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The Manitoba Bisons varsity teams have completed another successful season. In the 2011-12 season, one team (mens volleyball) returned to the CIS championship and earned a bronze medal while one team (mens hockey) was first in regular season conference standings for the first time since 1970-71 plus two others teams qualified for post-season action and one team (track and field) hosted a CIS championship along with numerous individual accolades plus major conference award winners and CIS recognition. The Manitoba Bisons distributed their end of the year hardware at the annual Brown and Gold Year-End Banquet held at Canad Inns - Fort Garry on Saturday, March 31.
Bisons Addie Miles and Dane Pischke were named as Bison Sports Female and Male Athletes of the Year for the 2011-12 season. Mens Volleyball Head Coach Garth Pischke was selected as Bison Sports Coach of the Year while for the third time Bison Sports Rookie of the Year (Female and Male) awards were announced and Christina Souza and Anthony Coombs picked up the first-year honours.
Miless selection as the Bison Female Athlete of the Year award winner is the third time from the 15 year womens hockey program history. There has now been three womens hockey athletes selected in the 49 year history of the award.
The fifth year Bison capped another award-winning season during 2011-12.- Miles was selected as team MVP and also team captain this season.
Pischkes selection is the first time a mens volleyball student-athlete has been named Bison Male Athlete of the Year since the 2003-04 season. There has now been 15 mens volleyball athletes selected in the 53 year history of the award. This ranks the sport in a tie with hockey for first spot for Bison male yearly winners.
Pischke had an amazing year both at conference and CIS level in his fourth year at Manitoba during the 2011-12 season.
For the female athletes, they have given the year-end Athlete of the Year award since the 1963-64 season. Volleyball continues to lead with 20 winners, six ahead of womens basketball (counting multi-sport winners) and 12 ahead of womens track and field (counting multi-sport winners), hockey and gymnastics are tied at four with three selections each. Bison Male Athletes of the Year have been selected since the 1959-60 season with volleyball and hockey now tied for first spot with 15 winners followed by football (10), basketball plus track and field (6) tied for fourth and then swimming and wrestling at two.
Along with the Athletes of the Year, Garth Pischke was selected for the third time as Bison Sports Coach of the Year in the 11 year history of the award. He becomes only the second Bison coach to win this honour three times. Some of his highlights included:
Bson Sports began honouring rookie of the year lin the 2009-10 season. In the third year of Bison Rookie of the Year awards that reflects the outstanding contribution of a first year Bison, the Bison Female Rookie of the Year is from the womens volleyball program as setter Christina Souza made an immediate impact in her first season at Manitoba.
The Bison Male Rookie of the Year is football running back/kick returner Anthony Coombs. He had a award-winning season with Manitoba.
The Student-Athlete Leadership and Community Development Award were handed out for the sixth time to one female and one male recipient. Fifth year womens track and field student-athlete Lisa Wong and fifth year track and field student-athlete Travis Toet were this seasons award winners, which highlights their leadership skills, community involvement and also academics and athletics.
Wong was involved in numerous aspects in the community.
Toet finished his Manitoba career being an ambassador outside of university.- He is in his final year at the Asper School of Business.
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A Kosovo court has postponed for three weeks the hearings to confirm the corruption indictment against 11 former senior officials, including the ex Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi.
Due to technical problems and sheer volume of the documents presented at the hearing on Thursday, the court was unable to confirm the indictment raised by EULEX prosecutor Maria Bamieh. The prosecutor said that she had gathered over 25,000 documents.
Kosovo's former Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi will continue to be part of a wider group of defendants charged with abuse of official position and accepting bribes to award major health contracts, after Pristina's District Court refused his request to be tried separately.
Bukoshi's lawyer, Destan Rukiqi, argued that his client is not in any way linked with the corruption charges, and it would help the court if his client's case is separated from the ongoing "Ilir Tolaj et al" proceedings.
The prosecutor told the court that the defence's argument does not stand.
"Bujar Bukoshi interacted with other defendants. He handed over a report against the company Jona Med, and for that reason the company was excluded for years from the tender processes of the ministry. There are big differences in what Tolaj and Bukoshi claim," Bamieh said.
Bukoshi is suspected of misusing his public position during his time as Minister of Health in 2008.
He resigned last month, after EULEX announced that he was being investigated for his connection to the charges against his former Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Ilir Tolaj.
Tolaj, the former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health, was arrested in 2010 by EULEX police and the Kosovo Police Anti -Corruption Task Force in the context of a criminal investigation into tax evasion.
Later, Tolaj was charged, together with other nine defendants, all former Ministry of Health officials, with 10 counts ranging from abuse of official position to taking bribes from private companies.
The government said that Bukoshi stepped down from the post of Deputy Prime Minister out of respect for the legal procedures and to create the necessary space for the justice institutions to do their work.
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Experts accuse DANA AIR of wilful negligence and sharp practices over its recent plane crash, and that the mishap also raises fundamental questions on the state of regulatory agencies, the airlines and the industry at large
After seeming relief from air mishaps in the country, another disaster struck in the nation's aviation industry on Sunday, June 3. And in its wake, 153 passengers and crew members of DANA AIR Flight 9J 992, operated with a McDonnell Douglas, MD, 83, aircraft with registration number 5N-RAM lost their lives, including unidentified number of people on ground where the aircraft crashed into residential buildings in Iju Ishaga, a Lagos suburb, barely three minutes to landing.
Nigerians were quick to lay the blame of the air mishap at the doorsteps of DANA AIR. The feeling in many quarters, indeed, is that the plane crash was avoidable if the airline had kept to the rules of safe aviation. Sources at the airline told the magazine that since the aircraft was acquired in 2008, it had never been in good condition, requiring regular repairs locally and internationally. In fact, it was said to be a disaster waiting to happen. For instance, it was said that for every two days the aircraft spent in the sky, it had to go back for repairs where it spent a minimum of three days. "These are facts, not lies; the records are there except they want to misinform the public," said the source.
An aircraft engineer with a regulatory agency recalled that sometime in October 2009, the ill-fated plane had a malfunctioning air conditioning system and had to be grounded for two days by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA. At some point, some pilots were said to have refused to fly another aircraft, MD 83 registered as the 5N-JAI, in the fleet of DANA AIR, because it was also in a bad state after it was brought back from Spain where it was taken for repair.
Although several aviation experts, including pilots and aeronautical engineers spoken to, agreed that the age of an aircraft does not count so much in aviation circles so long as it is well maintained, DANA AIR is said to have a reputation for not servicing and maintaining its aircraft adequately. This brings to mind the accusation of Nsikak Eduok, a former aviation minister, who in 1995 took a swipe at the country's domestic carriers, accusing them of operating "flying coffins" as aircraft. "Since the aircraft was not meant to have flown in the first place, it has a maintenance problem. DANA AIR is more into making profit than safe flying; they have not taken safety into consideration. The aircraft was not fit to fly – period! The aircraft has been jinxed from day one because the original owners, Air Alaska, had series of problems with that aircraft. The aircraft has not successfully operated one week without going in for maintenance, and it is not the regular online maintenance. DANA AIR is also in the habit of not doing maintenance properly because they like cutting corners," said the same source.
Yet, there is said to be an anomaly in the process of training personnel of the airline; one of this is the periodic training of pilots. The source recalls that several times, Clifford Wardally, the airline's chief pilot, took pilots to Miami, United States, US, for training, even though this does not fall within his purview since he is not a trained instructor, thereby breaching the acceptable standard in the industry. Each time Wardally returned from such training trips, he was said to have given papers to Oscar Wason, director of operations, DANA AIR, to sign as if he was the one that took the pilots for the training.
DANA AIR is also said to be notorious for maltreating its staff. The structure of the airline is said not to give room for professionalism and the growth of the airline. Staff morale is reportedly very low owing to the high-handedness of the Indian owners. Less experienced pilots or other critical personnel are allegedly brought in as expatriates ahead of more experienced Nigerians, and this has led to the exodus of some of their best indigenous hands. For instance, a certain Nigerian pilot with the airline was said to have failed simulator training, whereas he never did any simulator test. According to a pilot, who preferred anonymity, the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-fated flight may have done their best to avoid the accident, but said if they had more knowledge of the Nigerian airspace, perhaps they would have avoided the crash.
Peter Waxtan, the 55-year-old American pilot of the flight, joined the services of DANA AIR on March 26, 2012, and was on his last flight schedule in the country as he planned to travel that night to his home country, US. A source said that though Waxtan may have been flying for over 20 years, his lack of adequate knowledge of the Nigerian airspace made him not to know the best option for him to take. "I heard he (Waxtan) declared an emergency and was hovering seven miles away from the airport; he had no business doing this. He should have landed the plane on the street and probably saved some of the 153 people that died. Or he should have used Ibadan Airport, or used the premises of Grail Land, Iju. DANA should be thoroughly investigated for its negligence and what I term as manslaughter of Nigerians," the pilot said. Other top Nigerian pilots agreed that for the aircraft to have crashed with barely three minutes to landing, it means that the problem must have started at or around Ibadan. Therefore, the Ibadan Airport should have been the alternative for the pilot to land and he should not have stretched his luck further.
Given all these allegations, experts are wondering why the owners of DANA AIR are in the aviation business, knowing that it is a highly regulated industry. The belief is that the Indian owners of the airline are mainly using it for human and capital flight. They are said to employ mainly expatriates, thus creating employment for foreigners and also remit their wages to their foreign accounts. "It is a clean way of doing money laundering," said an insider with the airline.
DANA AIR's business plan has also come under scrutiny, further fuelling the speculation of money laundering. The airline, which started business in 2008 with two MD 83 aircraft between 17.6 and 17.7 years respectively, soon increased the number of aircraft in its fleet to four by 2011, using aircraft of 20.9 years average. This is said to connote that it has no plans of staying in the business for long, knowing that once the aircraft clocked 22 years, they would not be allowed to fly in the country's airspace again. Another pilot who spoke on condition of anonymity, likened the use of MD 83 aircraft by DANA AIR to a new car leasing firm using Peugeot 404 in 2012 for its business.
But, the question agitating the minds of stakeholders in this unfolding drama is the role of the regulatory agencies, especially, the NCAA, which is responsible for certification of airlines in the country. Shortly after the certification of the country as a Category One nation, the NCAA announced that all airlines in the country would have to go through a recertification exercise in line with the new status of the country, using the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, standard. Except for Arik Air, which was audited by the FAA and rightly got recertified by NCAA, nearly two years on, no airline seems to have been audited using the new standard. Arik Air spent over $10 million preparing itself for the Category One certification.
Experts, therefore, believe that the regulators are also culpable with regards to the DANA plane crash. Who did the verification on the aircraft, even at the point of purchase before it was brought into the country? Were the documents falsified to say the aircraft was in tip-top conditon or did somebody just sign off to say the aircraft was okay? While no official answer could be obtained from the NCAA on these salient questions, some close sources in the agency agreed that the safety standard of DANA AIR has been a source of concern for sometime. A staff of the airline told the magazine that "the management is always boasting that forget NCAA, we know how to settle them." If this is true, then, the sector may be returning to its old ways. Already, the Senate committee has advised Harold Demuren, director-general, DG, NCAA, to step aside pending the outcome of investigation of the crash. Eduok, in 1996, disclosed that domestic carriers bribe aircraft inspection officials to give their aircraft Certificate of Airworthiness when they knew that their planes were not airworthy.
Worrisome also is the problem of accident investigation report being held in secrecy. If the past experiences of air crash investigations in the country are anything to go by, then the families and friends of the victims of the crash may have to wait for eternity to get the actual cause of what was responsible for the untimely departure of their loved ones. This is because previous accidents involving other domestic airlines have not yet been released. John Obakpolor, a retired Air Force officer and now head of the investigation panel of Flight 9J 992 set up by government, disclosed in 1996 that he had not set his eyes on any accident report within the nation's airspace in the 10 years preceding 1996.
Olumide Ohunayo, an aviation consultant, says pointing accusing fingers at the NCAA at this point will not be appropriate. According to him, the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, as the agency charged with the responsibility of looking into air mishaps in the country, has not shown enough guts to indict NCAA when it errs, as is the norm in other climes. AIB, Ohunayo says, has failed to make accident reports public. "This organisation's (AIB) interim report takes years while the final reports hardly get published. We only get snippets from foreign websites. If they don't release reports quickly, how do we learn and prevent a reoccurrence? Let AIB put an official seal on all these talks about the airline, then we can chop off the head of NCAA," Ohunayo argued.
The latest plane crash has further drawn attention to the state of domestic carriers. With a crushing interest rate of about 26 per cent, domestic carriers have remained financially incapacitated to deliver quality service using state-of-the-art equipment. This is in spite of the Cape Town convention, which liberalised the purchase of new or relatively new aircraft. In other countries, airlines have access to single digit interest rates and that accounts for why they are able to place orders, even on long-term basis, for aircraft. And to remain in business, domestic carriers in the country opt for very old aircraft. Another pilot with vast experience of over 35 years told the magazine that because government set the maximum age of aircraft in the country at 22 years is not a reason for our airlines to buy aircraft of 17 years. "This is being penny wise and pound foolish, because the older the plane, the more expensive the cost of maintenance," the pilot revealed. The federal government, under the Ibrahim Babangida administration, provided a platform for domestic airlines to purchase foreign exchange at a lower rate in a bid to assist them, but sadly, the privilege was abused by the same operators.
The pilot attributed the accident-free years the country experienced before the latest plane crash to luck, because the quality of personnel in the industry has declined, while the personnel required in some critical areas are in short supply. He disclosed that the influx of expatriate pilots into the country has its own demerits since no country would allow its best hands to go abroad in search of employment as there are ready jobs for them in their home countries. And for all the ills of the industry, many blame the liquidation of the defunct national carrier for the crisis in the industry. Were Nigeria Airways alive, our source contended, there would have been a benchmark for other airlines interested in coming to the country.
Many Nigerians are convinced that DANA AIR will never be the same again, at least, going by past experiences of airlines involved in plane crash. Aviation Development Company, ADC, Bellview, Sosoliso, EAS, and others never made it back to business after recording plane crash. This is because the compensation to be paid are always enormous, insurance premium gets very high and, importantly, the public perception changes and the flying public usually does not want to go near such airlines anymore.
While the country awaits the report of the panel and the AIB, if it will ever be made public, aviation stakeholders expect the federal government to crack down on the management of DANA AIR as a deterrent to others. It is also expected that the federal government will truly transform the aviation sector to spare Nigerians the sordid tales of air mishaps.


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The county began charging special-event fees about three years ago, and the city manager said the result is more groups are bringing their events to the city, because it's free, which costs the city more in man hours.
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A fictitious martial arts system invented for the 2002 movie 'Equilibrium', by Kurt Wimmer and starring Christian Bale and Taye Diggs. The gun kata, like all martial arts katas, is a rote-learned sequence of moves and positions which in this case supposedly enabled the gun-wielding fighter to dispatch multiple opponents very quickly using moves based on the statistical distribution of opponents in previous recorded gunfights.
The gun kata made for some very effective and well-choreographed fight scenes in the movie, bringing hand-to-hand style to ranged-weapon combat. However, a fighter attempting to employ such a system in real life would be unlikely to survive very long. See movie 'Equilibrium'.
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a militant combat style that teaches efficiency in the use of gun tactics.
Developed through analysis of thousands of recorded gun fights, it was determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon. Each new position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents, while keeping the defendant clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. |
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A fictional martial art developed for the 2002 film "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale.
Supposedly developed by analysis of thousands of gunfights, which apparently developed into the idea that it is statistically possibile to determine where any individual is located and where all shots will be delivered from in any particular gunfight. General practicioners of this martial art are "Grammaton Clerics" in the film "Equilibrium," who are drilled in the "katas" (routines practiced and memorized by rote) in order to use their firearms as an extension of the self. While visually appealing, Gun Kata has very little real world application as it discounts enemies that attack from the prone position or from ranged attackers (such as snipers). The Grammaton Cleric used his Gun Kata to weave his dance of death in the enclosed room. However, the sniper on the roof across the street made an excellent headshot when the Cleric decided to sillouhette himself in the light of the open door.
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Throught analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights.The cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element.The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon.each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone.Inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents.While keeping the defendant clear of the statistical traditional trajectories of return fire.By the masters of this art your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%.The difference of a 63% increased lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly. The guns becomes part of the body
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a fictional and stupid faux martial arts with guns used in a lame ass movie called Equilibrium and believed plausible by it's idotic fans. jim got killed last week when he attempted to use Gun Kata to stop a bully, the bully grabbed the guns from him and beat the living shit out of Jim while yelling at him "you're supposed to shoot a fucking gun! not wave it around!"


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Post #5 DevliN Oct 21 2010, 5:05 am
Yessir. This is supposed to just be a dumb arcade-style map with mindless zombie killing and a point system.
Yes. There will be various ridiculous types of weapons you can upgrade to, as well as different types of spells, and definitely brief powerup boosts. Unlimited! I was considering having players reload, but figured that wouldn't matter much as the more powerful weapons and upgrades take longer to fire anyway. I'm definitely considering this, and actually thinking about making the bosses communal. For example one boss might attack one player, then port to a different player, and so on. Another might spiral around the area and you have to hit it while it moves. The idea for both being you rack up more points based on damage done or weapon combinations used. Despite how dark I'm making the game look and feel, this really is supposed to be ridiculously dumb. One weapon will be an orange cannon that fires oranges and deals massive explosive damage, to give you a taste of how juvenile I want this map to be. I agree for a few reasons. I haven't experienced lag myself in that view, but I can see how that would be a problem. Also, given some of the weapons I want to create for this, the X, Y, Z mouse coordinates in 3rd person aren't nearly as accurate or good as if it was in top-down view. I think ultimately the screenshot of the third person view will be the "Score Screen" after each level. It shouldn't cause too much lag since there wont be incoming units to bog down the graphics. |
Post #7 DevliN Oct 21 2010, 6:06 am
What? There's PvP in that your score compares to other players' scores, but other than that there are no heroes duking it out against each other. The replay value comes from people wanting to get higher scores or reach higher levels. It's the same concept as to why defense maps are so replayable even though they never change.
Post #8 poison_us Oct 21 2010, 2:19 pm
Final upgrade: Nuke. By this time the weapons should already be about the most imba crap ever anyways
Seriously, though, you should consider an ammo system, and you have to run out to grab ammo or something, instead of "stand back, shoot, upgrade, shoot, upgrade, repeat ad nauseam". |
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Post #11 Neki Oct 22 2010, 4:49 am
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It's an arcade shooter type map, it's basically in the same vain as when you play individual tower defenses. Half the fun is seeing how long last one person can last and how they other people progress in comparison to you. Basically, I chose this big rocket launcher and they chose a machine gun and we're seeing who can kill the most crap. You don't really need to make every map PvP or to make every map co-op, but Co-op would be a cool idea in this case. Some maps are better left to do their own things, arcade type games has very huge replay value too.
Post #12 DevliN Oct 22 2010, 8:28 am
Right, I don't agree at all that PvP maps mean greatness either. Besides, Shadowlands (a project I've been working on for a while) is heavily PvP-oriented, while Invasion is co-op, and this is just going to be my arcade shooter. I think t'll be fun, and cater to people who love casual games (like think PopCap games).
I may make a co-op version after the FFA is released, but I don't have plans to do so now. I also don't get how there isn't enough info. I don't have specifics for weapons and enemies yet, but then I've explained and re-explained the concept a few times now. At least Neki gets it. |
Post #13 UnholyUrine Oct 22 2010, 8:05 pm
Well yeah, because you don't have the specifics for how the weapons will work, how the enemies will attack... and how everything will fall into the pieces.
Right now, all I can see is a tried and true arcade style shooter... and I can't draw anything from that because it is so common... I don't know. It seems like an okay concept.. but not something that'd be popular, even if b.net2.0 wasn't so shitty. |
Post #14 Neki Oct 22 2010, 8:10 pm
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Common? What was the last map you've seen on Starcraft or Starcraft II that was a tried and true arcade style shooter? I'm going to say none. Unless you count Lost Viking, but this is a little different.
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Post #18 Tempz Oct 31 2010, 6:51 pm
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Dang Devlin you need to work on one project at a time =s btw I like you thread looks
Any who some suggestions... - Different modes of play E.g. Turret mode (Stays in turret mode the whole time which is locked position I.e. the one you have in screenshot), free roam mode which is in you can move around (multi-player has slight lag = should only be single player?) try 3rd person on multiplayer should be about a 500 millisecond delay? tweak things around see what you can do. Controlling multiple turrets switching through keys? Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.
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Post #19 DevliN Apr 30 2012, 7:33 am
Note: I am still working on Invasion: Ares first and foremost, but I figured I'd post an update in here as the thread was pretty bare and I've actually made some hefty changes to it.
Since I started this map, I've actually restarted it three times. I'm pretty satisfied with the most recent overhaul and will stick with it to the end. As it stands now, I'm giving players the option of choosing more than just their basic weapon. Originally this was going to be a crazy shooter where just the unit's weapon is modified. Now there's a panel in the UI that allows the player to set which hotkeys and keyclicks correlate with specific abilities. Basically the player can now right-click enemies for basic weapon attacks, left-click an area for area of effect attacks, and use QWER for instant-cast abilities that will either effect the entire playing field or buff the unit for a brief time. In doing the map this way, I've pretty much abandoned the idea of salvaging anything from the base UI (like the command card) and have decided to do everything from scratch using triggers. Of course this means I have a snazzy UI set up that I'll probably post screenshots of soon. Trigger lag may be an issue ultimately, but that shouldn't really affect the right-click attacking at least. I've also developed a talent tree that is saved between games. Like other defense games out there that give you experience each time you play, this map will reward players based on their total earned points. After hitting certain tiers of points, players can select talent upgrades that will either modify weapons or abilities, or in some cases unlock better weapons and abilities. |
Post #20 luzz Apr 30 2012, 12:54 pm
I would prob definitely play this xD any map whereby just kill stuff and spam abilities is fun.
Just a note tho: you can change the hotkey of buttons along with the images they use using catalogs, if you use this it might allow you to avoid the lag issue and just have your q, w, e, and r have a trigger effect that runs the spell the player has. Good idea? U don't have to listen to me if u don't want to xD |
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A 13-year-old girl is recovering from injuries sustained after being hit by a pickup truck Friday morning in front of North Whidbey Middle School.
At approximately 7:50 a.m. the girl was walking in a crosswalk across Whidbey Avenue when she was struck.
The Ford pickup truck was being driven by a 46-year-old Oak Harbor man.
He was making a left turn from Izett Street onto Whidbey Avenue when the girl was struck, said Oak Harbor Police Chief Ed Green.
The driver heard a scream and discovered what happened when he stopped, he said.
"He did the right thing and stayed with the girl and dialed 911," Green said adding the man is cooperating with officers.
He said the girl sustained what he described as "non-life-threatening" injuries.
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She is a seventh-grader at North Whidbey Middle School. Classes at the school begin at 8:15 a.m., said Joe Hunt, spokesperson for the school district. The girl's parents were notified of the accident and she was supposed to be released from the hospital the same day.
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What's your take on it. Why are people angry at quickscopers, when it takes more skill the most if not all weapons in the game? Also i personally don't Acog quickscope but i don't find anything wrong with it since again it takes more skill then most of the weapons in the game? What's your take on this.
quickscope is actually real easy and i use wii mote not ccp i never liked ccp
Not as easy as spraying and praying machine pistols. And pretty much all of the guns in mw3.
its easy..the im aim assists does all thw work. a few games ago the winning killcam was a double kill QS. he zoomed in and both times it landed right on the guy. he did not have to move...its super easy but at the same time super easy to counter...every time i see some nube standing still u just strafe left and right and u get an easy kill
Yes but the majority of players aren't good at it. Which means it's more difficult than most of the weapons in the game. Which leads to the question why is there so much hate for it >_>
for me: no acog= no problem.
If a guy is using an acog it's basically a 1 hit kill mk-14, which makes it really cheap
People think using the ACOG on their sniper rifles make them 1337 iiQuIcKsCoPeRs.
It makes you look like an a**hole.
I don't have anything against quickscopers. (i do it myself) but i hate people calling them selfs zzxxQuIckScopzzx and then they're using a asault rifle.......
would be even more funny if they cant even get an assault UAV
As of now, I am fine with quickscoping. When aim assist gets buffed (assuming it does) it will be over powered.
Mainly because little kids who are super uber legitz zoom in and out and in and out and in and out until the aim assist pick up somebody. Then they kill him. (note, that sometimes it will pick up people through wall.)
With aim assist, its basically a "Press two buttons for a kill if you have no skill at the game.!)
A sniper's two best assets are stealth and range. When you quickscope you lose both, and you're at a disadvantage due to using a sniper rifle. I know spots on almost every single level for a sniper to use, and sightlines that most don't realize, such as the corner house on seatown is a target gallery for a sniper if you know where to go.
Best class for a sniper I've found so far is:
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Quickscoping in MW3 is pretty much running around with a weapon that is a one shot kill at any range and its EFFECTIVE at all ranges, plus the scope-in time is so fast that you will pretty much die by having someone stare at you. Quick reflexes+1 bar+a good sniper rifle= Win.
Its easy, its simple, anybody can do it, the only skill it takes is knowledge of the ADS and shoot button.
You also need good aim. AimAssist annoys me so I leave it off. And also, everyone who complains about quickscoping never does it, I dare one of you ******* who say it takes 0 skill to go an try it out for yourself.
I did try it out, its so simple that it bores me. Aim assist is huseless( ) in this game, so quickscoping is easier on wiimote than it is on CCP(weird, eh?).
I mean you do need some sort of aim. Which means it's easier then most of the ar's and sub machines. Plus their aren't alot of players who can go positive doing it. So i don't see where all the hate is coming from... i think that should be reserved for the fmg9'ers
I did it. Too easy. Much more challanging to go 15+ kills and 0 deaths by being stealthy.
Then you didn't quick scope, you hardscoped.....
Read my post again. I state that I DID quickscope, and that it was too easy. "I did it. Too Easy." The second part means that I hardscope now. "Much more challanging to go 15+ kills and 0 deaths by being stealthy."
Learn to read kthxbai
Do you camped but quickscoped? Fail.
Easier the fmg9'ing? I beg to differ >_>
I don't fmg9. Have you ever played with me?
I didn't state that you fmg9'ed i could care less, because i love fmg9'ing. I stated that it's easier to use a regular ar, smg, or mg than to use a sniper in any shape or form quick scoping or not.
Wrong if you are using Quick Draw its easy but considering the ADS time and the fact that there is no real aim assist means that it does take skill. You know what doesn't? F.A.G. 9's


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In recent weeks, major new organizations have reported that Apple is preparing a smart wristwatch computer that runs iOS and features a curved glass shape. Journalists and bloggers have pointed to mounting evidence, including patent filings, to suggest that the iWatch just may be Apple's next big thing.
Google Inc. is also working on augmented reality glasses and plans to release a prototype version of its Google Glasses to application developers in the near future. Canon is already offering "mixed reality" glasses, but they cost $125,000 each.
According to ABI Research, the iWatch and Google Glasses are just two of dozens of wearable computing gadgets soon to hit the consumer market. The research firm predicts a surge in popularity for such gadgets over the next year and says that a wearable computer "could be the norm for most people within five years." ABI projects that the market for wearable computing devices will grow to 485 million device shipments per year by 2018.
According to Josh Flood, a senior analyst at ABI, the furor about wearable computing devices, particularly smart watches and smart glasses, should come as no surprise. Both technologies are very stimulating and some of the applications for the device are rather inspiring, said Flood, in a press statement.
"Apple's curved glass-based watch could prove to be a revelation in the wearable technologies market," said Flood. "The major question is whether the digital time piece will act as a complimentary device to the company's iPhone smartphones or as a standalone product with other functionalities like health or activity tracking capabilities."
Today, sports and activity trackers account for the largest chunk of the wearable technologies market, according to ABI. About 61 percent of the wearable technologies market is expected to be attributed to sport/activity trackers in 2013, according to the firm.
Smartphone compatible watches are beginning to emerge. According to ABI, smart watches offer extra capabilities in an item most people already own and commonly buy. It may become universally expected for watches to include smart features in the future, ABI said.
"The capabilities of smart watches could lead to the device being used as a wearable remote for home automation systems," ABI said. "A quick shake of your wrist to turn off/on room lights would be a very convenient tool."
While rumor has it that iWatch will hit the market sometime this year, ABI said it expects smart glasses to also be available later in 2013.
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And the next step is embedded. Chip implanted in belly button.
Seriously, though, it's not a big leap to think of driving a car with no pedals or steering. For those occasions when the car isn't driving itself, you simply wear a computer and it communicates with the vehicle over an internal Bluetooth or WiFi network. The display can be a heads-up display on the windshield.
Duane Benson
The big downside to this will most likely be a change in the battery life paradigm. My old pre-smart phone was pretty much a charge-once-a-week device. My smart-phone needs a charge every day.
The phone comes with a lot of extra utility in exchange for that battery limitation, but I feel much less secure knowing that if I find myself without power, I'm never more than a few hours away from having a dead phone.
I would guess that we'll need to make a similar but more extreme trade off with this sort of a watch. Instead of two years between battery changes, it might very well be two days between charges.
On a related note; remember the Microsoft Smart Watch? Usually MS follows Apple's successful product with a sub-functional product. This time Apple will be following MS's sub-functional product with a successful one.
Saw this video abt Google glass.. Seems Awesome
I am not sure I would be wearing Google glasses to watch some advertising super-imposed on my real view...Apple's watch perhaps
Duane Benson
Re "some advertising super-imposed on my real view."
More than once, I've run across some starry eyed marketer that "just knew" the people would appreciated targeted ads on their PDA, cell phone, smart phone... Some people really don't understand human behavior.
Frank Eory
It seems ironic that the iPhone and cell phones in general lead to a decline in the number of people wearing wrist watches. Could a product like an iWatch reverse that trend?


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New York, NY � GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, today released �From Teasing to Torment: A Report on School Climate in Florida,� which provides a rare look into student experiences with bullying and harassment, and their attitudes about this serious problem in Florida schools. The results are based on students in Florida from a national survey of secondary school students and teachers conducted by Harris Interactive. �This study clearly illustrates the prevalence of bullying and harassment in Florida schools,� said Nadine Smith of Equality Florida. �It also shows how having anti-harassment policies in schools � particularly those policies that include specific categories of students � can be associated with students feeling safer at school.� Results from the survey demonstrate that bullying is common in Florida schools, and the basis for which students are frequent targets of verbal and physical harassment:
The majority of Florida students who experience harassment in school never report these incidents of harassment to teachers or other school personnel. 59% said that they never reported the incident(s) to a teacher, principal or other school staff member. Among students who reported at least one incident, 19% said that school personnel did not take steps to correct the problem or ensure that it would not happen again. �The results of this study indicate that there is a lot of work to be done in Florida to ensure that all students can learn in a safe environment,� said Kevin Jennings, Founder and Executive Director of GLSEN. �State-level safe school legislation that provides for specific categories must be adopted, and teachers and other school staff must go through appropriate training to assess and respond to incidents of verbal or physical harassment.�
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For me, I played the NES Metroid at a 22 year old sister of my babysitter's house when I was 8. I never made it through Brinstar but I never forgot about the series. I wasn't really a gamer until 2006 when I met my husband. I've heard of Metroid Prime here and there and when my husband got me into the Smash Bros games (particularly Brawl) in 2010, his brother was playing it and said "holy crap you can play as Samus out of her suit! She's soooo hot!!" I'm thinking "Who the hell is Samus?!" and they said "the girl from Metroid" and I was like, "so wait, Samus IS Metroid?" (not knowing that Metroids were different characters) and then thinking to myself, "Cool, Metroid is a girl!" and I had a really small interest in Samus as a character. I wasn't sure about getting into Metroid since my husband said he didn't like it (the NES version). So for Christmas, Hubby got me a Wii Points card (along with other things, of course) and I wasn't sure what to use it on. On New Year's for 2011 I decided to give Metroid a shot since I was interested in it for a little while and had to try it. (and my husband got a stomach bug out of nowhere so we couldn't celebrate otherwise...) I thought "if it gets such good ratings it can't be bad!" so I downloaded it onto my Wii and played it and liked it a lot. I admit that a walkthru was helpful and that MB was insanely hard to beat, but it was a good game. I went on to play Super and loved it then Prime and so on and so forth. I've played and beaten all of them except MP2 (which I'm playing right now), MP3, MPH, Fusion, and Pinball. I own all of them (including the Trilogy) except Pinball. So yeah, just over a year and I'm a junkie.


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It was a good day for the Man 9-10-year-old Little League All-Star team on Sunday.
Man beat the heat and shut out Mullens 1-0 in the District 2 Tournament, which was held at its own Man Little League Field in Man.
Man pitcher Sam Milton singled and scored the only run of the game in the third inning.
Dillon Privett singled and pitched the win for Man. Casey Hurley had a double, while Brock Muncy also had a single.
Mullens didn't have much luck at the plate against Privett, striking out 11 times and getting only a pair of singles from McQuade Canada.
Privette fired 5.1 innings on the mound before maxing out on his pitch count. He allowed no runs and two hits while striking out nine and walking two.
The tournament only had five teams in the field with Chapmanville, Tug Valley and Madison also participating.
Chapmanville went 0-2 in the tourney to get eliminated.
Chapmanville lost 5-4 to Tug Valley last Saturday and were ousted on Sunday with a 3-0 shutout loss to Madison.
In Saturday's loss to Tug Valley, Chase Berry pitched and singled for Chapmanville. Dylan McCormick had two hits with a double and a single. Isaac Dixon singled twice, while Trey Pancake also had a single.
Chapmanville scored four runs in the first inning before Tug Valley plated two in the third and three in the fourth to notch the win.
Sammy Ferris was the starting and winning pitcher for Tug Valley.
Both team's pitching staffs had a great day as Chapmanville and TV each recorded 11 strikeouts in the game. Chapmanville, however, issued six walks and hit one batter.
Tug Valley was led at the plate by Ethan Varney and Adam Rahe, who had two hits apiece. One of Rahe's hits was a double. Austin Rahe also doubled for Tug Valley.
In Sunday's game, Madison pitcher D.L. Bowman hurled a no-hitter as he struck out 11 and allowed no runs and no walks as he led his team to a 3-0 win over Chapmanville.
Chapmanville had just two base runners as both reached via error.
Madison scored all three of its runs in the sixth inning. Bailey Adkins, Caleb Harvey, Jeremy Malcomb and Evan Sayre all had singles for Madison.
Chapmanville pitcher Pancake fired six scoreless innings before he had to be taken out after maxing out on his pitch count.
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