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Two quantum physicists try and have sex with their smoking-hot neighbor. First of all, Kudos to CBS for finally listening to those legions of fans clamoring for content about the riveting, laugh-a-minute lives of quantum physicists. (Anyone who has ever heard Stephen Hawking tell "The Aristocrats" knows what I'm talking about.) In an average sit-com, the "Hot Chick Next Door" scenario would be a single episode, but I'm sure the writing staff will have no problem stretching that one flimsy premise into a TV franchise to rival Cheers. Just imagine the comedic gold as the lady fends off the geeks' awkward advances while flirting just enough so they'll rip her CD collection onto her new iPod. Then tune-in next week, when she fends off the geeks' awkward advances while flirting just enough so they'll hook up her digital camera and upload her vacation photos from Cancun. It's like a Madlib of hilarity, and best of all, the title says "Bang."
An epic drama following a powerful Cuban family whose fortune comes from importing a white powder. No, no, I'm talking about sugar, silly! Though they also import rum, which as we all know, goes well with Coke. And it stars Jimmy Smits, who played a drug dealer in Running Scared. I actually think the title was shortened from the original: "Shmocaine".
As the great Homer Simpson once said, "Firs' you get the chugar. 'Den you get the power. 'Den you get the weemennnnnnnnn…." Personally, I'm excited for Cane. I always said that if The Sopranos had just done away with the cussing, tits and violence, then it might have had a chance at being a hit.
A fix-it guy in a Best Buy-like electronics chain accidentally reads an email that downloads every government secret into his brain. Then the CIA has to protect him with their most buxom agent. Hilarity ensues. At first this show had me really excited. Between Chuck and The Big Bang Theory, it seemed like my dreams had come true: geek was now chic; nerd was the new black. I prepared myself for pussy in quantities previously reserved for produce, like bushels and grosses. Then I called every single girl I've ever wanted to sleep with, and now I have to figure out what to do with a kilo of condoms. Stupid Costco.
It's hard to figure out which part of the plot requires more suspension of my disbelief. First, there's the hot CIA agent, who comes from the same porniverse where cable repairmen put Wilt Chamberlain to shame. Second, an email that "downloads" government secrets into a man's brain suggests that my mother was hired as a technical consultant. But the worst of all is that advertisements for this show say that Chuck is a nerd. Anyone who has ever taken their PC into a Best Buy knows that it would take them two weeks to install an ink cartridge in your printer. They aren't nerds; they aren't even graduates of ITT Tech.
The Bionic Woman
After being nearly killed in a car accident, a woman's body is largely rebuilt using cutting-edge technology, giving her enhanced abilities and super strength.NBC's all-out marketing campaign suggests they'll do whatever it takes to make it a hit. My only concern is that the show will send a message to young women that the only way to succeed is to be surgically enhanced.
That being said, the only way I'm watching the show is if they give her big boobs. I mean, as long as you got her on the table…
Private Practice
Grey's Anatomy, but in a different city. What I'm really afraid of is that in three years' time, Grey's Anatomy will be a franchise to rival CSI. If you're a guy, make plans to be somewhere else whenever this show is on. If it's anything like Grey's, it will leave women emotionally charged, and positive about one or more of the following:
1) There are other guys out there infinitely hotter and richer than you, yet these guys also never fail to be witty and romantic. Should they ever happen to hurt a woman emotionally, it will be because they had her best interests in heart. Later, they will make it up to her with romance and, presumably, tons of oral sex. You suck.
2) The men out there who aren't hot and romantic constantly do the stupidest shit. The stupid shit they do is the reason behind all of their troubles with the women in their lives. They are probably selfish lovers who want blowjobs all the time. Your girlfriend is reminded of you.
3) On the off-chance that a woman makes a mistake, it is only because she has a lot of other things going on in her life. She's got a little emotional, and flustered, but that's perfectly understandable, and therefore so is whatever she did. Anyone who holds it against her is an insensitive prick. You, for example.
Cashmere Mafia/Big Shots
Here's the description of Cashmere Mafia, from ABC's website: "Four Manhattan women bonded by their Ivy League educations and executive success… support each other through rocky marriages, rival colleagues, kids' recitals and the hunt for the perfect loft." Compare that to the description of Big Shots: "The lines between boardroom and bedroom blur in Big Shots, the story of four friends who are at the top of their game until the women in their lives enter the room."
If the two shows could somehow have a conversation, here's how I imagine it would go…
Cashmere Mafia: I'm thrilled to have an opportunity to showcase successful, powerful women.
Big Shots: Women ain't nothin' but bitches and ho's.
Cashmere Mafia: We both know that isn't true. All over America, women are executives, captains of industry, even the Secretary of State.
Big Shots: To the moon, Alice!
Cashmere Mafia: Admittedly, I am a blatant rip-off of Sex in the City. And I can't even describe women helping each other without mentioning shopping…
Big Shots: Women be shoppin'! Women. Be. Shopping.
Cashmere Mafia: Ooh, shoes!


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North Port seeks a third-party vendor to keep Warm Mineral Springs open and give city a share of future profit.
With Warm Mineral Springs at risk of closing June 30, when a contract with the concessionaire expires, the North Port City Commission is hurriedly seeking ways to keep the attraction open.
On Monday, the commission voted 3-1 to notify Sarasota County that it wants to try to negotiate a short-term lease with an "interested third party" to take effect July 1. That private vendor would keep the springs open and give the city a share of future profits.
The third party could be Naples-based Cypress Lending Group, the current concessionaire. But the motion, as made by Commissioner Jim Blucher, allows the possibility of talks with others — such as Dr. Grigory Pogrebinsky, who owns property next to the springs and wants to make a pitch, as well.
Mayor Linda Yates cast the dissenting vote.
The City Commission and the County Commission will discuss the matter during a joint meeting on April 17.
"We need to get further instruction from the county," Blucher said.
County Commissioner Christine Robinson, whose district includes North Port, attended the City Commission meeting.
"I'm very encouraged by the discussion I heard," said Robinson, who intends to bring up the matter at today's County Commission meeting.
The city and Sarasota County bought the springs for $5.5 million in December 2010 from Cypress Lending, which was allowed to stay for two and half years while the new owners worked on plans to attract a developer for a public-private partnership to preserve and enhance the 81-acre site.
After the fall elections, Yates and newly elected commissioners Cheryl Cook and Rhonda DiFranco — expressing concerns about government assuming a business role — voted to sell the city's half-interest in the property.
Since then, the county and the city have been unable to come to terms and have entered a conflict resolution process.
Gene Vaccaro, manager of the springs for Cypress Lending, said the company is hopeful it can successfully negotiate an arrangement to stay at least temporarily.
Vaccaro said that, during the past four years, Cypress Lending invested more than $500,000 in upgrades to the attraction. It employs 44 people there. In 2012, it welcomed 119,000 visitors, including repeat customers.
Pogrebinsky owns 16 acres adjacent to the springs that he wants to develop. He wrote the city that the next concessionaire should be chosen in "a fair and competitive selection process"
On his property, Pogrebinsky foresees an "outpatient medical facility, hotel, assisted living facility, retail plaza" possibly run by the A2Z Hospitality Management Co. The complex, which would build on the springs' reputation for healing waters, would specialize in the "treatment of orthopedic, neurological, rheumatological, dermatological and other ailments."
He has given the city letters from Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, which is interested in participating with him in the project, and from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee's College of Hospitality and Technology Leadership, which is interested in having students train there.


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Friday, June 29, 2007
And It's Friday
So...let's have at it...leading from the outer reaches of the OMW Empire for once...
NO MORE "SOURCE"?: A tip of the OMW hat to Radio-Insight.com's Lance Venta and his Internet domain name snooping on this one.
Lance tells us that Clear Channel scooped up the domain name 1360espn.com on Monday, and followed with two more - bengalstream.com and bearcatstream.com.
Lance also notes that while 1360espn.com currently redirects to the website for Clear Channel Cincinnati's big sports talker, WCKY/1530 "1530 Homer", some sub-pages reveal a new logo and site for "Cincinnati's ESPN 1360".
It doesn't take the proverbial, well, you know, to figure out that CC Cincinnati is apparently readying a format flip for WSAI/1360, positioning it as a second sports flanker to WCKY. The "Lineup" pulldown page, at this writing, shows the entire ESPN network lineup.
It'd be sort of the Cincinnati version of "Cleveland's AM 1540, KNR2", only without the stray FOX Sports Radio programming (and with Clear Channel ownership).
The station - not that long ago - changed from liberal talk to "1360thesource.com", an advice talk format with a web URL name that's calls itself, yes, in lower case, "my source for answers".
We guess doing advice talk on 1360 wasn't the answer Clear Channel was looking for.
This is hardly new for Clear Channel.
The company operates two sports talkers in Minneapolis - the locally-programmed KFAN/1130, and its sister, KFXN/690 "The Score", which primarily airs network programming. It also once had two sports talkers in Washington DC, before WWRC/1260 flipped from a flanker to WTEM/980 to liberal talk as "Progressive Talk 1260".
And it shows, again, the difficulty of finding programming for these second and third tier AM stations. Or in Cincinnati, fourth-tier, as CC already has WLW/700, WKRC/550 and WCKY ahead of 1360 in its Queen City AM lineup...
MORE ON WYTV/WKBN/ETC.: Just a brief followup to our earlier item about a "stall" in the sale of Chelsey Broadcasting ABC affiliate WYTV/33 Youngstown.
We now have a copy of the article, thanks to publisher Andrea Wood and the fine folks at the Youngstown Business Journal - which regularly features the best coverage of Mahoning Valley broadcast media.
(No, Ms. Wood didn't ask us to say that.)
Anyway, the article has details on numerous protestations by would-be WYTV owner Todd Parkin about how he's not going to basically dismantle the station's staff and news operation, and dismantle such things as staff seniority as New Vision Television did at CBS affiliate WKBN/27.
That sentiment, in a "calm down" letter sent to WYTV staffers, comes as a big surprise to veteran WKBN reporter Joe Bell, speaking for a station union bargaining unit. He tells the Business Journal:
What Parkin is representing in that letter is diametrically opposed to what New Vision's attorney told us at the bargaining table. The New Vision attorney said that he envisioned that all those folks at WYTV would become New Vision employees, that they wouldn't be working out of their [WYTV's] building, and so forth. We don't know who's confused at the corporate level or if someone is misrepresenting themselves. We certainly would like an explanation.
Who do you believe here?
An unknown guy from California who had to tell the FCC about a "shared services agreement" in his application - not to mention an option for new WKBN owner New Vision to buy WYTV outright should FCC rules allow such a duopoly in the future?
Or a veteran, straight-ahead reporter with decades of good will in the Youngstown/Warren TV market?
You make the call.
Our guess, and this is only a guess: Mr. Parkin makes an effort on paper to carry on the WYTV newsroom and separate operations for a while. Maybe a few months to a year.
He then comes out and says, "look, we tried, but the numbers just aren't there"...and carries out the merger of the WYTV and WKBN/WYFX newsrooms and the end of WYTV's separate news operations.
That's just what our gut is tellling us, and isn't based on any fact. It's the "and musings" part of OMW, as advertised up at the top of our homepage...
OMW, NEWSPAPER COLUMN: We're told we've been quoted again in a Northeast Ohio newspaper.
It's the Ashtabula Star-Beacon, which apparently repeated some of our earlier stuff about the upcoming changes at Clear Channel's Ashtabula cluster - its upcoming sale to Tom Embrescia's Sweet Home Ashtabula, and specifically our item a while back about the briefly-proposed swap of WREO/97.1 and CC's WBBG/106.1 Niles.
We hope they followed to the end, where we found out shortly after we posted the item that the proposed swap was dismissed at the request of Clear Channel.
So, there may be more insight as to why, for example, the swap was pulled...but we haven't been able to find the Star Beacon's Thursday article on this on its website. We hear they're a bit slow to put items from the Dead Trees edition online.
We have no problem with newspapers quoting us. Feel free to do so, as long as you get our name right ("the blog Ohio Media Watch" is fine with us)...
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As for the WKBN/WYFX/WYTV sale, I think Parkin is only playing nice with the FCC to get WYTV?MY-YTV and let new vision pretty much run it.
Just look at SAVANNAH GA (market 97) where New Vision owns ABC affil WJCL and has a joint sales agreement with Parkin owned Fox affil WTGS.
And OMW you are correct on how Parkin will end WYTV's news. Use the low ratings angle and claim the market is too small to justify keeping 3 seperate newsrooms.
If the FCC and Nielison was smart, they would just break up the Youngstown-Warren Tv market and split it up with Pittsburgh and Cleveland so we here in the Mahonong valley could get stations that are professional and we could recieve more viewing options.
BTW I have a QUESTION ON WHY Andrea Wood left WYTV IN THE 80'S. I have heard 2 different things and I am just wondering why. Does anyone know the reason why?
You call WOIO professional!?
Stick with what ya got, Ytown!
Shitsburgh, on the other hand, KDKA, WTAE and WPXI all put together pretty solid newscasts from what I hear.
o/a--speaking of lance--have you noticed there has been very little feedback on the ohio-clevelcincy-columbus boards on his board the last 3 months? i am surprised, since his board had most of the action when they first started when mama fleming pulled her coup.
Andrea Wood RESIGNED from WYTV to go full time with the Business Journal, which she started while at 33 and owns. So stop trying to infer she may be a disgruntled former employee.
If you compair the new WKBN/WYFX, it is kind of hard to tell. WKBN has hired new reporters who cannot get the facts straight, a fill in reporter who when does the weather on the weekends makes simple mistakes, and their ability to push people out the door.
Now granted Raycheap's WOIO/WUAB and Sincrap's WPGH/WPMY is the same if not worse in all ascpects of operations but at least Youngstown can use the fact they are apart of a larger market to sell the community on.
Granted we here in Ytown can say we are a small piece of a larger picture with no coverage if the Youngstown market was broken up as compaired to a small market with local coverage that is marginal if best, but I think being lumped offically into the Cleveland/Pittsburgh area might help this community grow and by getting rid of the individual DMA, Cleveland and Pittsburgh get the extra eyeballs they need to keep from falling any lower. Remember Cleveland is 17 and Pittsburgh is 21 and they have been slipping in the market size for some time and every little bit helps.
BTW I am not trying to throw stones at new the reporters in the market who are trying their best and if it sounds like I am I'm sorry, but the quality on ch 27 and 17/62 has gone down hill in the past few years at large part of the ownership and their inability to give a damn about the quality of their product.
The only real bright sport at WKBN/WYFX news is thier sports department. They are professional, talented, and they do it right.
The Cincinnati Enquierer's John Kiesewetter (TV-Radio writer) weighs in on the ESPN 1360 Cincinnati move in his blog today..
Be lucky you have WKBN for CBS, here in Akron, I'm considering getting a new, stronger antenna to get WKBN 27.1 because of the garbage CBS affiliate we have(WOIO). At least WKBN has a HD broadcast and 5.1 surround, unlike Raycom's weak signal. I would call WKBN professional, not WOIO.


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Unfortunately, this leads traders to take all sorts of shortcuts, and make all kinds of mistakes, as they develop their trading methodology. While this makes the trader's life easier in the short run, mistakes and shortcuts inevitably come back to roost in real-time trading.
The good news is that most traders make the same mistakes in development, and once identified, they can be overcome and corrected. Eliminating these issues won't make strategy development any easier, regretfully. Strategy development, performed the right way, becomes much more difficult when the shortcuts are eliminated.
So, what are some of the most common mistakes and shortcuts? Here are three of the more common ones. We explain why they are harmful, how they can be recognized and how they can be corrected. Avoiding these common mistakes will make any trader a better builder of trading systems.
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If you have been involved with trading for any length of time, you've undoubtedly come across complicated trading approaches. For a discretionary trader, this might look like the chart shown in "Analysis paralysis" (below). Many indicators, many lines, and many support and resistance areas adorn each and every chart. For an algorithmic trader, a complicated approach might be thousands of lines of code, with dozens or even hundreds of variables to optimize and tweak.
Both of these approaches have one thing in common: They are extremely complicated and involved. Many inexperienced traders think this is the way to develop a system. Their thinking is that the more indicators that line up, and the better the fit of their algorithm to past data, the better off the strategy is. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fallacy in thinking a complicated approach is better is that a superior result with historical data does not equate to real-time success. In fact, constantly tinkering with an approach, adding an indicator, or inserting another rule in the algorithm to make a trading approach more complicated, usually only gives the trader a false sense of confidence. Improving and adding rules to a strategy does not mean it will work better in the future.
As hard as it is for most to believe, the simple approaches are usually the best. For a discretionary trader, a clean chart with only one or two indicators, coupled with a thorough understanding of price action and market dynamics, is always better than a chart clouded with lines and indicators. For algorithmic traders, one simple entry rule is typically better than five or 10 conditions that must be satisfied for a trade to be taken.
A simple example of this is shown in "Clear direction" (below). While far from a perfect system, the strategy is very simple. Such a strategy is unlikely to be overfit to historical data, and therefore is more likely to perform well in the future.


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I think he means Echelon .
but when people on hacking sites post, how come they arent picked up by the 'E' System?????
Because the FBI has better things to do than go after a bunch of kids yapping about their latest defacement. I believe that Echelon was more for things like terrorism and such. I cannot imagine that they'd respond to every little post without doing some type of investigation. The amount of false positives would be huge!
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I think that MsM has go it. Too small fish to fry.
If you send data you get the message "this is been sent over an insecure link....or whatever"
You don't need something like ECHELON to intercept that sort of traffic.
If a hacking site was that much of a problem a single phone call would close it? But maybe they are left open so that the posters can be monitored .................after all, they are all connecting to a SINGLE and KNOWN site.
Something like ECHELON is monitoring general traffic, and would be a total waste of resource?
Even Microsoft stated that it is too expensive and time consuming to follow up on IP Violations
One of M$ big mistakes was the MS04-011 vulnerability, took just over a few weeks to capture the creator of the Sasser worm, but it cost M$ $US250,000 to get the information they wanted.
Im 100% sure if M$ had to spend quater million to get information from an allied country (germany i think it was) think how much it would cost the FBI to catch some kids in China
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In 1984, McGovern starred alongside Robert De Niro, acting as his love interest in the Sergio Leone gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America. Four years later, she took on a familiar role as Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in the 1989 crime drama Johnny Handsome. A few months later, she temporarily switched gears and decided to portray a rebellious lesbian by the name of Moira in Volker Schlöndorff's romantic sci-fi thriller The Handmaid's Tale.
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It's not quite a perpetual motion machine: scientists at the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed a design for a timing crystal they say would theoretically outlast the universe.
In this paper, published on Arxiv, the researchers propose a design for "a 4D crystal that has periodic structures in both space and time".
While it sounds blue-sky, the researchers say a space-time crystal would provide important inputs to understanding problems in many-body physics (complex interactions between large numbers of individual particles).
To create the "space-time crystal", the paper suggests trapping particles of the same charge in space using an electrical field. Their Coulomb repulsion forces them into a ring configuration, at their lowest possible energy state.
In classical mechanics, that's an end to the matter: the "lowest energy state" would mean the particles can't move. This is, it seems, the characteristic of a 3D crystal in the macro world: the particles have organized into their lowest energy state. To get them moving – for example, in a computer's timing crystal – external energy is needed.
However, there's an escape clause at the quantum level: the ions can be given a push with a weak magnetic field, to get them rotating, and since they lose no energy to the outside world, that rotation should continue forever – even, according to research leader Xiang Zhang, after the "heat death" of the universe. And since there is no energy output from the crystal, it doesn't break the rules to offer a perpetual motion machine.
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By Marc Normandin
It's been a rough year for Josh Hamilton, in both the seasonal and calendar senses. In his first year with the Angels after signing a five-year, $123 million free agent contract, Hamilton has hit .214/.269/.382. Sure, he's playing in a park we all knew would damage his numbers, but even adjusting for that doesn't tell a particularly pretty story: His OPS+, which adjusts for park and league difficulty, comes in at 82. Over a full season, Hamilton has never finished with an OPS+ below 130. Drastic doesn't even begin to describe that drop.
Hamilton's struggles have caused the Angels problems, as they invested a significant portion of their offseason moves and money into him, and they've come away with a player that is below replacement level according to Baseball Reference and Fangraphs, and one who is just ever so slightly above that level according to Baseball Prospectus. They're paying him to be a superstar, and he's performing like a generic scrub pulled out of Triple-A. It's not the reason, but it's one of the major reasons why the Angels find themselves 10.5 games out of first place in the AL West before the month of June has even finished.
Last year, Albert Pujols was the long-term disappointment, the player signed to a contract that even the Angels had to have known would eventually blow up in their face when he was old and expensive. The key, and the reason for blatantly disregarding that potentially awful future, was for the present: the Angels were so very close in 2011, and adding Pujols (along with starting pitcher C.J. Wilson) was supposed to help them now, when they were in a position to strike. Flags fly forever and all that, and when you looked at Pujols struggling in, say, 2020, you'd still have your banner from the last decade to console you.
That didn't work, as the Angels missed the playoffs after an 8-15 April essentially doomed them in the competitive AL West. This time around, they went with the same strategy, locking up another mega-free agent in his 30s. And while Hamilton didn't sign a decade-spanning deal like his predecessor, five years for $123 million is still a huge chunk of money and time, and quite the commitment to a player with plenty of question marks.
Those question marks are why it's hard to dismiss Hamilton's struggles from April through June as just a slump. Using the word "slump" implies that you're playing below your level. This is likely true to a degree -- Hamilton probably isn't quite this bad -- but as time passes, it becomes harder and harder to believe that he's significantly better than he's played this year.
No, three months of the season isn't a large sample … but that's not the only time frame in which Hamilton has struggled. The source of his troubles, oddly enough, might be his utter dominance of the league for the first two months of 2012. Hamilton hit .368/.420/.764 with 21 homers across April and May last season. He was the center of highlight reels almost continuously, for shot after shot, and he looked to have a real chance at the American League single-season home run record if he could keep up his outright silly pace. The league understandably stopped giving him pitches to hit, though, and pitchers started to tiptoe around him, throwing outside of the zone or on the outer portions of the plate where they could at least limit the damage.
Things didn't quite work out as pitchers expected, though. Instead of giving them a careful way around Hamilton, he kept swinging. And missing. It didn't take long to notice that Hamilton was hacking at pitches he couldn't do much with outside of the zone, and the league continued to pound him outside in order to turn this player who was an absolute giant for two months into a shadow of his former self. Hamilton hit .245/.322/.487 from June 1 onward, and he struck out 29 percent of the time in that stretch. Entering 2012, Hamilton had only struck out 18 percent of the time -- something was different, and the league had caught on.
He obviously still had his power, but he could be contained. So long as a pitcher didn't leave him a pitch he could crush, he was beatable. He struck out 51 percent of the time with two strikes on him, while the rest of the AL punched out just 39 percent of the time. The fear was gone, and pitchers knew they could get him if they just attacked the right way. His line still looked pretty solid, even considering that, but you have to remember, too, that he played in a park that inflates offense with the best of them: Hamilton hit .261/.340/.511 in Texas from June 1 through the season's end, but just .229/.304/.464 outside of it.
It's no surprise, then, that he's fallen even further now that he's just a little bit older, his bat just a little bit slower, and his home park that much more pitcher-friendly. Combine his play from June 1 last year up through his stats as of the start of Wednesday's game, and you get a hitter who has put up a .232/.300/.442 line. He's still got plenty of pop, as the .210 Isolated Power suggests, but his on-base percentage is well below where it needs to be, and that has more to do with his inability to collect hits than it does a lack of walks.
Since June 1 of last year, Hamilton has struck out 201 times in 737 plate appearances, or, 27 percent of the time. It only takes about 150 plate appearances for strikeout rate to stabilize for a batter, and at this point, Hamilton has rolled over that 150 plate appearance mark nearly five times in 13 months. It's probably safe to say that swinging and missing a lot is just part of what the 32-year-old outfielder does these days.
All those swings-and-misses put pressure on Hamilton's ability to post a high batting average on balls in play. He's only managed a .254 mark this year, and while that could and likely will rise with time -- again, he's probably not 650 OPS bad -- it's not necessarily going to be high enough to justify his contract, nor to save the Angels' season. What he's hit in the last year is probably a reasonable expectation: Inflated a bit by his old home park, but also dragged down by his current slump. Even if you toss him another 20 points in his slash line across the board, you're still talking about a .250/.320/.460 hitter making nearly $25 million a year, and that's in the first year of his deal. If you want to be really generous and add 30 points, $25 million still doesn't look great.
He's not a lost cause yet. He could still correct his course and alter his approach, going back to the good old days when a pitch outside or on the outer part of the plate wasn't necessarily something he'd take a hack at. David Ortiz had significant stretches just a few years back where his bat speed seemed to be betraying him as he aged, and he was swinging at pitches he never would have during his peak in an attempt to compensate. Hamilton is maybe unlikely to ever go back to those days fully, in terms of production -- not everyone can be David Ortiz, you know -- but recapturing as much of that old magic as possible would at least make him useful again, albeit overpaid. The fact that the Angels haven't been able to fix him in the time they've had him, though, suggests that that might not be in the cards. Let's not forget, the Rangers couldn't fix him either, and they let him walk away to their rivals.
It's not Hamilton's fault that the Angels offered him a contract that no one else seemed willing to give him -- remember the early days of the off-season market, when multiple clubs were interested, assuming they could get potentially damaged goods for a year or two? He will, however, become the face of their struggles, given his contract, and given the fact that his teammate Pujols has shaken off at least some of the cobwebs since his initial failures. He might not continue to struggle to the degree he has, but the way he has declined, and not steadily, over the last year suggests that the Angels and their fans are unlikely to be satisfied with whatever production he eventually settles into.
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Marc Normandin writes and edits for Over the Monster, a Boston Red Sox blog, as well as SB Nation's baseball hub. He's one of many behind the e-book "The Hall of Nearly Great," and has written for BaseballProspectus, ESPN and others. You can follow him on Twitter at @Marc_Normandin.


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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) Because of Dustin Byfuglien, Jets coach Claude Noel was happy to talk about the Winnipeg Jets' power play Friday night.
Byfuglien scored two goals with the man advantage and the Jets earned a 3-2 shootout win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
''The power play was obviously a big plus for us,'' he said after Bryan Little scored the winner in the fifth round of the shootout as the Jets won their fourth in a row.
''(It was) a long time waiting for us for that to happen. I don't think there was anything really different that took place other than we hit the net.''
The Jets started the game with the worst power play in the league, just six goals in 71 tries (only one in their past 13 games) and moved up a spot to 29th after Byfuglien connected twice when the Flyers were short-handed.
Byfuglien said success would come if the team kept on shooting.
And he insisted they did nothing new Friday night.
''It was just a matter of getting there,'' Byfuglien said.
''We were in traffic and we just kept shooting and it got there.''
Byfuglien scored his first of the game at 5:36 of the first period as he snapped the puck past Steve Mason.
The second at 14:23 of the third period was more important, after the Flyers had taken a 2-1 lead by the end of the first on goals from Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds.
It was Byfuglien's slap shot from the blue line that swept by Mason and sent the game into overtime.
Mason said he didn't see the puck.
''It's just disappointing because we had the lead with six minutes left in the hockey game and we weren't able to close it out,'' he said.
But he said they made progress on their road trip.
''Anytime you can get five out of six points that's pretty good. Would have been great to get the full six points, but moving forward we put ourselves back in a better position.''
The Flyers bounced back after Byfuglien's first goal.
Hartnell's wraparound at 6:25 was ruled a goal after a review. Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec appeared to move it past the line with his glove.
The Flyers took the lead at 11:45 on Simmonds' wrist shot from a goalmouth scramble just 13 seconds into Philadelphia's first power play of the game.
Like Byfuglien, Noel has said he had faith the team's power play will improve.
''We've had chances like that before where it either gets saved or hits a post or misses the net, or a lot of different factors like that,'' he said of the first goal.
''For me it was just a matter of time before these things start seeing the back of the net. Eventually they're going to go, you just have to stay with it and not allow too much frustration to get into your game.''
He also gave Pavelec credit for keeping them in the game.
''He really gives us a chance.''
One streak did end for the Jets on Friday night. Captain Andrew Ladd failed to score in a shootout. Ladd hadn't missed until Friday.
''The one (streak) that counts kept going,'' he said, adding that he hopes the power-play goals will give the team more confidence in the future.
Notes: The Flyers haven't won a game this season in which they didn't score the first goal. ... The Jets have won four straight at home as well and their leading scorers at the MTS Centre are Ladd (five goals, eight assists) and Bryan Little (seven goals, six assists).


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October 25. 2013 10:11AM
SOMERSWORTH – A Kelwyn Drive man is under arrest after a year-long investigation by members of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Drug Task Force who said they confiscated cocaine, heroin, prescription pills and a marijuana plant in a search Wednesday of the man's home.
Travis Peppers, 24, of 60 Kelwyn Drive, is charged with the sale of a controlled drug, two counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute and resisting arrest.
The search and subsequent arrest was part of an ongoing investigation which began about a year ago. After obtaining a warrant, police allegedly discovered an ounce of cocaine, five grams of heroin, 100 assorted prescription narcotic pills, a quantity of acid, one marijuana plant and $200 in cash.
Peppers was held at the Strafford County jail in Dover on $10,000 cash bail. During his arraignment in Dover Thursday, bail was converted to $10,000 personal recognizance with the conditions Peppers undergo drug testing and be monitored by Strafford County Community Corrections Program.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Farnworth mother.
The 35-year-old was arrested today in The Hague, Netherlands, by Dutch police working with Greater Manchester officers and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
The arrest follows the murder of Kelly Davies who was found stabbed to death at her home in Queen Street, Farnworth, early on Monday.
Detective Inspector Chris Bridge said: "Our thoughts remain with Kelly's family, with whom we have been in regular contact since this tragic incident.
"Over the last few days, we have had to work very closely with the Serious Organised Crime Agency and our counterparts in the Netherlands, and we are very grateful to them for their assistance.
"Our inquiries are very much ongoing and it would be inappropriate to comment further."
Kelly's devastated family paid tribute to her earlier this week.
In a statement, Ms Davies' family said: "Kelly had a very happy childhood and had many friends. She dealt with many difficulties in her life, including the loss of her mother and father.
"We were very proud of the way she had started to turn her life around and it is so sad she has now been taken from us.
"Her three children, along with the rest of our family, will miss her so much."
A police cordon had been in place outside Miss Davies' home for more than two days while forensic experts examined the scene.


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The next mission to Mars, conceived and designed in Colorado, passed its final major integration test Monday as it prepares for next week's launch.
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) science began ten years ago at the University of Colorado at Boulder under the mission's principal investigator, Bruce Jakosky. The spacecraft was designed and built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Jefferson County and the mission launches aboard one of Centennial-based United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rockets.
Monday, the MAVEN spacecraft and the Atlas V launch vehicle that it is currently sitting atop, passed its electrical test. This ensures the two components are integrated properly and can operate in unison. Scheduled to launch Monday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MAVEN will be powered on Thursday and won't be turned off again until the mission is complete.
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Authorities were concerned with terrorism threats in the air and on the ground Saturday. The British government delayed a London-to-Washington flight for three hours and U.S. officials monitored heavily secured stadiums hosting the first round of football playoffs.
British Airways 223, the most scrutinized flight since the United States declared a high terrorism alert Dec. 21, lifted off from Heathrow Airport just after 1 p.m. EST after intensive security checks.
The plane had the all-clear earlier from Britain's Transport Department. The subsequent checks added to the misery of passengers on a flight also detained in Washington on Wednesday and canceled Thursday and Friday.
The British government has declined to provide details of its security concerns about the flight. The department said it took action Saturday following discussions "with a variety of sources," including U.S. authorities.
A British Airways morning flight to Washington D.C. left on schedule at 5:55 a.m. EST Saturday.
Other routes under scrutiny during the code orange alert in the United States were London-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico City-Los Angeles.
The United States is working closely with other countries to lessen the threat of terrorism on international flights.
South Korea's national police agency, responding to American requests for international cooperation, said it would have armed officers on individual U.S.-bound flights if warranted, based on information about a terrorist threat to any specific flight.
Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said Saturday that authorities have been discussing security with the National Football League and the National Collegiate Athletic Association during the playoff and college bowl season.
NFL playoff games Saturday were in Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C., with contests Sunday in Green Bay, Wis., and Indianapolis. There were weekend bowl games in Boise, Idaho, and New Orleans.
NFL spokesman Joe Browne said security has been tight since the Sept. 11 attacks, and air space over stadiums is restricted by federal legislation.
He said security for the Super Bowl, Feb. 1 in Houston, would be even more intense because of the international attention the event receives.
"The number one concern our fans have is the air space," he said. Spectators are less concerned about stadium security because "they see our tightened measures as they enter the gates and the parking lots."
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text: TrueHoop's Henry Abbott asks that we take a second look at this throwaway line from Harvey Araton's piece on Kyrie Irving in the New York Times today: "Tuesday night, John Wall — last year's first pick by Washington — whispered 'Cleveland' in [Irving's] ear before the cameras turned on." Hmm. HMM. [TrueHoop, New York Times, Image via.]


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How we export our water to Asia
A precious resource leaves the West in the form of alfalfa hay.
Severe drought plagues California, the Colorado River is perilously low, and yet billions of gallons of water are being "virtually exported" via one of the West's thirstiest crops: alfalfa.
Robert Glennon, author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It, estimates about 50 billion gallons of Western water – enough to supply 500,000 families annually – were sent to China via alfalfa in 2012. China isn't the world's biggest hay buyer – land-poor Japan leads, followed by the United Arab Emirates – but its hunger is rapidly growing.
Water also leaves in the form of food exports such as rice, wheat or almonds, but alfalfa stands out as a low-value forage crop, Glennon says. China's consumption of milk and meat is skyrocketing, and it can't feed 42 million cattle on its own.
Half of all Chinese shipping containers bringing goods into Western ports return empty, and it's cheaper for farmers (and more lucrative for shippers) to fill them with alfalfa for China than it is for Imperial Valley farmers to truck alfalfa around the West. But Glennon suggests a more direct transaction: Perhaps the farmers should abandon alfalfa and have the option to sell the water to Las Vegas, which is looking to spend billions to supplement its paltry Colorado River allocation.
"They would pay anything for that water," Glennon says.


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'Fugitive of the Week' arrested in Brockton, Mass., Thursday
September 26. 2013 8:44PM
A man featured Wednesday as the "Fugitive of the Week" was arrested early Thursday morning in Brockton, Mass.
Tyler Root, 25, was being sought on an arrest warrant issued by Belknap County Superior Court for failure to appear on a charge of sexual assault on a minor.After various news outlets, including the New Hampshire Union Leaer, publicized that law enforcement officials were looking for Root, members of the U.S. Marshals task forces in New Hampshire and Massachusetts received anonymous tips, leading them to a Vine Street address in Brockton, Mass.Thursday morning, the Massachusetts U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, including members from Brockton police and Massachusetts State Police, Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, along with deputy U.S. Marshals, converged on the Vine Street residence where Root was located and arrested without incident.He was taken to the Brockton police station for processing on the charge of being a fugitive from justice on the outstanding New Hampshire arrest warrant.


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Despite a somewhat disappointing season by its lofty standards, the Fort Lewis College mens soccer team landed five players on the All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference teams recently, including one on the first team.
Senior defender Kyle Woodson earned the nod as a first-team member. The Colorado Springs product scored twice from the back row for the Skyhawks this season and was a defensive anchor as an outside back, starting all 19 games as the Skyhawks went 9-8-2 this season.
Hes been superb, FLC head coach Oige Kennedy said in a news release. He can be proud of his time at Fort Lewis. We wish him the best of luck with whatever he decides to do.
Yannis Becker, Casey Dean and Artur Piperkov each landed on the second team, with Daniel Wilson picking up a third-team honor. Becker, a freshman from Germany, led FLC in scoring with 21 total points. He paced the Skyhawks with seven goals and seven assists in his first year on campus.
I thought Yannis was a real candidate for RMAC Freshman of the Year, Kennedy said of the award that ended up going to Danny Arrubla of Metro State.
Dean, a captain this year as a junior, finished with four goals and three assists for 11 points, good for second on the team in that category.
Casey had a tough season in terms of being able to get the ball in the net. But hes been the heart and soul of the team, Kennedy said.
Piperkov split time between defense and midfield, amassing six assists second only to Becker in that category to go with a pair of goals.
Artur has had a tough year, but hes come up with big assists in games and given us a lot of quality from the right side of the field, Kennedy said.
Wilson started 11 games and appeared in 15 in the central midfield for FLC after appearing in just three in 2011, and the senior mustered an assist as a central organizing factor for the FLC attack.
Im proud of Dan. Hes battled injuries, and hes always come out stronger, Kennedy said.
Tesho Akindele, a Colorado School of Mines striker, earned Offensive Player of the Year honors, while Taylor Diem of league champion Regis picked up the Defensive Player of the Year award. Regis coach Tony McCall was tabbed the RMACs top coach, while Mines Manville Strand picked up the top goalkeeper honor.


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Before Yale: Four-time all-state selection at Weston High School… Holds the school 6-dive and 11-dive record and the conference 11-dive record… Two-time Class S state champion… Named team most valuable player in 2008 and 2009… Helped Weston to the 2006 state championship and the 2009 league title… Also competed for Next Generation Diving… Four-time AAU national qualifier… Two-time Zone A qualifier… 2009 Junior National qualifier… Eight-time YMCA national finalist (2009 3-meter champion).
Personal: Member of Jonathan Edwards College... Majoring in Mathematics and Physics... Interested in research... Daughter of Theresa and Fred Brasco... Younger brother Jimmy plays football and lacrosse in high school.
Why I Chose Yale: "I chose Yale because of the passion everyone displayed for all pursuits, both on and off the swim team. I also liked the option to study engineering and get a liberal arts education."


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6 DIY Kitchen Islands
We've said it before, the prep space in our kitchen is minimal to say the least. One of the first purchases we're making this weekend will be a kitchen island which will make cooking time (if you can call it that) so much easier. And even though we've got our eye on this guy from Target, we also wanted to check out the DIY options out there.
1. Celia and her hubby needed a DIY solution on a budget. What they came up with is this functional beauty made from metro shelving and an IKEA butcher block top.
2. Shopping carts aren't just for grocery shopping. Pick up a pair (legally) and make your own kitschy kitchen island.
3. IKEA to the rescue again--this time with two LACK tables stacked with a maple butcher block on top.
4. We've always liked card catalogs for organizing office and craft supplies but never thought to overhaul one for a kitchen island.
5. A super easy kitchen island made from standard kitchen cabinets with a little beadboard and molding to dress it up.
6. We can usually find a thrift store dresser for cheap. All you need is a coat of paint, some new hardware and casters to make it the perfect kitchen island--that's customized for your style.
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Hey Buddy, Fix Your Face - Oh Wait, I Can Do It for You With Facetune
Aug 19, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Facetune by Lightricks is available in the iOS App Store for US$2.99.
Longtime readers know I'm a fan of straightforward apps that do one core thing really well. Facetune lets you fancy up portrait photos of your friends -- or your selfies -- and it's fantastic. In fact, it's got the perfect blend of powerful tools with utter simplicity.
Want to whiten your best man's yellowish teeth? No problem. Boom, white like Ryan Seacrest. How about smooth the blemishes and uneven tones of your girlfriend in that quick morning snapshot that you love (and she hates)? A couple swipes and suddenly the cute-but-admittedly-still-a-morning face takes on a brightness that's ready for the world -- and Facebook or Twitter. (Take note, Russell Brand, Facetune might give you an extra day or two of joy.)
So what am I getting at here? Pretty much every time you see some sort of celebrity in a magazine or on TV, they've either just been sitting in a makeup chair with a professional or their photos have been doctored to fix their flaws. I'm not overly concerned with so-called flaws: To me, the best photos are all about the eyes and the smiles -- there is either a love of life there or there's something else, like bitterness or laziness. It's hard to doctor. Same goes for pain and hardship -- hard to fake it in the eyes and the mouth.
Edit the Photo to Capture the Moment
For many people, there are plenty of real-life situations where an almost-great snapshot could use a little help. Take the photo of your mother smiling huge at her granddaughter's birthday party, and in person at the party, she's just radiant and alive like you haven't seen her in months. But the snapshot photo doesn't capture that. It's flat. The light is off, and something just wasn't translated from life to digital. Enter Facetune. With a few simple tools, you can smooth wrinkles, skin tone, and even increase the detail and emphasis around eyes. It's amazing.
Suddenly grandma looks a little closer to the reality of that special day.
Or, if you're feuding with your mother-in-law, you can give the impression of plastic surgery, adjusting the shape of her face. If she has one pimple, you can turn it into three by using the same feature that lets you erase funky spots. Tools can often be used for good or evil. Just saying.
More Facetune Tools
The genius of Facetune is that it has all the tools you need, and they are all easy to use. Along the way, there's a quick help feature that shows you what the tool is, both in a graphic as well as in a quick video. At the same time, there are multiple ways to fix your mistakes. If you don't like an effect, an undo button is ready.
Alternatively, if you don't like a series of effects within a tool, you can "X" out of the tool usage area instead of tapping the checkmark to accept the changes. And, while you're evaluating a change, you can tap and hold a button to flash back to the previous version of the image again and again, as you discern whether what you did is spot on.
Plus, when you've gone overboard with an effect, you don't have to start all over -- you can use an eraser to soften the effect to get it right. So smart.
What are the tools?
- Crop, which is like every other crop on an iPhone.
- Whiten, for teeth, and you can go blindingly white or just a little less hick -- and everywhere in between.
- Smooth, for softening skin tone.
- Details, for amping up detail to make areas pop, like around eyes to bring out intensity or unleash the hidden sexy. Awesome feature, actually.
- Reshape, for toning down Jay Leno's chin ... or increasing it. Works to reduce chipmunk cheeks, fix really weird angles that don't represent your subject well. Or create the foundation for a monster.
- Patch, for blemishes like pimples. Genius implementation lets you tap the pimple, which locks in one circle that's connected to another. Move the other circle around until you find the right blend of face to match the area over the pimple.
- Tones, for choosing a color in the photo to spread around. For example, your drunken uncle with the bright red cheeks ... you can select the normal forehead tone and sober him up. And while you're at it, reduce the amount of gray hair by spreading his natural color over it. (Works for bottle blondes, too.)
- Red Eye, for making black pupils.
- Defocus, to help make your subject pop out of the photo better by blurring other items.
- Filters, for changing the overall color, brightness, tone and framing.
Within each of these tools, there's usually a refinement tool that goes with it that lets you increase or decrease the effect. The bottom line is, many of these tools are in other photo-editing apps, too, and the effects can be replicated as well. The question is, are they as easy to use? More importantly, will you remember to use them? Because Facetune is focused on doing one thing really well, odds are you'll remember it and put it to use. That's the win here -- actually using it.


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Bugs and Slugs and Spiders, Oh My!
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
Help wanted: Must be willing to work for free. Arachnophobes need not apply.
Actually, Kathy Roberts admits that sometimes her quarry make her a little edgy. "Ew, that's a different-looking spider," she says, peering into a glass vial containing a tangle of hairy arthropod legs. Under her microscope are a couple other not-so-alarming spiders, and off to the side are rows of vials filled with all manner of creepy-crawlies.
As a volunteer research assistant, Roberts gathers slugs, ants, millipedes, nematodes, worms, and lots and lots of pill bugs—whatever falls into her traps. Under the direction of Erik Lilleskov, an adjunct professor of forest resources and environmental science, she is helping to establish baseline data on the small creatures living in and around the soil next to the USDA Forest Service rhizotron.
The rhizotron is a 75-foot tunnel, paneled on the inside with glass, which extends into a wooded hillside adjacent to the Michigan Tech campus. Built in 2006, it is an observatory on the secret world of soil and all the plants and animals therein. Roberts's work however, focuses not inside the rhizotron but on the surface dirt on either side.
"What she's trying to do is get a better handle on the macroinvertabrates, because they have a huge influence on soils," says Lilleskov. "We think we have a pretty good understanding, but we want a better one.
Macroinvertabrates are animals without a backbone that are big enough to see with the naked eye. "These are actually pretty small, but they're not microscopic," he says.
Using a bulb planter, Roberts has installed eight pitfall traps that, when lifted from the ground, look quite like the plastic beverage glasses you'd find at graduation parties. She sank four on one side of the rhizotron, which is planted to pine trees, and four on the other, which remains a natural hardwood forest.
In each cup is a splash of soapy water, which drowns any bugs that tumble inside. Roberts collects the cups and then sorts the contents into vials based on their general type. Pill bugs, also known as woodlice or roly polies, are by far the most common bugs to perish in her traps. But there are plenty of others to classify. Eventually, an entomologist will take on the task of identifying the different species. "Then we'll get more technical terms than 'slugs,' 'spiders' and 'pinchy, pokey things,'" says Roberts.
So far, she hasn't noticed much difference between the bugs collected on the two sides of the rhizotron. "We do get different kinds of critters day by day, though," she says. "It could be the weather."
Volunteers such as Roberts can make a big difference in a labor-intensive research project, says Lilleskov. "And it's wonderful to have somebody so dedicated working with us. She's one of those people who get a passion and go with it," he says. "We're hoping she stays addicted to macroinvertabrates for a long time."
Roberts has even started checking out the macroinvertabrates around the family home. "It's amazing," she says. "It's so interesting what goes on right under your feet."
Ants are cute, and spiders are, well, spiders. "They are still the biggest challenge," she says. "Here, I have to go after them, but at home, if I see something scary, I still scream and fling it across the room."
When pressed, she says the lowly slug is probably the ickiest creature in her pitfall traps. "It's kind of neat, though, when you look at the details, you forget how icky it is," she says. "Under a microscope, they're kind of pretty."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Ghost, The (US - DVD R1)
Nothing to see here, just another pissed off, long-haired ghost haunting Gabe...
Ji-won is a bright young student with (convenient) amnesia. She has no recollection of who she is or what she's done. When her old friends (who she now remembers) mysteriously start dying one by one, she decides to investigate. As she slowly pieces together fragments of her past, strange and terrifying visions begin to haunt her. And there's lots of scary water.
When a movie is so forgettable and so interchangeable with other films in its genre that I have to check the box to remind me of the basic plot, you know something is wrong. I understand that white-faced, black-haired girls have been popular in Asian ghost stories since, well, since the advent of the Asian ghost story, but I don't know how much more I can take.
The Ghost adds absolutely nothing to the genre. The box art has a pull-quote stating that the film is part Dark Water part The Grudge. That pretty much sums it up. This film takes elements from those two films (both of which are slightly interchangeable in their own), and bases a series of set pieces around them. The writers even give the main character unexplained amnesia to ensure their last act twist is easily executed.
No stereotypical Asian ghost story would be complete without the final act twist, and this one's so convoluted I didn't even get it at first. The musical score cued me into the fact that something shocking had happened, but I honestly had no idea what. It's possible that I was just so disinterested in the film that I wasn't paying enough attention, but does it really matter at that point?
Like every Korean horror flick I've ever seen, The Ghost looks great. The art direction and cinematography are top of the line, and the special effects are especially effective. The lack of suspense found in the script is almost made up for by the efforts of the solid cast, but it comes up short. I can really only care for a thinly written character so much, no matter how well presented they are by a given actor.
Just when I think I have them pegged, Tartan surprises me with a really nice video transfer. I'm talking fine details, minimal grain and noise, and soft contrast. The Ghost isn't a very colourful film, it's mostly blue and grey, but those blues and greys are spot on, and the blacks are deep and thick. There is a little problem with edge enhancement in wide shots, but it's a minor issue.
Tartan supplies two more twin DTS and Dolby Digital tracks, and again they're almost identical. Everything sounds great. The score is rich and full, the sound effects are aggressively spooky, and the dialogue has nary a lip-sync issue. I could've done with a little more rear channel scaring, but the bass levels are pretty awesome, so it all evens out.
The cast interviews and behind the scenes featurette last about seven minutes combine. As per the norm from Tartan Asia Extreme, these appear to be elongated ads for the film, made for Korean television. The only thing I ever take away from these EPKs are the fact that South Koreans really know how to make a poster. Tartan Asia Extreme trailers also appear.
I'm sorry to reiterate that I've all but exhausted my good will towards Asian ghost flicks, and I'm finding sitting through two a month rather gruelling. Fans of the genre should know that The Ghost is one of the better-made and acted films in the giant collection, but it has a weak and derivative plot. The A/V is rather exceptional, especially considering some of the problems Tartan's been having recently, but extras are lacking.
Review by Gabriel Powers
This product has not been rated
Disc Details
Release Date: 24th April 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 Korean, Dolby Digital 5.1 Korean
Subtitles: English
Extras: Cast Interviews, Making-Of, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kim Tae-gyun
Cast: Kim Ha-neul, Gi Ju-bong, Ryu Jin-ok, Nam Sangmi, Shin Lee
Genre: Horror
Length: 94 minutes
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God's Love We Deliver
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We all love food, but what we rarely talk about is how food connects us to each other. Food – preparing it, discussing it, serving it – evokes memories. Sharing a meal nourishes us and brings us closer together. 100% of the books proceeds go to support our urgent mission.
The God's Love Cookbook: Nourishing Stories and Recipes from Notable Friends
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Available now! The God's Love We Deliver Cookbook.
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This new cookbook was compiled by longtime volunteer Christopher Idone and God's Love Board Member Jon Gilman. God's Love is sad to note the recent passing of our dear friend Christopher. The recipes and stories he worked so hard with Jon to gather are from some of our great friends and supporters and are accompanied by stunning photography by Ben Fink. Contributors include Isabella Rossellini, Ina Garten, Danny Meyer, Michael Kors, Mario Batali, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and many others. All proceeds from this initiative will benefit the mission of God's Love and will help us to meet the evolving needs of our community while never turning anyone away.


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Austinmer toddlers Max and Ravi know without question that their two mums will love and care for them forever.
But now, in the midst of debate surrounding a postal vote on marriage equality, the little boys are hearing ''hurtful things'' which is causing them to question their family unit.
Their mother Emily Gray shared her heartache in an emotional social media post this week.
''In the lead-up to the postal vote they have started to hear hurtful things, about how the children of gay parents are the next 'stolen generation', how having two mums will damage them somehow,'' she said.
''Now I grew up in the Gong – born and raised, I have never felt anything other than welcomed and accepted by the people in this amazing part of the world.
''Hearing this now breaks my heart.''
Ms Gray told the Mercury that ''religious fundamentalists'' should not be taking over the marriage equality debate.
''It's unfortunate that this debate has enabled all those bigoted views to take centre stage,'' she said. ''It's damaging to our children who – as hard as we try to protect them – hear these things, as they eventually trickle down to the playground.''
Max, 2, and Ravi, 4, have two mums; they also know and love their dad – a dear friend of their mothers.
''Our boys are happy, boisterous, fun-loving kids who haven't yet had reason to question their family as being anything other than normal,'' Ms Gray said.
Ms Gray and her partner Somali – who both work in human rights – met 12 years ago. They married in New York's town hall prior to having their children.
''It was wonderful to have our relationship recognised in New York but it didn't feel like the big life event that we'd imagined celebrating in front of our family and friends in our own country,'' Ms Gray said.
Australians have until August 24 to check they're enrolled to vote.
''Whichever way you're planning to vote, I would urge you to please make sure you're enrolled and that your details are correct,'' Ms Gray said.
Of course the couple hopes that Australians back marriage equality, and that they can make their union official back home.
''It would be so great for Ravi and Max to know that their family is accepted and recognised as valid by their community,'' Ms Gray said.
''How great would it be if the results of this postal vote told the government that prejudice and hate is not going to be tolerated at this time in this country.
''And if you don't believe in marriage equality, for whatever reason, I invite you to come and meet my family.''
To enrol to vote visit www.aec.gov.au/enrol. Or to check your details go to check.aec.gov.au
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Do I need to enrol if I voted in the last election and haven't changed my address?
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A raunchy photo of AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai posing "hand bra" with a child providing the hands has led to Young Magazine withdrawing its latest issue from sale for being "inappropriate," prompting accusations of "child pornography" and "child abuse" against her, AKB48 and the magazine itself.
Needless to say, the offending image (used to illustrate an announcement of the release of her own album of sexy gravure) was rapidly leaked along with the rest of the rag:
Young Magazine apologises for including this "inappropriate depiction" of the idol – though it is not clear from their explanation who determined its inappropriateness and how it got to be included in the magazine in the first place:
As the magazine had already begun printing, they apparently had no option but to withdraw it from distribution and postpone the entire issue.
Kodansha also explained the decision in vague terms: "it was determined the image might cause discomfort amongst readers."
The leaked image does indeed exceed the raunchiness of Kasai's usual offerings significantly, although it might be thought that this was obvious to both her and her handlers if she had to pose for the picture:
Just why the image caused such a kerfuffle is the subject of much speculation online:
"Yes yes. More controversy marketing."
"Creepy picture!"
"Why didn't the editors realise this would be a problem?"
"What is inappropriate about this anyway? The kid is annoying but that is all."
"The problem is not the content but the fact they used a minor to do it."
"Getting a minor to do something sexual – that might be grey in Japan, but in the US they would be arrested?"
"It's hardly child pornography if the woman is an old hag like her."
"This woman is always causing problems."
"They are sexually abusing this poor boy!"
"If they tried this with the genders reversed it would be a big deal."
"This could become an international issue, it's not surprising they are withdrawing it."
"There is no way this is child pornography. The boy is incidental."
"Police, do something about this!"
"We'll have to leave this up to Agnes."
"It's probably just been made with Photoshop in any case… even more controversy when that comes out."
"Obviously they wanted to get this banned so it would some media controversy and get her even more exposure."
"As usual AKB48 is just inconveniencing everyone with their marketing stunts."
"Hand bras should be done with the arms crossed… having someone reach through her armpits is just lame."
"Where can I get a copy!"
"It is already being auctioned at ¥8,000 a copy…"