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Off stellar April, Brewers open May in Cincy
Majors' top team tabs Estrada against Bailey in first of four
The Brewers hit Cincinnati for a four-game series with baseball's best record (20-8), determined not to let another miserable May drag them down.
Last year, the Brewers were 14-11 in April before going 6-22 in May. This year, catcher Jonathan Lucroy predicted, will be much different. He cited Milwaukee's just-completed series victory in St. Louis, despite the fact the team was missing right fielder Ryan Braun, third baseman Aramis Ramirez and shortstop Jean Segura from the starting lineup.
"We came in here and had to earn those wins," Lucroy said. "When you have your two best power hitters and an All-Star shortstop out of the lineup, and the other guys step up, it is important. They know they can get the job done. They know there are no excuses.
"We showed tenacity. That's important down the stretch. Now it's May. It is important for us not to let up."
Ramirez and Segura should be back in the starting lineup on Thursday against Reds right-hander Homer Bailey, with Braun still day to day. Another right-hander, Marco Estrada, starts for Milwaukee.
It begins a weekend of intriguing pitching matchups. Six of the eight pitchers slated to start (all but Bailey and Mike Leake) have ERAs below 3.00. The Brewers have received a quality start in 22 of their 28 games so far, though Matt Garza's injury-shortened start on Wednesday was not one of them.
"I know that they've had some recent injuries and have continued to play well," Reds manager Bryan Price said of the Brewers. "We knew they were a good team. If you would have polled everyone and asked who had a chance to get off to a good start, it would be Milwaukee -- just having seen them last year and the impact that [Khris] Davis had in left and Scooter Gennett at second base and having Braun back and knowing the other pieces with Segura and Lucroy and that group. They've certainly gotten some performance out of Mark Reynolds, and they added Garza.
"They've put some good pieces together. They're athletic and do good things. To me, this isn't a surprise. They solidified their rotation and their bullpen looks to be improved. But [20-8] is impressive for anybody. We've got our work cut out for us, but we think we're a good team, too."
Brewers: Starters have been strong
Garza is 1-3 with a 5.00 ERA after his start against the Cardinals in Wednesday's 9-3 loss, but the rest of the Brewers' rotation has been sharp. The group entered Wednesday's game third in the Majors with a 2.80 ERA, trailing only the Braves and Cardinals.
The Brewers hope their strong numbers hold. Last May, the starters combined for a 6.78 ERA, worst in the Majors, and worst in the National League by more than 1.25 runs.
"I think we turned the page on that as soon as we could," said right-hander Kyle Lohse, who will start Sunday's series finale. "It definitely killed the season, but you saw how we played in the second half after things settled down a little bit. We turned the page on it a long time ago. In the clubhouse, we're not thinking about that. That's something for everybody else.
"We had a lot of stuff going on. We were struggling keeping guys in the rotation, struggling to keep our 3-4-5 hitters on the field. It's a lot different now than it was."
Reds: Bailey seeking improvement
Thursday's Reds starting pitcher, Homer Bailey, has not got off to a good start to 2014 and would like to turn things around soon. Bailey has one quality start in five outings, while the club is 1-4 when he pitches. He's given up four or more runs in four of his five starts, and he allowed five runs on nine hits over six innings during Friday's 5-4 loss to the Braves.
While Bailey has walked only eight and struck out 29, he is tied for the NL lead with seven home runs allowed. He gave up four in one game to the Pirates.
"Bad pitches typically does it," Bailey said. "It's kind of one of those that I just have to sharpen up just a little bit. One pitch here, one pitch there. I'd probably be a little more worried if I were walking a bunch of guys or getting behind in a lot of counts. It's simple pitch execution. It's what I'm not doing in big situations."
The Brewers have not been kind to Bailey, who is 3-7 with a 5.36 ERA against them in 16 career games.
Worth noting
• Reds closer Aroldis Chapman will start and pitch one inning at Class A Dayton on Thursday for the beginning of his rehab assignment.
• Billy Hamilton's 10 stolen bases entering Wednesday's game were the most by a Reds batter through March and April since Deion Sanders stole 19 bases in the first 25 games of the 1997 season.
• April marked the first month in Brewers history with four extra-innings victories.
• At 20-8, the Brewers became only the fourth team in big league history to earn 20 wins in March and April. Two of the previous three -- the 2003 Yankees and '01 Mariners -- made the postseason. The '08 D-backs also started 20-8 but finished 82-80 and missed the postseason.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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hey guys, quick question. how many more fps's do there need to be before there are too many?
next question, how many more fps's with an m4 does there need to be before there are too many?
CryEngine3 seems interesting if someone didn't want to go the Open Source route on Linux. Unigine is already available too and not "yet another FPS." Too bad the possibility id Tech 5 coming to Linux and eventually Open Source is pretty far in the future.
But yes, I don't know why companies sit on Linux ports. There's also an original Linux Deus Ex and Unreal Tournament 3 that were finished, but not released.
In other 5-year-old news... Any title that is available on PS3 has an openGL (EGL) renderer and an ELF binary available.
they dont want to release the linux ports simply because of support. when i say support. i mean the first month of release support. these days. the way the game market is. if your game doesnt sell well before it even launches. it sucks. everything is pre-order now. linux has basicaly no impact on pre-orders. when you release a game, its over. nobody cares what you do with it after that. look at how many games dont even get properly patched to work correctly with all the stuff theey were suspose to work with. these are even console games that a year after they are released, if something is wrong with them the devs dont care to fix it at all.
the linux port will basicaly never be done when the windows,mac ports are done so there wont be release day support. and you can say all you want how they could just release it without official support, that wont stop all the threads in their forums about how do you get it to work in linux.
really what is gunna change this never ending problem of companies not wanting to release a linux port is we have to make a more stable target platform. its getting better and better every week. i mean it really use to be a nightmare but now with the distros acting in a more unified direction, we can at least start to create a check list of what you need to do to work on linux. some of this iccullus has been pointing out.
one interesting thing is that for years the way a company brought their game to linux like ut 2004 and doom and how wine did it, was basicaly to support the nvidia binary driver and then end of story. that was acceptible for SOOO many years. ati was a joke on linux, intel had just as good of support as it did on windows for most games (pretty much no support at all, and if there was it was unplayably slow), and then, nobody else mattered (at one time voodoo did, but those are a time long gone).
today frglx is for some reason a factor. it sucks, but its good enough to now be a problem when porting your game. if your game is made right, porting should be not much more than recompile and test, the games that have mac and windows support are proboobly made so that even if you didnt use sdl, its not much more than a couple guy changing some display setup and audio setup support. what the real problem comes down to is " why the fsck does this game render perfectly on windows driver opengl, the mac opengl, but now it acts differently with the various linux drivers"
one day gallium3d based mesa opengl, opencl, video accel will be awsome. it will be a couple more years, but its coming. look at what really has happened. dont look at how you feel right now when your geforce 580 is slow and buggy and therefore open drivers must suck. look at how in 2000-2006 we were all told by everyone that graphics divers are so mystious and complex and how every little peice and part is super optimised in secret proprietery ways and its so interwoven throughout the entire system that there is noway a couple linux hackers could ever understand it in their spare time. but the reality of it is that the most dificult part of designing the graphics drivers is the actual design of the graphics stack. there is a reason why gallium3d is mentioned so much in and of itself as a seperate entity from mesa. and that is because it actualy gives a structure to the entire graphics stack. beforehand some people got some stuff working on ati harware, you know the old r300c driver that came about. that and the nouveau driver when it really just first started, but those were mostly just usefull for getting 2d support and the dri componants started. it has been little more than 5 years since the initial gallium prototypeing and it took time to convert the nvidia and ati driver over to gallium. really i dont think nuch 3d stuff even starrted until late late 2009 so its ben not much more than 2 years. its getting to the point where hardware thats a generation old is working pretty well, the high end cards might not be fast but most of the 3d functionality is there.
kinda got off toppic a little with the graphics driver history textwall, but, it really is what linux support boils down to.there have been solutions for other problems on linux like how to properly package and distribute, and how to deal with library dependancies, but you cant ship your own libgl. so what it really boils down to is when the distros can ship fully functional, efficient, speed competative, and hardened opensource drivers out of the box, we solve the number one problem with commercial games on linux. iccullus cought a lot of flak for saying the opensource drivers suck, but they did. they arent perfect now still, and if you were to release an unsupported linux binary today, your forums would have the never ending "linux problems" threads.
A game engine(not game) must be portable and modular. I heard in some developer discussion forum that a good way to achieve portable code is develop it concurrently on 2 platform. In this way any fully platform specific code won't go to the main logic part and the code is easier to port other architecture(I once heard WinXP was developed on non x86 machines). If they have a linux port thats most likely they're making code portable. Also may be(just may be) they were using Linux shell and other tools for development. That seriously does not means it will used for any Linux title or even if its Linux performance is even production level(I think this are totally different thing that a engine compile and run under linux and its giving a decent FPS on Linux).
No it doesn't. Yes, the PS3 supports a form of GL ES. No, no serious game on the PS3 actually uses it. It's a bit like how Windows supports GL but most games using D3D, except even worse.
A very large part of this is because GL (and GL ES) are horrifically crappy APIs that have a lot of limitations in regards to contemporary PC graphics hardware, much less the very non-PC-like architecture of the PS3 (or XBox 360 or Wii, for that matter). No general-purpose graphics API is going to match the hardware of the consoles well, hence nobody uses general-purpose graphics APIs on the consoles.
A lot of games on the consoles partially eschew any API and make use of directly writing opcodes to the GPUs. This works only because the hardware is completely locked to a specific architecture, unlike the PC. This also allows a level of efficiency that is impossible on the PC. One might remember the idiotic statements by a mid-level AMD executive about how DX12 might do away with an API in favor of direct machine-code GPU programming; the recent complete architecture overhaul of AMD's GPUs shows why that's retarded on the PC, even though it's entirely feasible on a console.
In related news, it doesn't surprise me that Crytek has a Linux port. A lot of game engines that you dont' even know about have Linux ports. Some companies port to Linux because it's a cheap "proving ground" to porting to consoles, which often use a GCC-based compiler (albeit, an ancient shitty horrible disgusting pre-4.3/GPL3 version of GCC) which has a lot of incompatibilities with the PC game mainstay, Visual C++. Some engines have internal ports because an employee or two are Linux nerds. Some because Linux adds another cheap-and-easy bullet point to the feature list page which they use to sell to the executives at production companies. I've worked on two games using Linux on my primary dev machine (before I gave up on Linux ever being a real desktop and switched to Win7 on all my non-server machines), and no Linux binaries ever have been (or probably ever will be) released for those games. I know of at least one commercial engine which supports Linux _solely_ because the tech lead wanted to be able to use Valgrind every now and again; that same tech lead has been quoted as saying "Linux will never be a platform worth supporting commercially." (Granted, the same tech lead has said some rather silly things, so take that as opinion, not fact.)
In unrelated topic land: can you guess why Unreal (and almost every other big commercial engine) is so popular in the industry? Hint: it has a lot less to do with the developers/engineers who make games and a lot more to do with marketing than you probably suspected. I've yet to meet an engineer who's worked with the Unreal technology and hasn't hated it. Basically, executives see the Epic demos and hear "buy in bulk now and get a huge discount," then go and buy a ton of licenses, and then tell their development houses to use the engine licenses they already paid for in bulk. This feeds a vicious cycle, where consumers buy more games based on some hyped-up engine, or where so-called "schools" like Full Sail or Devry or SMU "educate" a new crop of half-assed one-tool developers, or where more devs are conditioned into the crappy codebases, resulting in more industry adoption of crappy game engines that costs tons of money and require boatloads of time and effort to build a unique game on top of while flexible engines like Unity3D or in-house engine devs struggle to gain mindshare.
I agree with Drago. I have been working with the Unreal Engine (mostly the first two iterations), and while it is true that the demos do increase their popularity, but the reason for using the engines is definitely not that. It's pretty simple, really. When you are creating a game, why should you reinvent the wheel? UE is a complete game suite with excellent support for scripting, materials, meshes, renderers, audio and everything else a game needs. Plus, it has great tools for that. The UDK is another thing that makes it so popular - anyone can try out the tools that game developers themselves used, in a free (as in beer) manner, without any limitations, with the exception of selling your game and revealing proprietary code.


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Throughout the years MetroStyle has changed to where sizes are no longer true to size. I wear 12, yet I've found myself buying 10s or this time, buying a L (14/16) because I knew the M would not fit. There was no way the M would fit. As it turned out the L fit around the hips but was tight just above the knees. Then the waist was so loose that the pants would slide down. To top it off, if I sat, the pants rode down so much that the crack of my behind was showing. Thank G I had a tunic on. But it still felt uncomfortable. I am in good shape and a normal size would fit. I only shop through MetroStyle because it was the only ones with TALL jeans I could wear, but their jean selections are getting scarce, the price is getting too high and the sizes no longer fit. I can still wear my size 12 from 6-10 years ago and they fit a bit baggy. I can wear the size 10 from about 4 years ago and they fit just a tad bit too tight but comfortable and wearable. Now, I no longer know what size to
White elastic waist leggings
Perfect fit but a slightly heavier fabric would have been preferred. Anxious for summer to see how it wears and washes.
No zip Jeans
Perfect fit & style - even length. Wish the fabric was a bit heavier/thicker. Hope it doesn't shrink; no hot water or dryer will be used.Betty3-21-15
Cincinnati OH
Blue and White Slacks
First time customer - right fit first time!
Sue Ellen
Blue Ridge GA
Right size - First time customer
First Time Customer - right fit - first time!
Bring back the old
I have purchased these for more than 10 years. When they were Forenza brand, they were better quality, fabric & fit. I have noticed over the last couple years, they are cheap quality especially the black as they are not denim and fit tight for my usual size. I'm disappointed and want the old ones back!
Chicago, IL
Love This Style
Love these pants. I purchased the black. The black is in a poplin fabric I think. Please make the black in a true denim like the other pants. Love the no pockets, zippers and belt looks - perfect for over blouses.
Van Nuys, CA
Love this style
Love this style of pants - no belt loops, no zippers and no pockets. Clean style great for tunics and wearing tops over pants. For me the waist is a little large and the legs are a little wide therefore the 4 stars. I take in the legs a bit to narrow then down and have to take in the waist. But, keep making them I have been buying them for years. More colors.
Wonderful, love the color. took right out of the package and put on
Cutting corners?
I have purchased these for at least the last 10 years. When they were Forenza brand, they were better quality, fabric & fit. I have noticed over the last couple years, they are failing all the tests that kept me purchasing them, in the past. I will be looking for a new avenue to purchase this item from now on.
Columbus, OH
Fit Was Good
I did not buy this for me but you have to buy a size larger than your normal size I guess because of the spandex waist. The fit was ok, a little loose on the butt area.
I am noticing just so gradually that young gals like myself are going back to gauchos...cropped pants...split skirts and flares/bootlegs!! I saw these a few years ago and purchased the slim denim leggings you carry--the only ones I will buy!! These are great in petite and will give my wardrobe a new look!! Plan to wear them with platforms and wedges...I am sick of jeggings and leggings!!!...the elastic waist will give me a smooth line under knits and sweaters also~ I am thin not a granny--not old looking-either! highly recommend!
petites too lng
I have a closet full of these pants and love them but...I need a 28 inch length. The petites all of a sudden are 30" That is not a petite length. Please bring back shorter length. The price on these pants went up and now I have to pay to have them shortened. I am sure I am not the only one with this complaint. this is only reason for 3 stars !
Not as good
Not as heavy material as the old ones. Not enough spandex anymore either! Don't fit as good as they used too. Am disappointed and want the old ones back!
Santa Cruz, CA
Where are you!
I lovelovelove these! As a tall slender gal I really appeciate these small tall boot cut leggings. I think some would say the run small but thats okay with me as small is usually to large for me. I do agree that I wish they came beigh and taupe. Please hurry and get more tall sm blue in! Tahnk-you Metro style
mary terry
Lino Lakes, mn
Surprisingly baggy for jeggings - but ok!
So i ordered these in a small size petite because i really wanted a high-waist jean that made me look taller but didn't restrict my horribly straight waist. They arrived today. First thing, they are SUPER comfortable. Most high waist jeans are not proportioned for the 'ruler' figure (Straight up and down, few defined curves) but because of the elastic waist, these are really cozy and comfy. Some people have complained about the thin denim. It IS thin but I prefer that to a thicker denim so to me, this is a bonus. My only concern is that they will lose shape from wearing and washing but we shall see.Second thing - straight waist women be aware that these are probably more meant for the hourglass figure. They are snug in the waist but i found them quite loose in the seat and thighs. In order to have the fitted look in the photo, i would have had to have ordered an XS and would have had a too-tight waist. BUT.. the slightly loose look is really quite flattering.
Detroit, MI
Old way is better
These pants are not what they used to be. You use to have the elastic sewn to the fabric now the elastic is just threaded through the casing. It's cheaper looking & doesn't fit as well. The sizing is inconsistant I can order 3 pairs of the same size & they all fit differently.
Trenton, MI
I used to buy these all the time. They fit well..be careful with washing though since they tend to shorten. I would not put these in a dryer. Also noticed with my last two seperate orders, these leggings are ALOT THINNER than they used to be. The others had a good weight to them and felt nice. These are on the thin side. I miss the older style denims and wish you would bring those back instead of cheapening them. If you get these on sale, its good but dont pay full price for them. I would pay more for the nicer, thicker denim. But I will still buy these on sale prices. Cute..... bring them back in more colors and a heavier material as before.
Canton, Ohio
denim boot cut leggins
I bought these pants before and really loved them. Ordered more recently, was not as happy. They do not have the same amount of spandex. The fit is good and they look good, but are thinner. What happened to them.
Milton-Freewater, Oregon
Bootcut Leggings
Why don't you offer these pants in XS? I wear a size 4.
Tempe, AZ
Work Pants
I love these pants for work. I have 10 pairs in my closet, all black. They last longer when I have them dry cleaned. I would love to get some in beige and taupe.
Troy, MI
Too popular pants!!
I have been buying these particular pants ever since they came out in all the colors. Recently my house was robbed and what did they take? All these pants in the color black!!! (Along with a lot of other things.) So now I guess I have to order more. Can you believe I have discriminating thieves? At least we know they have good taste!
Port Richey, FL
What happened to gray, and taupe/beige?!!??
I love your bootcut leggings, but my gray ones got paint on them, and the dry cleaners shrunk my favorite taupe and beige ones and now you don't carry any of these 3 colors! What happened? I am up a creek without a paddle as there is nothing like them. . P-L-E-A-S-E, please bring back these colors!!Thank you very much.GayleP.S. the 5 star rating is for the way they look and fit. If I rated them on colors available at this time, it would have to be only 3 stars since you once spoiled me by including the above mentioned favorite colors and I really miss them. :)
Scottsdale, AZ
New Lengths Needed
I really like the bootcut denim leggings.I have a problem with the length on these and all of your pants. I need a 33" and you offer 32" and 35". One is too short...the other too long. Is it possible to add another "in-between" length? Thanks.
Comfy....love the leggings
Love the jean leggings. Run true to size...but DO NOT put them in the dryer. I usually let pants hang dry but forgot the grey pair in a load and dried them. They SHRUNK at least 1 or 2 sizes and several inches shorter too... can't wear this pair!
Grand Saline, TX
No Back Stitching!
We loved the Metro Blues Bootcut Leggings with the back stitched-pockets and elastic waist. What happens to those? :(
Wichita, Kansas
Bootcut leggings
I used to buy these leggings all the time in PS but now you don't have them in stock. I just tried to order one in black and it only comes in XXL. They are the only jeans I will wear. They fit so perfect and the elastic waist is so great because if I put on a couple of pounds it doesn't matter. Please bring back the small sizes. You have them in your new catalog but still do not have them in stock. I am searching every other company trying to find something like you had. The rating is on when you had them ----not now. It would be a 1 star now because of only big sizes.
Edina, Minnesota
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NAME: Manuela Martin
FROM: Germany
JOIN DATE: January 2006
Manuela was studying for her Master's degree, majoring in English with minors in Media Science and Computer Science. In the course of her studies, she participated in several foreign exchange student programs including one with a US university. She also got involved with international work programs and realized she was interested in getting exposed to multicultural environments.
After completing her studies in Germany and recognizing that the job market in her area of expertise was not all that good, she thought it would be the ideal moment to live the experience of working in a foreign country for one year.
She had always been attracted by the open spaces of Canada and started looking at various job sites to see what was out there. In doing so, she came across a job advertisement from Enzyme. As she says, «I did play some video games, but I would not have considered myself a gamer per se. Nonetheless, I applied and after going through the selection process, I found myself, a few weeks later, with a job offer as a Linguistic Tester, which I decided to accept.»
«I arrived in January 2006 which gave me a taste of Canadian winters; they are effectively a little tougher than in Germany. Enzyme had hired many Linguistic testers from different parts of Europe. It was amazing how rapidly I felt as if I was part of a family. While we all came from various backgrounds, we were all sharing the similar adventure of living and working in a foreign country.»
«What was supposed to be a one-year experience has stretched way beyond what I initially imagined. Since joining Enzyme, I was able to visit different parts of Canada including Vancouver, the Rocky Mountains, Labrador and many others. I'm now looking forward to visiting Newfoundland on the East coast.»
«Enzyme has enabled me to develop various skills such as languages, coping with the pressure in a fast-paced environment and developing my leadership skills. Having been promoted to Project Manager, I am now responsible for multiple projects and must lead my team members in their assigned projects. This is very gratifying.»
NAME: Maxime Charbonneau
FROM: Canada
JOIN DATE: June 2007
Maxime's job experience prior to joining Enzyme was mainly in the retail sector. As he says, «I've always liked to deal with people.»
Aside from his work, Maxime developed an interest, if not to say a passion for video games. «I was no more than 4 years old when I played my first video game. I eventually participated in various video game groups (I.E. MMORPG) and started networking with other video game enthusiasts. Reflecting back, this is most likely how I managed to improve my English.»
In early 2007, Maxime and a close friend were discussing on how it would be fun if they could work for a video game company. Oddly enough, a week or two later, they saw an open house advertisement from Enzyme which they decided to attend. Maxime finally applied for a position as Tester in May and got the job.
«I had only been working for one month at Enzyme when an opening for Lead Tester was posted. When I was selected, I must admit, I did not anticipate I could progress as rapidly. My position provides me enormous satisfaction because it involves two main areas of interest for me, which are video games and dealing with people. I really enjoy my role in which I can develop my leadership skills and where I can share my own knowledge with team members. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I have a much clearer sense of what and where I want to be in the future and I am confident that I will be able to achieve this at Enzyme.»


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Excellent work from Valve as per usual. The next Steam Client update will introduce Steam Runtime Support for the final SDL 2.0.
Phoronix: Valve's Day of Defeat Released For Linux
Valve's original Day of Defeat game and the Day of Defeat: Source titles are now in beta on Linux via the Steam client...
Excellent work from Valve as per usual. The next Steam Client update will introduce Steam Runtime Support for the final SDL 2.0.
Glad to see they keep pushing forward with more releases, though I wish they would get to some of the games I really want to play and already own, namely the Portal and Left4Dead franchises. Need to pick up Half-Life 2 at some point when it goes on sale again for when that gets released.
Some other companies need to finally get their games out as well. I bought Lugaru HD and Little Inferno because their devs had stated they would have their games up on Steam in the near future (back in Dec/Jan). Lugaru has already been on Linux for ages now and Little Inferno was getting beta tested for Linux and Mac a month or two back.
Only 14 of the 86 games on my Steam account are Windows games that likely won't ever see a port, yet only 37 can be installed and played on Linux so far. Bit frustrating, but all I can do is wait and play what I already have access to.
Nice. Valve's SDL2 games work so brilliantly with window management and fullscreen mode, I wish all of the Steam Linux games used it. I hate dealing with fullscreen mode in so many of the games.
Is there any way to buy these games for Linux outside Steam?
Isn't that Conanicals new friend alongway the quiting linux philosophy and picking up the more money strategy. Why this good attitude to them? They don't have gpl license. Btw both mir and unity sucks. Conanical go to hell. Leave the linux world alone. We were better of living in caves with our bash!
They require Steam to operate. Unlike most PC games, Steam is not just DRM - it is also used as a package manager, friends list and many networking tasks. It's used to find and join servers, monitor friends, join/invite friends, etc.
If you mean without running the client, you can buy them from their website (steampowered.com), but you'll need the client to download, install or play them.
Well I'm glad they are doing it, but I see no point in porting 10 years old game over...nobody plays that. I would love to see DotA2 on Linux more than any other game.
I'm guessing the point of these old games being ported is a way to ease GPU devs into a more serious market. Linux likely isn't ready enough for games like HL2 without at least 1 driver having serious bugs, so they can build up a collection of games, show linux is a decent gaming market share, and have companies like AMD take their drivers more seriously. Also, Im sure these older games are functional with open source drivers on older hardware.
I've never played any Valve games before being invited into the Steam beta. I have bought several of their old titles over the past few months. I highly doubt I am the only one in that situation, so they are making money off those old titles they would have otherwise missed out on. I found the original Half-Life to be a real fun game despite its age and was very grateful for the chance to play it without Wine and I can totally see myself playing it again a few times down the line.


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Tuesday - 3/12/2013, 10:40pm EDT
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March 12, 2013 -- This week on "Off the Shelf", Joe Jordan, administrator for Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget, outlines the Obama Administration's procurement priorities.
Jordan discusses the ongoing Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) highlighting the Administration's goal over the next two fiscal years.
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Familiar victim for Hudson as he seeks win No. 200
Fifteen of righty's 199 career wins have come vs. Nationals franchise
Perhaps the third time will be the charm for Tim Hudson.
The Braves right-hander once again goes for career win No. 200 on Tuesday at Turner Field against the Nationals, who are still searching for their first victory of the season against their division foe.
Hudson appeared to have his 200th win in the books when he exited his last start against the Rockies with a two-run lead in the sixth inning. Instead, Colorado came back for two in the ninth against closer Craig Kimbrel before eventually winning in the 11th.
Hudson, 37, sputtered in his first attempt for No. 200 on April 19 against the Pirates, giving up six runs in four-plus innings. On Monday, he'll give it another shot against the team he beat for victory No. 199 on April 13, when he tossed seven innings of one-run ball in Washington.
Because of that outing, and his career numbers against the Nationals -- 15-5 with a 2.60 ERA in 27 starts -- Hudson appears in good position to join the 112 others in the 200-win club.
Hudson also looks to give the Braves -- losers in eight of their last 12 -- a spark after Atlanta's return home following a stretch of 16 of 18 on the road.
Washington left-hander Gio Gonzalez and the Nationals will know that weary-traveling feeling soon enough. Monday marked the beginning of a stretch where the Nationals play 22 of 32 on the road, which begins and ends at Turner Field.
Gonzalez hopes to build upon his last outing against the Reds, when he retired the first 11 batters he faced en route to an eight-inning performance in which he allowed one hit and struck out seven.
"He started right after them," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said afterward. "In the previous two games, he was missing early. [On Thursday], he was mixing his curveball. He was throwing them for strikes. … It was a fun game. Gio did one heck of a job. He really pounded the zone."
Nationals: April power
With one game remaining and 27 home runs already launched, the Nationals are three homers shy of tying the 2006 squad for the most April homers in franchise history.
• Washington relievers have been dominant as of late, going 1-0 with a 2.14 ERA in their last 14 games.
• The Nationals are 9-1 when recording at least nine hits, with their lone loss coming Monday night.
Braves: April record in sight
With 12 home runs, left fielder Justin Upton enters Tuesday's April finale two home runs shy of tying the all-time record for homers hit in the month of April, which is held by Albert Pujols (2006) and Alex Rodriguez (2007).
• Infielder Chris Johnson has eight multi-hit contests in his last 14 games. Johnson is batting .393 with five doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs in that stretch.
• Braves pitchers have allowed 33 earned runs in their last five games.
Worth noting
• The Nationals are 11-1 when scoring first, compared to 2-12 when they do not.
• Kimbrel is two saves shy of 100 for his career.
• Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth is a .385 career hitter (15-for-39) with three homers and 11 RBIs against Hudson.
• Gonzalez is 2-3 with a 6.08 ERA in five career starts against Atlanta.
Cash Kruth is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @cashkruth. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I've been looking through the Q&A on the site and I've noticed scripture and especially passages from the Bible are cited as evidence for one argument or another.
What is the theological argument that the Bible should form the basis of the Christian belief system?
Whils't Mason's answer gives a good description of the ways, in which, the Bible is a good guide to commonly held Christian beliefs, the answer is, as Mason hints, a tautology.
I'm still a bit confused. Is the Bible more of a commonly referred to reference book, or is is it the law of God?
I assume that Christian's believe they have a soul gifted to them directley by God and that soul can act as a kind of moral compass. Should I consider my soul's guidance to be inferior, equivalent or superior to an interpretation of the words in the Bible.
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Making a list and checking it twice � no, that�s not Santa, it�s Ilze Aviks and the committee of Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium, which opened at the Durango Arts Center last week.
They made a list of the 20 artists working on textiles today who they think are the most influential and important contributors to the field and invited them to participate in the exhibit.
Everyone said yes, which is pretty amazing considering they are all top artists known nationally and internationally, but even more cool, many created new works just for this show.
I don�t want to write one more word without giving credit to an incredible group of people who put in more than a year of work organizing this show. It�s nothing less than stunning and of remarkable caliber for a town of this size.
(Students and lovers of the textile arts already are making detours to Durango to visit it. Talk about the arts as an economic driver.)
Ann Norris served as the chairwoman � she�s a textile artist herself. Other members of the committee were J.M. Jones, Sandra Mapel, Leah Pahlmeyer, Peggy Zemach, Jeanne Brako, Mary Puller, Jenny Vierling and Becky Surmeier.
Brako, who is the curator at the Center of Southwest Studies and has mounted more than a few memorable shows herself, brought Jack Townes into the project. He�s a professional installer who�s currently redoing the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe � not just installing a show, redoing the museum. This was a tricky show to hang, and Townes did it with panache.
Name a textile technique � knitting, quilting, embroidery, felting, stitching, beading ... these artists have used them and more. There are amazing pieces that are equal parts high technology and hands-on, age-old techniques, pieces that are hand-woven and machine-woven. I�m glad it�s up to my colleague Judith Reynolds to write the actual review of the show, because I was left speechless more than once. (Her review will run Tuesday in the Arts & Entertainment section of The Durango Herald.)
I was a lucky duck and was invited to the Benefactors Reception on April 26, so I got a sneak peek before it officially opened. (This job as the Neighbors columnist definitely has its privileges.)
As one can imagine, an exhibit at this level is expensive to produce. Maynes, Bradford, Shipps & Sheftel; the Downtown Durango Business Improvement District; and TOP, the annual fashion show where artists design clothes and accessories starting with a blank shirt, are the name sponsors, but 20 generous individuals, couples and businesses sponsored the artists as well.
Kirk Komick and Diane Wildfang opened the lobby of the Rochester Hotel for the reception before we all trooped down to the Barbara Conrad Gallery at the arts center for the show. (No food or drink allowed in the gallery for this show � textiles are too vulnerable.)
The folks at The Yellow Carrot catered a delicious menu, and I want to give kudos for making sandwiches available. They�re real food, instead of just appetizers, and easy to eat at a stand-up reception.
The menu included a variety of sushi rolls with ingredients such as lemon-basil poached shrimp, black soy-seared saku tuna, smoked coho salmon, lotus root, truffled asparagus, sesame cucumbers, wasabi avocado and carrot spaghetti. The housemade black bean chorizo and bok choy-ginger potstickers with a red pepper thread-chili-garlic sauce were a hit, as were the sweet potato-and-Parmesan chicken-confit lollipops with grilled black cardamom pineapple.
The assorted sliders included three types all served on The Yellow Carrot�s housemade black sesame-and-Parmesan brioche. They were a roasted red-and-yellow-beet Napoleon with horseradish-cheddar salsa, Colorado goat cheese and daikon sprouts; the huge Cuban, with oven-roasted turkey breast, grilled five spice pork belly, dill pickles, yellow mustard and basil mayonnaise; and the Italian chicken salad sandwich with lemon-thyme marinated chicken breast with artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes, red globe grapes and Parmesan-Reggianito in basil-tarragon cream.
Of course, Yellow Carrot owner Sari Brown is known for her desserts, and this reception was no exception. Guests enjoyed butterscotch-caramel-fudge-torte and satin lemon-cream truffles, white chocolate-vanilla bean mousse-filled chocolate cups and macadamia-peanut butter cream cups.
Kudos to her, her chef de cuisine Ginny DeJong and general manager/event specialist Jessica Lovelace for a delicious and lovely spread.
Clare Verstegen, a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, has two pieces in the show, and came for the event. She has recently been fascinated by atmospheric forces and how they parallel emotional forces.
She and Aviks shared some fun facts about some of the creative forces behind the work.
Mark Newport, who�s head of the Fiber Department at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, knits superhero suits, with a wide variety of stitches and patterns. He started with the ones we all know, such as Batman and Superman, but now creates his own, often creating stories to go with the suit. And he�s been known to don one of his suits on campus. Newport uses only acrylic yarn, because that�s what his grandmother used, and he likes the connection to her and his family history in textiles.
Ed Lambert, whose intricate stitchery has to be seen to be believed, died before the exhibit was mounted, but his widow lent the DAC his most recent work.
Bhakti Ziek�s magnificent woven wall hanging, created just for this show, was funded by grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Vermont State Arts Council.
This show is missing just one thing: a piece or two by Aviks. I asked Verstegen if Aviks hadn�t been guest curating the show, would she have been one of the 20 artists invited? She said, �Without a doubt.�
It�s easy to take our local artists for granted, but Aviks is one artist who has put Durango on the international textile-arts map.
I urge everyone to take some time to visit this extraordinary show.
And just in case Santa is checking his list for some early Christmas shopping, I absolutely covet Sally Sellers� �Approximating Pi,� and I promise to be nice for the rest of the year. Wow.
Enjoying gorgeous May birthdays are Laura Lewis Marchino, Kenya Mills, Sophie Ragsdale, Jesse Sheldon, Evan Krispin, Kenzie Nielson, Bob Barnhardt, Shirley Gale, Dolores Jaye, Ryan Smith, Collin Jackson, Deon Mertz, Nick Skahill, Frank Anesi, Kim Buffalo, Jerry Hanes, McKenzie James, Phyllis Tucker, Nicholas Unkovskoy, Travis Von Tersch, James Zink, Talisker Kautter, Makayla Safran, Isabell Walt, Ayden Guion, Janelle Meyer, Ray Wilson, Darlene Cheesewright, Sandy Beebe, William Crouch, Donnie Wince, Jane Marentette, Chris Larson, Clarice Huckins, Hillary Wolfe, Sherri Libby, Carl Hotter, Rollie Roth, Rinda Slack, Ann Norris, Jeanne Brako, Kris Ryall and David Kidd.
One of the great ladies of La Plata County is poised to celebrate her 95th birthday, and I know she would appreciate hearing from her friends.
Emma Horvath�s big day is May 10, and her address is Senior Life Country Residence, 3689 County Road 131, Hesperus, CO 81326. Drop her a card or stop by and visit. Or call her at (505) 215-8661.
Born a Paulek, her story is the story of the southwest region of the county. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Lithuania and built a life through hard work and persistence, values she has demonstrated in her own life in spades.
When she was 90, Horvath sat down to write her autobiography with her son Roy Horvath, and it�s an entertaining and informative read. Not only is she related to a lot of the residents on the west side of the county, she taught most of the the rest. Happy birthday, Mrs. Horvath!
It was a perfect melding of function and mission when TOP co-sponsored the Textiles Today exhibit at the Durango Arts Center. TOP�s main fundraiser is the juried exhibit, fashion show and auction that challenges local artists to come up with something fabulous using the T-shirts or fabric it provides, so both this exhibit and the fundraiser are textile-related.
TOP, which is put on by New Face Productions, has a clear mission statement: to benefit cutting edge adult programming at the DAC, which Textiles Today clearly is.
Before I forget, today and June 1 and 2 are the remaining days to pick up the blank �canvases,� also known as shirts and fabric, for the 2012 event. Get them at There�s No Place Like Home, 820 Main Ave. The deadline for completed items is Aug. 25, and the big evening for the fashion show and auction is Sept. 21. Entry fees are required, with reduced rates for students.
More information is available by calling Regina Hogan at 385-4989 or emailing email@example.com. A prospectus is online at www.durangoarts.org.
I�m even more jazzed for the TOP event after seeing �Bill Cunningham New York� at the Back Space Theatre on Thursday. The film, with two screenings sponsored by TOP, follows New York Times photojournalist Bill Cunningham through his frenetic days and nights. Cunningham writes Evening Hours and On the Street for the Sunday Times every week.
Evening Hours is somewhat similar to Neighbors in that it chronicles the philanthropy scene in the Big Apple, although I don�t have Astors, Trumps or Basses in my column, and thankfully, I don�t have to worry about who people are wearing. But like me, Cunningham looks for the charities that do the most good with no concern as to who is on the guest list. He gets a lot more excited by what guests are wearing, and his invitation list is 20 times larger than mine, but I completely empathized. In the daytime, he rides his bicycle on the streets of Manhattan, with his camera ever ready to catch the latest fashion trends.
Cunningham�s belief that fashion is the �armor that allows us to survive day-to-day reality,� makes it feel OK to love fashion again.
In homage to Cunningham, Durango photographers Kyla Jenkinson and Wesley Sebern did their own version of On the Street in Durango, which was shown before the film. The ladies of Photo Divine definitely showed how we rock jeans, T-shirts and comfortable clothes, but we can look pretty sharp, too. And for people who weren�t riding a bike or walking their dogs � Durango�s most popular accessories � hats seemed to be the ultimate fashion statement.
Seach for �TOP This Durango� to check out their slideshow.
In the last week, I�ve seen two women looking stunning in pieces they bought at last year�s TOP auction. Carol Salomon wore a jacket created by Ann Norris to the �Bill Cunningham New York� screening, and Rochelle Mann wore the most-talked-about piece from last fall, the multimedia, for lack of a better word, jacket created by Barbara Belanger at a party earlier in the week. (I�ll have more about that event in my next column.)
I guess I do care who people are wearing � if it�s a local designer.
Clearly, TOP is where all of Durango�s most fashionable women shop.
The trees are in bloom for the anniversaries of Paul and Monica Broderick, Fred and Fran Rusk, Kevin Jones and Donna Suggs, Mike and Mandy Gardner, Rob and Maria Kolter and Vance and Carrie Thurman.
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Known throughout the world as the intellect behind The Chronicles of Narnia and as the twentieth century's most influential Christian writer, C. S. Lewis has stirred millions of readers through his probing insights, passionate arguments, and provocative questions about God, love, life, and death. Gathered from the mass of his published works -- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock -- as well as from letters, essays, and less familiar writings, this compendium contains a cross section of Lewis's finest work.
About the Author
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and popular theology brought him international renown and acclaim. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include The Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, The Four Loves, The Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity.


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The Chicago Fire Foundation and our community partners are dedicated to enriching the lives of the Chicagoland community. The following is a list of our current charity partners. We are excited to work with these organizations and continue our outreach into the community.
Launched in April 2007, MLS W.O.R.K.S. is Major League Soccer's community outreach initiative dedicated to addressing important social issues and serves as a platform for both League and club philanthropic programs. MLS W.O.R.K.S. seeks to establish Major League Soccer as a leader for improving the lives of people through sport.
MLS W.O.R.K.S. supports both national and international organizations dedicated to bettering the world we live in, including the UNICEF, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Grassroot Soccer, Hope & Heroes and many others.
The Chicago Fire are proud to support the Don't Cross the Line campaign. Click here to learn more and take the pledge!
City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization that combats the nation's dropout epidemic by uniting young people of all backgrounds for a full year of full-time service in high-need schools. These young people, referred to as "corps members," keep students in school and on track to graduation by serving as tutors, mentors, and role models. City Year currently has locations in 25 U.S. cities and two international affiliates.
As a part of a new partnership with City Year Chicago, the Chicago Fire Soccer Club is sponsoring 11 City Year corps members who will work full time at Carl Schurz High School. Each school year, corps members will help impact the lives of more than 730 ninth grade students. The partnership was made possible by a grant from the Hauptman Family Foundation.
Special Olympics is a global organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sport, every day around the world. The Chicago Fire is proud to support Special Olympics of Illinois in their mission to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
The Chicago Fire and Special Olympics Illinois introduced members of their inaugural Unified Soccer All-Star team, a squad composed of Illinois-based teens with and without intellectual disabilities. The team will train together in preparation for a matchup with Special Olympics Oregon, which will be held in conjunction with the Chicago Fire First Team's Aug. 7 road match at Portland Timbers. The Unified Soccer team also will be recognized in a special send-off event during the Fire's June 24 home match against D.C. United.
Click here to read more about the team.
The Chicago Fire is proud to partner with the Greater Chicago Food Depository and support their efforts to help collect food and raise awareness for the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who struggle to find food every day. The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in the community.
The Food Depository distributes, donated and purchased food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. In 2014, the Chicago Fire donated 481 pounds of food which provided 400 quality meals for hungry families in Cook County.
The Lisa Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private non-profit foundation that supports causes that strive to improve the overall quality of life for underprivileged children and others in need, focusing its efforts on health and education. The Foundation has funded scholarship programs at multiple universities, in addition to its establishment of Arizona State University's Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic. It also recognizes the importance of education and an active lifestyle in today's youth, stressing the life-changing impact that participation in after-school sports and other physical activities can have on a child's life, both on the field and in the classroom. The Lisa Family Foundation has partnered with the Chicago Fire Foundation to support these efforts by serving as a sponsor for both the Kicks for Kids program and the 2014-2015 P.L.A.Y.S. Program.
World Sport Chicago is an independent, non-profit organization that teaches positive values and leadership through sport. The organization acts on the belief that sport has the power to strengthen individuals, and in turn, Chicago's communities. World Sport Chicago promotes programs and events and collaborates with several community partners, public agencies and Chicago's professional sports teams to deliver impact and change.
In 2013, the Chicago Fire Foundation in partnership with World Sport Chicago launched the P.L.A.Y.S. Program which focuses specifically on developing social and emotional learning characteristics in elementary school students.
Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), created in 2001, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve student achievement in Chicago's high-poverty, chronically failing schools through its disciplined transformation process, built on a foundation of specially trained AUSL teachers. In 2013, the Chicago Fire Foundation launched the soccer and academic focused P.L.A.Y.S. Program in 8 AUSL schools throughout Chicago.
Urban Initiatives is a nonprofit organization that runs a health and education soccer program, called the Work to Play Program, in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). By actively engaging participants in extracurricular activities at a young age, Urban Initiatives empowers youth to live a healthy lifestyle, value education, and enhance their personal and social development. The Chicago Fire Foundation is proud to partner with Urban Initiatives to utilize a collaborative, whole child approach to development in order to provide children with the opportunity to reach their full potential.
America SCORES Chicago partners with schools to provide a high-quality, team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry, and service-learning. The Chicago Fire Foundation is proud to partner with America SCORES Chicago to help grow the sports of soccer by providing children in undeserved communities in the Chicagoland area with the opportunity to experience the beautiful game
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago provides hope, stability and opportunity for more than 13,840 young people per year throughout 32 Clubs in the Chicago area. Each Club is supervised by caring and trained professionals who engage kids in more than 200 activities each year. Club leaders and staff members believe their work is an opportunity to positively shape the future of America. Boys & Girls Clubs' programs have taken members from the Clubhouse to the White House; from the game room to the corporate boardroom; and from the drum corps to Orchestra Hall. The Chicago Fire Foundation is excited to partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago and support its mission to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for kids. Ranked #1 in almost every major pediatric specialty, they provide superior pediatric healthcare in a compassionate, family-centered environment. Through this partnership, the Chicago Fire Foundation will work with Lurie Children's Institute for Sports Medicine to provide funding for its Knee Injury Prevention Program (KIPP) which is designed to lower the risk of ACL injuries in athletes.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is an organization with a mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS has dedicated itself to being one of the top-rated voluntary health agencies in terms of dollars that directly fund their mission.
In 2013, the Chicago Fire Foundation partnered with the LLS for their "Soccer Kicks for Cancer" program. Youth soccer players solicited pledges for every time the player touched a soccer ball over a ten-day period, with the goal of 2,000 touches. In support of LLS' great cause and their alignment with the values of the Foundation, CFF gave over $10,000 in 2013.
The Chicago Fire Soccer Club in partnership with Heineken are recognizing supporters who pledge to never drink and drive. Whether you are the designated driver or you have made alternate transportation plans, you have the opportunity to be the Responsible Fan of the Match! During each home game, you can take the pledge at Gates A, C and Guest Services to be entered to win a Chicago Fire and Heineken Prize Pack! Winners from each match were recognized at TOYOTA PARK.
Presented by Redmoon, the inaugural Great Chicago Fire Festival introduced what will become an annual tradition celebrating the diversity of Chicago's great neighborhoods and the City's powerful spirit of renewal.
The Festival culminated on October 4th, 2014 with a grand procession and fire spectacle on the main branch of the Chicago River. Tens of thousands watched the procession and spectacle from Chicago's newly developed riverfront, featuring acrobatics, live music, wild mechanical objects, and more. The festival was a city-wide signature event that so genuinely reflects the city that it becomes a cultural and economic beacon for Chicagoans, the nation, and the world.
As a part of Soccer Kicks Cancer, MLS, MLS W.O.R.K.S, the Chicago Fire are participating in MOVEMBER, a moustache growing campaign that raises awareness for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.


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