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|System: PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: CyberConnect2
|Pub: Capcom
|Release: February 21, 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
Asura's Wrath is a lot of things. It's an action game. It's a blatant God of War rip-off. It's a story with martial arts craziness the likes of which we haven't seen since Fist of the North Star. But, most of all Asura's Wrath is a game about being really angry and really awesome. It's total unrestrained catharsis in video game form. Though some believe making a game solely for the purpose of venting your anger and stress cheapens the gameplay experience, the game's creators insist that there is a certain artistry to rage that they hope to capture in this game. I was skeptical, but after seeing the short demo and new trailers for the game, showcased at Captivate 2011, I was instantly hooked.
The game's main character is the sometimes two-armed, sometimes six-armed, sometimes one-armed, demi-god Asura, and he is pissed! His daughter has been kidnapped by deities that resemble figures from Hindu mythology, and he is ready to punch all of them to death in order to get her back.
That's all we know about the story so far, which is odd because the game's producer Kazuhiro Tsuchiya said that the story will be the center point of the game's rage-based gameplay. Asura will gain new abilities, powers, weapons, and forms based on what is happening in the story, and in some instances his entire control scheme may change. It doesn't seem as if Tsuchiya is speaking of a gradual power-up system like we have seen in The Legend of Zelda or God of War. Instead, it seems as if Asura will have entirely new move-sets in-game based on what is currently cinematically appropriate.
The gameplay itself fits snugly into the standard 3D action game mold. Players will run around an overworld, mash some buttons, beat up enemies, and then murder them in gruesome ways via quick-time events. The maneuvers Asura will be able to take in battle depend largely on how much "godly power" he is able to utilize. Apparently, Asura frequently holds himself back, which prevents him from accessing all of his abilities, but as he gets angrier he becomes more godly and has more attack options open to him.
Asura's Wrath sets itself apart from other action games in a couple of ways. First of all, the environments seem very interactive. In trailers and gameplay we see Asura picking up poles, pillars, boulders, and more to lay the hurt on his enemies. We also see Asura running his enemies into wall, slamming them into the ground, and otherwise using his environment as an effective means of attack.
Secondly, the enemies themselves seem to be much more than simple targets for button mashing. In gameplay trailers, we saw that Asura has a variety of grab and grapple moves, as well as situational strikes. We have seen Asura wrench weapons from his enemies' hands to use against them, pick up two enemies and smash them together, counter a jumping enemy by throwing it into a crowd of troops to take them all down, and much more. Depending on how many enemies surround him and in what way, Asura seems to have tons of different techniques that disarm his opponents and otherwise use their own strengths against them. It makes many battles play out like fight scenes in an anime, rather than simple mash-fests.
The creators of Asura's Wrath also seem to take pride in its quick-time events. In fact, we have been shown more QTE footage than actual game footage. Supposedly, QTE's are different in Asura's Wrath than they are in other action games, thought just how they are different has not yet been revealed. There are rumors going around that you don't auto fail if you mess up a QTE, and that some QTE's may have branching paths or choices of commands to take, making them all more like the scenes from Heavy Rain than anything in God of War. We can only hope this is the case.
Then, there is the scope. First, God of War had Kratos battling titans the size of contents. Then, Bayonetta had you fighting against a boss the size of a meteor. Well, Asura's Wrath looked at all of that and said "we can totally do better." The very first boss battle we saw involved a Buddha-like creature the size of a mountain. After dodging a missile barrage, Asura is tasked with running down the boss's arms, punching it in the face, and then fighting its giant spaceship … which seems redundant because the boss then grows to be bigger than earth itself! It descends its finger which is easily the size of a small moon down toward Asura, who then sprouts four extra arms (story-based powers, get it?), catches the finger, and punches it Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure style until his own arms shatter into a million pieces and the boss explodes from the inside out!
It was at this point, that my eyes started bleeding from the sheer awesomeness of it all.
Overall, Asura's Wrath is looking to be one hell of an action title. It's not trying to re-invent the action genre, it's just trying to come at it from a new angle. The game isn't soaked in blood and gore like God of War, rather it's saturated with outrageous action at every turn. It replaces realistic violence with stylized anime fighting, and it tries to integrate this into every aspect of the game, from core action to cutscene. I am very interested to see what other tricks Capcom has up their six sleeves, when they showcase the game again this year at E3.
Angelo M. D'Argenio
CCC Contributing Writer
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Year, is tied for first in school history with 47 career goals.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- One of the most prolific players in program history, Andre Akpan of the Harvard men's soccer team has been nominated for Soccer News Net Player of the Year, it was recently announced.
Akpan, the Ivy League Player of the Year, has received several awards following the conclusion of the regular season. He was unanimously selected to the All-Ivy League first team and garnered a nod to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Year, earning a spot on the second team. Akpan is Harvard's all-time leading scorer with 127 points and is first in school history with 33 assists. He is currently tied with Chris Ohiri '64 for first in program history with 47 career tallies.
A senior forward from Grand Prairie, Texas, Akpan leads Harvard with 12 goals, including four game-winners, and 30 points this season. A co-captain of the Crimson, he is also tied for the team lead with six assists. A two-time semifinalist for the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy, given to the nation's top soccer player, Akpan had three multiple goal efforts this fall and was honored as the Ivy League Player of the Week twice.
Akpan. who scored a goal in Harvard's 3-0 win over Maryland in the second round of the NCAA tournament, and the Crimson host Maryland, the defending national champion, in a third-round matchup Sunday at 1 p.m.
Fans can now vote for Akpan for Soccer News Net Player of the Year. Fan voting counts for 40 percent of the total votes counted in selecting the national and regional winners. The remaining 60 percent of the vote will be cast by the editorial staffs of the six regional websites (Big Apple Soccer, ChicagoLand Soccer News, LA Soccer News, New England Soccer News, Philly Soccer News and Dallas Soccer News). Voting continues until Dec. 19.
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Jason Birdno didn't make any eye contact with anyone.
He slightly hung his head and mouthed to himself, "Wow."
That came after Judge Wes Dalton handed down his sentence.
Once the closing arguments concluded, the judge didn't need any time to think things over, he didn't even pause.
He gave a small paragraph of opinion and said the state proved enough and found Birdno guilty of five counts of statutory sodomy.
Families and friends on both sides of the courtroom wept when the verdict in the bench trial was handed down. Tanjie Hoover, the mother of Birdno's daughter — who is also the victim — wiped away her constant tear drops with many tissues. Birdno's friends and family across the aisle displayed frozen faces of disbelief while others sobbed.
At times during Thursday's proceedings, it appeared the defense was going full force to create all kinds of reasonable doubt. Birdno's attorney, Gillis Leonard, put four witnesses on the stand to convince Judge Dalton that Birdno was not guilty, and next to two state authorities and the principal of Holy Rosary Catholic School, the key witness for the defense was Birdno himself.
His story
Day two of his trial and Birdno made it interesting for everyone in the courtroom by taking the stand to tell his side.
"You're going to realize why the founding fathers established reasonable doubt," Gillis said in his opening statement.
Dressed in a lime green button down, khaki pants and a striped tie of earth tones, Birdno took the stand in guided form.
He sat up straight, he leaned into the microphone to respond, he waited for his attorney to finish questioning. He was a polite witness addressing his attorney as "sir" with his nasal, midwestern twang.
Like most proceedings that reach this point, Gillis opened with formality questions, but the time eventually came for Birdno to tell his side to everything.
"There was a lot of physical and verbal abuse in my household," Birdno said.
His daughter said on the stand Wednesday he told her and her brothers to lie to the Department of Family Services when they came to their family home at 822 Second St. in Monroe City.
"I did coach them," Birdno said. "I advised them if asked if they got spankings that it was three times with my hands."
Birdno's daughter testified physical abuse included a belt.
Birdno went on to say there was a family discussion to get the house clean because it doesn't look good when DFS comes and the house isn't clean.
"I told the kids I didn't want them taken away," Birdno said.
Relationship with daughter
As it turns out all of the tension with Birdno's daughter began when Birdno said his daughter and her friends talked about who had the worse mother. Birdno said his daughter suggested her step-mother, Sarah Birdno, was the worst and that's when things got heated.
"My wife's pretty stern," Birdno testified. "We have our problems."
Birdno kept it simple in his testimony. He told the court he threatened his daughter to get out and move in with her mother, Hoover, if she didn't like living with him in Monroe City. His voice started to tremble and he had to pause briefly to collect his composure when he continued. He said he told his daughter he didn't want her there anymore.
Birdno's daughter went to live with her mother and it wasn't long after that when he said he contacted DFS himself. He said he took a lot of responsibility for his behavior, referencing physical abuse.
"I called DFS, asked them to come into our house and asked them to help us be better parents," Birdno said.
He also testified the intensity of the physical abuse.
"I didn't care who started it, they all got a spanking," Birdno said. "I took a lot of it out on my wife as well."
And when it came to the physical abuse toward his daughter, Birdno testified it was "more her than anyone."
While she was living with her mother, Birdno would visit his daughter. Throughout this time there was counseling for Birdno and his wife, together and individually. He would also suggest counseling to his daughter and at one point begged to see her for a weekend when he had been absent from her for some time. He said things were going well since being assisted by DFS to be better parents, but his temper did get the best of him.
"I had made threats to my daughter's family and to my in-laws about visits," Birdno said. "My wife for some time has not wanted to have anything to do with her family. I always fought the battles for her. I got mad because we put forth such an effort to put our family back together."
Breaking his in-laws legs was the extent of the threats, Birdno testified. But that's part of what sparked a protection order from Hoover against Birdno.
Tension between he and his daughter got worse after a hidden camera incident attempting to catch her lying.
Birdno said he told his daughter not to text or contact him or her brothers anymore or ask for money. In response, Birdno said his daughter texted him saying he didn't deserve to be a parent.
As a union iron worker, Birdno had several jobs out of the area of his home. He worked on the Kansas City Wizards soccer stadium, a project in Iowa, a bridge project in Warsaw, Mo., which included the Lake of the Ozarks, and a job in Kentucky.
During his time in the south, that's when Birdno got a call from law enforcement and was summoned back to Monroe County. He was told accusations were made against him and not to get pulled over as he made his way back. However, Birdno said he was speeding through Troy, Mo. and did get pulled over. That's when he learned there was a warrant out for his arrest for five counts of statutory sodomy.
Birdno fully denied doing anything sexual to his daughter at any time. He gave firm, responses of "no" to each sexual question his attorney asked.
As for that green fishing bucket, the one Birdno's daughter said she sat on while giving her father oral sex, Birdno said that's where he hides his pornography magazines. And the coffee cup, Birdno's daughter said he "spermed" in after her acts on him? That, Birdno said, was used to weigh the magazine pages down. He said it's possible DNA fluids may have made their way into the cup.
Birdno's short fuse lit and popped at this moment on the stand. He didn't like an objection by Prosecutor Talley Kendrick so he looked over her way.
"I come here to tell the truth," Birdno said to Kendrick.
Leonard had to tell Birdno to be quiet.
And this wasn't his first outburst. Day one of the trial Birdno reacted to some testimonies with loud whispers of disagreement.
Birdno didn't deny saying oral sex (the vernacular initials were used in court) would not get his daughter pregnant, but mentioned he shouldn't have spoke in that manner around his daughter. He also said he'd lay in bed with his daughter, clarifying she's had bad dreams since the age of 4.
"She's always had some really weird dreams," Birdno said.
He testified he'd just lay there with her till she'd fall back asleep.
Then came that long list of questions from Leonard. While Birdno denied everything being asked, his temper struck again.
This time he didn't like Kendrick's facial expressions.
"Why do you laugh," he snapped. "This is not funny."
Birdno was getting visibly angry. His face was turning red and he began wiping away sweat.
He testified he never touched his daughter in private areas, never made her perform sexual acts and never forced her to watch pornographic movies.
Cross examination
Sarcasm was mostly Birdno's attitude when the state got their turn to question him on the stand.
"I'm not 12," he said to Kendrick.
He said he kept pornography of all media in the house and garage, but if his wife discovered it she'd throw it out.
Birdno didn't want anything to do with the coffee mug, which was biggest piece of evidence. When Kendrick went to take it out of the evidence packaging to have Birdno confirm it, he refused.
"It's quite embarrassing," he said. "I'm good. I believe you."
Phone calls with an angry Birdno and his wife were played again and Kendrick asked if he told his wife to tell his daughter's brothers that "they can blame all of this on their (expletive) sister."
"If you say I did, I believe you," Birdno said.
Later on in questioning, Birdno again, didn't care for Kendrick's courtroom approach.
"This is immature your honor," Birdno said to Judge Dalton.
Other witnesses
Leonard's attempt to show what kind of student Birdno's daughter was in school failed after Birdno left the stand.
Sister Sue Walker, principal of Holy Rosary Catholic School in Monroe City, where Birdno's daughter attended when she lived with him, testified the girl was a good student. The principal of 29 years said Birdno's daughter had no disciplinary action in her school records and made acceptable grades and had acceptable attendance.
Leonard was prepared to show how Birdno's daughter was doing at the New Franklin School she attends while living with her mother, but when Laura Dobson, a special service para-professional for the New Franklin Schools, took the stand and said she didn't know Birdno's daughter and only came to court with student records, she was excused.
Nikki Harvel with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who gave the full lab test on the coffee mug, testified no semen was detected. However, she did say, dirt was found inside and outside the cup when she received it for testing.
"It could cause problems," Harvel said when asked if the dirt could cause semen not to be detected.
Stacy Minze with the State Technical Assistance Team was the final witness for the defense.
She testified no pornography involving a football player and cheerleader was found at the Birdno house. The pornographic scene was described by Birdno's daughter on the stand.
Minze also said she was involved with the initial test of semen in the coffee mug when the search warrant on the home was conducted. That test did confirm semen and she testified there are often times when the full test at the state crime lab does not come back with a detection of fluids.
And with that, the defense rested.
Closing time
The state's biggest emphasis in both of their closing statements was clarity.
Monty Platz, the Missouri Attorney General's Office, who assisted Kendrick in the case, conducted both closing segments.
"A very brave girl got up here and testified. That girl was able to get up and brave the abuse one more time," Platz said. "Everything that has happened in this case is text book. Mr. Birdno could have written this text book. We know that not every child is going to come forth, but this one did."
Platz used the term grooming, initiated by forensic interviewer Gerri Sites on the stand, which means Birdno used little sexual acts like tickling and nude moments in the home to prey on his daughter.
"He preys on her again, and again, and again," Platz said.
Platz referred to Birdno as a "cage fighter" and that his daughter has been "bent and not broken."
Then the time came for big Gillis Leonard to make his remark.
His courtroom approach may be unorganized at times, maybe even unorthodox to some, but his command, gumption and emphasis of reasonable doubt is one many in the courtroom were fearing. The entire trial, Leonard raised many instances that could be considered not just reasonable doubt, but also circumstantial.
Leonard's intent was undoubtedly clear by courtroom observers.
"She did get up here and say exactly what she needed to say, nothing more," Leonard said of Birdno's daughter. "She couldn't recall the last time she was abused."
Leonard reminded the judge several times that Birdno's daughter's answers to him were either, "I don't know," or "I don't recall."
"This was a father asking for forgiveness from a daughter he had wronged," Leonard said referencing physical and verbal abuse. "Not every man who has anger issues perps on his daughter," Leonard said. "Not every man who tickles or lays in bed with his daughter is a perp."
The defense attorney also attempted reasonable doubt by telling the judge that Birdno was working in other regions, away from Monroe City, when accusations were made. Leonard noted Birdno was coming home every other weekend when he built the stadium in Kansas City and sporadically when in Kentucky.
"They did a few things and just stopped. And now this man has to defend himself," Leonard said. "There was no secrecy. A man screwed up."
Both sides were done and Judge Dalton began to give his thoughts.
"These are very emotional cases," he said.
Within the next few sentences, Birdno was officially a guilty man.
Sentencing will take place at 2 p.m. May 6 at the Audrain County Courthouse in Mexico, Mo.
At that time victims have the opportunity to address Birdno if they choose too. Birndo may also get the opportunity to address the court before he is sentenced.
"The prosecutors did their job and they did it well," Hoover said afterwards.
"We just feel like the victim got justice and that's the goal in all of this," Kendrick added.
It is not clear if Birdno will stay in the Audrian County Jail or be transferred back to the Monroe County Jail before his sentencing.
"I'm an advocate for my client. All respect to the judge, he heard the evidence, he made his decision. Where we are now is, we consider all our post-conviction options. I've been granted additional time to review and file any appropriate motions that I think need to be filed. There are appellate courts for a reason," Leonard said. "There are only two things nice that happen in a courtroom. A wedding and an adoption. People, everyday, leave courtrooms disappointed, angry, frustrated, upset. And on the other side of the aisle they leave happy; whatever, whenever. The point is, the only certainty in a court of law, is the uncertainty."


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Fatal crash victim was Express-News employee
A longtime employee at the San Antonio Express-News has died after a weekend car crash on the East Side.
Sylvia Martinez, 60, died Saturday at San Antonio Military Medical Center shortly after the crash on Interstate 10 near Martin Luther King Drive, which happened around 4 p.m.
San Antonio police Sgt. Tina Jones said a medical episode may have caused her to veer off the highway and into a guard rail.
Martinez, a widow, was the newspaper's main phone line operator. She had worked for the company for about 30 years, said close friend and coworker Diana Jimenez.
"It can be very stressful, but she did a great job with it," Jimenez said. "She was a really loving person, very sweet."
Martinez had three adult children and was a proud grandmother to three kids, Jimenez said.
"She was always talking about them, and how well they were doing in school and day care," she said. "She's a good friend. I'm going to miss talking to her every day."
Martinez also worked part-time as a ticket-taker at the AT&T Center, and was reportedly on her way to work there when the crash occurred.
There were no witnesses to the crash, Jones said.
The cause of Martinez's death remains undetermined, and an autopsy is pending.
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New York: Elderly people with high blood sugar - but not high enough to be diabetic - face a slightly greater risk of developing dementia, according to a new study of over 2,000 volunteers.
The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, does not prove that high glucose levels directly cause dementia.
But having an average glucose reading of 105 to 120 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) was tied to an increase in dementia risk by 10 percent to 20 percent in non-diabetics. If the reading was below 100, the risk was lower.
A fasting blood glucose of 126 mg/dL and above is used to diagnose diabetes.
Diabetics also faced a higher risk if their average blood sugar levels remained high.
"These data suggest that higher levels of glucose may have deleterious effects on the aging brain," writes the research team, led by Dr. Paul Crane of the University of Washington and the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.
But Crane cautioned in a telephone interview with Reuters Health that "the magnitude of risk for any individual is low. I don`t want anyone to read this and get alarmed. It just shows that what we had thought was normal for blood sugar is appropriate for the heart and the kidney, but the brain seems to have a different idea. There is no threshold where you`re safe from dementia."
"The extra risk is modest," Dr. Richard O`Brien of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who also studies diabetes and Alzheimer`s but was unconnected with the new research, told Reuters Health.
"If your mom has Alzheimer`s, you increase the risk two- to three-fold. That risk is gigantic compared to this."
O`Brien is part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, which reported last month in another journal, JAMA Neurology, that glucose intolerance, diabetes or insulin resistance were not tied to key features of Alzheimer`s. That test followed fewer people and didn`t look at other forms of dementia.
Elderly volunteers in the new study - 839 men and 1,228 women - were 76 years old at the outset, on average. After nearly seven years of follow-up, 32 percent of the people who were diabetic at the start of the study and 25 percent of the non-diabetics had developed some form of dementia.
Suspected Alzheimer`s cases accounted for 77 percent of the instances of dementia.
Non-diabetics who had an average glucose reading of 115 mg/dL over the previous five years were 18 percent more likely to develop dementia than volunteers whose average reading was 100 mg/dL, the researchers found.
Among people with diabetes, there was a graduated risk as well. Compared to those whose blood sugar was typically 160 mg/dL, people with a much higher average of 190 mg/dL were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia.
The researchers said they took gender, education level, exercise, blood pressure, smoking and other dementia risk factors into consideration in their findings.
Doctors have suspected for years that diabetes, known to affect blood vessels, is linked to an increase in dementia risk.
"Dementia is not just one thing, especially in older folks," said O`Brien. "It`s usually a combination of different disease processes - usually Alzheimer`s, but vascular disease is probably number two."
"Because this was an observational study, we don`t know if any changes a person would make to lower their blood sugar would be associated with a decreased risk for dementia," said Crane.
The result "changes how we think, not what anyone does or how much fear somebody should have."


text: Nearly 50 years after sex discrimination was prohibited, women continue to be paid less, face sexual harassment, and confront barriers to hiring and promotion. Many low-wage women work in jobs providing no paid leave. They are critical breadwinners and simply cannot afford to forfeit wages in order to take time off from work. Yet, they remain principal family caretakers; they become pregnant but need to work; and they have little access to back-up family care services.


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"Free and open source software enables more effective actions, with a very low cost, when financing small projects for public administrations", says Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria's Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) and professor of Computer Science at University of Perugia. "This type of software is key to the re-use of applications by public administrations."
The activities of Umbria's open source centre were presented during the OpenOffice conference in the Italian city of Orvieto, on 6 November.
Among the 76 software development and implementation projects financed in 2008 and 2009 with grants from the Umbria regional administration, many have resulted in tools being used by other administrations, said Gervasi. Examples include the use of open source firewall solutions and other security tools, the use of geographic information systems (GIS), installation of desktop PCs in school computer labs, approaches to server virtualisation, the use of e-Learning software and the implementation of content management systems.
The potential for re-use is one of the most important award criteria that CCOS uses to approve projects that are submitted for funding, Gervasi explained. Other criteria are the use of international open standards and the use of open data formats for the systems.
To qualify for the CCOS grant program, projects need to publish their code using an open source licence, promote the use of this type of software and upon completion of the project, make all code and documentation publicly available.
In Orvieto, Gervasi announced that CCOS is planning an exchange plaform. This will be part of the OSOR-forge, the software development platform of the Open Source Observatory and Repository. "We plan to use the virtual forge service of the OSOR.eu; why would we create our own, if the European Commission provides us with the tools we need?"
The CCOS was established in November 2006. It was founded following the adoption that month of a law by the Umbria regional administration on the use and sharing of open source software. It made the Umbria region the first in Italy to promote the use of free and open source software by public administrations.
Previous Italian governments adopted several laws and actions related to the promotion of open source for public administrations. "Unfortunately recently, the government has started on a different path", says Gervasi, pointing to initiatives such as the digital school and e-Gov plan 2020, which are carried out with proprietary software.
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Dedication has paid off for a 12-year-old girl who has sung her way to the regional finals of a nationwide competition.
Laura Cook, of Cross Lane, Wessington, will be pitching her talents in the TeenStar event at Sheffield Memorial Hall on April 6.
She said: "I am very excited because I love singing and it's my favourite thing to do.
"I entered the competition last year but didn't get through the auditions so I decided to not give in and try again."
A pupil at Highfields School, Matlock, Laura first sang in public when she was on holiday in Halkadiki. She said: "My grandma said I was so good I should have singing lessons, so when I was seven I had singing lessons and have had them ever since, despite having about four different teachers."
Laura scooped her place in the regional final after impressing audition judges with her rendition of Christina Aguilera's Beautiful.
She is currently working on a different song for the next stage of the competition which has attracted thousands of entrants.
Laura recorded tracks for a demo disc at Curly Lead studios in Nottingham earlier this month. She sang covers of Let It Go from Frozen, Make You Feel My Love by Adele and Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke.


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(Reuters) - Former world number two Svetlana Kuznetsova defied sweltering heat that earlier prompted Agnieszka Radwanska to suggest it was too hot to play to beat seventh seed Caroline Wozniacki on Tuesday in the second round of the Sydney International.
Russia's Kuznetsova, a two-times grand slam champion who was knocked out in the first round in Auckland last week and had to qualify for the main draw in Sydney, beat the former world number one 7-6 1-6 6-2 in a match that lasted almost four hours.
Sydney had been forecast to hit a maximum of 43C on Tuesday as Australia swelters in a heatwave that has sparked raging bush fires.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology reported a temperature high of 41.4 C at 1530(local) at Sydney's Olympic Park and women's top seed Radwanska had said earlier that play should have been abandoned until the temperature dropped.
The world number four, who was given a bye into the second round, played the opening match on centre court and beat Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-4 6-3 to advance to the quarter-finals but even that early in the day the heat was effecting the players.
"I think this is too hot to play tennis," Radwanska told reporters. "Even for players, for ball kids, for the people sitting out there, I think it's just too hot."
"Today was one of the hottest day I (have) played for sure."
Former French Open champion Li Na, who followed Radwanska on to court, compared the heat to playing in a sauna, but she was good enough to speed through Japan's Ayumi Morita 6-1 6-0 in 52 minutes.
"I was feeling, I don't know, just feeling like unbelievable. They say it was 40, but even on the tennis court even more," Li said.
"I mean, even didn't finish the match, just finish (the) first set (and) I was feeling my feet already burning."
Kuznetsova's victory in the heat gave the 27-year-old Russian tremendous confidence she could continue to build towards the Australian Open having spent six months out rehabilitating a knee injury.
The former U.S. and French Open champion spent two months on crutches last year and had to rebuild muscle strength in her legs to ensure she did not re-injure her right knee and dropped to 85th in the world rankings.
She had asked for a wild card for Sydney but was forced to play qualifiers, which had actually helped her build momentum into Tuesday's win.
"It was very weird to go and play quallies, but, you know, it just makes you stronger," she told reporters.
"(It) definitely was a little bit uncomfortable, but it made me stronger (and) this is what I really was looking for in Sydney, to get matches."
Kuznetsova, who will meet second-seeded German Angelique Kerber in the quarter-finals, said she was not taking the win over the 10th-ranked Wozniacki as a turning point in her rehabilitation.
"I just don't think about it when it's turning point and when it's not," she said. "I'm here. I'm doing the best I can. That's it. That's over here. Tomorrow is another day."
While players battled heat in Sydney, in Melbourne men's world number 12 Juan Monaco and 19 Kei Nishikori's final Australian Open preparations were in doubt.
Argentina's Monaco withdrew from the invitational Kooyong tournament with a hand injury and his spot in the eight man tournament, which starts on Wednesday, was taken by Paul-Henri Mathieu, tournament director Colin Stubs said.
Japan's Nishikori also told reporters the knee injury that forced him out of the semi-finals in Brisbane on Saturday was still causing him problems and he did not know if he would play at Kooyong.
"I don't know," he said when asked if whether he could play. "I'm going to try to hit today and let's see how it goes.
"It's not bad. Let's cross the fingers and hopefully it will be okay."
(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Patrick Johnston and Amlan Chakraborty)


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WASHINGTON — Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Dec. 14.
OZONE LAYER DEPLETION: Voting 229 for and 182 against, the House on Dec. 12 failed to reach a two-thirds majority needed to pass a bill (HR 6190) allowing the sell-off of inventories of a certain asthma inhaler that has been banned from sale since Dec. 31, 2011, because its chlorofluorocarbon emissions damage the ozone layer. The product is Primatene Mist, a "CFC epinephrine" inhaler manufactured by Armstrong Pharmaceuticals. This bill would legalize the sale of existing stocks of more than one million units through July 2013. The Environmental Protection Agency has banned the sale of Primatene Mist and more than a dozen other inhalers containing CFCs under a U.S. law that implements the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
A yes vote was to pass the bill.
Voting yes: Republicans Renee Ellmers, Walter Jones, Virginia Foxx, Howard Coble, Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry and Democrats Mike McIntyre, Larry Kissell and Heath Shuler
Voting no: Democrats G.K. Butterfield, David Price, Melvin Watt and Brad Miller
PROTECTION OF AFGHAN WOMEN: Voting 399 for and four against, the House on Dec. 13 called upon the U.S. military to step up efforts to ensure the rights and physical safety of women and girls in Afghanistan during and after the ongoing transition of power from coalition to Afghan security forces. With this non-binding vote, members endorsed language to protect Afghan women and girls that is in the Senate version but not the House version of the fiscal 2013 military authorization bill (HR 4310). Now in a House-Senate conference committee, the $631.6 billion military budget was expected to receive final congressional passage within days.
The four members voting against the measure to protect Afghan women and girls are Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., Walter Jones, R-N.C., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ron Paul, R-Texas.
A yes vote backed the amendment.
Voting yes: Butterfield, Ellmers, Price, Foxx, Coble, McIntyre, Kissell, Myrick, McHenry, Shuler, Watt, Miller
Voting no: Jones
UNLIMITED DEPOSIT INSURANCE: Voting 50 for and 42 against, the Senate on Dec. 13 failed to advance a bill (S 3637) to extend the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) Program through 2014. This effectively ends the program, which was begun during the 2008 financial collapse as a temporary measure to boost liquidity in a failing banking system. TAG provides unlimited federal deposit insurance - above the standard cap of $250,000 per depositor per institution -- for non-interest-bearing accounts held by large corporations, small businesses, local governments, non-profits and wealthy individuals in banks and credit unions. Businesses typically use these checking accounts to meet recurring expenses such as payroll. Participating financial institutions, not taxpayers, cover the cost of the program.
A yes vote was to advance the bill.
Voting yes: Democrat Kay Hagan
Voting no: Republican Richard Burr
Looking ahead
In the week of Dec. 17, both chambers will take up the conference report on the fiscal 2013 defense budget. They also may vote on a "fiscal cliff" bill, aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy and the Violence Against Women Act, among other measures. House and Senate leaders say Congress will not adjourn this year until it has resolved fiscal issues.
Diane Norman
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Hendersonville, N.C.
Voterama in Congress for the week of Dec. 14
WASHINGTON — Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Dec. 14.


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Rib Misalignments: No Laughing Matter
Treating rib joints to protect thoracic stability.
By Kevin M. Wong, DC
It is an exciting world that awaits us when we go to work every day. We deal with all types of people who present with varying health conditions we can (hopefully) help alleviate.The challenges we face are made easier by the recognizable patterns many patients present with; conditions that most of us would classify as our "bread and butter" or common, everyday problems. Low back pain, neck pain, headaches are just a few of these. Many of us also see a lot of upper/mid back issues that result in pain and poor posture.
But not all patient presentations are as common / recognizable, at least not on first glance. In this article, I want to call your attention to the rib cage. Rib joints are critical to the stability of the thoracic region. Subluxations or misalignments of these joints are extremely common in everyday practice. In fact, you probably have a few out of alignment as you are reading this. Rib misalignments can be tricky to catch, so let's review these important structures to see why they need to be addressed.
Relevant Anatomy
Recall that 12 sets of ribs come off the vertebrae. Ribs 1-7 are true, 8-10 are false and 11 and 12 are floating. Their articulations with the vertebrae on one end and the sternum on the other end make them fairly stable.
A study evaluating the stability of this area found that the rib cage "[increases] the stability of the thoracic spine by 40% in flexion/extension, 35% in lateral bending, and 31% in axial rotation."1 With this rib stability comes less mobility. The rib heads only like to move about 5-7 degrees in either a superior or inferior direction. The ribs are there to protect the lungs and all the other organs contained within. Due to the joint orientation, ribs tend to move up or down (superior and inferior).
The areas that require particular attention are the costotransverse joint, costovertebral joint, costosternal joint and costal cartilage. Research has found that the "costovertebral joints and rib cage play an important role in providing stability to the thoracic spine. The state of the costovertebral joints and rib cage should be assessed to evaluate the stability of the thoracic spine."2
Also of note is the presence of intercostal nerves that lie between the ribs. These nerves are highly sensitive, and irritation can easily create radiating pain.
In their most innocuous form, rib-head subluxations can feel like a dull, achy pain when palpating the rib-head region. At its worst, a rib subluxation can feel like a sharp, stabbing pain, as if someone is being stabbed through the chest, or pain radiating along the periphery of one or more ribs.
It is more likely that you will find the posterior rib heads instead of the anterior. But anterior rib heads certainly do move out, so you will want to check this as well. Ninety percent of the time, the rib heads misalign in a superior direction. There is some relationship to the powerful intercostal muscles for this upward movement.
The rib area is not always swollen or inflamed, but the intercostal and thoracic paraspinal muscles are very hypertonic and painful to the touch. Use whatever physiotherapy modalities you deem appropriate. Laser, ultrasound, ice and heat are all good ideas.
In general, anterior manual adjustments, drop-table adjusting instruments and even directional pressure will help those ribs to move back in place. Most of the time the patient will feel some pain or discomfort as the rib slips back in, but they will feel better afterward.
Patients will feel sore for the rest of the day, so using ice or therapeutic creams / gels is recommended. Rib subluxations will stabilize in as little as two visits, but it can take a few weeks if someone has chronic rib instability.
Considerations / Hints
Rarely is a single rib out by itself. Ribs run in packs, so to speak; when one major rib is symptomatic, it normally involves the ones above and below with it. It is quite common to have multiple ribs misaligned and muscle hypertonicity throughout the thoracic region. If there are enough ribs involved, you will see postural problems in the upper back with forward hunching, which helps keep the patient out of pain.
The Heart-Attack Presentation
When rib misalignments are sharp enough, they shoot through the chest on the left side of the body. When this happens, patients often think they are having a heart attack. This is the logical course of thinking for anyone with left-sided chest pain.
Most of these patients will have already gone to their medical doctor to make sure they are not having an MI. We must always treat this very seriously. Even when we determine that the ribs are involved, it's prudent to evaluate the heart yourself or refer to a cardiologist or the patient's GP. A full heart work-up is good for anyone.
Ribs out of place can create sharp pain, but it worsens with deeper inspiration, laughing, coughing or sneezing. There is pain in the actual rib heads. Hunching forward and short breaths help reduce the pain.
Beware of the Shoulder
Ribs out of place usually indicate shoulder instability and shoulder girdle subluxation / misalignment. Check all of the shoulder joints. You would be surprised at how often unstable shoulders pull ribs out. If you initially missed the shoulder's role in rib stability when you first assessed your patient, you will get another chance. If the ribs aren't staying in place or seem like they keep coming back out, check the GH, AC and scapulothoracic joints, and adjust them accordingly.
It's All In the Details
Don't forget that the rib joints in front are as important as the bones in the back. You must remember to adjust ribs on the front and back of the chest. If you only get the back, the front-rib misalignments can wiggle the back ones out again. Use diversified, drop table or an adjusting instrument; all are effective.
One more point of interest: With very recalcitrant cases that are not healing well, you may have to adjust the rib laterally (in the regions under the axiallae). This is where I suggest you take an adjusting instrument or even light traction with your fingers and pull from S to I to open up the lateral rib areas.
Rib misalignments are incredibly common in our patients, so it is important to know how to look for them. Once you become proficient in finding and treating them, you can help patients improve their thoracic and cervical stability, and with it their overall biomechanics.


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Jefferson County, West Virginia Genealogy
|Jefferson County, West Virginia
Location in the state of West Virginia
Location of West Virginia in the U.S.
|County Seat
|Charles Town
United States West Virginia Jefferson County
West Virginia county in the Shenandoah Valley region.
- 1 County Courthouse
- 2 History
- 3 Places / Localities
- 4 Resources
- 4.1 Research Guides
- 4.2 African American
- 4.3 Cemeteries
- 4.4 Census
- 4.5 Church
- 4.6 Court
- 4.7 Genealogy
- 4.8 Land
- 4.9 Local Histories
- 4.10 Maps
- 4.11 Military
- 4.12 Naturalization
- 4.13 Newspapers
- 4.14 Occupations
- 4.15 Probate
- 4.16 Taxation
- 4.17 Vital Records
- 5 Societies and Libraries
- 6 Web Sites
- 7 References
County Courthouse
Jefferson County Courthouse
P O Box 208
Charles Town, WV 25414
Phone: 304-728-3215
County Clerk has birth, death from 1853
Military records from 1918 (except Civil War years)
Marriage, Probate and Land Records 1801[1]
Parent County
1801--Jefferson County was created 8 January 1801 from Berkeley County.
County seat: Charles Town [2]
Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Jefferson County boundary changes.
Record Loss
Places / Localities
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
Research Guides
- Good, Rebecca H. and Rebecca A. Ebert. Finding Your People in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998. 4th ed. FHL Book 975 D27e 1998
African American
- Heinegg, Paul. "Jefferson County Personal Property Tax List, 1802-1820," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
For tips on accessing Jefferson County, West Virginia Genealogy census records online, see: West Virginia Census.
Jefferson County, West Virginia GenWeb Census
Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):
- Zoar (1799)[3]
Jefferson County fell within the bounds of the Ketocton Association.
Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):
- Berkeley Monthly Meeting (1778-1832) formerly Bullskin[4]
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:
- Locate publications about direct ancestors
- Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
- Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]
Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Jefferson County families include:
- O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia. Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1995. FHL Collection. One of the most impressively researched one-place studies in the United States. In a review, Dorman stated "Comprehensive studies such as this appear only rarely. This volume should be in every Virginia genealogical collection."[5]
- Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. Available at FHL US/CAN Book 975.59 H2c 1963; FHL US/CAN Film 1000634 Item 1; digital version at Ancestry ($); Digital view FamilySearch Books Online and World Vital Records ($). [3 copies at FHL.]
- [Beeler] Pappas, Carolyn H. "Christopher Beeler, 1705-1775," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1999):243-255; Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2000):18-30; Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 2000):115-125. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg.
- [Hefflebower] Rohrbach, Lewis Bunker. Hoffelbauer Genealogy, 1585-1993, The American Families Hefelbower, Heffelbower, Heflebower, Hefflebower, Heflybower, Hefflibauer, Heflibauer and Heffelbauer Together with Their German and Austrian Ancestry. Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1993. FHL Book 929.273 H675rL.
- [Hieronymus] Gentry, Veronica J. Descendants of Conrad Hironimus (Heironimus) Whose Will Was Probated in Frederick Co., Virginia in 1816. MSS., available at FHL.
- [Hieronymus] Chenault, Louise Ryan, John P. Hieronymus, Dorothy Hieronymus, and George P. Unseld. The Hieronymus Story. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1959.
- [Hieronymus] Hieronymus Family in America. The Hieronymus Story, 1985. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1985. Available at FHL.
- [Sinclair] Hall, Newman Arnold. "Allerton of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1988):83-92; Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1988):171-178; Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988):287-296; Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1989):13-18; Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1989):94-102; Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1989):175-180. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 32 (1988)-v. 33 (1989).
- [Strother] Owen, Thomas McAdory, "William Strother of Virginia and His Descendants," Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr. 1898):149-173. Digitized by Internet Archive.
- [Turner] Tyler, Lyon G. "The Blackburns, of 'Ripon Lodge,'" The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Apr. 1896):266-269. Digital version at JSTOR - free.
Local Histories
- Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. Available at FHL US/CAN Book 975.59 H2c 1963; FHL US/CAN Film 1000634 Item 1; digital version at Ancestry ($); Digital view FamilySearch Books Online and World Vital Records ($). [3 copies at FHL.]
- Norris, J. E.. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time, Geological Features, a Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities, Cities, Towns and Villages, Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens. Chicago: A. Warner, 1890. Original edition available at FHL; 1972 reprint available at FHL; digital version of original edition at Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records ($).
Map of 1850 Virginia and West Virginia
Revolutionary War
- A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Book 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Western District, Jefferson County on page 134.]
- Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." FHL Book 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]
War of 1812
Jefferson County men served in the 55th Regiment.[6]
Civil War
Regiments. Service men in Jefferson County, West Virginia Genealogy served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Jefferson County, West Virginia Genealogy:
- - 1st Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate).
- - 2nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company A (Jefferson Guards), Company B (Hamtramck Guards), Company G (Botts Greys), Company H (Letcher Riflemen), and Company K (Floyd Guards).
- - 11th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry. Company A (The Wildcat Company).[7]
- - 12th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company B (Baylor Light Horse) and Company D.[8]
Records and histories are available, including:
- West Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
Civil War Battle
The following Civil War battles were fought in Jefferson County.
- September 12 - 15, 1862 = Harpers Ferry[9]
- September 19 - 20, 1862 = Shepherdstown[10]
- August 21, 1864 = Summit Point, also known as Flowing Springs and/or Cameron's Depot[11]
- August 25 - 29, 1864 = Smithfield Crossing[12]
- Map showing Civil War battles in West Virginia.
West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991
- Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (Together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. FHL Collection. [Includes sections on Charles Town, Harper's Ferry, and Shepherdstown silversmiths.]
Jefferson County, West Virginia Will Books 1832-1970
West Virginia Will Books
How can Virginia tax lists help me?
- [1802-1820] Heinegg, Paul. "Jefferson County Personal Property Tax List, 1802-1820," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
- [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Jefferson County is included in Vol. 6.]
Vital Records
West Virginia Vital Records: Birth, Death, Marriages
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Jefferson County, West Virginia Bible Records
- Family History Library Catalog
- Cyndi's List for West Virginia
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- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Jefferson County, West Virginia. Page 744 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ Robert Baylor Semple and George William Beale, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia (1810; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 386-387. Digital version at Google Books.
- ↑ Jay Worrall, The Friendly Virginians: America's First Quakers (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1994), 537-539. FHL Book 975.5 K2wj.
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, "Review of Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia," in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1995):236.
- ↑ Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 114. FHL Book 975.5 M2bs.
- ↑ Richard L. Armstrong, 11th Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1989). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 52.
- ↑ Dennis E. Frye, 12th Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, c1988). FHL Book 975.5 M2vr v. 42.
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 20 September 2012)
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 20 September 2012)
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 25 September 2012)
- ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 25 September 2012)


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TMC wrote:You're all sounding like Rush Limbaugh now...
If that's the reason for the trade (and I still refuse to believe it, but maybe based on personal convictions), it's retarded as hell.
TMC Im not saying Bird is racist, im saying in that part of the country there is still racisim. That racisim naturally is in some of the Pacer fanbase, and a good owner/GM knows how to please their fanbase.
One last thing, have you seen Borat yet TMC?


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HANG TIME SOUTHWEST — Is it just the dog days of a long season? Are the Thunder bored? Or are the Oklahoma City boys spending too much time together at the frat house?
We've been seeing some odd behavior lately from the reigning Western Conference champs. Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka have sniped at each other on the court, more than once, of late. And in Thursday's 106-89 win over the Memphis Grizzlies, Russell Westbrook absolutely blew his top.
OK, so maybe Westbrook going all hot-head isn't all that odd. But, he added a new twist when he stormed off the bench during the game to seek refuge and cool off in an arena tunnel. Getting things started was Westbrook barking at teammate Thabo Sefolosha, then putting up a shot so wild that coach Scott Brooks had to pull his All-Star point guard with just under eight minutes to go in the third quarter.
After a brief sitdown next to assistant coach Maurice Cheeks, Westbrook stood up, flipped a chair out of his way and marched off the floor.
At the time, he was having a tremendous game, too. The Thunder were leading 65-44 and Westbrook had 19 points on 8-for-13 shooting. When he left, Memphis went on a 20-10 run. When Westbrook returned to start the fourth quarter it was if nothing happened. He continued his strong play and helped the Thunder increase their lead.
He finished with 21 points, nine rebounds and six assists.
Afterward, TNT's Craig Sager caught up with Westbrook in the Thunder locker room for a brief exchange.
Sager: What got you so upset?
Westbrook: Nothing, just a little miscommunication.
Sager: Between you and Thabo?
Westbrook: Nah. Just miscommunication.
Sager: At times do you think you need to control your temper more?
Westbrook: I control it like a man, like I did.
Sager: What's that mean?
Westbrook: (doesn't answer)
Sager: Put it behind you and go ahead and win?
Westbrook: If that's what you say, bro.
Perhaps Oklahoman columnist Barry Tramel puts it best:
And maybe the basketball world will be better off if we accept what Westbrook is. Part hot hand, part hothead. Uncorrallable, not just by NBA opponents, but by Thunder brass.
"There's no question he was frustrated with himself," Brooks said. "Russell's an emotional guy … not trying to downplay that. He has to be able to control his frustration. But that's part of it."
Exactly. Westbrook's wild emotions are part of it. Maybe those wild emotions help make him who he is. Which is a ballplayer so good, he can wipe out the NBA's best of the West the way Peter Pan took care of Captain Hook.
Only this type of disruptive behavior has been going on for years now, dating back to Game 2 of the 2011 Western Conference finals when Brooks benched Westbrook for the entire fourth quarter at Dallas and played Eric Maynor instead.
At some point, Brooks and his staff have to gain some control over Westbrook and his temper, or it will rear its ugly head during the postseason for a team that now has just one goal: NBA championship.


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FERC accepts continued 'Grandfathering' of transmission contracts in Midwest ISO
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today accepted the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (Midwest ISO) compliance plan that will allow continued "grandfathering" of transmission contracts that have been carved out of the region's energy markets.
FERC approved extending the carved-out grandfathering of transmission contracts beyond their February 1, 2008, expiration to preserve the bargains of the contracting parties, and further found that the markets will continue to operate in an efficient and reliable manner with the carve-outs in place.
"Today's action balances the contract rights of the grandfathered transmission contract holders with the need for reliable and efficient energy markets in the broad region represented by the Midwest ISO," FERC Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher said. "The court affirmed our previous orders and upheld our careful application of the public interest standard. FERC will continue to take a measured approach towards contract certainty."
The Midwest ISO now has 101 carved-out grandfathered transmission agreements (GFAs), about 6.7 percent of total load. "The number will continue to decrease over time, which results in a more reliable Midwest ISO system," FERC's order states. The Commission also noted that that there is "a generally high level of scheduling accuracy related to carved-out GFAs and that [Midwest ISO] has not found any instances where a reduction of firm transmission rights was significantly impacted by carved-out GFAs."
With FERC approval, the Midwest ISO in 2004 replaced its Open Access and Transmission Tariff with an Open Access Transmission and Energy Markets Tariff (TEMT). The TEMT provided for market-based congestion management and energy markets in the Midwest ISO region, including day-ahead and real-time energy markets, locational marginal pricing and a market for financial transmission rights.
To initiate well-functioning energy markets, Midwest ISO had to address transmission service provided under approximately 232 existing long-term grandfathered contracts. In a series of orders based on the results of a fact-finding process, FERC ordered Midwest ISO to carve out certain GFAs and approved Midwest ISO's proposed options for the treatment of other GFAs for at least a transition period ending February 1, 2008. The plan adopted in 2004 respected the contract rights of parties to grandfathered transmission agreements while allowing Midwest ISO to begin operation of its energy markets on schedule.
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In typical fashion of my first-born, almost 13-year-old son, Mason, he called me recently with an urgent request.
In typical fashion of my first-born, almost 13-year-old son, Mason, he called me recently with an urgent request.
"Mom, I need some addresses for a fundraiser we are having at school," he said, reminding me that last year I had provided him with a list long enough to win him a coveted prize. He told me he needed between six to 10 addresses.
"When do you need these by?" I asked.
"Tomorrow morning," was his reply.
I used to have an addresses book, but that was when I wrote actual letters and sent them through snail mail. Now with e-mail, texting and smart phones, I rarely remember a person's phone number, much less a mailing address.
I remembered once a couple of years back putting some addresses in a file in my computer. As I was on the phone with him, I went over to my computer to find it turned off.
"It seems your going to have to talk to me for a while as I start the computer back up," I told him.
"Ok...." was the reply followed by 30 seconds of silence.
"Is it up yet?" he asked again.
"Not yet. Tell me what you did this past weekend," I probed.
"Nothing..." was the response followed by another 30 seconds of silence.
"How is school?" I asked.
"Have you gone anywhere fun and exciting?" I asked.
"Not really..."
"How about I call you back when I've found what I'm looking for?" I asked.
"Well, I guess I did go to a friend's house this weekend for a party," he offered.
Now we were getting somewhere.
"What was the party for?" I asked, assuming it was a birthday party, but I needed to stall for time.
"It wasn't a birthday party, it was a 'congratulations for not visiting the hospital in the past six months party,'" he said.
What on earth?
My first thought was that maybe one of his friends had a disease that caused him to spend more time in the hospital than in school or at home.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Apparently Mason's friend is a little reckless or clumsy (or maybe both) and visits the hospital frequently when he's sustained injuries from, well, I guess, just being himself.
"Actually," Mason said, "the day before the party he broke his arm, so technically he didn't make it the full six months, but the party was already planned so his parents went ahead with it."
I wondered to myself if everyone was asked to bring medical supplies as gifts. Before I could ask, my computer dinged that it was finally ready. Finding the file was harder than I had anticipated and after another 10 minutes of more awkward conversation, Mason told me to call him back.
After 30 minutes I located the file and opened it to find the only addresses I had were my own (I guess maybe I was afraid at one point I would forget it), my parents, my sister and my brother's addresses. So much for getting him the prize.
Hubby stepped in and texted his family for their addresses. I did the same for my extended family.
Within minutes, Hubby's family had sent three more addresses.
Over a half-hour later my phone remained so silent I checked to make sure I hadn't accidentally turned it off.
Six addresses was all I could manage to scrounge up. I called Mason back to give him the list.
"Did you find 10 addresses for me?" he asked eagerly.
"I found you six and next year I'd appreciate more time," I said. "Why didn't you call me sooner?"
"I forgot."
I hope he learned his lesson: don't put off for weeks what is due tomorrow!


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The latest Firefox may still be in beta but it boasts a number of behind-the-scenes features that will make developing for the web easier as well as end-user changes that add new functionality, like private browsing and support for drag and drop.
Firefox 3.5 is coming very soon, and this release includes a number of features that up the ante for Web browsers and the Web as an application platform. Some of the game-changing features in Firefox 3.5 won't be immediately visible to end-users, but they'll allow Web developers to build Web applications that make the Web even more fun and useful than it already is. Let's take a look at five of the prominent features you can test drive today in Firefox 3.5.
You can grab tarballs from Mozilla the Mozilla beta announcement page, though many Linux distros also have testing packages available as add-on repositories. For instance, openSUSE users can add the mozilla:beta repository to track the latest Firefox development packages. This gives the added advantage of allowing you to track updates via your distro's update process, but does mean that updates will usually lag a few days behind the official Moz builds.
Because it's beta software, the standard disclaimers apply: While Firefox betas are pretty stable, you can expect that it will have some bugs and might even do unexpected things like eating your data. I've never had this happen, but take reasonable precautions before running the beta — like backing up your profile directory.
Audio and Video Support in Firefox
Ever get sick of worrying about plugins and helper applications to enjoy multimedia content online? Firefox 3.5 may be the beginning of the end for that particular hassle with support for HTML 5
audio and
video elements, and support for the Ogg and WAV formats in the browser itself.
audio and
video elements make it easier to add video and audio to Web pages, with a few lines of HTML Take this example from the Firefox developer site:
If you're using a supported browser like Firefox 3.5, you'll see test bars just like we used to enjoy at the end of the broadcast day on television. (Remember when the broadcast day actually ended?) If not, you should just see: "Your browser does not support the
video element."
As a side note, Firefox's inclusion of Ogg might just help make the free but not yet mainstream format break through. This would be a big win for Linux users who have excellent tools for encoding and decoding Ogg but not a lot of mainstream content in Ogg to view or listen to. Labels like Magnatune that support Ogg out of the box are few and far between.
If you're running Firefox 3.5, you can catch a number of sample videos on TinyVid.
Private Browsing
Over the years, Firefox has added a number of features that make it easier to erase your browsing tracks — so if you're sharing a computer with others, you can erase history, cookies, cache and other bits that would let snoopers see how you spend your browsing time. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a shotgun approach — meaning you lose history and so forth from all the sites you visit, and not just the ones you want to keep private.
The 3.5 release will take care of this problem by introducing Private Browsing, or what's more often referred to as "Porn Mode" for Mozilla. Of course, it has much more work safe applications as well. If you're doing gift shopping, for example, it's sort of a dead giveaway if your significant other stumbles on your shopping history. For the
paranoid security conscious, it's also a good feature for logging into banking sites or any other type of Web site that displays a lot of private data. Whatever the reason, Firefox's Private Browsing mode is much more convenient for users than just deleting history at random intervals.
Using Private Browsing, you can start up a Firefox session that doesn't record cookies, history, etc., so that there's no trace of your session. When you finish, all of your previous settings and history are untouched, so you lose nothing — unlike the "Clear History" tool in older versions, which clobbers all cookies, etc.
Firefox 3.5 also has added more finely grained options to the Clear History tool. Instead of an "all or nothing" approach, you can get rid of the last hour, two hours, four hours, day, or entire history.
Offline Application Support
Being dependent on a Web application is a bit of a problem when you're offline. Firefox 3.5 tries to remedy this a bit by adding support for the HTML 5 specs for caching resources for Web apps.
Offline application support isn't entirely new, Firefox shipped bits of this with Firefox 3.0 and add-ons like Google Gears have provided offline support for Gears-enabled Web apps. However, Firefox 3.5 fully supports the HTML 5 specification for offline application support — which ought to give a boost to offline Web apps, beyond Google Gears.
Drag and Drop
Typically, Web applications lack the same feature functionality that desktop applications do. Case in point: Drag and drop between applications. Sure, you can copy and paste some things between browser windows and different Web sites, but drag and drop capabilities are seriously limited compared to desktop applications.
Firefox 3.5 beefs up the abilities to drag and drop data types between applications and even multiple items. It may seem like a minor feature, but it gives Web apps the ability to work more like desktop applications, which is another hurdle for those who'd like to see Web applications replace fat apps.
Geolocation seems to be all the rage these days — services like Google Latitude allow users to report their location via the computer or mobile phone so your friends and stalkers can track your location more conveniently. Ecommerce sites can pick up your location to suggest nearby stores, and so forth.
I'm not entirely sure this is a desirable feature, but a lot of users seem to want it — and Firefox 3.5 gives developers and users the tools to make it possible beyond services like Latitude. If you're totally freaked out by the prospect of Web sites knowing your location, it can be turned off.
Basically, service providers can report your location based on wireless access points and IP address. Depending where you are in the world, this can be very accurate (within a few meters, which is pretty darn specific) or wildly inaccurate. With your permission, Firefox can then report the location to Web sites that request it.
My experience with the technology so far is that it's good at getting within the general city/county, but beyond that not so much. But the technology is only going to get better (especially with mobile devices that have GPS) and more widely used.
All in all, Firefox 3.5 has a lot of new functionality that's going to be really useful regardless whether you're a Web developer or an end-users.


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Lucker: The Necrophagous (US - DVD)
Gabe celebrates the low standards of horror movie fans just like himself...
From the official site: John Lucker is a deeply disturbed serial rapist and killer. Locked up in a clinic after committing eight murders (and keeping the bodies around for his own sexual pleasure after the people died!!!), Lucker manages to escape and flees to the city... searching for the one lone survivor of his previous killing spree. His disgusting rampage continues and more people die one by one.
Lucker must find and kill the woman who escaped him the first time… and no one will get in his way!
Horror fans are not known for their high standards. Most of us are happy with a spurt of blood and flash of boob, and usually we're willing to forgive a bad line or lame set up so long as the ensuing death is juicy. This isn't to say we don't know a bad movie when we see it, we're just usually less concerned with normal critical standards once we've placed ourselves in the right mindset. Lucker: The Necrophagous is simply the latest in an ever expanding line of low budget, low standard, low ambition independent horror features with an unnaturally sizeable DVD release. The collector's market, along with years of bootleg VHS tapes, ensure these releases will sell. Lucker now joins the ranks of Leif Jonker's Darkness, J.R. Bookwalter's The Dead Next Door, Scott Spiegel's The Intruder, and Douglas McKeown's The Deadly Spawn (also released by Synapse) as a pretty well made, cheap and gory horror flick you'll watch once and stick on the shelf.
For a student film with seemingly zero budget, Lucker could be a lot worse. The story is almost non-existent, concerning Lucker's movement from victim to victim more then anything else, the acting is doubly bad, once on screen and once while being dubbed into English, and the cinematography is murkier then dirty turpentine, but there's still some iota of skill on display. The film's greatest asset is its pace, which is far speedier then most zero-budget horror and exploitation, though some death scenes devolve into broad repetition. The special effects are effectively icky, though not wholly convincing, and not nearly as shocking as director Johan Vandewoestijne intended. There's an amusing quality and relative innocence to the film's violence, actually, the most shocking images appear on a video screen as Lucker watches hard core porn.
Those in search of genuine disturbance, however, will do better to stick with Jörg Buttgereit's filmography, as Necromantic and Schramm cover much of the same ground in a much more convincing manner. Lucker's perversions and crimes are much more silly then frightening.
Um. Well. Jeeze, I don't know what to say, Lucker: The Necrophagous looks terrible. The back of the video box tells us that the original materials were destroyed, and it appears that this anamorphically enhanced DVD release was mastered from a VHS tape. Details are fuzzy, the image quality is very, very dark, noise is prevalent to the nth degree, and the gaudy colours bleed into each other. The film's colour pallet is actually pretty impressive for a relatively bad little feature, recalling some of Suspiria's more noisy scenes, so it's too bad that Synapse didn't have a good source to work with.
It's funny to note that this is a 'director's cut' release, and normally one would need some kind of marker or director's commentary to know what scenes were added when watching a film they've never seen before. This isn't the case with Lucker because the new footage is exclusively made up mostly of insert shots of the villain picking things up or moving things around, and all these scenes are twice as detailed and brightly lit as the rest of the film.
The postproduction foley and ADR recording on this film is epically amateur. When Lucker licks blood from his fingers or simply shifts in his chair the effect is deafening, and there seems to only be three or four people recording the English dialogue. It also seems that they didn't record nearly enough dialogue or screams because they are repeated ad nausea ("Please don't!" "Please don't!" "Please don't!"). Volume levels are all over the place. The one constant is the maddening loudness of the vocal performances. The one surprise of that track that music is actually pretty well mixed, though it's often lost in the massive wall of bad ADR.
It's incredible that fans can depend on DVD studios to make mini-documentaries concerning the making of such underground, and unknown movies. 'Lucker: The Story Behind the Film' is an informative and well-paced retrospective interview/featurette with director Johan Vandewoestijne. The director covers his inspiration, which was simple frustration, the filming, and the distribution. Apparently this new 'director's cut' was created using the audio from the subtitled VHS and the video from a French release. Most of the interview is Vandewoestijne's talking head, but there are some behind the scenes photos, and before and after recreation shots, and scenes deleted from the 'director's cut'.
Also included is a copy of the VHS version that made the rounds with collectors for years, which doesn't feature the highly detailed insert shots. This version has burned Dutch subtitles, and is not reframed to 1.85:1, so fans should be happy.
Lucker: The Necrophagous is a bad movie, pure and simply, but it's the brand of bad movie that will bring back memories of gray market VHS trades – the pre-DVD days when horror fans really had to work to find the finest in gore – and that's worth enough for most of us. This isn't a lost classic by any means, but should be a kick for the right people. It should be avoided at all cost for the rest of you.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Gawd - you really get the good one sometimes Gabe - those screen shots are atrocious - you must have got a headache watching it.
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
Hey, Gabe!
You're pretty harsh lumping Speigel's The Intruder in with that lot!
Nice review, though - as always!
The Wilson Bros
You're pretty harsh lumping Speigel's The Intruder in with that lot!
Nice review, though - as always!
The Wilson Bros
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I didn't mean it as harsh, it was meant as loving.
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
Lucker was always a movie that we had heard of, but never got around to watching. After reading your considered opinion, it's a fairly safe bet that we never will...
The Wilson Bros
Lucker was always a movie that we had heard of, but never got around to watching. After reading your considered opinion, it's a fairly safe bet that we never will...
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Disc Details
Release Date: 20th May 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: Dutch (burned on VHS version)
Extras: The Story Behind the Film, Original 'VHS' Version, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Johan Vandewoestijne
Cast: Nick Van Suyt, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts, Marie Claes, Carry Van Middel
Genre: Horror
Length: 68 minutes
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All is not well within Shamu's beloved SeaWorld Adventure Park - Poseidon wants to steal the magic of the park away from Shamu and SeaWorld. By taking control of Shamu, your adventures will take you beyond SeaWorld and into the strange depths under the park and on to the underwater domed world of Atlantis. You'll encounter amazing underwater animals and even do battle with Poseidon, the undersea god, and his loyal sea beast, The Kraken. Gather fun collectibles and crack open sea chests and explore eight distinct environment types from the Shamu Stadium pool to the ocean depths of Atlantis. Do you have what it takes to save SeaWorld and Shamu?
Also known as: Sea World: Shamu's Big Adventure
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Activision Value
Also available on: PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS
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