Parts Washing System offers eco-friendly cleaning solution.

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Windsor CT Walter Surface Technologies, a world leader in innovative performance solutions for the metal working industry, today announced the launch of CleanBox Flow, the newest addition to the family of Bio-Circle manual industrial parts washing systems. Suitable for the bulk cleaning of small to medium sized parts, the compact-sized CleanBox Flow is specially designed for use with Bio-Circle CB 100, the powerful, natural water-based solvent that is biodegradable and VOC-free. Together, the CleanBox Flow and CB 100 offer a safe, efficient, cost-effective, and eco-friendly replacement to solvents in virtually any type of MRO environment including shops, maintenance departments, garages, mining sites, sawmills, paper mills and food & beverage processing facilities.

The launch of our new BIO-CIRCLE CleanBox Flow system is yet another testament to how our MAKING GREEN WORK mission of creating cost-efficient, high-performance and green products is an ongoing success story, stated Nathalie Vezina, Product Manager, Environmental Solution Systems, Walter Surface Technologies International. Todays forward-looking, environmentally responsible companies, including those with lighter applications, are demanding highly efficient, safe and non-toxic cleaning solutions that replace harsh and potentially dangerous solvents. Im excited to announce that the innovative and user-friendly CleanBox Flow system clearly answers that call.

The CleanBox Flow system ultimately helps contribute to a safer and healthier working environment by cost-effectively replacing the need for harsh industrial solvents. The CleanBox Flow and CB 100 help improve the health and safety of workers by minimizing dangerous chemicals that create fire hazards and toxic exposure risks, while also reducing the need for costly waste removal, ventilation systems and insurance policy premiums.

BIO-CIRCLE CleanBox Flow - About the parts washer system The CleanBox Flow parts washer system consists of a sink and flow through cleaning brush, a basin and heavy duty pump that circulates through heavy oils, greases and contaminants. When paired with CB 100, the CleanBox Flow enables the quick and easy removal of hardened greases, oils, and residues on small to medium industrial parts. Its heavy duty construction and ergonomic design withstands rugged manufacturing environments. The CleanBox Flow is positioned as Bio-Circles entry level system. It comes complete with an array of accessories making it versatile for a wide range of customer uses: The Bio-Circle Air gun facilitates the quick drying of industrial parts reducing the risk of flash rusting, The CleanBox Flow two-level cart puts the parts washer at the ideal height for working and makes the system mobile, The CleanBox Flow lid prevents dust and other contaminants from entering the system.

The system is compact and allows for easy storage in any work environment.

- About the cleaning liquid: CB 100 featuring Nature Boost CB 100 is an all-natural, water-based solvent and is considered an advanced technology emulsion. CB 100 contains Nature Boost, Bio-Circles exclusive new raw material derived from vegetable extracts that acts as a natural solvent with water to create an extremely powerful natural cleaner and degreaser. CB 100 easily removes greases, stubborn ink, rubber marks, tar, wax, carbon, soot, pastes and many other industrial contaminants. Its ready to use formula provides impressive cleaning potential at room temperature making it the obvious choice for manual cleaning, cleaning by immersion or pre-soaking as well as for use in ultrasonic baths. CB 100 is non-corrosive, bio-degradable and NSF certified. It is compatible with steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and non-ferrous metals.

The Bio-Circle CleanBox Flow system is now available across North America.

About Walter Surface Technologies Walter Surface Technologies provides innovative solutions for the global metal working industry. From high performance abrasives, power tools, tooling, to industrial parts washing systems, cleaners, degreasers and lubricants. Walter focuses on helping its customers work better. Founded in 1952, the company is established in 7 countries throughout North America, South America and Europe. The International headquarters is sited in Montreal and the US headquarters is located in Windsor, Connecticut. Key certification and awards include ISO 9001: 2008, Wall Street Journal Award; Deutscher Material Preiz; American Eagle Award; CleanTech Cleaning Technology Award.

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Mozilla partners with Panasonic for Smart TV

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OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER OUTFIT Firefox has announced a partnership with Panasonic to produce Smart TVs.

The fledgling Firefox operating system (OS) will be used to power a range of smart TVs in an effort to "promote Firefox OS and its open eco-system".

Details are sparse at present with no information about release dates, specifications or territories released. However the move strikes yet another blow in the battle for the developed world's living rooms.

The news follows LG's announcement on Monday that it too will be running a new old operating system on its Smart TVs, the formerly missing and presumed dead WebOS.

One could easily be forgiven for thinking that this marks the beginning of a format war. However given that WebOS, Android and Firefox all lend themselves to common standards and protocols such as HTML5 very well, it seems to be a threat only for early adopters of televisions tied to proprietary walled-garden internet services and delivery encoding schemes.

"Through Panasonic's partnership with Mozilla, we will create further innovation in smart TV technologies and features, which will take consumers to a whole new level of interaction and connectivity inside and outside of the home," said Yuki Kusumi, director of the TV Business Division of Panasonic's AVC Networks Company.

Meanwhile, Firefox OS is also being brought to a new device from ZTE, which had previously only marketed the Firefox phone in Spain, and from LG, which clearly believes that the phone market can support yet another player.

Panasonic is expected to announce its first products with Firefox OS on board later this year.

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RE: Cyborg 009 Home Release Delayed

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UK company Anime Limited has announced that its home release of Kenji Kamiyama's action science-fiction film 009 RE:CYBORG (pictured right) has been delayed "due to a delay in the completion of the English dub of the film. We're still waiting on an updated delivery date for this and can't give a firm date yet."

Anime Limited also made some comments on its releases of Makoto Shinkai's anime films. Its upcoming twinpack of The Place Promised in Our Early Days and Voices of a Distant Star (planned in both Collector's and regular editions) has been delayed. The reason is "difficulties getting our hands on the English language assets for the films... which reside elsewhere and not with Sentai Filmworks. This is something we're currently working on and should have sorted soon."

The label added that the twinpack is currently listed as a December 2014 release on Amazon, but that this is just a holding date, and the pack will be out 'way before' December.

Anime Limited is also planning "a Collector's Edition of Makoto Shinkai's work to date which will include a couple titles which we hope to negotiate the inclusion of." The label also confirmed that The Garden of Words (pictured left) will be released in a separate edition, planned for the first quarter of 2014.

Finally, Anime Limited confirmed that the following titles are also planned for the first quarter of 2014: Outlaw Star, Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning, Durarara!!, Nerima Daikon Brothers, the Gurren Lagann Collector's Edition, and a theatrical release of A Letter to Momo.

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Local lifeguards’ heroics honored

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Joseph Ford of Woburn and Noelia Aquino of Lowell, center, were honored by the state Tuesday as two of several Department of Conservation and Recreation lifeguards who saved lives last year. From left are DCR Commissioner Jack Murray, Ford, Aquino, Gov. Deval Patrick, and Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rick Sullivan.

BOSTON (AP) -- State officials are honoring young lifeguards who rose to the occasion during emergencies at state beaches and swimming pools last summer.

Gov. Deval Patrick joined the Department of Conservation and Recreation in presenting citations on Tuesday to 33 lifeguards at a Statehouse ceremony.

Last July 4, lifeguard Joseph Ford of Woburn noticed the motionless body of a 5-year-old at the Lord Pool in Lowell and jumped in to save the boy. Noelia Aquino of Lowell then provided CPR with the help of a nurse who happened to be there. The boy, Nay Blut, was released from the hospital within several days. It was Ford's third day on the job.

Domenique Riviera, a Lowell resident, was also honored by the state on Tuesday. Riviera saved an infant at Walden Pond in Concord, who had stopped breathing and had no pulse. As the head lifeguard, she performed the rescue and did rescue breaths. The baby started to cough immediately and Riviera waited with the family until EMS came and transported the baby to Emerson Hospital.

Many of those honored were involved in dramatic water rescues, while others acted quickly to help save victims on land, including a toddler who was choking on food and in one case a person who had overdosed on drugs.

In 2013, the agency hired 677 lifeguards for its 32 swimming pools, 15 ocean beaches and 25 freshwater beaches in Massachusetts.

Lifeguard applicants must be at least 16 years old, have a Red Cross or YMCA lifeguarding certificate and be trained in CPR.

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Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid Found By College Students, 3905 Doppler Is ‘A Fantastic Discovery’ [PHOTO]

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A group of college students got more than they bargained for when they signed up for an astronomy class.

The non-astronomy majors at the University of Maryland discovered a rare eclipsing double asteroid that had yet to be studied. Dubbed 3905 Doppler, the binary asteroid had originally been spotted in 1984 but it was only last September when the students took a closer look that they made the surprising discovery.

"This is a fantastic discovery," University of Maryland Astronomy Prof. Drake Deming, who was not involved with the class, said in a statement. "A binary asteroid with such an unusual lightcurve is pretty rare. It provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the physical properties and orbital evolution of these objects.

Less than 100 asteroids of this type have been found along the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In September, the students picked the asteroid to study over a period four nights in October 2013, photographing the changes of intensity in the asteroids reflected light. The images, which came from a privately owned telescope in Spain, were then turned into a lightcurve a graph of space objects brightness over time.

"When we looked at the images we didn't realize we had anything special, because the brightness difference is not something you can see with your eyes," Hayes-Gehrke said.

But once the images were converted to a lightcurve graph, the students found the asteroids light occasionally practically disappeared.

"It was incredibly frustrating, Alec Bartek, a senior physics major said. "For some reason our light curve didn't look right."

The students professor, Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, suspected the asteroid was actually two space rocks that were orbiting each other. When one of the two blocked the other from view it formed an asteroid eclipse.

It took approximately 51 hours for the asteroids to orbit each other which is quite long and has yet to be explained.

"Even then I was not fully aware of how special the discovery was," sophomore economics major Brady Bent said. "I thought it just meant we would have to do more work. As we continued to analyze our data, other professors in the Astronomy Department came over to view our work. At this point I understood just how rare our find was."

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Jan. 7, 2014 Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another.

Fewer than 100 asteroids of this type have been identified in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, said Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, who teaches the hands-on class for non-astronomy majors in which eight students made the find in the fall semester 2013.

The students' discovery that 3905 Doppler is an eclipsing binary asteroid will be presented in a poster session Jan. 7 at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland and published in April in the Minor Planet Bulletin.

"This is a fantastic discovery," said University of Maryland Astronomy Prof. Drake Deming, who was not involved with the class. "A binary asteroid with such an unusual lightcurve is pretty rare. It provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the physical properties and orbital evolution of these objects."

"Actually contributing to the scientific community and seeing established scientists getting legitimately excited about our findings is a very good feeling," said Terence Basile, a junior from Beltsville, MD majoring in cell biology.

One of hundreds of thousands of pieces of cosmic debris in our solar system's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 3905 Doppler was discovered in 1984, but over the coming decades it attracted scant attention. In September 2013 Hayes-Gehrke's students picked it and two other asteroids from an astronomy journal's list of asteroids worth observing because they were well positioned in the autumn sky and were scientific enigmas.

Student teams studying 3905 Doppler met over four nights in October 2013. Each four-person team observed and photographed the asteroid, using a privately owned telescope in Nerpio, Spain, which they accessed and controlled over the internet. Their main task was to photograph changes in the intensity of each asteroid's reflected light and turn those images into a lightcurve.

A lightcurve is a graph of a celestial object's brightness over time. Variations in brightness are often due to the object's shape, with spherical objects like planets yielding lightcurves that do not vary, and asymmetrical objects like asteroids producing peaks and valleys as the amount of reflected light varies. By measuring the time between maximum light intensities, planetologists can tell how fast an asteroid is rotating. Most asteroids complete a rotation in a few hours to a day.

"When we looked at the images we didn't realize we had anything special, because the brightness difference is not something you can see with your eyes," Hayes-Gehrke said. But when the two teams studying 3905 Doppler used a computer program to chart its lightcurve, they found the asteroid's light occasionally faded to nearly nothing.

"It was incredibly frustrating," said Alec Bartek, a senior physics major from Brookeville, MD. "For some reason our light curve didn't look right."

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1. Fireball over Russia The event with the biggest impact - in every sense - was a 20-meter meteor over Chelyabinsk in February. A forceful reminder about detection and deflection of space rocks! This one exploded at high altitude, so when 20-30 times as much energy as the Hiroshima atomic bomb was released, the atmosphere absorbed most of it. Nonetheless the shock wave broke windows and caused other damage to thousands of buildings. About 1500 people suffered injuries needing medical treatment. Oddly, it happened on the day that asteroid 2012 DA14 was due to make a close approach. The asteroid came and went, as predicted. The two objects weren't related.

2. Chang'e and Yutu go to the Moon Chang'e is China's lunar program. In December Chang'e-3 landed safely on the Moon and released the rover Yutu. The last soft landing on the Moon was in 1974 by the Soviet probe Luna-24. Chang'e is named for a Moon goddess in Chinese folklore and Yutu (Jade Rabbit) was her pet. In addition to those watching on Earth, the landing was observed from lunar orbit by NASA's recently-arrived LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer).

3. Rare solar eclipse There was a hybrid solar eclipse in November. It began as an annular eclipse in which the Moon is surrounded by a ring of light because it doesn't quite cover the Sun. But then it quickly changed to a total eclipse, which was also seen as a partial eclipse in many areas. Hybrid eclipses are rare. The last one occurred in 1854 and the next will be on October 17, 2172.

4. Ancient habitable environments on Mars The evidence has been growing for a Mars that was once wet, but it doesn't mean that Mars was habitable. NASA Mars probe Curiosity's job is to search for evidence of habitability. The rover is not only a field geologist, but also a well-equipped geochemical laboratory. In March, chemical analysis of a rock sample indicated an ancient environment in which water existed for a long time. It was also neutral (neither acidic nor alkaline), not saline, and contained a number of the key chemicals of life. This doesn't prove that microbial life ever existed on Mars, but it shows that it could have.

5. Inauguration of ALMA The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA, for short) was officially inaugurated in March, and is now a fully operational observatory. An array of 66 movable radio telescopes can work together in various combinations as one telescope. ALMA is designed to have ten times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. Millimeter wavelengths can penetrate dust, so are used to study starbirth and planet formation. Although water vapor in the air blocks these wavelengths, ALMA won't have a problem in Chile's Atacama Desert at 5000 m (over 16,000 ft) where the air is very dry.

6. Exoplanet search comes of age The very first exoplanets were discovered in 1992. They were orbiting a pulsar, the remains of a collapsed star. The first planets discovered orbiting sun-like stars were massive, because these are the easiest to detect. Twenty-one years later in 2013, the 1000th exoplanet was added to the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. It now includes many smaller planets and multiplanet systems.

7. Earth says cheese In July, two distant NASA spacecraft photographed the Earth. Astronomy groups worldwide had organized events to wave at Saturn as the Cassini spacecraft took its pictures. There had already been evenings of observation of Saturn. Only two other images of Earth have been taken from the outer Solar System. One was also taken by Cassini, showing Earth through Saturn's rings. The other was Voyager 1's pale blue dot photo. MESSENGER, too, took pictures from its Mercury orbit. However it wouldn't have been a good idea to encourage people to stare at Mercury since it's so close to the Sun.

8. Voyager 1 became a starship Voyager 1 is the first human object to enter the space between the stars. After many previous announcements of its leaving the Solar System, in September NASA officially announced that Voyager is now bathed in the plasma of interstellar space, not the solar wind. It's still in the Solar System, as it won't pass the Oort Cloud for a few hundred years.

9. Gaia launched Astronomers have been waiting for Gaia for a long time. It's one of the most ambitious space missions ever devised and has been two decades in the making. The European Space Agency (ESA) launched Gaia in December, and in the next five years it's expected to map positions of and distances to over a billion stars. The measurements will be done with such high precision that the error will be equivalent to the size of a euro coin on the Moon as seen from Earth. (A euro coin is slightly smaller than a U.S. quarter.)

10. Comet ISON Comet ISON wasn't the comet of the century. Or even the comet of the year there were several that fared better. Yet ISON was still unique. It was the first sun-grazer known to have come from the Oort Cloud, and it was studied extensively. Over a dozen space observatories, many large telescopes and countless amateurs provided a detailed record of its visit. This data will give astronomers valuable information about its structure, composition and how sun-grazers survive - or don't - a close passage by the Sun.

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College Students Discover Rare Binary Asteroid

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Image Caption: In this artist's rendering, the newly-identified binary asteroid 3905 Doppler approaches an eclipse as the larger asteroid begins to pass in front of the smaller one, as seen from a vantage point on Earth. Credit: Illustration by Loretta Kuo

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An undergraduate astronomy class for non-astronomy majors at the University of Maryland has made a rare discovery that was completely overlooked by professional scientists: a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse each other located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

There are currently fewer than 100 known eclipsing binary asteroids and the students discovery will be presented on Tuesday at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Md.

Actually contributing to the scientific community and seeing established scientists getting legitimately excited about our findings is a very good feeling, said Terence Basile, a cell biology major at from Beltsville, Md.

This is a fantastic discovery, said Drake Deming, a University of Maryland astronomer who was not involved with the class. It provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the physical properties and orbital evolution of these objects.

The dual asteroids, collectively known as 3905 Doppler, are just one object from hundreds of thousands in our solar systems main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The object was first discovered in 1984, but given little thought over the following decades. In September 2013, students in Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrkes astronomy class picked it and two other asteroids to observe because they were easy to see in the autumn sky and somewhat mysterious.

Over the course of four nights in October, four-person student teams tracked and photographed the asteroids with a privately-owned telescope in Nerpio, Spain, which was controlled remotely over the Internet. The main goal of the assignment was to capture changes in the brightness of each asteroids reflected light.

These images were then used to create a light curve, or graph of an objects light intensity over time. Changes in brightness are often the result of the objects shape, with asymmetrical objects having a range of brightness and symmetrical objects producing a constant intensity. After finding the time between maximum light intensities, scientists can determine how fast an asymmetrical object is rotating.

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Intel’s Vision: Wearables Everywhere In A Post-Windows World

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At its CES-opening keynote Intel laid bare its vision for computing in the future. If Microsoft is remembered for the once Quixotic goal of a computer on every desk, Intel has taken up the mantel of a computer in every thing.

Touting new hardware, new computing chips, and operating system agnosticism, Intel talked its way through gaming, sensors, smart gadgets, and more to draw the picture of its take on what is next for the technology industry.

At the core of its view is the idea of smart, which is to say a regular item made intelligent through a firm dose of computing power. Its catalyst for this trasmorgification is the Edison, a full computer the size of an SD card. Available in the middle of this year, the Edison runs Linux, and can bring the power of computing into a plethora of new environments.

During its keynote, Intel showed off a few gadgets of its own provenance that contained roughly the same charisma as a bucket of warm spit; contained therein: an awkward headset more fit for a failed Star Trek competitor, a bowl that charged your devices in an unexplained manner, and a watch that didsomething.

But what Intel has in mind is the introduction of computing power everywhere, a fabric of intelligence woven into your daily life to quantify and understand and react and control your world. If you are even slightly chart-inclined, this is a future of information at the ready of scale you can scarcely imagine.

I would love to know the impact of my morning coffee on my heart rate provided a set of conditions from the previous night. If I was out late, does a four or five shot latte provide the best morning boost? What about the post-caffeine crash? Surely this could be looked into if the devices and brains that were integrated into my life became intelligent enough to tally their own scores, and, this is key, talk to the rest of my lifes trinkets.

And here weve come to it: You cant create an endemic layer of sensor technology that needs to speak to its cohort in harmony, and intelligently enough to draw and explain inferences thereof without a set of firmware intelligent enough to keep the whole game in the air.

And the Edison runs Linux.

Were in a slightly post-PC era in that the venerable PC in its desktop and laptop formats is losing ascendancy in certain use categories to tablets and other SKUs across old school computing needs. But what Intel is drawing is a future in which the very core fabric of our digital lives will be the passive collating of data, and in its view Windows is nowhere in sight. How can you run Windows on microcomputers that retail for a fraction of the cost of Windows to an OEM building a new PC?

And as you expect, the Edison contains an application store, and supports what Intel awkwardly called app store programming. So this is another potential oxygen leak for Microsofts yet nascent Windows 8.x operating system.

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Clark College’s enrollment down from a year ago

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The stadium-style lecture hall was filled with students Monday, the first day of winter term in instructor Mark Bolke's anatomy and physiology class at Clark College.

The class a prerequisite for entrance into several popular health care programs, including nursing, dental hygiene and medical radiography remains as in-demand as ever, even as the college's overall enrollment for winter term has dropped.

The college has enrolled 12,578 students this term, a drop from the 13,477 students enrolled this time last year.

"We haven't dropped off within our department, at least," said Bolke, who's taught anatomy and physiology for the past 15 years. "We're sort of the exception here. We're still holding strong."

This winter, there are roughly 120 anatomy and physiology students spread across three classes, on par with previous years. Bolke teaches the class in one of the campus' two large lecture halls to accommodate all the students.

He has no trouble filling the seats.

"Anatomy and physiology classes are generally full," he said, adding there are currently about 10 students waiting for someone to drop the course so they can get in.

The reason for its popularity is simple, Bolke said: His students hope to enter a lucrative health care occupation.

Margie Baron, 17, said she's taking the class so she can successfully apply to nursing school. The large number of classmates, many of whom want to do the same thing, is an incentive for her to work hard and achieve high grades.

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Comets Win in Overtime

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January 5, 2014 - Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) Missouri Comets INDEPENDENCE, MO (January 5, 2013) - The Missouri Comets earned a triumphant win over the Rochester Lancers at the Independence Events Center this afternoon. The Comets fell behind early, but climbed their way back the entire game and finally took the lead in overtime on a beautiful restart from John Sosa to Vahid Assadpour. For the fourth straight game, Assadpour led the Comets. Tonight he had two goals for five points. The 11-9 win gave the Comets their sixth win of the year and moved them within a game of first-place.

Normally when these two teams match-up, the scoreboard is lit up with goal after goal. Tonight, the defenses came out to play. Neither squad could score in either the first or fourth quarters. Rochester took a 7-3 halftime lead when Doug Miller, Elliot Fauske and Gary Boughton found the net in the second quarter. Assadpour's first goal, a three-point score, was the only tally for the Comets in the first half.

The third quarter was a reversal of the second. Bato Radoncic scored on a power play for the Lancers, but Missouri countered with goals from Bryan Perez, Alex Megson and Coady Andrews. The Comets defense only allowed five shots in the entire second half, none of them on goal. Controversy arose in the third quarter when Comets' forward Leo Gibson was ejected. Running down the field shoulder to shoulder with a Lancers player, Gibson's elbow appeared to make contact with the other player. It was enough contact, according to the referee, to warrant the red card. Without the league's third-leading scorer, Missouri poured on the pressure throughout the fourth quarter, but could not get past Lancers goalkeeper, Gavin McInerny.

Comets coach, Vlatko Andonovski, rallied his players as they prepared for the sudden-death overtime period and instilled the confidence in them needed to win the game.

"I told them we were ready," said Andonovski. "I told them, the first shot was going to win the game."

Forty-three seconds into the extra period, the Comets were awarded a restart opportunity at the top of the arc. True to their coach's words, Missouri made the opportunity count. Before the Lancers were fully set up to defend the kick, John Sosa passed a straight low ball to Assadpour who was waiting wide open on the left-post. He one-touched the shot straight across the goal into the side netting to clinch the game for the home-side, 11-9.

The Comets head back to the east coast for a pair of games in Syracuse and Reading Pennsylvania on January 10th & 11th. The team returns to the Independence Events Center on January 17th for another match against the league-leading Milwaukee Wave at 7:35p.m. CT. The team will also welcome back the World Famous Mascot Game on January 17th featuring Comets' mascot Calvin, Dollar Dog and many of their friends for an exhibition at halftime.

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ROCK FALLS It took quite a while, but the Newman boys basketball team put itself in a position to take mercy on Mercer County.

The Comets overcame a rough start before pulling away for a 75-55 victory against the Golden Eagles on Saturday in the Rock Falls Shootout. It was a similar effort to Friday night, when the Comets struggled against Prophetstown before rallying to win.

What Coach [Ray] Sharp preached in the locker room was weve got to play better than we did [Friday] night, junior guard Trevor Bolin said.

I think we kind of overlooked Prophetstown, Bolin continued. Everybody was talking about [Saturday], playing Mercer County, because we beat them in football, and everybody was so excited about that.

We overlooked Prophetstown, but today, we came together, bounced back, and got the win.

Newman (14-0) led by just one point (25-24) after Mercer Countys C.J. Aldinger cashed in on a free throw with 3 minutes, 31 seconds remaining in the second quarter.

But it was all Comets the rest of the way.

They closed the half with a 12-0 run, then began the second half with a 12-4 surge, capped by a 3-point play from Nate Terveer. That 24-4 run was accomplished with the starting five on the floor, but that same unit was pulled early in the second quarter for an effort that coach Sharp described as lackadaisical.

I got mad because we werent playing hard, so we subbed five for five, Sharp said. Sometimes youve just got to do that. They think theyll get their minutes, but if you dont play hard, youve got to come out.

The Newman bench was able to show what it is capable of doing. It scored 34 points, with Bolin (10 points), Nolan McGinn (4 points, 6 rebounds) and Shayne Allen (6 points) leading the way.

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Guttate psoriasis Classification and external resources

Back torso lesions, 30 year old female patient

Guttate psoriasis (also known as "Eruptive psoriasis") is a type of psoriasis that presents as small (0.5-1.5cm in diameter) lesions over the upper trunk and proximal extremities; it is found frequently in young adults.[1]:410[2]:194 Guttate psoriasis is classically triggered by a bacterial infection, usually an upper respiratory tract infection.[3]:726

For some people it starts as a throat infection, or strep throat. After the throat infection has cleared up the person can feel fine for several weeks before noticing the appearance of red spots. They appear small at first, like a dry red spot which is slightly itchy. When scratched or picked the top layer of dry skin is removed, leaving dry, red skin beneath with white, dry areas marking where flakes of dry skin stop and start. In the weeks that follow the spots can grow to as much as an inch in diameter. Some of the larger ones may form a pale area in the centre which is slightly yellow. Treatment is often a mild steroid, such as hydrocortisone, but this is not always effective. Other treatment include exposing the affected area of the skin to sunlight (while avoiding sunburn). The condition often but not always clears up on its own. The guttate psoriasis can occur on any part of the body, particularly the legs, arms, torso, eyelids, back, bottom, bikini-line and neck. Generally the parts of the body most affected are seen on the arms, legs, back and torso. Enthusiastic exfoliation can lead to bleeding so care and moisturisation are important to keep the affected skin healthy.

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Travel in 2014: World events past and future put spotlight on Sochi, Brazil, Berlin, Sarajevo

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The Olympics, the World Cup and commemorations of World War I, D-Day and the fall of the Berlin Wall are some of the events that will spotlight destinations like Sochi, Brazil, Sarajevo, Normandy and Berlin in 2014.

Elsewhere abroad, a potentially game-changing high-speed rail service has just launched linking Paris and Barcelona. Some travellers may now prefer the train over a plane, with the train ride cut in half to just over six hours between the two cities.

In the U.S., St. Louis marks the 250th anniversary of its Feb. 15, 1764 founding with celebrations in February including a reenactment, parties and a music festival. Other events are planned throughout the year.

Harry Potter fans will have a new reason to visit Florida next summer when the Universal Orlando theme park opens a new area with attractions inspired by the books' fictional scenes in Diagon Alley and London. A train called the Hogwarts Express will take visitors back and forth between the new Potter attractions including a restaurant called the Leaky Cauldron and Universal's existing Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Universal also plans an 1,800-room 1960s-themed resort and eight new restaurants at the CityWalk dining area for 2014.

Nearby, Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., will open a new family coaster, the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, in the spring.

OLYMPICS AND WORLD CUP

The Winter Olympics, Feb. 7-23, take place in Sochi, a Russian Black Sea resort that's one of the least-known Olympic destinations in years. The indoor events will be held in ice arenas on the coast, while skiing and snowboarding are in the Caucasus Mountains 30 miles (50 kilometres) inland. With its subtropical climate and lush greenery, the coastal area of Sochi has long been a popular destination; some elaborate worker resorts from the Stalinist era remain, and new winter resorts are under construction.

The World Cup soccer games, June 12-July 13, will be held in 12 cities in Brazil: Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Cuaiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Sao Paulo. The most exotic destination, Manaus, a steamy city in the Amazon jungle, may also be the most controversial: England soccer coach Roy Hodgson called it "the place ideally to avoid," while the London tabloid the Mirror called it a "crime-ridden hell-hole." But loads of soccer fans are likely to travel there despite the bad press to attend some of the tournament's top matches, including England-Italy and Portugal-U.S. The city is also a gateway to Amazon tourism, with Manaus-based operators offering boat trips and tours into the jungle.

REMEMBERING WAR

The summer of 2014 marks a century since World War I was triggered by the June 28, 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, now the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Events are planned across Europe to commemorate the centenary http://www.1914.org and some U.S. tour operators like Road Scholar are offering itineraries visiting places connected to the war. Famous battlefields include Verdun, France; Gallipoli, Turkey, and Western Belgium, where red poppies still bloom in Flanders Fields, a battlefield immortalized in the famous poem: "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row."

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Travel in 2014: World events past and future put spotlight on Sochi, Brazil, Berlin, Sarajevo