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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Two officers who were being protected by the LAPD during Christopher Dorner's alleged rampage spoke about being potential targets at a news conference Tuesday.
"For the first two to three hours I was in disbelief," Sergeant Emada Tingirides said with her husband, Captain Phil Tingirides by her side.
"When you get a phone call and they tell you that somebody's after your family, and within a very short distance of your home. They've already killed somebody else's daughter. It made me sick to my stomach." said Capt. Tingirides.
Between them, the couple have six children.
"We'd go in the garage and just cry, because we didn't want our kids to see the anguish and the hurt that we were feeling," said Emada Tingirides.
Phil Tingirides chaired the police disciplinary panel that recommended Chris Dorner be fired from the LAPD back in 2009.
Dorner blamed Tingirides for that and named him in his manifesto.
"Never ever did I think that somebody would go to this extent in their rage over the discipline that was handed out to them," Phil Tingrides told the media.
The Tingirides family lived under 24-hour police protection for six days.
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For more than 15 years, a $518-million military weather satellite sat in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Corp.'s facility in Sunnyvale waiting for the day it would be launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
On Thursday morning, the spacecraft is finally set to be blasted into space atop Atlas V rocket.
It will be the latest satellite launched in support of the military's long-running Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, a satellite system initiated in 1962. Since then, the program has enabled military officers to detect developing storms and alert communities of the danger headed their way.
The rocket launch scheduled for 7:46 a.m. PDT would be the first of the year for the team at Vandenberg's 30th Space Wing.
"I am proud of this launch team, which has been working tirelessly toward this launch for months," Col. Keith Balts, the Air Force commander of the space wing, said in a statement.
Vandenberg, on California's Central Coast between Lompoc and Santa Maria, has been the site of military space projects for more than half a century.
The base covers 98,000 acres along the Pacific and has been the primary site for launching spy satellites since the beginning of the Cold War. It has an ideal location for putting satellites into a north-to-south orbit.
The 2,720-pound weather satellite is designed to circle the Earth at an altitude of about 500 miles in a near-polar orbit, continuously sending down imagery for worldwide forecasts. Each spacecraft has been developed to scan an area 1,800 miles wide and cover the Earth in about 12 hours, the Air Force said.
The satellites are designed to help identify and determine the intensity of thunderstorms, hurricanes and typhoons for the U.S. military worldwide. The system also provides extensive weather data to the public through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In the early 1960s, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program was highly classified because it supported the CIA's first spy satellites.
At the time, spy satellites would take pictures of the Soviet Union and other countries on 70-millimeter film in a canister. When all the photographs were taken—all 32,000 feet worth—the satellite would drop the can above the Pacific, where it would be snatched in midair by military aircraft, or from the sea by ship.
The weather satellites were ideal for government officials, who could make sure there was no cloud coverage and that the photos taken would be the best quality.
In its 50-year history, 41 of the satellites have been successfully launched. The spacecraft were initially designed to spend just three to five years on orbit, but many have exceeded that lifetime.
Two satellites remain to be launched, including the one at Vandenberg. The next one is set to blast off as needed, tentatively in 2020.
The satellites, built by Lockheed and Northrop Grumman Corp., were manufactured in East Windsor, N.J. When the facility closed in the mid-1990s, they were transferred to Sunnyvale, Calif., for storage, functional testing and upgrading.
In August, the Air Force packed up one of the satellites on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and transferred it to Vandenberg.
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When you leave the house, someone else may be wearing the same clothes, but no one else will be wearing your custom-designed, finely hand-crafted piece of jewelry.
When you leave the house, someone else may be wearing the same clothes, but no one else will be wearing your custom-designed, finely hand-crafted piece of jewelry.
This article is geared more toward the guys than it is toward the women. While women may have a say in the choice of their Nicksville, AZ engagement ring, it is customary for the man to go out and find the perfect ring on his own. And, if the task seems daunting to a woman, the concept of finding the ideal engagement ring in Nicksville, AZ when you are a guy can seem far beyond daunting, and much closer to impossible. There are so many different styles and designs, and then there is the matter of sizing – it all can become so confusing and frustrating.
At BC Custom Jewelry, we have helped walk and guide many men through the process of finding that one-of-a-kind, perfectly crafted engagement ring for their ladies. There is a method to the madness when you are shopping for engagement rings in Nicksville, AZ. As experts in the field of custom made jewelry, we can help you skip past running through store after store in the Nicksville, AZ area by spending some time with you to figure out what you want in an engagement ring – and we can custom make it for the woman in your life!
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A couple of months' experience with GWT later, what do I think, the blogger asks himself? Google Web Toolkit is brillant and unrefined.
For the past three years, running from startup to startup working on essentially the same or very similar web applications, the thought certainly occurred that there must be a simpler way to write user interfaces than hand-coded Javascript . "Why isn't there a language for this?" is a pretty obvious question.
GWT is that language and will dominate for years, for better or for worse. GWT is a full generation advanced over anything else both commonly available and well-supported. Java code using a web interface class library based aesthetically on Swing compiles to optimized Javascript. Conceptually it is perfect.
GWT is unrefined in several aspects.
Firstly, documentation. You had better be prepared to read GWT source. As is fully right and proper, the creativity of the core development team is outstripping the documentation.
Even the GWT team's creativity is outstripped by their creativity. Event models are changing as we write. Steer carefully down the middle of the road and prepare for lane changes on the GWT highway.
GWT will grow out of its baby feathers and mature. What really is needed is for the community at large to adopt and for Google to learn how to run an open source project on the scale at which such a powerful and staffed-up organization can immediately conjure into existence. It's a challenging task, and I'm betting my latest web gui on their success.


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Monoclonal antibodies are substances that attach only to certain proteins in the body (like a key in a lock). They contain antibodies made in a lab. These antibodies are used to destroy cancer cells.
Monoclonal antibodies may not work for some people. So before you have this treatment, your tumor tissue will be checked for certain gene changes (mutations).
Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat many types of cancer. These medicines may be used alone but most often are used in combination with
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Monoclonal antibodies work well in treating cancer. They may also be given to lower the risk of cancer recurring, or to treat cancer that has recurred or metastasized.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
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Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
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Use alemtuzumab with caution if you have heart disease. The drug may make
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Bevacizumab and other medicines that block vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) may cause high blood pressure. Your doctor will check and closely watch your blood pressure, especially when you first start taking bevacizumab.
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is used with chemotherapy for lung cancer. It may also cause holes in the colon (perforation) that have to be repaired with surgery. So people who have had or
are planning to have colon surgery may not be able to use this medicine.
Cetuximab may cause serious side effects while it is being given. So people who get this medicine will be watched closely while they are getting the medicine and for at least 1 hour afterward.
Panitumumab may cause serious lung or skin problems. Your doctor will check and closely watch your calcium and magnesium levels during and after taking this medicine. Women who take this medicine may not be able to get pregnant.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
Some of these medicines may also cause:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
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These medicines can interact with many other drugs. Be sure your doctor knows what prescription and over-the-counter
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Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
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Teclo Networks develops and sells software to telecom operators globally.
Our first product enables operators to see real time mobile broadband network performance on a map of their country. It looks a bit like the maps and graphs in SimCity, but _of course_ much more sophisticated ;).
Data is presented per subscriber, per kind of mobile phone, and per kind of network usage (web surfing responsiveness/ whether videos are downloading fast enough to play without stuttering, etc.)
Operators can then see where they need to concentrate investment, whether they are delivering the performance subscribers have paid for, and perhaps if there are opportunities for them to sell more mobile broadband.
We install our software on standard multicore servers and keep up with the traffic going through the largest network backbones, 10's of Gigabits per second.
We're international: one Australian/Swede living in Switzerland, one German, one Romanian/Italian, two Englishmen, one Dutchman who has spent years in Nepal, and one American/Swede. That's it, so far. We ARE new.
The group pulls together world class Lisp programmers, 35 years of telecom experience, and a solid background (six real successes so far) in building high tech companies from scratch.
We're in this for the adrenaline rushed fun of building a company together, and we're having a great time.
Mobile Broadband (MBB) traffic is growing extraordinarily fast. Cisco says the compound annual traffic growth rate is 132%. Some operators have growth rates of 400% per year. Recently, MBB growth has accelerated, mainly driven by the latest generation of smart phones and data hungry applications; iPhone users consume about 5 times as much MBB as users of older phones, and early data from iPads show that they use 3-5 times more than iPhone users do.
To keep up with that extremely fast growth, operations managers in telecom operators are installing lots of very expensive equipment and software. Many times, they don't know where the pain points in their network really are, they don't know what effect their investments have on network performance, nor do they know enough about the quality of experience they deliver to their subscribers to really optimize their network.
Operations managers have often also bought products, for instance for customer care, which require saving huge quantities - terabytes - of data per day. It is difficult to get real information out of all that data in a timely manner.
In the telecommunications operators, our products target the operations managers, giving them succinct information about their network performance in real time.
Subscriber behavior will also be interesting to marketing managers, we hope.
We want our customers to form a positive impression of us from the web site. They should want to work with us: we know what we're doing, and we're not too stuffy about it.
We are very small and newly started, and we do need to seem bigger and more established than we are without lying.
We want to be able to grow with the web site design and keep it for a long time. A web site design is a large part of a company identity, and we want our identity to be stable.
We don't have much material to start from. You might see that as an opportunity as well as a weakness; we will follow your lead :)
We'd like a couple of internal pages as well as a front page, to see how it fits together.
Our 99 designs logo is uploaded along with an early draft of our first product brief. We aren't attached to that template; if we need to redo it, we will. No worries.
The web site will be implemented in Joomla or Drupal.
Industry websites for comparison:
http://www.bytemobile.com (the gorilla)
http://www.aitotechnologies.com ( we liked the customer role focus)
http://www.arantech.com ( good customer point of view rather than network point of view)
http://www.allot.com (hot technology)
http://www.netscout.com ( fill the world with disk arrays. ..)
http://www.nexustelecom.com (reinventing themselves)
http://www.polystar.com/OSIX ( very competent, don't seem to want to grow)


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Ajna, meaning "to perceive," is also known as the third eye chakra and is located between the eyebrows, just above the bridge of the nose. It is represented by a deep indigo blue and a lotus with two petals. Ajna is thought to be the point at which the two nadis (energy channels), Ida and Pingala, merge becoming the center that controls all higher mental activities including psychic, emotional, and mental intelligence, and insight. Someone with a healthy and balanced sixth chakra would have a keen imagination and intellect, strong intuition, and deep spiritual awareness. It is related to the pineal gland which produces the hormones serotonin and melatonin.
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Abstract: It is a received opinion that China's emergence as a regional and global power is the most pivotal transformation underway in East Asia. China's enhanced economic standing in Asia has given her new political influence in the region as her trade with the neighbouring states, in particular the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to her south, has been expanding rapidly in recent years. The stunning economic growth of China has created tremendous business opportunities and signed deals has been drawing increasing volume of foreign investment into this Asian giant that was described to have shaken the world – not with her armies, but with her factories. Whether this market is really that huge with potential as has often been presumed and taken for granted is today a topic hotly debated all over the world. With increasing number of foreign companies setting up their businesses in China and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area – projected to be the world's largest FTA covering 1.7 billion consumers with a combined GDP of US$2 trillion and to be completed within ten years from the setting of its framework agreement in November 2002 – poised to become the core of a broader East Asian economic zone in years to come, this paper attempts to explore the implications, opportunities and challenges arising with the establishment of the ACFTA, the achievement, prospect and challenges with respect to the Early Harvest Program (EHP) and Agreement on Trade in Goods (TIG), potential competition arising from the free flow of goods, impacts on growth, production sharing, possible trade diversion effects and institutional and other factors in market penetration, within the context of both global business linkages and domestic market nexus in the light of the expanding China-Malaysian bilateral trade and China's deepening partnership with ASEAN. Keywords: China, ASEAN, Malaysia, CAFTA/ACFTA, trade, investment URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7391
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Abstract: Although China is not a federal country, its public finance system does carry features of fiscal federalism. Since 1949, although the central government has consistently sought to exercise strong control over the country, it has at times done so by decentralist rather than centralist policies. The Dengist policies since economic reform began, for example, have had a strongly decentralist element, with continuing devolvement of control to the provincial governments, sometimes to such a degree that some observers have commented: "the centre pretends to rule and the provinces pretend to be ruled". This is also a period that witnessed the revival of old regionalisms, as well as the creation of new regionalisms brought about by increased local autonomy, rapid economic growth and increasingly globalizing trade and business linkages. While the oft-cited "China deconstructs" scenario seems at present far-fetched, the challenges posed by central-peripheral conflicts, ethnic resource contest and ethnoterritorial aspirations are real, in particular as they are being exacerbated by the country's "retreat from equality�? and growing interregional economic disparity. In the light of these daunting exigencies, this paper explores the political economy of regional development in China, focusing on the intricate link between the country's ethnic diversity and the role of the State in the economy, as the Asian giant warily enters a new stage of economic reform. Keywords: China, regionalism, ethnic diversity, inequalities, uneven development, regional disparities URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7409
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NEW YORK — The New York Mets say former pitcher Frank Viola is resting comfortably after heart surgery.
His children, Frank and Kaley, had said on Twitter that the 53-year-old Viola was scheduled for open-heart surgery Wednesday.
The pitcher retired as a player following the 1996 season. He was hired by the Mets in January as pitching coach of Triple-A Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League, and a heart problem was detected during a spring training exam.
"I did talk to Frank yesterday," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Wednesday. "He certainly wants to be back, but I think we'll let the doctors dictate exactly when he comes back. When he's ready and he's able I'm sure he'll be out there, but we want to make sure he's fully recovered from this surgery first."
Viola was the 1988 AL Cy Young Award winner. He went 176-150 with a 3.73 ERA in 15 major league seasons with Minnesota (1982-89), the Mets (1989-91), Boston (1992-94), Cincinnati (1995) and Toronto (196).
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Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (Bonus)
This online bonus material supplements the Apple Final Cut Studio 2 review in the December 2007 issue of Electronic Musician.
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If you''re thinking about getting heavily involved with video or are already doing serious scoring work, then you''ll definitely appreciate the other tools in the Final Cut Studio 2 bundle. After all, major motion pictures are being edited with Final Cut Pro (FCP), and graphic artists all over the world use Motion in their work.
In addition to Soundtrack Pro 2, the FCS 2 package includes new versions of the Final Cut Pro video editor, Motion motion-graphics software, and the Compressor file-format encoder, as well as a version of DVD Studio Pro DVD-authoring software that is unchanged from the previous release. (Software for color correction, called Color, is also in the bundle, but I won''t be covering that.) The suite is very well integrated—it''s easy to move an audio file from Final Cut Pro or Motion directly to Soundtrack Pro for editing, for example, or to export a finished FCP project directly to Compressor for transcoding to MPEG format. For the most part, the programs also share a common look and feel.
The only printed manual in the box is a 4-volume set for FCP and a short setup guide for Color, so you''ll have to read the rest online or print them out. Be prepared to devote several hours (and quite a lot of hard-drive space) to the installation. A graphics card with 256 MB of RAM is highly recommended, and anything less than a 1.25 GHz G4 or Intel machine is pretty much a nonstarter. (If you plan to work with full HD-resolution video, you''ll need an even faster computer.) A dual-monitor system would also be very useful.
FIG. A: Final Cut Pro 6 is a hugely powerful multitrack video editor that offers musicians a chance to explore the world of high-end video. Many of the more common video-editing features will be familiar to anyone who has worked extensively with an audio editor.
Sound and Image
Final Cut Pro 6 is a hugely powerful video editor that supports an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. (For more details on FCP 6, see the review in the July 2007 issue of Digital Content Producer.) Like most video editors, FCP provides one display area, called the Clip Viewer, that shows the original version of your source video file, and another, called the Canvas, that displays a composite of all the clips that are used in your project, including any editing or processing (see Fig. A). In a typical work session, you''d import a video file, set an in and out point using the Clip Viewer, then drag the file to the Timeline and make any modifications you want.
You can mix and match files of different formats without preconverting or conforming them to a single spec (all files conform to the format of the first file you import), and the vast number of included filters (effects) offer creative options for giving your video a wide range of custom looks. Filters can be automated to change over time using keyframes, which are the equivalent of envelope breakpoints. A dedicated keyframe editor accessible from one of the tabs in the Clip Viewer lets you create unique curves for each individual keyframe segment.
Depending on your computer''s speed, you''ll usually need to render anything beyond simple effects or transitions before you can preview them, and the time this takes can be substantial. Rendering is also pretty much mandatory when you are layering several tracks of video. You can set FCP to autorender after some amount of idle time, or have it render in low res, which will speed things up. (Low res is adequate for previewing most composites or effects.)
Editing video has a lot in common with editing audio: dragging one clip on top of another automatically creates a crossfade, for example, and markers, Edit Decision Lists (EDLs), looping, and scrubbing will also be familiar concepts to EM readers. Moreover, you can perform many simple functions, such as comping different versions of a video or cross-dissolving (crossfading) two clips, without much effort. But like any high-end software, FCP 6 has a steep learning curve, and if "compositing modes," "slugs," and "lower-thirds" mean nothing to you, then you can expect a good deal of ramp-up time.
Of course, you wouldn''t need a program like FCP 6 to perform simple edits and transitions—the scaled-down Final Cut Express ($299 [MSRP]), which includes Soundtrack 1.5, would be a better choice, or you might consider Motion, which I''ll cover next.
FIG. B: Motion 3 is aimed at graphics professionals but will be of use to musicians who want to create animated logos or backdrops for their DVDs.
Motion 3
If you''re not ready to tackle a high-end video editor but still want to explore using graphics in your work, then Motion might be a good place to start (see the review of Motion 3 in the July 2007 issue of Digital Content Producer). Motion includes a huge library of graphic-design elements that you can manipulate in numerous ways and that you can animate to change over time. Open the Library folder, and you''ll find categories such as Shapes (stars, hearts, bubbles, and arrows, for example), Shape Styles (animated flocking birds, falling leaves, and inkblots, among others), and Image Units (sunbeams, stripes, checkerboards, and more). There are also tools to generate effects such as particles, clouds, or colorful swirly lines, and of course you can bring in your own assets—still images, videos, text, and audio, for instance—and use them to make flying logos, DVD menus, animated backdrops for music-video credits, and much more.
Motion''s interface offers a timeline containing audio and video tracks and a canvas view to preview how your final project will look (see Fig. B). One way to start out would be to load a template, import some of your own visual elements and perhaps an audio track, and then apply Behaviors to the visual materials. Behaviors are preset (and editable) motion paths and effects; you could use them to fly your band or studio''s logo onto the screen, have it circle a few times, then make it explode into a thousand pieces (no doubt you''ve seen similar effects dozens of times). All parameters of Behaviors can be keyframed, and you can combine multiple Behaviors to create ever-more-complex effects.
One Behavior, called Audio Parameter, will be of particular interest to musicians. You can use it to animate a visual element in time with a pulse in your music. Audio Parameter tracks changing amplitude peaks over the entire audible spectrum or over just a single frequency region (low, middle, or high) and uses the extracted data to build a set of keyframes. The keyframes then control time-varying changes in some parameter of an image—for example, its size, position, rotation, or color. You can control only one parameter per Audio Parameter, but you can easily assign several Audio Parameters to an image, each of which controls a different characteristic. For instance, a logo could flash on and off in sync with a pumping bass line while changing color in time to the music, or a photograph of your band could zoom in and out on the beat.
Working in Motion is much more interactive than working in Final Cut because most edits and effects require no rendering time before you can preview them. As a result, sessions go much quicker and you''re more inclined to experiment. The included source materials give you plenty of elements to start with, and combined with your own images, they will allow you to create some very interesting graphics for whatever uses you might have.
But Wait!
FCS 2 also includes several other programs that can be of use to musicians, including DVD Studio Pro 4, which has all the tools you need to make professional interactive DVDs. (In my view, the DVD is one of the greatest untapped creative resources around.) You could use it to author a standard-definition DVD that play videos from live shows in random order or that lets the user choose which camera angle to view a performance from. You might also create an interactive disc that offers a guided walk through your studio, showing different gear or areas of your facility, or build a disc that includes a link to bring viewers directly to a Web site.
Also of interest is Compressor 3, which is dedicated to delivering media in a vast number of formats. Standard-definition DVDs typically use either Dolby AC-3 or MPEG-2 encoding for audio, and Compressor can be used for either. What''s more, you can preview AC-3-encoded surround mixes directly from within the program. (Many authoring programs and most audio editors don''t support AC-3 playback.) It''s also good for generating files in formats that are Internet or iPod ready, or that might be suitable for portable phones and other devices. Note that neither DVD Studio Pro nor Compressor can produce files in the format needed for Blu-ray discs (Adobe''s Encore has that option).


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U.S. Women's Update - June 15
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 15, 2009) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on June 15 includes briefs on upcoming U.S. events, trivia questions and much more.
For the complete PDF version that includes the trivia question answers, complete list of players training at the team's facility at American Sports Center in Anaheim, 2009 season stats and other fan interaction sections, click here.
TRIVIA QUESTIONS: 1. How many U.S. Women's National Team players have been named to all three 2009-season opening 19-player preliminary rosters (Pan American Cup, FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament, FIVB World Grand Prix)? 2. What is U.S. Women's National Team setter Nellie Spicer's brother-in-law Wade best known for? Answers can be found on page three in the full PDF version (click here) of the current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update.
U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM SCRIMMAGE: The U.S. Women's National Team will play an intrasquad scrimmage at JSerra High School at 7 p.m. PT on Saturday, June 20, at San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The scrimmage will serve as a final tune-up before the team leaves for Florida on June 24 to compete in the Eighth Women's Pan American Cup in Miami and the FIVB Women's World Championship Qualification Tournament's Third Round NORCECA Pool G in Orlando. The Pan Am Cup will be contested from June 26 until July 4, while the FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament is scheduled for July 6-8. Tickets can be purchased for $10 and proceeds help benefit the host JSerra High School boys' and girls' volleyball teams.
PREVIEW OF 2009 EARLY SEASON TOURNAMENTS: The U.S. Women's National Team basked in the glory of winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. However, 2009 is the start of a brand new Olympic quadrennial for every country seeking to reach the 2012 Olympic Games podium. For the U.S. Women's National Team, some changes have already occurred within the program. Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) has taken over the position of head coach for the U.S. Women's National Team after leading the U.S. Men to the Olympic Gold Medal in Beijing. In addition, legend Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.) has agreed to serve as the program's assistant coach with Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) shifting roles from the Men's Team to the Women's Team as assistant coach/technical coordinator. McCutcheon and Kiraly are in their first years coaching a women's program, but both are certainly not new to volleyball with their unrivaled resumes. What the U.S. coaching staff has working for them is a vast talent pool of athletes – both veterans and newcomers - striving to put the U.S. back on the medal podium at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. McCutcheon has already provided evidence he wants to evaluate as many players as possible. In a goodwill trip to Egypt in April 2009 arranged by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), he formed a 12-player roster that included nine players who concluded their collegiate careers five months earlier and only two Olympians. The results: two victories over the Egyptian National Team as all 12 players saw court time and 11 started at least one match. In the meantime, veteran U.S. players who played professionally overseas this winter have filtered back into their new training center located in Anaheim, the American Sports Centers. In a condensed time span, McCutcheon has the chore of bringing everyone together – veterans and newcomers – to form a cohesive unit in preparation for a busy summer of volleyball that includes two domestic tournaments and the FIVB World Grand Prix. In the fall, the U.S. has confirmed spots to compete in the NORCECA Continental Championship and the FIVB Grand Champions Cup. Team USA begins its summer with consecutive tournaments in Florida, starting with the Eighth Women's Pan American Cup staged in Miami June 26-July 4. After a day of travel to Orlando, the U.S. hosts the four-team, NORCECA Pool G of the FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament July 6-8 at University of Central Florida, with the winner advancing to the 2010 FIVB World Championship held in Tokyo. For the entire release and preliminary rosters for the two events, click here.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT FIELD SET: The FIVB World Championship NORCECA Pool G qualification tournament, scheduled for July 6-8 at University of Central Florida Arena in Orlando, has finalized the four-team round-robin field with a berth into the 2010 FIVB World Championship at stake. The U.S. Women's National Team and Costa Rica, based on ranked in NORCECA (North, Central Amercia and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation), automatically qualified for the third round of NORCECA qualification. Netherlands Antilles finished second in NORCECA Pool C to advance to Pool G. On June 14, Barbados defeated Jamaica to win Pool D. Match times will be 5 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. ET, with the United States playing the second match each day. Team USA opens on July 6 versus Netherlands Antilles, followed by Barbados on July 7 and Costa Rica on July 8. The third-round pool winner will advance to the 2010 FIVB World Championship held Oct. 29-Nov. 14 in Japan. For further details, click here.
USAV NAMES WORLD GRAND PRIX PRELIMINARY ROSTER: U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon has announced the team's 19-player preliminary roster for the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix, the premier annual international volleyball tournament for women. The 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix involves 12 national teams playing a total of 69 matches over four consecutive weekends in 10 cities. The preliminary rounds are set to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Kielce, Poland and Ningbo, China, on the first weekend, Miao Li, Chinese Taipei, Macau, China, and Osaka, Japan, the second weekend and Hong Kong, Mokpo, Korea and Bangkok, Thailand, the third weekend. McCutcheon has elected to use a young, but very talented roster for the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix. The preliminary roster includes 2008 Olympic Games members Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) vying for the libero position. Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), a 2004 Olympic Games roster, and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) are the two pure opposites on the roster. At setter, Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.), Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) and Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) are the three players competing for spots on the final FIVB World Grand Prix roster. Outside hitters on the preliminary roster include Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), Jane Collymore (Seattle, Wash.), Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Pa.), Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah). The six middle blockers vying for court time for the U.S. in the World Grand Prix are Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.), Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Tracy Stalls (Denver, Colo.) and Elisha Thomas (Grass Valley, Calif.). For the full release, click here.
McCUTCHEON PRESENTED USOC NATIONAL COACHING HONOR: USA Volleyball Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), who led the U.S. Men's National Team to the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games before taking over the U.S. Women's Team in December 2008, was presented the 2008 National Coach of the Year by the U.S. Olympic Committee on June 13 at Pittsburgh, Pa., as part of the 2009 National Coaching Educators' Conference. McCutcheon, 39, is the first volleyball coach to receive the award since the program was initiated in 1996. "It's a wonderful honor," McCutcheon said from his office at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif. "I think in very large part it reflects the work and the success of the team and the staff. While it's nice to get singled out for this individual award, I am certainly accepting it on behalf of everyone who was part of that program." As head coach of the 2008 U.S. Men's Volleyball Team, McCutcheon guided the squad to the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - the first gold medal for the team since 1988.
LOGAN TOM FEATURED IN VOLLEYBALL MAGAZINE: Volleyball Magazine featured three-time U.S. Olympic team player Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) on its July 2009 cover and inside pages. To read the article, visit click here.
HOOKER WINS NCAA HIGH JUMP CHAMPIONSHIP: Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), who trained with the U.S. Women's National Team in the spring of 2008 in a bid to make the 2008 Olympic Games roster, captured the 2009 NCAA Division I Outdoor High Jump championship with a leap of 6 feet, 4 ¾ inches. She has won the event three times in the last four years – she redshirted last season to concentrate on her volleyball endeavors. To read the article, click here.
TEXAS Q&A WITH PAOLINI: The University of Texas featured Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.) in a question-and-answer feature segment dated June 8 on its Web site. To read her answers to questions ranging from the opportunity to train with USA Volleyball this summer to working with Hugh McCutcheon, click here.
REPLICA JERSEY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED TIME: Are you looking for a unique gift for your volleyball loved ones? USA Volleyball has the answer with replica jerseys from its 2008 Olympic Games indoor teams being made available for a limited time clicking here. The U.S. Olympic Women's Team replica jerseys, priced at $65 apiece, are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large. Replica jerseys are available for all 12 U.S. players who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games. Each replica jersey will have the Olympian's name on the back with their jersey number on both the front and back. In addition, USA Volleyball has several other 2008 Olympic Games apparel items commemorating the unprecedented indoor and beach volleyball success obtained in Beijing. Products available on the online store include short and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in multiple designs.
OLYMPIC COMMEMORATIVE APPRAREL ON SALE: USA Volleyball has unveiled five commemorative logo designs to appear on apparel saluting USA Volleyball's medal successes at the recent Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Beijing. Apparel can be purchased by clicking here. Men's and ladies' T-shirt designs are $15, while the youth T-shirt size is $13. Long sleeve t-shirts are $18, crew sweatshirts are $23 and hoodies are $30. Sizes XXL and larger have a slightly higher price. USA Volleyball's success on the Olympic grand stage in Beijing has never been achieved by any other nation since volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The U.S. Olympic Men's Indoor Volleyball Team, which was named the United States Olympic Committee Team of the Month for August 2008, captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games without losing a single match. Women's Beach Volleyball (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) and Men's Beach Volleyball (Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers) both came back from Beijing with Olympic Games gold medals. The U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team captured the silver medal in Beijing, as did the U.S. Women's Sitting Team during the Paralympic Games. No other country has ever participated in the gold-medal match of all four Olympic Games volleyball disciplines during the same year. Team USA added a fifth gold-medal appearance at the Paralympic Games.


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22.214.171.124.1 Wind driven circulation
The wind-driven dynamics of the interior of the ocean basins are largely a linear response to the wind, and are generally well represented in current models, although there is still some observational debate over the reality of the classical Sverdrup balance (Wunsch and Roemmich, 1985). The main errors can usually be traced back to errors in the driving winds from the atmospheric model. The same can be said of surface Ekman transport, which makes an important contribution to poleward heat transport in the tropics (Danabasoglu, 1998). However, the western boundary currents and inertial recirculations which close the wind-driven gyres are generally poorly resolved by current models, and this may lead to an underestimate of the heat transport by this component of the system at higher latitudes (Fanning and Weaver, 1997a; Bryan and Smith 1998).
184.108.40.206.2 Heat transport and thermohaline circulation
Section 8.4.2 and Chapter 7, Section 7.6 discuss the fundamental importance of poleward heat transport in modelling the climate system. Ocean heat transport is greatly improved in some more recent models, compared with the models in use at the time of the SAR (see, e.g., Table 8.2; Chapter 7, Section 7.6). Increased horizontal resolution (Fanning and Weaver, 1997a; Gordon et al., 2000) and improved parametrization of sub-grid scale mixing (Danabasoglu and McWilliams, 1996; Visbeck et al., 1997; Gordon et al., 2000) have been important factors in this. The fresh water transports of coupled models have not been widely evaluated (see Section 8.4.2 and Chapter 7, Section 7.6). Bryan (1998) shows how fresh water imbalances can lead to long-term drifts in deep ocean properties.
The thermohaline circulation (THC) plays an important role in poleward heat transport, especially in the North Atlantic. Table 8.2 shows the strength of North Atlantic THC for various models. In contrast to the SAR, some non-flux adjusted models are now able to produce a THC with a realistic strength of around 20 Sv, which is stable for many centuries. A common systematic error at the time of the SAR was a model thermocline that was too deep and diffusive, resulting in deficient heat transport because the temperature contrast between cold, southward and warm, northward flows was too weak. The models with realistic North Atlantic heat transports generally maintain a realistic temperature contrast (Table 8.2). Some models also show improved realism in the spatial structure of the THC, with separate deep water sources in the Nordic Seas and in the Labrador Sea (Wood et al., 1999).
Interior diapycnal mixing plays a critical role in the thermohaline circulation. Recent process studies (part of WOCE) have confirmed that such mixing is highly localised in the deep ocean (Polzin et al., 1997; Munk and Wunsch, 1998). This mixing is very crudely represented in climate models, and it is not known whether this deficiency has a significant effect on the model thermohaline circulations (Marotzke, 1997).
Although overall heat transports are now better represented in some models, the partition of the heat transport between different components of the circulation may not agree so well with observational estimates (Gordon et al., 2000). How important such discrepancies may be in modelling the transient climate change response is not well understood.
The deep western boundary current, which carries much of the deep branch of the North Atlantic THC, contains a number of strong recirculating gyres (e.g., Hogg, 1983). These recirculations may act as a buffer, delaying the response of the THC to climate anomalies. The representation of these recirculations in climate models, and their importance in transient climate response, have not been evaluated.
126.96.36.199.3 Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC)
Many current models produce rather poor estimates of the volume transport of the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) (Table 8.2). The reason for this is not fully understood. Thermohaline as well as wind-driven processes are believed to be important (Cox 1989; Bryan 1998). The problem is shared by some eddy-permitting ocean models, so insufficient horizontal resolution does not seem to be the only factor. The path of the ACC is largely controlled by topography, and errors in the path can lead to significant local sea surface temperature errors. The Atlantic and Indian sectors of the southern ocean appear to be particularly susceptible (e.g., Figure 8.1b; Gent et al., 1998; Gordon et al., 2000). However, it is not clear how, or whether, the transport and SST errors impact on the atmospheric climate or on the climate change response of the models.
22.214.171.124.4 Water mass formation
At high latitudes, deep convection and subsequent spreading of dense water form the deep water masses that fill most of the volume of the ocean. At mid-latitudes, the processes of mode water formation and thermocline ventilation are the means by which surface changes are propagated into the thermocline (Chapter 7, Section 7.3.1). These processes play an important role in determining the effective rate of heat uptake by the ocean in response to climate change (see Chapter 9, Section 188.8.131.52), and in the response of the THC (see Chapter 9, Section 188.8.131.52). Water mass formation processes can be evaluated directly from model fields (Guilyardi, 1997; Doney et al., 1998), or indirectly using model simulations of the ocean uptake of anthropogenic tracers such as CFCs and carbon 14 (Robitaille and Weaver, 1995; Dixon et al., 1996; England and Rahmstorf, 1999; Goosse et al., 1999; England and Maier-Reimer, 2001). A conclusion from many of these studies is that, while the models clearly show some skill in this area, ventilation processes are sensitive to the details of the ocean mixing parametrization used. Wiebe and Weaver (1999) show that the efficiency of ocean heat uptake is also sensitive to these parametrizations.
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