Craig Leipold's sale of the National Hockey League's Predators to a Nashville coalition of local business operators was officially completed on Friday.
The local ownership group paid out $193 million US for the team and will immediately take over the day-to-day operation of the Predators and their home arena, the Sommet Center.
"On behalf of the ownership group, we are thrilled to complete the sale," said David Freeman, chairman of Predators Holdings LLC. "We look forward to contributing to the Predators' success on and off the ice and solidifying the franchise's future in Nashville."
The NHL's Board of Governors officially approved the sale last Thursday. Freeman will serve as the group's lead, as he had in negotiations, and will also act as chairman and governor, while William "Boots" Del Biaggio and Herb Fritch will serve as an alternate governor.
Predators Holdings LLC includes local executives in finance, health care and private business. Members include: Freeman, Del Biaggio, Fritch, Christopher Cigarran, Thomas Cigarran, Joel and Holly Dobberpuhl, DeWitt Thompson V, John Thompson and Warren Woo.
"Our immediate next steps will be to provide necessary direction to the team's staff while assessing opportunities to grow the Predators' fan base and development," added Freeman.
Hell Yea! See you at the Red Wings game on Monday!
Businesses have email, teenagers have MySpace, video lovers have YouTube. If you're a hacker, though, your "net" is Internet Relay Chat -- sort of a techie version of IM that allows many anonymous users to talk to each other simultaneously.
Hackers favor IRC because it allows them to protect their identities and cover their tracks. But a new search engine startup called IRSeek is now calling those features into question.
According to a report, IRSeek is attempting to build an IRC search engine, which would enable users to find topics of interest or do a recursive search through old chats.
In order to build the search engine, though, IRSeek is indexing more than 6 million IRC conversations a day, effectively "listening" to more than 2,000 channels across 10 networks, the report says. IRSeek's Website doesn't confirm these numbers, but it does show what the organization is doing with IRC search.
This could all be bad news for hackers, who don't want their conversations indexed or searchable by nickname. While they could partially beat the system by simply changing their nicknames frequently, hackers may eventually feel that IRSeek threatens their anonymity, and ultimately, their privacy.
— Tim Wilson, Site Editor, Dark Reading
This has happened for years already, no big news...
It's hard to know what to make of Leslie Hall as she gyrates in her trademark skin-tight, gold jumpsuit, sporting a bouffant coiffure and a deadpan expression.
The 26-year-old Iowan has created her own niche online as a ferocious rapper, talented producer and dedicated sweater curator. Her Napoleon Dynamite-esque, rhinestone-bedazzled online empire has attracted a loyal cult following.
"The internet is awesome. It's beautiful," Hall says. "My last song was a megabomb hit. I put my beats in your face, and people love it. --
OMFG! This is so bad I just had to pass the torture on... The fed needs to use this instead of water boarding...
Just wanted to let everyone know that next week the Micro Trak 300 from Byonics will be going to space on the KySat Space Express Mission.
KySat Space Express is a rapid turn around, suborbital access to space experiment. The Space Express mission was designed to help test subsystems and processes being developed for future orbital KySat missions. A primary goal of the KySat Consortium is to facilitate inexpensive and rapid access to space for small payloads. The Space Express mission will launch from the White Sands Missile Range on a Lunar Rocket and Rover Shadow 1B launch system.
Here is some brief information regarding the Space Express Mission: Overview: - Total of 4 mins mission time (roughly 2 mins up and 2 mins down) - Expected 47 G's of acceleration at launch - Rocket will burn for 2.1 seconds reaching roughly 1.5 km (5000 ft) - Payload will separate from rocket at 2.1 seconds and coast to a final altitude of roughly 140 km (90 mi) (KySat1 will orbit around 400-600 km (250-375mi) )
- KySat Space Express Payload weighs less than 1 pound
Telemetry Gathered: - 2 Temperature Sensors (one at nose cone end of the payload, other at tail end of the payload) - 2 Axis Acceleration (axis of thrust, and left and right if thrust is vertical) - Pressure Sensor (should see 0 psi in space) - Mission Time
All Telemetry will be sent over amateur ham radio band (VHF: 144.39 MHz) to ground station similar to what will be using for the "playground station" for tracking KySat1.
The launch is scheduled for Wednesday Dec 5 1:30 pm.
You can learn more about KySat at the following link: www.kysat.com
You can learn more information about the Space Express mission at this link: http://www.kysat.com/?165
If anyone has any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks
Tyler KI4YLJ
Tyler J Doering Graduate Research Assistant Tyler.Doering@gmail.com (859) 630-0470
Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Kentucky 571 FP Anderson Tower Lexington, KY 40506
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed / Stein has lost it?
Topic: Miscellaneous
7:56 am EST, Nov 28, 2007
It’s a movie that Ferris Bueller would take the day off to go see. What freedom-loving student wouldn’t be outraged to discover that his high school science teacher is teaching a theory as indisputable fact, and that university professors unmercifully crush any fellow scientists who dare question the prevailing system of belief? This isn’t the latest Hollywood comedy; it’s a disturbing new documentary that will shock anyone who thinks all scientists are free to follow the evidence wherever it may lead.
Produced by Premise Media, Expelled, which will be in theaters February, 2008, is being marketed by Motive Entertainment, the company that has spearheaded significant Hollywood blockbusters, including The Passion of the Christ, Polar Express and The Chronicles of Narnia. Rocky Mountain Pictures, an established distribution company, which has enjoyed numerous box-office successes, will distribute the film.
Ben Stein, the lovable, monotone teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Wonder Years is on a journey to answer one of the biggest questions ever asked: Were we designed or are we simply the end result of an ancient mud puddle struck by lightning? Stein, who is also a lawyer, an economist, a former presidential speechwriter, author and social commentator, is stunned by what he finds on his journey. He discovers an elitist scientific establishment that has traded in its skepticism for dogma. But even worse, along the way, Stein uncovers a long line of biologists, astronomers, chemists and philosophers who have had their reputations destroyed and their careers ruined by a scientific establishment that allows absolutely no dissent from Charles Darwin’s theory of random mutation and natural selection.
“Big Science in this area of biology has lost its way,” says Stein. “Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, no matter what the implications are. Freedom of inquiry has been greatly compromised, and this is not only anti-American, it’s anti-science. Its anti-the whole concept of learning.”
Expelled uncovers that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired in some cases for the fact that they believe there is evidence of “design” in nature, challenging the idea that life is a result of random chance. For example, Stein meets Richard Sternberg, a double PhD biologist who allowed a peer-reviewed research paper describing the evidence for intelligence in the universe to be published in the scientific journal Proceedings. Not long after publication, officials from the National Center for Science Education and the Smithsonian Institution where Sternberg was a research fellow began a coordinated smear and intimidation campaign to get the promising young scientist expelled from his position. This attack on scientific freedom was so egregious that it prompted a congressional investigation.
I hate when things get in the way of my breasts. Name tags, bibs, shirts -- all verboten. And when a network tries to cover a woman's bosom with chyrons, it takes an heroic company like FOX News Channel to say "No. No, we won't succumb to this anti-cleavage crusade. We will stand up and take the chyrons down."
A holiday shopping flier that's been distributed to thousands of households in north Texas is creating controversy because a message of hate is included within an advertisement.
Anti-Semitic Hanukah AdAn ad for "Party City" was supposed to highlight a sale on Hanukkah items, but it also contained a hateful anti-Semitic message.
The advertisement includes the sentence "CC Hates the Jews" in large, bold letters. sponsor
According to ADVO, the company that printed the advertisement, a graphic artist working on the ad had left his desk for a moment, and a co-worker with the initials C.C. changed the text on the ad.
*old news* I learned how to proof in newspaper class in high school.. I guess they did not... Guess no one really proofs anything... haha
A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place.
Sgt Podge, a Norwegian Forest Cat, disappears from his owner's home in Talbot Woods, Bournemouth, every night.
The next morning, the 12-year-old cat can always be found in exactly the same place, on a pavement about one and a half miles (2.4km) away.
His owner, Liz Bullard, takes her son to school before collecting Sgt Podge.
She said the routine began earlier this year, when Sgt Podge disappeared one day.
Ms Bullard rang the RSPCA and began telephoning her neighbours to see if anyone had seen him.
An elderly woman who lived about one and a half miles away called back to say she had found a cat matching Sgt Podge's description.
Ms Bullard collected him but within days he vanished again. She rang the elderly woman to find Sgt Podge was back outside her home.
She said a routine has now become established, where each morning she takes her son to school before driving to collect Sgt Podge from the pavement between 0800 and 0815 GMT.
It is thought Sgt Podge walks across Meyrick Park Golf Course every night to reach his destination.
Ms Bullard said: "If it's raining he may be in the bush but he comes running if I clap my hands."
All she has to do is open the car passenger door from the inside for Sgt Podge to jump in.
Wandering the streets
Ms Bullard also makes the trip at weekends and during school holidays - when her son is having a lie in.
She does not know why, after 12 years, Sgt Podge has begun the routine but explained that another woman who lived nearby used to feed him sardines, and that he may be on the look-out for more treats.
"As long as you know where they are you don't mind as a cat owner," Ms Bullard said.
"I know where to collect him - as long as he's not wandering the streets."
Back at home, Sgt Podge has breakfast before going to sleep by a warm radiator.
Computer giant IBM continues to dominate the list - which is compiled twice a year - with a total of 232 out of the top 500 supercomputers.
Its Blue Gene/L supercomputer - used to ensure the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable - comes out at number one.
The Indian system - known as EKA - made it into fourth place.
The world's fastest supercomputer - BlueGene/L - has been significantly upgraded in the last six months.
It can now deliver a sustained performance of 478 trillion calculations per second (478 teraflops), nearly three times faster than any other machine on the list.
