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I am wondering which level(s) you guys like the most in Warhead.
my favorite has to be From Hell's Heart which is the Train mission.
I am definitely going to play it at least one more time. :drool:

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On this second installment on the Myths, Lore and Legends of Latin America, we will get to know the Venezuelan Animas and their unfinished business, the Sayona and the Whistler, and Ecuadorian myths such as the foundation myth of Guayas and Kil, Father Almeida, the Headless Priest, the gagones (something similar to familiars) and the Cantuña Cathedral myth. You can read Part 1 here.

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Venezuela's myth and lore seem to be geared towards teaching people about the importance of keeping promises, whether they are marriage vows or vows made to the dead. On the first type of broken promises, The Sayona and the Silbón are similar. In the first case, the Sayona is a fright that appears to unfaithful men to scare them, and hopefully make sure they never again try to be unfaithful. The legend goes that she thought her husband was sleeping with her mother, and she murdered them both. Her mother with her last breath cursed her to wander forever, never at peace. Pensamiento Crítico [es] blog includes one of the “first hand accounts” of how the Sayona's appearances have turned stray men onto the straight path.

The other fright, the Whistler or Silbón, as told by Ricardo in the Ghosts and Apparitions of Venezuela blog [es], has to do with a man that according to some versions of the myth, thought his father had abused his wife, and decided to kill his father. His grandfather punished his grandson for this atrocious murder by tying him to a tree and whipping him, and then rubbing hot pepper on his woulds, and letting out the dog to chase after him. The Whistler, as his name indicates, makes a whistling noise when he gets close by, and the closer he is, the weaker the sound is. If you hear it really close by, it means that the Whistler is far far away. Another way of telling if the Whistler is close by is for a clacking noise that follows the Silbón everywhere, caused by the bones of his father that he carries in a bag on his back. It is said that if the Silbón stops at some one's house to count the bones in his bag, and no-one hears him, someone in the house will die the very next day.

The other myth related to broken promises has to do with the Pica-Pica ghost. Apparently a farmer had lost a mule on the field, and looking by a tree, found the unburied corpse of a soldier. He asked the soldier for help finding the mule in exchange for christian burial. The mule appeared, but the farmer didn't keep his side of the bargain, and later fell ill. He told his children about the broken promise, but even though they went and buried the soldier, their father still died. This is told by Kbulla on his blog.

From Ecuador, Steven, Ãlvaro, Andrés and Alexis write in Legends of Ecuador about the two versions of the Cantuña Indian Legend, the false one stating how he made a pact with the devil to finish building a cathedral on time, and later managed to avoid selling his soul by managing to keep one brick from being laid and “finishing” the building, and the “true” one that mentions that Cantuña was an native who was adopted by Spanish settlers, and when they were in financial distress, Cantuña promised that if some changes in the floor plan were made, he would solve their problems, and so it happened, there was always money to go around, much of it, and when the priests came asking where this fortune came from, Cantuña told them he had made a pact with the Devil to keep getting money: in truth, he had a gold smelting operation, where he would melt down gold bars and Inca figurines and turn them into coins.

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The Guayas and Quil (or Kil) Legend [es]states how the city of Guayaquil got its name: it says that prisoner Indian chief Guayas discovered that the Spanish wanted to take away his beautiful wife, Kil. He told them he would get them lots of riches if they left his wife alone and granted them freedom. He then took the Spanish up a mountain and asked them for a long strong stick to push up a rock. Once they gave him the spear, he pushed it through his wife's heart and then impaled himself, telling the Spaniards that he was taking two treasures, the river, full of his brother's blood, and his wife, to accompany him up to the land of the Sun.

Blogger Dunn [es] has something to say about this myth, and the statues that have been erected to its name. He states that the word Guayaquil comes from the Huancavilca language meaning “Our Big House” and it makes no sense to keep perpetuating a legend instead of making monuments for real heroes, like the Native Indian nation as a whole.

The Headless Priest and Padre Almeida have similar origins. According to Mama-puma's blog [es], the Headless priest appeared in the popular neighborhood of San Roque, and was in fact nothing other than a regular priest, who having to sneak to his lovers' houses in the neighborhood would lift his cassock over his head so that people would be scared and run away, and wouldn't recognize him.

On the other hand, Father Almeida is said to have been a monk who decided that a life of contemplation wasn't his cup of tea, and would sneak out of the monastery by climbing onto Christ on the cross behind the altar and sneak out through the clerestory windows. Whenever he would come back very drunk, he would hear and see Christ moving his lips and saying “Until when, Father Almeida?” And the monk would answer: until the next time. Finally, on one of his outings, he saw a funeral procession, and when he asked the monks surrounding the coffin who had died, they all answered “Father Almeida”. Seeing that it was actually skeletons who were carrying the coffin, he ran all the way home, and never sinned again.

The last myth, the Gagones, is a bit stranger than the previous ones. It is said that the Gagones are the form one's spirit takes if it is in sin. They come out at night and find their mates, and start frenzied lovemaking, caressing and twisting about each other, but their owners can't see them. Those who see the gagones may know the state of sin the soul's owners are in: if the gagones are stuck together like dogs it means that those who have them are in an adulterous relationship. The gagones appear to those who are sinning with a family member or relation, and if a gagon is caught and a cross is painted with soot on its forehead, then you can find the owner of the gagon because its forehead will also have a sooty cross on it. If you are pure of heart, then you can easily catch a gagon and keep it retained until daylight, and then let it loose and see where it runs to meet its owner. This was found on Yapa Digital's blog [es].

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img src="http://m1.cdn.spikedhumor.com/1/165347_keatingeconomics_1.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="175" height="150" alt="Keating Economics and John McCain" vspace="4" hspace="4" /p The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s. John McCain was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee launched investigations and formally reprimanded Senator McCain for his role in the scandal. Today, John McCain is the only major party presidential nominee in US history to have been rebuked, censured or otherwise admonished after a Congressional ethics investigation. At the heart of the scandal was Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors' money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry -- actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers. When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating's failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion. The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history. hrRated strong3.9183/strong / 5 | 341 views | a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/165347/Keating-Economics-and-John-McCain.html"3 comments/abr//ppa href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/165347/Keating-Economics-and-John-McCain.html"strongClick here to watch the video/strong/abr/Submitted By: a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Profile.aspx?userid=76669"generic_imitation/abr/Tags: a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=scandal"scandal/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=keating"keating/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=lesson"lesson/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=obama"obama/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=mccain"mccain/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=liar"liar/a a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/Default.aspx?p=searchtag=truequery=financial"financial/adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Spikedhumor?a=q2F2M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Spikedhumor?i=q2F2M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Spikedhumor/~4/418180038" height="1" width="1"/

At Blizzcon, Blizzard’s VP of game design Rob Pardo announced that Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy, with each game focusing on a single race. The first race will be Terran, followed by the Zerg, and finally Protoss. I was disappointed at first but have made my peace with it since it’s really in line with the episodic format that developers seem to be moving toward. Now if each part was $50, then we might need to have some words.

The first of the three releases will focus on game's Terran faction, and will be subtitled Terrans: Wings of Liberty. The second and third, which executive VP of game design Rob Pardo likened to expansion packs, will be respectively entitled Zerg: Heart of the Swarm and Protoss: Legacy of the Void. An overarching storyline will spread across the titles.

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The economy is changing in dramatic and unexpected ways, and many of us are having a difficult time deciding how to react. Should we adopt a bunker mentality, or keep plugging ahead as if little has changed?

The fact is that entrepreneurs are well-suited to respond to the chaos, perhaps even to use it to our advantage, because we recognize that every challenge really presents a new opportunity. To anyone heading a startup, steeling yourself for the ups and downs of circumstances that are often largely out of your control is a daily ritual — even in good times. Sure, the credit markets are throwing us some new tricks now, but dealing with uncertainty is old hat for founders.

Call me an inveterate optimist. But with so much doom and gloom in the media, I’m offering four tips for maintaining a positive perspective through the current events. If prognosticators are right, we will live with these painful economic conditions for a while. Positivism is a discipline we all need to hone.1. Listen for substance. Vet for noise.

You’re going to get a lot of downtrodden talk, and head-shaking. Listen carefully to your employees, capital partners and industry experts. But train your ear. Vet at the same time. Your job as an entrepreneur is to drill down to the heart of matters. Is the fear and concern being voiced to you based on valuable information, or is it just negativity? If it is the former, respond. If it is the latter, vet and ignore.

2. Ring cash out of your contracts.

You must wring more bang out of every buck now. Vendors are uncertain, too. This is your chance to renegotiate everything: leases, open-ended vendor contracts, advertising rates, technology purchases, you name it. If you’ve been prudent and have a history of paying your bills on time, business partners will pay a premium to continue to do business with you. Economic uncertainty works in your favor here.

3. Pull a Buffett: Buy low.

I’m talking about human assets. Great people are now available. Such employees pay for themselves. A partner recently introduced me to a candidate for a big job we needed to fill. One conversation and I knew he was a great fit. Normally, I couldn’t have afforded him, and he probably wouldn’t have returned my call. But his phone isn’t ringing much lately. So I reshuffled our cash position to seize the opportunity. Warren Buffett would be proud that I borrowed a page from his playbook and “bought low.”

4. Offer people a reason to adapt.

People won’t change unless you give them a reason to change. Customers need a better product, or a cheaper price. Employees need a new mission, or a new incentive. In any case, it is usually excruciating pain that convinces a person, or a business, to consider a proposition that alters their status quo. Pain like: a device or service that no longer works; an operating budget slashed; an external economic crisis.

Painful economic conditions are, in a peculiar way, ideal for entrepreneurs: They present us with numerous opportunities to convince people to change their behavior. The playing field is ripe for innovative products, services and business models. Deliver one.

No question, we face challenging times. But each of us has the chance to benefit from the opportunities intrinsic in the chaos.

Mike Sheridan is founder and president of Global Debt Network Automotive, an online marketplace for trading quality auto loan portfolios.

div class="center"div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/08/62/00096208.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/08/62/00096208_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_614920"//a/divbr/ bJack Volhard "Dog Training For Dummies"/bbr/ For Dummies (2005-07-22) | ISBN: 0764584189 | 408 Pages | PDF | 3.2 Mb/divbr/ That innocent face. Those sad, puppy-dog eyes. Let’s face it: puppies can make anyone’s heart melt. But without proper training, they can make even the most doting doggie moms and dads’ blood pressure soar. So before your new puppy has you jumping through hoops, stop and ask yourself, “Just who is the trainer here?”

When you are suffering from a chronic disease, sometimes the only people who can understand what you are going through are other people with the same condition. But when that condition is rare, it can be difficult to find them. WeAre.Us wants to help. It is a platform of 16 social networks that connect people with chronic illnesses. And it just launched a revamped version (which mainly features an improved user interface). The site entered the crowded health 2.0 market last April, but stands out with its focused internal framework and commitment to supporting the patients who use it.

In contrast to health platforms like DailyStrength or Revolution Health, which serve as a contact point for health-related topics of any kind, WeAre.Us connects people affected by severe illnesses only. In that sense, it is more like PatientsLikeMe.  But rather than create an all-encompassing site, WeAre.Us decided to take more of a niche social network approach.

Given that these patients deserve special attention, the company decided to set up separate sites with individual domain names. The subsites, such as WeAreFibro.org (for users suffering from fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder) or WeAreCrohns.org (Crohn’s is a gastric disease), run on the same core engine but are independent from each other.

WeAre.Us tries to avoid Ning-like scattering effects by allowing users to create communities only if more more than 1,000 members can be expected. CMO Robert Patterson says another differentiator is the active, individualized support the company provides all WeAre.Us members.

The approach seems to work: While Ning has over 50 Crohn’s-based (mostly inactive) micro social networks, for example, WeAre.Us’ single Crohn’s community boasts over 2,000 members. One weakness is the lack of a cross network ID and profile system (such as that used by Ning).  But according to Patterson, demand for such a system is so far almost non-existent.

The site’s 16 social networks are being monetized by a full sponsorship model (one sponsor per site per month) and a lead generation system: WeAre.Us collects anonymized health data from its users and passes it on to pharma companies, which can cut costs on recruiting suitable patients for clinical trials.

WeAre.Us’ strategy of self-controlled sites, vertical focus, unique branding for each interest group, and human-powered user support is paying off so far: The user base, while still small, currently grows 35% month-over-month (expecting to pass the 10,000 member mark this month), with each member spending two hours on the site per visit.

WeAre.Us will also soon officially announce it took the first prize in the premiere VenCorps Community Driven Capital Contest ($50,000 in cash and accolades), which is backed by New York-based private equity firm Spencer Trask. (VenCorps, for those who follow these things, is what emerged from the now-defunct Cambrian House).

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GamePro writes: "Dead Space is a riveting survival horror game, unflinchingly violent from start to finish. Blindly unpredictable and incredibly intense, Dead Space keeps your heart pumping the entire game. It's got aliens, zero-g shootouts, blood, guts, and broken bones. It's unnervingly tense one moment and piss-your-pants terrifying the next. It's an exhilarating tale of aliens, claustrophobia, and isolation in a dark corner of outer space where no one can hear you scream.

Dead Space is a showcase piece of dark-side entertainment that rivals the marvelous designs of such games as BioShock, Gears of War, and Resident Evil 4. But be advised that it is definitely not for the queasy or the faint of heart. Still, if you can stomach its horrors, you will be rewarded with one of the best survival horror experiences ever created."

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Wow...I hadn't been in over 15 years, I had truly forgotten what a "seperate you from your money" event they truly are. :eek:

2 corndogs, 2 turkey legs, 2 lemonades (shared w/ the kids)...$30.
2 Funnel cakes and 2 fried snickers (along w/ lemonade refill)...$28.
Another turkey leg, fried cheese, apple dumpling and bottled waters....$24.
Cotton candy and candy apple....$10.
Five dollars worth of junk "won" by playing games....$40.
Tickets for bumper cars, carousel, and other rides....$30.
Gas for two hour trip there....$35

Smiles on kids faces late last night....priceless:heart:

For a great day with the family, there's the fair.
For daddy's hideously aching back the next morning, there's lortab. :D

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A Haunted Halloween is an easy to use application that provides you with a set of high quality, stereophonic spooky sounds that you can loop and overlay on one another to create the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween event. Whether you are creating a large scale happening, haunting your home for the benefit of trick or treaters, or just need a fun way to bring a little bit of Halloween spirit into your day (perhaps a haunted cubicle at work, a haunted car to pick up the kids at school, etc.) your iPhone or iPod touch and this application are all you need. This first volume focuses on the Halloween classics and has such sounds as a rainstorm, howling wind, thunder claps, a pounding heart, tolling bell, clanking chains, pounding on a door, an evil laugh, a scream, a couple of moaning ghosts, a howling wolf and a couple of scary electronic drones and sweeps. All you have to do is touch an onscreen button to turn each sound on or off. A number of the sounds are loops and up to five can be layered on top of each other to create a custom spooky soundscape while others can be triggered as the mood strikes you. Happy Haunting!

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Christopher Buckley in Sorry, Dad, I’m voting for Obama:

…I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times—I’m beginning to sound like Paul Krugman, who cannot begin a column without saying, “As I warned the world in my last column…”—a highly favorable Op-Ed about McCain, taking Rush Limbaugh and the others in the Right Wing Sanhedrin to task for going after McCain for being insufficiently conservative. I don’t—still—doubt that McCain’s instincts remain fundamentally conservative. But the problem is otherwise.

McCain rose to power on his personality and biography. He was authentic. He spoke truth to power. He told the media they were “jerks” (a sure sign of authenticity, to say nothing of good taste; we are jerks). He was real. He was unconventional. He embraced former anti-war leaders. He brought resolution to the awful missing-POW business. He brought about normalization with Vietnam—his former torturers! Yes, he erred in accepting plane rides and vacations from Charles Keating, but then, having been cleared on technicalities, groveled in apology before the nation. He told me across a lunch table, “The Keating business was much worse than my five and a half years in Hanoi, because I at least walked away from that with my honor.” Your heart went out to the guy. I thought at the time, God, this guy should be president someday.

A year ago, when everyone, including the man I’m about to endorse, was caterwauling to get out of Iraq on the next available flight, John McCain, practically alone, said no, no—bad move. Surge. It seemed a suicidal position to take, an act of political bravery of the kind you don’t see a whole lot of anymore.

But that was—sigh—then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even tragic, for America ought, really, to be governed by men like John McCain—who have spent their entire lives in its service, even willing to give the last full measure of their devotion to it. If he goes out losing ugly, it will be beyond tragic, graffiti on a marble bust.

This is why I thought, early on, that McCain would win, regardless of how well Obama ran his campaign. Christopher continues,

I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I’m libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P.J. O’Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

Well, I’ve tried to read Obama’s books, and “first rate” is not what I’d call them. “Tiresome and quoteproof” is more like it. But still, he’s the best we’ve got running right now, especially since McCain has turned into a cranky bastard.

There were so many ways that McCain could have whupped Obama’s ass, but they were all on the high road: McCain’s own. For whatever reasons, McCain has done what he said he wouldn’t do, which is go low. The result is a candidate defined not by his own virtues, but by the alleged faults of his opponent. And he’s done a lousy job of it, made worse by Sarah Palin’s plays to the right wing’s scary fringe.

What’s happening now is a wheat/chaff divide on the Right. We see the wheat with Chrisopher Buckley, David Brooks, George Will, Kathleen Parker, Andrew Sullivan and other thoughtful conservatives who stand on the rock of principle and refuse to follow errant leaders over a cliff. We see the chaff with Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and other partisans-at-all-cost.

In a speech at UCSB a couple years ago, Christopher Buckley winced when asked about what had happened to his dad’s party at the hands of George W. Bush and friends. “I think we need some corner time,” Christopher said.

That time was put off for the next Presidential election. Now that the McCain campaign has turned into a self-defeating tar-fest, that time is finally approaching.

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