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Pulling it Together: What We Know about Making the Case to the Public for Global Health
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who is a member of our Board, recently published a column making the case very effectively for continued investments in global health. Today we released our latest national survey on attitudes towards global health, which uncovered important nuances about the argument for foreign aid…Perspective Read More
Public Opinion on Gender Rating
With the Republican presidential primaries wrapping up, a barrage of new television commercials, radio ads, and fundraising emails has marked the start of the general election campaign. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be a mainstay election topic for candidates from both major parties. While Republicans focus on advocating…Perspective Read More
April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Core Views on ACA Remain Stable After Oral Arguments
The increased public attention to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) generated by the Supreme Court's consideration of the law did not meaningfully change the public's opinion of the law overall or of the specific provision at the heart of the legal case against it, the individual mandate. Forty-two percent say…Perspective Read More
Pulling It Together: The Falloff in Utilization: "There's Something Happening, Here, What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear"
For as long as I have been in the field, we have seen cycles in health care costs. Per capita health spending would rise, then moderate, then rise gain. My colleague Larry Levitt and I documented this in The Sad History of Health Care Costs and my friend Dr. Jim Mongan…Perspective Read More
KFF Data Note: A Snapshot of Public Opinion on the Individual Mandate
This week, the Supreme Court hears arguments on several challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the provision that requires individuals to purchase health insurance as of 2014, known as the individual mandate. For the two years since the law's passage, and during the debate leading…Perspective Read More
KFF Data Note: Americans' Views on the Personal Impact of the ACA and the Supreme Court's Decision
As the Supreme Court hears cases challenging the constitutionality of parts of the Affordable Care Act, a relatively small share of the public thinks the Supreme Court's decision will have a lot of impact on their family (28 percent). At the same time, the public is divided as to whether…Perspective Read More
The Individual Mandate: How Sweeping?
The so-called "individual mandate" – the provision under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires most individuals to carry a minimum level of insurance coverage and is now being considered by the Supreme Court – has emerged as the least popular element of the reform law and the prime target for…Perspective Read More
Public Opinion on the ACA: Cruising or Turbulent Ride?
Regular readers of the Kaiser Health Tracking poll know by now that public opinion on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been at a steady cruising altitude since it was signed into law on March 23, 2010, with a little over four in ten viewing the law favorably and a…Perspective Read More
The ACA and Fluoridation: The Power of Political Symbols
In the 1950s, water fluoridation became a public health controversy that morphed into a symbolic issue of larger proportions. For its opponents, fluoridation came to symbolize big government and even for some, a communist threat. The controversy became so odd that it was parodied in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr.…Perspective Read More
March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: The ACA at Two Years; The Individual Mandate and the Supreme Court
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) nears its second birthday, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that public opinion on the law remains evenly split (41 percent favorable, 40 percent unfavorable) with sharp divisions along partisan lines, much as it has been since the law was passed.…Perspective Read More


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- This article concerns the district of Queens in San Fierro. For the Liberty City borough based on Queens, New York, see Dukes
Prominent locations
- Gaydar Station
- The Barbers Pole
- Hippy Shopper
- Vank Hoff in the Park
- Biffin Bridge Hotel
- The San Andreas Federal Mint
- The Uphill Gardener Garden Center
Stationary vehicles
- Freeway (starts courier mission)
- Securicar
- Stafford (only when wanted for export)
- Three snapshots
- The lightpoles have gay pride flags on them, and at night, when the lights are on, the ones without trafficlights give off a pink glow.
- In the game's files there is also a power line post with a rainbow 'sock' on it meant for this area, however it is left unused.
- It is the only neighborhood in the GTA series that resembles a "gay" neighborhood.
|Neighborhoods, districts and areas in San Fierro, San Andreas
|Avispa Country Club • Battery Point • Calton Heights • Chinatown • City Hall • Doherty • Downtown • Easter Basin • Easter Bay International Airport • Esplanade East • Esplanade North • Financial • Foster Valley • Garcia • Hashbury • Juniper Hill • Juniper Hollow • King's • Missionary Hill • Ocean Flats • Palisades • Paradiso • Queens • Santa Flora


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Crouch family
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Crouch is the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family. They are related to the Black, Yaxley, Longbottom, Weasley, and other known pure-blooded families.[2]
The Crouches were a family of high status within the wizarding community. Bartemius Crouch Sr. was a high-ranking and influential officer in the Ministry of Magic, and it was widely believed that he would have become Minister for Magic. The family's fortunes however took a turn for the worse when it was discovered that Barty Jr. was a Death Eater. As Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Crouch gave his son a life sentence in Azkaban, but fulfilled his dying wife's last wish which was to switch her with her imprisoned son with the assistance of Polyjuice Potion. Due to such bad publicity, the Crouch family's status plummeted and Crouch Sr. was demoted and shunned aside.
Bartemius Jr. killed his father in 1995 and received the Dementor's Kiss as a result.[3] After his death, sometime in around 1996, the Crouch family became extinct.[1]
Known Family Members
- Bartemius Crouch Sr. — a high-ranking Ministry of Magic official
- Mrs. Crouch — wife of Barty Crouch Sr. and mother of Barty Crouch Jr.
- Bartemius Crouch Jr. — son of Barty Crouch Sr. and a Death Eater
- Caspar Crouch — husband of Charis Black
- Charis Crouch née Black — wife of Caspar Crouch, sister of Callidora Longbottom née Black and Cedrella Weasley née Black
- Two unidentified daughters — daughters of Caspar Crouch.
- An unidentified son of Caspar Crouch.
- Unidentified grandfather of Bartemius Crouch Sr.
Crouch is an English surname as well as a verb, meaning "to bend down; to stoop low" or "to be servilely...to fawn; to cringe"[4], possibly referring to Barty Crouch Jr.'s role as a servant of Lord Voldemort. Furthermore, the River Crouch is a river that flows through the English county of Essex into the North Sea, the location of Azkaban, and Crouch End is an area of London known for having been the home of many writers in the fantasy genre.
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 On Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Chapter 36 (The Parting of the Ways), Dumbledore refers to Bartemius Crouch Jr. as "the last remaining member of a pure-blood family as old as any".
- ↑ Black family tree
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ Wiktionary Definition: Crouch
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Classes, Programs & Screenings
The hospitals of Community Healthcare System offer many free and low-cost educational programs, screenings and support to help people live healthier, manage a chronic disease or recover from a serious illness.
Search here for class offerings throughout our healthcare system, which includes Community Hospital in Munster, St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago and St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart. If you would like in-person assistance to find a particular class or resource, call 219-836-3477or toll free 1-866-836-3477. This service, which includes assistance in Spanish, is available Monday-Friday, 8:30 am – 5 pm, and accepts registration for many of our classes.
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5/18/2016 - Mended Hearts
This is an extended support group for heart patients. Group made up of men and women who have exerienced similar heart problems first-hand. Our mission is dedicated to inspiring hope in heart disease patients and their families.
Monthly guest speakers. Refreshments served.
For information, please call Community Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation,
Location: Community Hospital Fitness Pointe, 9950 Calumet Ave., Munster, Indiana
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Hamas: 'There will be an explosion' unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade
Two Palestinian teens attempt to stab IDF soldier at West Bank checkpoint
Report: Germany rethinks its policy of automatic support for Israel
Herzog pens letter to Corbyn, urges Labor delegation to visit Yad Vashem
IDF soldier who shot subdued Palestinian driven by 'twisted ideology'
Palestine, ISIS flags banned from Eurovision song contest
NYT: Israel denies waiting for Obama successor to strike defense aid deal
Gal-On endorses Berko to head key Knesset panel
Music maestro Zubin Mehta remains young at heart
ISRAELI OPERA Gounod: Romeo and Juliet TA Opera House, April 18
Dining: A roadside attraction
J'lem wraps up first place and home court in postseason
Rajkovic suspended following Sakhnin brawl
Tensions run amok as Mac TA, Sakhnin brawl in rematch
Sinai Says: New horizons open up for Casspi following breakthrough season
Your investments: Omer and building wealth
COLUMN ONE: Defeating Hamas in America
Israel's economy: Reasons to be cheerful – and some for concern
MIDDLE ISRAEL: Should we visit Auschwitz?
VIDEO: Iran urges young boys to take up arms in Syria, 'reach Jerusalem'
Rouhani allies make modest gains in Iran run-off election
Terror victims' kin have no right to sue Iran in US courts, Zarif says
Fragile economy forces Iran's top leaders to form alliance
Analysis: The limits of the Iran-Russia alliance
From petrol to pesco: ISIS turns to 'non-traditional' terror funding
Italy nabs four suspected in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
VIDEO: ISIS forces withdraw from strategic town under Assad's protection
Boston-area men charged in ISIS-inspired beheading plot against police
NYU Graduate Student Union members appeal pro-BDS resolution
Britain's Labor Party launches anti-Semitism inquiry
UK Labor leader announces new initiatives to curb anti-Semitism within party
Chelsea soccer club warns fans against anti-Semitism before Tottenham match
How much money is the life of the world's richest Jew worth?
Rx for Readers: Attending to hygiene in geriatric homes
Country feels heat, wildfires break out in Jerusalem, Galilee
Tech Talk: Start in Germany
Haifa and NY researchers collaborate on treatment for two deadly cancers
TA pub fined NIS 50,000 in anti-tobacco suit
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Something strange in the air at Haifa Earth Day
Nation celebrates spring festival at natural wonders
'Israel needs to invest in Negev, Galilee for future population hike'
In 5 years, driverless cars based on Israel's Mobileye tech
TECH TALK: Women's Empowerment
Country's young computer innovators create apps at HackTrack TLV
'Ban anyone from Middle East - but not Israelis,' says US Senate candidate
Journalist hit with anti-Semitic hate mail after profile on Trump's wife
US Republican Cruz names Fiorina as running mate
Trump on foreign policy: Iran deal allowed it to become a 'great power' at Israel's expense
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This week in 60 seconds: Priestly blessings and religious brawls
Grapevine: Finally, a family center
Just Torah: Passover: A means – not an end in itself
Briefing: The Democratic showdown on Israel
Podcast: Is Bibi the worst option except all the rest?
Briefing: Bernie Sanders, Monica Lewinsky, and an uneventful cyber attack
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WATCH: Superman's got nothing on Israel!
Can you match the President to his opposing candidate?
Animals are just the best.
Can you solve this riddle?
Peace train building up steam
Hezbollah at a crossroad
A survivor's story
A year after quake, Israelis still helping Nepal recover
Necessary Stories: Grasping at the void
Trees for grandchildren
Bellicose culture mogul
In the heart of Africa
Veterans: Comic timing
Books: Seeing God's face
Books: Between tribalism and universalism
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A musical journey back to the Holy Temple
Hello, goodbye Jerusalem
This week in Jerusalem
Seen by engagement
Turning the (Seder) tables
'Seas' the day
Worn out with your workout?
The secret of the lost color
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יוּמֵיְיק רִימֵיְיק
אִיתַי פִּנְקָס
הַצַלָמִים – יְרוּשָלַיִם בְּעֵינֵי צַלָמֶיהָ
Palestinian Christians slam PA for refusal to recognize Easter
Orthodox Christians mark Palm Sunday at Jerusalem church
Israeli brewery resurrects beer recipe from time of Jesus
A different Passover Seder
Eurovision Contestants Plant Trees in Israel
KKL-JNF and The Italian State Forestry Corps Sign a Memorandum
Cornerstone Ceremony for ANZAC Museum in Beersheba
The 19th Walk for Water: Touring the Desert, Loving Israel
A Tree Avenue for the Mashabim Air Force Base in the Negev
Greek President Plants Olive Tree in Jerusalem Grove of Nations
Italian Environment Minister Discovers Negev Agriculture
Kenyan President Plants an Olive Tree in Jerusalem
Italy-Israel Friendship Tree Planted in Italian Ambassador's Garden
Hugging a Tree? Beware of the Pine Processionary Caterpillar!
UN World Water Day 2016: Better Water, Better Jobs
International Forest Day 2016: Saying Thank You to the Trees
US Forestry Service Shares Remote Sensing Tech with Israel
JNF USA & Alexander Muss High School in Israel
Both Receive Charity Navigator's Highest Rating
First-Ever Birthright Israel Trip for Jewish Law Enforcement Announced
90 Year-old Giuditta Matalon Embraces the Children of Israel
Peonies and Pineapples in the Negev Desert
An Interview with Israel Prize Winner Prof. Yossi Katz
Arava Open Day 2016
The Acacia Tree Stars in the Arava Ecosystem
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It's The Jews Fault, They Could Have Prevented WWII!....
Thousands take to streets of Istanbul, defy Erdogan
Iranian polls close, 70% turnout estimated
Millions of Iranians vote in presidential election
'Obama trip underlines strong US-Israel ties'
Prosecutors lodge charges against Taiba family mob
WATCH: Police raid Taiba crime family compound
The Voter's Choice: An Anglo for Likud Beytenu
Who is Yair Lapid?
Behind-the-scenes at a Labor campaign production
Pro-Israel Egyptian activist: Our fates are linked
Boehner abandons fiscal cliff plan as GOP balks
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Boca Raton Museum of Art501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432 In Mizner ParkT: 561.392.2500 F: 561.391.6410Email: email@example.com
Hours:Tues, Wed & FriThursSaturday & SundayMondays & holidays
Admission:MembersChildren(12 & under)AdultsSeniors(65 +)Students(with ID)
Exciting news! We have just opened up the second floor Permanent Collection galleries with Camera Work: Photography from the Permanent Collection. This is a re-installation of the permanent collection which includes 150 works from the beginnings of photography in the late 1800s up until the current day.
The Museum does not generally put out a lot of marketing material on installations of Permanent Collection exhibits so you will not see any advertisements. Regardless, we are quite proud of the breadth of our photography collection and we invite you to come upstairs and take a look.
Even if you only have a passing knowledge of the history of photography, you will see names that you know like: Eugène Atget, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Brassaï, Man Ray, Andreas Feininger (a personal favorite), Sebastião Salgado, Robert Frank and John Waters. Besides these celebrities you will find a multitude of lesser-known genre-changing photographers. The new discoveries that you will make are extraordinary. Our photography collection is one of our strongest disciplines in terms of collecting. In just one gallery you will see all of these revolutionary photographers and many more.
I would like to focus on one photographer in particular, Helen Levitt. We have only one Helen Levitt photograph, New York, but it is indicative of the style which brought her great renown. Helen Levitt practiced street photography in the late 1930s and early 1940s in New York City, capturing the lives of the children that spent their days playing outside in the neighborhoods, most notably Spanish Harlem.
Helen Levitt utilized a non-intrusive style, allowing the children to scamper about without any interference on her part besides the occasional snap of her Leica's shutter. Although not an outspoken proponent of either Communism or Socialism, she took these photos as a type of social commentary about the poverty which surrounded her in the city.
New York shows a baby toddling across a wet city street towards a smiling woman standing with her arm outstretched to receive the small child. In the background one sees a group of children jostling each other on the steps of a neighboring building while a fire hydrant spews water into the street.
As one of the earliest female photographers to obtain a one-person show (Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Edward Steichen) it was saddening to read of her passing.
But it also reminds us of how much progress has been made in terms of both women artists and photography, which can be read as a kind of photo-diary on the walls of the gallery.
By: Kelli Bodle, Curatorial Assitant, Boca Raton Museum of Art


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Robert Higgs Interview on "Anemic Recovery, Regulation and Taxation" at Cato Institute
Recorded: Thursday, November 5, 2015
Robert Higgs discusses our most recent economic recovery and some thoughts on how Keynesians explain events in American economic history. Higgs is author of the book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy (2015).
Produced by Cato Institute
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Experts: Robert HiggsType: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Politics
Robert Higgs: The Welfare State
Recorded: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Robert Higgs discusses the rise of the welfare state in the United States.
For information on The Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar, click here.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: Challenge of Liberty SeminarsIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Corporate Welfare, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Regulation and Deregulation, Social Security, Welfare
Robert Higgs Discusses Crisis and Leviathan
Recorded: Friday, March 28, 2014
Robert Higgs discusses his book 'Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government' at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Robert Higgs on the Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and Why It Still Holds
Recorded: Monday, February 17, 2014
On February 17, 2014 Robert Higgs presented this speech as part of the ongoing Economic Liberty Lecture Series, a joint project of The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society.
Check out Higgs' book Crisis and Leviathan.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Freedom, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privacy
Robert Higgs on Scott Horton Show
Recorded: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs talks with Scott Horton about the growth of government during the war on terror, economic recession and domestic emergencies. Check out some of Robert Higgs books mentioned on the program.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Defense and Foreign Policy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Political Ideology and Philosophy
State, War and Economy
Recorded: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, is interviewed on The Lew Rockwell Show, about the delusions of government power and U.S. interventionism.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Defense and Foreign Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Robert Higgs: Warfare, Welfare, and the State
Recorded: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
This presentation by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs was presented on July 24, 2012, at Mises University, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Corporate Welfare, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Part 5
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises


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EX: 12 arrives Friday!
An all new full EX Set with 8 new EX cards available for two months only -- featuring a new game mechanic INSTANT SUMMONING!
In a remote field, the renegade priest, Raste, is ambushed by church assassins. Just before he dies, he disappears in a flash of light, and is reborn in a powerful new body as a holy warrior.
A wandering maid-of-all-work, Cornelia, is really a magic doll made by Sumer personally. Her true power activates when she discovers her calling as a Gravekeeper.
Deep in the primeval forests that cover much of Lavato, there is one who makes the gardens grow... the gardens of Alraune and Myconida! She is the legendary Queen of the Garden, whose control extends to the reach of her roots and beyond!
Ariande is a young swordswoman who has inherited all the magic power and weapons of her ancient family, a pillar of the Wizard Kingdom since it's initial founding. Now she fights for the new kingdom, and to prove her ability to bend magic power into pure offense outdoes her rival, Swan Swordsman Alna.
Raste left the True God Church to find his own way, and now he's returned with a clean shave and new powers! His special ability buffs friendlies as he triggers their Counterskills!
Magic Dolls meet Cemetery manipulation in Cornelia, who does damage based on the total cards in both cemeteries and is even capable of performing a mass-revive on your field!
A super-powered Alraune, Natasha automatically kills any poisoned unit she hits and can even summon other plant-monsters directly to the field!
As for Ariande, range manipulation plus Grimoire-based area effect damage leads to a unique progression of unlocking skills on a tanky Wizard Kingdom.
EX: 12 also includes EX: 3rd Shrine Leader / Ridrea, a level 4 card retriever for shrine knights, complete with the much anticipated Cross Slash, EX: Chaos Form / Noze, who brings the idea of a magic doll and a deep one together, and can destroy dolls in the cemetery for power and immortality, EX: Staff Master / Mureria, who brings AGI buffs to Martial Artists, and EX: Princess of Regus / Bernet, the last word in range manipulation.
EX 12 is available in fixed packs, each including 5 cards (2 new EX and 3 commons) as well as a complete box, with 3 of everything! Now, here are the exact contents:
Knight of the 5th Shrine
Knight of the 6th Shrine
Folrart Lady Monk
Magic Doll -Fencer-
Magic Doll -Mobility-
Magic Doll -Undead-
Giant Gorilla
Monk of the Single Strike
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Something like the old Annarose pack, Batora pack, faction packs. If EX packs are supposed to be limited event.
And maybe a slight discount on prebuilts.
Mentioning Batora, would really like to have Batora III
Ethikx wrote:Best option right now is to reduce prebuilt's to at least 1000, if not 750.
Romdeau wrote:Ethikx wrote:Best option right now is to reduce prebuilt's to at least 1000, if not 750.
Going to be honest here, but you are suggesting that Apocoplay shoot itself in its proverbial foot financially.
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The way I see it, and this is based on assumption, is that hardly any new users are willing to spend $15 on something they do not fully understand, or are willing to take the 'gamble' of "will this actually help me to win more matches?" Lowering the price to $10 would make the investment less intimidating.
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Aerospace engineering requires a strong interest in aircraft and spacecraft. Aerospace engineers create new designs, update and modify older designs of airplanes and shuttles. This makes air travel, military defense and space exploration maintain their competitive status within the global arena.
Aerospace engineering is a diverse and very complicated profession that requires a great deal of interest in science and mathematics. Coursework includes electro technology or the electronics of engineering, intensive mathematics, aerodynamics, which is the study of the way air flows over physical bodies or through wind tunnels. Strong computer skills are a requirement in aerospace engineering as airplanes and space shuttles are heavily reliant on on-board computers. The study of avionics may include design and programming styles for onboard navigation.
Unlike most careers, aerospace engineering will almost undoubtedly require advanced degrees ranging from a master's to a Doctor of Philosophy or PhD. A PhD requires extensive study and academic experience in the field of study for which it is granted. The coursework is much more comprehensive, requiring additional study to build on the undergraduate degree and graduate degrees. Once an examination is complete to verify that all coursework in the PhD program has been applied, the student must then write a dissertation. This several chapters worth of work analyzes a specific topic and allows the student to demonstrate their extensive knowledge of the area they are studying.
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Greensboro, NC -- Looking for a fun night of watching fireworks and celebrating Independence Day? WFMY News 2 has your list of July 4th celebrations and fireworks displays.
Wednesday, July 3rd
July 3rd In The Park - Independence Day Celebration: Burlington City Park • 1333 Overbrook Road, Burlington, amusement park rides open at 10am. July 3rd festivities are from 6pm to 10pm. Fireworks are planned for 9:30pm.
Be The First To Celebrate The 4th!: The Town of Walnut Cove and several organizations will host a concert featuring the 44th Army Band with fireworks to follow. The concert begins at 7pm at Lion's Park in Walnut Cove.
Thursday, July 4th
Fun Fourth Festival: Annual Independence Day Parade at 9:30am with a street festival following. News & Record Pop Concert and Fun Fourth Fireworks Finale from 7:30pm to 10pm at the White Oak Amphitheatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex gate opens at 5:30pm.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: Guilford Courthouse Fife & Drum Corps will perform at 12:45pm followed by a commemorative ceremony at the Signer's Monument and Grave. Period artillery and small arms demonstrations will take place from 1:30 to 3pm at the site of Greene Monument. Activities will run from 10am until 4pm on July 4th.
Downtown Mt. Airy 4th of July Celebration: Festivities being in the downtown area at 10am and includes a parade at 11am followed by a pie eating contest. The celebration continues at Veterans Memorial Park beginning at 5pm with live music by The Dennis Tolbert Band at 6:30pm followed by fireworks at dark.
Military Appreciation Day: Adventure Land at 1600 S. Stratford Rd., Winston-Salem is hosting Military Appreciation Day. All active and retired military will receive a free three-attraction quest pass. Military family members receive $5 off their quest passes as well. Non-military can also enjoy a three-attraction special. Token specials will be good from July 4th through July 7th.
Kernersville: Kernersville will host a concert featuring Motown music by The Legacy. The concert will start at 6:30pm with fireworks to follow at 9:15pm. The event will be held at Kernersville Elementary School, 512 W. Mountain St., Kernersville
Winston-Salem City Pools: City Pools are holding "Red, White, and/or Blue" event. Patrons can get into the city pools for $1 over the July 4th weekend if they come wearing patriotic colors. The offer is good from July 4th until July 7th.
Sky Dancer Fireworks Show at Wet'N Wild: Show begins at 9:15pm and is included in your park admission.
Uncle Sam Jam: Oak Hollow Festival Park, 1841 Eastchester Drive in High Point. Live music by Rough Draft from 5pm to 7pm and country music artist Parmalee from 7:30 to 9:45pm with fireworks to follow. There is a $10 per car load fireworks fee.
Winston-Salem Dash - Game begins at 7pm, fireworks right after the game at BB&T Ballpark. Also, on Friday, July 5, fireworks will start after the game at BB&T Ballpark.
18th Annual July 4th Fun Parade: The parade begins at 9:30am from the parking lot of Fair Funeral Home in Eden. Everyone is welcome to take part in the parade just wear your red, white and blue.
44th Annual Eden Kiwanis Ole Fashioned 4th of July: The grounds open at 2pm with music by The Bullet Band, Trouble Highway and The Holiday Band. Fireworks should kick off around 10pm. Admission is free.
4th Of July Fireworks Show In King: The City of King will host fireworks at dusk (around 9pm) and can be viewed from several locations around town. Parking is available on the upper parking lot of the King Recreation Acres (use the White Rd. entrance), King Public Library, Central Park Amphitheater and the Carl Calloway American Legion Post #290.
Annual Faith Fourth Celebration: The Annual Faith Fourth Celebration in Faith, NC wraps up on Thursday with a 10am parade, games, races, a watermelon-eating contest and egg toss. Entertainment includes wrestling at 9pm and ends with fireworks at 10:30pm.
Annual 4th Of July Hot Dog Day: Walkertown is celebrating with their Annual Town of Walkertown Hot Dog Day. They will have music, Moon Bouncers, free hot dogs, hamburger and fries.
4 Free Movies On The 4th of July: Marketplace Cinemas at 2095 Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem will show four free movies to celebrate Independence Day. "Hotel Transylvania" will run at 1pm, "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs" at 3pm, "Muppets From Space" at 5pm and "The Smurfs" at 7:30pm. Admission is free and seating is first come, first served.
Friday, July 5th
Independence Day Celebration: The City of Reidsville will host an Independence Day celebration at Lake Reidsville with the gates opening at 4pm. The celebration will include music by The Breakfast Club and The Posse, carnival games, rides , bounce houses, food and novelty vendors. Fireworks will start around 10pm. The cost is $5 per car or $2 per walk-up.
Saturday, July 6th
Liberty July Celebration: Downtown Liberty will celebrate the Independence Holiday with a street festival from 11am to 9pm. The celebration will end with a fireworks display at 9:15pm.
Southeast Old Threshers' Reunion: Denton Farm Park is located at 1072 Cranford Rd. in Denton. Celebrate the holiday with tractors and lots of them. The reunion starts July 2nd and goes through July 6th. Each day has different events to go see from lawn mower pulls, super tractor pulls to horse pulls. The reunion ends the week with fireworks on July 6th at 9pm. Admission is $14 for adults, $6 for 12 and under, and preschool is free.
*Video is from 2012 Fun Fourth Fireworks show in Greensboro.
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A man lawmen believe stabbed a woman was arrested in his native state of Virginia. The Halifax County Sheriff's Office says 35-year-old Timothy Moran was apprehended without incident. Authorities are working to bring him back to North Carolina to face criminal charges.
Halifax County lawmen say Moran stabbed a woman in the Edge Water subdivision of Roanoke Rapids on Monday. He will face charges of assault with a deadly weapon intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
Lawmen say the victim's injuries when she went to the hospital are critical, but she has improved since then.
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Starfall is a castle in Dorne, the region controlled by House Martell of Sunspear. The castle is located in the far west of Dorne, near the border with the Reach and south of Blackmont.[1]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Starfall is the seat of House Dayne. It is located at the mouth of the River Torentine, downriver from Blackmont and the High Hermitage, which is held by a lesser branch of the Daynes.
Starfall is so-called because of a meteor which fell out of the sky nearby, almost two thousand years ago. The Daynes forged a sword out of the meteorite ore, called "Dawn", which is as resilient and formidable as a Valyrian steel weapon in combat. Only the most skilled and honorable knights of House Dayne are entitled to wield Dawn in battle; such paragons are given the title 'Sword of the Morning'. The last Sword of the Morning was Ser Arthur Dayne, one of King Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard, who was killed by Eddard Stark during Robert's Rebellion. Eddard returned Arthur's bones to his sister, the Lady Ashara Dayne, at Starfall. Ashara cast herself into the sea from the Palestone Sword, a tower at Starfall, in despair at the news of her brother's death.
House Dayne is a fairly important house in the novels, but has not been mentioned in the TV series so far.
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- Starfall at A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Richmond County deputies were called to the scene of an accident on Mike Padgett Highway around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday.
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Polk County, FL - UPDATE: The arraignments of the two girls who bullied Rebecca Sedwick have been rescheduled for October 29th, 2013 at 1:30p.m. due to new information received by the prosecutor.
Earlier Story:
The two young girls facing felony charges following the suicide of 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick, will be back in court Friday.
Jose Baez -- the Orlando attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony in the murder trial of her two-year-old daughter in 2011-- will the 12-year-old Lakeland girl charged with felony aggravated stalking in the alleged cyberbullying suicide death of Rebecca Sedwick.
Rebecca Sedwick's mother, Tricia Norman, has also announced on Thursday a national fundraising campaign to raise money for bullying awareness. The first $5,400 raised will go toward Sedwick's funeral costs then the additional money raised will go to a local group that is raising money in the fight against bullying.
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Halo: Combat Evolved Discussion - Please Rate This Discussion :P
Please note that this is not your average discussion of Halo. It may seem so at first, but read on, and hopefully you will see that it is absolutely a valuable contribution to thought on videogames...and Halo
I have not had as much fun with any other videogame, as I have with the original Halo. 7 years later I still believe it to be the best videogame yet to be made, with the possible exception of Ico.
Over the years I have tried to explain, to myself and others, what makes it such a proficient construction, compared to all of the trash surrounding it. Over the years my fluency in the language of videogame analysis has increased, particularly in the last year, after listening to Jonathan Blows lectures on how the medium works, and a great deal of thinking on my own part. I hope that my ability to discuss the achievements of Halo has risen accordingly.
Perhaps, some years ago, when describing Halo, I would have referenced the lack of tedium compared to other first person shooters like Half-Life, along with other videogames in general, such as resident evil, final fantasy, GTA, and many, many others. The thing about Halo, is that it focuses almost entirely on its combat, while these other games seem to think it appropriate to waste the players time with getting from one place to another, with no challenge in between; or waltzing around collecting one or another sort of treasure, again with no challenge apart from that of rising depression; or with ridiculous, and I mean REDICULOUS, puzzles, which might I add would be of no relevance to the core gameplay; and then theres the getting from one place to another with the challenge of working out how to get there without any directions only the assumption that there are only two possible paths from where you are, backwards, and some obscure forwards path, lingering under some pile of garbage (Half-Life). Halo did away with all these wretched videogame conventions (curse there souls), resulting in a line of transparently connected challenge areas, with the simple challenge of getting from one to the next. This usually meant killing all the aliens in your way (otherwise, it meant rushing past them all and getting to the next checkpoint before they could kill you).
The other area of reduced tedium I would have referred to is more to do with the core gameplay. Halos system of recharging shields; only being able to carry two weapons at a time; grenades on a hot-key; and frequent, well-placed checkpoints, spoke a tangible dialect of sound logic. It made clear the problems of what, at the time, were normal health systems, whereby the game designer never knew how much health you had at a given point, and so each scenario was either too easy or too hard. In this way, the player often had to take matters into their own hands, replaying sections they had already completed in the hope of emerging with more health, or traveling backwards vast distances to pick up that health pack that they couldnt pick up earlier because their health was too full when they first came across it.
With Halos system, the player always knew where they stood. They always had an amount of health that was small enough to be comprehendible, but rarely so small that their death was conclusively inevitable. They never had so many grenades that their value was in-comprehendible, rather the player was put in a position where they could make an informed decision about how to act, and were provided an intelligent interfacial mechanism with which to use them. The same was true with the weapon system, and it is worth noting the logical balancing of the weapons, which forced, the player to make clever decisions about which weapons to carry in a given situation. Further more, a very intelligent system was implemented for picking up and switching between weapons quickly, in contrast with the un-wieldy system in most games at the time. I could go on, explaining the utter competence with which Bungie executed the use of vehicles, AI, melee attacks, simple, diagrammatic visual style, and almost everything else in the game.
Recently though, Ive been trying to develop a more subtle approach to analyzing videogames, which makes fewer assumptions about what games should be doing in some respects, and more in others. So I find it hard to decide what approach to take when discussing Halo. The first would involve treating Halo as a game within the FPS genre, or, I should say, a game which uses, and heavily develops on, the FPS form. The problem with this approach is that most people have very different understandings of what the FPS form is Mre problematic is that most of these are likely to be very primitive understandings, because writers are yet to sit down in earnest and explore how the form operates in communicating ideas and experience to a player. I could, of course, attempt, myself, to make such an exploration, but it would be nigh on impossible to strike a balance between exploring the form, and discussing Bungies use of the form, in one review. I sort of tried this approach in my review of Little Big Planet, which turned out to be a bit of a mess as I didnt execute either part very well.
The other approach would involve treating Halo as a work in isolation; I could then explore it from first principles. This would lead to the obvious problem of not being able to go into much depth, since I would spend all of my time explaining the basic effect of the work. I think that a serious writer on videogames is in a very tricky position at this point in time, having so few sound assumptions to fall back on.
Well let me start you off with a quick, probably un-elegant, definition of art which I have come to recently. Art is the presentation of objects, patterns, symbols, sounds, rules and so on, which exist in the real world. They are presented without the clutter which surrounds them in their real-life manifestations, and are ordered in space and time, such as to be easier to understand for the recipient, and such that interesting relationships between them are revealed. Ive been writing an essay recently, in which I attempted, at first, to set videogames along side other art mediums by treating them as constructions of rules and goals (which exist in real life), but with fewer of these rules and goals than are present in their real life manifestations, so as to focus more intensely on the ones which are presented in the game. Each of these rules and goals are interesting in themselves, but are presented in such a way in space and time so as to show them more clearly and to draw our attention to particular relationships between them which the artist sees.
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However, I realized this to be the wrong path, since other mediums used rules as their materials of expression also. The interest in a play is often in the reaction of a character to a given situation. The playwright displays his skill in essentially working out the rules which govern the hypothetical character, thus deducing their reaction to a given event. Similarly in an action movie, rules are constantly presented to the viewer. We are shown that when some one is shot in a certain place, they are killed (or not, accordingly), and so on.
So in fact what a game does, the conclusion I came to, is to essentially present a simplified challenge. Of course, following my train of thought, this challenge exists in real life, but, if we imagine that, during a period in a persons life, they are confronted with various challenges at the same time, and other matters of confusion, then a game might create an alternate world where a player has only one of these challenges which existed in this hypothetical persons life at that time. Thus we can focus on this and learn, by playing, how best to deal with it, and simply experience what it is like to be engaged with it, and the emotions that occur for them while doing so. Perhaps, by viewing it in isolation, one doesnt necessarily solve it, but they can see it more clearly in their own life, and can live more in peace as ignorance is reduced. The game creator doesnt necessarily know what messages will be learnt by engaging with his game, he simply puts together what seem like they might be interesting rules and goals, to create a simplified, alternate reality. The rules and goals are themselves organic however (because they have been taken from the real world), and so lessons lie ready to be learnt from them just as they do in their real life manifestations, and similarly do emotions lie ready to rise as you engage as a human being. While other art mediums present alternate realities, the game is the most direct medium for this sort of representation, because they have all of the fundamental components of the real reality. While a film is just presented to you, you engage with a game fundamentally in the same way you would real life, and so it is a form representation which is most like reality. Of course a game does not actually have to have a challenge. It is true that most of the time, our reality is based around some sort of goal, but I think there are some times, perhaps more in some than in others, when we actually dont strive for anything, and a game could very conceivably be modeled on such an experience. One last point about the medium at large, is that the purpose of games is often not so much any of the above, but is to simply let the player engage with a challenge, or other experience, which, as a human, they have an in built in drive to do, but which has been hampered by modern society. Of course, in such a case, the game would still have the function of teaching lessons on how to complete these challenges, and they might even give rise to various emotions, but the player often plays simply for a chance to live out that sort of experience that they cannot in real life. This is most prevalent in games with skill based challenges, like football, Halo and such, but also, more recently, with RPGs. A game which is designed to be treated in such a way, is likely to be more entertainment than art, but this is not necessarily so.
The FPS deals with a particular sort of reality in which the protagonist is presented with the challenge of killing a certain amount of enemies while not being killed themselves, or something to that effect. On a surface level, it is clear to see where this sort of challenge might occur in reality: on a battlefield. If we let that stand for the moment; then presenting such a challenge is already a great simplification, since a soldier in such a situation might easily be dealing with all sorts of other problems at the same time, in other areas of their life. The reality is further simplified though, since the vast number of variables that might exist on a real battlefield is reduced to the bare minimum, in order that those which are considered to be interesting by the games creator are focused on. There are all sorts of interpretations which one might make of the battlefield when making a game; Chess is one, although admitably it is a very different sort of battlefield that is draws from. The FPS as a form, is one of these possible interpretations of a modern battlefield; in which certain elements are extracted. The form allows for a lot of development on the basic principles though, as has been shown by Halo.
At this point I would like to stick (as opposed to twist) there, and go on to how Halo uses and develops on this FPS form; confident that at least some of you would have understood what I have said so far. Unfortunately, I would be worried that perhaps just one person reading this, in that case, would think me un-sophisticated in the picture that I have developed of the FPS form as a whole so far.
The thing is that a games abstraction of a reality isnt necessarily as simple as that makes it sound. While it may be possible to simply reduce the variables of an actual real life reality, and present it as a game, most games will actually put together elements from different realities to make something more interesting. Whether they were conscious of it or not, the instigators of the FPS genre did just this, and so the FPS isnt a simple representational abstraction of a real life battlefield reality, as much as it includes this as a general backbone to the form, while imposing on it more general, and more highly abstract, parts of reality to do with balance and skill. FPS games try to mesh the reality of the battle field with another part of reality in which nothing is down to chance, but instead, victory can be achieved by displaying enough skill. In this world virtue is rewarded fairly. It could be seen as something of a falsity to impose this onto a battlefield, in which virtue is rarely rewarded in this way, and infact, it shows something of the world-view of the game creators. Of course, in reality, they dont really hold this world-view; they are simply following in a tradition of a world-view which has prevailed in games since the times of chess and go. At this point in time (now), the concept of balance is seen as a given aim for almost any game, as opposed to just one of the many things that could be expressed.
I feel I must apologize for this, but Im afraid that there are just a few more details about the FPS genre which must be elucidated before we can look at Halos contribution. Apart from the actual expressive components of the reality that is created in an FPS game, there are a number of practical conventions which are used just to allow the game to work. These have to be conventions, because they are so peculiar when you think about them that they can only be acceptable when the are expected by the player, and so not really noticed in the games structure. These include things like invisible walls to prevent the developers from having to create the whole world for just one little battle, also the use of invisible triggers which trigger cut-scenes, enemy reinforcements and so on.
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Now, Halo could be seen as communicating the same sorts of themes as other standard FPS games, and its developments could be seen as being in aid of strengthening the communication of these themes. At the same time though, while this concept of a world where virtue is rewarded fairly is one of the things an fps communicates, it also works with the particularities of the variables which it extracts from the real battlefield (or other sort of combat scenarios). In this way, every little change could be seen as one which changes the messages of the game.
Anyhow, when we examine Halos attempt at imposing this world of fairness onto the battlefield, without judging the concept itself, we can see that it makes gallant strides toward this goal. I have already listed a number of clever alterations it makes to the form in this vain, but the game is still far from achieving its vision of this balanced perfection. One problem is the scoped pistol, which is effective at both medium and long-range, and not too bad at short range either. This leaves it with only a little weakness which can be easily made up for with a good short range gun like the assault rifle. This results in a player with no weakness to be exploited, while almost every other combination will have a weakness, forcing the player to decide which combination would be most suitable for the anticipated scenario. Other problems are more subtle, and their solutions would involve further undermining the battlefield reality in favor of the abstract reality. Further balance would surely be reached if all appropriate weapons were always available to the player, but the 2 which could be used could only be selected every, say, 5 minutes? The grenade system, with a maximum of 4 grenades of each of the 2 types is certainly an improvement over other games, as is the frequent availability of re-fills, but I think further balance might be reached by having them be rechargeable in the same way the shield is, only, they should take longer to re stock. Again, though, this would undermine the battlefield reality, so these would not necessarily be improvements to the game as a whole.
Now what more is there to say? I dont think anyone would like me to go through listing all of the ways in which Halo improves on the communication of the balance concept. This is precisely the problem with this sort of review. I have spent so much time illuminating the general nature of videogames and particularly fpss that it would seem a laboured task now to explore in detail all of the ways Halo could become more balanced and more skilful in its representation of the battlefield scenarios, and the ways in which it has improved on its predecessors. Come to think of it though, this is basically all a review could do at this point (apart from talking about such interchangeable things such as its graphics, sounds and such). This is because the actual concepts were stated with the first of the FPS games, (Doom, Duke Nukem, or what ever it was), and so the basic ideas it expresses were discussed back then (they werent of course, but this is besides the point). For some reason though, it has been deemed acceptable for countless games to try and improve on them. Perhaps it should not be acceptable, and a review of Halo should run through its improvements before dismissing it as a copy of the original FPS. But I suppose this happens in other art mediums as well (the copying and improving I mean). I think you can think of your own examples of this. Perhaps though, the occurrence of this is particularly allowable in videogames, because its such a young medium. One might suggest that developers came up with ideas, like the FPS, which, because use of the medium was so undeveloped, they didnt have the skill to execute to full effect. On the other hand, one might suggest that the person who came up with the idea was simply not talented enough technically, and it was necessary for someone else, like Bungie, to take the idea, and execute it better. This all works on the false assumption though that the idea is limited to the combination of the two realities to which I refered earlier. In actual fact, the end product also depends largely on the particular parts of the combat reality that the creator chose to extract. Therefore it is not enough that Halo copied the welding of the two realities, to pass it off as a copy, Halo has, arguably, created a different game, as opposed to an improvement of the first FPS, by extracting different elements from real life battlefield-like scenarios. If nothing else it adds vehicles. Gears of war could be seen as more of a different game, because, while it copies the idea of imposing the world which fairly rewards virtue onto one based on a battlefield, the actual elements of the battle field that it represents are more fundamentally different, mainly because of its use of the cover system. Nevertheless, it is still very similar, and I think it may be about time we started making things a bit more different.
Now then, any IGN readers present; would you like me to discuss any of the games features, graphics, or sound?
Just as a little note to anyone who is unconvinced by my idea that the FPS imposes the world of justice onto the world of the battlefield, think about what a game which was modeled accurately on a battlefield would be like. It would not actually make a very enjoyable game, powerfully expressive perhaps, but not fun in the sense that your skill would be rewarded as it is in Halo. In a real battlefield, your fate would be largely down to luck. Does the enemy happen to shoot you or your companion standing next to you? Do you get shot out of no-where by a sniper a couple of miles away from you? It only turns into a game comparable to Halo when this abstract world where justices rules is imposed onto the basic foundation of the battlefield.
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Hey S.N.F.-
here are a couple of ways I could go on this, but I think the overall most pressing issue is that the piece, while interesting, is simply too long.
if you're interested in having this piece published, I'd say the best place to start is to distill the entire thing down to one solid page and make the points you feel most strongly about in a very concise fashion.
you've obviously been spending a lot of time thinking about game theory, but the truth of the Internet is that the vast majority of readers would abandon ship before finishing the first page... if you can trim it down, I'd like to see a revised version. :)
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Charter schools and their boards would be subject to North Carolina public-records and open-meeting laws and certain schools could seek fast-track approvals under changes the Senate has made to a bill.
The Senate voted unanimously Monday night for the changes, which also propose that a charter school could limit admission on the basis of gender if its mission is single-gender education. Charter school laws currently don't address the question of public records or open meetings.
The measure directs the State Board of Education to create a process whereby existing high-quality charter schools can find out within 120 days if they're approved to build a similar one elsewhere.
A final Senate vote could come Tuesday. The House hasn't yet taken up the bill.
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A tax upon them? Commission needs road money
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 1:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 1:33 p.m.
The County Commission has opted to reach out to local communities about a self-imposed tax for road repairs rather than waiting for the residents to come to the board.
Road worriers
The County Commission doesn't have enough money to maintain or improve its road network. So it will ask local communities to consider self-imposed taxes for road repairs.
• 2,510: miles of road the county is responsible for
• 1,297: miles within subdivisions
• $15 million: amount needed each year to maintain road network above fair condition
• $4.5 million: amount in gas tax revenues for its repaving program
The commission faces a list of projects that in coming years is destined to consume millions of dollars for new construction, rehabilitation of existing roads, pothole repairs and maintenance of unpaved roads. It's more than the county can afford at this point.
As an example, Assistant County Administrator Mounir Bouyounes, who oversees the county's public works departments, told commissioners at a recent workshop that over the next few years the county would need to spend about $15 million annually to maintain its road network above fair condition and leaning toward good.
The county, however, has budgeted only about $4.5 million in gas tax revenues for its repaving program, he said.
The county, Bouyounes said, in recent years has tapped grants — such as the federal stimulus program — and leftover funding to keep the roads at their present level.
Thus, one possible solution for a dedicated funding source that the board arrived at was to direct staff to educate various subdivisions about potentially implementing a special tax district to fix their own roads.
The main problem areas appear to be with "minor" roads and within subdivisions where the county maintains the streets.
Of the 2,510 miles of roads that the county is responsible for, 1,297 miles — or 52 percent — are within subdivisions, according to county documents.
The county's longtime policy has been to use gas taxes for maintenance, but use localized taxes paid by subdivision residents through a special tax district to cover rebuilding them, he noted.
Yet the need has seemingly surpassed the available resources, since subdivision roads have the lowest rating on the county's scale.
"Pothole patching is not going to do it," Bouyounes said. "To get to a better level, something more has to be done."
He suggested that it was perhaps time to initiate an assessment for those subdivisions.
Commission Chairwoman Kathy Bryant initially recommended that the board set a maintenance spending cap for those communities where the county is spending an "excess" for streets and notify them that the board would not spend beyond that limit unless they agreed to pick up the rest.
"That way, we're putting the responsibility on the citizen," she said.
Bryant's colleagues shied away from that idea, although they agreed that those communities had become "burdensome," as she put it, to other taxpayers.
The plan was to inform them that a remedy was available.
Myra Tedder, director of the county Assessments Department, noted that some of the projects in question had first set up a special tax district for road projects in the mid 1980s — when the county first launched its program.
She added that in some of those areas homeowners had approached the county about getting the roads done, but others were silent.
Commissioner Carl Zalak observed that many residents in those communities most likely had not lived there at that time and were unaware the county had a program to address the needs.
From that came the plan to issue a letter to learn which communities had an appetite for participating.
The program in question — known as the Municipal Services Taxing Unit — has invited a trio of lawsuits in the past few years, as homeowners objected that the County Commission had failed to follow the law in implementing it.
Their main point was that the board approved the projects — and levied the taxes — even though the improvements were not supported by a majority of landowners, as defined in a 1985 state law.
Although residents have prevailed in court, the board was able to pass judicial muster and charge them a second time by changing its ordinance and getting that special state law repealed.
Commissioner Stan McClain pointed out Tuesday that fixing the roads would ultimately be up to the commission, and not the community, since the board was no longer "bound" to abide by the results of the straw ballot conducted to gauge local support.
"It's going to come down tho whether we want to put a tax on somebody," he said.
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A new study measured the accuracy of using 'Gaydar' to determine if someone is straight or gay.
Researchers at the University of Washington surveyed 129 students who reviewed pictures of men and women of both sexual orientations. Each picture was shown for 50 milliseconds. Students were asked to use a person's facial features such as their eyes, nose, or the combination of both to determine a person's sexual orientation.
The responders found that they were able to correctly guess a person's sexual preferences 50 to 60 percent of the time. Many of the students were able to identify a person's orientation even when a picture was placed upside down.
"We may be doing this so efficiently that we may not even have to try to make this judgment," said Joshua Tabak, one of the study's researchers.
Previous 'gaydar' studies did not include the amount of people who rely on 'gaydar' to make these instant sexuality judgments.
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Independent Institute President David J. Theroux Discusses C.S. Lewis on Ave Maria Radio
Recorded: Saturday, August 1, 2015
Founder and President of the Independent Institute, David Theroux is interviewed by Ave Maria Radio President Al Kresta at the Napa Institute Annual Conference. Also President of the C.S. Lewis Society of California, David Theroux talks about C.S. Lewiss writings on liberty and Christianity and how Lewis became one of the best-read and most influential writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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A Christian, an Atheist, A Capitalist and an Economist on: What the Freedom Philosophy Is (And What It Isn't)
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Independent Institute Research Fellow Robert Murphy speaks on a panel alongside Max Borders, Doug Casey and Stephen Cox at the 2015 FreedomFest held in Las Vegas, NV.
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Recorded: Friday, June 26, 2015
David Theroux, Founder and President of Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society, presents at the 2015 Western Conservative Summit held in Denver, CO.
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Senior Vice President Mary Theroux is interviewed on radio station KOGO in San Diego to talk about the latest on California's Maximum Family Grant rule for families on welfare. She discusses the underlying reasons why children are born into poverty and the difficulty of breaking the cycle of poverty.
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Join us at Schacht Fine Arts Center for Baccalaureate on Friday, May 13th; The RSC Valedictorian and Salutatorian for the Class of 2015 will speak. All seniors are encouraged to attend and wear their caps & gowns. Families and Guests are welcome to attend. There will be a reception immediately following the ceremony.
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The Oxford Casino is being sold to an out of state company. The news comes less than a year after the casino opened, and follows a voter approval campaign in 2010 that touted local ownership as a major selling point.
The price tag for the Oxford Casino is a cool 160 million dollars in cash.
"Well, we're all Maine business people, and running casinos is not our expertise," said Suzanne) Grover one of the Oxford Casino's seven owners.
Grover said the search for a buyer started about six months ago, and has culminated in a deal with Kentucky-based Churchill Downs, the company that runs the Kentucky Derby.
"Maine is a beautiful area, so it's a very appealing property," said Churchill Downs spokeswoman Courtney Norris.
Maine is also appleaing, said Norris because it is gaming-friendly. She said Churchill Downs is diversifying, adding to its holdings of two casinos in Mississippi, as well as racinos in Florida and Louisiana. Gambling opponents said they're not surprised by the pending sale.
"I told you so," said Dennis Bailey is executive director of Casinos No! "I hate saying that."
He said Mainers have been hoodwinked by casino proponents.
"They sold themselves as local business people" Bailey said "Local owners. Maine-based with a real commitment to the area. That's really why they won. That was their message over and over again."
Mark robinson, a PR consultant who worked on the pro casino campaign said the sale is a surprise to him.
"Well the news runs contrary to everything I was told as I was being recruited to be the spokesperson for the effort," he said.
Promises of local ownership aside, Oxfords' Susan Grover said she and other owners have delivered on their promises.
"We uh, won the campaign we put up a beautiful facility," said Grover. "We are employing and they will continue to employ 400-plus people from the state of Maine, and they will continue to move forward with exactly what we were planning to do."
Norris said her company always looks to improve their guest's on-site experiences, and they'll evaluate expansion plans once the sale is complete.
"The company is familiar with the original master plan, and the vision they have for the development of the hotel and other amenities at the property," Norris said.
Oxford Town Manager Michael Chammings said he's fine with the news, and predicts the sale will create even more jobs.
"I think the advantage of what they have, the group that's taking this over, is that they've done this in other areas, and they'll be able to move more quickly on the development of it," said Chammings.
Bailey agrees that's possible, but he said that without a local stake in the casino, there's just as good a chance that Churchill Downs will pull out if the facility isn't making enough money.
The sale is expected to be complete at the end of this year, so long as the Gambling Control Board gives its approval.
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Tug teammates together again
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The city of Charleston has been a pretty nice place for Austin Brewer and Mikey Newsome the last couple of years.
The Tug Valley guard duo led their team to a Class AA basketball championship at the Civic Center in 2012 and followed that up with a Class A title last March after the school dropped a division.
They also won a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown game against defending Class A state champion Charleston Catholic during the "Shootout at the Big House,'' a one-day Civic Center showcase in February. Then earlier this spring, each committed to playing at the University of Charleston.
They get another shot at hoops success in the Kanawha Valley tonight when they compete in the North-South All-Star Basketball Classic at the South Charleston Community Center. Tipoff is set for about 7:30.
Brewer and Newsome, both first-team all-staters, will suit up for the South squad tonight, continuing a longtime relationship on the court.
"We kind of knew we wanted to go together,'' Newsome said. "We've been together since we was 5 years old. We're just such a good couple together. I've told everybody this, that out of all the players in the state of West Virginia, I would rather play with Austin than anybody.''
Brewer said that UC coach Mark Downey started to watch him play during his junior season at Tug, then also began to keep an eye on Newsome.
"They was interested in me,'' Brewer said, "and came to watch a few of our games last year. This year, they started to say they was wanting me and watching me all year, then ended up wanting Mikey, too. So it made it kind of easier for us to make a decision and stay together.
"If we had a chance to [stay together], we was going to do it because it made it a lot easier. We wanted to stay together if we could, and that worked out good for us.''
The 6-foot-2 Brewer was one of the Panthers' tallest athletes, but wound up playing a lot of point guard - his true position - and the spot he'll be looked at with the Golden Eagles. He averaged 15.1 points, eight rebounds and six assists as a senior.
Newsome, meanwhile, was Tug's long-range shooter and led the team in scoring as both a senior (17.8) and junior (17.4) during those championship runs.
The Mingo County tandem realizes there is the potential for playing time on UC's roster following the dismissal of guards Terrell Lipkins and Robbie Dreher and forward Quincy Washington after the trio was charged following a robbery in downtown Charleston in April.
"They have some openings because of the incident that happened there,'' Newsome said. "We're still going to go there with the same mindset that we'll take the winning attitude that we had at Tug Valley to the University of Charleston.''
Tug Valley made a bit of history in March when it became the first public school to capture a Class A boys basketball title since another Mingo County school, Williamson, turned the trick in 2001.
The Panthers, however, were fed a steady diet of AAA and AA schools on their schedule the past two seasons to challenge players like Brewer and Newsome, and it paid off handsomely with a pair of championships.
Now the Tug tandem would like to show fans around the state that, hey, Class A's got talent, too.
"This is just a huge opportunity,'' Brewer said, "and we're just going to come up here and have fun, and just show everybody that single-A can compete with double-A and triple-A. We're just going to give it our all and have fun while we do it.''
Newsome concurred.
"We kinda got a chip on our shoulder being in the single-A division,'' he said. "We want to show everybody we can play with anybody in the state.''
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Top Ship Models for Serious Collectors
Nowadays, anyone can become a model ship collector. What used to be an expensive hobby has become put into the hands of anyone who wants to join. You can find model ships for as low as $9.99. However, for serious model ship collectors those models just will not cut the mustard. Real model ship collectors know, however, that it is not about price, but rather about the quality, time invested, and limited scope of the model. A great model ship is diligently worked on by master artisans and created from the finest materials around. Many of the best model ships are often limited editions because they are so intricate in design that the designer can only create so many. This article will take a look at some of the top ship models for serious collectors.
The USS Constitution Limited Edition
The USS Constitution is a great ship model for serious collectors. Upon purchase you are given a Certificate of Authenticity signed by master artisan Richard Norris. Only fifty models of the USS Constitution will ever be made. This ship model is intricately designed and hand painted to accurately match the actual ship. It is built with rare woods such as cherry, walnut, oak, birch, and maple. Each model takes hundreds of hours to build by master craftsmen. This is due to realistic touches such as twenty-three hand stitched sails, an actual copper plated hull, and fully built lifeboats. The USS Constitution comes in at 38″ in length, 10″ in width, and 28″ in height. For all the details and work that goes into the USS Constitution you would be surprised to learn that it is only $599!
The RC Ferrari Hydroplane
The RC Ferrari Hydroplane is an excellent model ship for the serious collector looking for a great remote controlled model. This model is designed in the image of its real life counterpart and is meticulously painted to match. Furthermore, the Hydroplane even comes with plush leather seats reminiscent of the actual ship. The dashboard is even equipped with real looking gauges that are not merely painted on. Each strip of wood on the hull is laid down one at a time to ensure a quality product that is pleasing to both eye and touch. Also, when using its remote control function the Hydroplane can go up to 25 mph! Therefore this model is great for serious collectors looking to get a little fun out of their model ship collection. The RC Ferrari Hydroplane comes in at 32″ in length, 8″ in width, and 11″ inches in height. At $699 this model is a bit pricey, but for the serious model ship collector money should not be an object.
The San Felipe Special
The San Felipe is a one of a kind model that every serious model ship collector should be interested in. But act fast, because there is only one model available! The details that went into the creation of the San Felipe model are staggering. This model ship is made from the highest quality woods; its canvas sails have been starched to keep them in place; and the deck is littered with cannon ball racks, wooden grates, rudder chains, and an authentic lifeboat. This model took hundreds of hours to complete from scratch (no kits) by master craftsmen. The San Felipe is a grandiose 60″ in length, 24″ in width, and 54″ in height. For something so rare and so beautiful, the San Felipe's price tag of $7999 is completely worth it!
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Murky, cloudy water keeps you from enjoying your pond and fish as much as you would like. In addition, dissolved organics and sludge build up and reduce the oxygen concentration in the water, creating a breeding ground for disease-causing, pathogenic bacteria.
EcoFix contains five strains of live bacteria that digest sludge and reduce dissolved organics, making pond water clean and clear. The bacteria, which remain in a dormant state until added to the pond, become active and begin consuming the organic substances responsible for cloudy, hazy pond water. EcoFix will never smell like "rotten eggs" which is caused by the build-up of toxic hydrogen sulfide. EcoFix needs no refrigeration and should be stored at room temperature. Accidental freezing of the product will not reduce its performance in the pond. In cold water (below 40° F) the activity of EcoFix, as with all bacterial products, will be reduced.
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Bobo is a designer clothes manufacturer that appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and is advertised in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Advertisements can be seen for the company through the state of San Andreas (most notably a huge BOBO billboard next to the Mulholland Intersection), and at the stadiums in Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas. The store cannot be entered, yet in GTA San Andreas, two of their shirts can be purchased in Sub Urban: one (the Bobo Ape T) features their ape mascot, while the other (Red Bobo T) features the number 80 on both sides, the "80" corresponding to the syllable "BO" when alphabetized. The company also sponsors Hotring Racers.
- The word "bobo" means "idiot" in Filipino.
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- MNKY, a clothing company in Grand Theft Auto III also utilizing a monkey as their mascot.


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