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The Ten Best Holiday Shows to See in St. Louis This Season
The 10th Annual Rough Shop Holiday Extravaganza Benefit
Kholood Eid for RFT A scene from the Rough Shop Holiday Extravaganza in 2010.
Friday, December 13, 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 14, 8 p.m.
w/ Rough Shop
@ The Focal Point - $12/$15
Local modern folk band Rough Shop performs original as well as traditional holiday songs during this typically sold out event, featuring special gusts including Danielle Aslanian of One Take Band, Merv Schrock of Ransom Note and Steve Carosello of the Love Exports, just to name a few. Proceeds benefit the Focal Point and Tenth Life Cat Rescue.
The Fortnight Before Christmas
Saturday, December 14, 9 p.m.
w/ Cat Purse, Ellen the Felon, Shark Dad
@ The Heavy Anchor - $5
Christmas comes early this year at the Heavy Anchor. Warm up with cheap drinks at the bar and head to the venue side to catch a couple of new local acts. Cat Purse promises cowpunk while Shark Dad plays self-described loud trash can rock music. Hear some tracks via the latter via Bandcamp. And if you missed Ellen the Felon's album release party at the Skatium last month, now's the chance to catch her again. Read our review of her album in Homespun.
The 12 Bassists of Christmas
Saturday, December 14, 9 p.m.
w/ Bruiser Queen, Middle Class Fashion, Sleepy Kitty
@ Off Broadway
Bruiser Queen invites a dozen of its favorite St. Louis bassists to join its standard two-piece set-up for a song each. "Being a guitar and drums duo is fun, but sometimes we miss what a bassist brings to the live show," says drummer Jason Potter. "In this season of overindulgence, this is us eating all the pie." The cameo cast includes Matt Harnish of Bunnygrunt, Syrehea Conaway of Syna So Pro, Kevin Schneider of the Blind Eyes and many more. Besides the special guest appearances, look out for "the world's largest tambourine ensemble," what Potter describes as a rock'n'roll style gospel choir.
Stag Night Holiday Shit Show
Wednesday, December 18, 8 p.m.
w/ Skarekrau Radio, Pet Rock the Musical, Little Big Bangs, Animal Teeth
@ Livery Company - $5
In September, local impresario Johnny Vegas officially moved his south city shindig, Stag Nite, to Livery Company. Grab a dollar Stag and check out one of his most raucous line-ups yet. Pet Rock: the Musical releases a cassette while an all-star cast of noisy punk and rock misfits meet up to wild out with guitars on. The following Stag Nite happens on Christmas Day, featuring Arson for Candy, the Hobosexuals and Jack Grelle.
Funky Butt Brass Band Holiday Brasstravaganza
Friday, December 20, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 21, 8:30 p.m.
@ Off Broadway - $12-$18
This fifth annual event features funky holiday songs, photos with Santa to benefit Stray Rescue and fun surprises all night long including special guests Steve Ewing of the Urge (Friday night only) and Big Mike Aguirre. Expect holiday joy in the form of live burlesque, raffle prizes and Christmas cookies.
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I used to play COH/COV and I was happy to know it was going F2P. I downloaded and logged into the game and for my surprise I saw all my characters were locked unless I pay a lot of $. What the hell!! Free to play? You know what, I could pay but I definitely won't gime a cent to a bunch of liers who only tried to fool old customers. I have paid subscription for a long time and now that the game is supposed to go free they want to take more money from the ones that have supported them while the game was not free.
Screw them!
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No no no...
The game has gone to a "also" free to play model" the subscription based still exists ffs..
You can not expect to play the f2p model with characters you used to field with a subscription.. Yes its not great that they dont let that happen, but with all the stuff you have on those toons, these are items and skill sets etc that are unlocked with a sub account, the f2p model one does not allow you to have such hence its a "f2p model"
understand this now? :D
also what is "a lot of $" im not sure how they do this, I thought it was VIP upgrade to a sub say $8.99 or whatever it was and then you characters would be unlocked and Going rogue would be available.?
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It''s not the fall that kill''s you. its the sudden stop at the end....
Some class's are locked and you have to pay to unlock them. You should automatically start with like, 6 chracter slots to unlock for free. I payed 15$ to get my Controller unlocked, and now I never havta give them $$ again.
Originally posted by Joshua69
please for everyone and myself that does not see how that is working, can you explain a bit more why it cost 15 bucks the way you portrayed it? I mean like is it a sub you used there or did u pay a certain amount to unlock down to your say "8th" character slot because it was only way to get it unlocked, like pay for all ones above you had used to get to it,,?
er yeah im sure you see what im saying :D
The thing is I have played a lot before and I have at least 8 characters lvl 50 and a few lower lvl, do you know how much they want me to pay to unlock tehm all? Seriously this is ridiculous, so I can play but I can't use any of the characters I have paid many months to build before. If you agree go ahead I won't.
Originally posted by paulocafalli
No we dont know because you keep avoiding telling the amount lol.. are you saying they wont let u unlock you're account and all the toons if you re sub? and that you have to do the toons individually even if you were VIP?
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Originally posted by paulocafalli
Listen friend, as i can see you are new to free to play games, then let me explain that free to play is equal as Demo, you play a limited content without paying, but for a full game experience you must pay the monthly sub the game had for years. Its not eaither tricky or hard to understand so... come on friend and dont nerdrage relly on me, this is the way of f2p games, you can take it or leave it, Peace.
Edit: and please dont think that you need to pay Cash for EACH premium class, just pay the monthly sub is way cheaper of course. unless you want only 1 class to play.
Alright I have 14 characters, it's about US$ 15.00 per character so ... about US$ 210.00 to play a game that was supposed to be free now. And the thing that really bothers me most is that I have paid many many months and I have to pay a lot more to enjoy the game than new players that will only play it for free. Is that fair really?
Originally posted by paulocafalli
This makes no sense you must be either really not understanding or just trolling :D
Just pay the sub its easier and you get access to full content and your toons... job done.. if u dont like it after a mnth you have only spent £15.00 for that mnth ( i think thats right for usa )
Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but the old brain is starting to ache now with this guy :D
Originally posted by Varthander
Now you listen, maybe you are the new one for F2P, I've been playing Atlantica Online and other F2P games and I don't have to pay anything to have full access to the game. Besides I would even spend some money on the store of COX to have some new items and stuff but pay to use characters I have already paid to build before, THAT IS RIDICULOUS!
That's the only thing, I logged into the game and everything I had, everything I have paid before to build is locked unless I pay to use them or if I pay a subscription, that's not F2P at all!!
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Originally posted by paulocafalli
If all those characters are locked, then its the class you need to unlock. Like others mentioned you shouldve 6 slots available to you. More even if you have enough paragon tokens from former subbed time. Also, classes like Mastermind and Controller can also be unlocked through the veteran system. But this is only if you were subbed long enough to the game.
So either you are greatly exaggerating, or you havent been subbed long to the game.
Have you tried just selecting a locked character you want to use and see if you get the prompts when trying to login with it? I think I read ages ago that you should get some prompts to accept about using unlocks for them.
The main forum info on this is all over the place, alot of it is very er what? huh? and wtf is he saying? type stuff, The info is all there how it works its just very over explained if you ask me, which can lead to brain confusion :D
So if you were to start freedom and then sub ( v i p ) you get all what the people bought previous with wonga ( accept any characters you already had of course before f2p ) and can continue like you had been a buying game/expansion player?
seems a bit rude really if so hehe, but still if this is the case I might sub just to play a mastermind, it seems fun and heard lots of good things about it.
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Let go of my ears, I know what I'm doing!
Originally posted by paulocafalli
Sure they're ALL locked?
Mine were all locked, but I had 5 tokens I could spend to unlock them. Which I did. Seems to be some bug that locks things up if you try to unlock 2 at a time, though.
Edit: I had no issues unlocking any of mine... maybe I just got lucky on the classes?
OP has 14 characters... expects to be able to play them all for free.
/epic facepalm...
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Joined: 7/03/04
Originally posted by paulocafalli
I just checked the in-game store. Character slots are $6 for 1 slot, $8 for 2 slots and $20 for 5 slots. That's much less than $15 per character. You should start with 2 free slots, have one extra slot for each year you were a subscriber, and 2 bonus slots if you bought Going Rogue before Freedom went live.
Also, unless you only played controllers, masterminds and the 'epic' ATs (which is somewhat unlikely but certainly possible) you should be able to unlock a couple of your characters at least. If you look up on the top left of the character select screen you should see some text that says 'Global Slots'. That lets you know how many characters you can unlock and as long as you actually have the slots then the only barrier should be if you have the AT unlocked or not ($15 for mastemind or controller and $12.50 for the 'epic' ATs). If the latter is the case then you only need to unlock the AT once, not for each character.
By the way, if it's the mastermind and controller thing that's keeping your characters locked, before unlocking them (assuming you want to) check your paragon rewards tokens first. If you're close to 13 tokens (like 2 away) buy the tokens but don't unlock the ATs. Filling up the tier 5 level of paragon rewards unlocks those two ATs automatically and you'll get 2 tokens for buying $15 of points. So buy the points and spend them on something else in the store you might want (like character slots for unlocking more of your characters).
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Originally posted by paulocafalli
IF you have subscriped for any length of time you will be credited that time under the new F2P program, You will get tokens to unlock things, and other things based on how long you subscribed. While I don't know how far up thier "tier" system you are to give you specifcs you should be able to get a good section of character slots to unlock which can be used for previous characters. The "premium" classes unlock at certain tiers so you can possibly play those with out having to pay extra for the priviliage.
The number of characters you can unlock should be listed in the upper left corner of the character selection screen if you log in. don't forget to use the tokens which are in the upper right corner the buttone with the fireworks/shooting stars.
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"Racing to endgame is like racing to the end of your vacation."
Just quoting myself from another thread, because it's easier......
Originally posted by therain93
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Joined: 1/12/06
While I am not into CoH anymore I have to say that their model is pretty well designed. The design principles are still arguable and I whether I like the or not the model makes sense for them.
1. In most freemium subscriber is king, in CoH is the Emperor. Not only they get everything that non-subscribers get but also key content for endgame like incarnates is subscriber-only thing.
2. Premium players gets rewarded by subscription time but you can achieve the level of unlocks you want by subscribing for more months or buying stuff. Which is fine for long time runners and/or low-requirement players.
3. Freeloaders live in hell. The limitations are pretty severe in areas like chatting, crafting, sgs, market.
Imho, Paragon is not looking for new players but rather getting back former players. It is a decent strategy, succesful? only time will say
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"Racing to endgame is like racing to the end of your vacation."
Originally posted by gandales
I agree with your points (especially that subsriber is emperor), but not necessarily your conclusion that Pargon is not looking for new subscribers. The goal is to show off the game to more people and convert free players into Premium/Subscribers.
1. Subscriber is Emperor, as you state.....look at all of the awesome that they get....Free access eliminates the historical barrier to entry that a box sale and subscription instantly created -- basically it eliminates the reservation associated with a blind-buy.
2. Premiums keep purchases and rewards....meaning one-time buys and short-term subscriptions have value even after not subscribing. It adds value and can decrease the perceived cost if you can stretch the life of the game out beyond the subscription time.
3. Free Players can mitigate the tell and sg issues with a one-time $5.00 purchase. By the way, they also unlock Trench Coats with that $5.00 as a reward that will be available forever. Not only is that inexpensive, but it instantly creates that association of buying small things is good, possibly plants the seeds of what else to buy/how much more should I buy before subscribing is worthwhile, AND illustrates how value extends beyond subscription time.
It's diabolically genius.
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Originally posted by therain93
Something you are mising is the free player inertia to pay. Freeloaders tends to fill space in a game to make look lively, so an important characteristic of a freemium model is what can a player do without paying any money. Players wants to put money because they want to not because they have to.
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IMHO Turbine had a better hand at splitting the free and the paid content enticing players that checked the game out to buy stuff. As a returning player I only saw that my favourite characters were locked and then I immediately lost some drive to actually play again.

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BIRD AND PACKING BOX. No. 388,385. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.
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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 388,385, dated August 21, 1888.
Application filed March 29, 1888. Serial No. 268,858. (No model.)
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Be it known that 1, CHARLES I. WoosTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berlin, in the county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bird and Packing Boxes, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.
My invention consists of a convertible packing and bird box having one of its ends formed with kerfs, which may readily be cut through, leaving an opening by which the bird can en ter, the said kerfs being concealed or covered by material having thereon lines or marks corresponding with the kerfs in the box.
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a bird and packing box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the front wall thereof. Fig. 3 represents a face view of portion of said front wall.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
Referring to the drawings, A represents a box, of the form of a bird-box, constructed of the base and floor 1, the front wall, 2, side Walls, 3, back wall, 4, and hinged roof 5. In the front wall are a series of concentric kerfs or scores, 6, which may be cut coincidently in opposite faces of said wall,as most readily seen in Fig. 2. Pasted or otherwise aliixed to either face of the front wall is a piece, 7, of paper or other materiahthe same covering the kerfs or scores 6, and having lines 8, printed or otherwise marked thereon, coinciding with the kerfs or scores 6.
The operation is as follows: The parts of the box separately may be sold to a store-keeper or dealer, and when the box is required for packing purposes it may be readily set up and secured together by a few nails driven through the parts. The hinged roof now constitutes the lid of the box and may be raised in order to pack the box, after which said lid is returned to its normal position, thus closing the box. When the contents are removed, the box as a packing-box may be converted into a bird-box by cutting through either of the marks 8 and scores 6, thus forming the opening or door of the bird-box. It will be seen that the diameter of the door is determined relatively to the size of birds which are expected to become occupants of the box; hence the series of scores provided for different sizes. The covering 7 may be removed prior or subsequent to the cutting through of the scores.
A steeple may be added or not, as desired.
If desired, the kerfs or scores may,primarily, be entirely out through, and the annuli thus formed may be held in place by the coveringpiece 7, or a strip of any suitable material.
I am aware that it is not new to construct a packing-box with ends or sides having kerfs; butI am not aware that the construction herein described and claimed is old, wherein a box having kerfs in its ends, the same being covered or concealed by material having lines or marks thereon corresponding with the kerfs in said ends, so that the kerfs are concealed and the proper kerf to be out can be ascertained without a removal of the covering.
Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
1. A convertible packing and bird box having in its end concentric kerfs, whereby birdnest doors or openings of different sizes may be readily made, substantially as described.
2. A convertible packing and bird box hav ing kerfs in its ends and having acovering for said kerfs, the said covering having thereon lines or marks corresponding to said kerfs, substantially as described.
3. A convertible packing and bird box consisting of a body having a hinged lid, kerfsiu its ends, and a covering for said kerfs, the said covering having thereon lines or marks corresponding in number and location with said kerfs, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.
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I think I've decided that I don't particularly like StudioLine image organisers but I should tell forum members that they have some spring specials on their website ATM.
So StudioLine Basic is free, StudioLine Classic is $US30 reduced from $59. They have a graphic webpage tool which is normally >$200. But ATM it is $49 if upgrading from StudioLine Calssic and $79 if upgrading from StudioLine Basic. So try it out and if you like it they are really good prices.


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Patriotic revelers donned their finest star-spangled fashions to celebrate America's birthday at the O'Fallon Heritage & Freedom Festival. The annual two-day fair featured a midway, food vendors, dedicated kids play areas and music from Spin Doctors, Cowboy Mouth, Jack Ingram and Josh Kelley with a grand fireworks finale each night. Photos by Corey Woodruff for the Riverfront Times.
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Europe is tanking today after the European Central Bank's Mario Draghi quite literally failed to put his money where his mouth is. Last week, Europe cheered when Draghi said in a press conference that the ECB would do "whatever it takes" to save the euro. He also said that the high bond yields in Spain and Italy interfered with his ability to conduct monetary policy. This is a key point, because Draghi and the ECB often hide behind jurisdiction as a way to avoid steps that would help the troubled sovereigns, like direct purchases to depress bond yields. The language Draghi used made it appear that he believed those high yields fell under his jurisdiction.
Just on his statements alone, the bond yields in Spain and Italy dropped significantly. But at some point, Draghi would have to back it up. He had an opportunity today, as the ECB held a policy meeting. But the central bank decided to do nothing. Business Insider reports:
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi failed to announce any definitive measures to address concerns about the burgeoning sovereign debt crisis in his latest post-decision press conference.
The ECB Governing Council also decided to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.75 percent.
Analysts expected Draghi's speech to be far more exciting, for if he was ready to announce new, non-standard measures from the ECB he would have done it in that press conference […] While Draghi implied that such measures could be in the works, he instituted an important precondition: EU leaders must address concerns about official sector seniority in sovereign debt holdings (in other words, the implicit guarantee that the public sector will not take losses in the case of a debt restructuring) and they must decide how to use the EFSF/ESM bailout funds to purchase sovereign bonds.
Basically, Draghi threw it back on the EU, and refused to ride to the rescue, again. Meanwhile, Europe is sick, and Draghi still has CONVENTIONAL policy options, as the interest rate is 0.75%, when it could be as low as zero.
So European markets are dropping precipitously and the bond yields have snuck back up, closing in on the crucial 7% line in Spain. Draghi cannot accomplish the securing of the euro with just words alone. At some point he needs to act. If he refuses, the euro won't be around much longer.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2012 On the final day of the 2012 Military Health System Conference here, the Defense Department's top health affairs official spoke today not about the undisputed excellence of the system and its caregivers, but rather about the need for more collaboration, transformation and organizational courage.
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs and director of the TRICARE Management Activity, addressed 3,000 attendees at the conference.
"Our people have always exhibited great personal courage over the years, and this has been shown many times on the battlefield," he said. "There is no shortage of personal courage. Now, it's about exhibiting organization courage -- specifically, the courage to change."
To keep pace with the future, Woodson said, the military health system must have the courage to become more joint, more collaborative and integrative, and broader in focus to leverage all the talent in the system, irrespective of service or rank.
"We need the courage to [re-examine] how we incentivize behavior in our system. … We need to face up to the shortcomings of our information systems, our patient engagement strategies and our approaches to changing the behavior of our population in terms of health risks," he said.
The system also must engage in a strategy of collaboration with all of its federal partners, Woodson said, particularly the Veterans Affairs Department.
The $53 million military health system includes more than 133,000 military and civilian doctors, nurses, medical educators, researchers, health care providers, allied health professionals, and health administration personnel around the world. Woodson said the system must assess its performance and relevance in terms of value and not cost alone, and must communicate this value to its stakeholders, especially the larger Defense Department community.
"On Feb. 13, [President Barack Obama's] budget will be released, and as you would expect, … there will be a significant focus on the numbers. The budget's numbers are important, but they don't convey the story that was described to you this week by so many speakers," Woodson told the conferees. "The story of the MHS is not about $53 billion or how many prescription drugs were purchased or [the number of] co-pays or deductibles. It's about the value we provide to the people we serve. That's the story we need to tell over and over again in all of our communities."
Fiscal challenges should not be allowed to distract the men and woman of the military health system, he said. "Instead," he added, "we should seize upon the opportunity to become stronger, better and more relevant."
From the conference presentations, Woodson said, he's taking away messages about leadership development, knowledge sharing and innovation.
"In most eras, the military has never been wanting for leaders, because that is what we do. … [But] the development of good leaders with updated competencies requires constant attention," he said. "Military health system leaders need special competencies to manage health care issues effectively in the 21st century."
During a conference session with senior enlisted advisors from each service, the assistant secretary said, he learned that one of their critical concerns is that the skills acquired by enlisted medics who performed so brilliantly on the battlefield not be allowed to atrophy as the kinetic wars subside and they return to peacetime duties.
"The integration of enlisted medics could be the critical shaping factor for our future," Woodson said, "and may provide the answer to how we establish and staff effective patient-centered medical home teams with extended capabilities to meet our patients' needs."
The military health system also must focus on leadership development of officers in the post-war environment, he added.
"Our military treatment facility commanders and staff have borne a substantial burden in trying to balance the needs of deployment, readiness, training and running garrison health systems over the past decade," Woodson said.
In addressing knowledge sharing and innovation, the assistant secretary described the need for a broader strategy of developing a culture of innovation, nurturing the innovative spirit and "rewarding the innovators in our midst."
Woodson said he is convinced that MHS expertise is comparable to the best expertise anywhere in the world, "but we need to improve the access to this expertise."
During one of the conference sessions, Dr. Denis A. Cortese, director of the Arizona State University Healthcare Delivery and Policy Program and a former Mayo Clinic chief executive officer, talked about internal knowledge-sharing systems in use at premier institutions such as Mayo, the Cleveland Clinic, the Intermountain system of hospitals and Johns Hopkins University.
"We have to do this, too," Woodson said, "and we will."
The conference has been not just an opportunity to share information and distribute knowledge across the enterprise, Woodson said.
"It's also how we cull innovation and how that feeds into the generation of new knowledge," he added. "This year and in the coming years, we will have the opportunity to change. The years will be challenging, the tasks will be hard, and we have the responsibility to get it right."
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Quarterback Jameis Winston, No. 30 overall in the SN 125, will choose between in-state Alabama, Florida State and LSU today at 3 p.m. on ESPN. Even though Winston is out of Hueytown (Ala.), don't count out the Seminoles, who aren't far from home, either. As a junior, Winston threw for 2,334 yards and 17 touchdowns, with only four interceptions, while also rushing for 870 yards and 9 TDs.
Of Winston's three finalists, only Florida State already has a quarterback commitment. Sean Maguire is a consensus three-star prospect out of West Orange (N.J.) who has been on board for two months.
Winston is also a very good baseball player and will likely be selected in the Major League Baseball draft next year.
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.
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Yes because its not Pentile. Due to the Pentile display the DPI doesn't matter. Seriously, the Galaxy Nexus was a **** phone. It had a worse camera quality then the GS2 as well, yes the Nexus was faster but image quality sucked.
The CPU in the GS2 is also superior...
BTW, Even the ****ty GS2 Wannabe on Sprint/Tmobile/ATT Skyrocket are better.
Dude, your own website you just linked disagrees with what you just said:
HD connotes, well, 720p HD, and finally the absence of Plus connotes the presence of PenTile RGBG. On that last note, we made a prediction that PenTile would be very hard to see on the Galaxy Nexus based on some pixel pitch calculations, and this turns out to be the case.
For me at least, the Galaxy Nexus display exceeds my visual acuity - I cannot pick out subpixels at all on the Galaxy Nexus. Quite literally, the RGBG subpixel stripe is now small enough that it is beyond visual acuity at standard viewing distance (1 foot).
LOL idiot.
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I'd go so far to say that the Galaxy Nexus is without question the current best Android device,
Also that article only compares GPU performance. It says nothing about CPU. They both run Cortex A9 architecture with equal clocks, though the OMAP4460 is actually speced to run at 1.5Ghz, but samsung underclocks it. Technically the CPU on the gnex is superior.
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I have to admit, in my youth, I was a huge G.I. Joe fan.
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My G.I. Joes fought Nazis and Chinese Communists, not super villains. They trained as Navy frogmen, the term SEALS was still far off on the horizon. In was a time when Sgt. Nick Fury was a crusty old four-striper and never even dreamed of being an Agent for S.H.E.I.L.D.
My G.I. Joe had about as much in common with today's Superhero soldier as Roy Rogers and John Wayne have in common with Django and the High Plains Drifter.
That being said, I still liked the new star-studded movie "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." And, when it comes to the star, I think that STUD is the operative word.
The main guy, Dwayne Johnson ("Snitch," "The Scorpion King," "Gridiron Gang") needs no introduction, after spending many years in professional wrestling as "The Rock." He is still a massive mountain of a man, and his charming smile is welcome in all company, both male and female.
Channing Tatum ("Dear John," "Magic Mike," "21 Jump Street") shows up briefly as Duke, the head of the team, and rumor has it that the movie was delayed so they could add more scenes with him in it, after his breakthrough performances over the last year.
Relative unknown D.J. Cotrona ("Detroit 1-8-7," "Windfall," "Skin") is Flint, a man that would melt female hearts in any movie that he starred in, alone, but here, he seems to be the "oh, that other guy," and most of this is because his character is nowhere near as developed as his looks are.
Old School butt-kicker Bruce Willis ("Die Hard" movies, "Red," "Moonlighting") does some cameo work, plus a little overtime as Gen. Joe Colton, and even this short, old guy can stand tall with the best of these guys.
Not to be outdone, on the female side, we have Adrianne Palicki ("Legion," "Friday Night Lights," "South Beach") as Jaye. Not quite on the Yancy Butler/Michelle Rodriquez level, but she is far above simple eye candy. She plays well with others and has a "one of the guys" demeanor that meshes well in a military setting.
She would definitely make a better Bond Girl than most of the ones in the last few movies.
The plot is a simple A-to-B-to-C style write up, with bad guys taking over the world with satellites that wipe out entire countries, and ominous ancient castle set into the sides of secluded mountain ranges.
We have top secret prisons and ninja minions on both sides of the aisle. The modern day G.I. Joe is color coded, so we know who is who in a fight, as opposed to my childhood with all green soldiers, half of which donned nail polish red coatings to designate the enemy.
The fight scenes in "G.I. Joe" are pretty darn good, even if the 3-D glasses didn't really enhance them that much. The blur of hand-to-hand combat was much more effective here than the slow motion versions seen in other films, although there was a bit of slo-mo in this one, too.
A lot of explosions, a little sexual innuendo and quite a bit of humor made for an interesting action flick. As expected, neither Johnson nor Willis took things too seriously (unlike a Stallone and a Norris would), and the movie was all the better for it.
It moved along at a great pace and with only a few exceptions, I was able to keep track of who everyone was, even though I was unfamiliar with most of the various superheroes and super villains, by name.
This is a safe movie, nothing exceptional, but nothing to scare anyone away, either. It was fortunate to be slotted into a week where there was very little competition, even though you would think the Spring Break season would be a good time to put some of your best stuff forward.
Even though it's a pretty good movie, unless you absolutely HAVE to satisfy your movie addiction (like me), you might want to see what's coming out this week, before choosing this one...
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Tracking year-over-year balance changes, I see the rate of decline is slowing by varying degrees. So I am starting to look for bottoms—and then growth. Credit expansion is often tied to economic expansion.
Finally, nonpayment rates are (somewhat) moving to the background. The number of consumers missing one or two payments has decreased for several months, and this pattern is cycling through to consumers who miss more than two payments and consumers who stop paying altogether. This is for the major loan types—auto, home equity, and card.
Very recently, the number of consumers missing more than two mortgage payments has begun to decline, resulting in the mortgage delinquency rate declining for the first time in June 2010 year-over-year.
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One of the keys to getting out of the recession is credit growth. How are you contributing to the credit market?
Are you spending more today?
Where are you willing to spend?
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This is a Dover reprint of a book first published in England in 1973, intended, according to the preface, "for students in the final year of a British honours mathematics course or equivalent." It covers the central core of functional analysis: normed, Banach and Hilbert spaces, continuous linear operators, functionals and dual spaces, compact operators (briefly), and of course the major theorems of the subject, including Hahn-Banach, Closed Graph, and Open Mapping. The spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space (two forms of which are given) constitutes the grand finale of the text.
On this side of the Pond, undergraduate functional analysis courses are rare, although there are certainly some books that would be suitable for such a course: Rynne and Youngson's Linear Functional Analysis and Saxe's Beginning Functional Analysis come immediately to mind, and I also recently discovered that Simmons' Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis, a very good book that I used as a student in the very early 1970s for two undergraduate courses (one a basic course in point-set topology using the first half of the book and the other a small seminar in introductory functional analysis using the second), is still in print, courtesy of Krieger Publishing Company.
I doubt, however, that Pryce's book, though intended as an undergraduate text when originally written, would work well as a text for a current American undergraduate course: British courses are generally more sophisticated than American ones, and courses offered 40 years ago are more demanding than courses offered today. One has only to look at the list of topics that the author assumes as background (including not just a good understanding of metric space theory, advanced calculus and linear algebra, which one might expect, but also measure theory and integration) to see the problems inherent in trying to use this book to teach current undergraduates. Chapter 1 of the text constitutes a rapid review of this material, but I suspect a student who has not already been exposed to it — and that would obviously include the vast majority of undergraduate mathematics majors — would be at a considerable disadvantage.
Too sophisticated for undergraduates, this book might unfortunately also be viewed by many instructors of graduate functional analysis courses as not being sophisticated enough. In particular, there are a number of topics that an instructor of such a course might want to cover (including nonlinear theory, unbounded operators, general topological vector spaces, and distributions) that are not covered at all here; other topics, such as Banach algebras and spectral theory, are discussed here to some extent, but perhaps not as deeply as one would want to cover them in a graduate course. Other standard graduate functional analysis texts such as Rudin's difficult but rewarding Functional Analysis (which may now be out of print, since it no longer appears on the McGraw-Hill webpage) or Lax's Functional Analysis, provide much greater coverage than does this book. In other words, people who teach this subject well find this book (to borrow a phrase used by my parents to describe me as a teenager) "too light for heavy work and too heavy for light work."
Despite my concerns about the lack of a natural constituency for this text, I certainly do not think it is a bad book. Quite the contrary: what this book does, it does very well. The writing is consistently crisp and clear, and the discussions are often very interesting and enlightening. I was particularly impressed, for example, with the text's development of the Hahn-Banach theorem: the author discusses both its analytic (functional-extending) and geometric (separating hyperplanes) versions, and provides as an example of its use a proof of Runge's approximation theorem in complex variables.
This last point should be emphasized: many introductory texts on functional analysis are usually so concerned with getting the basic material proved that they may not provide examples of non-trivial applications of the subject. (This was the "big gripe" noted in the review, in this column, of Rynne and Youngson's book.) This book, by contrast, really strives to illustrate how functional analysis can be applied to "hard" analysis. In addition to the proof of Runge's theorem, we have the following: in chapter 2, Ascoli's Theorem is used to prove Montel's theorem in complex analysis (some background in complex analysis is assumed here); Hilbert space theory is invoked in chapter 4 to discuss Fourier series and to prove the L2 convergence theorem and Fejér's Theorem (three different proofs of which are given); chapter 7 contains a fairly extensive discussion of Sturm-Liouville theory, including the Green's function, as an application of the theory of compact operators. These applications are developed in the text as soon as the necessary supporting material is introduced, thereby helping to motivate some of these ideas as they are taught. Additional examples are also provided in the exercises (of which there are a nice assortment, not accompanied by solutions). These illustrations of the applicability of functional analysis to hard analysis are, in my opinion, a very attractive feature of this book.
Another attractive feature of the book is its price (as I write this, roughly $17 at Amazon.com), which is a pleasant change from the $150–$200 routinely charged for many current mathematics texts, and which reaffirms my long-held view that Dover Publications does a real service to the mathematical community, both by saving deserving books from oblivion and also making them available at prices that even graduate students can afford. So, even if this book is not likely to be used as the primary text in a graduate course, it is certainly one that the students in such a course might want to look at for independent reading.
Mark Hunacek (email@example.com) teaches mathematics at Iowa State University.


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As part of its monthly 'Patch Tuesday' security updates for June, Microsoft announced changes in how Windows manages certificates. These changes include a new automatic updater tool for Windows 7 and Windows Vista that will flag stolen or known forged certificates. This shift will have a huge impact on companies and software vendors who use Microsoft's implementation of public key infrastructure as part of their authentication and software distribution'especially if they haven't followed best practices for certificates in the past.
The changes come on the heels of revelations about the recently discovered Flame malware, which used a rogue certificate authority that masqueraded as Microsoft in order to hijack the Windows Update mechanism. On June 8, Microsoft made changes to its Update service to prevent such attacks in the future. The changes announced on June 11 go even further, moving to blunt the use of stolen or forged certificates of any kind from being used by malware writers and other attackers.
According to a post on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog by Microsoft Trustworthy Computing spokesperson Angela Gunn, the new certificate update tool will rely on a 'Disallowed Certificate Trust List' maintained by Microsoft. The tool will check the list daily, moving certificates found on the list to an 'untrusted' store. In the past, moving certificates to untrusted status required manually updating them.
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On May 15, AT&T Wireless will start offering the Samsung Infuse 4G, the thinnest and largest smartphone in the wireless provider's repertoire. The phone will have a 4.5-inch screen and will measure in at a depth of 8.99 mm. For perspective, the iPhone 4 has a depth of 9.3 mm. Other specs include a 1.2 GHz processor, 8 […] [Read More]
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Friday, April 18, 2014
Over the years, the Azalea Invitational Tournament championship game has seen everything from defensive battles to offensive onslaughts. The 2014 title game was settled by forfeit.
Unicoi County High School out of Tennessee took home the 2014 AIT trophy Tuesday after Canon-McMillan High of Pennsylvania forfeited the championship game. Unicoi coaches were told the other team had reached its limit on the number of tournament games its governing body allows.
On its way to the championship, Unicoi defeated Stratford 2-1, Wade Hampton 3-0, South Florence 5-4 and Clover in the semi-finals by a 6-4 margin.
We had some tough games, Unicoi coach Grady Lingerfelt said.
The competition was really good. We have played in this tournament before but it had been about five years since the last time we were here. Its nice to finally win it.
The team has made some good runs at the AIT title before. In 2002, Unicoi lost the championship game to Hillcrest.
Unicoi pitcher/utility player Tiffany Laughrun was named the tournament MVP. Her team improved to 22-6 on the season.
Summerville, which lost to Canon McMillan in the semi-finals of the championship bracket, went 3-2 at the tournament. Stratford also finished at 3-2 while Fort Dorchester went 1-4 and Cane Bay went 0-4.
This years AIT featured 13 teams from across the state of South Carolina plus three teams from out of state.
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Hi Everybody ,
It has been a while! I would love to spend more time here, but I am working on a project at the moment, and I am very very busy .
There are a few Jojo news such as the Jojorama or the 2012 prize figures releases, but for some reasons, I don't want to write about them . Don't feel like… Don't ask me why… It does happen sometimes .
Anyway, and as there isn't only Jojo in life, today's post will be about my newly acquired Shin Megami Tensei Figures . I am very broke since I am coming back from vacation, but I so wanted them that I just couldn't resist when I saw them online. Oh poor wallet .
I am sure some of you may be thinking: How come that she knows Shin Megami Tensei? What is that thing? etc. Well… I don't know myself. I mean… I know that it is quite a popular game that I played before, but no matter how hard I try I can't remember anything about it. Strange right? My boyfriend reminds me that I used to play a lot the Game Boy Advance version, but honestly, I can't remember the plot/characters etc. Why that? I am still young though . I should really play the games again!
That being said, let's go back to our subject. I can't really help on this, so those who would like to know more about MegaTen can check some info on Wikipedia. When it comes to the figures, there isn't much to say, I just love them . Nice quality, good value for money… It's the first time I am buying Furyu figures, and I must say that I am quite impressed . But enough babbling, I will let you see by yourself with some pictures.
Kerberos (or Cerberus)
Kerberos is the reason why I bought the set. He was so awesome that I really couldn't help it . The figure is around 12cm tall and the base is just for display. Cerberus is so cool that he can stand on his own feet
Lucifer is less beautiful than Kerberos, but quite nice too. I really love the bat style wings and the horns. Figure is around 19cm tall.
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Jojo again… I know! I was just wondering what would happen if Dio was summoning Lucifer and Jotaro was calling out Kerberos. Who will win? …
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Mark Munoz To Turn Michael Bisping's Volume Down In His Home Town
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1998 DoD is watching how often military personnel deploy and how the tempo affects quality of life, the department's personnel chief said.
Rudy de Leon, defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness, said DoD's goal is for service members to deploy no more than 120 days per year. Some units deploy more than others, and DoD is trying to track them down to reduce their tempos, he said.
Each service sets its own personnel and operational tempo goals in line with DoD guidance and mission requirements. The most important aspect, de Leon said, is predictability for the service member.
"I think the biggest quality of life issue is time away from home," he said. "If we can put that predictability in, if our handshake is '120 days is the limit,' then I think we will have made a great stride for our people."
DoD recognizes certain units will always have high deployment rates, but it's working on offsets, de Leon said. One idea is to use reserve component personnel more often.
"We're looking at ways to use the National Guard and Reserve units to supplement the active duty force so that they're engaged, involved and bringing their expertise to some of the missions that we have overseas," he said.
De Leon noted that search and rescue units, for instance, have one of the highest operational tempos. Military and security police and electronic warfare units are close behind.
"With the tools that we've developed, we can see precisely how long they're away and also track when we need to bring additional units in to develop those skill sets so we're not putting all the burden on a few people," de Leon added.
De Leon said the tracking effort is just the first step. "We've gone from a force that was forward deployed to one that is more of an expeditionary force," he said. "We've got to make sure that as we transition to these new missions we're taking good care of our people and giving them predictability."
The Army tracks deployment tempo for units and individuals.
The unit rate is the average number of days in A one-month reporting period that personnel were "away from their bunks" for training, exercises and deployments. The individual tempo reflects deployment rates for specific skill categories such as infantryman, engineer equipment operator, medic and aircraft mechanic.
There are high-demand skills and high-demand units, said Col. Benton H. Borum, chief of Army readiness reports. Borum is in charge of collecting and reporting Army perstempo data. Each service reports quarterly to senior DoD leadership.
The Army has always monitored perstempo but adopted a new system seven months ago, said Borum. Units that are projected to exceed the Army chief of staff's 120-day goal receive Department of the Army level attention to ensure the high perstempo is necessary.
When deployments cannot be canceled or shortened, such as the Bosnia operation, the Army can authorize a unit to exceed the limit, Borum said. However, it also could assign reserve component units or soldiers, he explained.
The Air Force tracks both weapon systems and individuals.
"Based on knowing a person's skill and unit of assignment, we can sort data by any variable," said Col. Bob Baskett, chief, contingency and joint matters division. The Air Force system reviews data daily, weekly and quarterly, allowing the service to check for trends and to identify high-demand systems and skills.
"We know we will have weapon systems and people with certain skills who will readily exceed that [120-day benchmark]," Baskett said. Low-density, high-demand systems always stay AT high tempo levels, he said. Some include airborne warning and control systems, the U-2R and U-2S reconnaissance aircraft and the MH-60 helicopter used in special forces and rescue operations. Among individual skills, security forces have high perstempo, he said.
The Navy and Marine Corps have a six-month deployment goal.
The Navy offsets this longer deployment by keeping sailors in port two times as long as they've deployed, said Lt. Chris Rawley, fleet operations officer, chief naval operations staff.
The Navy has tracked perstempo by unit deployment rates since 1985. Last year, the Navy only had three exceptions to its six-month rule -- a ship, a submarine and a SEAL unit, Rawley said.
Some of the top deployable Navy units are airborne early warning units, surface combatants, submarines and SEAL units, Rawley added. The Navy is also tracking a new guideline. It hopes to keep at least 50 percent of its personnel in home port.
The Marine Corps mirrors the Navy with a six-month deployment and no deployment for two times the length deployed. The Marines measure perstempo by unit only.
Using the Marine Corps Training and Exercise Employment Planning system, the Marine Corps tracks deployment perstempo, which by Marine definition is the time accumulated by a unit away from the home station 10 days or more during a given period, said Capt. Sean D. Gibson, Marine spokesperson.
The Marine system captures past, present and projected deployment tempos for each unit, Gibson added. The corps has used the system three years.
Marine infantry battalions net the highest deployment perstempo followed by F-18 squadrons and some helicopter squadrons, Gibson said. Everybody in combat service support Roles also rank up there.


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PLACERVILLE, CA (3-29-15) – The 2015 racing season is less than two weeks away and this coming week drivers and their teams will have the opportunity to test and tune for the exciting and lucrative upcoming Red Hawk Casino 50Th Anniversary Championship Racing Season presented by Thompson's Auto Group, Hoosier Tires and Coors Light.
This special Sunday test session will welcome many of Placerville Speedway's regular competitors from the Domco Plumbing Sprint Car and Limited Late Model Divisions as well as the Jay's Mobile Welding Pure Stocks that will be competing for bonus yielding championship titles this season. In addition to the track regulars, the Sunday play night will play host to many additional divisions and is open to any oval dirt cars who wish to shake down their rides before the racing season begins in the region.
The grandstands to Placerville Speedway will be closed for this special event. Pit entry will be $20 per person for competitors, crew members and the general public. The pit gate will open to haulers at 2 p.m. The quarter-mile bullring will go green beginning at 4 p.m. with test sessions continuing up until 8 p.m. Spectators are welcome to enter the pit area which has limited seating, admission is $20 per person. Those entering the put area must be over 16 years of age. Anyone 14-16 may enter with an adult with a notarize minors release that must be completed prior to arrival to the speedway.
Placerville Speedway and the staff of the El Dorado County Fairgrounds have been busy over the past several months preparing for the facilities 50th Anniversary season that officially begins on Saturday night, April 4 with the King of the West Sprint Cars and the Midgets of the Bay Cities Racing Association in the "Gold Country Shootout." This highly anticipated event kicks off a huge season opening complete with fanfare, live music before the races and much more.
Following the barnstormer opening event, racing of a high caliber continues on Wednesday Night, April 8 at World Racing Group takes over Placerville Speedway for what will be the Wildest Winged Wednesday ever with the return of the National World of Outlaws Sprint Car Tour in the Brad Sweet Short Track Showdown. The regular weekly championship season will begin on Saturday night, April 11th.
As Placerville Speedway reaches it's landmark 50th year of continued operation, many improvements have been taking place in the off season to make this golden season one of the best. In addition to a bounty of added sponsorship and bonus payouts throughout the Red Hawk Casino Championship season ahead, Handy Racing Promotions and the El Dorado County Fair have been busy putting the final touches on some long overdue amenities including then installation of the track's new public address sound system.
Late last season this process began much to the desire of race fans who, for many years have had difficulty hearing commentary during events do to an aging system. This project has replaced all of the grandstand speakers with state of the art technology as well as added speakers into the pit area so race teams can hear everything from National Anthems to race line ups and finishes.
Additionally, the El Dorado County Fair has completed a number of improvements to the facility, including a $30,000 restoration of the asphalt in the grandstand entry and midway. Sponsor signage has been installed throughout the facility, including the new Red Hawk Casino scoreboard, to recognize the many different area businesses that have come on board this year to make Placerville one of the most lucrative Saturday night programs in Northern California for it's weekly divisions with over $15000.00 added in additional payouts and championship bonuses for the season to come.
Tickets prices for the many different events vary and are detailed on the Placerville Speedway website at www.placervillespeedway.com. Admission prices do not include a $6 parking fee to the El Dorado County Fairgrounds for all events.
Join over 5000 friends of Placerville Speedway on Facebook, where you can interact with fellow fans, drivers and staff. You can also find Placerville Speedway on twitter for schedule updates at @pvllspeedway.


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"The most popular learning systems sold today — for instance, foreign language software like Rosetta Stone — cheerfully defy every one of the psychologists' warnings. With its constant feedback and easily accessible clues, Rosetta Stone brilliantly creates a sensation of progress. "Go to Amazon and look at the reviews," says Greg Keim, Rosetta Stone's CTO, when I ask him what evidence he has that people are really remembering what they learn. "That is as objective as you can get in terms of a user's sense of achievement." The sole problem here, from the psychologists' perspective, is that the user's sense of achievement is exactly what we should most distrust."