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Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Huygens' Titan touchdown
Five years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe descended to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Today planetary scientists from around the world have gathered in Barcelona to discuss the legacy of Huygens and to consider future Titan exploration missions.
At 13:34 CET on 14 January 2005, Huygens became the most distant manmade object to land on another world. During its descent and landing, it beamed back to the Cassini spacecraft around four hours' worth of invaluable scientific data, revealing Titan to be a world with both striking similarities to and alien differences from Earth.
Huygens arrived at Titan following a seven-year voyage attached to the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft. It then spent 2 hours and 28 minutes descending by parachute through Titan's atmosphere, blasted by winds of up to 430 km/h. Once it touched down, Huygens spent another 70 minutes transmitting more data before the Cassini spacecraft moved out of range. The Huygens signal then continued to be received for another 2 hours by a network of radio telescopes on Earth.
The Huygens measurements have provided planetary scientists with a rich library of measurements from which to extract information, in conjunction with the wealth of data acquired by Cassini in more than 60 Titan flybys to date. Huygens sampled the chemical constituents and the physical conditions of the atmosphere and surface. All of this can now be compared with laboratory work, 'analogue substances' and computer modelling to interpret the data fully. Analogue substances are created on Earth to mimic material found on Titan.
Titan has intrigued planetary scientists for decades. It is the only moon in the Solar System with a thick nitrogen atmosphere. Hidden beneath thick haze, its surface had never been seen before in such detail. Huygens' pictures revealed a remarkably Earth-like landscape of hills, valleys and drainage channels.
The hills are made from ice, probably water ice although this remains a subject of debate, rendered hard as rock by the extreme cold. Huygens measured the surface temperature to be –179°C. Rain is highly likely but, instead of water, Titan rains methane and ethane. Although Huygens saw no seas of such exotic liquids, lakes of this concoction have now been confirmed at high latitudes. Huygens itself landed in a riverbed, which, although dry at the time of the landing, probably funnels the methane rain off the hills and onto the lower ground. Dark organic compounds created in the upper atmosphere also drift down to coat the moon's surface and mix with ice grains to form sand-like material which settles in longitudinal dunes.
The discovery by Cassini of equatorial dune fields of this sandy stuff allowed Huygens' landing site to be pinpointed because Huygens saw two dunes, which could be matched to the larger image.
Together, the six scientific instruments carried by Huygens provided the 'ground truth' which now forms the bedrock of all subsequent investigations into Saturn's largest moon. For example, the Cassini spacecraft has five more flybys planned for this year.
"The Huygens mission was the most spectacular success, as shown by this conference and the fact that we are still extracting new information from the data. We will continue to use these data to understand more and more about Titan for many years to come, and transmit all that we know – and don't know – to future Titan explorers," says Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Project Scientist for the Huygens mission.


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The majority of the 1489 + members of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs live within Aroostook County, located in Northern Maine. As far as we know, from time immemorial the Micmacs have occupied the lands south and east of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the Maritime Provinces and other regions along the Atlantic Seaboard of Northeastern America. The Micmac Nation, today, is composed of seven districts with 29 bands and a population of approximately 30 thousand.
The Micmac language is an Algonquin one, related to that of the Micmacs' southern neighbors, the Maliseets, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Abenaki. All these northeastern tribes are culturally and linguistically related. Collectively, this group is called the "Wabanaki", which means "People of the Daybreak", or "Dawn land People" (wabun meaning "light" or "white", aki meaning "earth").
Like other tribes of Maine, the Micmac, continue to produce a variety of traditional baskets made of splint ash wood, birch bark and split cedar. The Micmac are recognized as excellent producers of porcupine quill on birch bark boxes and wooden flowers of strips of maple, cedar and white birch.
On November 26, 1991 after complex legal maneuvering and political lobbying the Aroostook Band of Micmacs finally achieved Federal Recognition with the passage of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs Settlement Act. This act provided the Community with acknowledgment of its tribal status in the United States. The Aroostook Band of Micmacs have succeeded in rejuvenating a part of the Micmac Nation.
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We've got a bunch of new images for you from the following projects:
- Safe, starring Jason Statham, opens April 27th.
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, starring Benjamin Walker, opens June 22nd.
- Casa de mi Padre, starring Will Ferrell, opens March 16th.
- Aftershock, starring Eli Roth, opens next year.
- Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, opens later this year.
- The Lords of Salem, from writer/director Rob Zombie, opens later this year.
- The Croods, starring Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, opens March 22nd of 2013.
Hit the jump to check them out.
Check out the images below, starting with Safe. You can watch the trailer here.
Here's the synopsis for Safe:
A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change…until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed.
But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action…and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a "counter." He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for.
Realizing he's the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city's brutal underworld to save an innocent girl's life…and perhaps even redeem his own.
After the recent trailer dropped for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a slew of new images have come out. Here are a few of them along with the synopsis:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our nation. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted) bring a fresh and visceral voice to the blood-thirsty lore of the vampire, imagining Lincoln as history's greatest hunter of the undead.
Be sure to check out the trailer from Ferrell's new all Spanish-language comedy. The synopsis and some images for Casa de mi Padre follow below (via their Facebook page):
Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).
Roth's new project Aftershock follows inmates who escape from an asylum during an earthquake in Chile. For more bloody pics, click over to Slash Film.
Here's the first look at Ronan in Byzantium, a story about two mysterious young women who flee the scene of a violent crime, only to have their pasts catch up to them. From director Neil Jordan, Byzantium also stars Gemma Arterton. (via Deadline):
Here is a synopsis and some dark scenes of witchcraft from Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (via his website):
Heidi, a blond rock chick, DJs at a local radio station, and together with the two Hermans (Whitey and Munster) forms part of the "Big H Radio Team."
A mysterious wooden box containing a vinyl record arrives for Heidi, a gift of the Lords. She assumes it's a rock band on a mission to spread the word. As Heidi and Whitey play the Lord's record, it starts to play backwards, and Heidi experiences a flashback to a past trauma.
Later, Whitey plays the Lord's record, dubbing them the Lords of Salem, and to his surprise, the record plays normally and is a massive hit with his listeners.
The arrival of another wooden box from the Lords presents the Big H team with free tickets, posters and records to host a gig in Salem. Soon, Heidi and her cohorts are far from the rock spectacle they're expecting. The original Lords or Salem are returning and they're out for blood.
Finally, here's a synopsis and an early look at the artwork for DreamWorks' The Croods (via Bleeding Cool):
The Croods will be released on March 1, 2013. It is being written and directed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, Lilo & Stitch) and Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps) and produced by Kristine Belson (How to Train Your Dragon) and Jane Hartwell (Shrek). It stars Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke and Cloris Leachman. The Croods is a comedy adventure that takes us back to a previously undiscovered era in the history of our planet known as the Croodaceous, when nature was still a work-in-progress… full of never-before- seen creatures and landscapes. Audiences will relate to the hilarious family antics as an imaginative and resourceful newcomer helps the Croods navigate their way through the fantastic world beyond their cave.


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LONDON (Reuters) - In the politically packed days ahead, an election, a coronation and a two-part parliamentary vote each has the potential to alter the course of the global economy for years to come.
The election, of course, is on Tuesday for the White House and Congress. Two days later, China's ruling Communist party begins the 18th congress in its history.
Barring one of the biggest political surprises in modern times, the carefully choreographed gathering will culminate a week later in the crowning of Xi Jinping as successor to Hu Jintao. He will hold the reins of power for the next decade.
That the world's two biggest economies are choosing their leaders at the same time is unprecedented. Investors are right to be transfixed.
Yet arguably it is a pair of votes in Greece, an economic minnow, on whether to accept labor reforms and more austerity that could have a greater short-term impact on financial markets.
In the U.S. election, markets are pricing in the status quo - victory for Barack Obama in enough swing states to return him to the presidency to renew battle over tax and spending with a hostile House of Representatives and a bitterly divided Senate.
The outcome of talks over the 'fiscal cliff' - a package of tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect in January if there is no long-term pact to cut the budget deficit - is already a major uncertainty for markets.
Tuesday's voting could muddy the waters even further.
"It's not easy to map out what the outcome of the election will mean for policy, both immediately afterwards and also for next year," Bruce Kasman, an economist with J.P. Morgan, said on a conference call.
In any event, Bill Adams, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh, said negotiations on the fiscal cliff would have a greater impact on growth for 2013 than Tuesday's election itself.
"Similarly, with the 18th Party Congress in China, we know who's going to win THAT election. The odds for an upset coming out of those two events are relatively small," Adams said.
As for Greece, the assumption is that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's coalition will muster enough support on Wednesday to win a vote on structural reforms and a follow-up vote on Sunday on an austerity budget for 2013.
But it will be a close call.
Holger Schmieding, an economist with Berenberg Bank in London, said it might take the defection of just three more coalition lawmakers to doom the reform package.
"In this unlikely but not completely impossible case, the euro zone could be headed for a period of turmoil," Schmieding said in a note. "The Grexit debate could be back with a vengeance despite the clear desire of Germany to keep Greece in the euro."
He saw a 25 percent chance of Grexit - Greece's exit from the euro - in the next six months.
At the very least, the tight votes will show that Greece is reaching the limit of its capacity to accommodate its international creditors, who are demanding ever more austerity to hit deficit goals that grow ever more distant the longer the economy contracts. Greece is now in its sixth year of recession.
"There isn't an effective pro-growth policy for the euro zone right now," Adams said. "Sooner or later the political process will have to acknowledge that this policy mix isn't working, and that will open a lot of rifts."
The financial crisis in the euro zone, which is flirting with recession, is still the biggest obstacle to global growth, according to a senior U.S. official.
Nevertheless, a Reuters survey of 73 economists saw an 80 percent chance that the European Central Bank would hold its main refinancing rate unchanged at 0.75 percent on Thursday.
In the same vein, economists attached just a 40 percent probability to a further round of asset purchases from the Bank of England, which also meets on Thursday. The odds on extra monetary easing have lengthened since the British economy grew more strongly than expected in the third quarter.
The biggest day for data could be Friday, when China issues investment, retail sales and industrial output figures for October.
But this is a week for the political economy, and the main focus will be on any signals from the party congress in Beijing that a change at the top might augur a quick shift in economic policy to spur consumption.
Nothing is impossible, but China-watchers reckon gradualism will remain the hallmark of what is a collective leadership. The new team will need time to consolidate its grip on power.
Economists at Barclays Capital led by Yiping Huang said consideration of systemic policy changes is probably a year away, but the new leaders could show their reformist credentials by picking low-hanging fruit in areas such as resource pricing, income distribution and tax policy.
"We might start to hear such discussions at the annual economic work conference in early December or at the National People's Congress in early March," they said in a report.
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'Just relief' for Marcelo, Brazil after own goal
SAO PAULO (AP) — It wasn't meant to start this way for Brazil.
Defender Marcelo turned and stared off into the distance, his eyes wide open in disbelief after his own goal early in the opening game of Brazil's great World Cup party.
"It was kind of sad," he said.
It was almost devastating for the home team.
The vast majority of the 62,000 fans packed into Itaquerao Stadium on Thursday were just as stunned by the 11th-minute error and Croatia's surprise lead. This was not how they saw it going on opening night.
The Real Madrid player stood still for a moment, bewildered, after skewing his attempted clearance past goalkeeper Julio Cesar and into his own net in the first World Cup game in Brazil in 64 years. Cesar glared at him, then pushed his hands downward in a calming motion toward his teammate.
"It was very tense," Marcelo said. "The game was very intense.
"I stayed calm because if I let myself get down I would have hurt the team. It's not the first time that this has happened, so you have to stay relaxed to help the team."
Luckily for Marcelo, and the country that longs to win the World Cup on home soil, forward Neymar rescued the game with two goals and Oscar sealed a 3-1 win. That final, victory-clinching goal prompted Marcelo to run and leap into the arms of Cesar, his despair turned to joy. He fell to his knees, arms pumping out in front of him, and kissed his shirt.
"It was a spontaneous hug," he said. "I know how hard it was to get to this point. And it was just relief."
Marcelo, more than any other player, appeared to experience the same roller-coaster of emotion that the sea of yellow-shirted fans at the Itaquerao and throughout the host nation must have been going through.
Brazil's win may not have been completely convincing, but the five-time champion, which lost in the final when it hosted its only other World Cup in 1950, showed some grit to come back after Marcelo's mistake.
"It was very early in the match, but it felt good that we could recover quickly and we could turn around the score," Marcelo said. "It showed how ready we are for the World Cup."
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Kimmy Dora: Ang Kiyemeng Prequel is a 2013 Filipino comedy action film directed by Chris Martinez, starring Eugene Domingo and Sam Milby. It is the prequel and the final installment of the Kimmy Dora film series. The film is one of the official entries of the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival that will be distributed by Spring Films with co-production of MJM Productions and Quantum Films that is to be released in theaters on Christmas Day.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Adrian Peterson ran right past everyone this season. Past all those running backs before him who couldn't make it to 2,000 yards in a season. Past every doubter who dared to think he wouldn't make it back from a devastating knee injury.
Past everyone except Eric Dickerson.
Peterson became the seventh player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season, plowing through the Green Bay Packers for a 20-yard gain that put him over the top in the third quarter Sunday. He finished with 199 yards and a touchdown in the 37-34 victory, leaving him nine yards shy of breaking Dickerson's single-season record.
``Ultimately we got the `W,''' Peterson said after carrying the ball a career-high 34 times. ``We said during the week, if it happens, it happens. Don't focus on it.''
Peterson needed 208 yards when the day began to break Dickerson's record of 2,105 yards set in 1984. His 26-yard run late in the fourth quarter set up Blair Walsh's winning field goal, a kick that clinched a playoff berth for the Vikings. He'll have to settle for the second-best total - 2,097 yards - and a trip to Lambeau Field for a playoff rematch next Saturday night.
``I know Eric Dickerson is feeling so good right now,'' Peterson said with a chuckle, referencing public comments from Dickerson a few weeks back saying he hoped Peterson didn't break his record. ``But God willing, I'll get it next year.''
Even without the record, his remarkable comeback season now has a magic number to punctuate it.
Peterson came in 102 yards shy of joining O.J. Simpson, Dickerson, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis, Jamal Lewis and Chris Johnson in the 2,000-yard club. Peterson is the only one to do it after reconstructive knee surgery, and he did it on the one-year anniversary of his knee surgery.
``He is without question the best running back in our game and truly, in my mind, the MVP of our league,'' Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said. ``We don't win this game without Adrian Peterson.''
The Vikings punted a few plays after Peterson's big run, and the crowd gave him a standing ovation when the achievement was announced. Peterson took it all in stride, waving politely, but otherwise not making anything special out of it in a game the Vikings needed to win to make the playoffs. He simply didn't have time to reflect on the long, arduous path it took for him to get there after tearing the ACL in his left knee.
It was only last December when Peterson crumpled to the turf in Washington, two ligaments torn, leaving many to wonder if his career would ever be the same.
Well, it hasn't been.
Peterson vowed from the very beginning to return better than ever from an injury that has ended the careers of so many before him. There weren't many believers, including in his own locker room.
But a combination of uncommon genetics, unshakable determination and a smart rehabilitation plan from Vikings athletic trainer Eric Sugarman had Peterson back in the starting lineup on opening day.
Peterson scored two touchdowns in the opener, but didn't top 100 yards in a game until Week 4 when he went for 102 against the Lions. As the season went on, the scar tissue in his knee started to break up and Peterson took off like a purple rocket.
His cuts are sharper, his vision better and his patience is making the difference between a 4-yard plunge through the line and a 40-yard dash down the sideline.
He went on a breathtaking eight-game run, amassing 1,313 yards and topping 200 yards twice in four games to vault into the MVP discussion and make 2,000 yards a possibility.
When asked this week to describe his running style in one word, Peterson replied: ``Vicious.''
That certainly sums it up.
He got off to a fast start with 61 yards and a touchdown on the first two drives, hearing chants of ``MVP! MVP!'' just before he surged into the end zone for a 7-yard score and a 10-0 Vikings lead. He also had runs of 12 and 21 yards early to get the Vikings going in this win-and-they're-in game.
``I don't let awards identify me,'' Peterson said. ``I don't do it. I go out and define myself by what I do on the field. Whether I win it or not, and I'm not saying I don't want to, just like I wanted to break the record, either way, in my heart I'm the MVP. That's all that matters.''
The Vikings have followed Peterson's lead in what most observers expected to be a rebuilding year. Peterson has carried the offense on his broad shoulders, turning the Vikings into a throwback attack that relies almost exclusively on the run for its big plays.
``Congrats to (Adrian) Peterson on becoming the 7th member of the 2K club,'' Johnson tweeted, ``now let's see who can run down ED.''
With second-year quarterback Christian Ponder going through some highs and lows, and the Vikings missing top receiver Percy Harvin with an ankle injury, the passing offense has ranked last in the league. Peterson is averaging more yards per rush than Ponder does per pass and his seven rushes of 50 yards tied him with Sanders in 1997 for the NFL record.
All the while, Peterson has said he'd take the first postseason berth in three years over 2,000 yards any day. But it was no secret that the individual achievement was important to him.
Unlike baseball, the NFL has few numbers that immediately grab the public's attention. One of those is 2,000 yards, especially in this new pass-happy league. Peterson entered the game with 1,898 yards, more than 400 better than Seattle's Marshawn Lynch, who was in second place.
``Adrian so many times made plays on his own,'' Frazier said. ``He's special in every way.''
AP Sports Writer Teresa Walker contributed to this story.
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Exchange rate policies of selected Asian countries: Coordinating monetary and exchange rate policies can help curb inflation »
Source: Finance & Development, June 1982
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Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 1982
Keywords: gross domestic product, capital market, capital markets, per capita incomes, private capital market
This paper reviews the World Bank's graduation policy. Graduation of borrowers from the World Bank is a firmly established principle and has been a long-standing practice. Graduation is a logical step in the develo...


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It looks like Attributor originally developed their service for content publishers who were looking to track and potentially monetize their "re-purposed" content.
Since the world wide web is the world's largest copying machine, its reasonable to conclude the messages that are copied and re-purposed the most across the world wide web are those messages which reached and resonated with the most members of the world wide web's audience.
I think it would be hard to argue there is no larger – albeit fragmented – audience in the world.
Other than sales produced, what better way to measure the reach and efficacy of a particular message whether it be a political message or brand message than to see how often it is repeated and in this case – copied?
Attribute's system helps publishers monitor, find and measure copied content.
Shouldn't every web content producer be using tools like Attributor to measure the impact I dare say content theft has on their bottom line?
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Bruins Crush Penguins 6-1 For 2-0 Lead In East Finals
Sure, his counterpunch goal late in the first period paved the way for Boston's 6-1 romp over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night. But the turning point that sends the Bruins to the Stanley Cup finals?
"It's tough to say," Marchand said. "We're a long way from there."
Maybe, but the Bruins are considerably closer than the reeling Penguins.
Frustrating top-seeded Pittsburgh and its roster of stars at every turn, Boston took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, doubling down on its impressive 3-0 win in Game 1 by blowing out the Penguins on their home ice.
Marchand bookended the first period with goals - including one just moments after Pittsburgh scored for the first time in the series - as the Bruins moved within two victories of their second appearance in the finals in three seasons.
Not that Boston wants to talk about it.
This is the same franchise that blew a 3-0 lead in the conference semifinals against Philadelphia in 2010. Even with a Cup win two years ago, the memory of the collapse against the Flyers remains fresh. So does the potential of a star-laden Penguins roster, one which could see its season pushed to the brink with a loss in Game 3 on Wednesday in Boston.
"They're a really good team, we respect them and we know it's not over," Boston's Patrice Bergeron said. "We need to make sure we keep it going and stay in the game and take it by the moment."
Bergeron, David Krejci, Nathan Horton and Johnny Boychuk also scored for Boston, which has yet to trail against the Eastern Conference's top seed. Tuukka Rask kept Sidney Crosby and the rest of the NHL's top offense in check once again, stopping 26 shots.
"I don't think you expect to win games in the playoffs in this fashion, but we'll take it," Rask said.
Brandon Sutter netted Pittsburgh's lone goal. Tomas Vokoun gave up three first-period goals on 12 shots before being replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury.
The move did little to blunt the momentum in what has quickly become a one-sided matchup. Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma declined to speculate who will start in net Wednesday. It might not matter if the guys in front of the goal don't do a better job.
"We got out-competed tonight and outplayed," Pittsburgh's Jarome Iginla said. "There's no question about that."
The last 16 teams to go up 2-0 in the conference finals have advanced to the Cup finals. The Penguins managed to escape a 2-0 hole against the Bruins in 1991 on their way to the franchise's first championship.
These days Mario Lemieux is relegated to watching from the owner's box. At the moment, the view isn't pretty.
Marchand took advantage of a sloppy play by Crosby to give Boston the lead just 28 seconds into the game. Crosby attempted to flip a bouncing puck back into Boston's zone. Marchand casually snatched it out of the air then streaked in on Vokoun before putting a wrist shot over the goalie's glove.
The Bruins - and Marchand - were just getting started.
Horton and Krejci poured in two more goals to rattle the Stanley Cup favorites and end Vokoun's run through the postseason. The 36-year-old journeyman won six of his first seven starts after replacing a shaky Fleury in the opening series against the New York Islanders. He was hardly to blame for the loss in the opener against Boston, but Bylsma nodded at Fleury after Krejci's goal.
Fleury returned to a warm ovation, and for a moment, it gave Pittsburgh a jolt. Sutter snapped a wrist shot over Rask's stick with 34 seconds left in the first period and the Penguins appeared to have life.
Marchand quickly snuffed it out, rifling a shot over Fleury's outstretched glove to restore Boston's three-goal edge.
That was more than enough. Way more.
The Bruins allowed five goals in a game only three times all season. The Penguins never even came close, seeming to have trouble getting out of their own way. Players collided, tripped over themselves and seemed unable to generate any kind of energy.
Of course, Boston had something to do with that. The Bruins squeezed away all the open ice Pittsburgh enjoyed while racing to the league's second-best record. Boston blocked shots, poke-checked and pushed the Penguins all over the ice.
The boos grew to a dull roar when Pittsburgh flubbed a second-period power play. They dissipated late, if only because so many fans had left after Bergeron's goal made it 5-1 only 27 seconds into the third period. There's a chance it may be the last home game of the season. The Penguins need to win at least one of two in Boston to force a Game 5.
"I think coming off a game like this there should be no shortage of motivation knowing the situation, knowing how tonight went," Crosby said. "Guys have a lot of pride, a lot of character. I'm not worried about how we're going to respond."
This program aired on June 4, 2013. The audio for this program is not available.
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Back in Chicago for a bit
Well, I'm back in Chicago, and oh boy, it is freezing! But seriously, I think it's awesome (at least for now).
Miami was amazing. We got to see Pitbull, who put on a great show for all the Marlins fans. Wait until you all see the new uniforms in person before you judge them; if we start winning games everyone is going to love them even more! Being in Miami and seeing the new stadium, the culture and the energy that is already there and then seeing what the Marlins are trying to bring to South Florida shows you how serious they are. The front office, Mr. Jeffrey Loria and everyone else involved want to build a consistent winner down there. They are going to try and make the team better each and every year and that's exactly what they are looking to do this year. As a fan, I think that's all you can ask for.
I will be here in Chicago until next week before heading down to Panama for Thanksgiving. We are going down to Panama to help out some people down there and be a part of Andruw Jones and Orlando Cepeda's charity event. Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada will be down there, too, so it should be a great time. It's always good to help out and lend a hand when you can. I hope I get to see my buddy Ruben Blades down there. I have never been to Panama, but I have heard great things so I'm excited to get down there.
Please be sure to send along your questions through my site because I'm sure you want to know some of the things that have been going on, and I have plenty of time these days (haha). I swear I'm not going outside in this weather unless there is a Bulls game, and we know that's not going to happen.
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Ozzie I am disappointed with the uniforms. I will keep wearing my old ones. Almost all of the new jerseys say Miami and not Marlins…is this team the Miamis? I would like to bring back the regular Marlins uniforms, just change the letter F to an M…keep the classic style. I love the Marlins but I feel like this does not look like my team right now.
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KiwiRail says there will be redundancies as a result of the partial sale of its Hillside Workshops in Dunedin to global manufacturing company Bradken.
The state-owned enterprise has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the site's foundry to Bradken, which will continue to operate there including supplying parts to KiwiRail.
The sale is expected to be completed early next year.
KiwiRail chief executive Jim Quinn said while it was unfortunate the company couldn't find a purchaser for the whole business, he was pleased there would still be some operations continuing at the site.
"Despite a rigorous sales campaign there simply wasn't a buyer out there for the whole operation,'' he said.
"This will be very difficult for our staff and although some will be transferred to Bradken or the KiwiRail Freight business, there will be redundancies.''
There are currently 115 staff working at the Hillside site in south Dunedin.
KiwiRail said foundry staff would be offered employment by Bradken, some would continue to work for KiwiRail Freight in the heavy lift area, and there would be redeployment opportunities to its Hutt Workshop in Wellington.
"KiwiRail alone could not afford the future operating costs to keep Hillside open in the face of this decreasing work,'' Mr Quinn said.
"Hillside has made an important contribution to the development of rail in New Zealand since 1875 and this won't be forgotten. Many will be sad about its closure, however change is necessary as we continue to build a sustainable rail business for the challenges ahead.''
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) said the partial sale of Hillside would be "cold comfort'' to staff who would lose their jobs.
It said nearly 90 workers would face redundancy.
"KiwiRail was been trying to sell Hillside since April because ever since last year when the company decided to buy rolling stock overseas the viability of the workshops was thrown into question,'' said RMTU acting general secretary Todd Valster.
"The fact the foundry will remain open under the new owner ... is of some solace, and KiwiRail's decision to retain eight jobs to do heavy lift maintenance on the site makes sense, but the fact is that the closure of the manufacturing facility is a body blow.''
Mr Valster said it was ironic that even during the worst years of privatisation Hillside managed to survive and keep building trains and yet in the hands of a National Government it faces closure.
"Ever since then Transport Minister Steven Joyce went back on his May 2010 promise that Hillside would be building `hundreds of wagons', the clock has been ticking for Hillside and its workforce.
"Hillside is more than just a factory - it is a symbol of what New Zealanders once were: a practical, self-reliant and confident people who built a nation that once had the world's highest standard of living. This Government has chosen to destroy that heritage.''


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Mac owners who crave a Thunderbolt storage device can finally get some relief thanks to Seagate. Unlike other Thunderbolt drives that are so outrageously expensive and generally rigid in terms of capacities, the new GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter itself costs just around $190 and is very flexible. When coupled with a GoFlex drive, or any other internal drive, for that matter (not included, price varies), the adapter offers the best deal among the few Thunderbolt storage devices on the market.
The only shortcoming I found with the Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter is the fact that it, like many other Thunderbolt devices, doesn't include a Thunderbolt cable (which costs another $50). However, this is more of an issue with Apple than with the storage vendor. And speaking of cost, at $190, the adapter is also relatively pricey.
If you're looking for a fast single-volume storage device to use at home with your Thunderbolt-enabled Mac, look no further than the Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter and a GoFlex Desk drive.
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The Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter is not an external hard drive itself but rather the adapter part of the Seagate GoFlex external hard drive. The GoFlex Desk is the most flexible external hard drive on the market thanks to its two-part design: the GoFlex drive and the GoFlex adapter. Each of these parts can be purchased separately, and when put together they form an external hard drive that uses the type of connection the adapter supports.
The GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter adds support for the Thunderbolt standard to any GoFlex drive. On top of that, since it comes with a standard SATA connection, it can also turn any SATA internal drive into a Thunderbolt drive, making it the most flexible and potentially the most affordable Thunderbolt storage solution on the market, thanks to the low prices of internal hard drives. I tried it with all types of drives, including hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs), and they all worked out beautifully. Note, however, that you'll need some padding when using a 3.5-inch hard drive to make the drive stay firmly on the adapter.
Priced at $190, the adapter is not exactly cheap, but it allows you to have the most affordable Thunderbolt storage solution on the market, even when including cost of a GoFlex Desk. For example, a 4TB-capacity GoFlex Desk drive costs another $250, making the whole package cost around $440, much cheaper than the 4TB LaCie 2big Thunderbolt , or the 2TB LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt that cost $650 and $550, respectively. You also have options to buy smaller capacities for less or a standard internal drive of your choosing.
As an adapter, the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter is actually much better than other USB or FireWire, or eSATA adapters originally shipped with the GoFlex Desk. It's now wider and heavier, though still not too big, making it able to stay put on the surface without easily toppling like other adapters. The new adapter comes with two Thunderbolt ports and can work with other Thunderbolt devices in a daisy-chain setup. You can also use multiple adapters in case you want to increase your Thunderbolt storage capacities or have a solution that offers redundancy. I tried the adapter with a few other Thunderbolt drives and it worked very well. Similar to other recent Thunderbolt drives, the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter shares the power status of the Mac it's plugged into. This means the adapter turns off when the Mac is off and turns back on when the Mac is powered on.
There's nothing to setting up the adapter. You have to do is snap a GoFlex drive (or any other internal drive) on it, connect it to power and to a Mac via a Thunderbolt cable (not included) and the system will recognize the drive immediately. For brand-new drives or GoFlex drives that are preformatted in NTFS, you'll need to reformat it into HFS+, using Mac OS' Disk Utility, which takes just a few seconds.
For those who own a GoFlex Drive that's larger than 2TB, the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter also comes with an USB thumbdrive that contains software drivers to enable the Mac to support high-capacity drives. The installation of this driver software also took just a few seconds in my trial.


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Premier Biomedical, Inc. Announces Potential Therapy for Retinitis Pigmentosa
Feb 21, 2013, 08:00 ET
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier Biomedical, Inc. (OTC-BB: BIEI) today announced that it has acquired exclusive rights to a provisional patent application against Retinitis Pigmentosa. This exclusive intellectual property right, a result of Premier's long-standing licensing agreements, proposes a novel method for treating the degenerative eye disease via the targeted removal of specified target antigens. This is the latest of many proposed applications of Premier Biomedical, Inc.'s Felder Doctrine™.
Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by a peripheral vision loss that can eventually lead to central vision loss. An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have RP, mainly caused by gene mutations inherited from one or both parents. RP is most commonly found in isolation, but it can be associated with systemic disease. The most common systemic association is hearing loss, which occurs in up to 30% of patients. There is a great continuing need for treatments for RP.
"We are very excited to make what could be a first step towards a truly effective treatment against a disease which has blinded many thousands of patients" said Dr. Mitchell S. Felder, inventor of the technology and Chairman of Premier Biomedical, Inc.'s Scientific Advisory Board, "As with our other proposed therapies, the proposed therapy against Retinitis Pigmentosa described in the new provisional patent application focuses on physically removing those molecular compounds responsible for the disease."
Premier's development against Retinitis Pigmentosa follows a number of significant advances in treatment against Cancer—the most significant of which has been the extraction of molecular compounds involved in tumor development and metastasis within ten minutes, preceding the subsequent death of targeted cancer tissue within 24 hours. Significantly, it is believed that this methodology would lack side effects associated with conventional treatments. Additionally, in targeting Cancer, Premier researchers have successfully removed a specified inflammatory cytokine at a picogram level (one trillionth of a gram).
Beyond its research development programs targeting Cancer, Premier has proposed a treatment protocol for the currently incurable neurologic condition Neurofibromatosis and has also successfully removed the majority of target antigens associated with Clinical Depression and Suicidal Ideation from a heterogeneous mixture.
About Premier Biomedical, Inc.
Premier Biomedical, Inc. is a research-based company that intends to discover and develop medical treatments for humans, specifically targeting the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease), Blood Sepsis and Viremia, and Cancer. Premier has licensed the technology behind multiple provisional patents in the United States and a PCT Europe National Patent in the areas of Cancer, Sepsis, and Multiple Sclerosis. Founded in 2010, Premier is headquartered in Florida, with offices in Pennsylvania. The Company's common stock trades on the fully reporting Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol "BIEI." www.premierbiomedicalinc.com
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No. 4 Florida vs. No. 22 Louisville
Wed., Jan. 2 – 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
New Orleans – Louisiana Superdome
It's hard to consider a team that lost to Syracuse and Connecticut a threat to Florida, but we aren't going to rule out any squad coached by Charlie Strong.
We also won't make a fuss about Strong going against his old team. Yes, he was the defensive coordinator for a pair of Florida national championships before taking over the top spot at Louisville, but he won't be suiting up.
What he will do, however, is have the Cardinals well prepared to take advantage of this massive opportunity.
Florida (11-1), which has allowed only five touchdown passes this season, has one of the best defenses in the country.
That theory will be put to the test by Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. The sophomore from Miami (one of 17 Floridians on the Cardinals' roster) has completed 69 percent of his passes for 3,452 yards and 25 touchdowns, against seven interceptions.
Bridgewater finished out the regular season playing with a broken wrist and sprained ankle. It'll be fascinating to see how he does against the Gator defense, which ranks first in the country in pass efficiency defense.
Florida has a far less dynamic triggerman in Jeff Driskel. His mission is more about not losing the game than winning it, leaving the heavy lifting to Mike Gillislee, who is the Gators' first 1,000-yard rusher since 2004.
The senior running back was at his best in the big games, rushing for 146 yards and two scores in a 14-6 win over LSU, and 140 yards and a pair of TDs in Florida's most recent outing, the 37-26 victory at Florida State.
Louisville (10-2), which has the seventh best rushing defense in the Big East, doesn't figure to hold up well against the Gator ground game and some are expecting this to be similar to the 2010 Sugar Bowl in which Florida dismantled Cincinnati, 51-24.
The game might degenerate if the Cardinals fail to stay within striking distance and place Bridgewater in harms way too often, but we believe this will be a four-quarter contest.
Opening point spread: Florida by 15
The pick: Florida 34-26
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Gray skies today with highs hitting the low 40s. A couple of features offer chances for chilly rain, rain/snow mix and wet snow this weekend.
The first is in place for after midnight tonight. A quick hit of wet snow inland and a chilly rain or mix along the lake. Some grassy accumulations by early Saturday morning are most likely well away from Lake Michigan. Any snow Saturday morning will melt quickly with sunshine and highs close to 40.
A stronger system for Sunday brings a better chance for snow. Once again, inland locations stand the best chance for a couple of inches by late day Sunday. The lake is warm and there will be a good deal of the snow melting on contact. Lakeside areas will be in for a chilly rain or mix on Sunday.
There will be flurries Monday with highs in the upper 20s.


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When Google unveiled its latest mobile operating system to the world last week, the company asked a reserved but extremely confident man named Hugo Barra to grab the microphone, and celebrate Android 4.1 as the best mobile operating system the world has seen. It couldn't have been easy to sing the praises of an OS code-named "Jelly Bean" with a completely straight face, but Barra, Android's director of product management, was cool and composed as he shared Android's latest killer features.
There was the new graphically enhanced search tool, Google Now. There was the new voice-based search assistant – Google's answer to Apple's Siri. And there was also a new piece of hardware – the Nexus 7 – which would show off Android's full potential. Barra anchored all these announcements, reporting the Google I/O news that the world was most interested in hearing.
And now he speaks directly with Wired about Google's mobile future. We sat down with Barra last week at Google I/O to pick his brain about the Nexus 7, and all the other key Android announcements. Here is the edited conversation.
Wired: Jelly Bean really has two major new features – Google Now and voice search. Walk us through the thinking behind these additions.
Hugo Barra: The concept of a card with some information in it [Google Now] isn't actually new. For a long time, we've had the notion of "One Boxes." Whenever Google presents information to you on top of search results – it's sort of formatted in a particular way, and physically separate from the search results – we've called that a "One Box" for awhile. So we've taken that concept of a card with information in it just a few steps further by formatting it in a way that's more appropriate for mobile devices and giving it a significant amount of visual polish. It's not a new concept. It's just an advancement of an existing concept when it comes to search.
__Wired:__ Is Google Now just making things looking prettier, or is this actually a use case-driven enhancement? Can you quantify whether this makes information easier or more accessible to the user?
Barra: It certainly is. If you've asked a question for which a specific answer or a small set of specific answers exist, you're likely wanting to see that specific answer, right? So rather than trusting that the user will sift through the web in a highly precisely ranked form, we take it one step further, and serve that answer up on an information card.
The second thing you talked about – giving Google a voice – is very use case-driven. If you're in a situation where you're asking a question with your voice, there's a significant chance you're in a somewhat constrained environment. You're on the go, you're rushing. You might be in the car. You're carrying something else with your hands. You can't really pause to look at your screen or type.
So speaking it back to you seems pretty natural, right? That's how humans communicate. But we also wanted to do that only when we had a text-to-speech engine that was extremely high quality. And what you hear today, if you ask Google a question on Jelly Bean, is quite spectacular. There isn't a text-to-speech engine, as we call them, that has accuracy as high as that.
We didn't talk about this in the keynote, but we have built a text-to-speech engine that's networked-based, meaning it uses a very large amount of data to compose a spoken answer. You know, purely from a synthesis perspective – forget about answering questions – it takes a very large amount of data to generate a synthesized audio of someone speaking. But we also have a matching engine that sits on the device. It's the exact same voice but with a very different computational technique. You'll always hear the same voice whether it's speaking back to you in a connected use-case, in which it comes from the server, or a disconnected offline use-case, in which it would just be synthesized on the device.
Wired: What makes a good voice? Did you model it after someone?
Barra: I actually come from speech recognition, and I worked in speech in general for a very long time. So don't let me talk about this all day. But it's a very, very intricate process. And it starts with finding a voice talent.
Wired: A real person?
Barra: Finding a person who has a voice that just nails it. And in this day and age, it's actually a very different voice talent than the voice talents that power most of the voice technology that exists today. A lot of today's voice technology comes from the companies you'd expect – Nuance and Microsoft and others. That technology is built for a telephony world, for a customer service environment where you need this posh, powerful voice – a branding approach to things.
We set out to create the very first conversational voice, and I think we nailed that. I think we have the very first high-quality, natural-sounding, conversational, synthesized voice in the entire world.
Between a bunch of designers, engineers and speech scientists, we sat down and tried to describe the personality of the person, the personality of the voice that we were trying to create. We wrote down "friendly" [as a product goal] and there were literally 15 different ways to describe what friendly means. So that was the brief that we gave to a casting agency, and they came back with 10 candidates. We recorded those 10 candidates, and we did a bunch of blind tests with all sorts of different people, and we voted it down to two people. And then we recorded more of those people, and we did some tests and we decided "OK, we're going to go with this one person."
I don't actually know her name. In fact, no one knows her name.
Wired: It's a secret?
Barra: It's supposed to be. It's not something that you publicize because it needs to be the voice of Google. And then you create the voice, you collect a lot of data. What we did is an industry first.
Wired: While it does sound more human-like, it doesn't have a lot of personality in the sense that it doesn't say funny things back to you. It doesn't deliver jokes.
Barra: So nothing to do with the voice itself, but what it says and how it says it?
Wired: Exactly. Is that something you guys were looking to add in the future, or is that something you wanted to leave out?
Barra: It's very deliberately not making jokes with you. Google is a neutral party – it's not your friend, secretary or sister. It's not your mom. It's not your girlfriend or boyfriend. It is an information retrieval entity. You ask, we respond. And it's very important that this entity be impartial, and adding jokes and other mannerisms to the voice would take away from that.
It's something that we've talked about, and it's pretty clear. There hasn't been a single person in the company who thinks we should have gone the other direction.
Wired: Samsung already has S Voice and LG is working on its Quick Voice feature. So is Google introducing its own voice feature because it doesn't want 15 different variations of the same sort of function on Android devices?
Barra: It is not. It's simply an evolution of the Google search experience. All of the assets that we use – both the online and offline speech engine, as well as the speech synthesizer – those are all assets that our hardware partners can use to compose whatever experience they want. Our goal was simply to build the next-generation Google search experience. Voice in and voice out, and then a brand new feature called Google Now.
Wired: Is there a name for the voice that we hear in Jelly Bean?
Barra: Google Voice Search. It's always been called Voice Search. It continues to be called voice search.
Wired: What does Jelly Bean say about Google's view on the direction of mobile operating systems and devices, and the industry as a whole?
Barra: Some of the things that we did in Jelly Bean are representative of where we think the industry should go. I'll just mention two.
One is the home screen experience. We did this with Android with the first generation of widgets – this notion of having an application space of your own where stuff appears and actions can be invoked, without having to dive into an application. People want that, people need that.
The second thing is task switching. There are all these awesome, specialized applications that exist today. I think there's a specialization trend, by the way, in mobile. You use a lot more applications a lot more often, often for very simple tasks, so put those in the notification shade. Something as simple as calling back should not be three clicks away. It should be one click away. Bringing the application action value to the surface, when it's needed, where it's needed. We think we're doing a lot of things that set direction for the industry.
Wired: Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, at this point, is on only about 7 percent of Android devices. The fact that Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean are so similar, is that going to make it easier for hardware partners to port their software over? Or will we see the same lag in adopting the latest software that we saw with Ice Cream Sandwich?
Barra: We don't know. These are business decisions that our partners make, but we certainly are making it easier.
First, you are right that they are similar and that does, yes, make it easier. If you take a look at the difference between the two platforms, you'll see that there is a smaller difference between Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich than there was between Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread.
But we are launching the Platform Development Kit, the PDK, for our hardware partners. It's starting in beta. It's really going to be full-on in the next release, but it's already there. We want partners to innovate in parallel so that by the time we're ready, they're ready. I think that will shorten the cycle and that's really the objective of the PDK.
Wired: The Nexus 7 tablet its the first Jelly Bean tablet and it looks really different than any Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich tablets that are out there. The operating system stays in a portrait orientation. You even have an app tray very similar to what we see on our phones. Is this a signal to your hardware partners that says, "This is the style in which you should make tablets?"
Barra: It is a signal to the industry. We've done a tremendous amount of user research to understand what people want. But first, a few things.
We do think that this form factor is one that the industry hasn't embraced as much as it should. This fills a very important gap. It's a device that you can carry in a small purse or back pocket. Just walk around Moscone, and that's what you're going to see. It's the device that's totally cool to have with you in the subway or the bus, and then when you get up, you don't have to put it away.
There's a huge market gap that we're filling with the Nexus 7, and we're doing it really well because it's a really powerful computer. It's the most powerful 7-inch tablet the world has seen by leaps and bounds. In that sense, we're setting a direction for the industry, or suggesting a direction for the industry.
As far as the user interface is concerned, we think that Jelly Bean is a much more modern UI for a tablet of this size. When it comes to the 10-inch size, that's really going to depend on the product partners.
Wired: Are we going to see a Nexus 10?
Barra: This is where we're starting. We'll take it one step at a time. This is where we're starting and we'll see what partners do in the 10-inch form factor.
Wired: What did the relationship with Asus look like? Did you just get a bunch of guys from Asus to come down to Mountain View, and worked together everyday? Or did Google design something, and say, "Hey, build this for us?"
Barra: I think it was about four months, and we did have them over and we also went over there ourselves. It was a lot of hard work at high intensity because of the short period of time. We really wanted to get something out here, but it was actually great to have a particular place in time where it was "If we don't make it by then, it'll no longer be available to us." We wanted to launch something here at I/O and it was a lot of work.
Wired: Four months is a very short period of time. Did Google see the MeMO 370T at CES and turn that into a Nexus tablet? Or we're you all looking for the right hardware partner, and just hadn't found it until fourth months ago?
Barra: We didn't think that someone had nailed the digital content device. I'm talking about a device that allows you to do movies, books, magazines and so on, but also gaming. Super high-performance gaming, with a gyroscope, a pretty powerful GPU and so on. We didn't think anyone had nailed that in this form factor. We thought there was an opportunity, a gap in the world. So we spent a little bit of time talking to people until we found the right partner and when we did, it was full speed ahead.
Wired: Does Google need to convince consumers that the Nexus 7 is an entertainment device worth picking up? The price is right, the hardware and specs are right, and the content is there, but consumers haven't traditionally seen Google as a place to buy digital media.
Barra: We've just built a new brand that didn't exist a few months ago.
Wired: Google Play?
Barra: Yes, Google Play. We all know that new brands don't make themselves. They require education and marketing. Android Market wasn't an obvious destination for you to go buy a book. It really wasn't. And therefore, yeah, we do have to make it known to people that's a destination that will have the stuff that they want.
Google Play is Nexus 7 and Nexus 7 is Google Play. So which one is it that you are selling? Is it Google Play or the Nexus 7? Well, it's really both. So hopefully that'll work. And you know, page 5 of the Wall Street Journal, we had a full page ad [on Thursday]. We're really serious about this.


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A phase II trial of docetaxel and erlotinib as first-line therapy for elderly patients with androgen-independent prostate cancer Gross, Mitchell; Higano, Celestia; Pantuck, Allan; Castellanos, Olga; Green, Erica; Nguyen, Koo; Agus, David B. (2007)Background: Docetaxel is the standard first-line agent for the treatment of androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC). The combination of docetaxel with molecularly targeted therapies may offer the potential to increase ...


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Recently, a reader posted a question about juicing with the Ninja on my blender review page. She wanted to know how well it works for juicing, and if it requires a lot of water to produce juice. I honestly didn't have a good answer because I hadn't tried using it for juice.
My first inclination was that if you're after only juice, a traditional juicer is probably the way to go. Curiously, the Ninja infomercial shows that it can be used for juicing, but I was unable to find anything about juicing on their website, which made me think it was a bit of a stretch for the blender.
After doing a couple juice tests and successfully yielding juice, I'm changing my mind a little (not entirely, though). I did a little quick research, and it seems you can get a decent juicer for about $99, give or take, which is also the price of the Ninja Professional Blender. The complaint with juicers seems to be that they make a big mess on the inside that is hard to clean and you have to really chop stuff up to juice, you can't put things in whole.
With the Ninja, you can put in big chunks of pretty much anything and it devours them, so there are no worries there. It is also super easy to clean. Unlike dedicated juicers, you do have to add water so that it will blend to a smooth consistency, but not huge amounts (in my uninformed and inexperienced juicing opinion). I'm not sure if adding water is considered a drawback or not. The main drawback, I think is, that after blending, if you want just juice without pulp, you will have to strain the pulp separately.
Bottom Line: If you want juice from your Ninja because you don't want to buy a dedicated juicer, I can honestly say it works. However, if you are a daily juicer, I would still probably recommend a dedicated juicer due to the required manual straining. Here's a look into my little experiment, in which I juiced oranges, and separately, carrots.
Making Orange Juice
I picked up a bag of small oranges for this experiment, and then peeled them with a knife to make sure I removed most of the white fuzz that remains if you peel them with your hands. I picked these small oranges because larger naval oranges aren't as sweet to me, and I didn't want to add any sugar.
I dropped them in as whole as possible (mostly in halves).
Then, I pulsed a few times to mix them up, and then blended on "1" for about 30 seconds, until the oranges were fully blended. At this point, I started adding water. I started small, with about 1/3 cup, and eventually ended up using about 1 full cup to get the juice into a somewhat thick, but juice-like consistency. You could definitely get away with adding less water, but I wanted to be sure I would get a decent yield of juice.
I blended on "3" for about one minute to get the pulp broken down fairly well, and then strained through a sieve to get out as much juice as possible, pressing with a spatula to make sure the leftover pulp was very dry.
10 small oranges (I didn't picture one of them because I had already cut into it) yielded 20 ounces of juice, with about 2 cups of pulp. I tried to make creamsicle ice cream from the pulp, but sadly, it wasn't even edible, probably because all the sugar was squeezed out of it!
The end result was definitely orange juice, and it tasted really good. I'm not a big orange juice drinker, but I downed this juice happily because it didn't have added sugar. 20 ounces was about 3 days worth of juice (small servings), so, 3.33 oranges per serving.
Summary of Steps:
- Peel oranges with a knife, leaving as little "white pulp" as possible
- Add oranges to Ninja (whole or halved is fine) and pulse a few times to combine
- Blend for about 30 seconds on power level 1
- Add desired water – roughly 1/4 cup for every 3 oranges
- Blend for about 1 minute on power level 3
- Pour juice into a sieve/mesh strainer, and push juice through the strainer with a spatula
- Enjoy!
Total time:
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Blending time: 2 minutes
- Straining time: 1 minute
Making Carrot Juice
I chose carrot juice as the second juice trial because carrots aren't as inherently "juicy" as oranges, and, because I've been working on a carrot cake muffin recipe, so I knew I had a use for the pulp. I am kind of surprised at how well the carrot juice came out!
Safeway had a sale on peeled baby carrots, and our dog Pipa loves baby carrots, so I went with those over full sized carrots (less work is a good thing).
This is roughly 3 cups of baby carrots.
Much like the orange juice, I pulsed a few times to combine, and then blended on level 1 for about 30 seconds.
This left a carrot purée, so I started adding water slowly to figure out how much was needed. I ended up adding about 3/4 cup in total, and blended on level 3 for about 1 minute.
Then, it was time to strain. I had 2Chili pour out the blended mixture so you could see the thickness pre-straining.
The same method was applied here – strain in a sieve, and push the liquid through the mesh strainer with a spatula.
In this case, 3 cups of carrots yielded about 16 ounces of carrot juice. I had never tasted carrot juice – it was surprisingly good!
I used the leftover pulp in muffins, which worked better than trying to use the leftover orange pulp, but wasn't as good as just shredded carrots.
Summary of Steps:
- If using whole, unprepared carrots, wash and scrub or peel them
- Add carrots to Ninja (whole is fine) and pulse a few times to combine
- Blend for about 30 seconds on power level 1
- Add desired water – roughly 1/4 cup for every cup of carrots
- Blend for about 1 minute on power level 3
- Pour juice into a sieve/mesh strainer, and push juice through the strainer with a spatula
- Enjoy!
Total time:
- Prep time: 0 minutes (using prepared baby carrots)
- Blending time: 2 minutes
- Straining time: 1 minute
Behind the Scenes
While all of this juicing was going on, my helper was steadfast by my side, hoping for a scrap of anything to fall her way as I dropped peels into the compost bag. This is not unusual, but today she was looking extra dejected!
I'm more into smoothies and green drinks, I don't know that I'll juice very often, but it is nice to know that option is available. Happy blending!