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The Immortal King Barbarian is a Barbarian build. The Immortal King (IK for short) is a well known set, as it is the only set aside from the Assassin's Natalya's Odium set that is black. IK is a well rounded set, and with the right build, it can be some very good gear to use. Getting this difficult set to function properly is taxing, most people complain about it taking up too many slots and the fact that it requires a very big amount of Strength to use.
Although once you overcome the Strength issues, it is very easy and one of the best sets available in the game. Unfortunately, due the requirements and amount of slots the set takes up, Whirlwind is the only skill that can be used to maximum efficiency. The slots in the helmet and maul help increase the potential of the set, and only a few are able to truly master it.
One of the biggest bonuses in the set are the resistances. The set alone gives 118% to Fire, 121% to Lightning, 90% to Cold and 100% to Poison Resists, decreasing the necessity to stack resistance items for later difficulties. In addition, the Maul employs the use of all 5 elements, including physical, practically ensuring there will be no immune monsters who can stand against the set's owner.
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Stat placement is very crucial, one mistake and it could affect your entire build through later level progressions. With Strength added from Hellfire Torch, Annihilus, Immortal King's Forge and the Immortal King's Detail, your Strength bonus can boost up to a maximum of 85, just from these items combined. Dexterity is not necessary, with Raven Frost and Metalgrid, since the Immortal King uses a maul, it is not needed for blocking.
When placing stats, you should be very careful about this: do not undercut your Strength or overdo it, giving yourself a good 10-20 point over placement is a good thing, so that you ensure your character will not be at the mercy of your charms. You can also give another 10 or so points for good measure, damage-wise. But the remaining should continue to go into Vitality to increase your Life.
Energy should not be touched, so that leaves pure Vitality to spend your remaining points on. Given the bonuses from the complete set, it takes care of itself and the one wearing it. Mana should not be much of a problem, since the set comes with a very nice bonus of 10% Mana and Life steal, which is extremely useful when using Whirlwind. Although the maul has some fairly low damage in comparison to the other weapons available, it more than makes up for it in defense and additional bonuses from the other items.
- Mace Mastery - 20 (Base Level)
- Increased Stamina - 1 (Level 12)
- Iron Skin - 1 (Level 18)
- Increased Speed - 1 (Level 24)
- Natural Resistance - 1 (Level 30)
- Howl - 1 (Base Level)
- Shout - 20 (Level 6)
- Battle Orders - 20 (Level 24)
- Battle Command - 1 (Level 30)
- Bash - 1 (Base Level)
- Leap - 1 (Level 6)
- Stun - 1 (Level 12)
- Concentrate - 9 (Level 24), Leap Attack - 1 (Level 24)
- Whirlwind - 20 (Level 30), Berserk - 1 (Level 30)
Unfortunately the Immortal King's set does not allow for much movement in skill placement, this setup allows you to maintain maximum efficiency without losing your power. The skills for Concentrate can be placed elsewhere, but since the set does not allow you to use a shield and keep the bonuses, it is best to use it because it increase your defense and allows for an uninterrupted attack. Skill placement is fairly self-explanatory, however.
Although for those who would rather do something different, the alternative Iron Skin can be increased at the cost of Concentrate. But as far as extra skills go, Immortal King is very tight and doesn't allow for much free movement in these areas. Making it an extremely difficult set to use, as the creativity for unique builds is nearly impossible without losing the effectiveness of the set.
Berserk was once a necessary must, especially in battling Oblivion Knights. Berserk is the only melee skill that completely negates the effects of Iron Maiden, although it also destroys your defense at the same time, which made the set's big flaw apparent. However, with the release of Patch 1.13, Oblivion Knights do not cast Iron Maiden and this worry is now gone.
Additionally, with the release of Patch 1.13, it is now possible to reset your attributes and skills. This is very useful in creating a perfect Immortal King Barbarian.
Character ItemsEdit
- Head: Immortal King's Will
- Armor: Immortal King's Soul Cage
- Weapon: Immortal King's Stone Crusher
- Secondary Weapons: +3 to Warcry Skills weapons Or Call to Arms
- Amulet: Metalgrid
- Ring: Raven Frost, Carrion Wind Or Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
- Belt: Immortal King's Detail
- Gloves: Immortal King's Forge
- Boots: Immortal King's Pillar
- Charm: Hellfire Torch
- Charm: Annihilus
Once again, the gear does not leave much room for creativity or any other gear other than the small but very necessary slots. It is highly recommended to use Raven Frost and Metalgrid, as they both increase your attack rating, and the Cannot Be Frozen mod works perfectly with the set. Metalgrid is also very useful for those concerned about their defense being a little low. The user can choose to use either Carrion Wind or Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, both come with life steal and very decent mods.
As for the helm and maul, it is best to get these perfect. The helm should have either Io and Fal in it, or 2 Fal runes. Two perfect topazes is also an option to enhance the helmet's built-in magic find. The maul should have either two Shaels or two 40/15 jewels for maximum effectiveness - this enables the last Whirlwind breakpoint to be reached. It is also highly recommended to Pul the armor, for additional defense, or you can simply put a Ber rune in it, for additional damage reduction, since the belt gives you 20% damage reduction after equipping 5 parts of the set.
Mercenary ItemsEdit
- Head: Andariel's Visage Or Crown of Ages Or Vampire Gaze
- Armor: Fortitude Or Shaftstop
- Weapon: Pride Or Infinity
The Act II mercenary works perfectly with the Immortal King barbarian, you can go with Pride or Infinity, although it is recommended you use Infinity, since the maul makes excellent use of all 5 of the elemental damage types. The main issue with this would be range, if you outrun the mercenary, the Infinity would be useless to you, using Might aura mercenaries is recommended with this setup.
If you decide to go with Pride, it is best if you use either a Defiance mercenary or Might for added damage. You can also use a Blessed Aim mercenary if you're having difficulty hitting things, although it shouldn't be a problem.
The trick, and most frustrating thing about the set; is building your char around the set, which is considered its biggest disadvantage. Although your skills are shortened, you're not without power. Short burst Whirlwind's in large crowds deal more damage over a shorter period of time, than longer ones, which helps against large crowds of Physical Immunes.
With a Necromancer or a Paladin teamed up with you, you can use Lower Resist or Fanaticism to your advantage, drastically increasing the performance of the Immortal King machine. The set is fairly cheap and easy to come by, but making a very effective Immortal King Barbarian can be difficult, but not impossible. For the cases of being outnumbered, using Leap is a good idea to spread the monsters out some, followed by a short Whirlwind to take a portion of them down.
A big advantage to using the set is Crushing Blow, getting a perfect maul grants you 40% chance. While not very much compared to other weapons, mixed with Whirlwind it can be pretty devastating, considering the attack speed the maul comes with. Other such ideas can come out of the hammer as well, such as 2 Ber runes in the maul give it 80% Crushing Blow, making it one of the most powerful (Hone Sundan is still more deadly with its higher crushing blow, more sockets and self-repair) crushing blow weapon in the game. Since there are a lot of Immortal King's Stone Crusher's around, you can try out different things with so many, and keep them in your stash for various occasions.


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The enthusiasm is spreading in a community that won its first and only Canadian junior A hockey championship 32 years ago.
"Portage is on fire right now," said Portage Terriers' general manager/coach Don MacGillivray.
Manitoba Junior Hockey League champion Portage added an ANAVET Cup championship to its list of accomplishments April 30 before 1,320 fans in Portage la Prairie.
"The crowd was the loudest I've heard," said MacGillivray. "I don't think anybody left until it was all over, including the medal presentations.
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Portage defeated the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League champion Yorkton Terriers 4-2 in the best-of-seven series to qualify for the RBC Royal Bank Cup championship May 7-15 in Weyburn, Sask.
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"That line was back together and clicked again," said MacGillivray.
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Haddon, 21, raised his totals to 51 goals and 108 points in 86 games overall with three goals and four assists against Yorkton.
"Steve was real good in game five," said MacGillivray. "He was in on all four goals (with one goal and three assists after Yorkton opened a 3-0 lead in the first period)."
McIntyre, 19, led Portage with four goals and also had seven points against Yorkton. He has eight goals and 18 points in 24 playoff games.
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Bouchard, 20, chipped in with three goals and three assists against Yorkton. He has 10 goals and 20 points in 24 playoff games.
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Jackman was killing a penalty when he scored with two minutes and 26 seconds left in regulation time in a 3-2 win in the sixth game.
Colin Slobodian, 21, continued his strong playoff performance with four assists in the series. He has 11 assists and 19 points in 22 playoff games.
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Mrs BRONWYN BISHOP (Mackellar) (17:07): In speaking to the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Administration) Bill 2012 I will be drawing on the dissenting report which the opposition members of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters wrote and which was tabled in this House only some minutes ago.
I begin by saying that this administration bill contains two provisions on which there is agreement between the government and the opposition. The first is that which brings forward the deadline for applications for postal votes by one day—that is, from the Thursday before polling day to the Wednesday before polling day. We think that this is a sensible move because, as the legislation currently stands, people who get their postal vote application in at the last minute are very likely not to be successful in having it in in time. We think that the Wednesday is a more realistic deadline. The second is the provision which provides for further fixed periods of time to be provided to the augmented Electoral Commission, as defined in section 70 of the Electoral Act, to complete its inquiries into objections against proposed redistributions in electoral boundaries. Basically the new provision deals with the situation where a redistribution is on foot when an election is called, and this part of the act, as it stands, certainly needs to be tidied up.
I said earlier in making remarks on the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters that the integrity of the roll, on the one hand, and the wish to put as many people on it as possible, on the other hand—which is the government's desire—constitutes a great gulf between the government and the opposition. Unfortunately, the Australian Electoral Commission also seems to be dead keen on just sticking people on the roll willy-nilly without having to honour the Electoral Act in its current form—that is, to require people, when they turn 18 or become citizens, to fill out a form and become an enrolled voter. We think that in this country, where we have compulsory registration, it is not onerous to ask somebody to value their vote sufficiently to go to the correct place and fill out a form so there is a record of their signature which can be checked if necessary.
There have long been debates in this place about electoral fraud, and I have no doubt in my mind, having looked at the facts, that it exists. But it has never been pursued. With the coming of technology, however, we ought to be looking at being able to link the rolls in the polling places for each electorate so that, when somebody's name is marked off on one roll, it can be automatically marked off on all the others. I understand that this practice has been trialled in Victoria and worked very successfully, and I am sure that it is not beyond the wit of the Australian Electoral Commission to bring it into operation federally. Doing so could get rid of the difficulty we have with multiple voting, which was done in the last election by, I think, some 18,000 people.
However, the day on which the integrity of the rolls is opened up through automatic enrolment will be a very sad day for our system of voting. I said in my earlier speech that the accuracy of government data which is held is very suspect. I cited the number of tax file numbers that were found in 1999, the last time there was a review of tax file numbers. There were 3.2 million more tax file numbers than there were people in Australia at the census prior; there were 185,000 potential duplicate tax records for individuals; and 62 per cent of deceased clients were not recorded as deceased in the sample match. It was pointed out to us in the committee, when we took evidence on the concept of automatic enrolment, that, for instance, a Centrelink roll, which the AEC now uses, is in fact a composite of anything up to 100 other lists that are brought together, that there is no check-in and that the AEC has no ability to check.
So we support the idea of now introducing legislation which will authorise the tax office to give material, the giving of which by a tax official to any other agency or person was previously proscribed an offence, to the Australian Electoral Commission. This legislation will remove the penalty from the Taxation Administration Act in order that the material may be given to the Electoral Commission by a tax officer.
We feel very strongly about the legal decisions that have already been brought down when there have been challenges to election outcomes—and very often less than 1,000 votes can determine whether a seat is won or lost—and about returning to the roll its integrity, and people's confidence in it, by having people go themselves to become an enrolled voter.
This legislation will also do away with the need to have a certificate signed by a person wishing to exercise a prepoll vote. I hear creeping into the language, both from the Electoral Commission and from others, expressions of the idea that we have an election period. We do not; we have an election day. We have many regulations that say when you can have electronic advertisements—up to what date and so on—and speeches formally launching their campaigns are, for a variety of reasons, given by the leaders ever closer to election day. But a whole host of people can be voting before the speeches are made and before the manifestos, if you like, of the parties are put. This means that people who vote before election day are not given all the information which is given to people who are voting on election day.
This is why we feel so strongly about the maintenance of our system of postal votes and of allowing political parties to be part of that process so that they can send out information informing postal voters of what the political parties' attitudes are. We feel that they need to be placed in a similar position to that of someone who is voting on election day and who is able to hear all the arguments and look at all the printed material prior to casting a vote. So we feel that this lessening of the deterrent that exists for people to turn up on election day—where anybody can just turn up to a prepoll because it is easier; they cannot be bothered on election day; or whatever it is—is not in the interests of someone who is considering the vote that they cast on election day. I can see, however, that it is going to be quite important for prepoll if we are to have an election on 14 September, as that will be Yom Kippur for Jewish members of the Australian population, and they feel very sensitive about the way in which that date has been set with no consideration for their very important religious day.
We oppose doing away with the certificate that is presently needed, even though we acknowledge that the nature and character of a prepoll vote has been changed from being a declaration vote to an ordinary vote. This in itself has led to the great difficulty that was encountered in the last election, when the opening of ballot boxes containing prepoll votes prior to the close of the poll at 6 pm on election day became an improper practice when previously it had been a quite proper practice. The reason is that just before the 2010 election the government changed the law so that a prepoll vote, which was previously a declaration vote and therefore could be opened prior to 6 pm on election day, became an ordinary vote so that it would be counted on election night and we would get a quicker outcome. But the problem was that adequate information was not given to all of the electoral offices right across the country, and so they did not know that the change had been made.
We had two instances, one in Boothby and one in the seat of Flynn, where it was picked up scrutineers that the ballots looked orderly, particularly in Boothby, when they should have all been crumpled up and looking a bit disorderly, as they are in an ordinary ballot box. Consequently, the Electoral Commission was tasked with the difficulty of making a decision as to what happened to those ballot papers. They did seek advice from the Australian Government Solicitor, who knew how many votes were involved. They knew that in neither the case of Boothby nor the case of Flynn would excluding those ballot papers from the scrutiny make any difference to the outcome of the declaration of those two seats. But we on the committee did request—and I do acknowledge that the chairman was strong in backing up my request—that the legal opinion which the AEC had sought be made public.
It is quite unusual for government advice from the AEC to be made public, but it was very important in properly considering the question of the AEC's recommendation that, where there was an opening of a ballot box other than in conformity with the act prior to the close of the poll, all those votes should be simply excluded from the scrutiny. It seemed to me to be an appalling proposition because these were people who had cast a vote in good faith and, through no fault of theirs, their vote was to be made informal; their vote was not to be counted. Voter entitlement and voters being confident that their vote, properly cast, would be counted are a very important principle.
The Australian Government Solicitor gave some extraordinary advice. It said: 'In the present circumstances, we consider that the better course of action is not to include the ballot papers in the count and to quarantine those papers, although, for the reasons we discuss below, it is possible that a court might take a different view.' In the case of Mitchell and Bailey, which involved the seat of McEwen, the Federal Court held that a ballot paper must be included in the count if it was a formal vote. It said: 'If a ballot paper is not informal, the officer conducting the scrutiny will have no legal basis for rejecting it. An implied obligation to admit such a ballot paper to the count thereby arises. Once it is admitted, it must be counted.' The advice went on to try and distinguish that case as not being relevant in a way that I do not think is in any way convincing. I found that the subsequent recommendation of the AEC that those votes should be just simply excluded from the scrutiny was a very—dare I use the word—sloppy way of dealing with the problem.
We did take evidence from others who shared our view. The result is that the report recommends that there should be saving provisions. Having done that, the chair went back to the AEC and the AEC came back with another set of saving provisions which it thought might be adequate for the purpose. As I said, the main question that remains between the government and the opposition is that of when the count is conducted. If the votes are not counted on the night and are simply parcelled, sealed and sent off to the DRO and then somebody else does a count, you are going to have a problem with the tally on the night, but, more importantly, it enshrines the principle that citizens have the right to have their vote counted where the error is not theirs.
It is also very important that we maintain the identification of those ballot papers which are at risk. The reason that we are talking about both ballot papers and envelopes is that the box concerned can have a mixture of ballot papers and envelopes—now all ordinary votes but categorised differently in the mode in which they go into the ballot box. I think this question is an important one because it brings out another question which is yet to be dealt with and for which there is no provision in the act at this stage. The first count of the night is put into plastic bags, not boxes, and sealed up. If someone tampers with those, there is still no provision in the act for what happens to those, so that remains a problem for another day.
On the question of the proposal to allow prepoll to occur up to 19 days prior to election day, we on the opposition side have recommended that it should be no greater than 12. It is up to 19 because of the leeway that exists for when the close of nominations takes place. We are concerned that, again, it is lessening the importance of election day. Every day by which prepoll is longer means that the importance of election day itself becomes lesser. Although we can see the need for having a prepoll, and indeed we are very supportive and have always been supportive of it, we do think that restrictions on it need to be put in place. We think that the amendment that would allow up to 19 days is sending the wrong message, and we feel it should not be allowed to stand unchallenged.
I go back to the question of the opening of the box containing the prepoll ballots. In the review that was done by a former Electoral Commissioner, he made it quite clear that there was not sufficient information given to electoral staff. The fact that it was picked up in only two divisions I think was really good luck rather than good management. To my way of thinking, it is true to say that that same error could have occurred all over the country, and we just did not know about it because there was no scrutineer or other official there who picked it up at the time. The provision that is going to be put into the act will, I hope, state that you have to be careful to comply with the law as it stands and that there is an obligation on the AEC to make sure that all of its people who are in charge of the various stages of elections are properly informed and have all the information. Otherwise, it could happen again.
Another curious thing in the act says that if a box is prematurely opened by an official then their penalty for so doing is less than that for an ordinary punter who also prematurely opens a ballot box. We have recommended that that be the same penalty for both. It is a fairly serious penalty. It can be six months in jail.
There are bits of the Electoral Act where there are serious messages sent out that getting anything wrong with the handling of an election incurs a serious penalty. Yet, at so many turns, we now seem to be loosening the requirements, which makes it easier for what we might say are inappropriate things to happen in the election process, all in the name of it being allegedly simpler to administer.
The opposition feels very strongly about all the amendments that are being brought in by the government, whether it is initially automatic enrolment, automatic so-called updates or changes of address, or letting criminals vote. There are many things that are being done to alter what we consider to be the integrity of the process, which, should we be elected, we will certainly be addressing. I foreshadow that I will be moving amendments in the consideration in detail stage of the debate. I presume that, should the government accept some of the recommendations made by the report, it may be introducing some of its own amendments. Presumably it too will circulate its proposed amendments when we move to the consideration in detail stage.
There has been a lot of strong language used in some of our hearings. Issues have been fiercely pursued, and I am certainly one of those who have fiercely pursued many of the issues. Because we have now had several inquiries into pieces of legislation, as well as the initial report on the 2010 election, I think there is now a greater awareness by many people, who raise the question of electoral matters with me. This simply would not have happened before we embarked on this process of having a greater scrutiny over the process of proposed changes to the Electoral Act.
In conclusion, I would like to say that, when we make changes to the act, there is a huge obligation on the Australian Electoral Commission to make sure that their operatives—the people who are carrying out duties pursuant to the act—are well-informed and that they are carrying out the changes that are made by the parliament in a way which the parliament intended. Perhaps I will just mention one place where that clearly did not occur, which was after the government of the day, the Howard government, had put in place provisions for having oversight—I will use to the word 'audit' in its looser sense—of associated entities and how not one trade union was in the sights of or audited in that way by the Australian Electoral Commission. When we asked the question about why, the answer was given that: 'We were not given any extra resources and we thought Fair Work Australia could carry out some of that duty.' That is not so; if it is in the Commonwealth Electoral Act, it is the Australian Electoral Commission's responsibility.
This is a very serious business. It is a very serious act. It has very strong provisions in it, even though some of them have now been lessened over time—presumably to make it easier for it to be administered. I will just repeat that the opposition, should it be in government, will take a totally different attitude to maintaining the integrity of the roll and to ensuring that citizens who have obligations in fact meet those obligations.


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Our current favourite is the Logitech Squeezebox Boom, but it finally looks to have a challenger in the form of Philips NP2900, which is wall-mountable and packs a lovely full colour screen.
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Due to a number of social, cultural and economic considerations, families in parts of India exhibit a strong and persistent preference for sons over daugthers. In the past it has led to skewed sex ratios in the country. The imbalance has been attributed to the systematic discrimination against females in terms of access to nutrition and health care (missing women hypothesis).It was expected that as India went trough a process of economic growth this phenomenon would decline. However, we find that despite considerable economic development and social change, son preference remains high. In recent years the processes of fertility decline and advent of sex selection technologies have meant that families translate their preference for sons into prenatal discrimination against the female fetus, as can be witnessed by the worsening sex ratio at birth in India. I want to investigate the important agents of change in this context. In particular, I look at the role of female literacy, labor force participation and other proxies for autonomy in changing household preferences regarding the sex composition of their families.
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Towing those trailers is the raison de etre of the F-450 pickup. Its appeal is obvious, leaving us to wonder why Ford didn't offer a pickup bed on the F-450 chassis cab previously. After all, aftermarket companies sold the trucks with pickup beds, right?
Aftermarket companies don't have the same durability requirements for their products that Ford Motor Co. has, replies Reyes.
The problem was that previous F-450s used industry-standard straight frame rails 34-inches apart to accept various aftermarket beds. Pickup-type beds won't survive mounted on narrow frames because of the twisting forces that have greater leverage on the narrow mounts. "The box wouldn't survive our durability cycle," Reyes explained. "You couldn't distribute the loads properly over the box on the narrow frame."
Ford's solution was to redesign the F-450's frame to spread wide aft of the cab, providing a secure platform for the bed. But now the wide frame rails ran too close to the massive commercial-duty axle used on the F-450.
One of the benefits of those axles is the huge brake assembly. But over suspension's range of travel, the mounting heads on the large brake calipers could contact the frame. "This isn't a drop-in axle," he said. "We are pushing the limits on the size of the components you can put in a traditional pickup."
The solution was to use half-height mounting bolts to shave some space on one side of the problem, and to design some indentations in the frame for extra clearance on the other side.
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A pickup truck touch is the use of a mid-mounted fuel tank, leaving space out behind the axle to carry the spare tire. Also at the rear of the truck is an innovative step ladder build into the tail gate that folds out to make it easier to climb into the truck's bed.
A quick tug on the ladder extends it from an open tailgate, and another motion snaps a grab-handle into its upright position. The ladder looks like the kind of thing that manufacturers have been co-opting from the aftermarket in recent years, but nothing like this existed before.
Ford's engineers got the idea when a couple of them spotted a removable step installed on a tailgate at the annual SEMA show. Looking at the tailgate, which they knew to be hollow, they started plotting ways to use that space to house a deployable step.
A couple customer clinics found strong interest from truck owners, who even said they liked the step enough to switch from competitor's trucks to get it, so Ford aggressively pursued the idea. While the step looks a little flimsy, the company says it will hold 1,000 lbs., so do not fear additional stops at Waffle House will render it unusable.
Like the F-450's bed, more effort went into the step than its appearance might suggest. "It was just a matter of working through bugs, and improving the weight, smoothness, life expectancy," Reyes said. Additional testing found a grab-handle was a must, and the team went through five different versions of that. The step itself is designed to OSHA specs, so professional users should be satisfied if their employees use the device.
Bed extenders have been around for years, but they have always been intrusive when not in use, so Ford developed the Super Duty's new collapsing bed extender to fold completely out of the way. "Customers said, 'Get it out of my way,'" said Reyes. "If you look at it, the problem became one of simple geometry."
Simple maybe, but Ford is the first to solve this particular problem. Another folding component is the Super Duty's outside mirrors. The truck has the industry's first power extending and folding mirrors. This lets drivers easily slide out mirrors on both sides when towing, and not only retract them for regular driving, but even fold them both in for parking in tight spots.


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PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — As North Koreans cheered and waved white "unified Korea" flags, a South Korean activist was detained as soon as he set foot on home soil Thursday, resisting police in a stunt of defiance after an unapproved, three-month stay in the North.
Turning around to face crowds of cheering North Koreans before stepping over the line, No Su-hui raised his arms and shouted "Long live reunification," a white unified Korea flag in his right hand and a bouquet of flowers in his left. Behind him on the South Korean side, South Korean soldiers stood in taekwondo poses, their eyes concealed behind dark sunglasses.
Associated Press photos showed South Korean officials in suits grabbing a resistant No just after he stepped over the demarcation line inside the Demilitarized Zone as South Korean soldiers snapped photographs at a close distance. From the North Korean side, soldiers and officials stood watching the melee as crowds of North Koreans waved "unified Korea" flags.
The stunt by No, 68, was designed to draw attention to the division of the Korean Peninsula. He had gone to Pyongyang from China in March even though South Koreans are prohibited from traveling to North Korea without government approval.
"The conservative forces are saying they will put me on trial, but I will judge them," No said. "Please watch and see what will happen."
No, who is vice chairman of South Korea's Pan-Alliance for Korea's Reunification, was dressed in a gray suit and white tie, a pin of unified Korea — a symbol of reunification — on his jacket. His pointed decision to cross back through the truce village of Panmunjom was a highly symbolic move to draw attention to his cause. Most tourists must enter and exit North Korea via China.
The Korean Peninsula has remained in a state of war since a truce ended three years of fighting in 1953. After a decade of warming ties, relations have soured since a new conservative administration took office in Seoul in 2008. Following the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010 that killed 46 sailors, which South Korea blames on the North, Seoul has severed nearly all ties with Pyongyang.
Only a handful of South Koreans have been granted permission to visit Pyongyang in recent years, including two delegations that went to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong Il after his December death. Last year, a Christian minister was sentenced to prison for making a similar, unauthorized trip, and Seoul officials have said No will face punishment.
According to South Korea's National Security Law, sneaking into North Korea without government permission is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, while praising the country could draw seven years. No remained under questioning in the South Korean border city of Paju on Friday and police planned to seek a warrant later in the day to formally arrest him, an official at the National Police Agency in Seoul said, declining to be named citing office policy.
North Korea has accused South Korean President Lee Myung-bak of being a traitor to the cause of reunification.
No, who went to Pyongyang to pay his respects to Kim on the 100th day after his death, visited major tourist sites and met with North Korean officials during his visit, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said.
In Paju, hundreds of anti-North Korean protesters rallied Thursday against No's return, slashing his photo and burning mock figures of No and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Perhaps the most profound conflict a character can face is when he is at odds with himself. Conflicts in which the protagonist faces off against other individuals or society often result in characters that represent ideals and concepts. But the character that first must deal with his own foibles in order to overcome a villain or oppressive values has learned something. He has grown as a character and become a better human being. Ideally, your readers will grow with this character, making his triumph over others more lasting in the readers' minds.
An example of man vs. himself conflict is Anakin Skywalker's internal struggle in "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith" in which the young jedi must decide if he will serve the powers of good or turn to the Dark Side. In this case, Skywalker makes the wrong choices and becomes the villain Darth Vader.
If handled correctly, a man vs. himself conflict can raise a story to high art. The "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" in which Captain Kirk must decide between his love for a woman and his responsibility to the future of humanity is modern tragedy. In Stanslaw Lem's "Solaris", a psychologist is reunited with what appears to be his wife but in reality is an amalgam of his memories of her. The result is an intense psychological struggle worthy of the best contemporary literature.
Arguably, your story gains sophistication when your main character must do overcome a challenge other than defeating the forces of nature or a straight villain. To survive being marooned on a desert world or succeed in taking down an alien menace, your main character ought to first have to overcome some internal conflict that in turn allows him to be victorious over nature or invader. For example, in Anne McCaffrey's short story "The Smallest Dragonboy," the main character Keevan must learn self-discipline and gain self-confidence to achieve his goal of becoming a dragonrider. In doing so, he overcomes the story's wider challenge of being ridiculed by the other older and stronger boys.
Your story almost always is better when a man vs. himself conflict rests at its core.
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Develop a list of potential man vs. himself conflicts that you could incorporate into stories. For example, your main character may struggle between the decision to maintain his autonomy vs. following another to stay alive. Think about what motivates the character to refuse to change (for example, he wants to remain autonomous because once before he trusted someone who let him down). Also think about what pulls him to change his position (possibly he learns to trust the person he must follow because they inadvertently cooperate to overcome some minor challenge).


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A good varied route. Climb the edge of the slab to the right end of the overhangs and pull through at a short vertical crack (good wires). Step left into an open groove and bridge up this to a rounded exit. HVS for those who don't mind exposed padding.
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A very nice climb- not that bold really- with help of a size 2 friend. Initial slab is tricky, The crux is thrilling and the upper bulges are a delight.
definitely NOT E1 and definitely not 5b. This really is very easy and more like HVS (or even VS when men were men)
Rubbish - It's harder than Flying Buttress Direct and a lot more dangerous. If it was supposed to be 'VS when men were men' why was it unrepeated for 20 years
is it harder than fying buttress? i might try flying buttress then. rekon the pull over the overhang is definately 5b & took me a while to work out. once you're over the overhang though i thought it was too easy to warrant "a bold finale" .
One hard move getting estabished on the upper wall.
It is an admittedly fun lower slab with only one real move to gain the stance at the bottom of the scoop, but I was the most gripped I've been in recent times, even with 4c padding on the upper section.
A nice E1 5b the gear is bomber and the moves are enjoyable.
First E1 :) I found the crux pretty hard, solid 5b but ok after I'd stood around working it out and getting rid of in-the-way cams :) Top-out was fine in comparison, but then I am good at "exposed padding", so maybe I only get HVS :)
Trying to get back to E1 so i spent plenty of time falling off the crux, i was too busy trying to lunge up and right for the good hold i didn't think about going left then right it's much easier. I had a little slip on the top part and i think a piece of poo came out :-0
The hardest move was getting onto the ledge after the overhang, from then on the padding up the wall was quite easy.
I didn't put in enough gear before going for the crux. Thus the upper section was bold.


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It was both the best of times and the worst of times for Iowa wide receiver Keenan Davis on Saturday.
Davis had easily the most productive game of his college career, catching five passes for 95 yards. Included in that was a 23-yard touchdown reception in the second overtime in which he caught the ball around the 10-yard line, turned and ran over an Iowa State defender to get into the end zone.
But on a third-and-6 play in the third overtime, Davis allowed a James Vandenberg pass over the middle to slither through his fingers, forcing the Hawkeyes to settle for a field goal. They subsequently lost the game when Iowa State scored a touchdown.
"That's a routine catch I should make," a disconsolate Davis said.
Vandenberg, however, defended the junior from Cedar Rapids Washington.
"Drops happen," Vandenberg said. "It was just zone coverage and a crossing route, and I probably could have put the ball a little lower. We can't hang the game on that. There were plenty of things we could have fixed on both sides of the ball well before then that wouldn't have put us in that situation."
Hawkeye deja vu
Two years ago at Ohio State, in Vandenberg's first career start, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz opted to play for overtime when his team got the ball back with a couple of minutes to go in a tie game.
On Saturday against Iowa State, he did the same thing. When the Hawkeyes got it at their own 20 with 1:17 remaining and two timeouts, they ran out the clock with two routine running plays.
"I knew that was coming, Vandenberg said when the question was posed in postgame interviews.
He said he had no problem with the strategy. Again.
"I knew we were going to have to bust a nice little play to get going," he said. "I trust the coach in everything he does so if we were going to play for overtime, that's what we were going to do."
Ferentz said that if the Hawkeyes had gotten the ball past the 30-yard line on the first play, they might have tried to get downfield and score. But when Marcus Coker gained just two yards on the first play, he settled for OT.
Coker comes back
Coker fumbled the ball away again in the second quarter Saturday, giving him three fumbles in the first two games, but he bounced back to finish with 140 yards in 35 carries.
"I thought he took a positive step today," Ferentz said. "He ran the ball better as the game went on, but we need to get him some help. We can't just rely on him and Marvin (McNutt) for everything."
Bernstine sidelined
Senior defensive back Jordan Berstine did not play for Iowa on Saturday because of a bout with strep throat. He accompanied the team to Ames, but team doctors thought it best to hold him out because of a high temperature.
Short return
Iowa sophomore linebacker Dakota Getz played in just three games last season because of injuries and also sat out last week's opening game against Tennessee Tech. Now it looks as though his 2011 season is over, too. Getz went down with a knee injury on the opening kickoff Saturday and Ferentz told reporters he thought Getz likely was done for the season.
Linebacker Tyler Nielsen limped off with an ankle injury two snaps later, but did return as did Iowa State offensive lineman Kelechi Osemele, who left briefly in the first quarter after re-aggravating an ankle injury which has nagged the senior tackle throughout fall camp.
Crowd is No. 2
Saturday's crowd of 56,085 was the second largest in the history of Jack Trice Stadium. The Cyclones attracted 56,795 for a 2007 game with Northern Iowa.
Long shots
Kickers Mike Meyer of Iowa and Grant Mahoney of Iowa State each went deep to help forge a 10-10 halftime tie with long field goals.
Meyer equaled the longest effort of his career, hitting from 42 yards with 13 minutes, 32 seconds left in the second quarter then bettered on the first of his two third-quarter field goals by hitting from 50 yards.
With 41 seconds remaining in the first half, Mahoney tied the score with a 54-yard field goal. It was the Cyclones senior's fifth successful attempt from 50 or more yards, topped only by a 57-yard field goal against Nebraska last season.
Short return
Dakota Getz returned to the field briefly Saturday for Iowa. Cleared to play Saturday as he worked his way back from offseason surgery, Getz suffered what Ferentz labeled a season-ending left knee injury while playing on special teams as Iowa State returned the opening kickoff.
Fullback Jonathan Gimm made his first start for Iowa, while the Hawkeyes' C.J. Fiedorowicz and Kevonte Martin-Manley recorded the first receptions of their careers. Martin-Manley's first was a 6-yard touchdown catch which gave Iowa a 7-0 edge midway through the first quarter.
In addition to his game-deciding score, the Cyclones' James White rushed for his first college touchdown from 1-yard out in the second overtime.


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It was a relatively quiet offseason for the Washington Nationals, who are still in the midst of building a team.
Then things got pretty crazy when general manager Jim Bowden got caught up in a scheme that alleged he was pocketing signing bonus money that should have been going to players the team was signing from the Dominican Republic.
Bowden refuted any involvement in such dealings only to finally resign from his position a couple of weeks into spring training.
Owner Stan Kasten has stepped into the role of general manager for the time being, which is a scary thought. There is a reason owners hire general managers to make personnel decisions, and I suggest the Nationals quickly do the same.
Another problem for the Nationals is that their new ballpark is still not enough to entice fans to come watch them play. It's a major concern considering the stadium and the team are both still new to Washington.
There was a bright spot in the offseason as well, as the Nationals reeled in slugger Adam Dunn via the Bowden connection to the Cincinnati Reds.
Dunn is the type of signing the Nationals hope will bring more fans to the ballpark. If nothing else, Dunn is an entertaining player because of the moonshot home runs he slugs to right field.
A smaller move involved the signing of pitcher Daniel Cabrera, who won't have to adjust too much after spending his entire career just a short drive up I-95 with the Baltimore Orioles.
There is no doubting Cabrera's talent, but he can never seem to put it all together over long periods of time. Maybe a change of scenery was just what he needed to finally find the consistency necessary to become a quality major league starter.
Cabrera hopes to be a part of a rotation that really wasn't all that bad last year. If the offense could have given the pitchers some run support, the Nationals record wouldn't have been all that bad.
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lindy567's recommendation
Dermot Mulroney is so fine!! Of course I wanna watch this movie over and over!! Not to mention the Wedding Date with his fine self!!
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I love this movie. I saw it when i was 11 years old. From the moment I saw it, I decided that "The Way you look tonight" (Michael and Jules song in the movie) was going to be my wedding songs (no matter WHO I married lol). It'a great movie. Funny, happy, sad, and everything else in between. I know this movie by heart and never get tired of it. Plus, Julia Roberts is my favorite actress, shes great!
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If I had to come up with an alternate title for this film it would be "Sometimes You're the Villain and You Don't Even Know It and This Ain't Burger King So You Can't Have It Your Way." Thats why I like this movie. It's not your conventional love story.
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I like this movie a lot because things don't end perfectly for Julia Roberts. It is a romantic comedy with a more realistic ending.
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definitely a chick flick favorite.. i for one <3