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Intense preparations for Rosetta's asteroid visit
Engineers at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany are working to a tight deadline as ESA's comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta swings steadily closer to a spectacular asteroid fly-by on 5 September 2008.
Preparations for the fly-by of asteroid Steins are ongoing - and intensifying - for the men and women of the Rosetta Flight Control Team based at ESOC, where spacecraft operations are controlled from the Rosetta Dedicated Control Room (DCR).
The five-person team of Spacecraft Operations Engineers is led by veteran Spacecraft Operations Manager (SOM) Andrea Accomazzo, and is directly supported by a pool of Spacecraft Controllers (referred to locally as 'spacons') who are shared between ESA's three deep-space missions, Rosetta, Mars Express and Venus Express. The Flight Control Team is in turn supported by several extended teams of specialists based at ESOC, including experts from Flight Dynamics, Software Support, Mission Analysis and Ground Station Operations.
Rosetta will pass by Steins at a relative speed of 8.6 km/s and will make her closest approach to (2867) Steins at 20:58 CEST, 5 September, at a distance of 800 km.
ESOC engineers work closely with Science Operations Centre
Before then, a series of demanding activities must take place in the right order and on schedule. Between 9 July and 3 August, ESOC engineers will work closely with the Rosetta Science Operations Centre (SOC), at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre, near Madrid, Spain, to check-out and verify the spacecraft's 11 instruments.
The Flight Control Team will conduct simulations on 7, 14 and 21 August to confirm and practise procedures and reactions to any unforeseen problems that may occur.
"We will practise placing Rosetta's cameras into their proper tracking mode and, as we get closer to Steins, we will actually start tracking the asteroid, and use the data to refine our estimates of Steins' orbit and how to adjust Rosetta's trajectory," said Sylvain Lodiot, an engineer assigned to Rosetta.
A series of Trajectory Correction Manoeuvres (TCM) - in which the probe's thrusters can be fired to align its trajectory relative to Steins - are possible on 14 and 28 August as well as 2, 4, and 5 September. The last TCM slots come just 36 and 12 hours before closest approach; the tight telecommand uplink windows for these must be tested and practiced.
Timing for mission control activities becomes crucial
Shortly before the fly-by, the team will have to upload command sets to Rosetta for the fly-by itself; this must also be exercised during the simulations.
The Flight Dynamics teams at ESOC are instrumental. They are the ones who calculate where the spacecraft is and tell us where to go.
As the spacecraft closes on Steins, the timing of mission control activities will become much more critical.
The team have adopted an innovative strategy of defining 'payload break points' - basically, a series of default payload configurations at a given point in time - that can be used to recover payload operations if any anomalies arise.
"We have break points set to the times of the Trajectory Control Manoeuvres and one set just 2 hours prior to closest approach. This work has involved a lot of cooperation between us, the science and flight dynamics teams," said Lodiot.
Intense science observations will begin some 2 hours prior to closest approach and run until about 2 hours after. Images gathered by OSIRIS and VIRTIS will be among the first to be downloaded after fly-by, and should be available on 6 September if all goes nominally.
Rosetta's Philae lander will also be activated for the fly-by, under control by the Philae lander control room at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) establishment in Cologne. During this phase of the mission, the control room will support three experiments, ROMAP, MUPUS, and SESAME (see links at right for more details on instruments on board Rosetta and Philae).
Close ESA/NASA cooperation for telecommunications
Ground station coverage is a critical factor in the coming weeks, as the spacecraft begins to generate data gathered from pre-approach asteroid tracking, as data is generated during fly-by and for ranging and navigation calculations throughout. On 5 September, when Rosetta and Steins are about 360 million km from Earth, the one-way radio communication time delay will be 1200 seconds, or 20 minutes.
Beginning in August, Rosetta has been assigned two passes per week via ESA's ESTRACK deep space station at New Norcia, Australia, plus three passes per week via NASA's DSN network, with various stations being assigned from the Agency's deep space complexes at Goldstone, USA, Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia.
The number of passes provided from both ESA and NASA stations will steadily increase, with ESA's second 35m deep space antenna at Cebreros, Spain, joining in September.
"Toward the end of August, we have communication slots with Rosetta every day of the week, and around fly-by, we will be in more or less continuous contact with the spacecraft via New Norcia, Cebreros and Goldstone," said Lodiot.
During the critical days of 4 and 5 September, the Rosetta control team will split into 'Blue' and 'Red' halves, with each sharing responsibly for full-time operations in the Dedicated Control Room.
Blue Team will cover from the evening of 4 September until early on 5 September, when the final critical TCM may be necessary, while Red Team will cover the the day of 5 September; everyone will be present for the actual fly-by at 20:58 CEST.
"Although the focus is on the core Flight Control Team, we couldn't function at all without support from the rest of ESOC or from our colleagues on ESA's science teams. In particular, the Flight Dynamics teams at ESOC are instrumental," said Operations Manager Accomazzo. "They are the ones who calculate where the spacecraft is and tell us where to go."


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Jára Sijka on X-Pro2 #3
Did you ever have one of those days where you just want to go ride your bike, shoot photos and have a good time with your buddies? Between our "serious" bike trips/shoots, we try to go out and have fun no matter what the conditions are or what the weather looks like, if there is a good light or not. You just skip all the planning ahead. For me these days are as good as the planned ones because it shows how creative and determined you are to get the shot in less than ideal conditions. I love to shoot in these kinds of conditions, even when you are totally wet and cold. I can show how raw and real the nature is. It's not always about sunshine and golden hour shots. I know it looks good, but sometimes it's just cliché. I kinda like shooting when there's bad weather outside and everybody is sitting inside warm and cozy. A lot of magic moments and good photos happened when there weren't ideal conditions and being outside of our comfort zones felt right. High ISO grain photos or longer shutter speeds when you can show speed. Blurry silhouettes against dark misty forest with a lot less light. You can feel it all coming together and that's what I like. You have to see a little bit of good in the bad.
I know that the world is full of great photographers and their perfect shots with great lighting and what not. But in my own world, there is no place or time for perfection. When you are deep in the mountains the main thing is safety. Come back home every day in one piece. I wanted to be a perfect photographer with perfect photos when I saw those super 2-3 flashed pictures. After some time I felt like my photos are missing the right moment which you can't replace with flashes and all the fancy lenses. So I went my own way. Two lenses, one body and pack as light as you can, just keep it simple. Less stuff you have more you can focus to get further into the mountains. I tried it once and I realized there is no need to carry all the gear you have with you. Why take flashes, tripods and all kinds of little stuff that just get in the way. All this opened my eyes and my approach to photography. Think differently, it's not about perfection, it's about the journey, the effort and the right moment. I changed my ways in how to use my photo gear and it helped me to get to places where other people will not even think to go.

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Warner Bros. has released a new TV spot and banner poster for director Zack Snyder's Superman film Man of Steel. The 30-second spot does a nice job of teasing the grounded, character-centric nature of the pic while also highlighting the epic action that awaits audiences. All of the footage is backed by Hans Zimmer's pulsing new Superman theme, and we also get to see some sort of massive-looking ship making ground on Earth. While the initial trailers were fairly small in scale, the most recent spots are doing a great job of teasing the grand set pieces that we'll hopefully be seeing throughout the film.
Hit the jump to watch the new TV spot and to see the new banner. The film stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fisburne, Antje Traue, and Russell Crowe. Man of Steel opens in 3D on June 14th.
Here's the official synopsis for Man of Steel:
In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone's imagination. Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question – Why am I here? Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark soon discovers that having super abilities means making very difficult decisions. But when the world needs stability the most, it comes under attack. Will his abilities be used to maintain peace or ultimately used to divide and conquer? Clark must become the hero known as "Superman," not only to shine as the world's last beacon of hope but to protect the ones he loves.
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I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a LiteSpeed server?
No you will not see a significant increase in speed just by being on a litespeed server. They claim it serves PHP 50% faster (than mod_php) but they haven't updated their SAPI in over a year. PHP-FPM will blow it out of the water any day.
Stick with open source and if you want a web server that really is faster take a look Nginx
There are a lot of LiteSpeed haters out there, and I can only speak from experience. I've found that LiteSpeed handles memory much better than Apache. I switched to LiteSpeed on a VPS that hosts about 20 WordPress websites and the reduction in server wait and page loading time was significant. Switching to LiteSpeed was also very simple --- it integrates well with WHM/cPanel, and in my case my hosting company took care of installing it. I'd highly recommend you give it a try.
Sorry if I go a little bit off topic here, but I just wanted to comment on this subject although maybe most of these things you will already know.
When you want to speed up a WordPress site there are a few steps you can take that will make a major difference.
One thing is caching. WordPress has a number great plugins that will help you with minifying and caching your site. Look into either W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache to get started.
Another thing that will make a major difference will be a CDN. You can use CDN's such as Amazon S3 and CloudFlare to distribute your static files to servers all across the world and serve them to users closest to those servers. This will increase the speed of your website dramatically.
If that is still not enough than you can resort to changing to a different web server. I can not tell you a lot about LiteSpeed, but I do have some experience with Nginx and I think they will perform almost the same.
From my experience Nginx is a little faster than Apache, I had the exact same WordPress site on two servers, and Nginx did a lot better than Apache. I read that it had something to do with the way Nginx spawns the processes, but that is a topic for ServerFault.
To conclude, changing your web server can make a difference, but be sure to have your site optimized before switching.
I use an Apache with PHP-FPM process manager for serving PHP, and Nginx for serving the static content, with a Varnish cache in front of the entire thing.
You see a lot of hosting companies offer PHP-FPM + Nginx like this nowadays. I don't have any benchmarks on how this compares with LiteSpeed, but I have used both setups, and they both work great. The important thing is I would make sure that you're not using the default mod_apache process manager if your using Apache. Other than that, it shouldn't really matter if you choose Apache or LiteSpeed.


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What links each of these disciplines is the pursuit of a better understanding of human behavior and of the diversity of cultures through research, analysis, and the interpretation of social phenomena. The Bachelor of Arts in Social Science fulfills these objectives by stressing the importance of specific methods (or approaches) to acquiring knowledge and an understanding of concepts and theories in the study of human origins, development, thought, behavior, and institutions.


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Team finds essential clue to Huntington's disease solution
Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a solution to a long-standing medical mystery in Huntington's disease (HD).
HD is a brain disease that can affect 1 in about 7,000 people in mid-life, causing an increasing loss of brain cells at the centre of the brain. HD researchers have known what the exact DNA change is that causes Huntington's disease since 1993, but what is typically seen in patients does not lead to disease in animal models. This has made drug discovery difficult.
In this week's issue of the science journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, professor Ray Truant's laboratory at McMaster University's Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine reveal how they developed a way to measure the shape of the huntingtin protein, inside of cell, while still alive. They then discovered that the mutant huntingtin protein that causes disease was changing shape. This is the first time anyone has been able to see differences in normal and disease huntingtin with DNA defects that are typical in HD patients.
They went on to show that they can measure this shape change in cells derived from the skin cells of living Huntington's disease patients.
"With mouse models, we know that some drugs can stop, and even reverse Huntington's disease, but now we know exactly why," said Truant. "The huntingtin protein has to take on a precise shape, in order to do its job in the cell. In Huntington's disease, the right parts of the protein can't line up to work properly. It's like trying to use a paperclip after someone has bent it out of shape."
The research also shows that the shape of disease huntingtin protein can be changed back to normal with chemicals that are in development as drugs for HD.
"We can refold the paper clip," said Truant.
The methods they developed have been scaled up and used for large scale robotic drug screening, which is now ongoing with a pharmaceutical company. They are looking for drugs that can enter the brain more easily. Furthermore, they can tell if the shape of huntingtin has been corrected in patients undergoing drug trials, without relying on years to know if the HD is affected yet.
This research was a concerted effort from many sources: funding from the Canadian Foundation Institute and the Ontario Innovation Trust for an $11M microscopy centre at McMaster in 2006, ongoing support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and important funding from the Toronto-based Krembil Foundation. The project was initiated with charity grant support from the Huntington Society of Canada, which allowed them to show this method was promising for further support.
The last piece of the puzzle was from the Huntington's disease patient community, with skin cell donations from living patients and unaffected spouses that allowed the team to look at real human disease.
More information about Huntington's Disease can be found at HDBuzz.net, a global website in eleven languages that takes primary published research articles and explains them to plain language to more than 300,000 non-scientists per month. There are eight other diseases that have a similar DNA defects as Huntington's disease, Truant's group is now using similar tools to develop assays to measure shape changes in those diseases, to see if this shapeshifting is common in other diseases.
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text: My Huntin Buddy !!!!!! Apr 22, 2012 7:41:01 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by dt16 on Apr 22, 2012 7:41:01 GMT -5 My Huntin Buddy !!!!!! Only in California..... I can almost hear "why does anyone need so many guns and ammunition"...... On the news this week was a story about a southern California man put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found he owned 100 guns and allegedly had (by rough estimate) 1-million rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel. My favorite quote from the television reporter: "Wow! He has about a million machine gun bullets." The headline referred to it as a "massive weapons cache". By southern California standards someone even owning 100,000 rounds would be called "mentally unstable." Just imagine if he lived elsewhere: In Arizona he'd be called "an avid gun collector." In Arkansas, he'd be called "a novice gun collector." In Utah, he'd be called "moderately well prepared," but they'd probably reserve judgment until they made sure that he had a corresponding quantity of stored food. In Montana, he'd be called "The neighborhood 'Go-To' guy." In Idaho, he'd be called "a likely gubernatorial candidate." In Kentucky , he'd be called "almost out of ammo". In Wyoming, he'd be called "an eligible bachelor." And, in Oregon, he'd be called, "my huntin' buddy."


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Photo: Messy bike after I got home last night
Yesterday, speak of impending ice-storm doom was the media buzz. It ended up bombing northern parts of Missouri and into Iowa instead. Last night, things did get kind of slippery. A quick grocery store jaunt after dark resulted in a lot of slipping and sliding.
By morning, the high winds (gusting upwards of 30 MPH) plus slightly above-freezing temperatures melted away the thin layer of ice that had plagues the roads last night. Those same gusts made traversal of the Quivira viaduct kind of tricky with blasts of crosswind almost strong enough to bully me into the other lane. I'll take strong winds over icy roads any day.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Not as bad as I thought it would be
Photo: Messy bike after I got home last night
3 comments:
- Apertome said...
Nice shot. Let's all be careful out there!
- December 19, 2008 8:55 PM
- Scott Redd said...
Are those tires studded?
- December 20, 2008 12:40 AM
- Noah said...
Naw, I think I'm done with trying to run studded tires. We don't have enough ice down here to warrant using them. Ice almost always slushes in a few hours either because of road chemicals and traffic, or from increased temperatures.
- December 20, 2008 10:54 AM
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Second of three parts
Any good business executive knows that the world is full of risks, ignored at a company's peril. Interest rates could spike. China could change its currency policy. Chaos in Iraq could push up gasoline prices. Smart firms account for these possibilities as best they can, adjusting business plans so that they aren't caught flat-footed. The same can be said of wise societies.
In late June, a bipartisan group of economic leaders argued that the United States must take this approach when facing the risks of climate change. It's still not perfectly clear how sensitive the climate will be to a given increase in atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions. Nor is it perfectly clear how ongoing temperature change will affect complicated Earth systems. But these are not excuses for doing nothing, or too little, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
To back up its claims, the group - led by, among others, Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin, treasury secretaries for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, respectively - commissioned an analysis of the risks that climate change poses to the United States. They only attempted to quantify the impact of a few changes that scientists are confident will occur to some degree with unabated warming: sea-level rise, higher storm surges, heat extremes, higher demand for energy and changes in agricultural production. As with a climate assessment the Obama administration published this year, the results should - but probably won't - snap Congress into action.
Scientists already are observing climate changes in the United States. They will grow worse. Higher seas mean higher storm surges and more at-risk property along heavily populated coasts - $66 billion to $106 billion worth will likely be below sea level by mid-century. The annual national storm cleanup tab will balloon. As the country warms, the average American will likely see a month's worth - or more - of days over 95 degrees. The South and Southwest will be much hotter than that. The analysis considered how many cold-related deaths further warming would prevent and concluded that heat-related deaths would outweigh the potential benefit. Similarly, farmers in northern latitudes might see longer growing seasons, but those farther south, in what has been prime farming country, will have to make costly adjustments, changing what they grow and developing crops that can adapt to climate extremes. In the long term, uncontrolled warming could even produce days in the United States in which humans literally could not survive long without air conditioning.
"Hope is not a strategy," Paulson says. But that is the strategy that Congress, in its perpetual inaction, is taking: Hoping that the scientists are dramatically wrong - or at least that the country can deal with the problem later. If Congress were the board of a large company, ignoring such a serious risk would give shareholders ample reason to fire every head-in-the-sand director. Voters might want to contemplate the analogy this November.
Editorial: Assessing climate risk
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FHA Loans: Credit Scores Loom Large as New Rules Take Effect
New requirements for Federal Housing Administration-approved mortgages go into effect today, presenting potential roadblocks for homebuyers with collections or judgments in their credit histories. While lenders have recently been able to take significant economic events into account in processing loan applications, today's changes are a step in the opposite direction for loan accessibility.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued mortgage letters Aug. 15 instructing lenders to add collections accounts and judgments to an applicant's debt-to-income ratio, one of the qualifying standards for an FHA loan. Loans made on and after Oct. 15 must follow these guidelines.
What Lenders Need to Look At: Charge-offs and medical collections are not included in these new standards, though they have a negative impact on credit scores and will therefore be factors in consumers' credit-worthiness. For an applicant with more than $2,000 in collections accounts, the lender is required to incorporate those debts into the debt-to-income ratio, because paying those debts may interfere with the ability to make mortgage payments.
"It's very dramatic because typically FHA has been geared toward people with less than perfect credit," said Eddie Hilliard, a loan originator at Mortgage Acceptance Corp. in Florida. "Now for them to not only have to explain away the collections and judgments but to add them to the debt ratio -- it's really going to put them out of sorts."
Collections accounts do not need to be paid off in order to qualify for an FHA loan, but judgments do. An exception can be made to the judgment rule if the borrower can arrange a payment schedule.
Additional Obstacles: The squeeze potential homebuyers may feel will be compounded by another regulation that goes into effect Jan. 10, 2014. As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the maximum debt-to-income ratio will be 43%.
"Now, depending on the Automated Underwriting System findings, you could go as high as 55 percent," Hilliard said. The AUS analyzes completed mortgage applications and applicants' credit histories to generate loan decisions. Some applications are manually underwritten to consider circumstances of the debt, and by the new guidelines, mortgage applications of consumers with disputed credit accounts of more than $1,000 must be manually underwritten.
Such adjustments are steps toward strengthening the FHA loan program, which has been stressed since helping to fill the gap created by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.
In some states, the regulations reach farther. In the nine community property states, even if one goes about the mortgage process alone, a spouse's collections and judgments are factored into the debt-to-income ratio. (Those states are Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.)
For anyone going for an FHA mortgage, the key is to pay those debts: Any payments that can lower your debt-to-income ratio will help. Take stock of your credit profile by reviewing your free annual credit report and ways to strengthen your credit. The Credit.com Credit Report Card is a free tool that shows you which areas of your credit you need to work on, and there are several approaches that can help consumers reduce collections debt.
"The best option now is to get ahead and make your debts right," Hilliard said. Try to get a settlement, reach out to that creditor, make payments. You're going to have to start making arrangements to clear that credit up."
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If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content :- The stars pre-eminent in magnitude, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge Of some dark mountain ; or than those which seem Humbly to hang, like twinkling winter lamps, Among the branches of the leafless trees ; All are the undying offspring of one Sire : Then, to the measure of the light vouchsafed, Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content.


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Colorado Rapids forward Deshorn Brown following the 3-0 loss at Vancouver:
Thoughts on the match:
"I really don't know what happened; we came in with the mentality of winning and trying to get a home game in the playoffs but it didn't work in our favour tonight. We have to take this as a learning process and get ready for the game on Wednesday whether we go to Seattle or LA. We have to set our minds and get ready for the playoffs."
On the preparation for the playoff match:
"First, we have to work on our habits. We have to continue working hard on the field. We're going to go home and sharpen some stuff up. We just have to work hard as a team; whichever team comes, we just have to be ready to fight for the MLS Cup."
On leading Colorado in goals this year:
"It's a great feeling. That was my aim coming in. I really appreciate Oscar for giving me the playing time for the Rapids. I just take the opportunity I get and do my best. Even though my aim was to get the rookie record, I guess that didn't work in my favour. I'm going to hold my head high and push forward from here."
On his fellow rookie, Kekuta Manneh:
"He's a great guy, I met him in the MLS draft in Florida. He had a wonderful season as well. I'm trying to do my thing, and I'm sure he was trying to do his thing as well. I'm just trying to put my name out there and show the world I can play."


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Your Conference Finals Prognostos -- Western Conference Final: Red Wings vs. Stars
And now, the other half of the conference finals...
Detroit Red Wings (1) vs. Dallas Stars (5)
Season series:
Jan. 2: at Detroit 4 – Dallas 1
Jan. 5: Detroit 3 – at Dallas 0
Feb. 17: at Dallas 1 – Detroit 0
Mar. 13: at Detroit 5 – Dallas 3
These teams have met three times in the playoffs, including the Stars incarnation in Minnesota, the Red Wings winning each time (the last time in 1998, the last year in which both teams competed in the same division). Since then, these two teams have been among the most consistently productive regular season teams – Dallas has averaged 46 wins and 104 points a year (including that just ended), the Red Wings 50 wins and 111 points. But for all those wins, each has but a single Stanley Cup. Each, on the other hand, has been knocked out three times in the first round of the playoffs. Seems "D" also stands for disappointment for these clubs, given their regular season success and disappointment being a relative thing.
In this year's four-game series, here is how the top-seeded Red Wings came out:
Goals for/against: 12/5
Power play goals for/against: 1/1
Even-strength goals for/against: 11/4
Power play: 1/15 (6.7%)
Penalty killing: 10/11 (90.9%)
Record: one-goal games: 0-1-0
Record, 3+ goal games: 2-0
With the exception of a rather anemic power play, these numbers reflect efficiency rather than domination. Detroit has been just good enough, consistently enough, to earn six of eight points from the Stars. There isn't a lot to take from this set of numbers, but there is from the individual numbers for the Red Wings' leading scorers for the season:
Pavel Datsyuk:3-2-5, +6
Henrik Zetterberg: 0-4-4, +4
Nicklas Lidstrom: 0-5-5, +6
Brian Rafalski: 1-1-2, +6, 1 GWG (three games)
Daniel Cleary: 2-2-4, +1 (two games)
See it? OK, it was a bit of a trick question. It is who isn't on that list that might matter most...four games, 3-1-4, +4, and a game winner in the season series. You'd think he might be a factor here. Well, add to this the fact that the same player has 11 goals in ten playoff games, four game-winners, two shorthanded goals, and is a +9, and you'd think someone had better be paying attention to Johan Franzen just about as much as Datsyuk, Zetterberg, or Lidstrom.
The Wings also will bring balance and consistency to this series. The balance – 12 players have goals, 19 have points. The consistency – only twice in two games have the Wings scored fewer than three goals, only twice have they scored more than four, while on defense they have surrendered more than three only once.
In goal, Chris Osgood had the sort of record against the Stars – 2-0-0, 2.00, .907 – that speaks to efficiency rather than artistry. That is part of a larger matter. Osgood faced only 43 shots in two games against the Stars. It is something the Red Wings are very good at, both in the regular season and the playoffs – limiting the opposing teams' shots. Thus far, the Red Wings have outshot their opponents by an average of 14.4 shots a game (39.3 to 24.9). They've been outshot only once in ten games (they lost, 5-3, to Nashville). Four times they have outshot their opponent by at least two-to-one. That causes teams to expend a lot of effort in defense that leaves them short on the other end. Goalies don't have to be spectacular as much as alert. They will not see a lot of chances.
As far as the Stars and their leading scorers are concerned (all in four games, unless noted):
Mike Ribiero: 0-1-1, -5
Brenden Morrow: 1-0-1, -6
Mike Modano: 0-0-0, -5
Niklas Hagman: 1-0-1, -2
Jere Lehtinen: 1-1-2, even
And here is the other side of the coin. The Stars' leading scorers have been victimized at even strength and have not been able to make it up by getting their own share of points. As a group these five players have a total of 36 shots in four games – fewer than two per game, per man. Modano and Ribiero have two apiece. If they can't improve on that total, this will not be a long series.
The difficulties Dallas had scoring goals against Detroit this season has crept into their playof performance. After scoring nine goals in games one and two in the opening round series against Anaheim, Dallas has 26 goals in their last ten games. That is a bit deceptive, though. They scored five against San Jose in game two of the second round, but have scored more than three goals only once, otherwise. It isn't the drought they suffered at the hands of the Red Wings in the regular season, but considering the Red Wings are third in goals allowed-per-game in the post-season (Dallas is second), there will be a lot of pressure on Marty Turco in goal.
Turco was 1-2-0, 2.69, .905 – respectable numbers as far as GAA and save percentage go for the season series against the Wings, but not good enough to crack the win column, save a shutout he pitched for the Stars' only win in the series. But at the moment, Turco seems to have finally cast off the reputation as a playoff non-performer. His performance in the series-clinching win against San Jose in a fourth overtime might have cemented that. For much of the overtime, it looked as if it was merely a matter of time before the Sharks solved Turco, since the game was played largely in Dallas' end. But he saved 61 of 62 shots in what was one of the most memorable goaltending performances in recent playoff memory. He's going to need to approach that level of performance for the Stars to have a realistic chance of upsetting the Red Wings.
But it isn't just Turco who needs to maintain a high level of performance. Again, it could be a matter of shots. If you compare the goals per game scored by these two teams in the playoffs, Detroit leads all NHL teams with 3.80/game. Dallas sits fifth, but at 2.92 goals a game they are almost a full goal per game short of the Wings. But here is the unusual part – the two teams have virtually identical shooting percentages: Detroit at 9.67 percent (38 goals on 393 shots), Dallas at 9.72 percent (35 goals on 360 shots). For every 60 minutes of play, the Wings have averaged 39.2 shots, the Stars 27.0. How much better does Turco have to play to keep things even? Well, if Osgood maintains his .937 save percentage pace in the playoffs facing 27 Stars shots a game, his GAA would be 1.70. For Turco to match that, facing 39.2 shots every 60 minutes, he'd have to have a save percentage of .957. If Osgood is only as good as his season series against the Stars (.907 save percentage), Turco has have a save percentage of .936. Please, note that the leading save percentage in the playoffs so far is .938. We keep coming back to this – shots matter. Dallas, as a team, cannot allow that 12 shot gap per game to persist.
Why Detroit will win…
1.70...no, that's not from the example used above, it is the average margin of victory in goals for the Red Wings so far in these playoffs. And for all the numbers, the ones that matter most, of course, are the number of goals you score versus the number you allow, and this goal differential leads the league. They also lead in scoring, five-on-five play, shots per game, fewest shots allowed per game, winning percentage when trailing first. They are top-five in just about everything else. They are balanced – in ten games they have ten players with at least five points. On paper, this is the best team in this tournament.
Why Dallas will win…
In the first three games of the season series, the Stars and Wings each registered 77 shots. If shots matter, then the Stars – if they can repeat this performance – have more than a shot, because they have who might be the best goalie in the west in these playoffs in Marty Turco. And Turco is returning to the vicinity of some of his biggest victories, having played for the University of Michigan down the road (national championships in 1996 and 1998). They have the sort of team, with guys like Brenden Morrow, Jere Lehtinen, and Mattias Norstrom that can cause some problems for the Wings with their defensive play. They have smart veterans in Brad Richards and Sergei Zubov who will not be intimidated by the Red Wings. This team is probably set up better to deal with the Red Wings than any they could have faced in the playoffs (with the possible exception of Anaheim).
In the end…
Detroit has been coldly efficient in the playoffs so far, but there is something about Dallas that says, "they're the one." Detroit has players who can mix it up – Tomas Holmstrom, Kris Draper, Darren McCarty – but it is not what defines them. Dallas has been a lunch pail bunch this playoff season, sticking around and plugging away. They are going to steal one of the first two games in Detroit, and they will plug away enough to earn the upset, with Turco – the "Michigan Man" – being the difference.
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the word of someone who gave him erroneous information and a picture.
Likely, neither that person nor Kuniba intended to deceive or mislead, just
made a mistake and didn't do the research very well. The focus of his book
on Budo wasn't the detailed proved history of Uechi Ryu, nor would such an
irrelevant mistake have much impact on the book's content.
1. The etching of this man, he is holding a opium pipe in his left hand.
2. His clothing is NOT Chinese, NOT southern Chinese and NOT Japanese.
3. His clothing depicts a student monk of Thai or Kampuchean ( Cambodian ) origins & that part of Asia has absolutely ZERO to do with the History of Uechi Ryu.
Hi Van,
How are you? I hope all is well. My dojo keeps getting bigger and I find myself a prisoner of my own success in terms of getting out and about to other dojo.
I also as you may know, returned to college, and graduated In the top 5% of my class in history. So I look very critically at these things. I routinely examine documents from the 17th and 18th century.
Last year I was reading an invitation to dinner and found at the bottom it was from George Washington, that was quite exciting.
My most recent project has been authoring a book about an ancestor, the driving force of writing it has been based upon a rare photo of a Revolutionary soldier. Less than thirty of these men existed long enough to be captured in photographs.
Here is my pre-release website http://www.immortalpatriot.com
Shushiwa was of course far after this time period.
That image looks entirely too modern to be Shushiwa or even from the time period. It is obviously not a photograph but some type of drawing. Photography began in 1837 and by the 1850's was widespread, although I am not entirely sure about the availability of it to men in remote villages in China. There could in theory be many photographs of Shushiwa.
A mystery does however exist with the picture we all hang in the dojo. I was talking to a retired police officer and student of Jack Summers who told me he was involved in the caravan that took Kanei Uechi and some Chinese guests to
Thompson Island.
I was told by him that the picture was presented to someone at that time by a Chinese master. On the back of the photo was some writing. From there the photo was supposedly taken to a police crime lab and multiple copies were duplicated.
At this time of course photos were tough to copy, especially without negatives. So maybe if this original someday turns up we may have something.
Most historical writings on Uechi and the system are based upon secondary information and not the primary evidence historians build books and thesis upon.
Even the excellent information given to us by Toyama before his death is so far after the fact that it would be brought to question by an impartial scholar. I myself are glad we have it, because I don't know if better evidence will ever surface.
Your student,
Fred Channell
Dear Sensei Van
have opportunities to consult Sensei R. Campbell, to see if this has any degree of accuracy?
Zheng Bu Su (also known as Zheng Xianji (郑仙纪, 1854-1929)) was one of the most famous masters (5th Generation) who opened a school in Fuzhou and had taught many
disciples however many became associated with the
Taiping Tianguo uprisings and during the tme Zheng Xianji reduced his teachings in favor of conducting revolutionary activities. In his later years, his most well known disciple was Zhou Zi He (周子和,) also know in Japanese as Shushiwa.
2nd Picture of Shushiwa_
100% correct for the period 1900's, China, male, elder, Chinese man
100% correct r/e clothing, shoes, room decor, head dress which is typical of a elder man sporting a Que.....
Zero proof its Shushiwa
Does this man look like a person that could hold two other men, one on each of his arms, using only his Fingers ??
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As Project Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library, a collaboration between the Eccles Health Sciences Library and NANOS, Nancy presented the project update to the NANOS Executive Board on Saturday, February 5. In this session, new collections were outlined, as well as growth in existing collections. The Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology is now completely archived within NOVEL. Every issue from volume 1 forward is indexed and available. Each current issue will be added as the one year publisher's embargo is lifted. The papers and posters presented at the annual meeting are being added to NOVEL. Currently, 2009 and 2010 are available and the NOVEL team will be working back in time to develop a complete archive. The Walsh Society Meeting is also completed, covering the abstracts of meetings since 1969. Video collections by Shirley H. Wray, MD, PhD and David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD were highlighted. The new NOVEL Mobile site, with access to video and audio was demonstrated. The NOVEL Team members were recognized for their contributions to the project. They are Ray Balhorn, Stephen Mossbarger, Justin Barbour, Mike Thelin, and Maggie Dwenger. The Board was very appreciative of their efforts.
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Wrapping Up the Visitation of Women Religious
Mother Clare Millea speaks about what she found during the three-year look at religious life in the United States.
A three-year apostolic visitation to examine the "quality of life" of women's religious communities in the United States has closed with a submission of findings to Archbishop Joseph Tobin, secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Some additional reports are to be completed by spring, though no date for announcing the conclusions has been set by the congregation.
In a statement accompanying a news release about the final phase of the visitation, Mother Mary Clare Millea, apostolic visitor for the Institutes of Women Religious in the United States, said that she had been both inspired and humbled by what she learned and observed during the visitation. "Although there are concerns in religious life that warrant support and attention, the enduring reality is one of fidelity, joy and hope."
Mother Clare, a native of Connecticut who is based in Rome as superior general of the Congregation of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, responded by email to questions from Register correspondent Judy Roberts about the final phase of the visitation.
How would you summarize the reports you have submitted? What concerns did they identify?
The comprehensive report and the reports on the individual religious institutes contain quantitative data regarding the membership, living arrangements and ministry of the religious, as reported by the major superiors in response to the apostolic visitation questionnaire. They also offer a summary of qualitative data, gleaned from my personal interviews with superiors general, their responses to the questionnaire regarding key aspects of their institute's life, and the summary reports submitted to me by teams of religious who conducted on-site visits to about one-fourth of the institutes involved in the visitation.
I was truly edified by the deep love and gratitude the major superiors expressed for their members and their solicitude to provide for those sisters who require increased care in their elder years. The outpouring of expressions of appreciation on the part of clergy and laity for the presence of women religious was not only gratifying, but has helped many of us to understand how precious is our presence and service to the Church.
Many institutes have reported that in recent years they have undertaken serious community reflection on their corporate identity and the personal responsibility of each sister to incarnate it in her own life and ministry. This common reflection has led to a heightened awareness of the boundless zeal of their foundresses and founders to evangelize and to alleviate the social injustices of their times. As a result, religious are seeking ways to be more credible witnesses to their founding charism, in response to today's religious and social needs.
In spite of the decline in many women's religious communities, did you find sufficient reason to be hopeful about the future of women's religious life in the United States? If so, were you encouraged merely by the presence of newer and vibrant communities, or did you find signs of life in some older communities as well?
The numerical decline in women's religious communities is undeniably dramatic. The current number of approximately 50,000 sisters in apostolic institutes today is about one-fourth of what it was 50 years ago. To date, only a small percentage of institutes has not experienced a decline, and some of these have shown a recent increase in the number of new candidates.
I was encouraged to note, however, that many congregations have increased their efforts to present the consecrated life as a viable and joyful way of serving the Church. I have been following with great interest the efforts of the National Religious Vocation Conference to engage women religious in honest dialogue regarding the expectations of young people who are discerning a call to religious life. Conversations on this topic are taking place among religious within their own communities as well as with members of other congregations. This dialogue is already resulting in a comprehensive strategic plan for the promotion of religious vocations involving all components of the Church in the United States. This gives me great hope for a new flourishing of vibrant religious life.
What surprised you most about the findings?
Over the past three years, I encountered many women religious, those who collaborated closely with me in planning and carrying out the visitation, as well as those I met in individual interviews and large gatherings. I have always been amazed and deeply moved by the enormous spiritual energy generated each time we discovered the deep values which unite us. Many of us have rediscovered ourselves as integral members of the Church and have reaffirmed our desire to maintain and strengthen our bonds of ecclesial communion. I'm humbled to have been a part of this process and continue to pray for the ongoing revitalization that the Holy Spirit is clearly carrying out within our communities.
What will you do once the final reports are submitted in the spring? Do you expect to continue to be involved with the apostolic visitation on some level or with the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life? Might you be analyzing and speaking about the findings and devising a plan for the renewal of women's religious life in the United States?
My role as apostolic visitor ends with the submission of the final reports. As you know, my primary responsibility is to serve my own congregation as superior general. This involves promoting the life and growth of my sisters and our varied ministries in 15 nations throughout the world. In addition to coordinating the various levels of governance, I make pastoral visits to each of the local communities, during which I engage in personal dialogue with each of my nearly 1,200 sisters. This is more than a full-time task, to which I am happy to be able to return. At the same time, the apostolic visitation has greatly increased my love and esteem for the women religious in the United States. Should the Holy See request any further involvement on my part for the promotion of religious life, I would be open to considering that possibility.
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