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Dec. 16, 2009
The conclusion of the first decade of the new millennium is just days away and to commemorate it, the UC Santa Barbara Athletics Department will take a look back and honor the athletes who have made the biggest impact on their respective teams over the past 10 years.
It has been a decade that saw a national championship, numerous Big West titles, All-Americans, Players of the Year, record-setting performances and far more victories than defeats.
In a retrospective look, the team sports at UCSB will release the All-Decade Teams - compiling the players who helped make those teams successful from 2000-09.
Sure, there are certain criteria for selecting the starting lineups of these teams. To be considered for the All-Decade Team in his or her sport, a student-athlete must have played the majority of their contests in the past 10 years; student-athletes who spent more time at UCSB to accomplish greater things typically will be given the edge over those who either left early or started late, but it won't rule transfer students or those who departed for professional careers out; while the players selected may have won more awards or had better statistics, the All-Decade Teams don't go solely by what happens between the lines or shows up in the box scores - intangibles play a large role; the idea of the All-Decade Team is to make the best starting lineup of the players who competed for UCSB from 2000-09.
To start the 10-part series, due to be released over the final two weeks of 2009, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team will be the first featured in the All-Decade Team.
Over the past 10 seasons, the women's volleyball team won over 200 matches and compiled a .668 winning percentage while capturing four Big West titles and finishing second in the conference two other times. The Gauchos made eight NCAA Tournament appearances in the decade.
UCSB had eight players named All-Americans, 10 others named to the All-Region team, three Big West Players of the Year, 17 All-Big West First Team players, two conference Freshman of the Year honorees and numerous school records broken or challenged.
Picking a starting six from 2000-09 was not simple based on the team's success and all the decorated players that came through the Thunderdome, but here is the six that make up the All-Decade Team, in alphabetical order.
Megan Blackshire, 2002-05, Middle Blocker
A two-time All-West Region pick, Blackshire averaged 2.78 kills per set and hit .345 in her time at UCSB, which is fourth in school history. She ranks sixth all-time in school history in total blocks and was a three-time First Team All-Big West selection, and in 2002 was named the conference's Freshman of the Year. Her .386 hitting percentage in 2004 is second in school annals.
"She was an impact player since her freshman year," Kathy Gregory, UCSB's head coach for 35 years, said. "She was very smart - she had a very high volleyball IQ. "She was extremely fast on closing the block. Her will to win was unmatched."
Danielle Bauer, 1999-2002, Middle Blocker
Danielle Bauer was an All-American in 2002, the same season she was named the Big West Player of the Year and was an All-West Region selection. The Santa Ana, Calif. native was a three-time First Team All-Big West pick and is second in school history with her 1,552 kills. Her 4.11 career kill average is third in UCSB history and she is 10th all-time in total blocks. In three separate seasons, Bauer ranks in the school's top-10 in kill average.
"She was a phenomenal athlete and at 5-11 she could dominate the attacking against girls who were much bigger," Kathy Gregory said. "She was one of the best blockers and one of the best back row hitters."
Erica Menzel, 2000-03, Outside Hitter
Twice named to the All-Big West First Team, selected as an All-West Region team in 2002, an All-Big West Freshman Team pick and a Second Team All-Big West selection, Erica Menzel finished her career sixth all-time at UCSB in career kills. The local product is eighth all-time with her 3.55 kills per set average and fourth in career attempts. Showing her all-around capabilities, Menzel is seventh with over 1,400 career digs.
"She had one of the best arm swings in volleyball," Gregory said. "She could pass, dig, jump serve and she was one of the best competitors to ever wear a UCSB uniform. Although she was only 5-9, she didn't ever back down."
Kristin Nelson, 2001-04, Libero
The only libero All-American in school history, Nelson was arguably UCSB's best-ever passers. The native of Manhattan Beach, Calif. had 1,711 career digs - almost 100 more than anyone else - and was an All-West Region pick in 2004, the same year she was named to the All-Big West First Team. Nelson is third all-time in single-game history with 40 digs (twice) and won three Big West titles in her tenure as a Gaucho.
"She made a complete impact in her first year and had the biggest impact of any libero here at UCSB," Gregory said. "She was able to pass to more of the court and helped us gain more victories because of it. Her senior year, she was the glue that held us together."
Brooke Niles, 1999-2002, Setter
There are less than five players in school history who immediately come to mind when asked to name a Gaucho who could do everything on the floor. Niles is one of them. An All-American as a setter in 2002, she led the team to a 30-3 mark and a perfect 18-0 record in the Big West. That season she was also an All-West Region selection and a First Team All-Big West pick. The Big West Freshman of the Year, Niles was also a Second Team pick and Honorable Mention choice in her time at UCSB. Despite starring at more than one position in her career, she is seventh all-time in assists, eighth all-time in digs and her 1,437 assists in 2002 are seventh all-time in a single season.
"She started at every position you could except for middle blocker," Gregory said. "She was clearly the best all-around player of the decade and one of the best ever to wear a Gaucho uniform. She had the best work ethic and her competitive spirit was unmatched."
Olivia Waldowski, 2003-06, Middle Blocker
Her career hitting percentage of .366 is still tops in school history and in her career, Olivia was well-decorated. She was an All-American in 2006, was twice an All-West Region pick, twice an All-Big West First Team pick and was the conference's Freshman of the Year. Her 419 total blocks are fourth in school history and she is the only player in this decade to rank in the school's top-10 in service aces in a single season.
"She was a great offensive player that loved the game and played and practiced with one of the best passions for the game," Gregory said. "She had one of the best serves in the game. Teams feared her serve. She played every point like it was her last."


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CRANSTON POLICE CAPTAIN MUST GO: Mayor Allan Fung has only one true option in response to the revelation that Cranston police captain Stephen Antonucci, the president of the Cranston police union, ordered the ticket blitz that blanketed two political wards with 128 tickets while the rest of the city went virtually untouched – clearly in retaliation for the two wards' city councilors rejecting a new police labor contract. To use an old axiom, Cranston citizens weren't born yesterday. Antonucci and his lawyer can claim coincidence and happenstance until their voices are hoarse but will never convince the public the ticket blitz wasn't retaliation and an attempt to intimidate the two councilors.
The union-ordered ticket blitz was a blatant attempt to strong-arm the democratic process with the misuse of police power, something done routinely in third world dictatorships. If Fung allows this to go without severe punishment to those responsible, to include the firing of Antonucci, the citizens of Cranston will never again trust their police department – nor will they have any confidence that city council decisions are made without "gunpoint" intimidation.
DEMS MAKING "TICKET-GATE" A POLITICAL FOOTBALL: The mostly Democrat Cranston City Council was entirely correct in proposing that Mayor Fung turn the police ticketing abuse investigation over to the state police. Mayor Fung did exactly that, albeit after delaying the action for a long time. Now Democrats on the council are calling for an investigation of the entire police department and all of its actions. Clearly, the council Democrats – undoubtedly at the behest of the state Democratic Party – are on a fishing expedition looking for anything and everything they can find to discredit Republican Fung as the gubernatorial campaign gets underway.
Add to this the call by the chairman of the Cranston Democratic City Committee, Michael Sepe, for Fung to suspend his campaign for governor until he "is cleared of any wrongdoing" in the ticket-blitz matter, and it becomes extremely clear that rotten politics have entered the ticket-blitz investigation.
The "TicketGate" matter is a very serious issue of misuse of police power that requires thorough investigation and appropriate discipline. That process is taking place. It doesn't help at all that Democrat politicians are trying to turn the issue into a political football. It only diverts attention from an issue on which Cranston citizens should focus their attention entirely. Democrats need to shut up and let the investigation proceed without more caustic and totally unnecessary rhetoric.
SECRECY LAW ON POLICE DISCIPLINE MUST BE OVERTURNED: The General Assembly has a lot on its plate this session and it should not be burdened with minor, inconsequential matters. However, the matter of excessive secrecy that surrounds the investigation of police misconduct in Rhode Island, and the thick, opaque veil that covers police discipline decisions because of the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights law must be addressed by this General Assembly.
The ongoing controversy involving the Cranston Police Department and its TicketGate fiasco points clearly to this need. Only the culprit's admission of his self-proclaimed "coincidental" actions lifted the veil of secrecy. Also in Cranston, the two-year suspension with pay of a police captain, a move that cost taxpayers over a quarter million dollars in wages and benefits, also remains cloaked in secrecy even though he returned to duty last week.
Yes, police officers deserve to have their privacy protected and adverse personnel actions taken against them kept confidential to a certain degree. However, police officers deserve no more of these protections than do the general public. Arguably, personnel actions and investigations regarding police officers should be even more transparent than those involving the general public since we trust these public employees with the power of life and death and the ability to take other actions that can change a citizen's life forever. With such immense trust must come intense scrutiny of police officers' actions in the line of duty. Let's hope the General Assembly is listening.
RAIMONDO ERRS IN TRYING TO LOOK TOO LIBERAL: Gubernatorial candidate Gina Raimondo announced her campaign platform last week and, no matter how you look at it, the platform is about as liberal as it can possible be.
After doing the right thing in 2011 by engineering pension reform in Rhode Island, Raimondo was perceived as a conservative instead of a liberal (I refuse to use the term "progressive" because most liberals are far from progressive). Pension reform made her very popular with most voters. Apparently, Raimondo now thinks she must re-market herself as the most liberal candidate in the field in order to cast off the mantle of conservatism she is misperceived to wear.
Her campaign platform includes rebuilding public school buildings, an assault weapons ban along with other tough gun control measures, forgiving college loans, raising the minimum wage and indexing it with cost-of-living-adjustments, providing universal pre-K, giving illegal immigrants access to drivers' licenses, utilizing social impact bonds to fight poverty and social problems, and - here's the kicker - "holding Wall St. accountable."
Not only is her platform the most left-wing, liberal, anti-gun, anti-business, anti-taxpayer of all candidates' platforms, it seems totally antithetical to everything Raimondo supposedly stood for when she pushed for pension reform.
Raimondo has already lost the left-wing union votes and won't get them back. Kow-towing to minorities won't take votes from Angel Taveras. Her big-spending ideas won't enamor her to taxpayers or to the business community. And her anti-gun stance will alienate her from hunters, gun sports enthusiasts and Second Amendment advocates.
With enough leftist planks in her platform to make everyone angry about something, Raimondo has decreased her odds to prevail in the race for governor. And the fact that she included just about everything possible in her platform says that she doesn't really have a platform - that she doesn't really know where she stands.
Using the words of the inimitable Yogi Berra, here's a warning to Gina: "If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else." With this platform, that "someplace else" certainly will not be the governor's office.
TAX PROPOSALS ARE NO-BRAINERS: A bill is being introduced in the General Assembly to raise the estate tax threshold to $2 million. For decades our "death tax" threshold of under $1 million has provided a huge incentive for retirees to leave Rhode Island for states with more reasonable estate taxes. A paid-for house, a savings account and a few stocks can easily cause an estate to meet Rhode Island's unusually low threshold. Business organizations want the threshold to be set even higher, at $3 million. But even raising it to $2 million is a no-brainer that our legislators should jump on.
Additionally, Governor Chafee, in his State of the State address that included his budget proposals for next fiscal year, proposed reducing the corporate tax rate from 9 percent to 6 percent. Another outstanding proposal that legislators should embrace. Maybe there finally is a groundswell of opinion among Rhode Island politicians that something has to be done to improve our little state's business environment.
ONLY IN RHODE ISLAND: In yet another indication of how Rhode Island's bureaucracy continues to grow government and inflate costs, Governor Chafee and the state board of education have decided that our little state needs three "boards" of education. Remember when we had two, one for elementary and secondary education and one for higher education? Well, it can be argued that we took one step forward when the legislature opted to cut the educational oversight from two boards to one. Now, we are going to increase from one board to three boards - back to one for elementary/secondary education, one for higher education, and one to oversee both of those boards. Yep, it's a classic example of taking one step forward and two backward - in this case, it's virtually literal.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "Breathing is not a 3-credit course!" That was the closing comment by online reader "Bendover" in a response to this column's piece last week about how our high school graduation requirements have become laughable, especially with the recent state decision to grant diplomas to failing students who have been accepted to non-SAT colleges. The reader pointed out that what we give in lieu of legitimate high school diplomas are, in essence, "certificates of participation" that do not reflect readiness for college, the workplace or the military. The quote was clearly meant to emphasize that such "diplomas" are given for simply existing. There's a problem when we make so many non-graduation options available that the incentive to actually meet graduation requirements disappears.
About the ticket-bliz. Why would officers even think the council people would hear about it? Do they get notified of tickets being issued in their district? If you were a council person and received a call from a constituent about a parking ticket, wouldn't you ask if the person was legally parked? Have council members been "fixing" tickets?
I would not have called a council member about a parking ticket, when the charge is on the ticket and that's what I did.

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People looking for a wide variety of unique gift items and the rewarding feeling that comes with helping others are invited to the 26th annual holiday auction hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences on Dec. 20. The event is free and open to the public.
A portion of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Ronald McDonald House of Rochester, which offers lodging and support for families of critically ill children receiving medical attention in area health-care facilities.
Items up for bid include cameras — including a Leica V-Lux 3 model — photographic equipment, software, an iPad, and restaurant and lodging gift certificates. Bidding gets under way at 5 p.m. in the lobby of Frank E. Gannett Hall on RIT's campus. A number of items are on display for a "sneak peek" in the lobby of Gannett Hall beforehand. The first 250 bidders to register will receive a $5 coupon to The Distillery or Pellegrino's Deli Cafe.
In addition to the live auction, there will be a silent auction featuring faculty- and alumni-donated artwork.
The remainder of the proceeds will help defray some of the costs for students and team leaders attending RIT's Big Shot at Cowboys Stadium in Texas this March.
Students are coordinating the auction and have been working with area businesses to obtain items up for auction. All ages are invited to take part in the bidding. Bill DuBois, professor emeritus and former administrative chair of the school's photographic arts program, again will serve as auctioneer.
"This is a wonderful annual event and students have worked hard to gather donations from area businesses, especially given the challenging economy," says Nanette Salvaggio, a lecturer in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and faculty adviser for the auction. "They've also chosen an amazing charity to receive a portion of the proceeds from the event."
Free pizza and soft drinks will be served. Contact RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at 585-475-2716 or go to http://cias.rit.edu/events-news/events for more information.


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|2012-10-26, 13:42
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And those conspirancy theories at least are a good proof of our great imagination xD
Well I will try to find it, if I do I will show it to you otherwise I simply accept my defeat, it's not like we could proof anything ourselves ^^
|2012-10-28, 09:24
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For example any thing with dark in its name is basically a fudge to get the current models working.
Personally I believe that the best scientists are the ones who are open minded and are willing to put anything under the same level of rigorous testing and that proven today doesn't mean proven tomorrow!
So something that is considered nutty by the current academic community might not be in a few years time
|2012-10-28, 10:06
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@ grey moon
Those are at least based on maths and other substantive theories, it's a far cry from, saying a microwave oven can make people see ghosts without any substantive evidence to back it up, especially when electromagnetic radiation are pretty well understood.
|2012-10-28, 16:48
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As for staying open minded, one can only do so to a certain extent. when a new-idea comes about, one would first compare it to well proven theories, or laws, in the current field. in this case, these would be the laws governing electromagnetic waves, which was studied extensively and have been proven experimentally time and again for over a century. now, if an idea wants to say the opposite, it had better stand up to scrutiny. the thing about science is that once something is more or less "proven", or established, it stays that way until proven otherwise. staying open minded means to accept the evidence presented in front of you. any good scientist will dismiss any and all "ideas" is there's zero credible evidence backing it up
|2012-10-29, 01:25
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EM is well understood, but high levels directed at the human brain to cause visual impairment??? A dark subject and testing is frowned upon with today's modern science.
But I'll say one thing, every lab with a high powered magnetron device comes with a boat load of warning labels. Science or not, I personally believe that having your brained cooked with EMR, seeing things could be a side effect, that and death
Hmmm even a quick google brings up a wiki entry on EM and the human brain
"When used against humans electromagnetic weapons can have dramatic effects, such as the intense burning sensation caused by Raytheon's Active Denial system, or more subtle effects such as the creation—at a distance—of a sense of anxiety or dread, intense drowsiness, or confusion in an individual or a group of people."
So EM does effect the human brain, can it make people see things? Maybe by setting up the right mental environment even a shadow passing can appear to be something else!
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|2012-10-29, 02:06
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If you can't see the difference between that and pulling stuff out of one's arse, then there's not much to talk about.
BTW, every moment of your life, your body, including your brain, is bombarded with multiple types of EMR, guess you better put those tinfoils on.
Too bad it won't help
Oh, and the anxiety, dread, confusion? how 'bout because it's making a bunch of people feel like their body is on fire?
|2012-10-29, 02:11
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@kyp275 - There are plenty of easy to understand and entertaining documentaries discussing the dark theories (et al) and specifically have the leading scientist expressing their dislike/unease of the theories because of how they are kinda pulled out of someone's arse so theory A doesn't disrupt theory B.
|2012-10-29, 02:16
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You're ignoring the context. Compared to your more traditional scientific theories, dark matter/energy would look like something that came out of nowhere since it's all theoretical, but that's hardly the same as something that goes against currently established facts without even so much as a theory backing it.
BTW, the Higgs Boson was very much in the same boat as dark matter/energy, and look how that one turned out.
|2012-10-29, 02:21
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Ah the power of media speculation
The confirmation of HB is so very important as it would go a long way in actually proving some of the theories!
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|2012-10-29, 02:40
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Not sure where YOU'RE getting your information from, but the latest from CERN is that they've confirmed the existence of a new particle that behaves just like what a Higgs Boson should, the results has been peer-reviewed, and will be undergoing additional confirmation testing after the LHC is back up online.
This is nothing new, the news of the confirmation was well over a month ago.
|2012-10-29, 02:48
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They found something that behaves like it, lets wait for the confirmation before cracking open the discovery of the decade champers!
Also please read the comments of the following:
|2012-10-29, 05:51
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Is CERN going to to additional testing? yes. Does that change their assertion that they've found the Higgs? no.
In any case, this has gone off the rails enough. The original point is that there's a difference between actual science and random off-the-handle claims without any basis to back it up. Not ALL claims are created equal, otherwise you're basically operating under the same principles that lead to pseudo-science crap like creationism.
I can make a claim that I can jump to the moon from the surface of the earth because I have the ability to step on air, should a completely bogus claim like that be received with the same "open mindedness" as, say, the Standard Model in physics?
|2012-10-29, 08:00
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I don't think we would ever see eye to eye as I personally prefer an approach of discussion, and at least trying to see someone else's PoV before branding them an heretic
I'm not saying that this is who you are as I don't know you, but your response to the earlier post which triggered my response and the subsequent replies to mine makes me think this, but still I've had a very interesting discussion.
|2012-10-29, 08:08
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Ehm, even if you could do that...in the outer space we have a vacuum, so no stepping on air xD (sry for nitpicking ^^)
Ah well as promised the name of the researcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Tandy
Problem is his case was with infrasound not with microwaves but my claim basically is that even an un-ionized wave with the correct wavelength can affect the human brain (without ofc cooking it XD) while yours is that they can't. Btw I know that infrasound is a mechanical wave and that mcrowave is an em-wave but the major difference between those 2 is only that the one needs a medium while the other doesn't, both have the same rules at the basics.
But as cases are rare and as u said they are NOT reviewed by some scients in a lab (at least I don't think so) I more or less give up. The problem is that this case won't satisfy you and it's completly correct that it won't as this is no actual proof.
Ah and for the conspiracy theory thingy it seems we both talked at cross purposes xD
My point is that conspiracy theories are things that animate people to think over certain circumstances both as a normal rational thinking human and ofc scientists aswell. Out of that animation people can think of things they have never thought before of and can come to new (scientific) conclusions, I never meant that you should believe in those, they should be just the stepping stone for actual discoveries.
Sry, I sometimes lag the right words, not in english but in general to convey my point.
EDIT: Ah and yes I have to thank u aswell it's nice to have a partner in a discussion who doesn't believe in everything you say without an actual proof and is not getting subjective or anything over the time
|2012-10-29, 09:03
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It's one thing to have a debate on philosophical issues, but when it comes to science, one is not entitled to his/her own facts.
........guess I'd better prepare for the upcoming alien invasion, since they've already landed at Roswell!
Human reaction to infrasound (if even real, as there are very limited studies on this that I can find, and those that I have are suspect to say the least) would likely be something of an automatic physiological response, perhaps an evolutionary leftover from earlier ages.
|2012-10-29, 09:22
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EDIT: Btw how did the discussion about the NerveGear evolve in a discussion about dark matter and Higgs Bosons? XD
|2012-10-29, 10:32
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On topic as it has to do with can microwaves modify how the brain perceives things.
I posted the quote from the wiki "When used against humans electromagnetic weapons can have dramatic effects, such as the intense burning sensation caused by Raytheon's Active Denial system, or more subtle effects such as the creation—at a distance—of a sense of anxiety or dread, intense drowsiness, or confusion in an individual or a group of people."
Which to me reads as:
At short range causes burning
At long range aka distance "or more subtle effects such as the creation—at a distance—of a sense of anxiety or dread, intense drowsiness, or confusion in an individual or a group of people"
But from your reply it seemed to me that you decided to bundle the effects without taking range into account just to make your point. Whether or not the science is good or bad, if you decide to interpret information the way you want isn't that just bad science?
There you go again trying to associate my PoV with creationism
But if you read my main point which I may not have gotten across properly, is that I believe that any theory should be taken with an open mind and subjected to the same level of high review and testing. By doing that I believe pseudo science will be eliminated rather then a breeding ground of misinformation, even some sciences which are considered norm, for example "dietitians vs nutritionists"
Fanatical science can be just as bad a fanatical religion IMHO
In terms of making the brain hear stuff that isn't there, I think a good area to start is psycho acoustic modelling, which is a well established science. One of its main uses is to reduce the size of audio files, as you can drop parts of the wave and the brain still perceives it!
There is also the super set of this which I can't remember the name of right now, which deals with how the brain deals with data in general. One area this was being looked at is how to make games more realistic via the good old 2d screen
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|2012-10-29, 14:26
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Which brings me to the second point, I'm actually somewhat familiar with the ADS (military), and I have never even heard of any of the secondary effect mentioned in the wiki article being associated with the actual millimeter wave, which incidentally is also the only place where it can be found. Go look up all the papers published, both by the DoD and various universities on the ADS, it'll become readily apparent to you what's actually there and what's not.
Moral of the story is, take stuff you see on wikipedia with a grain of salt.
|2012-11-12, 21:49
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Is SAO save data that corrupted ALO stats bugs already discussed here?
I though this could become serious security bug in ALO. But in other hand could also become pretty interesting feature for ALO/SAO like game which is player could transfer his stat from one game to another.
|2012-11-12, 22:00
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I've always felt that a good comparison to the SAO -> ALO save thing is Baldur's gate.
You could transfer a character from Baldur's Gate 1 to Baldur's Gate 2, which basically ran off the same engine. They'd keep their levels, experience, abilities, whatever. Some items could transferred over, but not all of them. You see, every item had a filepath, something like "ilo100005" (Not an actual example.). But in the sequel, some of them were changed. So item "ilo100005" might be a longsword+2 in BG1, in BG2 that location now refers to a ring of protection or something.
So looking back at SAO, ALO appears to use enough of the same engine that most of the relevant character data (Which mostly just seems to be weapon skills.) is stored in the same location as a numerical value. Same with money. But with the exception of Yui, all the item paths got used for other stuff.
At least that's the way I see it.
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I propose this law of system personality:
Put a system in a box and it becomes a thing. Give a thing a name and it becomes a product. Give a product a brand/atmosphere and it gains a personality.
I propose this law of system personality:
Put a system in a box and it becomes a thing. Give a thing a name and it becomes a product. Give a product a brand/atmosphere and it gains a personality.
"The spirit of the law, not the letter of the law, should be your guide" About Face 2.0
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@briansuda @adactio turns out cgcardona already had the musical font idea, and started implementing it! https://audiofile.cc/#about
Pushed lots of note UI updates to #taproot today, including porting almost all the #js to Backbone. Still #todo:
I spent most of this afternoon learning all the different ways in which bits of ebony can break. Thankfully, the great people at the Totnes school of Guitarmaking had enough maple strips in stock for me to use those.
Checked into the Steam Packet Inn for the session/#buzz rehearsal
The second #gurdy back is on after rather a stressful gluing session inside a small, dark shed with candles for light. Now I know a little more about what it must have been like to be a luthier in the Middle Ages.
sweden I am making two more at the moment, so I need to come up with three names!
Robin Andrews, the other half of #buzz, has got himself an #indieweb domain with wordpress on! Looking forward to helping him set up #POSSE, and exchanging pingbacks :)
According to whitespacestrippers.com, neither caching nor lossless compression exist or are in common usage on the web.
School grades are a measure of how socially acceptable your level of remembering–ability was when you did the exams, relative to everyone else.
Therefore, their meaning and value deteriorate over time. The value and meaning of things you create and add to the world generally increase with time (become more well-known, better used, refined, etc.)
Just pushed a load of #taproot changes to auto-tagging which should make structured, tag–based querying of notes way easier.
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location as it contains all of that data.
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"Stop spending our money showing us the illusion of #democracy!" Me on politics in general and election campaigns in particular as quoted by joviansalak
JovianSalak I'll show you the results, that should clear things up :)
Spent most of the day walking on the moor with Tod and @joviansalak (GPS trace coming soon!), built @jwentomologist his birthday present and now putting together my entry for this month's mozilla dev derby entry — improved blog quoting/citing using DnD and #microformats
joelestewart yeah, I found him quite irritating, and the Gurdy was completely misrepresented! But must be great for those less musically inclined.


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Not sure what section to put this in, but considering I'm officially a Noob admin, i suppose it counts.
I've heard of a piece of work station monitoring software called DNA, but recieved not much more info than that.
Can someone please help me with info on it, or any other invisible network monitoring software.


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Those of us with roots in rural Iowa can be a little smug when we compare our friendly farm towns with big cities. Though I have had excellent neighbors in a few of Iowa's larger communities, I still believed Iowans were better at neighborliness than residents of New York City, Chicago and other cities of that size.
That attitude changed a few weeks ago.
In late February I made my annual visit to The Salvation Army's College for Officer Training (CFOT) in Chicago. I am invited each year to present to the first year students at the college information about media relations, community relations and fundraising three of my responsibilities at The Salvation Army in Des Moines.
Thy CFOT was established in the Lakeview East neighborhood of Chicago between Lake Michigan and Wrigley Field nearly a century ago.
The area surrounding the CFOT is known these days as Boystown. It was the first officially recognized gay village in the United States. My CFOT friends tell me the neighborhood had deteriorated badly but was revived by the gay community into a clean, safe and attractive area.
So you get the idea this is not Pumpkin Center, Iowa.
The hosting instructors all Salvation Army officers treat me royally when I visit and take me out to dinner on my first night in Chicago. An hour or so after my arrival on campus last month, I joined two host families on a one-mile walk down North Broadway to Stella's Diner.
Upon arrival my hosts introduced me to Gus, the affable Greek owner, who told me his parents opened the restaurant in 1962. Gus pushed several tables together for our party of eight and promptly began interacting with our group.
As you might expect at a farm town restaurant in Iowa, Gus struck up a conversation with the stranger in the group me. He loves to tease and I responded in kind. If BS were snow, we would have had a blizzard. Finally he said, "You know, you and I have a lot in common except I'm better looking!"
We all had a good laugh and proceeded to order and enjoy Gus' delicious comfort food.
It was obvious most of the other diners at Stella's were regulars. They engaged in pleasantries, just as you would expect at a coffee shop on Main Street in rural Iowa.
A couple of school girls were selling raffle tickets for a school project. The only difference from a small town in Iowa the raffle tickets sold for $10 each.
Bucking a cold north wind we made our way back to the campus where I noticed my cell phone was missing, apparently having fallen from the leather holster on my belt. Where do you find your lost cell phone in the middle of Chicago?
One of my hosts, quickly telephoned Stella's Diner but Gus couldn't find it. He asked her to call my phone, just in case it was hidden from view. Gus called back and said he didn't hear the phone ring.
A moment later someone called my host's phone, explaining that he had found a cellphone in a pile of snow along Broadway when he heard it ringing. By the time he picked it up, the ringing had stopped so he dialed the number that had been calling the phone. My host asked him his location. He was only four blocks from the campus and said he would stay there until we arrived.
A brisk winter walk got us to his location quickly. It was indeed my phone. I offered him a reward which he immediately brushed off. "I'm just glad I was able to find it for you," he said.
So here I am in the middle of Chicago the nation's third largest city. In the span of less than two hours I met Gus, enjoyed the conviviality of Stella's Diner and lost my cell phone which was found by a total stranger who was willing to stand in the cold while I walked to retrieve it.
This is exactly what I would expect in a rural Iowa. It wasn't what I expected in the middle of Chicago.
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These beautiful Australian nuptials are a much needed breath of fresh air for a landlocked blogger like myself. I can almost feel my toes in the sand and the breeze in my hair... And hear the ocean waves crashing nearby. I won't be making it to the beach anytime soon, but I do have all of these gorgeous images by Photography by Emma Pointon to drool over in the meantime. And I can't help but smile over all of the lovely details. I adore the neutral tones that mimic the beachy surroundings and the breathtaking views are stunning. And those bridesmaid dresses just might be my new faves. Yes, this wedding is definitely magical. Which is why I plan to spend a lot of time in the gallery soaking it all in. Join me there for even more!
Click here to see the entire gallery of images!
From Photography by Emma Pointon...Keely & Josh wanted a classical, but relaxed feel to their wedding. Keely and Josh went for a very neutral colour tone for the wedding to match the intense blue of the ocean and the white sands, limestone and shrubs of Rottnest Island, their ceremony location a 30 minute boat ride from Fremantle, Western Australia. The nautical theme crept up on them but the theme was subtle as they did not want everything taken over by ropes and compasses.
Parker Point on Rottnest Island was chosen for the ceremony location as it was the groom's family holiday destination and is now a part of the couple's lives as well. To get the 100 guests to Rottnest, a convoy of boats was needed and a group of friends from the Fremantle Sailing Club rallied together to organise 10 boats to bring over the guests to the island.
The reception was held at the Fremantle Sailing Club, where they are members. Because they wanted a large number of guests (100 is a large wedding in Australian terms), they needed to cut down on additional costs and had a number of friends and relatives help them out with keeping the costs down.
The invites, menus, stickers for jam bonbonnieres and seating plan was made by the groom's sister, a talented designer. The flowers were all designed by a close friend, Fiona, a firefighter by day! She had a picture of a bouquet Keely found on SMP and the neutral colour theme to go by and came up with a gorgeous bouquet. The Bonbonnieres, marmalade and mulberry jam, were made by Keely's Grandma and Josh's Aunt and the cake was made by Keely's Aunt Julie!
The garter was really something special. Keely's mum made it for her and the square piece of fabric is actually the only piece left of her Grandma's wedding dress. Then the brooch was something Keely's Grandma's mum was given in 1926. Keely's grandma gave it to her the night before the wedding and it is something she wants to pass on to all the female grandchildren. Keely also wore a sixpence on a chain around her ankle. This was a present, for the day, from Keely's mum and she was given it from her grandfather.
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AuGres City Council renews Pure Michigan campaign
AuGRES — The AuGres City Council has approved a $1,700 renewal that will keep the city involved with the Pure Michigan campaign.
The renewal will keep information about AuGres and the other counties that US-23 runs through, also known as the Sunrise Coast, part of the tourism campaign.
City Manager Patricia Killingbeck said that being a part of the online campaign last year was a "tremendous asset" for AuGres. She added that each county involved in the promotion has to give a certain percentage per capita to be involved.
"Being part of this campaign has been well worth it for us," she said.
Killingbeck said since joining the website last year, the city went from having almost zero hits to the number of visitors online reaching the thousands. She added that with the large amount of hits on the site, the city is seeing an increase of information requests in its e-mail.
"We are hoping that being involved in the website will get more people to come to AuGres," she said. "Hits on a website does not mean that people are going to come here, but it does mean that they are interested."
The website, located at www.puremichigan.org, gives information about AuGres and other cities involved in the Sunrise Coast campaign. Those other cities include, Alpena, AuSable/Oscoda, Cheboygan, East Tawas/Tawas, Harrisville, and Rogers City.
The site includes an audio clip about the Sunrise Coast and features links to area attractions, like campgrounds, events, and recreation.
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We all know that seeing performers who really put it all out there onstage makes the concert experience even more rewarding, and I'm sure many of you already know what that feeling is like onstage for yourselves. I for one, am someone who is never really satisfied unless I know I've given it "my all" in a performance. It seems to almost be a kind of addiction once you've really gotten used to, and hooked on, that feeling. It's hard to explain, but when the communication is right between you, the other players and the crowd, and other things such as the sound fall into place nicely, you can really have the makings of a perfect musical experience. The funny thing is, that for me, I never really know where it's going to happen.
I can have an even more intense musical communication and purely emotional experience in a lowly basement bar in Finland, where they may never even remember my name, as much if not more, than on some grand stage in a fancy arena, where all the conditions are right. Sometimes it's just better to be "down and dirty" with the crowd, on an almost one-on-one approach where the connection is so intense. I have even experienced this kind of intense connection during clinics, where you can have hundreds, even thousands, as I did in Australia, simply hanging on your every note and word!
This "giving it all up" onstage was something that got into my blood at a very early age. Even as a sideman, I quickly learned how to essentially "steal the show" ad make the audience come to me, as it were. I was a front man with my own band, Steel, a couple of years before I became a sideman in Woodstock, and this progression set me up to be very natural and also quite intense onstage, regardless of the role I was playing. It's an amazing feeling to have, and it's one of true musical "control" where you feel as if you can do no wrong once you're up there on that stage. I believe it's really something you should strive for, even though there have been great "laid back" performers. Believe it or not, many times, those "laid back" folks are really being just as intense as the ones who seemingly "put out" more than most. For example, my late great friend John Entwistle of The Who, was always looked at as being so aloof onstage because of all the antics of the other three Who members, but without hi true intensity while performing, and what he put into that music, those performances would never have been as intense as they were!
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Razor2: Hidden Skies makes no apologies for its adherence to classic shoot-'em-up formulas. Drop an upgradable ship into a top-down sci-fi shooter, throw a zillion enemies and bullets onto the screen, and challenge the player to balance the equally fine arts of firing and dodging. There's a reason why this is one of the oldest genres in gaming – there is a legit thrill to narrowly surviving a curtain of incoming bullets while returning fire and taking down a screen-sized boss. But because there are so many shooters like Razor2, to stand out from the pack requires a special something extra – and that's something Razor2 just doesn't have.
Technically, Razor2 hits the right notes. Stage after stage hurls thousands of enemy ships at your nose cone, beefing up the difficulty with each advancing level. You can also set the difficulty at the beginning of Razor2, and there is a noticeable difference between the three tiers of toughness. Try the normal setting to get a good challenge without wanting to drive your finger through the space bar in utter frustration. The more ships you destroy, the more coin you pocket to use in the between-stage shop.
The shop is where I had the most fun in Razor2. Not only are you able to buy upgrades for your ship, such as improving the power of the three main cannons – bullet, V-shaped lasers, and homing laser – but also add a number of secondary weapons, latch on extra shield and energy units, and boost the speed. There is a degree of strategy here, too. If you are an offensive player, plowing your cash into juicing the primary weapons – especially the bullet cannon – is a good investment. But I found myself far more reliant on secondary weapon systems like a homing energy blast that was perfect for cooking flanking enemies during boss battles while I concentrated my primary weapon on weak spots.
But in a shooter, I shouldn't derive the majority of my enjoyment in the shop screen. I should get my kicks when unloading on alien cruisers. Yet the magic never quite kicked in. Enemy patterns are predictable. Bosses, though large, are unimaginative. And everything is so straightforward. There are no little tweaks like Ikaruga's light-dark system. You don't have to completely ape old-school designs to keep it old-school. There is plenty of opportunity to pay homage to the classics like Raiden while putting your own clever spin on the shooter.
Razor2 includes a host of medals and in-game achievement as well as online leaderboards for boasting about your alien-killing prowess. These may keep some shooter fans coming back for more and getting a decent amount of value out of their $10 investment. But all players are sure to enjoy the soundtrack, which is an impressive tapestry of orchestral music. Although I may fancy beep-boop game music, even I started wondering how I might rip the soundtrack out of Razor2 for enjoyment outside of the shooter.
The Verdict
Razor2: Hidden Skies is a decent shooter with good production values, such as the excellent score. And I really like the ability to customize the ship&#Array;s weapon systems to suit personal play style or the challenges presented by each stage. But the action is just so straightforward and predictable &#Array; you have played shooters like this for years &#Array; that Razor2 never quite sparked to life.


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I'll remind everyone that I'm originally from Chicago at the start of the thread....
But the wings had a very pretty 4-on-4 goal. Also, chippy game thus far, Hawks need to stay out of the box
That Bertuzzi hit was a major, but players need to keep their heads up. He has his head up he doesn't risk injury an Bertuzzi doesn't take a major.
Give me a break. Bertuzzi left his feet and hit him in the head with his elbow. Bertuzzi is a bitch. Don't defend him. I can't believe anyone wants him on their team. He's a bum. He's a chickenshit bum.
Bullshit, players leave their feet all the time making hits and don't get called. Johnson had his head down and had no clue what was going on around him, his own bench was even calling for him to pull his head up.

This bullshit attitude about cleaning up hockey has done nothing to improve the game. I guess you would view Bob Probert and Joey Kocur as chickenshit players. Hockey is a violent game. Anyone remember the old Wings-Avalanche rivalry? Try to name anything comparing to it in the post lock out era.

If you don't attempt to protect yourself, you don't deserve to be saved by the refs.
I totally 100% disagree with you. High hits and head contact have no place in hockey. I said it below, Bertuzzi could have hit him in a much cleaner way. That was a DANGEROUS play. Not a hockey play. Just remember who you're defending here. This guy:
He shouldn't be playing hockey in my opinion
He got his punishment for that hit both by the league and by the courts. If the league and players association was find with him coming back, then fine.
So just to be sure, you're fine with Corey Tropp coming back???
Steve Moore still hasn't played yet, right??
will never skate again.
Now, I see the two sides of most of these hits, also as a former player I have some perspective on the game
Chara's hit on Patch, dirty/intentional: in a way NO, but anyone who has played the game KNOWS where the boards end like that and dream of rubbing someone out. OBVIOUSLY not injuring someone, but making a good hit. Also, if you are the offensive player in that situation you ALSO know where you are on the ice and you have to be aware.
Komisarek also had a huge hit earlier in the week and people are saying Mark Olver was defenseless, Komisarek left his feet, hit him high (yada yada yada)... The thing is these hits don't happen if the offensive player has his head up, I've been hit enough times to think twice about going over the middle, making a clearing pass, trying to squeeze by along the boards...
Alot of these hits are debatable, the hits that really need to be removed are the ones like Matt Cooke last week, where he literally threw his elbow right on the chin
I didn't think Chara's hit was dirty, he was riding Max off the puck. But like you said these are debatable. I think Bertuzzi's tonight was definitely a 5+Game, and maybe a game or two suspension due to his history/the current focus on hits to the head.
that is a really common misconception. He is NOT paralyzed he actually had an offer to play minor league hockey after the incident but he declined.
Bertuzzi leads with his shoulder rather than spin with an elbow up high and it's a great clean hit
Exactly, its not a problem that its a hard hit. It's that he goes high at his head with his elbow. It's a bullshit hit and it has no place in the game. Just like Bertuzzi.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:20 PM ^
Bertuzzi does not lead with his elbow high. His elbow starts out below his shoulder, but then because he has his back to the player + the fact that his stick hand is floating (carrying the stick off the ice) when his arm makes contact with the other players arm, it rides right up the arm and hits him in the head. It was a major penalty for sure, considering every player needs to be in control of their own body. (just like high sticking) But, I do not believe from watching the replay that Todd intended to hit him in the head with his elbow.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:25 PM ^
He paid the price for the hit and he's been better. Get over it. He's not just a goon now, he's helped the Wings tremendously by becoming more of an all-around player.
I completely agree with the poster above, saying that this is very comparable to Probert, Kocur, or even McCarty. Their role was to intimidate, hit, and be a nuisance. That's hockey.
Claude Lemeiux is actually probably the most comparable to Bertuzzi because of his hit on Draper. As a Wings fan, I despise Lemeiux with a burning passion, but I think it's wrong to say they don't deserve a spot in hockey.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:04 PM ^
that hit isnt bad at all theres worse hits that are "legal" typical NHL the non-hockey league.
yet are up 2-1. Both teams looking good. I do NOT want the wings round 1 (assuming we can make the playoffs, yada yada)
Where is datsyuk :( if he's out there this would be a whole different game.
he was hit a few games back and his hand got caught up in the glass. I believe he has missed 4 straight games.
If the playoffs started today he would be playing his usual 20 minutes a game
was a great save by Macdonald, and great defense on that breakaway by Hjalmarsson, looked cleaner live than on replay
That... probably should have been a penalty... (Holmstrom take down on breakaway).
Wow.. Nice move to recover by Crawford
I hate Abdelkader. It's probably a combination of his MSU background and his gritty-goonishness. I'd probably like him if he were on my team.
Also, Crawford is on his game like Woah tonight
Crawford is playing great for sure. Also the Hawks are doing a good job trying to keep the wings off balance with shift changes.
Hossa definitely just punched Eaves right in the face after the whistle.
And no penalty called....awesome
He was hit first
it happens in hockey, punching people in the face is generally a penalty though. Sorry I am just pissed about the Seabrook hit on Helm at the end of the 2nd where he had his elbow up just like Bertuzzi did and wasn't even given a minor.
This game has been played with play-off intensity.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:08 PM ^
fucking hossa
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March 28th, 2011 at 10:11 PM ^
Sick player. Has that changed recently? No, he has always been sick..
March 28th, 2011 at 10:08 PM ^
Great job by the refs giving the game to the hawks with that weak call
March 28th, 2011 at 10:15 PM ^
No the refs gave us a powerplay. Kill the penalty and it's not a problem
March 28th, 2011 at 10:27 PM ^
Herp a derp. It's not 'just a powerplay', it's a 3-4 in sudden death overtime.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kami Kuhlmann of Northwestern (Iowa) has been named the NAIA National Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Kuhlmann was selected based on her performances from Jan. 23 – Jan. 29 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings. Kuhlmann becomes the second Raider to win the weekly award this season.
Kuhlmann played a key role in Northwestern's victories at then-No. 2 Briar Cliff (Iowa), 89-88, and against then-ranked No. 18 Hastings (Neb.), 80-54. The senior guard, who owns a 29.2 percent 3-point field goal percentage on the season, finished the week shooting 62.5 percent (5-of-8) from beyond the arc en route to a 15.5 points per game average over the Raider's two contests. Additionally, Kuhlmann averaged 5.5 rebounds, five assists, one block and one steal.
The 5-foot-7 native of Charter Oak, Iowa, rates as one of the top passers in the nation, as her 4.5 assist per game average ranks 14th, while ranking 15th with 98 total assists.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Feb. 7.
Nominees: Kylie Westover, Dakota State (S.D.); Steffani Liscum, Arizona Christian ; Morgan Smith, College of the Ozarks (Mo.); Bridget Schuneman, Jamestown (N.D.); Abby Fawcett, Friends (Kan.); Karlee Despres, Davenport (Mich.); Anna Jones, Iowa Wesleyan ; Jessica Nieves, Dickinson State (N.D.); Sandy Jenkins, Ave Maria (Fla.); Mykiea Russell, Montreat (N.C.); Marissa Sell, Roberts Wesleyan (N.Y.); Ariel Nickell, Alice Lloyd (Ky.); Moneva Fields, Calumet (Ind.); Laura Johnson, Bethel (Ind.); Chelsey Christensen, Warner Pacific (Ore.); Bekah Eppler, Simpson (Calif.)
2011 Composite Award Winners (Schedule)
Week 1: Lindsey Waters, Union (Ky.)
Week 2: Kendra De Jong, Northwestern (Iowa)
Week 3: Kayla Drake, Saint Francis (Ind.)
Week 4: Teonika Webb, Virginia Intermont
Week 5: Kami Kuhlmann, Northwestern (Iowa)


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By Greg Stobart and Wayne Veysey
Wayne Rooney is convinced he has no future at Manchester United and is determined to force a move away from the club this summer, Goal can reveal.
England's most high profile player is adamant he will not work with incoming manager David Moyesand has made it clear to his inner circle that he will be at a new club next season.
His preference is to remain in the Premier League, with Arsenal and Chelsea closely monitoring the forward's situation, as revealed by Goal last week. Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain are among the Continental big-hitters who have also expressed an interest in signing the 27-year-old.
"As far as Wayne is concerned, he's gone. There's no way back at Manchester United. This is not a ploy, he is hell bent on getting a move away this summer," a source close to the player told Goal.
Rooney's resolve to leave Old Trafford has been strengthened by the appointment of new manager Moyes, who officially takes the reins on July 1 but will be tasked with handling the first major issue of his tenure from next week.
Contrary to reports that Rooney's relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson is central to his desire to quit the club he joined in 2004, sources have said that the striker is also opposed to working under Moyes, who was his first manager in professional football and with whom he had a bitter fall-out following his departure from Everton.
Moreover, Rooney has grown increasingly frustrated with his downgraded status at Old Trafford, which culminated in him being dropped for United's biggest game of the season, the last-16 Champions League second round tie against Real Madrid.
He has frequently been substituted by Sir Alex in the last weeks of the season and was not named in the matchday squad for last Sunday's 2-1 win over Swansea City. The Scot admitted afterwards that Rooney has told him he wants to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.
As revealed by Goal in March, the 27-year-old harboured doubts about his future long before the Madrid showdown. He is believed to have told team-mates during the international break in the first week of February that he could leave United in the summer.
All of Europe's leading clubs have been alerted to Rooney's situation in recent weeks.
New Europa League champions Chelsea are believed to be in pole position to capture a player who is valued in the £20-25 million bracket.
Paris Saint-Germain had expressed an interest earlier in the year but Madrid and, more surprisingly, Arsenal have also asked to be kept informed of developments in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest transfer sagas of the summer. Bayern Munich sporting director Matthias Sammer distanced the Bundesliga giants from signing the player earlier this week.
Rooney has two years remaining on a United contract worth £250,000-a-week, which makes him out of reach for all but an elite minority of the world's richest clubs.
Wayne Rooney is 40/1 with BetVictor to join Arsenal
However, the player and his long-time agent Paul Stretford want to sever the forward's ties with Old Trafford.
Publicly, the new Premier League champions have insisted Rooney is "not for sale" but they could be hemmed into a corner if he pushes hard for a transfer as his current transfer value will quickly depreciate once he enters the final 24 months of his contract without extending it.
Arsenal and Chelsea are both in the market for marquee forwards in the forthcoming transfer window, which opens on Monday.
As revealed by Goal last week, Arsenal are in advanced talks with Fiorentina to sign Stevan Jovetic and Arsene Wenger is also targeting a second marquee striker signing this summer, with Robert Lewandowski and Edin Dzeko among those on his shortlist.But the Gunners will not be able to move for Rooney unless they secure qualification for next season's Champions League in the last round of Premier League fixtures this weekend. Wenger's team will guarantee a top-four finish if they win at Newcastle United on Sunday.


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Tokyo Psycho (HK - DVD)
Following on from my recent review of Cursed, I have had the opportunity to review Tokyo Horror, another new low-budget horror fil...
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Following on from my recent review of Cursed, I have had the opportunity to review Tokyo Horror, another new low-budget horror film from East Asia. Whilst I am a fan of the works of the Japanese film industry, Cursed just did not appeal to me. More a fan of the modern classic genre-breakers the Ringu trilogy, and its successors, I kept my fingers crossed that Tokyo Horror would be a better effort.
Yumiko is a pretty young girl faced with the increasingly daunting prospect of being single after her recent split with her boyfriend and now her flatmate, Miko's, engagement. But after some strange things start occurring, she realises that being single might not be the worst that could happen to her. She starts receiving anonymous letters of marriage proposal featuring sick pictures of her as a child and covered in blood and, understandably, starts to become more than a little concern. When it turns out that her admirer is actually an old classmate from school, Igumi, her worries are not alleviated in the slightest. She gets her friend Miko to look into the case and they find out that Igumi used to live nearby, so they foolishly decide to go and investigate.
Tokyo Psycho is a strange little low budget Japanese film. Although it does not feel quite as low budget as Cursed, the other Japanese horror I recently reviewed, that is probably purely because they use simpler ideas (if that is possible) to scare. In actual fact, it is occasionally quite effective in its use of scare tactics and terror—even if it more often than not just relies on young girls in ridiculously and implausibly dangerous situations screaming when the predictably 'unexpected' happens. The plot relies on twists to keep you interested and probably succeeds more than fails in that bid, but it is not the worst film that I have come across. The lead actress who plays Yumiko is reasonable and most of the actors do an average if distinctly unexceptional job, barely holding things together with such a dodgy script and story.
Unfortunately, in a similar vein to Cursed, Tokyo Psycho suffers very badly from unprofessional subtitling and once again this utterly ruins any enjoyment you could hope to have watching the movie. You spend so long mulling over the abysmal English that you are often several seconds behind what is actually going on on-screen. I don't know how much of a shame it is—the movie isn't that good—but I guess that it is a shame when any movie gets such bad treatment. All it needed to fix the problem was somebody with English as their native language rewriting the subtitles to correspond with the actions on-screen. Names are muddled up, sentences make absolutely no sense and worse, and it really ruins the movie. The end result is yet another low-budget below-average movie made worse by poor presentation, and there is little left about it that I can recommend.
The movie is presented in a rather confusingly-framed non-anamorphic transfer. Although labelled as being fullscreen, it looked letterboxed in a rather odd 2.05:1 aspect ratio to me. Still, the transfer perfectly suits the low-budget 'style', if you can call it that. It is lacking in detail with softness prevalent and, on occasion, even some edge enhancement. Some scenes have more of a propensity for grain than others and the colour scheme is both limited and not represented that well, although at least the blood comes across as correctly crimson. The blacks are disappointingly shallow and overall this is a lacklustre effort, but exactly what you would expect for the material.
There are several tracks on offer here—so many that it beggars belief considering the rest of the disc's content. The primary track is a DTS 5.1 original Japanese mix that is predominantly frontal in its representation and mainly relies on clear vocals for its audio substance. There are a few effects, although they lack directionality, and the occasional scoring and musical tracks provide a little more fuel for the speakers. There is almost no bass, and it is one of the worst examples of DTS ever used. The original Japanese Dolby 5.1 track is certainly no better, but nor is it any worse. There is also a Japanese 2.0 track that is significantly worse than either of the six-speaker efforts and a dubbed Cantonese Dolby 5.1 track. There are subtitles in English and Cantonese.
There are two extras: a ten-minute collection of interviews with the main cast and crew (oddly enough given slightly better subtitling than the main feature) and a trailer for the even more disappointing companion feature, Cursed.
Well, what can I say? If you are an avid fan of this particular genre then I wouldn't be surprised if you chose to pick this up—I'm sure you would enjoy it. But for fans of slightly bigger budget, more stylish, coherent works then I would recommend you look elsewhere. And even if you are tempted—be warned—the subtitling is so bad that it could ruin the entire movie for you just like it did me.
You can order this title for $10.90 from top retailer Play-Asia.
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Sounds dismal Hmmm, I LOVE asian horror, but this sounds extremely weak. Not even that second picture can keep me interested and I love that sort of screwed up crap.
Dave Brock Banned Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,237
The R1 release seems to be vastly superior to this.
Just receiveed it in screener form.
Yet again 'Panik House' have gone to town on the packaging with the front cover photo being re-produced as a JIGSAW and put on the front of the DVD.
Just receiveed it in screener form.
Yet again 'Panik House' have gone to town on the packaging with the front cover photo being re-produced as a JIGSAW and put on the front of the DVD.
Not suitable for young persons and children
Disc Details
Release Date: 24th March 2005
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 Japanese, Dolby Digital 5.1 Japanese, Dolby Digital 2.0 Japanese, Dolby Digital 5.1 Cantonese
Subtitles: English, Cantonese
Extras: Interviews, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Cast: Kokubun Sachiko, Masashi Taniguchi, Mizuho Nakamura
Genre: Horror
Length: 96 minutes
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August 8, 1943 - February 1, 2013
Walker Valley, NY
William G. King, Retired Deputy Sheriff for the Ulster County Sheriff's Dept. and resident of the area since 1973, passed away on Friday, February 1, 2013 at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston. He was 69.
The son of the late William King and Virginia Schultz Dellecker King, he was born on August 8, 1943 in Somerville, NJ.
Bill was a member of the Ulster County Deputy Sheriff's PBA, the Ulster County Detective Association and was a 10-year Detective with the Sheriff's Department.
Survivors include his wife of nine years, Patsy Starr King at home; children: James Starr and his wife, Cheryl of Pine Bush, Barbara Hrbek and her husband, Paul of Pine Bush; nine grandchildren: Amy, Shannon, Mikey, Jack, Amanda, Amber, Justin, Falyn, and Maya; two great-grandchildren: Wyatt and Layla; three brothers: Erwin "Butch" King of Pine Bush, Robert Paley and wife, Barbara of North Brunswick, NJ, George Paley and wife, Judy of Kingwood, NJ; sister-in-law, Annette "Cookie" King of Marlboro, NJ; four sisters: Sylvia Murray and husband, Bill of Metuchen, NJ, Cynthia King of Egg Harbor City, NJ, Linda Savacool and her husband, Jack of Baldwinsville, NY, and Patty Michaelson and her husband, Rich of Beachwood, NJ, and many loving and heartbroken nephews and nieces. William is predeceased by his son, Danny Starr; brother, Henry King, and sister-in-law, Georgia King.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, February 3rd, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the William M. Gagan Funeral Home, Inc., 1525 Burlingham Rd., Pine Bush, NY. Funeral Service will be offered on Monday, February 4th, at 10 a.m. at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Rte. 302, Thompson Ridge, NY. Burial will take place in the family plot in New Prospect Cemetery, Pine Bush.
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Stephen Edward (Steve) McGinley, age 60, of Sweetwater, Texas, passed away Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at his residence.His body was cremated. No formal services are planned. Arrangements are under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. Steve was born Sept. 26, 1951, in Sweetwater, Texas to D.E. (Jack) and Nancy (Neeper) McGinley. He worked for Union Pacific Railroad for many years before retiring. He married Nellie Ramon on Sept. 27, 1976 in Sweetwater, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Nellie McGinley; son, Paul McGinley; daughter, Carolyn McGinley and Eddie Palacios, all of Sweetwater; mother, Nancy (Neeper) McGinley; two sisters, Paula McGinley and Beth May, all of Austin, Texas; four grandchildren, Lilly Rosales, Kaitlyn McGinley, Logan Palacios and Lucas Palacios; sisters-in-law, Irene Sklenarik of San Angelo, Texas, Carolyn Inquanzo and husband Robert of California and Dora Beasley of Sweetwater, Texas; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Bridgette Ramon, Jacob Lopez, Eli Cunningham, Scotty Cunningham, Ryan May and Lindsey May. Family will receive friends at the family home on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2011 from 6-8 p.m.


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I've been reading about the Orton effect on various blogs. It's a graphics technique that can be used on photographs to bring out the colors and give them a glow. I found a good tutorial on creating the Orton effect in Paintshop Pro and tried it on a really bland photo to test the effect. The photo at left is the original photo, and the photo at right is how it looks after the Orton effect.
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VCSU Signs 2 Players, Including EMV's Pautz, for 2014 season
The Valley City State University softball team announced two signings for the 2014 season, and at least one of them will be familiar to local fans.
Maple Valley High School senior Cassie Pautz will be joining the Vikings, along with Lindsey White, who is entering her sophomore season at Itasca (Minn.) Community College.
Pautz, who also plays volleyball and basketball for Maple Valley, will play her senior season on the diamond for Enderlin/Maple Valley this spring. In June, she contributed to the team's Class B state championship, the first in state history.
"I'm extremely happy that Cassie is joining our Viking Softball family next season," VCSU coach Chad Slyter said. 'Cassie has been coming to our spring clinics for a number of years and I'm familiar with her and her high school team. She's an outstanding student-athlete and has a great family. I believe Cassie is going to do very well at Valley City State and in our softball program."
In the championship run, Pautz hit for a .408 batting average including hitting six doubles, two triples and a home run. Pautz also collected 19 RBI and scored 22 runs while stealing 11 bases in 12 attempts. Pautz was an All-Region selection
An all-around athlete, Pautz has also excelled on the basketball and volleyball teams at Maple Valley. She has been a Maple River All-Conference Team selection in basketball as a sophomore and junior and was tabbed to the volleyball All Conference Team in her last three seasons. Pautz has also been a captain in both sports as a junior and a senior.
Pautz is also an active member of organizations in other areas. She has been a four-year member of Students Against Destructive Decisions and was chosen as the 2012 Maple Valley Homecoming Queen.
White, originally from Menahga, Minn.,will transfer into VCSU next season to start her junior year.
White is in her second year at Itasca, where she pitched to a 17-7 record last season, helping the ICC Vikings reach an overall record of 39-13 on their way to a berth in the NJCAA Division III National Softball Tournament.
At ICC, White struck out 156 batters in 148 innings pitched and gave up only 26 walks while sporting a 1.23 earned run average. Overall, she was the sixth-ranked pitcher in NJCAA Division III softball in the nation. White also hit for a .358 batting average with 19 RBI and a .469 on base percentage. For her efforts, White was named to the Region 13B All-Tournament Team.
White attended Menahga High School where she excelled in softball, basketball and volleyball. She was a three time All-Conference selection in softball and was selected to the 2010 All State Tournament Team as well as being an All-State Player selection in 2011. White was selected as Menahga High School's Most Valuable Player in each of her last three seasons and was also the Conference Most Valuable Player in her senior season.
She has also played volleyball for Itasca.
"Lindsey is going to have an immediate impact on our pitching staff when she comes to Valley City State," Slyter said. 'She pitched against us last year in a junior varsity game and our coaching staff came away impressed with her ability. She throws hard, locates very well and will have pitched in possibly two national tournaments. That experience will be valuable for her in her next Viking uniform. I expect great things from her in the circle beginning next year."


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