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I installed a stealth system on my 2007 Focus 2.0 five speed. I wanted a stainless system so it will survive our winters. The installation was very easy - I had to cut the two flange bolts and cut the pipe to get the old system off. The Stealth system fit perfectly. The bends are beautiful and welds are nice. I went and bought some band clamps to use instead of the provided u-bolt clamps. Band clamps will let me take it apart easily, if necessary. This system replaces the second catalytic converter. That converter is not monitored by OBD so you can get away with it. Unless you're in a state with a visual inspection - I am not. The mufflers are magnetic. They may be 400 series stainless..? The sound is great at idle and taking off from a stop. It's a little louder than I would like when going down the highway at 80 MPH. With my little car and the five speed, I'm buzzing it over 3,000 RPM at that speed. If I slow down to 70MPH, it's not bad. In years to come, if the mufflers get louder, I'll cut one of the straight-through mufflers out and install a stainless Moroso spiral flow.
Well getting the original system made me sore for 3 weeks. Took about 3 hours to remove and cut it down to size to fit in the trash can. Installing the new system took about 30 minutes. So with the new system installed and test driving, sort of strange to me. Car sounds slow but I'm going fast. I dont use the radio and drive with the windows rolled down so I hear everything. At first it was pretty loud but now my ears are sort of tuning out the sound and I'm getting use to it. Overall my old system was leaking; 15 years old and I needed a replacement. As far as performance goes I don't any point of measurement, so I make a claim that my car is faster or I would be lying. But it sounds cool. At any rate, I don't have the tune or build needed to see the full potential of the system to give it accolades for performance and enhancement.
Installed outside in my apartment complexes parking lot. Super easy to install, taking old system off was more difficult. Great low sound.
I purchased this kit from Fswerks this week. I am very happy with my decision :) I bought it on a Tuesday and installed it the next day after work. I must say the quality and fit were perfect. The sound is great and the performance is better. Great job Fswerks! I highly recommend this product to any Focus nut like me. I am stuck on the 03 2.3 model still, but some day I will get a newer and faster model. Until I upgrade this Fswerks stealth exhaust kit is just what the doctor ordered. :grin: By the way Raphi looked just as proud of it as I was happy to get it! Thanks again Fswerks!
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Great, exhaust was very straight forward to install. Actually took longer to remove the stock exhaust. FSWerks exhaust looks and sounds great. I would highly recommend this to any one looking for an aftermarket exhaust.


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Lynn contributes a calming air to us here at Park Cedar Dentistry. She and Cindy "man" the front desk well together, from insurance appeals and collections to assisting patients with their benefits she proves how valuable she is to our family here. Lynn is the friendly voice on the phone helping you schedule treatment and explain dentistry to you. Lynn resides in Lancaster with her husband D'Mario.
They enjoy life with their two dogs, Bailey and Diego. Lynn enjoys studying theology and shopping in her free time.
Janel joined Park Cedar Dentistry in 2017, and has proven to be a valuable asset to the practice. Janel wears many "hats" in our office. She can be seen assisting the doctors with clinical care, answering the phone to be of service to our patients, or filing insurance claims. Janel has a vast amount of experience from crown and bridge work to pediatric dentistry.
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Laine started at our practice in August of 2017. She graduated from York Technical College and is licensed in both North and South Carolina. She loves working in such a great field where she is able to help people and takes pride in the amount of care she gives to each patient's oral health needs and goals. She is thankful to have found such a great career and being able to work with such a great team.
Laine is originally from Ohio, but has been living in the Charlotte area since 2013. In her free time she enjoys traveling, rooting for Cleveland sports, and spending time outside hiking or out on the lake with her family and fiancé.
Andrea has been with this practice longer than anyone. She joined the founder of the practice in 1981 (Dr. Sturm didn't join the practice until 1983!) With over 30 years experience, dental assisting is second nature to Andrea leaving her free to focus her time and attention on getting to know patients and understanding them and their concerns. Her favorite part of her job is working with the public because everyone is unique and that makes every day special.
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One of my clearest childhood memories is of my father washing his face. Forty-five years later, I would be washing him.
One of my clearest childhood memories is of my father washing his face. He did so in a most particular way, with a vigor and thoroughness that made me feel somehow cleaner for simply having watched him. In the mornings, while he got ready for the workday, I'd sit on the toilet seat brushing my teeth as he went through the various stages of his ablutions. This was in the early nineteen-seventies, when we lived in a low-end red brick rental complex near the Sound in New Rochelle. Our second-floor apartment was a small two-bedroom with a living-dining area and a worn galley kitchen. It had one cramped bathroom, its dulled chrome fixtures speckled with rust and the tiles coming loose in spots, but even my mother wasn't fretting too much. We were just a couple of years landed in the country, and this was as suitable a place as any. My kid sister and I loved the playground and grassy field that the apartment overlooked—you could check who was out there and sprint down in a breath—and my mother appreciated the southeast-facing windows, as drafty as they were, for the brightness they let in. My father was settling into his first doctoring position, as a staff psychiatrist at the Bronx V.A. hospital, and although extra money was scarce, our family was moving up in the world.
My father would turn on the taps until the water ran warm and then liberally splash himself as he bent over the basin, sprays of water dotting me. Like seemingly all Korean men back then, he wore a ribbed tank top beneath his dress shirts, and the shoulder straps would get a little damp as he wet his face and ears and neck. He built up a load of soapy lather and got to work, roughly polishing the sides of his nose and his cheeks in a circular motion and radiating outward to his ears, using his index fingers and thumbs to scrape the nooks and whorls. Making a rake of his fingers, he scoured behind his ears, then shifted to the back of his neck, tilting his head slightly to each side to bare it for forceful soaping. Next, he rotated the bar of Ivory in his hands to replenish the lather, which he needed for cleaning the rest of his face—his eyelids and his temples and his angling, broad forehead, unwrinkled then, going foamy and white. Sometimes he liked to frighten me by turning quickly and opening his eyes wide and flaring his lips, this snowy beast, and then smile when I began to whimper, and although my heart detonated each time, I liked it, too, for the way it was him and not him and him again, in the span of a gasp.
He'd wash away the suds with great handfuls of water, dousing himself while briskly rubbing his skin once more, and you would wonder why he didn't just take a shower instead. Maybe it was because he was a refugee during the war and grew up in the harsh times afterward, but bathing every day was a habit neither he nor my mother had yet developed. I can imagine them both waiting in line for their brief turn at a cold-water spigot, poised to clean themselves as swiftly and as fully as they could.
On the weekends, I often showered with my father, and he showed me how to rub tiny dark rolls of grime from my forearms and from the scallops of my heels, and then scrubbed my shampooed scalp so hard it would tingle long afterward. My favorite part was when he dried my hair, his method not to blot and rub, as you normally would, but to hold each end of the smallish towel and whip the middle back and forth against my head to flick away the dampness. No plush bath towels for us.
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Asenapin ist ein Arzneistoff aus der Gruppe der atypischen Neuroleptika, der u. a. in der Behandlung von mäßig bis schwer ausgeprägten manischen Phasen bei Patienten mit bipolaren Störungen eingesetzt wird.

Klinische Angaben

Anwendungsgebiete
In der Europäischen Union (EU) ist Asenapin zur Behandlung von Erwachsenen mit bipolaren Störungen während mäßig bis schwer ausgeprägten manischen Phasen zugelassen. In den USA ist Asenapin zusätzlich zur Behandlung von Schizophrenie zugelassen. In der Schweiz wurde die Zulassung für Asenapin (Handelsname Sycrest) am 19. Juli 2012 durch Swissmedic erteilt.

Asenapin wird sublingual verabreicht: Die Sublingualtablette wird unter die Zunge gelegt, wo sie sich nach wenigen Sekunden vollständig auflöst und der Wirkstoff über den Mundraum aufgenommen wird.

Wirksamkeit
Klinische Studien zeigten, dass Asenapin manische Symptome in einer Studie über 3 Wochen reduzierte. Dieser Effekt blieb in der manischen Episode über 12 Wochen erhalten.

Die Wirksamkeit von Asenapin ist nach 12 Wochen mit der Wirksamkeit von Olanzapin vergleichbar. Die anhaltende Wirkung von Asenapin wurde für ein volles Jahr gezeigt. In den Zulassungsstudien zeigte Asenapin in der zugelassenen Indikation eine geringere Wirksamkeit als Olanzapin bei nicht verbessertem Sicherheitsprofil. Die Arzneimittelkommission der deutschen Ärzteschaft (AkdÄ) hält einen therapeutischen Vorteil für nicht gegeben. Aufgrund nicht ausreichender Wirksamkeit erhielt Asenapin für die ebenfalls beantragte Indikation Schizophrenie keine Zulassung.

Bei Patienten, die auf eine Monotherapie mit Lithium oder Valproinsäure bei therapeutischen Serumspiegeln teilweise nicht ansprachen, führte die zusätzliche Anwendung von Asenapin als Begleittherapie gegenüber einer Monotherapie mit Lithium oder Valproat zu einer überlegenen Wirksamkeit.

Asenapin wirkt sehr rasch, in klinischen Studien gab es bei Patienten mit Symptomen einer Manie ab Tag 2 eine messbare Wirkung.

Asenapin wird in der unabhängigen Schweizer Fachzeitschrift pharma-kritik 2013 als bezüglich seiner Wirksamkeit bei manischen Episoden zwar wirksamer als Placebo gesehen; ob es jedoch tatsächlich die Wirksamkeit bewährter Medikamente erreiche, scheine bis dahin ungeklärt. Als problematisch wird u. a. die Notwendigkeit gesehen, das Medikament anhand vergleichsweise komplexer Vorgaben einzunehmen. Asenapin solle daher bei manischen Episoden anderen bewährten und preislich vorteilhafteren Neuroleptika nicht vorgezogen werden.

Unerwünschte Wirkungen
Sehr häufig auftretende Nebenwirkungen sind Schläfrigkeit und Angstgefühle; auch Appetitsteigerung und Gewichtszunahme, Ermüdung, Abstumpfung, Verstimmung, Bewegungsdrang, unwillkürliche Bewegungen, Parkinson-artige Störungen, Schwindel, Geschmacksstörungen, Mundunempfindlichkeit, erhöhte Leberwerte (GPT-Wert) und Muskelsteifigkeit kommen häufig vor. Mit Ausnahme von Mundtaubheit sind diese Nebenwirkungen für Neuroleptika gut bekannt. Die Mundtaubheit hängt mit den lokalanästhetischen Eigenschaften von Asenapin zusammen, was als wenig relevant eingestuft wird. Asenapin bewirkt im Vergleich zu Olanzapin eine geringer ausgeprägte Gewichtszunahme und Veränderung metabolischer Parameter.

Studien

ARES und APOLLO
Die Monotherapie-Studien bestanden aus zwei jeweils über 3 Wochen laufenden Studien (ARES-3A und ARES-3B). In diesen Studien wurde die Wirksamkeit von Asenapin mit einer Placebobehandlung bei Patienten mit akuten manischen oder gemischten Episoden bei Bipolar-I-Störung verglichen.

Nach einer Therapiedauer von 3 Wochen konnten die Patienten an ARES-9 teilnehmen, einer über 9 Wochen laufenden Folgestudie, bei der die Patienten entweder Asenapin 2 x tgl. in einer Dosierung von 5 mg oder 10 mg oder 1 x tgl. Olanzapin in einer Dosierung von 5 bis 20 mg erhielten. Im Gegensatz zu den ARES-3A- und ARES-3B-Studien wurde bei ARES-9 die Nichtunterlegenheit der Wirksamkeitserhaltung von Asenapin gegenüber Olanzapin über bis zu 12 Wochen getestet.

Und schließlich konnten die Patienten, die ARES-9 abschlossen, auch noch an der 40-wöchigen ARES-40-Verlängerungsstudie teilnehmen. Das Design von ARES-40 sah vor, die Langzeitsicherheit von Asenapin bis zu 52 Wochen lang zu überprüfen.

Die Studien zur Kombinationstherapie umfassten eine 12-wöchige Behandlungsdauer, in der Asenapin plus Lithium oder Valproinsäure mit einem Placebo plus Lithium oder Valproinsäure verglichen wurde. Hierbei ging es um die Behandlung von Patienten mit akuten manischen oder gemischten Episoden bei Bipolar-I-Störung, die auf eine Behandlung mit Lithium oder Valproinsäure allein nicht vollständig ansprachen. Patienten, welche die APOLLO-12-Studie abschlossen, konnten danach an der 40-wöchigen Verlängerungsstudie APOLLO-40 teilnehmen. Das primäre Studienziel von APOLLO-40 bestand in der Charakterisierung der Langzeitsicherheit und Verträglichkeit von Asenapin für einen Zeitraum von bis zu 52 Wochen.

Phase III (manische Phasen einer bipolaren Störung)
Vor allem zwei randomisierte dreiwöchige Kurzzeitstudien mit Asenapin werden von der EMA bewertet. Sie sind placebokontrolliert und haben zudem einen Olanzapinarm (A7501004/NCT00159744 und A7501005/NCT00159796). Außerdem wird Asenapin in einer randomisierten 12-wöchigen Studie zusätzlich zu Lithium oder Valproat geprüft (A7501008/NCT00145470) und in mehreren Nachbeobachtungen untersucht (neun Wochen: A7501006/NCT00143182, 40 Wochen: A7501009/NCT00145509, 40 Wochen: A7501007/NCT00159783)

In die beiden wesentlichen Kurzzeitstudien werden Patienten mit der DSM IV-Diagnose einer manischen oder gemischten Phase einer Bipolar-I-Störung eingeschlossen, die in einem gängigen Test mit dem die manische Symptomatik gemessen werden kann, der Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), mindestens 20 Punkte erzielen. Die YMRS prüft 11 items, maximal können 60 Punkte erreicht werden. Zu den Ausschlusskriterien der Studien gehört die Einnahme von Lithium, Valproat oder Carbamazepin bis kurz vor Studienbeginn. Asenapin wird in einer Dosis von 5 bis 10 mg zweimal täglich, Olanzapin in einer Tagesdosis von 5 bis 20 mg geprüft. Primär wird die Wirksamkeit mittels der Änderung des Gesamtpunkte-Werts der YMRS untersucht. In beiden Kurzzeitstudien verringert Asenapin den YMRS-Punktwert im Placebovergleich statistisch signifikant (Asenapin:-11,5;-10,8 Placebo: -7,8; -5,5 Olanzapin: -14,6; -12,6).

Pharmakologische Eigenschaften

Wirkungsmechanismus
Der genaue Wirkmechanismus ist, ebenso wie von anderen bei bipolarer Störung wirksamen Arzneimitteln, nicht vollständig geklärt. Asenapin wirkt im Gehirn an vielen verschiedenen Rezeptoren. Ein antagonistischer Effekt an D2- und 5-HT2A-Rezeptoren scheint im Vordergrund zu stehen.

Aufnahme und Verteilung im Körper
Asenapin weist nach oraler Einnahme nur eine sehr geringe Bioverfügbarkeit von weniger als 2 % auf und liegt daher als Sublingualtablette vor. Die Sublingualtablette wird unter die Zunge gelegt, bis sie sich vollständig aufgelöst hat. Die Tablette löst sich im Speichel innerhalb von Sekunden auf.

Chemie

Chemische Struktur und Isomerie
Asenapin ist eine tetracyclische chemische Verbindung; sie besteht aus einem zentralen, siebengliedrigen Oxepan-Ring, an den zwei Benzol- und ein Pyrrolidin-Ring anelliert sind. Einer der beiden Benzolringe trägt ein Chloratom. Die Struktur von Asenapin unterscheidet sich von den Strukturen anderer atypischen Antipsychotika.

5-Chlor-2,3,3a,12b-tetrahydro-2-methyl-1H-dibenz[2,3:6,7]oxepino[4,5-c]pyrrol enthält zwei verschiedene Stereozentren am Pyrrolidinring. Folglich gibt von dieser Substanz vier Stereoisomere: Die (3aR,12bR)-Form, die dazu spiegelbildlicher (3aS,12bS)-Form sowie die (3aR,12bS)-Form und die (3aS,12bR)-Form. Der Arzneistoff Asenapin ist ein 1:1-Gemisch (Racemat) aus der (3aR,12bR)-Form und der (3aS,12bS)-Form.

Synthese
Asenapin wird in einer mehrstufigen Synthese nach van der Burg aus einem Diphenylether hergestellt.

Handelspräparate
Asenapin wurde von Organon entwickelt. Asenapin-haltige Fertigarzneimittel werden in der EU unter dem Handelsnamen Sycrest von Lundbeck und in den USA unter dem Namen Saphris von MSD vertrieben.

Hersteller sind Organon und Schering-Plough.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Antipsychotika

Weblinks
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 Einträge im NIH-Studienregister

Einzelnachweise

Diphenylether
Diphenylethan
Sauerstoffhaltiger ungesättigter Heterocyclus
Pyrrolidin
Chlorbenzol
Arzneistoff
Psychotroper Wirkstoff
Synthetische psychotrope Substanz
Antipsychotikum

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When you tend to think animated turtles most of us think pizza, New York, Nun-chucks, and the Foot Clan. The stars of Turtleppop: Journey to Freedom are a little more petite and probably less likely to save you from any sort of nefarious ninjas. In Digipen's new Tuned Edition of this title, it is up to you to navigate an escape for a range of cute reptiles.
Turtlepop, initially launched back earlier this year, follows the adventures of Bebo, Deephi, Slimmie, Willis, and Sparky as they attempt to make their way through a range of arenas and find their way to freedom. A variety of platforming puzzles awaits as the five forge a path through a series of environments, filled with exploding bombs, special blocks, and environmental puzzles. While Digipen's first outing for these cute characters was somewhat successful, the new tuned update is a huge step up for the turtles. It adds updated game mechanics, sound, a tweaked UI, and improved graphics.
The absolutely adorable aesthetic of Turtlepop sends a very distinct message. From the moment the main menu appears the game is unashamedly cute. The bright palette, the infantile character art, the chirpy music, and clean UI all scream simplicity. Turetlepop 's single-player campaign, which accompanies a multiplayer co-op and battle mode, opens onto a verdant 3D world map that continues the same bright aesthetic. Throughout my time with Turtlepop, everything about the game just shined, even managing to keep a fantastic 60fps when docked. Several themed stages make up each of the game's island maps, and the opening 2D levels are instantly recognizable. Clearly drawing inspiration from several Mario iterations, Turtlepop creates a fun and seemingly familiar set of environments for players to acclimatize in.
As players take control of the first of these turtles, things do feel relatively benign. The fundamental premise of Turtlepop never changes, despite the appearance of additional little green vagrants. Green isn't the only color on show either. Four more turtles, each with their own personality and particular play style, join Bebo in this adventure. They can even be paraded through the game in packs, using a linking skill that drags tethered turtles across the screen. In the end, getting all these cute critters across a few obstacles and into a hole sounds easy enough, but Turtlepop does throw in a few additional challenges as things progress.
Turtlepop is a genre mash-up and it doesn't take long before a wave of other ideas come crashing in. Everything from power-ups to match three puzzles pop up in an effort to provide variety. A floating genie also arrives, adding a host of additional utilities for players and unlocking more routes to freedom. This can include consumable power-ups, various types of bomb, and a host of building blocks. While the match three systems do make things a little more difficult and the genie does provide extra options, these ultimately serve to make Turtlepop feel cluttered. This is especially prevalent when attempting to herd several turtles, control a floating genie, load the relevant power-ups from the genie's inventory, and solve a series of match three games.
This genre mash-up continues to clutter the game's core conceit via the game's loot and progression systems. As turtle shells that make it through a level unscathed players are rewarded for their performance with a variety of loot chests and two collectible currencies. Loot chests drop cards which act as an upgrade system, unlocking new genie items, additional power-ups, and even more loot. Of course, these cards can also be improved upon, making them even more powerful and unlocking extra options.
The variety of upgrades available through loot chests is clearly intended to give players a reason to re-run levels, besting their own attempts and upgrading the turtle's capabilities. In reality, the random rewards make the grind a necessary component of an otherwise charming game. The utilities available and leveling systems in TurtlePop require multiple copies of the same cards, making an element of repetition inevitable. While I didn't find this half as egregious as some reports from the original release, it seems to be an unavoidable problem.
If your brain is not bursting from the plethora of ideas already on show, then this match 3 platform puzzler with loot box rewards and a card progression system can be an enjoyable experience. Taken as a relaxing puzzle game, it is a fun title that doesn't fail to charm the socks off you. You'll find the best moments in TurtlePop are when it refrains from adding in extraneous elements like horizontal scrolling. TurtlePop: Journey to Freedom is worth a look if you're waiting for something that is unoffensive enough for the morning commute, and won't wreck your brain before that first coffee. TurtlePop: Journey to Freedom Tuned Edition is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop now.
Turtlepop: Journey to Freedom is a fun title that doesn't fail to charm the socks off you. It follows the adventures of Bebo, Deephi, Slimmie, Willis, and Sparky as they attempt to make their way to freedom and throws in a ton of genres along the way.


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Q: Bi-directional cascading combo boxes in Silverlight I'm interested in creating combo boxes that represent many-to-many relationship. That is if one combobox changes selection that would trigger the other combobox to change content, and vice versa. Anybody knows how to do it in Silverlight?
I tried it, but I either get SelectedItem reset in the second combobox when I change the value in the first, or I basically get an infinite loop of Collection1Changed -> Collection1SelectionChanged -> Collection2Changed -> Collection2SelectionChanged -> Collection1Changed -> ...
Anybody knows of a good technique?

A: One potential solution is to detach and reattach the event handlers, i have no idea if this is a good idea or not though, there is probably a better better method!
private void Collection1_SelectionChanged (object sender, eventargs e)
{
    Collection2.SelectionChanged -= Collection2_SelectionChanged; //drop event handler
    //make changes...
    Collection2.SelectionChanged += Collection2_SelectionChanged; //add event handler
}

This seems like a pretty crazy method, but it's all i can think of atm!

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St Lucia goes to the polls on Monday
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Saint Lucians went to the polls on Monday in an early general election called three weeks ago by Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony, however, as one regional commentator puts it, whichever party forms the next government, they may lose by winning.
According to highly placed sources in the US State Department, the United States is determined to see real progress in addressing the still unresolved human rights abuses in the shape of alleged extra-judicial killings by members of the Royal St Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) that led to suspension of all law enforcement and military aid under the provisions of the so-called Leahy Law.
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LONDON: The Kurdish forces protecting Islamic State (ISIS) households in northern Syria have denied studies that the baby child of Shamima Begum, a Bangladeshi-origin London schoolgirl who fled the UK to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terror workforce, can have died in a refugee camp in the area.
In a message posted on social media on Friday, the teenager's family legal professional Mohammed Akunjee stated the family has gained unconfirmed studies from inside of her refugee camp in the Middle East that her newborn son named Jerah has kicked the bucket.
"We have strong but as yet unconfirmed reports that Shamima Begum's son has died. He was a British citizen," Akunjee said on Twitter.
As the child was born whilst Begum was nonetheless a British nationwide, his status remains that of a British nationwide.
However, the document was countered soon after through a spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is protecting Begum and thousands of different ISIS family members.
"Leaks said that ISIS bride Shamima's son died are fake. The baby is alive and healthy," wrote Mustafa Bali, according to Akunjee's message on Twitter.
The legal professional has steered Bali to contact the family at once for "confirmation of the situation".
The conflicting studies of the child's well-being follow a plea from Begum's London-based family to UK house secretary Sajid Javid to assist them in bringing the child back to the UK according to his rights as a British citizen.
It was in response to the minister's resolution to revoke 19-year-old Begum's British citizenship on safety grounds, indicating that she would have the suitable to acquire Bangladeshi citizenship through virtue of her folks' heritage.
"My number one job is to do whatever I can to keep this country safe," Javid had stated remaining month whilst announcing the revocation of citizenship.
Begum's son was born on February 17, days after she was tracked down heavily-pregnant through in a refugee camp in Syria.
She instructed reporters on the time that she had already misplaced two young children - one to malnutrition and any other to ill-health - all over her time with ISIS and pleaded with the UK executive to permit her and her new-born child to go back to the Britain.
"I would like them to re-evaluate my case with a bit more mercy in their heart. I am willing to change," she stated, following the revocation of her citizenship.
She was 15 when she fled to join ISIS in February 2015 and married Dutch ISIS recruit Yago Riedijk as a so-called jihadi bride. Her 27-year-old husband, who's being held in a Kurdish detention centre in north-eastern Syria, lately stated in a media interview that he sought after his wife and child to be allowed to go back to the Netherlands.
Both the Netherlands and Bangladesh have since denied that Begum would have a proper to access into either country.
Earlier this week, her father Ahmed Ali, who now lives in Bangladesh, blamed the UK authorities for failing to forestall Begum fleeing the rustic on her sister's passport.
"The British immigration system is very informed, the most informed system in the world. I always say how did (Shamima) get there using another person's passport? She doesn't even have her own passport. These matters should be investigated," the 60-year-old stated, urging the UK to permit his daughter to go back and face the British criminal gadget.
Under global law, the UK can revoke a citizenship of a British nationwide only if the individual would no longer be made stateless. Begum's British citizenship was revoked at the grounds that she is eligible for citizenship of Bangladesh till the age of 21 through her folks' Bangladeshi dual nationality.
But Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has since dominated out this sort of possibility of her being thought to be for Bangladeshi citizenship.
Begum is currently believed to be in a refugee camp nearer to the Iraqi border after being got rid of from the Al-Hol camp in the north of Syria because of alleged threats following the global media attention she attracted.


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The Autonomous University of Barcelona also known as UAB (Catalan: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.
As of 2012, it consists of 57 departments in the experimental, life, social and human sciences, spread among 13 faculties/schools. All these centers together award a total of 85 qualifications in the form of first degrees, diplomas, and engineering degrees. Moreover, almost 80 doctoral programs, and more than 80 other postgraduate programs are offered. UAB has more than 40,000 students and more than 3,600 academic and research staff. The UAB is a pioneering institution in terms of fostering research. There are many research institutes in the campus, as well as other research centers, technical support services and service-providing laboratories, and the ALBA (synchrotron) located in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park is very close to the UAB. The UAB is considered to be the best University in Spain by the 2012 QS World University Rankings,[1] which ranked the university 176th overall in the world. Its subject rankings were: 144th in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, 92nd[clarification needed] in Arts & Humanities, 106th in Natural Sciences, 95th in Social Sciences and 203rd in Engineering & IT.
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Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE)
IFAE conducts experimental and theoretical research at the frontier of of fundamental physics, namely in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. We are involved in the ATLAS project at the LHC, the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan, the MAGIC telescopes in La Palma and the Dark Energy Survey project in Chile, among others. We also work at the cutting edge of detector technology developing pixel detectors for High Energy Physics, telescope cameras and detectors for medical imaging and other scientific and industrial fields.
Founded in 1991, IFAE is a consortium by Generalitat de Catalunya and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It is awarded with the 'Excelencia Severo Ochoa' Mention since 2013. IFAE has two main divisions, experimental and theory, which have the aim to research in Fundamental Physics frontier, and a third division developing Applied Physics. To reach its goals, IFAE reunites about 100 researchers from all around the world. The Institute is placed in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Campus and it is a member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
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Institute of Space Sciences
The Institute of Space Sciences pertains to the "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas" (the Spanish National Research Council, usually called CSIC) and it articulates the CSIC participation in the confederation of independent institutes affiliated with the "Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya" (IEEC).
The Institute of Space Sciences participates at a significant level in more than a dozen missions and ground-based experiments. Among these we can quote a significant participation in missions of the importance of LISA Pathfinder & LISA for the detection of the gravitational waves (for the former, we did the essential-to-the-mission Data Management Unity and were responsible of the Data Diagnostic Subsystem), Euclid (we are responsible of instrument filter tray, and in the Ground Segment, leading the Simulations Organization Unit and the Photometric Redshift Organization Unit), and the NASA led Fermi-Gamma-ray Observatory (in the Science Team already before launch, being the only institution in Spain that is member of the collaboration running such facility). From the ground, we have made significant contributions to experiments such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (developing its complex scheduling system), the Dark Energy Survey (contributing to the DECam CCD, electronics and Telescope guider), and are scientifically leading the CARMENES spectrograph.
The main asset (and aim) of the Institute of Space Sciences is the ability of producing cutting-edge theoretical and phenomenological modelling of what we study observationally, so that we close that virtuous circle that goes from technological development, to observations, to understanding, by participating in all three.
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St. Louis, known as the Gateway to the West, may have a "flyover" connotation in other parts of the country, but did you know St. Louis is one of the best places for start-ups, affordable housing, and award-winning free attractions?
St. Louis is 19th on the 30 Hottest Cities for New Business, and 23rd (out of 182) in 2018's Best Large Cities to Start a Business.
As a small business and IT company in St. Louis, Anderson Technologies is thrilled to be a part of this thriving community!
If you're a small business owner in St. Louis, what's not to love about this city?
Sitting on the great Mississippi River is the Gateway Arch—the tallest man-made monument in the United States. The architecture and construction make the Arch unique, and St. Louisans are proud of it. If you're looking for a beautiful view of this river city, take a tram to the top!
Forest Park is probably the second most well-known location in St. Louis. This backbone of city life is home to many of St. Louis' free attractions and claims 500 more acres than New York City's Central Park. There you'll find the History Museum, Art Museum, The Muny outdoor theater, and the renowned St. Louis Zoo, which continues to hold its place in the top 10 zoos in the United States.
The elegant Powell Hall, where music lovers from all over the Midwest come to enjoy concerts, is home to the award-winning St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Fabulous Fox Theater, exquisite and not far from the Hall, hosts Broadway shows and concerts.
Sports lovers are all over St. Louis. The Cardinals baseball team is held in high regard. The St. Louis Cardinals have been in the World Series four times in the last 13 years, and only the Yankees have won more World Series than they have. The St. Louis Blues hockey team also has a broad base of loyal supporters. Red and blue t-shirts and jerseys, depending on the season, are seen all over the city.
The St. Louis Science Center is another major attraction. The Science Center itself is free, but it also hosts amazing exhibits from the Smithsonian and other organizations. There's currently a "Destination Moon" exhibit through September 3, 2018. From the dizzying OMNIMAX theater to agricultural experiences like the "Let It Grow" exhibit, the Science Center provides creative learning experiences that almost every local child has grown up visiting on school field trips or on a day of educational family fun.
Jefferson Barracks is a little south of St. Louis. It is an active military installation and has a civil war museum and national cemetery where veterans from every American war are buried. Cahokia Mounds, in Illinois, is just across the river. Cahokia is the Midwest's native ancient civilization site that was larger than present-day London during its peak.
St. Louis is also home to quirkier attractions like Laumeier Sculpture Park, Turtle Playground, and the City Museum, where kids (and adults) can jungle gym through a 600,000 square foot building, go down a 10 story slide, and absorb interesting aspects of the city's culture.
The sidewalks that line St. Louis' small businesses bustle with friendly Midwestern faces. Most St. Louisans will look a stranger in the eye as they pass on the street and ask them "How's it goin'?" and comment on the weather. St. Louis has a diverse population, so you'll also find many different types of great food. Toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake are St. Louis specialty treats, and we like to claim the invention of the waffle cone at the 1904 World's Fair. We also enjoy internationally-acclaimed barbecue and tender pork steaks as we watch thunderstorms roll in over the horizon.
And we can't forget St. Louis Bread Co.—the original name and home of Panera.
While Missouri tends to be known for its humidity and hot summer temperatures, spring and fall are lovely with wildflowers and changing leaves. The old aphorism "If you don't like the weather, just sit tight for a minute" rings true here. Missouri's weather morphs with the winds and sometimes likes to fit all four seasons into a week—or a day! Plus the much-maligned humidity fosters brilliant green landscapes, lush trees, and thick grass.
Winter brings ice skating and sledding down snowy hills in Forest Park. Summer means lazy weekends on the rivers or lakes. With fall comes festivals and hiking or leaf-gazing walks through Tower Grove Park. In spring there are fun outdoor adventures at the Botanical Gardens, the Zoo, and Grant's Farm.
The St. Louis area is a great place to play and stay and a wonderful place to run a small business.
Our St. Louis IT company couldn't ask for a better home.
Anderson Technologies is a St. Louis IT company but isn't limited to the St. Louis area. If you would like more information about our IT services, call 314.394.3001 or email us info@andersontech.com.


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At Minnesota State Patrol Academy graduation, new troopers get their badges pinned on by family members. Trooper Vanessa Heller's was pinned on by her daughter.
Vanessa Heller used to be a paralegal in family law. After that, a court administrator. But she just wasn't satisfied. Then she saw a video that changed her life. Now, her office is a sleek, maroon-and-white State Patrol squad car, and Trooper Heller couldn't be happier.
The LETO program is for people who want to become troopers but don't have any law enforcement experience. If you have a 2- or 4-year college degree in any discipline, you can apply for the 26-week program (oh, and you have to be at least 21 and have a Minnesota driver's license). The State Patrol will pay your tuition as well as 80 percent of the State Trooper base salary during your training.
Then you'd start your patrolling our highways as a state trooper. Troopers also enforce traffic laws, provide emergency assistance to motorists – including giving first aid to those who are injured – and work with other law enforcement agencies to apprehend those who break the law. Most importantly, you would uphold the State Patrol's core values: respect, integrity, courage, honor and excellence.
The LETO Program is accepting applications through Feb. 15.


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Weekend wrap: Do the Bruins own the East?
Each Monday, we'll wrap up three of the biggest stories from the weekend and how they'll play into the coming week.
Beasts of the East … Usually
Common sense tells us that it shouldn't be possible to have a frustrating hot streak, but the Bruins may be trying to prove us wrong. They haven't lost back-to-back games since the first week of November, and have often looked dominant while winning 12 of their last 17. But that stretch has also included blowout losses to the Canucks and Red Wings, as well as an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the lowly Sabres. When they're at their best, the Bruins seem close to unstoppable. When they're not … well, they're still pretty good, but they're beatable.
Over the weekend, the Bruins showed off both sides of that coin in a home-and-home series against Ottawa. On Friday, they started slowly but switched gears and overpowered the Senators, riding a four-goal third period to a 5-0 win. Tuukka Rask made 33 saves to earn his league-leading fourth shutout of the season, and Reilly Smith scored a pair.
But the next night in Ottawa, the Bruins turned in an inconsistent effort in a 4-3 loss. Playing without captain Zdeno Chara, a late scratch due to injury, Boston fell behind 3-1 early in the second. Goals from Jarome Iginla and David Warsofsky tied the game, but a late breakdown led to a Bobby Ryan goal that restored Ottawa's lead. Despite a furious final few minutes, the Bruins couldn't beat Craig Anderson for an equalizer.
Those occasional Bruins lapses may be the only thing keeping them from running away with the Eastern Conference. With the Penguins hurting, the rest of the Metro still unimpressive, and several presumed Northeast contenders fading badly, it's hard not to get the sense that the East is shaping up as Boston's to lose. No team has gone to the Stanley Cup final three times in four years since the 2000-03 Devils, but the Bruins have to be considered a favorite to match that right now.
They'll have to do it without Dennis Seidenberg, their no. 2 defenseman and an underrated contributor. He's out for the season after tearing his ACL and MCL in Friday night's win. That's a major loss, though it does free up some cap room for a potential trade-deadline shopping spree.
As for the coming week, Boston should be able to keep rolling. It plays three straight at home against teams that are .500 or worse, hosting the Islanders, Predators, and Jets.
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Weekend wrap: Penguins hurt, but still hot
Penguins Keep Streaking
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their seventh straight, earning a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday afternoon, thanks to a goal and two assists from Sidney Crosby. That gave Crosby 54 points on the year, good for a six-point gap over Chicago's Patrick Kane for the league lead. It was a good weekend for the Pens captain, who also moved into the top spot in the 24/7 MVP power rankings.
Crosby's not the only Penguin enjoying a great season. Evgeni Malkin was scoring at close to a 100-point pace before being sidelined by a leg injury that's kept him out for four games. Chris Kunitz continues to excel on Crosby's wing, rekindling the debate around his Olympic chances. And James Neal, when he's healthy and not suspended, has been a force.
And then there's goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. The Penguins starter has been excellent, putting up a 21-8-1 record to go with a 2.04 GAA and .923 save percentage. The latter two numbers would represent career bests over a full season, and in theory we should be talking about Fleury as one of the league's best goalies so far. We're not, of course, because it doesn't really matter what Fleury does in the regular season anymore. He's spent the last two years developing a reputation for playoff meltdowns, and isn't likely to get much credit for gaudy numbers until he can post them in May and June.
The good news is that he'll almost certainly get that chance, because the Penguins are going to roll into the playoffs. Pittsburgh has won 12 of its last 13 and 10 straight at home, and have moved to within two points of the Ducks for first place overall. They've also opened up a 13-point lead in the Metropolitan Division, a bigger gap than those enjoyed by the other three division leaders combined.
The Pens play their next four on the road, but the schedule isn't especially daunting. Their next six all come against teams that are currently .500 or worse, including tonight's matchup with the struggling Senators.
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Grab bag: Doc Emrick is bad at poetry
In this week's grab bag: A Christmas Cain, a Sea of Boo, July 1 is going to suck, World Junior panic, a year's worth of Don Cherry jackets, and a YouTube breakdown of the worst Christmas poem of all-time.
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Ranking all 30 NHL teams based on 24/7 watchability
The much-anticipated debut of HBO's 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic arrived Saturday, and reviews of the first episode were … lukewarm, at best. The consensus was that the Maple Leafs were only modestly entertaining, and the Red Wings were downright dull.
That's a disappointing reception for a show that usually does a great job of making the NHL seem fascinating. Then again, the producers can only work with what they have, and for one week at least they didn't seem to have much.
It was only one episode, of course, and maybe the second will be better. Hockey fans had better hope that these two teams can loosen up a bit, because we're stuck with them. After all, it's not like we can go to the bullpen for a replacement.
But what if we could? What if the two spots on 24/7 weren't automatically given to whoever was playing in the Winter Classic, but instead went to the most entertaining teams, both on and off the ice, of a given moment?
That sounds like the sort of question that calls for an in-depth ranking. So let's give this a shot. Here are all 30 teams, ranked based on how interesting they'd be if we swapped them into 24/7 right now.
30. Columbus Blue Jackets
What would work: Do you like stories about plucky underdogs, scorned and mocked by everyone only to emerge triumphant at the end?
What wouldn't work: What if we told you we couldn't swing the whole "emerge triumphant at the end" bit? Still interested? Wait, come back …
Breakout star: Sergei Bobrovsky has a nice little character arc going — run out of Philadelphia, finds redemption in Columbus, wins the Vezina, then falters under the increased expectations. Plus, he backed up 24/7 legend Ilya Bryzgalov for a year, so maybe he picked up a few tips.
Dominant story line: A terrible team struggles to stay near the .500 mark but still somehow remains in the playoff race. We'll just call this one "the Metro" for short.
29. Florida Panthers
What would work: They're a rebuilding team that has been improving under a new coach.
What wouldn't work: Let's face it, the Panthers are a bad team playing in a lousy market, and their roster isn't exactly packed with household names. On a show like 24/7, they'd probably be a disaster. If only they had some sort of wacky veteran around to make things bearable …
Breakout star: Oh, hello there, Tim Thomas! Hey, remember when you used to speak your mind freely, and then everyone yelled at you so you stopped doing that? We'd like you to start again.
Dominant story line: After the first few minutes of the debut episode, you set up one of these in front of your television set.
28. Detroit Red Wings
What would work: They already have experience with 24/7, since they're on this year's show.
What wouldn't work: Five minutes after last week's episode ended, nobody could remember a single scene involving a Red Wing.
Breakout star: Based on what we've seen so far, the winner by default is Jimmy Howard doing whatever it is this is supposed to be. Wait, he's hurt now? Um, pass.
Dominant story line: After an especially bad game, coach Mike Babcock skips the bag skate and instead punishes the team by making them break down tape of their own episode.
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The Venn Diagram of Hockey Hatred
There's an old stereotype that hockey fans hate everyone. And like most stereotypes, it's simply not true.
For example, we don't hate Teemu Selanne. And, uh … well, that's pretty much it, actually. Other than Selanne, yeah, we hate basically everyone else.
But we hate some people more than others. And our hate isn't random — it's based on a series of expectations, passed down from generation to generation, that govern how those in the hockey world should behave. Every fan knows them.
They've just never been written down … until now.
Here are the four key reasons a hockey fan would hate someone:
They're overexposed
Hockey players are supposed to blend quietly into the background. Anyone who gets too much attention — whether they asked for it or not — eventually becomes a target.
They just won't be quiet
Much like small children, hockey fans expect our heroes to be seen but not heard. Anyone who makes any noise or (god forbid) actually forms an opinion must be silenced.
They take cheap shots
Hockey has a code. No, nobody has ever seen it or could agree on what it is. But the code is real, and taking a cheap shot violates it. Probably. Sometimes.
They just have one of those faces, you know?
Come on, we all know them when we see them.
Those are the four tenets of hockey hatred. And once you understand them, you can categorize all our hate into one neat diagram. Like this one...
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Labels: avery, bettman, crosby, domi, grantland, hate, pronger, tucker, venn
Brian Burke interviews candidates for the Flames' GM job: The top secret transcript
Scene: Brian Burke's office at the Calgary Flames headquarters. Burke sits behind a large desk across from a single empty chair. Behind him, special assistant Craig Conroy is consulting a clipboard.
Conroy: OK Brian. I did what you asked, and arranged for the very best GM candidates from around the league to meet with you today. We've got a pretty full schedule, so we should probably get started.
Burke: Sounds good. I'm ready.
Conroy: OK, so our first candidate is the one everyone's talking about. Former Flames' superstar, already has GM experience, and he's worked with you in the past.
Burke: Sounds just about perfect. Bring him in.
(Joe Nieuwendyk walks into the room and takes a seat.)
Burke: Welcome, Joe, and thanks for meeting with me.
Nieuwendyk: More than happy to. Thanks for the invite.
Burke: So you're obviously a great fit for this job, but I'd like to hear a little bit about what your plan would be if we do hire you. Tell me, what would be the first thing you'd do if you were the next GM of the Calgary Flames?
Nieuwendyk: I'd be looking to acquire a franchise player. Somebody to build the organization around for the next decade. The next Jarome Iginla, so to speak.
Burke: Sounds great. And you'd acquire him by…
Nieuwendyk: … trading myself for him.
Burke: I see.
Nieuwendyk: Maybe throw in a third-liner to get the deal done. You know how it is.
Burke: I think there may be a slight flaw in your plan, Joe.
Nieuwendyk: Hey, do you know any other way to acquire a guy like Jarome Iginla?
Burke: Well…
Conroy (helpfully): You could kick his butt so badly in the playoffs that he begs you to let him join your team!
Burke: …
Nieuwendyk: (glances over at a copy of the standings)
Conroy: Oh, right. Trading it is, then.
Burke: Thanks Joe. We'll be sure to let you know. Craig, who's next?
Conroy: Our next candidate is an experienced GM who says he's worked with you in Toronto and Vancouver.
Burke: Really? Who?
(Dave Nonis enters the room.)
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Labels: burke, clarkson, conroy, eakins, feaster, ferguson, iginla, lowe, Nieuwendyk, nonis, pronger, top secret transcript
Weekend wrap: Burke returns, the Kings, the Canucks, and everyone's suspended
A look at three of the biggest stories from the NHL weekend and how they'll play into the coming days.
It's Good to be Kings
The Kings came into the weekend as one of the hottest teams in the league, riding a five-game win streak and outscoring their opponents 12-1 over their last three.
On Saturday afternoon, they toyed with the Senators on their way to a 5-2 win, opening the scoring at the 21-second mark and chasing Craig Anderson before the game was five minutes old on their way to a 3-0 first-period lead. The Senators closed to within one before the Kings added a pair of late goals to ice the win.
"We just keep winning. There's a bunch of things going right right now, and we've just got to make sure we stay on top of it," said Jarret Stoll after the game. "Even on this road trip we knew we were maybe getting away with some plays and some situations where they didn't score, and we ended up finding ways to win games."
This is normally the part where I'd touch on all the things the Kings have been doing well, but we have to post this on Monday morning and I'm not sure that gives me enough time to cover everything. So instead, let's cherry-pick a few highlights. A good place to start would probably be, well, their good starts. Saturday's game marked the 18th consecutive contest in which the Kings did not allow a first-period goal.
And then there's the goaltending. The ink had barely dried on all the stories about backup Ben Scrivens being this year's breakout star when along came backup backup Martin Jones to assume the title. He went 5-0-0 with a 0.99 goals-against average and .967 save percentage in the first five games of his career, and he has moved into a platoon with Scrivens for the starter's job. Oh, and L.A. should be getting former All-Star and Conn Smythe winner Jonathan Quick sometime in the new year.
And while that level of goaltending is almost certainly unsustainably high, the Kings are currently shooting just 5.7 percent at even-strength close, which is probably unsustainably low. They're also one of the league's best possession teams. I'd get into some of the other advanced stats indicators but that would involve math and I don't want to anger Darryl Sutter, so let's just say they're almost all positive. This team is good.
"We just have that confidence," Drew Doughty said. "We have that swagger that we had a couple of years ago, and we're having the time of our lives right now." That would be "a couple of years ago" as in the time they cruised to a Stanley Cup, by the way.
So how do you beat these guys? Being the Blackhawks seems to help, at least based on Sunday night's 3-1 Chicago win. The Blackhawks apparently missed the memo about the Kings not giving up goals in the first period, as they poured three past Scrivens en route to a thoroughly dominating win.
The Kings now head back to L.A. for a four-game homestand that will take them to the Christmas break.
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Grab bag: "I'm just not that type of player," says that type of player
In the grab bag: NHL teams being strange for the holidays, the Florida Panthers struggle with the concept of "glass", in defense of Boston Bruins fans, how to tell is a guy is really "that type of player", yet another edition of Don Cherry wildlife story time, and a video breakdown of an old school Leafs/Wings donnybrook.
Labels: burke, cherry, ciccarelli, cole, grab bag, grantland, potvin, thornton
Leafs/Wings 24/7 - Who'll emerge as the star of the series?
he Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings are just weeks away from facing off in this year's Winter Classic in front of 107,000 fans at the Big House, and that's great. The league's annual New Year's Day game has become one of the cooler traditions in sports, even sucking in casual viewers thanks to the sheer spectacle of seeing hockey played in the elements in front of massive crowds.
But hockey fans know that if the Classic is getting close, something even better is right around the corner: 24/7.
Yes, this week we'll finally get to enjoy the return of HBO's behind-the-scenes reality series, which chronicles the event's two teams in the month leading up to the game. This year's four-episode season begins Saturday and runs until January 4.
In the three years since its debut, 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic has become essential viewing for any hockey fan. And from Mike Green's scooter to Bruce Boudreau's facial sauce to Ilya being Ilya, it has proven to be the type of show that can create indelible memories.
So who'll be this year's breakthrough star? It's hard to say, since if history's any guide, it may end up being someone you'd never expect. But here are the 12 players and personalities who I think are the most likely to steal the show.
Pavel Datsyuk
Datsyuk appears to be the current odds-on favorite to emerge as the star. While he has never seemed like an especially outgoing character, teammates say he's funny and engaging once you get to know him. He's already one of the league's most popular players — or at least one of its least-hated — so 24/7 could take him to another level.
And there's a good chance it will; Datsyuk is the perfect candidate to be a reality TV breakout star. He has been an unlikely success story, going undrafted twice before the Wings finally nabbed him with the 171st pick in 1998. He overcame a language and culture barrier to slowly emerge as a star over his first three seasons, then erupted after the 2005 lockout to become one of the league's top scorers. He's a two-way player (he has won three Selkes as best defensive forward) and one of the cleanest competitors (he won the Lady Byng as most gentlemanly player four straight times).
Even his fellow players love him. He was the first overall pick in the most recent All-Star draft, and every player poll basically turns into the "We love Datsyuk" show. If that's not enough, he's also a hell of a dancer. And he tweets pictures of cats.
He has basically become the heir to Teemu Selanne's "player who nobody says anything bad about ever" throne, and unless he spends every moment of his screen time casually forearming baby otters in the throat, he's going to be the star of the series.
Prediction: HBO's high-tech cameras capture Datsyuk's stickhandling in super slow motion, and nine months later, NHL fans are naming their newborn babies "Pavel Jr."
Joffrey Lupul
Other than Datsyuk, this is just about the easiest call of them all. Lupul was pretty much born for this. He can be funny, as demonstrated by his Twitter account. He has a variety of interests, as evidenced by his various forays into the fashion world. And he's not exactly shy in front of a camera, based on his recent experience as a nude model.
The only downside is that Lupul has been hurt recently, which could cut into his camera time in the first episode or two. Of course, the extra down time may have just given him a chance to work on even more material. Besides, if he's healthy enough to get to the makeup chair, I can't see him missing out on the opportunity.
So Lupul's pretty much a lock for a starring role. In fact, once HBO producers get a glimpse of his Zoolander gaze, the only question may be whether they even bother letting any other Leafs on the show.
Prediction: Leafs CEO Tim Leiweke can't figure out why HBO keeps spelling "Jeffrey" wrong.
Labels: 24/7, alfreddson, babcock, bertuzzi, burke, carlyle, datsyuk, grantland, gustavsson, kessel, lupul, phaneuf, reimer, weiss
Five NHL sure things that ended up being huge disappointments
We're just 13 days away from Christmas Eve, and by now you've probably made your requests, dropped all your hints, and written your letter to Santa. Now it's time to sit back and dream of all the cool stuff you're hoping to find under your tree on Christmas morning.
And maybe you'll get everything you hoped for. But let's face it, the odds are against you. Chances are you'll just end up being bitterly disappointed, like always.
Luckily, you're a hockey fan, so you're used to it. History is filled with examples of hockey fans getting excited about something that seemed like a lock to bring joy and happiness, only to be let down in the end. So to help you get in the right frame of mind for the holidays, here are five examples of hockey sure things that turned out to be massive disappointments.
The 1998 Olympics
It's hard to describe the level of excitement that most hockey fans felt heading into the 1998 Winter Olympics. For the first time ever, the NHL was taking a break to allow all the best players to compete. Oh sure, we'd had other best-on-best tournaments, like the Canada Cup and World Cup. But this was the Olympics. There were gold medals on the line.
And once all the world's best players had gathered in Nagano, we were treated to a two-week tournament that featured such memorable moments as …
Um …
Give me a second, I'm sure there was something …
Or maybe not, because once you got past the novelty factor, the 1998 Olympic tournament stunk. And yes, that's probably an indefensibly North America–centric view to take, given that both Canada and the U.S. finished out of the medals. If you're from the Czech Republic, you remember Dominik Hasek leading the country to an unexpected gold medal while cementing his status as the best goaltender in the world, and maybe of all time. If you're Russian, you remember Pavel Bure's five goals in the semifinal. In you're from Finland, you may recall Ville Peltonen's third-period winner in the bronze-medal game.
But the NHL sent its players to the Olympics primarily to drive up interest in the U.S., and from that standpoint, the tournament failed miserably. Team USA, just two years removed from a World Cup win, didn't do anything memorable aside from trashing its hotel. Canada, meanwhile, lost to Hasek and the Czechs in a shootout that's best remembered for coach Marc Crawford using a defenseman instead of Wayne Gretzky.
And even those more successful European teams didn't exactly put on a show. The gold-medal game between the Russians and Czechs was painfully dull, a 1-0 snoozer in which the only goal came on a harmless-looking screened shot from the point. It was a great exclamation point to Hasek's epic games, but as a showcase for the sport of hockey it was a disaster. (For the men, at least. The women's tournament was pretty great.)
North American fans would get their gold-medal showdowns in 2002 and 2010, and even Sweden's win at the 2006 Games was plenty of fun. But the 1998 experience didn't accomplish much of anything, other than reminding hockey fans that the late '90s were incredibly dull.
Labels: daigle, grantland, hasek, roy, vopat
Weekend wrap: Thornton, Neal, Islanders, Jets and more
Another Black Eye
The weekend included plenty of important games and individual highlights. But those won't be the focus today, because as seems to be the case a few times every season, the hockey world is instead left reflecting on yet another scary incident of needless violence.
This time it came in Saturday's game between the Penguins and Bruins. The teams have a long history with each other, and their recent matchups have featured plenty of bad blood. But Saturday's game went well beyond that, and it left both teams facing down injuries and suspensions.
The lowlight was Shawn Thornton's outright assault on Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik midway through the first period. The Bruins tough guy grabbed Orpik from behind, slew-footed him to the ice, then delivered a series of punches to his defenseless opponent. The attack knocked Orpik out cold, and he was eventually stretchered off the ice.
Thornton was targeting Orpik after the Penguins defenseman had KO'd Boston's Loui Eriksson with an open-ice hit on the game's first shift. The hit was a shoulder into the chest and wasn't penalized, though it was hard to tell if Eriksson had actually played the puck prior to contact. Thornton had tried challenging Orpik to fight, and when the invitation was refused he apparently decided he'd just have to jump him.
After the game, an emotional Thornton expressed regret. Earlier in the week, he had told ESPN.com that "People could probably criticize that I'm a little too honorable, I suppose, in some instances … If you're one of those guys that suckers someone when they're down or you go after somebody that doesn't deserve it or isn't the same category as you, that will come back and bite you at some point, too." The quote sounds awful now, but he wasn't necessarily wrong. Thornton has been one of the league's more respected enforcers, in part due to his ability to actually play a little in between fights. That's a reputation he was obviously proud of, but he'll have to rebuild it from scratch.
The Orpik incident wasn't the only ugly moment from a game so vicious that a slash that resulted in a broken ankle was treated as a virtual afterthought. Seconds before Thornton's attack, Penguins winger James Neal appeared to intentionally knee Boston's Brad Marchand in the side of the head while he was down on the ice. Although the result wasn't as significant — Marchand was able to finish the game — you could argue that the act itself was every bit as bad as Thornton's, if not worse. The NHL apparently doesn't see it that way, though, as they've suspended Neal for just five games.
Thornton won't be so lucky. He's been invited to an in-person hearing, meaning he's likely getting the book thrown at him. Anything less than a double-digit suspension would be a surprise, and it will be well deserved despite the usual efforts to blame the victim. (If Oprik had just dropped the gloves, the thinking goes, Thornton wouldn't have had to sucker him.)
In the meantime, prepare for another week's worth of debate over "The Code" and fighting's place in the NHL, with the usual suspects on each side trotting out the same arguments they turn to every time something like this happens. For a league that insists the players can police themselves, the NHL sure gives us all plenty of opportunity to practice this tired dance.
The Bruins held on for a 3-2 win, not that anyone noticed.
Labels: grantland, orpik, thornton, weekend wrapup
Zone entries: What they are, and why they may be more important than you thought
It happens dozens of times in any period of NHL hockey: An attacking player, usually a forward, carries the puck through the neutral zone. As he crosses center ice and bears down on the opposing team's blue line, defenders start to converge on him.
One of several familiar scenes probably plays out next. Maybe he carries the puck across the line. Maybe he fires it in deep. Or maybe he turns it over and they switch direction to do it all again 50 feet away at the other blue line.
For most fans, those moments aren't memorable or even especially interesting. They're just filler — the back-and-forth part of the game that happens in between the important stuff.
But as the hockey world slowly becomes more open to new ways of analyzing and quantifying what happens on the ice, those filler moments have become the focus for a shift in thinking about how teams generate offense. And it turns out that something as common and seemingly innocuous as a puck crossing a blue line may be surprisingly crucial to getting it into the back of the net.
We'll get to why, and what it means. But first, a bit of background.
If a team has possession of the puck in the neutral zone and wants to get it across the other team's blue line and into the offensive zone, it essentially has two choices: control the puck (either by skating with it or passing it across the line to a teammate) or shoot it in deep and chase it.
Each play comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Carrying the puck across the line is more difficult — defensive teams will clog the neutral zone, and defensemen will wait near the blue line to try to poke the puck away. It also carries higher risk; failing means attacking players can get caught out of position as the play turns the other way. But if a team can manage to do it successfully, it gains the zone with possession.
Shooting the puck in is safer. Other than the occasional fluke play where the puck hits someone on the way in, a shoot-in almost always results in the puck going deep. But then comes the hard part: Now you have to go get it, either by reaching the loose puck first or by taking it away from the defensive player who did. That's easier said than done, and often a dump-in ends in a change of possession. But if a team does manage to win back the puck, it will have control deep in the zone and may even be able to manufacture a quick chance off the turnover.
Is one option better than the other? We'll get to that. But first …
Both approaches have been around for years, though the way coaches use them has evolved. The North American game has often favored the dump-and-chase, and has attached a kind of workmanlike ethos to it. Keep it simple. Dump it in, skate hard after it, bang and crash, and good things will happen. Don't go getting fancy.
That became especially true in the '90s, when variations of the neutral-zone trap began to infest the league. When executed well, the trap made it almost impossible to carry the puck through the neutral zone, let alone across the blue line. And in a league that had abandoned enforcing its own rules against obstruction fouls, the trap was usually executed very well indeed.
The end of the 2004-05 lockout brought several rule changes, one of which was meant to hamper the trap. The league eliminated the two-line pass rule, meaning teams could send the puck from their own zone to the other team's blue line with one pass. But while that did make the trap tougher to execute, two other rule changes combined to make the dump-and-chase an even more effective strategy.
First, the league added the trapezoid behind the net. That prevented strong puck-handling goalies like Martin Brodeur from acting as a third defenseman, retrieving the puck and firing it right back out before the attacking team could reach it.
And the league also decided to finally start calling obstruction again, which included an emphasis on defensemen holding up forecheckers. It used to be expected that one defenseman would race back for the puck while his partner ran a little interference on the attacking forwards. Nothing too flagrant, but a little pick here or a straight-arm there was part of the job. The NHL put a stop to that, which meant any defender who went back to gather a dump-in could now expect an opposing forward to be bearing down on him at full speed.
So, despite the game becoming faster and more wide-open after the lockout, dump-and-chase remained the strategy of choice for most teams. Which brings us back to the present day …
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Grab bag: No limts
In this week's grab bag: Albert arrives, Don Cherry won't leave, and the worst CBC montage ever.
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A brief history of NHL coaches behaving badly
It's been a rough week for coaches in the world of professional sports. In the NBA, one was fined $50,000 for spilling a drink on the court to get a free timeout. In the NFL, the league is investigating a coach for stepping onto the field and interfering with a play.
By contrast, the NHL hasn't had to fine any coaches in months [everyone warily eyes Patrick Roy]. Then again, it's not as if the league can exactly gloat about how well mannered its coaches are. In fact, the league has a long history of meltdowns, tantrums, assaults, and flat-out cheating behind the bench. Here are 10 such notable incidents from NHL history.
Iron Mike Tries to Fight the Timekeeper
So Mike Tomlin might get fined for briefly stepping onto the field? Big deal. In the NHL, coaches charge onto the ice to try to pummel the official timekeeper.
Well, OK, not all coaches. Actually, only one: Mike Keenan, who attempted the feat back in 1990.
Keenan was upset over a disallowed goal, or perhaps simply mesmerized by that red-sweatered fan with the mullet and parachute pants. In either case, I think we can all agree that when Stu Grimson and Eddie Belfour are trying to calm you down, you may have taken things too far.
Jacques Demers: Change We Can Believe In
Littering the playing surface to get a free timeout? Nice idea, Jason Kidd. But as @geoffdes78 reminded me, Jacques Demers beat you to it by roughly 27 years.
Back in the first round of the 1986 playoffs, Demers and his St. Louis Blues were facing Minnesota in a hard-fought series. Three games in, North Stars general manager Lou Nanne leveled a stunning accusation: In each game, Demers had thrown coins onto the ice in an attempt to create a delay and rest his players.
Demers, being a man of unflinching integrity, quickly set the record straight: He'd only done it in one of the games, not three. "I just happened to be an honest person who didn't deny it," he told reporters.
That's a good quote, but not the best line to come out of the incident. That was from Nanne, who said he assumed Demers was throwing pennies because "nickels would cost him too much."
Demers didn't end up having to spend any of his nickels on a fine; the league let him off with a warning.
Labels: demers, grantland, keenan
Weekend wrap: The inevitable crash-and-burn of the Toronto Maple Leafs
The Stats Guys Are Happy, So the Leafs Must be Losing
Early in the season, we presented the 2013-14 Toronto Maple Leafs as the canary in the advanced-stats mine shaft — the ultimate test case of everything that hockey's wave of new metrics and data-based analytics thought it knew about what drives success. We've learned the numbers point to the critical importance of possession. Teams that control the puck — and use that control to direct a lot of shots at the net — usually win. Teams that can't do it usually lose.
But occasionally we see a short-term outlier, and last year's Toronto team was one. The stats guys said they couldn't keep winning that way. The Maple Leafs insisted that they could. And over the season's first few weeks, it looked like Toronto was going to pull it off once again. Leafs fans rejoiced. Old-school media gloated. Celebratory T-shirts were, literally, printed up.
Those days suddenly feel like a very long time ago. The Toronto Maple Leafs are in a free fall.
Last Monday, the Leafs were humiliated by the Blue Jackets on their home ice, dropping a 6-0 decision. On Wednesday in Pittsburgh, they suffered the embarrassment of failing to get so much as a single shot after the second intermission. On Friday, they faced the dead-last Sabres in a battle of the two worst possession teams of the advanced stats era and lost again.
Saturday night brought yet another defeat, this time to the Canadiens. Montreal jumped out to a 4-0 second-period lead before a pair of Leafs goals made the final respectable, but this one was never really in doubt.
Leafs fans won't want to hear it, but the math is actually pretty simple: If they can't fix their shot clock issues, the Leafs will need historically good goaltending to win. They were getting that early on, and it helped them start the season 6-1-0. But in recent games, with James Reimer and Jonathan Bernier looking merely good instead of excellent, the Leafs seem overwhelmed. In their last 20, they've been under .500 at 8-9-3. They can't score anymore. The defensive system is a mess. The coach sounds like he's out of answers. And the season is slipping away from them.
Or maybe not. This could just be a cold streak, after all, the kind that every team hits at least once or twice over a long season. It's worth remembering that while the Leafs have dropped from the top of the Atlantic down to wild-card status, they're still four points up on the ninth spot. Plenty of teams would love to trade places with them.
So that's the good news. The bad news is that the December schedule is absolutely brutal, including several games with the top Western Conference teams that the Leafs have mostly avoided so far. If they're going to turn their season around, they'll need to do it against the league's best.
Oh, and this is the month that the HBO cameras show up. No pressure, guys.
Labels: canucks, grantland, leafs, senators, weekend wrapup
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Dropbox Gets Exclusive Real Estate on Microsoft Office Apps
by Parul Ritvik SoodNovember 26, 2014
Couple of weeks ago, Microsoft and Dropbox announced the plan to integrate Office and Dropbox within their web and mobile apps. The feature is now available in its latest app updates for iOS and Android. The move has come as a great surprise for Office users as they can access and edit Office documents from within the Dropbox.
Along with the ability to edit documents right from the Dropbox, users can also access Dropbox from Office apps and share new or edited files from the Office apps using Dropbox's Share functionality. Dropbox has instructions on how to use the new integration with Microsoft's Office apps on its website.
To get started, make sure your Dropbox app is up to date on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, then open any Office doc, spreadsheet, or presentation in your Dropbox. Tap the new Edit icon (shown above) to start editing in the latest Office apps. When you're done, your changes will be saved back to Dropbox automatically.
Under the partnership, Dropbox gets a prime space that is used by more than a billion people, and the potential to make an even bigger name for itself particularly in the business enterprises. Notably, Microsoft has its own cloud service called OneDrive which will co-exist with Dropbox in the Office for iPad apps, letting users natively browse, open and edit Office documents uploaded on the Dropbox directly within the app.
You can get the new features through the latest Dropbox app for iOS starting today and the latest versions of Microsoft's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Office apps. The integration is also expected to arrive for web users early next year.
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Louisiana Senate to vote on bill raising age to buy some guns to 21
Sponsored by state Sen. Troy Carter, seen at the mic, SB 274 would put a broad class of guns off-limits to a segment of adults under age 21. (Photo: Sen. Carter, Facebook)
A measure advanced out of committee this week would put many popular semi-auto firearms out of the reach of those 18-to-20 in Louisiana.
The bill, SB 274, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and heads to the chamber's floor for a vote as early as this week. Sponsored by state Sen. Troy Carter, it would put many guns off-limits to a segment of adults in the state based on age. Carter said he is a gun enthusiast and that his bill doesn't take away anyone's gun rights. What it does, he contends, is take away "assault rifles" from those under age 21.
"The type of rifle that was used in the killing most recently in Florida," said Carter, a New Orleans Democrat. "The type of rifle that was used at Las Vegas, where you have these AR-15s, AR-16s, UZIs and AK47s, those weapons of mass destruction."
However, the bill's language as proposed is fairly sweeping as to what it classifies as an "assault weapon" to include any pistol or rifle with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds, any shotgun with a detachable magazine or revolving cylinder, and almost any gun with a combination of features such as a detachable magazine and barrel shroud or threaded barrel. Under Carter's proposal, such innocuous rifles as a Marlin Model 60 .22LR would be listed as an assault weapon as would a Mossberg bolt-action shotgun with a detachable magazine, both guns common to hunters in The Sportsman's Paradise.
It should be noted that these types of firearms are rarely used in crime in the state — of Louisiana's 543 homicides in 2016, just 26 involved rifles of all sorts and seven were tied to shotguns, according to FBI statistics. Handguns, used in most of the homicides in the state, are already off-limits to those under 21 by federal law, but that hasn't stopped teenaged criminals from acquiring them. One of the most prolific murderers in recent state history was Gregory Stewart, a New Orleans drug dealer who pleaded guilty to a host of federal charges in 2014. Stewart confessed to more than a dozen murders starting at age 18, and among his favorite guns was an illegally acquired Glock .40-caliber pistol he dubbed "Barack."
At the same time, Louisiana conservation authorities sold more than 300 "student" hunting licenses in 2017 to non-resident high school and college students alone, a group, along with resident hunters in the same class, likely to be impacted by Carter's bill.
"This legislation is demeaning to Louisiana's young adults who are otherwise allowed to vote, join the military, and exercise every other constitutionally guaranteed right," said the National Rifle Association in an alert opposing the measure.
Further, gun dealers could be under criminal liability under the proposal, as selling a restricted gun to an adult under age 21 could be fined up to $1,000 and result in a year in jail.