scheduling veterans' medical appointments is unrealistic and has been susceptible to manipulation.
The White House released a summary of the review following Obama's meeting Friday with Nabors and Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson. The review came in the wake of reports of lengthy wait times for appointments and treatment delays in VA facilities nationwide.
The review offers a series of recommendations, including a need for more doctors, nurses and trained administrative staff. Those recommendations are likely to face skepticism among some congressional Republicans who have blamed the VA's problems on mismanagement, not lack of resources.
The White House released the summary after Obama returned from a two-day trip to Minneapolis and promptly ducked into the Oval Office to get an update on the administration's response from Gibson and Nabors.
"We know that unacceptable, systemic problems and cultural issues within our health system prevent veterans from receiving timely care," Gibson said in a statement following the meeting. "We can and must solve these problems as we work to earn back the trust of veterans."
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Since reports surfaced of treatment delays and of patients dying while on waiting lists, the VA has been the subject of internal, independent and congressional investigations. The VA has confirmed that dozens of veterans died while awaiting appointments at VA facilities in the Phoenix area, although officials say it's unclear whether the delays were the cause of the deaths.
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The former Lost star wed actor Joshua Janowicz in 2006, but six months later, she filed for divorce. He was never officially served with legal papers until June 2009 and they announced their split.
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There is an element of calm amid the chaos in Travis Barker's dressing room. It's hours before showtime at Blink-182's concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, and Barker's three kids are running wild, banging on his drum kit, spinning on a skateboard, playing an unplugged electric guitar, happily tumbling and laughing.
The drummer watches it all with genuine serenity. Even on tour, he keeps the three children close whenever possible. "My kids were very healing for me," he says.
At 35, Barker looks much as he always has, in a backward baseball cap and elaborate tattoos etched across his wiry, muscular body. But a closer look reveals a few tattoos are burned away, and some fingers are scarred, remnants of a 2008 plane crash in South Carolina. Barker and musical collaborator DJ AM were only survivors. (DJ AM later died of an overdose in New York.)
The accident is what directly led to the reunion of Blink-182, which Barker never expected. It wasn't even discussed by band members. Singer-bassist Mark Hoppus and singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge hadn't spoken since the multi-platinum trio's acrimonious breakup in 2005.
Immediately after the crash, DeLonge wrote Barker a personal letter, urging him to get well so they could again play music together. A Blink reunion was a real possibility from that moment forward. A few weeks later, Barker was back home and the trio met at his house for the first time in years.
"It was crazy that it took something like that for us to all come back to earth," Barker says now. "Sitting in the hospital hearing doctors talk about amputating my foot and reading a letter from Tom, it was pretty simple to me: If everything works out right and I'm in one piece when I leave here, I want to do everything again. When you get another shot like that, you've got to seize the moment."
The band has now been fully in action again for the last two years, culminating this week with the release of "Neighborhoods," Blink-182's first new album since 2003. The band's U.S. Honda Civic Tour ends Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl.
The album became a two-year project for the band, which formed in San Diego in 1992, and was an experiment in the mingling of styles. A struggle between Hoppus' straight-ahead punk aesthetic and DeLonge's growing interest in arena rock first began to emerge after 1999's "Enema of the State." As Blink's popularity grew, DeLonge became fascinated with the examples of the Clash, Police and U2 as bands that ultimately expanded beyond the original punk ethos.
The new album's opening track, "Ghost on the Dancefloor," sums up the new album, with synthesizers and crescendos colliding with traditional pop-punk elements. It's a sound DeLonge has explored for years in his other band, Angels & Airwaves.
"We're such different people," says DeLonge, 35, of his Blink partners. "Mark said it best yesterday: We used to really hate those differences in each other, and that's why we broke up. Now we celebrate those differences, and we use them to our advantage."
Much of the album was recorded in two cities: DeLonge at his studio in San Diego, Barker and Hoppus in their Burbank studio. The album was essentially finished earlier this fall, but Barker urged the trio to convene for one final burst of songwriting and recording. What emerged were some of their favorite tracks on the album, including "After Midnight," which came together in just 45 minutes of inspiration.
"When the three of us are in a room together and things are firing, that's one of my favorite times to be alive for sure," says Hoppus, 39.
Early reactions to "Neighborhoods" note a growing darkness amid the sunny punk-pop hooks, not surprising given the circumstance of the band's reunion. There was also the death of longtime Blink producer Jerry Finn, plus other friends and family. DeLonge was also diagnosed with skin cancer (which he says has been beaten back).
Hoppus noticed that darkness only when he began proofreading the lyrics. "These are all really heavy lyrics, and they all talk about loss, death, addiction, anxiety, fear, oppression," he says.
While growing as musicians and songwriters, Blink's members also have embraced the old songs onstage, with no plans to change anything in their original pop-punk recipe. There was a time when Hoppus cringed at the thought of performing the adolescent angst of "What's My Age Again?" and other early hits.
"Toward the end of the first Blink-182 (period), it pained me to play 'All the Small Things,'" Hoppus says. "Travis and I would kind of roll our eyes, knowing that song made our band. That was the first time it really broke through to the mainstream.
"It's a real a simple song, we've played it billion times, everyone's sick of it. But now I just remember how lucky we are to be onstage playing them, when we wrote them, why we wrote them, how I was feeling at the time. And they're fun to play again."
Hours later, Blink-182's set is about to begin at the Honda. One by one, they walk toward the stage from their dressing rooms. First in line is Hoppus, raising a plastic cup with a cheerful, "Yeah, rock show!" Behind him is Barker, now shirtless and holding hands with his 5-year-old daughter.
A woman in catering smiles and raises a fist to the band, and DeLonge waves back. Just as he's about to walk through the door to the stage, he sees someone he knows and pauses. "I just want to say hi," DeLonge says. But one of the crew pleads, "Tom! Tom!" and ushers him into the spotlight. The rock show is on.


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By Andy Warren,
If you don't browse our discussion area on a regular basis you're missing out
on a great learning opportunity. Even when you're familiar with
something...sometimes there is still something to learn! We had a recent post
asking two questions - how t get the logical file name from a backup and how to
restore a backup using norecovery - using DMO in both cases. I rarely need the
logical file name but I was pretty sure I knew where to find it, but the
norecovery....had not had a reason to use it (mostly because when I do an
automated restore its a full restore for a testing db).
Hopefully the first part is familiar to you (see Introduction
to SQL-DMO, lots of other DMO material here on the site as well), we're
connecting to the server and doing a full backup of Pubs.
Getting the file list is reasonably straight forward. The restore object has
a ReadFileList method that returns a queryresults object. I've added code here
to dump out everything returned.
This is what I get when I run it. Makes sense, there are only two file for
the standard Pubs database. If we only want the file name we can just grab the
value from column number two (or to be safer run through the columns to find the
one that matches 'PhysicalName' in case they change the column order!). Note
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LogicalName : pubs_log
PhysicalName : C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$ONE\data\pubs_log.ldf
Type : L
FileGroupName :
Size : 786432
MaxSize : 35184372080640
Next we need to do the 'no recovery' thing. I was expecting to find a
property (or an option to the method), after some looking I found the
LastRestore property. Setting it to false indicates there are more files
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in the past. Typically a property that is not set will default based on it's
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achieved the same thing. Ah well...
Anyway, this does the restore with lastrestore set to false. If you refresh
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So...now I'm looking for a property or method in the restore object that will
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Not a huge deal. You could also just run the restore again. Finally, just to
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I'm wondering what Farnese is thinking by herself in that middle panel in the page with young Guts.
"...The Guts that I don't know"
Anyway, very exciting, especially that Guts' past is finally being revealed to his closest friends... via Casca (that's what you get for being so closed off, big guy =).
And never will: Deal with it.
I think that's fitting actually. In fact I wonder if I didn't speculate about it before lol. What I'm curious is whether he'll simultaneously open up to the guys back in the real world. They seem to be in a feeling-sharing mood back there. It'd be interesting to have him confide some things to Roderick & Serpico while Farnese and Schierke get to relive some of his and Casca's past (from her perspective).
Just wait until the waterfall memory. Although that calls to mind a much scarier and ghastly thought: how they will get through the Eclipse.
We sort of knew all roads lead there, but if they're sharing Casca's feelings then YIKES! -indeed
Yeeeeeeeep. With the way the dog, coffin, doll and all were represented, I figured all her memories might take on surreal forms, but it wasn't the case here... So will the really traumatic events also be depicted as they happened? Will some parts be as they happened while others are figurative? Finding out is sure to be a dreadful time.
I wonder if Danan will need to intervene if it becomes too traumatic.
By the way, in case anyone's interested, the line Guts says in the dream when he turns around is a tiny one from the Bonfire of Dreams scene where he makes fun of Casca specifically for coming up with that name (we hear her say it on the previous page). Dark Horse's translation for it is: "You smooth talker, you sound like some princess." I thought that was an interesting choice.
From what you guys are discussing here, do you think it would ever come to them deliberately choosing to leave a memory/piece out because it's perhaps too powerful or upon regaining such would cause Casca to again become too unstable and break?


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Hi folks. Lord Mercat and I are currently camped out at the above named convention. Lord Mercat assembled a killer battle set up complete with dynamic rivers, swirling magic, and floating platforms. Today and tomorrow we will be getting some battles in. I took some preliminary shots of the display set up: Dragon Guard vs Mythic Order at the ruins of Thairm.
Here are two shots of the "display" depicting a staged battle. Lot's of neat poses and arrangements, though this is, in and of itself, not reflective of an actual brickwar. The set up was produced merely for the joy of the public.
The centerpieces to Lord Mercat's medieval faction - which I am told was more hastily completed JUST for the convention and the sake of our coming battles - are three murderbeasts. The Murderbeasts are rancor figures for which Lord Mercat has produced custom armor. Their awesomeness cannot be overstated:
Some shots depicting various action sequences: a mage tackling the guardian of a magic sword, a ballista being blown to smithereens, a warg drowning a Dragon Guard archer...
One of the more interesting facets of our games is this particular character whose function you should easily ascertain.
A few more action shots:
And these next few take some explaining. So Lord Mercat has - quite inexpensively I might add - been able to acquire a pretty full faction of Black Falcons while at Brickfair. Almost 50 at less than $3 for a fully equipped figure. Thus we decided that the display ought to have some roving Black Falcons jumping into the fray. The ironic thing was that the MOC castle to the left of our table space was in fact garrisoned by someone elses Black Falcons! Made determining "where" the Falcons came from pretty easy, lol!
Hope you enjoy these teasers. We'll have better battlefield shots, some dramatic vignettes, and two battle reports headed your way soon!