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The short film Lewis is finally under produc-tion now that its crew has sufficient funds from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Cal State Fullerton’s Associated Students Inc. and donations from loyal fans on Indiegogo.

Lewis is a drama with dark comedic elements about the collision of a man’s aspirations and his reality.

Writer and director Mark C. Roe said Lewis is a story about a struggling magician whose life is on the ropes when when he gets the opportu-nity to open for much larger acts.

The title character, Lewis, has to make choices between his relationships and deepest dreams. This story is highly relatable to the young and impoverished artist we all find in ourselves dur-ing our golden years.

“I kind of refer to it as my horror story,” said Roe. “Anyone who’s trying to do something in an artistic field, the biggest fear they have is ob-viously failing.”

Roe added that the short film is similar to the

way his life is projected five years from now, ac-knowledging there is a struggling and starving artist within all of us.

“I feel like this can reach anybody in any field, it’s kind of a wide arching theme of com-ing face to face with failure,” Roe said.

The character of Lewis is not a prodigy in his craft, and in a sense doomed from the start.

“He’s just failing and failing, and that’s kind of where the dark comedy comes from. You know that this guy got into this big show on

some stroke of luck,” Roe said. This big show is going to take place in the

gorgeous Warner Grand Theatre, where the production team received access to film.

Lewis can end his story as a magician along for the ride, or by settling down and taking care of his budding family.

Roe’s favorite character written for the story is Dane.

Goals by senior forwards Gerzon Blanco and Jesse Escalante were central to the Titan cause Saturday as the Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team defeated UC Riverside 2-1 on Se-nior Night at Titan Stadium.

The win ensured the continuation of the Ti-tans’ 2012 season. The Titans (8-11-1, 4-6-1 in conference, 13 points) will play in the Big West Conference playoffs. Head Coach Bob Am-mann’s team will advance as the 2nd seed in the Big West South and face the Big West North top seed UC Davis Aggies (9-6-4, 7-3-0 in confer-

ence, 21 points) Wednesday at 2 p.m.Saturday night’s match was a high stakes af-

fair. It was the final game at Titan Stadium this year and represented a chance for CSUF and UCR to earn their ticket to advance in the Big West playoffs. A win or tie would guarantee safe passage for the Titans.

“A win or a draw would have gotten us through, but there was not one time in any of our preparation that I’ve ever mentioned it. The reason was because our intent was to go out and win the game,” said Ammann.

The Titans had to fend off the desperate in-tentions from the Highlanders, who were will-ing to spoil Titan postseason hopes. On a chilly

November evening with the stadium crowd buzzing with excitement, drums and vuvuzelas added to the atmosphere.

Before the match seven seniors—Mario Alvarez, Jonathan Birt, Gerzon Blanco, Jame-son Campbell, Jesse Escalante, Bobby Reiss and Nick Swart—were honored as their family par-ticipated in the celebration. It was a special mo-ment for the seniors.

“It’s a bit emotional during the presenta-tion, you’re saying goodbye to all your team-mates and your coaches,” said senior forward Jameson Campbell.

Senior forward Jesse Escalante and sophomore defender Mark Vasquez celebrate after a goal on Senior Night. Escalante scored in the 73rd minute of the game, it was his eighth of the year. The Titans head to UC Davis in a semi-final match-up on Wednesday.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Leadership Center, housed in the College of Business and Economics, established an 18-member advisory board last week made up of business profes-sionals from around the community, school officials said.

The board was brought together to help develop programs and initiatives that assist students and members of the business community in leadership development, officials said.

“The advisory board guides all ini-tiatives of the center, which includes academic programs, extracurricular opportunities for students and an ex-ecutive program,” said John Barbuto Jr., Ph.D., director of the center and as-sociate professor of management. “We are pleased that so many leaders have joined with us to help us work to meet the leadership needs of our region.”

Established to link together the business community and the college, the Center For Leadership developed in 2009 and held its first major event in spring of 2010.

With several initiatives on hand for the center, the lure of a big busi-ness program at CSUF and many alumni scattered across Orange County businesses, Barbuto said the program was able to attract notable professionals to its board.

“The motto for the Mihaylo Col-lege of Business as it relates to its stu-dents is that they are ‘Ready to Work, Ready to Lead,’” Greg S. Arbues, a

member of the Mihaylo College Ex-ecutive Council Advisory Board, said. “This is why the Center for Leader-ship is such an important center within the college.”

Arbues, one of 18 members on the advisory board, is president and chief client advocate of Client Advocate Network in Santa Ana.

“Leadership skills can be de-veloped over time, some through classroom lecture, but mostly from real-world experiential learning from those who have been there and done that,” he said.

The center also started a Leadership Scholars Program. It had 114 mem-bers as of October and 175 now en-rolled, said Barbuto.

The program saw a growth at the beginning of the semester in the form of a 47-percent increase in members from August to October.

Additionally, the Scholars Program provides undergraduate students with access to some of Orange County’s most “prominent and successful ex-ecutives through a speaker series and networking receptions,” Barbuto said. The events are conducted once a month—four times per semester.

“Our students wear business attire and come to campus for a 2-4 p.m. Friday afternoon Leadership Scholars event,” Barbuto said. “And they hear executives share their insights and wisdom across a number of themes, followed by a reception that gives students one-on-one opportunities to glean insights from these executives that have so generously volunteered their time and energy to give back to the Mihaylo students.”

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Mark C. Roe is the writer and director of Lewis. The cast of the short film includes John Sera (plays Lewis), Megan Hensley (plays Amber) and Rico E. Anderson (plays Greg).

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Former major league baseball player turned motivational speaker spoke to a crowd of all ages Sunday afternoon at the Fullerton Public Library. Mich-igan-born Jim Abbott, 45, discussed overcoming his physical disability through his will to make his baseball dreams come true.

Abbott, whose career lasted 10 seasons in the MLB, played on the California Angels, New York Yan-kees, Chicago White Sox and Mil-waukee Brewers.

“When he was 20 years old, he won the Sullivan Award, which is given out by the Amateur Athletic Union for the outstanding amatuer athlete of the year nationally,” said Virginia Nelson, a Friends of the Library board member. “At 21, he earned the gold medal by playing as a pitcher on the U.S. team in the 1988 Summer Olympics.”

Abbott also pitched a no-hitter in 1993 while playing for the New York Yankees, which he admitted was a highlight of his career and one of the main focuses of his book Imperfect, which was released in April.

“One of the hardest parts about the book was trying to find a title,” said Abbott. “Imperfect was a title that we thought fit for a number of rea-sons. One of the obvious ones is I was born imperfect—I was born missing my right hand.”

Abbott never let his physical imper-

fections overcome his ability to excel in sports. He was also quarterback for his high school football team.

“It was almost as if being born this way was something to be looked up to,” Abbott said. “My dad used to say this to me all the time: ‘What’s taken away once will be given back twice,’ and I believe that to be true.”

Abbott described his parents as lasting motivation in his life, calling them his heroes.

“I know that they struggled trying to find ways for me to do things. The story in the book in a lot of ways talks about learning how to tie my shoes and learning how to take the glove on and off,” said Abbott. “But they didn’t shield me from life, they made me feel up to the challenge.”

“My hand has taught me that if you can find your own way of do-ing things, if you believe in who you are make the most of what you’ve been given, nothing can stop you. Amazing things can hap-pen,” he said.

Abbott turned down multiple book offers while he was playing in the MLB because he wanted to con-centrate on the sport, not his disabil-ity. He waited until he was retired from professional baseball to work with Orange County writer Tim Brown to draft his story.

“I wanted to tell the story of what it’s like to be a baseball player and what it’s like to have baseball mean so much to you that you’re scared to death of losing it. And to go through the process of losing it,” he said.

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“My career had a little bit of everything… I had some very good years with the Angels and I also had some very tough years with the Angels,” Abbott said.

Abbott noted his 18 wins with the Angels in one season and 18 losses with them in another.

“I try to tell kids, my own daughters who play sports, you have to move on (after a loss). Tomor-row’s a new day,” Abbott said.

Abbott said one of the most important lessons he learned from pitching in the major leagues was the importance of trust.

“In my best seasons I trusted the pitches com-pletely. I threw without hesitation—with com-plete conviction. The difference between a good pitch and a bad pitch is (minimal). That last bit of belief as the ball comes out of your hand gives the ball life,” Abbott said. “In that bad year, I lost that

trust, and in turn lost that life.”Abbott was released from the Angels in 1996

after he struggled during spring training.“My struggle became a real focus for the team,”

Abbott said, “but the game goes on. It’s hard, it’s really hard.”

After being away from MLB for a year, Abbott’s former manager contacted him, determined that Abbott still had a little “gas in the tank.” Abbott was drafted to play for North Carolina minor league team the Hickory Crawdads and later the Winston Salem Warthogs and Birmingham Bar-ons in Alabama. Abbott eventually made his way back to the major leagues to play on the Milwau-kee Brewers.

“After that process, I kind of knew my career was at an end. To have that process gave me a great feeling of closure on my career,” Abbott said. “Had I just finished up with the Angels the way I did it would have hurt a lot more than it did.”

Any student at CSUF who has a GPA of 2.5 or higher and is tak-ing at least one leadership course in the Mihaylo College of Business and Economicscan apply to the program. Once accepted, the names of the Lead-ership Scholars are listed on the Center for Leadership website, CSUF business marketing major Rafael Aleman said.

Aleman, who is also vice president of marketing for the scholars program, said he looks forward to donning his name tag during a social gathering after speakers talk to the group. The gatherings are invaluable in order to network with top executives.

Quoting John C. Maxwell, Aleman said, “Everything rises and falls with

leadership.” Aleman said the most important aspect to a business profes-sional is leadership capabilities, and he hopes to garner the quality through the leadership program at CSUF.

Aleman was directed to the pro-gram when he took advice from a professor who recommended he talk with Barbuto.

Roresa Mojo, a business major, is the vice president of marketing opera-tions and who focuses on the organiz-ing of the program and event. There is also a vice president of marketing events and a vice president of market-ing special projects.

Mojo said he appreciates the new board, which will bring the expertise of the professional business world to CSUF students.

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Over the objections of prosecutors who sought a stiffer sentence, a judge Thursday sentenced a former Fullerton police officer who destroyed his audio re-cording device in the hours after a prisoner’s suicide to three years of informal probation and 60 days of com-munity service, officials said.

Vincent Thomas Mater, 42, pleaded guilty to a misde-meanor count of destroying evidence and misdemeanor count of vandalism, Orange County District Attorney of-ficials said in a written statement.

The guilty plea came as part of a “court offer,” in which he was aware his admission would not result in jail time, though he legally could have faced up to a year in jail, Or-ange County Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon said.

“The position of our office would be that we felt, based on the circumstances surrounding it, and that he’s admit-ted destroying evidence related to a death… that it justi-fied custody time,” said Zimmon.

The case stemmed from the April 14, 2011 suicide of Dean Gochenour, 52, in the Fullerton Police Depart-ment’s jail within hours after being arrested suspicion of DUI by officer Mater, who held the rank of corporal, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s re-port on the in-custody death.

A little over two hours after being arrested by Ma-ter on suspicion of drunken driving, Gochenour hung himself in the jail, according to the DA’s statement. Throughout Mater’s encounter with Gochenour, he wore a department-issued digital audio recorder, “which was activated and would have audio-recorded any statement made by Mater or Gochenour.

“In the hours after Mater learned of Gochenour’s death, Mater destroyed his (digital audio recording de-vice) by crushing it and removing the motherboard and circuit board,” the statement continued.

Investigators looking into Gochenour’s death were never able to recover the audio recording from the smashed device, officials added. The recording would have been important evidence in the DA’s office’s inves-tigation into Gochenour’s in-custody death.

The case was prosecuted by Zimmon in the Special Prosecutions Unit, who argued the sentence was too lenient for the crime Mater admitted to, officials said.

According to the DA’s statement, “The People ob-jected to the sentence, arguing for jail time based on the nature of the crime, destruction of evidence possibly related to an inmate’s death, and the defendant’s viola-tion of his position of trust.”

The case was turned over to Orange County prosecu-tors by the Fullerton Police Department following the de-partment’s own internal investigation, officials said.

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Perhaps it is my mind’s defense mechanism against melancholy or maybe even a desire to escape current media saturation, but this week I want to talk about something that is not soul-crushing. Indeed my last #this column was frankly a grim affair and I don’t feel like joining the din of dis-course about tomorrow’s election.

Let me instead talk about com-edy or—more specifically—parody. As anybody who has seen the works of master parodier Mel Brooks knows, the “art” of taking measured shots at something or someone that one per-ceives as “serious” can be the most ef-fective and entertaining form of com-mentary out there.

With myriad new ways of present-ing information through social media, parody has become more open. What I mean is while it’s always been the case that anyone can recite a one-liner, gen-erally an amateur comedy career wasn’t going to reach many eyes or ears.

Not so anymore.You see, one of the most abused uses

of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are accounts, pages and channels (respec-tively) dedicated to parody. While there are those who do this outstand-ingly—Twitter accounts imitating androgynous British thespian Tilda Swinton (@NotTildaSwinton) and YouTube song-ifying sensations The Gregory Brothers are both such cas-es—that pesky law of averages means that there is a larger percentage of the mediocre than not.

This it to be expected, though. Think about it: In the realm of “professional” parody, the umpteenth Scary Movie film gets churned out and succeeds despite how tired, lazy and asinine the concept is at this point. When you are making fun of something, it seems it’s not too difficult to be popular despite how terrible you are at doing it.

Now explode this concept out into social media—a realm where the whole “game” for most is to become popu-lar—and it’s easy to extrapolate how out of hand the this concept can get.

For example, let’s take Ted. Yes, re-member Ted? That lovable little foul-mouthed teddy bear from Seth Mac-Farlane’s film debut Ted? This singular obscure character has an officially veri-fied Twitter and Facebook account—presumably run by some intern at the Universal offices. It has around 600,000 followers.

That’s fairly respectable for a stuffed animal, and wholly understandable that fans of the film and the like would follow an account related to one of their favorite cult films.

What isn’t understandable is the in-comprehensible number of Ted parody and roleplay accounts that emerged in the wake of the film’s success; accounts that just tweet crass and relatively lame jokes all day long. More than this, some of these have far more followers than the official Ted account. One Ted impersonator has over 700,000 follow-ers and another has eclipsed the mil-lion follower mark.

I repeat: A Ted parody account has one million followers. Even if one were to remove the bots and spammers from that list, it’d still likely overshadow the officially verified account by a good measure. Wow.

But if Ted seems a dated reference, let’s talk election. I know, I said earlier that I wasn’t going to drag politics into this, but bear with me. Recall during the first presidential debate when Mitt Romney mentioned Big Bird. From that lone statement, an unfortunate parody account went viral.

Sensing an opportunity, an account named @FiredBigBird emerged and quickly earned 2,700 peoples’ follows in mere minutes and countless more before night’s end. Twitter eventually suspended the account—puzzling as the site has its own guidelines regard-ing parody and seems to encourage it—and it is nowhere to be found now.

Was the account funny outside of its initial concept? Not particularly, but this seems to be all it takes in this strange new realm of parody—an idea. @InvisibleObama, @RomneyBinders, all those Ted accounts; there’s nothing particularly funny about them outside of the initial chuckle one gets from reading their names.

Perhaps that’s social media’s “contri-bution” to comedy; though it’s a sober-ing thought to have that if Mel Brooks actually had a Twitter account, he might be playing second banana to one named @RealFrederickFronkensteen.

Terrifying indeed.

On the morning of Sunday Oct. 21, a crime was committed. Not one worthy of prison or fine, but a crime of integrity and principle.

The San Diego Union-Tribune, an establishment of the American free and neutral press, ran a front page editorial that laid out plans to redesign down-town San Diego’s waterfront and call imminent ruin if President Barack Obama is reelected tomorrow.

The owners, Douglas Manchester, a wealthy owner of hotels in San Diego, and John Lynch, who bought The San Diego Union-Tribune and the North County Times last year, have expressed interest of expanding their media base to other major regions including Or-ange County and Los Angeles.

Lynch told The Associated Press in an interview that he bought the pa-pers in part to advance their views in the opinion section. They reported his views to be pro-family, pro-military and pro-America and said, “anybody who isn’t shouldn’t be living here.”

While the right to promote these views is encouraged, the front page and the news section should be (almost) re-ligiously reserved for unbiased news.

The line between news—which strives toward neutrality—and edito-rial—which aims for informed sub-jectivity—should never be crossed as Lynch and Manchester did.

It’s a tragedy this Maginot Line is being assaulted every day, and the pub-lic—from outside the steeples of news-media moguls—sees no difference.

It also doesn’t help that Fox News brands itself as a “fair and balanced” news service where in reality, 23 hours of its programming hinges on right-wing tea party activists who mainly care about converting their viewers to their same principles.

And thus, the public only sees com-mentary packaged as news. And then the unfortunate sociological dilemma of over-generalization sets in and labels

such as “liberal” or “conservative” are applied to the fourth estate.

In Eric Alterman’s book, What Liberal Media? he argues there is no explicit bias in the news media. He cites the New York Times as being the most critical of the Democratic Party’s poster child, Bill Clinton, during his presidency despite the revered organi-zation’s persistent attacks by broadcast conservative giants Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly that call it “liberal.”

Terry Mattingly, a long-time reli-gion columnist for the Scripps-How-ard News Service and director of the Washington Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., said there are four general categories of the press.

According to Mattingly, the “Ameri-can Model” of the press, which is most-ly used by western journalists, pines for neutrality. But he argues this will never be perfect. Complete objectivity or the idea of being unbiased is unattainable no matter how hard the system tries, but at least its attempt is pursued with noble determination and perseverance.

Despite this psychological truth, the “American Model” of the press endeav-ors to disseminate accurate, verified and neutral information vital to a free society. The freedom to think is man’s greatest asset; and the freedom to write is the greatest expression of a free mind.

And although there is a place for informed subjectivity, it is not in the news pages of newspapers and not in broadcasts labeled as such. When the line is crossed, the misconception of a biased media is perpetuated.

And as an ignominious consequence of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s blurring of the lines, especially during a time of an already over-polarized and over-politicized election season, the stunt shines badly on the hundreds of other media outlets who are desper-ately eking out a living doing the noble thing everyday: distributing neutral in-formation as best they can.

Shame and foul play is called on Manchester and Lynch for coercing the 143-year-old newspaper, which has served Southern California honestly, to commit arguably one of the great-est crimes this reporter has seen in the news media today.

California’s Fair Political Practices Commis-sion is seeking the records of an anonymous $11 million donation originating from Arizona made to the Small Business Action Commit-tee, an anti-Proposition 30 group, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

In turn, the Americans for Responsible Leadership (ARL), the group that originally dis-bursed the funds, refuses to turn over records.

The ARL claims this to be a politically moti-vated witch hunt. However, from the sound of it, the commission is following the letter of the law, which requires openness of donor identities when it’s for a state campaign.

This is reminiscent of another case to make headlines this year in which the “Yes on Propo-sition 8” campaign was found by the Fair Politi-cal Practices Commission to be guilty of failing to report more than a million dollars of con-tributions made to help pass the law banning same-sex marriage in California four years ago.

And again, an out-of-state organization was making donations to Proposition 8 campaigns when the Utah-based Mormon church was funnelling $8 million into the initiative. Nev-

ermind that the church is “officially” politically neutral, according to a LA Times article.

Yet there it was, dipping into the cookie jar whenever it was convenient, state lines be damned. Indeed, it is easier to make donations when hiding behind anonymity, but democ-racy in action has little traction when transpar-ency is not involved.

This is why last week, a Superior Court judge urged that the ARL must submit to an audit of its donation, or Californians “will suffer irrepa-rable harm.” While this seems dramatic, it is usually best to err on the side of caution when it comes to money trails of political ruminations.

Actually, these trails could influence votes, so to call this investigation into the ARL politically motivated would be in the realm of possibility. It’s neither here nor there because people have the right to know, as the sources of donations reveal so much about what and who these prop-ositions and candidates will benefit.

Which also raises the question, how many Americans even follow the money?

For example, it seems likely that most Amer-icans don’t know who Sheldon Adelson is, even though he is one of the most generous Super PAC donors this year for the Republican par-ty. He’s donated $10 million; not really much for him considering he is the 12th wealthiest American, according to Forbes, clocking in at $20 billion of personal wealth.

This may seem to make the individual im-

pacts of the average American look tiny in comparison, but at the end of the day it is the regular citizen that makes up most of the vot-ing demographics. Remember, these donations aren’t directly controlling our hands as they press those buttons at the ballot box, it is the personal knowledge of the entire process that controls where our votes go.

The media and the government must help

maintain the sanctity of the democratic process, as they have done in the past. If Woodward and Bernstein never uncovered Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, he could have stayed in of-fice with none being the wiser.

When it comes to the donations involving Proposition 30, the importance of that knowl-edge goes double for CSUF students, who could face budget cuts that threaten the quality

of their education if the law does not pass.The polls currently show Californians in

favor of Proposition 30, with 48 percent sup-porting and 38 dissenting. The 14 percent un-decided until Election Day who are vulnerable in the view of both sides of this campaign.

It is time to make sure those undecided get a fair shot at getting the facts, especially when out of state interests are involved.

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“Dane who is this over inflated, overly helpful neighbor, who is sort of the wolf in sheep’s cloth-ing,” Roe said.

Roe always had an affection for the villainous characters, making him the perfect person to geek out with about Loki, The Joker and Norman Osborn.

Alex from A Clockwork Orange is Roe’s favorite villain.

“Very rarely do you get to watch a movie where the main character is a villain, not even an anti hero, but just a villain,” Roe said.

Roe mentioned heroes are gen-erally the blank canvas and the vil-lains are the strong colors.

This relationship is seen all the time. Ash from Pokemon is more of a bland character, where Team Rocket tends to be the memorable life of the party.

“The actor we got for Dean, Daegan Palermon, is such an amazing actor. He has such great range,” Roe said.

Audience members can expect Dean to bring strong colors into the story.

Don’t blame yourself if you fall in love with the villain. Everyone loves a bad boy.

Writers drew out the charac-ter based on the idea of having the same problems of teetering through insecurity.

“You’re always trying to put

your best foot forward, you’re try-ing to be as confident as possible with what you’re doing,” Roe said. “At the same time you have no idea if it’s going to work out or not.”

Rather than viewed as a film, Lewis is a peek into a person’s life. It almost feels invasive during these highly intimate conversa-tions and moments.

Lewis should be wrapped by December or January. Roe plans to have the film sent to several film festivals including Newport Film Festival and Sundance.

The tentative date for the soft opening is Dec. 16 during the Cal State Fullerton RTVF Annual Showcase.

The a highly talented cast in-cludes John Sera, a CSUF alumni as Lewis and Megan Hensley who stole the hearts of writers during her cold read as Amber.

Another great addition to the cast is Rico E. Anderson, who plays the ever so wise Greg.

Viewers and fans alike can look forward to a final brilliant prod-uct.

Roe has been thrilled to share this collaborative piece of work with the student body and indie film lovers, telling the story of gracefully accepting defeat.

Roe posts behind the scenes photos of for fans to keep in touch with the progress of the produc-tion of Lewis at Facebook.com/TheMagnificentLewis.

ACIII’s main setting is the American Revolutionary War. (Courtesy of MCT)

GAME: Creed conquers Redcoats

The eighth game in its series, Assassin’s Creed III, brings thrills in so many areas that it’s no surprise that it took three years for Activision to create such a fluid experience.

It’s a tale that spans seasons, lifetimes and so many jumps across rooftops that even Spider-Man would feel jealous.

Assassin’s Creed III even has a scene that takes place on a New York skyscraper, which will give even the most jaded play-ers a new fear of heights.

The one to traverse such a building is named Desmond Miles, the main protag-onist of the game and series.

Miles enters a machine known as the Animus, which lets him relieve the lives of his ancestors in an attempt to unlock secrets that may just save the world from total destruction.

From the get-go, Activision has been dedicated to the premise, so it’s very easy to feel involved.

The menus and many of the loading

screens feature the visual machinations of the Animus, providing a sense of meta for games who indeed are plugging them-selves into their own alternate lives every time they switch on their consoles.

Further setting the atmosphere is one of the most stirring soundtracks to come out in video games this year alongside Fi-nal Fantasy XIII-2 and Mass Effect 3.

Composer Lorne Balfe is indeed no Ma-sashi Hamauzu or Clint Mansell, but he still brings one of the best theme songs that make it difficult to press away from the title screen.

Another excellent human along for a ride in the Animus is Nolan North, who voices Miles.

North is the most famous video game voice actor working today for a reason. He’s the rare actor of his kind that can be so recognizable but still completely blend into every role at the same time.

Speaking of blending in, it’s a treat to completely dive into the American Revo-lutionary War setting and meet characters such as Samuel Adams, Benjamin Frank-lin and George Washington.

At the same time, it’s satisfying to fight against Redcoats as they attempt to quash an inevitable rebellion.

Furthermore, it’s a historian’s wet dream to witness and even participate in events

such as the Boston Massacre, adding a de-licious way to learn about our nation’s his-tory for couch potatoes and nerds alike.

Of course, this would mean little if the gameplay wasn’t up to snuff.

Fear not, because it is. Controls are sim-ple on paper and only require the practice of good timing. Rarely does it feel unlucky when things go astray as swords clash.

Even when things do go wrong, the health meter is forgiving and even replen-ishes between battles and in short time.

Death is also not a torturous affair, as there are frequent autosaves.

This leaves gamers free to leap from rooftop to another so that even when they fall, it’s all in fair fun.

And what joy it is to leap up walls and dive like an eagle from many stories up as the wind blows through the ears of Miles’ avatar.

The visual quality never seems to suf-fer either, except for a rare glitch that can mess with missions at times.

It’s no deal breaker. Especially when considering how ambitious this project must have been for Activision.

There are numerous modes and layers to gameplay involving ship sailing, hunt-ing, parkour and countless trinkets as well as mini-missions to undertake.

There is so much to take in during the

journey that it can be intimidating. In-stead of seeing it that way, it’s best to sit back and dig in for the long and breath-less haul. After all, that’s a recipe for money well spent.

It all adds up for Activision, validating their years of hard work and making oth-er, much shorter games look more flushed with inferiority than even the most die-hard Redcoat.

Line dance with a side of ranch

“Welcome to The Ranch,” greets a young hostess dressed in all black. “May I help you?” Her bright smile offers pleasant hospitality to guests as they enter.

As you walk through the restau-rant’s large, hickory wood doors ac-cented in bronze detailing, you are transported into a warm, refreshing and upscale atmosphere.

Two alluring seating areas flank the entrance foyer. Large leather couches coupled with matching ottomans engraved with western landscapes sit serenely in front of a custom leather treated wall.

The aroma of hide slowly fills your senses, placing you in tran-quility until the hostess awakens you and politely takes you to your table.

The Ranch offers an upscale dining experience and an exciting country dance hall.

Owner Andrew Edwards fur-nished his vision of American country by merging a refined res-taurant with a classic western style entertainment saloon. Executive Chef Michael Rossi pointed out the embellishments found throughout the restaurant.

The entrance dining room filters soft chandelier lighting, draped from the ceiling’s ex-posed cedar beams. Two cock-tail bars are positioned with rich, natural colored marble tops that

bounce the chandelier’s light.“Everything was thought out

explicitly, details upon details,” said Rossi. “We discussed designs almost weekly to ensure Andrew’s vision was clearly expressed.”

The restaurant’s 20,000-square-foot space at 1025 E. Ball Road, Anaheim, has an attached outdoor patio and ample indoor seating. Each area features its own story.

“It’s definitely a place for special occasions,” said Debbie Diaz, a resi-dent of Anaheim who was celebrat-ing her 32nd anniversary with her husband Dennis.

Diaz said The Ranch balances its fine dining atmosphere and food in a non-intrusive way. She added that the restaurant is casual enough where customers feel comfortable wearing jeans.

The Ranch underwent two years of construction for their American regional cuisine.

Rossi, a resident of Anaheim Hills, joined The Ranch’s team with more than 20 years experience and has contributed in opening exclu-sive restaurants worldwide. The Ranch is his fourth.

“It was a one in a million chance and I had to take it,” Rossi said.

His black and white pinstriped apron covers the cleanly pressed, white chef’s jacket underneath. Black slacks and black shoes finish off his outfit.

Calmly describing The Ranch’s menu, Rossi’s friendly persona cre-ates a relaxed mood, accompanied with an engaging smile and joyful laugh.

“I want to treat guests to some-thing they’ve never been to and pass on their experience,” Rossi said.

Rossi described the food as be-ing influenced weekly by seasonal

ingredients and fresh produce har-vested from The Ranch’s own farm.

The farm is located at Edwards Ranch Estates in Orange Hills/Santa Ana Mountains, and in-cludes over 400 vines of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, herbs and much more.

One of Rossi’s signature dishes is rabbit served with hand-crafted sweet potato gnocchi. He suggests treating yourself afterwards to the restaurant’s creative popcorn ice cream.

“It’s a pleasant surprise to your senses,” Rossi said.

The Ranch even outperformed their competition, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Savannah Chop House, by winning “Best Steak” in Orange County for this years Golden Foodie Award.

The event celebrated local restau-rants and their food excellence and creativity.

After treating their taste buds, customers can take a few steps and go next door to The Ranch’s saloon to dance the night away in country style.

The country décor is amplified in the saloon. Showcasing classic Western design with wood detail-ing, stone, lighting and music, the saloon embodies American coun-try.

“It’s the complete opposite of the restaurant side… it’s more like a ranch,” Diaz said as she described the saloon as exciting, loud, and fun.

As you walk into the saloon, country music engulfs you ears.

Your eyes feast on a custom white maple dance floor, barn style lanterns repurposed as modern light fixtures, a disco ball created out of country gui-

tars and two wooden top bars. The larger of the two bars is

called the Longhorn Bar and the smaller is called the Mustang Bar.

Wood beams create an outdoor, ranch feeling, almost reaching the ceiling and accented with black metal decals.

Tall stone laid pillars surround the dance floor where guests can sit and watch others twirl and glide across the dance floor.

Separate reserved seating is placed on a middle level, between the top bar area and the dance floor. Guests can call to reserve these prime, leather cushioned booths for any occasion.

On the ground level, individual seating borders the dance floor, with leather cushioned bar stools for guests to relax or drink and eat from items on the saloon’s bar menu.

The design is amplified by guests’ personal styles, wearing cowboy hats, boots and jeans, which authenticates the ranch feel-ing throughout the saloon. Chino Hills resident Samantha Irons said The Ranch has a classic style that is full of fun.

“Dancing was fun and challeng-ing because I am new to line danc-ing, but there were a few people who were willing to teach me steps,” said Irons.

Irons added that the crowd is fun and creative with awesome line dance teachers.

The addition in Anaheim makes for a unique experience. For up-scale dining or country dancing.

The Ranch’s custom design takes guests to an elegant yet casual at-mosphere where cowboy hats and boots are welcome and the steak is ranked best in Orange County.

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The Ranch has an outdoor patio and indoor seating which is decorated in country décor. The restaurant won “Best Steak” in Orange County for this years Golden Foodie Award, beating out Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Savannah Chop House.

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The Ranch in Anaheim welcomes customers to experience the country style restaurant and food

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SOCCER: Clinch playoff spot with winThe main-event soon followed.

Seconds into the first half, Camp-bell set the physical tone of the match. The Diamond Bar native instantly introduced himself to an opposing Highlander.

“When you get on the pitch, it’s another day that you work hard and hopefully get a good result,” said Campbell.

It served as a foreshadowing moment as both sides played at high intensity, especially through the first 10 minutes.

With the pedal to the metal, the Titans struck first. In the sixth minute, Mario Alvarez’s corner-kick found Ian Ramos, whose shot was deflected off Highlander goal-keeper Ashkan Khosravi. Blanco, surrounded by a sea of white and blue jerseys, chipped it in for his fourth goal of the season and a 1-0 Titan lead.

“That set the tempo and the team stepped up,” said a com-posed Blanco, “We did everything that we could to win this game. I’m blessed to have scored today.”

With UCR having their collec-tive backs pressed against the wall, Highlander right-winger Ritchie Osborne rattled the crossbar in the 13th minute after jumping on a Titan missed clearance.

Cal State Fullerton out-shot UCR in the first half, 10-7. Both teams hit the woodwork.

In the 42nd minute, CSUF se-nior left-midfielder Mario Alva-rez scored the second goal of the

game. Alvarez ran into an open space behind the Highlander de-fense, on the left side of the 18-yard box. Alvarez one-timed an Ian Ramos short pass off his left foot. The trajectory of his shot was out of Khosravi’s reach, but swerved away from goal and bounced off the far post.

UCR’s defensive-midfielder Humberto Santiago nearly tied the match in the 44th minute, but again the woodwork intervened.

Prior to starting second half ac-tion, the Titan players huddled together in midfield showing team unity.

“It’s not only senior night, but this could have possibly been our last game,” said forward Jesse Es-calante in regards to the midfield team moment, “It was easy for us seniors to go out there to lead, so everybody contributes and prevent this from being our last game.”

“We knew it was a big game, either we step up or we don’t, it’s win or go home,” Blanco said.

Between the 55th and 70th minute, the Inland Empire con-tingent kick-started their offense through Jimmy Martinez, Ju-lio Reyes and Joseph O’Connor. Each of them testing Titan junior goalkeeper Bryan Escalante. As a whole, the Highlander midfield-ers were urgently surrounding the Titans.

In the 72nd minute, the Titans caught a break. Sophomore Mark Vazquez delivered a corner kick into Blanco’s path, which deflect-

ed off Khosravi and into Escalan-te’s path, who headed in his eighth goal of the campaign giving CSUF added insurance.

The 2-0 lead delighted the Titans, the fans and Escalante’s younger brother, goalkeeper Bryan Escalante.

“The two goal lead gave us comfort but a two goal lead is the worst you can have. UCR scored one right away and we had to fo-cus and you have to be ready,” said Bryan Escalante.

The fouls slightly picked up in the second half, as both teams physically attempted to impose their wills.

As the game winded down, so did the tempo and stamina lev-els crashed down after an intense back and forth first half.

In the 80th minute, UCR at-tacking midfielder Aaron Long started and ended the build up that put the Highlanders on the scoreboard. Long was inside the 6-yard box and shot between the legs of the Titan goalkeeper.

The Highlanders had ten min-utes left to stake their playoff claim but Cal State Fullerton’s defense absorbed pressure and cleared away loose balls in that fi-nal stretch for a 2-1 victory.

CSUF will play Wednesday at 2 p.m. against the UC Davis Aggies in Davis, Calif.

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Senior midfielder Gerzon Blanco hits the ball with his chest. Blanco scored the first goal in the game.ALEX CALISH / For the Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s basketball team defeated the University of La Verne Saturday by a score of 91-51 in their last ex-hibition game before their 2012-13 season kicks off next week. The Titans gave fans a sneak peek to what they can expect for the up-coming season.

The Titans completely dominated the floor basically from the tip-off.

They had a 13-0 lead within the first few minutes of the game and managed to hold on to their lead. The team went into the locker room up 40-24 at the half. The Titans played as if it was an in sea-son game, and gave a solid effort throughout its entire course.

“We went at it like a regular sea-son game, it is our first game we are playing in front of a crowd so it was important. We came prepared,” said junior guard Alex Thomas.

The Titans nearly doubled their opponent’s score after halftime, and kept their momentum going all the way until the end of the game.

Nevertheless, La Verne put up a fair fight by outshining the Titans with three pointers in the first half.

The Titans knew they had to stop them in order to win.

“During halftime we knew we had to make sure we took away

their three pointers, that was our game plan the whole time because they are really good shooters,” Thomas said.

Sophomore guard Chante Miles was running up and down the court at what seemed like light-ning speed making it close to impossible for La Verne to stop her. Miles, along with three team-mates, were able to post double digit points for the game.

“For myself, I know that I got better from last year. Playing be-hind Lauren Chow (during last season) helped me progress this season, so I think our season is go-ing to go well,” said Miles. “Our players are coming along, and I feel that everyone is contributing.”

The Titans were able to score a majority of their points from of-fensive rebounds, which is some-thing they had been working on during practices. They showed both a strong offensive and de-fensive side, which gave them an advantage.

Head Coach Marcia Foster was pleased with the way the team played.

“The pace of the game that La Verne forced us to play, had us run more probably than I wanted to today. I think our strengths are the fact that we can run the floor and finish in transition. The team, the unit, is a strength and everybody will contribute. We had a few players in double units today and I think that is how we are going to be successful,” said Foster.

Alex Thomas is one of the older players on the team and naturally assumes a bit of responsibility to help out some of the new, younger players.

“There is a bit of responsibil-ity that goes along with just being older in general, but the younger players are really smart. They are eager to learn so it’s easy to help them out, as they want to be bet-ter and want the team to do well,” Thomas said.

This 2012-2013 Titan team is one of the tallest teams that CSUF has had in recent years. They are tied for the tallest squad since the 2007-2008 squad, which gave them an up-per hand in playing La Verne.

“We are just aggressive. We did have a size advantage against them so we needed to take advantage of that,” Foster said.

The team has high hopes for the upcoming season, which starts Friday against the University of Nevada.

“I believe our inside game is pretty strong and that leaves our guards wide open. I think we have a combination of both, so we are strong inside and out,” Miles said.

Foster hopes the team will qual-ify for both a regular season and tournament title, and end up in a position to compete for the Big West Championship.

“You play every game like it’s your last. That’s my motto. It doesn’t mat-ter who you are playing, you have to play hard and play for your team-mates and hope you come out with a win,” Miles said.

Titans dominate in exhibitionWomen’s basketball puts on strong performance against the University of La Verne

LINDSAY HENKELFor the Daily Titan

After a hard fought game and a rollercoaster season, the Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team fell to the Cal State Northridge Mata-dors 1-0 in the Big West Confer-ence tournament finals held at Anteater Stadium Sunday.

Matador forward Melissa Fer-nandez hit the golden goal in the 92nd minute of the first overtime after receiving a pass from mid-fielder Amanda Smith. The senior Fernandez struck a line drive shot with a couple of Titan defenders on her heels to the right hand side of the net.

“It was intense… it was a little dirty towards the end—kind of scrappy play. We were all pretty tired,” said Titan forward Rebecca Wilson. “We played 110 minutes on Thursday night, so we were just beat to hell.”

CSUF squandered a chance to draw the first goal in the 53rd minute of the game when Titan midfielder Summer Chavez drew a foul in the penalty box.

“I found Ann’s (Ann Marie Tangorra) feet, and I was hoping that she’d give it right back… and when she gave it back I knew I ei-ther needed to get a touch on the ball or if I don’t I need to fall,” said Chavez. “She kind of ran her body through me, and I fell down.”

JeAnne Mazeau took the penal-ty shot but missed left, hitting the post. Team captain and senior Sta-cey Fox normally would have tak-en the penalty shot, Wilson said.

Head Coach Demian Brown opted for Mazeau probably be-cause Fox just shot a penalty kick in shootouts Thursday night, which could have tipped off what direction she might have shot the ball, Wilson said.

Another opportunity for a Ti-tan goal in the first half came in a scuffle in front of the net with the

ball gingerly bouncing, waiting for someone to put a foot on it. Two Titans were able to get their laces on the ball before the Matadors were able to clear it away.

“I feel like that should be us out there. They definitely know we deserve to be there,” Chavez said about CSUN collecting the tournament award in the middle of the field. “Our team knows we deserve to be there. It all happened wrong.”

Although the Titans had more shots on goal, six, and seemed to maintain the majority of the possession throughout the game, the Matadors had opportunities throughout regulation as well.

In the 18th minute of the first half, Matador Melissa Fernandez crossed the ball into the box to an open net. The crowd sighed in re-lief when a Titan defender cleared it.

A scary moment in the game came when the Titans’ team leader Fox was lying in the middle of the field, hurting from a collision.

Attacking the ball hard in the air in the middle of the field, Fox

collided with CSUN’s Leandra Walker.

Walker earned a yellow card for the aggressive play.

Not wanting to miss what could be her last collegiate soccer game, Fox reentered the game, despite the pain she might have felt.

An emotional Fox sat teary-eyed after the game unable to comment about the play.

“We definitely deserved that game and wanted it for a really long time… it’s heartbreaking, and all of us are feeling it,” Chris-tina Burkenroad said. “We’re just going to keep working harder as a team, individually get better too. And just hopefully come back stronger next year.”

With the win, the Matadors en-ter the NCAA tournament with an automatic bid.

The Titans have a small shot to enter the tournament, but the op-portunity is unlikely.

“At the end you can only hope for the best and next time hopeful-ly we get another chance like this to do it again,” said goalkeeper Lindsey Maricic.

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Senior forward Ann Marie Tangorra walks off as Cal State Northridge celebrates. Tangorra led the Titans with four shots in the afternoon.

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After spending 120 minutes spec-tating from the sidelines on a frigid Thursday night, backup goalkeeper Katie Pulliam found herself in an impossible situation, replacing domi-nant starter Lindsey Maricic after two grueling overtimes.

What seemed like a questionable decision by Head Coach Demian Brown resulted in one of the smart-est moves of the season as the Titans defeated the UC Irvine Anteaters in shootouts, advancing the ladies to the Big West Conference finals.

“Once I’m there and ready for the shot… my mind goes blank, and I’m focused on where the shooter is setting up, what her body position is… and I just kind of make my decision and go for it,” said Pulliam about handling the shootout situation.

Pulliam, one on one with three straight shooters, blocked all three Anteater shots. Cal State Fullerton made all three of their shots, negat-ing the need for more attempts in the best-of-five contest decider.

Kishi Smith, Chelsey Patterson and Stacey Fox all found the back of the net in their shootout attempts, prompting cheers and hugs of joy from teammates.

Although Maricic, a junior, played a solid game, she was pulled after the second overtime. She conceded that the 5-foot-9-inch Pulliam fares well during the pressure of penalty kicks.

“There are things on this team that people don’t see and things that go on in the locker room that we have going for us. We have such a diverse team,” said Maricic about what sparked her ferocious game. “If I have to get a little bump or bruise or something just to get them there, then that’s just fine by me.”

The Titans came out strong to open the match, countering and tak-ing advantage of Anteater mishaps.

In the second minute of the game,

sophomore Chelsey Patterson placed a strike from outside the middle of the 18-yard box to the upper right hand corner of the Anteaters net, scoring the first goal of the evening.

“We’ve been waiting on that goal from Chelsey (Patterson) for the last year,” Brown said about Patterson’s blast on goal. “She can drive a ball better than anybody.”

The Anteaters had scoring chanc-es, but Maricic turned into a brick wall early.

She registered three clinical first half saves and ventured out of the eight-yard box on several occasions to slide and crash into the attacking offense, sacrificing the safety of her body to protect the net.

With the amount of opportunities the Anteaters were conjuring, some-thing had to give.

The Anteaters broke through the Titan defense in the 31st minute of the game when sophomore Laura McGrail put her foot on a cross from the pesky Natalia Ledezma.

McGrail one-touched the pass im-mediately in front of a diving Titan goalkeeper, who just missed what would have been a miraculous save.

The Titans had been unlucky against the Anteaters the last two seasons. CSUF had not won in the last four matches between the two of them, leaving the team hungry for a victory in the conference tournament.

Beating a team like UCI on their home turf shows the amount of effort the team put forth, Maricic said.

Still undecided after 120 minutes of action, the two teams settled the score with penalty kicks, a fate no team wants to end their season on.

The Titans chose to have junior Kishi Smith, who didn’t see any game time action, attempt the first kick—another risky move that worked out for Brown.

Smith took advantage of her op-portunity by scoring the first shoot-out attempt. Patterson made the second attempt, but it was up to team captain Stacey Fox to end the contest and send the team roaring into the tournament finals at Ant-eater Stadium.

Fox struck the ball hard past the goalkeeper to the right side of the net, ending a long drawn out contest and a four game losing streak to the Anteaters. The Titans had previously been unlucky against the Anteaters over the last two seasons. CSUF had not won in the last four head-to-head matches.

“I’m completely excited for the women. I think this is again an-other step in our process in regards to goals that we set for ourselves,” Brown said. “To be able to do it here against Irvine on their home field is great, but the reality is that we have more to do.”

Sporting orange jerseys and blue shorts on a late misty Thursday night, the Titans played aggressive and tough, proving their worth as the No. 1 seeded team in front of a stadium filled with 839 mostly rowdy fans.

However, an unusual method of deciding the tournament location left the No. 1 seeded team in an awkward position.

Even though CSUF won the conference championship and en-tered the tournament as the No. 1 seed, the game took place at Anteat-er Stadium, taking away any home field advantage the best-seeded team usually has.

UCI hosted this season’s tourna-ment because they won the confer-ence championship last season. A fate CSUF, as 2012 conference champi-ons, will realize next season.

Earlier in the week, the conference named Titan Head Coach Demian Brown Big West Coach of the Year. It is the second time that Brown has won the title.

The Cal State Fullerton’s wom-en’s volleyball team (13-12, 7-5), brought their regular season record to over .500 with a win over UC Riverside at Titan Gym Saturday night. The Titans extended their winning streak to two with the five-set victory over the Univer-sity of the Pacific Tigers and look to stretch it to three as they travel to Long Beach State to battle the 49ers Thursday night at 7 p.m.

The Titans won in a four set match (26-24, 25-19, 21-25, 25-22).

The match began with both teams trying to grab command of the set. Even though the Titans were hitting at a .242 clip led by Lauren Kissell’s four kills in the set, the Titans could never gain control.

It seemed that every time the Titans would pull away, UCR would respond as evident by the 11 ties and the seven lead changes in the first set.

The second set opened up with the Titans running out to a 12-1 lead before UCR chipped into the lead, eventually clawing their way back to as close as 21-19. The Ti-tans closed the set with a 4-0 run, taking a 2-0 set lead into halftime.

Everyone in the crowd at the gym smelled a three-set sweep. The Titans had hit .219 in the first two sets while limiting UC Riverside to an .080 attack percentage and committing 16 attacking errors.

While the numbers foretold of a

sweep, the players from UC River-side had other ideas. UCR opened the third set with 5-1 lead that turned into a 12-6 lead.

Every time the Titans made a run to close the gap, UC Riverside had an answer. The Titans got as close as 18-20 before UC River-side ended the set on a 5-3 run to cut the Titans advantage to 2 sets to 1. With UC Riverside attack-ing at a .219 percentage, Amanda Vialpando got four of the 11 kills in the set. Combined with the 10 attacking errors by the Titans, UC Riverside was breathing new life for the first time since the game’s beginning.

This new life would be short lived since the Titans opened the fourth set with a 10-1 run but UC Riverside made a game of it, even-tually cutting into the lead, 21-19. Kayla Neto and Bre Moreland combined for nine of the 12 kills in the set.

The Titans ended the set and match on a 4-3 run with Bre More-land putting the ball over for the win.

Constant key players Neto and Mo-reland were excited about the victory.

“Every year UC Riverside keeps fighting away at those points I am happy for my team and whoever does well does well and if we come

out with the win that all we want,” said Neto.

Moreland said the victory was a team effort.

“It’s nice to keep it kind of spread out, when you put all that pressure and all that load on one person it is tiring and it make it hard to continuously bring that person out and Kayla (Neto) can do it she proved that she can do it. It’s nice when we can help her out,” said Moreland.

Head Coach Carolyn Zimmer-man said she urged the team for the sweep.

“Going into the third set I said let’s do this in three” said Zim-merman. “I think we can sweep them that UC Riverside cannot do anything to us and it was a lot of errors which caused us to panic.”

Julie Consani led the offense with 35 assists and Gabrielle Dew-berry had a match high 20 digs. Moreland led the team with 15 kills and 19 digs, and Neto had 10 kills and 16 digs herself. Lauren Kissell had eight kills.

With the 10 kills against UC Riv-erside, Neto is 18 kills away from first place on the all-time kills list.

The current record of 1534 was set by Brittany Moore who played at CSUF from 2005-08.

Women’s soccer beats UCI to advance to championship

Volleyballdefeats UC Riverside in four sets

Junior outside hitter Bre Moreland attempts a spike. Moreland had 15 kills and 9 kills en route to her 16th double-double of the season.

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The women’s soccer team after putting three penalty kicks into the back of the net at UC Irvine’s home field. The win extended their winning streak to four and sent them into the championship game versus CSUN.

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Titans and Anteaters take semi-final game to penalty kicks to decide a winner

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The Titans extend winning streak to two, heading into match-up with Long Beach

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FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 9, 2012

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Aries (March 21-April 19) There’s more than enough to keep you busy. Avoid confusion. Abundance is available, although all is not as it seems. Act quickly to get a good deal.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You can’t do everything at once. Patience is required, although there’s plenty to go around. Set priorities. Edit your writing before sending it. Stay out of someone else’s argument.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Finish up old business thought-fully. You’re finding good stuff. Don’t touch your sav-ings. Have a party at home. Love is abundant, but words conceal emotion. Temporary confusion resolves.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Business depends on practical deci-sions. Avoid reckless investments or gambles. A compro-mise gets achieved after initial resistance. Love is the bottom line. Get curious, and identify the emotional requirements.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Let your love show. You have more than you thought. Address diffi-cult problems and avoid trouble. The one with the compulsion for precision has the advan-tage . Exerc i se se l f -d i sc ip l ine .

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You experience a philosophical shift. Acknowledge your feelings. Divide things fairly. Don’t overlook anybody. Move quickly but not recklessly. Prioritize obligations. This is a potential moment of conflict.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You have more than expect-ed. Friends and lovers don’t mix well now. A vaca-tion would be nice. Repeat your desired result like a mantra, already occurring, in present tense.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Work out a problem openly. Let your partner do the talking. You have more friends than you thought. Stand for yourself, and they’re right there with you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Take on new responsi-bilities and gain respect. Leave your emergency fund intact. Think quickly; move slowly. Neatness draws respect. Argue only if it truly matters. You are blessed.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You know more than you realize. Meetings conflict with family time. There’s more than enough to be done. Respect your partner’s opin-ion regarding the new you. Together, you’re awesome.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Anticipate disagree-ment, and curtail impulsive spending. Align with the team. Passion is part of the drill. You begin to see the light at the end of the abundance tunnel.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Make it a social event of cre-ative potential. Advance confidently, even if it means less time at home. Accept coaching enthusiastically. A fabulous opportunity appears. Brainstorming leads to productivity.