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Antitrust Review Reveals Strong Co-Op Community Support for Capper-Volstead
Borst, Alan, Rural Cooperatives
Agricultural producers in the United States have long enjoyed the right to collectively market their products through cooperative marketing associations. This right has been established and maintained over the last century through a series of laws, rules and regulations which have provided limited antitrust protection to such producer cooperation.
This is critical, because without such protection, tanners seeking to collaboratively market their products would face a serious risk of antitrust litigation. Beyond this enabling legal framework, the U.S. government has actively promoted agricultural cooperation through various policies and programs which have provided favorable tax treatment and access to certain program benefits.
Public officials have periodically brought some elements of this institutional infrastructure under scrutiny. The logical response of the cooperative community to such examination has been to justify the public benefits of producer cooperation and the policies and programs which enable it.
A federal commission is currently reviewing all of the laws that provide producers with some limited antitrust protections. The following article is a review of the arguments made in support of the most important federal antitrust exemption for cooperative associations--the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 (CVA).
AMC assessing need
In 2002, Congress created the Antitrust Modernization Commission (AMC) to determine the need for reform of various antitrust laws. The AMC findings will be submitted to Congress and the President. The AMC is a 12-member, bipartisan commission composed of mostly antitrust lawyers.
There are a series of working groups under the Commission examining various aspects of U.S. antitrust laws, including one for Immunities and Exemptions. The Commission has agreed to study all antitrust immunities and exemptions to determine whether they should be repealed (if not justified by their benefits), or if they should otherwise be time-limited.
The AMC has received several submissions in response to its request for public comment in support of cooperative antitrust protections. Parties submitting comments in defense of Capper-Volstead include: the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Congressional Farmer Cooperative Caucus, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers Union, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and some distinguished professors with decades of experience in research on cooperatives and their enabling laws. There were no submissions that were directly critical of the CVA. The arguments in support of Capper-Volstead in these public comments follow.
CVA worldwide model
The Capper-Volstead Act is a model that has been emulated around the country and the world. CVA has been a model of cooperative legislation which many foreign countries have been using as a blueprint for their own co-op laws. U.S. government agencies are supporting the organization of agricultural cooperatives in countries around the world. All 50 states have enacted laws for agricultural cooperative incorporation and many states have antitrust exemptions for producer cooperation.
The weakening or repeal of the Capper-Volstead Act would be disruptive and costly to U.S. farmers. U.S. farmers and their cooperative marketing associations have relied upon CVA protection for the last 83 years. Any uncertainty over the future of CVA would create uncertainty over the future of cooperative enterprises that are dependent upon its protection. …

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Three women to thank for Tuskegee Airmen existence
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-- Much has been written about the Tuskegee Airmen and most recently a Hollywood movie, "Red Tails," was released to tell their story. But, there is an important part of their history that you won't see in the movie.
There were three women, whom without them, the Tuskegee Airmen may not have existed. Given the 2012 theme for African American History Month, "Black Women in American: Culture and History," it is fitting to share their stories with you.
Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt and Willa Beatrice Brown played vital parts in the integration of the pilot program as well as African-American's interest in aviation.
According to a Jan 25, 2012 post by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in The Root, Willa Beatrice Brown, one of two women in the all-black Challenger Air Pilots Association, was one of about 100 licensed, black pilots in the entire country and was also the first African-American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol.
Brown was a business woman with a love for aviation. She promoted the image of black aviators hoping to fight prejudice and increase opportunities for African Americans. Brown convinced black newspapers to cover air shows and other aspects of black aviation. She helped organize Chicago's National Airmen's Association of America, lobbied for federal funds to support Chicago's private Coffey School of Aviation and wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt about integrating America's aviation forces. Without her work, African-American interest in aviation may have floundered.
Mary McLeod Bethune, a famed educator and head of the National Council of Negro Women, used her authority as the only female member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "black cabinet" and her close friendship to first lady Eleanor to lobby against segregation and for integrating the pilot program, the key of which was to get the government to open training programs on the campuses of historically black colleges and universities.
Due to her efforts, West Virginia State College became the first black school to adopt an aviation program and receive its first military airplane in 1939. That precedent benefited the Tuskegee Institute, which was authorized the same later that year.
By 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt convinced the Rosenwald Fund to expand the pilot training program at Tuskegee. Early in the year, Roosevelt visited the Tuskegee Institute's Moton Airfield, asking the chief flight instructor, "Chief" Charles A. Anderson if he would take her flying. Despite extreme objections from the Secret Service, Roosevelt spent more than an hour flying over the Tuskegee airfield, which was possibly the first time a black man had ever flown a plane with a white woman as his passenger.
Upon her return to Washington, Roosevelt lobbied her husband for integration of the country's aviation forces. According to the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, in December 1942, the President issued Executive Order 9279 forcing all services to officially end restrictions placed on African Americans regarding military service. While change was slow, by the end of 1944 there were 700,000 African-Americans in the Army; 165,000 in the Navy; 5,000 in the Coast Guard; and 17,000 in the Marine Corps.
Also by the end of that year, more than 5,000 African-Americans were commissioned officers including Benjamin O. Davis, the first African-American general.
Three women, two black and one white, made a difference for integration.
Had it not been for the forward thinking of Mary McLeod Bethune, the persistent support of Willa Beatrice Brown and the non-prejudicial attitude of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Tuskegee Airmen may never have existed, the country would have lost some great history, and Hollywood would not have made a movie about them.
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Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,750. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2015 by FrostProof808. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
This short story is excerpted and adapted from the novel Leaving Amarillo, the fourth novel in the Wes Crowley series. Western Z Crowley has left the Rangers and is searching for his errant lifelong friend, Otis "Mac" McFadden. As he's riding from El Paso to Las Cruces late one night, would-be banditos are lying in wait. Wes solves the current situation in a manner not entirely expected.
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Price: Free! Words: 1,570. Language: English. Published: November 23, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Western, Fiction » Holiday » Family(4.00 from 1 review)
Jeb hated Thanksgiving, because his family always made the holidays hard. It hadn't always been that way, though, because when he was younger, Thanksgiving was a golden occasion filled with love and food and warmth. Someday, he hoped, he would finally achieve his dream of becoming a cowboy and spending his holidays in the canyon or on the range. Then, he might really have reason to be thankful.
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It's after the apocalypse. Humanity gets a do-over on a pristine planet.Annie Talks To Horses has horse dreams & dinosaur nightmares. Her canine friend is an independent cuss, a big white livestock guardian dog, who is duty bound to save the day. Saddle up your cowpony and come ride along with our plucky heroes. Warning: this book contains humor, sex, cussin', and enough sarcasm to choke a horse.
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Michelle learns chilling details about 'Two Tongues' Daniel 'Bone Picker' Hannover. Sarah falls ill forcing the travelers to divert to Colby for her to recover. Michelle quickly makes a friend. Two outlaws arrive in the town with a daring plan that puts them headlong on a collision course with Michelle Tanner. When it all comes to a head thunder erupts in Colby.
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Series: A Tucson Kid Western. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 50,270. Language: English. Published: September 5, 2015 by Melange Books, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Men's adventure, Fiction » Literature » Western
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LOS ANGELES - A 63-year-old retired engineer from Mississippi made his initial appearance in federal court here late yesterday afternoon on charges stemming from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into allegations he engaged in illicit sexual conduct with underage girls in Thailand and Cambodia.
Curtis David Fahlberg, of Pascagoula, Miss., was taken into custody by ICE agents June 12 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) following his deportation from Thailand. Fahlberg, accompanied by ICE agents, was returned from Thailand to face charges detailed in a criminal complaint filed last month that he engaged in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. The violation carries a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
Fahlberg was arrested June 9 at his residence in Pattaya City, Thailand, by Thai immigration authorities and placed in deportation proceedings. At yesterday's hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer T. Lum ordered Fahlberg detained pending trial.
ICE's probe into Fahlberg's activities began in June 2006 after officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at LAX questioned him following his return from a trip to Thailand. A preliminary examination by CBP of two laptop computers and a cell phone Fahlberg had in his possession revealed images of children in various stages of undress. A subsequent forensic analysis by ICE of those media uncovered more sexually explicit images of children as well as numerous emails written by Fahlberg detailing his sexual exploitation of children in Thailand and Cambodia.
The affidavit filed in connection with the criminal complaint describes the defendant's alleged sexual activities with several underage girls, the youngest of whom told investigators she was in second grade when the defendant began photographing her in the nude. According to the affidavit, several of the girls Fahlberg had sexual encounters with were child prostitutes who worked in the Cambodian village of Svay Pak outside Phnom Pehn. In an email recovered from Fahlberg's computer, he wrote,"I don't worry how old a girl is if I like her."
"The exploitation of children is among the most heinous of crimes," said Director of Field Operations Kevin Weeks. "CBP will remain vigilant in our efforts to secure our borders - and our communities - by working diligently to enforce laws involving crimes against children."
The probe into Fahlberg's activities was conducted by ICE's Office of Investigations in Los Angeles and the agency's attaché office in Bangkok. ICE worked closely on the case with the Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, the Cambodian National Police and the Royal Thai Police. ICE also received substantial assistance from Hagar International and World Vision, two non-governmental organizations involved in the effort to aid Cambodian child sex tourism victims.
Fahlberg is being prosecuted under the provisions of the PROTECT Act. The PROTECT Act, which went into effect six years ago, substantially strengthened federal laws against predatory crimes involving children outside the United States by adding new crimes and increasing the penalties for these charges.
This investigation is part of Operation Predator, an ongoing ICE initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. ICE encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-347-2423. This hotline is staffed around the clock by investigators.
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Low (David Bowie album)
|Studio album by David Bowie
|14 January 1977
|September–October 1976
|Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France, and Hansa Studio by the Wall, West Berlin
|David Bowie chronology
|Singles from Low
Low is the eleventh studio album by British musician David Bowie, co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti.[1] Widely regarded as one of Bowie's most influential releases, Low was the first of the "Berlin Trilogy", a series of collaborations with Brian Eno (though the album was mainly recorded in France and only mixed in West Berlin). The experimental, avant-garde style would be further explored on "Heroes" and Lodger. The album's working title was New Music Night and Day.[2]
The genesis of Low lies in both the foundations laid by Bowie's previous album Station to Station, and music he intended for the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell to Earth. When Bowie presented his material for the film to Nicolas Roeg, the director decided that it would not be suitable. Roeg preferred a more folksy sound, although John Phillips (the chosen composer for the soundtrack) described Bowie's contributions as "haunting and beautiful".[3] Elements from these pieces were incorporated into Low instead. The album's cover, like Station to Station, is a still from the movie: the photographic image, under the album's title, formed a deliberate pun on the phrase "low profile".[4]
The album was co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, with contributions from Brian Eno.[1] As a recovering cocaine addict, Bowie's songwriting on Low tended to deal with difficult issues: "There's oodles of pain in the Low album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke center of the world [i.e., Los Angeles, where Station to Station was recorded] into the smack center of the world. Thankfully, I didn't have a feeling for smack, so it wasn't a threat."[5] Visconti contended that the title was partly a reference to Bowie's "low" moods during the album's writing and recording.[6]
Side one of the album contained short, direct song-fragments; side two comprised longer, mostly instrumental tracks. On these tracks help was lent by ex-Roxy Music keyboardist and conceptualist Brian Eno, who brought along his EMS 'suitcase' AKS synthesiser (Bowie was later given this particular synthesiser as a birthday present after a friend obtained it in an auction).[7] Often incorrectly given credit as Low's producer,[8] Eno was responsible for a good deal of the direction and composition of the second side of the album and wrote the theme and instrumentation for "Warszawa" while Bowie was in Paris attending court hearings against his former manager. Eno in turn was helped by producer Tony Visconti's four-year-old son who sat next to Eno playing A, B, C in a constant loop at the studio piano. This phrase became the "Warszawa" theme. On Bowie's return Eno played him the work which impressed Bowie who then composed the vaguely Eastern European-sounding lyrics.[9]
Although the music was influenced by German bands such as Kraftwerk and Neu!,[2][8] Low has been acclaimed for its originality and is considered ahead of its time, not least for its cavernous treated drum sound created by producer Visconti using an Eventide Harmonizer.[4][10] On the release of Low, Visconti received phone calls from other producers asking how he had made this unique sound, but would not give up the information, instead asking each producer how they thought it had been done.[10] In 2004, Bjorn Randolph of Stylus Magazine said that "had the album been released twenty years later, this would have been called "post-rock.""[11]
|Professional ratings
|Review scores
|BBC Online
|Robert Christgau
|The New York Times
|Rolling Stone (1977)
|Rolling Stone (2001)
|Stylus Magazine
|Virgin Encyclopedia
Critical reaction to Low was divided among music critics upon its release. In his review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said side one's seven "fragments" are "almost as powerful as the 'overlong' tracks on Station to Station", but felt "the movie music on side two" is banal.[14] Rolling Stone magazine's John Milward noted that "Bowie lacks the self-assured humour to pull off his avant-garde aspirations" and found the album's second side weaker than its first, stating: "Side one, where Bowie works within more conventional rock trappings, is superior to side two's experiments simply because a band forces discipline into Bowie's writing and performance".[17] Los Angeles Times writer Robert Hilburn shared a similar sentiment and stated "For 12 minutes, this is Bowie's most striking and satisfying album since Ziggy. But the remaining 26 minutes, including all of Side 2, deal with a spacy art rock style that is simply beyond mass pop sensibilities for it to build much enthusiasm".[22]
By contrast, Billboard called the album's second side "the most adventurous and a stark contrast to the few distorted hard rock cuts on side one" and wrote that Low "emphasizes Bowie's serious writing efforts which only time can tell will appeal to the people who have watched him go through various musical phases".[23] John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote that "There are hardly any vocals, and what there are mostly mindless doggerel heard from afar. And the instrumentals are strange and spacey. Nevertheless, the whole thing strikes this listener as remarkably, alluringly beautiful".[15] Rockwell described its sound as "a strange crossbreed of Roxy Music, Eno's own solo albums, Talking Heads and an Indonesian gamelan. Yet it still is recognizably a David Bowie album", and concluded that "once Mr. Bowie's fans overcome their initial shock at his latest change in direction, they may realize that he's made one of the finest disks of his career".[15] The album was a commercial success, peaking at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart and number 11 on the US Billboard Pop Albums chart. "Sound and Vision" and "Be My Wife" were released as singles; the former reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Low has risen to the top of many critics' "best album" lists. Pitchfork Media placed it at number 1 on the website's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s".[24] In 2000 Q placed it at number 14 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.[25] In 2003, the album was ranked number 249 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[26] In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide gives Low a 5 out of 5 star rating and states "it's the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body [...] sashays through some serious emotional wreckage".[27]
Nick Lowe humorously "retaliated" against the name of the album by naming his 1977 EP Bowi. Before finally adopting the name Joy Division, the band played under the name of Warsaw as reference to the track "Warszawa" on Low.[28] Philip Glass based his 1992 classical composition Low Symphony on Low, with Bowie and Eno both influencing the work.[29]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by David Bowie; all music composed by David Bowie except where noted.
|Side one
|"Speed of Life"
|"Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray)
|"What in the World"
|"Sound and Vision"
|"Always Crashing in the Same Car"
|"Be My Wife"
|"A New Career in a New Town"
|Side two
|"Warszawa" (Bowie, Brian Eno)
|"Art Decade"
|"Weeping Wall"
The album has been released three times on CD, the first between 1984 and 1985 by RCA Records, the second in 1991 by Rykodisc (with three bonus tracks on silver CD and later on AU20 Gold CD), and the third in 1999 by EMI (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks).
The Rykodisc edition of this album was released in the United Kingdom on CD, Cassette and LP in 1991 by EMI Records. The three bonus tracks were added to the end of side two of the LP and cassette editions so not to spoil the original running order.
|CD: Rykodisc / RCD 10142 (US)
|"Some Are" (previously unreleased)
|"All Saints" (previously unreleased)
|"Sound and Vision (1991 remix by David Richards" (also released by EMI in the UK (CDP 79 7719 2))
- David Bowie – vocals (2-6, 8, 10-12, 14), saxophones (4, 11), guitar (6, 9-11), pump bass (6), harmonica (7), vibraphone (9-10), xylophone (10), pre-arranged percussion (10), keyboards: ARP synthesiser (1, 10-11), Chamberlin: Credited on the album sleeve notes as "tape horn and brass" (1), "synthetic strings" (1, 4, 9-10), "tape cellos" (5) and "tape sax section" (7), piano (7, 9-11), "instruments" (13)
- Brian Eno – keyboards: Minimoog (2, 8-9), ARP (3, 11), E.M.I. (3, 5), piano (7-9, 11), Chamberlin (8-9), other synthesisers, vocals (4, 14), guitar treatments (5), synthetics (7), "instruments" (12-13)
- Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitars (1, 3-7, 14), guitar (2)
- Dennis Davis – percussion (1-7, 14)
- George Murray – bass (1-7, 11, 14)
- Ricky Gardiner – rhythm guitar (2), guitar (3-7, 14)
- Roy Young – pianos (1, 3-7, 14), Farfisa organ (3, 5)
Additional personnel[edit]
- Iggy Pop – backing vocals (3)
- Mary Visconti – backing vocals (4, 14)
- Eduard Meyer – cellos (9)
- Peter and Paul (Brian Eno under a gag pseudonym) – pianos and ARP (11)
Peak positions[edit]
Year-end charts[edit]
- ^ a b James E. Perone. The words and music of David Bowie. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. p. 60. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ^ a b Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: pp.87–90
- ^ Hugo Wilcken (2005). Low: pp.16–22
- ^ a b David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story: pp.299–315
- ^ Scott Cohen. "David Bowie", Details magazine, September 1991: p.97
- ^ BowieGoldenYears. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ Hugo Wilcken (2005). Low: pp.59–69
- ^ a b Nicholas Pegg (2000). The Complete David Bowie: pp.302–306
- ^ Hugo Wilcken (2005). Low: pp.113–118
- ^ a b Hugo Wilcken (2005). Low: pp.69–73
- ^ http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-albums-on-which-the-sequencing-is-lost-on-cd.htm
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (1 November 2001). Review: Low. Allmusic. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Goldring, Susie (18 April 2007). Review: Low. BBC Online. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (14 February 1977). "Consumer Guide: Low". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010.
- ^ a b c Rockwell, John (14 January 1977). Review: Low. The New York Times. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Columnist (1999). "Review: Low". Q: 108.
- ^ a b Milward, John (21 April 1977). Review: Low. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (5 November 2001). Review: Low. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Marks, Craig (10 October 1995). "Review: Low". Spin.
- ^ Mathers, Ian (25 May 2004). Review: Low. Stylus Magazine. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1 March 2002). "Review: Low". Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music: 303–304.
- ^ Hilburn, Robert (16 January 1977). Review: Low. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 9 October 2010.
- ^ Columnist (15 January 1977). "Review: Low". Billboard: 80.
- ^ "Pitchfork Feature: Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ "Q – End of Year Lists". Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ^ "The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
- ^ R.S. (2 November 2004). "Review: Low". The Rolling Stone Album Guide: 97–98.
- ^ Curtis, Deborah (2007). Touching from a Distance. London: Faber and Faber. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-571-23956-6.
- ^ "Philip Glass: Music: "Low" Symphony". philipglass.com. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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A financially struggling operator of more than 2,000 portrait studios in locations such as Wal-Mart and Sears stores has abruptly shuttered those outlets, leaving some laid-off workers scrambling — without pay — to make good on customers' orders.
St. Louis-based CPI Corp., called Thursday's announcement "sad" in a two-paragraph statement on its website, insisted it was trying to fulfill as many orders as possible and urged customers with questions to contact their local store.
It was not immediately clear how many employees were affected. CPI's website as of Friday was purged of everything but the statement. Calls to the company, in business for more than 60 years, were not answered on Friday.
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McDowell, 34, hastily copied as many undelivered portrait packages as she could onto compact discs on Thursday. By Friday, she tried to spread the word to those customers that she would be in a nearby pet store's parking lot on Saturday with those CDs.
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Empires 2.21 has been released and includes several bug fixes for 2.2.
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Empires 2.21 is released, with quite a few small additions, such as muzzleflashes, bullet shell ejection, and a whole host of bugfixes, including Dig-In correctly working again, Repair station repairing left armor, and a possible fix for the dreaded commander crash.
You must have 2.2 installed to apply this patch.
Empires 2.21 Changes:
Added: Shells now eject from all weapons
Added: Muzzleflashes now light up the area around them
Added: Rudimentary stat tracking interface. Only records maps wins/losses for now.
Added: emp_sv_stats_enabled cvar.
Added: Customizable falloff for vehicle MGs.
Modified: Added more tickets to Canyon (prev: 200, now 300)
Modified: emp_mvalley: Uses nice looking water
Modified: Re-enabled the bump maps for BE building textures
Modified: Joining a team with more players is not possible.
Modified: Concussion grenades don't blind spectators.
Modified: Entering a vehicle after throwing a sticky grenade at it no longer does damage to the vehicle
Modified: Jeeps can now carry 4 plates of reactive armor.
Modified: Infantry weapons have been slightly modified.
Modified/Fixed: Canyon Optimizations, viscluster added, increased the size of hint brush covering skybox
Fixed: Scoreboard text wasn't properly aligned.
Fixed: emp_glycencity: Fixed vehicles clipping through short walls at the middle flag
Fixed: Mines could be dropped in the commander interface
Fixed: Sever skipping maps
Fixed: Map brush wasn't properly unsticking people.
Fixed: Commander could change team in command interface using jointeam.
Fixed: Rifleman armor, 'dig in', and squad armor aura now affect damage received.
Fixed: Repair station not repairing vehicle that has armor left.
Fixed: Melee attacks were not lag compensated.
Fixed: Possible fix to commander crash relating to physics
Fixed: It is now possible to revive people who have killed themselves. It doesn't give a point.
Looks cool!
Didn't work, it had a engine error and crashed. Funny tho it opened up with the lost cost menu screen...and then it crashed.
Did you install 2.2 then 2.21?
Looking good guys, some needed fixes done..
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Never played this mod very much before when i downloaded because of crap pc was to slow but new pc now will download looks really fun like battlefield.
I've been playing the latest version of this mod and the 40 player servers are absolutely amazing. They really polished this mod since I last played. Absolutely wonderful.
I'm glad you like it.
i love this mod but when im treying to go on a server all most every time "Serve is useing different class table" or my map is not ok whit the servers map!! WTF :o
It means that some of the scripts differ form the ones the server uses. Make sure you've got 2.2 (full install), the 2.21 patch installed and that you're trying to join a 2.21 server.
Also, there's a few servers that run non-standard scripts for testing purposes. These update quite frequently and unfortunately this makes people not able to join.


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INNSBRUCK, Austria, NOV. 12, 2001 (Zenit.org).- The process of European integration needs a soul, Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich told the Conference of European Mayors.
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Enroth made 43 saves to spoil the return of Stamkos and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Lightning 3-1 on Thursday night.
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Re: Tax and Season Pass.....Im_A_Drag85 Feb 28, 2013 11:04 AM (in response to zvers)
does not include tax
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....zvers Feb 28, 2013 11:06 AM (in response to Im_A_Drag85)
Damn, I couldn't remeber from the MW3 days if it did or not. So I need to get a $60 prepaid card then....Thanks for the reply.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....phxs72 Feb 28, 2013 11:07 AM (in response to zvers)
When I purchased other DLC in the past from the PSN store, I want to say that the list price was the final price. However, I purchased my Season Pass at Gamestop. So I'm sure that I paid taxes on my purchase.
An easy way to find out if you don't already have money in your PSN account is to go through the process and look at the total once it trys to complete the purchase. It can't withdrawal funds that aren't there but it will ask you if you want to put in your credit card to cover it.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....zvers Feb 28, 2013 11:07 AM (in response to phxs72)
Hmmm.....I just don't want to have left over money sitting in my PS wallet. I can't recall what I did last year for MW3..... Thanks for the heads up.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....ProSnipes12302 Feb 28, 2013 11:08 AM (in response to zvers)
All i get from the psn store is it cost £11.99 but im a season pass will they fix this?
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....Doc_SoCal Feb 28, 2013 11:08 AM (in response to zvers)
In So Cal I was charged 14.99 only, no tax in the PSN store.
This may vary regionally?
It was nice of Sony to send me 10 bucks last week to cover the bulk of it.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....zvers Feb 28, 2013 11:11 AM (in response to Doc_SoCal)
Well, by your name I'm assuming your in Cali and I'm just north of Chicago so our prices have to be the same....
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....rlbl Feb 28, 2013 12:07 PM (in response to Doc_SoCal)
How did you get so lucky to get $10... never got it (hope I did not miss it somehow)
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....zvers Feb 28, 2013 1:06 PM (in response to rlbl)
They had a promo where if you spend 50 bucks in the PS store, you get 10 bucks back. I think that's what he's talking about.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....TheBeastlyDude Feb 28, 2013 11:09 AM (in response to zvers)
The tax is included in the $49.99 price for US but I know in some European countires, a VAT has to be added.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....zvers Feb 28, 2013 11:13 AM (in response to TheBeastlyDude)
But I live in Kazakhstan....my price, my sister and two donkeys!!!!! lol
Thanks for the info Beast.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....cranium2001 Feb 28, 2013 1:10 PM (in response to zvers)
I honestly think it varies by state. Here in NY they tax you on the tax if they can.
Re: Tax and Season Pass.....jord125j Feb 28, 2013 1:21 PM (in response to zvers)
here in the uk it cost £41:99 if that helps you


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Category: Child Care|Parks and Recreation|Preschools and Kindergartens
All about the kids
by FMPN , 10/03/2007
What a great staff and atmosphere. This is a wonderful center that is truly focused on the kids. I dont feel the usual pangs of guilt when i drop off my girls in the morning. They enjoy their day and the staff is wonderful with them. I would recommend either location to anyone that has to put their kids in day care


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I really like going on adventures and doing dangerous things. I am really into movies, and i know a lot of random trivia about them. My vocabulary is almost all movie quotes. Adore watching horror movies, the more blood the better.
I have a very poor sense of "where the line is" and often cross it and people will say things such as "wow you're kind of fucked up"
I am gay and kinky.
Although i am gay i would like to try having sex with a girl with my boyfriend( who does know what hes doing :D) So if your open to being a part of a threesome with a really awkward gay guy who has no idea what hes doing then message me.
I do stand up comedy. And thats pretty much it.
Im often with my friends or my boyfriend.
I can be exciting and boring but im often a good time as long as you like someone who will drag you into abandoned buildings or on rooftops.