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Comets Fans Make Final Two Games Special

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April 21, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) Utica Comets Had someone walked into The AUD for the first time this past Friday or Saturday evening, they would've garnered quite the first impression. A sold out crowd that was buzzing with anticipation as the regular season came to a close.

The diehards who have visited the building all season, however, knew that the Comets were eliminated from playoff contention on Wednesday. But as those that showed this weekend, they really didn't seem to care.

The loudest arena in the AHL proved to be just that, even in games that had no implications in the standings. Even when it would've been understandable otherwise, The AUD answered the bell one last time.

Everything began on Friday evening for Fan Appreciation Night, as the "Comeback Comets" skated to a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Marlies. Puck drop wasn't scheduled until 7:00 p.m. but the fans were lined up at the box office and around the corner and onto Whitesboro Street as early as three hours before, with one of the season's top giveaways as the prize on hand.

Darren Archibald has become known for making opponents bobble with his thunderous hits, but on Friday evening he did some bobbling of his own, as the Comets' inaugural bobblehead giveaway. 1,000 lucky fans went home with the fine collectable, but it was far from the only thing they would be going home with.

Five lucky sections were chosen at random and received giveaways throughout the game, with the prizes ranging from team yearbooks to a set of player trading cards. In addition, each of the 3,815 raging Comets fans in attendance received a copy of the 2013-14 team photo as they exited the building.

Saturday evening marked the culmination of the successful first season the Comets have produced in the AHL's return to Utica. The victory over the visiting Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was a bit of icing on the cake to the season, but the real story was what happened in the stands, rather than on the ice.

The AUD was simply electric on Saturday. As (PA Announcer) Tom Coyne announced the final minute of play, for the final time of the 2013-14 season, everyone in attendance stood to applaud. And for the entirety of that minute, there wasn't a single person who returned to their seat.

"It was special, that's really the best word to use," Head Coach Travis Green said after the game. "As a coach you're still worried about winning the hockey game, but it's been this way all year with this crowd."

The roars just never seemed to stop. They only increased in volume with an altercation in the corner, with Brandon DeFazio picking up the final penalty of the season. The crowd made sure the visitors knew where they were playing, as chants of "U-TI-CA" filled The AUD. And as the final buzzer sounded, the arena erupted and shook.

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'Nomadic retirees' travel the world

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The Martins' tone may be lighthearted, but their message is serious. "Our big mantra is 'postpone nothing,'" said Tim. Anytime is a good time to travel, "as long as you are healthy," which can be unpredictable as people age, he said, "so postponing is a mistake."

The couple also stresses the importance of making practical decisions.

"We didn't spend all of the money from the sale of a house traveling around the world. That's not what we're doing," Tim said. "We still live on the same stipend as we did before we sold the house. Nothing has changed. We are being fiscally conservative," he said, budgeting carefully and working closely with a financial adviser.

It hasn't all been easy. In Buenos Aires, for example, detailed in chapter four of the book, Lynne recounts problems that made them leave early. "It made us question our tolerance and flexibility, and if we were able to live this life," she said. There were mistakes along the way, too, but they were learning experiences. When they started out, there was no blueprint or road map, and they relied on trial and error. "Everything has been valuable," she said.

After the book promotion, the couple will head to Paris for a few months, beginning in June, followed by a visit to family in California in September. October will find them back in San Miguel de Allende, where their travels began nearly four years ago, and then off to Ecuador. In 2015, they plan a big trip to South Asia. They plan to travel to less challenging locations, like within the U.S., as they age.

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"It's isn't all pretty, but it's all been rewarding," Tim said, noting that their richest experiences have been personal encounters along the way. "It always comes down to people."

"This has been quite a journey," Lynne said. "It's been fun. It's been really fun."

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Celebrating spirituality through art

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THERE are indeed a thousand and one ways to celebrate one's relationship with God.

Take for instance "The Masterpiece: A Spiritual and Religious Exhibition" at the Museo Diocesano de Bacolod at the San Sebastian Cathedral Rectory.

Featuring the works of 13 Negrense artists, the exhibit "celebrates spirituality not only in a conventional way but as well as in an experimental nature of contemporary artists expressing their spirituality, finding the Sacred in nature and in ordinary objects."

It showcases the works of Rafael Paderna, Rodney Martinez, Corazon "Sonny" Golez, Dolly Gatuslao, Nunistell Mae Fulo-Lee, Fred Juson, Moreen Austria, Romeliz Valenciano Sr., Ritchie Arvin Cuesta, Ma. Fe Sumagaysay-Cuesta, Ian Valladarez, and Me An Mangante.

The exhibit opened last week, on April 14, in time for the Holy Week. It is the first religious art exhibit hosted by the Museo Diocesano de Bacolod, located at the third floor of the San Sebastian Rectory.

The artworks promote spiritual consciousness to the public which is very timely for the Lenten season.

Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra said during the opening ceremonies, "The exhibit helps us see that art can serve the faith and train people's lives towards God and towards something moral."

The exhibit does not only portray different religious artworks but it also reflects the faith of the people. One of the artists, Dolly Gatuslao, shared how she became fond of painting and collecting religious paintings.

When she was young, she would love to watch paintings with faces of Jesus and Mother Mary and that motivates her to paint religious images.

The exhibit will run until April 30. Museo Diocesano de Bacolod is open daily except Monday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Lightsabers and dino bones: Weirdest stuff ever launched into space

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Soda cans retrofitted for pouring in microgravity, a baby dinosaur bone and human ashes are among the strange things that have traveled into space aboard U.S. space shuttles.

Cans of Coca Cola and Pepsi were on the same July 1985 flight, STS-51F, according to The Richest.com. Coke started the idea, with an interest in the effects of space flight on taste, and then Pepsi jumped onboard, the website stated.

Specially modified cans of both cola brands were on the shuttle, with their own line item in the schedule: Carbonated beverage container evaluation, according to a 45-page press kit.

The baby dinosaur bone, the first to fly in space, was on the same Challenger flight as the soda cans, which launched July 29, 1985. The bone rode along at the suggestion of scientists from Montana State University, a Johnson Space Center representative said Monday.

More recently, on a June 2010 flight of a Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft, U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker wore a watch that belonged to Amelia Earhart, therichest.com reported. Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared in July 1937 over the Pacific.

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NASA's MMS observatories stacked for testing

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8 hours ago by Susan Hendrix All four stacked Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, spacecraft with solar arrays are ready to move to the vibration chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where they will undergo environmental tests. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

(Phys.org) Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., accomplished another first. Using a large overhead crane, they mated two Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories also called mini-stacksat a time, to construct a full four-stack of observatories.

Next, the MMS four-stack will be carefully transported from their Goddard cleanroom to a special vibration facilityhoused within the same immense integration and testing facilitywhere they will be secured to a large shaking table and subjected to vibration tests. These tests help to ensure the structural integrity of the stacked spacecraft prior to shipment to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

The vibration tests determine whether the four MMS spacecraft can withstand the extreme vibration and dynamic loads they will experience inside the fairing of the Atlas V launch vehicle on launch day. It's during the first moments after lift-off that the spacecraft is exposed to the most stress.

The MMS mission consists of four spacecraft outfitted with identical instruments. The mission will fly through near-Earth space to study how the sun and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This process is called magnetic reconnection and occurs throughout all space.

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MMS is a Solar Terrestrial Probes Program, or STP, mission within NASA's Heliophysics Division. STP program missions improve our understanding of fundamental physical processes in the space environment from the sun to Earth, to other planets, and to the extremes of the solar system boundary. Goddard is building the MMS spacecraft and the Fast Plasma Instrument for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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Actor John Corbett and XCOR Aerospace Garner Nearly Quarter Million Dollars at Celebrity Fight Night

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Actor John Corbett is better known for his roles in movies and popular TV shows such as Northern Exposure, Sex in The City and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but last Saturday, he was shooting for the stars to help knock out Parkinson's disease by auctioning off a space flight with XCOR Aerospace to benefit Muhammad Ali's Parkinson's Research Center.

At the 20th Anniversary of Celebrity Fight Night's gala fundraiser, Mr. Corbett joined other entertainment industry luminaries such as Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal, Michael Buble, Reba McEntire and Kenny Rogers to raise $8+ Million for Muhammad Ali's Parkinson's Research Center at the Barrow Neurological Institute, Saint Joseph's Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona and other deserving charities.

On the live auction stage Mr. Corbett and former Space Shuttle Pilot, Commander and XCOR Chief Test Pilot, Rick Searfoss were able to bring in a quarter million dollars for Parkinson's and related charities by selling a very special XCOR Lynx space flight package. The flight package includes a space flight training at Air Combat USA of Fullerton, California, a space suit fitting and an actual space flight experience onboard the XCOR Lynx, a two-seat fully reusable suborbital spacecraft. Searfoss will pilottwo separate missions to the edge of space onboard Lynx, one with the auction winner and one with John Corbett.

Searfoss noted that "as someone who has personally witnessed Parkinson's through those close to me, I could not be more pleased to be able to contribute time to such a great foundation. And auctioning the flight onstage with John, well, I feel like I've already piloted the flight!"

In addition to his well-known roles in film and TV, John Corbett is a successful country musician. His self-titled debut country album climbed to number 42 on Billboard's Country Albums chart. "This could not be for a more worthy cause, and it was an honor to be a part of it with Rick. As a child who was inspired by the Apollo program, I would never have dreamed that the experience of space would be so close at hand--until I connected with XCOR. To be standing at the threshold of an actual space flight is almost more than I can imagine."

Searfoss noted that each XCOR Lynx flight is "all of the experiences I had flying the Shuttle, all those phases of flight: the boost, the weightlessness." But the best part, he added, "is the fact that you're up in a pilot seat, with me, as opposed to being in the back like a passenger on an airliner. It's really a 'Right Stuff' experience. And I couldn't be more excited to share the opportunity for this experience with John and the winning bidder."

XCOR Retail Sales Director Greg Claxton added he "couldn't be more pleased with the results. What is truly out of this world is that we have the opportunity to be part of such a meaningful event. We look forward to continuing the adventure and contributing further to many more worthwhile causes in the very near future."

XCOR Aerospace: XCOR Aerospace is based in Mojave, California. It is currently creating a Research and Development Center in Midland, Texas, and will be establishing an operational and manufacturing site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. XCOR builds safe, reliable and reusable rocket-powered vehicles, propulsion systems, advanced non-flammable composites and rocket piston pumps. XCOR works with aerospace prime contractors and government customers on major propulsion systems, while also building Lynx. Lynx is a piloted, two-seat, fully reusable liquid rocket-powered vehicle that takes off and lands horizontally. The Lynx family of vehicles serves three primary missions depending on their specific type including: research and scientific missions, private spaceflight and micro satellite launch (only on the Lynx Mark III). Lynx production models (designated Lynx Mark II) are designed to be robust, multi-mission (research/scientific or private spaceflight) commercial vehicles capable of flying to 100+ km in altitude, up to four times per day. Lynx vehicles are available to customers in the free world on a wet lease basis to start their own manned space flight program. Learn more at http://www.xcor.com.

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Space station astronauts get a 'Dragon' for Easter

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After a two day trip, a SpaceX cargo mission carrying resupply items includinga robotic astronaut's legs, microbes gathered by cheerleaders, and lettuce seedlings arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday.

On Sunday, the crew aboard the International Space Station received a unique Easter gift: a cargo ship carrying about 2.5 tons of resupply items, includinga pair of robotic legs, microbes gathered by cheerleaders, and lettuce seedlings. The supplies will support more than 150 scientific investigations planned for Expeditions 39 and 40.

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The SpaceX cargo ship, dubbed 'Dragon' is expected to spend four weeks attached to ISS, after which it is scheduled to return back to Earth with 1.8 tons of experiment samples and hardware.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifted off Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. After a two-day trip, Dragon was finally wrangled using a 57-foot robotic arm, at 7:14 a.m. as it flew within about 32 feet of the orbiting complex. "At the time of capture, the orbital laboratory was flying around260 statute miles over Egypt, west of the Nile River," NASA said in a statement.

According to the Associated Press, as the capsule was secured into place, NASA's Mission Control said, "Gentlemen, the Easter Dragon is knocking at the door."

Commander Koichi Wakata from the ISS tweeted, "Congratulations to the entire ops team for the successful launch, rendezvous and capture operation. The vehicle, the spacecraft was very solid and very stable. And the Canadarm2 was really solid, and it made it easier for us to capture."

The recent SpaceX-3 mission was delayed due to a helium leak on the Falcon 9's first stage.

Prior to that "despite the loss Friday of a backup computer command relay box called a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MDM) that resides in the stations S0 truss," NASA had decided to go ahead with the launch of what will be SpaceX's third commercial cargo re-supply mission to the ISS. In the next few days, two of the crewmembers aboard the space station will replace the faulty MDM with a spare one from inside the station.

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