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Complete Yale Game Notes in PDF
- Game 19 • Penn (8-9, 1-2 Ivy League)
- Friday, February 3, 2012 • 7:00 p.m.
- The Palestra • Philadelphia, Pa.
- Video/Live Stats: http://www.PennAthletics.com
- Penn Game Notes: Click here
- Yale Twitter Feed: @YaleWBBDawgz
- Penn Twitter Feed: @PennWomensbball
- Game 20 • Princeton (13-4, 3-0 Ivy League)
- Saturday, February 4, 2012 • 6:00 p.m.
- Jadwin Gymnasium • Princeton, N.J.
- Video/Live Stats: http://www.GoPrincetonTigers.com/
- Princeton Game Notes: Click Here
- Yale Twitter Feed: @YaleWBBDawgz
- Princeton Twitter Feed: @PUTIGERS
The Yale women's basketball team (11-7, 3-1 Ivy League) travels to Penn and Princeton with two milestones within reach this weekend. Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954, Head Coach of Women's Basketball, is two wins away from her 500th career coaching victory, while junior guard Megan Vasquez, Yale's leading scorer in each of her three seasons, is just 47 points away from becoming the 17th player in Yale's history to reach 1,000 career points. The Bulldogs are riding high after a road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth. Another weekend sweep would move Yale into first place in the Ivy League standings.
On The Road To 500
Yale head coach Chris Gobrecht currently holds a 498-423 career coaching record following last weekend's sweep at Harvard and Dartmouth. She needs just two wins to reach 500 career coaching victories, which could come as soon as this weekend at Princeton. She currently ranks 22nd among active coaches for Division I coaching wins. At the start of the season, six coaches were on the verge of their 500th career win. Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons became the first of the six to reach 500 wins on Dec. 3. DePaul head coach Doug Bruno (12/31) and Kennesaw State head coach Colby Tilly (1/7) have also joined the 500-win club this season. Here is the list of those coaches, with their win totals updated through games played on Feb. 2:
Coach School Wins
- Bill Gibbons Holy Cross 509
- Doug Bruno DePaul 504
- Colby Tilley Kennesaw St. 502
- Chris Gobrecht Yale 498
- Patricia Cage-Bibbs N.C. A&T 495
- Gail Goestenkors Texas 493
Milestone Watch for Vasquez
Junior guard Megan Vasquez has now scored 953 career points. She needs just 47 points to reach 1,000 career points. She has now had six 20-point outings this season, reaching a season-high 23 points three times. She scored 20 or more points five times previously in her career, all coming last season. Vasquez scored 322 points in her freshman season and 366 points last season. If she approaches her season-high in both games this weekend, she could reach the 1,000-point milestone at Princeton. In doing so, Vasquez will become the 17th player in Yale's history to reach 1,000 career points. The last Bulldog to reach the milestone was Melissa Colborne, who closed out her career with 1,418 points, fifth on Yale's all-time scoring list. If Vasquez continues to maintain her 344-point-per season pace, she would finish in sixth place on Yale's all-time list with 1,376 career points.
Scouting Penn
Penn appeared to be the team to beat in the Ivy League at the start of the season. The Quakers opened the season with seven wins in their first nine games and registered their best 10-game start (7-3) in the program's 42-year history. The Quakers also won seven games before the month of January for the first time in their history. However, since the New Year, Penn is just 1-6, and most of that can be tied to the injury to senior forward Jess Knapp. Knapp, who had started all but four games in her Penn career, suffered two torn ligaments in her left knee in the Quakers' game at San Diego State on Dec. 30. Despite the injury, which should have ended her season, Knapp returned to the lineup last weekend and is expected to play against Yale this weekend. The Bulldogs will get a stiff test on Friday. Yale is leading the Ivy League in 3-pointers made per game (6.5) and 3-point shooting percentage (31.5, 117-for-372), but Penn is sixth in the entire nation in 3-point shooting defense, allowing opponents to shoot 24.4 percent (58-for-238) so far this season.
Series History
In a series that dates back to 1974-75, the two teams have met 68 times prior to this season. The series was deadlocked at 33 wins each before Yale swept Penn last season. Yale has swept the season series in each of the last two seasons. The Bulldogs have won five straight meetings and six out of the last seven. Penn's last victory over Yale came on Feb. 14, 2009, a 62-46 decision in Philadelphia. Yale is also 7-5 during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as Yale's head coach.
2010-11 Series
Megan Vasquez scored 16 points to help lead Yale to a 53-44 win over Penn in the opening game of the series in New Haven on Jan. 28, 2011. Yale built an eight-point lead, but Alyssa Baron responded with four straight points to pull Penn within 40-36 with 7:27 remaining. That was as close as the Quakers would get. Mady Gobrecht tallied 11 points and eight rebounds for Yale. Baron led Penn with 16 points. Vasquez and Gobrecht were at it again in the rematch in Philadelphia. The pair scored 26 of Yale's first 29 points of the second half to propel Yale to a 66-53 win over Penn on Feb. 19, 2011. Vasquez scored 21 points and Gobrecht had 20 points to lead the Bulldogs. Yale opened up a 27-point lead, 60-33, with 5:59 left in the game. Penn outscored Yale 20-6 over the final 5:59, but could not complete the comeback. Yale held Baron to just nine points.
Stingy Defense
Penn has been near the top of the Ivy League in most defensive categories since Mike McLaughlin took over as head coach two seasons ago. This season, the Quakers rank second in the Ivy League in scoring defense at 56.2 points per game (behind only Princeton), and they lead the Ivy League in field goal percentage defense (37.0 percent) and three-point percentage defense (24.4 percent). The Quakers rank sixth in the nation in three-point defense. Opponents are just 58-for-238 from behind the arc against the Quakers this year. And only Hampton (50) and South Carolina (36) have given up fewer than the 58 made threes Penn has allowed. At the Surf 'N Slam Classic, Penn's two opponents combined to go 1-for-17 (5.9 percent) from beyond the arc.
Impact Freshman
Penn freshman forward Kara Bonenberger has proven to be a key addition for the Quakers this season. She has averaged 8.6 points and a team-leading 5.8 rebounds per game. She is 10th among Ivy League leaders in rebounding and is the Ivy League's leader in shooting percentage (46.7 percent, 57-for-122). She is also sixth in offensive rebounds and 12th in defensive rebounds. She was the leading rookie with four Ivy League Rookie of the Week awards until Yale's Sarah Halejian won her fifth award this week. She recorded her first of two double-doubles this season with 11 rebounds and a career-best 27 points in the win over Drexel on Dec. 22.
Scouting Princeton
Princeton, the two-time defending Ivy League champion, won the first six games of its season before losing four of the next five games. Three of those losses came at the hands of nationally ranked opponents, including Delaware (currently ranked No. 12), No. 4 Stanford, and DePaul, which was No. 21 at the time of that game. The Tigers also lost at Navy. However, Princeton heads into this weekend's home games against Brown and Yale riding a six-game winning streak. The Tigers have been nearly unbeatable in Ivy League play since the 2009-10 season. They are 30-1 since, losing only once to Harvard last season. That record includes a 3-0 start this season, with convincing wins over Penn, Cornell and Columbia by an average winning margin of 41.0 points. This weekend represents the first time Princeton has been on the court for a game in three weeks because of final exams. Princeton is ranked No. 5 in the current Collegeinsider.com Top-25 Mid-Major Poll.
Series History
In a series that dates back to Yale's first season as a varsity program in 1973-74, the two teams have met 75 times prior to Saturday, with Princeton playing Yale more times than any other opponent. The Tigers lead the series 45-30, and they have won the last five meetings, with their last loss to the Bulldogs coming in a 56-54 decision in New Haven on Feb. 13, 2009. The Bulldogs are 3-9 against the Tigers during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as head coach at Yale.
2010-11 Series
Princeton swept the season series from Yale last season. On Jan. 29, 2011, Addie Micir scored 18 points and Lauren Edwards added 17 points to pace Princeton to a 52-37 win over Yale. Yale led at halftime, 22-20, but Princeton used a 15-1 second-half run to break the game open and secure the win. Mady Gobrecht scored 13 points in the first half to lead the Bulldogs in the loss. With first place in the Ivy League on the line in the rematch at Princeton on Feb. 18, 2011, the Tigers left little doubt that they would repeat as Ivy League champions in a 73-57 win over the Bulldogs. The Tigers had five scorers in double figures. Megan Bowen came off the bench to lead the Tigers with 15 points. Devona Allgood scored 14 points, while Edwards added 12 points. Gobrecht scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Bulldogs. Megan Vasquez added 12 points.
Brightest Star Shines Again
Princeton junior forward Niveen Rasheed, the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year in 2009-10, returned to the lineup this season after missing the final 17 games of last season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. She was the Ivy League's leading scorer (16.4 ppg.) at the time of the injury. And so far this season, it appears as if the injury hasn't slowed Rasheed down. She is currently leading the Ivy League in scoring, with 16.9 points per game, and rebounding, with 9.1 rebounds per game. She is also fifth in the league in assists (3.1 apg.). In fact, she is in the top five among the Ivy League leaders in eight separate categories. With 931 points scored in her career, she is on pace to reach the 1,000-career-points milestone, joining teammates Devona Allgood and Lauren Edwards, who have reached that milestone this season.
Dominating Start
In three Ivy League games, Princeton outscored its opponents (Penn, Cornell, Columbia) 241-118, an average winning margin of 41.0 points per game. Heading into the weekend, the Tigers are the only unbeaten team in the Ivy League, and it is easy to see how they have been so dominant. Princeton is ranked among the top 50 teams in the nation in Rebounding Margin (12th, +9.4 rpg.), Scoring Margin (28th, +13.8 ppg.), Win-Loss Percentage (35th, 76.5 percent), Steals Per Game (44th, 10.8 spg.) and Scoring Defense (45th, 55.8 points allowed per game).
"Inside Ivy League Basketball"
Junior guard Megan Vasquez was the latest Bulldog to appear on the Ivy League's on-demand radio show. In this week's episode, she talked about Yale's pursuit of the Ivy League championship, as well as her individual success in her first three seasons in a Yale uniform. "Inside Ivy League Basketball" has already featured an interview with Yale coach Chris Gobrecht. That episode can still be found on the show's website. To hear the interview, visit blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguebasketball.
Breaking Out the Broom
For the second straight season, Yale pulled off a weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth on the road. The Bulldogs began the weekend with a come-from-behind win at Harvard. Trailing 29-24 at halftime, Yale used a 12-0 run to start the second half to seize control. Janna Graf led the Bulldogs with 16 points and eight rebounds. Megan Vasquez scored 13 of her 15 points in the second half to lead the late charge. Yale had to pull off another second-half rally to complete the sweep. Trailing 43-41 at halftime at Dartmouth, Yale stormed out of the break with a dominating 26-1 run that led to an 89-65 win over the Big Green. Vasquez scored a game-high 23 points to match her season-high and lead the Bulldogs. Graf scored 19 points, while Aarica West poured in a career-high 12 points. Yale's defense held Dartmouth to just a single free throw through the first 9:31 of the second half.
Sweeping the Awards
Thanks to its road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth, Yale also earned a sweep of the Ivy League's weekly awards. Yale's sophomore guard Janna Graf was named the Ivy League Player of the Week and freshman guard Sarah Halejian was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week. Junior guard Megan Vasquez earned a place on the Ivy League's weekly Honor Roll. Graf, a guard who has played out of her natural wing position all season to handle the power forward duties, averaged 17.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.0 assist in the two wins. It is the first time this season and second time in her career that Graf has earned the Ivy League's Player of the Week honor. For Halejian, she wins her fourth straight Rookie of the Week honor, becoming the first player since Princeton's Niveen Rasheed accomplished the feat from Nov. 16-Dec. 7, 2009. Halejian has won the Rookie of the Week award five times so far this season, which leaves her one shy of Yale's record of six Rookie of the Week awards held by Katy Grubbs (1995-96) and Melissa Colborne (2006-07). Both former Bulldogs went on to win the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year that season.
Introducing the Class of 2016
Four players will join the Bulldogs' roster as incoming freshman for the 2012-13 season. On Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Bulldogs announced the additions of guards Whitney Wyckoff and Nyasha Sarju, forward Meredith Boardman, and center Elizabeth "Emmy" Allen, who will all join the Bulldogs' roster as freshmen this fall. Allen is a 6-foot-3 center from Overland Park, Kan., who is rated as the 27th top post player in the country by ESPN. Boardman, a 6-foot-1 forward from Oak Park, Ill., who was listed among the Chicago area's top 50 players by both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. Sarju, a 6-foot-tall shooting guard from Seattle, Wash., who was listed as the 56th best wing player in the country by ESPN. Wyckoff, a 5-foot-9 guard from West Chester, Ohio, was averaging 12.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.3 steals, 2.3 assists and 2.0 blocks per game through the first four games of the season at Lakota East high School before suffering a season-ending knee injury. She is expected to return to the court before her arrival at Yale. She was listed as the 77th-ranked off-guard in the country by the College Girls Basketball Report. Wyckoff's sister, Brooke, played nine seasons in the WNBA with the Connecticut Sun, Chicago Sky and Orlando Miracle and is currently an assistant coach at Florida State.
Yale Athletics Pink Zones
Yale's game against Columbia on Saturday, Feb. 11 is the main event of Yale's two-day event that is now called "Yale Athletics Pink Zones." The annual fund-raiser, in conjunction with the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's "Play 4Kay" initiative, is dedicated to raising awareness and donations for breast cancer research, with Yale's proceeds once again being donated to the Smilow Cancer Hospital. Last year, Yale hosted the most successful Pink Zone weekend since Yale started participating five years ago. The festivities, which will take place throughout Payne Whitney Gymnasium, will once again include a "Battle of the Badges" competition featuring the Yale and New Haven police and fire departments. The Yale gymnastics team will host the Bulldog Invitational, while the women's and men's squash teams will compete against Ivy League rival Harvard on Sunday, Feb. 12. Check YaleBulldogs.com for the full schedule.
Yale on YES
The YES Network, the broadcast home of the 27-time World Series Champion New York Yankees, will feature Yale's men's and women's basketball teams in a two-game, winter television package. The Yale women's basketball team tips off the Yale on YES package with its Ivy League contest against Dartmouth at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday, Feb. 17. The Yale men's basketball team will close out the package with its home game against Columbia on Friday, Feb, 24. Both games will air live on YES beginning at 7 p.m.
A Great Ivy Start
Four players scored in double figures to lead Yale to a 75-65 win over Brown in the Ivy League opener for both teams in Providence on Jan. 13. Megan Vasquez scored 23 points to lead the Bulldogs. Sarah Halejian added 18 points. Amanda Tyson came off the bench to record 10 of her 12 points and seven of her eight rebounds in the second half to spark a late rally that lifted Yale to the win. The 12 points, eight rebounds and seven offensive rebounds are all new career-high marks for Tyson. Brown outscored Yale 21-9 over the final 11:21 of the first half to go into the locker room with a 32-31 halftime lead. It was the sixth time this season that Yale had trailed at halftime, but it was only the first time that Yale had won a game when trailing at the half. The Bulldogs used a 10-4 run to open up a 68-61 lead with 1:16 left that secured Yale's first win of the Ivy League season.
The Quest for Ivy Glory
The quest for the Ivy League championship is now under way. As the only Division I conference without a postseason tournament, the League's 14-game conference slate becomes the "tournament" to determine which Ivy team wins the title and earns an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. The team that finishes the season in second place earns the Ivy League's automatic bid to the Women's National Invitational Tournament. Yale earned its first-ever WNIT bid last season after finishing a program-best 10-4 in league play. The Bulldogs begin Ivy League play at Brown on Friday. Princeton is the two-time defending Ivy League champion. Yale is pursuing its first Ivy League championship since the 1978-79 season, when the league champion was determined in a mid-season tournament.
Scoring Points
- The season has just passed the halfway mark and Yale has already scored at least 75 points on six occasions, all victories (vs. Holy Cross, at FDU, at Houston, vs. Baruch, at Brown, at Dartmouth). Last season, Yale surpassed 75 points only three times all of last season, all in winning fashion (vs. Florida State, vs. Harvard, at Harvard). The Bulldogs went 1-1 in 2009-10 when scoring more than 75 points, losing vs. N.C. A&T and winning at home vs. Columbia.
- Yale is 3-1 in Ivy League play this season. It is the second straight season that Yale has started 3-1 in Ivy play. It is Yale's best Ivy League start since it went 5-1 to open Ivy play in 1988-89.
- Yale finished its non-league schedule with an 8-6 record, closing the slate with a three-game winning streak. It is Yale's best non-league finish since the 1993-94 season when the Bulldogs finished 8-4.
- Yale is leading the Ivy League in assists (14.1 per game), turnover margin (+4.38), assist-to-turnover ratio (0.9), and made 3-pointers per game (6.1).
- Yale is second in the Ivy League in scoring, averaging 65.8 points per game. The Bulldogs are also second in the league in steals (9.9 per game), while they are third in blocks (3.5 per game).
- Yale has allowed 90 or more points twice this season, losing both games. The Bulldogs lost at Baylor, 109-59, and at Florida State, 92-58.
- The Bulldogs are 4-1 at home this season, 4-5 in games away from Yale.
- The Bulldogs limited Baruch to just 19-for-61 shooting. The 31.1 shooting percentage is the lowest by a Yale opponent this season.
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Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization
Technical Committee
Thursday, November 7, 2013
1:30 p.m.
County/City Building, Room 113
Roll call and acknowledge the "Nebraska Open Meeting Act"
- Review and action on the draft minutes of the September 26, 2013 Technical Committee meeting.
- Review and action on revisions to the FY 2014 2017 Transportation Improvement Program.
- Nebraska Department of Roads
- Lancaster County
- Review and action on the Lincoln MPO Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Project Prioritization and Selection Process for developing a program of projects. This is to develop a TAP program and administer a call for project proposals to fund transportation alternative projects as defined by the federal regulations. The resulting program of projects for is to be included in the proposed FY 2015-2018 Transportation Improvement Program.
- Briefing on the 2013 FHWA/FTA Joint Certification Review of the Lincoln Metropolitan Planning Organization.
- Review and action on Certification Review Civil Rights requirement recommendations resulting from the 2013 Federal Certification Review.
- Establish the Title VI coordinator, contact, and complaint process
- Implement the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title VI requirement
- Update the Limited English proficiency (LEP) requirement
- Other topics for discussion


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We have to admit, we're surprised to be saying that this was one of the most entertaining "American Idol" finale shows ever. And, perhaps, the only performance show in recent memory that came in on time. After Ryan Seacrest warned us on Tuesday to set extra time on our DVR's because the show was going to run over, it actually ran just the 2 hrs. and 7 min. it was supposed to. It speaks to the entire season. Whereas in past seasons the show rarely ran past its allotted time except for the finale, Season 8 turned out to be the anomaly right down to the very last episode.
There were very few unwanted or slow moments in the finale, and most of the musical performances were as electric and enjoyable as we had hoped. Segments we could have lived -- happily -- without, included the always stupid Golden Awards Awards (well, perhaps except for the Katrina "Bikini Girl" Derrell one) and Rod Stewart, who has no voice left but doesn't know when to say "no" to an invitation to
Ryan tells us there were just under 100 million votes -- the most ever -- though the David-David 2008 duel garnered 97.5 million votes, so the difference this year doesn't seem overwhelming. More interesting: Billy Bush tweeted that a source high up told him that the voting, in spite of what DialIdol.com showed, was not close, while AT&T reports that about 38 million votes came from Arkansas, Kris Allen's home state. Unreal. Those people know how to back their hometown hero.
Before the opening number, Ryan brings out Adam Lambert and Kris Allen dressed in white suits. We see shots of their hometown parties, with Mikalah Gordon hosting in Conway, Ark., and Carly Smithson in San Diego. Carly says she couldn't bring it home for San Diego last year, but hopes Adam will this year. The city will be disappointed for the second year in a row. The opening number has the Top 13 all dressed in white as well to sing Pink's anthemic "So What." It is in the best cheesy "Idol" Group Song tradition, though poor Scott MacIntyre still looks like he's out of sync and lip-syncing. Gah, what's the tour going to be like with things like that?
Watch video of the Top 13 singing "So What"
Season 7 winner David Cook takes the stage to sing "Permanent" in tribute to his late brother Adam. He looks and sounds good. After he finishes, he tells Ryan, who looks slightly uncomfortable with the discussion, that the performance will go up on iTunes with all money being donated to research to end cancer. Cook tells Ryan that he's met broth Kris and Adam and that not only as both great singers, they are great guys, ending with, "I don't know that America can get this wrong." During the past year, Cook has proved himself to be an Idol in every sense of the word and we applaud him.
Watch video of David Cook singing "Permanent"
The first moment we could have lived without arrives: the return of the Golden Idol Awards. The first award goes to Nick Mitchell/Normund Gentle who performs again. Sorry, it's not funny the fifth time. It's wasn't even funny the fourth time. Hit the fast forward button for the first time Wednesday night.
Lil Rounds joins Queen Latifah for the night's first duet, "Cue the Rain." It's not really our cup of tea, and in spite of who she's singing with, Lil still isn't being what the judges hoped all season she would turn out to be. Plus her vocals leave much to be desired. How could this woman have started the season as Idol's great female hope?
Watch video of Lil Rounds and Queen Latifah singing "Cue the Rain"
Back from commercial with Anoop Desai and Alexis Grace joining Jason Mraz to sing his hit "I'm Yours." We love this song, even if it was played about a thousand times on "Idol" this season, between the auditions and Hollywood Week. Unfortunately, Alexis, no longer dirrrty looking now that she's not competing on the show or even going on the tour, isn't sounding too good either, and Anoop certainly doesn't sound like he's at the top of his game. Are they overtired from too many rehearsals or is this just confirming that this season's crop of finalists were less than stellar with a few exceptions?
Watch video of Anoop Desai, Alexis Grace and Jason Mraz singing "I'm Yours"
When we first heard that Jason Mraz was going to be on the finale, we'd figured that he would be a natural matchup with Kris on a duet, since Kris is so often compared with him in style. So we were somewhat surprised to hear that Kris' duet would be with Keith Urban. But they fit -- and sang -- together perfectly. Their rendition of "Kiss the Girl" was one of our favorite segments of the evening. Kris seems a natural as a country star. More! More!
Watch video of Kris Allen and Keith Urban singing "Kiss the Girl"
The Top 13 girls sing "Glamorous," with painful solos by (especially) Megan Joy and Jasmine Murray. C'mon, why thehell were these two Wild Card choices? They s-u-c-k. This is all to introduce Black Eyed Peas with hot-looking Fergie to sing a censored version of "Boom Boom Pow."Watch video of Black Eyed Peas with Fergie singing "Boom Boom Pow"
Yes, yes, we know we said we hated the Golden Idol Awards, and we particularly hated "Bikini Girl" Katrina Darrell from her first smug appearance on Season 8. But having her back for the finale was worth it, if just to see Kara DioGuardi humiliate her. Sure, she was in on the joke, but it was still worth it. After they show Kara critiquing Katrina's audition and "Bikini Girl" tells Kara that *snap* "your demonstration wasn't any better," Ryan announces that Derrell has won the Best Attitude award. She bounces onstage in her bikini and new pair of knockers, courtesy of the Kellie Pickler School of Makeovers. She kisses Ryan and tells us, "And he kissed back this time." Seacrest then says to Derrell, "I was going to ask you what's new, but I think I know." Ryan asks her to take another shot at singing "Vision of Love." We hope she was intentionally singing that badly, but as she does, the curtain behind her opens and Kara begins to belt out the song. At the end, DioGuardi rips open her dress (for charity we find out later) to reveal a black bikini. Props to DioGuardi for the sketch and for the killer vocals. It's the most enjoyment she's provided all season.
Watch video of Bikini Girl Katrina Darrell face off with Kara DioGuardi
Allison Iraheta and Cyndi Lauper team up for "Time After Time," with Allison once again proving why she was the last female left standing. Lauper mostly plays the autoharp while Iraheta handles the majority of the vocals. It was a terrific and memorable pairing. How about bringing Lauper back as a mentor?
Watch video of Allison Iraheta and Cyndi Lauper singing "Time after Time"
Another pairing that works really well is Danny Gokey and Lionel Richie. Danny opens by singing "Hello." It's OK, but it ain't gonna make anyone forget David Cook's amazing Season 7 rendition, and why even remind them. It's isn't doing Gokey any favors. Richie comes out to join Gokey for more of Lionel's hits, ending with a fun and rousing version "All Night Long." Richie looks and sounds excellent and would also make a great mentor. It's another More! More! moment.
Watch video of Danny Gokey and Lionel Richie singing a medley of Richie songs
Next came THE singing moment of the night. Adam takes the stage to sing in a jacket with metal angel-like wings and HUGE platform shoes. Forget guyliner, he's got the whole guy makeup box on his face, complete with glittery guy shadow. Frankly, he looks fabulous. He begins to sing "Beth," but this is just a lead-in for his medley with KISS. They're decorative background as Adam breaks free and soars, almost literally bringing down the house on his last note of "Rock and Roll All Night." It leaves us breathless. The audience goes ber-serk. We wonder if Kris wins, are they gonna boo him? Yikes!
Watch video of Adam Lambert singing with KISS
Carlos Santana takes the stage for "Black Magic Woman." When the song hits the verse, Matt Giraud does the honors, later joined by the rest of the Top 13 for "Smooth." It is their best moment as a group for the night.
Watch video of the Top 13 and Santana performing "Black Magic Woman"
It's time for the last Ford commercial of the year, featuring highlights of ads from this season with Adam and Kris singing "I Will Remember You." They sound good together and hopefully will duet on tour. There's then a video of David Cook surprising Adam and Kris with the keys to their new Ford Fusions. Can we have one, too?
Watch video of Ford Commercial "I Will Remember You" and Kris Allen and Adam Lambert receiving Ford Fusions from David Cook
Michael Sarver and Megan Joy sing "Pretty Flowers" accompanied by Steve Martin on the banjo. The music is much better than the singing. He sounds OK but unimpressive, her voice is not only off key, but harsh sounding, as well. Just don't understand these two as Top 10 contestants when there were so many better than them in the Top 36.
Watch video of Megan Joy, Michael Sarver and Steve Martin singing "Pretty Flowers"
And then, the moment we coulda and shoulda lived without. The Top 13 guys sing "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" Answer (with a few exceptions): "No." This is a lead-in to guest performer Rod Stewart, who should be resting on his laurels rather than proving that his has no voice left. But, of course, if you've heard any of his standards CDs, you already knew that. He barely makes it down the stairs without falling (this is sad), then croaks his way through "Maggie May." And, oh, god, please stop trying to do dance moves. Between that and his horrid plaid tux jacket, he looks like a caricature of your drunk uncle from the worst family wedding video. He gets to the line: "You made a first-class fool out of me," and we're thinking, "Er, no, Rod, you did that to yourself," as Carrie Underwood, sitting prettily in the audience, graciously claps along to the beat. Man, Stewart actually made the Top 13 sound good. Scary.
Watch video of the Top 13 boys singing "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" and Rod Stewart singing "Maggie May"
Enough of the lowlights, it's time for another highlight, as Kris and Adam begin to sing "We Are the Champions" together, then are joined by Queen. Cool.
Watch video of Adam Lambert and Kris Allen singing "We Are the Champions" with Queen
Finally, it's the moment of truth. For the last time this season, Ryan calls for the lights to be dimmed. We're sure the majority of people watching thought that Adam had it in the bag, so we can't even imagine their shock when Ryan said "Kris Allen." Kris was so stunned, he started laughing, then told Ryan, "It feels good man, but Adam deserves this." Ha! No Idol ever said that before.
Must've really pissed off Simon, who was seen in one shot looking like he was really stewing over the call. He was rudely petulant, not even standing with the other three judges to applaud the newest Idol. Oh, well, Simon. There's always next year.
Watch video of Kris Allen winning American Idol
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Jen Chao factored into three wins, including a sweep of the butterfly events, to lead the Engineers to a third-place finish against a powerful field at the MIT Winter Invite. NYU secured the victory with regional power Tufts netting second, but MIT swam exceptionally well and set the stage for a strong second-half to the 2008-09 season.
Chao split 58.90 for a dominating win in the 100 fly and dropped three seconds off her seed time en route to a winning swim of 2:11.33 in the 200 fly.
Chao, who also finished fourth overall in the 50 free, led off MIT's winning 400 free relay to close the meet. Chao split 55.95 to deliver a good start, but the relay picked up steam as the race continued. Katie Creasey split 55.27 on the second leg and Sydney Giblin finished her leg in 54.97. Ensuring the victory for MIT, Sarah King anchored in 54.22 as the Engineers finished with a time of 3:40.41.
Giblin, who is competing in her first season with the Cardinal and Gray, also enjoyed a solid swim in the open 100 free, taking third overall behind a clip of 54.82.
Although she didn't win any events, Nicole O'Keeffe was also solid for the Engineers. O'Keefe finished third in the 500 and 1650 free events while closing among the top 10 in both individual medleys.
Lauren Cipicchio paced a strong effort for Tech's divers by finishing fourth on three-meter and fifth in the one-meter competition. Beth Stavely (6th) and Kristin Uhmeyer (9th) also finished among the top 10 on the three-meter board.


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Eve Miller, 41, has twin callings: music and meditation. Miller is an accomplished freelance cellist, recording artist, composer, music educator, arts administrator and meditation teacher. Her music resume includes Tempesta Di Mare (a baroque, early classical chamber ensemble) and La Rocinate Baroque Ensemble as well as several alternate rock bands (Matt Pond PA, Swarm of Arrows, Rachel's and the Lewis & Clarke Band).
Originally from Virginia, Miller earned a Bachelor's Degree in cello performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and a Master's Degree in music history from Temple University. She recently took a job as Artistic Coordinator at Play On Philly!, a daily after-school orchestral music education program for at-risk children. The program is tuition-free and offered at the St. Francis de Sales Elementary School in West Philadelphia and the Freire Charter School Middle School at 10th and Market Streets in Center City. She will be working with the director to develop repertoire and curriculum, review lesson plans and do music fundamentals testing."
In 1998 Miller discovered meditation. "I was stressed and mad at the world. I walked into a coffee shop and saw a picture of Buddha on a bulletin board. Instead of 'Got milk?,' the caption read 'Got Peace?' The flyer was for a meditation class in Center City. There were strips of paper with a phone number. I took one, and I called."
The Mahayana Buddhist meditation class was offered by the New Kadampa Tradition in a rental space at the Ethical Society in Center City. "The teacher had a presence of peace and calm. I never stopped going," Miller said.
The Mahayana meditation classes are now held at the Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Center at 11th & Pine Streets in Center City. Miller continued with her studies and is now a senior student. "The teacher training program takes years of study and a significant retreat commitment," Miller said.
"The New Kadampa Tradition is an international Mahayana Buddhist organization that was founded by a Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, who translated traditional Mahayana Buddhist meditations into English and wrote commentaries in a modern presentation that is practical for everyday life."
The central belief of Mahayana meditation is that it is possible for everyone to cultivate a positive state of mind that will lead to calmness and inner peace. You do not have to be a Buddhist or a member of the Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Center to attend meditation classes. There are 1,000 Kadampa Centers worldwide.
"Meditating has affected my music. I feel more connected to the audience. I make eye contact. I am more present in the moment. It's about making an offering to the audience. Meditation has helped me to develop powers of concentration that prepared me for both music and meditation," said Miller. "Meditation takes practice … It's like building a muscle. It is a practical toolbox for learning how to be a happier and more peaceful person."
Miller trained as a mainstream classical cellist, but when she was a student at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, she was introduced to a baroque performance practice by Ann Marie Morgan, Eve's baroque cello professor in conservatory and a founding member of Tempesta Di Mare. "I loved it, I loved it from the get-go," said Miller.
In addition to her history with baroque music, Miller has often played the cello with rock bands, even touring almost 180 days a year for five years with a rock band, although performing with acoustic strings in live rock club settings is unusual. "Wrangling the sound issues of acoustic versus electric instruments, cello versus drum set, it's challenging," she said.
Since mid-October of last year, Miller, who lives with her husband in South Philadelphia, has been teaching an ongoing meditation class at the Juice Room & Video Library at 7141 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. "We get a big cross section of people — women in their 20s, retired people, all races. Currently we have mostly beginning meditation students. Students can join at any time. It's a drop-in situation," said Miller, who suggests wearing loose, comfortable clothes. The meditation is done sitting on a chair or on floor pillows. Each class is $10.
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When you're Kim Kardashian and you get pregnant (or even just walk down the street), you're going to be subject to a lot of rumors and speculation. So let's dispense with the niceties and fast forward to the latest one: That bastion of award-winning journalism, Star Magazine, has the latest gossip on WHY Kim got preggo. Because she's in love with Kanye? Because she wants kids? HA! You silly naifs! It wasn't for any of those reasons. It was because of mon-ayy. A whole lot of cashola.
A source tells Star that Kim got pregnant in order to facilitate her divorce from Kris Humphries -- because if his case that he was duped into a fake marriage came out in his favor, Kim would have to return $22 million worth of gifts, freebies, and endorsement deal money she raked in during the "wedding of the century month." Says the source:
Kim wants everyone to think that this pregnancy was completely spontaneous, but the truth is she made it happen.
The source goes on to say it was all done with a devious dose of IVF. Bwahahaha! Take that, suckas!
Well, there's a lot of holes in this theory. How would a pregnancy help Kim's case that her marriage wasn't a fraud? If anything, it hurts it. Plus, why would Kim have to give everything back because she got pregnant? Makey no sensey.
But let's just say Kim DID decide to have a baby because $22 million was on the line. Hey, women have had babies for a lot less reason. Like buying into some kind of fantasy about what having children is like based on Hollywood paparazzi shots. Like doing it to keep a relationship. Like doing it to get married. Like doing it out of a hormonal fit! Like doing it cause your mom is buggin' you!
Women have kids for plenty of other reasons besides I desperately, insanely want a kid and can think of nothing else that will make my life remotely complete! Hell, I know one woman who had a baby because she was BORED. Anyway, I'm sure expanding her empire was the last thing on Kim's mind when she got knocked up.
But ... $22 million? Sign me up!
Would you have a baby for $22 million?
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Incredible Images Captured From Space
NASA posted on its website this image of the Crab Nebula, writing, "This close-up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star. The inner region sends out clocklike pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields," July 7, 2016.
NASA posted on its website this image of the Crab Nebula, writing, "This close-up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star. The inner region sends out clocklike pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields," July 7, 2016.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a new dark spot on Neptune. Astronomers hope to better understand the origins of the dark areas, their interaction with the environment and how they ultimately dissipate.
Hubble Spies a Spiral Snowflake
Spiral galaxies together with irregular galaxies make up approximately 60% of the galaxies in the local Universe. However, despite their prevalence, each spiral galaxy is unique - like snowflakes, no two are alike. This is demonstrated by the striking face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814, whose luminous nucleus and spectacular sweeping arms, rippled with an intricate pattern of dark dust, are captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image.
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A Unique View of Morocco From Space
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured this detailed photograph from the International Space Station during a daytime flyover of Morocco, May 2, 2016. Williams shared the image to social media and asked, "Reptile scales, or incredible and rugged geology in Morocco?"
Spider Nebula Glows Among the Stars
The spider part of The Spider and the Fly" nebulae, IC 417 abounds in star formation, as seen in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).
Mars Rover Sends a Selfie From the Red Planet
NASA's Curiosity rover is seen at Namib Dune in this photo where it has been busy scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis.
Hubble Telescope Spots Colorful Bubble
NASA's Hubble telescope photographed this planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula, located in the constellation of Sagittarius, roughly 6000 light-years from Earth.
See Dark Side of the Moon From a Million Miles Away
This image shows the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.
California, Oregon Fires Seen From Space
This satellite image shows smoke from several fires in Oregon and California on Aug. 2, 2015. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of smoke from these fires. The multiple red pixels are heat signatures detected by MODIS. The smoke appears to be a light brown color.
Scott Kelly Captures Striking View of Mountains
Scott Kelly posted this image to twitter, July 30, 2015, with the caption: "High sun angles we're at on @Space_Station make for striking images of the mountains of #SouthAmerica. #YearInSpace"
Earth From A Million Miles Away
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. The image was generated by combining three separate images to create a photographic-quality image. The image was taken July 6, 2015, showing North and Central America.
Stars and Stripes in Space
Celebrating Flag Day, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph in the cupola of the International Space Station. Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) wrote, "Stars and stripes from @Space_Station. Happy #NationalFlagDay! #YearInSpace," June 14, 2015.
Get the Closest Look Yet of Ceres' Cratered Surface
The brightest spots on dwarf planet Ceres are seen in this image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on June 6, 2015. This is among the first snapshots from Dawn's second mapping orbit, which is 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) in altitude. The resolution is 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel. Scientists are still puzzled by the nature of these spots, and are considering explanations that include salt and ice.
Medusa Nebula Glows in Space
ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has captured the most detailed image ever taken of the Medusa Nebula. As the star at the heart of this nebula made its final transition into retirement, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colorful cloud. The image foreshadows the final fate of the Sun, which will eventually also become an object of this kind.
Sunset Thunderstorms As Seen From Space
Astronaut Terry W. Virts posted this photo to Twitter, May 13, 2015, with the text, "This amazing sunset view shows just how high thunderstorms can go. This is truly #EarthArt."
Astronaut Shows Surprising View of Earth
Astronaut Scott Kelly shared this image of Earth from space to his Twitter account, April 27, 2015, captioned: "Sometimes #Earth looks like another planet from @Space_Station. #YearInSpace"
Astronauts' Space Outpost Glows in the Dark
On March 18, 2015, this image was posted to Italian astronaut Sam Cristoforetti's Twitter account with the text, "Captivating view... Progress cargo spaceship ablaze in a ghostly green and red glow. #OurOutpostInSpace."
Shades of Red at Mars' South Pole
The southern cap of Mars hosts a swirl of colors in this image released by ESA on Feb. 9, 2015. The bright white area is composed of frozen water and carbon dioxide. The image was originally captured on Dec. 17, 2012, in infrared, green and blue light, using the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft.
Bill Dunford/FU Berlin/DLR/ESA
Sweeping View of Little Sombrero Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope captured NGC 7814, a galaxy known as the "Little Sombrero." NGC 7814 has a bright central bulge and a bright halo of glowing gas extending outwards into space. The dusty spiral arms appear as dark streaks. Nearly all of the objects seen in this image are galaxies as well.
Hubble and NASA/ESA
Amazing Photo of Mysterious 'God's Hand' Space Globule
Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this image from ESO's Very Large Telescope, Jan. 30, 2015. Although it looks huge and bright in this image it is actually a faint nebula and not easy to observe. The exact nature of CG4 remains a mystery.
NASA Explores 'International Year of Light'
The Chandra X-ray Center released a set of images in honor of the United Nations' designation of 2015 as the International Year of Light. An expanding shell of debris called SNR 0519-69.0 is left behind after a massive star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. Multimillion degree gas is seen in blue in X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The outer edge of the explosion (red) and stars in the field of view are seen in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Sun Releases First Major Solar Flare of 2015
NASA released this image of what they call the first notable solar flare of 2015, photographed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on Jan. 12, 2015. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
Hubble Captures Brilliant New "Pillars of Creation"
NASA released a new photo of the "Pillars of Creation" from the Hubble Telescope, Jan. 6, 2015.
Europa's Icy Surface Glows in New Color View
A color view of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, composed from images taken by NASA's Galileo Orbiter between 1995 and 1998. Though the images were taken years ago, this view is the first view of Europa as it would appear to the human eye; an earlier composite version, released in 2001, was a mosaic view made from images taken through multicolored filters.
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Massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, takes on a ghostly look where total starlight has been artificially colored blue in this Hubble view.
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Hubble Snaps Stunning Photo of Neighboring Star Cluster
NASA has released an image taken by the Hubble space telescope of a cluster of stars known as NGC-121, in one of our neighboring galaxies.
Saturn's largest and second largest moons, Titan and Rhea, appear to be stacked on top of each other in this true-color scene from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The north polar hood can be seen on Titan, 3,200 miles across, appearing as a detached layer at the top of the moon on the top right.
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A composite image, built from 141 photos taken by the spacecraft Cassini in July and released Nov. 12, 2013, shows the results of a four-hour flyby of the planet Saturn. Earth and its moon are visible as a small blip in the natural-color image, just outside the glow of the outermost ring on the lower righthand side of the planet; they are 1.4 billion kilometers away.
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory show a magnetic filament of solar material erupting on the sun in a spectacular fashion, Sept. 29-30, 2013. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion.
NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula.
New data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, reveals the first discovery of X-ray emissions from young stars similar to our sun outside of our galaxy. This composite of X-ray, optical and infrared images shows the stars in a region known as "The Wing" of the SMC.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NA
The same parts of the sun can look very different, depending on the lens you use.
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Spiral Galaxy With A Secret
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This is the Andromeda galaxy, one of the most famous objects in the northern sky.
Hubble Views a Dwarf Galaxy
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Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ESO/JPL-Caltech/DSS
Solar flare 20 times the size of Earth
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Mars Meteorite
Why go to Mars when pieces of it have been found on Earth? This meteorite, designated NWA 7034, crashed in the Sahara Desert in 2011. An examination of the rock determined it is 2.1 billion years old and is surprisingly rich in water. Tiny air bubbles in the rock have the same composition as air measured by NASA Mars probes.
Carl Agee/University of New Mexico/AP Photo
Galaxy Packed With Black Holes
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Best Black Hole Recipe
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NASA/STSCI/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Swirls of Ice Seen From Space
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Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images
Deepest-Ever View of Universe
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Planetary Nebuae
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIT/J.Kastner et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
Strange Cloud in Milky Way
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NASA/ESA/G. Illingworth/D. Magee/P. Oesch/R. Bouwens/HUDF09 Team
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros.
PIgtail Cloud
Japanese astronomers have discovered this unusual spiral cloud near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, about 30,000 light years away. They called it a "pigtail" molecular cloud because of its shape, which they say was probably determined by magnetic forces.
Keio University, Nobeyama Radio Observatory
Saturn and moon Titan seen from Cassini Probe
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Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars
Astronomers have found one of the largest objects in the universe, a galaxy cluster where stars are forming more rapidly than anywhere else yet observed. It is called the Phoenix cluster, 5.7 billion light years away in the southern sky. It is seen in this artist's conception.
M. Weiss/CXC/NASA
Flame Nebula
The Flame nebula, seen in infrared light by NASA's WISE spacecraft. This nebula is part of a giant star-forming complex near the belt of Orion, the constellation in the winter sky as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. The new stars are surrounded by dust and gas.
Black Hole Shreds Star
Our Milky Way galaxy is doomed. Scientists using the Hubble telescope have determined it will be destroyed -- 4 billion years from now, when it collides with the Andromeda galaxy. This artist's conception shows how the sky might look as the galaxies are drawn together by each other's gravity.
Z. Levay, R. van der Marel, and A. Mellinger/ESA/NASA
Meteor Shower Lights Up Skies
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star falling into a black hole. Astronomers, reporting in the journal Nature, say they observed a flare in ultraviolet and optical light, telling them there was a black hole tearing a star apart.
NASA/S. Gezari (Johns Hopkins)/A. Rest (Space Telescope Science Institute)/R. Chornock(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
A Star Is Born
A Lyrid meteor shoots across the night sky April 22, 2012. Debris from the comet Thatcher created this streak in the upper atmosphere Sunday, witnessed by people in California and northern Nevada.
Courtesy Marian Murdoch
A Star Is Born
The Lyrid meteor shower occurs around April 22 every year, as the Earth passes through the path of an old comet. Astronomers said the chances of seeing meteors would be good this year because a new moon meant the skies would be darker than usual.
Courtesy Marian Murdoch
Giant Solar Flare
This is a star nursery called 30 Doradus. It is 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, visible only from the Southern Hemisphere. This image was combined from several taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2011.
Amazing Hi-Def Coronal Mass Ejection
A beautiful prominence seen shooting from the face of the sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The flare is composed of hot, electrically-charged gases. This particular one was not coming in the direction of Earth, so satellites were safe and there were not large new auroras near the poles.
Space pictures: photos from the final frontier
This picture of Earth, taken on March 7, 2012, was reported by astronaut Don Pettit to be the one millionth shot from the International Space Station since station assembly began in 1998. Two Russian supply ships are in the foreground. The green band over Earth is an aurora.
Northern Lights Follow Solar Storm
The southern lights between Australia and Antarctica, seen from the International Space Station by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers.
New Auroras Seen From Space Station
Stars appear as circular streaks in this time-lapse photo from the International Space Station by astronaut Don Pettit. The ISS turns to keep one side oriented toward Earth.
Major Solar Flare Erupts
During a major solar storm, an aurora shimmers over snow-covered mountains in Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland, March 8, 2012.
Courtesy Jónína Óskarsdóttir/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Major Solar Flare Erupts
An X5 solar flare, the strongest observed in 2012, seen through an ultraviolet filter by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory March 7, 2012.
Steamy Planet Orbits Star
The brightest star in the inset is proof there is a black hole in the Andromeda galaxy. A disc of gas and dust heats up and emits X-rays as the gravity of the black hole pulls it toward its doom.
Landessternwarte Tautenburg, XMM-Newton, MPE
Stellar Nursery in Stunning Detail
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new class of planet, a water world enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It is called GJ 1214b, and as seen in this artist's conception, it orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. Today it is hot and shrouded in vapor, but scientists say it may once have had liquid water.
NASA/ESA/David Aguilar : Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Ancient Oceans of Mars
Europe's Very Large Telescope in Chile has delivered the most detailed image yet of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery, found in the southern Milky Way. The nebula is a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars.
Carina Nebula Stellar Nursery
Former Ocean on Mars
Europe's Mars Express probe, orbiting the red planet, has sent back radar data reaffirming scientists' belief that the northern hemisphere of Mars once had vast oceans. The radar detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor inside previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars.
C. Carreau/ESA
Best Map Yet of Universe
This new image of the Earth is a composite shot by NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, called Suomi NPP. Mexico is in the center of the frame, with Baja California to the left and Florida to the right.
NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
A Galaxy Full of Planets
This is a map of a quarter of the known universe, the most detailed yet done. Each green dot is a galaxy. It was done by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III.
David Kirkby/University of California at Irvine/SDSS
A Galaxy Full of Planets
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has detected three planets -- all of them smaller than Earth -- orbiting a red dwarf star, 130 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This is an artist's conception of the KOI-961 system. A separate study suggests the galaxy has at least 100 billion planets, many of which could be habitable.
A Galaxy Full of Planets
Remember Tattooine, Luke Skywalker's fanciful home planet from "Star Wars" with its two suns? The NASA Kepler probe has found two new solar systems that have double stars and at least one planet each. One is seen in this artist's conception. Many physicists had wondered if a planet could survive being flung around by the gravity of double stars.
Mark A. Garlick
A Galaxy Full of Planets
The Hubble Space Telescope found proof of a black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy, the only large galaxy visible to the naked eye in the northern sky. The black hole itself is invisible, but the inset shows a ring of reddish stars orbiting it.
T. Lauer/National Optical Astronomy Observatory/NASA/ESA
Space Station Over the Moon
A new infrared picture of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy was made by combining images from Europe's orbiting Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the galaxies closest to our own Milky Way, is in the southern sky.
Space Station Flying by the Moon
The International Space Station, orbiting just 240 miles overhead, appears to hover over the moon, which orbits Earth about 240,000 miles away. A NASA photographer planted herself in just the right spot to shoot the two together.
Lauren Harnett/NASA
Holiday 'Wreath' Nebula
A holiday "wreath" in space, captured by NASA's WISE space telescope. It's actually a star-forming nebula named Barnard 3. The red and green areas are interstellar gas of different chemical composition.
Saturn's Rings and Moons Seen from Cassini
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, with its thick atmosphere. Dione, the third-largest moon, peeks out from behind it to the right in this view of the two from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Saturn itself, with its rings, looms in the background.
A Star is Born
This bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a celestial snow angel. It is nearly 2,000 light-years from us. A massive, young star, IRS 4 is in the middle of the formation. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from it.
NASA/ESA/the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A Star is Born
The VLT Survey Telescope in Chile has shot a new image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. It is more than 11 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky.
ESO/INAF-VST/A. Grado/L. Limatola/INAF-Capodimonte Observatory
A Star is Born
Observations made with the APEX telescope in Chile reveal the cold dusty clouds from which stars form in the Carina Nebula. This is a site of violent star formation, which plays host to some of the highest-mass stars in our galaxy.
Magnificent Sunspot
One of the largest sunspot clusters in years has appeared. The larger black areas are more than 8,000 miles across, larger than Earth. The cluster is called AR1339, and it was imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Nov. 3, 2011.
Earth Glows Bright Green
This is the "Pacman" nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia, shot in infrared light by NASA's orbiting WISE telescope. It is a giant cloud of dust and gas, about 9,200 light-years away.
Galaxies Collide in Southern Sky
Astronaut Mike Fossum took this picture of an aurora from the International Space Station. The aurora, near one of Earth's poles, appears green in this night exposure. Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, docked to the station, are in the foreground.
Aurora Seen From Space Station
This spectacular view of the aurora was taken from the International Space Station as it crossed over the southern Indian Ocean on September 17, 2011. While auroras are often seen near the poles, this aurora appeared closer to the equator because of a geomagnetic storm from the sun that erupted on September 14, 2011.
Aurora Seen From Space
The Antenna Galaxies, two colliding galaxies in the southern sky, seen in several wavelengths by ALMA, a giant new array of radio telescopes built by the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile.
Courtesy ESO/ALMA
Shooting a Laser Into the Heavens
Photographer Yuri Beletsky says he shot this amazing image in 2010 at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, part of the European Southern Observatory. The bright streak is a laser beam, used to help the telescope compensate for the distorting effects of the atmosphere. Above is an image of the Milky Way.
Yuri Beletsky/ESO
Billionaire's Name Visible From Space
This looks very much like a galaxy, but it is actually a computer model, the result of nine months of work at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The university calls it a first. Previous attempts to simulate a galaxy's shape had failed, and led scientists to question the prevailing cosmological model of the universe.
Courtesy of J. Guedes and P. Madau
A Storm on Saturn, as Big as Earth
A billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, hired a crew to dig his name in the sand near Abu Dhabi, and the result was visible from space. The name "Hamad," in this image from Google Earth, is two miles long.
Space Shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station Silhouetted Against Sun
The International Space Station, seen from the ground by a French photographer as it passed over the face of the sun.
Thierry Legault
Giant Storm on Saturn
A storm almost as large as Earth rages in the clouds of the planet Saturn. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini space probe, which went into orbit around Saturn in 2004 and has explored the strange ringed world and its many moons. The storm is about 6,000 miles wide, and its tail of clouds nearly circle the planet.
Coronal Mass Ejection Photographed
The sun released a spectacular coronal mass ejection -- a mass of electrically-charged gases -- on June 7, 2011. The cloud of particles mushroomed out into space and fell back into the sun, covering almost half its surface. Such bursts often intensify auroras on earth as charged particles bombard the planet's magnetic field.
International Space Station and Shuttle Endeavour
The International Space Station, docked to the space shuttle Endeavour on May 25, 2011. This picture was taken from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that had just undocked from the station. It was the first time since space shuttles began delivering station components in 1998 that the two large ships were shown together. Endeavour's tail is visible near the left end of the complex.
Paolo Nespoli/NASA
Dancing Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Picture
In honor of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch into space, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore released this photo of a "rose" of galaxies. The pair of interacting spiral galaxies is called Arp 273. The larger galaxy is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational pull of the galaxy below it. Hubble was deployed April 24, 1990.
NASA Spacecraft Shoots a Star Nursery
This March 28, 2011 image provided by NASA shows composited images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes of a gamma-ray explosion designated GRB 110328A. Scientists say this blast is unusual because the effects are long-lasting. More than a week later, they continue to see high-energy radiation spiking and fading at the source. Flaring from such an event usually lasts a couple of hours.
Stefan Immler/NASA
The Art of Making Stars
This is not an abstract painting. It is a nursery for new stars. It is called Rho Ophiuchi, and it is one of the closest star-forming complexes to Earth, 460 light-years away. It is in the constellation Ophiuchus, found high in the sky on summer nights in the northern hemisphere. This infrared image was shot by NASA?s WISE spacecraft, short for Wide-field Infrared Explorer.
An Extended Stellar Family
This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North American nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
The Orion Nebula: Still Full of Surprises
This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than just a pretty face, offering astronomers a close-up view of a massive star-forming region to help advance our understanding of stellar birth and evolution. The data used for this image were selected by Igor Chekalin (Russia), who participated in ESO's Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition. Igor's composition of the Orion Nebula was the seventh highest ranked entry in the competition, although another of Igor's images was the eventual overall winner.
Courtesy European Southern Observatory
Hubble and Chandra spot a celestial bauble
This delicate shell, photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, appears to float serenely in the depths of space, but this apparent calm hides an inner turmoil. The gaseous envelope formed as the expanding blast wave and ejected material from a supernova tore through the nearby interstellar medium.
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
The Glow of a Dying Star
A dying star known as NGC 1514. It was shot in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE satellite. The object is actually a pair of stars -- one, a dying giant somewhat heavier and hotter than our sun, the other an even larger star that has now contracted into a dense body called a white dwarf. As the giant star ages, it sheds some its outer layers of material to form a large bubble (orange) around the two stars.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/Digitized Sky Survey/STScI
A Star Nursery Hidden by Cosmic Dust
NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope has found what may be the youngest black hole ever spotted. It is only 30 years old. It is the remnant of a supernova called SN 1979C, which astronomers saw exploding in 1979. Like all black holes, its gravity is so powerful that it even pulls in light waves, making it invisible, but astrophysicists say it is 50 million light-years away, in a galaxy called M100.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/D.Patnaude et al, Optical: ESO/VLT, Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech
A Star Nursery Hidden by Cosmic Dust
This image was captured by NASA's EPOXI mission between Nov. 3 and 4, 2010, during the spacecraft's flyby of comet Hartley 2. It was captured using the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution Instrument.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
A Frozen Galaxy Where Stars Are Born
A new image from the European Southern Observatory?s VISTA survey telescope in Chile reveals glowing tendrils of gas, dark clouds and young stars in the constellation of Monoceros the Unicorn, just left of Orion in the winter sky. This star-forming region, known as Monoceros R2, is embedded in a huge dark cloud. The region is almost completely obscured by interstellar dust when viewed in visible light, but is spectacular in the infrared, as seen here.
Courtesy European Southern Observatory
Stunning Spiral Galaxy Found in Coma Cluster
A section of the Carina Nebula, imaged by the Hubble Telescope. Each of the dark "pillars" of cold hydrogen and dust is about one light-year long, or about six trillion miles. Physicists say these are regions where new stars are born. The nebula is approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth, visible from the southern hemisphere.
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Project (STScI/AURA)
Cosmic Chaos: When Galaxies Collide
This long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a spiral galaxy located in the Coma Cluster of galaxies, 320 million light-years away from Earth. Home to nearly 1,000 galaxies, the Coma Cluster is one of the densest collections of galaxies in the nearby universe, according to NASA.
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Photos From the Final Frontier
This new NASA image released shows the Antennae galaxies, which are located about 62 million light-years from Earth and started colliding more than 100 million years ago. The galaxies are named for their long antennalike "arms. This composite includes images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Courtesy NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
All-Sky Image Shows 'Oldest Light' in the Universe
On July 11, 2010, the moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse in the South Pacific. The eclipse is shown (black and white) in a photo from the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island. Around it, in red, is an image of the sun's outer corona from the SOHO spacecraft. SOHO uses a disk to blot out the sun so that the faint outer corona can be studied. An image of the sun, taken at about the same time by the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, was added in the middle.
NASA/ESA/Williams College Eclipse Expedition
Photos From the Final Frontier
After a one-year survey, the European Space Agency's Planck satellite has released its first image of the entire sky. The main disc of light across the center is the Milky Way galaxy. The backdrop at the top and bottom of the image is the "cosmic microwave background radiation," which is the oldest light in the universe. The data generated by Planck will help scientists understand how the universe developed and how it works now.
Stellar Shrapnel: Aftermath of a Supernova Explosion
Captured by the wide field imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, this image shows a region around the star R Coronae Australis. The star is in the center of a star-forming region and is surrounded by a blue nebula in a giant dust cloud. The nebula is about 420 light-years away from Earth.
Courtesy ESO
Stellar Shrapnel: Aftermath of a Supernova Explosion
This photo shows the surface of Saturn's moone Dione against Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Stellar Shrapnel
A new observation from NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope reveals evidence of a bullet-shaped object that was blown out of debris field left by an exploded star. This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the southern hemisphere.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S. Park et al. Optical: NASA/STScI/UIUC/Y.H. Chu & R. Williams et al.
Hubble Catches Star Eating a Planet
For the first time, astronomers say they've detected a superstorm in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet about 60 percent the mass of Jupiter, orbiting a star about 150 light-years from Earth. In the journal Nature, the team of astronomers from the U.S. and the Netherlands wrote that in the atmosphere of the planet HD209458b, a super wind is blowing at a speed of about 3,100 to 6,200 mph. "HD209458b is definitely not a place for the faint-hearted '" said Ignas Snellen, who led the team of astronomers.
L. Calçada/ESO
How Did Jupiter Lose a Stripe?
The Hubble space telescope has observed a planet being swallowed by its parent star. This artist's concept shows the exoplanet WASP-12b, the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy. According to NASA, the planet is so close to its sun-like parent star that tidal forces have stretched the planet into an egg shape and it's so hot that it has expanded to the point where its outer atmosphere "spills into the star." Scientists expect the star to consume the planet in 10 million years. Hubble can't get a clear photograph the planet because it's too far away, but this artist's rendering is partly based on observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a new instrument that was added to Hubble last year.
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Jupiter Loses a Stripe
One of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has completely disappeared, to the surprise of scientists who study the solar system's largest planet. "This is a big event," says planetary scientist Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. "We're monitoring the situation closely and do not yet fully understand what's going on." The brown ring of clouds, known as the South Equatorial Belt (SEB), is twice as wide as Earth and more than twenty times as long. Orton thinks the belt may not have disappeared, but could instead be hidden behind other clouds. Scientists say the belt has faded out before.
Hubble Captures Runaway Star
A runaway star was seen rushing away from this stellar nursery, traveling more than 248,000 mph in this Hubble telescope image. At that speed, you could get to the moon and back in two hours.
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 20th Birthday, NASA released this new image. "Pillar & Jets" shows a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth areas of the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. The Hubble telescope was launched April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
'Cosmic Rose' Bursts With New Stars
Rainbows in space? Not exactly. The colors in this Hubble telescope image show that Einstein was right, and that a star or galaxy with strong gravity slightly bends the space around it. Different colors correspond to different distances from the earth. Some of the warping here was probably caused by mysterious "dark matter," which probably makes up much of the universe.
NASA/ESA/P. Simon (University of Bonn)/T. Schrabback (Leiden Observatory)
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|2012-06-02, 02:22
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Dead vs living.
It's still sad and painful seeing dear people who died and fighting them.
The worst part is that they still have their memories, but are forced to fight like puppets.
Flashbacks were pretty nice and touching.
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|2012-06-07, 09:02
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The war is raging.
Dead vs the living saga continues.
Do they really have a chance of winning against the best of the best?
Doesn't really matter that they are dead, they're still the best.
Naruto will probably be the one to end this war with his fox.
Those white clones are becoming problematic too.
|2012-06-07, 12:26
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Wow lots of people complaining about a few flashbacks. It's Haku and Zabuza, of course there are going to be flashbacks.
Anyway, back to the episode.
History repeats itself betweem Kakashi and Zabuza, only this time we have zero emotion from Zabuza. Which goes back to the very first time where his emotions prevented him from cutting down Kakashi because of Haku. loved the touch with the blood tears. Also had to laugh at but also praise how they fix up the sword, it sucks up blood and fixes itself.
Suigetsu and Juugo are really loose endsn aren't they? No one seems to know what to do with them now Sasuke has ditched them.
Next week of course looks great, Gaara's father is brought back along with the former Raikage and two ninja who have Kyuubi's power.
|2012-06-11, 03:23
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I have to say well done on the latest episode. Of course seeing Zabuza and Haku again reminded me of how good the series was early on. Nice to have those two back even for a short while.
A pretty good emotional episode overall. Can't help comparing how Kakashi was saved in both of the fights. The first time by Zabuza hesitating and being emotionally shaken by Haku's sacrifice, to this time being saved because the blade hadn't been fully restored. Even though it means sending them back to their death this is the way it should be. Not being used as fighting dolls that don't care about anything at all.
Yeah sure there was a lot of other things going on, but really this episode was really centered around the Kakashi, Zabuza, and Haku situation. Certainly these guys being the first major enemy for Naruto was a blessing. Enemies he could struggle against, but be sad at their loss.
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You can see the anime teams version of their fight from ultimate ninja storm generations..or part of it atleast.
The game had like half hour of anime that seemed pretty cannon if that's possible
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The dead still bothering the living *sigh*
Those dead guys really are the best of the best.
Numbers of those white clones were also amazing..
So far it looks like that shock is the main feeling that's going around.
Their strategies are good, but the real question is will they be strong enough.
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