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Hawks sweep Falcons, advance to third straight state championship series
Mother Nature added a little drama to Bishop Hendricken's Division I semifinal series with Cranston West, but it didn't change the script.
The Hawks are heading back to McCoy Stadium.
After an extra-inning victory in game one, Hendricken led 3-1 in Monday's game two before heavy rain forced the game to be suspended in the fourth inning. Cranston West was in the midst of a rally when play was halted, and the Hawks didn't let it continue when the game resumed Tuesday. Leading 3-1, the Hawks escaped the inherited jam, tacked on three more runs and cruised to a 6-1 victory and a semifinal sweep.
The two-time defending champion Hawks will shoot for a third straight title beginning Tuesday at McCoy Stadium, where they'll match up with La Salle in a best-of-three series. The Rams swept Cumberland in the semifinals.
Hendricken knew it would have its hands full as it tried to get back to McCoy. Hendricken and Cranston West have combined for the last 11 state championships, and West was riding the momentum from a surprise run through its regional.
After the Hawks' victory in game one, they built a 3-0 lead in game two but were watching it get washed away with the rain on Monday night. Cranston West had pushed one run across and had runners on second and third, with Steve Piscopiello ahead 3-0 in the count, when play was suspended.
The game picked up at that point Tuesday, but the rally did not.
Gus Culpo came on in relief and got the Hawks out of trouble. He also pitched a scoreless fifth, before Hendricken added three insurance runs. Christian Travers tossed two hitless innings to finish off the win.
"The big thing was keeping them from scoring in that inning," said Hendricken head coach Ed Holloway. "If they had scored there, it's tough. It wasn't the first inning today but it felt like the first inning. We always say the team that scores first wins 75 percent of the time. We wanted to keep them from scoring. Gus did a good job there. We didn't give them any momentum."
Culpo is a senior right-hander, but he had made exactly one varsity appearance thanks to Tommy John surgery that wiped out last year and most of this one. With his swing-and-miss stuff, though, the Hawks didn't hesitate to go to him.
He responded.
Culpo worked to a full count then got Piscopiello to pop out to center, not deep enough to score the run. He then jumped ahead of Sam Franco 0-2 and induced a ground ball to shortstop. John Willette fielded and fired to first to abruptly end the threat.
"It was a tough situation, second and third, 3-0 count on the batter," Holloway said. "We had different options but we thought Gus had the best chance to strike people out in that situation, so that's what we decided to do, go with a power pitcher. He did a great job. That was huge."
West was visibly deflated.
"We had them on the ropes [Monday] and then we lost to Mother Nature," said West head coach Rob Malo. "Our philosophy tonight was that we needed to keep that rally going and score those runs, but it didn't work out for us."
West pitcher Myles Levy returned to the mound after starting Monday and cruised through a scoreless fifth, but the Falcons again came up empty in the bottom half. After a one-out walk to Gersham Rainone, Travis Collins singled. A fly-out by Kemi Idowu allowed Rainone to take third with two outs.
With Armand Vaziri in a 1-2 count, West sent Collins from first in an effort to draw a throw and steal a run. Culpo obliged, but as soon as Rainone broke for home, second baseman Ryan Rotondo fired to the plate and Gian Martellini made a sweeping tag on a sliding Rainone for the third out.
"It's tough when you know the situation and you've got 12, 13 hours to think about it," Malo said. "I must have played it over 500 times. At that point, I felt we needed to get something going. Maybe it was too soon for a gamble, but we wanted to make something happen. That's how it goes."
The Hawks then padded their lead in the sixth. The Falcons made two consecutive errors to open the frame and saw Andrew Ciacciarelli reach on a bunt to load the bases with nobody out. Sam Boulanger brought a run home with a groundout, Kevin Sutyla scored on a wild pitch and Willette smacked an RBI single to center – his third RBI of the game – to make it 6-1.
"You put the ball in play and you have a chance to make things happen," Holloway said. "We put a couple of bunts down that they didn't handle and that gave us a chance for a big inning. That was huge. It gave us some breathing room."
Austin Alzate relieved Levy and didn't allow another run, but the Falcons couldn't get anything going at the plate. Travers replaced Culpo and worked a perfect sixth. In the seventh, he hit Matt Lonardo with a pitch with two outs to give West a brief glimmer of hope, but then got a groundout to end the game.
"I think maybe the play in the fifth took the wind out of our sails, because we came out and had a bad inning," Malo said. "We really didn't hit the ball again after that."
Before the rains came on Monday, Hendricken led 3-1 thanks to two runs in the second and one in the fourth. Sutyla walked and Ciacciarelli singled to start the second before a sacrifice fly by Willette and an RBI single by Rotondo. Levy escaped further damage when he got Martellini to fly out.
Hendricken tacked on its third run in the fourth on an RBI triple to deep center by Willette that plated Sutyla, who had walked.
Hendricken starter Anthony Cofone allowed one hit in each of the first three innings but worked around all of them. In the fourth, he issued a leadoff walk to Idowu. Vaziri grounded into a force at second but reached first. Nik SanAntonio followed with a base hit to left and Mitch Carvalho walked to load the bases. With heavy rain falling, Vaziri raced home on a wild pitch, and the game was suspended soon after.
But the prime position did West no good on Tuesday, as Hendricken punched its ticket to McCoy.
The Hawks and Rams will each have nearly a week to line their pitching up and prep for the championship series, which begins with a 6:30 p.m. game on Tuesday.
The championship meeting will be just the second title match-up between the Hawks and Rams in the last 30 years. The only other one came in 2008, when the Hawks beat La Salle in one game for the title when the final rounds of the tournament were double-elimination.
"We've got great respect for La Salle. Geoff Marcone is a great coach and that's a good program," Holloway said. "We're going up there to play our best. We want a great series, and people in Rhode Island get to see two of the state's great programs. We're going to have to play our best ball to be in there, and I'm sure they feel the same way. I think it'll be a great series."


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For many who would lie on the floor watching children's shows on black-and-white TV sets, the death of children's TV host Sally Starr last month brought back fond memories.
The cowgirl Starr was one of many kids TV personalities on Philadelphia stations. They included Pixanne, Gene London, Captain Noah, Wee Willie Webber, Chief Halftown, Bertie the Bunyip and Happy the Clown. The shows often included puppets, jokes, songs and cartoons. Captain Noah was so popular that he could pull in big-time guests — including Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Stevie Wonder.

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The lights are on
One of the gaming industry's preeminent minds took the stage for a speech at the D.I.C.E. summit today, and his talking points didn't disappoint technophiles.
A self-acknowledged tech geek who feels more comfortable speaking to programmers about topics like the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem than he does distilling his theories for general audiences, Sweeney is the brilliant mind behind the nearly ubiquitous Unreal Engine, which powers many current generation games. Like id Software's John Carmack, his influence is so great that hardware developers bring him into the conversation early on to benefit from his insight. For his "Technology and Gaming in the Next 20 Years" presentation, he casually walked us through some of his computations that lay out an aggressive pattern of technological growth for the gaming industry.
He started by talking about the limitations of human physiology, saying our eyes are the equivalent to a 30-megapixel camera and framerate becomes imperceptible to us beyond 72 frames per second. The highest resolution we need is 8000x4000 pixels, which is slightly better than the 7630x4320-pixel prototype television Sharp showed off at CES this year. The technology isn't here yet, but it's coming soon.
Computer graphics are the art of approximating that reality, and Sweeney thinks we'll see lifelike representations of everything from lighting, subsurface scattering, skin, smoke, and fog in the near future.
"Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality," he said.
To reach the level where computers are
capable of producing truly lifelike approximations, Sweeney estimates
that we need roughly 2,000 times the computational power of today's
best graphics hardware. This level of processing power still doesn't
account for human thought, movement, speech, personality, or intent, so
there is still a lot of room to progress with artificial intelligence on top of the idealized graphics. Sweeney thinks we'll need a few more console generations to reach this level of fidelity.
He thinks the future is even more promising when you consider the potential of emerging technologies like gesture control, voice commands, persistent networks, cloud computing, augmented reality, and the sale of virtual goods. As we start to tap the potential of these technologies, Sweeney believes the platforms will start to consolidate.
"Only question is whether a game runs in your living room or in a
server," he said. "It's not going to change everything but it will make
things more convenient for gamers.... Our industry's brightest days are yet to come."
Sweeney will be inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame tonight at the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards hosted by Jay Mohr.
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It's obviously not going to be on those engines, unless you want to play with the same graphics for your whole life. Read the article.
"game graphics are going to get better in the future"
Yea, so hard to compute for us commonfolk.
Nah, Sweeney is a smart man.
Photorealism would be great, but it's nice to know that with that kind of technology developers can make all kinds of games look better, not just make it look like real life. Many of the most beautiful games this generation aren't realistic, such as Limbo and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. I can't wait to see when games could actually look like a moving painting, or exactly like hand-drawn animation.
That's cool, but I think games look good now. Not that I don't want improvements, I just think if all games looked like UC3, or BF3 we'd be pretty well set.
Eh I feel we are getting closer that much I agree with. In our lifetime? Perhaps I mean it is unsure how fast we could advance in terms of graphics and whether or not some devs will even indulge in such a thing. I mean it's something that I would like to see yes but I don't know. I'd like to see some Virtual Reality stuff though which may or may not be farther off...


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Louis Thompson is the stuff legends are made of, from his time playing for Coach Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama where he was on two national championship teams to his years on the football field at Lincoln County High School where he lead the Falcons to two state championships.
The coach, who has also served as vice principal and athletic director at LCHS since 2003, hung up his whistle as head coach of the Falcons after the 2010 football season, though last fall he got a chance to return to the program as coach of the offensive line.
It was "can't miss" opportunity, given the fact that he would be able to coach the oldest of his four grandchildren, Riley, in both his and his grandson's final year at LCHS.
Now, after 44 years of doing what he loves, Coach T is retiring for good.
"Since I've been here, I've gotten to coach a lot of great kids and even some of their children," he says. "That's really meant a lot, to be able to work with so many fine young men, and then of course, it was particularly meaningful for me to coach Riley. I'm really proud of him; he's a smart and fine young man."
Riley will be taking his final walk on the football field at LCHS Friday night when he graduates as valedictorian of the Class of 2013. It is sure to be especially meaningful for him, considering that his final walk will be in a stadium named for his father.
The Pit, as it was called for years, was named Meadows-Thompson Stadium at the start of the 2011 season, honoring Thompson and his predecessor, Coach John Meadows, another legend in the annals of Lincoln County football.
"Not only have I had the chance to work with some great kids, I've also had the opportunity to work with some wonderful administrators," says Thompson. "The principals I've worked for here are Jim Stewart, who I was with the longest, Neale Hanes, Paulette McCown, and most recently, Jacob Sorrells. I've also been worked under three superintendents, Jimmy Buchanan, Stan Golden and now Dr. Wanda Shelton.
"They're all great people," he continues. "Plus I've had the good fortune of working with some great coaches over the years … It's has been a very good 24 years of working in Lincoln County."
Coach T graduated from Lebanon High School and spent his college career playing for Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama, winning national championships in 1964 and 1965.
He started out his coaching career at Dadeville High School, going on to coach at Lebanon, Austin Peay State University and Unicoi County prior to coming to LCHS where he would take the Falcons to their second and third state championships in 1990 and 1993. Altogether, he took the Falcons to playoff appearances in 20 of his 22 years at their helm.
He served as president of the Tennessee Athletic Coaches Association in 1990 and was head coach of the Tennessee-Kentucky All-Star game in 1991. In 2003, he was assistant coach for the East-West Shrine Bowl All Star Classic. Then in 2005, Thompson was inducted into the TSSAA Hall of Fame.
"Our schools have changed a great deal in my time," he said. "There are increased demands as far as scores and graduation rates, and that's probably for the good. The advancements made in technology are just amazing, and that's probably for the good as well.
"The kids themselves are still the same," he says. "Most of them are great kids, and some have some real challenges."
Thompson gained his final honor last week with the dedication of the LCHS yearbook to him and two other educators, Gary Parke, and the late Clair Telford.
"Maybe more than anything I want to thank my wife, Peggy, and my family for all their support over the years," Thompson adds. "They've really stood by me, and I appreciate it."
Peggy, a longtime teacher here, retired two years ago. Their three children are Angie Mullins, who is also a teacher here, Jay, a coach and teacher in Dothan, Ala., and Taylor, an office manager in Franklin.
Angie's four children — the Thompson's grandchildren — include, in addition to Riley, 12-year-old Will and the twins, 10-year-olds Carlie and Claire.
"I don't have plans," the coach adds. "On May 17 I'm going to retire, and then I'm wide open … Maybe I'll do a little volunteer work, play some golf, hunt turkeys and deer, and probably, Peggy and I will do a little traveling."


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El Regresso, located at 189-191 S. 2nd St., is a state-funded center for recovering substance abusers.
Former assemblyman and City Council candidate Vito Lopez said the event was in honor of former Second Street resident, Adela Rivera, and to commemorate her efforts in preserving the neighborhood.
"We're here to pay tribute for a pioneer that's been around for 40 years," Lopez said. "She's the one that saved four of the buildings on this block."
While Lopez has been largely absent throughout the prime 2013 campaign season, he and his staff handed out fleece blankets to community members and joined in the South Williamsburg street fair to meet with constituents.
"It's a great event," Lopez said.
Yajaira Castillo, a Marcy Avenue resident, stopped by the street fair with her children to get out of the apartment in the dead heat of the summer.
"We're out here eating cotton candy, having fun and relaxing," Castillo said. "Especially for kids, this is something where they can come and have fun, and it's something good for the family."
Families danced to live music and children lined up for the inflatable funhouse and dunk tanks provided by NY Party Works.
"This is the best place ever," said Castillo's son, Marquis. "I just want to sleep here and stay here."


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NH church volunteers to help in Oklahoma tornado cleanupBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 05. 2013 8:32PM
MANCHESTER — Thirty Manchester area residents will head to Oklahoma next week as part of a church-based initiative to help two communities struggling with the aftereffects of last month's devastating tornado.
The members of Manchester Christian Church are using their own money to fly next Tuesday to Oklahoma City, where they will break into two groups. One team will head to Moore, the other to Shawnee, said Sue Mazur, outreach director for the 2,800-member church.
Homes and businesses in the two communities were badly damaged by a tornados last month.
Twenty-four people died when the tornado struck Moore on May 20; two people died in Shawnee from a tornado the day earlier.
Eleven days laster, a tornado struck Oklahoma again, bringing devastation anew to several communities, including Moore. Eighteen people died from that tornado.
The 30 Manchester Christian Church volunteers will work on debris cleanup and stay in church basements, Mazur said. Part of the work involves cataloging lost items and trying to connect families with those items, some that were found miles away from where they belong, she said.
She said the church initially asked for 15 volunteers. But the response was strong enough that a second team was added.
"Our church as a whole is very compassionate," said the pastor, the Rev. Bo Chancey. "They love to care for people, be actively involved, put their faith and love in action."
The effort is being coordinated through Samaritan's Purse, which describes itself as a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization that provides spiritual and physical aid to people suffering from war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine.
Mazur said Samaritan's Purse has drawn support from many churches, most of them closer to Oklahoma than Manchester.
"When they hear we're from New Hampshire, they're shocked," she said. The church is also collecting Home Depot and Lowe's gift cards to give to people whose property was damaged by the tornado.
firstname.lastname@example.com volunteers are bringing sleeping bags and other bedding materials. One group will stay at the Family of Faith church in Shawnee. The other Moore group will stay in the Oklahoma City Baptist Church.
Mazur said when it comes to disaster relief, Christian denominations put their theological differences aside and work to help others.


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Seattle Apple Store Tiger Launch Images
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In case you missed it, Apple dropped Tiger on us the other day, and the reviews have been astounding. One thing that always amuses me is the fact that Apple fanatics are so passionate about their beloved systems and software, that they are willing to wait in line for hours - in the rain - just so that they could purchase the latest and greatest OS from Apple. It was damp and cold, but the media was out in full force, and to Apple fans it was a very bright day indeed. We have a couple more photos from outside the Seattle Apple Store after the jump.
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How To Build A PC DVR
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I've been wanting a TiVo for sometime, and while searching the interweb I found a great article about how to build a complete DIY media PC. It may look daunting, but the satisfaction you will earn from building a highly scalable DVR solution, which can also stream music/video and run emulated game software is unmatched by anything TiVo, ReplayTV, or your local cable company can give you.
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Hybrid Hard Drive By Microsoft And Samsung
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Microsoft and Samsung are working on a new hybrid hard drive that will use 1Gbit NAND flash memory as a buffer. The goal here is to take part of the load off the spinning drive and to lower loading times and boot times. Longhorn will fully support this technology once it ships. However, the question remains about how the two companies plan on addressing the flash memory's erasure endurance. Knowing Microsoft, they will give us an answer next year along with a big marketing technique. If this comes into fruition, we have heard that bootup times can be sped up to mere seconds.
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I have been messing around with the new iChat AV messaging client for a couple of hours, and it is impressive. AOL, and many of the other IM client suppliers in fact, has seen their AIM client become antiquated. They are currently at work on Tritan, their new messaging client which plans to improve upon the experience currently enjoyed by AIM users of today. Moving ahead into the 21st century, AOL plans to add more than just textual improvements. Look for audio, video, and file transfers to be vastly improved and simplified. Also look for a "spam catcher" that will put any messages received from those not on your Buddy List into a specified tab for your review.
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Yahoo! Games to Introduce Cross-Platform Poker
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While I'm not the biggest poker player in the world, I do think this is the start of something that can prove to be very successful. At E3, Yahoo! Games is going to show their new poker game which will allow people accessing the service either from a PC or a mobile phone to play against each other. If Yahoo! decides to develop this technology, which makes perfect sense for them to do, we can expect to see even more of a blurring of the line between PC gaming and mobile gaming.
"Our goal at Yahoo! Games is to provide a dynamic, thriving online community that unites and connects gamers of all ages and tastes," said Geoff Graber, general manager of Yahoo! Games. "We're excited to lead the industry in building the best multiplayer games and deliver a multiplayer mobile game, Yahoo! Poker, which lets people play friends anytime, anywhere and on any device."
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The Xbox 360 Logo?
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This Friday gives us the release of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a movie based on a 1978 radio comedy series by Doug Adams, who also wrote the screenplay(along with Karey Kirkpatrick) for this film. Many fans of the Guide may also remember Adams' "trilogy" of 5 books(the series was first dubbed a trilogy after the release of the 3rd book, and the title has stuck ever since) that he began writing shortly after the radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe, and Everything (1982), So Long and Thanks For All the Fish (1984), and Mostly Harmless (1992).
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Little Russian Philokalia
The Little Russian Philokalia is a series of books published by St. Herman's of Alaska Brotherhood.
It is (to date: Oct.2007) a series of six books, drawn from Russian sources, which are dedicated to Russian ascetic authors, chiefly of the 18th to 20th centuries.
Vol. 1: ST. SERAPHIM OF SAROV: Spiritual Instructions
Vol. 2: ABBOT NAZARIUS OF VALAAM: Counsels
Vol. 3: ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA: Treasury of Spirituality
Vol. 4: ST. PAISIUS VELICHKOVSKY: Field Flowers
Vol. 5: ELDER THEODORE OF SANAXOR: Sayings
Vol. 6: ELDER ZOSIMA OF SERBIA: Special Wisdom


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Marvel Universe
Real Name
Rachel "Ray" Anne Summers
Rachel Grey, formerly Phoenix, Mother Askani, Bright Lady, Aly'zrn Summerset
Known to British legal authorities; the general public is unaware that Marvel Girl comes from the future of an alternate timeline
U.S.A. in an alternate future, honorary subject of the United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Unrevealed location in an alternate future
First Appearance
(As Rachel Summers) X-Men #141 (1981); (as Phoenix) Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 (1985); (as Mother Askani) Cable #6 (1993); (as Marvel Girl) X-Treme X-Men #46 (2004)
New Mutants #18 (1984); Excalibur #52 (1992)
125 lbs.
Marvel Girl also possesses the psionic ability to project her own consciousness or those of others into the timestream, causing them to arrive in another time period within the body of their divergent counterpart or closest living ancestor or descendant.Marvel Girl's past link with the Phoenix Force gave her even greater psionic abilities, such as being able to manipulate time, space, matter, and energy for virtually any purpose.
In the mainstream reality, the X-Men prevented an attempted assassination of anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly. However, in Rachel's timeline, Kelly was killed. The assassination caused intense widespread public paranoia against mutants, and, in the next presidential election, an anti-mutant candidate won. His administration unleashed giant mutant-hunting robot Sentinels to eliminate mutantkind, and the Sentinels decided that the best way to do so was to take over the United States. Over the subsequent years they killed or imprisoned virtually all known superhuman beings within North America.
One day, whilst Rachel was still a child, the X-Men's base of operations at Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was attacked and demolished by federal troops. The only survivor at the school was Rachel, whom the soldiers found by the side of Xavier's body. They used drugs to neutralize her developing psionic powers before she was tortured and brainwashed in the laboratory of the sadistic Ahab. Following extensive behavior modification, Rachel became a mutant "hound," using her psionic powers to hunt down other mutants for the authorities. Rachel's superiors branded her face with a grotesque pattern of tattoos to mark her as a hound, and forced her to wear a leash. Rachel occasionally killed mutants herself, and it is known that some of those were people she loved. Rachel's grief and shame at what she was forced to do as a hound, and her anguish over the deaths of her parents and friends deeply scarred her soul, leaving her bitter and intolerant toward humans who persecute mutants.
Kate still did not give up her vain hope of altering her reality's history. She hypnotized Rachel into using her psionic powers to tap into the Phoenix Force and send herself back in time when Kate said the words "Dark Phoenix". Thus Kate hoped that Rachel herself could change history. Together, Kate and Rachel illegally entered the laboratory of Project Nimrod, which was the attempt to construct the most highly advanced Sentinel possible with the technology of that time, in the hopes of sabotaging the project. Pursued by guards, Kate and Rachel locked themselves within the laboratory, whose walls were proofed against Kate's mutant power to phase through solid matter. Rachel believed herself and Kate to be trapped, but Kate said the words that caused Rachel to project herself back through time. Project Nimrod's creation, the Sentinel called Nimrod, then killed Kate and travelled back in time to find Rachel.
Rachel found herself physically transported, body and mind, to a time shortly before the present. But, like Kate's spirit, Rachel had traveled not to the past of her reality, but to the past of the mainstream reality. She went to Xavier's mansion, but could not bring herself to stay on realizing that she had come back to the wrong reality, and fled without identifying herself. Pursued by the psychic vampire Selene, Rachel was rescued by the X-Men. After Xavier read her mind, she was invited to join the team.Beyonder once hinted that Rachel could potentially become equal in power to the previous Phoenix. Indeed, the Beyonder once granted Rachel the full power that the previous Phoenix had possessed, but he reclaimed it shortly thereafter.
Soon after, Rachel's teammate Wolverine severely injured her to prevent her from vengefully murdering Selene. Fleeing to heal herself, she was fooled by the six-armed sorceress named Spiral and taken to the alternate dimension of Mojoworld where she was held prisoner for several months. Rachel eventually escaped to London where she was tracked by agents from Mojoworld. With the help of Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Nightcrawler, and Captain Britain, Rachel defeated her would-be captors and together they formed the British super-team Excalibur.Apocalypse. There, Rachel founded the Clan Askani to help in the struggle against Apocalypse's tyrannical reign.
As the Mother Askani, Rachel was responsible for transporting her parents to the future to care for Cyclops' infant son Nathan, who had been taken to the future in the hopes of curing a techno-organic virus that Apocalypse had infected him within the past. The Clan Askani saw in the infant the potential to be a great warrior, and trained him to become the soldier known as Cable. The effort of transporting the two X-Men exhausted Rachel's frail old body and her physical form died, leaving her to live on in an astral form.
Sometime later, Cable journeyed to the end of time and found a youthful Rachel being held prisoner by Gaunt, a man who had been imprisoned there for his crimes. Cable challenged Gaunt to a duel to decide the fate of Rachel and emerged victorious, returning Rachel to the present with him. With her own timeline erased and having been abandoned by the Phoenix Force, Rachel decided to retire from the costumed adventuring life and began attending college. Soon after, Rachel became embroiled in the Dark Sisterhood's attempted takeover of the United States. Rachel aided Cable in defeating the Sisterhood and their leader, Finality, after which she returned to college.
Months later, Rachel was captured by the mutant predator Elias Bogan who used her as his pet telepath, enslaving other mutants to do his bidding. After Bogan's defeat at the hands of the X-treme, X-Men team, Rachel was freed from his telepathic control and rejoined the X-Men, taking the codename Marvel Girl to honor the memory of her mother. She has also changed her last name to "Grey" becoming Rachel Grey possibly to express disapproval at her father's continuing relationship with Emma Frost, though she and Emma have made a truce of sorts during one of the team's missions in Hong Kong. After House of M and Decimation, where most of the world's mutants lost their powers, the government had Sentinels instituted at the X-Mansion to protect the mutants in case any enemies used this low point to attack. Though their intentions were good this time, it reminded Rachel too much of the previous timeline when Sentinels herded mutants into concentration camps.
Rachel spent some time with her grandparents, bonding with her grandfather. At a family reunion with all her relatives, a commando unit under the order of the Shi'ar attacked the party, killing everyone including Rachel's grandparents, in hopes of wiping out the Grey genome. Though unable to kill her, they were able to graft a deathmark on her back that would allow them to find her wherever she went. Afterward, at the graves of the Grey family, Rachel vowed a terrible vengeance on the Shi'ar.
Even after swearing a vow of vengeance on the Shi'ar Professor Xavier recruited Rachel to come on his mission to stop her uncle Vulcan from destroying the Shi'ar, Since the event that revealed Vulcan was Rachel's uncle, Professor X spent much time with Rachel in order to teach her to hone her skills as a telepath and improve them since Professor X had lost his powers. Professor X recruited Rachel along with her uncle Havok, Nightcrawler, Warpath, Darwin and Polaris in a space mission to stop her paternal uncle Vulcan from destroying the Shi'ar empire. Xavier, who recently was stripped of his powers, recruited Rachel to serve as his telepathic "eyes and ears" during their mission. Aware of Rachel's vendetta against the Shi'ar, Xavier has agreed to use their trip into space to find out who in the Shi'ar Empire gave the order to wipe out all members of the Grey family and has warned Rachel that they will deal with the people responsible for her recent losses Xavier's way.
While in space, the team was attacked by Korvus, a Shi'ar warrior sent to kill Rachel. Korvus's ancestor Rook'shir was a previous host of the Phoenix Force, and a small portion of the Phoenix's power was left behind in his sword, the Blade of the Phoenix. With this power, Korvus made short work of the other X-Men, but when Rachel blocked the sword their minds were involuntarily linked and Rachel learned that Korvus's family was also murdered by the Shi'ar government because of their connection to the Phoenix. Part of the Phoenix power from the sword was transferred to Rachel. Rachel claimed that rather than having taken the power, the power chose to go to her. When this happened, Rachel's normally gold energy aura turned blue, the same color as the Blade of the Phoenix. She then telekinetically disabled an explosive implant that the Shi'ar chancellor K'tor was using to force Korvus's obedience.Due to her connecting with the sword, Rachel also connected to Korvus and the two began to share memories. Rachel discovers the Phoenix Force formerly in the blade is just an echo of the Force. This blue shadow of the Phoenix soon began influencing Rachel's behavior, causing her to design a darker new uniform and begin a romance with Korvus. Not long after these events, Vulcan took the life of his father Christopher Summers, both Rachel and Korvus joined the Starjammers, to stop the evil Vulcan.
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Barca were tactically, temperamentally superior
The midfield machine behind Spain's first World Cup success ticked back into the same relentless rhythm to deliver Barcelona's fourth European Cup triumph at a spellbound Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
- We were mesmerised by Barca midfield: Ferguson
Technically, tactically and temperamentally superior, and with the genius of Lionel Messi to provide the coup de grace, Barca crushed Manchester United with the simple logic that without the ball you can't do your opponents a lot of damage.
Image: Manchester United's Antonio Valencia (right) and Barcelona's Xavi vie for possession
Photographs: Reuters
It took barely 10 minutes for Barca midfield to exert their authority
It must have been a depressingly familiar feeling for Alex Ferguson and the eight members of the starting XI that had also begun the final in Rome two years ago, as Barcelona completed a 3-1 victory that might easily have been a far higher margin.
- Messi evokes memories of Maradona at Wembley
Then, as now, the English side began by snapping at Catalan heels and threatening to exploit a defence with just a hint of vulnerability about it.
Then, as now, it took barely 10 minutes for the Barcelona midfield to exert their authority and carry the team to a comprehensive two-goal victory.
Image: Manchester United's Michael Carrick (rear) challenges Barcelona's Lionel Messi
Barcelona ruthless in the second half
Unlike in Rome, when United were beaten 2-0, the English side recovered from a first-half goal to equalise as Wayne Rooney wafted in a fine shot after starting the move himself.
If there was any hint that they might go on to triumph despite having only a passing acquaintance with the ball it was disabused by a ruthless second-half Barcelona display.
It fell to the three strikers to score the three goals -- Messi following up Pedro's first-half opener by scoring the second himself and helping create the third for David Villa with an outrageous turn past substitute Nani on the right -- but this was a triumph built on the extraordinary work done in midfield.
Image: Manchester United's Wayne Rooney (top) jumps over Barcelona's Sergio Busquets as Andres Iniesta (left) looks on
Barca's passing rhythm
Xavi continually dropped deep to work his way forward, finding space where none appeared to exist thanks to the deftness of his touch and eye for the right pass -- the inevitable pass as it seems when you watch the replay.
- Joy in Barcelona at 4th European crown
Iniesta, the man who scored the winning goal in last year's World Cup final victory over Netherlands in South Africa, maintained the same passing rhythm while both looked to feed Messi in central areas outside the penalty area.
Xavi completed 124 of 136 passes, while Iniesta found his intended target 98 times out of 107.
Image: Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic (top) jumps for the ball over Barcelona's David Villa
'We knew we were up against a good team'
Barcelona enjoyed 63 percent of the possession and it would have been much higher had they not felt comfortable enough to relax the rhythm over the closing minutes thanks to that two-goal cushion.
There was no surprise in any of this, nothing Ferguson and everyone else has not seen on countless other occasions watching Spain and Barcelona, but the execution was so good that the United manager acknowledged his side had been left helpless.
- Images: Messi sparks Barca triumph over United
"I think it was obvious what happened tonight," Ferguson said. "We knew we were up against a good team before the game and planned as best we could.
"But they do mesmerise you with their passing and we never really controlled Messi. Of course, many people have said that."
Image: Manchester United's Wayne Rooney (top) trips over Barcelona's Javier Mascherano
'I'm proud of the way we played'
If Ferguson was being oppressed by a sense of deja vu, his Barca counterpart was revelling in familiar surrounds.
It was at the old Wembley that Barcelona won their first European Cup in 1992, helped by a skinny midfielder who learned first-hand from then-coach Johan Cruyff that it is through the greedy accumulation of possession that trophies are won.
Pep Guardiola was an outstanding player for Barca, the classic deep-lying, ball-playing midfielder, but as a manager he has touched greater heights.
Based around Xavi, the man groomed to replace him, his Barcelona team played with something close to perfection on Saturday, securing a second Champions League win in three years.
"It's the way we played I'm most proud of," Guardiola said in a fitting summation of his philosophy.
"It isn't easy to play like this but we have managed it and I'm very happy tonight. It was a very good result."
Image: Barcelona's Eric Abidal (right) and Manchester United's Park Ji-sung vie for possession


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UNECA Conference Center (video) in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia
http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/EIS-Africa, the GSDI Association, the International Geospatial Society, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and EiABC Addis Ababa University are pleased to announce a close partnership in offering the joint and fully integrated AfricaGIS 2013 Conference and GSDI 14 World Conference.
This combined conference will take place at the UNECA Conference Center (video) in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia from November 4-8, 2013.
The joint conference theme is Spatial Enablement in Support of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction.
AfricaGIS is the largest regularly occurring GIS conference in Africa with participants from the entirety of the continent. The GSDI World Conference has built a reputation for excellence in content and moves across the globe to offer geospatial specialists in all parts of the world opportunities to better exchange ideas and learn from global peers in building spatial data infrastructure.
Numerous high quality hotels are conveniently available near the Conference Center and flights are readily available from across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Substantial reductions in registration fees are available for local participants and for members of EIS-Africa and the International Geospatial Society from low income per capita nations. Substantial reductions in Exhibit and Sponsorship fees are available for companies and agencies that are members of the GSDI Association.
Features of AfricaGIS 2013 and GSDI 14
The conference program is being designed to accommodate opening and closing plenary sessions with keynote speakers, daily plenary sessions focused on the conference theme and related topics, technical paper sessions in several parallel tracks, industry showcase sessions, and pre-conference and post-conference workshops freely open to all registrants. It will also feature an exhibition area highlighting corporate product and service offerings and agency initiatives. Further it will host numerous meetings of organizations and groups to allow people from common regions of Africa or the globe or with common interests to present, discuss, and share issues, experiences and plans.


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There's an actual pole at the South Pole, but it's replaced every year because it keeps shifting. The ice below the
moves, taking the marker with it.
. The 2013 pole includes icons to show the positions of the planets as at 01 January 2013, and a memorial to Neil Armstrong for his achievements on the moon. Ah, but which way points North?
TWIN BRIDGES: When an essential bridge can no longer support the traffic it needs to carry what do you do? In Oregon they moved the 87 year old Sellwood Bridge a few metres sideways to allow a new bridge to be built in its place. The 335 metre, 3400 ton truss span was moved on a curved path along beams, using hydraulic jacks for lifting. 10 horizontally-oriented 75-ton capacity hydraulic jacks moved the truss sideways. The old bridge will be used as a detour bridge for traffic, cyclists and pedestrians while the new bridge is constructed. Moving a bridge is quite a sight and a huge feat of engineering.
ON WATCH: The Indian government has a plan to help women avoid and defend themselves against sexual assault, and it takes the form of a wristwatch. It's not just any old watch though, as it will be able to send a text message to the nearest police station and selected family members. It includes a GPS so the message can include an accurate location. But that's not all. The wearer can also activate a camera to record 30 minutes of video. It's an interesting idea, but women's rights activists are sceptical that the device alone will make any difference when police responses to reports of sexual assault are slow or nonexistent. And those committing an assault will probably remove and destroy the watch as their first act anyway.
ARROWS AWAY: The uWand from Philips is a new kind of remote for a smart TV. Rather than pressing buttons to navigate items on screen the uWand remote lets you point at an item you want to select or flick your wrist to scroll. A small camera in the device distinguishes what the remote is pointing at and sends the coordinates directly to the TV. No more arrow keys, hooray.
MOVIES BY THE CUP: There's always more data and always more desire to store it, but hard drives and other physical media too quickly run out of space. So researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have set off on a new data storage path: encoding files into DNA. They say they can store 100 million hours of high-definition video in around a cup of DNA. Some benefits of DNA are that it's long-lasting, incredibly small, dense and doesn't need power for storage. They've created algorithms for encoding files that avoid errors, and were successful in both encoding and decoding works including an MP3, a PDF, a JPG and a plain text file. So how many scifi stories are coming true now?
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Principal Ron Vinduska says many Seaman High School students were still in a state of shock Monday.
"It's a lot quieter, a lot of students are just quiet," he said.
Sunday night, 15-year-old Seaman sophomore Alayna Hutchison was driving a car southbound on northwest Rochester Road, "a road that many of our students drive daily," said Vinduska.
16-year-old Seaman High school golf team member Jalen Heald was in the passenger seat.
Shortly after 8 p.m., police say Alayna's car skidded off the roadway, hit a tree and burst into flames.
"A contributive factor to this accident is excessive speed," said a police officer.
Vinduska told 13 News a Seaman High School Senior who witnessed the crash helped Jalen get out of the car. He was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
Alayna died at the scene. 13 News has not been able to get a condition report on Jalen.
"I feel tremendously sorry for the students that knew her. I can't imagine what the parents are going through. It's just so tragic, a young life had to be forfeited so early. You know, these were great kids," said Vin Duska.
Police told 13 News neither of the teens was wearing a seatbelt but that if the car had not hit the tree, it might have stopped in an open field.
Seaman High School's cheerleaders recall their last visit with 15-year-old Alayna Hutchison as they left a team meeting Sunday night.
"After the cheer meeting, we were talking in the parking lot about our plans," said Alayna's cheerleading teammate, Cheyann Boucher.
A few hours later, they would get devastating news.
"My phone was blown up with text messages and I didn't want to believe it," said Alayna's cheerleading teammate, Samantha Root.
"I just didn't think it was true. I was in shock," said Cheyann.
Alayna's cheerleading teammates say going to school Monday didn't feel the same.
"It was very hard walking the hallways not seeing her just broke my heart, like during passing period, I looked and said 'where is she at?' and when I passed her locker seeing her name, it really hurt just knowing she is not in our lives anymore," said Samantha.
They want her to be remembered as an outgoing girl who lived everyday to its fullest.
"She was really bubbly and confident," said another teammate of hers, Kelcie Radford.
"She always had a smile on her face," Cheyann said.
"I can speak for the whole cheer squad and say she was more than a friend, she was our sister and that' a bond that no one can take away from us," said Alayna's cheerleading teammate, Marissa Blassingame.
Authorities have announced the names of the two Topeka teens involved in a deadly Sunday night crash that killed the driver and sent the passenger to an area hospital in serious condition,
The driver was identified as 15 year-old Alayna L. Hutchison, of Topeka. Hutchinson was dead by the time emergency crews arrived, police said. Sixteen year-old Jalen B. Heald, of Topeka was taken to Stormont Vail with serious injuries.
Both teens were students at Seaman High School
Authorities said neighbors near the 5200 block of NW Rochester Road called in the crash shortly after 8:00 p.m. Sunday night.
The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says that the four-door car was heading South on N.W. Rochester Rd. when it left the roadway, hit a tree and burst into flames.
Preliminary investigation indicates that speed may have been a contributing factor to the crash. Neither of them were reportedly wearing seat belts.
The accident is still under investigation
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday named former Presidents Clinton and Bush to lead a nationwide charitable fund-raising effort for victims of the Asian tsunamis.
"The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government," Bush said at a news conference at the Roosevelt Room, with his two immediate predecessors at his side. "It's the … heart of the American people."
The two men are to lead an effort to encourage the American people and American businesses to support, through private contributions, non-governmental and international organizations relief and reconstruction to areas devastated by the tsunamis, Bush said.
"In the coming days, Presidents Clinton and Bush will ask Americans to donate directly to reliable charities already providing help to tsunami victims," Bush said. "I've asked the former presidents to solicit contributions both large and small."
The president urged Americans to give money instead of other items and urged those interested in contributing to visit the USA Freedom corps Web site for further information on the best way to render aid.
Afterward, Bush, his father and Clinton were to pay brief visits to the embassies of the four nations — Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand — hit hardest by the disaster. Bush was to sign condolence books at each embassy.
Bush faced criticism for being slow to respond to the Dec. 26 disaster. Other countries were quicker to commit large amounts of aid money, and Japan has outpaced the U.S. total of $350 million pledged so far.
But private donations began pouring in from people in the United States and around the world at unprecedented levels almost immediately.
Bush's press secretary, Scott McClellan, dismissed suggestions the White House effort was behind that curve as well, saying the effort was about encouraging the impressive flow to continue.
"This will bring even more focus on the need to provide support for these international organizations in the affected areas," he said before Bush's announcement. "This is a human tragedy that is really beyond comprehension and we want to make sure we're doing everything we can both from the government perspective as well as private support to help those who are suffering."
The president also is waiting to hear back from a delegation he dispatched to the region to assess what more the United States government can do to help. That team, led by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, arrived in the region Monday.
Powell said Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, that the relief effort appears to be going so well that he sees no immediate need for more U.S. money.


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Raines Scores Two, Adds an Assist
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Yale offense has been coming on of late, and senior goalie Jackee Snikeris has been playing some of the best hockey of her stellar career. Those two trends finally came together to add up to victory Tuesday night at Meehan Auditorium, as the Bulldogs beat Brown 4-0. Snikeris made 32 saves for her 14th career shutout, extending her school record in that category, and Yale got a pair of goals and an assist from freshman forward Jackie Raines.
Yale (6-14-2, 5-9-1 ECAC Hockey) had lost four in a row heading into Tuesday, but those losses had all been by two or fewer goals and the Bulldogs had scored three goals against No. 10 Harvard in their last game. Brown (2-17-3, 1-11-3 ECAC Hockey) had lost its last seven and was coming off shutouts at the hands of the Crimson and Dartmouth.
Yale struck quickly and decisively with a three-goal first period. Just 61 seconds in, sophomore forward Danielle Moncion got the puck to freshman forward Jenna Ciotti, who left it for Raines behind the net. Ciotti then came out in front and Raines got the puck to her to poke in for a 1-0 Yale lead.
"It was great to score the first goal, and we came out with some great energy," said Yale head coach Joakim Flygh. "But then we had back-to-back penalties, and never really got to reap the reward of that positive momentum."
Snikeris ended the second of two straight successful penalty kills with a dramatic kick save eight minutes in, and two minutes later the Bulldogs extended their lead. Senior forward Bray Ketchum carried the puck into the zone and dropped off a pass to Raines, who deked her way around a defender and deposited a shot top shelf from the left circle at 9:44.
Ketchum nearly extended the lead a minute later with Yale on a power play, hitting the left post with a slap shot from the point.
Brown goalie Katie Jamieson later made a nice save on a backhanded attempt in front by Raines, but the Bulldogs were able to tack on another goal five minutes before the first period ended. On a face-off sophomore forward Alyssa Zupon set up junior defenseman Heather Grant for a hard slap shot that Jamieson saved. But with a scrum of players in front looking for the rebound it popped loose to Jamieson's right, and Ketchum swooped in to deposit it in the goal to make it 3-0 Yale.
The 3-0 score did not reflect the fact that Brown had outshot Yale 13-8 in the first period, and the Bears continued to apply offensive pressure as the second period began. Snikeris came up with a big save on forward Laurie Jolin on a 2-on-1 30 seconds in. Eleven minutes later, she reacted quickly to glove a wide-open blast from the left circle by forward Erica Kromm.
Yale's fourth penalty of the game saw senior defenseman Samantha MacLean come up with a big play on the penalty kill. As Kromm tried charging in on net through the left circle, MacLean hit the ice to stop her in her tracks. After both players took a tumble, MacLean reached out with her one available hand and backhanded the puck out of the zone.
With three minutes left in the third, Snikeris kicked away a one-timer between the circles by forward Vanessa Welten, and Yale's lead remained 3-0 heading into the third.
Jolin had another close call six minutes into the third, as a pass found her all alone behind the Yale defense but she could not gather in the puck to get off a clean shot. Right after that the Bulldogs were on the power play and turned it over, leading to what appeared to be a breakaway for Welten. But Grant and junior forward Aleca Hughes hustled back, and with Grant cutting off the path to the goal Hughes reached in and took the puck away from Welten just after she crossed the blue line.
Raines then put the icing on the cake by grabbing a turnover in front of the Brown net, waiting until Jamieson committed and then depositing the puck for a 4-0 lead with 5:32 to play.
This was the first three-point game of Raines' career, and she now has four points in the last two games after being held scoreless in the previous three.
"She played really hard tonight," Flygh said of Raines. "The first goal was a really nice goal, from a tough angle shot. And on her second goal she really showed some poise and some patience. When she moves her feet she's very effective."
The four goals tied for Yale's second-best offensive output of the season. Jamieson finished with 24 saves.
This was the first shutout of the season for Snikeris, who has made 32 or more saves in five of the last six games. She improved her save percentage to .937 for the season, 10th in the country.
Snikeris has been doing some of her best work lately despite the fact that two of Yale's best defenders -- freshman Aurora Kennedy and sophomore Tara Tomimoto -- have been sidelined by injuries, Kennedy for the past three games and Tomimoto for the past five games.
"Jackee was really on tonight," Flygh said. "We had to battle to get this shutout, and didn't play as well as we could have defensively. We did a good job in the third period of keeping them to the outside."
Yale visits Union Friday night at 7 p.m.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge has set a September 2014 trial date for a lawsuit seeking to overturn Texas' Voter ID - just ahead of a pivotal general election.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos said Friday the trial will start Sept. 2 in Corpus Christi.
Opponents hope to halt the law before next year's much-watched election. Attorney General Greg Abbott's office is defending the 2011 law, but declined to comment Friday.
It requires Texans to show one of six forms of identification at the polls.
Those challenging the law, including the U.S. Justice Department, say it creates an illegal barrier to poor minorities and people in rural areas voting.
This month's election was the first time the law was enforced. But there isn't enough data to determine its full effect.
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Romsey bowls club has been left reeling this morning after a second break-in in as many days.
Thieves broke into the clubrooms two nights in a row, stealing hundreds of dollars of alcohol from the fridge.
In a second brazen theft this morning, offenders broke through a roof skylight and left with 20 slabs of beers they wheeled out the front door in wheelie bins.
It follows an earlier break-in overnight Thursday where alcohol was also stolen from the fridge.
Kyneton Police attended the scene yesterday and this morning.
Both break-ins were believed to have happened between midnight and 8am at the Park Lane Romsey Bowls and Golf Club rooms.
Police are calling for people who saw anyone acting suspicously to come forward with information.


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Fort Zombie might not win any beauty contests but it might be right up your alley if you're eager to put your zombie survival plan to the test--which you have surely, as a member of the Internet, already formulated. With the undead hordes of Piety, Indiana, out for your delicious brains, you'll fortify a home base, search for suvivors and scavenge supplies.
Fort Zombie is slated for a downloadable release on PC this fall for the small sum of $14.99, published by Paradox Interactive. Thanks to Shacker mastermike569 for the tip.


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An investment group led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan won a contentious and unusual auction for the team early Thursday, beating back a nearly $600 million offer from outspoken Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Click here to read NBCDFW's live-blog of the auction.
Officials in federal bankruptcy court announced the winning bid to cheers and a standing ovation in the courtroom, some 10 hours after the auction began.
The group led by Ryan and Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg had Major League Baseball's endorsement, and its final offer included $385 million in cash. The final hearing on the team's bankruptcy plan was scheduled for Thursday morning.
Ryan will not be in court but Greenberg will, Ryan is planning a news conference for Thursday afternoon at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
"It was an emotional roller-coaster," a smiling Ryan said between hugs with colleagues and well-wishers in the courthouse. "You go to court one day and it didn't go your way, but you go back another day and it would. It's a relief."
Final approval of the Rangers sale rests with MLB, which had the option of choosing the second-highest bid instead. But it didn't come to that.
League president Bob DuPuy: "I'm very pleased, and I look forward to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan leading the team for many years to come."
Cuban was also smiling after the auction, despite losing. His group, which included Houston businessman Jim Crane, decided against making another bid after reaching a predetermined limit. Cuban, who also looked into buying the Chicago Cubs last year, said he wanted to buy the team but had no hard feelings afterward.
"I wish them the best," he said after shaking hands with Greenberg, Ryan and their attorneys.
A short time later, Greenberg was in a nearby parking log, happily raising a champagne toast with colleagues.
The winning bid was made just after midnight. Although the Cuban-Crane group had made a $390 million cash offer, part of a $598 million bid, the Greenberg-Ryan bid was considered higher because of how the bids are structured -- including a $10 million to $13 million breakup fee that would have been paid to the Geenberg-Ryan group if it lost.
The stop-and-start showdown was delayed for hours at a time Wednesday by closed-door haggling over the complicated nature of each bid. The bidding picked up late Wednesday and the courtroom grew more crowded as the night wore on, with attorneys and even fans crammed on the wooden benches or standing along the walls.
Each group's bid included more than $200 million of the team's debt -- including $24.9 million in deferred compensation owed to Alex Rodriguez six years after he was traded to the New York Yankees.
In the previous bidding round, the Greenberg-Ryan group bid $365 million and dropped provisions worth $12 million -- showing that it was back in the game after trying in vain to stop the auction and a $355 million cash bid from Cuban and Houston businessman Jim Crane.
But U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Russell Nelms kept the auction on track. He had clearly anticipated a lengthy process and even obtained permission to leave on the courtroom air conditioning, which usually shuts off at 5 p.m.
The Greenberg-Ryan group had the starting bid -- about $520 million -- because it was named as the team's buyer months ago, before the deal was put in limbo by angry creditors and then by the team's May filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The auction started Wednesday afternoon, six hours late, when Rangers attorney Martin Sosland said the bid by Cuban's group was about $25 million more than the bid submitted by the Greenberg-Ryan group. Later, Greenberg-Ryan offered $2 million more than Cuban's group, which then upped the ante by $15 million -- to about $335 million as the cash portion of the total offer.
As the night dragged on, attorneys scurried back and forth between small rooms set aside for the team, creditors and each bidder. Reporters and courtroom spectators wandered the hallways and at one point, 10 pizzas and a case of bottled water and soft drinks were delivered to Cuban's camp.
Earlier, Ryan signed autographs for some fans, many who said they arrived after work to take in the action -- only to end up sitting for hours on the courtroom benches.
The snail's pace auction, which has included tense exchanges and even yelling between the attorneys, is the latest twist in one of the most contentious sales of an American professional sports team. The last Major League Baseball team to be auctioned off in such a way was the Baltimore Orioles in 1993.
According to the team's bankruptcy plan, creditors will only get about $75 million from the team, no matter who ends up buying it. But the judge has said lenders, who are owed about $525 million after team owner Tom Hicks' financially strapped ownership group defaulted on loans, can go after Hicks' other companies.


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"We are humans" *smile*
o.O So bright.... Kanons smiling scares me xD
The Jessica phone scene was nice but..but where did the furniture fight go? Where, DEEN , where? And Goat-kun?? And the furniture link up? And the scene in whcih the siesta are beaten?
Shannon being shot was kinda a "Oh f*ck" scene but why is Kyrie phoning from the kitchen?
Oh god Congratulatiiooooons but where is Happy Maria? I mean I can understand that lyrics might not fit but the instrumental could have been used right?
Well anyway since a lot has been skipped, though it didn't feel rushed for me, I hope that the next two episodes will be great.
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|2009-12-09, 14:08
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Expected a lot to be cut, and it didn't was a big surprise. My complaints here are from:
The not used red truth + blue truth
No george's corpse discovering
Almost no emotion
But at least, they are rushing it for a "good" episode 25 & 26. If they don't, everything DEEN did (rush) will be thrown away in the trash (only my opinion).
|2009-12-09, 14:09
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I really liked the episode I must say.
They sped up the rather dragging finale of Episode 4 quite nicely (one can see it isn't my favourite Episode out there...it had great scenes, but the pacing and structure was killing me).
The fact that the goat-fight was missing was great for me, because I hated that part...okay so it's as biased as those people who loved it hating the anime for omitting it, but come on, it served no real purpose as far as we can tell.
In the end the only things I kind of missed was George getting killed again by Gaap (which could be a hint, as it may be false) and having Happy Maria as a theme during the phone-call...it was a bit anti-climactic without any music at all...
It was also a bit odd that some stuff wasn't said in red at all, if that's a clue or just time restraints...only time can tell.
Spoiler for Episode 4 difference:
But the Golden Land in the final scene looked beautiful and the point it ended was cool enough for me to like this episode. The direction was good, except a few flaws in character placement and missing emotions (looks at Ange).
And I'm more than happy that they take their time for what is to come, because it should be way more important than what was happening around this point of the story.
All in all...I'm still not done deciding what score to give...it was better than a 7 for me, yet the animation and music department lacked so much in some scenes that I loved that it's hard to give an 8...well, I'll just keep thinking a while
|2009-12-09, 14:42
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I don't think it's fair at all to say it had no real purpose, especially when we don't know who the Goats are supposed to represent during the magical scenes (most likely Gohda though) and just removing it is stupid. They get out of jail, run through tunnels, get out and then randomly get sniped. THAT is terrible pacing, Episode 4 had perfectly fine pacing but this was terrible, even without BroGoat the fact that they screwed up Battlers denial scene makes this episode terrible.
|2009-12-09, 14:43
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: My beloved hometown, the mackerel river running through it
Ugh. I hope that you guys are wrong about this one. The material covered by this episode contains most of the high points of the arc and some major, major plot points as well. If had been done well it would probably be more momentous than ep. 18 and serve as a bigger climax to the season than what follows.
And, seriously, no red text on the sin? The flag battle I knew was going, I finished mourning it long ago. But, like, isn't this a massive clue? Heck, doesn't she use the red after Battler quite plausibly accuses her of not telling the whole truth? Don't we need it confirmed? I don't know, maybe DEEN's budget ran out of red crayon or something.
|2009-12-09, 14:53
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Age: 27
But if they had tried to smash in any of the battles they would've been kind of like "Punch! You're dead! Arrows are blocked! Let's go" and they would've been really lame.
I don't know, it's disappointing that they're not there, but I would rather have that than them being butchered and lame :/.
|2009-12-09, 14:53
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We neither know what Goats are supposed to be, or if they have any purpose except being magical cannonfodder at all...everybody can argue that DEENs portrayal works against his/her own interpretation or theory, but if it is harmfull to the mystery nobody except Ryukishi himself might know.
That IS subjective, of course....but it shows that different people regard different things as important and as long as we don't have rock solid proof that important stuff was omitted it is all subjective.
|2009-12-09, 15:04
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Hmm... I thought the episode was mediocre at best. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. As expected, they cut the scene with Goat-kun. Sure, it served no big purpose, but it was a very fun scene. And I'm not the kind of person that thinks of Umineko as serious business. So, I was quite disappointed, although I already saw this coming.
George and Jessica's fights were there, but they were overtly boring. Punch punch, kick kick... The lack of proper BGM and good lines made those scenes, which were very entertaining in the VN, almost completely lacklustre in the anime, which is sad, considering those scenes should have looked better in the anime, but alas.
It was nice to hear Beatrice's Engrish. Anyhow, Battler's and Beatrice's meeting was rushed as hell. The first part was okay, until they got to the part where Battler's sin confession was supposed to go, but... All the same, I guess it should have been expected DEEN would rush that, considering the anime never tells us about Battler's issues with his family. Beato didn't look particularly composed and dignified either, as she was supposed to be in this scene. I also sort of wanted her to throw away her umbrella. I wouldn't know, that seemed quite meaningful in the VN. Well, too bad, I guess.
Then there's the part with Battler getting erased. Once again, lack of proper BGM usage to deliver the proper mood. But, this has been an issue throughout the entire anime; so, I guess it's useless to complain. Anyway, Ange was kept there for some reason. And, it seemed as if she couldn't care less. Well, not really, but she looked far too relaxed. I missed Beatrice's usage of the Blue Truth, but well... I should really stop expecting things (more like, I should have done that 10 episodes ago).
Finally, the scene in the Golden Land with Beatrice and Maria. Well, nothing was supposed to happen there, and it did look nice.
Personal Score: 5
|2009-12-09, 15:04
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Spoiler for EP 4 - VN:
The episode was entertaining to me, which means it did its job. I feel it's an 7/10 right now; the lack of emotion in a few key scenes really bothered me (although one particular scene does give me something to think about). I may end up liking it more or less once the subs are out and I can understand what exactly is being said.
And, yeah, we really can't claim to know what scenes are "important" or not as long as we don't know what's really going on. It'll be interesting to see how well the changes and cuts in the anime hold up once the final VNs are out.
|2009-12-09, 15:06
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I will refrain from voting because I don't want to give it 1/10 and overlook the few things I liked because they cut my favorite parts... I would probably give it about 4/5, but if I try to vote, I know my rage is going to select 1/10...
And why is there no revolt? I seriously feel like kicking the teeth in on the guys who made this crappy episode...
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OK, finally decided to dive into intermittent/non functioning window switches on 91 Legacy, despite lingering cold and almost immobile knee, as it was causing static eminating from wife unit. First, cursed designer and bought ratcheting screwdriver thing to take care of the 2 screws pointing INWARD that hold door handle on. So first removed driver's side, and took master switch assy to work bench for disassy. Found control for pass side front to be not working dues to broken little tabs on lever, tried to re-glue and or fabricate but woruld not reliable work. So finally soldered wires to the contacts and ran to a DPDT center off switch from RAdio Crack I mounted in a drilled hole in the switch lever. Side benefit was one of the plastic scraps had caused one of the rear switches not to function as well, so after cleaning I could control all 4 windows, up and down, from the drivers side "master" switch, and the individual 2 rear door switches were working too.
So now on to the switch in the front pass door-should be piece of cake now? Weeeeeelllllll......Ratcheting screwdriver broke on dissaay, but managed to get apart. First clue should have been that with pass door switch removed, even master switch would not operate window! Turns out due to interlock, etc, even in off position ther are contacts that are made that are broken selectively during the up and down operations. Thankfully for once my chiltons had detailed schematics, including the internal workings of the switch, or I would have assumed it could have been replaced with a DPDT and never known why it didnt work. Prolly needed at least a 3P3T but I just hard wired the jumpers to simulate permanently off and control that window only from drivers side.
Cold better, knee better, returned broken screwdriver for full refund(will buy a lifetme warrenty/better quality one later), wife happy so all is well for now.
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LJUBJANA, Slovenia – LSU women's golfer Madelene Sagstrom split two tight matches on Thursday, but her Swedish team couldn't come back from a 2-0 deficit and fell to Switzerland, 4-3, in the opening round of match play Thursday in the championship flight of the European Golf Association's Ladies Amateur Team Championship held at the par 71 Golf and Country Club of Ljubjana.
Sagstrom and Linnea Strom lost to the Swiss pair of Albane Valenzuela and Gioia Carpinelli in a foursomes match, 1 UP as Sweden lost both foursomes matches to fall behind 2-0 in the championships flight quarterfinals.
It came down to the five singles matches with Sweden needing to get four of them to advance. Sagstrom did her part with a 1UP victory over Cylia Damerau, but in the end the Swedes could only get three singles wins to fall by a point.
In flight B, in five-game matches, Denmark scored a 3-2 win over Scotland and LSU golfer Caroline Nistrup was a 4&2 winner over Jessica Meek. Austria lost to Belgium, 3.5-1.5, with LSU's Nadine Dreher getting a half in her match with Belgium's Leslie Cloots.