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Texas A&M head football coach Kevin Sumlin has been a three-time finalist for the Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year, was named the 2012 Associated Press SEC Coach of the Year and led the Aggies to an 11-2 record in A&M's inaugural season in the Southeastern Conference, but on Sunday, Feb. 24, Sumlin will be named an honorary World Heavyweight Champion by WWE.
WWE comes to Reed Arena on the Texas A&M campus at 5 p.m. on Sunday. The presentation of the championship belt will be made prior to the main event between the current World Heavyweight Champion, Alberto Del Rio, and The World's Largest Athlete, the Big Show.
Tickets are on sale at the Reed Arena Box Office, or tickets can be purchased over the phone by calling 1-888-99-AGGIE (888-992-4443) or online at 12thManFoundation.com. Ticket prices are $95, $50, $35, $25, and $15. Texas A&M students with a valid ID can purchase tickets for $10 at the Reed Arena Box Office. (Plus applicable facility, service and handling fees.)
In addition to the World Heavyweight Champion and the Big Show, other WWE Superstars scheduled to appear include Sheamus, Randy Orton, Wade Barrett, The Miz, Sin Cara, Brodus Clay, Jack Swagger, The Divas and many more.
About WWE:
WWE, a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 600 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Istanbul and Tokyo.
Additional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For information on our global activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.


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Is it possible to find out what compression algorithms have been used for images in a PDF document?
Sort of.
If you open a PDF in a text editor, you'll find a line like this for each image:
This image uses the FlateDecode filter, "a commonly used filter based on the zlib/deflate algorithm (a.k.a. gzip, but not zip)"
This image uses the DCTDecode filter, "a lossy filter based on the JPEG standard"
Filter definitions are from the Portable Document Format Wikipedia page, which has a list of all the supported filters.
However, it can be difficult to work out which image is which in a text editor - the objects do not necessarily occur in reading order. Breaking the PDF into single pages might help here.
I think Enfocus Pitstop Pro, an Acrobat plugin, may well give you this info (along with dimensions, position, DPI etc) in its object inspector, but I no longer have it, and can't seem to find any mention of this specific attribute in their manual.
You can use
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Did you know Woot Pieces of Crap VIII is up and available until 10pm CT?
Remember the terms and conditions page:
Email email@example.com with "Clash of the Crap" in the subject line.
Hope this helps all non-social networking souls :)
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Thanks again...did you send your email? (I know you did....) :)
@jsimsace: But of course, I'm 8 for 8 right now.
LOL, I've missed a few, but I got my e-mail in for this one. Now, I hope to get an e-mail saying I won!


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The McDuffie Environmental Education Center (MEEC) celebrated the dedication of a new and improved facility today, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Wildlife Resources Division. This new, larger facility replaces two older portable buildings, each with multiple structural issues that were purchased "used" for $1 each in 1999.
Speaking at today's event, Georgia DNR Commissioner Mark Williams says, "The McDuffie Environmental Education Center provides students with stimulating, outdoor learning experiences about the ecology of our wildlife, water, soils, and forests and the stewardship of these important natural resources. This new facility will give them an even better platform to continue to provide this vital information to children in the area."
The MEEC provides teachers a unique site to take students for a hands-on outdoor experience. Project lessons are tied to the Georgia Performance Standards in this diverse biologically rich site. The MEEC offers three diverse habitats, two trails, a hands-on self-directed discovery room, indoor classrooms and several outdoor classroom areas. Two certified teachers coordinate instruction. This new facility will accommodate the same number of students at a time as before, but educators expect attendance overall will increase by 25-50 percent, as the former classrooms could not be used during cold weather months due to the poor conditions.
The MEEC is a collaborative effort between the McDuffie County Board of Education, DNR, Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Resource Conservation and Development Council, the Watson-Brown Foundation and the CSRA Regional Education Service Agency. Supporters also include Samples Southeast and the Thomson-McDuffie County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The MEEC is located near Thomson at 4695 Fish Hatchery Road, Dearing 30808. The MEEC welcomes public, private and homeschool groups. To schedule a visit, contact Dot Kay at 706-339-5457 or email@example.com .
To learn more about the center, visit www.themeec.org. For information on other Regional Education Centers in Georgia, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/education/regional-education-centers.
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I'm using XeLaTeX within MiKTeX and also the
biblatex package for the literature.
I've noticed that my bibliography set using
\printbibliography is not set with the
\sloppy option by default, which is quite good in my opinion.
What I would like to be able to do is to make
\sloppy or
\sloppypar only those references in the bibliography that actually need it, that means those records which get overfull
\hbox. I don't want it to be done automatically but I haven't found a way to do it even manually. Is this even possible?


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IMAGES: Head to Bent-Con for the Geekiest Gay Art
Bent-Con's 2013 Pop-Up Gallery Exhibition is made up of artworks created by professional, emerging, and amateur artists alike, each celebrating all things geek.
Entries selected for their 2013 show will be juried by a panel of special convention "Gaylebrities" in various categories. The gallery also features hand-selected artworks from professional artists who have exhibited a commitment to Bent-Con's vision of promoting and celebrating LGBT contributions in pop culture, sci-fi, horror, comics, fantasy, gaming, and geekdom.
In addition to the Pop-Up Gallery Exhibition, the Gallery Committee is partnering once again with renowned artist Miguel Angel Reyes of the Tom of Finland Foundation to host a series of cosplay figure drawing sessions throughout the convention aptly called Live Action Figure Draw sessions.
Convention doors open at 3 p.m. Friday at the Los Angeles Burbank Marriott Airport and Convention Center. The gallery reception starts at 7 p.m. The awards ceremony is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday
Click through for more entries in the Bent-Con Pop-Up Gallery Exhibition >>>
Choklit Daddy, Mickey Tattoo, digital drawing, ink-jet print on photo paper, hand embellishment
Michael Kirwan, Making Things Uncomfortable, watercolor, markers, pen on paper
Luigi Fraga, Hare and Bear, illustration
Dave Davenport, Wrath, acrylic on canvas
Nick Leonard, SF Faux Queen Pageant: The Sisters Grimm, pen, colored pencil, watercolor
Britton Watkins, Supplication, digitally modified photography
Justice Wainwright, The Song Bird Watches Over You, graphic design print
Donna Barr, Try Outs, ink on paper
Gary Lucia, TWEAKED No. 54, comic strip panel


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5 Insane Falls You Won't Believe People Survived
#2. Cliff Judkins Hits the Water from 15,000 Feet
In 1963, Cliff Judkins was flying an F-8 fighter when a midair refueling accident turned his plane into a supersonic flaming torch. He had seconds to get out before he'd be engulfed in an orange ball of burning jet fuel.
So, Judkins reached for the controls to eject, only to find that both of the releases for the ejection seat were broken. He was going to have to jump out of the aircraft on his own. But there was a problem. See, here is why ejection seats eject -- there's a big-ass tail fin back there that you have to clear:
"I said all pilots should wear a cup. They said, 'No, when would you ever need that?'"
Well, unless you want it to cut you in half like a giant supersonic samurai sword. Judkins looked over his shoulder to see through the giant flames that were quickly engulfing his plane, knowing he'd have to jump out with enough force to clear the 20-foot-tall tail. He threw himself from the plane and sensed that his legs were in fact still attached to his body, allowing a sigh of relief hardly heard as the wind whipped at his face at 15,000 feet.
Thinking he should slow his fall, he pulled at his parachute, only to find, as you can guess, that it didn't deploy correctly. After a few minutes of terrifying struggle to get it to open, all while falling to his almost certain death, he smacked hard into the ocean.
We can only hope he took the opportunity to break the world belly-flop record.
It was then, while in the water, that his parachute finally fully deployed. Naturally, it opened underwater, and the current started to drag him under. With a broken back, ankles and pelvis, and a collapsed lung, plus kidneys and intestines in critical failure, he was somehow able to summon the willpower to cut the cords with a knife he had strapped to his body. He survived with just moments to spare.
With his injuries, swimming was out of the question, but he was able to keep afloat. Rough seas prevented rescue craft from landing, but they were able to drop emergency life rafts, which in his state he was too weak to reach. Finally, a plane was able to drop a raft trailing a 200-foot cord that he was able to grab, pulling the raft to him. Because his limbs basically couldn't function anymore, though, the best he could do was manage to get a good grip on the side of the raft as he waited two and half hours before a ship could come get him.
"No, it's cool, I'm sure Senator Brown's tax reforms are just as interesting."
But survive he did, as the newspaper headline says. In fact, the first link in this entry is to an interview with Judkins that took place almost 50 years later.
#1. Two Pilots Survive a Miles-Long Fall, While Unconscious
Ivan Chisov was flying his Soviet bomber during World War II when several German planes swept in and turned his flying machine into a falling-while-on-fire machine. Chisov bailed out, but, not wanting to be a conspicuous target for a passing Nazi pilot while he slowly parachuted to earth, decided to wait to pull his chute until he was closer to the ground. What he didn't realize, though, was that bailing out in the extremely thin atmosphere at 22,000 feet would cause him to black out due to the lack of oxygen.
This probably saved his life.
"I fall, I black out, I wake up in pain. Just like my Saturday nights."
Yes, it helped that he was flying over that ice-encrusted, snow-blanketed winter wonderland known as the Soviet Union, and he smacked down on an angled, snow-covered slope. But being unconscious actually helps people survive free falls, as the body is relaxed when it hits the ground (you can enjoy the same benefits by being "drunk, on drugs, suicidal or crazy, according to top experts in the field"). Nearby Soviet ground forces rushed to pick up what was left of him and were shocked to find Chisov injured but still alive. In three months he was back in the air.
Then, during the same war, a British pilot named Nicholas Alkemade went through an arguably more impressive version of the same thing. German fighters turned his bomber into a flaming inferno, and the fire destroyed his parachute. He realized that he faced either jumping into the black void or burning to death in his flying metal coffin. Picking door number 1, Alkemade did a backward somersault out of his cockpit and, of course, promptly passed out due to immediate lack of oxygen. He never got the chance to pull his ripcord.
Blowing your only chance at survival pulling an awesome aerobatic move? Totally worth it.
There was no gentle slope waiting for him below, but there was a forest full of pine trees. Instead of getting impaled on a tree limb, he passed through layers of branches that slapped him all the way down, slowing his fall bit by bit. Once he made it all the way through the trees, he landed in a huge snowdrift that cushioned his fall further.
Alkemade awoke in the snow and discovered that his injuries were nothing more than a cut over his eye and a sprained ankle. The Germans quickly captured him, but became suspicious when they heard his story, thinking that they were really in custody of an Allied spy. After all, what kind of superman can fall from the sky and survive without even deploying his parachute?
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The same superman who can rock that mustache without looking like a pedophile.
Further Nazi investigation discovered his plane and confirmed his story. The Germans were so impressed that Alkemade had jumped without his chute that they gave him a certificate, and he became something of a celebrity while living out the war in a POW camp.
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For more amazing tales of survival, check out The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival and The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival.


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Baseball Drops Two to Wingate on SaturdayMarch 8, 2014
WINGATE, N.C. – Entering Saturday's doubleheader with a share of the lead in the South Atlantic Conference standings, Anderson University baseball suffered two setbacks in a twin bill to Wingate Saturday afternoon at Ron Christopher Stadium and Plyler Athletic Field.
The Trojans fell 10-2 in the opening game and were unable to hold onto a lead in the final game of the day, dropping 4-3 in a seven-inning contest. With the losses, AU stumbles to 8-15 overall and 6-5 in conference play, while the home side has now won seven straight games and improve to 15-3 overall record and 10-3 in the SAC. Wingate's 15 wins for the season is currently a conference-high.
Seniors Jonathan Zalud and Paul Como tallied Anderson's only two hits against Wingate in the opening game as the duo drove in a run apiece. Wingate starter Olen Little tossed seven complete innings, allowing just two hits and struck out five Trojans. For his effort, Little earned his fifth win on the season, which ranks second in the conference.
Following the earlier setback, AU grabbed a 3-1 lead in the top of the third inning when senior Josh Hickman and junior Brett Cash each tallied singles to being the inning. Hickman, who finished the second game 2-for-3, was later brought home on a single by sophomore Steven Cooper. Senior Nathan Galliford continued the hitting trend with a base-clearing double on the ensuing at-bat, which plated Cash and Cooper. For the season, Galliford ranks third in the SAC in RBI with 26.
Despite the strong start to the second game, Anderson was unable to find another run, as WU starter Stephen Vaughn missed going the distance by an out, completing 6.2 innings with nine strikeouts and three earned runs. For his efforts, the Bulldog offense scored a run in the sixth inning and two in the seventh to seal the victory.
The Trojans look to avoid the series sweep on Sunday when they return to Ron Christopher Stadium for the final game of the three-game set. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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I installed Code::Blocks from Muon Software Center (I'm using KDE) and I got Code::Blocks 10.05.
I found this link: https://launchpad.net/~pasgui/+archive/ppa/
After adding this PPA, and running
sudo apt-get update if I run
sudo apt-get install codeblocks, which version of Code::Blocks will I get? If I download the tarball from the main site, how to I install it properly?
Can someone help me out?


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Is there a result in the spirit of Bertrand-Chebyshev which talks about the existence of prime powers between n and 2n (or 3n or something like that) for n large?
It follows from the prime number theorem that for fixed $k$, provided $n$ is sufficiently large, there is a prime $p$ such that $p^k$ is between $n$ and $2n$. Does this answer your question?
Actually there is a power of 2. It goes to show the power of binary arithmetic ... : write 2n in binary and write zeroes after the initial one.
For fixed $k$, the existence of a prime power $p^k$ between $n$ and $2n$ is (asymptotically) equivalent to the existence of a prime $p$ between $m$ and $\sqrt[k]{2} m$ where $m = \sqrt[k]{n}$. Bachraoui gives an elementary proof here that there exists a prime between $m$ and $\frac{3}{2} m$ for sufficiently large $m$.
I remember reading on MO that it is known that similar elementary proofs exist for showing the existence of primes between $m$ and $(1 + \epsilon) m$ for any $\epsilon > 0$ and, furthermore, that the existence of these proofs itself depends on the PNT. However, I can't track down where I read this.


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by Carolyn Pratt
The question is hotly debated among law school students, lawyers, judges, commentators, and policy makers: is law school still worth it? We've all heard the stories of bright, hard-working students who graduate from law school only to be faced with the arduous task of finding a permanent legal job in a struggling economy while shouldering the astronomical burden of $150,000 in student loan debt. But the bigger questions are: How did we get here? And what should we do about it?
According to a study done by the ABA Research Center, in 2008 there were 1,162,124 lawyers in the United States. David Barnhizer, Redesigning the American Law School, 2010 Mich. St. L. Rev. 249, 276 (2010). By 2009, that number had climbed to 1,180,386, which means that in the span of one year, 18,262 lawyers joined the profession. Id. Of the approximately 1.1 million lawyers in the United States, 400,000 were licensed in the last 10 years. Id. at 282.
While law schools continue to turn out legions of graduates, the pool of available jobs for these newly minted attorneys has shrunk. According to recent data published by the National Association for Legal Career Professionals (NALP), the overall employment rate for new law school graduates in 2010 was 87.6 percent. NALP, Employment for the Class of 2010 – Selected Findings, available at http://www.nalp.org/uploads/Classof2010 SelectedFindings.pdf. This number is the lowest it has been since 1996, when the unemployment rate for new law school graduates fell to 87.4 percent. Id. A reported 15,000 jobs at large law firms have been cut since 2008. David Segal, Is Law School a Losing Game?, N.Y. Times, Jan. 8, 2011.
In addition to graduating with fewer future job prospects, many graduates carry with them staggering amounts of debt. The average tuition at an American public law school is said to have increased by 448 percent between 1987 and 2005. William S. Howard, The Student Loan Crisis and the Race to Princeton Law School, 7 J. L. Econ. & Pol'y 485, 486 (2011). Approximately 85 percent of graduates from ABA-accredited law schools carry an average debt load of $98,500. William D. Henderson and Rachel M. Zahorsky, The Law School Bubble, ABA Journal, Jan. 2012, at 30-35. By 2020, the Office of Management and Budget estimates that direct loans to students will total $1.8 trillion, and between 2 and 4 percent of that will be for law school graduates. Id. at 34.
One of the most frequent criticisms of the current version of the American law school model is that in addition to leaving many students without jobs and with enormous debt, it does not adequately prepare them for the practice of law. Critics argue that while law schools spend three years teaching students archaic principles of law and encouraging heated policy debates, what law schools don't do is teach students how to be practicing lawyers.
Some have recently proposed that we deregulate legal education by allowing anyone (not just law school graduates) to take the bar exam, arguing that eliminating the requirement of a formal legal education would promote greater efficiency and reduce the problem of law school debt. See, e.g., George Leef, Allow Anyone to Take the Bar, N.Y. Times, July 25, 2011. As part of a discussion of this issue in a series posted by the New York Times, George Leef contends that law school is unnecessary because lawyers learn the practical skills they need for their jobs when they begin working, rather than in the academic classes they take in law school. Id.
Clifford Winston echoes Mr. Leef's sentiment, contending that "occupational licensure has been costly and ineffective; it misleads consumers about the quality of licensed lawyers and the potential for non-lawyers to provide able assistance." Clifford Winston, Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Necessary?, N.Y. Times, Oct. 24, 2011. Mr. Winston argues that eliminating law schools and bar exams would result in reduced legal costs, because non-lawyers would be able to charge less for their services with no student loans hanging over them. Id.
Another less drastic proposal for change involves changing the law school model to shorten the time spent in classrooms and get more students into the practice of law earlier. David Lat has proposed a model in which the first two years of law school are used for traditional legal instruction, while the third year is used for apprenticeships. David Lat, Bring Back Apprenticeships, N.Y. Times, July 25, 2011. Mr. Lat argues that "[u]nder this system, aspiring lawyers would stop accruing debt and start earning money at an earlier point." Id. Law students would gain the practical knowledge their employers want them to have, and employers could train workers to their specific requirements. Id.
On the other hand, others argue that shortening or eliminating the law school curriculum – even if it would reduce students' debt burden – would be a mistake. Kevin Noble Maillard, It's Not a Trade School, N.Y. Times, Sept. 13, 2011. Kevin Noble Maillard argues that the traditional legal model should be continued because "[i]t prepares people to become leaders in our society, which makes it imperative that they be rigorously trained as thinkers." Id.
Indeed, many argue that law schools are inherently valuable because they teach students to think like a lawyer. See, e.g., Geoffrey R. Stone, Learning to Think Like a Lawyer, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2011. Geoffrey Stone contends that what law schools do best is develop critical analytical skills: Rather than teaching students to memorize principles of law, law schools teach students how to apply those principles to different fact patterns, so that when they hit the real world they are prepared for anything. Id. Additionally, as Leonard Long points out, treating law school as a trade school ignores the fact that not everyone who goes to law school ends up practicing law. Leonard J. Long, Resisting Anti-Intellectualism and Promoting Legal Literacy, 34 S. Ill. U.L.J. 1, 2 (2009). Many trained in the legal method often eschew law practice in favor of careers in business, politics, journalism, or academia. Id.
One proposal that seeks to balance law students' need for increased practical training with the recognition of the inherent value of a formal legal education is the suggestion that all law students participate in some sort of clinical coursework during law school. See Richard A. Matasar, The Viability of the Law Degree: Cost, Value, and Intrinsic Worth, 96 Iowa L. Rev. 1579, 1612-13 (2011). Currently, only 3 percent of law schools require students to participate in clinical training. David Segal, What They Don't Teach Law Students: Lawyering, N.Y. Times, Nov. 19, 2011. Richard Matasar contends that if all law schools required (or at least strongly encouraged) their students to complete a clinical course of study before graduation, those students would leave law school with more of the practical skills necessary to succeed in a variety of professional legal settings. Matasar, supra at 1612-13.
Even this proposal, however, has its difficulties. Mr. Matasar himself acknowledges that requiring each student to take a semester's worth of clinical coursework could end up being an expensive proposition for some law schools, which might need to hire additional faculty and other resources to support the courses. See id.
Commentators have primarily called upon law schools, regulators, and policy makers to decide upon and implement these institutional changes. In the end, however, one of the easiest solutions is within the reach of every member of the bar. Increased mentoring of prospective law school students, including candid discussions about the costs of law school and the outlook for potential job prospects, is something we can all contribute. For students who carefully consider their reasons for attending law school and who make decisions about their student loans with realistic expectations of their ability to repay them, law school may still be worth it. As practicing lawyers, it is our responsibility to seek out and mentor these students.
Carolyn Pratt graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2008. After a two-year clerkship at the North Carolina Court of Appeals, Carolyn joined the Wilmington, North Carolina office of Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, LLP as a member of the firm's litigation group.
Categories: Civil Justice System | Continuing Legal Education | Defense Practice | Law School | Scholarship


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Can anyone suggest a java library to perform forward and backward Fourier transform on images? Either RGB or gray-scale or binary , that doesn't matter since I've converted the image to all these ;)
I do searched but most of the image processing libraries like marvin, JAI etc don't have Fourier transform. So I thought anyone who have done this earlier could suggest me one


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President Test-Drives a New Tone
COLUMBUS, Ohio—President Barack Obama is recalibrating elements of his campaign, sharpening his stump speech and exploring a new approach for his next debate with Republican Mitt Romney, a sign of how rapidly the presidential contest has shifted in recent days.
Mr. Obama appears to have absorbed the lessons from his lethargic performance in the first presidential debate. Polls are tightening as Messrs. Obama and Romney battle over about nine states that will decide the Nov. 6 election, including Ohio, where both candidates made appearances Tuesday, the last day residents could register to vote.
Feeling the pressure, Mr. Obama in speeches has begun sounding more optimistic and is snappier in rattling off what he sees as his achievements. He test-drove the new speech Sunday and Monday in California, and continued with the new approach in Ohio on Tuesday. "We have come too far to turn back now," Mr. Obama said at Ohio State University.
Mr. Obama's advisers are also trying to determine how to best prepare him for his next debate with Mr. Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., next Tuesday. Looking at ways for Mr. Obama to be more aggressive, they considered bringing in Robert Gibbs, a longtime Obama adviser who was White House press secretary until early 2011.
Mr. Gibbs has been seen as one of the few people around the president who can give him criticism bluntly. The campaign said, however, such a move is unlikely.
At the same time, Mr. Romney, seeking to take advantage of his new opening, is striking a softer, more optimistic tone, as the candidates battle for undecided and independent voters. On Tuesday, he noted that he once attended a Christmas party with one of the former Navy SEALs killed in last month's attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
When he learned the man had died, Mr. Romney said at campaign stop at an Iowa farm, "You can imagine how I felt." Tuesday night in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mr. Romney said Americans were increasingly interested in the campaign "in part because people are facing some tough times."
The tone is one way the Romney campaign is seeking to counter a critique from Democrats that the Republican is an out-of-touch businessman. Kevin Madden, a Romney adviser, said the campaign expects a more aggressive tone from the president in the second debate.
During his California trip, Mr. Obama, who will spend the weekend preparing for the debate, got an earful of suggestions for how to approach the next debate. "After the debate, I had a bunch of folks come to me: 'Don't be so polite, don't be so nice,' " Mr. Obama told a San Francisco crowd.
Perhaps the most prominent change in Mr. Obama is his stump speech. Previously, he began with a basic argument that the economy has made progress since he took office but that more work needs to be done.
In recent days Mr. Obama began the speech by reminding audiences that he fulfilled promises to end the war in Iraq, wind down the war in Afghanistan and go after al Qaeda. He also talks about cutting taxes for the middle class, revamping health care and regulating Wall Street, as well as the recent drop to 7.8% in the unemployment rate.
By contrast, at an event in Nevada days before the debate, Mr. Obama didn't mention ending the war in Iraq until more than 2,000 words into his speech.
He has continued to attack Mr. Romney on the stump in a way his supporters wished he had in the first debate, criticizing the GOP nominee's tax plan and accusing him of misrepresenting himself and his positions.
"Get him next week," a woman in the San Francisco audience shouted.
—Laura Meckler contributed to this article.
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Honestly, when I first came upon this, I thought it was a joke. The term "silent disco" is, in and of itself, a kind of paradox. But it turns out that silent discos are a serious matter for people all over the globe. In fact, the term was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online in February, 2011.
Hold on just a second. What is a silent disco, you ask?
It's just like clubbing, but with one major difference. Everyone is listening to the music on a pair of wireless headphones. The music is broadcast through an FM transmitter. This would present an odd looking party scene to those sans headphones, appearing as if people were dancing to the sound of nothing. These silent gatherings often feature dueling dj's competing for listeners, as well as live musical acts.
The concept of the silent disco was born in 2005, as the result of noise restrictions at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, England. A Dutch company called 433fm coined the term "silent disco" and circumvented noise restrictions by turning the festival into a large-scale wireless headset event. This was their first large-scale event, although they had been developing a plan for hosting a number of the same type of smaller music events across Europe since 2002.
The silent disco caught on quickly in The Netherlands with appearances at festivals like De Parade, Lowlands, and Pinkpop. And these days, 433fm takes it on the road to venues like Amsterdam's Club 8. Each year there's also a silent disco stage at the Exit festival, an annual summer music festival held in Novi Sad, Serbia.
After sweeping across Europe, the silent disco show is now popular in places like Brazil, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and the United States.
The silent disco is not just for dj's anymore. Each show is unique and can feature a variety of acts, including; live bands, comedians, rappers, actors, dancers, and video artists.
If you're intrigued by the idea of the silent disco, be sure to check one out in your area. They seem to be popping up in major cities all across the United States.


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I'm still at school, and I know I have problems dealing with other people.
I'm not an angry or shy or different, I just like to work my way and with my opinions while respecting other's, I have a big curiosity and hunger for knowledge, but I lack practice and I guess people don't want to work with me because they might fear I would talk some kind of morale. (For example I started to learn programming using linux instead of windows, even if I use windows a lot. And I have a mac).
What happens to programmers who lack teamwork? Where does the problems begin? Does being a good programmer compensate at least a little? Is it normal for a programmer to have a vision about his work instead of just doing what he is told?


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From the Manufacturer's Label:
These Certified Organic sun-dried raisins begin their journey as the sweetest, plumpest grapes bursting with juice. These scrumptious raisins are the perfect snack to add a boost to any recipe, or to eat right out of the bag!
Dried right at the base of their vines until they reach their peak of sweetness, just the way nature intended.


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A woman was knocked down and stepped on in a crowd of shoppers during an early Black Friday sales event Thursday night at the Leavenworth Walmart, a police spokesman said.
The incident occurred at 8 p.m. Thursday. About 200 shoppers gathered for a sale for Beats by Dr. Dre headphones.
"Folks got a little carried away," Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens said, and there was a scuffle.
Kitchens said Walmart employed off-duty Leavenworth police officers for security as well as additional private security.
"And, it was necessary for them to intervene to break up the disturbance," the police chief said.
The 49-year-old woman who was knocked down suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital by family members.
There were no arrests.
Kitchens said a Police Department detective will be reviewing security video from the store in an attempt to identify who is responsible for the woman's injuries.
"I don't think the victim was able to provide much detail given the circumstances," Kitchens said.
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Walkertown Library provides this special workstation with an array of equipment and software as the result of a grant. Come and preserve your treasures.


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The color difference between gold and bronze badges are too subtle to be noticed. Can they be made more saliently different?
Especially, with black background, they are almost indistinguishable to me. On the page that shows the inventory of badges, where the badges are aligned vertically, I almost cannot tell which ones are gold and which ones are bronze.
I agree with some of the proposals below, but even just making the gold more yellow and bright, and the bronze more brown/orange and dark can help. Or if just either of them were outlined with a different color, that could help too.


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Something keeps nagging at me. My sketch for Prospera still doesn't seem quite right to me. Again it's too fussy – maybe in a fine yarn it would be right but I am committed to Peruvia. The moss st has to go. I think st st is better. The detailed circular motif and the the feather and fan are so …are so…so…ah man, that's it! Feather and fan, why not use the feather and fan stitch again?
This seems to be working:
Ok – this sketch is doing it for me, finally:
That's it
Thank you so much for sharing the process with us. It has been fun to read and so instructive!July 3, 2008
Thanks for explaining the process for your GORGEOUS sweater. I now have to get this booklet (along with all the others, sigh!)
I am curious about the process in your head, and how it compares to an artist's. Do you have moments of intensely amazing and stimulating (and scary) sketching? (I don't design knitting, and this is something I've been missing in my own knitting process, which is more about the garment and less about its construction and design.)July 4, 2008
Hi Norah. I like the direction this sweater is taking. Now I am no expert by any means, but I agree there is a bit of fussiness to some of it. I wonder what would happen if the medallion was moved up so it was inside the godets rather than hanging below? I dunno, maybe I am off base.July 5, 2008
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I love so many of your designs…have "Knitting Nature" in my library…but it was Eastlake Sweater and Strawberry Hill (Vol 3) that had me jumping up and down (well, in my soul, anyway) and they are NEXT!!! in the queue. I bugged my LYS more than once while we were awaiting delivery of the books! I'm looking for my yarns as I write this. They are just "me" and I can't wait to not only knit them, but wear them after. Big Hug!July 11, 2008


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Primer, then paint, or paint-and-primer 2-in-1?
I'm about to move into a house that's covered in wallpaper. I haven't a clue if there's paint under the paper, but even if there is I'm probably going to want to make sure and put down some primer anyways.
I have noticed that there are paints now available that are 'self-primed' or have primer mixed in; my question is are these to be trusted, or is it still better to just put separate coats of a pure primer down and then paint?
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Paint with primer is like shampoo with conditioner. Sure, there's some of it in there, but it's not as good as if you were to do it separately.
Remove the wallpaper (Dif), patch as necessary, primer, then paint. For the paints at Orange and Blue, I much prefer Valspar over Behr.
my experience says go seperate. getting the colors to stay true means you need a coat or two of something behind the color of choice.
Pay someone to do it. Make them prime then paint. :)
Behr Ultra interior is terrible paint when it comes to one coat coverage. For me, it has never covered in one coat and this is especially true if you are going to have lots of patches (and you will removing all of that wallpaper.) A quality stain blocking primer is the way to go. The best tip I can give you is to lightly sand the entire wall after applying the primer to get a uniform finish. This step will make a huge difference.
I just did this actually! Here is my input – First, it depends what color you are using. I recently found out that colors like blues and reds, etc. do not cover as well because of their make-up. In-organic colors such as tans, beiges, etc. cover just fine.
2 weeks ago, we painted my sons room a superman blue. I primed separately and then painted. Being that blue is a very thin laying color (no matter how dark it is) we actually tinted the primer to a medium blue color. This was a recommendation from a very skilled man in the field. I am glad we did! I think that if we did not do just that, it would have easily taken 3 coats of that blue – and that was on already done baby blue walls.
Last week we painted our office in the color Thyme Green (Olympic "One" paint and primer combo from Lowes). This is a darker green/grey color. It went on wonderfully and only required one coat.
This helps me explain what I mean: http://www.dispersions-pigments.basf.com/portal/basf/ien/dt.jsp?setCursor=1_561069
Love home improvment questions! This is some good info too, plus one for everrryyybodddyyy. Except for okham, since you violated the spirit of DIY. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
I can 100% verify what @jimmyd103 just said.
The Mrs. and I just painted our little girl's room pink with that exact paint. The coverage printed on the can came nowhere close. We even had to go back and get another quart to barely finish the job.
As much as I hate painting the same surface twice, next time I will prime then paint.
For covering the wall after removing wall paper, I would absolutely go with primer then color.
If you have a good base already and just want to change color, primer+color is a good way to go.
Having gone through a painting debacle, I say primer first, then paint. Don't believe the 2 in 1 hype. Just primer it. It's sooo much trouble if you don't. Took me four cans of paint to figure it out.
I also learned that if you are using a color that is based on a neutral base, you really should primer first. Seems a neutral base is really clear base and the only thing that gives it color/can hide your underlayer, is the tint put in it. In my case, I had just yellow tint in the paint and so it really didn't matter how many layers you put on, the yellow tint was the only thing hiding the wood grain and putty underneath (and it did a horrible job at that). Use a color with a pastel or white base (which has titanium dioxide (the white pigment)) and that stuff is very opaque (at least more so than the neutral) and will hide whatever is underneath.
If you value your sanity make sure the wall paper is removed the correct way first. I just had to paint two rooms which had wallpaper removed and since it was done wrong (little sister ripping off what she could) it would have been quicker to install new drywall.
I went the prime first then paint route too and it worked fine; however I cannot speak for the prime and paint option.
@czarkingkaiser: If you are looking for a great site for all kinds of DIY info, tips, and help. I've had huge success at http://www.doityourself.com
There is a nice mix of pros, seasoned DIYers, and novices. I've found that the tips and tricks I've received on the site have been spot-on correct. I've also saved my behind with some complicated electrical problems that turned out to be simple solutions. The forums there are great. I know this sounds like a paid testimonial but anything that saves me time and money I'm really passionate about!
@friman44: I can't agree with you more! Any glue residue left on the wall will have a different texture/ look when painted. And if you are not careful, its super easy to remove the paper layer of drywall with the wall paper.
I've removed painted-over wallpaper in 6 rooms of my house, I consider myself an expert by now....
stay away from the paint and primer all-in-one crap. I was a painter for about 10 years and worked in a paint store for 3 years, and I keep in touch with the guys at the paint store... the new 2-in-1 paints are a joke, they're just the latest generation of multiple attempts to create a real 2-in-1 product that has been tried unsuccessfully for decades.
The nice thing about a good primer/sealer is that it also SEALS in any glue residue from the wallpaper, avoiding the inevitable patches of different texture on the final painted wall.
If you are going for anything other than white/off-white on your final wall color, you can have the people at the store tint your primer so that the final coat of paint covers better. At the paint store I worked at it was typical for us to tint the primer with half of the tint formula of the final color.
@jimmyd103: thanks for the link. i do so much repair work, it's nice to have a good site to check in on.
@jimmyd103: Thanks, looks like a great site. I'm currently trapped in one bedroom apartment in the city as opposed to a the house (plus workshop) in the country that I want. Right now, I'm stuck with refinishing furniture or painting walls, can't do much more than that. Although I'm heading over to my buddy's place soon to create something like these pipe shelves.
I'll parrot the separate cans. I bought a house a year ago with a TON of wall paper. Spent the first two months removing wall paper! Yikes.
I used a paddle steamer to remove the big pieces of wall paper then I went through and cleaned the walls with Dif. Then washed them one more time.
Patch any areas then prime it, then paint. It took me much longer than expected but the results can't be argued with. Well worth the effort!
I did miss a spot in one room where I didn't clean the wall paper glue off and you can really tell. After I painted over it, it sort of 'cracked' and I had to paint over it a few times before it didn't do it. Much like painting a non-paintable calk.
Just do it right, it's your house!
I never have tasted the paint/primer-combo kool-aid because I think it's juat a way to pad profits with no real benefits for the user. I recommend a primer like Kilz 2 then a top coat (or 2 if necessary) to all of my customers.
@jsimsace: +1 on the Kilz recommendation. That stuff is amazing


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For the purposes of this question I would interpret the word "recorded" as loosely as possible meaning that historic records such as ice cores or tree rings would count. Also what effect did such a large flare have on life on Earth at the time?
A spike in Carbon-14 content was recorded from tree rings in Japan, possibly due to a solar flare 20 times more energetic than the 1859 Carrington Event (the largest definitively recorded solar storm). This event has been dated to 774 AD. I think this could be the most energetic (tentatively) recorded solar flare.
Such a solar storm would be far more devastating today than it was back then, in the sense that we rely so much on technology that the EM interference would cost trillions of dollars in damage to power grids and communications.
A flare would need to be disastrously large, I think, to give us on Earth radiation poisoning. Certainly, animals that use Earth's magnetic field for navigation and would get rather confused. But our atmosphere and magnetic field are adequate protection when we're on Earth.
Here is a good write-up of the situation, with a couple of Nature papers if you have access.
If you're going to delve into considering the effects of solar storms on human health (i.e. the effects of magnetic field perturbations), put your tinfoil hat on first. There's a lot of pseudoscience and little substantive research.


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I want to start a small brewey in my town in Ohio. Nothing huge to start. Does anyone have any advise for me as to equipment that I have to have or can I just use homebrewing equipment to start? And any other advise on licensing and laws would help.
Welcome to BrewAdvice.com Frank.
This question is honestly a little too broad and all-encompassing for this site, but I'll try to give you some leads. Your best bet is to start reading, start researching, and start talking to people.
If you're just getting started, check out the Brewer's Association. They're a good jumping off point. They also have a long list of links and other resources.
There are a few million blogs on the topic. Mine is one. Brian's is another. There are a lot more.
Do you currently have homebrewing equipment? Chances are it won't be enough to start a brewery. It's just not cost-effective to brew 5 gallons at a time. But sharing with friends is a good way to get feedback on your beer.
As far as laws and licensing go, check out Anda's blog - Legal Libations
Some books you might want to check out:
Lastly, ProBrewer.com is a great resource for articles, a forum, etc.
That should get you started. Come back and ask more questions as you learn. There's a wealth of knowledge out there.
In addition to speaking to your state's liquor control board (if it has one) to find out what licenses you'll need to create alcohol products to sell, you'll want to check with your local health department to find out the rules regarding making consumables to sell. In a lot of places, you can't make foodstuffs to sell commercially in a private household. You have to use a commercial space or have a dedicated kitchen in your house that has no direct access to the rest of your house. That is, to go from this kitchen to the rest of your house you have to exit the building and re-enter through the residential entrance. You also often cannot use any of the equipment from your commercial kitchen in your own private kitchen. Your local, county, or state health department, whichever applies, will be able to point you in the right direction.
The Ohio alcohol control board has a lot of information on local licensing: http://www.com.ohio.gov/liqr/Forms.aspx http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/43 http://codes.ohio.gov/oac/4301%3A1-1
The TTB website is also quite useful in figuring out the federal licensing www.ttb.gov.
In both cases, you will need a commercial space. Brewing, no matter how small the operation is usually considered a light industrial or industrial use. But, you can start out on a small 1bbl system and grow from there if you wanted to.
In addition to the resources in PJ's response and above, here is another that is useful:


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Armstrong Begins His End
The myth of Lance Armstrong ended at 9:02 p.m. ET, in a dramatic drumbeat of one-word answers.
"Yes" to banned substances.
"Yes" to EPO.
"Yes" to blood doping or transfusions.
Testosterone, cortisone, human growth hormone. "Yes."
All seven Tour de France wins, a historic run of victories in the sport's most prestigious race?
It felt over before it even got started. But this myth didn't unravel in 90 high-profile television minutes. The myth of Armstrong had been eroding for years, as the truth began to close in on a once-irresistible saga.
This was an attempt at a knockout, leaked and expected, but still surreal in its execution. Oprah Winfrey was the national examiner here, and there would be no grace period of misty memories, no gradual build-up before the inquisition. She wanted to know the answers to the hard questions right away, and she wanted yes or no answers.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Finally, out loud, in public. Armstrong had been so defiant for so long—insistent that he'd never doped, never taken illegal advantage, never supplemented his performance or stamina with anything other than the astonishing heart and mind and constitution of Lance Armstrong. He denied it furiously, without blinking or equivocation, and he menaced many who suggested otherwise.
Now he was surrendering, for no reason other than he had no choice.
He appeared shrunken in that hotel room chair, aged, graying. The story of Armstrong had been always been so larger than life—the survivor turned champion turned cancer warrior and inspiration—and the man himself was never more vigorous than when he was cornered. Skepticism was like jet fuel, and he thrived on intimidation.
But sitting before Winfrey, Armstrong didn't look like a fighter. He looked like a man who wanted to go home, to go anywhere. There was almost a hopelessness to his presence, a daze, a going-through of motions he never expected to go through. He was appealing for a forgiveness he didn't seem to think he deserved.
"This is too late," he said. "It's too late for probably most people. And that is my fault."
He did not break down, he did not cry, he did not offer the emotional release that has become the necessary crescendo in the modern ritual of apology and redemption. He managed a smile here and there, some scatterings of rueful laughter. His jokes were mostly gallows humor or bad.
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"I'm not the most believable guy in the world right now," he said at one point. He attempted some dutiful self-flagellation. When Winfrey showed a video of a young, obstinate Armstrong, he described himself as an "arrogant pr—."
Winfrey was prepared for a thorough inquiry, ready from the start to get into the dense weeds of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's Reasoned Decision and hold Armstrong accountable for his history of human collateral damage. She ticked-off names of truth-tellers, individuals who had felt Armstrong's life-changing fury. Frankie and Betsy Andreu. Emma O'Reilly. Tyler Hamilton. David Walsh. Floyd Landis.
Armstrong struggled here; the introduction of truthful adversaries seemed to rattle his focus, and some of his responses were grasping and awkward (his recollection of his recent call to Betsy Andreu was especially clumsy). But he acknowledged his overall ruthlessness. "It's a major flaw," he said. "It's a guy who expected to get what he wanted and control every outcome."
Winfrey did not offer a lifeline. There there was no visible catharsis, no hugging it out. If there was an Oprah moment, it came when Winfrey asked Armstrong about his destructive bullying. "Were you a bully?" Winfrey asked.
Armstrong sort of laughed. "Yeah, yeah," he said. "I was a bully."
Winfrey: "Tell me how you were a bully."
Here you expected the interview to veer off into the territory of childhood traumas and long-carried resentments, but it never really went there. Soon it was back to Usada and longtime Armstrong associate, doctor Michele Ferrari. More questions will come in Part II on Friday night.
There were still flashes of resistance. Armstrong did not wish to wander into the tentacles of this story; he tried to keep the controversy to himself. He offered denials. He denied putting extreme pressure on teammate riders to dope. He denied trying to influence cycling's governing agency, the UCI. He was insistent he did not dope when he came back to the sport in 2009 and 2010.
And he said something else here that was intriguing: he said he regretted returning to cycling in 2009, suggesting it had possibly set into motion the chain of events that led him to his professional humiliation, a lifetime ban from competition and the hot light of this hotel suite. And it was possible in that moment, to hear the wheels in Armstrong's brain spinning in the way they used to spin when he fought back and fought back ugly. He wasn't sure if this was totally true, but he suspected it, and he felt comfortable enough to introduce it into his version of his narrative.
He had almost slipped away.
"We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back," he said.
And yet Lance Armstrong was sitting there, in that room, finally giving the kind of answers he never wanted to give. The narrative had run its course. So had the myth. In that chair sat only a man.


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I am having difficulties getting Ubuntu installed on my laptop and I have tried a few different ways of going about this as suggested on the disk. They include a direct install, install within windows and install helper. None of these worked and I do not like or want Windows on my laptop. How can I get rid of Windows and get Ubuntu to install on my computer?
NOTE: Autorun does not work on this laptop for some reason and I am thinking that this may be part of the issue. Please help if you can. Thank you in advance.
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1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "repair your computer."
If you don't have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
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- BSO Case Number: PB01-08-14620
- PIO Number: 01-8-44
- Date: August 31, 2001
- Time: 0907
- Place of Occurrence: 705 NE 23 Terrace, Pompano Beach
- Christopher Buchinski, 24, 4/7/77, 705 NE 23 Terr., Pompano Beach (DECEASED)
Description of Incident:
The death of a 24-year-old man, apparently by drowning, is under investigation by the Broward Sheriff's Office.
The fatal incident occurred this morning in a backyard pool at the victim's house at 705 NE 23rd Terrace in Pompano Beach. Christopher Buchinski, 24, was discovered face-down at the bottom of the pool by his live-in girlfriend (Raina Katz), when she returned home from an early morning shopping trip at about 9 a.m. The woman jumped in the pool and pulled Buchinski to the surface while her friend dialed 911, summoning help from the Broward Sheriff's Office and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue. Paramedics rushed Buchinski to Imperial Point Hospital where he was declared dead at 10:10 a.m.
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A Boston native, Susan Hagen received both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Double Bass Performance from Boston University, graduating with honors as a student of Edwin Barker, principal bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
An active freelancer, for the past seven seasons Hagen has spent most of her time performing as an extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Hagen has been a frequent performer with Emmanuel Music of Boston, New England String Orchestra, Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Opera Boston, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra and the Utah Symphony, among others. She was a fellowship student at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1998 and again by invitation in 1999.
Hagen is a frequent guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music, is currently on faculty at the Gordon College Music Department and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and is also the bass coordinator for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. She performs chamber as a founding member of Trio Nordica as well as with Winsor Music and the Radius Ensemble. She has recorded for Arsis and BMOP Sound among many other labels.
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BELTON (November 6, 2012)--Formal charges have been filed and a bond set for a Killeen man who is charged with murder in connection with the death of a man whose body was found inside a bag near the Stillhouse Hollow Dam.
Anthony Jamale McKoy, 24, was held Tuesday in the Bell County Jail charged with murder in the death of Llael Garcia-Rodriguez, 31, of San Antonio, whose body was found by a passing motorist on Oct. 12, a short distance south of the Stillhouse Hollow Dam, stuffed inside a large bag.
McKoy's bond on the murder charge is set at $100,000 but he also is being held on a parole violation warrant without bond.
Toriano Thomas, 29, and Katrina S. Jackson, 21, were ordered held Nov. 3 in lieu of $60,000 bond each, charged with tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair investigation.
Jessabel S. Lucas, 30, was ordered held in lieu of bonds totaling $111,500 on charges of tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair investigation, possession of a dangerous drug, failure to identify as a fugitive and giving false identity, as well as being held without bond on a motion to revoke probation.
Lucas shows an address on Fort Hood, McKoy, Thomas and Jackson all show Killeen addresses.
Investigators used fingerprints to identify Garcia-Rodriguez, who had been reported missing in San Antonio and who police believed was in the Killeen area.
An autopsy showed he died of stab wounds to the chest and that his face had been beaten severely, the sheriff's office said.
Investigation led officers to learn that the murder actually happened within the city limits of Killeen and the body was taken to the dam for disposal.
"To me there's not a normal murder," James Lewing of the Bell County Sheriff's Office said.
"Every murder has its own calling card. We just want to figure out why this person was dumped alongside the road like a piece of trash."
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What do people see when they see Francis?
The question posed in that headline is a paraphrase of one used by James Carroll in a new interview in which he discusses how Pope Francis is effecting a potentially "radical" change in how the Church is viewed by the world. "What do people see when they see you?," according to Carroll, is the question Francis has, at least figuratively, put to his fellow clerics in seeking to emphasize simplicity and draw attention to the plight of the poor – and in the process do some much-needed image improvement at the institutional level.
Is it working? And are the pictures, images, and accounts of this papacy perhaps more carefully crafted and less spontaneous than they seem?
The answer to the first question, at least according to Carroll, is yes—mainly. There are tangible innovations like the survey on family life being conducted in advance of the synod this coming fall, which in asking for information on issues like contraception and divorce and remarriage "signals a shift already underway" in the way power may be exercised. There are the less tangible qualities attaching to the man himself—whose capturing of the world's attention, Carroll says, can be explained by the fact that he "represents an ancient human need, an ancient human longing for symbols and signs of the mysterious experience we all have of life on this planet." The only thing marring this picture is Francis's response to the sexual abuse scandal, which Carroll describes as a disappointment and quantifies as "all too little."
The answer to the second question is also yes, says Mary E. Hunt in a piece at Religion Dispatches titled "The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me." Things one and two are what she sees as the immutable hierarchical structure of the church and the status of women and gay people. Thing three is what, in an otherwise unsurprising critique, caught my attention: "the remarkable, even enviable public relations success, not to say coup, that the papacy of Pope Francis represents."
I am not suggesting that there is no substance to Francis' agenda, that change does not underlie it. Conservatives would not be so hot under their collective collars if that were not the case. But I am cognizant of the very powerful public relations machine that has turned an ecclesial ocean liner on a dime, transformed an all but written-off patriarchy into one of the most inviting, benevolent monarchies the world has seen in modern times….
Surely some of the "credit" for this PR blitz goes to former Fox News and Time writer, Opus Dei member and Midwestern Catholic, Greg Burke. He became senior communications advisor to the Vatican's Secretariat of State in June 2012, well before the new pope took over. Mr. Burke is commonly associated with moving the papacy toward a more hip, social-media savvy approach to getting out its word. It works. Papal tweets are new. But more important than 140 characters at a time are the remarkable visuals, photo ops that don't quit, moving gestures of a humble, caring man projected for the world to see and imitate. Only a craven critic would pass over these as trivial.
David Gibson wrote here about Burke and Pope Benedict's then-new Twitter account just over a year ago, noting the early growing pains and concluding that "there's no better communications strategy than having a good product to sell." How much has changed since then? Many would say there's a better product to sell. How much is a communications strategy helping in selling it? And how much faith should be placed in, or attention paid to, images like the one in this post? What are we seeing when we see this pope?
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If Burke took over in June 2012 and nothing improved until after the election of Pope Francis, that proves one thing to me. It all depends on the material you have to work with. If Pope Benedict was every bit as unsuccessful in the media after Burke took over as before -- and he was -- that disproves the myth that the "very powerful public relations machine" backed by Fox and Opus Dei is the real power at work.
To intimate that Pope Francis is the media creation of his handlers who "turn an ocean liner on a dime" is more than ridiculous, it's a willfully obtuse conspiracy theory. Perhaps Pope Francis is getting the coverage he deserves. Given the intrinsically interesting and important message he has to offer, one can hardly quarrel with that.
It seems to me that what most of us see is an extraordinarily compassionate man who sees the potential for compassion in all the rest of us and inspires us to be open to the value of others -- all others. The well-spring of his compassion is the grace of God, and he wants to share it. Implicit in all this is his faith in God.
No, he hasn't tackled the most diffifult problems yet -- the lack of accountability of bishops and our acute theological problems. But I suspect he is hoping to win over those bishops who might support him when finally he wields an ax against the worst of them and when he looks at the theologicla problems freshly. Oh dear, the image of Frances wielding an ax is so painful! But he must change, even remove, the truly dreadful bishops. The question is, is he strong enough to route out the deadwood? I think he's trying to change those bishops first, but we'll see what happens, or doesn't. Sigh. But I think he'll make some progress with the theology.
(If he's not the great saint he seems to be, then oh, the sneers that will follow!)
It all depends on the material you have to work with. If Pope Benedict was every bit as unsuccessful in the media after Burke took over as before -- and he was -- that disproves the myth that the "very powerful public relations machine" backed by Fox and Opus Dei is the real power at work.
Rita - I agree that Francis should get at least some of the credit :-).
In a a television interview last night, Cardinal George was asked why the College of Cardinals turned to Bergoglio. His response (I'm paraphrasing and summarizing) was: they were looking for someone who could come in and reform the curia, and who would have a heart for the poor. That first point seems to be a reference to Benedict's pontificate. He went on to note that a number of the cardinals apparently weren't aware of Francis' populist streak, his magnetic attraction to people. So some of the "Francis effect" apparently was not planned or foreseen.
If anyone is interested in George's remarks, the interview is here. His remarks on Francis start at about the 12:30 mark.
A response from someone to whom I sent the Hunt article:
Hunt is right - but also wrong.
There's been absolutely no change in any of the sorely needed matters of substance, it's all been surface and style. Certainly, moving away from the evil of clericalism means we have to dramatically downgrade the papacy itself, and the episcopal office, just as we need open up the priesthood to married men and women, of any orientation. There;s also been a lot of double - speak and mixed messages: there've been diametrically opposed interpretations of Francis' recent comments about gay parents.
But it's incorrect to assert that he has done nothing to change the fundamentals. His appointment of the advisory board of 8 has at a stroke downgraded the importance and power of the curia. By the time they have completed their deliberations on restructuring it, that process could well continue. The choice of new cardinals for next month's consistory could also further shift the emphasis from the centre to the dioceses. Even more interesting, will be his choices for the consistory after this one, and for his remaining appointments to the curia. For me, the crunch issue is will he appoint more women and lay men to more senior positions in Vatican governance - and signal to the bishops that they should do the same at at national and diocesan level? For now, it's too soon to tell, but he's only been in office barely nine months. The important thing is not how "little" he's done in those nine months, but what he will have achieved (or not) by the end of his term. Give him time, before judging conclusively. For now, he's clearly moving in the direction of a more comprehensive, enduring restructuring of church power structures.
On the doctrinal issues (especially the sexual ones), and on women's ordination, he's obviously not changed anything - but he has very conspicuously opened up room for genuine and frank discussion and debate. It was notable that "Evangelii Gaudium" had nothing to say on sexuality in all its 225 pages - but in the preamble, he noted that some issues had deliberately not been covered, because they needed further study and reflection. Part of that process is the synod on marriage and family, and the global consultation that is preceding it. The synod has not been called to change teaching, but its conceivable (even likely?) that this period of study and reflection could demonstrate the need for that change.
He's ruled out the likelihood of women cardinals (for now), but even discussion of the possibility would have been inconceivable under Benedict or JPII - and that possibility remains open, for the future. He has explicitly said that we need to find ways to bring women more directly into the decision making structures of the church, but not yet said how. That too, presumably, needs more "study and reflection". Is it fantasy to imagine that could include rewriting the procedures for the conclave to it admit senior leaders of women religious (if not designated as cardinals, then in some other way)? Or similarly, could we see their counterparts taking up seats alongside men in what our now called national "bishops' " conferences?
On both these counts, sexuality and including women in church decision - making, Pope Francis is directly encouraging open discussion. Who knows where that will end?
Rome wasn't built in a day, and nor can the Vatican be unbuilt in one. He's only just begun.
I thought I was putting in block quotes, but I didn't.
Having Eucharist in another church and greeting people as they came out---that is not something an Opus Dei public relations person will concoct. That this PR person will find constructive and creative ways to publicize a fantastic disciple of Christ is quite believable and proper.
What Rita Ferrone said at the start. The focus on Greg Burke is kind of hilarious. He's great at what he does and a fine fellow (when he's not fomenting global conspiracies for Opus Dei).
But he didn't engineer the Francis Effect. His job is to ride it without hurting himself, I think.
The great lesson of Francis' papacy: a good message and messenger works. Practice what you preach. Simple.
The appointment of cardinals is, of course, crucial in determining the course of any papacy. We should hear in the next week or two who the next 14 cardinals will be. Plus, Fr. Tom Reese tells us, " This year, another 10 cardinals will turn 80, followed by another 5 in 2015 and 13 in 2016. Thus, by the end of 2016, not counting deaths, he could replace 42 members of the college."
The synod in October on the family will really be where the rubber hits the road -- or the brakes will be scrunched. Francis has already indicated that he wants to *share* power with bishops from around the world, so if the bishops persist in their phlegmatic ways in October, I think he will likely permit them to continue more conservatively than many of us would like.
Bear in mind, however, that the old cardinals and bishops will be dying off, and there is no indication that Francis will replace them with more conservatives. So keep an eye on all the beanies, folks, both purple and red. Change will probably take time, but, after all, this is the Catholic Church, and it usually it moves like a sloth.
Has anybody else besides me noticed the expressions on the faces of the clergymen who stand at the sides and behind of the Pope? They invariably seem delighted by him. Except for the truly iron-hearted, he must have come as a very welcome blast of fresh air to the denizens of the Vatican :-)
Re: Francis, the Effect ....
Maybe in the eyes of many, it is a case of "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Ann: is not sloth one of the seven deadly sins? Per the WikiFountain of All Knowledge ...
Sloth (Latin, Socordia) can entail different vices. While sloth is sometimes defined as physical laziness, spiritual laziness is emphasized. Failing to develop spiritually is key to becoming guilty of sloth. In the Christian faith, sloth rejects grace and God.
Sloth has also been defined as a failure to do things that one should do. By this definition, evil exists when good men fail to act.
Jim McC. --
I was just noting the fact, not what ought to be. Sigh. I must admit, though, that I'm conservative enough to realize that not every new idea is a good one. Unintended consequences and all that. So I think that Francis is being quite prudent in going slower than some of us would like. He hasn't even been in office a year yet.
It is unfortunate that Pope Francis seems to say media-friendly things while seeming to undermine the actual teachings of the Holy Catholic Church on such issues as homosexuality, sex outside of marriage etc. Don't you think he seems more focused on the person's life on this earth, rather than where Popes' usual focus is and ought to be - on their immortal souls??
This enthusiasm for a pope nobody even knows yet always smacks of criticism for Pope Benedict XVI. It strikes me that this may be the reason we lost such a saintly man to lead us.
What do people see when they see Francis?
Well, not Emperor Palpatine--and that sure the hell doesn't hurt!
(n.b. I sat on that for almost 5 whole days, which took a lot of discipline)
I'm starting to wonder about Pope Francis' committment to making bishops accountable for their actions. He just named 19 new cardinals. None have been notable critics of the way the scandal has been handled by the bishops, though maybe some of those named have been privately critical. Sigh.
This does not sound good for accountability in the sex abuse scandal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/archbishop-jozef-wesolowski-extradition_n_4577241.html
Claire --
No, it doesn't look good. I wonder if the Vatican is refusing to extradite the Polish cardinal because it fears suxh a precedent -- some have tried to have Pope Emeritus Benedict prosecuted for cover-ups, and i've seen it said that he's living in the Vatican rather than, say, Castel Gandalfo so as to avoid being extradited.
Ann: unrelated. The church hierarchy has been completely silent on cover-ups up until now, but under pope Benedict action did happen in cases not of cover-ups but of sex abuse. In this case, the ex-nuncio is accused of sex abuse. If Benedict was still pope, he might have done something about it. Regarding the sex abuse scandal, I fear that Francis might be a step backwards from Benedict.
I am amazed that, although I thought the sex abuse scandal was my number 1 priority for the new pope, I still find myself swayed by Francis in spite of myself.
Claire --
Point well taken. At least when Benedict finally realized the seriousness of sexual abuse he acted strongly. I'm starting to think that Francis either hasn't yet realized the depths of the problem or he is waiting for a more a politically opportune moment to act against the worst of the bishops. Given his apparent compassion in other matters, it's hard for me to believe that he doesn't see the seriousness of the problem.
Maybe he's waiting to act against the enablers until he has more support among his fellow bishops, and it's going to take some time to convince them that most of them have been at least somewhat in denial about their own roles in the scandal.. Catholic bishops generally don't seem to realize that laws apply to them. But I daresay that once he has established a more collegial Vatican, there probably will be more bishops willing to support whatever measures he then decides to take. The coming Synod of Bishops might be the best opportunity for him to act.
As for the Polish bishop, maybe Francis is keeping him for himself. The Vatican's dungeons have been famous for eons. (Or make that infamouss :-) Having his face justice there has a certain poetic and theological appeal.
Given his apparent compassion in other matters, it's hard for me to believe that he doesn't see the seriousness of the problem.
He does not "get" why women do not appreciate being given Mary as their sole model and being denied official responsabilities. I suspect he also does not "get" sex abuse. He has his blind spots. I am not as optimistic as you are.
Claire --
In David Gibson's article yesterday at RNS on the new cardinals he reminds us that last year Pope Francis removed Cardinal Rigali from his post in the Congregation for Bishops, the most powerful body in the Vatican. That is a stunning move. Cardinal Rigali's record in the Philadelphia scandal is one of the very worst in the U. S. So maybe Francis does have the scandal high on his to-do list. We'll see.


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The trigonometric functions I must know:
(A) $\sin(-x)=-\sin x$
(B) $\cos(-x)=\cos x$
(C) $\cos(x+y)=\cos x\cos y-\sin y\sin x$
(D) $\sin(x+y)=\sin x\cos y+\cos x\sin y$
$\sin^2x+\cos^2x=1$ (Use (C) and $\cos0=1$)
Can anyone help me just understand what the first one is asking. It's giving me a property and I'm supposed to derive the identities. But I don't even know where to begin. Any help? I will post the other problems once I figure this one out.


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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 PC for $29.99 + free shipping
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As with all Newegg deals you need to sign up for the newsletter in order to activate the code and take another $20 off.
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Not working for me, been signed up for the newsletter for 8 years. every time I enter the promo code it just hangs and nothing happens.
Tried mobile says there's a problem with the promo code.
@blacknewyear: Did you get the newsletter this morning? Does Newegg provides unique promo codes to each user? Maybe I shouldn't have listed that code on the deal.
@strapp31: I'm not sure if its the newsletter or just Newegg getting plowed because this exact code has been listed on a few different websites. I can't even add it to my cart in chrome.
Finally got it working, it seems this deal buckled Newegg's website. it wasn't even displaying pictures for me.
Got it through!
@blacknewyear: I hope it ends up working for you! For anyone else who received the newsletter, this deal isn't in the body of the email - you have to click to get Newegg's promotions page to find it. So just a heads up if this appeals to you.
There any chance a disk like this would have a code that just worked in steam?
@emacg6: Nope, not this deal unfortunately. This is the DVD version of the game.
this game is god awful... MP is useless, hackers galore. Black Ops 1 is/was better. Just my .02


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Take a look at this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbatistini/3778521713/
He states that it's a six frame stitch taken from inside an airborne hot air balloon. I posted the following to him:
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It is exactly, to throw your tripod farthest possible.
I'm not even sure that I believe that it's a stitch, nevertheless taken handheld from a balloon! It's so perfect. Thoughts?


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I'm developing an application which has an "Event" system that basically allows application extensions to attach events to a certain "context". When the application reaches a context, it will fire events that are attached to it.
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CLARKSBURG - The Weir High football team earned its first two-game winning streak since the 2008 with a 34-14 triumph over Liberty-Harrison Friday night.
The last time the Red Riders were on a winning streak was the final three regular season games, with wins over Claymont, Brooke and Tyler Consolidated and a home playoff win over Independence.
It was Eric Meek's final season as head coach. Weir was 9-3.
Since then, wins have been tough to find.
The Red Riders picked up their first win in 13 game last week, 22-21 over Grafton, and followed it up with another outstanding performance.
Weir scored early on a William Larch 5 yard run. Larch later scored on a 13-yard run. He threw a 35-yard scoring pass to Clarence Bennett in between and three Alyssa Shingle extra points and the Red Riders had a 21-6 lead at the half.
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Weir 34, Liberty-Harrison 14
Weir 14 7 6 7 - 34
Liberty 6 0 0 8 - 14
W: Larch 5 run (Shingle kick)
L: Robey 65 run (kick failed)
W: Bennett 35 pass from Larch (Shingle kick)
W: Larch 13 run (Shingle kick)
W: Hartman 18 pass from Larch (kick failed)
L: Robey 1 run (Raper run)
W: Hartman 8 run (Shingle kick)
RUSHING: Weir: 41-315-2 (Larch 15-153-2, Davis 11-73, Hartman 12-61-1, Wypasek 1-4, Enrietti 1-3; Liberty: 32-207-2 (Robey 9-86-2, Raper 6-50, Kreyenbuhl 12-36, Starkey 5-35).
PASSING: Weir 8-19-120-2-1x (Larch 8-18-120-1-0, Wypasek 0-1-0-0-1x); Liberty 2-5-0-0-0 (Kreyenbuhl 1-3-5-0-0 Raber 1-2-(-5)-0-0).
RECEIVING: Weir: Bennett 3-65-1, Hartman 2-35-1, Wypasek 2-12, Davis 1-8; Liberty: Norman 1-(-5), Raper 1-5.
FIRST DOWNS: Weir 26; Liberty 8
PENALTIES: Weir 10-68; Liberty 10-90.
FUMBLES: Weir 0-0; Liberty 0-0.
An 18-yard pass from Larch to Matt Hartman made it 27-6 in the third quarter.
Hartman finished the scoring with an 8-yard scamper and Shingle's kick made it 34-14.
The Red Riders totaled 442 yards of offense and 26 first downs.
Larch had 153 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns. He was 8-for-18 for 120 yards and two scores.
Bennett caught three passes for 65 yards and a touchdown.
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The man who was driving the car later died of a gunshot wound to the head.
David Barajas II, 12, and his brother Caleb, 11, were pushing the pickup with their father Friday night just yards from their home in Alvin when the car slammed into them.
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Their father was injured.
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I can't seem to find any screenshots of (preferably good) electronic voting systems. I mean the kind that's used in elections. Any ideas where I can find one?
If you want to read research on and analysis of the design of user interfaces for voting systems, I recommend reading the work of Mike Byrne (at Rice), Whitney Quesenbery, Dana Chisnell, Ben Bederson (U Maryland), Juan Gilbert.
Also, you can take a look at Votebox, Pvote, and Prime III, which are research voting systems that you can run and take a screenshot of.
I can also highly recommend the Usability Professionals' Association Voting and Usability Project. They've done some great work on usability of voting systems. Between the above resources, you should be able to find a great deal of information on UIs for voting machines.
If you really just want some screenshots, googling the name of the voting machine should find you screenshots. Some popular electronic voting machines include Diebold AV-TS, Diebold AV-TSX, Sequoia AVC Advantage, Sequoia AVC Edge, Hart-Intercivic eSlate, ES&S iVotronic. Verified Voting has a guide to the most widely used electronic voting machines that may be helpful.
Please note that in the context of elections, all electronic voting solutions have one important drawback: they obscure the process that by the very nature of it should be as transparent as possible. It becomes impossible to follow your individual vote and see that it is handled correctly, while still keeping that vote anonymous. At least, not without very complicated technical solutions. That does not really add transparency, as the point of the transparency is that the average voter can understand and verify the process.
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Steam Encore Sale - Jan 5-7
All the 'Best Deals' from the Holiday Sale, up for the final days.
Chance to pick up any of the games you were on the fence about!
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Snagged me some good old fashion Portal fun!
Did anybody else not get their holiday badge because they thought the sale would end Jan 6 at 10am Pacific? I didn't do the mobile login. :|
>"I didn't do the mobile login"
>"not get their holiday badge"
@the7654: See this, kids? This is why you don't procrastinate. xD
The sales, they just keep coming. The wallet keeps saying stop, but the folks at Valve just keep going.
I'm only familiar with a few of the games, but the THQ Collection, for 24.99, gets you 22 different games. $350.88 at normal retail prices for the individual games. That's a $325 total discount - or a cost of about a buck a game, at the sale price.
I've got a huge backlog of games already (both from the Steam sales, and on my PS3), otherwise I'd probably drop the $25 for this bundle, just out of curiousity.
@Crab, it would have been a great deal. Except that the THQ Humble bundle included most of the bigger games from that bundle. That, combined with my own backlog left not much reason to spring for it. Unfortunately, I cannot talk myself out of another pass at the Skyrim DLC on sale. And Oblivion GoTY+. Gorrammit, Valve.
Rage can't suck so bad $5 is poorly spent. Looks like I'll see.
@misry: It's well worth $5, but it's an id game so don't expect anything in the way of plot or interesting game mechanics (aside from the honestly very impressive AI's use of the environment). Per one of the other Steam sale threads I'd recommend doubling down with the $5 Scorchers DLC as it fixes some of the more glaring issues and $10 for a AAA game is still a really good deal.
@crab: Thanks. Still downloading them all.
Remember how they gave away free games last year? That was a hell of a thing. Anyone still have any?
@silentlegend: That sale was great! I'm pretty sure I got Half Life 2: Episode Two from the giveaway. This year they got me on Wargame, Legend of Grimrock, Bastion, Batman: AA, and Batman: AC. These holiday sales are rough.
Just repeating my plug from another thread about Amazon's digital game marketplace (http://www.amazon.com/Game-Downloads/), since anybody here would probably be interested.
Many of them are activated via Steam, but you get unlimited downloads to your machines regardless, and I've seen some that are cheaper than Steam (even some that are Steam-activated games!). They often have really great deals and special offers/credits. For example, I bought this package: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091T6FQO/ , which contains Bioshock I & II and Spec Ops: The Line for $9.99, AND I got a $5 credit for any of their 2012 Editor's Choice games, most of which are already discounted.
Sorry if I seem like an advertisement for Amazon; Steam gets so much good publicity, but I hardly ever hear anybody mention Amazon. By the way, their digital music service is pretty fantastic, too, for mostly the same reasons.
Thank you Steam!! Definitely time to start thinking with Portals again! =D
@thenombomb: I've learned my lesson. :[
Whatever you do do NOT buy X-Com Enemy Unknown.
I bought it Friday at around 4 PM and um, let's just say I watched the sun go down, then go up, then go down again,
27 hours straight, just about. . .
YES Both Portal and Portal 2 for 6 bucks?! I love steam sales
Well I made it out this time around without breaking the $100 mark, and got around 30 games. I'll call that a successful sale.