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"In other games, we started to play good on defense and that was why we played good and won those two games." |
St. Cloud State's coaching staff was also glad that Hrenak got to experience the tournament. |
"Year after year, that's some of the most spirited hockey that you'll see: it's young kids playing their hearts out every day," said St. Cloud State assistant coach Mike Gibbons, who was an assistant coach for Team USA in the tournament in 2006. "The coolest thing, year after year, is that it's the future of the NHL. T... |
Hrenak also impressed St. Cloud State coach Bob Motzko with his performance against Canada. Motzko is the head coach for Team USA, which defeated the Czech Republic 9-3 for the bronze medal Friday. |
"We got a text from Bob that said that David was a stud in that game and he was," Gibbons said. "He faced some impossible shots." |
The undrafted Hrenak, 19, has gone through a lot of changes in the last 16 months. He moved to the United States in the fall of 2016 to play junior hockey for the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League. |
He began last season as the backup to Russian Maksim Zhukov, who was taken in the fourth round of last summer's NHL Draft by the Vegas Golden Knights. |
They ended up splitting time and Hrenak (15-14-1, 2.24 GAA, .923) ended up with slightly better numbers than Zhukov (19-18-1, 2.25, .913). Hrenak went into the season with no interest in playing college hockey, but then had to decide which scholarship offer to accept. |
"When I was leaving Slovokia to go to Green Bay, I was never expecting to go to college," Hrenak said. "But I saw so many guys going from the USHL to college that I saw that it's smart and I should do it if I get an opportunity. |
"When the (St. Cloud State) coaches called me, I wanted to go there ... they were so nice to me. I was talking to other schools, but when St. Cloud State coaches called me, I was like 'I really want to go there.'" |
Hrenak verbally committed to play for the Huskies in February with St. Cloud State already having three goalies who were underclassmen on their roster. |
"With goalies, the dots start connecting when you start seeing them put up the numbers," said Garrett Raboin, St. Cloud State's other assistant coach. "(The Gamblers) had a guy in Zhukov, who was supposed to go high in the draft, and (Hrenak) gained steam as the season wore on. |
"There was more of a buzz going on him as the season went on." |
Hrenak was not sure how much he would play when this season began, particularly after the way the first few practices went. |
"The first couple practices, I couldn't stop the puck," he said. "The players were older and stronger and could shoot so much better." |
Throw in going to an American college when English is not your first language and it was not the smoothest of starts. |
"The first two to three weeks were the hardest," he said. |
But he played in six of St. Cloud State's first 15 games and is 5-1 with a 1.82 GAA and .947 save percentage. That includes shutout wins over Minnesota-Duluth and Nebraska-Omaha and a 34-save performance in a 3-1 win over No. 6 North Dakota. |
"He tracks the play so well that he never really gets surprised," Raboin said. "That has a calming effect on our team. He doesn't scramble around and he meets the puck." |
"He's structurally sound, and I also think he's mentally sound," Gibbons said. "Like any freshman, he's had some games where he wished he could've played better ... He always seems to be in the right spot (positionally) and he also has good quickness." |
Gibbons, Raboin and Motzko agree about Hrenak's good personality. |
"All three of us have said, 'That might be the most excited and nicest kid we've ever talked to,'" Raboin said with a smile. |
Hrenak is the type of person who could probably find the sunshine in a 10-year-old outdoor garbage can. |
It can be easy to get wrapped up in his personality, but there's a developing goalie behind that cheery disposition. |
"Don't be fooled by that smile: There's a quiet compete to him where he wants to win and stop pucks as much as anyone," Gibbons said. |
The Labor Department will allow states to create their own retirement savings plans. |
President Obama on Monday announced a new regulation to help people, including a famed liberal Supreme Court justice, save for retirement. |
Under the new directive, retirement savings plans created by states will be allowed to move forward. Those plans, which are federally regulated, will operate under a safe harbor and won't be disrupted by federal law. |
"If every state did this, tens of millions more Americans could save for retirement at work," Obama said during a speech at the White House's Conference on Aging, a summit held once every decade since the 1960s. |
Talking about some of the country's most prominent older Americans, Obama name-checked the oldest and "toughest" member of the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling her the popular nickname "the notorious RBG." |
Three states have passed legislation to create their own retirement savings programs, and the trend is on the upswing: More than 20 states are considering similar proposals. The Labor Department is set to propose a regulation by the end of the year to clarify how states can create the plans. |
"We want to do everything we can to encourage more states to take this step," Obama said. |
He also announced a plan modernize the rules that nursing homes must follow to get Medicare and Medicaid payments, as well as a push to "train more prosecutors in how to combat elder abuse." |
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The Brazilian city like you've never seen it. Really. |
Rio de Janeiro is called cidade maravilhosa, or the "marvelous city," for a reason. "How is one melancholic in Rio de Janeiro?" asks the Brazilian writer Tatiana Salem Levy. "You lower your head, but on your right side a hill rises up, majestic; on the left side, scandalous nature makes its presence felt; in front of y... |
Capra, a Los Angeles-based photographer who was on assignment in Rio for Panasonic, says he took the exceedingly rare step of shooting the video in 10K resolution, which sounds pretty impressive but requires explanation. Resolution is usually expressed as image width (in pixels) multiplied by image height (also in pixe... |
Each raw frame in Capra's time-lapse is a staggering 10,328 x 7,760 pixels. But today's technology simply isn't equipped to transmit such vivid detail (plus, as Capra pointed out, there's debate over whether the human eye can even appreciate any resolution above 4K). Like most HD TVs, Vimeo (where Capra posted his vide... |
To overcome these problems, Capra divided his video into five shots, each of which consists of hundreds of still images strung together sequentially. Each shot sequence begins with his full-resolution footage scaled down to 14 percent to accommodate Vimeo's restrictions. |
The next shot condenses the footage to 50 percent of its original size. "You are still seeing the 10K footage at its full resolution, but we have just zoomed into it," Capra explained. "The scaling does not change the resolution, only how much you see of the entire frame." |
Then we zoom in again, to full scale (100 percent). |
"It is pretty amazing how much you can zoom into an image in 10K and retain all the detail," Capra told me. "Take any image off the web or from your own camera and zoom in really far, most likely it will look terrible. With this Phase One camera the shot looks great even at 100 percent." |
Time-lapse videos have an ineluctable goshwow appeal to them ("5 years of the sun in 3 minutes!"), but they can also be recruited for more sober purposes like visualizing the normally imperceptible accretions of environmental damage and climate change. And Capra believes they have additional value. They allow you to se... |
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A story: Big ups to Bill Healy for showing me this Newsweek spread. The headline of this article is "Chicago Steps Out. The Second City is finally hip. Now Rahm has to keep it rolling." Seriously. The photos in the article show the faces of new Chicago: Desiree Rogers and David Axelrod. Um, Rogers ran the lotto. And th... |
Chicago is not hip because of Rahm. Sorry, but it might actually be the exact opposite. Mayor Elect Emanuel seems to play best to the middle-earth section of Chicago. You know, downtown, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, etc. Last I checked, rich didn't necessarily equal hip. As for making the argument that we are the hotte... |
Terrible marks. Worst article of the day. Back to the drawing board with the new Newsweek, Ms. Brown (I'm a huge fan, btw). |
B story: Here's my inattentive analysis of the Weis/CPD situation. Please correct me if I'm off base here: Weis' contract is up. Mayor Elect Emanuel already said Weis is not his guy. Daley asked Weis to stay on for two more months, without an extension. Weis said get lost, I gots to get paid!!!! Rumors h... |
C story: Groupon is being sued by a fan of Whirly Ball. The fan didn't use his coupon on time, now he's suing. Wait, Whirly Ball is still open? How is it that we live in a city where the economy claims Carson Pirie Scott and Borders but Whirly Ball is thriving? |
Weather: It's deceivingly cold. Sun is shining, but it's windy. |
Sports: Tommie Harris is out. Here's something to consider when digesting the news that Tommie Harris has been cut by the Chicago Bears. When Harris was drafted, several teams passed on the monster talent because of injury concerns. He fell to the Bears in the middle of the first round. Harris proved he could play... |
Kicker: Alderman Ed Bus is making his first post-election appearance tonight at the Drinking & Writing show at the Haymarket Pub. They are making a new Alderman Ed Bus brew. Seriously, the fake alderman has a real beer named after him. |
Which markets are closed on Wednesday’s national day of mourning for the 41st president? |
Bush’s service dog, Sully, lays beside the casket containing the late president’s remains at a Houston funeral home. |
President George Herbert Walker Bush, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 94, is being remembered at a National Cathedral memorial service in Washington on Wednesday, which has been designated a national day of mourning by President Donald Trump. It is the first such farewell to a president in over a decade. |
U.S. flags will fly at half-staff, and U.S. markets, including trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, will grind to a halt in honor of the U.S.’s 41st president. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.42% the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.16% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.02% thus will be at standstill... |
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or Sifma, an influential financial-industry trade group, has recommended that bond markets close on Wednesday. That means that trading in bonds like the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.00% could see limited action on Dec. 5. |
Meanwhile, futures giant CME Group CME, -0.32% will shut down trading of interest-rate and futures and options products for the day, though electronic trading and trading in energy and metals futures will have a regular session, including those for oil US:CLF9 and gold US:GCG9 “We are deeply saddened by the passing of ... |
Weekend visitors sign a guest book at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas. |
The last time the market closed to mark the death of a president was on Jan. 2, 2007, in the wake of President Gerald Ford’s death. And the last time markets closed outside of a regular holiday was on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 2012, during the worst of Hurricane Sandy, according to Dow Jones Market Data. (Investor’s Business... |
President Bush’s death comes about eight months after the death of his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush. |
Bush is to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda from Monday until the memorial service at the National Cathedral on Wednesday. A second memorial service is slated to be held at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston on Thursday. Burial is slated to follow on the grounds of Bush’s presidential library at Texas A&M... |
Beyond Wall Street closures, Bush’s funeral could result in another development that is important to markets: a delay in a prospective government shutdown. |
According to reports, Trump may support a two-week delay of any government-shutdown battle over funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall until after Bush’s funeral. Government funding is set to expire on Dec. 7 for key departments, including the Department of Homeland Security. |
Government shutdowns, if they are prolonged, can elevate market anxieties and reduce risk appetite. |
The funeral for Bush, the father of the 43rd president, comes amid renewed optimism for investors after key market bugaboos were removed, at least for the moment. Trump’s temporary truce with President Xi Jinping over U.S.-China trade and the Federal Reserve’s dovish communications have underpinned recent buying in ass... |
For the 41st president’s part, he was a businessman in his own right, achieving success after graduating from Yale University with his wife in the oil fields of West Texas in the 1950s. He was also a military man: The U.S. Navy, in a Saturday homage on Twitter, wished the naval aviator “fair winds and following seas” i... |
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WAFB) - The 2014 NBA All-Star weekend is expected to draw large crowds in the French Quarter and around the metro New Orleans area. |
With the increased traffic, State Police believe there will be an increase in aggressive and impaired drivers on the roadways. |
LSP is partnering with the New Orleans Police Department and the State Fire Marshal's Office throughout the weekend. |
The added 120 Troopers will focus primarily on proactive patrols, criminal investigations, crowd control and traffic control. |
"State Police remains committed to ensuring the safety of Louisiana's citizens and tourists as the city of New Orleans hosts another NBA All-Star weekend," stated Colonel Mike Edmonson, State Police Superintendent. "For decades, Troopers have deployed to New Orleans in support of our New Orleans Police Department partn... |
The new novel from popular Hungarian author Péter Nádas sprawls over 50 years of Eastern European history as it strives to chronicle the intimate lives of the Hungarian political elite and those who serve them. Parallel Stories is impressive from moment to moment, but the accumulation of those moments impedes Nádas’ pu... |
In 1961 Budapest, privileged political scions Ágost and his friends Hans and András assemble regularly in a bathhouse, taking advantage of their status and enjoying the seclusion from families and jobs. When it comes to the country’s future, though, they keep their comments vague and platitudinal, restrained by their o... |
Parallel Stories sets out in narration like an epic, then lowers its sights to sit on the shoulders of its expansive cast and travel with them, minute by minute, through crumbling mansions and burned-out villages destroyed in World War II. When this approach works, it’s dazzling, particularly in the scene of a tryst be... |
That choice, in addition to a phallic obsession rivaling Alexander Portnoy’s, renders some of Nádas’ late setpieces claustrophobic instead of immersive. It’s not enough to know what Agost and his confidantes are plotting without seeing the consequences, and in refusing to give a few characters the privilege of towing t... |
The emergence of the DDoS-as-a-service industry has lowered the costs for attacks to $25 or less, allowing criminals with no technical expertise to reach profit margins of up to 95 percent, according to a report released last week. |
And the prices of the attacks are likely to drop even further, as more insecure connected devices come online and are hijacked by criminal botnet operators, said Michael Canavan, senior vice president for Kaspersky Lab North America at Kaspersky Lab ZAO, which produced the report. |
Sometimes, the criminals don't even have to launch the DDoS attack to get the ransom as their targets simply pay up. |
Plus, with a DDoS attack, there is no need to infect the target's machines. A simple email to the victim is enough to get the ball rolling. |
And the extortionists aren't the only ones making money. The average asking price of a typical DDoS attack is $25 an hour, the report said, while the costs of running that attack with 1,000 rented cloud-based servers is just $7 an hour. |
Using infected IoT devices for the botnet drives the prices even lower. |
"The Internet of Things has the potential to have a big impact for DDoS attacks as you move into the future," Canavan said. "It really makes security of IoT a critical topic around DDoS attacks." |
The low cost of the services also means that attackers can go after a wider variety of targets than they did previously, he said. |
"Before, it was the large organizations," said Canavan. "This opens up the opportunity for additional motivations driving attacks going forward." |
Anyone with a website or an e-commerce platform is a possible target, he said. |
"CSOs need to consider all the assets they have externally facing and how they can be affected by DDoS attacks, and looking at the cost-benefit analysis of having anti-DDoS solutions," he said. |
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