What a year this promises to be in the NCAA it?s left me pondering the NCAA rankings and my thoughts on wagering. When composing this piece about the best quarterbacks who will grace our college football fields this year, I continually changed my mind. I had a look at the wageronsports.com website to see what the site recommend, but I was still unsure as to who would come out top dog. I finally settled on three quarterbacks who I believe will make their mark this year. AJ McCarron, Alabama. For two seasons in a row now, McCarron has completed over 2,600 yards ? a phenomenal achievement. He has had his fair share of controversy too but don?t let this distract you from the obvious talent this kid possesses. An approximate 66% pass completion rate which contributed to 26 touchdowns in 2012, McCarron is obviously a key choice as one of the top quarterbacks to look out for. Anyone who likes to wager on NCAA football will have Alabama high in their list of challengers. A team that allows ...
The Boston Bruins hit everything in sight in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final, but the Chicago Blackhawks skated circles around them, winning 3-1.
By Mark Sappenfield,?Staff writer / June 23, 2013
Boston Bruins center Chris Kelly (23) trips over Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) who blocked his shot in the first period during Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup final Saturday in Chicago.
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For nearly six weeks, the Toronto Maple Leafs were just a memory.
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How had that band of young upstarts, in the playoffs for the first time since 2004, come within 52 seconds of eliminating the Big Bad Boston Bruins? For weeks after, those frantic moments when the Bruins scrambled back to win Game 7 after being down 4-1 with 11 minutes left seemed merely a first-round hiccup.
The Bruins, after all, had found their stride since. They had roughed up the New York Rangers and then, with delicious impudence, sent the prima donnas of Pittsburgh packing in four games.
Even in the first four games of the Stanley Cup final, the Bruins seemed on even keel, playing the Chicago Blackhawks into overtime in three of them and managing to take two of the four. ?
Then the Blackhawks came out for Game 5 as though coach Joel Quenneville had brandished a cattle prod in the pregame speech, and something shifted. The Blackhawks, who are quite well equipped to match the Bruins' wrecking-ball style of hockey, found a new gear ? almost as though they had forgotten they had it ? and the Bruins could do nothing about it.
For a moment, it looked like the Maple Leafs all over again.
There can be something mesmerizing about Bruins hockey. For a sport played mostly by big, angry boys with sticks, it can be a default mode. The crowd loves it. North American players have been raised in the Cult of Don Cherry to believe this is "real hockey." You hit me, I'll hit you. And again. And again. It is the endlessly repeating integer of Boston's Stanley Cup equation.
In truth, the real genius of Boston hockey is that it is about making opponents pay an enormous price for every goal. Often, that price is physical. Sometimes, it is mental. The Penguins, for instance, must have wondered when they were ever going to score.
But at its core, Boston hockey is mostly about fundamental hockey.
We will dump the puck into your zone to keep it away from our goal. We will forecheck ferociously to make it as hard as possible to get the puck out of your own zone. We will build a defensive wall around our goaltender. And then, in those rare times when everything breaks down, our spectacular goaltender will stop you.
In Bruins hockey, goals are like the planets aligning ? they come only rarely and usually only with a symphonic coincidence of fortuitous circumstances. In Bruins hockey, a team with no clear superstar can become far more than the sum of its parts.
So the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011. So they are in the Stanley Cup final this year.
Yet in the Blackhawks, the Bruins have met a team that can play "Bruins hockey" ? fundamentally sound, physically taxing, emotionally draining ? yet is more talented than they are. The result, as became clear Saturday, is that no matter how long the two teams play, the Blackhawks will always create more and more dangerous scoring chances when they are at their best.
The Maple Leafs are not as talented as the Blackhawks. But they are young and fast. At times against the Maple Leafs, the Bruins played as though someone had pulled the fire alarm.
Though not as pronounced Saturday, the same impression was inescapable. For all their gristle and hustle, the Bruins could not cope with the Blackhawks' skating.
After spending much of the series flitting about on the edges of the action, Blackhawk Patrick Kane has figured out that it is not his muscle but his movement that is needed. He scored two goals Saturday by ceaselessly seeking the empty patches of ice near the goal that open and close with the speed of a camera shutter.?
There's never been much of a doubt that the Blackhawks could put together a game like Game 5. Consider that they are up 3-2 in the series despite the fact that Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask has been guiltless in virtually all of the Blackhawks' 14 goals. That is a testament to the Blackhawks' ability to create offensive chances.
This is not to say that the Blackhawks must win the series. Teams don't always play at their best. Moreover, as solid as Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford has been at times, his glove has been a weakness; Rask could still steal a game or two for the Bruins.
But on Saturday, it was clear: The Blackhawks took Bruins hockey to another level.
(Reuters) - One woman is dead and more than 200,000 homes and businesses are without power in the upper Midwest on Saturday after severe thunderstorms struck parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with damaging winds, lightning and baseball-sized hail.
The storms developed in the Dakotas on Friday and powered through Minnesota into Wisconsin, producing wind gusts up to 85 mph and large hailstones, some in excess of 4 inches in diameter, as well as short-lived tornadoes, said Brynn Kerr, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
A 63-year-old woman sheltering in a bathtub died when powerful winds tossed around her trailer in South Dakota on Friday afternoon, said Hamlin County Sheriff Chad Schlotterbeck.
Some 200,000 customers were still without power in Minnesota on Saturday, mainly in the Minneapolis area, and another 1,000 were without power across the border in Wisconsin, said Tom Hoen, a spokesman for Xcel Energy Inc, which serves the area.
"It was very intense ... we saw a lot of damage throughout the metro area," Hoen said, adding that branches propelled by wind gusts tore down power lines and easily uprooted trees from the water-logged earth.
"Unfortunately, because of the massive scale of the damage, we will have customers without service going into Tuesday," Hoen said, adding that a chance of weaker storms returning to the area overnight could scuttle repair efforts.
The outages affected 492,000 customers since the storm formed, Hoen said. Other utilities reported scattered outages in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The National Weather Service expects storms building in the mountains of Wyoming and northern Colorado to push into the adjacent high plains of those states and western portions of the Dakotas and Nebraska during the late afternoon, Kerr said.
The strongest pockets are likely to hit the north-central high plains in Nebraska late Saturday afternoon and evening with driving rain and hail the size of baseballs, Kerr said.
Both iOS and Android are rapidly approaching the million app mark. It's an absurd number of apps, and making a living in that vast sea is a tough prospect. Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 are both over 100,000 apps, which on its own is also an absurd number. How is a developer supposed to get noticed when there are thousands upon thousands of other apps in the same store?
A developer can rely on search and word-of-mouth, but that's only going to get them so far. How is a developer supposed to get their app featured on the platform storefront? How are they supposed to tell users and publications about their app? And just how can they convince users to actually download the app? Is it better to be flashy or funny, informative or intriguing? Does it matter what audience you're targeting?
Just bobbing up and down in the waves of a million other apps is counting on an impossible stroke of luck to get noticed. Developers can be their own best advocates - but how does somebody who specializes in code and interface design come to understand what it takes to market their wares?
MIAMI (AP) ? Five things of note from Miami's seven-game win over San Antonio in the NBA Finals, which ended Thursday night:
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LEBRON'S MOMENT: LeBron James scored 37 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and added four assists, which for him now almost seems like an ordinary stat line. But even those big numbers didn't tell the whole story. After being accused of shrinking in the moment during the 2011 Finals, James more than made amends this time around. His jump shot with just under 30 seconds left capped the title, capped his second straight NBA Finals MVP award, capped a fourth quarter that he absolutely controlled, and maybe put to rest the notion that he tends to check out when the lights are brightest. Keep in mind, Dwyane Wade had 23 points, Shane Battier scored 18 and Mario Chalmers scored 14 ? but other than that, the entire Heat roster combined for three points. Chris Bosh didn't score. Ray Allen didn't score. And the Heat won. That's how good James was in Game 7.
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SPOELSTRA'S CREDIT: Five franchises in the last 40 years have won back-to-back titles, and Erik Spoelstra is now the coach of one of them. He has been the mastermind of all things on the court for Miami for the past five seasons, three of which have ended with trips to the NBA Finals, the last two with championships. And if Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is considered one of the standards for "best in the game" today, then Spoelstra at least belongs in the conversation, since he matched Popovich move for move in this series. "And Erik is only going to get better," said Heat President Pat Riley, who has now been part of nine NBA championship clubs.
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DEFENSE WINS: For five games, Danny Green couldn't miss, and San Antonio was on the cusp of a title. For two games in Miami, Green was swallowed up by a swarming Miami defense. In Games 6 and 7 of the NBA Finals, Green went 2 for 19 from the floor, 2 for 11 from 3-point range. And to think he was a strong candidate for Finals MVP after the Spurs took a 3-2 lead in the series. The Spurs made just six 3-pointers in Game 7 while Miami made 12, six from Shane Battier and five more from LeBron James. The Spurs shot just 38 percent as a team, and Miami needed its defense to be that good ? or else the title could have very easily slipped away.
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THREE FOR THREE: Dwyane Wade's jersey number is 3. His favorite number is three. And it's now the number of NBA championships on his resume. Wade was bothered by a bad right knee throughout the playoffs, then hurt his surgically repaired left knee in Game 6 of the Finals, and still found a way to not just play, but play at a high level. He was 11 for 21 from the floor, scored 23 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, blocked two shots and logged 39 minutes, resting only when absolutely necessary.
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THE FUTURE: Tim Duncan said he will be back in San Antonio, and now the Spurs will wait and see what Manu Ginobili decides about next season. The Heat are largely expected to bring their core back, though some moves to get even better are possible. "I don't even want to think about next year ? yet," James said. That's probably a good thing, and the Heat will surely spend a few days relaxing and celebrating until their parade through downtown Miami on Monday.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - As nice of a game as Pedro Ciriaco had in his Petco Park debut, the San Diego Padres came up even bigger on defense in beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 on Thursday night.
Second baseman Logan Forsythe, left fielder Chris Denorfia and center fielder Alexi Amarista each had a great catch for the Padres, who won for the eighth time in 10 games and popped above .500 for the second time this season.
"Those are three really great plays," manager Bud Black said. "You never know how a game is going to play out if another result happens. We talk a lot about defense as a group and what that means for our team, and the guys, they play their butts off on the defensive side."
The Padres continue to play well even though shortstop Everth Cabrera, first baseman Yonder Alonso and rookie second baseman Jedd Gyorko are on the disabled list, and left fielder Carlos Quentin continues to be slowed by injuries.
Ciriaco, obtained from Boston last Friday after Cabrera went on the DL, tripled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and hit a two-run homer in the eighth.
The defensive gems stood out.
The Padres had impressive catches against consecutive batters in the seventh. A retreating Forsythe made a sprawling catch of Mark Ellis' blooper and Denorfia tumbled over the low wall along the line to catch a foul ball by pinch-hitter Elian Herrera.
In the eighth, Amarista made a great diving catch of Juan Uribe's sinking liner.
"There were a lot of great plays made tonight," Forsythe said. "On that play, I just tried to get back there."
Starter Jason Marquis called the plays "pretty special. We've been making those plays all year, no matter who's out there. That's one of the reasons we've been so successful this year - not giving teams extra outs, making some spectacular plays and keeping guys out of scoring position. No matter who's out there, they're doing everything they can to keep guys off the bases and it makes out job a lot easier."
Even Dodgers second baseman Ellis, who committed an error in the two-run fifth, praised the Padres.
"They play very good defense," Ellis said. "They did a very good job. They obviously played better defense than we did. Obviously my error was a huge part of the game. It changed the whole momentum of the game and gave them two runs there."
Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig homered on his first swing at Petco Park, giving him six overall and three against the Padres since his big league debut on June 3.
The Dodgers, who've been in last place in the NL West since May 6, have lost eight of 11.
It was L.A.'s first visit to Petco Park since the teams brawled on April 11 after Zack Greinke hit Padres slugger Carlos Quentin with a pitch. Quentin rushed the mound and slammed into Greinke, breaking the pitcher's left collarbone. Greinke is scheduled to start Saturday night.
Ciriaco capped his big night with a homer to left off Peter Moylan with one out in the eighth for a 6-2 lead. It was his first with the Padres and second overall.
In the seventh, Ciriaco tripled into the gap in left-center to bring in Yasmani Grandal, who reached on a leadoff, opposite-field double down the left-field line. The ball got caught behind padding on the fence and Grandal had to hold up at second.
Matt Guerrier (2-3) opened the inning in relief of starter Stephen Fife and allowed the extra-base hits to Grandal and Ciriaco before making way for Paco Rodriguez.
After Forsythe walked, Ciriaco was thrown out at home when first baseman Adrian Gonzalez raced in, scooped up Will Venable's bunt and threw to catcher A.J. Ellis for the tag. Chase Headley, who struck out in his first three at-bats, singled up the middle to bring in Forsythe.
Nick Vincent (2-0) pitched the seventh for the win.
Puig, a 22-year-old Cuban defector, drove a fastball from Marquis an estimated 406 feet into the sandy play area beyond the fence in right-center with one out in the first in his 58th big league at-bat.
Marquis was much more careful against Puig after that, striking out the phenom on sliders his next two times up.
Puig made his big league debut June 3 against the Padres, hitting two singles and making a strong throw from right field to first to complete a game-ending double play in a 2-1 Dodgers victory.
The next night, he hit two homers and drove in five runs as the Dodgers rallied to beat the Padres 9-7.
San Diego went ahead 2-1 in the fifth on consecutive RBI singles by Marquis and Forsythe. One run was unearned because of Mark Ellis' fielding error.
L.A. tied it in the sixth when Uribe's sacrifice fly brought in Hanley Ramirez.
A.J. Ellis homered off Huston Street in the ninth, his third.
Both starters went six innings.
Marquis, trying for his 10th victory, allowed two runs and seven hits, struck out five and walked one. Fife allowed two runs, one earned, and four hits, struck out six and walked one.
"We haven't seemed to be able to solve Jason Marquis," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "He continues to have our number. He seems to not give in and we kind of give in and chase a little bit and help him out at times."
NOTES: Puig has 28 hits in his first 16 games, tied for fourth in big league history behind Irv Waldron (31) in 1901, Joe DiMaggio (30) in 1936 and Bo Hart (29) in 2003. The Dodgers arrived in San Diego at about 3:30 a.m. after splitting a day-night doubleheader at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday. They did not take batting practice. ... Quentin, San Diego's LF, missed his sixth consecutive game with a sore shoulder. ... San Diego 1B Yonder Alonso will visit a hand specialist Monday to examine his broken right hand. Alonso has missed 14 games since suffering the injury last month. He's not expected back before the end of the month. ... Dodgers OF Scott Van Slyke (left shoulder bursitis) will begin a rehab assignment Friday at Albuquerque.
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Gaming is as big as ever, and the next home consoles are preparing to step into the spotlight and possibly expand the category even further. Is there a ceiling to our sky-high expectations? Console makers have long salivated over the possibility of bringing in both casual and hardcore gamers under one big tent, particularly by expanding systems' capabilities. But can you be everything to everyone?
I think it's extremely hard for a video game console to fill that role. Even as technologically advanced as these systems are becoming, it's not easy to attract both the hardcore audience and the casual one. The hardcore need to be convinced that your new platform is X times better than the previous one, while the casual audience is more difficult to lure since they are not naturally heavily engaged with your product. The more features you add to appeal to one side or the other, the more everyone starts to wonder exactly what they are paying for. Is your friend who bought the PlayStation 3 because it was a Blu-ray player enticed by the PlayStation 4 because it lets you share video clips from games?
With gamers, you can always sell them on the games, but I think it's easier for casual fans to enjoy their time with a game and then move on to something else ? and not necessarily the next game in your franchise. It can be difficult to justify why the upcoming turn of the screw is exponentially better than the previous one. Even regular gamers are not immune to selective purchasing. How many of you only get a sports game or racing title every few years rather than buying every annual installment?
If non-gamers aren't going to be lured by games, contented inertia with the current product can be a force against buying a new system. You certainly see people with outdated phones who don't upgrade simply because they don't feel they have to. The Xbox One could fall in this trap. Since it doesn't replace your DVR, it already fails on its promise to be the machine that's the center of your living room.
But there's no harm in trying, right? It's too cynical not to expect a company's best effort. You should absolutely still swing for the fences with a system. But the consequence of over-reaching for the whole pie instead of just a slice of it is an arrogance that can devalue your relationship with the consumers who got you to this position in the first place. The more you try to appeal to everyone, the more you drift away from having an identity at all. Ambition can serve consumers, but it can also be fueled by the need for publicly held companies for ever-increasing growth, and not necessarily producing the best product.
Of course, good old-fashioned irrational excitement trumps reason every time, and that's why these new systems are coming out at Christmas time where there will likely be the customary feeding frenzy. But what are we actually buying other than our own aspirations?
RENO, Nevada (June 19, 2013) ? Layne Michael Campbell, 40, was killed last Friday at about 4:30 a.m. by two deputies outside a south-side home in Reno. The owner of the home had called the police to report a suspicious person that may have been trying t break in. The two deputies that responded found Campbell on the property and shot him. Campbell was taken to a Reno hospital where he was pronounced dead. The two deputies were unharmed and both were placed on administrative leave while a multi-agency investigation by the Reno police commences.
?Hopefully the two deputies had a justified reason under the law for ending this man?s life,? states West Seegmiller, owner of The Seegmiller Law Firm. Mr. Seegmiller has represented clients in police brutality cases over a 35 year career in wrongful death and personal injury law.
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Darden Restaurants has run into an obstacle in its battle against Obamacare: the state of California.
On Tuesday, the Orlando Sentinel first reported that Clarence Otis, the CEO of the fast-casual chain that owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden, is fighting a bill that intends to prevent companies from cutting workers' hours to avoid paying for insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
If the legislation is enacted, large employers will be forced to pay an average additional penalty of roughly $5,500 to the state for any employee who works full time and chooses Medicaid coverage, Jimmy Gomez (D), the bill's sponsor and a California State Assembly member, told The Huffington Post. The penalty will be prorated depending on the average number of hours employees work during the year, he added.
In an emailed statement to HuffPost, Darden Director of Communications Rich Jeffers said the bill "threatens job opportunities and economic growth and would be a sad step back from work to welfare."
In 2012, the company flirted with the idea of hiring more part-time workers to reduce health care costs, but the policy was recanted after widespread public protest. Jeffers said that the opposition to the California bill in no way signals a plan to higher more part-time workers.
The legislation was written to avoid what drafters described to the Orlando Sentinel as a "Walmart Loophole" of reducing employee hours or terminating workers to avoid health care fines. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Walmart was only hiring temporary workers at many of its U.S. stores, a move that many interpreted as a way to skirt Obamacare requirements to provide health care to full-time employees.
"If an employer's business model is based on workers' health coverage being covered by Medi-Cal [California's Medicaid program] and they don't pay anything, then the question is why is it up to the taxpayer to subsidize their business model," Gomez said.
In an emailed statement to HuffPost, Walmart Director Of Communications Delia Garcia wrote that part-time associates always have the "first shot" at full-time job openings.
California's legislation looks to offset the costs of the Medicaid expansion it is planning under Obamacare. Starting next year, anyone who earns up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible to enroll in a Medicaid program, increasing state spending by around 3 percent, according to a November report by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute.
Previous efforts to force corporations to increase health care spending have run into trouble. In 2006, labor unions and health care advocates in Maryland attempted to pass legislation that would have required Walmart to spend more on employee health care, reducing state Medicaid costs in the process. The so-called "Walmart law" was struck down by a federal judge later that year.
Roughly 250,000 workers in California are in low-wage jobs at companies with more than 500 workers and depend on Medi-Cal for health coverage, according to an April report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Close to half of the workers are employed at restaurants or retail chains. Darden operates more than 137 restaurants in California and has approximately 16,000 employees, Jeffers wrote in an email.
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Contact: David Sims david.sims@unh.edu 603-862-5369 University of New Hampshire
DURHAM, N.H. - Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regionsa permanently shadowed crater on the moon. They have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice. The finding provides insight into how radiation can change the chemistry of water ice throughout the solar system.
Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have published their results online in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets. Lead author of the paper is research scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).
Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash-landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon. These regions have never been exposed to sunlight and have remained at temperatures near absolute zero for billions of years, thus preserving the pristine nature of the lunar soil, or regolith.
Instruments on board LCROSS trained on the resulting immense debris plume detected water vapor and water ice, the mission's hoped-for quarry, while LRO, already in orbit around the moon, saw molecular hydrogena surprise.
"LRO's Lyman Alpha Mapping Project, or LAMP, detected the signature of molecular hydrogen, which was unexpected and unexplained," says Jordan.
Jordan's JGR paper, "The formation of molecular hydrogen from water ice in the lunar regolith by energetic charged particles," quantifies an explanation of how molecular hydrogen, which is comprised of two hydrogen atoms and denoted chemically as H2, may be created below the moon's surface.
"After the finding, there were a couple of ideas for how molecular hydrogen could be formed but none of them seemed to work for the conditions in the crater or with the rocket impact." Jordan says. "Our analysis shows that the galactic cosmic rays, which are charged particles energetic enough to penetrate below the lunar surface, can dissociate the water, H2O, into H2 through various potential pathways."
That analysis was based on data gathered by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument aboard the LRO spacecraft. Jordan is a member of the CRaTER scientific team, which is headed up by principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of EOS. Schwadron, a co-author on the JGR paper, was the first to suggest energetic particles as the possible mechanism for creating molecular hydrogen.
CRaTER characterizes the global lunar radiation environment by measuring radiation dose rates from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles. Says Jordan, "We used the CRaTER measurements to get a handle on how much molecular hydrogen has been formed from the water ice via charged particles." Jordan's computer model incorporated the CRaTER data and showed that these energetic particles can form between 10 and 100 percent of the H2 measured by LAMP.
The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.
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Co-authors on the JGR paper include CRaTER scientists Harlan Spence, Colin Joyce and Jody Wilson of EOS and Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. To view the paper, visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgre.20095/abstract
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Panoramic lunar view taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera of the north rim of Cabeus crater. The distance from left to right is about 75 kilometers (46 miles). Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State Univ.
Artist's rendition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon. The CRaTER telescope is seen pointing out at the bottom right center of the LRO spacecraft. Illustration by Chris Meaney/NASA.
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Metamorphosis of moon's water ice explainedPublic release date: 19-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: David Sims david.sims@unh.edu 603-862-5369 University of New Hampshire
DURHAM, N.H. - Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regionsa permanently shadowed crater on the moon. They have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice. The finding provides insight into how radiation can change the chemistry of water ice throughout the solar system.
Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have published their results online in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets. Lead author of the paper is research scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).
Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash-landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon. These regions have never been exposed to sunlight and have remained at temperatures near absolute zero for billions of years, thus preserving the pristine nature of the lunar soil, or regolith.
Instruments on board LCROSS trained on the resulting immense debris plume detected water vapor and water ice, the mission's hoped-for quarry, while LRO, already in orbit around the moon, saw molecular hydrogena surprise.
"LRO's Lyman Alpha Mapping Project, or LAMP, detected the signature of molecular hydrogen, which was unexpected and unexplained," says Jordan.
Jordan's JGR paper, "The formation of molecular hydrogen from water ice in the lunar regolith by energetic charged particles," quantifies an explanation of how molecular hydrogen, which is comprised of two hydrogen atoms and denoted chemically as H2, may be created below the moon's surface.
"After the finding, there were a couple of ideas for how molecular hydrogen could be formed but none of them seemed to work for the conditions in the crater or with the rocket impact." Jordan says. "Our analysis shows that the galactic cosmic rays, which are charged particles energetic enough to penetrate below the lunar surface, can dissociate the water, H2O, into H2 through various potential pathways."
That analysis was based on data gathered by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument aboard the LRO spacecraft. Jordan is a member of the CRaTER scientific team, which is headed up by principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of EOS. Schwadron, a co-author on the JGR paper, was the first to suggest energetic particles as the possible mechanism for creating molecular hydrogen.
CRaTER characterizes the global lunar radiation environment by measuring radiation dose rates from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles. Says Jordan, "We used the CRaTER measurements to get a handle on how much molecular hydrogen has been formed from the water ice via charged particles." Jordan's computer model incorporated the CRaTER data and showed that these energetic particles can form between 10 and 100 percent of the H2 measured by LAMP.
The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.
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Co-authors on the JGR paper include CRaTER scientists Harlan Spence, Colin Joyce and Jody Wilson of EOS and Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. To view the paper, visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgre.20095/abstract
The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.
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Panoramic lunar view taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera of the north rim of Cabeus crater. The distance from left to right is about 75 kilometers (46 miles). Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State Univ.
Artist's rendition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon. The CRaTER telescope is seen pointing out at the bottom right center of the LRO spacecraft. Illustration by Chris Meaney/NASA.
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3-D printing set to be this generation's 'Moon Shot' moment An industry secret for years, 3-D printing is spreading quickly to the masses. Amazon has unveiled a dedicated section for 3-D printing, including desktop models from Brooklyn, N.Y.-based start-up MakerBot. And anyone can buy a 3-D printer from Staples.
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Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver uses the reach of his department?s increasingly followed Facebook page to interact with residents and take to task criminals and other ne?er-do-wells, his preferred term is ?mopes?, for the stupid, the silly and the outright unlawful in messages that mix humor and blunt opinion.
If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 49,000 Facebook fans.
And Oliver does not mince words.
In postings interspersed with community messages and rants, the Brimfield Township chief takes to task criminals and other ne'er-do-wells ? his preferred term is "mopes," appropriated from police TV shows and an old colleague who used it ? for the stupid, the lazy and the outright unlawful. Even an ill-considered parking choice can spur a Facebook flogging.
"If you use a handicapped space and you jump out of the vehicle, all healthy-like, as if someone is dangling free cheeseburgers on a stick, expect people to stare at you and get angry," Oliver wrote last year. "You are milking the system and it aggravates those of us who play by the rules. Ignoring us does not make you invisible. We see you, loser."
His humor, sarcasm and blunt opinion fueled a tenfold increase in the Facebook page's likes in the past year, bringing the total to more than four times the 10,300 residents the department serves. It's among the most-liked local law enforcement pages in the country, trailing only New York, Boston and Philadelphia police, according to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Center for Social Media.
Not bad for a guy who initially hoped maybe 500 locals would pay attention when he noticed other businesses' pages and decided to start his own three years ago.
Facebook posting, May 16, 2013: "I call criminals mopes. I do not comment on them being ugly, smelly or otherwise beauty impaired ... even though some are. I do not comment on their education, social status, color, sex, origin or who they marry. I care about crime and character. If you come to Brimfield and commit a crime we are all going to talk about it. The easiest way to not be called a criminal is to not be one. It is not calculus."
The chief loves justice, Westerns and dogs. John Wayne and Abraham Lincoln peer out from frames on the gray walls of Oliver's office, where the 45-year-old chats with anyone who stops by.
His Facebook messages extend that open-door policy online for conversations about road closures, charity events, lost pets and whatever else crosses his mind. Some are serious, such as salutes to slain officers and updates during school threat investigations. Others are light-hearted, like the attempt to find an escaped swine's owner with an unusual APB ? an "All-Pig Bulletin" ? or his promise to "ticket" child bicyclists with coupons for free ice cream if they wear helmets.
And, of course, there's crime. One posting berates a man accused of physically assaulting a woman and two children. In another, Oliver suggests that hiding near an occupied police K-9 vehicle wasn't a shoplifting suspect's smartest move.
Resident Mark Mosley, a daily reader, said he likes such "humorous arrest stories" best.
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Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver posing by his police car in Kent, Ohio. O
"It's one of those things, like you can't fix stupid," Mosley said.
His officers and others say the online character of the chief, a big, beefy guy, matches real life.
"He is definitely a very large personality. It kind of goes with his size," local fire Chief Robert Keller said.
Oliver's 15-person department handles more than 13,000 calls for service annually and deals largely with arrests for driving violations, thefts and drug crimes by out-of-towners. Arrests in those crime categories dropped last year but are trending upward again, and Oliver says it would take more time to determine whether the Facebook messages are having an impact.
Occasionally, his rants cover topics far outside his jurisdiction, among them the Boston Marathon bombings and the high-profile rape case from Steubenville in eastern Ohio. He rarely mentions names but doesn't shy from addressing specific suspects or brands of criminals.
July 31, 2012:
"Dear Father or Mother Meth Cooks,
"You have lost your mind. What in hell are you thinking when you make the decision to cook meth with your child in the house? You have violated the very basic principle of being a parent, which is the safety of your child. I am fed up with watching it and also with being concerned with the long-term effects of what you have exposed YOUR child to."
The word is out even among mopes, a few of whom have told Oliver they read his updates. During a March traffic stop with several drug-related arrests, one suspect overheard Oliver being called "Chief" and, after connecting the dots, requested not to be mentioned on the page, police said. Oliver didn't oblige.
His postings, also republished to the department's Twitter account, spur dozens or hundreds of comments from as far away as Australia or Germany. Some praise the department. Others say Oliver uses work time inappropriately for Facebook or criticize him for discussing suspects in a public forum. (His response: It's public record.)
Oliver welcomes the discussion and deletes comments only if they use profanity or refer to police in highly offensive language.
"He totally connects with our community, except the people that he arrests," said Mike Kostensky, one of the trustees who picked Oliver as chief in 2004.
Departments like Brimfield that engage readers and reply tend to see more activity on their police pages compared with those that don't, said Nancy Kolb, who runs the IACP Center for Social Media. The center tracks the popularity of law enforcement on Facebook and Twitter.
Oliver says his updates provide accountability and transparency about police work. He's also a believer that people can change.
He says that he had a "very thin" line between good and bad when he was younger and that he might have become a mope if not for grandparents who let him watch only "The Waltons," "Gunsmoke" and "The Andy Griffith Show" on TV.
He said the latter was the biggest influence on his career because he admires the respectful, plain-spoken sheriff played by Griffith.
"I just always thought, you know, that's a good way to handle things," Oliver says.
Jan. 28, 2013:
"It is the opinion of this chief, located in a small corner of a great big world, that we need to, as a society, become a little more intolerant of people who commit crimes for a living. When we start yelling about it being unacceptable ... people will take notice and the practice will shift; either by putting people in jail, funding drug treatment or behavioral changes by the criminals."
Oliver, a father of four who starts many days hugging and high-fiving elementary school students, turned his popularity into a sort of local brand, pitching mugs and T-shirts with "no mopes" logos and his other catchphrases ? such as "anywhere but here" or, in reference to a jail breakfast, "enjoy the oatmeal" ? to raise money for school security improvements. Purchases and donations have brought in more than $14,000, enough to install panic buttons connecting the five local schools to police. Cameras and intercoms are next.
"How could you not love that guy?" said Tammy Ralston, the graphic designer at Young's Screenprinting and Embroidery in Cuyahoga Falls, which came up with the "mopes" gear and receives orders from across the country.
Oliver's supporters include retiree Dennis Kerr of Sherwood, Ark., who bought a T-shirt for his wife while visiting family in nearby Stow.
"The guy really has a load of common sense, and I appreciated him, so we started following him," Kerr said.
Kerr hopes to meet Oliver and said he considered planning his next Ohio visit to coincide with Brimfield's parade. Oliver is turning the September event into a walk honoring military veterans and has invited all his Facebook fans.
Everyone, that is, except the mopes.
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NASA satellite sees developing tropical depression near PhilippinesPublic release date: 17-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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System 91W appears ripe to become Tropical Depression 4 in the next couple of days as it continues moving north and parallels the east coast of the Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the developing low pressure area as it passed overhead in space on June 17.
On June 16 at 2200 UTC (6 p.m. EDT) System 91W was located near 13.5N and 126.9E, about 355 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over System 91W on June 17 at 05:08 UTC (1:08 a.m. EDT) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard captured a visible image of the consolidating storm. Satellite imagery showed strong bands of thunderstorms over the northern and southern quadrants of the storm. The low-level center of circulation appears to be consolidating, and the banding of thunderstorms around it have improved in the last day.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, System 91W has a high chance of becoming Tropical Depression 4 in the next day or two. Computer models indicate that it will continue tracking northward and parallel the coast of the Philippines over the next couple of days and residents along the coast can expect rough seas, gusty winds and rain as the low pressure area moves north.
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NASA satellite sees developing tropical depression near PhilippinesPublic release date: 17-Jun-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Patrick Lynch patrick.lynch@nasa.gov NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
System 91W appears ripe to become Tropical Depression 4 in the next couple of days as it continues moving north and parallels the east coast of the Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the developing low pressure area as it passed overhead in space on June 17.
On June 16 at 2200 UTC (6 p.m. EDT) System 91W was located near 13.5N and 126.9E, about 355 miles east-southeast of Manila, Philippines.
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over System 91W on June 17 at 05:08 UTC (1:08 a.m. EDT) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard captured a visible image of the consolidating storm. Satellite imagery showed strong bands of thunderstorms over the northern and southern quadrants of the storm. The low-level center of circulation appears to be consolidating, and the banding of thunderstorms around it have improved in the last day.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, System 91W has a high chance of becoming Tropical Depression 4 in the next day or two. Computer models indicate that it will continue tracking northward and parallel the coast of the Philippines over the next couple of days and residents along the coast can expect rough seas, gusty winds and rain as the low pressure area moves north.
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