October 23, 2012 2: Fill & Download for Free

"We have a little more to show you."At the beginning of the year, Tim Cook said they were going to revamp every single product line this year, and this will almost certainly be their last media event of the year.The event will start with a recap of the iPhone 5 launch, the phenomenal sales numbers and media praise.Then they'll move on to sales of the iPod nano and iPod touch. They'll show the new commercial, and show some great numbers.They'll do a quick recap of iTunes 11, remind everyone that they said it would be out in October, and announce that it's available as of now.They'll talk about how it's in Apple's DNA to make their products better over time, and how because of their experience and product volumes they can make products of a higher quality and precision than anyone else in history.It also lets them make things smaller.They'll talk about the 15" Retina MacBook Pro, what a game-changer it is and how well it's been received. Then they'll introduce the 13" Retina MacBook Pro.They'll talk about the venerable iMac. First introduced in 1998, it turned 14 years old this summer. It's been revised over a dozen times, getting better each time. 'Today, we're announcing a new iMac. It may look familiar but it's been rebuilt from the ground up. Faster, and smaller.'Getting really small, they turn to the smallest footprint Mac, the Mac mini. It gets a processor upgrade to Ivy Bridge, and will be faster than a Mac Pro from just a few years ago. (It may also be made smaller.)They'll thank everyone for their hard work and when nobody (and I mean everybody) expects it, Tim Cook will say "Oh, and there's just 'One more thing...'". Cheers from the crowd.And then they unveil the iPad mini. Base model with 16gigs, Wi-Fi, $399. Right between the iPod touch's $299 and the iPad's $499. $100 more for each bump in storage, and $129 more to get LTE+3G.POST-KEYNOTE UPDATE: Okay, so while I was overall very accurate I'll eat humble pie over the price estimate. I didn't think that Apple would allow a $180 gulf between the iPad mini and the iPad, but it looks like they're keeping the iPad 2 around, making the price points a bit more evenly spaced.The iPad mini looks like a great machine at a good price. I don't see how they could have made it cheaper without cutting the price of the new iPod touch (currently $299). Judging by the sales figures (3 million iPod touches and nanos sold last month sounds like a lot, but is actually a bit low historically for a dual launch of that kind) I think they may actually lower the price of the touch after the holidays.

During the presidential debates in 2012 (Obama VS Romney)Backstory: % of people who voted on who won the debate (CNN polls)Debate 1: Obama (25%); Romney (67%); No opinion (8%)Debate 2 : Obama (46%); Romney (39%); Tie/ No opinion (11%)Debate 3: Obama (53%); Romney (23%); Tie/ No opinion (24%)As evident, first debate was a washout for Obama - Romney is turning out to be a formidable opponent and Obama realizes that he can no longer be in the comfort zone of the white house.Obama takes the game back in the second debate and keeps it going in the third. There is a particular exchange in the third debate - which turned out to be the most tweeted moment as well as the inspiration behind a truckload (horseload? !) of memes & hashtags!Romney: "Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We're now at under 285. … We're headed down to the low 200s if we go through a sequestration. That's unacceptable to me."Obama: "You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. We have these things called aircraft carriers and planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. It's not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships, it's 'What are our priorities?'"Romney harps about the lesser number of ships and Obama does an immediate comeback about “quality over quantity” and posits Romney as anachronistic, to say the least.It was game over for Romney. Senator John Kerry very famously tweeted ….I think POTUS just sank Romney's battleship— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) October 23, 2012And thus we ended up with the tweets and memes around #horsesandbayonets! Thanks Obama !United States presidential debates, 2012 - WikipediaHorses and Bayonets

Well, as Andy McNab is the only one that is a public psychopath and also a novelist, he gets the prize. He is the default winner in a class of his own. His books in fiction are as follows.Nick Stone MissionsRemote Control (17 February 1998)Crisis Four (22 August 2000)Firewall (5 October 2000)Last Light (1 October 2001)Liberation Day (1 October 2002)Dark Winter (3 November 2003)Deep Black (1 November 2004)Aggressor (1 November 2005)Recoil (6 November 2006)Crossfire (12 November 2007)Brute Force (3 November 2008)Exit Wound (5 November 2009)Zero Hour (25 November 2010)Dead Centre (15 September 2011)Silencer (24 October 2013)For Valour (23 October 2014)Detonator (22 October 2015)Cold Blood (20 October 2016)Boy Soldier Series (written with Robert Rigby)Boy Soldier (US title Traitor, 5 May 2005)Payback (6 October 2005)Avenger (4 May 2006)Meltdown (3 May 2007)Quick Reads projectThe Grey Man[27] (8 May 2006)Last Night Another Soldier (4 May 2010)Today Everything Changes (31 January 2013)On The Rock (4 February 2016)Audio StoriesIraq Ambush (May 2007)Royal Kidnap (June 2007)Roadside Bomb (September 2007)Sniper (TBA ?)Dropzone Series (Young Adult)Dropzone Bk. 1 (February 2010)Dropzone Bk. 2 – Terminal Velocity (March 2011)Men at War Series (written with Kym Jordan)War Torn (13 May 2010)Battle Lines (19 July 2012)Battlefield 3Battlefield 3: The Russian (October 2011)Tom Buckingham SeriesRed Notice (25 October 2012)Fortress (22 May 2014)State Of Emergency (21 May 2015)The New Recruit – Liam Scott series (Young Adult)The New Recruit (20 December 2012)The New Patrol (30 January 2014)The New Enemy (15 January 2015)Street Soldier – Sean Harker (Young Adult)Street Soldier (11 August 2016Andy McNab - Wikipedia