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Sulphur Springs cashes in Rider's miscues
Early on, Rider buried itself in mistakes.
Problems in the kicking game. Bobbled snaps. Untimely penalties.
The Raiders, however, overcame all that and actually led after the first drive of the second half.
But with 1:17 to play, Rider made a mistake it just could not overcome.
Seth Harris picked off a Malcolm Carter pass and returned it 43 yards for a touchdown, sealing the deal on Sulphur Springs' 26-15 win over the Raiders Friday night at Memorial Stadium.
The defending Class 4A Division II state champs are 3-0 for the season. Rider is 0-2.
"It was a pretty disappointing one. I thought we had them on the ropes there for awhile, but we were unable to do it," Raiders coach Scott Ponder said. "They have a great ball club."
With starting quarterback Colton Lee out with a shoulder injury, sophomore Justin Owens was brought up from the JV for his first varsity start. He was helped by the return of wide receiver Shane McQueen, who had missed the first two games with an ankle injury.
After a high snap led to a 3-yard Rider punt, giving the Wildcats good early field position, Owens heaved a pass to McQueen, and the senior made a beautiful diving catch in the end zone for a 39-yard touchdown and a 6-0 lead.
Kedrick Dial's blocked punt helped pad that lead to 9-0 on a 26-yard field goal by Fernando Arellano. The junior kicker booted another one from 30 yards out for a 12-0 advantage with 4:21 left in the half.
Finally with 1:21 to go before the break, the Raiders — shut out 28-0 by Cedar Hill last week — scored their first points of the season.
On third-and-nine, Carter took a snap out of the shotgun and fired a touchdown pass to Reid Barnett in the corner of the end zone to make it 12-7 at the half.
Rider came out and drove 59 yards in six plays to start the second half to take the lead. The big play in the drive was a 47-yard run by junior Deron Royster, who led all rusher with 106 yards on a dozen carries.
Royster's long run set up Mason Deerinwater's 1-yard touchdown run that put the Raiders on top 15-12 with 9-34 to play in the third quarter.
Royster had another 46-yard run on Rider's next drive, but a block in the back penalty nullified that, and Sulphur Springs took full advantage.
The Wildcats marched 57 yards in 10 plays with 6-foot, 225-pound offensive lineman Cody Suggs moving to the backfield and scoring on a hard-nosed 3-yard run around the right side for what proved to be the winning touchdown.
Owens completed four passes in the drive.
"It is early in the season. We will get sharper," Ponder promised.
Sulphur Springs 9 3 7 7—26
Rider 0 7 8 0—15
SS— Shane McQueen 39 pass from Justin Owens (kick failed)
SS Fernando Arellano 26 field goal
SS— Arellano 30 field goal
Rider— Reid Barnett 10 pass from Malcolm Carter (Conner Nutt kick)
Rider— Mason Deerinwater 1 run (Paul Mason run)
SS— Colby Suggs 3 run (Arellano kick)
SS— Seth Harris 43 interception return (Arellano kick)
SS Rider
First downs 17 12
Rushes-yards 33-103 41-181
Passing 191 76
Comp-Att-Int 18-29-1 7-16-3
Punts 5-41.8 6-22.8
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-0
Penalties-Yards 6-67 5-45
RUSHING — (SS) Devion Hill 14-64; Justin Owens 5-(-11); Kody Chester 5-38; Colby Suggs 3-6; Bryant Jackson 5-7; Team 1-(-1); (Rider) Deiron Royster 13-106; Malcolm Carter 7-(-15); Richie Mawson 1-3; Paul Mason 7-61; Mason Deerinwater 4-5; Clarke Daugherty 1-2; A.J. Scallion 3-0; Blaine Townsend 1-1; Rustin Morgan 1-3; Gary Broussard 2-16
PASSING— (SS) Justin Owens 16-27-1 191; Bryant Jackson 0-2-0 0; (Rider) Malcolm Carter 7-16-3 76
RECEIVING — (SS) Colon Lee 7-69; Shane McQueen 4-62; Bryant Jackson 4-35; Cody Clayton 1-19; Alvin Frazier 1-13; Kody Cheswter 1-(-3); (Rider) Reid Barnett 4-44; Gary Broussard 3-32
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Oil prices rose in Asia today ahead of the release of a key indicator of US energy demand and a meeting of the OPEC oil cartel. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for July delivery was up four cents at USD 104.39 a barrel in mid-morning trade and Brent oil for July added nine cents to USD 109.61.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which pumps out about one third of the world's oil, is expected to maintain its production output at a Vienna meeting later today. The "OPEC meeting will probably confirm official production target of 30 million barrels per day", research house Capital Economics said.
Producers have said they are comfortable with current price levels at more than USD 100 a barrel, with Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi describing the market at "stable and balanced". Analysts said ongoing disruptions to Libyan output mean there is no pressure on other OPEC members to cut back.
The market is also tracking European Union-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia to resolve a bitter natural gas dispute while keeping an eye on a weekly US Department of Energy report of oil inventories later in the day. The US inventories data is important for clues on the state of demand in the world's biggest oil consuming nation.
Analysts expect the report to show a decline of 1.7 million barrels, according to a survey of analysts by Dow Jones Newswires.

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" I orederd a pair of JH 16Pro IEMs in May. It is now June 15th. Since ordering the first pair, I have returned at my cost of $21.15 each time, the IEMs three times. Each time, Caleb Ellis, who manages the department that makes the IEMs, said he could not explain what had happened. The left IEM of the first pair fitted perfectly with the impressions I paid an ..." --rollinoswald
Jerry Harvey Audio Sirens Series Roxanne Universal IEM
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If Rob Gronkowski were out for the season, and Hernandez could stay healthy himself, we would have a new contender for the top spot. As it stands, both Gronkowski's presence and Hernandez's own injury concerns keep him just outside the top tier. Hernandez really sits in a tier by himself, as he has loads more upside than the following tight ends, but more questions than anyone in the Top Four. After all, he has averaged 9.3 FPPG over the past two seasons, but again, that's over the course of 23 games, not 32.


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This quilt featured in the June/July 2009 issue of Quilt Magazine, called It's A Rosy Day is the newest version of the very first quilt that Kaffe did for the book, Glorious Patchwork. The "It's A Rosy Day" quilts are a simple formula of alternating nine patches with large squares cut from big prints. It is scrappy and works in any colorway. Give it a try, make a red one, a blue one. It is fast and it is addictive.
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Kwan, Lydia Li-Ya*, Mellor, David, Rizzuto, Laura, Kolar, Christina* and Mamat, Norul Hidayah Bt.* (2013) The relationship between perceived interparental conflict and Malaysian young adults' attitudes toward divorce, Journal of divorce & remarriage, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 596-607, Routledge Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, England [C1]
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Sad in a way, but perhaps indicative of the changes in our society. I just returned after a 4 year hiatus, and I half to say it is almost heart-breaking to see the lack of content (゚´Д`゚)゚
Perhaps it was the end of an era? I hope not. Perhaps the drop of quality on contemporary imageboards (8ch, 4chan, etc.) will bring a flood of Anons back to textboards. They are a glorious thing that I hope we will rediscover.
The thing about 8ch is that can't say that 8ch itself is bad. I'd say it's rahter the boards that are shit, and more specificaly their users. 8ch only provides a playground for redards at 8ch's /b/ for example to post the exact fucking things they'd post on 4chan and brag about them and 8ch being so much better than 4chan qualitywise. If you look a little bit further than the top25 you might find a board with a decent activity and ok posts and people to discuss with. You have to look hard though if you wanna find a board where people don't have the need to use funneh maymays and greentext to communicate with one another, but there are boards like that.
And as to people comming back to textboards. I wouldn't hold my breath, really. If you wanna discuss something with chill people you'll have to find a niche imageboard, textboards are so obscure it's really saddening, this place could have been the 2ch of the west but no one cared. What a pity.
The thing that I am hoping for is that /jp/@8ch becoming more active and fun to post in, there is really a lot of potential for that board. So please tell rad people you know about www.8ch.net/jp !
Yo, I can't afford the internet right now so I do all my browsing from my college. It seems that overnight my colege started blocking everysite I ever visited. Its ok right now cause I'm using Tor. Although I fear they may start blocking Tor.
So in fear of that I ask you. What can I do if they ever start such a thing?
Complain to your college? Worst case you can afford to buy hosting and setup a proxy through that, though that requires computer tech knowledge...
Looks like you have to be careful of which websites you look at when you're surfing on campus. I doubt they'll block Gmail, but they might block other (NSFW) websites.
Speaking of which, what websites are you visiting with their connection?
Well there's 4chan of course, then various blogs, a couple of music blogs that were blocked because "P2P File sharing is not allowed", They even blocked Source forge because of
"File Sharing".
I've tried complaining and requesting that they unblock some of the sites but the people in charge state that "Those sites are not academic". When I inform them about the 70 some odd people on myspace and facebook they don't reply. Man some people are just so stuck up.
> 4chan of course
For which reason was 4chan blocked?
> a couple of music blogs that were blocked because "P2P File sharing is not allowed",
Well, they have a point there, although you can bypass that easily anyway...
> They even blocked Source forge because of "File Sharing".
You can certainly complain about this. Sourceforge shares files legally, and the files are directly tied to CS academia - they're computer software for fucks sake. Actually, that is fucking outrageous.
Sourceforge as filesharing? Complaining about non academic sites? They might as well block the whole Internet.
What about tunneling? If you can use TOR, then you could tunnel your browsing. Possible a friend could lend you part of his internet connection.
>>7 said the best solution
Either setup an sshd in your friends computer or buy an ssh account (they're pretty cheap).
For 5 bucks a month (scroll down to the last option):
etc. you can google for 'ssh account hosting'
There is a thing called bridge exactly for the case when Tor as whole is blocked.
You just connect to a bridge which essentially acts as a proxy into Tor so all that is visible is an encrypted connection to a bridge.
Namely, creating a branch of it that uses Openbox.
Just fetch the Openbox sources and compile (then move to your $PATH or whatever). You might even be able to grab the binaries from Arch Linux's repository if they use the same package manager.
Honestly I wish Tanasinn.info wouldn't associate itself with this project. Then again it's a wiki and it's just one guy editing it, so whatever.
...almost three years later.
i still don't see why someone would use this instead of just installing those package on arch.
it looks like this distro died in 2011, before >>1 even posted about it.
good day I'm doubt about what to do for my channel ... ya'll give dials or even teach something that I do not know for me to spend my allies?
porn. youtube needs more of that.
Remember those wacky early 00s amd athlon xps?
I had one. I just got 8 extra fps in QIII and because of overheating got my CP burned. AMD was shit. Then I bought intel pentium 4 2ghz and still use it to this day.
Fuck unstable ATHLON
All desktop chips are shit. If you think you need to overclock your processor, the rest of your machine is probably shit, too. The first laptop I ever bought had a 1.6GHz Turion (MT-30), and it ran circles around the 3GHz Pentium 4 desktop that my dad bought a year later, and used less than a third the power (25W vs 89W).
because it's sad
i am not a panda
Because of my Social
the fact that there are two disorders with the same acronym makes me even more sad than I was previously. (*;_;)
There is definite sort of anti-intellectualism when it comes to technology. People don't want to learn. They don't want to grasp it. They view it as a bad thing. But they still know what martketing companies tell them, they have to have the latest smartphone or they won't be smart!
I mean, fuck, I HATE going out into public with my netbook. It's like walking a newborn puppy in public or something except it's not college girls bugging you, it's grown men and women. Five minutes before typing this some white trash guy with his kid in tow came up and started bugging me with "Eyy das a nise cumpuda. Look at it-EY BRANDON, MERE-look at his little tiny cumpuda." The guy named Brandon comes over. "Who-ho-hoo! What we gut here? Jeeze. Thats things tiny."
And there was this one diluted woman once, she walked by and practically screamed "WOW. Would you look at that TINY baby computer! Is that an EYEPAD????"
She does not even know what an Ipad is but by golly she sure does know it's just got to be the most REVOLUTIONARY INVENTION OF OUR TIME!!!!
Hole-lee-shit. It's a computer, not a puppy. Do you act like this when you see peoples blenders or microwaves too?
People always have and always will be stupid.
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For some reason sometimes when I crop an image to reduce the file size the opposite effect happens and the file actually gets bigger? How does this happen and can it be avoided without affecting the picture quality?
Sounds like a format change. Maybe you cropped a png and saved as jpeg? Or maybe you cropped a 8bit png and saved as 24bit?
It can be happened for some reasons. I saw such thing for once when I edited my icons using special editors from aha-soft.com maybe other I don't remmeber exactly. I cropped a picture a lil bitbut I set the edges of the croppin frame OUTSIDE the edge of the picture. After I cropped programm added this piece to initial picture and it became larger.
I hope that their bloggers must close bloger.
Because ther are kitty guy,stupid and fuck.
Thank you
>>1 is probably long gone, but anyway.
When you do something to a jpeg image, this is usually how an image editing program would do it:
4. Convert bitmap to jpeg macroblocks
5. Throw away some amount of detail (configurable)
6. Compress jpeg file
7. Add metadata (like "CREATED BY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LOLOL", thumbnail, date and time, etc)
How will the failure of net neutrality effect online gaming? Will I have to pay more to play world of warcraft?
Probably not. If your ISP is so evil as to try to extort money from someone, it will most likely be Blizzard, or the company that makes the game you want to play. And if Blizzard don't comply, your ISP might try to drive away Blizzard's profits by slowing down everyone's connection to their servers. So no, if this repeal comes into force, you probably won't be affected monetarily.
So instead of costing me more, it'll just make me more likely to get ganked then when playing online. It is probably a good thing I don't have Comcast any more, greedy comcastards...
If you have a single (or some more) question regarding any of the tech topics of this board and feel that it wouldn't justify creating an own thread just for that, feel free to post it in here.
If you know the answer to any of the questions in this thread, please help us out here! I am sure it's going to be appreciated.
I am creating this thread since there's ben popping up too many threads lately with single questions asking for help that aren't really set out to create too much interest.
Thank you for your reply.
The output of ifconfig gives me values for "inet addr," "Bcast," and "Mask." So I guess I can assume those values are the current LAN address, the Broadcast and the Netmask? Should the broadcast number look something like 255.255.255.255? I know the mask should look like that, but other guides say that the broadcast should be the last address in your network's range, like, for your example, "192.168.0.255," so the output confuses me a little.
Does iTunes for Windows do anything to your music files at all?
As in, does it have any sort of deal where when you add your giantass folder of music to its library, it renames all the music files to random alphanumeric things like "HH23X9.mp3 and then places them in a folder tree with names much similar to that? Or does it add some sort of code to your files that only allows them to be played back from within iTunes?
For various reasons I will be forced to use iTunes for the management of my music library but I'm almost scared to try this because I hear things like this about iTunes for Windows very frequently.
Can anyone confirm or deny any of this for me?
I only used it briefly, but I think it stores its own metadata without actually touching your files. That would create problems for a lot of people.
There's probably an option to move/rename/tag music, though.
I use Debian wheezy and the official Firefox binaries.
Just go to the Firefox website and hit the download button. It'll give you a .tar.bz2 with
firefox/ inside. Extract that somewhere you have read/write access to--I used
/opt/firefox/. After that, add that directory to your
$PATH (e.g. open up
~/.profile and add something like
PATH="/opt/firefox:$PATH"). Firefox's own updater should be able to update the software with no problems. Setting up any sort of desktop or menu shortcut shouldn't be difficult, just set it to run
firefox (or the full pathname) and to use the icon in the
firefox/icons/ directory.
Admittedly, it's not the best solution, but it works and ensures you get timely updates straight from Mozilla, with all the dependencies included. However, you may run into troubles with update-alternatives and the like, and you might have to set some options in your desktop environment (if you use one). But in lieu of a proper Mozilla Debian repository (maybe there is one, I haven't checked), it's one of the easiest ways to go about it. Maybe someone a little more package-savvy than myself could write a script that automatically fetches the latest binary, packs it into a .deb, and adds the relevant metadata? I don't see why it would be too hard.
How do I define my own keyboard shortcuts in Firefox under Linux? Make whatever keys I want perform whatever action I want and whatnot?
Running Debian 64-bit. Tried to enable multiarch to install Wine 32bit. I was suggested these commands by the "wine64-bin helper package." I ran these commands as root:
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# apt-get install wine-bin:i386
When I tried the last command, this was the output:
The most relevant information, I think, is at the bottom:
dpkg: error: --configure needs a valid package name but 'libuuid1' is not: ambiguous package name 'libuuid1' with more than one installed instance
Same idiot again. I'm going to go ahead and just backup and reinstall, but if anyone has had this happen before and got it fixed, you can post it. I imagine I'm not the only one, even if it seems like it from the google results I got.
I need Java for homework. I installed it and this is the error I keep getting http://tinypic.com/r/2ir2kjq/
Disabling this is not an option, I must have it or I cannot do my homework. What am I supposed to do?
seems that link does not work, here's a more direct link? I can only hope


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This is part two in a two part series on Test Driven Development at
SpiderOak. In
part one,
I discussed ways to decrease the time it takes to run a test suite. In part
two, I discuss two ways to run a test suite that are painful if the tests are
slow, but greatly beneficial if performed often with fast tests.
Once we have tests that run in milliseconds rather than minutes, we'll want
to run them as often as possible. As I work, I'm constantly saving the current
file and running the tests, as is necessary when practicing test-driven
development. Rather than switching to a command prompt after each change in
order to run the tests, I just map a key in vim to do it automatically.
Whenever I start a programming session, I open the module I'm working on and
its corresponding test module in a vertical split in vim. SpiderOak has a few
runtime dependencies, and because we don't use the system-provided Python
interpreter on Mac, I have to source a script to set up the runtime
environment. When running commands from vim, the environment is inherited, so
by sourcing the script before running vim, things work just as they would if
you invoke them from the command line directly.
$ (. /opt/so2.7/bin/env.sh; PYTHONPATH=some_path vim -O package/module.py package/test/test_module.py)
Once I'm in vim, I map a key to run the tests, modifying the mapping for
whatever module I happen to be working on.
:map ,t :w
:!python -m package.test.test_module
This binds ,t to first write the file, then run python -m
package.test.test_module. Of course, this will change depending on what
you're working on and how you invoke your tests.
Running tests on a range of git commits
In my git workflow, I sometimes find myself staging changes piecemeal, or
rebasing, reordering, or squashing commits. These kinds of actions can lead to
commits with code in a state that hasn't been tested. To make testing these
intermediate states easier, I have adapted
a script from Gary Bernhardt to checkout each commit in a given range and
run a command on the result. Here's my adapted version of the script:
#!/bin/bash set -e ORIG_HEAD=$(git branch | grep '^*' | sed "s/^* //" | grep -v '^(no branch)' || true) REV_SPEC=$1 shift git rev-list --reverse $REV_SPEC | while read rev; do echo "Checking out: $(git log --oneline -1 $rev)" git checkout -q $rev find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} ; "$@" done if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then [ -n $ORIG_HEAD ] && git checkout -q $ORIG_HEAD fi
This keeps track of the current HEAD, checks out each revision in the
provided range, and then runs whatever command follows the range on the command
line. If all goes well, it will check out the original HEAD, to leave you back
where you started. If at any point the command exits with an error code, the
process will stop, so you can fix the problem.
For example, to run the command python test/run_all_tests.py on
every commit between origin/master and the current HEAD, you would
$ ./run_command_on_git_revisions.sh origin/master.. python test/run_all_tests.py
Using the tools and techniques from this post and
one, I am able to run the SpiderOak tests quickly, after every change. This
enables me to use a TDD approach and not be slowed down by sluggish tests. With
the confidence that a comprehensive suite of tests provides, I can make
sweeping changes to parts of the SpiderOak code without worrying if I broke
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Remember the first SupCom? Remember how big and massive the game used to be? Gargantuan battles that made a difference, air fights with fleets the size of Washington to Chicago, and maps that dwarfed any strategy game to date? Well, the sequel gets all that in spades... but what is the game missing that disappoints the average SupCom fan? The story starts you off after the events of Forged Alliance--thirty or so years of peace then the president of the union gets shot. After that you take command of any race you want, Aeon Illuminate, UEF, or the Cybran. All three races are woven into an incoherent story that doesn't suck you in to the "emotional driven story," they speak so generously about. They are all friends at the academy and basically you have to kill them (exaggeration). The characters and the voice acting grate and detract from the experience and you'll likely just ignore the single-player in favor of the better skirmishes... although they don't hold much in the way of lasting value either.
The skirmish you'd think as the average SupCom fan is where the game picks up, but that really boils down to your experience with the first game. If you were a fan of the first game, you'll be thoroughly disappointed by the ease of which this game takes itself as. Dumbed down to the point of where the game just really doesn't require "strategy." You want to win? Mass units and rush, the AI doesn't help as they just send wave after wave of air units to crush you. The amount of strategy is dumbed down because the simplicity is just too much. The thing that made SupCom great was how intricate much of the strategy was--there were three tier levels of units that you could create and the strategy that added to the game-play is whether or not to build expensive durable units or stick with mass produced tier one units. The same thing boiled down to defense. However in the second one, they got rid of such a build and went with one mass produced unit--your tier one, two, and three tanks were replaced by one main battle tank, everything is the same as with the artillery and AA guns, one coherent unit to do the job.
This build made the game go much faster--no longer will you have to stay glued to your monitor for more than an hour--but this killed the strategy as you need only one unit to do the job, you could just as easily win with one hundred and sixty tanks if you really wanted to. The variety of units you could build killed in the flames. Another detriment that made when you shorten the game times was the trademark experimentals that you could build in the game. Remember how long each experimental took to build? Remember how difficult it was to kill them? Remember how satisfying it was to use them? Well, that was wounded in the flames as many of the units from the first game died in the making, only a few made it back.
The Fatboy made it, but it's not as useful as it once was--now its just a battleship made for land, no longer is it a strategic asset to you. Remember how it was able to make units three times faster than the tier three factory? Using it as a mobile factory and setting up shop outside your foes base for a preemptive strike? Well now it's just another tank you can mass produce within three minutes (yes, all experimentals are now able to be built by a special building, all under three minutes). The Megalith made it, but like the Fatboy, it's just another unit you can mass-produce. The famous one eyed monster made it, the Galactic Colossus, and yes its powerful, but like every other experimental, taking it down is a piece of cake, saying if you have enough tanks. I think you get the point about experimentals. But not a bad thing at all, they did add in some new... thoughtful units that don't exactly make themselves useful in the long run. The dragon robot (only useful at close range, and even then doesn't stand a chance), the experimental anti-air gun for the Aeon, the experimental teleporter, the experimental magnet for Aeon (not good), the bomb bouncer (not good at all for what it's worth), the list goes on and on for experimentals that just aren't useful enough to warrant the heavy cost they need--and besides, many of the experimentals are too easily destroyed, further questioning their usefulness. The strategy to taking experimentals down in SupCom 2 are the one and only (perhaps the easiest, bombers cost a bit too much) have enough tanks? Send them, that nasty walker will be gone within a matter of seconds.
If you are a fan of the original, you might notice these fault that this version falls into. The resource model you might notice as a bit odd. Remember how the resource model work before? Where you can build as much as you wanted as long as you didn't exceed what the Mass extractors were dishing out? Well that was taking out in favor of the standard rake and make resource model. Now you can't mass produce units in an unlimited fashion, you have to make sure you have enough resources in order to make that army you need to destroy the opposing force. Another one you might notice is the research tree--while a noble goal, it takes away the variety the first one had. Basically it upgrades the base model of the tank/artillery/combat plane/etc from weak to strong. Gives you experimentals and nukes, but even then they can be taken down rather easily with tanks, gunships, bombers, and anti-nukes.
Moot points that I would like to bring up is both the engine and the map designs have gotten a complete overhaul. The engine itself isn't super powerful but it does a great job of rendering most of the sharp looking battles, but doesn't do so with such aestheticism, instead opts for more reliable engines that will not crash and that perhaps will run very smoothly on many systems out there. Maps themselves are neat looking, but rather small, this accounts for the small unit count of five hundred. While only one map from the original (Setons Clutch) made it back from the original, the new maps are serviceable and are somewhat fun to play on. Sound design does a good job of emulating the cacophony of what the original was all about--tank battles, the echo of a nearby artillery gun, the satisfying mushroom cloud of a nuke all sound phenomenal in the sequel. Although the voice acting again is rather grated and will make you nod in dismay at how terribly it was directed. The story had it's potential, but old story mechanics, dated voice acting, and predictable plot points all add up to a mediocre story that may satisfy a few.
Multiplayer was like a giant chess battle in the original where huge fleets could patrol an area, mass tier three unit armies could stomp upon puny tier two tanks, and where the maps were so big you had to send a spy plane just to map what they are doing. Well this game has been dwarfed in comparison and the strategies you learnt in the original now have to be tweaked to match both the style, resource model, and research tree of this sequel. The original had long stalemate ridden battles that would go for over three hours (if both players are well defended), till one managed to build a game ender (either a Mavor artillery piece, a Seraphim nuke, etc). This game manages to clock in at an hour max usually--even with well defended bases, you can just send a mass of tanks and artillery pieces to deal with the one set of turrets that defend the base. Even with experimentals in the play, the game just seems to grind to a halt as the experimentals can't hold themselves together if a series of tanks come into play. They'll last a few seconds before getting themselves killed---unlike the original where things like the Fatboy mobile factory could last a while against an array of tanks (tier three or not). While the game is great for beginners alike, for many SupCom fans, you are best to avoid playing this game if you liked the complexity of the first.
This game isn't all bad, it makes it easy for newcomers to get in to this game and I believe that is what Chris Taylor was going for. However the fanbase he once had best stick with the original SupCom instead of playing this as it is way to simple to satisfy that itch you always wanted when you played the original, that itch of being a supreme commander. If you liked the strategy of the first game (contemplating between which set of units to build, tier one, two, or three, or trying to manage your mass resources, etc, or how to take on that mighty Galactic Colossus, that flying saucer, gunship, etc), then you may want to try this game, but do so with a grain of salt.
I would like to point out that I stopped playing the singleplayer campaign after a few hours as I found it not as fun as the skirmish modes. The whole killing of the three friends at the academy was an exaggeration and I do regret that error--I heard it off in another forum, and I jumped the gun and assumed that was what happened. I would like to thank the people who pointed that out, and again I regret that error.


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In Iraq, an exodus of Christians
BAGHDAD Iraq has lost more than half the Christians who once called it home, mostly since the war began, and few who fled have plans to return, The Associated Press has learned.
Pope Benedict XVI called attention to their plight during a Mideast visit this week, urging the international community to ensure the survival of "the ancient Christian community of that noble land."
The number of Arab Christians has plummeted across the Mideast in recent years as increasing numbers seek to move to the West, saying they feel increasingly unwelcome in the Middle East and want a better life abroad.
But the exodus has been particularly stark in Iraq – where sectarian violence since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion has often targeted Christians.
The AP found that hundreds of thousands of Christians have fled.
The situation holds practical implications for Iraq's future. Christians historically made up a large portion of the country's middle class, including key jobs as doctors, engineers, intellectuals and civil servants.
The last official Iraqi census in 1987 found 1.4 million Christians in the country. Now, according to the 2008 U.S. State Department report on International Religious Freedom, that number has dropped to between 550,000 and 800,000.
Some estimate the number is even lower: only 400,000, according to the German Catholic relief organization Kirche in Not. The number is echoed privately by many Iraqi Christians.
The vast majority of the exodus has happened since the 2003 invasion, the State Department and other statistics suggest. The State Department says as many as 1.2 million Christians remained into 2003.
Christians first began leaving Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, during the economic sanctions and repression under Saddam Hussein, who pushed more Islamist policies. But the trickle turned to a flood after Saddam was toppled in 2003 and the violence escalated, said a prominent Iraqi Christian lawmaker, Younadem Kana.
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248.68 miles
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A federal judge says New York City's stop-and-frisk policies have violated the rights of thousands of people. Guest Host Celeste Headlee discusses the ruling with Scott Burns of the National District Attorneys Association and criminal justice professor Delores Jones-Brown.
Source: NPR
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Pudgy Pooch & Fat Feline: There's An App For That!
June 3, 2011
Keeping your pet healthy is important, but many pet owners aren't sure how much is too much to feed Fido. See how keeping track of your pet's health is now at your fingertips. credit: Ivanhoe
Topics: Human Interest, Social Issues, Pet foods, Pet, Ivanhoe, Pets


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6,176.63 miles
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