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DLC Discussion Week of 9/18 - Singles from The Offspring and Smash Mouth!
hmxhenry;4873847 said:Hey gang,
New music from California punk band The Offspring is coming to the Rock Band Music Store on September 18th with the release of the title track from their latest record, Days Go By! The third track from the bands ninth studio album, Days Go By has reached number 2 on Billboards US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart!
Two Smash Mouth songs will also be available: their popular cover of Wars Why Cant We Be Friends from 1997s Fush Yu Man and Cant Get Enough of You Baby from 1999s Astro Lounge!
Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation®3 system (September 18th, 2012):
The Offspring Days Go By O X
Smash Mouth Why Cant We Be Friends O
Smash Mouth Cant Get Enough of You Baby O
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system September 26th)
Tracks marked with O feature support for keyboards; tracks marked with X will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, 1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points , 200 Wii Points) per song
$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points, 100 Wii Points), £0.59 UK, 0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **
hmxhenry;4875588 said:Here are the Rock Band Network songs that hit Xbox 360 on Thursday, 9/13/2012:
Husky in Denial Would I Were (80 MSP)
Classic Rock
John Parr Under a Raging Moon (160 MSP)
All Shall Perish There is Nothing Left (160 MSP)
Asking Alexandria Dear Insanity (2x Bass Pedal) (160 MSP)
Halcyon Way On Black Wings (2x Bass Pedal) (80 MSP)
My Ruin Deconsecrated (80 MSP)
Active Knowledge Supertronic Lazering (160 MSP)
Mada Fight! (80 MSP)
The Hamster Alliance (ft. The Giant Bomb Crew) Giant Bombstep: Reloaded (80 MSP)
Tora Higher (160 MSP)
Zef Gambit (80 MSP)
An Endless Sporadic Anything (2x Bass Pedal) (160 MSP)
An Endless Sporadic The Triangular Race Through Space (2x Bass Pedal) (80 MSP)
A Day to Remember Sticks & Bricks (160 MSP)
Okills Nube (80 MSP)
Memory of a Melody Things That Make You Scream (80 MSP)
Here are the PS3 RBN releases for Tuesday, 9/11/2012 (North America) and 9/12/2012 (Europe):
Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy ($0.99) Metal
Anarchy Club Built to Grind ($1.99) Metal
Fail Emotions Wasted ($0.99) Metal
Freen in Green Frontier Factory: Remanufactured ($0.99) Prog
JOANovARC Say Sayonara (Japanese version) ($1.99) Pop-Rock
And here are the PS3 RBN releases scheduled for Tuesday, 9/18/2012 (North America) and 9/25/2012 (Europe):
Graveyard BBQ - "By the Grace of the Grill" ($1.99) - Metal
All Shall Perish - "A Pure Evil" ($1.99) - Metal
Spinning Chain - "Pain I Feel" ($1.99) - Rock
Spinning Chain - "End of My Rope" ($1.99) - Rock
brentalfloss - "This is the Album You've Been Waiting For" ($0.99) Rock
Please note that the European release of these songs has been delayed by 1 week from 9/19 to 9/25.
ShoTTySLanKiN Road Warrior
jeronemitchell Road WarriorPretty decent shot for all this week. For The Offspring, I either really, really like their stuff, or am ambivalent towards them. Smashmouth is more hit-and-miss, but I like the songs they are covering, which is good. I'll need to listen to the tracks and roll from there.
EDIT: Why are people asking why we didn't get an old Offspring song? Is it that crazy that a record label would want to push a new single?
EDIT 2: Got a chance to listen to everything... "Can't Get Enough Of You Baby" is the clear cut favorite for me. All three will be purchased at some point; the Offspring song isn't quite as "fun" for me as, say, "Self-Esteem", but the band seems to be in a different place now. "Why Can't We Be Friends" is slowly growing on me, and will probably have grown enough to be a purchase by Tuesday.
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Tom Imp Road WarriorI don't plan on buying "Why Can't We Be Friends", but seeing as it's possible to get covers gives me hope that we may one day see Quiet Riot's version of "*** on Feel the Noize".
I always figured it would have to be licensed through the original artists as well as the current one, thus making it more difficult.
Bront20 The Writing's on the WallThe 2 Smash Mouth songs go on my "Want" list. Will get when I have PSN cash.
The War masters are more likely to have issues, otherwise I think we would have gotten them when we got War DLC (though you never know, licensing is hard). We still could get the original later.RustySpoons;4877618 said:Can't believe we didn't get the War version of that song first...
Still, I love Smash Mouth and these are great picks!
"I'm a Believer" was written by Neil Diamond, so the Monkeys might not be involved in re-licencing it at all.
Sayburr The Always Informative Rock Band Forum GuruWhen I was wishing for covers for old songs, I was hoping it would be more like the old "as made famous by" stuff, where the songs sounded like the Orig... Another no week for me, I think. I will have to listen to the full songs a couple of times before I make my final decision.
I was also looking forward to the John Parr songs from RBN, but I just don't care for the one just released. I also am not sure I will be excited about the other songs if they are coming from the same album of re-records... Will just have to wait and see...
Never mind... found some samples and Naughty Naughty sounds great: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/JOHN_PARR_Letter_To_America?id=B77pnchmyyre5c5akz5k4mwr3vm
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Beeb BannedOffspring literally are one of the worst bands on the planet. Every single one of their songs is a rip-off of another more popular song.
Listening to Days Go By, the intro is pretty good and then his terrible singing comes in and lmao, oh God how terrible.
Love Smash Mouth, though. Never thought we'd get Why Can't We Be Friends.
LiveHomeVideo Trying too hardIn my opinion...
A "meh" week. I already knew "Can't Get Enough Of You Baby," and "Why Can't We Be Friends" looks fun enough, but I don't care for the Offsprings choice, and I'm left to wonder why we got a cover of Why Can't We Be Friends instead of the original, or better, "I'm a Believer." That's the only other Smashmouth song I want.
But that's my opinion. If you like the songs, by all means get them.
LiveHomeVideo Trying too hardBeeb;4877675 said:Is everyone here just crying because we didn't get "the original" because "it came first so it's obviously the best"?
I mean seriously, the AAF version of Smooth Criminal is much better than Michael's.
I want to go on a rampage on how wrong this post is, but I'll just leave it to "If you think differently, that's fine, but don't bash us for wanting something you don't."


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- If using whole almonds, add them to a food process with the rice flour and pulse until the nuts are finely ground. If using almond flour, mix it with the rice flour. Set aside.
- Place the chocolate, butter and salt in the top of a large double boiler over barely simmering water. Stir frequently until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove the bowl and let cool for 5 minutes. Stir in the sugar and vanilla. Stir in the eggs one at a time. Add the almond and rice flour mixture and stir until moistened, and then mix briskly about 40 strokes. Stir in the walnuts or pecans if using.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and spread it evenly. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until the brownies are slightly puffed all over and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out moist but clean. Cool the pan on a rack. Run a knife along the unlined sides of the pan to detach the brownies. Lift the edges of the parchment paper to remove the brownies. Cut into squares.
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This is awesome. FYI: Ghirardelli is sold at Target at a good price! I used Almond meal (from Trader Joe's) & raw sugar and lower glycemic palm sugar and batter was a bit gritty looking, but came out fine. I used the brown rice flour as recipe called for, and was so good (I sometime use other gluten free flours, but this was just fine) and I sometimes cut sugar, don't do it here. I also used my metal kitchen aid mixer bowl to stack on top of a regular pan since I had no official double broiler. I have tried a couple recipes from Ghirardelli and it's ALWAYS wonderful!
Very good flavor, although the texture was off. I made them twice, and the first time I use almond meal. The brownies were mealy and developed a thick crust on top. The second time around, I did as another reviewer mentioned and used almond butter— it made a huge difference. The brownies were much smoother and didn't have the thick crust on top. Nobody could tell they were gluten free, and my GF friends were delighted. Four stars for the recipe as written, but if you use almond butter instead, this becomes a five star recipe.
Fabulous brownies! Not too sticky or sweet. They held their form. Cracked, shiny tops are also a good touch. I used semi sweet chocolate chips instead of bittersweet and Earth Butter instead of butter because my mum can't have milk fat (or gluten). I also recommend using light brown sugar instead of white sugar for brownies in general. Otherwise, I followed the directions to the word. The only issue I had with the recipe was that 25 minutes was not nearly long enough. I had to leave them in the oven for an extra 10 minutes.
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Amount Per Serving (16 total)
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---- — TRAVERSE CITY — Northwest Conference expansion plans appear dead in the water.
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The eight-school league had hoped to add four additional schools — three large and one small — to its lineup, and then split into two six-school divisions.
But of the schools that received invitations only Manistee has expressed interest. The league was still waiting to hear from Kalkaska and Forest Area. It had hoped to hear from all the schools by Thursday, but the matter is still in the discussion stage at Forest Area, according to Ron Stremlow, the athletic director.
"Where do we go from here?" asked Dave Jackson, the Northwest Conference secretary-treasurer. "That's the million dollar question. I don't know."
St. Francis, Elk Rapids and Onekama officially declined invitations, Jackson said.
Jackson said the Northwest Conference's principals and athletic directors will discuss the matter at a winter meeting Monday.
"We'll talk through what happened," Jackson said.
"Our original plan was that we were going to try to go big (12 schools) or not go at all," he added. "Now we've got to take a look at things and see where we go. The attitude of our league members was that if we could get the three (larger schools) and one (smaller) our league would be in a better situation than it is right now. It wasn't that we were upset about where we are. Our schools are happy with the eight as it is, but we thought if we could make things better for our big schools and for our small schools let's pursue it."
At present, enrollments in the Northwest range from 508 at Benzie to 124 at Leland. Two of the smaller schools, Buckley (127 students) and Mesick (205), have been "up front" with the league about competitive balance and are in "the exploring process," Jackson said.
Karen Leinaar, athletic director at Bear Lake, said the West Michigan D League has not extended offers to Buckley or Mesick.
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The West Michigan D is comprised of nine schools with enrollments ranging from 195 at Brethren to 68 at Manistee Catholic.
Coming from the Lake Michigan Conference, Elk Rapids would have been one of the bigger schools in the proposed expansion. The Elks had a team research the Northwest Conference's invitation and what a possible new league could look like.
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Elk Rapids sent a letter to Jackson on Tuesday with the district's decision. St. Francis athletic director Tom Hardy contacted the Northwest Conference on Thursday.
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Standerfer agreed that now is a good time for the Lake Michigan Conference to see where it's at. One change he would like to see — bringing St. Francis back into the fold in football.
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Jackson said trying to appease the needs of the existing Northwest Conference schools was a major reason for the expansion effort.
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Glen Lake would have benefited from the expansion.
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Tito didnt puss out, he had to get back to Jenna before she opened her legs for someone else.
Yep. That's exactly what happened. It was just good natured stuff.
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i didnt watch 62 but can some1 tell me what he did in the ring?
Here's a pretty good summary.
Rogan asks Chuck: "...what's motivating you now and what do you see as a challenge for you on the horizon."
Chuck: "Fighting motivates me. I love this sport. I love what we do in here and that big...where is that big-headed guy? That guy over there (points to Tito in audience) he motivates me too. ....gotta talk him into fighting me again."
Tito gives the thumbs up
Chuck: "If he's in shape we can go right now."
Tito comes into octagon and says: "I think we'll wait till December when you actually lose a little bit of the belly."
Rogan: shit eating grin
Chuck: "That belly's permament, sorry"
Tito starts to leave but comes back and says, "I gotta congratulate him though, good job Chuck." Tito gives Chuck a pat on the shoulder.
The above was pretty congenial from both Chuck and Tito. More like good natured ribbing.
Tito's time to get knocked out again will come soon...whether or not he took the Shamrock fight cause he was scared...
oh god I hope he didnt call him a snowman again
The other guy (whose thread you should have posted this in), I assume, said Tito pussied out because he didn't talk shit in the ring. He just ran in, said a couple things about Chucks gut and ran out.
how did tito pussy out
i didnt watch 62 but can some1 tell me what he did in the ring?
how did tito pussy out
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The verdict in the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teenager in Florida sparked protests, conversations and a presidential speech about race.
In her kitchen, Johnson said the verdict was personal.
I was devastated, said the Carrboro alderwoman. I felt like I couldnt breathe.
For Johnson, who is black, the not guilty verdict triggered memories of times when she and her relatives had been treated unfairly because of the color of their skin.
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Q. Tell me, in the attack when you actually went in, there was so much business at the Somme of uncut wire and troops getting hung up on it, did you have a fairly good time?
A. No, we didn't have the wire but we had concussion. It was a chalk country and the vibration from the shellfire was terrific and it didn't smother the shells. Even if a shell landed away from you, you got the concussion and it pretty near knocked the wind out of you. If it was like up at Passchendaele, you'd have the mud and that would smother the shell but this was just like something exploding on the cement road.
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Q. No, but even the Somme wasn't the best country.
A. No it wasn't the best but it was a surprise. They weren't ready to follow up, you see, and the thing was lost.
Q. But I gather a lot of the tanks did break down that day, they got bogged down.
A. We had the mechanism and people weren't accustomed to know how to rectify it to overcome those difficulties.
Q. They hadn't really worked out yet the creeping barrage, had they? You'd get the short barrages ahead of you.
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Q. At the Somme?
A. Oh yes, they had the creeping barrage at the Somme, sure. An occasional shell that was poorly manufactured would fall short and get us but we stayed reasonably close behind that shell and followed right up. Well, there was nothing left but chaos when we got there. I mean nothing could live through it. If the German got down in his dugout, he could come up after but he couldn't and neither could we. It was just like a hail storm going through a wheat field.
Q. Well, I know that, at the beginning of the Somme, for instance, in the British operations, before the Canadians got in -
A. They built a big crater to start with.
Q. Yes but there was also that long, endless bombardment that went on for weeks and the bitter complaint of the British troops was that the bombardment went on for weeks and then it stopped and the Germans had been sitting the whole thing out in these deep dugouts they had and they just came right up and were waiting for them because, as I say, at that stage of the game, they hadn't developed the idea of combining the barrage and movement. At Vimy, for instance, I gather the infantry were almost on top of the German trenches from the time that the barrage lifted so they'd be right there to stop them from coming up.
A. They had better experience by then. They had been through it before. This was the initial stages at the Somme and also the German was stronger than he was at Vimy. He was glad to come over. I'd be the same, I think.
Q. Did you lose a lot of people on the 26th and 27th?
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As a chap named Levene is convicted of running a multi-million Ponzi scheme, Tony looks at the history of Ponzi schemes and how to spot one.
Earlier this week Nicholas Levene was sent down at Southwark for 13 years for cheating investors out of £32 million. And before you ask, despite the same surname, we are not related.
But I have met him.
Because of the coincidence of name, he noticed my byline in a newspaper and phoned me, almost certainly out of curiosity as his then-job did not involve media contact. I had lunch with him a couple of times around a dozen or so years ago. He was then working for an eminent firm of money brokers.
He paid for these meals – but the bill for the food did not come out of his victims' pockets, as the occasions pre-dated his fraudulent practices. They were strange occasions. While it was an era where lunchtime alcohol flowed more freely than now, his habit of drinking from a large bottle of scotch, diluted with bottled water, throughout the meal was probably unique.
And although it was clear from his suit and the solid gold Rolex that he had expensive tastes, he came over as the eminent professional.
As did Bernie Madoff, the New York based financier whose scheme defrauded American and other investors (including a UK hedge fund or two) of anything – depending on how you count the numbers – between $15 billion and $65 billion. Madoff, now in his early 70s, is now serving a 150-year stretch in a US prison.
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What Madoff and Levene – nickname Mr Beano due to his love of the comic - both operated was a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi is a simple form of fraud. You promise a very high – perhaps guaranteed – rate of return which investors cannot find elsewhere.
You also promise instant or very easy withdrawals so if anyone wants their money back, you simply send them a cheque from new cash coming in. But when the flow of fresh investors stops, for any reason, the scheme quickly unravels.
Ponzi schemes are centuries old. But they took their name from Charles Ponzi, from Boston in the US, whose scheme operated just after the First World War. He guaranteed huge returns from international postal coupons, which Americans sent to poor relatives in war-torn Europe so they could write letters back to the New World. He told investors that buying them in one country and cashing them in a second could produce 50% or more gains within a month or so.
He never bought coupons – there would never have been enough anyway to fund the millions he attracted – and merely repaid early withdrawals with the cash coming in.
Madoff was more subtle. Instead of high and fast returns, he promised lower but steady money. His scheme lasted for decades while the Ponzi postage plan was over in months.
Levene claimed he had a unique method of spread betting. Like Madoff, he convinced friends who brought in more friends, working on circles of acquaintances. Whatever optimism existed at the start, as losses racked up, the pair became increasingly desperate. Levene was, in fact, a bad spread better who went bankrupt in 2009 after staking £58.5 million and owing £101 million. Madoff, who claimed to play the bond markets, went down for billions.
Ponzi aimed his scheme at small savers. Levene and Madoff went for the rich, sometimes self-made people who, arguably, should have known better. These victims had the cash to sustain the illusion – and wanted to believe they were among the select elite. In both the Levene and Madoff cases, courts were told of a succession of very wealthy people lining up to offer their money, sometimes even begging the scheme operator to count them in.
How to spot a Ponzi scheme
So faced with almost daily assaults from dodgy investment firms, what are the lessons to be learned from the Levene case?
1. No one can produce extraordinary results to order – or even more than occasionally.
2. If the investment mechanism is not 100% obvious, steer well clear.
3. Pay no attention to the past. It's easy to produce an apparently great track record from previous winners – anyone can claim to be a great racing tipster by looking at yesterday's results.
4. There are no secret money making methods. Beware of "confidentiality clauses" preventing you from discussing schemes with others.
5. The involvement of rich or famous people is meaningless. An investment will not become successful just because footballers or film stars have bought into it. Their skills are on the pitch or in the studio – not in money.
6. If something looks too good to be true, then it is.
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Parents fearing their kids may turn into mass murderers say they can't get appropriate helpBut this week, one of these mothers stepped forward with an eloquent, wrenching cry for help that has echoed across the Web. In a blog post republished on the Blue Review titled I Am Adam Lanzas Mother, Liza Long writes, I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me She goes on: I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanzas mother. I am Dylan Klebolds and Eric Harriss mother. I am James Holmess mother. I am Jared Loughners mother. I am Seung-Hui Chos mother. And these boys and their mothers need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, its easy to talk about guns. But its time to talk about mental illness.Long describes the love she has for her 13-year-old son, a brilliant boy who loves Harry Potter and has a snuggle animal collection. But according to her, this same child has also threatened her with a knife so many times that she keeps a Tupperware container for the days she has to collect all the sharp objects in the house. Nothing really helps, she says, not the powerful meds, the intermittent hospitalizations or what she calls a Russian novel of behavioral plans. She says she has trained her other children to lock themselves away for their own safety when their brother falls into one of his unpredictable rages.(PHOTOS: Newtown: Images of a Community in Mourning)She lays out the agonizing choices she says shes been given, including having her child charged with a crime so that he is put in prison, a place that would surely exacerbate his symptoms and not necessarily keep him or the community safe. After all, you cant keep someone indefinitely locked up for a crime they havent committed and will likely never commit.Its a world of family turmoil that most of us cant begin to comprehend and which may or may not be similar to the struggles of Adam Lanzas mother. In any case, Longs essay resonated, and the response has been enormous. The piece has been forwarded endlessly on Facebook and reblogged by national media sites. And more than 1,500 people have commented on Longs original blog post.
Most commenters wrote to express their sympathy, but there were also many who wanted to tell Long she is not alone. These are people we dont normally hear from unless a tragedy occurs. They are the mothers, the fathers and the siblings of boys like Michael. These are the parents who report having to hide their knives or sleep with their bedroom doors locked. And in some cases, the commenters are young men who say they are plagued by the same demons as Longs sonTheir testimonies form a trail of heartbreak that stretches for dozens of pages.
Your story is my story and it is a very scary and often lonely path, writes one parent. As my son gets older and stronger the fear of what may be looms closer and closer and I just want to have the smart, sensitive sweet boy with me all the time, not the boy that when he says he wants to kill me, I believe him. The boy who wants to be tucked in at night with his stuffed animals and snuggles our dog, not the boy who can lift me off the ground in a rage and slam me into a wall. I pray daily for some kind of help.
Rachael writes to say that her brother is a boy like Michael, offering evidence of the pain mental illness can cause a family: I cant believe it. You just described my brother. They say hes aspergers, but I dont know if that accounts for all of it. Hes normally really sweet, sensitive, and very very smart, but when he snaps, he curses, hurts people, throws things, threatens suicide, and pulls knives. I have scars from where hes scratched or strangled me..
I read that blog post several days ago. She makes a very good point about how broken our mental health system is.Pleasing nobody, one person at a time.
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So did I. I'll dig up the comment I made when it was posted -- but it amounts the simple fact that we really don't have something to do for the "could be dangerous, needs care/support/monitoring but won't go voluntarily and hasn't crossed the line into involuntary commitment range." Prior institutionalization sucked... but the absolute lack of options right now isn't working much better.Voting against incumbents until we get a Congress that does its job.
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Our mental health system is broken, but to place every child, and the mother of every child in the position that existed in CT is foolish. How many millions of children, young adults and adults cope with mental illness every year? They don't go out and murder innocent women and children.For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
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