Hungry Labrie provides jolt of energy in return to the Syracuse Crunch

You've got to feed the big dog to keep him happy.

As usual, Syracuse Crunch forward P.C. Labrie was smiling on Friday night.

He patted roommate Eric Neilson on the back, complimenting his cooking. Labrie apparently misses that up in Tampa Bay.

"This guy can cook,'' Labrie said. "He does like 40 appetizers before we have a dinner. By the time we have dinner, we're full.''

Labrie will have to shovel it in while he can. Since he's here on a conditioning assignment from Tampa Bay, he can only stay up to two weeks before he'd have to clear NHL waivers.

Friday's 7-1 win over Binghamton was Labrie's first game back, and it was typical of the popular grinder. He scored an ugly goal off a centering pass that deflected in off Sens defenseman Danny New, and he fought to defend a teammate.

"It feels good to be back with the boys,'' Labrie said. "It's my family. I've been with them for three years. They all know I'm happy to be here.''

Labrie, who has played in just three games with the Lightning, said his main objective is to regain his feel for the puck, but there's certainly nothing rusty about his protective instincts. He fought Binghamton's Mark Borowiecki on Friday after Labrie didn't like a hit Borowiecki put on Syracuse's Philip-Michael Devos.

"It's just a reaction,'' Labrie said. "He was hitting a lot tonight. At some point I don't have to worry about the score and protect my teammates.''

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Ford Thailand gets new MD

BANGKOK: Ford has promoted Yukontorn ?Vickie? Wisadkosin to the post of managing director, Ford Thailand, with immediate effect.

She will continue to report directly to Ford Asean president Matt Bradley.
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As managing director, Yukontorn officially assumes overall responsibility for day-to-day operations of the Ford Thailand business, including marketing, sales and service, dealer relations, finance, human resources, government affairs, and general administration.

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Yukontorn joined Ford Thailand in September as vice president, marketing, sales and service.

She was formerly the CEO of HICOM-Chevrolet Sdn Bhd in 2008. HICOM-Chevrolet was the former distributor of Chevrolet cars before the franchise was taken over by Naza Quest Sdn Bhd in 2010.

Ford Thailand reported its best-ever January performance with sales that rose 74 percent year-over-year.

This followed a record full-year for Ford in Thailand in 2012, with overall sales that jumped 88 percent to 54,865 units.
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Ford also reaffirmed its plans to expand its nationwide dealer network to 140 locations by the end of 2013.
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Seeking a Duke for Regency Romance

Hello there and thank you for stopping by!

What we are looking for . . .

We are a small group of two Role Players in love with the Regency Era. We are looking for one more player to play the Duke of St Albans to our two heroines. We need someone who is equally as knowledgeable and who loves the Regency Era to play an accurate and fascinating character.

This is a long term commitment. I think it is very important to point this out. Thus we need somebody who will be able to keep up with us and also be able to be there till the end. If you know you cannot keep this promise, please do not apply.

However, if you know you are able to commit and like the premises then by all means apply and we would love for you to join our little team.

We do have a story line set out but you will be free to be as creative as you wish with the Duke as long as it complies with the set guidelines we have for the story and we are also open to any idea's you may wish for the characters and contribute to the story.

Here is the link to the Role Play page. Duty & Honor Before Love Please read it thoroughly so you understand what we are asking and looking for.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact myself or Xistinna at any time by PM.

Again thank you for stopping by and we hope to see you soon at Duty & Honor Before Love!

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Israel Ride Info Session: Baltimore

Discover how the?Israel Ride?can be your next adventure

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What does it feel like to cycle on the?Israel Ride?? Hear from Rabbi Michael Cohen-?Director of Development for Friends of the Arava?and?Israel Ride alum- ?about cycling through Israel, the Middle East?s environmental challenges, and the potential for regional cooperation at the Arava Institute.

Bring your friends with you ?| ?All are welcome at this event.

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No date for Valentine's Day? New apps may help

TORONTO (Reuters) - Singles who believe in love at first sight can turn to new apps that will match them with potential dates in time for Valentine's Day, but only if each person has expressed an interest.

With the new dating apps, users simply flip through photos of people in nearby locations and express their interest in dating someone. If there's a mutual attraction, the app connects them for a conversation. If not, their feelings remain anonymous.

"It limits the conversations to people you've actually expressed an interest in. So each of those conversations starts at a very deep level," said Sean Rad, co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based company Tinder, which developed the app of the same name.

Makers of the Tinder app, which is available worldwide for iPhone, said it has matched more than 10 million couples since it was launched in September.

The app pulls in member photos of people from Facebook, and then it's as simple as anonymously indicating interest in that person. If both people like each other, messages can be sent between the two users.

Rad said most users are between 18 and 30 years old.

Let's Date, which was released across the United States last week for the iPhone, is a similar app. But rather than simply focusing on the photo, the app provides the person's interests from Facebook for a broader view of the potential date.

"Our goal was to create an app that replicated the real world experience of going to a party or bar full of potentially eligible people," said Sean Suhl, founder of Let's Date.

"You're put into a crowd of people and if someone catches your eye and they catch your eye, then a conversation is struck up and then someone might ask the other person out on a date," he added.

The app resulted from a frustration with other dating apps, according to Suhl, who described them as "artificial and laborious".

"We're just presenting you the daters and you're just saying yes or no," he added.

Both apps require a login with Facebook, so people must use their real identity. Let's Date also stipulates that users must have been active on Facebook for a year, and have at least 50 friends before signing up.

Although the apps can set people up quickly, it still could take a while to find the right person.

"People are literally getting dates the same night, but you might want to give yourself enough time to find the right Valentine," Rad said.

Both companies plan to release Android apps.

(Editing by Patricia Reaney; and Peter Galloway)

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The God of Thunder, and Momentum

Thor?Norse god, Marvel superhero, and Hollywood eye candy?presents those of us living in the real world with a few problems. Thor is a ?demigod,? and any attempt to scientifically explore his otherworldly abilities can be dismissed as such. But with his resurgence in The Avengers last year, and seeing that today is Thor?s Day, the time has come to discuss in real terms his most prized possession: Mjolnir (literally, ?that which smashes?)?his hammer.

The argument about Thor?s hammer usually revolves around its role in Thor?s ?flight.? Some argue that Thor can summon storms, and therefore wind, to keep himself aloft. Others point out that he merely keeps himself hovering by spinning the hammer like a helicopter blade. But the most common explanation is that Thor?s hammer, being tremendously massive, is used to propel Thor into the sky in a suitably beefy exhibition of momentum.

In The Avengers and the comics, Thor?s main mode of transportation is spinning and then throwing the hammer, and hanging on for dear physics. With the help of Neil deGrasse Tyson, there are numbers and assumptions we can make to see just how demigodly you would have to be to wield such a power. With enough strength to literally toss billions of pounds around, you would be ?worthy? indeed.

The Amazing?Mass of Thor?s Hammer

Recently, the world?s favorite astrophysicist tweeted this out to his million followers:

Neutron stars are the tiny (in astronomical terms) remnants of once massive stars. Though a neutron star could fit within the borders of Philadelphia, it?s not the size that?s important. A neutron star is so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh about as much as a good-sized mountain.

I?ll give NdGT the benefit of the doubt and assume that he made correct assumptions about the dimensions of Thor?s hammer. As for the weight, ?a herd of 300-billion elephants? (of the African variety) would weigh in the neighborhood of A LOT. We are talking nine times the total biomass of the Earth. I guess those Chris Hemsworth muscles ain?t just for show.

Now we have to invoke the demigod excuse a bit here, as it would be impossible to lift such a weight. Thor is ?worthy,? so I guess he can lift it. But no matter how he can lift it, I sure hope he holds on, as something so dense would sink all the way through the Earth if he let it hit the ground.

Conservation of Demigod Momentum

It turns out that while nerds like myself have been arguing the mechanics of Thor?s flight, the comics have at least tried to resolve the issue:

Of course, sometimes we see Thor fly in the comics without spinning the hammer and apparently he can control the flight of it with magic demigod powers, but we?ll stick to the explanation we can explore?throwing and then hanging onto Mjolnir.

Any object with mass gains momentum as it moves. This value is simply the product of mass and velocity. Likewise, when an object with mass moves around some axis, it gains angular momentum.

Both kinds of momentum are conserved. You don?t create or destroy momentum; you just transfer it from one place to another. Think of cracking two billiard balls together. When one travels towards the other, it has momentum. When it hits the other ball, some (or all) of that momentum is transferred and the other ball moves. Angular momentum is conserved in the same way. A figure skater can increase the speed of her spin by bringing her arms closer to her chest?by moving mass closer to the axis of her spin, speed increases to conserve momentum. Conservation of momentum also explains why Newton?s cradles work (they would go forever if they didn?t lose energy to heat and air resistance).

Thor?s flight is a souped-up version of Newton?s cradle or the billiard balls. As explained in the comic panel above, the demigod takes to the skies by first hurling his hammer and then quickly grabbing onto the ?indestructible? strap. Flight is only possible because momentum is conserved.

If you spin some object around in a circle and then let go, it will fly off in a straight line from where you let it go. The path of the hammer will be some straight line coming off a circular path?a tangent?into the sky. So while angular momentum would explain the ridiculous energies and forces created by spinning the hammer, linear momentum will explain how Thor flies.

Time for some numbers. The Marvel Wiki puts Thor?s weight at a massive 291 kilograms, or 640 pounds. And, I?ll assume that Thor can spin his hammer as fast as a major league pitcher can throw?around 100 miles per hour or 45 meters per second.

If you let go of a hammer spinning at 100 mph, it will fly off in a straight line (at least until gravity takes over) at that speed. To calculate its momentum, we multiply its mammoth mass by this speed. The calculation results in 3.0*10^16 Newton-seconds of momentum (that?s a lot of zeroes). If Thor quickly grabs onto the hammer with this momentum, he adds mass to the system (his body+the hammer). If the mass changes, the velocity also has to change to conserve momentum.

It?s an odd conclusion: the speed that Thor releases the hammer is the speed at which Thor and the hammer will travel. But it makes sense from the math. Because the hammer is so incredibly heavy, a tiny addition to its mass won?t slow it down at all.

It would be like jumping onto a space shuttle while it?s taking off: with so much mass and speed, the addition of your tiny body won?t exactly change much.

And you might have tested this principle for yourself. As a kid, that merry-go-round on the playground was only fun if you could get it spinning quickly first. Try as you might, no matter how fast it went, once you jumped on it would slow down. This is because the mass of the system increased, so the velocity of the system had to decrease. But in Thor?s case the hammer outweighs him by astronomical factors. The mass increases and the velocity decreases, but by an insignificant amount.

If you could throw something as massive as Thor?s hammer around, not much will stop it. Wind resistance and other factors would have a hard time slowing it down, making ?flying? with it (more like hanging on to a ballistic missile) plausible.

The kinetic energy alone is out-of-this-world huge. Throwing the hammer at 100 mph (45 m/s) gives it 688,500,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy. That is almost three times the yield of the largest nuclear bomb ever exploded, Tsar Bomba, which shook the Earth with an equivalent of 57 megatons of TNT. Needless to say, with this kind of energy, Tony Stark should have asked Thor to simply throw his hammer at the alien ship at the end of The Avengers and watched the fireworks.

The only way around a mass heavy enough to sink through the Earth, and to pick it up and swing it no less, is to invoke the demigod excuse. But applying real-world physics to his flight only makes Thor that much more v?ndr bacraut (the closest I could find in old Norse to badass). Not only would he be able to ?fly,? but Thor could nearly vaporize a mountain with a single throw of his hammer.

Images: Tor?s Fight with the Giants, 1872 by M?rten Eskil Winge, Comic Panel found on Scifi+Fantasy Stack Exchange?Can anyone identify the issue? Thor meme on Meme Center

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Hot-shooting Arkansas downs No. 2 Florida 80-69

Arkansas' Jacorey Williams, right, and Anthlon Bell celebrate with fans after their 80-69 win over No. 2 Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Arkansas' Jacorey Williams, right, and Anthlon Bell celebrate with fans after their 80-69 win over No. 2 Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Florida's Erik Murphy (33) dribbles around Arkansas' Coty Clarke (4) during the first half an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Arkansas' Marshawn Powell, right, celebrates with fans after their 80-69 win over No. 2 Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Arkansas fans storm the court as they celebrate after their 80-69 win over No. 2 Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Arkansas' Jacorey Williams, right, and Anthlon Bell celebrate with fans after their 80-69 win over No. 2 Florida in an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) ? Arkansas' Rickey Scott walked to the sideline, gasping for air before lying down in an attempt to catch his breath.

And that was less than 4 minutes into the Razorbacks' shocking 80-69 victory over No. 2 Florida on Tuesday night, giving second-year coach Mike Anderson the signature win had he been looking for in an electric Bud Walton Arena.

BJ Young led three players in double figures with 13 points as the Razorbacks (14-8, 5-4 Southeastern Conference) opened quickly and never let up, fueled by a raucous crowd of 13,816. It was an energy-filled arena that reminded Anderson of the Arkansas of old ? when he was an assistant to former coach Nolan Richardson when the Razorbacks were among the nation's best, winning the 1994 national championship.

"If I gave two game balls tonight, one would certainly go to our fans," Anderson said. "This place was lively tonight. It brought back a lot of memories for myself, especially sitting on that bench and seeing our fans so engaged in the game."

The win improves the Razorbacks to 14-1 at home this season, and it snaps a 10-game winning streak for the Gators ? who had ascended to the No. 2 spot in The AP Top 25 one day earlier.

Arkansas opened the game 15 of 20 from the field. Michael Qualls and Marshawn Powell added 11 points each and 11 players scored for the Razorbacks in their first win over a top 10 team since early in 2008-09.

Mike Rosario led Florida (18-3, 8-1) with 15 points, while Scottie Wilbekin added 14, Michael Frazier 11 and Kennny Boynton 10. The Gators hit just 4 of their first 15 shots, 7 of 24 in the first half, and never recovered in suffering their first loss since a 67-61 setback at Kansas State on Dec. 22.

That loss was also the most points Florida had allowed in a game this season before Tuesday night.

"Clearly we did not play the level of defense that we had played," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "A combination of I didn't think we did a very good job and a combination of I thought they did do a very good job.

"They made some shots there early in the game and got themselves going."

After trailing by as many as 23 points in the first half, the Gators cut the lead to 43-26 at halftime.

The Razorbacks didn't give Florida a chance to come up for air to open the second half, forcing turnovers on two straight possessions to open the second half and extending the lead 49-26 following a jumper by Qualls.

Florida had one final run in it ? responding with an 11-2 stretch to cut the deficit to 51-37 after an inside basket by Frazier.

The Gators did close the lead to 11 points, but by then it was too late against an Arkansas team in desperate need of a signature win, one that hasn't reached the NCAA tournament since 2008. The Razorbacks were then coached by current Florida assistant coach John Pelphrey, who entered Bud Walton Arena to handshakes and hugs Tuesday night before walking off the court with a stunning loss in his second return to his former home.

"They had that lead and we just kept trying to chip away, but they kept coming at us and eventually time just ran out," Florida's Erik Murphy said.

The win was Arkansas' first over a team ranked in the top 10 since victories over No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 7 Texas early in 2008-09, Pelphrey's second season.

Anderson took over last season, and his previous best win was over then-No. 15 Mississippi State. Tuesday's game was the third in six days for the Razorbacks, who have yet to win a game away from home this season.

"They were ready to play," Anderson said. "And I don't think it was just one game. Hopefully, I think, they want to continue to build on what's been taking place with this team."

Hunter Mickelson responded to Florida's second-half run with a putback for the Razorbacks, beginning a 16-3 run that opened the lead to 67-40 and put the game well out of reach. Coty Clarke closed out the run in emphatic fashion for Arkansas, flying high on the fast break to put down a one-handed dunk off an alley-oop pass from Ky Madden.

Arkansas, whose only home loss this season was to No. 9 Syracuse, owned the first half. The Razorbacks entered the game 12th in the SEC in 3-point shooting at 29.8 percent, but they opened the game 5 of 6 from behind the arc and built a 36-13 lead midway through the half.

Mardracus Wade and Young hit 3-pointers in the half for Arkansas, which easily sent Florida to its largest deficit of the season at 36-13. The most the Gators had trailed before Tuesday was 11 points in the first half of the loss to Kansas State.

Florida's winning streak was the school's longest since 2008-09. That included four straight SEC road games, and the Gators were attempting to win five straight conference games away from home for the first time in a season.

The Razorbacks scored 21 points off 16 Florida turnovers, and their bench outscored Florida 40-12. Clarke finished with nine points for Arkansas, while Mickelson and Madden each added eight as the Razorbacks finished 28 of 57 (49.1 percent) from the field.

"This is our house, so we're used to shooting in it," Powell said. "... It's just showing us what we can do. I mean, of course, we've got to take it on the road, but it just shows you the level of potential that we have and how hard we work every day."

Associated Press

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