The U.S. Men’s National Team will play Sweden on Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. (EDT) at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine. The game will be Team USA’s lone tune-up prior to playing in the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Halifax and Quebec City, Canada, which begins on May 2.
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I stumbled on this article on makeuseof.com about five web services that offer you one degree of separation between web services and your personal identity. Very useful stuff.In summary:
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My friend Valerie brought this hilarious short film to my attention today. A sad but true commentary on the state of courtship in the age of the internet.
Two new planets are discovered: “WASHINGTON - Researchers have discovered two planets in a solar system 5,000 light years away that appears to be structured in some important ways like our own.”
(Via Boston.com — Science news.)
Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce laid out a plan for what Blizzard is considering if they port World of Warcraft to mobile devices.
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Its a terrible plane crash occured in Feb 1 near August, Maine’s airport, killing all aboard. Apparently, the pilot/operator was one of the wealthiest women in the world, but made some of the poorest decisions possible during her pre-flight. Among other things, she co-founded Zhone Technologies and Ascend Communications, Inc., which was subsequently purchased by Lucent Technologies.
The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Tuesday on the plane crash that killed two people in West Gardiner earlier this month.
Pilot Jeanette Symons and her 10-year-old son died in the crash, shortly after taking off from Augusta in freezing rain.
The NTSB report does not give a specific cause for the crash, but lists a number of pilot errors that preceded it.
While taxiing to the runway, the plane got stuck in a ditch. The pilot then gave the wrong runway number to the control tower.
Minutes after takeoff, the pilot declared an emergency.
An eyewitness says he saw a plane fly low overhead, then heard a big explosion in the distance. Rescuers found the wreckage a short time later.
On February 01, 2008, about 1748 eastern standard time, a Cessna Citation 525, N102PT, crashed in a wooded area in West Gardiner, Maine. The private/instrument-rated pilot and one passenger received fatal injuries; the airplane was destroyed. The flight was operated by a private individual under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed for a flight from Augusta, Maine to Lincoln, Nebraska. The flight had originated from the Augusta State Airport, about 1745.
Representatives of the fixed base operator (FBO) at Augusta State Airport stated that the airplane was fueled and moved from the ramp into the FBO’s hangar earlier that morning at the pilot’s request. However, the hanger is utilized by a part 121 operator that provides service for that area. The operator canceled its 1630 flight due to the weather condition. The Citation was taken out of the hangar moved back to the ramp area at about that time. The pilot was informed of this possibility at time of the request and understand the other customer had priority over the hangar space.
A person identifying herself as the pilot of N102PT called flight service at about 1701 to file an instrument flight plan from Augusta, Maine to Lincoln, Nebraska, The pilot received a standard weather briefing for the flight at that time. Witnesses stated that the pilot arrived at the airport at about 1715, at which time she and the passenger loaded their personnel effects into the airplane, returned a rental car, and paid for the fuel. She and the passenger then boarded the airplane. Shortly after, about 1730, the airplane’s engines were started and soon after the airplane was observed taxing. The FBO representative heard the pilot’s announcements over the radio in the FBO. He also noticed the airplane was not on the taxiway but rather on the grass area on the south side of the asphalt taxiway. At that time the ground was covered with snow and ice. For the past hour and half the weather condition had turned from light snow to freezing rain and ice was observed covering the cars in the parking lot. The FBO representative noted the pilot did not turn on the airports taxi and runways light via the common airport frequency radio channel. It was observed that the airplane traveled through a ditch, which was cover with ice and snow. At about that time the airplane’s engines were heard at a high rate of power. It was later discovered that the airplane’s left main tire broke through the ice and become stuck in the ditch. The airplane continued on the grass area after the high engine power was heard. The FBO representative heard the pilot announced the wrong runway (runway 35) which they were planning to depart from. The FBO representative turned on the runway and taxi lights after hearing the incorrect runway announcement. The pilot later announced a change of departing from runway 35 to runway 17, while the airplane was observed back taxing on runway 26 onto taxiway “C” Charlie. At about 1745 the announcement for departure from runway 17 was heard; the FBO representative observed the departure at that time.
After takeoff the pilot contacted Air Traffic Controller (ATC) and reported that they were at 1,000 feet for 10,000. ATC requested to the pilot to squawk ident on the transponder. Radar contact was made with the airplane when it was about 2 mile southwest of the Augusta State Airport. About one minute later, the pilot declared an emergency and stated “We’ve got an attitude indicator failure”. About seven seconds later. The pilot announced over the frequency they were not certain which way they were turning. Radar contact was last shortly after that.
At about 1749, local authorities received several 911 calls from residents reporting of a possible airplane crash. A short time later the airplane wreckage was located about 6 miles south-southwest of the Augusta State Airport. One witness stated to local law enforcement authorities he saw an airplane fly overhead at a low altitude and moments later observed a large explosion off in the distance.
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BOSTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) — Five modifiable factors can give a 70-year-old man a 54 percent probability of living to age 90, U.S. researchers found.
The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, also found five factors that add up to an unhealthy lifestyle, which reduces that probability to 4 percent.
“Smoking, diabetes, obesity and hypertension significantly reduced the likelihood of a 90-year life span, while regular vigorous exercise substantially improved it,” the study authors said in a statement. “Furthermore, men with a life span of 90 or more years also had better physical function, mental well-being and self-perceived health in late life compared with men who died at a younger age. Adverse factors associated with reduced longevity — smoking, obesity and sedentary lifestyle — also were significantly associated with poorer functional status in elderly years.”
Dr. Laurel Yates of Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston and colleagues studied a group of 2,357 men — with an average age of 72 — who were participants in the Physician’s Health Study beginning in 1981 to 1984. Of these, 970 men lived to age 90 by the time the study ended in 2006.
The researchers found the probability of living to age 90 was reduced 44 percent by a sedentary lifestyle, 36 percent by high blood pressure, 26 percent by obesity and 22 percent by smoking. Having three factors together — such as sedentary lifestyle, obesity and diabetes — reduced the probability of living to age 90 to 14 percent.
From UPI
Spore in stores September 7, 2008
Here it is folks, our first word from EA — and damned if it doesn’t look solid! September 7, 2008 is the date Spore will be in stores.Sooooo stoked!