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History The Ghost Army

DragonFly — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:04 GMT

When an Army of Artists Fooled Hitler

A new documentary shares the story of the 23rd unit’s daring deceptions.

Shortly after the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, two Frenchmen on bicycles managed to cross the perimeter of the United States Army’s 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and what they saw astounded them. Four American soldiers had picked up a 40-ton Sherman tank and were turning it in place. Soldier Arthur Shilstone says, “They looked at me, and they were looking for answers, and I finally said: ‘The Americans are very strong.’ "
“The Ghost Army” premiers on Tuesday, May 21 on PBS.

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Bad News Virtue

Mike Nomad — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:07:12 GMT

Virtue

Dan Perry
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

This user has also played as:

Bacon-Wrapped-Kuran
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Virtue
|Fever| Virtue

[47629.21] Log: PBAdmin: New Connection (slot #43) 24.156.238.95:56138 [?] "Virtue" (seq 2493211)
[47629.22] Log: PBAdmin: Player GUID Computed 00000000000000076561197961795093(VALID) (slot #43)

24.156.238.95:56138

STEAM_0:1:764682

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76561197961795093

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197961795093

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Avoid RGN???

Mike Nomad — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:14:48 GMT

From the Steam (un-moderated area)

http://steamcommunity.com/app/224780...scn=1369188748

I went in there and read that thread......

There were many more defending the obvious than there were those crying the blues.

As an ADMIN trying to keep the server orderly and fun for all, will not fear that sort of BULLSHIT. I've faced it for years RO, DH & RO2. Those crumbs fade away fast as they are born losers.

Those clowns were awful foul-mouthed punks who were TK'ing, and disrupting the server. (all friends for as one got session banned the others wanted to argue and know "why"). As a result of disrupting the server they were warned and when they offered expletives in return, they too, were session banned.

We are averaging 60 -150 players in our servers everyday. We are bound to have to deal with a few bad actors. They will complain when disciplined. Especially the younger ones. We try to help the new players along in answering their questions.

There is only one perma banned individual who.... was session banned three nights in a row and every night "Virtue" returned attempting to create havoc and mayhem. Thus the permaban.

Also, there are those that post that garbage in hopes of drawing away players to their favorite servers out of envy.

Frankly, I don't mind the pimple squeezing trouble makers and deliberate team killers staying away. If we allow the mouthy to effect our rules and governance, then we are done. They will rule the servers.

THAT... just ain't gonna happen.

Yes, we spend quite a bit between the Servers and the Forums. When one weighs the good vs. the bad, we have far more GOOD regular, daily players than those FEW rotten apples and sour grapes.... 100x more good players.

IGNORE those fools... - Let 'Em cry... the good players know we have great, no nonsense servers that are a fun place to play while enjoying the company of online friends.

Comments?

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Bad News fmc_Prophet

Mike Nomad — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:08:38 GMT

Prophet

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:33624512

Steam Profile: 76561198027514753

RO ID: 0x0110000104022381

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Bad News Apple avoided billions in taxes on foreign income

Mike Nomad — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:50 GMT

Senate report shows Apple avoided billions
in taxes on foreign income

by Nathan Mattise - May 20 2013, 9:00pm EST

Nothing illegal here, just more of the same sketchy tax practices big corps employ.

A new Senate report (PDF from The New York Times) shows that Apple has been employing potentially sketchy business methods to avoid heavier tax burdens. According to the investigation, the company dodged billions in potential taxes on $44 billion in foreign income during the past four years.

Some of the interesting bits from the Senate's report: three Apple subsidiaries in Ireland claim no responsibility to pay income taxes to any country. Apple Operations International, one of the Ireland three, reported $30 billion in income during 2009 to 2012 despite having no employees and not filing income taxes anywhere within the last five years. Apple did not violate any laws during this time according to the Senate investigation.

As The Chicago Tribune notes, many of the tactics Apple employed are common for multinational corporations (see cost-sharing arrangements). Google and Amazon were slammed by British parliament last year for their own tax-tiptoeing practices abroad. Nevertheless, the information released today cannot be welcomed by Cupertino with its CEO set to speak in front of Congress tomorrow. The Tribune quoted written testimony for that hearing which addresses this new tax spotlight. According to those statements, Apple does not utilize "tax gimmicks" and "has substantial foreign cash because it sells the majority of its products outside the US.� The company also reiterates that it pays plenty of US taxes, a defense it used in the face of tax accusations last year.

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News Ex-IRS Chief to be Grilled by Congress

Mike Nomad — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:07 GMT

Ex-IRS chief heads to Hill as Carney says White House
senior staff told of probe findings

Aug. 2, 2012: Then-Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman
testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

Published May 21, 2013 - FoxNews.com

Lawmakers will get their first opportunity to question the man who ran the IRS when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups Tuesday, as the timeline for when senior White House officials knew about the scandal seems to be shifting.

The lawmakers are expected to ask former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman why he didn't tell Congress that agents had been singling out conservative political groups for additional scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status -- even after he was briefed on the matter.

Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, left the IRS in November when his five-year term ended. He is testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, which has launched a bipartisan investigation into the matter.

The hearing comes after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the president’s counsel was told on April 24 about the preliminary findings of an IRS audit that showed tax officials unfairly targeted Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status.

Carney had previously said that White House counsel did not have any details about the IRS probe and was given a generic heads up that one was being conducted.

Senior legal counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was told about the audit on April 24, Carney said Monday. She then told Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff and other senior officials about the investigation.

“It was the judgment of counsel this is not a matter she should convey to the president,” Carney said. “Her opinion that this is not the kind of thing that requires notification to the president.”

“No one in this building intervened in an independent investigation or anything that could be seen that way,” he said, adding that the misconduct had stopped in 2012, “almost a year before we knew about it.”

Carney also said while Ruemmler knew the subject of the investigation and potential findings, they were not given a draft of the report and understood details could change.

Ahead of the hearing, the committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the ranking Republican, sent a letter to the IRS Monday, asking for an explanation. The letter included 41 separate requests for information. They gave the IRS until May 31 to respond.

The two senators said the IRS had not been forthcoming about the issue in the past.

"Targeting applicants for tax-exempt status using political labels threatens to undermine the public's trust in the IRS," Baucus and Hatch wrote. "Lack of candor in advising the Senate of this practice is equally troubling."

For more than a year, from 2011 through the 2012 election, members of Congress repeatedly asked Shulman about complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the IRS.

Shulman's responses, usually relayed by a deputy, did not acknowledge that agents had ever targeted tea party groups for special scrutiny. At a congressional hearing March 22, 2012, Shulman was adamant in his denials.

"There's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people" who apply for tax-exempt status, Shulman said at the House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing.

The IRS has said Shulman did not know about the targeting at the time of the hearing.

The agency's inspector general says he told Shulman on May 30, 2012, that his office was auditing the way applications for tax-exempt status were being handled, in part because of complaints from conservative groups. However, the inspector general, J. Russell George, said he did not reveal the results of his investigation.

George was also testifying at Tuesday's hearing. So was Steven Miller, who took over as acting commissioner in November, when Shulman's term expired. Last week, Obama forced Miller to resign.

George issued a report last week blaming ineffective management for allowing agents to inappropriately target conservative groups for more than 18 months during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

The agents were trying to determine whether the groups were engaged in political activity. Certain tax-exempt groups are allowed to engage in politics, but politics cannot be their primary mission. It is up to the IRS to make the determination, so agents are supposed to look for clues when reviewing applications for tax-exempt status.

In March 2010, agents starting singling out groups with "Tea Party" or "Patriots" on their applications. By August 2010, it was part of the written criteria for identifying groups that required more scrutiny, according to George's report.

Agents did not flag similar progressive or liberal labels, though some liberal groups received additional scrutiny because their applications were singled out for other reasons, the report said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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News Massive Twister Strikes near Oklahoma City

Mike Nomad — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:49:04 GMT

At least 51 people, including 20 children, dead after
massive twister strikes near Oklahoma City

Published May 21, 2013 - FoxNews.com

A massive tornado at least a half mile-wide with 200 mph winds churned through Oklahoma City's suburbs Monday afternoon, killing at least 51 people, including at least 20 children, and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled inside.

Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office, said early Tuesday that 51 people were confirmed dead, at least twenty of them children. She said officials could see as many as 40 additional fatalities.

Local news reports, citing officials, also say the death toll could top 90. KFOR reports that the current death toll is 91, but that number is not yet confirmed.

The storm decimated scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of Oklahoma City. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.

More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 50 children.

Search and rescue crews were looking for anyone who may be trapped in the rubble. Many land lines to stricken areas were down, and cell phone networks were congested. The storm was so massive that it will take time to establish communications between rescuers and state officials, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said.

Fallin deployed 80 National Guard members to assist with rescue operations and activated extra highway patrol officers. She also spoke with President Obama, who declared a major disaster and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.

Families anxiously waited at nearby churches to hear if their loved ones had survived. A man with a megaphone stood Monday evening near St. Andrews United Methodist Church and called out the names of surviving children. Parents waited nearby, hoping to hear their sons' and daughters' names.

While some parents and children hugged each other as they reunited, others were left to wait, fearing the worst as the night dragged on.

"As long as we are here ... we are going to hold out hope that we will find survivors," said Trooper Betsy Randolph, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Crews continued their desperate search-and-rescue effort throughout the night at Plaza Towers Elementary, where the storm had ripped off the school's roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and bathrooms.

Children from the school were among the dead, but several students were pulled out alive earlier Monday from under a collapsed wall and other heaps of mangled debris. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain of parents and neighborhood volunteers. Parents carried children in their arms to a triage center in the parking lot. Some of the students looked dazed while others appeared terrified.

James Rushing, who lives across the street from the school, heard reports of the approaching twister and ran to the school, where his 5-year-old foster son, Aiden, attends classes. Rushing believed he would be safer there.
"About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart," he said.

As dusk fell, heavy equipment rolled up to the school, and emergency workers wearing yellow crawled among the ruins, searching for survivors. Crews used jackhammers and sledgehammers to tear away concrete, and chunks were being thrown to the side as the workers dug.

Douglas Sherman drove two blocks from his home to help.

"Just having those kids trapped in that school, that really turns the table on a lot of things," he said.

Another school, Briarwood Elementary, was also damaged by the tornado.

In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen marching slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, awnings and glass all over the streets.

The tornado also destroyed the community hospital and some retail stores. Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis watched it pass through from his jewelry shop.

"All of my employees were in the vault," Lewis said.

Chris Calvert saw the menacing cloud approaching from about a mile away.

"I was close enough to hear it," he said. "It was just a low roar, and you could see the debris, like pieces of shingles and insulation and stuff like that, rotating around it."

Even though his subdivision is a mile from the tornado's path, it was still covered with debris. He found a picture of a small girl on Santa Claus' lap in his yard.

A map provided by the National Weather Service showed that the storm began west of Newcastle and crossed the Canadian River into Oklahoma City's rural far southwestern side about 3 p.m. When it reached Moore, the twister cut a path through the center of town before lifting back into the sky at Lake Stanley Draper.

The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.

Monday's powerful tornado loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.

The weather service estimated that Monday's tornado was at least a half-mile wide. The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph.

Kelsey Angle, a weather service meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo., said it's unusual for two such powerful tornadoes to track roughly the same path. It was the fourth tornado to hit Moore since 1998. A twister also struck in 2003.

Lewis, who was also mayor during the 1999 storm, said the city was already working to recover.

"We've already started printing the street signs," he said. "It took 61 days to clean up after the 1999 tornado. We had a lot of help then. We've got a lot of help now."

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman had predicted a major outbreak of severe weather Monday in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., also forecast more stormy weather on Tuesday, predicting golf ball-sized hail, powerful winds and isolated, strong tornadoes for parts of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The area at risk does not include Moore, Okla.

On Sunday, at least two people were killed and 29 were injured in Oklahoma as a severe storm system generated several tornadoes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, leveling neighborhoods and sending frightened residents scurrying for shelter as extreme conditions are expected to linger across the Midwest.

At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a mobile home park.

Elliott on Monday said the two people killed in the Shawnee-area tornado were 79-year-old Glen Irish and 76-year-old Billy Hutchinson. Both men were from the town.

Monday's devastation in Oklahoma came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo., killing 158 people and injuring hundreds more.

That May 22, 2011, tornado was the deadliest in the United States since modern tornado record keeping began in 1950, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Before Joplin, the deadliest modern tornado was June 1953 in Flint, Mich., when 116 people died.

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RS Timmy The great( ban appeal)

Timmy The Great — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:29:16 GMT

Hi Mike,

I am not so sure why I was banned( rising storm sempi map) . It is because I was defending the Annoying guy( I know he's a jerk)? but you know I am a nice person and I do take heed on any other person comments.

I apologize and truly sorry for offending you. Nevertheless I enjoyed playing on your server( I like the players there as they are cooperative) and I do wish i can join your clan someday.

I do hope you unban me take it into consideration.

Your reply is much appreciated.

Sean

GR Grimrock Dev Update

Mike Nomad — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:16:41 GMT

Dev Update #2

May 16, 2013

Welcome to the second official Dev update of Legend of Grimrock 2!

For the past weeks we have been progressing at a steady pace towards our goal looming in the horizon, the first playable alpha. I�ll go through some of the major events that have happened in development.

First of all we got a new team member, YAY!! Welcome aboard, Mr. Jyri #2 aka Jyk�! Jyk� will be working as an animator and will essentially double our animation content creation throughput. Jyk� is already working on his first monster while getting accustomed with our content creation pipeline. We are know 6 men strong which is 50% more than when we were working on LoG1.

Jyk� is an especially important addition to the team because he�s the only man who knows how to properly use a coffee maker (an important skill e.g. if you have high profile visitors)

Olli has been helping out Jyk� to get up to speed and he�s also been active on the business side by filling blanks on obscure documents for our new accountant. Sometimes the business side of things feel like solving a cryptic Grimrock puzzle and Olli�s getting pretty good at it. Olli�s also found time to complete animations for the very first monster you�ll encounter in LoG2.

In another news, Jyri #1 has been working on new items graphics. We need at least a hundred new items for LoG2 so this will keep him and a few other people rather busy for some time! Jyri has also been modeling new environmental assets and a new puzzle object that Antti will be putting into good use.

Talking about Antti, he�s been working on the levels and we now have about 30% of the playable area in �pre-alpha state�, i.e. mapped out with puzzles and initial placement of monsters. I�ve also helped Antti by creating the first version of the very first introductory level.

Juho has been working on a new monster concept and has also been modeling assets for the first level. He�s also gotten his eyes shot with a laser and he had to take a few days off to recuperate. His new laser-cut eyes will hopefully make him even better as an artist (if that�s even possible!).

On the tech side the refactoring work for the component system is finally done. Some other notable changes are: a new quite deadly trap, and lifting off the restriction of levels having to be 32�32 squares in size. Levels can now be any size up to 64�64 and also non-square. Levels can now also be connected in north-south and east-west directions as well as vertically.

Last weekend Juho and Antti were scouting for a new office space and getting some inspiration for LoG2 by hiking in Repovesi in the vast Finnish wilderness. Here are a few shots from the woods.

Update Razer Game Booster

Mike Nomad — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:29:16 GMT

Improved Razer Game Booster

3.6 brings Boost Button & Bug Fixes

Specifications

Version: 3.6.0.283
File Size: 16.9 MB
Date added: May 16, 2013
Price: Free
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Supported Languages: English, French, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German
Hardware Requirements: 300 Mhz processor or faster processor 256 MB of RAM 30 MB of free hard disk space

Getting the absolute best performance out of your system and games isn�t rocket science but it can sure be tough to figure out. In partnership with IObit, Razer Game Booster is your simple yet powerful solution.

All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it�s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.
Game mode

Download Here

Features:

Button to manually enable/disable Boost mode
Added tips on how to add Steam games to your Boost library
Option to start Booster on Windows startup

Bug Fixes:

Screencast Function now works reliably
Issues of games crashing when enabling Screencast fixed
Videos & images get stored to the correct location
Fixed multiple .DLL error messages when Steam is open with Booster
Manually adding games not working fixed
Conflicts with Skype or Xsplit fixed
Enabling FPS-display crashing the game fixed

Clip/Trailer Those Oldies but Goodies..

Mike Nomad — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:29:55 GMT

Everyone liked this tune.... :wink1:

Bad News DHS Cuts Off Dwolla BitCoin Transfers

Mike Nomad — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:54:22 GMT

Homeland Security cuts off Dwolla bitcoin transfers

John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Homeland Security's principal criminal investigative division
(Credit: Getty Images)

By Declan McCullagh by Declan McCullagh May 14, 2013 4:47 PM PDT

Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirms an "ongoing investigation" that led to Dwolla cutting off bitcoin transfers to Mt. Gox.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed it has initiated legal action that prompted the Dwolla payment service to stop processing bitcoin transactions.

Nicole Navas, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed the legal action to CNET this afternoon.

Dwolla, a Des Moines, Iowa-based startup, which raised $16.5 million in funding two weeks ago, notified users about the move earlier Tuesday. It blamed the decision on "recent court orders" limiting its ability to send money through Mt. Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange.

"In order not to compromise this ongoing investigation being conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore, we cannot comment beyond the information in the warrant, which was filed in the District of Maryland earlier today," Navas told CNET.

Mt. Gox did not respond to questions from CNET. It did, however, post a statement to its Google+ account saying:

MtGox has read on the Internet that the United States Department of Homeland Security had a court order and/or warrant issued from the United States District Court in Maryland which it served upon the Dwolla mobile payment service with respect to accounts used for trading with MtGox. We take this information seriously. However, as of this time we have not been provided with a copy of the court order and/or warrant, and do not know its scope and/or the reasons for its issuance. MtGox is investigating and will provide further reports when additional information becomes known.

Chris Coyne, co-founder of OkCupid, posted a screen snapshot of email he said he received from Dwolla this afternoon. It says: "Dwolla will be unable to complete your recent bank transfer [to Mt. Gox] and any future transactions."

Dwolla is not elaborating. Jordan Lampe, a company spokesman, told CNET that "Dwolla advanced the news of the seizure to Mt. Gox in under an hour of its execution. At their request, Dwolla followed up the initial communication to Mt. Gox with a copy of the warrant." Lampe said questions should be directed to Homeland Security or Mt. Gox, and refused to release a copy of the warrant.
Even though ICE's name refers to immigration and customs, the agency's actual mandate is far broader.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit boasts 7,000 special agents in 200 U.S. cities that focus on crimes including drug smuggling, financial crimes, computer crimes, and export enforcement. That has included seizing Internet domain names, targeting sports streaming sites, and arresting a student for jailbreaking game consoles.

Homeland Security declined to elaborate on the warrant or court proceedings.

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Bad News France Slides Back into a Recession

Mike Nomad — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT

France slides into recession as exports fall

The number of unemployed people in France hit an all-time high in March [AFP]

Last Modified: 15 May 2013 10:42

Figures blamed on weak exports, investment and household spending as Germany also posts unexpectedly weak start to year.

France has entered a shallow recession in the first quarter of the year as the economy contracted by 0.2 percent, as figures from Germany also showed that it had got off to an unexpectedly weak start to the year.

The data from the INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) statistics agency, released on Wednesday, marks France's first recession in four years.

The gross domestic product contracted because of weak exports, investment and household spending, after shrinking the same amount in the last quarter of 2012.

Two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP (gross domestic product) are indicative of an economy in recession.

The announcement comes after the number of jobless people hit an all-time high in March.

French growth has faltered with increasing unemployment undermining the confidence of both consumers and businesses, which are struggling to cope with government belt-tightening.

Credible programme

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said that Paris needed to present a credible programme of structural reforms after the commission offered France two extra years to bring its public deficit in line with an EU limit of three percent of GDP.

Barroso is due to meet French President Francois Hollande in Brussels later on Wednesday.

INSEE said investment contracted 0.9 percent in the first quarter, with business investment down 0.8 percent, while exports contracted for the second quarter in a row, shrinking by 0.5 percent.

Household consumption dropped by 0.1 percent, contracting for the first time since the second quarter of last year despite higher spending on energy due to a particularly cold winter.

Most private sector economists say the economy would be lucky to grow 0.1 percent this year, as President Hollande's government forecast last month that it would.

Official data also published on Wednesday showed Germany, Europe's biggest economy, had been battling freezing winter weather, sagging exports and weak investment,

With marginal growth of just 0.1 percent, the economy only narrowly escaped a recession.

(GDP) grew by an anaemic 0.1 percent in the period from January to March, following a brief and sharp contraction of 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the federal statistics office Destatis calculated in a
preliminary estimate.

The number fell short of analysts' expectations for slightly stronger growth of 0.3 percent in the first quarter.

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Info Fast & Secure Browsers

Mike Nomad — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:12:07 GMT

Browser Discussion

Actually, there's two. Firefox & Chrome. IE (any version) does not show all the features of RGN's site nor does it work as smooth and fast as either Firefox or Chrome. Chrome is, by far, the fastest and most secure browser I've found.

Both Firefox and Chrome have built-in "on the fly" customizable Spell Checkers that work flawlessly. MS has had many requests for such a feature in IE for years and they've chosen to ignore the users pleas. An in-line spell checker for IE is a necessity. As a result I too, have moved away from IE anything. I prefer either Firefox or Chrome. I use Chrome at this time. (security being the foremost consideration)

Try either Firefox or Chrome.. (Google for them) you'll be pleasantly surprised. :wink2:

Update Nvidia GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers

Mike Nomad — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:54:28 GMT

Nvidia GeForce 320.14 Beta Drivers

Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to the green team, this is the optimal driver for Metro: Last Light, and comes with a 10% performance boost. Release Summary
This is the GeForce Game Ready driver for Metro: Last Light providing up to 10% faster performance.

Get optimal game settings for Metro: Last Light with GeForce Experience and enjoy NVIDIA PhysX effects and DirectX 11 tessellation.

New in GeForce R320 Drivers
Performance Boost � Increases performance by up to 20% for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 314.22 WHQL-certified drivers.

Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration.

Here is one example of measured gains:

GeForce GTX 660:
-Up to 20% in Dirt: Showdown
-Up to 18% in Tomb Raider
-Up to 10% in Metro: Last Light
-Up to 8% in StarCraft II
-Up to 6% in Sniper Elite V2
-Up to 6% in Metro 2033
-Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
-Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-Up to 5% in F1 2012

GeForce GTX 660 SLI:
-Up to 17% in Dirt: Showdown
-Up to 18% in Tomb Raider
-Up to 9% in Metro: Last Light
-Up to 9% in Assassin�s Creed III
-Up to 7% in StarCraft II
-Up to 6% in Far Cry 3
-Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-Up to 6% in Battlefield 3
-Up to 5% in BioShock: Infinite
-Up to 5% in F1 2012

SLI Technology
-Added SLI profile for Alien Fear
-Added SLI profile for Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
-Added SLI profile for Dead Island: Riptide
-Added SLI profile for Dragon Sword
-Added SLI profile for Neverwinter
-Added SLI profile for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
-Added SLI profile for GRID 2
-Added SLI profile for Human Head 2
-Added SLI profile for Remember Me
-Added SLI profile for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
-Updated SLI profile for Natural Selection 2
-Updated SLI profile for Resident Evil 6
-Updated SLI profile for Trackmania 2: Canyon

Additional Details
-Installs PhysX System Software 9.12.1031.
-Installs HD Audio v1.3.24.2