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The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION to the
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Hi All. I had this problem cured by the dealer last December and it hasn't re-appeared. Since all I was able to do is read the code but not trouble shoot the problem I had to take it to a dealer in the end. I replaced the part specified in the code however this did not cure the code and it kept re-setting the same code. Unfortunatly when I took the vehicle to the dealer it was like Cristmas eve and I was unable to get an explanation as to why a diferent part (the tank pressure switch) cured this particular code. What is confusing to me is there is a code for the tank preasure switch however this code never set. I can understand anybody having frustration with this problem. I wish I had the dealer inside info on what was really wrong with mine as this probably could help somebody. Thanks for the help. Rick.....
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I also have this code (P0446) and will try to blow the filter out. This is the only code so far to have ever popped up (knock on wood)...
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Hey, I came across this thread and it is full of useful information. I too have the error code p04406, and am trying to fix it on my own to avoid the dealer. I was able to locate what I think is the valve I'm after. I located the charcoal canister on the rear of the fuel tank, and There was a solenoid attached to the side of it. Is this what I need to clean and or replace for my vent valve to be able to operate properly, or do I need to trace that heater hose vent line farther up to find what I'm supposed to be looking for?
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Growing up in New York City, I was a Mets fan down to the marrow of my bones. I'd stand outside of the old Shea Stadium, pleading for autographs, and eventually my baseball glove had more names on it than the cast on a third grader's broken arm: Mookie Wilson, Ron Darling, Kevin Mitchell—any Met who'd stop for me. My bedroom was a shrine to the team; posters of Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, and Keith Hernandez watched over me as I slept. I loved those teams of the nineteen-eighties. I always talked about them using the pronoun "we," as in, "We are going to win it all this year." (In 1986, we did—and I was there for game six.) That's why it's been so ineffably painful, over the past several months, to see the ugly truth unveiled: the Mets aren't my team, or New York's team. They are Bernie Madoff's team.
When I was reading William Grieder's piece on Madoff in the Nation—where I'm the sports editor—I couldn't help but think that there is no criminal statute against using and abusing an entire fan base. We now know that the owners of the Mets, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, were financial partners with the Babe Ruth of swindlers. They allegedly used Madoff's portfolio as a sort of personal bank, with the team being both their collateral and their cash register. Now they are facing anywhere from three hundred million to a billion dollars in lawsuits from an assembly of Madoff victims. As a lawsuit filed by the victims' trustee, Irving Picard, states, Wilpon and Katz "made so much easy money from Madoff for so long" that, despite the myriad red flags, they "chose to simply look the other way…. There are thousands of victims of Madoff's massive fraud. But Saul Katz is not one of them. Neither is Fred Wilpon."
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That statement, and many others like it, is up on the Mets Web site, making it even harder to cordon off one's feelings for the team. ("To see business owners so misjudge their audience is solar-eclipse-black humor," Jeff Passan, a Yahoo sports columnist, wrote.) Wilpon and Katz are now looking to sell anywhere from a twenty-five-per-cent stake to the entire team. One hopes they will. The team has already received a twenty-million-dollar loan from Major League Baseball after running through the seventy-five-million-dollar line of credit available to all teams in financial distress. And they owe a few players, some of them disastrous signings, a tremendous amount of money.
Mets Nation is owed something, too. Not just because their trust was so flagrantly violated—their blue and orange entangled in a Ponzi scheme—but because the taxpayers of New York paid for two hundred million of the six hundred million it took to build Citi Field. Maybe we are owed the team. Why shouldn't the Mets follow the model of the Green Bay Packers and allow fans to buy shares? In Green Bay, people buy a piece of their beloved Pack and all they get in return is a piece of paper saying that they are part owners. This is a model worth emulating, especially given the Packers' recent success. Over the past twenty years, the Wilpons have careened from one embarrassment to the next.
These are tough times, when tightening budgets have led to historic attacks on schools, hospitals, and public services. Why shouldn't the Mets help subsidize all that? Imagine how it would be if every time you saw a kid in a David Wright jersey, you knew that the proceeds would help to keep the city afloat.
We should repossess the Mets. Once we do, I will be first in line to buy my shares of the club. Then the Mets really will be "our team" again, and I can resume the passion of youth, with the confidence that my love isn't just an asset in the Madoff-Wilpon-Katz portfolio.
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Who/how will the City owned team be "governed"?By Aronson, Sanda at Mar 30, 2011 15:46 PM |
I'm only a Mets fan since 1985. I was a Bklyn Dodger fan who gave up baseball from 1957 until 1985, when I got "hooked" on the Amazins. I listen to every Mets game on the FAN. (The "Wilponzi", they are named by Steve Somers, sports talk show host and Mets fan.) I listen until it gets painful.
I know a wheelchair user who says the new stadium is fully wheelchair accessible, but I'm too ill with CFS/ME to roll there. (Have you heard the song - it's on YouTube, "Doris of Rego Park"? A late, great, Mets fan, caller to radio.) So, the idea of a city owned baseball team is perfect...but "the devil is in the details" as the old saying goes. I'd been making variations on the name when I first learned how much we New Yorkers paid for the stadium. I refuse to call it a bank's name.


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In the CORE project (see Entlich 1996), the majority of the usage was from the Chemistry and Materials Science departments. They provided 70% of active users and 86% of all sessions with the journals. Various other departments at Cornell use chemical information (Food Sciences, Chemical Engineering, etc.) but make less use of the on-line journals. Apparently the overhead of starting to use the system and learning its use discouraged those who did not have a primary interest in it. Many of the users printed out articles rather than read them on-line. About one article was printed for every four viewed, and people tended to print an article rather than flip through the bitmap images. People accessed articles through both browsing and searching, but they read the same kinds of articles they would have read otherwise; they did not change their reading habits.
Some years ago the CORE project had compared the ability of people to read bitmaps versus reformatted text and found that people could read screen bitmaps just as fast as new text (Egan 1991). Yet in the actual use of the journals, the readers did not seem to like the page images. The Scepter interface provided a choice of page image or text format, and readers only looked at about one image page in every four articles. "This suggests that despite assertions by some chemists in early interviews that they particularly liked the layout of ACS journal pages, for viewing on-line they prefer reformatted text to images of those pages, even though they can read either at the same speed. The Web-like style is preferred for on-line viewing."
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lon Foundation report, I can bring it up in a few tens of seconds at most on my workstation. If I need to find it on paper and it isn't in my office, I'm faced with a delay of a few minutes (to visit the Bellcore library) and probably a few weeks (because, like most libraries, they are cutting back on acquisitions and will have to borrow it from somewhere else). The Web is so convenient that I frequently use it even to read publications that I do have in my office.
Web use is greeted so enthusiastically that volunteers have been typing in (or scanning) out-of-copyright literature on a large scale, as for example for Project Gutenberg. Figure 21.2 shows the number of books added to the Project Gutenberg archive each year in the 1990s; by comparison, in the entire 1980s, only two books were entered.
By comparison, some of the electronic journal trials seem disappointing. Some of the reasons that digital library experiments have been less successful than they might have been involve the details of access. Whereas Web browsers are by now effectively universal on campuses, the specific software needed for the CORE project, as an example, was somewhat of a pain for users to install and use. Many of the electronic library projects involve scanned images, which are difficult to manipulate on small screens, and they have rarely involved material that was designed for the kind of use common on computer systems. By contrast, most HTML material is written with the knowledge of the format in which it will be read and is adapted to that style. I note anecdotal complaints even that Acrobat documents as not as easy to read as normal Web pages.
Web pages in particular may have illustrations in color, and even animations, beyond the practical ability of any conventional publisher. Only one in a thousand pages of a chemical journal, for example, is likely to have a color illustration. Yet most popular Web pages have color (although the blinking colored ad banners might be thought to detract rather than help Web users). Also, Web pages need not be written to the traditional standards of publishing; the transparencies that represent the talk associated with a scholarly paper may be easier to read than the paper itself.
Such arguments suggest that the issue with the popularity of the Web compared with digital library experiments is not just content or convenience but also style. In the same way that Scientific American is easier to read than traditional professional journals, Web pages can be designed to be easier for students to read than the textbooks they buy now. Reasons might include the way material is broken into fairly short units, each of which is easy to grasp; the informal style; the power of easy cross-referencing, so that details need not be repeated; the extreme personality shown by some Web pages; and the use of illustrations as mentioned before. Perhaps some of these techniques, well known to professional writers, could be encouraged by universities for research writing.
The attractiveness of the newer Web material also suggests that older material will become less and less read. In the same way that vinyl records have suddenly become very old or that TV stations refuse to show black-and-white movies, libraries may find that the nineteenth-century material in many libraries disappears
from the view of the students. Mere scanning to produce bitmaps results in material that cannot be searched and does not look like newly written text; scanning may produce material that, although more accessible than the old volumes, is still not as welcome to students as new material. How much conversion of the older bitmaps can be justified? Of course, many vinyl recordings are reissued on CD and some movies are colorized, but libraries are unlikely to have resources to do much updating. How can we present the past in a way that students will use? Perhaps the present will become a golden age for scholars because nearly the entire world supply of reference books will have to be rewritten for HTML.


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There is a growing consensus in the scientific community that the most urgent need of modern society is the transition to sustainability. The negative social, health, and environmental impacts of society's current unsustainable patterns of resource exploitation and waste disposal are now well documented.
The magnitude and severity of the implications of this global environmental disruption have led many to believe that humankind faces a "sustainability crisis" in which we are approaching the "ecological threshold" of the planet. Research into this field is burgeoning from a variety of scientific disciplines. Good science, however, is not enough to solve these problems.
Active sustainable policy is necessary to implement the latest science and technological solutions. As an institution with significant access to the latest knowledge of both environmental problems and social-technical solutions, Clarion University has both the opportunity and the responsibility to meet this challenge and lead society towards sustainability. It is within this context that Clarion University created a minor in Sustainable Science and Policy.
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The minor in sustainable science and policy will provide students already enrolled in Clarion University the opportunity to add a vital skill set and knowledge base to their present baccalaureate degree. This program will also give students added incentive to pursue undergraduate research by providing them with opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology in an applied science and an opportunity to affect the real world in contemporary policy implementation.
This minor compliments established environmental programs because of the focus on students performing interdisciplinary research to find solutions to environmental problems, which are quantified in existing courses. The sustainability science and policy minor also compliments the work of the Pennsylvania Consortium For Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, an organization comprised of environmental policy makers and universities and colleges devoted to improving environmental policy and understanding through government and academic cooperation that encourages interdisciplinary analysis and discourse.
The minor will allow graduates to synthesize the analytical skills of scientific disciplines with the policy skills necessary to navigate the real world of politics, which often trump the hard facts delivered by science. Minoring in sustainable science and policy will enhance the graduates' chances of obtaining jobs not only in Pennsylvania's businesses, which are taking an active role in 'greening' their production to save money and enhance their public image, but also for positions in the Pennsylvania government and many non-profit organizations.
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The proposed minor is a first step by the Clarion University in 'branding' itself as the premier school in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education for applied environmental studies in both science and policy. The sustainability science and policy minor is housed in the new Science and Technology Center, which is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. . This building is the flagship of a new era in both technically and environmentally superior buildings for Clarion University and the Commonwealth. Hopefully, this minor will serve as a model for sister institutions seeking to encourage their students to learn advanced skills for science research and policy implementation.
Recently the Physics Department won a Energy Harvest grant to integrate solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of the new building.
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TL;DR: Try to be nice.. can't? Roll up a joint
"Hatred is a powerful tool on the right hands, with the right purpose... And your purpose is to hate me"
Valid points that I agree with for sure. It's unfortunate that the statistic aspect of gaming does this to people. That being said, I can think of instances where even the loss was an enjoyable game because people cooperated to the best of their ability and it was a close match. S2's matchmaking system is aimed at making the matches closely ranked (or moreso, at least) so I figure if everyone goes in with the same positive attitude we can't come out feeling bad from the outcome.
It's worth a shot, at least.
This is dumb, I love my HoN community and I don't want it to change because some scrubs who've never played DotA/LoL think HoN has the worst gaming community.
The fiddler from Chagalls village was inviting me to dance... so I danced.
The Neutral Creeps community supports this movement.
Heroes of Newerth (Great Game) + Great Community = GG
HoN can become the model game of the Dota genre with the help of the community. Do your part. Spread the HoN love.
lets make a guild called fighting the world and listen to lots of manowar and stuff and be nice abut destory our enemies
I've got an electric personality!
I think it would be better for the Clan name to be Making a Difference
then the tag could be
Good post OP. I already try not to get angry with people in game, but I'll try a little harder.
P.S. It'd be nice to get the thumbs up symbol as an icon to show your support in-game (/just got the icon slot unlock)
I would love to wear that sig, but I'm just a trashtalker. I trashtalked since my first gaming days, not HoN. So I fitted perfectly in HoN.
Over the last days though I've tried not to trashtalk back. Specially my teammates, yesterday there was this Legionare that was mad at me cuz I didn't defend bot tower against 5 guys. He went alone and died. So he said: "I'm getting a codex and ima steal kills" I said: "K go ahead".
We were getting pawned and then Voodoo said: "We need wards" ofc Legi calls: "Wildsoul should buy the wards" Which I replied: "Ok, I can do that".
I bought wards the rest of the game while rocking a mock on bear and frostburn on wildsoul. Carried the game and Legi said not a thing the rest of the game.
I found that game pretty rewarding so I'll try not to trashtalk. At least not fight with my own teammates.
A cheap tactic that seems to be working for me is to type at the beggining:
"Lets be friendly, no blaming and no calling each other noobs and the like" sometimes you get a "why dont u stfu instead" but 75% it works.
Finally I think S2 should add that logo to the store.
Good thing about playing with friends: you will never get kicked when picking Night Hound as Orange or Brown.
and yes let me have the thumbs up logo in the store so i can have it as my icon
Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen.
I want my competitive games as harsh as possible. This is not a magical word of cuteness and love, whenever you die your helping the enemy team, whenever you fail, you're punishing your own team and wasting 45 minutes of their lives. This is not about learning and being nice, you can learn from your mistakes and from the flaming. As i said, if you don't like it or can't stand it get outta the kitchen.
I learned the hard way playing DotA since 2003, why wouldn't you? Also the flame and rage generated are hilarious, why would you want to finish that?
The only thing i can agree about stopping is the griefing. Even if the team is flaming you, it's probably for a reason and you shouldn't ruin the game, that's the easy way for puss*s also you can earn a ban that way.
Just my 2 cents. I can understand your point of view, but i don't share it.
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The issue is S2 needs to put this thread as a sticky and into the opening message when you log into the game, because I am sure only like 1/10th of the community looks at the forums. Great thread signed.
i think the same applies to me in terms of DotA history with rage. i like rage a lot, tbh.
but more often then not, it does not contribute to teamwork. you have to realize that flaming a person just doesn't help them play better.
i've been in pro matches, where i've been raged at by real hard ass pros 1800+ before, and it's fine to an extent. i can handle the noise, because i work good under pressure.
but, at a certain point, it just gets annoying and counterproductive.
since realizing this, i've adopted a much more cooperative approach towards telling people on my team how they did something wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.
and you know what? the same goes for the real world. flaming and raging at people who are on your team in the business world or in any family setting just doesn't work out.
when it's playful it is fine; between friends? ok. but when you are playing with a complete stranger, you need to show common decency to them as a fellow stranger playing the game with you online.
since adopting a re-conciliatory attitude to team communication and bad errors on the part of my team (Bad karma, btw, is a fine example of someone who shits on the other team with his psyche-outs but always helps the noobs on his team with nice talk), i have been winning more games than beforehand.
shitting on your teammates is not the answer, people. this thread, this sig, and these ideas should be a testament to that fact and a reminder for you to always approach your games with a positive attitude towards team cooperation.
you WILL get better game-play out of your teammates this way - it's been proven in the real world, and you can prove it for yourself here in-game.
Bro do a rainbow colour one and I might consider it


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-- Other the markets are triple digits they're looking at the Dow is up one quarter percent or 163.
Points but investors cannot forget the uncertainty that has been plaguing -- -- -- over the last several years.
It's used as an explanation or perhaps an excuse for our nation's lackluster growth slowdown in hiring and stock market volatility.
But both candidates do you say they can about these trends -- improve things are they right or will uncertainty continue to weigh on our economy no matter who occupies the White House.
Scott -- senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo good friend of our show is here to weigh in hi Scott good to see you again.
So what are your thoughts we gonna get more or less uncertainty if we get a definitive answer for who wins this presidential election tomorrow.
Well I think I think.
I'm hoping as you guys are that that we we have an answer by late tonight or tomorrow morning.
I'd like to think that we will.
Mom and I think we're going to trade off of that right now and I think actually be asked -- -- the markets up a little here that core logic -- of the pricing data was good.
But I think -- of them the markets up a little because.
There's some rumors turning that -- Romney's doing a little bit better here so I think that's played into it but still.
To turn the US economy I mean this is a huge ship it's gonna take a lot longer than a year or fifteen months or something like that so I think.
We're going to still be -- -- we still have the fiscal cliff they're still -- a battle about that we still have the the deficit limit we're still gonna battle about that.
But I think for the most part the fiscal close going to get kicked down the road.
Will raise the deficit ceiling they're still going to be plenty of uncertainty about Europe and Chinese growth and things like that but.
-- You know whoever wins this election I think we're gonna trade off it through Thanksgiving there we're gonna move on -- -- close.
And we -- -- even though in that you know market is rallying on these rumors it's still is really all about congress to the end of the day right we really -- we could have they split house split congress again and get nothing done.
For another two years.
Yet Tracy I tell you really you know in the past.
In the years I've been around most of the time gridlock is good.
I think that worked in the past but it's not going to work in the future and I think.
Will have a little bit -- gridlock as we battle over this fiscal cliff issue in the new congress comes in the markets may put up with that for a little bit.
But I think really six months into the new year or nine months into the new year.
We're gonna need to attack this deficit point would this deficit we're going to need a plan I don't -- -- say any plan.
But right now we need a plan the market's not going to put up with not having a plan fervor for are really very much longer I don't think.
As for the markets and investors what are you hearing from your clients what are their main questions right now their concerns and how are you advising them as to where to put their money right now.
Well you know -- we've thumb our clients have been very fearful here they have a lot of cash on the sidelines they've been very hesitant to get into the market.
I think that they're they doubt the sustainability.
The recovery here in the US.
Other worried about Europe they may not know all the details but they're worried about it by the here the China's slowing down.
What we've been trying to tell them is that.
You don't valuations.
Are are not excessive.
We think that the recovery that we see here in the states it's slow but it's going to keep rolling the global recovery is going to keep rolling.
We've got a target out there for year end 2013.
To 1525.
To 1575.
That's a decent return from here when you throw on a couple of percent.
Dividend so were optimistic and we're trying to a big part of my job is to try to get our clients.
To buy into that to buy into that the fact that you know the world's not likely to end.
And no matter who takes over the presidency bully gets a nice upbeat statement Scott thank you so much --
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Pros – There are good discounts with business partners. It looks good on a resume when you look for a new job (and most of us inevitably will).
Cons – Layoffs even when the company's profits are in the billions. The CEO describes layoffs as 'business as usual'. We're expected to create world-class products using worthless, freebie tools that don't work properly. Managers change jobs regularly every two years, leading to instability in every group. Quotas in performance reviews stop careers from progressing. The internal financial results our bonuses are based on are always somehow lower than the public results, so our bonuses are always lower than projected.
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Mon, Sep 30, 2013 | 22:40 BST
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning included in this week's US PS Plus update
As per the October schedule, North American PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive a copy of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for their Instant Collection this week. It's good timing, as the IP will go up for sale before the end of the year, and there's a small chance it might be removed from sale. There's also a small discount on Flashback, Vector Cell's remake of the classic platform adventure.
For more information, check out the PlayStation Blog.
Tue, Sep 24, 2013 | 05:46 BST
Flashback arrives on PC next month
The Steam page for Vector Cell's Flashback remake now shows an October 1 release date. The $12 port is coming to Mac and PC, but does not seem to have any additional features over the Xbox 360 version, which is already available. The side-scrolling adventure is coming to PlayStation 3 later, too.
Thanks, Joystiq.
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 | 00:10 BST
Flashback trailer hypes for next week's launch
The tagline for this Flashback trailer is "Do you remember?", which is quite clever, because yes, I really do, and ha ha, I see what you did there.
Wed, Jul 17, 2013 | 21:35 BST
Flashback revamp contains classic version of game, hits XBLA next month
Flashback, a remake of the 1992 title, will be released on August 21 through the XBLA Summer of Arcade, for 800 Microsoft Points. It will also release on PSN and PC digitally this autumn. Ubisoft said the original Core-Team revamped the classic side-scrolling sci-fi action/adventure, and in addition to the updated version of the game, the original Flashback will be included with the revamp. You can have a look at it below in both modern and classic format along with a making of video.
Wed, Jul 10, 2013 | 08:10 BST
Xbox Live Summer of Arcade games dated, priced
Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade 2013 roster has been announced, dated and priced.
Tue, Jun 11, 2013 | 18:52 BST
Far Cry Classic, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons coming to XBL Summer of Arcade program
Far Cry Classic will be available as part of the Summer of Arcade program on Xbox Live. A date wasn't added in the press release, but it's the original single-player game. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons will also be part of the program. Far Cry will run you 560 MSP, and Borthers $15.00/1200 MSP. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Flashback, and Charlie Murder will also be included. It all kicks off August 7 so expect more titles to be announced. A video is below.
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 | 09:19 BST
Flashback remake headed to PC, console networks
Vector Cell's HD remake of classic 1992 platform adventure Flashback is not only real, it's headed to PC and consoles this year.
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 | 00:04 GMT
Flashback HD remake on the way – rumour
Flashback, an excellent 1992 adventure platformer from Delphine Software, may soon be accessible to a whole new generation of gamers thanks to a planned HD remake.
Tue, Jun 02, 2009 | 12:03 BST
Gears 2 expansion pack gets price cut
Microsoft has cut the price of Gears of War 2 expansion pack Dark Corners from 1600 to 1200 MS Points. That's £10.20 or €14.40.
That's not all, as the All Fronts Collection, which features the aforementioned Dark Corners, Flashback, Combustible and Snowblind will be made available as a digital download from Xbox Live for a mere 15 quid.
Why the price cut? "Because it felt like the right thing to do," said Epic's Rod Fegusson to IGN. That's why.
Wed, May 06, 2009 | 17:06 BST
Epic announces All Fronts Collection for Gears of War 2
Epic will release all Gears of War 2 DLC content into one retail package titled the Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection on July 28.
It contains previously released DLC Combustible, Flashback, Snowblind as well as Dark Corners, which contains seven new multiplayer map packs along with a deleted campaign called Road to Ruin, which has Dom and Marcus returning to the Locust Hollow and features a stealth mode.
Other contents include an introductory video, a premium theme, poster, and strategy guide.
The Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection will run you $19.99, and details for the Road to Ruin section are posted from the press release after the break.
Dark Corners will also be made available individually for 1600 MS Points the same day.


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Nearly two months after the attack on the US consul in Libya that killed four Americans Fox News has learned.
The FBI is finally getting access to the sole suspect in custody his name is Alley on the -- RC and he's currently being -- in Tunisia.
He was arrested in the days after the attack but was until senator Lindsey Graham and company.
And our next guest included put pressure on the authorities in Tunisia that the US gain access to this guy what's.
So long and this is an FBI that didn't go to the crime scene.
The murder scene.
For a week joining us right now Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss senator you got access but there's even some conditions on the -- isn't there.
Well the important I'm Brian is that we do now have access to this individual and they're usually are conditions of some sort that are are placed on.
Interrogations by the host country but the important thing is that we now do have face to face access to this gap.
The other assault started not long after I left you last week in New York went over to the FBI office there that -- charge of this investigation.
And they had these very professional men and women who really do a good job.
Every single -- investigating ground.
We're really frustrated -- -- that because they were -- being asked operate with one hand behind their back.
We knew this guy was in custody and yet nobody was doing any thing to get a face to face interrogation -- him so.
It was.
But a matter of senator Graham and just putting a little pressure on the two nations and they capitulated fairly quickly.
It was like almost like nobody even I -- them.
-- bring me into the the the way this process works I imagine the FBI would be pressuring guys like huge to get them access not the other way around.
You pressuring -- of the government to get XFBI access.
Well the FBI has certain protocol and they are not involved in the policies.
They leave that to the policy professionals.
But -- law enforcement individuals and and and they were they were very frustrated to Brad about the fact that they were stuck in Tripoli.
Did not have the necessary security to -- and then got it to conduct their investigations player that market cooperated from the Libyans.
Nor they get cooperation from the United States -- We see senator there was a UN meeting where we could have had an axis of the Tunisian leadership the president one on one where he could have pressured them immediately to let them know anybody did you get.
We need to -- And also talk about some threats it could be coming out of that country in particular that didn't take place in as far as I know.
The White House who pledges to get the assailant to bring them to justice hasn't even put pressure what -- have to come from your branch of government.
-- it should not mean that's again another example of just very poor leadership coming out of this White House.
As -- senator Feinstein a disaster Graham what about -- fine he's a Democrat with great you know she's at she's a leader.
I haven't talked to -- about this I'm not sure where she is it unravels so quickly.
Senator Graham and I decide hey nobody else is gonna do this by ago we're gonna at least give -- a shot she's chair for -- our folks I don't mean to interrupt you were.
She's chairperson of the senate select intelligence committee.
Why do you -- to how could she not be interested in this is she being pressured by our party to stay low.
Well obviously brag you'd have to ask her that I don't know -- understand the last few days of a campaign herself.
She had a reason -- Hampshire but.
Now this was just a no brainer.
To to you have a brand new country our brand new government forming in -- country.
There -- to be an ally the United States and as -- explained to the Georgia if you truly are going to be an ally the United States and -- our system's -- you've got to help us with situations like this.
On the and the charge -- agreed immediately and obviously our folks are on the ground with access.
Anyone who says is pure politics doesn't know that -- actually taking action and moving this process forward and this is proof -- Chambliss thanks so much for spending your Sunday with us.
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I can´t believe the little pip sweak can show his face in public again. I would be so embarrassed that I had shown my little wiener to the public that I would hid my face. This low information democratic voter is so dumb they probably haven´t seen it or they would not vote for his little pea shooter!
What is with the Eastern Seaboard´s proclivity to elect known reprobates? Kennedys, Weiner, Warren, Patrick to name but a few.
Go ahead, NYC, continue the clown parade. We will miss Pinky Bloomberg. Weiner will keep the laughs coming.
He will probably win. It´ll be the left-wing´s way of thumbing their noses at the rest of us.
There was a time when someone with his... "history" would move, maybe change his name.Now the notoriety brings contributions and votes. Ugh. Thank you, idiots and [redundancy alert] liberals.Talk about "no clean end to pick him up by!"
He´ll be stiff competition.
Prediction: Whomever is elected the next Mayor of NYC, is going to make Bloomburg look like staid, stable and sober spinster.Get ready for some real laughs people!
I predict that Weiner will run a hard campaign!
"previous words self edited" what is up with these type of perverts
only in American and only in the Democratic party could these arrogant arse run for office again. It should be embarrassing for Dimms, but one needs a moral code to be embarrased.
This morning Weiner had an appointment to pose for his official campaign photo...At the Wall Street Urinal.
GO FOR IT!!!! New York deserves this little pip-squeek.Art
He should campaign in Times Square with the Naket Cowboy.
Anthony is a flaccid little weiner.
Besides the obvious, what has he ever done to deserve the position? Like Obama he is nothing but a stupid jurk that hasn´t done a productive thing in his life.
... and an angry little pip squeak.
Just when you think NYC cannot sink any lower...
I hope his email doesn´t get hacked again.
Hmmm - - let´s see - - the perverts, transsexuals, transvestites, homosexuals, lesbians, communists, socialists, the delusional, mentally ill, the hardcore criminals, leeches, hangers-on, bitter losers.Yup - - seems like a New York majority to me.He´s in!
I will bet he wins. It IS New York City, after all.
Perfect person to follow Mayor Bloomers.
If ONLY his first name were Oscar.Then you could call him if he wins.Oscar Mayor WeinerAnd sing "Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayor Weiner!"
Hey it is New York, they have keep "Granny" Bloomberg in office through his senile agenda.Why would you be surprised that they got another weird liberal POS to run the city.New York is rapidly turning into another liberal cesspool like Boston, Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans people are leaving as fast as they can find somebody stupid enough to buy them out.A number of corporations are searching to find or build their hedquarters outside the "Kool-aid Zone".The only ones that are happy in New York is the liberal masters and the "low information" democrat voters.
Yo..yo...If the New Yorkers would vote for dou*he bag Bloomberg...They certainly would vote for "little naked hairless boy"!!!
Oh dear God, please save us from this travesty.
I´ve scraped things off my boots that have more character, intellect and charm than this dolt. When will this madness stop? Is there no bottom to the Dhimmicrat barrel?(I know, rhetorical question...)
Weiner is appropriately named. I´ll just leave it at that.
Campaign slogan: "I have nothing to hide from the people of New Yotk."
Or this one: If you´re nuts...vote the putz!
And all his Muslim Brotherhood in-laws will be along for the ride.
The real question is, "Does Uma still like Weiner?", or is she still Hilliary´s "close" associate? (Hmm...I guess we know who wears the pantsuit in that family.)


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Fueling the Handicap Debate
With too many rating systems in use, the sport cannot progress. The solution is out there, but it requires cooperation.
Handicap racing is a major component of our sport, allowing teams of all skill levels, budgets, and boat types to race weeknights and weekends, at the club level and on the grand-prix circuit. It's a critical engine that helps drive the sport, and the industry that supports it. While handicap racing is fundamental, we nonetheless continue to struggle to create and sustain a single system that equitably handicaps boats of different sizes and purpose.
At present, we have a mind-numbing variety of handicapping systems in use around the world. The list reads like bad Scrabble: IRC, PHRF, ORR, ORC, MORC, CSA, CYA, and more. New sailors and potential owners are understandably confused, uncertain which measurement system to build to, or under which rule their boat is most fairly rated. This confusion is not helping the sport, and it must end. The solution is simple and obvious in concept, but incredibly challenging in its execution. What we need is a single handicapping concept used throughout the world, one that accommodates all types and levels of racing.
In this age of incredibly powerful software, developing a package to meet these objectives should be possible, but progress is restrained by the dramatic differences in performance from boat to boat, the influence of design evolution, and the geographic rivalries of profit-motivated rule administrators. It's been forever impossible to create a meaningful system for all regions and all boats.
This problem existed as far back as the early 1900s, with the Universal Rule, and since then, at least 20 different rating rules have been attempted, each with a limited run, and each giving rise to an alternative. In the 1960s, the United States was using the Cruising Club of America Rule and the British were using the RORC rule. In order to better enable international competition, a cooperative effort resulted in the creation of the International Offshore Rule, which used elements of both. IOR provided great racing and enjoyed international acceptance for nearly 25 years. But in the end, IOR encouraged boats with undesirable sailing traits. The Measurement Handicap System, which followed in the 1980s and 1990s, was intended to address the failure of IOR to fairly rate a wide range of boat types. It was also intended as a middle rule, capable of rating cruiser-racers, with IOR remaining as the grand-prix rule. Because more desirable boats could be designed to the MHS, it became the International Measurement System, and eventually replaced IOR. IMS was a poor choice for a grand-prix rule. It was too complicated and gave too much credit for "go-slow factors." It failed for the same reason as IOR, in that more desirable boats could be designed outside the rule.
Experience has taught us it's extremely difficult to handicap the wide range of boats being raced today. For example, an all-carbon TP52 design can easily plane, while a heavy-displacement crossover can barely surf a wave in strong wind. Can one rule possibly accommodate such disparate differences in performance? Racecourse configurations are another factor making it difficult to fairly handicap boats. Most inshore events now consist of short windward-leeward courses, while distance races are heavily skewed to downwind sailing. And then there's the age-old question of whether it's best to use time-on-time or time-on-distance calculations when computing results.
A formidable barrier is measurement itself. While mid- and club-level rules attempt to alleviate this by either accepting owner-declared measurement data or using standard, builder-supplied data for many designs, this method can be expensive, time consuming, and complicated. An attempt to lower this measurement barrier is the "universal measurement form," a measurement system that can be applied across all existing rules. Its implementation requires buy-in from disparate handicap-rule administrators.
The universal measurement form would include all measurements used by all of the participating rating rules. When an owner has his or her boat measured, the measurer would take all measurements required by all of the participating rating rules. The owner wouldn't need to re-measure to race under any of the participating rating rules. From the point of view of the owner, the advantage is obvious—no need to ever re-measure. From the perspective of the administrator of a rating rule, the disadvantage is that it makes it easier for owners to race under other rules.


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As well as my ecclesiastical career, I tend to keep myself busy in front of a computer; I work occasionally as a freelance Perl programmer.
I tend to write libraries rather than applications, but those I do write I make publically available on the CPAN. I have written around one hundred Perl modules, too many to describe here.
I also write a lot about programming.
I'm currently only working on a couple of development projects; everything I develop will be accessible at my development site.
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I'm often asked for a bio for conferences, books, etc. I keep telling myself to write a standard one and put it on my site and tell people to use that. I finally got around to it.
Simon Cozens (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Perl programmer and author. He has released more than 100 Perl modules. His books include Beginning Perl, Extending and Embedding Perl, and the second edition of Advanced Perl Programming. He also maintained the www.perl.com site for O'Reilly for several years and was a columnist for the Perl Journal. His academic training is in Japanese, and latterly in missiology; he aims to work for the church in Japan in the future.


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The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) [DVD]
Screenplay : Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, Václav Sasek
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1967
Stars : Jan Vostrcil (Head of Committee), Josef Sebanek (Committee Member), Josef Valnoha (Committee Member), Frantisek Debelka (Committee Member), Josef Kolb (Josef), Jan Stockl (Retired Fire Chief), Vratislav Cermak (Committee Member)
Filmed in 1966 and released in 1967, just a few weeks before Soviet tanks rumbled in Czechoslovakia, Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko) was a political bombshell barely disguised as a seemingly innocuous comedy of errors. Its brilliance is its multifaceted take on human silliness, as it plays on one level as a hilarious setpiece about the disasters that befall a befuddled group of well-meaning but incompetent firemen trying to stage an elaborate ball for the local townspeople, on a second level as a scathing indictment of the floundering Czech government. On the first level, the jokes are funny; on the second, they are disturbing.
Running a barely feature-length 73 minutes, The Firemen's Ball is deceptively simple in a sublime sort of way. It stars a cast composed entirely of nonprofessional actors from a small Czech town where Forman and his coscreenwriters, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, and Václav Sasek, went to find solitude and inspiration for their follow-up to Forman's previous film, the international success Loves of a Blonde (1965). Taking place almost entirely within a small town's convention hall, the story of the firemen's ball slowly escalates with dilemma after dilemma, problem after problem, that neither the head of the firemen's committee (Jan Vostrcil), nor any of the committee members, is capable of dealing with or solving.
Everything starts on the wrong foot when it is noticed that one of the many raffle prizes--a cake--has been stolen, and, while dealing with that problem, the banner for the ball that has been so painstakingly painted catches fire and burns up. It's never a good sign when the banner at a firemen's ball catches fire and burns up, but that's about the best thing that happens all night.
By evening's end, all of the raffle prizes have been stolen, the much-anticipated "beauty contest" has turned into an embarrassing parade of homely girls that eventually devolves into utter chaos, and a nearby house burns to the ground because the firemen are so involved with their ball that they aren't prepared to fight a fire. The shot of several of them shoveling snow onto the burning house is a perfectly captured moment of absolute inadequacy, especially as it is framed as a direct juxtaposition to the banner that burned down early in the movie, which depicted the brave firemen battling the blaze of a burning house and rescuing a little girl. In this way, on an allegorical level, the film as a whole is a near perfect distillation of the failure of the socialist state: While the bureaucracy squabbles amongst itself, disconnected from those below them, yet purporting to have their interests in mind, houses burn down and people steal to survive.
By all accounts, The Firemen's Ball should be a one-joke political satire, but Forman brings a level of humanity to the allegorical meltdown that belies its sharply barbed political intentions. While the firemen are intended to stand for the communist political elite then in charge of Czechoslovakia, their characters expand beyond simple symbolism--although largely nameless, they become oddly compelling and sympathetic, even when in the utter throes of their own incompetence. Much like the communists, they hew the "party line" in their undying devotion to the honor of the fire brigade, even when all signs point otherwise. Yet, their devotion is both sadly funny and strangely touching. Even in the absurdity, Forman manages to touch on the underlying humanity, which was one of his greatest skills as a filmmaker and one of the chief characteristics of the Czech New Wave, which, alas, came to an end after the release of The Firemen's Ball due to the Soviet invasion and the final, resounding crash-down of the Iron Curtain.
Thankfully, Forman had secured financing from sources outside the country, so The Firemen's Ball was distributed internationally and widely seen (in Czechoslovakia, it was "banned for life"). The fall-out from this film was severe, so severe that it was one of the major impetuses for Forman to leave Czechoslovakia and come to the United States, where he continued to make compelling films. Still, The Firemen's Ball will always stand as one of his supreme achievements--so simple, yet so profound in the way it captures everything that was wrong at that time and in that place.
The Firemen's Ball Criterion Collection Directed-Approved DVD | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
Anamorphic | No |
Audio | Dolby Digital 1.0 monaural |
Languages | Czech |
Subtitles | English |
Supplements | Video interview with director Milos Forman Behind-the-scenes featurette on the transfer |
Distributor | The Criterion Collection / Home Vision Entertainment |
Release Date | February 12, 2002 |
The Firemen's Ball has been digitally restored from a 35mm interpositive struck from the original negative at the Filmové Laboratory at Barrandov Studios in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where it was first processed. The transfer was supervised and color-corrected by the film's cinematographer, Miroslav Ondrícek, and the result is outstanding, with a particularly filmlike appearance. Presented in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio, The Firemen's Ball looks nearly pristine, with bright, bold colors that are well saturated and smooth, and a near-complete absence of any artifacts or signs of age (there is one black hairline early on, but it's never heard from again after that). The image is smooth and well-detailed, with little in the way of grain, even in the dark, high-contrast sequence outside when the house burns down. This is another first-rate transfer from Criterion. | |
The soundtrack is presented in clean, largely hiss-free Dolby Digital one-channel monaural. | |
Included on the disc are two brief featurettes. The first is a 15-minute video interview with cowriter/director Milos Forman that focuses almost entirely on the political ramifications of The Firemen's Ball. Most of the stories he tells are well-known by this point (the less-then-enthusiastic response of the Czech censors, the problems with financing when Italian producer Carlo Ponti withdrew his funds), but it's always intriguing hearing them coming directly from Forman himself. The second featurette runs about four and a half minutes and focuses on the digital restoration of the film and its transfer. Forman opens the featurette with a few comments about his first experience shooting a color film, but most of the footage is of cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek supervising color correction to ensure that the tones remain consistent throughout the transfer. |
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