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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made a stop in Berkeley County Thursday.
Driving through Moncks Corner today, I am so proud of the small town beauty you have created here, the governor said at the beginning of her Moncks Corner Rotary Club address at Gilligans on Thursday, July 10. Small towns are the backbone of the American Dream and it is alive and well in South Carolina.
Haley came to town around noon on Thursday, and took a quick tour of downtown Moncks Corner before heading to the Tail Race Canal and a lunchtime address with the Moncks Corner Rotary Club and a packed dining room of elected officials, and civic and business leaders.
I am hearing constantly, the question about the American Dream, that it is dead, she said. When I hear it I take it personally.
In 2011 when Haley took office, unemployment in the state stood at 11.1 percent.
We were coming out of a recession, she said. When I took office I decided we had to get South Carolina in the customer service business.
Haley said her efforts have paid dividents in the three-plus years shes been in office. Unemployment sits at 5.3 perecent, an all time state low.
More people are working in South Carolina than ever before in the history of the state, she said. To improve South Carolina you have to take care of all of South Carolina and that includes the rural areas.
Haley touched on several topics during her 45-minute address, discussing the competition between the Palmetto State and Georgia as to who has the most efficient sea port; education and the need for all students to be able to read before entering fourth grade; the hidden catch with the local penny sales tax, and the five-year old Berkeley County hospital dispute, DHEC and the Certificate of Need program.
On which is better for shipping, Charleston or Savannah, Haley said, While I love the spirit of competition, our port is just better. Were deeper, we can service a larger variety and volume of ships, and we just do it better than they do.
On healthcare, specifically Obamacare, Haley remained adamant.
Healthcare should be state based and not federal based, she said. We will continue to resist and say, No, to Obamacare.
On welfare, Haley said it is about finding out how to put welfare recipients to work.
Before, you filled out the application and waited on your check. What we need to do is to find out what kind of skills these recipients have and find them jobs. They want to work. They want to make their families proud. Then you can take the 20,000 people off welfare and make them part of the workforce.
On education, the governor said children need to learn to read by the fourth grade if they want to continue progressing toward a diploma.
More than 800,000 people in South Carolina dont have a G.E.D. and there are only 4.5 million people in the state she said. We have to teach these kids to read.
If a child cant read by the end of the third grade, they will not advance to the fourth grade. Statistics show if a student cant read by the fourth grade they are four times more likely not to graduate.
Haley will face Democratic State Sen. Vincent Sheheen in Novembers general election.
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Dude, where's my ram?
Another Brewfest has come and gone. Sadly, we'll all have to wait another year for endless rivers of cheap beer, luscious beer meats and hilarious hallucinations. Holidays are always a great chance to mix up your usual routine, so we ask: Were you lucky enough to pull a mount from the cold, dead clutches of Coren Direbrew? Did you get your Brewmaster title? Did you even care?

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All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
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The Rum Diary
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Kizer talked smack about sonnen, and then money talked there, too. But I would say the prevailing sentiment about Vitor is that he's a tainted juicer, or that "TRT is steroids." It would take a lot to get me to actually listen to the commentary on zuffa programming, but I wouldn't be shocked if rogaine discussed the "concern" during the broadcast.
All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.
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The Rum Diary
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Vitor and Vegas: NSAC Exec Keith Kizer Details Possible Next Steps for Belfort
Don't mind me, I'm just here to stir that pot. Let the discussion continue.
The once hushed cries for Vitor Belfort to receive a middleweight title shot have become a roar in the wake of Belfort's dramatic 77-second victory over Dan Henderson at UFC Fight Night 32.
Belfort, 36, now rides perhaps the largest wave of momentum of his career, having scored consecutive head kick knockouts over Michael Bisping, Luke Rockhold, and Henderson. Though his remarkable accomplishments remain clouded by his usage of Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT), as each of Belfort's past three wins were contested in Brazil, where he is free to undergo the controversial treatment.
Common belief is that the same would not hold true if Belfort sought a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) in Nevada, in part due to Belfort's muddled history with drug abuse.
"That's not true, that's completely not true," UFC President Dana White said over the weekend. "There is no reason why Vitor Belfort can't fight in Las Vegas or anywhere else in the United States. Vitor Belfort has not been abusing TRT. In a million f--king years I would never let that happen.
"Vitor could fight in the United States now. There's no reason why he couldn't fight in Las Vegas, no matter what (Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director) Keith Kizer says. He should be allowed to fight in Las Vegas. It's ridiculous."
Belfort's ability to gain licensure in Nevada was never in question, as the state has licensed far more severe offenders, even recently granting three-time culprit Josh Barnett a license to fight on the condition of year-long random drug testing.
The issue of whether Belfort could receive a TUE for TRT, though, is a more complicated one. And it may not be as set in stone as first believed.
"Due to his past, Mr. Belfort would need to go before the Commission if he applies for a TRT TUE," Kizer told MMAFighting.com. "This is not anything new. (For example, I would not administratively grant Antonio Margarito a contestant's license so he had to appear before the full Commission -- likewise, Dave Herman.)
"The Commissioners could grant (with or without condition), deny, or take other action on any such application."
While Kizer has voiced doubts in the past about whether Belfort would be granted a TUE by the NSAC, when asked about the scenario on Monday, Kizer responded that he couldn't say what the outcome would be for certain, and that any final verdict, "would be up to the five Commissioners."
Back in late-2006, Belfort infamously failed a post-fight drug test in Nevada, then disregarded the NSAC's subsequent nine-month suspension and fought overseas in London the following April.
Regardless, if the situation arises, Belfort doesn't anticipate running into any problems in Nevada.
"It's easy, Chael Sonnen's fighting in Las Vegas," Belfort said on Saturday. "We here, we do everything by the book. I'm just gonna take my blood right now, after [the press conference], so everything is good. We can get licensed, that's no problem."
From your article.While Pawel Nastula was represented by an attorney and an agent/interpreter, Vitor Belfort represented himself and passionately pleaded his case to the commissioners. As for how he could have unknowingly ingested 4-hydroxytestosterone, Belfort said that it could have been in the rehabilitative injections that he was given by endocrinologist Dr. Rodrigo M. Greco following surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee over the summer; or it could have been from a nutritional supplement called Max Tribustak.
That particular supplement does indeed contain 4-hydroxytestosterone and is touted as helping to maximize the user's testosterone output. The commission seemed to believe that the Max Tribustak was much more likely than the post-surgical injections to have been the cause of Belfort's positive drug test.
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Alicia Keys Performs Beautiful New Track "Not Even The King"
Alicia Keys is finally getting back to the music that made us fall in love with her. She made an appearance at the Stand Up To Cancer Telethon last night, where she performed a brand new track from her upcoming 'Girl On Fire' album and now she has officially released the studio version online.
Her raspy vocals and beautiful lyrics accompanied by just her piano on the song titled, 'Not even A King' are reminiscent of the, 'Diary of Alicia Keys' standout track, "If I Ain't Got You". She uses metaphors in the lyrics to describe how riches mean nothing without love, but she took it to a timeless place that puts it in a league with Beatles songs or even a few by Stevie Wonder.
She sings:
Some people so poor that all they've got is money
And diamonds.
Some people waste their lives counting their thousands.
I don't care what they're offering…
how much gold they bring.
They can't afford what we've got.
Not even the king."
Oooh Castles
Some people so lonely, what good is a castle
Surrounded by people
but ain't got a friend who's not on the payroll
I don't care what they bring
they can have everything
they can't afford what we got
Not even a king
Watch her perform it live during the 'Stand Up To Cancer' Telethon, plus listen to the studio version below


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I fail to see how on the carriers the phone you use makes any difference in the price of the plans? I have had the same plan and prices for as long as I can remember and that included using bb's, android's and iphones. There isn't really much to save unless you go prepaid and with even the iphone now on that I think iphone monthly prices will decrease as well.
iPhone users pay higher cell phone bills than any other smartphone user
iPhone users pay more in carrier fees on average than the users of other smartphones. New data indicates that 60% of iPhone users spend at least $100 per month on their cellular plan, with 10% spending $200 or more. Conversely, only 53% of Android users pay over $100 per month, with 7% paying $200 or more. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), the company that provided the data, says that this spending has little to do with usage habits, according to the Wall Street Journal:
"We think it has to do with their data plans and carriers, rather than their usage habits," CIRP co-founder Michael Levin explained. "They are all on expensive data plans, unlike Android users, some of which are on prepaid or unsubsidized plans with regional carriers."
This is not really surprising. Verizon and AT&T, the two largest wireless providers in the United States, also charge their customers the most. Plans on Verizon start at $100 per month, with $40 for line access, and $60 for 2 GB of data. By comparison, they charge $10 per month for tablet access. AT&T starts individual customers at $60 per month, with $40 for 450 minutes, $20 for 300 MB of data, and no included text messaging.
But just because the carriers are charging more for these smartphones doesn't necessarily mean that they are making more money, as the iPhone has higher subsidies than other phones in its class. Carriers use the more expensive plans to make back more of their money faster than they used to.
What is your wireless plan like? Have you found ways of saving money on these plans? Let us know below in the comments.
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iPhone users pay higher cell phone bills than any other smartphone user
On Verizon with a free flip phone, no data plan, I was paying $140.00 a month. I use the phone as my basic phone a lot. They did not have iPhones, so they claimed, this durning the 4S time. Went to AT&T, they had plenty, got a 4S data plan, and pay $95.00 a month. I was dumb, and screwed by Verizon.
Thank God here in Italy major wireless providers (Vodafone, TIM and 3) have much lower prices.
I got an unlocked iPhone 5 and with Vodafone I pay 15€ per month (25 with LTE) with unlimited text, 1GB of data and free calls to another Vodafone subscriber.
However, I'm planning to move to 3 and I'd pay 5€ a month with 3GB of data (LTE plans are not available yet, but they will in some weeks) and I'll use Whatsapp and Viber for texting and phone calls.
yea i disagree...i have 2 iphone5's with sprint and i pay $140/month for both of them this is including unlimited data/voice and 4G LTE the only minutes i have is for landlines
"But just because the carriers are charging more for these smartphones doesn't necessarily mean that they are making more money, as the iPhone has higher subsidies than other phones in its class. Carriers use the more expensive plans to make back more of their money faster than they used to."
So Android users are subsidizing Apple users?
That's pretty much what I got from that statement.
78 /month , sprint , unlimited LTE. Sweet Deal
59 after taxes with Verizon iPhone 5. No texting plan, 450 min. Unlimited data. 20% company discount.
Sprint Unlimited Family! 129.99 plus tax. 2 iphones.
VZW grandfathered family plan. 5 phones with 1400 minutes, 10 F&F numbers, unlimited text and data on all lines for $240 a month. I will fight tooth and nail if they attempt to take it away!
Wow those prices make me weep. This is why I have never bought an iPhone on contract. My factory unlocked phone means I can go anywhere I want so I don't have to take the carrier's crap and not being on contract means I only pay for data plans when I want. I have never had a data plan for 5 years now and now I'm paying $20/month for the line and $20 for 2GB of data. altogether around $50/month with 2GB of data.


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To help get you through college football's slow days of late June and early July -- before conference media days launch the preseason festivities -- we're counting down the 12 most important South Carolina Gamecocks and 12 most important Clemson Tigers for 2013. One Gamecock and one Tiger every day, so you can spend part of your summer studying the players who will make a difference for your team come autumn.
Position: Defensive end
Year: Junior
Height/weight: 6-3, 225
Hometown: Adairsville, Ga.
Last year: Just 20 tackles, but an eye-popping eight sacks as a reserve – including a 3-sack performance against North Carolina State
Position: Cornerback
Year: Junior
Height/weight: 5-10/197
Hometown: Darlington
Last year: Started for the first time and had 40 tackles, including three for loss and a sack, to go with one interception and six pass breakups.
The talk of the spring, specifically on defense, Vic Beasley positioned his name to be heard when all those television personalities and media outlets rattle off their favorite breakout candidates – you know, names you haven't heard who you'll know very soon based on their play. (So, ahem, let this publication beat those others to the punch.) While Clemson coaches reeled in the excitement from bubbling over, Beasley clearly has great promise, not to mention opportunity to significantly improve this defense. The trick will be finding an ideal playing weight (230? 250?) for Beasley, looking for the ideal blend of power and quickness.
Corey Crawford was supposed to be that fly in the ointment, that monkey in the wrench of opposing offenses in the past. And Crawford indeed will still have that chance. In a way, because Crawford holds name recognition, he'll probably still field the most attention from offensive lines … until Beasley forces them to focus primarily on him. With a marquee matchup to open the season, why not start from day one to make the nation take note of the Tigers, and not just because of offense?
-Aaron Brenner
USC's NO. 4 VICTOR HAMPTON, JUNIOR, CORNERBACK
Can Hampton be the next elite USC cornerback? He is entering his second season as the starting boundary cornerback, a role previously occupied by Stephon Gilmore, who left early for the NFL after the 2011 season and was drafted No. 10 overall.
Boundary corner requires more physical play and one-on-one coverage (in tighter spaces) than field corner. In short, the boundary corner must lock down elite receivers.
Hampton has the skills and speed to do it. His low center of gravity lets him cut quickly, said defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward. He is able to not just run fast, but reach his top speed quickly, said defensive backs coach Grady Brown.
Hampton had maturity and discipline issues earlier in his career, but he said he is past those now. He understands how important this year is for him, to prove his dependability (both on and off the field) to NFL teams.
After redshirting in 2010, he had one interception in each of the next two seasons, and broke up six passes in 2012 – twice as many as he broke up in 2011. Brown said Hampton left some plays on the field last season, and his numbers reflect that.
If he can take advantage of the balls that are thrown his way this season, since opponents are more likely to target Jimmy Legree, then Hampton will go a long way toward proving himself as an elite corner, and continuing USC's recent pass defense success. The Gamecocks ranked No. 21 nationally in 2012 and No. 2 in 2011, after ranking No. 97 in 2010.
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Friday File column; New York Times archives honors 150th anniversary of birth of William Butler Yeats with letters and reviews reminding readers that riling others was one of the poet's greatest gifts. MORE
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Near-Perfect Poems, Imperfect Poet
William Butler Yeats made such charged and explicit use of his life, his passions, his philosophical searchings, his country and causes, and even his failings that a biography could just about be constructed out of quotations.December 4, 2003 artsReview
Yeats, a Poet Who Kept Trying On Different Identities
Nothing turns a man into a statue more effectively than a combination of fame, death and the passage of time. Together they join hands and hoist him up on a high cold plinth. If the man is a writer, he disappears into the official editions of his work, all polish and (ideally) perfection, the fits and starts and wrong turns folded out of sight like the hem on a pair of dress pants.August 6, 1999 artsNews
Poet, Businessman, Mystic, Senator, Irishman
A poet's life, William Butler Yeats once wrote, ''is an experiment in living and those that come after have a right to know it.'' In the course of a long, fruitful career, Yeats copiously annotated his own life and thoughts, but the individual who emerges from his autobiography and poems is a strangely mythic figure - serene and detached, carefully masked by the artifice of art.January 2, 1990 artsReview
Yeats at the End: Still Writing
William Butler Yeats sat on a lawn chair by the garden of the Ideal Sejour, his old, cold bones wrapped in a rug that sheltered him from the sea breeze of Cap-Martin. It was 1939 and the dying poet, like the Irish warrior of the play, was getting ready to give up a world brushed by the wings of the Morrigu, Celtic goddess of war.April 6, 1989 artsNews
Review: The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats
The correspondence in the first volume is not only copious, but also compelling, entertaining, stamped with Yeats's creative power; dip into it almost anywhere, and you are likely to find yourself completely absorbed.April 22, 1986 artsReview
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A look back on how William Butler Yeats's life and work was reported in The New York Times.
June 12, 2015, Friday
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In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats
Exploring Innisfree, the tiny bristling island in the middle of a lake that William Bulter Yeats immortalized in verse.
April 19, 2015, Sunday
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January 29, 2014, Wednesday
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Big Change for China and the World
Is China, emboldened by its economic power, asserting itself in ways that mean the world is at an "inflection point," as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said in Beijing last week?
December 11, 2013, Wednesday
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The World in a Book
A reader discovers a personal past in the margin notes.
August 17, 2013, Saturday
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Vigils in Ireland for Indian Woman Who Died After Being Denied Abortion
The death of an Indian woman who was denied an abortion in Ireland last month during a long miscarriage prompted more than a thousand protesters to rally outside the Irish Parliament in Dublin on Wednesday night.
November 14, 2012, Wednesday
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A Biennial Blooms Where It's Planted
Over the last couple of decades Lyon has emerged as a prime destination for contemporary art.
September 17, 2011, Saturday
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The Arab Gyre
Deep and unstoppable forces drive the Arab push for representative government.
April 26, 2011, Tuesday
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The Poetry of Catastrophe
A sampler of literary catastrophe for these dark times. Don't run away. It's not as depressing as it sounds. One of the enduring paradoxes of great apocalyptic writing is that it consoles even as it alarms.
March 18, 2011, Friday
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Using Japanese Noh to Lift a Celtic Myth
The Seattle composer Garrett Fisher led his ensemble in his ninth and most recent music-theater piece, "At the Hawk's Well."
March 22, 2010, Monday
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Scribner wins half marathon in Run For Hope
Robert Scribner of Starkville and Fowler Staines of Oxford claimed top male and female honors in the half marathon, while Oxford's Jonathan Tyler and Morgan Claire Rose of Grenada led the men's and women's runners in the 5K portion of the fifth-annual Oxford Run For Hope Half Marathon and 5K held Saturday morning. Winners of the top awards are listed, with all of the top finishers to be listed in Tuesday's sports section in The Oxford EAGLE. (February 24, 2014, Page 3)


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Ronald C. Farnsworth, age 80, died peacefully on August 25, 2013, at North Collier Hospital with his loving wife Helen by his side. He succumbed to complications of several medical conditions, lastly being small cell lung cancer.
Ron, known by many as "Hap," was born in Waterbury, CT, as Ronald Owen Pruett. He became an orphan in 1934 and was placed in The Home For Little Wanderers in Boston. In 1936, he was adopted by Charles and Caroline Farnsworth of Carlisle, MA, and his name was changed to Ronald Charles Farnsworth.
He attended The Brooks School and Fenn School in Concord, MA, and the Bement School in Deerfield, MA. In 1951, he graduated from Middlesex School in Concord where his father was an English teacher. He lettered in football, hockey and lacrosse. He attended Cornell University for a year, played freshman polo, and then served for three years in the army paratroops during the Korean conflict. He was honorably discharged in 1955 as a sergeant, qualified ranger, expert marksman, jumpmaster and senior parachutist. He graduated from Cornell with a bachelor's degree in 1959. He lettered for two years as goalie for the varsity lacrosse team.
He was hired by the Albany, NY, office of Merrill Lynch as a financial consultant and commodity futures specialist. During this time he enjoyed skiing in Vermont, sailing his boat on Lake George, NY, became a private pilot and member of Condair Flyers, golfing at Wolferts Roost and racing his Corvette Stingray and later a Formula C Cooper-Ford Cosworth in the SCCA national circuit. He designed and had built a home on the British Caribbean island of Montserrat. He retired in 1989 as a full vice president after 30 years with Merrill Lynch and returned to live in N. Fayston on the Perley Boyce farm where he had spent summers in the 1940s. He wintered on Montserrat and Destin, FL, and shared his Vermont pastures in the summer with belted Galloway cows and Belgian horses. He moved permanently to Naples, FL, in 2005 where he enjoyed golfing at Countryside Golf and Country Club and being a literacy volunteer. He and Helen treasured their many trips throughout the years, both on land and by cruise ship. Ron enjoyed solving cryptic crossword puzzles, but after losing his eyesight due to macular degeneration, he instead listened to thousands of books on tape from our wonderful Collier County libraries.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Helen (Plumb); a daughter, Wendy F. Carroll (Jack) of Falmouth, MA; two sons, Charles L.(Deborah) of Concord, MA, and Mark W. (Laurie) of New York, NY; four grandchildren, Erin, Harrison, Douglas and Ellie; three great-grandchildren; and nine nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his half-sister, Joan Dorozenski of Marco Island, FL. He was predeceased by his sister, Edith Eliza VanHollen.
Interment will be in the N. Fayston cemetery at the convenience of the family.


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My friend and editor, Stephanie, suggested I start this column off by introducing myself and explaining the scope of this bi-weekly humor column, but I'll just have to get back to that. Right now, I find myself stuck in the swamp of a moral dilemma, and I want to yak about that.
It's the typical dilemma that appears whenever my traditional Appalachian upbringing collides with my New Age aging-hippy sensibilities. I'm sitting in McDonalds, which is something I rarely do anymore since my wife talked me into joining her in following a vegan diet. The "plant-based" diet is supposed to help me live longer, or, at the very least, provide me with the self-righteous smugness that comes from thinking I'm going to live longer. Ah, what could be more fun than eventually living long enough to see all my contemporaries die off from eating poorly? Or even better, having my family and friends relish the irony of how low my cholesterol was when I was fatally struck by lightning or flattened by a bus.
So, living primarily off grains and greens, I guess you might say I'm a vegan hillbilly. My imaginary uncle, Woody Herb, would say that a "vegan hillbilly" is anyone who has sworn off roadkill, and that as much as anything I reckon, sums up my lifestyle and the source of this particular dilemma. The problem is this: it's harder for me to give up being cheap than it is for me to forgo meat and cheese.
I'm sitting in McDonalds because I offered to get new tires put on my wife's car, and the tire place didn't have wifi in their waiting room. My wife's front tire has had a slow leak and for the past three months, we've been routinely plunking quarters into gas station air machines to keep the car on the road. There's just something horribly wrong with society when we've reached the stage in civilization where I've paid for the tires, but somehow, I need to keep renting the air inside of them. Remember when gas stations used to give air away? There was a time in America when we used to call them "service stations," and now, they only "service" us in the same sense of the word as the Internal Revenue Service uses the word — which, frankly, is a pretty abusive use of the word in my humble opinion. Anyway, I digress.
So, because of the way I was raised, I am uncomfortable with sitting in a business establishment (even one as profitable as Mickey Dees) without spending any money while I suck up their free bandwidth. Anyway, in the spirit of full disclosure, I ordered an iced coffee and a couple of hash browns. Neither the iced coffee or the hash browns are actually permitted on the "heart-healthy" diet, because the potatoes have spent too much time wallowing in the luxury of hot grease and the coffee comes with milk in it. Of my two purchases, the iced coffee is probably the more flagrant of the dietary violations because it was excreted by a living animal, but in my defense, McDonald's iced coffee is pretty delicious, and I'm not made of stone.
Okay, so here's where Fate decided to play its little reindeer game with me because I brazenly sauntered between the Golden Arches this morning; the Big McDs is once again attaching tiny peel-off squares that allows people to collect them for prizes and win free food. Between my iced coffee and my two hash browns, I received six such tiny cardboard squares reminiscent of that board game that shall go unmentioned because my family will no longer play with me because I make vicious threats when they cut side deals that I think should be outside the sphere of acceptable game play ("I'll trade you Marvin Gardens for New York Avenue if you'll wash my car sometime next week.")
So naturally I pull the trading pieces from the back of the food packages, and there it is, boom, a free quarter pounder. Now there was a time in my life when a free cheeseburger would have been cause for a minor dance party in the parking lot, but those days have gone the way of dinosaurs, disco, and blacksmiths; the world has moved on, and I'm struggling to keep up with my convictions. Unfortunately, my reputation for cheapness has some basis of truth in it; my children claim I'm able to squeeze a nickle until Jefferson squeals. And now I find myself in one of those old Warner Brothers cartoons where a tiny devil sits on one shoulder while a tiny angel offers counsel on the other. What do I do with the coupon for the free quarter pounder?
Yeah, I know. I could throw it away, and let it go. But that's wasteful, and my inner hillbilly says it's a sin to waste food. Can you see how real this cheeseburger is to me? I know that in reality McD's is not going to have an extra quarter pounder that they don't know what to do with, but that magical piece of cardboard could produce an actual sandwich so it's real enough to me. I could give the coupon to someone else, but isn't that like enabling someone else's poor diet? What kind of human being would I be to encourage a behavior I'm abstaining from? Thus, the little hick devil on my shoulder says its better that I eat the burger than to darken my karma with someone else's clogged arteries. What makes this so hard is that it's not just a quarter pounder, it's a prize. My Appalachian upbringing has taught me that people who don't respect prizes are doomed never to win anything again. Life comes with precious few freebies; "Take'em if you can get'em," wails the ghosts of my pot-licking ancestry.
So here's where I am. I'm sticking the confounded coupon in my wallet where all small pieces of paper go to die. And if sometime in the next few weeks, I find myself destitute and suicidal, I'll cash it in. Otherwise, I'll just hope the coupon expires before I do.
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The Berkeley County supervisor race saw nearly $60,000 raised between three candidates but the lions share went to challenger and ultimate winner of the Republican race, Bill Peagler.
The Moncks Corner mayor won the race against incumbent Dan Davis in a runoff June 24. The candidates were two of a three-way race from the June 10 primary. Businessman Jerry Beckley lost out in the primary and threw his support behind Peagler for the runoff.
According to the pre-election filings filed May 22 with the S.C. Ethics Commission, Peagler raised $44,065 and spent $19,066.53. Peagler listed 12 expenses, including a radio ad, road signs and $250 for barbecue for a fundraiser.
The top contributor to Peagler listed was the Steinberg Law Firm, which donated $1,000 to the campaign. Peagler donated $1,000 to his own campaign.
Davis raised $7,007.93 and spent $10,257.93. The only expense listed in the reports itemized list, however, was Davis filing fees ($5,257.93). The TV ad featured on local channels leading up to the election is not listed in the report.
Of his contributions, more than $5,000 came from Davis own contribution.
Third-place finisher Beckley raised $7,974.32 and spent $7,372.78. One of his largest expenses in this report was a $570 ad with the Daniel Island News. Beckley contributed $1,689.32 of his own money to his campaign.
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WACO (November 28, 2012) -- Baylor senior wide receiver Terrance Williams has been named to the 2012 AFCA FBS Coaches' All-America Team, announced Wednesday by the American Football Coaches Association.
Williams is Baylor's first AFCA All-American since punter Daniel Sepulveda was honored in 2006, and he joins Gerald McNeil (1983) as the only wide receivers in program history to be named AFCA All-Americans.
A Dallas, Texas, native, Williams is one of three Biletnikoff Award finalists. He leads the nation with 1,693 receiving yards and ranks sixth nationally with 89 receptions. He's only pace to become just the second 2,000-yard receiver in NCAA history.
With one regular season game remaining, Williams has already broken the Baylor single-season receiving yards record, and he ranks second in single-season receptions, 19 behind former teammate Kendall Wright. Williams' 12 receiving touchdowns on the season and 27 in his career both rank second in school history. He needs two receiving TDs to tie Wright's single-season record and three to tie his career record.
Williams has gone over 100 receiving yards in eight of 11 games this season and has had at least 80 yards in every game. He's also broken Baylor's career record with 4,554 all-purpose yards, and with 1,707 all-purpose yards on the season, Williams is 65 shy of tying the Bears' single-season record. He broke Baylor's single-season receptions record and set a Big 12 record for receiving yards when he racked up 314 yards on 17 receptions on Sept. 29 at West Virginia.
Baylor (6-5, 3-5 Big 12) closes out the 2012 regular season at 11 a.m. Saturday against Oklahoma State at Floyd Casey Stadium.
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WR Marqise Lee 6-0 195 So. USC Lane Kiffin Inglewood, Calif. (Serra)
WR Terrance Williams 6-2 205 Sr. Baylor Art Briles Dallas, Texas (W.T. White)
TE Zach Ertz 6-6 252 Sr. Stanford David Shaw Alamo, Calif. (Monte Visa)
OL Chance Warmack 6-3 320 Sr. Alabama Nick Saban Atlanta, Ga. (Westlake)
OL Luke Joeckel 6-6 310 Jr. Texas A&M Kevin Sumlin Arlington, Texas (Arlington)
C Dalton Freeman 6-5 285 Sr. Clemson Dabo Swinney Pelion, S.C. (Pelion)
OL Jonathan Cooper 6-3 295 Sr. North Carolina Larry Fedora Wilmington, N.C. (Hoggard)
OL David Yankey 6-5 301 Jr. Stanford David Shaw Roswell, Ga. (Centennial)
QB Tajh Boyd 6-1 225 Jr. Clemson Dabo Swinney Hampton, Va. (Phoebus)
RB Kenjon Barner 5-11 192 Sr. Oregon Chip Kelly Riverside, Calif. (Notre Dame)
RB Montee Ball* 5-11 215 Sr. Wisconsin Bret Bielema Wentzville, Mo. (Timberland)
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DL Jadeveon Clowney 6-6 256 So. South Carolina Steve Spurrier Rock Hill, S.C. (South Pointe)
DL Bjoern Werner 6-4 255 Jr. Florida St. Jimbo Fisher Berlin, Germany (Salisbury [Conn.])
DL Damontre Moore 6-4 250 Jr. Texas A&M Kevin Sumlin Rowlett, Texas (Rowlett)
DL Will Sutton 6-1 267 Jr. Arizona St. Todd Graham Corona, Calif. (Centennial)
LB Manti Te'o 6-2 255 Sr. Notre Dame Brian Kelly Laie, Hawaii (Punahou)
LB Jarvis Jones* 6-3 241 Jr. Georgia Mark Richt Columbus, Ga. (Carver)
LB C.J. Mosley 6-2 232 Jr. Alabama Nick Saban Theodore, Ala. (Theodore)
DB Eric Reid 6-2 212 Jr. LSU Les Miles Geismar, La. (Dutchtown)
DB Dee Milliner 6-1 199 Jr. Alabama Nick Saban Millbrook, Ala. (Stanhope Elmore)
DB Jordan Poyer 6-0 190 Sr. Oregon St. Mike Riley Astoria, Ore. (Astoria)
DB Phillip Thomas 6-1 215 Sr. Fresno St. Tim DeRuyter Bakersfield, Calif. (Bakersfield)
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P Ryan Allen 6-2 215 Sr. Louisiana Tech Sonny Dykes Salem, Ore. (West Salem)
PK Quinn Sharp 6-1 205 Sr. Oklahoma St. Mike Gundy Mansfield, Texas (Summit)
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Anthony A. Adams, 35, of Churubusco, was sentenced in 2009 to serve 16 years for dealing in methamphetamine and other drug charges.
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BAKER — When the chips are down, it means Bill Alford or Carl Commander are making another cypress shingle.
The men returned to the Baker Heritage Day festival and, as in years past, their artisanship and skill were top attractions during a day in which traditional local culture was front and center.
Using traditional tools and methods, the men sent wood chips flying through the spicy-scented air, the fragrant aroma of freshly hewn wood rising as they shaved each shingle precisely to size.
Nearby, an old-fashioned John Deere motor sputtered along, churning the dasher inside a large wooden ice cream bucket. The warm, sunny day made the cold treats especially welcome to Rebecca Smith, 7, who smiled as she sampled a dish and pronounced it "good!"
Organizers from the North Okaloosa Heritage Association, which produces the annual event at the Heritage Park adjacent to their Baker Block Museum, were pleased with the turnout; a News Bulletin reporter observed an estimated 200 patrons while attending. But museum and association Director Ann Spann said attendance didn't reach past levels.
"We've had more people before but there were so many events that day," she said. "But we were happy and I think everybody enjoyed it."
While wood chips flew around Alford and Commander, on the other side of the park, sparks flew as smithies hammered glowing metal heated in a small forge with a hand-cranked blower. Inside the cabins, costumed re-enactors demonstrated domestic tasks, including churning fresh butter from cream, making applesauce and toffee, quilting and spinning yarn.
From the music tent came the sounds of area musicians, including the Convalescent Crooners, a group that frequently performs in nursing homes. Crestview personality and long-time Main Street barber Mack Brooks and his band closed the festival with fiddling and songs he's sung on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville.
Colonial frontiersman re-enactor John Butler took a break to sway on the dogtrot house's porch swing until Danny Turner and his pals, Hunter Polhlopek and Wyatt Shumway, came along and asked to look at Butler's muzzle-loading rifle.
Danny, a member of Baker School's Junior ROTC battalion, confidently hoisted the heavy weapon to his shoulder and drew a bead on a distant target.
"This gun stays where you aim it," he said.
The number of vintage automobiles on display increased this year, with a collection of Ford Model A's and at least one Model T parked under the shade trees across the side driveway. A petting zoo, including owls from the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, and a duo of rare Staffordshire pigs, was nearby.
Attendees browsed crafts and homemade jams, jellies, honey, produce and scented molded soaps — the latter was a byproduct of the pigs' predecessors from the same farm. Brothers from Munson Red Rock Masonic Lodge fried crisp pork cracklin's.
The heritage association noted brisk sales of its new "Lost North Okaloosa" calendar, a fund-raiser for the non-profit organization that features historic north county photos.
The calendars are still on sale at the museum.
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Level 80. 400 Armor/Weapon smith. 82 percent map completion. I'm working on 100 percent map atm, but have a lot of zones on hold with 1-3 SPs bugged, and 1 bugged vista (catapult).
Rarely ever log in anymore. Just not really any reason to. It's a nice game to have if I get bored playing other games though, can log in and knock out some pvp or w/e in a quick session and be done with it.
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Originally posted by Letsinod
Sounds about right
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I'm having a lot of fun. Which is weird usually by the end of the first month with new MMO's I'm not still playing all the time. But I still look forward to the time I have after work every day to play guild wars 2. It's very fun to me still.
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Dunno. I don't see what the hype was about. If this is next-gen then I think I will just have to hang up my hat soon enough. Instances galore, the DE's are just as repetitive as any other quests, crafting is shallow, and the combat and UI are horrid. Its fun as a pick me up game once in a moon but if it was a sub game I would have dropped it already.
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I'm level 80 and today I was helping my GF in some personal story missions,
She fall a bit behind in levels, she is lvl 67, and she really is behind her story, like 33 or so.
Anyway she was feeling tired but we only missed a couple of events to get the daily achievement.
A norn dude was asking for dwarven artifacts (dwarfs went the way of the dodo in the original GW1). I had actuallly done that event on my own early but went and did it again.
This time I decided to follow the dude, so I followed him to his hut, where he dropped the box with artifacts.
Not long after a charr comes around and they start to chit chat about the artifacts and the charr inspect them. he says one of them isn't of deldrimor (good dwarfs) origin but stone summit (evil dwarfs) instead.
Meanwhile some pirates (there is tons in the area) arrived, wanting to claim the artifacts. battle ensues with pirate defeat.
An asura couple (apparently they run some delivery service since their lab blew up) and their dolyak arrive to take the artifacts to some other norn dude (not sure where he fits in the story, was to tired to read).
So escort event. Once we arrive, the asuran tells the norn he feel that one of the artifacts is malefic and might be hard to dispose of. The norn convinces the male asuran to help him despite the reluctance of the female asuran.
Big giant demon imp dude is summoned from the artifact.
All this happened naturaly with no interaction from the players other than jumpin in the action.
Yeah, GW2 is great and whoever says GW2 is just like all the other themeparks MMOs is wrong.
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
And what sort of gameplay did this "event" inspire? An escort, a kill 10 pirates, a kill the boss at the end. For some of us, presentation isn't enough.
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Eh... its something to do but I'm not sure if I'm having fun or just using it as a gap filler. Feeling more of a chore to level then anything my second 80, primarily since I'm doing it with the desire to convert gold to gems to make a 6th slot to play around with Necro a little. I just really can't say for sure. Granted a different type fo game (though similiar model) diablo 3 just provided me with much more desire to level and I just don't have that same level of desire on GW2. I stopped D3 because I finished maxing all my characters and I truthfully had trouble finishing my first character, my second one is even slower since I just find myself bored of the game within an hour or even less of play sometimes.
At least its not like ToR which had me off the game without a desire to play.
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Joined: 12/25/06
Have a few fps issues in WvWvW so I don't do it as often as I should. Have even more fps issues with zone dragons. Enjoying everything else just farming gold and doing d/e's / heart events along the way.
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Joined: 9/05/12
As we can see from this thread the casual players (those who are still leveling) are mostly enjoying it. Most of the players who hit 80 have either retired already or are quickly losing motivation. I am one of the 80s who are on an "extended break". I wanted to level more chars to 80 as I am usually an altoholic in MMOs, but there is nothing to look forward to at 80, so I usually log out after 10-20 mins.
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Joined: 3/17/10
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"
I am still really liking it. I am getting bored with the weapon skills system but im still addicted to crafting, exploring and pvp so definently my monies worth.
Playing: PO, EVE
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Joined: 12/15/05
Great to see so many having fun, that's what games is all about.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
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Joined: 2/20/12
Originally posted by bcbully
I have full time job and two kids.. i play as much as I can.. even doing 16 hour marathons on weekends but during the week i don't get much time to play
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
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Joined: 10/04/10
Originally posted by krakra70
Well no doubt. A lot of the 80's (and they were 80's a few weeks ago) were averaging 10+ hours a day in my /age thread. That will burn anyone out.
Talk about devouring content. No stop and smelling the roses from those type of people.
When I think of those fast levelers it reminds me of my experience in Diablo 3. People were litterally clearing dungeons so fast they were not even picking up gold.
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For those of us that like questing, presentation and setting is everything.
And you can break lord of the rings books just like that.
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Guild Wars 2 is absolutely Revolutionary!
How much I have played Guild Wars 2:
Before Launch I had over 160+ hours played in all BWE's and Stress Tests. Since launch I have an additional 150+ hours total played amongst all characters. I have not reached 60 let alone 80 on any character. Max level I have is 56 on a Ranger, 48 guardian and a handful of 15's and 20's. World Map completion is sitting roughly at 52%. Combined now I have over 310+ hours played in Guild Wars 2.
I have / had a core group of people I've been gaming with for the last 3 years. In our previous gaming experiences I have orginized activities within the games we play and really had a great time experiencing the adventure we created for ourselves with those games. I had some great plans for my guild members to do together such as Mini Games and Open World Massive Boss Fights. I was not particularly planning on us being a dungeon running group because of the learning curve the dungeons had and their difficulty.
With those two highlighted I mentioned above I became extremely disappointed. There are barely any Mini games within the game and yet no mention of why or when they are to be implimented. From lower level experiences with Fire Elemental, Shadow Behemoth and Champion Giant I had incredible expectations that the bigger event bosses such as the Shatterer would be something my guild and I could plan to do together. WRONG, after my 3 experiences of the Shatterer with other guild members, 2 of them left the game, and another stopped doing PvE all together and turned to sPvP because he no longer wanted further disappointment, hoping Anet will fix this.
Now The mini game thing, I'm like WTF?? Anet when will you release the game? "When its finished"!! well this isn't finished to me and some what pisses me off.... Though Keg Brawl is Fricken awesome, its just hard to get enough people interested in it after oooh 3-4 matches. I don't consider the little chess game in Asura's metrica provence a mini game though I suppose technically it is a 1v1 mini game or 1vs NPC.
THE GOOD!!! <--- Gold lol
Okay now that I have the bad out of the way; which I did because last time it got lost in the middle and trolls claimed fanboi still. Wait I am a gad dam fanboi and proud of it. The game is fricken amazing so I have good reason to be a fan of it and declare so proudly!!!
Ok here we go - as I've pointed out I have 300+ hours already put into the game and have repeated a lot of area's and content mulitple times. I've still found things I've never seen before by revisiting areas. I still come across hidden caves with puzzle dungeons inside that just simply blow my mind.
This game even after 300+ hours still has me saying holy crap why hasn't this been done specifically like this before now!!??
In previous games I hated the leveling phase, I just wanted to get to the raids / dungeons. Guild Wars 2 I'm playing the game how ANET intended it to be played, experienced. No need to rush to level 80 and then figure out this isn't those other games that has all the real content at max level... it really hit home to me when I stopped playing the game like it had levels and more likek an adventure and explorer. I follow my quest line until it leads me to a new area then I explore that new area until I am able to continue my story line.
I love the personal story line, combined with the renown hearts, and the DE's. No other game has made character progression this enjoyable to the point it feels this organic.
I hated having bars and bars of skills only to find the best rotation and spam that rotation for hours and hours, the same for each fight. I have found it immensly more enjoyable to not need to focus as much on which of the 80 skills to use next but rather able to pay attention to the battle and surroundin area and correctly utilize what I have at my disposal. The screen is not cluttered with 6-8 skill bars, instead its filled with the game!!!
This game has made it impossible for me to enjoy any other MMORPG that is out currently and will probably be my last stand in the High Fantasy MMORPG's.
I can easily see myself playing this game as an adventurer / explorer in PvE for quite a few more months if not a year and more depending on the expansions.
Now I displayed my disappointments with the game above and yes it does take the wind out of my sails; which in turn makes me need to sit down and refocus my guilds direction until ANET fine tunes and impliments those things. Now that being said I have not had this much enjoyment in a game in a very, very long time.
Thanks for reading!! :P
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Good, solid game. A+
I am having one of the best times in years playing an mmorpg.
I'm right on the track I wanted except I would like my crafting higher at my level.I'm playing a Norn Guardian. I'm at level 64 and have about 204 hours logged in but I am taking about 8 off because sometimes I forget to logout! ;0 I have completed about 46% of the map and my favorite place is probably the Asura area. 46% is the minimal amount I have actually explored in those areas.
Played UO for years and then WoW. Both games are unique to one another and my favorites. I am now adding GW2 to the list even though it has only been a few weeks, I can definately say this is top entertainment.
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"Blue, blue."
Originally posted by tank017
This is what I plan to do as well. I'm enjoying the game, and it's an easy thing to get on an play with my friends, but VG will likely stay my "main" game for a good while, especially now that it's finally getting some support.
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Joined: 6/01/04
Havent logged in since lvl 31. Just got bored with it and most of the people who begged me to play have not been logging in. Tried different classes to spark interest again, but there is just something missing in this game and I can't put my finger on it.
At least the new X-Com game comes out next month, so that should keep me entertained for a while. GW2 will be there waiting if I ever get an inkling to play again.
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Originally posted by FrodoFragins
Caudecus's Manor is much better, trust me. Honestly my only big issue so far would be the feeling of disconnect in difficulty between the Ascalon Catacomb's level and Caduecus Manor. It's not just a "it gets better as you play more" issue, as even the 60s+ in my guild will agree that Catacombs feels like its a little too harshly tuned for people, enough so that it could turn them away, specially for an introductory dungeon.
We ran them back to back last night, story mode for both. It was die and die again for the majority, then when we faced Kashe and finally the final boss, was easy, mainly because their mechanics aren't nearly as balls-to-the-wall frustrating. The manor though? Enjoyable romp!
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I'm still enjoying levelling in PvE about as much as at release. I like the event system. I like that everything from exploring to gathering crafting materials gives xp. I like that even getting close to level 60 I can still gain a level in about an hour or less. I love the world. It looks great and feels like a real place. I login every day and wish I could find the time to play more than I do.
The WvW has been a bit disappointing compared to my expectations, but I have hope it will get better in time as they work on supporting more simultaneous players in WvW and improve WvW progression. I haven't even tried sPvP or tPvP yet because those seem to be almost a separate game that don't even give you xp to help you level.
I'm not thrilled by the way they've done specialization where you only get to use 5 out of the many skills you can purchase at one time. (Admittedly many of the skills on the classes I've played aren't worth using anyway.) I'd like to be able to switch between more than 2 sets of weapons especially on my guardian.
For now it's my second favorite MMO I've purchased (to DAOC) and money very well spent. I expect to keep playing for many more months.
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Here's a crazy concept for champions, defend the title, and shut up about it. They never come off good complaining about who is getting the shot. Even Bones, who acts like he went to the teenage girl academy for being catty, seems like he is just whining. If a fight is easy then enjoy the easy pay day, and you get to hold onto the title for that much longer. I understand if you'd rather have a name over a nobody for a pay day, it's annoying still, but I understand, but you aren't the fairness police. If you were, you probably shoulda complained about the 2 middleweights that you fought, maybe fought guys in your weight class.
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I always thought that in order to be a champion in the most prestigious MMA promotion in the world, you have to truly feel that you can beat anyone on the planet, probably at a few different weight classes. With that mentality, it shouldn't matter who they throw at you. You're at the top, and the promotion finds you challengers. Unless you think someone particular poses a challenge, then call that guy out for his/her talents. But to diminish a potential challenger is pretty fucking petty and it would tarnish, in my opinion, any type of legacy you're trying to leave.
You have to know what you don't know.
I understand what Jon's is saying. However, he should look at his path to a title. He was very lucky that he was given the title shot.
Isn't the goal to HYPE UP your opponent before the fight, so that when you beat him it's even more impressive?
And I mean, beating Bader and Rampage en route to the title are two fighters Bones has faced as well, Bader being the guy he'd defeated before the short-notice Shogun title fight so.......
What's even worse is that all these guys have serious claims in challenging for the title. Sure Texeira hasn't beat all top 10s but he poses a threat in every department of the game and shut down every opponent he has faced (two common with Jones) in one of the longest streaks in UFC. Sure Gustafsson will face a non-top in Manuwa, but he pushed Jones to the limit. Some would even argue that Gus doesn't even need to face anyone to earn that shot. Sure, Cormier just faced a nobody in Cummins (at least in the MMA world), but it's not like his HW accomplishments don't mean anything. He was the clear #1 contender to the HW title, is undefeated and an olympian. He could've easily dropped down and got an immediate title shot like Pettis.
There aren't many contenders left in the LHW division. It would be a very unwise move for the contenders to knock each other off which hurts future matchmaking. The ultimate goal is to ensure that Jones, as a champion, is facing credible challengers. The secondary goal is that the #1 contenders are facing credible opposition.
Since when does Jon Jones make title match ups anyway?
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I also don't get the weird thing with fans who are OK with a fighter not fighting the very best available. Anderson's fans used to do it a lot, and now Jones'. Weird.
It would be one thing if he was calling out a better fighter...but he just disparages opponents and doesn't ask for any alternative.
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(In the aftermath of the shootings near the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, and in light of the killer's hate-filled manifesto, Pop Culture Editor Jeff McGinnis and Grendel, the mind behind the web series "WTFHistory," discuss what the event and its aftermath say about our culture in general.)
JEFF: I have never met a woman who didn't have a story. The stalker who felt he was entitled to their affection. The hate-filled diatribes when a pass was made and they turned it down. The inappropriate grabs from men who suffered no consequences. The times they were blamed for a man's misconduct toward them. The assaults. The constant fear.
The stories which flooded Twitter in the hours after the Santa Barbara shooting on May 25 were all too painfully familiar. As was the response: "Not all men!" "You deserved it!" "Feminazi!" And on and on. So much defensiveness. So much anger. So little empathy. Why? Why do people refuse to see outside themselves for even a sliver of understanding?
GRENDEL: I was horrified when I heard about what happened. But I wish I could say I was more surprised. This wasn't an isolated incident: this was a hate crime and it was one of many. Elliot Rodger, the shooter, had a 141-page-long manifesto where he outlined his thoughts on women. He did not believe that women were as mentally capable, or as in control of themselves as men. And his evidence of this was that women were turning him down. He did not believe that women should have the right to choose their own romantic or sexual partners, simply because when they chose, they did not choose him. And he wanted to punish them for it.
This was a hate crime because he was a violent misogynist. He wanted to terrify and push women into what he considered "their place."
I'm amazed that he could have been so willing to assign the blame to women and so unwilling to consider for even a moment that maybe it was not their problem, but his. The lack of introspection is astounding. And this is very symptomatic of an attitude that is gaining an alarming amount of ground these days: the insistence that women have too much power and that men are at a disadvantage because of it. Not only is this untrue, it's an increasingly harmful and dangerous worldview.
JEFF: The pity of it is that this kind of thought process is not confined to psychopaths like Rodger. We see this blind hatred and lack of personal culpability among men in everyday life on the internet. As noted, look at the responses to women posting under the #yesallwomen hashtag — the vitriol and hatred the killer spewed in his manifesto is, horrifically, not uncommon.
And yet, many would prefer not to engage in that aspect of this event. Easier to simply dismiss him as a psychopath, instead of actually dealing with the awful fact that his actions, as you noted, have roots in deeply held prejudices in society. Prejudices that misogynists simply seem to cling to tighter the more women struggle against them.
GRENDEL: And the #yesallwomen is turning into an amazing social media movement. It's addressing the way that women's shared stories of harassment have been treated. When women share stories of the harassment and misogyny they face in daily life, they are often interrupted by a man — in person or online — who insists "Yes but that's not ALL men." And no, that's right, it isn't all men. But it's an awful lot of men. #yesallwomen was started to answer that. Maybe not all men are misogynists. But all women have faced misogyny, harassment or violence because of their gender. Usually for no other reason than existing while female.
By saying "Not all men," people are yanking the discussion away from women, centering it back on men, when — in this instance — they simply aren't the focus. Because even if it isn't all men, isn't it important that men who aren't that way listen to the stories of men who are and help learn how to make it better? The Internet movement of Men's Rights Activists don't seem to think so.
JEFF: I can only hope in the days to come, the conversation that is going on right now continues and deepens into some sense of understanding for those who have a reflexively defensive attitude against the movement. That it opens their eyes to the fact that there is a disturbing difference in the human experience — that women are forced to play by a set of rules that is infinitely more complicated and dangerous than men do. The pity is, though, that lasting societal change doesn't usually come in a sudden burst, but through painful struggle — a struggle that, if the "Men's Rights" response is any indication, has only just begun.
GRENDEL: As we have these conversations in the following weeks and days, it's vital to remember a few things. While this may have been a product of mental illness, it cannot be blamed solely on mental illness. Being mentally ill does not make one a violent killer, and neither does it make one unaccountable for ones actions. This was a man who openly hated women. He thought that women ought to cater to his whims. And the media with which he interacted encouraged this belief. Nobody ever told him that he might be the one in the wrong. And until people start saying so — that the world was not made for straight, white men alone — and listening when people raise their voices, nothing is going to change. But it can change, and it will. We just need to work towards something better. Something safer for everyone.
Tags: #notallmen, #yesallwomen, Elliot Rodger, empathy, Feminazi, Grendel, hate, hate crime, Jeff McGinnis, killer, killing, Men's Rights Activists, Pop Goes the Culture, prejudice, Twitter, University of California's Santa Barbara, white men, women, WTFhistory


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- Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) compatible with Microsoft Office 2003
- Minimum RAM of 256 Mb (optimal 512 Mb RAM)
Some courses require Windows only software applications. Apple OS X Intel based laptops (MacBook and MacPro) must be set up to support the Windows operating system. The cost to purchase Windows operating system software and license are the responsibility of the laptop user.
If you intend to utilize your employer provided laptop for class you should ensure that the laptop administration is NOT restricted by your company's IT department. You may be required to install software, make network changes, or make other system configuration changes to your laptop. Laptops with administration lock down or that are only partially configurable will not meet the requirements of this program.
Purchasing a Laptop
Academically priced laptops, software and hardware are available through The Willamette Store, Willamette University's bookstore.
Using Financial Aid Funds to Purchase Your Laptop
The cost to purchase the required laptop can be included in your financial aid budget. To use funds from your Federal or Private loan to pay for your laptop, submit the Request for Adjustment in Student Budget Form to the Office of Financial Aid at firstname.lastname@example.com. For assistance or with your questions call 503-370-6273 (US toll-free 1-877-744-3736).


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Long Sleeve Pleated Peplum Top
Style # 205054
Lovely pleated peplum flare and slight sheen make this bebe blouse a pretty little way to lend your closet a pop of femininity. Try it with suiting favorites.
- 92% silk, 8% spandex
- Center back to hem: 21" (53 cm)
- Sleeve length: 24" (61 cm)
- Dry clean
- Imported
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Rated 5 out of 5�by 1 reviewer.
Rated 5 out of 5�by ife1 Beautiful top I absolutely love this top, in fact I'm in love with it. This top is one of my favorite items right now. I wish it came in more colors so I can get more. Love it! If you are on the fence about it get it. It's beautiful and the fit is nice. December 9, 2012
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text: Maurice Hopkins Quesenberry, 82, of Laurel Fork, passed away on Monday, December 24, 2012 at Heritage Hall Laurel Meadows Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by his wife Pauline Quesenberry; parents, Roy Hopkins and Vena Surratt Quesenberry; brothers Larry Quesenberry, and Kleyon Quesenberry; sister, Angela Marshall. Survivors include a daughter, Pamela Jennings of Myrtle Beach, SC; son, Robert Quesenberry of Indian Valley, VA; sisters, Nancy Hull of Hillsville, and Linda Wairstock, of Warsaw, WI; four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM at Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel with Rev. Norman Goad officiating. Burial will follow at the C.C. Webb Cemetery. The Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday, December 29, 2012 from 10:00 AM until time of the service. A guestbook is available on-line by visiting www.vaughanguynnandmcgrady.com. Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel is serving the family.