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I was gonna say I found something interesting confirming that Bestbuy would get the books but lawl:
Someone should complain to Atlus. See if they can do something especially they're the ones who said Bestbuy is one of the participating stores.
Not much of potato he said but potato he wrote.
Oh and apparently it's only the US's branch. Cuz Canada gets it:
Watch them pull a "We said Bestbuy would get it but we meant only Bestbuy Canada would get it." Many jimmies would be rustled. Mine to an extent but I was sorta expecting not to get it.
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Oh and apparently it's only the US's branch. Cuz Canada gets it:
This wouldn't make any sense as all. Every other retailer in the US is getting the art book yet only Bestbuy doesn't have it. It doesn't make sense when Atlus partnered with all of the retailers/Amazon to provide the bonus.
My amazon one weighs 1.2 pounds. My newegg package weighs .2 pounds.
Don't ask why I have 2 separate packages coming 2 different retailers :/ (forgot I preordered at newegg a few months ago)
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just gotta say, amazon is worse than best buy and intentionally holds off all preorders at the lowest shipping cost until all higher priced shipping orders are met (more profit for them since they gouge for shipping). i have preodered games from amazon (at least twice this happened), waiting "forever" only to get an email 10 days later saying "sorry, demand was too high" so screw you for being a cheapskate.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Loyola University Maryland men's soccer team closed out the regular season with a 3-0 loss at Marist Sunday afternoon. The loss snaps Loyola's six-game unbeaten streak and drops the Greyhounds to 10-5-2 this season, while Marist improves to 8-6-4.
With a 5-3-1 record in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play, the Greyhounds will take the No. 3 seed into next week's MAAC Championship. Marist will be the tournament's fifth-seeded team with a 4-4-1 league record. Both teams will receive a first-round bye.
Marist outshot the Greyhounds in the first half of today's game, 8-3, but Loyola had the first scoring opportunity. In the 36th minute, junior Gary Weisbaum sent a cross from down low to sophomore Geaton Caltabiano. The midfielder beat his defender, but was unable to get a shot past Marist's goalkeeper, Steve Skonieczny, as he saved the attempt just inside the left post.
The Red Foxes, who held a 6-2 advantage in corner kicks throughout the first half, then earned a 1-0 lead in the 44th minute when Krystian Witkowski sent a short corner to Anthony Rozmus. Rozmus played the ball across the middle to Lucas Szabo, who sent a shot past graduate senior goalkeeper Kyle Wittman for the game's first goal.
Marist then took a 2-0 lead in the 67th minute when the Red Foxes weaved the ball through the Greyhounds' defense, before Tim Garger sent a shot into the back of the net.
The Red Foxes secured their 3-0 victory in the 87th minute when Szabo's shot hit off the post. The rebound went to Rozmus, who put it into the bottom left corner of the goal.
For the game, Marist held a 13-5 advantage in shots, while the two squads each had seven corner kicks.
Loyola will open competition at next week's MAAC Championships on Friday, Nov. 4, facing No. 6 seed Manhattan at 11 a.m. The tournament will be played at ESPN's Wide World of Sports at Disney.
Earlier this season, the Greyhounds earned a 3-0 victory at Manhattan (Oct. 7).
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Self-learning performance management solutions like Integrien and Netuitive are going to be absolutely an essential part of the migration to dynamic data centers and IT as a Service. Once these dynamic data centers scale out to the thousands of applications in a typical enterprise, and scale up to address the most performance critical applications, the rate of change in the environment will be too high for legacy tools and manual administration to be able to keep. up. These automated self-learning approaches will be the only way in which IT Operations will be able to stay on top of these new environments while staying within staffing and budget constraints.
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What seemed like forever to get here was over in a blink of an eye. VMworld 2010 in San Francisco was once again an incredible event with over 17,000 people in attendance. Now that I have had a little time to reflect on the past week, I wanted to share my thoughts on the week and the event itself. The weather in San Francisco was unseasonable warm for San Francisco standards during the event but as a person from Florida who enjoys warmer weather the temperature for me was absolutely wonderful. I arrived in town on Sunday afternoon and enjoyed taking advantage of the power of twitter from the San Francisco Airport. Once I landed I sent a tweet out to see who else may have landed and who might want to share a cab to the hotel. Denis Guyadeen (@dguyadeen) responded right back and once we grabbed are luggage we were off and on our way.
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A photograph Medvedev took of the kremlin, or fortress, in a Siberian town sold for 51 million rubles ($1.7 million) at a charity auction Saturday night, surpassing the 37 million rubles (then $1.1 million) paid last year for a painting by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev's black-and-white photo was snapped up by Mikhail Zingarevich, a board member at Ilim Group, the pulp and paper company where Medvedev once worked as a lawyer. Zingarevich said he planned to hang the 69-by-96-centimeter (27-by-38-inch) picture in his office.
Proceeds of the auction will go to buy furniture for World War II veterans receiving long-promised apartments, equipment for a children's hospital and a new kitchen for an alcohol rehabilitation center.
The annual auction, which includes artwork by Russian politicians, athletes and cultural figures, raised 81.5 million rubles.
Putin, still seen as the more powerful leader two years after passing the presidency to Medvedev, last year donated a painting of a frost-rimmed window in a traditional wooden hut.
Medvedev, an avid photographer, also chose a scene steeped in Russian tradition. His photograph, taken from the air, shows the white stone walls and towers of the kremlin in Tobolsk. The town is known as one of the final homes of Russia's last czar and his family during the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Colocasia Esculenta 'black Magic'
I saw one of these at the store and I would really like to find out how to grow them. The tag did not give very much information. All it said was shade. I have not been able to find very much information. Most of my yard is full sun. Not much shade, maybe a few hours a day. Is it possible to get them to grow? Or do they really need complete shade. Thanks for your help
I've grown Black Magic in a large pot for two years. Mine gets about 6 hrs full sun a day.
It's a real water hog under these conditions - I've put it on a drip system so I don't have to water twice a day. This year it was set back a little because it wilted badly early in July while I was out of town and the drip system failed. But it's still beautiful..
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xjbobbin82: Thanks! And yes the pectic enzyme will help clear things out quite a lot. I have a regular semi sweet that I used pectic with and it came out as clear as commercial cider, very happy! Just be sure to not pour the yeast into your glass and it should turn out well.
Thanks Jackfrost, I will absolutely give that a try!
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I have a batch of you Belgian White inspired cider in secondary right now.
1 Gal Motts Apple Juice
1 cup cane sugar
Fermetis safale S-04
In primary for 1 month, has been in secondary for a week. I was planning on doing a blueberry cider with this but saw your belgian white recipe and had to try it out.
I added:
Zest of one large orange
1 tsp fresh cracked coriander
1/4 tsp orange extract
It has been floating in the secondary for 2 days now. Not sure how much flavor I will get but the color and clarity has changed drastically since adding the orange and coriander. I added the orange extract because I noticed you didn't get much orange flavor.
I plan on leaving everything in secondary for about a week and then backsweetening to about 1.015 or 1.020 with AJ concentrate and then bottle pasteurizing once they carb up. I will let you know how it turns out, thanks for the recipe.
That sounds great! Let me know how it goes!
Looks great.
Just wondering though, any reason why you used S-04 instead of a Belgian yeast? I used Belgian because I wanted that hazy-heffe look to the cider much like woodchuck's offering, I can see yours has come out much clearer and more cider like. I'm experienced enough with yeast strains to know how it would affect flavour though.
Have 1 gal of straight up apple cider that started at 1.066 sitting in the cupboard. It's been there almost 3 months now.
Seriously thinking of splitting it in half and bottling one batch with the caramel syrup recipe that seems to be so popular. The other half I'm going to mix with 100% grape juice and just see what happens! Anyone done something like this before?
Grape juice cider isn't carbing, might have dropped too much yeast. Will give it another couple of weeks before I try re-pitch. (I'm thinking if necessary Ill just drop 1 or two little pellets into each bottle and recap)
It tastes delicious though. Could do with a little less sweetness, which Im hoping the carbing will help with.
Caramel apple cider is awesome. Very pleased with how it turned out, and I think I'll make a full size batch towards the end of the year. Its definitely got a Christmas taste to me. I might go down on the cinnamon though, its every so slightly too much for me.
Started a new cider today. I was at a local farmers market and found some strawberry flavoured cranberries. Weird, I know. They smelled unbelievable though. Super strawberry from hell kind of smell. So of course, I threw them in the blender with some apple juice, mushed them up a bit and added them and a whole gallon of apple juice to a carboy with some pectic enzyme. 24 hours later, I strained what I had (leaving a little bit of the lees to help the flavour) and pitched half a packet of Nottingham ale yeast.
I grabbed a little taste before pitching and MAN did it taste good. SUPER good. The flavor from whatever the hell they put on those cranberries really came through. (OG at this point was 1.071 )
I'm planning on stopping it at 1.010 and adding a little more apple juice until the right sweetness and bottling it. Followed closely by pasteurizing it of course.
Just stumbled upon this thread and I'm liking the experiments so far.
I'd like to see where this goes with your other experiments. Good Luck!
If you liked the caramel apple cider and are thinking of doing the full batch... My last batch I primaries for about 10days, went to secondary sprinkled 2 packets mulling spices & 3 - 6" cinnamon sticks let sit 5 days, bottle... Mine I left still so after bottling it went straight into the serving freezer... Looking forward to more of the experiments!


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BUENOS AIRES—Argentina's last captive polar bear will remain in the country despite a petition by more than half a million people asking that he be moved to Canada.
The director of the Mendoza Zoo in western Argentina told The Associated Press Tuesday that the 28-year-old bear is too old to safely be relocated.
Animal rights advocates say the bear named Arturo paces nervously in his concrete enclosure and suggest the animal suffers from depression. They have campaigned to move the bear to a zoo in Winnipeg, which has welcomed the idea.
Even former U.S. House Speaker and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has rallied to the cause.
"If you love animals the way I do, please sign the petition to help the Argentinian polar bear, Arturo," Gingrich recently wrote on his Facebook page, where he posted a video clip in support of Arturo. "His current living situation is very sad, and he deserves to be saved."
The petition on Change.org asking President Cristina Fernandez to allow Arturo to be relocated had been signed by more than 500,000 supporters as of Tuesday.
But zoo director Gustavo Pronotto says Arturo only suffers the typical ailments of old age, which would make relocation too risky because he would have to be sedated to travel. A panel of Argentine veterinarians concluded in February that Arturo should stay in Mendoza.
"Arturo is close to his caretakers" Pronotto said. "We just want everyone to stop bothering the bear."
Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups argue it's riskier to keep the bear in Mendoza, where temperatures can reach up to 30 C in the summer. The last polar bear at the Buenos Aires zoo died in late December 2012 amid a heat wave.
Arturo's partner, a polar bear named Pelusa, died of cancer in 2012.
Wild polar bears live an average of 15 years to 18 years, and those in captivity often live into the 30s, according to the non-profit Polar Bears International, based in Montana.
Mariana Caram of OIKOS-Red Ambiental said her Mendoza-based environmental group is working on a report to challenge the veterinarian panel's decision to keep Arturo in Argentina.
"I saw the bear last Thursday. He came out and he swam just a bit. He's walking very slowly," she said. "They've expanded his pool but they still have yet to give him the room he needs to walk."
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When 'behead' was typed into Google yesterday, the search engine automatically suggested completing the sentence with 'those who insult Islam' – indicating this was the most common search beginning with that word.
A second search, using the words 'beheading video', produced 3.75million results. These included sites containing actual footage of Islamist fanatics committing this most barbaric of acts.
In a week when two Islamist terrorists butchered and attempted to decapitate a British soldier in the middle of a suburban London street, it is unforgivable that such poisonous material – which is clearly being regularly viewed by fanatics – is still freely available on Google.
Google's transgressions, it seems, are greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. This cannot be allowed to continue. The public needs protecting from the dark side of the internet
Worryingly, however, such disregard for public safety by the web giants is not new.
Consider how Google – motto 'don't be evil' – has repeatedly failed to respond to warnings about how the internet is used to radicalise vulnerable young Muslims.
Even when it emerges that plots to inflict mass murder have been inspired online – a conspiracy to blow up a Territorial Army base is the most recent example – the extremist material responsible is not taken down.
Equally shameful is the way Google, which markets itself as a family friendly company, is refusing to protect youngsters from internet porn, which the Children's Commissioner yesterday said was pressurising under-age girls into having sex against their will.
Cameron refused to raise the issue of Google's tax avoidance when the company's chairman Eric Schmidt visited Downing Street
Despite a public outcry, as Amanda Platell hauntingly describes on these pages, the search engine continues to provide ready access to the degrading images blamed for fuelling the depravity of paedophiles like Stuart Hazell, who killed 12-year-old Tia Sharp after obsessively trawling the web.
Normally, a business behaving so irresponsibly would be under huge pressure from politicians to alter its ways.
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Take the past fortnight. Last week, MPs accused the corporate behemoth of 'devious' and 'unethical' behaviour after it paid just £7.3million in corporation tax on UK sales worth £3billion.
Yet, when Google chairman Eric Schmidt attended a meeting of the Prime Minister's elite Business Advisory Group on Monday, Mr Cameron – who is supposed to be cracking down on tax avoidance – declined even to raise the issue with him.
Then there is the way the firm – whose power dwarfs that of Britain's media – has repeatedly breached the public's privacy.
First, we learned how Google sneakily photographed almost every home in the country using its fleet of Street Cars.
Then it emerged that the cars had been fitted with snooping software which made it possible to capture emails, text messages and photographs from millions of computer users who didn't have a password on their Wi-Fi networks.
When a now defunct newspaper behaved improperly, ministers ordered a judicial inquiry into the entire industry. Google's transgressions, it seems, are greeted with a shrug of the shoulders.
This cannot be allowed to continue. The public needs protecting from the dark side of the internet.
Images that inflame perverted appetites like that of Hazell must be expunged by Google. The equally inflammatory material from the preachers of hate who radicalise the likes of Michael Adebolajo to commit treason must be sieved out.
After all, Google could find the money to do this from the tax it is avoiding.
Either it must start behaving responsibly to the citizens of this country or ministers, including Mr Cameron with his all-too-cosy relations with the internet giant, must make it do so.


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Gates Urges Governments, Wealthy Donors Not To Cut Aid To Poor Countries; Annual Letter Sets Foundation's Priorities
In a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "told European lawmakers in Brussels not to cut aid to poor countries despite the economic and budgetary problems facing" European Union (E.U.) countries, Agence France-Presse reports. Gates "praised the [E.U.] whose support in health and development he said has been greater than that of the United States," AFP notes (1/24). On Wednesday, Gates "will be at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he plans to exhort wealthy donors — especially governments — to keep funding a range of crucial projects in the developing world, from tuberculosis drugs and antimalaria bed nets to maternal care and vaccines," the Wall Street Journal writes. Gates "plans to make his case by showcasing ideas, backed by his foundation, that have helped cost-effectively tackle problems in global health," according to the newspaper (Naik, 1/25).


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