Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More (AP) — Vladimir Tarasenko is again showing he can shoulder the St The 30-year-old scored three times as part of a career-best five-point outing Louis rolled to its seventh straight win by beating the Buffalo Sabres 6-2 on Thursday night Putting behind questions of whether he could regain his prolific playmaking ability after missing much of the past two seasons with a nagging shoulder injury Tarasenko is fueling the Blues’ surge up the standings Tarasenko broke open a game tied at 2 by scoring twice in the second period including making a tremendous fake to turn rookie defenseman Owen Power inside out for a breakaway goal He then added an empty-netter to cap an outing in which he topped 30 goals for the sixth time in 10 seasons the 30-year-old has scored the winning goals in each of the Blues’ past three outings to give him a career-best nine on the season Vladdy can play like that,” center Robert Thomas said “We’ve just got to keep going and we’re going to have to rely on him a lot.” Thomas had five assists to extend his point streak to 11 games during which he has six goals and 23 points Louis’ first player to top 50 since Doug Weight had 51 in 2003-04 Brandon Saad and David Perron also scored for the Blues whose run has them battling the Minnesota Wild for second place in the Central Division standings and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs Jordan Binnington stopped 35 shots for his second straight win after four consecutive losses The winning streak is the Blues’ longest since an 8-0 run from Feb and they improved to 9-0-1 in their past 10 and Craig Anderson stopped 22 shots for Buffalo 1 draft pick’s first NHL point in his second career game since leaving Michigan to sign with the Sabres Tarasenko took Power to school on each of his first two goals The 19-year-old was caught out of position in allowing Tarasenko to score the go-ahead goal into an open right side of the net 7:18 into the second period And Power was caught flat-footed when Tarasenko sped past him up the right wing to score 5:27 later Power accepted what happened as a learning experience with Buffalo playing out its final string of games after having already been eliminated from playoff contention you have to learn a lot and you obviously make a lot of mistakes where you’re glad you’re able to learn from it,” he said “Every game I’m going to get better and work on things who has six goals and 11 points in his past four games and leading an offensively balanced Blues team which began the day ranked fourth in the NHL in goals and has now outscored its past seven opponents by a margin of 35-14 There’s a lot of times tonight that it was just OK “But it has the ability to be really good.” Buchnevich extended his point streak to eight games Thomas’ point streak was the second-longest active run entering Thursday behind Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau (12 games) The Blues improved to 15-2-1 in their past 18 meetings against Buffalo Sabres coach Don Granato earned recognition earlier in the day by being selected as an assistant coach for the U.S men’s national team to complete at the world championships in Finland next month Granato is in his first full season as Buffalo’s coach and has previously coached USA Hockey’s developmental program teams Blues: Host the Wild on Saturday in a showdown between the Central Division’s second- and third-place teams Sabres: Open a home-and-away set against Philadelphia by hosting the Flyers on Saturday This article was published more than 6 months ago Sonja Sinclair receives the Bletchley Park Commemorative Badge in 2017 at a ceremony in Toronto.Courtesy of family Sonja Morawetz (later known by her married name which operated out of a mansion in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill district next door to the prime minister’s residence it was so secret that she never told her husband and he died in 2006 without learning what his wife did in the war multifaceted life that also saw her become a successful writer raise a family and play a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov an industrial town in northern Czechoslovakia operated a jute factory and was quite rich in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French president Édouard Daladier handed over a huge slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler’s Germany was the writing on the wall for the Morawetz family Sonja was sent to a boarding school in England named Badminton At first Richard Morawetz said he was a patriot and would stay to support the Czech government left everything behind and took a train from Prague through Nazi Germany to France In a short book Sonja wrote about her family Morawetz recalled a terrifying moment at the border when an arrogant young German border guard asked him a trick question about whether he was really on a business trip They made it into France and were briefly in England where they picked up Sonja on their way to Canada Almost all of the relatives they left behind either died of diseases due to maltreatment or were murdered in Nazi concentration camps who was too nervous to travel across the Atlantic even though Richard found her a visa to the Dominican Republic The Morawetz family left for Canada on Sept the day Britain and France declared war on Germany following its invasion of Poland two days earlier The family settled in Toronto and Sonja was accepted into the University of Toronto She graduated from Trinity College with the gold medal and a degree in math and modern languages “It was that combination that mattered for her code-breaking work,” her daughter Helen Sinclair said The Canadian government went looking for Ms offering her work at the National Research Council which she quickly figured out was a cover for the real work they wanted her to do [Ms.] Morawetz was asked to come to External Affairs for an interview She found this surprising because she hadn’t applied there But it is in all likelihood that Trinity had suggested [Ms.] Morawetz as a possible employee for the Examination Unit [XU] She was offered a job at the National Research Council and started work at the XU on 7 June 1943,” Ottawa librarian Diana Pepall wrote in a pamphlet on the Examination Unit Sinclair was offered work at the National Research Council in 1943 but she soon figured out it was a cover for the real work they wanted her to do She was assigned to an Ottawa unit which deciphered messages sent in French to the delegation of the Vichy regime in Ottawa.Courtesy of family Stone told her she had to swear an oath of secrecy and allegiance to King George VI “I had no problem with the oath of secrecy but I said I had trouble with swearing allegiance to the King since I was still a citizen of Czechoslovakia Stone shrugged his shoulders and said well we’ll just forget that one,” she recalled in a recorded interview in 2017 The British government ran the secretive Bletchley Park where teams of clever men and women worked at breaking German codes They were helped by knowing about Germany’s Enigma Machine A group of men and women in Ottawa were a subsection of the Bletchley Park operation connected through the British Security Coordination in New York run by the Canadian Sir William Stephenson For two years the group of about 40 people in Ottawa received material in German Japanese and French; part of France and its colonies were the Nazi puppet state known as Vichy France deciphered messages sent in French to the delegation of the Vichy regime in Ottawa Canada maintained full diplomatic relations with Vichy France until it was occupied by the Germans in November The unit continued to decode messages from the French fleet French colonies such as those in Africa and messages from the Free French under Charles de Gaulle “I was told to look for certain sequences of numbers which occurred in the transmission and translate those into common words in the French language,” she recalled The Examination Unit was overseen by External Affairs in particular a future prime minister of Canada Pearson was very closely involved with the organization of and the daily operations of the Examination Unit,” Ms and the building at 345 Laurier Avenue East in Ottawa was guarded 24 hours a day by the Veterans Guard The women who worked at the Examination Unit spent a lot of time together because they couldn’t share secrets with friends or family They spent spare time observing the habits of their next-door neighbour prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King “Anytime we weren’t busy we looked out the window and watched the prime minister walking his dog There was no security [for the prime Minister] just an elderly man walking his dog,” she said The people who worked in the Examination Unit took their oath of secrecy seriously “May I take this opportunity of reminding you of the Oath of Secrecy taken by all persons joining the staff of the Council,” members of the unit were told in a personal letter “The termination of your employment does not in any way release you from this oath.” Morawetz kept that secret until he she was 96 After the war she married Richard Sinclair a high-ranking officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force who stayed in the service she was told by the RCAF chaplain there that things would be easier if she converted to Christianity There followed the life of the military family moving to several Canadian cities and one overseas posting she told her husband she was taking a degree in journalism at Carleton University He was enthusiastic and offered to make breakfast and get the children off to school in the morning she started what became a successful freelance writing career Before classes she would head to the CBC Radio offices in the Chateau Laurier She was never without work at a long list of publications For many years she was one of the main stringers (freelance contributors) for Time Canada then a weekly publication with a Canadian section “Sonja was always assigned the tricky economic stories,” said Bob Lewis who was Toronto bureau chief of Time from 1972 to 74 “She was an elegant woman who mixed easily with Toronto’s high level business circles It was wonderful to have an experienced grownup around.” In addition to writing longer magazine pieces The first was of the Czech-born businessman who ran his global shoe empire from Canada the Canadian diplomat and father of Michael Ignatieff “I met her when she was ghost-writing my father’s memoirs in the 1980s,” Mr Ignatieff wrote to The Globe from Budapest Sinclair worked on several foreign assignments my mother went to Prague to do interviews for CBC Radio,” her daughter Helen said she always spoke it with a soft Czech accent Sinclair was among a small group of Canadians who helped make it happen he was whisked away to a farm outside the city then to a cottage on island owned by Sonja and Richard Sinclair It was a safe place for the dancer to stay until he was assured that Canada was not going to deport him back to the USSR After the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe Sinclair went to her native Czechoslovakia the writer who had become the country’s president Back in Canada she did some work for Price Waterhouse telling those accountants to use words that ordinary people could understand,” Helen Sinclair said the British government officially relaxed the rules of the Official Secrets Act for people who worked at Bletchley Park The British government wanted to award badges to the likes of Mrs Sinclair was given the Bletchley Park Commemorative Badge at a ceremony in Toronto in June Former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson and former Liberal Party leader Bob Rae spoke at the event including one illustrating how she chose to be loyal to her adopted country rather than her native country during the war I met a number of people including the military attaché of the Czechoslovak embassy in Ottawa He said to me one day 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For more information on our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions TORONTO (AP) — Sidney Crosby has been surrounded by the best hockey players on the planet at the World Cup of Hockey and still seems as if he is in a class by himself “He’s probably the best player of our generation,” Canada goaltender Carey Price said The Pittsburgh Penguins superstar has a World Cup-high nine points — two more than anyone else — and is within a win of adding another accomplishment to his Hockey Hall of Fame-ready resume Canada will play Team Europe in Game 2 Thursday night The eight-nation European team has been led lately by Tomas Tatar who scored his team’s only goal in a 3-1 loss Tuesday night in a 3-2 overtime victory over Sweden in the semifinals on Sunday acknowledged he is inspired by Crosby’s greatness And he knows slowing Crosby down is a key to forcing a Game 3 on Saturday night “I’m not saying one guy should be standing by him but we should be always aware of where he is on the ice,” Tatar said Crosby has been much more effective than he was in his last best-on-best tournament appearance He had only one goal and two assists at the 2014 Sochi Games where he won his second Olympic gold medal In the World Cup opener against the Czech Republic alone he produced as many points with a goal and two assists in a sensational stretch of the game that lasted less than 20 minutes Crosby insisted he could not care less that he has already tripled the number of points he had in Russia it was more about why weren’t we scoring and the teams we were playing we’re supposed to be winning by a certain amount of goals but we knew that we had to play a certain way and sometimes that meant not scoring five or six to win.” Crosby’s coach at the previous two Olympics put Crosby on a line with Boston Bruins teammates Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron at the World Cup The trio has combined for 22 points in five games “He got feeling it early,” Babcock said he’s feeling it and he thinks it’s going in.” Crosby has continued the roll he started last season when he won his second Stanley Cup and was named the postseason MVP with 19 points in 24 games coming close to being named NHL MVP for the third time in his career he finished a career-high seventh in voting for the Selke Trophy that recognizes the league’s best defensive forward “He’s been obviously playing really well since last December,” said Zdeno Chara a Team Europe defenseman who also plays for the Bruins Canadian and Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said Crosby is probably playing better than he ever has “The three tournaments I’ve had the opportunity I would say he’s playing unbelievable,” Doughty said Not that he didn’t play well at the other tournaments Follow Larry Lage at www.twitter.com/larrylage and follow his work at www.bigstory.ap.org/content/larry-lage Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser 2019 (()=>{var e=async t=>{await(await t())()};(self.Astro||(self.Astro={})).load=e;window.dispatchEvent(new Event("astro:load"));})();The Source Of The Sun's Plasma Rain Has Finally Been Discovered By Meera Dolasia - 718 words 5 minutes Coronal rain like that captured by NASA's SDO in 2012 is sometimes visible after solar eruptions (Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory/Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman Lead Animator) While rain on Earth is associated with water precipitation on the Sun comes as giant clumps of plasma which drizzle down from the star's atmosphere on to its surface Though coronal rain has been observed on numerous occasions which researchers believed would help them better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere a graduate student at The Catholic University of America in Washington Mason's quest to discover the origin of coronal rain began in mid-2017 when she started sifting through the images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory a spacecraft that has photographed the Sun every twelve seconds since its launch in 2010 She was particularly focused on the helmet streamers — closed magnetic loops which connect regions of opposite magnetic polarity Often visible protruding from the Sun during a solar eclipse the massive million-mile tall loops were identified by computer simulations as the most likely source of the precipitation Though the researcher found no evidence of the plasma rain in the helmet streamers Mason did observe a series of tiny magnetic structures beside them that she was unfamiliar with they had tens of hours of rain at a time.” "I never found it [rain in the helmet streamers] — I see it all the time in these other structures but they’re not helmet streamers." Nicholeen Viall a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a coauthor of the paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on April 5 I don’t think anybody’s ever seen that before!" The structures Mason was referring to are called null-point topologies These magnetic loops are very different in structure from the helmet streamers and measure just tens of thousands of miles high “These loops were much smaller than what we were looking for,” said Dr who is also a solar physicist at Goddard and a co-author of the paper “So that tells you that the heating of the corona is much more localized than we were thinking.” Mason believes the process is similar to that on Earth the water cycle begins when liquid water from the oceans lakes and streams evaporates due to the sun's heat and rises into the atmosphere The cooler air above causes the water vapor to condense into clouds which eventually get heavy enough to be dragged down by gravity and fall as rain the electrically-charged plasma follows the magnetic loops emerging from the hot star's surface the thousand-degree gas gets superheated to over 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit This causes the plasma to expand and gather at the top of the loop As it moves away from the sun's intense heat falls along the loop's sides as coronal rain Though Mason's discovery did not solve the mystery of how the Sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than the star itself “We still don’t know exactly what’s heating the corona but we know it has to happen in this layer,” she said While the main source of the rain has been found NASA scientists are convinced there is more to be found in the helmet streamers as well “Maybe it’s so small you can’t see it?” asked Antiochos “We really don’t know.” While this means Mason will have to pore over thousands of additional photos but honestly it’s my favorite thing,” she said “I mean that’s why we built something [ like the SDO] that takes that many images of the Sun: So we can look at them and figure it out.” Print Cite Article View Comments 873 Comments (873) Post comment unkone 6 years ago i love spase so much Reply 0 Likes ilovedogsssssss 6 years ago Wow Reply 1 Like bnn 6 years ago wow Reply 1 Like SOIBA 6 years ago nice Reply 1 Like sky 6 years ago hi this is soooo cool Reply 1 Like SOIBA 6 years ago cool right Reply 1 Like scarlett 6 years ago so cool Reply 1 Like foxin 6 years ago Wow!My mind is blown💥!!!I wonder it this could effect the world and galaxy Reply 1 Like Jaya Quails 6 years ago It was awesome it was amazing Reply 1 Like cross 6 years ago i like this X (Twitter) © 2025 DOGO Media Collaboration Site | Physics Results it was the moment when he found the chemistry laboratory kit from his uncle in his parents' house Curiosity has always been the main driving force in science – and Martin was no exception “There was no chemistry book or any instruction manual So my first experiment was to mix everything together and see what happens.” he recalls smiling “Luckily there were no acid components included so there was no danger that I could create some explosives and destroy the house.” Martin installed his little laboratory down in the cellar where he spent hours of experimenting – first just by himself and later “My parents did not really understand what was going on she got me some from the hospital.” The chemistry experiments also had an impact on his school career as he could show some of his solutions in class Martin was interested in “the whole science” - biology It was during grammar school that physics took more and more the priority “Our physics teacher stayed in touch with Charles University where he studied physics He made us participate in physics competition using tests and problems to be solved [that] he received every month from his university,” Martin remembers Another impact on his raising interest in physics came from a summer school where he participated in an astronomy class for two weeks during the summer They had star gazing lessons in the observatory of Upice As it is his credo that scientists should aim not only to explore Martin decided to become an instructor at this summer school I started to organise the Astronomická Expedice Summer School and since 2009 I am the main organiser I manage different lessons and lead groups of people.” To create science addicts who maybe one day will decide to pursue a career in science like him When he started his studies at Charles University in Prague he found out that the particle physics department was much better suited than astronomy when it came to finding a subject for his thesis And that's where he chose to work on "Jets in pp and PbPb collisions at LHC" As modules of the Semiconductor Tracker were tested at Charles University Martin was trained as a shifter on the SCT detector “I started to work on trigger for heavy-ion collisions because it was an uncovered area in the Heavy Ion program,” he explains “[CERN] is an amazing place for everything.” Martin just started his PhD this year at Charles University but he stumble over the most interesting effect observed so far “Usually I travel to CERN to do shifts (on SCT sub-detector) but this time I came to participate on analysis of the first data And then we had a stable beam for one week and collected so much data It is just perfect that this happens at the beginning of my thesis,” he says enthusiastically “Publishing the paper was so exciting Everyday meetings with Fabiola and in the restaurant as we could not mention this event in public.” He grins “And I like watching science fiction movies everything that is playing in the future with aliens I love to watch Stargate SG1 and Starwars.” Meanwhile his interest in astronomy remained intact: “I have still my telescope but the air around Prague is so light-polluted it is too heavy.” But luckily there are these two weeks at the Astronomická Expedice Summer School… Organisational chart