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As post offices prepare for the holiday rush of cards, letters and packages, they are seeking to remind customers that a snowstorm can be just around the corner.

Considering the extreme winter weather we had last year, it is never too early to plan for this years season, Postmaster Michael Thompson said. We are asking our postal customers to keep walkways and curbside mailboxes clear of snow and ice to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of mail this winter.

Letter carriers are especially vulnerable to slips, trips and falls during the winter months. Slippery surfaces can be dangerous and costly for homeowners, as well as for their visitors including their letter carriers. By clearing a path when the snow arrives, accidents can be prevented.

Letter carriers cannot make door or curb deliveries when the approach to the mailbox is hazardous because of snow or ice. Carriers are not allowed to attempt door delivery when there is a heavy buildup of snow and ice on sidewalks, steps or porches. They are not allowed to dismount for curbline boxes blocked by snow and ice buildup.

We greatly appreciate the support of our customers in this endeavor, Thompson said. Your letter carrier will thank you.

Source: U.S. Postal Service

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The most famous animal within Napa city limits is no beast, but a misshapen bulge from the side of a 50-foot-tall eucalyptus off Dry Creek Road.

It takes only a bit of squinting at its broad trunk to see a snout and antlers, and countless unknown passers-by have used spray paint to fill in the picture, or to create their own images.

Over the years, this three-dimensional Rorschach blot has sported the rainbow colors of the gay-rights movement, or an orange-and-black pattern after yet another San Francisco Giants world championship or the eyes, nose and mouth that complete its usual image, the head of a moose.

Soon, however, the wooden animal head well enough known to merit its own Facebook page may need a new home, as a developer seeks the citys blessing to build 14 houses near the tree bearing the moose head not to mention a sidewalk directly through where the tree stands, weathered and weakened.

Edenbridge Homes, a Cupertino firm, has filed plans with the city for a cluster of houses just east of Dry Creek Road, south of Trower Avenue. To make room for the three- to five-bedroom dwellings, and an extension of Napier Court to access them, builders plan to remove trees from a 3.5-acre plot including the moose tree.

Where many residents see a cheeky canvas, a lighthearted town symbol, Napa parks and planning officials instead see an aged and fragile roadblock.

The moose tree is in bad health, its destructive to the ground, its fire-prone, and it has heavy branches prone to breaking and some of those branches are 2 feet thick, Michael Allen, the city associate planner, said minutes before the Planning Commission met Thursday night to comb through the housing plans, including the future of the woody moose.

A handful of near neighbors to the moose tree were among the 15 people present at City Hall. But their questions were far more mundane, mostly having to do with how to enter the new subdivision, not what might or might not adorn it. Homeowners weighed in on where to build entryways to an extended Napier Court from Alexander Street as city planners wanted, or directly onto Dry Creek Road? but the wooden moose went unmentioned.

Finally, after poring over tree replacement, the removal of a buried fuel tank and filling a sidewalk gap along Dry Creek Road, the commissioners turned their attention to the moose head. They recalled the varied opinions neighbors had shared in a late-October forum on the housing plan, some treating the moose-painting as a fun tradition, others dismissing it as a garish nuisance and vandalism target.

This is a real head-scratcher, said Commissioner Paul Kelley. I understand the dangers of that eucalyptus, but theres got to be some way to preserve the character feature of that tree.

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Strike rate: Ed Cowan is going on the attack with the bat. Photo: Philip Gostelow

Being a resolute opener got Ed Cowan into the Test team - but by the end of last season it had sapped almost all the enjoyment he had savoured from playing the game over the past decade.

The NSW-born Tasmanian never relished the constant public depictions of him as the dour opener who served as the yang to David Warner's yin, because he felt it sold him short as a batsman. As he digested the 2013-14 season, however, he conceded it was warranted. His record of 662 runs at 38.94 was solid but his strike rate of 42.88 of was the third lowest of the Sheffield Shield's top 30 run-scorers, in front of only Cameron Bancroft and Scott Henry.

Simply, batting "had become a bit of a grind - making runs was hard work".

"I think I'd faced 300 more balls than I had in any other shield season, but I ended up with 300 fewer runs than my best year. That to me says I just wasn't scoring, I was surviving," he said.

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Cowan is not an inherently defensive player; it is just that he has been ever since he was on the radar of Australian selectors. When the now 32-year-old moved from NSW to Tasmania five and a half years ago it brought a change in approach "came about from batting on a pretty green Bellerive wicket where driving was really out of the question, unless you enjoy doing crosswords".

"I sort of manufactured a technique to score runs at home that involved cutting and pulling and locking into a front-foot defence. I held my bat up high so I could drop my bat into the line of the ball and play a perfect forward defence, but I couldn't drive the ball, let alone swing at the ball."

Cowan's response, devised while he was simultaneously electing whether to stay in Hobart or return to Sydney to better suit his family and also creating his fledgling Tripod Coffee business in what little spare time he had, was to attempt to turn back the clock a decade in terms of his batting philosophy, albeit complemented by "the mental skills of 10 years of first-class cricket".

"My technique had become a bit of a caricature of what it was reputed to be ... but I've flipped that on its head, I've changed my thinking. Now, rather than 'how is this bowler going to get me out?' it's 'how am I going to attack him?' That's come about through not only through a shift in thinking but having the mechanics to do that," he said.

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Image Caption: This is a time-lapse photograph of the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launch, taken from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2013. The image is from the last of four launches. Credit: T. Arai/University of Tokyo

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An experiment designed by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and carried into space on a NASA sounding rocket has detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more infrared light than is produced by the known galaxies in the universe, officials at the US space agency announced on Thursday.

The researchers detected the surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies, and they believe that the glow is from orphaned stars that had been ejected from galaxies. Furthermore, the Caltech researchers, who reported their findings in the journal Science, could redefine the scientific definition of a galaxy to indicate that they do not have set boundaries but are vast and interconnected.

The observations were obtained from NASAs Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket, and according to the agency, they are helping to settle an ongoing debate about whether this background infrared light (which had previously been detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope) originated from streams of far-flung stars that are too distant to be observed individually, or if it comes from the first galaxies to form in the universe.

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In the new study, Caltech physics professor Jamie Bock, senior postdoctoral fellow Michael Zemcov and their colleagues report that the best explanation is that the cosmic light came from stars that had been ejected from their parent galaxies and flung out into space as those galaxies collided and merged with other galaxies. These previously undetected stars could actually reside in what was thought to be dark spaces between galaxies, they added.

We think stars are being scattered out into space during galaxy collisions, Zemcov, lead author of the study and an astronomer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. While we have previously observed cases where stars are flung from galaxies in a tidal stream, our new measurement implies this process is widespread.

Image Above: This graphic illustrates how CIBER team measures a diffuse glow of infrared light filling the spaces between galaxies. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Following a vicious headshot that sidelined Nathan Horton in Game 3 of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals, a well-worn Starter jacket hung alone in his vacant locker stall. The jacket was awarded to the player of the game, and embodied the camaraderie of the tight-knit locker room. On that night, it served as a rallying cry.

The jacket was the brainchild of Andrew Ference.

Ference was an integral part of building a championship culture in Boston, on and off the ice. Now hes trying to take what hes learned to his team in Edmonton.

Following the 2012-13 season, Ference signed a four-year deal with the Oilers and was named their captain. Hed served as an alternate captain with the Bs, and it was clear Edmonton coveted him for his locker room presence in addition to his performance on the ice.

Those are really great lessons, Ference said yesterday of what he discovered as a Bruin. To see something that did take time and effort to build, but could be so successful once it was there. Thats some of the same messaging that you try to pass on to the situation that Im in, in Edmonton.

When Ference arrived via trade on Feb. 10, 2007, the Bs werent a playoff team and Dave Lewis was their coach. Their ascension to becoming among the NHLs elite was a process that occurred over the course of his seven-year tenure with the team, as was the jelling of the locker room.

In Edmonton he realizes that itll take time for a transformation to happen as well. The Oilers have been mired in mediocrity for almost a decade, but are one of the youngest teams in the league. They have four top-five draft picks that have yet to turn 23. The 35-year-old captain is trying to lead by example, as the youth on his club makes it an even more impressionable than most.

Ference says hes trying to create solidarity by doing things like, making sure the young guys, and everybody, are coming into the rink with a positive outlook. Creating an atmosphere that doesnt get rattled with that negativity or anything like that, and has the ability to look at the bigger picture.

The defenseman was resigned to the press box for last nights contest, as he was serving the second of a three-game ban for an illegal check on Vancouver forward Zack Kassian.

Ference wasnt happy about having to sit out at the Garden.

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