There's been a lot of chatter about the amount of apps in the Windows Store ahead of this week's Windows 8 launch. Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down with Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows Web Services Antoine Leblond to discuss the current state of the Windows Store and the new developer ecosystemSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/uNQiEKREFVo/
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Field hockey in quarterfinals Friday
The Champlain Valley Union High School field hockey team will face off against second-seeded Essex High School on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, the Redhawks?seeded at number seven with a 6-6-2 record?won their first playoff game against 10th-seeded Colchester High School.
If the Redhakws win Friday?s gam?set for 3:30 p.m. at Essex?they will head to the semifinal match on Tuesday.
On Oct. 18, CVU narrowly lost its last regular season game against Burlington 0-1.
?Observer staff report
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Football heads to BFA-St. Albans
The Champlain Valley Union High School football team will head to Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans on Friday night for its first round of playoff games.
The last time the two teams met, BFA defeated the Redhawks 14-28, though many of CVU?s key players sat that game out due to injuries.
On Oct. 19, the Middlebury High School defeated the CVU 7-35 in the last game of the regular season. The Redhawks finished with a record of 5-3.
?Observer staff report
Source: http://www.willistonobserver.com/sports-roundup-field-hockey-football/
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Well, multijets with 1 lepton and MET
All the observations at the LHC are so far consistent with the Standard Model, including the \((125.7\pm 0.5)\GeV\) Higgs boson. Well, kind of. There are some possibly emerging hints of deviations.
Google's doodle celebrates Niels Bohr's birthday on October 7th, 1885.
Multilepton and multijet excesses belong among the "so far small anomalies" that people like me carefully watch. And ATLAS just gave us a new reason to watch multijets today because they released the following preprint:
Search for supersymmetry at \(\sqrt{s} = 7\TeV\) in ?nal states with large jet multiplicity, missing transverse momentum and one isolated lepton with the ATLAS detectorThe paper officially announces that the analysis based on the 2011 dataset is consistent with the Standard Model. However, the consistency isn't as good as you may be expecting. The data are actually pretty interesting.
Well, most figures (including Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) show some excesses ? getting somewhat close to 2 sigma. Let's look at Figure 6, for example.
You see that the region beneath the thick crimson curve was excluded ? but one actually expected to exclude a larger region, up to the dashed blue line above it. They're within 1+ theoretical sigma away from each other. Still, the decrease of the crimson full curve in the middle of the graph looks somewhat steep ? as if the exclusion curve were trying to avoid the point\[
m_0=1,500\GeV,\quad m_{1/2}=300\GeV
\] or a nearby point. I want to suggest to the optimistic reader that MSUGRA/cMSSM with these parameters could have something to do with the reality.
If you look at previous TRF blog entries on multijets and multileptons, you will see that the multilepton remarks dominate. However, you will discover a multijet CMS excess although it was based on the tiny 2010 dataset only.
Nanopoulos et al. have actually been somewhat excited about the 9-jet signals as a possible sign of their favorite "aromatic" \({\mathcal F}-SU(5)\) model.
There's obviously no smoking fun in the new ATLAS paper based on the 2011 data but if the excesses are real, then the collisions that have already been recorded should be enough for a 4-sigma bump or so.
Sometimes in November, at the Kyoto conference, Incandela of CMS promised a "small package of updates". However, both CMS and ATLAS probably only plan to release fully updated analyses with the whole 2012 dataset sometime in 2013.
Stay tuned. ;-)
Source: http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/10/atlas-some-small-multijet-excesses.html
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is in danger of suffering a long-term loss of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply as top exporter Qatar sends only left-over short-term deliveries to the UK while more and more of its LNG goes to higher paying Asian customers.
Analysts and British energy companies say the strategy rewards Qatar but puts Britain at a significant disadvantage.
Britain depends increasingly on Qatar to plug a growing energy supply deficit but has so far failed to receive a supply guarantee from the Gulf producer.
Instead, Qatar is trying to lock the majority of its gas into the Asian market through signing long-term supply deals with customers in Japan, South Korea and emerging markets like China and India, where gas demand is rising fast and prices are higher.
Qatari shipments provided a quarter of Britain's gas needs last year.
Supplying unattractively priced British markets currently works to Qatar's advantage as it withholds gas from Asia and keeps prices in target markets like Japan and South Korea high, just as long-term contracts are being negotiated.
But the lack of binding supply agreements means that a sudden rise in Asian demand could leave Britain short of much needed LNG imports.
"The UK's security of supply is not as good as previously thought," Niall Trimble, director of the Energy Contract Company said.
Fearing a sudden LNG supply disruption, especially during the high demand winter heating season, the British government is closely monitoring Qatari LNG flows, sources close to the matter said.
"This is compounded by the fact that we are the only importer on the planet without guaranteed supplies of LNG, so if there is another Fukushima-style event, it's our supply that would be hit," Trimble added.
The crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant in March last year and resultant idling of the country's nuclear power plant fleet spurred record imports of substitute fuels like LNG, with many cargoes diverted away from markets in Europe.
"Preliminary estimates for the first half of 2012 suggest that LNG imports in Europe were down a quarter compared to the same period of 2011, with the UK reduction close to 43 percent," energy consultants Wood Mackenzie said in a research report.
"European LNG imports peaked in 2011 and will decline through the medium term," it added.
British government documents seen by Reuters show that Qatari officials have repeatedly resisted calls to guarantee shipments, preferring instead to decide deliveries based on strategic objectives and market conditions.
"The draft agreement presented by the Qataris is not acceptable to Centrica - the cargos could be fully diverted, and price is high, and the contract duration (3 years) too short," the document says.
The details of a three-year, two billion pound ($3.23 billion) gas supply deal between British utility Centrica and Qatar signed in 2011 show that up to a quarter of Britain's gas may be diverted at Qatar's behest, according to briefing documents prepared for former UK energy minister Charles Hendry and supplied to Reuters by Greenpeace.
It also shows that Centrica failed to lure the gas-rich Gulf state into an initially proposed 20-year supply agreement worth 30 billion pounds.
LOOKING EAST
LNG exporters have largely set their sights on an Asian future as European gas demand is set to stagnate as a result of slow economic growth and low increases in population while there are plentiful pipeline supplies from Russia, Norway and North Africa.
"With Qatar now producing at full capacity, attention has turned to increasing market share in Asia," Wood Mackenzie said, adding that several long-term supply contracts with Asian partners had been signed with Qatar this year.
Because Qatar is producing at full capacity and has set a moratorium on expanding its export terminals, these new long-term supply deals mean that less Qatari gas will be available to be sent to Britain during a time when global gas markets are expected to tighten.
Some British officials have set their hopes on LNG exports from the United States, where a shale gas exploration boom in recent years has opened up vast new reserves that U.S. companies hope to export from 2015.
But analysts say that U.S. LNG exports are likely to be capped in order to guarantee domestically low energy prices, and that most U.S. LNG exports would likely flow to Asia, where prices are expected to remain higher for the foreseeable future.
Despite this risk, it is unlikely that Qatar will completely stop sending LNG tankers to Britain.
"It is not physically possible for Qatar to divert everything to Asia since its large vessel sizes are not compatible with many ports," an executive at Centrica said, ensuring that the UK continues received deliveries.
Additionally, Qatar holds significant LNG import assets in Britain, owning the South Hook terminal in the Welsh port of Milford Haven, and letting it sit idle would delay returns on investment for Qatar.
The Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey also defended Britain's handling of its gas supplies.
"The great strength of the UK's liberalised gas market is that it has the ability, through market means, to attract gas shipments as and when they are required," he told Reuters earlier this year.
So while Britain's chances of losing all its LNG supply to Asia for good appear slim for now, the threat hanging over Europe's biggest gas market is the prospect of large-scale periodic disruptions, which could cause sharp rallies, especially during peak-demand periods like winter. ($1 = 0.6186 British pounds)
(Editing by William Hardy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britains-gas-supply-prey-qatar-marketing-strategy-130435774.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? The New York attorney general's office has hit JPMorgan Chase & Co. with a civil lawsuit, alleging that investment bank Bear Stearns ? prior to its collapse and subsequent sale to JPMorgan in 2008 ? perpetrated massive fraud in deals involving billions in residential mortgage-backed securities.
The lawsuit is the first to be filed under the auspices of the RMBS Working Group, which was set up by President Barack Obama to investigate and prosecute alleged misconduct that contributed to the financial crisis.
New York-based JPMorgan said it intends to contest the allegations. Spokesman Joseph Evangelisti noted that the lawsuit relates solely to alleged actions by Bear Stearns prior to its takeover by JPMorgan in May 2008.
In the lead-up to the financial crisis, subprime mortgages were sold to people with less-than-ideal credit. Many of them defaulted on their loans when the housing bubble burst and their introductory "teaser" interest rates skyrocketed.
Because many of those mortgages had been sliced and repackaged as securities that could be bought and sold ? known as RMBS ? the mass defaults led to huge losses at large U.S. banks and other financial firms, helping fuel the global economic meltdown.
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is alleging that Bear Stearns led its investors to believe that the loans in its RMBS portfolio had been carefully evaluated and would be continuously monitored. Bear Stearns failed to do either, resulting in investors buying securities backed by mortgages that borrowers couldn't repay and defaulted on in huge numbers, Schneiderman alleges.
The complaint further alleges that even when Bear Stearns executives were made aware of the problems, the firm failed to correct its practices or disclose material information to investors. The executives routinely overlooked negative findings and continued to package the loans into securities for sale to investors, it says.
Investors have so far lost $22.5 billion on more than 100 subprime securities that Bear Stearns issued in 2006 and 2007, according to the complaint. That's over one-quarter of the original principal balance of $87 billion. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief, damages and payment of restitution to investors for "fraudulent and deceptive acts."
"We're disappointed that the NYAG decided to pursue its civil action without ever offering us an opportunity to rebut the claims and without developing a full record ? instead relying on recycled claims already made by private plaintiffs," JPMorgan's Evangelisti said in a statement.
"We will nonetheless continue to work with members of the president's RMBS Working Group and are fully cooperating with their inquiries," he added.
Bear Stearns teetered on the verge of bankruptcy in early 2008 after its two hedge funds imploded, costing investors $1.8 billion and kicking off the domino effect that led to the 85-year-old bank's demise. With the backing of the New York Federal Reserve, JPMorgan bought the ailing investment bank for about $2.3 billion.
Associated PressBaltimore Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, left, and manager Buck Showalter watch a baseball game between the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels on a center field scoreboard after beating Boston Red Sox 6-3 in Baltimore, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. If the Angels had lost, Baltimore would have clinched its first playoff berth since 1997. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Baltimore Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, left, and manager Buck Showalter watch a baseball game between the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels on a center field scoreboard after beating Boston Red Sox 6-3 in Baltimore, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012. If the Angels had lost, Baltimore would have clinched its first playoff berth since 1997. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Texas Rangers' Mike Napoli, right, celebrates his home run with Mitch Moreland (18) during the third inning of the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Texas Rangers fans hold signs for relief pitcher Koji Uehara, of Japan, during the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers won 8-7. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
The Texas Rangers are set for the playoffs, eager to break out the bats, balls and gloves for really big games.
Maybe they should log on to MapQuest, Hotels.com and Travelocity, too.
Because with three days left on the schedule, the postseason picture is still impossibly scrambled. An October free-for-fall, with not a single team yet certain of when, who and where it will play later this week.
Seven of the 10 playoff spots have been filled. Texas took care of three clubs Sunday ? its win over the Angels assuring the Rangers, Orioles and Yankees of postseason slots.
The only in-or-out race is in the AL Central, where Detroit has a magic number of one for eliminating the Chicago White Sox. Not so clear is which clubs will be division champs and which will be wild cards.
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