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Fillies Clubhouse Ride's First Reported Foals
Son of Candy Ride stands at Harris Farms in California.
Son of Candy Ride stands at Harris Farms in California.
Clubhouse Ride, a $22,000 purchase from a 2010 Barretts sale who went on to earn more than $1.3 million, has been retired to stud at Harris Farms near Coalinga, Calif.
Candy Ride continues the series of training offspring of sires, which can be found in the Jan. 17, 2015 issue of The Blood-Horse. view slideshow
Blueskiesnrainbows can score a repeat win in the $200,000 Native Diver Handicap (gr. III) Nov. 29, but instead of Hollywood Park, he'll be trying to accomplish it at Del Mar.
Cassatt and Jojo Warrior, both graded stakes winners, and Shanon Nicole, victorious in two $200,000 stakes in a row, top the cast entered for the "Land of Enchantment Day" card Nov. 26 at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M.
Promising 4-year-old Masochistic is the 7-5 morning line favorite for the inaugural Los Alamitos Mile Sept. 6 in a field that also includes a pair of stakes winners at the summer meet at Los Alamitos Race Course.
This year, Patricia Pavlish has been on "fire" -- literally. Pavlish bred Fire with Fire, who has been a dominant presence on the turf.
Game On Dude has been dominating the ranks of older horses in Southern California for so long it's tempting to believe he's lost a step every time he throws in a bad one.
Shared Belief has been installed the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the TVG Pacific Classic (gr. I) as the undefeated 3-year-old seeks to prevent older horse Game On Dude from a repeat victory in the $1 million race Aug. 24.
After exchanging tight decisions in two recent starts this spring, Fire With Fire and Quick Casablanca clash for a third time in the $200,000 Del Mar Handicap (gr. IIT) Aug. 23 on the Del Mar turf.
Gallant Stables' Majestic Harbor circled horses in the far turn, flew past fading favorite Game On Dude, and powered to the wire to register a clear victory in the Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes (gr. I) June 28.
Can Game On Dude three-peat in the prestigious Gold Cup at Santa Anita? read blog
Game On Dude, who topped the first edition of the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings for 2014, heads the field for the 75th renewal of the Gold Cup at Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) June 28 at Santa Anita Park.
Old pro Clubhouse Ride slipped through along the inside and outfought odds-on favorite Fury Kapcori in the final furlong to register a gutty repeat win in the $200,000 Californian Stakes (gr. II) May 31 at Santa Anita Park.
Fury Kapcori, a dominant front-running winner of the Precisionist Stakes (gr. III) one month ago, brings a four-race victory streak into the $200,000 Californian Stakes (gr. II) May 31 at Santa Anita Park.
A change in tactics helped Fire With Fire post a 7-1 upset in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Handicap (gr. IIT) May 24 on the grass at Santa Anita Park, giving trainer Neil Drysdale a record-tying seventh win in the race.
Quick Casablanca and Fire With Fire, separated by a head the last time they met for their respective Hall of Fame trainers, will battle again in the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita Park.
Chilean-bred Quick Casablanca landed his first North American win when he overcame a slow start to nip Fire With Fire and favored Rookie Sensation in the $100,000 Last Tycoon Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Santa Anita Park turf.
Fire With Fire, winner of the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) March 22, will bid for a third consecutive win April 25 in an intriguing field for the $100,000 Last Tycoon Stakes at Santa Anita April 25.
His reputation restored with a superb win in the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I), Game On Dude looks for a repeat victory in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic (gr. II) the night of April 19 at Charles Town Races.
Game On Dude arrived in West Virginia April 15 ahead of his expected start in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic (gr. II) April 19, when he will bid for a repeat victory in the race.
With Tyler Baze at the controls, Majestic Harbor seized control going to the three eighths pole in the $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (gr. III) March 29 at Santa Anita Park, opening up an insurmountable lead and winning easily.
Blueskiesnrainbows, whose front-running tactics nearly paid off in last fall's Breeders' Cup Marathon (gr. II), will try another long-distance journey in the $100,000 Tokyo City Cup Stakes (gr. III) March 29 at Santa Anita.
Fire With Fire, rated well on the lead by Tyler Baze, outfought stablemate Lucayan in deep stretch to register his first graded stakes win for trainer Neil Drysdale in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT)
Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale will be looking for his sixth lifetime win in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf March 22 at Santa Anita. With two of the five entrants, he has a good shot to get it.
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|Clubhouse Ride
|Craig Anthony Lewis
|El Commodore
|Michael Machowsky
|Hector O. Palma
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|Lucky Primo
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|Craig Dollase
|Shadow Runner
|Doug F. O'Neill
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Today, my mother posted a video of me giving birth, on Facebook. FML
Today, my family and I finished moving to Texas. As if that isn't bad enough, I'll have to introduce myself all over again to everyone I meet and explain that yes, my parents really did name me Lilypad. FML
Today, I had a nightmare in which I was haunted by the ghost of my foreskin. I then spent the whole day moping around, wondering what my life would've been like if my parents hadn't opted to slice it off. Will I see you in heaven, long-lost ghostly foreskin? FML
Today, I was searched and questioned at the airport for having an apple. FML
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How Do You Use Your Space?
January 23, 2013 by Linda Binns
Filed under current, Energy Space
How comfortable are you with space? Do you claim your space? Do you feel the need to fill empty space?
There are many different types of space and the way you use space can be very revealing – whether it's your physical space (your home and work place), your intimate space (your boundaries), verbal space (communication and listening), or your life space (career and social activities).
Many people feel uncomfortable with space. Whenever they encounter it they feel the need to fill it. This is often a method of avoidance.
Here are some examples of filling space:
Physical space
You've probably seen programs about people who hoard things. This is an extreme example of filling your physical space. When you look at the condition of hoarding it's easy to see that there is a deeper problem going on. There is a deep insecurity and the person is trying to address is by surrounding themselves with stuff – so much so that there is very little room for them to live in their space. Hoarders suffer from deep-seated anxieties.
Hoarding is at the extreme end of the scale. Many people fill their home and work spaces until they become cluttered. This is not as extreme as hoarding, yet it's still a sign of a deeper issue. They may frequently try to get organized and de-clutter and yet the clutter comes back time and time again. That's because the clutter itself is not the issue. It's a symptom and the problem relates to a feeling of being disconnected from their true selves and a sense of dissatisfaction with their life situations. The problem will continue until the person looks within to address the real issues.
Intimate space
When you have trouble setting boundaries and find that people are not treating you the way you would wish to be treated it's a sign of how you feel about yourself. People tend to treat you the way you treat yourself – the way you feel you deserve. If you have an issue with boundaries it's time to examine unhealthy beliefs to see if they apply to you, such as 'I'm not good enough;' 'I'm not lovable;' 'I'm not worthy,' and so on.
Verbal space
This is the person who can't stand quiet. The verbal space always has to be filled and they might fill it by constantly talking, talking loudly, or having to have some kind of noise going on all the time, such as the radio or television. This can relate to a fear of hearing their thoughts and of connecting to themselves. When there is quiet, then you can hear your thoughts – and that's very scary for many people, so they will avoid it at all costs. Even when someone else is talking, they may not be listening, they may constantly interrupt or not be paying attention to what the person is saying because they're too busy thinking up their own response.
Life space
Workaholics and people who fill their lives with one social activity after another fit into this category. There is a fear of not being busy. Keeping busy may be how you identify with your sense of value (I'm busy therefore I'm important and I'm needed). Or if your busyness relates more to social activities it may be a way of showing how popular you are, when deep down you really don't feel that you're lovable. Keeping busy in this way can also be a way of avoiding spending time addressing the real issues, which are how you feel about yourself and your life. When you fill your life with these activities you don't have time to stop and reflect on whether they are what you want to be doing and whether they are truly in alignment with who you are. In fact they're probably not in alignment, which is why you feel you must not stop because if they're not, then what do you do?
This is simply food for thought. When you examine how you interpret and use space (all kinds of space) you can find out a lot about yourself. It can be a great personal growth tool. Then of course the question is, do you want to change it?
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Image shows universe older than thought
Updated 10:50 pm, Thursday, March 21, 2013
Paris --
A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate.
Sure, the universe suddenly seems to be showing its age, now calculated at 13.8 billion years - 80 million years older than scientists had thought. It's got about 3 percent more girth - technically it's more matter than mysterious dark energy - and it is expanding about 3 percent more slowly.
But with all that comes the wisdom for humanity. Scientists seem to have gotten a good handle on the Big Bang and what happened just afterward, and may actually understand a bit more about the cosmic question of how we are where we are.
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The snapshot from a European satellite had scientists from Paris to Washington celebrating a cosmic victory of knowledge Thursday - basic precepts that go back all the way to Einstein and relativity.
The Planck space telescope mapped background radiation from the early universe - now calculated at about 13.8 billion years old. The results bolstered a key theory called "inflation," which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its vast expanse in a fraction of a second just after the Big Bang that created the cosmos.
"We've uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe," said George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, who announced the Planck findings in Paris. "There's less stuff that we don't understand by a tiny amount."
The map of the universe's evolution - in sound echoes and fossilized light going back billions of years - reinforces some predictions made decades ago solely on the basis of mathematical concepts.
Physicist Sean Carroll of the California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the project, called it "a big pat on the back for our understanding of the universe."
"In terms of describing the current universe, I think we have a right to say we're on the right track," he added.
The Big Bang theory says the universe was smaller than an atom in the beginning when, in a split second, it exploded, cooled and expanded faster than the speed of light - an idea that scientists call inflation. It's based in part on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity - from about 90 years ago.


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A 170-foot powerhouse -- the Vertical Assembly Center (VAC) -- is near completion and will soon be ready to build the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). SLS will be the most powerful rocket in history for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars.
This photo taken with a special camera lens shows the VAC, the world's largest spacecraft welding tool -- part of a family of tools at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
These tools are specifically designed to build the core stage, which will store cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that will feed the vehicle's RS-25 engines.
The core stage is comprised of five major structures: the forward skirt, the liquid oxygen tank, the intertank, the liquid hydrogen tank and the engine section.
The core stage recently passed its critical design review -- a major milestone for the program which proves the first new design for America's next great rocket is mature enough for production. Boeing is the prime contractor for the SLS core stage, including avionics.
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Damn, this is some evil shit here. From the very first, to the very last, riff it's nothing but a pure joy of blasphemic chants. Chilling riffs, pounding drums, vicious vocals and hateful lyrics. The title should tell you the latter one.
Every note is filled with such despise it's unbelievable, you can actually see the hatred crawl out of your speakers, and feel them infecting your mind. Bloody marvellous old school black metal, where it feels like this is the album all others are inspired by, but failing to live up to. It's just that great! The artwork, lyrics, music, vocals - It all works together in perfect chaotic harmony (harmony feels like the wrong word to use here, but you know what I mean). If you want your music chilling, raw, vicious and evil then this is for you. As far as old school goes it doesn't get any better than this. Pure and simple: a masterpiece!
Craft is the razor in your wrists, the noose around your neck, the shotgun in your throat, a plague to be unleashed on mankind, a fucking A-bomb of pure hate. I'll leave you with this
- Hate... the clouds, the rain, the air that lets life-forms breathe. ... The land, the sea, the places where the humans breed. ... The skyline, the zenith, where the sun rises, travels and sets. ... The homes, the lands, the places of shelter for man. Back to your past, human. //Craft - Xenophobia.
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when I first heard the title of the new CRAFT album, I was kind of bummed out. Then I saw the artwork and I was really bummed out. It all seemed kind of silly to me. "Fuck the Universe" sounded like the title of a NINE INCH NAILS song or something. Fortunately my concerns were pretty much erased by the sounds of the opening chords.
I was immediately struck by the sound of the record. The album has a very 'dead' 70's rock production quality to it. Everything (especially the drums) sounds like it was recorded in a room carpeted from wall to wall, ceiling to floor. Anyone that has ever been in bands and made records can tell you that recording music this way can be very challenging. Every nuance of every instrument can be heard, especially the mistakes. There just really aren't any mistakes on this album to be heard. Many black metal bands cloak their musical ineptitude with reverb and tons of guitar overdubs. Not CRAFT, they bare all for us to hear and the result is simply the sound of a really good band playing in a room together. Funnily enough, the production on this record actually reminds me of the first DANZIG album Yeah he got punched out on video, but that record totally slays.
Musically the only way I can think to describe this record is that it "rocks." The songs are mostly mid-tempo and there's only a few times where the band breaks into full on blast-beat blackness. The result is something that is far too rare in black metal these days, some actual VARIATION!!! Many of the songs are fairly complex with interesting progressions, multiple parts, tempo variations and even some hints of melody. Nox's vocals haven't changed much but that's ok with me, he has an impressive gravely snarl. Don't get me wrong, I love the raw elements of black metal. I can tolerate sub-par musicianship or one man bands with boring drum machine parts as long as the atmosphere is there. To me, atmosphere is the essence of black metal but I like it even more when a band can capture that atmosphere while simultaneously bringing the rock.
CRAFT has always been a great band, but I think they're really onto something unique here. UNIQUE. You don't see that word in black metal reviews very often these days eh? Along with DEATHSPELL OMEGA, CRAFT are pushing black metal to new levels and I really hope they keep pushing.
I am the destroyer...
Craft! Now that's a band that deserves an exclamation point. These guys rock, and they rock hard. Perhaps "rock" isn't that right description for the sound of a Swedish black metal band, but Craft seems to bring a sense of rhythm and attitude that most of their noisier fellows seem to lack. From the first listen, one can tell that this band is heavily influenced by Darkthrone. Alot of the riffs sound very familiar, but they take on their own glamour. The difference is that Craft has a thick, full, and surprisingly well-produced sound. Fuck the Universe may not be as "cold" or "necro" as other black metal albums out there, but here we find great attitude, violence, and sheer aggression.
Everything on this album is flawless to me, it appears to be very well rehearsed. Although, this band is probably good enough to have gone right into the studio and recorded without first running through the songs on their own. The production is top notch. This isn't a 4-track home studio recording, this is big. Very rich, and very clear. Don't you love it when a black metal band forks over the money and loses the grimness to sound clear and crushing?
Now, on to the quality of the instruments. The guitars on Fuck the Universe are quite varied. The guitars that appear in most songs remind me of Darkthrone's "In the Shadow of the Horns". The difference is that they are more up-tempo. There are plenty of break downs, moments of slow crushing riffs, and fast-paced attacks. Even a few guitar solos show up, but we aren't talking Yngwie Malmsteen. Harsh and bizzarre. The vocals are probably my favorite part of the album. This guy sounds like a mix between Abbath, Nocturno Culto, and Nattefrost. Grim, raspy, and downright hateful. It's especially enjoyable when he draws out the rasping to get an evil effect. Drums are quite varied, there's alot of nice beats in here. It's nothing remarkable, but it fits the music very well. I haven't caught a fuck up yet. This isn't Abbath on "Battles in the North". This guy knows what he's doing. I can't hear bass very well, but I can't deny it's presence. It adds to the thickness of the recording, which is definitely a plus.
Fuck the Universe is a black metal gem. If only other modern BM acts would cut the synths, the gayness, and the overall bullshit maybe there will be a future for the genre. Follow the example of Craft. Misantrophy, hate, and great sound!


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Religion in Kenya
Kenya Religion – No matter what their religion may be, Kenyans are exceptionally devout. Going to church on Sunday is an exuberant event that is absolutely not to be missed. The Bible (or the Koran) is the book of choice, knowledge of the scriptures is aspired to, praying is part of everyday life, amplified religious meetings are held in most public areas at lunchtime, religious icons and sacred tracts abound in home, office, and vehicles, and the majority of Kenyans are named after religious figures.
Kenya Religion – Churches in Kenya
There are more than 4,000 registered churches in Kenya, belonging to an innumerable variety of religious denominations. They can range from very mainstream churches, to lesser – known evangelical and gospel offshoots.
Churches in Kenya are predominately Christian, though many different denominations and congregations exist within the population. Overall, more than three quarters of the population identify themselves as Christian (either Protestant or Roman Catholic). However, many Kenyans mix their Christian beliefs with traditional beliefs (such as belief in witchcraft).
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Most of the well-established churches in Kenya have their roots in early missionary work, when Europeans first took an interest in the area and they saw an opportunity to preach to a wide new audience.
Kenya Religion – Main Religion in Kenya
- Roman Catholics Church
- Anglican Church
- Full Gospel Churches
- Presbyterian Church of East Africa
- Africa Inland Church
- Methodist Church
- Baptist Church
Lately however, Kenya has witnessed the mushrooming of what are referred to as Pentecostal churches. In Nairobi, the most popular ones include
Kenya Religion – Pentecostal Churches in Nairobi
- Nairobi Pentecostal Church
- Nairobi Lighthouse Church
- Redeemed Gospel Church
- Deliverance Church
- Jesus is Alive Ministries
- Jubilee Christian Centre
Besides these denominations, there are numerous others with a significant presence in Kenya.
Religions in Kenya (2009 census)
- Catholic Population – 9,010,684
- Protestant Population – 18,307,466
- Other Christian Population – 4.559,584
- Muslim Population – 4,304,798
- Hindu Population – 53,393
- Traditionalist Population – 635,352
- Other Religion Population– 557,450
- No Religion Population – 922,128
- Don't Know – 61,233
Religion of Kenya – Traditional Kenyan Beliefs
The spread of Christianity in Kenya has largely eliminated many of the traditional and tribal beliefs held by the people of Kenya, prior to contact with Europeans.
Kenyan tribes who most closely continue to live in their traditional ways, are the ones who also still hold their old beliefs. Christianity has not made much headway among the Samburu, Turkana or the Masai tribe, particularly. Overall, about 10% of the population still follow their African religion in Kenya.
For the most part, each tribe has its own set of beliefs, usually tied somewhat to their territory. Tribes that lived near Mount Kenya, for example, often believed that God lived at its peak.
Like Christians, Kenyans originally believed in a single creator God. "Ngai" or "Were" are common names for God, though not the only ones. Each tribe had its own creation myth, which usually attributes their tribe as being directly created by God.
Kenya Religion – Kenya Religion Pie Chart
Kenya Religion – The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK)
Churches in Kenya are under the National Council of Churches Kenya. The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) is a family of Christian communions and organisations in fellowship and witness.
It was established in June 1913 during the United Missionary Conference held at Thogoto, near Nairobi. The delegates in the conference, representing the missionary institutions working in the country at the time, affirmed their wish to work towards a united church that would impact the lives of the people.
The National Council of Churches of Kenya is a family of Christian communions and organisations in fellowship and witness. A member of the NCCK must be registered in Kenya.
While recognizing that each church and organization has its own basis or order or doctrine, all the members of the Council accept a common doctrinal statement as a declaration of their essential spiritual unity.
In the doctrinal statement, the members of NCCK are united in confessing the faith to which the church has ever witnessed in One Triune God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, worshipping the Father revealed to the world in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
They also hold the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as being God's revelation of Himself to the world, and that these contain all things necessary for salvation and are supreme and decisive standards of faith and conduct to which all teachings and all creeds and confessions are subordinate.
Religion in Kenya – Islam in Kenya
Islam is the second widely practised religion and the followers include the Sunni, Shia and Islamia. Muslims are about 10 per cent of the population.
Although Islam has spread throughout Kenya, the largest number of Muslims is found in the coastal region and North—Eastern Province.
Other parts of the country also have sizeable number of Muslims.
Kadhi's courts have legal jurisdiction over personal law for the Muslims marriage, divorce and inheritance.
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Reston residents are objecting to a massive redevelopment along Metro's new Silver Line, saying the new construction will only increase the area's traffic problems when the new buildings open in 2014.
Reston is one of the nation's first posWorld War II planned communities, and development there is tightly controlled. And residents said they're now concerned that the evolving plans for development around the Wiehle Avenue station would be incompatible with the existing community.
The Reston Master Plan Special Study Task Force, the group overseeing the project's preliminary design, proposed last month that traffic around the station could be reduced if the amount of office space being allowed there were reduced.
Colin Mills, president of the Reston Citizens Association, called the recommendation to limit the scope of the redevelopment "a big step in the right direction."
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She died Wednesday, June 7, 2000, at West Gate Nursing Center in Hereford.
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But one of them, Barclays, is also increasing its interest rate for some card holders.
Barclay, Lloyds TSB and HSBC will cut their penalty charges by nearly half from £20 to £12 in the next two months.
The changes were demanded by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in April, when it said standard penalty charges levied by card issuers were excessive and unfair.
The OFT said at the time that the UK's banks were illegally overcharging their customers by £300m a year through unnecessarily high charges.
These are levied for late payment of credit card bills, failed payments or spending more than a card's borrowing limit.
The demand for lower charges brought howls of protest from the banking industry, but the banks were told to respond by 31 May.
The OFT does not have the power to impose its order directly, but threatened to take legal action to do so if the banks ignored its instruction.
It also angered the banking industry by suggesting that basic bank charges, such as those for overdrafts, should be capped in a similar fashion.
Royal Bank of Scotland, which owns NatWest, has yet to announce a decision, but said it was still in discussion with the OFT.
Barclaycard has more than 11 million UK customers in the UK, some of whom will now face paying higher interest rates.
From 1 August, when the new lower penalty charge comes in, the interest rate paid by about 10% of its customers will rise by between 2% and 5%, within a range of 14.9% to 29.9%.
Cash advances will now be charged at 27.9%, up from 21.9%.
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Brandon Mobley narrows it to three
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By Adam Finkelstein, ESPN Recruiting
St. John's Military Academy forward Brandon Mobley will take an official visit to DePaul this weekend and is expected to choose from among the Blue Demons, Seton Hall and Auburn sometime during the following week according to SJMA assistant coach Bryan Clayton. "Those are really the three that he is considering," Clayton said. "We've had multiple schools call to try and get back involved but those are the only three he's considering right now." Mobley is a skilled combo-forward who averaged 25.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game this year at St. John's. He also scored offers from USC and Arizona State prior to cutting his list and has visited both Seton Hall and Auburn officially.


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Adobe Media Player had a new release yesterday, with performance, interface, and publishing improvements. Pundits covered the press release. Most of them focused on which shows to watch. Some spoke of "competitors like Apple's iTunes and Windows Media Player." Seems to me like they're only seeing one small part of the picture.
I'm not putting down the pundits… they're entitled to view anything anyway they see fit, and it's likely that Adobe hasn't done the strongest job in insisting on understanding of its goals.
But this isn't a story like competing cable or satellite providers, and which company secures the rights to a given title in a given region. It's not one of those earlier zero-sum games about which movie theatre chains can show the fancy MGM films, and which chains shows the quicker RKO titles. It's more like designing the first cathode-ray tubes, or discovering the business models for the first TV stations. We know we have to achieve something, but still have to figure out its final form.
Off the top of my head, Adobe Media Player 1.0 delivered three significant things: a local Rich Internet Application for viewing video from diverse sources, replacing the page-refresh video experience where your viewing history is stored on some company's server and then data-mined… a subscription-based, "video comes to you" experience, laying the groundwork for future decentralized social viewing recommendations… and a policy-file system which lets content creators determine where they grant viewing rights, to whom, and when.
There's a whole lot more technology understructure yet to test and develop. We need better creation, integration, and analysis of video metadata, a coherent pipeline for including information along with the visuals. More work needs to be done on the overall production workflow, from planning to asset tracking to editing to compression to distribution to analytics. We need to analyze and expose video content (speech-to-text, object recognition) and social metadata (recommendations and tagging from friends), so that advertising (the main revenue generator) can be more tuned to the viewing audience's current needs. We need to make the video experience more customizable to the content producer's experiential design, and more responsive to the enduser's desires. AMP 1.x did accomplish a lot, but there's much more work yet to done.
Within Adobe I don't hear people talk of competing with particular video sites and distributors… such initiatives are uniformly seen as partners, or as potential partners, who have technology needs which are not yet met, perhaps not yet even recognized.
Everything I see points towards Adobe Media Player as being a technology platform, where new publishing capabilities can be explored and refined. "How will the viewing public want to experience video in 2010, 2015, 2020?" seems more the spirit than "What's the marketshare for the catalog this month?" That's the reality I see within Adobe, from the product team to the Dynamic Media organization to the top executive level. We need to bring about the next generation of internet video publishing.
Back when Adobe PostScript first provided a more predictable digital printing capability than the maze of competing printer drivers and application exporters, Adobe Systems did not open a publishing house or try to monopolize book distribution. Adobe achieved its financial goals by opening up the publishing process to universal access, earning money on sales of enabling technology.
To confirm this cultural DNA, see this recent interview with Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe. He was a math professor who found computers personally interesting, found great satisfaction in making the written word more accessible to more people than anyone since Gutenberg, and now stresses the importance of the new integrated runtime for networked application development. It's a longterm view, not about controlling content, but about profiting by helping others sustainably create and use content. This cultural orientation was one of the most striking things I learned about Adobe, coming in from the cowboy/interactivity/shrinkwrap culture at Macromedia.
Other companies have different business models, whether it's to sell a range of consumer electronic devices, or to develop an advertising network, or to increase the range of proprietary personalization databases. But Adobe makes its money selling neutral publishing technology. The more people who find video useful, the better. These core orientations determine the different paths each group will take.
The AMP marketing materials do emphasize significant partners, but there seem to be two main reasons for that: (a) we need a goodsized audience to provide reliable feedback on how people will really want things to work; and (b) creators are actively seeking ways to maintain a connection with their big-budget work, beyond just letting an .MPG run wild throughout the Web in hope that money will somehow flow in. Sony, CBS, Showtime, MTV and all the rest are validating that they find potential within AMP, and those big titles help draw useful audiences during development.
(There's an interesting angle on big-budget video… YouTube became famous during the Web 2.0 age for "User Generated Content" (UGC). That's great, I love it, it's valuable, we need it. But audiences tend to obsess on professional, big-budget entertainment… that's they stuff they hunt for. And to afford those professional budgets, creators need a real return-on-investment. Finding ways to support video-creation businesses is the real way to support video-viewing audiences.)
Anyway, when I see the daily commentary focus on Ghostbusters or The Love Boat, I can understand how someone fresh to it may just see what's personally relevant for them. But I see bigger goals within Adobe, focused far more on new technology than commercial properties.
The Adobe video pipeline is undergoing startling rapid evolution. I'm betting the Techmeme stories from Summer 2009 will likely be quite a bit different…. 😉


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Well we've all heard the good news, and if you havn't then please crawl back under your rock. SE anounced at this years E3 that sometime in 2010 (or 11 not sure) they hope to release the 14th installment of the Final Fantasy franchise which will be their second online experience since FFXI the game we all love and haet.
First off let me say that I hope to see all of the fine folks of this server in the new game and still on XI for years to come. I have no intention of canceling Hyabusa once I get to start Playing Busa in this new game.
In all the excitement of this news I noticed one small thing.
Did any of us give thim much of a **** when they anounced FFXIII?
I mean, some of us like Mega and Myself were probably very happy to hear that thirteen would be on xbox 360 so we didnt have to buy PSfails to play it but other than that fact; is FFXII anywhere nearly as exciting as hearing the news about XIV being the long worked on 'Rapture' project?
I dare say it that the FF series is changing as our tastes grow as consumers. Most of us are probably in the same age group of 18-34 with many of us being children of the 80's. As is the final fantasy game series. It almost grew with us and now that we live in the age of 'conectivity' where we cant seem to keep our grubby little hands off of things like facebook and twitter I see a growing trend in the fact that people enjoy feelign conected to their fellow gamer.
I for one will pay XIII but only until i beat it or XIV comes out. I remember playing VII years ago and then being excited for X to come out. I loved them both very much so I got on ebay and went to my local gametrader and bought every FF title from start to finish... some where only in japanese but it didnt matter to me I just wanted to have them. About 20 hours into FFVIII my friend called me and told me to come to the mall because the long awaited FFXI was hitting the shelves today!
After loading the game, getting on different servers, trying for hours recreating characters to get on other server, having to buy a new computer to run it better and then FINALLY starting in my home of San d'Oria on the Diabolos server sometime in the first week of NA PC release...I never finished another console FF game again.
I think I'll try to wrap up this long winded bullsh*t with this statement: If every 5-8 years you put out another online title in between all the console FF titles; you have a customer with me for life Square Enix. I enjoy playign the offline games but nothing compares to riding a chocobo to meet a friend you know in RL to help him complete a quest so he can call a dragon and fight orcs by your side.
~Stephen "Busa"
I truly enjoy your products and welcome future changes. The plan to remain online with FFXI, FFXIV and future titles is a welcomed change from just console games.


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A quick rundown of the week that was on the Blogs By Fans Network:
- The Sawks blew a golden opportunity in Tampa (Who Made You Mirabelli?)
- Jim answers some fan mail (The Halo Is Lit)
- Is the Monday Night game a must-win for the Jets? (Green Pinstripes)
- No home-field advantage for the Colts from the refs (Arin It Out)
- What's it like to be a Cubs fan? (Cobra Brigade)
- Bears fans throwing in the towel already? Maybe you do need a QB to win in the NFL (Tremendous Upside Potential)
- Kingman obviously has Stadium envy (Loge 13)
- The UCB dabbles in live blogging (C-70 At The Bat)
- Lefty goes to Cooperstown (El Lefty Malo)


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> It turns out that setting the remote subnet to a single host doesn't
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Jakarta (AFP) Nov 2, 2010
Indonesia on Tuesday warned airlines to avoid certain routes over central Java as the Mount Merapi volcano belched more heat clouds of gas and ash, while six international flights were cancelled.
Transport ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said an official warning was issued telling all airlines to "use an alternative route for safety reasons due to the volcanic ash".
Malaysia-based AirAsia said it had cancelled four flights linking Kuala Lumpur to Yogyakarta and nearby Solo on Tuesday, while Silk Air cancelled two flights between Singapore and Solo.
"The flights... to Yogya and Solo have been cancelled only for November 2. We will update if there are any further developments," an AirAsia spokeswoman said, referring to four flights to and from the cities.
A statement from SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, said a flight from Singapore to Solo and its return leg were cancelled.
"Our next scheduled Singapore-Solo flight is on Thursday and we are closely monitoring the situation," the statement said.
Almost 40 people have been killed since the 2,914-metre (9,616-foot) Mount Merapi, the most active of scores of volcanoes in Indonesia, began erupting last week.
It spewed heat clouds high into the air six times after dawn on Tuesday, and volcanologists say such activity is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
"It could go on for weeks, even months," volcanologist Subandrio told AFP.
Indonesia straddles major tectonic fault lines and is part of a region known as the "Ring of Fire" that circles the Pacific Ocean.
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Searing grey fumes shot high into the sky and rolled down the slopes of the 2,914-metre (9616-foot) Mount Merapi six times after dawn, spreading fear and panic as the government issued an alert telling airlines to avoid the skies over central Java.
"It could go on for weeks, even months," government volcanologist Subandrio told AFP.
Almost 40 people have been killed since Merapi began erupting last week.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono planned to visit the shelters on Wednesday, his spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said.
"He will evaluate himself the handling of the Merapi victims by officials. He also wants to receive reports on whether the local government has faced any obstacles there," Pasha said.
Seismic activity escalated dramatically last week at the volcano on the densely populated island of Java, with increasing lava spurts and about 500 multi-phased volcanic earthquakes recorded.
But thousands defied an order to evacuate farmland on its fertile slopes, deciding instead to stay at their homes and tend their animals.
Field coordinator Widi Sutikno, of the Sleman district on the southern slopes, said those in danger had all now left.
"All of them have realised the danger of Merapi," Sutikno said.
He said that some of the people in makeshift camps had been suffering from cold and respiratory illness.
"None of them suffer from any chronic illness so far," Sutikno said.
Malaysia-based AirAsia said it had cancelled four flights linking Kuala Lumpur to Yogyakarta and nearby Solo, while Silk Air cancelled two flights between Singapore and Solo.
"The flights... to Yogya and Solo have been cancelled only for November 2," an AirAsia spokeswoman said, referring to four flights to and from the cities. The company later said the flights would resume on Wednesday.
A statement from SilkAir, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, said a flight from Singapore to Solo and its return leg were cancelled.
"Our next scheduled Singapore-Solo flight is on Thursday and we are closely monitoring the situation," the statement said.
Meanwhile the distribution of aid continued to Indonesia's Mentawai islands, where more than 400 people were killed by a tsunami last week, despite difficulty in reaching victims.
"We're working very hard to ensure that aid reaches every affected area, including remote ones," West Sumatra provincial disaster management official Joskamatir said.
"Sometimes relief dropped from the helicopters may get stuck on trees or fall into the sea, but we're continuously sending them," he said.
Indonesia straddles major tectonic fault lines and is part of a region known as the "Ring of Fire" that circles the Pacific Ocean.
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Indian PM issues Iraq warning
India's Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has said no country should enforce its will on another, saying all issues relating to Iraq should be resolved by the United Nations.
Mr Vajpayee made his comments, which are clearly directed at the United States, during a speech to mark a Sikh holy day.
The Indian prime minister said he hoped no more war would take place in Iraq.
Atal Behari Vajpayee did not specifically name the US, but his message was clear and said people of all nations have a right to rule themselves and choose their own leaders.
'No more war'
He was speaking to an audience of Sikhs, on the day which marks the anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, 533 years ago.
Mr Vajpayee said: "We hope no more war takes place in Iraq. All issues should be sorted out through discussions under the auspices of the United Nations. No one should try to enforce its will on others."
He also said that if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction it should give them up voluntarily.
But he also said: "If terrorism, of any form, any colour or any hue, wants to impose itself on anyone else, it will not be allowed to succeed."
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India is heavily dependent on imported oil and fears the effect on oil prices should conflict break out.
Four years ago, Mr Vajpayee called for air strikes on Iraqi targets by US and British war planes to be stopped.
And when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, India did not at first join in the international criticism of Saddam Hussein.
But in the past decade, India's relations with the United States have improved.
And senior Indian politicians have displayed a growing reluctance to criticise American foreign policy.
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This article was published 31/8/2012 (1784 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As the Brandon Wheat Kings open main camp today, there are more questions than answers at this point.
So let's start with what we can be fairly certain about.
No.1: Simply put, this is a rebuilding year. After losing six of their top seven scoring forwards — including 40-goal snipers Mark Stone and Michael Ferland — this team won't challenge the likes of the defending champion Edmonton Oil Kings or the 2013 Memorial Cup host Saskatoon Blades for a league title this season. However, a deep defence led by the dynamite duo of Ryan Pulock and Eric Roy and great goaltending from underrated Corbin Boes should be enough to carry this young club to a 13th straight appearance in the WHL playoffs.
No.2: For fans who love to see the young guns get plenty of ice time, this is your year. With only seven veteran WHL forwards on the roster, and two of those — newcomer Nick Buonassisi and returnee Dominick Favreau — likely fighting for just one overage spot, at least seven or eight rookies from this training camp will make the opening-day roster. And there are plenty of prime prospects poised to make the jump and take advantage of that opportunity to contribute right away in the WHL.
So what are the biggest question marks this season?
Clearly, coaching tops the list, followed closely by who will put the puck in the net.
After nine seasons as an assistant coach with the Wheat Kings, how successful will Dwayne Gylywoychuk be in his first stint as a head coach in the WHL? It's the proverbial million-dollar question for Wheat King fans, not to mention for owner and general manager Kelly McCrimmon. It will be interesting to see just how patient McCrimmon will be, especially after firing former Ottawa Senators head coach Cory Clouston after just one season behind the bench — with the team still on the hook for his salary this season.
Gylywoychuk has had the chance to learn from a variety of coaches and soak up a wide range of coaching styles during his 14 seasons in the organization as both a player and an assistant coach, from the likes of McCrimmon himself to Bob Lowes, Mike Kelly and Clouston. While he is well-liked by current and former players alike, how well Gylywoychuk commands respect on the bench and in the dressing room will be a big key to his success, or lack thereof.
For his part, McCrimmon has already made a couple of shrewd off-season moves to give his new coach a better chance to succeed.
McCrimmon ensured that the half-dozen rookies up front will be adequately protected in the lineup by trading for tough guy Tyler Yaworski, a bruising blue-liner who has racked up 181 and 188 penalty minutes in the past two seasons. The onus will be on the likes of Yaworski and Ryley Miller and veterans up front like Jens Meilleur to ensure that the Wheat Kings' talented rookie scorers are free to do what they do best.
McCrimmon also brought in a potential impact player when he traded excesss overager Brandon Anderson for forward Geordie Maguire — a 17-year-old who led the Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League in scoring last season — in what could turn into a steal of a deal. Meanwhile, a fifth-round pick landed the Wheat Kings some veteran presence up front in Buonassisi, a player who has averaged more than 50 points in the past two seasons and will provide much-needed offence.
McCrimmon also successfully secured the services of a new import in Czech forward Richard Nejezchleb, an 18-year-old who brings size and skill, although the jury is out on how quickly he can be counted on to produce. But certainly, the club needs to find someone other than Swiss sniper Alessio Bertaggia to score consistently.
What the Wheat Kings really need are breakout seasons from the rest of their veterans up front, players like Meilleur, Tyrel Seaman, Daniel Asham, Jason Swyripa and perhaps Favreau, who will all get a chance to contribute more than ever before.
And in a perfect world for Wheat King fans, the club will catch lightning in a bottle again this season the way the talented trio of Brayden Schenn, Matt Calvert and Scott Glennie did as rookies five years ago. Will it be Maguire, Jayce Hawryluk and Kord Pankewicz whose chemistry clicks immediately, or the likes of Tim McGauley, Taylor Cooper and Jack Palmer who provide an instant impact?
As camp concludes this weekend and the pre-season begins, the Wheat Kings should soon start to get some of those answers.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 60,
October 2009 Abstract Supplement
The 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting
Philadelphia October 16-21, 2009.
Rituximab Therapy Induces Durable Remissions in Hispanic and African American Patients with Refractory Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Karpouzas1, George A., Gogia1, Maneesh, Moran1, Rosalinda C., Hahn2, Bevra H.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Autoreactive B cells produce pathogenic autoantibodies (Ab) that deposit in tissues and cause injury in patients (pts) with SLE. While combinations of antimalarials, corticosteroids and immunosuppressives may control disease activity in most pts, about 10% suffer recalcitrant disease. Rituximab is a chimeric monoclonal Ab that eliminates B cells through binding of CD20 surface antigen. We evaluated the ability of Rituximab (RTX) to induce sustained remission in minority pts with refractory SLE.
We studied 35 pts with refractory SLE between 1/1/06 and 6/30/08. Subjects were given 4 weekly infusions of RTX monotherapy at 375mg/m2. All had regular follow-up in a single academic center. Disease activity was measured with SLEDAI-2k every 3 months. Responses were reported in quarterly intervals and analyzed with paired t-tests.
Thirty five pts received 1 cycle and 7 received a 2nd cycle within 9±2.4 months (mo) after the 1st infusion. Depletion of CD19+ cells was observed in all (p<0.001-table). Baseline SLEDAI-2k was 8.5±0.8, significantly decreased in the 1st quarter (4.4±0.5, p<0.0001), and remained so to the end of the observation period. This was associated with a significant increase in serum complements. Sixteen pts with arthritis were followed over 15.2±5.1 mo: 75% had initial complete resolution, and 56% had sustained response (SR>=6 mo). Time to SR was 3.6±1.9 mo and SR lasted 13.2±1.3 mo. Primary and 2dary efficacy failures were seen in 19% and 25% of pts respectively. All (100%) achieved 2dary SR within 3.6± 1.3 mo of rechallenge. Among 13 pts with nephritis and baseline proteinuria of 4.5±1.5 g/24h followed over 11.5±5.7 mo, 92.3% had >50% improvement within 5±3.7 mo, and 53.8% achieved SR with proteinuria <500 mg/24 h within 6.8±3.7 mo.
Table 1. Patient Characteristics
In this open study, RTX therapy induced global durable responses in the majority of our cohort of Hispanic and AA pts with refractory SLE, and should, therefore, be considered as a therapeutic alternative in that context.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Karpouzas, George A., Gogia, Maneesh, Moran, Rosalinda C., Hahn, Bevra H.; Rituximab Therapy Induces Durable Remissions in Hispanic and African American Patients with Refractory Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2009;60 Suppl 10 :274
DOI: 10.1002/art.25357


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In less than five years, your new car could be powered by a high-pressure tank of hydrogen rather than petrol.
This is what the big car makers are driving at as they seek to produce vehicles with low or no carbon emissions, but they face a number of obstacles in making it a reality.
The first is public acceptance; visions of the blazing Hindenburg airship inevitably spring to mind when hydrogen is mentioned - not really what people want from a family car. Beyond that are the practicalities, how do you fill up your car safely with a volatile gas? How do petrol stations become high-pressure hydrogen stations?
Cella Energy, an Oxford-based energy technology company spun out of the government-backed Science and Technology Facilities Council and University College London in 2010, aims to answer these questions by supplying hydrogen for fuel in the form of small plastic-looking pellets. They release hydrogen when heated above 100 degrees Celsius, which is taken up by a fuel cell to power the car.
"To a man, car manufacturers think hydrogen is the future for vehicles," said Professor Stephen Bennington, Cella's co-founder and chief scientific officer. "They're aiming to roll out the first affordable vehicles from 2015 using high-pressure gas tanks in the back of your car.
"However, the infrastructure costs of putting in gas compressors, which cost between $1 million and $2m each, mean the average mom-and-pop filling station would have to find $10m. So we're working on small pellets which act like a fluid, and can be pumped into your car in a familiar way using pumps that are not dissimilar to those used now."
Cella is working towards having its hydrogen fuel pellets ready for use between 2015 and 2017, as an alternative to high-pressure tanks. The ideal testing ground would be a fleet of vehicles that are all refuelled in the same place, such as Royal Mail vans, said Prof Bennington, 48.
If it succeeds, and the company says it is in talks with all the major car makers, the scale of the opportunity is clearly immense. But until that happens, Cella has the more prosaic problem of making enough money to keep its research going.
"What we have is a convenient way of storing hydrogen," said Professor Bennington. "You can use it in lots of places but none of those markets exist yet. The challenge is to make a business around the idea. The car manufacturers' development cycle is seven years. As a small, venture-capital funded company, we don't have seven years. We have to find nearer-term revenue."
Cella is trying to raise between $10m and $15m, which it estimates will fund its research and product development for the next three years.
"We're two years away from serious revenue," said Prof Bennington. "It's valley-of-death time."
Cella's technology has already won the approval of Space Florida, a state-funded body that awarded the company £2m ($3.1m) in 2011 under an agreement in which it carries out research at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida as well as in Oxford.
It also raised pounds 300,000 in 2010 from Thomas Swan, a County Durham-based chemicals maker. The company's early fundraising efforts were helped by winning Shell's Springboard award for low-carbon business ideas.
"It gave us publicity we could never have afforded, and credibility," said Prof Bennington.
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Ballblazer Champions
From speedball to Riot, it seems the futurists who put videogames together agree on one thing: at some point in the future the entire planet will be gripped by a sick fixation with a hideously violent stadium-based sport.
BallBlazer Champions follows this trend, and being the latest PlayStation release from George "I may look like an Ewok but I'm richer than most countries" Lucas' software publishing company, LucasArts, you would expect something fairly grand.
The inspiration for this game comes from the old Commodore 64 game BallBlazer, a 1985 hit with the players of that time, and a clear attempt has been made to introduce similar gameplay to a full three-dimensional, 32-bit environment.
A match is played in one of 12 strangely coloured arenas, and is fought out between just two ships, or "rotofoils" as they are called in this case. The idea is extremely simple. At either end of the arena is a goal, and you shoot the plasmorb into the other guy's goal to score a point. However if you were to try playing the game with only this knowledge, chances are you'd be more than a little bewildered by the experience as there is quite a bit more to grasp, and the games can often seem outrageously fast.
When you touch the glowing plasmorb, it becomes anchored in the air right in front of your rotofoil, even during the sharpest turns and large jumps, and you have to pilot the ship close to the goal and, when you think you have a clear shot, fire the plasmorb and hope for the best.
The goals have an eerie organic look to them, as they slowly expand and contract, and the coloured film that stretches across the goal mouth swirls like oil on water. In some stadiums the whole goal actually travels sedately from side to side, which adds a neat twist to the frantic action when you arrive at the other end of the pitch with the plasmorb that has just taken an eternity to get hold of, and the goal isn't where you remember it!
Power-ups materialise with great frequency during a match, and they can be anything from homing missiles or lasers to the cloaking device which makes your rotofoil totally invisible.
When you are transporting the plasmorb your speed decreases greatly, making you an easy target for any of the other player's weapons, and if you get shot you're likely to lose the ball. And that happens a lot.
Brief experimentation with the split screen two player mode reveals that it is rendered almost totally unplayable due to major slow down problems, so you are left only with the one player game. While the graphics are very nice and tasteful, using a technique like Motor Toon GP 2 where there is hardly any texture mapping and tons of smooth shading, playing against the computer controlled rotofoils is a wildly frustrating experience.
It doesn't appear that any work has gone into making your opponents more adaptable and instinctive, and instead it is blatantly obvious that you are competing against something which makes 66 million calculations per second.. The confusion caused by the speed was so obvious to the developers that they had to put in a 'Find' button, which points you towards the ball with one press. But this is a crude and temporary solution to the problem.
For BallBlazer Champions to be a winner, more attention should have been paid to the two player mode, which is after all where sports titles of any kind become most enjoyable. You won't be disappointed with the game's professional and crisp graphics, also using some gorgeous lighting effects and a good frame rate in the one player matches, but when playing on your own is impossible and playing with a friend is unpleasant, Ballblazer Champions ceases to have much use.