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Well like I said do you agree or not agree there could be a case for Venus being over Seles, especialy given how one sided their history is (even considering Seles was past her prime). Meanwhile there is no case for Henin being above someone like Seles or King, so Venus can be put in the top 10, Henin cannot. I think past greats like Graf, Seles, Evert, Navratilova, would all have a ton of trouble with peak Venus because her power, speed, and athleticsm probably surpasses all of them. I dont think any of those at their peaks would have much or any trouble with peak Henin however, she just doesnt bring anything to the table they couldnt handle. Henin is basically a poor women Hingis except with more power than Hingis. If you look at only Henin and Venus together it might seem like Henin has a shot in the comparision, but when you throw the other all time greats in there too, Venus clearly stands in much beter stead than Henin IMO.
As for doubles when players are virtually inseperable in singles, then doubles is a tiebreaker, especialy when there is the vast difference there is with Venus and Henin.
The 4 slams are all roughly equal today but Wimbledon is still the most prestigious. The biggest hole you can have on your resume of all is a failure to win a Wimbledon title.
I agree on Henin.No doubt she just cannot be talked in the same sentence as the great Martina Hingis.
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The two teams combined for eight home runs with the Angels hitting four (Erick Aybar, Albert Pujols, Maicer Izturis and Mark Trumbo) and scoring eight times in the final four innings to salvage a 10-8 victory over the New York Yankees Sunday afternoon and avoid their second sweep of the season.
The Yankees also hit four home runs in the game, one each by Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson and Eric Chavez off Angels starter Jered Weaver who had not given up a single home run since May 23. But Weaver hung on through seven innings, raising his record to 11-1 despite allowing more earned runs (five) in one start than he had in his previous seven starts combined.
The Yankees' fourth home run, a two-run shot by Mark Teixeira in the ninth inning, came off reliever Ernesto Frieri and snapped his scoreless streak as an Angel at 26 1/3 innings. Frieri had not given up a run since being acquired in a trade with the Padres on May 3.
He didn't retire a batter in the ninth, wrapping walks around Teixeira's home run and Scott Downs had to come in. He couldn't close it out either, walking Derek Jeter to load the bases then Granderson to force in a run with two outs. Kevin Jepsen replaced Downs and got Alex Rodriguez to pop out with the bases loaded to end the game.
The two teams traded home runs in the first inning. Aybar and Pujols went deep back-to-back for the Angels but Rodriguez matched that with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first. It was Rodriguez's first home run in 49 at-bats but his 643rd career home -- 70th against the Angels (the most he has hit against any opponent).
The Yankees took the lead on an RBI single by Derek Jeter in the second inning and held it until the Angels scored three times in the sixth inning. Izturis' two-run home run (his first since July 29, 2011) was the biggest hit.
The Angels gained some breathing room with a run in the seventh and another three-run inning in the eighth before Trumbo capped it with his 24th home run of the season in the ninth. Mike Trout had doubles in the seventh and eighth innings, scoring one run and driving in another. It was his 31st multi-hit game of the season and raised his league-leading average to .349.
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@Takerkaneanite6 Exactly! I'm a huge Mario fan, and Galaxy 2 was literally the best game I ever played. It was everything good about Galaxy 1 + brighter colors, Yoshi, new memorable songs and best levels I've ever seen and probably will see ever! 3D World, while fun was a horribly short, extremely easy adventure with a soundtrack that had some awesome tunes but nothing as majestic as Galaxy 1 or 2. Galaxy 2 is the bedt game ever made, period! (And I love all games, genres and consoles but Galaxy 2 was the one perfect game, a game that will never be topped because there are not resources at Nintendo right now to allow a team to take the time to come up with a lenghty extremely creative experience like that again!)
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- By Kori SchakeKori Schake is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and contributor to Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog.
Having been quite critical in these pages last week about the Republican candidate's exclusion of the war from his speech accepting his party's nomination for president, it seems only fair to praise him for the magnificent speech he gave on the anniversary of September 11th. Governor Romney's speech was warm, personal, and unifying — a beautiful combination on a day of painful remembrance for our country.
Most importantly, Romney sounded like a strong and compassionate Commander in Chief, expressing his appreciation for the first responders on 9/11 and the military that has fought our wars since. It was a nice touch that he gave the address to the National Guard, the arm of our military responsible both for defending the nation and assisting civil government in dealing with national disasters. In the past ten years of war, Guard units have become part of the regular rotation of forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, and they have shattered the stereotype of weekend warriors not being the peer of their active duty counterparts. It also showed a real elegance of orchestration that the campaign tied in Romney's visit last week with hurricane victims in New Orleans and the important work our Guard does when help needs to be mobilized.
Romney alluded lightly to the significant differences the candidates have on the war in Afghanistan. He said "…nearly 70,000 American troops still remain in Afghanistan. Our goal should be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. We should evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. We can all agree that our men and women in the field deserve a clear mission, that they deserve the resources and resolute leadership they need to complete that mission…" In four sentences he summed up the president's mistaken focus on ending rather than winning the war, and under-resourcing the war. And he did so without a sharp edge inappropriate to the occasion.
Romney's own words reflect a commitment to allowing conditions and commanders' recommendations to drive the timeline of our transition to Afghan responsibility for the war. To providing the resources and leadership our military efforts need in order to achieve our war aims. The most important of those resources is political attention, something President Obama has consistently shrifted short the wars conducted while he has been Commander in Chief.
When the Obama administration was winding down the war in Iraq, officials claimed our timeline was a function of conditions on the ground. It was flat out untrue. On Afghanistan, they aren't even attempting to pretend the readiness of Afghan security forces, regional political developments, and the ability of the Afghan government to continue the war effort have any affect on their exit timeline. Romney's commitment to the 2014 withdrawal date show both an appreciation for the coalition agreement but also leaves room for adjustment should General Allen believe more time is need.
Romney was rightly critical of the Veteran's Administration backlog of claims, the delays in providing mental health care, and the crisis of suicides among veterans. These are all serious problems that deserve focused managerial attention. I do believe, however, that the current Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, Eric Shinseki, both shares these concerns and is doing an admirable job addressing them. Much of the backlog and delay is the result of increased claims filed and demand for services, not mismanagement by the VA. If I were influential with the Romney campaign, I'd advise them to carry Shinseki over into the Romney administration to continue the direction he has begun.
The nicest part of the speech was Romney's description of calling families after visiting Massachusetts Guardsmen in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was really touching, the kind of tribute military people themselves actually appreciate. And it's a more difficult balance to strike than many people understand. Romney explained he thanked them for their sacrifice, and they responded by telling him it isn't a sacrifice, it's a privilege to defend our country. That perfectly captures the feel of the culture of our military. In a time when those of us not bearing the burden of fighting the country's wars are the 99 percent, military families appreciate we are polite enough to thank them for their service, but they also often feel that convention distances them from us, especially since it is so rarely coupled with effort to understand or help bear those burdens. Most Americans never catch that subtlety, but Governor Romney did. And he tried to bridge that gap, as a Commander in Chief should. President Obama often talks of veterans as though they are all disabled; Governor Romney today talked about our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in a way that celebrated their strength, their patriotism, and their honor, and held them up as an example for us all.
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Here, in work culled mostly from his latest book, his vision has deepened and his life feels harder. Scattered throughout the room are images of his lover, the painter Jochen Klein, who died of AIDS last year. You don't have to know this to pick up the heaven/hell worldview that Tillmans posits, but it helps explain the installation's cosmic feel.
The way Tillmans has distributed his photographs throughout the vaulting Andrea Rosen space is breathtaking. Pictures, which are hung salon-style in groups, grids, alone, or close to the floor, come in all shapes and sizes, and the subjects are even more varied. The installation opens up into something like a walk-in magazine spread. One of the first works to catch your eye is an enormous black-and-white picture, high on the central wall, of a cathedral nave, shot from above. As your vision is caught in the uplift, you notice a smaller image above it, almost out of sight. Set against a pure white background is a wrinkled pair of pants. Beautifully blue, they look like a paint stroke or a hovering angel, a swirling waif spirit ascending to heaven.
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This has been annoying me for a while but not enough to really do anything about. All of my searches bring up issues connecting entirely to a server,
Sure you can buy them, do you have the confidence/ ability to be able to actually do it.
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Ok understood, not remotely interested in Hulu, but Netflix def appeals.
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Behind a two-RBI performance from shortstop Hanser Alberto, the Hickory Crawdads picked up a 6-4 series-clinching win Monday at home against the Charleston RiverDogs (16-7).
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Down 2-0 heading into the seventh inning, the Lady Bears scored four runs in the seven for a come-from-behind victory against Maiden on the softball diamond.
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Im pretty sure anyone who thinks this is their best is just gay for AG
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Basheer's short story 'Bhumiyude Avakashikal' was adapted for a puppet show that was staged in Kozhikode.
I have selectively used words and phrases from different works of Basheer while scripting the play.
The endearing simplicity and universality of Vaikom Mohammed Basheer's works also make them easily adaptable into a variety of media, from film, to theatre to painting and what not. Not surprising then that a successful attempt was made by a group of artistes in Kozhikode to adapt Basheer's 'Bhumiyude Avakashikal,' one of the maestro's well-known short stories, into puppetry. The staging of the 45-minute string-puppetry at the Town Hall, which was directed by filmmaker and theatre activist K.R. Prasad, kept the audience spellbound.
Basheer, his wife and an array of animals are the characters in the play. The show opens with Basheer reclining on his iconic planter's chair, listening in peace to a gramophone playing softly beside him. He is content with his lot, having recently purchased two acres of land. His peaceful contemplation, however, does not last for long. A series of living beings from his newly-purchased plot, starting with a butterfly, appear in front of him. The author had mistakenly thought that he was the sole owner of the property. His wife, Fabi, soon appears cribbing about the nuisance of rats and centipedes inside the house.
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Prasad has thoughtfully brought in contemporary elements and contextual humour into the conversations of the characters to help the spectators "relate to it with the times." According to Prasad, 'Bhumiyude Avakashikal' is like a "manifesto of Basheer's literature." And the influence of Basheer's other works is unmistakable in the script. "I have selectively used words and phrases from different works of Basheer while scripting the play," says Prasad, who considers Basheer as his mentor in all his creative ventures.
The production was specially striking as actor Nedumudi Venu and theatre artist Nilambur Aysha dubbed the sound for Basheer and his wife, Fabi Basheer, respectively.
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Yet another (and nicer) model of the gun added. And introducing the Companion Cube! You can find it in 'phystest' level. It cannot trigger any buttons...
Portal Gun (Handheld Portal Device) is a device that creates an inter-spatial portal (wormhole) in the level.
It is quake version of the gun from game Portal (part of Orange box) by Valve.
The latest state of source code is hosted on Github.com
Idea is simple: fire with the portal gun to the desired locations to open first and second portal. Now, the wormhole is created between them. You can enter it, or close it down, or even toss some objects through.
This mod tries to simulate (poorly) the physic as seen in original Portal game. That means, when you enter the first portal, your velocity and angles is restored on the other side of wormhole.
This allows you to do big jumps using gravity, and other tricks. Teleporting of pickups is possible, which allows interesting strategies (like gathering pickups on one place and the pick them all up at once; or reaching distant items just by shooting at them).
Controls are defined in autoexec.cfg. It's inspired by wecreatestuff's version of the game:
[p] - unsheathe portal gun.
[q] - fire blue portal.
[e] - fire yellow portal.
[f] - grab item.
[w][s][a][d] - movement.
I hope you enjoy it!
-- RobS
DISCLAIMER: Please note, that this modification is not commercial and I'm not trying to cause any financial harm to Valve company. If the Valve corporates think, I'm ruining their business, I'm ready to take it down from the internet (but I'm gonna hate them for the rest of my life :)
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I've decided to put the source code on github.com and continue maintenance from there.
The repository is located at RobSis/quake-portal-gun.
Here on moddb.com, I will only upload the major releases.
Feel free to send pull requests, fill issues or fork!
Yet another (and nicer) model of the gun added. And introducing the Companion Cube! You can find it in 'phystest' level. It cannot trigger any buttons...
Completely original new model added! Should work on any decent engine now. Also, new "level" added. It's called 'pellet'.
I decided to remove portal gun model, that caused lots of engines to crash. Someone has to make low-poly version of it... It's still in the package, though...
Portal Gun (Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device) is a device that creates an inter-spatial portal (wormhole) in level. It's an quaked conversion of...
Ok folks, new version (2.1) released. I fixed some bugs and removed the epic portal gun model (is way too high-poly for classic quake); so now it looks like rocket launcher temporarily. That should fix those crashes, you've been reporting.
I hope it'll work on as many engines as possible. Please, report, if it causes crash on yours. (so far tested on dosquake and quakespasm)
This doesn't work for me-- it shows the demo at the beginning and the maps load, but when i press "P" absolutely nothing happens. Am i doing something wrong?
It's probably bug. What engine are you using? I target this mod on original DOSQUAKE - other engines are most likely to be buggy.
The only problem is gun model, which appears to freeze lots of engines...
can this work with steam quake???
i dount know about you people but im making a map pack.
Who is with me ?!
sounds like fun
Can this work with MS-DOS. That's the only OS I have.
cheery314 try it in DOSQUAKE?
Can this work with PSP Quake because then its like Portal: Portable xD
ya but you have to write your own code :P
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Update to Upgrade 2.0
Thanks to Jan Andrejkovic for pointing out a tool I missed in my column "Upgrade 2.0" [5]. Fedora ships with a program called Presto [6] that uses DeltaRPMs to provide smaller updates. In my first test, a normal update would have required 972MB of downloads, but with Presto, it was a mere 224MB (pretty impressive savings). Fedora 11 now includes a yum-presto package (not to be confused with the presto package that is a graphics-related engine) that is a plugin for the yum program. Installation is simple:
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No mater how the election turns out the losing side will cry foul. But I fear that the rhetoric and fearmongering on bothsides has made it highly likely that violence will follow. I hope I'm wrong.
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MANILA, Philippines—China's slowing economic growth is weakening momentum throughout the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it revised down its forecasts for the region.
A day after Beijing released data showing its economy slowed for a second successive month in April-June, the Manila-based ADB trimmed its outlook for developing Asia this year to 6.3 percent, from 6.6 percent.
In the update to its annual Asian Development Outlook publication, first published in April, the bank also pared its 2014 forecast for developing Asia to 6.4 percent, from 6.7 percent.
The update is only a little better that what the bank described in the report as the region's "relatively sluggish" growth pace of 6.1 percent last year.
"The drop in trade and scaling back of investment are part of a more balanced growth path for (China), and the knock-on effect of its slower pace is definitely a concern for the region," the bank's chief economist, Changyong Rhee, said in a statement.
"But we are also seeing more subdued activity across much of developing Asia," Rhee added.
Developing Asia groups 45 nations or territories from Central Asia through to the Pacific islands, but excludes Japan.
The report cited a marginally better outlook for the advanced economies, particularly Japan.
However, this did not lead to stronger demand for Asian exports, and the first-half economic performance across the region was "unexpectedly subdued", it added.
China said Monday gross domestic product expanded 7.5 percent in the second quarter, following 7.7 percent in the previous three months and 7.9 percent in October-December.
The ADB said it now sees China's economy growing 7.7 percent this year and 7.5 percent in 2014.
Both figures are lower than its April forecasts of 8.2 percent and 8.0 percent. The Asian economic giant grew 7.8 percent last year.
The ADB now expects Southeast Asia's economies to expand 5.2 percent this year, down from 5.4 percent.
It also trimmed its forecast for South Asia to 5.6 percent this year, while maintaining its 6.2 percent projection for 2014.
On a positive note, the ADB said slower GDP growth was helping the region contain inflation., while expanded global natural gas production was also helping suppress energy prices.
The bank lowered its inflation forecasts for developing Asia to 3.5 percent this year and 3.7 percent in 2014, the latter on par with the 2012 rate.
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Hi chaps...
I'm currently running linux and looking to start 3d modelling & possibly animation and I was wondering what the best supported card is?
I'm running fedora 13 64bit and due to software i'll be getting as part of a course (maya, mudbox, photoshop and 3dsmax!!!) I'll be running a 64bit windows partition too...
as i said which card would be best and any Idea's which os would be best for my widows partition? xp or 7?
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The Linux driver supports practically all the video cards, so get the best one that fits your budget. For the Windows partition, definitely definitely use Windows 7. Windows XP is about 9 years old and simply cannot take advantage of modern systems. Also, make sure you get the 64-bit versions of both Windows and Linux.
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i'm currently running a sparkle geforce 9500... is that still ok or should i look to upgrade?
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By John Richardson
PERTH (ICIS)--Next Wednesday will be a crucial day for many Asian economies. It is then that the US Federal Reserve is due to conclude its latest two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
"We should hear more details on Wednesday of when, exactly, the Fed will start tapering back its purchases of $US85 billion worth of Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds each month," said a Perth-based resources analyst.
"The results of the meeting should give us a bit more clarity on the timing for tapering of quantitative easing [QE] and what economic conditions will need to be in place for it to happen."
The worrying thing for many Asian economies, excluding China, is that few analysts expect that the Fed will backtrack from its intention to taper QE sooner rather than later. This could prompt another round of selling of already weakened currencies, such as India's rupee and the Indonesian rupiah, and more capital flight from equity and bond markets.
Before the Fed first hinted at QE tapering there was a lot of talk of how macro-prudential government policies in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and the rise of the Asian middle classes, promised sustained growth.
But then in May, when the Fed dropped its first hints about reining-back QE, there was a major shift in the consensus on many of Asia's emerging and developed countries.
Some $60bn of funds has flowed out of emerging market equity and bond funds since May, according to an 11 September Financial Times article.
"Investors have developed cold feet towards Indonesia, Malaysia etc because yields have improved in the US, thanks to the prospect of less QE," the analyst added.
"Structural problems in emerging markets have been there for a long time, of course. It is just that until May, some investors chose not to notice."
Let's assume that the Fed announces on Wednesday that it has radically changed course and that bond purchases will be kept at $85bn per month for a longer period than is expected by the markets.
It is hard to imagine how investors can suddenly regain their appetite for many of Asia's economies, given that there is now so much discussion about the flaws in their growth models.
"In a sense, the last five years [since the global financial crisis] amount to a lost opportunity," said HSBC in its Q3 Asian Macroeconomic Report. HSBC, it must be stressed, has been warning about over-leverage and other problems in Asia long before May, as have other analysts.
"Rather than pursue continuous reforms, the [Asian] region rode the wave of easy cash with scant regard for how the journey might be sustained without the tail winds of record low interest rates," wrote the bank in the same report.
Excessive leverage has taken several forms, according to HSBC, which are:
• A rise in dollar-denominate debt in India and Indonesia. This was fine until the dollar started strengthening, but since May, the rupee and rupiah have tumbled in value against the greenback, causing India and Indonesia's current account deficits to widen. This has tied the hands of their central banks. Unable to stimulate their economies, the banks have had to maintain or increase interest rates in order to defend currencies and keep inflation in check. For example, on Thursday 11 September, Bank Indonesia raised the cost of borrowing by a further 25 basis points to 7.25%. This was the second hike in the space of two weeks and interest rates have now been raised by 150 basis points since June.
• The largest overall increases in debt-to-GDP ratios since 2008 have been in Singapore, Japan and Malaysia. Much of this debt has been in the form of consumer borrowing, thanks to historically low interest rates. Rising mortgage and credit-card debt have therefore been significant drivers of their GDP growth. Thailand, too, has seen a sharp rise in consumer debt. Thus, these economies have a lot to lose from Fed tapering.
• South Korea falls into another category. Although bank lending has risen relatively modestly since 2008, corporate-bond debt has surged with foreigners playing a big role in the local bond market. The country is, as a result, very vulnerable to capital outflows.
But since the collapse of Lehman Bros, Asia has at least become less dependent on exports to the US and more reliant on exports within Asia, continued the bank.
"US growth will not have the same positive feed through to Asia as in the past," said HSBC.
"First, US demand may have become less import intensive given (a) the changing composition of US GDP growth away from household spending, (b) a weaker dollar, (c) rising production costs in Asia, and (d) the energy competitiveness of the US following its shale gas revolution (just to name a few)."
The further downside, though, is that the shift in export dependence has been from the US to China, believes the bank, especially in the case of South Korea. Hong Kong (HK) and Taiwan (TA) have also been a big change in their dependence on China:
China's economic growth has recovered over the past two months. However, once the extra credit released into the financial system runs out, and once major economic reforms take place after the important November plenum meeting, it looks as though growth will moderate again.
The only way forward for Asia ex-China economies, therefore, seems to be to tackle long overdue economic reforms. Chronic corruption, poor infrastructure, excessive bureaucracy and falling labour productivity growth are among the problems that many analysts say need to be addressed.
But can such reforms take place when GDP growth is on the decline, as the reforms will hit some sections of society very hard economically?
"I don't think that reforms can take place as the political climate will be too difficult," said a Malaysia-based petrochemicals trader.
"The impact on demand across the region is not going to be good. I think that, as a result, you are going to see some more of the ambitious cracker projects in southeast Asia drifting quietly into the background.
"They won't be cancelled, these things rarely are. Instead, they will be repeatedly delayed to the point where they will have to be deleted from demand and supply balances."
But another interpretation is possible.
"While not being strong enough to knock out Asia altogether, the recent turmoil nevertheless raises the pressure on local officials to face up and administer some bitter medicine," added HSBC in their Q3 report.
"As the recent years have shown, reforms rarely materialise when life's easy. As challenges grow, it's a lot more likely that those things get done that are needed to set Asia on a path to lasting prosperity."
During the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis, for example, major economic reforms were successfully implemented as politicians took bold risks.
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