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Tyler Area Business Incubator
Tyler Area Business Incubator
Helping businesses get a good start.
?The Tyler Area Business Incubator (TABI) is the creation of a consortium including Tyler Junior College, the City of Tyler, and the Economic Development Council, all united to make Tyler a center for biotechnology, medical and surgical technology, and other high-tech innovation.
There are three major hospitals in the immediate area. The city (population approximately 100,000) and surrounding communities have focused on growing health-related industries for over two decades.
TABI, operating self-sufficiently since 1999, has made a significant contribution to this growth. This incubator encourages the development of technology-based products and services which broaden the economic base of the area served by the college. Thirteen to sixteen client businesses operate here throughout the year.
New and expanding businesses are strengthened by support options offered here, such as employee training and free business counseling through the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).
?Some notably successful companies have been born out of this incubator. The employees of the three top graduate companies number approximately 600 to 700 (some seasonal). A combined total revenue of over $35 million has been generated annually into the community by these three companies. TABI has received three National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) Outstanding Incubator Graduate Awards: The first in 2007 for a company specializing in pediatric home care; the second in 2010 for a durable medical equipment business; and the third in 2013 for a provider of fiber optic and electrical services in the renewable energy industry. Almost all of the businesses graduated from TABI keep in close contact with the incubator to continue the beneficial relationship.
?The incubator director is active in the business network of the community. He often attends meetings of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce and Hispanic Chamber, plus other social events, to let the community know about the incubator. He is an NBIA-certified incubator manager.
The Tyler Area Business incubator offers even more:
- Immediate access to technical training at the Tyler Junior College West Campus, where the incubator is located
- Support from the Small Business Development Center, also located at RTDC
Some businesses currently supported by TABI:
Dimension Imaging – A professional organization that provides products and services relating to document imaging, scanning, electronic forms and electronic workflow.
Tel: 1-866-592-1805
Home-Aid Caregivers, LTD – A professional home care agency providing services with efficiency, integrity and love.
Tel: 903-533-1300
Derby Max – An e-commerce company that sells Pinewood Derby car kits, parts, tools and supplies. Operating multiple e-commerce websites, including an eBay and Amazon store, Derby Max has become a leader in its industry.
Tel: 1-888-286-8920


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How about we just try for that picture tomorrow, 'kay?
April 10, 2008
Oh The Hair
How about we just try for that picture tomorrow, 'kay?
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Oh woman, you tease! I know that movie is like that, I sobbed like a baby. Loved it tho.ReplyDelete
I took a nap today and had a dream about your darned hair. LOL You leave us in suspense...hee!ReplyDelete
Oh great, I was planning on watching that movie this weekend. Now I have to prepare myself for a crying fest!? I'll have to warn hubby. ;)ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your hair. You always look beautiful!
Jane, Pinks & Blues
Waiting patiently....ReplyDelete
I want to see that movie. You know how much I like Steve Carell too.
ooh, thanks for the warning on the movie. get tissues ready, huh?ReplyDelete
Oh I LOVED that movie! One of the best romantic comedies I've seen in a long time.ReplyDelete
ur mean! :-)ReplyDelete
OH I can't wait to see the new do'. Loving your belly pic below. You look great pregnant.ReplyDelete
It was a good movie! Today I watched The Horse Whisperer and I balled my eyes out too! :-)ReplyDelete
We are a couple of softies!
ha! i wondered what happened! i haven't seen the movie yet, but have it on my netflix queue! have a good day!ReplyDelete


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SALEM-Surveying the scene at the annual Steel Valley Super Nationals, one could plainly see that the majority of the cars entered were American-made.
But Ben Weaver of Minerva ensured that the event contained at least a dash of European flavor.
Weaver showed up at Quaker City Motorsports Park on Saturday with his 1987 BMW 325-IS, eager to race at the Super Nationals for the very first time.
"The first time I ran this morning my hands were shaking the whole time," said Weaver as he awaited his third trip down the drag strip. "My first two runs were above 14 seconds, hopefully on my last one I can get it down under 13 which is where I thought I would be."
Weaver bought the car-without an engine-from a front yard in Sharon, Pa., after seeing an ad on the internet. After the purchase he bought an engine that belonged to a '95 model of the same car, requiring him to also do some rewiring work. After a year of tinkering, the car was ready to go.
"I like the boost that the '95 engine provides," Weaver said. "That's one of the main reasons I went with it."
Due to the high volume of entries, Weaver's car had plenty of time to sit in the starting area between runs. Throughout the afternoon, several people passed by and admired how unusual the car looked compared to the others. "I'd love to meet who owns this," remarked one passer-by. "It's awesome to see this type of car here."
"It's just different from what a lot of other people bring here that's for sure," Weaver said. "You don't always see this style of car. That's probably why some people like it."
Weaver has had a long attachment to European cars. He's owned three previous BMWs and also a few Volkswagen.
"I definitely like the Euro stuff a lot," Weaver said. "I like the smaller build and I also like the rear-wheel drive that my BMW has."
As Weaver was waiting for his final run of the day, he said that he enjoyed the experience enough to keep racing. He expressed interest in participating in Street Night Thursdays, a new event that will debut this week at Quaker City and run through the end of August.
"It was a great experience out there today for the first time, I'll definitely be back this summer," Weaver said. "Hopefully I can have fun with it and keep improving my times."


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A high-speed chase with an accused murderer at the wheel was caught on camera recently.
New Mexico State Police said they chased the double-murder suspect on Interstate 25 from Santa Fe to Las Vegas.
After more than 20 minutes, the chase came to a screeching halt when an unmarked police truck tapped the back of the suspect's car and sent it into the I-25 median.
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Carmella J. "Connie" Vellone, 94, Presbyterian Village at Hollidaysburg, passed away Thursday at the village.
She was born in Altoona, daughter of Antonio and Mary (Dunio) Damico. She married Andrew A. Vellone, and he died Aug. 10, 1993.
Surviving are five children: John (Edith), Anthony (Cheryl), Joseph (Ann) and Delores (George) Lepore, all of Altoona, and Cynthia (Frank) Yablinsky of Duncansville; eight grandchildren: Gina McCutchen, Astrid Johnson, Tony Vellone Jr., Justi McCaulley, Andrea Leeper, Abby Vellone and Michele and Jennifer Lepore; seven great-grandchildren: Ashton Glick, Olivia and Sophia Vellone, Evan and Noah McCaulley, Andrew Leeper and Brayden Harbaugh; two sisters: Maggie Sidler of Altoona and Anna Hosko of Warriors Mark; and two brothers: Sam Damico of Altoona and Joseph Damico of Vista, Calif.
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She was preceded in death by two sisters: Angie Damico and Rose Folcarelli; and a brother, Frank Damico.
Connie retired as an inspector for Saf-T-Bak. She was a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, and she enjoyed cooking and spending time with her family.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at Santella Funeral Home, where a vigil for the deceased will be held. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. Committal will be at Calvary Mausoleum.
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Research on the zero damage cases other than False Swipe/Hold Back or immunities
Damage (Japanese: ダメージ damage) is a loss of a Pokémon's HP that happens as the result of a special or physical attack used against it by another Pokémon.
Damage modification
Damage modification is a system of multipliers used to change the damage dealt in a battle. These modifiers affect how the damage is calculated by multiplying the move's base power in various ways. These modifiers range from doubling to halving and even negating the damage done.
Type effectiveness
Since each move has a type, its effectiveness (Japanese: 効果 effectiveness) is largely determined by the targeted Pokémon's type. Moves can have regular effectiveness or be super effective, not very effective, or not effective at all. The effectiveness of types against one another has varied among generations, see this page.
Super effective
- "Super effective" redirects here. For the webcomic, see Super Effective (webcomic).
- "It's super effective" redirects here. For the podcast, see It's Super Effective (podcast).
- "Weakness" redirects here. For the TCG mechanic, see Appendix:Glossary (TCG) → Weakness.
When a move is super effective (Japanese: 効果はバツグン super effective), it inflicts double the damage it would normally do. For example, a move like Megahorn used against a Psychic-type Pokémon will be super effective because Bug-type moves are super effective against Psychic types. This effect can stack up; for example, a Pokémon that is Rock/Ground and is hit by a Water-type move like Surf will be damaged four times as much by the move as a Normal-type Pokémon would be, because both Rock and Ground Pokémon are weak to Water moves.
In Pokémon GO, super effective moves deal only 1.25x the damage, instead of 2x.
Not very effective
- "Resistance" redirects here. For the TCG mechanic, see Appendix:Glossary (TCG) → Resistance.
When a move is not very effective (Japanese: 効果は今一つ not very effective), or resistant, it deals half of the damage it would normally do. This works exactly like super effective moves, and can stack up. For example, a Steel/Rock Pokémon will be damaged by a quarter of the amount by a Normal-type move. Likewise, a Normal/Flying Pokémon hit by a Fighting-type move will be damaged normally, as Normal's weakness to Fighting is canceled out by Flying's resistance to it.
In Pokémon GO, not very effective moves deal 0.8x damage, instead of 0.5x.
Not effective
When a move is not effective (Japanese: 効果がない not effective), it does not damage the Pokémon at all and that Pokémon is "immune" to all attacks of that type; the move will yield a message of "It doesn't affect Pokémon..." Certain types are also immune to specific status moves, such as Ground-type Pokémon being immune to the Electric-type Thunder Wave, or Grass-type Pokémon being immune to Leech Seed as well as powder and spore moves.
In Pokémon GO, not effective moves are treated as if they are not very effective. So a Ground-type move can hit a Flying-type Pokémon, only at 0.8x damage.
Critical hit
- Main article: Critical hit
A move will sometimes inflict a critical hit against another Pokémon. This will increase the damage done by 1.5× (2× prior to Generation VI) prior to type effectiveness calculations.
From Generation II onward, critical hits cause the effects of Light Screen and Reflect to be ignored. From Generation III onward, a critical hit additionally causes the attacker's negative stat changes and the defender's positive stat changes to be ignored.
There are no critical hits in Pokémon GO.
Same-type attack bonus
- Main article: Same-type attack bonus
A move used by a Pokémon that is of the same type as the move itself will do 150% of its normal damage, such as a Fire-type move used by a Fire-type Pokémon. Dual-type Pokémon will receive this bonus for both of their types, and a Pokémon whose type can change in-battle will receive the bonus for whatever type they are when they make the move. Pokémon with Adaptability have this increased to 200% (an effective boost of ~33.3%).
In Pokémon GO, the same-type attack bonus is 1.25x, instead of 1.5x.
- Main article: Weather
Water-type and Fire-type moves' damage will be modified by rain and harsh sunlight. During rain, Water-type moves do 50% more damage and Fire-type moves do 50% less damage. During harsh sunlight, Fire-type moves do 50% more damage and Water-type moves do 50% less damage.
- Main article: Ability
Abilities come in a wide variety, and have various effects on damage modification. These effects range from increasing and decreasing the power of moves of a specific type, granting immunities, and even changing the power of moves affected by other damage modifiers. These Abilities include:
- Blaze, Overgrow, Torrent and Swarm increase the power of Fire-type, Grass-type, Water-type and Bug-type moves respectively by 50% when the user's HP falls below 33%.
- Guts will increase the user's Attack by 50% if inflicted with a burn, paralysis, or poison.
- Thick Fat decreases the damage dealt to the user by opponents' Fire-type and Ice-type moves by 50%. Heatproof decreases the damage dealt to the user by opponents' Fire-type moves by 50%.
- Levitate provides immunity to Ground-type moves and Soundproof provides immunity to sound moves.
- Volt Absorb and Water Absorb grant immunity to Electric-type and Water-type moves respectively, healing the user's HP by 25% instead.
- Dry Skin works in part like Water Absorb, healing the user when hit with a Water-type move, but it also heals the user by 6.25% each turn during rain. However, it also causes the Pokémon to receive additional damage from Fire-type attacks and lose 6.25% of its HP in damage during sunlight.
- Flash Fire negates the effect of opponents' Fire-type moves and instead increases the power of the ability's user's own Fire-type attacks. Similarly, Motor Drive negates the effect of opponents' Electric-type moves and instead increases the user's Speed by one stage. These abilities include status moves like Will-O-Wisp and Thunder Wave.
- Mold Breaker, Teravolt, and Turboblaze remove all ability-based immunities to the user's moves.
- Scrappy allows the user to hit Ghost-types with Normal-type and Fighting-type damage-dealing moves.
- Adaptability increases the STAB multiplier for moves of the same type as the user from 1.5× to 2×.
- Hustle boosts the Attack stat of the user by 50%.
- Pure Power and Huge Power both double the user's Attack stat.
- Technician increases the power of the user's moves with base power 60 or less by 50%.
- Super Luck increases the user's critical hit ratio.
- Battle Armor and Shell Armor prevent critical hits being dealt to the user.
- Sniper increases the damage of a user's critical hits by 50%.
- Tinted Lens doubles the power of the user's moves that are not very effective.
- Solid Rock and Filter each reduce the power of super effective moves on the user by 25%.
- Wonder Guard gives the user immunity to all attacking moves that are not super effective.
- Iron Fist increases the damage of punching moves by 20%.
- Mega Launcher increases the damage of aura and pulse moves by 50%.
- The moves Storm Throw and Frost Breath can cancel out the 50% damage if used on certain types due to the moves always resulting in a critical hit, and can cause 4×, 6× or 12× multipliers if used on other types.
- See also: Type-enhancing item
Some held items increase the power of an attack by a small percentage. Most of these items boost attacks only of a certain type by 20%. Some items can also modify damage by boosting the attacker's offensive stats or the victim's defensive stats. Some Berries also weaken an opponent's super-effective move.
Other held items that modify damage include:
- Muscle Band boosts physical moves by 10%
- Wise Glasses boost special moves by 10%
- Expert Belt boosts super-effective attacks by 20%
- Life Orb boosts the power of all attacks by 30% (at a cost of 10% HP per damaging move used)
- Metronome boosts the power of moves used repeatedly
A number of other variables can affect the amount of damage caused by an attack.
- If the attacker is burned and their Ability is not Guts, their physical damage will be decreased by half.
- In a Double Battle, moves that hit multiple targets do 75% of the damage they do in one-on-one battles.
- Reflect and Light Screen decrease opponents' physical and special attacks, respectively, by 50% in a one-on-one battle and 33% in a Double Battle.
Randomization adjustment
Every time a regular attack is executed, the actual damage caused is adjusted by a random multiplier - an integer percentage between 85% and 100%.
In Generations I and II, the random modifier does not have uniform probability for all percentages between 85 and 100. This is because the computer will generate a random number from 217 to 255 (217 is about 85.10% of 255), multiply it by 100, and then divide it by 255, to get the random number from 85 to 100 that the computer will divide by 100 to get the final adjustment.
As a result, the odd numbers from 85 to 89 and the even numbers from 90 to 98 have a 7.69% (3 in 39) probability of being chosen, while the even numbers from 86 to 88 and the odd numbers from 91 to 99 have a 5.13% (2 in 39) probability of being chosen. The number 100, the least probable number, has a mere 2.56% (1 in 39) chance of being chosen.
In all subsequent games, the random adjustment is determined by generating a 4 bit number (0 through 15). The computer then subtracts it from 100, and then divides the result by 100 to get the final adjustment. This results in the same integer percentage between 85% and 100%, with an even distribution of occurrence.
Damage formula
The damage dealt when a Pokémon uses a damaging move depends on its Attack or Special Attack stat, the opponent's corresponding Defense or Special Defense stat, and the move's base power. In addition, the various factors of damage modification will also affect the damage dealt.
The damage formula is
- Level is the level of the attacking Pokémon.
- Attack and Defense are the working Attack and Defense stats of the attacking and defending Pokémon, respectively. If the attack is Special, the Special Attack and Special Defense stats are used instead. Some moves like Psystrike use stats other than what moves of this category would usually use (in case of Psystrike, it uses Special Attack and Defense).
- Base is the base power of the attack.
and Modifier is
- STAB is the same-type attack bonus. This is equal to 1.5 if the attack is of the same type as the user, and 1 if otherwise.
- Type is the type effectiveness. This can be either 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, or 4 depending on the type of attack and the type of the defending Pokémon.
- Critical is 2 for a critical hit in Generations I-V, 1.5 for a critical hit in Generation VI, and 1 otherwise.
- other counts for things like held items, Abilities, field advantages, and whether the battle is a Double Battle or Triple Battle or not.
- random is a random number from 0.85 to 1.00.
The result is rounded down as remainders are not kept. It is possible to do zero damage [1].
Imagine a level 75 Glaceon that has the following stats:
Attack: 123
Defense: 181
It uses the move Ice Fang (Ice, physical, base power 65) against a level 78 Garchomp:
Attack: 210
Defense: 163
Garchomp is Dragon/Ground, so it has a double weakness to Ice. Thus, Type = 4. Additionally, Glaceon, being an Ice-type, receives STAB, so STAB = 1.5.
Modifier is then plugged into the rest of the formula:
So depending on luck, Glaceon will do damage in the range 170-200 HP. Despite Garchomp's double weakness to Ice, Glaceon's Ice Fang will not defeat it in a single hit.
Garchomp is up next. Garchomp gets a critical hit (Critical = 2) on Earthquake, a physical Ground move with 100 base power. With its Ice type, Glaceon is neither weak nor resistant to Garchomp's attack, so Type = 1. Garchomp is Dragon/Ground, so it receives STAB, making STAB = 1.5. Say that Garchomp is also holding an Earth Plate, which powers up Ground-type moves by 20%. Then Other = 1.2.
Inserting the stats and Modifier in the formula yields:
Garchomp's attack will do anywhere from 241 to 284 damage, which is more than enough to take the Glaceon out in one hit.
- In Pokémon Battle Revolution, HP bar will change with a different animation depending on the move's type (recovery, recoil damage and damage from attacks like Sandstorm or Leech Seed uses the Normal-type animation).
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The Stetson men's golf team will close a stretch of four tournaments over three weeks when the Hatters host the Stetson/CFSC Invitational Tournament at Victoria Hills Golf Club.
The event will get started on Monday morning at 7:15 am when the nine-team, 45-player field opens a 36-hole day of competition. The Hatters will play the first two rounds on Monday with the three-time defending tournament champions from Florida Gulf Coast as well as the team from UCF, which is making its first appearance in the event.
While the Hatters will be playing on their home course for the tournament, head coach Bob Weickel doesn't think there is much of a home-course advantage.
"There is an advantage to a point, but most of these teams have played here before," Weickel said. "This is the first time in years that UCF has been in our tournament, and it is the first time for Savannah State. I would love to say that we are the favorites, but Florida Gulf Coast has been tough to beat here the last few years."
The other teams in the field for the men's tournament, which will be played simultaneously with the women's Holiday Inn Express/Hatter Classic, are Bethune-Cookman, Lipscomb, Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic and USC Upstate. The men's teams will open play on the front nine and the women will begin play on the back nine on both days of play.
"Technically, I would think that Bethune-Cookman should be the favorite," Weickel said. "They have some very talented players and have played very well this fall. UCF should also be considered a favorite because they have been ranked for most of the fall."
Another top team in the field is Lipscomb, which comes into the event as the only team ranked among the top 50 in the nation according to Golfstat.com. The Bison are currently 42nd in the country with a 73.73 stroke average for the year.
For the Hatters, the only concern going into the tournament might be fatigue, but Weickel said what he wants to see is more consistent play from his young team.
"We have been playing a lot lately, but I have given them some days off here and there, so they should be ready to play," Weickel said. "The big thing I am looking for is some consistency. We have proven that we can threaten in tournaments, but we have not been able finish. We need to have the consistency to produce winning scores without shooting ourselves in the foot."
If results so far this fall are any indication, the Hatters can expect to see freshman Dustin Dingus (Palm Harbor, Fla.) in contention near the top of the tournament field. The youngster has been at or near the top of the leaderboard in the last two events the Hatters have played in and earned A-Sun Player of the Week honors last week.
"Dingus has been in contention in these tournaments, but in the last round the pressure has gotten to him a little," Weickel said. "The thing is, when you have a guy like Dustin, and like we had with Sam Ryder, the other guys start to count on him."
It was Ryder who took top individual honors at this event a year ago, posting a nine-under par score of 207 to win by six shots. FGCU took top team honors for the third straight year, winning by 23 shots with a six-over par score of 870. The Eagles won the tournament in 2010 and 2009 with scores of 13 under par 851 both years. Those are the only two under par winning scores for the tournament since the event moved to Victoria Hills in 2003.
"I'd be surprised if the winning individual score is not five or six under par," Weickel said. "Sam was nine under last year, but most years it has been five or six. For the team, I would think somewhere around even par would win it. It used to be is you shot 296 or 300 you'd have a chance to win on this course. Now, you had better be at par (288) or a little better to have a chance."
While the winning scores have come down over the years at Victoria Hills, Weickel said the course is among the toughest his team plays on all year.
"I think this is one of the toughest courses that we play during the year," Weickel said. "There are other courses with tougher holes but, overall, I think this course is as tough as any, and team scores in this tournament reflect that."
In addition to Dingus, the Hatters five-some for the tournament will include freshmen Andrew Peterson (Andover, Minn.) and Michael Primavera (Naples, Fla.) along with sophomore Matt Taylor (Naples, Fla.) and junior Tyler White (Palm Harbor, Fla.). Freshman David Torres (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) will make his collegiate debut in the tournament, playing as an individual.
Players will continue play from the first round in the morning right into the second round for the afternoon. The third, and final round will be played on Tuesday morning with play starting at 7:15 a.m.


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Gov. Nikki Haleys administration will push ahead with the states controversial voter ID law for the Nov. 6 general election if it wins federal approval to do so anytime before the polls open.
What the law requires
Voters must present one of five forms of valid and current photo identification:S.C. drivers licenseOther form of photo ID issued by the S.C. Department of Motor VehiclesPassportMilitary photo ID issued by the federal governmentS.C. voter-registration card with photoVoters who fail to produce identification at the polls:Voters who cite any reasonable impediment would be allowed to cast provisional ballots if they first sign affidavits detailing the obstacles that prevented them from obtaining identification. County election officials then are required to accept the ballots unless they have grounds to believe the affidavit is false, according to the law.
The decision, revealed in new federal court filings, comes despite disagreement and uncertainty about how the measure would be implemented.
Voting Rights Act dictates Justice must approve voting changes
Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Department of Justice must pre-clear, or approve, any changes to voting laws in South Carolina and other mostly Southeastern states with histories of discriminating against minority voters. When it struck down South Carolinas law in December, the Justice Department said it would disproportionately disenfranchise minorities who lack valid identification.In an effort to uphold the law, South Carolina filed suit against the federal government in February.S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson and most Republican lawmakers say the law is necessary to prevent voter fraud. They have called the Justice Departments ruling a clearly political decision by the Obama administration.Opponents including Democrats, the NAACP and the ACLU say that beyond instigating possible voter suppression, the Haley administration has failed to prove a voter-fraud problem exists.Wilson claimed in January that 953 dead people voted in recent elections, but state officials later backed off that statement, saying nearly all the errant ballots stemmed from clerical errors and not voter fraud.An investigation by the S.C. Law Enforcement Division intended to clarify the situation remains open, SLED spokeswoman Kathryn Richardson said last week. SLED opened the probe in January.Texas, another state requiring pre-clearance from the federal government for new voting laws, also is involved in a suit to preserve the voter ID law it passed last year. The trial for that case, filed in January, is in progress this week.By Renee Dudley
The 2011 law, which requires voters to present any one of five forms of official photo identification at the polls before voting, was struck down by the U.S. Justice Department in December and is at the center of a suit filed by the state in February.
S.C. Deputy Attorney General Robert Cook said in a June 29 opinion that the law would take immediate effect upon approval by a three-judge panel hearing the case in U.S. District Court in Washington.
The ruling is not expected until late September at the earliest. That would leave the State Election Commission with about a month to educate voters and polling staff about the new requirements and clarify logistical questions.
Voters will have recourse, according to Cooks opinion.
Voters who lack identification at the polls in November would be able to cite the tight time frame as a reasonable impediment for failing to obtain proper photo ID, Cook wrote in the opinion.
According to the law, voters citing reasonable impediments would be allowed to cast provisional ballots if they first sign affidavits briefly detailing the obstacles that prevented them from obtaining identification. County election officials are required to count those ballots unless they have grounds to believe the affidavit is false, the law says.
Haley has called the voter ID law one of her marquee achievements since taking office.
Last week Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey declined to answer questions about the reasonable impediment exception and other issues that arose in the federal court filings.
In preparation, weve offered to assist the state election commissions voter-education efforts including declaring September voter-education month and utilizing our far-reaching social media platforms to assist with it, he said in a statement.
Lingering uncertainty about the law has left some legal observers questioning its value.
Whats the point? said Columbia attorney Herb Louthian, a board member of government watchdog Common Cause South Carolina. The whole thing sounds silly.
The logistics of how the law would be enforced remain unclear.
The state has no plans to staff polling stations with notaries to take affidavits, State Election Commission Executive Director Marci Andino and commission training director Chris Whitmire said in June depositions. But other state witnesses including Republican state Reps. Alan Clemmons of Myrtle Beach and James Harrison of Columbia testified that the so-called reasonable impediment provision of the law could not be implemented without notaries.
On Friday, Whitmire said the poll managers who would be taking the affidavits are under oath to follow all U.S. election laws.
That gives it some that gives it legitimacy, Whitmire said. If the court ruled or the AGs office said in an opinion that we have to have notaries, I think we could make that happen.
Beyond that question, opinions vary about what generally constitutes a reasonable impediment, according to June depositions of Andino, Harrison and other lawmakers including S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell.
Harrell, a Charleston Republican, testified that just about anything could constitute a reasonable impediment.
Asked during her deposition whether the excuse I didnt feel like it would count as a reasonable impediment, Andino confirmed the vote would be counted unless the county board of election had evidence to believe that the person was not telling the truth when they said they didnt feel like it.
But Harrison disagreed, saying he did not consider that excuse to be a reasonable impediment. And S.C. Sen. Larry Martin, a Pickens Republican, said he did not consider a reasonable impediment to be whatever a voter claims.
Reached Monday, Martin took issue with the looser definition of reasonable impediment that Andino and Harrell offered.
It undermines the whole premise of the law, Martin said. That bothers me. ... We probably ought to revisit it.
J. Michael Bitzer, who has followed South Carolina politics for two decades and now teaches political science at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., lamented the confusion.
Unless youre crystal-clear (in the law), this becomes the type of mud that election officials and bureaucrats have to operate in, Bitzer said.
Haley stood by the law, calling it a common-sense reform.
We continue to believe voter ID ... will help more, and not fewer, South Carolinians vote and also secure the electoral process, Haley spokesman Godfrey said in his statement. As weve said all along, thats a great thing.
In his letter, Cook justified his opinion to proceed with the measure saying the state must balance the Legislatures interest and desire to have the law go into effect immediately with the fundamental right to vote.
Andino testified that the state needs federal approval by Aug. 1 to give people who lack proper identification a reasonable amount of time to obtain ID before the November general election. A court decision by that date, however, would have been nearly impossible even before the judges issued a rescheduling order last week.
South Carolinas case originally was scheduled to be heard by the three-judge panel in late July and early August. But S.C. Senate Assistant Clerk Michael Hitchcock made mistakes during discovery that led to a nearly two-month delay. Oral argument now is scheduled for Sept. 24.
About 30 recordings containing 65 hours of legislative debate directly relevant to the case didnt surface until late June because Hitchcock did not perform a sufficiently thorough or timely search and did not provide to Counsel all responsive recordings, contrary to Counsels request, an attorney for the state wrote in a June 27 affidavit explaining the error.
Reached Tuesday, Hitchcock said the oversight was nothing but a miscommunication.
The recordings surfaced after Martin and then-S.C. Sen. Glenn McConnell, now the lieutenant governor, said in depositions that committee meetings during which voter ID and its predecessor bill were debated had been recorded.
The state said it would provide the court with transcripts of the newly discovered recordings by July 4, and S.C. Attorney Generals Office spokesman Mark Plowden confirmed Friday that had taken place.
Late last month, discovery was reopened. At least eight more depositions, including some of people who already were deposed, are being scheduled, records show.
Reach Renee Dudley at 937-5550 or on Twitter @renee_dudley.


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In the aftermath of most tragedies, like the bombing of the Boston Marathon, civil authorities often focus on improving the safety of future public events.
As a parent and grandparent, I will applaud these efforts — up to a point.
I have always been a safety advocate. In fact, I raised my children with such an awareness of safety that they often called me the "safety officer."
When they were an early age, I taught them fire prevention, drug prevention, stranger awareness and pedestrian safety. The schools added contraception, rape prevention and AIDS awareness.
As adults, we hear our employers advocate safety awareness. They make us wear hats, helmets and seat belts. They add classes in lifesaving, smoking cessation, self-defense, defensive driving, CPR and stress management.
But no matter what we do, most of us know death can come in the most unexpected ways at unimaginable speed.
I learned that lesson in a profound way one afternoon in 1995, when I watched a mother follow her 3-year-old son into our Houston emergency room.
The two of them came by ambulance from an exclusive clubhouse in a metropolitan subdivision. They afternoon was spent at the club's beautifully swept tennis court. The court was gated, supervised, cleaned and staffed by background-checked employees.
"Can I take off my shoes, Mommy?" he asked.
"Sure," she replied. She wanted him safe, but not overly restricted.
The boy explored his environment as little boys can, by kicking at the tennis fence.
This is fun, he must have thought. I'm in a giant playpen with Mommy. I feel safe.
There's no way out and no way for the bad guys to come in. If any trouble came, Mommy was close enough to meet it.
Close enough was not fast enough. Her son was standing barefoot on a court dampened by morning rain, when he kicked the fence near an improperly grounded outdoor outlet.
In that instant, his life spirit evaporated with the morning dew.
Some might cynically quote the Christian Scripture, "It is appointed unto a man once to die," but the truth is that no one enters a tennis court in expectation of seeing his or her son electrocuted. No one crosses the start line of a race expecting to be legless at the finish line. If we did, we'd never leave our houses.
The good news is that the text admonishes us to live our lives as if we knew death was coming tomorrow. The verse is an encouragement for us to love each person in our lives with the fullness as if we knew it was our last day.
We live in the days of Sandy Hook, a crazy North Korean dictator and now the bombing at the Boston Marathon. This brings us undeniably closer to death than we like to think.
However, if the fear of death stops us from living, loving and longing for a peaceful future, the shootings and the bombing will have succeeded in toppling the foundation of a free and peaceful society.
Today, my life will take me onto a 10-mile course in Sacramento called the Capital City Classic. I'm sure most of my fellow racers will start with some trepidation, but as we run, it will be with the understanding that as close as death can come, we must hold life even closer.
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Feds: Erie felon possessed gun, cocaine
A former Erie man has been indicted on charges he illegally possessed two handguns and cocaine.
Shawn I. McCrorey, 44, faces five counts under the indictment handed down by a federal grand jury seated in Pittsburgh, including falsifying a firearms purchase form, possession of a firearm by a felon, using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug crime, and possession with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine.
The government said McCrorey was found to possess cocaine and a handgun on Jan. 5. A second handgun was found in his home at 3333 Holland St., according to the indictment.
McCrorey obtained one of the handguns in December after he lied about his identity in paperwork he filled out at Bob's Gun Shop in McKean and also falsely indicated that he had no felony conviction, the indictment charges.
McCrorey -- under one of his many aliases, William Dean -- was convicted in 1994 of delivering cocaine. He is prohibited from possessing a firearm, the indictment says.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $2 million fine. The FBI-led Erie Area Gang Law Enforcement, or E.A.G.L.E., task force investigated the case.
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Riced-up car or motorbike driven by an azn.
ChEk Ma WhEaLz!1 TaKe NoAt Ov Ma siLva cOaTInG!111 Ma Car bEz A rIce RoKeT!111~
بواسطة Bastardized Bottomburp مايو/أيار 3, 2003
1-rice rocket..import bike more commonly known as a "crotch rocket"
2-riceburner-imported car...civics, jettas, etc.
2-riceburner-imported car...civics, jettas, etc.
yo champ...more guys drive and hook up civics then girls, im a girl i kno these things...celica's and jettas are girly cars, and actually for all u ppl that think imports suck, my cuz has an old mustang and my friend has a passat..he had a chip, blow-off valve, exhaust etc..the mustang had intake headers and exhaust i believe..ne way off the line the mustang was killen him, but then the passat picked up and ate him, dont get me wrong nuthin sounds better then a mustang, however i think u domestic lovers should not be so hard headed becuz imports are gettin faster and better each yr, so watch out
بواسطة priscilla marie يوليو/تمُّوز 2, 2004
any type of honda/toyota purchased by an asian, and is tricked out with many esspensive features n bells n whistles. Usually driven by the Korean Mafia or asia gangsters in high school. They are very low to the ground to accompany the shirtness of the driver.
Ya I know Kaiser, he that china boy that drives a rice rocket.
بواسطة Teresa مايو/أيار 1, 2003
The type of weak ass gook bike that show off assholes ride.
Jose fell his stupid ass off his rice rocket when he was trying to get road head.
crappy car
see also rice burner or riceburner
see also rice burner or riceburner
i hate riceburners
بواسطة Adolf Hiter II أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 24, 2003
A weak-ass poor horsepowered car that will never be able to beat a stock american muscle car no matter how much technology advances... ALL HAIL THE POWER OF V8 YOU GODDAMN RICE-ROCKET WANNABE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Ill put my money on a stock muscle car over a tuned rice rocket any day of the fucking week
بواسطة James Lowe نوفمبر/تشرين الثّاني 3, 2004
a vehicle with several modifications to it in several ways. may or may not be fast. opposed to popular belief, the term "rice" in the title refers to the fact that the engines are very small and not that they are japanese.
the people who post negative definitions of rice rocket on this site are just jealous haters who are jealous that they lack the money or talent to make a rice rocket.
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v. laughing + whizzing = lizzing.
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The words "wizzing" and "laughing" combined.
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The glorious combination of laughing and whizzing (urinating).
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Without the trinity system, I wonder how players will respond tank healer dps makes up the trinity system
Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 11:03 AM
In a way it's nice, well for me personally because it has a chance of making the game be more fun because I've gone through plenty of experiences where I was in a raid as a healer and died and get yelled at over chat that it's my fault the raid failed which totally made me feel like shit and I stopped playing. Due to that mentality MMO's felt more like work than playing a game and it totally sucked which ultimately led to my unsubbing from a majority of them.
The more I learn about this game the more I hope it's a success because it seems to be doing what has made other MMOs fail before
There is no carpooling here, you're driving the car yourself and if you crash you better have great auto insurance
Lets go Blade and Soul!
Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 11:59 AM
Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 12:13 PM
There are times when certain classes have to put up some sort of 'protection field' to keep the party from getting their butts handed to them.
Also, you'll still have someone in your team that will tank the bosses.
It's not like every class can support the team or tank.
Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 2:40 PM
Hakkai, on Nov 27, 2012 - 12:13 PM, said:
There are times when certain classes have to put up some sort of 'protection field' to keep the party from getting their butts handed to them.
Also, you'll still have someone in your team that will tank the bosses.
It's not like every class can support the team or tank.
the force master *protection field* you are talking about it just to protect the group from ranged attacks for a limited time, its useful if you don't feel the need to scatter like rats in a flood with certain bosses fly away/hang on a wall/or are otherwise out of your attack range then start spitting/throwing stuff/etc at your group from the safety of being out of your attack range. it should be know that blade & soul DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE HEALING CLASS, no class can heal another player, only healing you are going to get during combat is potions and HP leech skill and slotted gems on your weapon. lyn summoners can heal themselves and their pet with various skills but that for personal use. so in blade & soul, you are responsible for your own butt and no one is carrying you around like extra baggage like in other trinity mmos, where the healer or tank can carry a windowlicker group who have no clue what they are doing or what's going on. not to say that all boss encounters are do or die, there is plenty of breathing room but on a whole, you actually have to active try to survive instead of standing around and hoping you get a heal from the healer, which doesn't exist in blade & soul.
*tanking* is a relative term in blade & soul, no class has any aggro/threat increasing skill like taunt or threaten etc, its purely dps aggro, so whomever does the most dps is usually the one the boss is attacking and if you pay attention to most game play videos so far, the *tank* is usually a jin/kun blademaster as far as most of the videos i have seen. destroyers can tank too but they don't actually do much attacking, all i see destroyers doing in mostly choking the bosses and letting the everyone take free shots then the blademaster continues to hold aggro until the destroyer can choke the boss again..repeat..if you can call that tanking, i guess that's it, never seen a destroyer stand there and *tank*. i could be wrong and i could be missing the destroyer tanking videos but im just saying what i see. lastly, if you watch any of the bosses/raid videos, tanking is kind of an odd dps race type deal since everything is essentially dps and if everyone works together with the knowdown/stun/aerial tag team system, bosses can be easily controlled and beaten to death quite easily with a decent group as far as i can see in many videos i have seen. so i would say the old trinity of tank, healer, dps is a relic of the mmo world, welcome to the present ^_^
Posted Nov 27, 2012 - 2:58 PM
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Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 1:20 AM
The Blade Master or Kung Fu Master will Tank
Everybody else will damage it up.
Force Masters must always have the shield skill and keep it up at all times.
Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 1:34 PM
As a result the same kind of frustration can occur---but it'd be more justified. Imagine being that person who is skilled and thus can think of a good plan that can help everyone---but the person you're requiring the help of is inexperienced, and on top of that too stubborn to try out your plan. This of course gives you about as much right to make them feel like trash as that have to you---but you need to understand where frustration can come from and why it appears.
People tend to vent---some do it to the point where they don't realize what they're saying and don't even mean it.
This isn't to say that there aren't billions of people whom do realize it and just say it because they have their anonymity to protect them...but it's always good to look both ways before you cross a street. n n
While I do think this trinity system will increase an awareness about personal skill---I don't think these frustrations will disappear. Rather they'll just take a different form and possibly even give rise to even more elitism.
That said---I think it's more important to focus on educating where you can and trying to work with what you have in a party. It takes a decent head to assist with the synergy of a party or raid group.
Especially when they're 'pub-parties'..
Posted Nov 28, 2012 - 7:40 PM
Shinaji, on Nov 28, 2012 - 1:20 AM, said:
The Blade Master or Kung Fu Master will Tank
Everybody else will damage it up.
Force Masters must always have the shield skill and keep it up at all times.
Which really stinks when you think about it for Force Masters. Its basically REQUIRED that you must have that skill thus eliminating points to be used for other build styles. Whenever a game requires you to MUST have certain skills to be successful I think its time to go back to the drawing board.
Posted Nov 29, 2012 - 12:29 AM
Lyndis, on Nov 28, 2012 - 7:40 PM, said:
I wanted to say something about skill points and roles in this game. I have never played a MMORPG where there wasn't an optimal pve/pvp skill tree set up. From WOW to Aion to Diablo to BnS there are so many people playing and stat crunching that someone always figures out the best skill tree to use. I know people want to pick what skills they want to use and have personalized abilities/skills. But there are a skills that one needs to take in order to benefit themselves and the party during dungeons or pvp. I play with my SO and she's a FM. She has never taken the 'shield' talent. Other classes have similar skills such as the summoner's dust or the assassin's smoke bomb. Nevertheless, you will have to use skill points for some abilities but BnS ensures for dungeon mechanics multiple characters can bring needed abilities.
The previous posts were right about no healers in this game. Everyone is personally responsible for keeping their health up and not standing in fire.
For tanks...bosses focus on whomever is outputting the most damage. In other MMOs I've played tanks have high HP and defensive cool downs and stats. In BnS that is not the case for the tanks want to focus on high crit rate/% and damage stats in order to keep the boss's attention. ALL classes can tank, but some are better suited than others for certain bosses. Let me explain: Kung-Fu Masters and Blade Masters IMO are best suited to tank because they can counter/parry and block, respectively. Summoners can tank with their cats and root. I've seen Assassins evading all attacks while tanking. Force Masters can kite and freeze. Destroyers and Blade Masters have complete avoidance skills and their spins increase their defense immensely. A cool think about BnS is that bosses will change abilities depending on how they are tanked. For example, the girl with the Gatling gun (last boss in one of the endgame dungeons) will do melee ranged moves if tanked by a melee class or shoot grenades at a ranged class if tanked by a ranged player.
Posted Nov 29, 2012 - 1:24 AM
Lyndis, on Nov 28, 2012 - 7:40 PM, said:
FMs don't need to use the point for the skill. they can just bring an assassin together, assassins get that projectile immunity skill for free, no skill point needed.
Posted Nov 30, 2012 - 1:30 PM
The weird thing is, while I say I dislike a case where anyone can be anything more or less within a spectrum that lacks any kind of stone set roles; I find I insistently carve a path of self sufficiency within holy trinity laden games. Sort of a double standard paradox I've got on my hands. I tend to play a tank in such a way that I can go on for quite a while when shit hits the fan, without a need to rely on anyone else. I know I've shot my share of sharp acidic glares when I 'expected' a healer to cut in and I was met with pure incompetence instead, the thought that would often cross my mind was "Damn, you hardly need to work to keep me up and I'm making this such a smooth experience... why fall at such a short hurdle dude? It's not that hard surely... isn't it?" I had to play a healer during one of my MMO experiences just to make sure I wasn't just a misunderstanding of what the healer is capable and not capable of doing... and I was disgusted understandably; it really wasn't that hard and I felt stupid for giving those people the benefit of the doubt from then on lol.
Honestly though, within the right company, a trinity system works the field. It just does, in my books anyway. In a game lacking such boundaries... such as GW2... "What are you?" "Oh I'm control!" *a fight goes on* *I don't recognize anything that I could call CC going on* *I question the fellow* "Well if I use X skill, well, isn't that kind of control?" *le sigh* I get that from support labelled people as well. Well, what I saw from that is people really can't escape the shadow of a class based system, even if it a vague shell of the former in the shape of self-imposed roles; and yet... they do so within a scheme that tries to break away from such shackles. So, why not just give back what the people want and inject boundaries within the classes themselves again? o.O I know it'd make it a lot less agitating for me as I genuinely don't know who to look out for in the fray that will do something specific to help aid my own cause. I just think it would make the experience all the more fluid again, and the rage? Well just be as the duck and let the watery rage roll down your back; they're only empty insults right?
In B&S, well... it seems that across the full house, a couple of classes do X better than every other one while a couple more do Y better than most everything else even if it isn't as extreme as in other MMOs. It's not so much a case of 'style' such as damage output style like in GW2 which has me breathe a sigh of relief; y'know... there are classes that are just plain better at damage dealing. Even though there is still some of it there, don't get me wrong... but that's just the basic stuff like AoE vs DD that you find commonly pretty much everywhere.
Actually y'know what? I'm going to stop talking and return to my original analysis. The only group of people that will be losing out are out and out healer players. They will just have to settle for soft support classes. There are tanks still in after all, just not extreme tanks - but certainly more of a tank than any of the classes in GW2 can be.
Posted Dec 03, 2012 - 12:25 PM
Kerberian Kitsune, on Nov 30, 2012 - 1:30 PM, said:
Looking from your persepctive, also as one whom commonly plays a healer & understands the trials and tribulations of such, I can easily vouch that the trinity system works. A good party on both a mental and 'physical' stand point is one that will not easily fail. (And when they do fail they improve upon their flaws) The system works, it's fun, and it provides a silent understanding of what needs to be done, what kind of person you may be dealing with for each class, how you must gear yourself, and other important in-game and off-game things that such roles can tip the understanding mind...
However my differing opinion is as such:
I feel that a game where there is no trinity is one that forces players to commit to team work in a different way.
All the things you could need in a team are still very much present---and your assumed role in a team is a little more present to me than just vague.
I'll explain from experience:
On the private server not many people enjoy hearing about I took to creating a character that was a KFM. A friend of mine whom rarely played mage classes decided she'd pick up the Lyn...and thus we went about playing the areas that were available to us. For a while it was pretty odd...we attempted to support each other in battle but for the most part dealing with casual mobs ended in us just pretty much wildly beating on whatever came up together and moving on with no sense of need for the other---aside from making quests go faster. This eventually lead to us pretty much soloing without consideration of the other while keeping each other updated on levels because after a while (due to how shoddy the quest system was in CB2) wound up getting competitive for drops. Lol Due to her being a stronger caster class than my KFM she'd usually 'win' which left me out of drops I needed. (Constant resetting of instances followed)
Anyway....as we progressed keeping each other updated finally we reached a place neither of us could really beat without some kind of help. So we decided 'Okay finally we can act like a party'....Needless to say this was not so successful. Neither of us knew how we could help the other so we settled for just keeping mobs off of each o ther and wailing on whatever skittered up to us.
That...didn't work.
That was when I got the bright idea to try planning around our skill sets. I'd played her class a little--and knew some of the extent of her ability. We talked over what our respective abilities were capable of---and tried over and over again learning as we went. Until finally we actually had a decent party-based system constructed from what we knew about each other and what skills were good for doing what.
My mage friend wound up using her ice attacks to freeze mobs as they rushed over to me while I ran in to draw them toward me and hit them with the AOE-like slash danage I was capable of with one of my skills. She'd attempt a kind of 'light CC' while I dealed damage to make sure the mobs with low hp would die quickly--and those coming at us would be struck by damage as soon as they come.
That said....I feel this lack of trinity system isn't exactly designed to 'break away' from the common player though---so much as force the player to go ahead and think with this thought but be prepared to think outside of the box. Rather than be held down to a specific role---this game provides the chance for a player to 'Do whatever works and is best for the party at the time' as opposed to 'This is all you can do. This is all you are good for.'
...I feel this allows us to not depend on one character specifically for salvation when things go awry----but allows us to place our 'hopes' in whomever's alive and whomever has an 'idea'.
To me....as a result it's not so much as a 'break away' from the traditional as a realistic wake-up call to what battle can be like as a martial artist fighting a group of monsters. We all have our specialties---but in the end we are individual. Our skills lie not only in skill points and in-game abilities....but our ability and power to think and consider possibilities when we're playing with others.
In the case of my experience...My specialty 'tactics and management' came from years of playing as a healer and having a chance to sit in the back and watch the progress of battle---watching hp as it dwindles and reacting upon it. Coming up with battle plans as I watched my friends do what they can---and suggesting ideas when I learned of how their classes functioned when they failed. My will to succeed and think for the sake of my party mates would never have been this strong if I had never played a healer class before---and as a result my desire to assist still carries on even though I'm playing a class that by all rights could be a tank if it wanted to be.
That said---even though the healer class isn't there for me to play, I can't sit back and watch over my team mates in the way I am most used to, I can still very well watch over them and protect them.
It's just now I don't do it with a healing hand---but with my fists. Not with the intent to tank, not with the intent to DPS, but with the intent to ensure that as long as I am 'alive' no one will suffer unnecessary damage, and they can always feel they have someone watching their back.
It's not a healer--but It feels right.
Sorry if I sound like I'm missing the point though...I did kind of hope to convey to you how it may be different and how it could excel in the party scene. (My typing for this post too. It looks horrendous.)
Posted Dec 03, 2012 - 2:20 PM
Kogane, on Dec 03, 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:
there is no competing of DPS in blade and soul. its whoever hits first gets drops. this rule extends over to parties as well, whichever party hits first. both on official and private server.
Posted Dec 03, 2012 - 2:22 PM
DayBreeze, on Dec 03, 2012 - 2:20 PM, said:
Either way we were competing for drops. I do apologize for the mistake, however as I did actually know that.
I just wasn't thinking too much about that mechanic since that wasn't the point of my post. : P
Posted Dec 03, 2012 - 5:40 PM
In B&S, I love how much skill plays a % in PvP,
Arena is the best showcase of sklll in WoW, good CC rotation between both partners and communication, while you can lose because of gear for sure, it would take more so if both players are good in arena. As you can be the best 1v1 rogue on your server but if you do not know how arena works you will not be the best rogue on your mmr.
I am hoping that there is nothing similar to resilience like there is in WoW, the best PvP days of WoW was vanilla my opinion. As a mage or rogue for example if you did not know what you were doing you could get 2 or 3 shotted in a hurry. I liked old school UO T2A PvP (first mmo) where you had no armor as a mage, you ran around naked basically. PvP should be twitch base skill & execution (like a fighitng game) with a keyboard. if you make a mistake it should nearly if not entirely cost you the fight, my opinion.
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Finger-banging a girl with a thumb in the butt and two fingers (index and middle) in the vagina. A sexual move similar to the shocker, but with an interesting twist. Make sure you go with one finger first and slowly work the second one in.
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HOUSTON � Omar Gonzalez was glad to be back playing with the United States men�s soccer team after two years away.
Like his teammates, the young defender wasn�t happy with their disappointing showing against Canada on Tuesday night.
The U.S. prepped for its opening game in the final round of World Cup qualifying with a dull 0-0 tie. The Americans will begin the final round of World Cup qualifying against Honduras on Feb. 6 in San Pedro Sula.
�We just couldn�t find the back of the net,� said Gonzalez, the 6-5 center back for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann changed all 11 starters from November�s 2-2 tie at Russia and likely will change the entire lineup again for the Honduras game. These players were auditioning for backup roles on next week�s trip, and most of them didn�t show much.
Gonzalez needed to impress Klinsmann, too. He made his national team debut in August 2010 against Brazil and played against Chile the next January. He tore his left anterior cruciate ligament last January on his first day training with Nuremberg and returned to the field for the Galaxy on July 4, so this was his first time on the field under Klinsmann.
�To be out there, wearing the crest on my shirt was amazing,� Gonzalez said. �I want to be doing that a lot more often.�
Gonzalez was joined in the back by three players making their national team debuts: Tony Beltran, Matt Besler and Justin Morrow. Will Bruin and Alfredo Morales made their debuts when they entered in the 74th minute.
With Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore and the other regulars remaining with their clubs in Europe for weekend matches, the U.S. started an all-MLS lineup for the first time since January 2007 against Denmark.
The game, which followed three weeks of training during the annual January camp in Carson, Calif., was the second consecutive scoreless draw against Canada, following another yawner at Toronto last June. Klinsmann thought his team looked tired in this one.
�You could see 3� weeks of a lot of work in their legs,� Klinsmann said. �They were missing kind of the last little piece to it, creating final chances, finishing things off.�
On a night when the 28th-ranked Americans� movement was slow and accuracy was sloppy, Benny Feilhaber generated the only U.S. shot on target in the second half.
No. 64 Canada, rebuilding after getting knocked out in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying last fall, were coming off a 4-0 loss to Denmark on Saturday. Hard rain began falling with about 10 minutes left, putting an extra damper on the night for the U.S. team.
MLS scoring leader Chris Wondolowski, playing a day after his 30th birthday, had the first two shots for the U.S., a soft bicycle kick in the 13th minute and a long try from the top of the penalty area in the 18th. Otherwise, the Americans looked disjointed on offense, misfiring on most of their passes and giving away sloppy turnovers in traffic.
Feilhaber entered the game after halftime as Klinsmann switched from a 4-1-3-2 to a 4-3-3 in search of a spark. Feilhaber passed to Brad Evans down the flank, and Evans squared the ball for Eddie Johnson, who skied a point-blank shot from about 15 yards. Feilhaber sent a free kick to Gonzalez, whose header was over the bar in the 68th.
�Frustrated that we didn�t get the win,� Feilhaber said. �Now it�s back to work, and we don�t know who�s going to get called in for the Honduras game. But that�s an exceptionally important game for us.�
The Americans� only consolation in the tuneup was extending their unbeaten streak against Canada to 16 games (8-0-8) since a 2-0 loss at Vancouver, British Columbia, in April 1985.
Canada goalkeeper Simon Thomas easily scooped up Feilhaber�s shot from the right side in stoppage time.
�Couldn�t be more proud of the team after an effort like that,� Canada�s interim coach Colin Miller said. �They gave everything.�
When Honduran referee Raul Castro blew the final whistle, several Americans bent over and shook their heads in frustration. The Canadians seemed content to crowd their end of the field and defend, rather than attack the U.S. zone for scoring chances. While the Americans had an 11-4 advantage in shots, just four of them were on goal.
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Infants as young as 6 months are capable of making predictions based on probability, a higher level of reasoning than is commonly believed possible, researchers have found.
When shown a range of facial expressions, children as young as 7 months cast the longest gaze on the fearful face, similar to adult behavior, which scientists say signals an early sign of emotional processing.
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An infant brain is just 25% the volume of an adult's. But that grows quickly to 70% by age 1 and 85% by 3 years of age. Early experiences can have a profound and lifelong impact on brain development. Babies have more synapses, or connections between neurons, than adults, researchers say. Over time, such connections are lost if we don't use them. The development of healthy vision, for example, is dependent on being able to see normally in order to develop the visual cortex. If this isn't used, because of a vision problem for instance, such connections will be reduced.
Still, developmental setbacks in early childhood don't have to be permanent, says P. Murali Doraiswamy, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Many cognitive abilities don't fully develop until the early teenage years, he says. And a baby's brain is plastic, able to reprogram one area to substitute for another. "So definitely babies' brains try to level the playing field as much as possible to compensate for environmental adversity," he says.
Research into how babies acquire language skills could someday further understanding of how development goes awry, allowing for earlier treatments of disorders such as autism, says Dr. Kuhl.
In one study, published in the journal Brain & Language in January, Dr. Kuhl and colleagues found that the language ability of a 1 year old could be predicted months earlier. This is done by examining the combined concentration of gray and white matter, or nerve cells and fiber tracts, in parts of the brain not normally used for verbal processing—the hippocampus and cerebellum, normally associated with memory and motor learning.
The finding could suggest that babies with better memory and motor skills may advance faster in their verbal abilities, but it isn't clear if that is based on genetic or environmental factors, Dr. Kuhl says. The study, which involved 19 infants, tested the infants' verbal skills at age 1 by assessing their babbling and their ability to recognize familiar names and words and to produce different sounds.
Scientists also are studying infants' capacity to reason. Stephanie Denison, a psychology professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Fei Xu, a psychology professor at University of California, Berkeley, recently completed a study under review for publication which showed that infants have some knowledge of probabilities.
The researchers conducted experiments involving a total of 72 infants, ranging in age from 10 months to 12 months. Infants were first tested to see if they showed preference for a shiny pink lollipop or a black one. They were then shown two jars of lollipops: one with a higher proportion of the color they like and the other with more of the lollipops they don't favor. Researchers then covered the jars, took a lollipop out of each jar and covered the individual lollipop with a cup.
The infants, encouraged to find the lollipop of their choice, chose the cup most likely to contain their desired lollipop about 80% of the time. "This shows us that infants can make a prediction about probability," Dr. Denison says. "They can also guide their own behaviors and navigate their own world."
Most people might think of babies as self-centered. A growing number of behavioral studies suggest this might not be the case.
Research presented in the current issue of the journal Infancy found that parents can influence a child's ability to help and share with others and to show a sense of empathy by discussing emotions with their toddlers.
The two studies presented in the report, which involved more than 90 children ranging in age from 18 to 30 months, examined parent-child discourse about emotions during picture-book reading. "Children who helped and shared more quickly and more often, especially in tasks that required more complex emotion understanding, had parents who more often asked them to label and explain the emotions depicted in the books," the researchers wrote.
"What studies show is that even extremely young babies can already understand something about what's going on in the minds of other people and can even to some extent take the perspective of other people," says Alison Gopnik, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has conducted other research on empathy.
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Councilman Dickie Schweers announced today his intention to seek a third term on Charleston County Council. Schweers stated, "It has been an honor to represent the taxpayers of Charleston County on Charleston County Council. My mission is to continue to advocate for fiscally conservative policies and government efficiency while providing necessary services."
Schweers' has consistently focused on minimizing the tax burden on citizens; developing community-sensitive transportation solutions; ensuring quality growth through regional land use planning and rural land conservation; restructuring government services to enhance efficiencies; and facilitating job creation through strategic economic development.
"We are fortunate to enjoy a wonderful quality of life in Charleston County," said Schweers. "Advancing our high standard of living must be accomplished without diminishing the quality of life that we will one day leave behind for our children and grandchildren."
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