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Connected to the Palms Las Vegas via an enclosed, motorized walkway, this 49-story hotel is 2 miles from the Sands Expo Convention and less than 3 miles from the Bali Hai Golf Club.
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Hotel Amenities
Palms Place Hotel and Spa at the Palms Las Vegas is just a mile from the Las Vegas Strip and features a 30,000-foot full-service spa. The Drift Spa includes a hammam, 20 treatment rooms, a steam room, a sauna, soaking pools, and garden lounges. A fitness center and a hair salon are on site. Guests can dine in the pool or poolside, rent cabanas, or enjoy cocktails at the full-service bar. An onsite restaurant and bar, plus numerous nearby restaurants located at The Palms, provide a range of dining options, from fine dining with gourmet offerings to buffet-style dining with international fare. Outdoor parking is complimentary.
Nearby, at the Palms, are meeting facilities that accommodate up to 5,000 guests, the Pearl Concert Theatre, and 14 multi-use movie theaters. The on site casino and 55th-floor Ghostbar offer nightly entertainment.
This property does not allow pets. High-speed wireless Internet is available for a surcharge.
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Number of floors - 47
- Casino
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Health club
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Total number of rooms - 599
- Free valet parking
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Free long-term parking
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Outdoor pool
- Television in lobby
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchenette
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Rainfall showerhead
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Plasma TV
- Climate control
- Free newspaper
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board
- Kitchenette
- In-room massage available
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Dishwasher
- Stovetop
- Microwave
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Separate sitting area
- Sofa bed
- Room service (24 hours)
- Sofa bed size
Where to Eat
Simon Restaurant and Bar - Located at Palms Place. Signature restaurant of Chef Kerry Simon. Overlooking an outdoor pool and the Las Vegas Strip. Serving American cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Rojo Lounge - Located in the lobby at Palms Place. Serving classic cocktails and fine wine.
N9NE - Located at The Palms. Fine dining option serving prime beef and seafood. Champagne and caviar bar available.
Bistro Buffet - Located at The Palms. Offering international cuisine buffet-style.
Nove Italiano - Located at The Palms. Serving Italian cuisine. Reservation required.
Alize - Located at The Palms. Gourmet dining.
24/7 Café - Located at The Palms. Offering 24-hour dining daily.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Sledding nearby
- Snow tubing nearby
- Ziplining nearby
Spa Services
The Drift Spa offers extensive spa menus including massages, facial and body treatments. Boasting the only Hammam in Las Vegas, the spa features 20 treatment rooms including couples treatment rooms with private gardens, indoor hot and cool soaking pools, a steam room, a sauna, full-service changing areas, and private garden lounges. Drift Spa also offers Aromatherapy and Ayurvedic treatments, and manicures and pedicures. Guest under 18 are not allowed in the spa.
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
- Resort fee: USD 28 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Shuttle service
- Internet access
- Newspaper
- Phone calls
- Faxes
- Fee for full breakfast: USD 9.99 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 9.5 per person (roundtrip)
- Deposit: USD 50-100 per day
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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How do I use the buttons on my LifeProof'd iPhone?
Last Updated: 10/25/2012 8:39 pm
The LifeProof case gives access to all of the iPhone's buttons as well as the silent switch while still keeping them protected. Each of the different buttons (the power button, home button and volume buttons) are simply pushed through the case as normal. The silent switch works slightly differently - the action is "backwards", so pulling the switch towards you silences the phone and pushing it down turns the ringer on. This is due to the design of the phone and is normal and intentional.

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'Swan Lake' shown live on local screensWritten by Paige Shermis | | email@example.com
For one night only, residents of Toledo will be able to experience live Russian ballet on the big screen.
The famed Mariinsky Ballet is broadcasting its production of "Swan Lake" live from Russia in 2-D and 3-D at 6:30 p.m. June 6 at Franklin Park and Fallen Timbers.
This is the first time a ballet company has live-broadcast a show in 3-D worldwide, said Versa Manos, president of Gorgeous Media Group.
"It's being performed live in St. Petersburg, and it will be broadcast around the world. In America, 400 theaters will be receiving it," Manos said.
"Swan Lake," one of several popular ballets by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, tells the story of the beautiful princess Odette, who was cursed by an evil sorcerer to live as a swan by day and a human by night.
"Swan Lake" will be shown locally at Franklin Park 16 and Fallen Timbers 14. Tickets cost $12.50 and are available online for purchase at www.FathomEvents.com.
"Fathom events brings alternative entertainment to movie theaters. We work with different organizations to bring one-night-only events to movie theaters. We have a wide broadcast network around the country that we bring events to," said Michelle Portillo, senior PR manager for National CineMedia (NCM)/Fathom Events.
The same high-definition filming techniques and technology that were used to film "Avatar" and "Life of Pi," pioneered by director James Cameron within his Cameron-Pace Group, will be used for "Swan Lake."
"They have in the past, broadcast from the Mariinsky [Theatre] live, but never in 3-D. What we have been told is that they are planning on broadcasting more shows 3-D in the future," said Robert Hensley, VP of special projects from Gorgeous Media Group.
Prima ballerina and principal dancer Yekaterina Kondaurova will star in the production as the dual role of Odette and Odile.
Also starring in the show as a featured performer is American ballerina Keenan Kampa.
"Keenan Kampa is the first American dancer to join the Mariinsky Company in the 275 years of the ballet," Manos said.
The artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre is Valery Gerviev, who is also the principal conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra.
This is the second time that the Mariinsky Theatre has been in the news in recent weeks. On May 2, the company opened a sister theater next door to its first building, which dates from the 19th century. The new theater hall holds 2,000 people, while the old building is able to hold 1,600 in its main hall and 1,000 in its separate concert hall.
"Swan Lake" is being presented by Omniverse Vision and NCM in association with Cameron-Pace Group with Glass Slipper and the Mariinsky Theatre.
"We've brought ballets to movie theaters in the past few years. This is a different version. We are excited to bring the original 'Swan Lake' from the Mariinsky Theatre to theaters," Portillo said.
Tags: Gorgeous Media Group, Keenan Kampa, Mariinsky Theatre, Michelle Portillo, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Hensley, Swan Lake, Versa Manos, Yekaterina Kondaurova


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This photograph is of a dear friend of my grandfather's, Charlie Augusto. On the back my aunt wrote "Charles Augusto - Dad's kryan Cumberland, Kentucky." Kryan or krajan means countryman. Augusto and my grandfather, Stephen Popp (Stefan Papp) both came to the United States from Berezovo in the Maramoros district of Hungary. Today it is in the Ukraine.
My father vividly remembers a visit Augusto made to Binghamton, NY when he was a boy. The visit took place sometime during the mid to late 1930s. It was an evening or week-end when my grandfather was at home. There was a knock on the door and Augusto and Ivan (John) Tegze walked in the house. My grandfather and Augusto embraced fiercely and my father saw his father cry for the first time in his life. The men would not have seen each other since Augusto's last visit home to Berezovo, most likely before WWI.
Charlie (or Wasily) Augusto was born about 1882. He appears to have gone back and forth between Berezovo and the United States. He gives his arrival date as 1908 in the 1930 census; 1892 in the 1920 census. There are multiple immigration records that may belong to him. He was a miner in Pennsylvania and Illinois before settling in a Kentucky mining community where he ran a grocery store. He is listed with 8 children in 1930 census so this photograph showing nine children was likely taken several years later. His surname appears as Agosto, Agoszto, Augusto, August and Augusta in various records.
I believe Augusto was related to Ivan Tegze, perhaps his brother-in-law.
There are handwritten ink numbers associated with the children, but I have no information regarding the meaning of the numbers.
I would be delighted to share high resolution scans of these images and source information with anyone researching these families. Please leave a comment or email me (there is a link in the righthand column).


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"We're using the json gem in production, but jasmine is requiring the json_pure gem for our tests. How can we run our rspec tests with the json gem (instead of json_pure) to better reproduce production?"
Nobody had a definitive answer, but one suggestion was to explicitly declare the json_pure gem in your gemfile with require: false.
Interesting Things
- Mysql will not let you insert a record with an id of 0 if you have auto-incrementing ids turned on. However, if you really need to create a record with an id of 0 in your tests, you can turn off the auto-incrementing id feature in a before suite block.
Here is the SQL command to turn off the auto incrementing feature in mysql:
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Been on a bit of a John Wayne kick lately. I've watched Fort Apache, Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Big Jake (actually watched this one using the ole VCR), and The Cowboys within the past couple of days.
I watched Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima last night. Great movie. I've actually had it on DVD for a while, though. I have this weird thing where I rarely watch new DVDs within the first few months on having them. I guess that's because I have so many other DVDs.


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Faculty of Social Studies
The Faculty of Social Studies was established in 1998. It focuses on the fields of Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, European Studies, Psychology, Media Studies and Journalism, Social Policy and Social Work, and Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Strategic and Security Studies (at Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral). Nowadays, the number of students is approximately 4,300.
Contact information
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 549 49 1911
Fax: +420 549 49 1920
Detailed information on R&D areas and projects:
Political scienceback
Two study programs are being taught within the Department: Political Science and Security and Strategic Studies. Political Science Unit focuses on comparative politology, modern analysis of politics, modern politics' philosophy, political participation etc. Security and Strategic Studies Unit shapes in complex socioscientific security conception, and it pays special attention to security and security politics of the Czech Republic, and to research of extremism and political violence.
Fields of interests with selected projects solved in this area:
- Elections and electoral systems: Peer Reviewed Journal "Evropská volební studia/European Electoral Studies"
- Political parties: Political Parties and Interest Representation in Contemporary European Democracies
- Pressure groups and social movements: Political Parties and Interest Representation in Contemporary European Democracies
- Contemporary challenges to the democracy in East-Central Europe
Members of the Department participated in international projects regarding psycho-social development of adolescents, in several projects dealing with educational and instructional task of the school, and projects dealing with the problems concerning family life and partner relationships. In regard to the social psychology, a long-term research interest is focused on psychological and social characteristics of children, youth, and their families. Further relevant research projects have been focused on different aspects of social life (e.g. social representations of democracy, social responsibilities, trust, gender stereotypes, identity and self-development). Recently, the influence of computers, the Internet and related technologies on the individual, family and society are analyzed.
Fields of interests with selected projects solved in this area:
- Longitudinal research of children and adolescents (ELSPAC): Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society
- Psychosocial, cognitive, and emotional development of personality, social and cultural context
- Psychology of Internet
- Psychology of gifted children
- Self and identity formation in different domains of everyday life
- Psychotherapy process
Apart from basic topics in sociology (including sociological theory, history of social thought, and methodology), the Department focuses on various other related fields. These include civil society and public opinion, cultural changes in the globalization process, social problems (inequality, poverty, unemployment), and family and social aspects of demographic processes (mainly population and the needs of an aging society).
Fields of interests with selected projects solved in this area:
- Social integration, inclusion and exclusion: Reproduction and integration of society
- Social reproduction: family and population studies: Reproduction and integration of society
- Collective and cultural memory: Collective trauma and generational memory
- Migration, ethnicity, identity: EDUMIGROM Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe
- Urban studies: Managing cultural diversity in cities in Eastern Europe
- Re/production of the gender order, gendered institutions and interactions
- Analyses of the complexity of gender in the family, education and other key social institutions
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Members of the Department focus on development of focal concepts of Social Policy and Social Work such as social problems, social policy programmes, social functioning, life situation, approaches and paradigms in social work, marginalization, social exclusion etc. and deal with integration of social work and social policy theories and procedures.
Selected project solved in this area:
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- Central European University [HU]
- European Consortium for Political Research [UK]
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Stockholm [SE]
- Pennsylvania State University [US]
- Sapienza University of Rome [IT]
- Technical University Chemnitz [DE]
- Technical University of Dresden [DE]
- University of Bremen [DE]
- University of East London [UK]
- University of Essex [UK]
- University of Konstanz [DE]
- University of Manchester [UK]
- University of Mannheim [DE]
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Update: This trick is no longer necessary since there's an option that lets you hide the chat box. To hide the chat box, click on the "Options" link next to the contacts list and select "Hide chat".
iGoogle added a Google Chat box in the sidebar, but many people find it annoying because they don't use the option and it slows down page loading. Google doesn't provide an option to hide the chat box, but someone found a workaround that disables it.
If you haven't set up mobile iGoogle, use the wizard from this page. Then go to the settings page, scroll down to the Export/Import section, click on the Export button and save an XML file that contains the settings for all the iGoogle tabs. Open the file in a text editor like Notepad, find the last line that contains <Section/> and remove it. After saving the file, go back to iGoogle's settings page and upload the XML file.
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I think it is unethical to label something that contains gluten as gluten free just because you can. Instead, I would recommend that the companies work to actually make the product gluten free, rather than uses the FDA thresh hold as a marketing tool and risk making people sick.
Here is my post on how I discovered Rice Dreams contains gluten and is not actually gluten free...and an interesting letter from the company!
It reminds me of the "mercury free" vaccines which are manufactured with mercury and then the mercury is removed. You can't get all of the mercury out-but they still call it "mercury free." People would die if we did this with peanuts or a peanut allergy! If you are sensitive to gluten or mercury your immune system will react to these traces the same as it will react to a large amount. Once you are better or older and your immune system is more developed, you won't be as sensitive, but people who are trying to heal will get sick and they will not know why.
It is also similar to "caffeine-free" coffee which does have traces of caffeine.
Interestingly, in February 2009, Europe changed it's rules for labeling gluten free from 200 ppm to 20 ppm. which is a ten fold reductions in the amount of gluten that the food can contain in order to be considered gluten free.


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Tallahassee Community College launches redesign of athletics Web site with PrestoSportsJanuary 31, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (January 31, 2013) – In conjunction with the start of its spring athletics season, Tallahassee Community College, on Friday, January 25, officially launched a redesign of its athletics Web site, TCCeagles.com, on the PrestoSports network.
Tallahassee Community College's athletic department has owned the rights to TCCeagles.com since 2002. Prior to Friday's launch, however, the athletics site resided within the College's public Web site.
Immediately upon arriving at the new TCCeagles.com, visitors can choose to read the latest athletic news, watch the most recent video entries to TCC Athletics' YouTube channel, TCC Eagles HD, or catch up on the latest social media entries to Facebook and Twitter. A section of the home page is also devoted to a list of upcoming games, past results and current Panhandle Conference standings in the College's four NJCAA-affiliated sports – men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball.
As did its predecessor, the new TCCeagles.com features traditional online information about each of Tallahassee Community College's four teams – rosters, schedules, bios, statistics and press releases – but in a more interactive format.
Visitors to the site will see an emphasis on two key branding elements, featured prominently on every page - Tallahassee Community College's royal blue and gold color scheme and the athletic department's Eagle logo, originally designed in 2010 and updated in 2012 by Dallas-Fort Worth-based BeamTeam Design.
Adding to the visual appeal of the Web site are full color photos accompanying each press release, as well as photos of TCC student-athletes, past and present, in a watermark effect along each side of the page.
"I believe our Web site can become a valuable marketing tool for our athletic department," said athletic director Rob Chaney. "Ultimately, I want TCCeagles.com to serve as a 'front door' to TCC Athletics – a way for us to engage our fans, as well as prospective student-athletes who may be considering Tallahassee Community College."
The footer of each page is home of two additional fixed features – a score ticker and multimedia menu with one-click access to TCC Athletics' social media sites, as well as links to a photo gallery, live video and subscription to RSS feeds.
The redesign also delivered a mobile platform that can be accessed from devices such as smartphones and tablets. iPhone users even have the opportunity to download an app to the home screen for quick and easy access to the new TCCeagles.com.
The new TCCeagles.com also directs visitors back to College's public Web site, www.TCC.fl.edu.
Started in 2003, PrestoSports helps sports teams communicate online with their fans, opponents and media outlets. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information on top of the PrestoSports Network, the digital mapping of teams' real-world connections. Millions of fans follow their favorite teams on sites powered by PrestoSports. For more information, visit www.prestosports.com.


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During the recent PAX East convention, Riot Games maintained a big presence. What made it something special was the obvious grooming of community for League of Legends. We have a full take on how Riot is investing in its community. Check it out before leaving your thoughts in the comments.
Read more of Christina Gonzalez's The Social Hub: How Riot Invests in Its Community.
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Co-Leader of Inquisition
I've been playing this game again since season 3 kicked off, the communty honestly deserves the bad rep it has. Easily the undisputed worst online community I've ever seen in any game since I started back in the 1990's. I'm glad they are trying to do something with these various approaches, but the toxicity is still everywhere. I love the tribunal personally and get a kick out of seeing both the depths of the filth and the hilarity of the things people type in the report messages. The ranked solo queue is absolute worst of humanity on display, and I find that duo queuing with a bottle of Jack Daniels as my partner helps me tolerate it a bit more.
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Joined: 2/27/07
Originally posted by Paragus1
Could not agree more. If anyone has the need for verbal abuse, just give this game a go.
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Joined: 1/09/08
Originally posted by Paragus1
This is what has consistantly turned me off from the Moba genre as a whole. The only game I still continue to occasionally play is Smite which still has similar people sometimes just not nearly as often. Every time I attempt to play LoL or Dota 2 there is constant badgering of players by "pro" players, over little stuff that wouldn't make any sense to get mad at someone about. They take every game extremely serious, and always end up reporting anyone who has a bad game. You die twice in a row? Feeding. Reported. You have a lane partner who dissapears and you die? Feeding, you should have watched out better, Reported. Constant chat communications from players that are just ripping eachother apart for any mistake made at all. Everyone expects everyone else to play perfect but if they make a mistake it's fine because it was always someone elses fault. They always report everyone.
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Joined: 1/27/13
well ive been playing since beta. And my first account wich had over 240k ip farmed, got permabanned. Im one of those toxic players- because i tried to do things right (in my view) blaming people for mistakes, also some trolls that joined ranked- wich brought me to elo 800, and even once to 500. I got reported alot-and im 95% sure, after 6 banns, you get premabanned. My 2nd account got 4 banns already. Yeah i rage a bit to much maybe, but solo queue is challenging but also frustrating. I dont play taht much anymore though, S3 isnt that fun like S1 or S2.
Call me a good example-but trust me, im like chocolade when you compare me with others out there.
I mean if you join 4 games ranked- and everytime somone leaves or has bad inet connection- that makes you burst, doesnt it? btw. 1won game=5 points, 1loss=18 points.
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Co-Leader of Inquisition
Just a bit of humor to help make my point, one of my friends pulled this out of the tribunal last week, sums it up nicely....
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Joined: 6/15/12
Haha Paragus. Thats great. I love reading that kind of stuff in the Tribunal. I always chuckle before voting to punish.
Novice Member
Joined: 10/17/05
I've played at the start of release back in 2009. I've been gold 3 seasons in a row and haven't had any issues being banned. Have I raged before? Of course. I do my hardest not to and as a result, I've had a lot of success with my main account. After all, we're all just trying to win, so being positive and helping people who are willing to do whatever it takes to win, will be worth while for the most part. It's the people who are spiteful and lose on purpose that chaps my ass. I consistently utilize the report features nearly every other game due to this type of childish behavior. Overall, I'm happy with the features and counters that Riot pushes out to combat the 10% of trolls in LoL.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/25/13
"If I had nickel for every time I have been banned....."
Im with exile01 on this one. I played from beta up until some point last year. The community was good at first, people were friendly and helpful, like a family. Then I watched, as more and more people were let in to the game, the community began to sour. As even more people were let in and began to play, you started getting the self entitled kids. Annoying but tolerable in light of this bein a competitvie game. Then Beta ended and the game was launched in all it shining glory. It was alright for the first few months, you had your typical slef entitled brats, the angy people, and a few ragers. Nothing big, all to be expected in a competitive game like this. Then a year went by, the angry self entitled people became the ragers and they combined with the ragers that were already there and began to spread like wildfire. It was now at the point were you were seeing this in almost every match. Even to the point where the ragers had evolved into trolls with very bad attitudes for even trolls. As another year went by, the trolls had spread and where everywhere, in the game and on the forums. You could not escpae from them. After two years the community over all had gone to hell in a hand basket.
Enter Riots So called fix, the Tribunal. They put the power of "justice" into the hands of the biased public, the very same people that were playing the game and even part of the problem. The tribunal is a fail and has done nothing to help the community in hte grand scope of things. It was all in all, a Bad idea, the trolls and ragers got even worse, and combined with the "honor" system, they became unbearable. They would routinely gang up and the innocent and even the not so innocent and en masse would constantl send in false reports. Given they had teamed up in doing so, this had a very bad effect on the population and turned even more people into the self entitled raging trolls as it happened again and again and again. So i walked away from four accounts, all playable, 3 lv 30's and one whos lv i forgot as well as about 475$ put into the game ove a few years.
In reading this ill written column, It is my opinion that the writer got caught up and taken for a blindfolded ride in the Riot hypemobile. I do not think the writer has spent much if any time at all playin LoL.
"..........Lulz......try to IP ban me if you want, hasn't worked yet. I am still here. I have always been here.........."
Novice Member
Joined: 2/26/13
Its a pure PvP game with a community that everyone should fully expect from that. I've been playing LoL for awhile and of course you get the trolls and ragers, but they have been too few and far between to impact my gaming fun.
To me its no different than say someone raging in Barrens chat, or any zone chat for that matter in any MMO. Let alone the ragers/whiners/complainers you see in different PvP battlegrounds or all sorts and varities.
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Joined: 3/25/13
"If I had nickel for every time I have been banned....."
oops double post my bad
"..........Lulz......try to IP ban me if you want, hasn't worked yet. I am still here. I have always been here.........."
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Joined: 4/01/13
The primary issue here is that negativity spreads like a virus. So, I applaud Riot for their attempts at fostering the community through the implementation of programs that attempt to award the good players and rehabilitate the bad players.
However, the most impacting part of this (as is even evident in all the comments above) is the impact players have on each other - which Riot has done little to address, and thus the biggest flaw in their current theory and approach at addressing the community (their current system is completely reactive, and thus inherently flawed).
Meaning, when a troll or even someone who has had a bad day creates a negative situation within the game - be it through slander, intentional feeding, leaving etc.. the negativity created by that troll spreads. As the innocent bystander comes out of the situation with feelings of negativity, which increases the risk of them reacting negative to others.
As a result, you increase your potential false positive rate associated to the existing reactive system - as you are no longer simply catching bad people, you are also catching good people who've simply been driven to a reaction by the bad people.
To build a truly stable community, Riot needs to empower the players to more directly define their own comfort levels - and thus whom they are interacting with; this functionality is pretty much a staple of social media and online gaming community platforms nowadays (as in Steam/Xbox etc..). So, it's not something difficult to implement...
To put it into geek terms - Riot is hyper focused on how to kill or rehabilitate members of the Dark Side. Riot is hyper focused on how to reward members of the Jedi. Riot has a blind eye into what causes a person to fall from grace and join the Dark Side. Plug the cause, and the rest becomes much easier.
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I've had such a bad experience with other MOBAs that I find the community in LoL to be decent. Honestly, if you want a REAL bashing install HoN or something similar, you will see swearing from min 0 to the last minute of the game, every game.
However, I disagree that Riot is doing anything decent about the community. They have some ideas, but they are mostly poorly implemented, and a trip around the forums reveals that they almost never listen to player suggestions.
Still, here's hoping that *someone* will invent a decent system for punishing toxic players soon!
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Originally posted by gunmanvlad
It's not just about punishing toxic players, it's about promoting and highlighting postiive behavior. There will always be toxic players and it doesn't take many of them to spoil things for a lot of people.
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For me, the gates will open.
I quit LoL for the community along time ago, cause I am NOT a "Pro" player, I don't have the time or inclination to get "really good" at it.
Since they started the honor system or whatever it is that you get to report good behavior, I came back, and the community changed alot, at least in my experience. When I explained either I was new, or back from such a long break I should be considered new, I actually got help twice, real help, not oh ok, well google is your friend, or L2P noob.
Personally I see a big difference, would I call the community good? Not yet, I would say that they have pulled it out of the downward spiral it was in.
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Originally posted by Paragus1
and you know why LoL has such a bad community? because every type of gamer you can imagine plays LoL......that includes the many types of ragers or hardcore players that stress things and point out mistakes like an elitist....the community is way to large, and any large community has its portion of A holes. So yea....the game isnt bad, and the portion of toxic players is completely normal for its playerbase size.
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It's a PVP game. Of course there are going to be toxic players..
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If Riot honestly thinks the LoL community at-large is anything but a wasteland of toxicity then they are the most deluded developers in all of gaming. Maybe 5v5 100% premade teams are different, but in both ranked and unranked solo and duo queue, pretty much every single game is a toxic environment with at least one troll.
Riot's completely ineffective response of the Tribunal was basically just a way for them to save money, letting players punish other players so they don't have to pay anyone to do it.
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"If I had nickel for every time I have been banned....."
Tribunal was a kneejerk reaction put in place to "silence" the masses without actually doing anything, sweeping the problem under the rug or as I like to say "Blowing smoke up our tailpipes".
"..........Lulz......try to IP ban me if you want, hasn't worked yet. I am still here. I have always been here.........."
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:/ ehhh problem is you can get banned for silly stuff like calling someone bad or a nub even if it was only once. God forbid you have games with really bad scores because ever single time you get a super crappy score you will be reported and those reports add up. For example last bann i recieved was for games where i went 0-2/10/x(I've gotten banned twice) those where some bad games that i had out of hundreds of games played; if you play to much league expect to be banned it happens those little thing add up and eventually you get hit with a bann. Lastly for a company that claims to be player focused i leave you all with this Lol events = cashshop sales dota2 events= actual event with prizes given out(good prizes too).
btw where dat replay system at bros? lol:) honestly riot is a scumbag company that got lucky
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Well, as I said in another post, my efforts to introduce a separate continuous sparring category to the usual point sparring stuff took a step forward today with an exhibition match held under knockdown rules between myself and my brother. Basic rules were:
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As this was an exhibition, we (especially my brother) didnt go out to kill each other, but still kept the contact fairly robust. Afterwards a lot of people came up to me and said the loved it and asked if it would be part of future competitions. I said it was up to the organisers, who were divided on it. Again, some came up to us and told us they were very impressed and that they liked it. Others did a poor job at hiding their disgust and took the anyone can get on the floor and start hitting each other, the REAL skill is in semi contact games of tag! line. Anyway, check out the video and tell me what you think.
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Props to you guys for getting out there. I've never sparred in that format, only in kickboxing , escrima and judo so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Here's some thoughts:
Shorter fighter: good use of knees. pretty decent reverse punch to body of opponent. One nice roundhouse to the body unopposed late in the video.
BUT could work on balance issues-- seems like the low kicks lack power, off balance in the high kicks.
Taller fighter: nice sweep! low kicks looked effective at knocking opponent down at least once.
Could be more aggressive at defending against hand strike fluries from opponent.
That's about it. Oh and the people who said there was more skill in the semi-contact matches....**** 'em =)
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Why try to stop the clinch? It may not make the karate look "clean" but its more realistic. I think its a good idea and I especially liked the knees from the clinch, and from the sound of the clips the people did too. Allowing sweeps is god but are throws allowed?
Also, your style says Kyokushin. Dont you guys already do this type of training and competitions or were you at a non-kyokushin event showing people what Kyokushin is?
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I watched my son shrug on his heavy coat and slip into his backpack, just a bit harried, almost but not quite late for the morning bus as usual, as every day. "If I make a special meal for Thanksgiving tonight, will you stay in and eat with us? Can you plan it into your schedule?" I inquired. "I don't know," he puffs, one foot already out the door. "I don't know what I'm doing tonight yet but I'll let you know." Today is just another weekday, a Thursday, a middle-of-the-week, work-and-school-as-usual day in France. As it has been for the more than twenty-six years that I have lived here with my French family. So it is no wonder that we do not celebrate Thanksgiving.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do, I always say. And when in France in a house full of Frenchmen, well, Thanksgiving gets shuffled to the back of the closet.
We have never celebrated Thanksgiving. As the season rolls around and the day approaches, the house fills with the splendid aromas of cinnamon wafting from the oven warm and spicy, pumpkin roasting sweet and earthy, cranberries and oranges simmering on the stove, the seasonal fragrance of holidays and autumn. There may have been roasted birds in the past, home-baked bread, loaves of cranberry-orange, tins of cornbread and fluffy dinner rolls. There have been our fair share of chestnutty this and apple that, cakes and pies and compotes. But as I sit here and weigh out the decision whether or not to cook a festive meal tonight, I simply cannot even remember if I have ever told the simple story of the first Thanksgiving to my sons. Most likely my husband, the history buff, pragmatic and cynical to his soul, would have interrupted me more than once with tales of lies, stolen land and battles waged.
Younger son popped home today to wolf down a couple of all-American grilled cheese sandwiches. Perched upon stools at the kitchen counter, I turned to him and noticed that today he was unplugged, no ear buds stuck into his head, volume up, the noise of some American cop show drowning us and the outside world out. "Do you know the story of Thanksgiving?" I queried? Only the slightest of movements, barely a shrug of the shoulders, a wink of recognition; chewing slowly and staring straight ahead I sensed more than saw the glimmer of a negative. Maybe the question surprised him and he needed to dig back deep into his memory, but the answer must have been no.
The older son blasts in on a wave of hunger and cold wind looking for his own grilled cheese sandwiches (in this, I trained them well) and I posed the same question to him. "Oh yeah, like the Pilgrims?" he grinned. "And what else do you know?" I asked. "Well, they stole land from them, sold them booze and they sold New York to them for $2!" he laughed. Well, I think maybe somewhere in there he has the story. Someone was paying attention to his history lessons.
But it is all about being thankful. And that we are. Even as we come to the end of a very long, very trying ten years of pain and sadness, illness and death, times turbulent and riddled with tragedy, we have come to appreciate the good we have in our lives. We are indeed thankful for the love that binds us together, the love that has saved us and gotten us through both thick and thin, no matter how that love and these bonds have been tried, stretched and strained.
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We are thankful for the laughter that rings through our home, that we can be silly and crazy and real downright idiots when we like. We are thankful for having a roof over our head, a warm cozy home and food and books to fill and sate, nourish us body and soul. We are thankful for our health, even as age begins to weigh us down with her aches and stiffness. We are still in pretty damn fine shape.
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While the Pilgrims were sitting down to table, breaking bread with the Indians, my family might have been in some Eastern shtetl and my husband's in France, both poor, humble stock, and although we don't roast turkey and serve up mounds of stuffing and thick slabs of pie, we are thankful indeed.


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- Inane and sophomoric, if often effective, marketing, meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Parsons has repeatedly referred to how "edgy" his company and its commercials are. If you have to call yourself edgy, you ain't edgy.
- Arbitrarily yanking sites from the Internet. This fits in with GoDaddy's (supposedly former) support of SOPA.
- A CEO who loves killing elephants. Really, if you enjoy shooting elephants, as former CEO (now executive chairman) Parsons (who reliably comes off as a complete jerk) did earlier this year, there's something wrong with you.
There is also the issue of the 2006 phantom IPO that was announced and later pulled, supposedly because of media criticism.
How stupid does a company have to be to take an aggressive stance on a hugely controversial issue and then abruptly reverse itself — unconvincingly, to be sure — when customers start noticing? If you want to look like a gaggle of idiots, that's perhaps the best way for a company to do it.
What was GoDaddy thinking?
Either the company had a valid reason to support SOPA — and I can think of some — or it did not. I will presume the company is less stupid and more gutless, so they had a good reason for supporting SOPA but lacked the guts to take fire when that position became known.
SOPA, depending on what side you are on, would either stop sales of counterfeit goods over the web or blow web security and privacy sky-high. While I support the noble goal stopping crime, technical troubles make SOPA unworkable. I have written elsewhere that the only way to effectively deal with piracy is to engineer a better or new Internet.
You have to wonder about the lack of corporate good sense that led GoDaddy into this mess. Did they think nobody would find out about their SOPA support or that customers wouldn't care? Surely, they didn't believe Internet enthusiast customers would actually welcome GoDaddy's SOPA support?
I have never liked GoDaddy and don't even admire their success. I think we are past using busty women to sell Internet services as blatantly as GoDaddy has done. Their pricing takes advantage of, well, people dumb enough to buy Internet domains based upon a model's bra size. Who'd have thought GoDaddy itself would be as moronic as the company seems to believe its customers to be?
After founder Bob Parsons proudly showed off his ability and willingness to go to Zimbawe and shoot an elephant, I think the answer became pretty clear. As IT World said last March, the company went from "racy ads to the truly offensive" and called Parsons an " idiot" in the subhead.
If GoDaddy were to just go away, the world and Internet would be a better place. If I had any domains there to pull, they would already be gone.


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Step 1: Start wraping!
Unfold the fabric and starting at one end, wrap it around your body like a towel. Be sure to fold about 2 inches over underneath your arms (you will need this extra fabric in the last step).
Wrap fabric around your body again so that you have two layers.
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Wrap around your waist again
Step 3: Around the neck
Step 4: Necklass
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Wrap a belt under the fold of extra material at the very top of the toga. I used an elastic belt I got at a used clothing store, but my roommate used a belt made out of webbing. A band of elastic tied at the correct diameter would work too.
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Turnovers Halt Hawks Against Bradford
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BRADFORD, PA – Even after outscoring Pitt-Bradford in the second period, Hilbert's women's basketball team found the first half deficient too large to overcome as they dropped a 54-43 AMCC game January 16. Natalie Whitman pulled down 18 rebounds and scored 12 points to lead the 2-7 Hawks while Maria Costanza netted 15 points and swiped six steals for the hosts (4-5).
Pitt-Bradford closed out the first half on a 22-4 run with 13 steals already to take a 25-12 lead into intermission. To start the second half, five different Hawks scored in a 12-2 Hilbert run which cut into the Panthers' lead. At 11:48, the spread was down to four points but Hilbert ran out of gas and Pitt-Bradford ran away with the win.
Hilbert struggled offensively in the first half shooting only twenty percent from the floor. The team recovered in the second half outscoring the Panthers 31-29. Hilbert again out-rebounded their opponent holding a 52-47 advantage. Of the Hawks 18 offensive rebounds, they earned 15 points and outscored Bradford by ten points in the paint. But Hilbert's turnovers throughout the game provided a 25-9 scoring advantage to Bradford.
Jenah Labuski grabbed 8 rebounds and scored 7 points, as all nine Hawk players scored during the game. Bradford's Caitlin Jordan chipped in nine points and Hollie Rapp pulled down 11 rebounds.
Up next for the Hawks is a rematch against league-leader La Roche College (9-0, 12-4). The January 21 4pm game is also a Student Appreciate Day hosted by the Student Activities Office. The College of New Rochelle game has been rescheduled to Sunday, January 22 at 1pm.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Pathway Genomics Adds Digital Health Entrepreneur Paul Sonnier To Strategic Advisory Board
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Former United States Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin Joins Pathway Genomics' Board of Directors
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Pathway Genomics Launches First Hispanic Targeted Screening Panel for BRCA1/2-Related Hereditary Cancers
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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. General Peter Pace joins Pathway Genomics Board of Directors
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Jim Plante, Founder and CEO of Pathway Genomics, Appointed by US Secretary of Commerce and US Trade Secretary to Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC)
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Ask the Expert: An Interview with a Pathway Genomics' Registered Dietitian
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SAN DIEGO, Apr 29, 2015 — Mandy Kenyon, MS, RD, CSSD, is Pathway Genomics' Registered Dietitian and played a major role in developing the customized diet plans that are part of tests such as Pathway Fit. Mandy is available to answer nutrition- and diet-related questions for Pathway's clients and customers—contact her at email@example.com.
Mandy recently shared a couple of the most common questions she receives in her work as a dietitian, as well as her responses:
Ask The Expert: An Interview with a Pathway Genomics Counselor
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SAN DIEGO, Apr 17, 2015 — Leslie Ordal, M.Sc., a field genetic counselor at Pathway Genomics, answers some frequently asked questions:
Are all genetic changes harmful?
No. In fact, everyone has genetic changes – it's why we're all different. Some genetic changes, called pathogenic variants, can be harmful to an individual, and in some cases, to their children if passed down.
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There has recently (2013-15) been a flurry of human clinical trial publications regarding gene-diet interactions, primarily concerning obesity and related phenotypes.


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Harry Styles Doesn't Believe In Love at First Sight — Taylor Swift to Blame?
Remember when Taylor Swift opened the Grammy Awards with her mega-hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and mocked Harry Styles while doing so? We felt so bad for this British bloke — despite the fact that he left Taylor all alone on a boat while they were on vacation.... Sob, never forget.
Harry seems ready to move on from his dramatic relationship with Taylor, and he's eager to find love! "If the right person was there, I'd go for it," Harry tells We Love Pop. "I wouldn't stay single purposefully. You don't really know what's going to happen."
While Harry isn't referring to Taylor directly, he makes it clear that their relationship wasn't love at first sight. "I think for me, it's more infatuation at first sight," he says. "You can see someone and I think 'She's amazing.' I wouldn't say I could fall in love at first sight, but maybe I just haven't done that yet."
Feel the burn, Tay-Tay. Though Harry better watch his back — the last thing this dude needs is a breakup song written about him. Working title? "That Time You Left Me On A Boat."
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August 5, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas - Gov. Rick Perry is wrapping up his high-profile recruiting trip to California without having convinced any businesses to relocate to his state - at least not yet.
The Republican said Wednesday that he met with many entrepreneurs and business leaders but didn't give examples.
Perry also said he held a reception for more than 200 California companies who have expressed interest in moving. His office later clarified that 20 businesses actually attended, however.
Last week, Perry was featured in radio ads denigrating California taxes and regulation and touting Texas as friendlier to businesses.
He now says that competition between the states is healthy, even if it can sometimes get uncomfortable.
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With his third straight UFC win, Robbie Lawler is once again considered one of the most dangerous welterweights in the world. And if things play out the way he sees fit, Ruthless may also soon be a UFC champion.
I feel great, Lawler said following his UFC 167 win over Rory MacDonald.
Lawler (22-9 MMA, 7-3 UFC) still incredibly just 31 years old despite competing professionally since 2001 and boasting a 2002 UFC debut is a former EliteXC middleweight champion whose knockout power is legendary in MMA circles. UFC President Dana White famously was responsible for brining the slugger to the octagon in 2002, but after seven fights in the promotion, he bolted in search of better pay.
Im the one that brought Robbie Lawler into the UFC, and I was 100 percent behind this kid when he came in, White remembered. Robbie Lawler, when he was younger, all he gave a st about was making money. I want to fight where whoever is going to pay me the most money. I need money.
And there were so many times that Robbie and I had talked throughout the years when he fought for other organizations, and hed be like, I want to come back and fight for you guys. I want to come back and fight in the UFC. I said, Kid, it makes no sense. Im not going to pay you what these guys are paying you. It doesnt make sense here. They need you over there, and theyve got to pay you to keep you.
And so Lawler fought for EliteXC, PRIDE, the IFL and King of the Cage, among others. In 2009, he signed with Strikeforce and fought eight times for the organization before it was purchased by the UFC, bringing him back under Whites watch. He immediately dropped from middleweight to 170 pounds and has looked fantastic since in wins over MacDonald, Bobby Voelker and Josh Koscheck. White credits a new focus for Lawlers resurgence.
Hes a completely different animal, White said. Hes not even about money. He doesnt even talk about money anymore. Now its about winning that title.
As hes getting older now, hes not his young, crazy kid anymore. Hes got a wife, hes got kids, and now hes about, Before this opportunity goes away, I want to take a run at the title, and hes doing it. Very impressive.
Of course, the UFCs welterweight title picture is in a bit of disarray at the moment. Longtime champ Georges St-Pierre on Saturday night said he believes a little time away from the sport would do him good, but White later said the future Hall of Famer wont be on the shelf for any extended period of time and will instead book a rematch with the man who nearly defeated him at UFC 167, Johny Hendricks.
But if anything changes with those plans, Lawler has an alternative idea.
I think we should probably do if Georges takes off for a half a year or a year, Hendricks and I fight for an interim title, and when Georges comes back, Ill beat him up, too, Lawler said. Lets do this.


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Three year planner helps you quickly retrieve data from previous months. Handy 8 1/2" x 11" size fits in a briefcase to travel to and from your home and office.
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I love the fact that it is a 3-year calendar. I have room to write down appointments, birthdays and other important things.
Just what I needed
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Perfect size for what I needed it for.
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I had a five year that was constructed so much better than this one. It still had enough room for writing,but is very flimsy.
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I have many appointments this type record keeping is crucil. I had used a different planner 2 years. Needed another. Refil not found. This is a perfect replacement, thank you, for having user friendly products.
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I have been using this calendar for years. I keep one by my chair downstairs, & another hangs upstairs, next to my computer. Love the large writing space for each day. All my appointments, errands, b'days of family & friends, etc. My new ones 2015 2016 just arrived. Orered extras for the momes of my children. Was ver sad to hear that they may not be available after this year...what a loss!
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WILLIAMSON - Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum has been shot and killed in downtown Williamson right by the underpass on Harvey Street.
Crum was in his vehicle, witnesses say, when a male drove up to a parking lot on 3rd Avenue, exited his vehicle, walked to Crum's SUV, and shot him point blank.
Law enforcement officers were in pursuit of a suspect near Delbarton soon after the shooting.
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And a tree pillow...oh the possibilities!
And an unfinished project that is no longer staring me in the face. The Nest Pillow.
I love those pillows. I've seen the zinnia pillow as well. Yours are great!
Super duper cute!
Love them all but the tree pillow? Swoon!
I absolutely adore the applique pillows. Oh...I have to start sorting scraps. I really think I need one of those. :) Beautiful work!
Oo! I love them Allison. Too bad you don't live in Rexburg anymore, or we could do some sewing together. (Scott and I just moved back for him to teach at BYUI).
I love these! Do you use stabilizer behind your applique? Can you share with us your technique? I have done hand applique but want to start trying machine. Your pillows are inspirational and a great way to use favorite scraps!
I am absolutely in LOVE!!! I have to learn to applique!
These are beautiful! What a wonderful way to use up some scraps in a gorgeous way. I am definitely going to have to remember this idea.
These are great! I do it all by hand so it would take me way longer, but I might try it! I love all of them. Love the Tina Givens birds in the last one.
i luv the zinnia pillow! Just bootiful!
My husband cracks up when ever I make a pillow. We have so many. Applique is quite addicting, although I haven't done it in awhile. I think it's the perfection part that gets me.
Can you share with us ow you made the first pillow? Looks fabulous.
I LOVE the tree pillow as well as the zinnia pillow. OH SO CUTE!!!
I came here from Bumble Beans blog to see this pillow. Oh.MY! I love it AND the tree pillow as well. LOVELY!


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Member benefits
- the opportunity to be a member of your own state professional association
- the opportunity to voice your opinion and make yourself heard through out the state and beyond
- continuing profession education programs through seminars and classes in the area of auction specialization
- the opportunity to attend local and state professional meetings
- the opportunity to attend the KAA state convention held in a different location each year in January or February
- the opportunity to attend the KAA board of directors quarterly business meetings, open to all KAA members
- bulletins and newsletters with information pertaining to the auction business as directed by the KAA President and board of directors
- advice if requested, concerning professional ethics, state or local sale taxes, license laws, permits involving the auctions business Note: the KAA does not give legal advice, only a lawyer can provide legal advice.
- a professionally paid lobbyist or monitor in Topeka to work with Kansas Legislature for the benefit of the Kansas auctioneers
- being informed of pending laws, regulations and rulings being acted upon at the State level by the Legislature and State agencies as it concerns auctioneers and the auction business
- the KAA "Sunflower Auctioneer" magazine that is published 6 times a year and other times when warranted and directed by the KAA board of directors
- family involvement in the auction business, seminars, meetings, conventions and etc. you will meet and develop great friendships with other auctioneers and their families
- a dues structure which is relatively low considering what you receive and in contrast what other professional organizations charge for their professional memberships
- as a Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc. member you are not required to be a member of the National Auctioneers Association, however, you are urged to join the NAA and get involved on the National level
We urge you to give serious consideration to becoming a member of the Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc. If you are presently a member of the KAA we hope you will continue to contribute your time and efforts for the benefit of your profession and your association.
Being a KAA member is just like anything else you do, whether it is your family, church or business, "You get out of it, what you put into it".
Kansas Auctioneers Association Code of Ethics
The public auction subjects all possessions to equitable public appraisal and competitive offer and thereby determines fair and current value of all personal goods and estates.
The Auctioneer is the master of procedure and conduct of the public auction. He/she is a confidant of the public, an instrumentality of community progress and development. Such functions impose grave responsibilities and duty beyond ordinary business policy to which he/she must dedicate himself/herself and strive to maintain the highest standards of his/her profession and share with his/her fellow Auctioneers a common responsibility for its integrity and Honor.
Accepting the Golden Rule as his/her standard, the Auctioneer pledges himself/herself to observe the Law of God and of the Land in all his/her dealings and to conduct his/her business in accordance with the following Code of Ethics adopted by the Kansas Auctioneers Association.
Article 1. In the best interest of the public, of his/her fellow Auctioneers, and of this/her own business, the Auctioneer should be loyal to the Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc.
Article 2. The Auctioneer should so conduct his/her business as to avoid disputes with his/her fellow Auctioneers, but in the event of a controversy between two Auctioneers who are members of the Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc. he/she should not resort to a law suit, but rather submit his/her difference to arbitration by the Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc. and the decision of such arbitration should be accepted as final and binding. If the dispute should be with a non-member, he/she should offer the services of this Board to arbitrate.
Article 3. Where a member is charged with unethical practice, he/she should promptly and voluntarily place all the pertinent facts before a proper committee for investigation and report.
Article 4. A member should never publicly criticize a competitor, and where an opinion is especially requested, it should be rendered in conformity with strict professional courtesy and dignity.
Article 5. A member should not solicit the services of an employee of a fellow Auctioneer without his/her knowledge and consent.
Article 6. In the best interest of society, of his/her associates, and of his/her own business, the Auctioneer should at all times be loyal to the Kansas Auctioneers Association, Inc. and active in its works, and he/she should willingly share with his/her fellow members the lessons of his/her experience.
Article 7. In justice of those who place their interests in his/her hands, the Auctioneer should endeavor to keep abreast of business conditions, to keep informed in matters of law and proposed legislation affecting such interests, so as to give intelligent business advice and effective service.
Article 8. In accepting the sale of real or personal property, the member pledges himself/herself to be fair to both seller and buyer, and to protect the owner's interest as he/she would his/her own.
Article 9. When consulted for an appraisal of value or liquidation problem, a member should give a well considered opinion, reflecting expert knowledge and sound judgment, taking requisite time for study, inquiry and deliberation. His/her counsel represents a profession service which he/she should render in writing and for which he/she should make a reasonable charge. A member should not undertake to give an appraisal or offer an opinion on any proposition on which he/she has a direct or even indirect interests, without a full disclosure of such interest.
Article 10. Before accepting a sale, it is the duty of the Auctioneer to advise the owner intelligently and honestly regarding the market value of the business or proposition and the reasonable chance of selling at value or above.
Article 11. It is the duty of every member to protect the public against fraud, misrepresentation or unethical practices in connection with sale, disposal or liquidation of any real or personal property the Auctioneer is called upon to dispose of at public auction.
Article 12. It is the duty of a member to ascertain all pertinent facts concerning every sale for which he/she is engaged, so that in offering he/she may avoid error, exaggeration, and misrepresentation.
Article 13. An Auctioneer is a confidential trustee of the information given by the seller or gained by him/her through relationship and the Auctioneer must never disclose the gross receipts of a sale or other information that would tend to be a violation of the profession.
Article 14. No special conditions, real or assumed, or inducements or directions from anyone relieve the member from his/her responsibility strictly to observe the Code of Ethics in this letter and spirit.