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The NJCAA continued to showcase its gleaming presence in Major League Baseball during the 2012 season with four former student-athletes earning awards this week.
Headlining the recipients was Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper (College of Southern Nevada) who was named National League Rookie of the Year. The NJCAA now claims the last two NL Rookies of the Year with Atlanta Braves pitcher Craig Kimbrel (Wallace State CC-Hanveville, Ala.) winning the award in 2011.
Less than a month after celebrating his 20th birthday, Harper (right) became the youngest position player in history to earn rookie of the year. Harper was the second-youngest player ever to claim the award, following former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden who took the honor in 1984 at the age of 19. Batting for a .270 average, Harper compiled 22 home runs, 26 doubles and a team-high nine triples in his first year in the big leagues. The former Coyote also batted in 59 runs – 34 after the All-Star break – and scored 98 runs of his own.
The NJCAA was also well-represented in the 2012 Gold Glove awards. Former Middle Georgia College right fielder Josh Reddick became the Oakland Athletics' first outfielder to win a Gold Glove since Dwayne Murphy in 1985. Miami Marlins pitcher Mark Buehrle (Jefferson College, Mo.), earned his fourth-straight Gold Glove award, while Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche (Fort Scott CC, Kan./Seminole State, Okla.) received his first Gold Glove in his ninth major league season.
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That said, I understand the reasoning behind owning a gun. It is one's right to protect their family. Fine. But does one need an assault rifle to do that? No. That seems extreme to me.
Another thing that disturbs me are Open Carry laws. I sincerely don't understand why anyone feels the need to run to the grocery store with a pistol in their pants. It happens on a weekly basis here that someone comes into the store, and we get customers running up saying so and so has a gun. It freaks people out, me included. I don't feel safer knowing that some random guy is walking around with a weapon that can kill me, and I have no way of stopping that from happening.
What I would like to see are strict renewal processes for gun owners. I say this because the people that go on killing sprees are people that are frequently using legally obtained weapons. Seniors have to retake their driving tests here every four years (I think)- so why can't gun owners be required to take mental health tests every four years for relicensing? Fail the test, and you have a year to get your stuff together, or face losing the privilege of owning a firearm for good.
In the case of the CT shootings, the weapons were his mothers'. My understanding is that she worked very hard to raise her sons, and to provide Adam with the care he needed. Of course she had no way of knowing that he would kill her and then kill 26 other people. But she did know that he suffered from a form of autism that frequently includes a lack of empathy and social awkwardness. It seems foolhardy, and a little selfish, that she would keep so many weapons around that he obviously knew how to access. I am not saying that because of her son's condition, she loses the right to own weapons. What I am saying is that she should have taken extra precautions.


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Members of the Aiken Republican Club describe Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., as opinionated, passionate, a patriot and one of their favorite speakers.
Wilson discussed a broad range of issues – both state and nationwide – at the club's meeting, held Tuesday afternoon in Newberry Hall.
Wilson told the audience that it was the first time speaking to them since the recent redistricting that has him representing all of Aiken County.
A retired S.C. Army National Guard colonel and the father of four sons who are in the military, Wilson talked a bit about serving on the House Armed Services Committee, in which he's the acting chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
He mentioned the sequestration that has led to cuts in funding for the U.S. Armed Forces that he said is shrinking down to the point of being the smallest military this country has had in decades.
"The sequestration was an attack on the military," Wilson said. "We already know how important it is to have peace through strength."
Wilson also called the cancellation of the White House tours due to staffing cuts from the sequestration a "charade." He added that many of these cuts are hurting families across the country.
Wilson also took a moment to speak on the Benghazi attack that occurred last September that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Wilson said the story of the protest during the attack was fabricated.
"There has been a cover-up obviously by the administration and the news media," Wilson said.
Wilson said that Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia is pushing to form a special committee to investigate the incident.
During the question and answer session, someone inquired if there's any chance that the federal health care law will be repealed or drastically modified. Wilson cited the advancement of a bill that declares South Carolina's opposition to the health care overhaul by a House subcommittee last week. Wilson said he sees continuing opportunities to repeal the law.
Another attendee asked if Wilson believed in term limits. Wilson, who was elected to the U.S. House in 2001 and served 17 years in the State Senate before that, said he does believe in term limits, although if they existed, they must apply to everyone.
Wilson also spoke a bit about his family ties to Aiken County, including his great-grandfather and grandfather, who were from Beech Island. He called his Aiken County constituents "superstars" and said he's completely energized by them.
"I'm truly serving with good people and really enjoy the opportunity to represent you," Wilson said.
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HINDMAN — Members of the Eastern Kentucky chapters of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth met Saturday in Hindman to improve their skills as lobbyists and prepare to lobby local, state and national officials this year.
KFTC, a statewide organization that claims more than 7,500 members, works to improve the quality of life for all Kentuckians, according to the group's literature. The group has lobbied on environmental and economic-justice issues, like mountaintop-removal coal mining and tax reform.
One way KFTC members make their voices heard is through lobbying.
The citizen lobby training Saturday at the Hindman Settlement School opened with a discussion of what lobbying is and how citizens can take action to petition legislators and policymakers at home, in Frankfort, and in Washington, D.C.
Patty Amburgey, of the Letcher County chapter, has lobbied many times since becoming a KFTC member in 1999. She said during the training it is important for KFTC members to be prepared before lobbying.
"Always read your information and know what you're going to talk about," she said to the group.
She said members also have to work to keep the attention of whomever they are lobbying.
"Don't give them a chance to start going through their papers and stuff like that," she said. "Keep them focused on what you're saying and do not let them intimidate you."
Other KFTC members present, like Josh May of the Letcher County chapter, had less lobbying experience.
May said he lobbied during a trip to Washington, D.C., when he visited the Environmental Protection Agency as part of "Week in Washington," an anti-mountaintop-removal event that is organized by other groups, but in which KFTC members participate.
"It's just really intimidating if you've never done it before," May said.
May described what it was like to lobby a federal agency. He said he had to go through metal detectors, empty his pockets and then wait about 10 minutes after the meeting was scheduled for everyone to show up.
"And they've got an agenda when you get in there," May said. "They're ready with the answers and ready to give you the run-around, you know. And so, if you're not really prepared, it can be pretty tough."
He said he felt the experience went well and the group changed some people's opinions, but at the same time, it felt like the officials had their script and "didn't go real far from it."
"But it was a good experience, and I feel like it'd be easier with practice," May said.
Isaac Owens, 12, of Prestonsburg, said before the training that he was one of KFTC's newest members, having joined the organization Friday. Owens was familiar with KFTC's efforts because his aunt, Kristi Kendall, is the KFTC organizer for Floyd and Knott counties.
Owens said he plans to attend "I Love Mountains Day," an annual rally that raises awareness about mountaintop removal, in Frankfort on Feb. 14.
Katie Pirotina, of the Perry County chapter, is another new KFTC member. She said she came to the training to "build skills" and said she sees involvement in KFTC as one way she can help "make sure everyone is taken care of."
Jerry Hardt, KFTC's communications director, said the organization has helped Kentuckians get involved in the legislative process, helped pass good legislation and stop bad legislation, and held elected leaders accountable.
Even when legislation KFTC supports does not get passed, those times can still act as "an educational process that results in positive changes in other ways," Hardt said in an email.
Hardt said KFTC has several major items on its agenda for this legislative session, including restoration of voting rights for former felons, tax reform, clean energy and a "stream saver" bill aimed at the large valley fills that are part of mountaintop-removal mining.
In addition to "I Love Mountains Day," KFTC has scheduled "Economic Justice Lobby Day" on Feb. 7.
Hardt said KFTC members lobby at the Capitol many legislative days, but "Economic Justice Lobby Day" is a day for members to focus on economic justice issues that may be on the legislative agenda during the session.
Other upcoming KFTC events include "Growing Appalachia," a one-day conference with workshops hosted by the Floyd County KFTC chapter, March 3, in Prestonsburg, and the "Transition Conference," a three-day conference focused on creating a just economic transition in Appalachia, April 19-21, in Harlan.
KFTC staff, who follow the organization's policy of not being quoted by name, said turnout at the training Saturday was lower than expected because of sickness and slick roads. Eleven members attended the event.
Russell Oliver, a member of the Perry County KFTC chapter, said in an interview that lobbying is "something you learn to do" and a skill that one can "learn by doing."
Oliver, who said he had been a member of KFTC for a "long time," said during the training that lobbying provides the opportunity to find out personally which legislators are or are not sympathetic to one's views.
He said members should remember that the officials they lobby on a local or state level today could end up in national positions of power.
He also said there is power in being with a group, such as KFTC, versus trying to lobby on one's own.
"If you go down and say, 'Well, I'm from representing KFTC,' then see, you represent an organization," Oliver said. "So then they're a lot more apt to talk to you and listen to what you have to say than if you just go down there by yourself."


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PIKEVILLE – A four-year letterman from southern Ohio has signed a scholarship agreement with the University of Pikeville.
Robby Vest, a senior at Chillicothe High School, has signed to bowl for Coach Kyle Wilson's Bears next season.
Vest, who has a four-year average of 210 and also played three years on the school's baseball team, was this year's SCOC Bowler of the Year. It marked his third season of being a first-team All-SCOC selection after being named a second-team pick as a freshman.
Vest is a four-year qualifier for the Pepsi Tour and has been the high scorer during qualifying for the last three seasons. He finished second in the Midwest USA Adult-Junior Doubles Championships. As a junior, he qualified for the Ohio high school state finals.
In addition to his prowess on the lanes, Vest is also coming off a season on the baseball field that saw him selected to the SEOAL honorable-mention team.
Vest is an honor-roll student who has been named "Cav of the Semester" for success both in and out of the classroom. He's a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. He has completed four years in the school's band, two years in orchestra and one year in choir.
The University of Pikeville bowling team will compete this weekend in the NAIA Invitational in Indianapolis, Ind., to wrap up the 2012-13 season.


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I like that these shoes are waterproof and good looking. However, the materials are disappointingly cheap. After only (1) week of my son wearing these the top of his shoe at the toes is fraying and wearing through. It is only a short matter of time that before his toes are exposed. Darn!
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We've been moving things around as Labs/Blogs reaches the end of its project. This means major changes for Simplish — we hope in the form of expanded collaboration and easier access. At any rate, the theme is moving, but not going away, and continues to be maintained by Utopian.net Labs.
Simplish is fairly stable these days, but if you had been following the git development branch, the source is now using the Mercurial DVCS and hosted at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/simplish/. We hope you'll want to join the project as a contributor, and that you'll find the code easier to access and issues, if any, easier to report.
The demo blog hopped over to our burgeoning hosted-solution service, and can now be found at http://simplish-demo.pomfolio.com. This blog will likely follow it there in the near future — or else will be entirely replaced by the wiki and other pages/documentation possibilities at Google Code.
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Everyone who has played the game must have a time they thought was funny or exciting, post it here for fun.
When I started Darkfall I brought two friends in with me, one gaming friend and the other my girlfriend. We had not been playing wrong and we were just getting passed some of the harder trolls. My girlfriend proclaimed she could now make a raft and all we needed was to farm for some materials and it could be our very own.
We were pretty much naked toons and had nothing but a few nice people give us some things and some crappy weapons and armor we either found or crafted. We spent the entire day farming for materials for this raft we have never seen before. Finally we got the thing made and just had to find somewhere to place it in the water. We were all elves so we chose to drop ship in Western Valahir's northern river banks, that way we could follow the river and check out the ocean.
As we got down and put our raft in the water we all jumped on and off we went, I got to drive first. We didn't think it would take us long to get to the main ocean, but it seemed like days. It was cool though we were all just sitting on the raft and chatting like friends do. Each of us took turns driving. We decided we would follow the coast and go north to see more of the world. I was driving and figured I would check out Seelie because it had some green mobs on it and we figured we could have some luck farming there.
As we approached Seelie we went around to the north beaches to check out the small north island there for some moonbeast killings. As we come around the top northern bank and the cove opens to shed light on Seelie, and to our surprise we see a huge ship in the harbor. My heart starts to pump as I yell out over vent "Huge ship! Do you see that thing?"
My gaming friend says "Maybe there is no one there or they won't see us." Just then the ship started to back up and turn slightly towards us as we just made it to the first northern island and left from their site. The next few minutes involved us being shot at from a cannon as I tried so desperatly to zig-zag to doge them, which as you might know did not help.
Last thing I remember after they got the final shots on me, three reds joined us on our raft and put there swords through our bellies. Next thing I knew I was in the Elf starting area and I got a pm that read. "No one tries to take over
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Joined: 8/30/08
Hands down the first server war. I had multiple characters in Hyperion and a few in opposing guilds, this allowed me to "stir the pot" a good bit. My favorite moment though was calling a meeting with King Anus on one character and showing up on another an assinating him lol! The messages I got in return were priceless. I won't embaress him by listing the loot, but it was truly a memorable moment.
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Joined: 4/07/03
pushing people into lava pools with the force spell in the beginning in the orc area, back when the game started. oh the lulz were priceless.
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Joined: 8/22/08
Originally posted by GrayGhost79
This. 750v750 member siege 3 or 4 sieges going on back to back. Those were the days. Oh, and of course ninja squads taking out shard carriers. Lord Grizzly and Nacitar managed to sneak around the back of a mountain while I played scout and drew attention and the two of them, against all odds, killed the shard carrier ending the siege in the nick of time. Fun times
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Joined: 9/25/12
Too many to type any right now, but this blog is essentially the one that sold me on the game, and I've had quite a few similar experiences.
That is a sweet blog Davis. I actually read the whole thing, there are some really good stories there. It must have been fun to write.
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Joined: 9/25/12
Originally posted by Topherpunch
I'm actually a bit excited, I sent Signus an email not too long ago and he plans to finish off his character's story arc before Unholy Wars launches. I love blogs like this. I actually found it through the Ultima Online Travelogues, which are linked on there. FFA PVP games make for the best in game stories.
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Back in the day my was living out of the chaos city Janhalek. The main creature to farm in the area are called khamsets and dropped this rusty army. We all thought it would be funny to dress up like the local NPC inhabitants and raid the nearby player city. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ceXIbyz9U
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"Kill me, my man kills you, that's how you lose."
Originally posted by GrayGhost79
First war was the best.
My favorite battle though was when when we went around as clans farming for materials, we farmed for hours a day... raising our skills/stats and moving together for protection in numbers. We did this for a couple of weeks, saving the materials to pay the mercs to build the first ship.
I was apart of the ShadowBane alliance.
It was actually weird because we started off with minor fighting with Death and Dusk... but I remember logging on and our clan leader telling us something big was going down... and we began helping the Death Alliance once war broke out with Hyperion.
This was my favorite battle because it was the fist ship built and the first time it was used in war.
I forget name of the city because I have not played in some time other than just logging back in and playing for fun... didn't do much the second time around. But I believe it was the Dawn/Dusk or COTC alliance city.
We planned to hit the city that was by the ocean and up relatively high on a plateau. We actually had a good bit of our alliance clans hit fake targets to distract them from the actual target. However, that worked for a slight period of time we were all set to revive to the nearest area to the target. So as soon as we died we all ran their to assist. However, I recall my clan specifically started running and we got told to stay back and pick off enemies who were running in alone or in small pairs. We did this until we were needed at the city.. then we grabbed the real gear and headed to the city. When we got there it was a mess. We were struggling to take over the city, we were not making much progress it seemed like we were evenly killin each other... it actually was looking not so good for us.
Finally, our surprise came, we all backed off a bit. The mercs arrived and laid waste to the city. I remember at the time hoping they would not rob us of our materials... but they did not they fell through with the agreement. We were told anybody who even appears to be going towards the ship would be killed. This was the turning point we began to take over and held the base down for a few hours with minor attempts to take us over... it was definitely much easier to hold the base down than it was to enter.
At this point anybody playing at the time might remember the bug that didn't allow players to see the where the clan shard holder was located. We used that to our advantage.
Anybody who played during this time knows what happened next... I will not bring it up since it was a major deal on the forums back then... Regardless this was definitely a very fun time to be playing the game. I will also give it to our enemies they were very good although they did not last too much longer.
I hope to have more great times like this in DF:UW.
Although I never thought I was the best, I always enjoyed the wars... it was very fun fighting in numbers, whether we won or lost.
"I see they watchin' me and takin' notes on my moves, Run up on me it's all I want I ain't got nothin' to lose."
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2 almost naked elves alone on the ship..... hmmm. Only chating hmmm, yea sure
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by far the most memorable moment would be the one where i found my Large Villa Deed, i was on my way near a chaos city when i took down an earth elemental and to my "OMFGBBQ Super RARE GRIN". it felt like the longst journy i ever had to a bank!
and that was when they only came out and were super rare!
EU client FTW
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Joined: 1/15/08
I am going to have to say dr34d0g similar to the kara wars.
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This is my quote.
This was during launch. I was killing goblins, and then I got killed by them. There were other people around, and usually what happens when somebody dies, everybody waits for him to bleed out and loot the grave. But this one guy came over and rezzed me!
So he invites me to his group and we move on to kill Trolls. We were gonna go farm for one hour and then go back and bank. After about 40 minutes of killing trolls with him, with almost 1K gold (lol) I was low from mobs and I sat down to rest. As I'm sitting down, my friend comes over and hits me few times and I die, he gankes me lol. Note: If you are in a party with somebody then they don't take alignment penalty or go gray if they kill you.
He then sent me a tell "sorry man, but I couldn't resist". I wasn't mad, I was in awe, so I praised his plan. Eventually, he ended up giving me a lot more materials and gold than he got from me and we became good friends.
From then on, I completely fell in love with DF.
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One of my favorite moments was teleporting into an allied holding only to see that useless lag switching asshat Jet Boom trying to hit me with spells. He thought he didnt need to lag switch because he got the jump on me, and by the time he started trying to he was already about to drop dead. Gave me a nice set of gear and a bunch of enchanting mats I had been looking for. The rage was strong with that scrub that day.
There was also the war we were in with this clan, i forget the clan name, but it was the original clan that Mighty Maxx was in. The poor kid would leave his clan when they got war dec'ed and rejoin later. After he finally stopped leaving his clan when we kept a permanent war dec on them, him and his group of little kids tried to jump me with 5 of them in a town. Made sure to take out Mighty Maxx right away just to laugh at him then kited the other 4 all over the place for awhile slowly wearing them down. Poor kids had some of the worst aim Ive ever seen in the game. Between all 4 of them I think they managed to land 2 arrows and 1 spell on me. By the time some of my clans howed up to help out there was only 1 left standing, trying to run away. Always loved taking sets of dragon off those failures. I think they supplied me with about half of the gear I still had left in my bank when I recently returned to the game.
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This is hilarious in everyway. He totally owned you..
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My most memorable moment from Darkfall was when I was able to duck a corner and hide from a group of four people that were chasing me down after a small skirmish went south. As i watched them all run past, I realized I had done something i had not been able to do in an MMO since the early years of UO. There was a certain realism to what was going on. Terrain and line of sight actually meant something. This led to a great attention to my surroundings and a hightened sense of awareness while playing.
It was an otherwise trivial moment in the grander scheme of what was going on, but it changed how I played the game. It was one small part of what made Darkfall a more (yeah, gonna use the word) immersive virtual world than I had grown accustomed to in most PVP games.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way.
Piling 30 people on a raft to go lay siege to another clan's holding.
"If at first you don't succeed, excessive force is probably the answer."
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Hehe, I remember all those cases when some noobs asked in race chat some typical questions about how to find this and how to find that and people answered "yourmom will help you"... There were some priceless reactions...
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Originally posted by SharpKris
Yeah, I had that same feeling when I found mine. I never did find a spot for it though. When I quit, I raided a city with the large villa deed on me in the hopes of passing along that feeling to someone else.
Another memory moment was when our guild was loaded on to a raft, loaded with mats to take down the fire dragon in which we were supposed to meet up with another group. Half the guys are afk when a Kraaken attacks us. We had like one or two survivors and our new quest was to recover all of our gear. Was challenging as we had to lure the Kraaken away while the others grabbed the loot.
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Loved reading this thread.
I also kept a blog of my semi-newb adventures. Read it if you like that sort of thing :P
It is better in the begining and middle .p


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Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 American brands that it predicts will disappear before the end of the following year. And three retailers – Aeropostale, Lululemon and Shutterfly – have made the 2015 list, which published last week.
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July 16, 2014
Email Subject Lines and the The Law of Declining Significance
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July 15, 2014
How to Win the Amazon Buy Box Every Time
Amazon is now one of the top 10 retailers in America, joining the likes of Lowes, Safeway, and Walmart as a top destination for consumer purchases. It's growing much faster than any other company in the top 10 at 27.2% yearly growth, so …More...
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CONCORD, N.C. – One Senior Animal Pro Gas racer could leave the August 23-25 GT Machine RLV Gold Cup Grand Nationals at Pittsburgh International Race Complex $2,000 richer.
A healthy $2,000 has been added to the Senior Animal Pro Gas purse for the fourth round of the 2013 WKA Gold Cup Series. In order to leave Pittsburgh with the top prize, a driver will have to visit the top step of the podium three times in the Senior Pro Gas division.
The action will kick off with Friday night's Senior Animal Money Race. The first Pro Gas entrant across the stripe will earn a cool $500 in addition to the 75 percent payback on entry fees. The Money Race, which is still open to methanol-powered Animal karts, has seen mostly Pro Gas entrants this year. Only Ryan Bavineau and Tyler Sandmeyer have remained on a methanol Animal at South Bend, Ind., in May and Camden, Ohio, July Fourth weekend, and both have routinely beat out the Pro Gas karts.
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Wouldn't taxing the churches go a long way toward balancing the federal budget? Shouldn't we atheists be pushing for this?
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I am not sure what the point of this question is.
The tax--including the "employer's share" that you never even see, but is a cost to your employer of having you work for them, and which therefore ought to be considered part of your compensation--is not enough to pay for the program, and this disparity is only going to get worse with time unless something is changed.
Social security does not actually put your money into a savings account with your name on it; rather, it promptly sends it out the door to someone who is already retired, somewhere. By about 2050 there will only be two people working for each retiree, and you can imagine what it will be liked to be taxed half of what his or her benefit check is, plus the overhead of the program itself (the people running social security themselves need to be paid). If this money is not somehow taxed, it will have to be borrowed (resulting in bankruptcy) or created from nothing (resulting in inflation, which will only result in larger COLAs for people on social security, so it's not even a short term solution). So at some point--without severe benefit reductions or some sort of phaseout plan the program will collapse. It's not a matter of IF but rather of WHEN.
"If this money is not somehow taxed, it will have to be borrowed (resulting in bankruptcy) or created from nothing (resulting in inflation, which will only result in larger COLAs for people on social security, so it's not even a short term solution)."
The Federal Reserve has been expanding the monetary base almost vertically since the Bush recession began in 2007. Republicans like Ron Paul have been yowling predictions about end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it inflation for years but it doesn't happen.
Money creation under a floating currency system doesn't drive up inflation much unless the economy is approaching full employment and full capacity, and the US is nowhere near that.
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SteveInCO, we think alike.
When you retire, your kids (or your neighbors) cook and eat you.
(Or when you can no longer afford health care.)
How is pointing out the *fact* that the system is going to go bankrupt if nothing is changed somehow tantamount to wanting to eat seniors?
You don't offer a solution, you don't attempt to refute my arguments, you just impugn my motives.
Easy. When your kids have eaten you, you're no longer a financial burden on them.
Properly seasoned and cooked, as Jonathon Swift suggested in his Modest Proposal, you might be a tasty dish.
There's another benefit too, part of you will always be with your offspring.
Taxes will have to go up if the US wishes to be a (social) welfare state. The problem in the US is that people are scared shitless of taxes, but are (apparently) willing to pay shitloads of money for private healthcare....
The deficit needs to be solved by higher taxes, especially on the higher incomes.
Jobs, not deficits, should be the priority anyway.
The GOP crackpots succeeded in changing the subject away from job creation to deficit reduction after years of free-reign Republican economic policy in Washington left a smoking crater where the economy used to be. Consumer spending and business spending remain severely depressed, so sales are down, and the private sector has eliminated jobs as a result.
Ever since then, the Republicans have lectured that the solution to the mess they made is savage cuts in government spending and mass layoffs of government employees. The concept never had any traction in economic theory. But through sheer (and sometimes shrill) repetition, the GOP has managed to persuade a wide swatch of the public that, in economic terms, the solution to mass starvation is mass dieting.
It's a smokescreen but not a very good one. The GOP has been stroking deficit fears to do what they've always tried to do: cripple social safety nets like Social Security and Medicare. The transparent part is that if they really were concerned about deficits, they'd be calling for the end of corporate welfare programs and the irresponsible tax cuts for the super-rich, which are still on the books from the Bush era. They'd also be allowing more stimulus spending, instead of blocking Obama's good faith efforts to restore the economy while simultaneously blaming him for not doing enough.
Tax the churches? Sure, I'm with you on that. But the best way to raise tax revenues (without raising taxes) is getting people back to work, and jump-starting the cycle of spending and growth again.
A church tax is a tax imposed on members of some religious congregations in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Sweden, some parts of Switzerland and several other countries. The Austrian tax is an interesting one.
The Yearly Cost of Religious Tax Exemptions in America: $71,000,000,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax The Yearly Cost of Religious Tax Exemptions: $71,000,000,000 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/06/16/the-yearly-...
Just think of the businesses that some of these religions have - the mormons with their knickers and tops
Beehive Clothing is listed on manta.com as having revenue between $100 - $500 million dollars. Even though manta.com won't show you the revenue data if you don't subscribe, you can see this info without signing up by simply by going to their "clergymen's vestments" category and checking "filter by 100 - 500 million" in the sidebar and there it is!
Any other business that cannot pay its taxes, is put out of business. Why would a church not be in the same position? If these are tiny churches with tiny congregations, their taxes would no doubt be tiny too. Why should they have a special status that "John and Jane's family bakery" shouldn't enjoy?. If you tax the churches, you are simply aligning them with the rest of society.
And I'm pretty sure that John and Jane, my fictional bakers, would agree.
If you want to add other things to this, do so by all means. But treating churches as exempt is not right. Business is business, whether you are giving people their daily bread literally or spiritually.
Business is taxed. Taxes go to the benefit of all, not just to the benefit of those who paid them. I think we should look long and hard at all tax exemptions. And then instead of exempting, you could do tax rebates when and where you felt it was economically and socially viable.
Ideological fundamentalism is rather like religious fundamentalism in its ability to ignore reality.
The S&P 500 earned negative 37% in 2008 alone. That's the cream of the Wall Street crop. Investments in other areas (such as real estate) did much worse. Retirees lost an average of 1/3 of their life savings. Some were wiped out entirely. Imagine what would have happened if men like George W. Bush, John McCain, and Paul Ryan succeeded in their efforts to privatize social security by betting it on the same Wall Street crap game that torched the economy.
Look at the chart you posted. Compare cost of Social Security to the cost of the Bush-era tax cuts, subsequent extensions to them, and the cost of cleaning up the destruction the Republican economic plan wreaked on the economy. Social Security has been around for generations, and in 2000 the budget was in surplus, meaning it was paid for. Then along come the GOP tax cuts for the rich, none of which were paid for.
Once the bills started arriving for the GOP spending spree and the economy lay in ruins, the Republicans started howling that aid to the poorest Americans deserved the blame, and renewed long-standing calls for the destruction of Social Security, Medicare, and Food Stamps. The cost of the tax cuts and corporate welfare programs, of course, were conveniently ignored.
The cuts that Romney and Ryan proposed were so savage that even the crackpots at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said it was immoral to annihilate assistance to the poor while showering the rich with another round of lavish tax cuts.
The Republicans naturally ignored that aspect of "God's Work" and continued reciting the same shrill idealogical dogma: aid to the poor caused the recession and the "only way out" of a recession caused by severely depressed spending is that we STOP SPENDING altogether.
That's ideology, not economics. Indeed, when presented as the latter, the GOP's "blame the poor" fantasy has the same support from science and reason as Creationism. But the GOP has never pushed this hard for Creationism.
The cuts that Romney and Ryan proposed were so savage that even the crackpots at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said it was immoral.
You said it quite well here.
Still laughing....
Please provide an example of the "simple math" and "reality" which shows severe spending cuts have ever resolved an economic recession. That approach failed for Herbert Hoover and it's not working in Europe today, either.
The US national debt exceeded the GDP during World War II. The country never paid off that debt. Instead, the federal government racked up even more debt with massive spending on public works. The economy expanded like gangbusters as a result, and the debt as a percentage of the GDP shrank for the next forty years (until Reagan reversed the trend).
You cannot cut your way out of debt and recession. You can only grow your way out. We learned that lesson 70 years ago during the Great Depression. Europe is learning it again today the hard way. The Republicans are determined to ignore the lessons of history and follow Europe's example of failure, despite a long record which shows austerity doesn't work as an economic jump-starter.
On the other subject, imagine you had retired in 2000 at age 65 without Social Security, and with your entire life savings "simply invested" in real estate funds and stock index funds. Now imagine you're one of the investors who lost everything during the financial crisis. Now you're 72 and destitute. If the Republicans had gotten their way in the early 2000s, that's exactly the position millions of seniors would be in today. How could you possibly be "better off" that way?


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Make no bones about it, the Schawalbe Racing Ron 27.5 is a serious, no-compromises race tire. PaceStar Triple compound, low-profile center lugs, and prominent side lugs come together to make a lightweight, fast-rolling tire that grips like crazy, especially in the corners. Designed to go head-to-head with the very fastest in the world, this tire won't let you down when your name is on the line.
The Rocket Ron uses Schwalbe's PaceStar Triple Compound, their fastest. Schwalbe engineers recognize that it's not possible for one compound to do it all, so they've combined three to optimize the tire's performance. The low-profile tread of the Rocket Ron is fast, and it's still an excellent cornering tire thanks to the U-Block shoulder tread. These tread blocks are angled at 20 degrees or so towards the outside of the tire. Compared to the Racing Ralph, the slightly more prominent blocks have been spaced a bit further apart to achieve more void space. This is part of the reason that it self-cleans in mucky stuff so you can continue to have traction to drive down the trail and keep the bike upright. A small sipe doesn't quite divide the block, creating the "U" shape. They work to counteract the lateral forces endured when cornering to maintain traction and to keep the bike stable.
This tire is designed to be tubeless ready (TL), which means you can say goodbye to pinch flats. A tubeless system allows you to run less air pressure, again enhancing the grip of the tire's tread. Better traction, less vibration, and no flats lead to a great ride. It's necessary to use a liquid sealant within the tire to seal the bead seat and to quickly seal thorn or debris punctures on the trail.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Good value, good tire
Love this tire!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I was surprised at the negative reviews, as I really, really love this tire. It grips roots so much better than my old setup.
Two important things to note:
1) I only use it as my rear tire.
2) Stan's is not enough! You have to put in the Orange Seal. Once I did that it holds air like nobody's business.
3) I weigh about 115 lbs so maybe it's just a tire for lighter riders. I ride a Yeti 575 and have no wear issues as noted below.
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I ordered two Ibis Mojo HDR's this summer and I love everything about them with one exception... The Rocket Ron tires are worse than useless for riding anything rougher than a paved parking lot. Of the 4 tires that came on the two bikes three have had complete sidewall failure with less than 200 miles on them! These were not catastrophic events, these sidewalls just wore out and then ripped under pressure. Fortunately after the first blowout I made sure to carry a tube so that I could at least get some air in the tire after putting some duct tape on the side wall and limped home. I suggest that Competitive consider using better tires on the bikes they build and sell, the Rocket Ron's are a disservice to an otherwise great bike. The photo shows what happens when you try to make the tire tubeless after riding with tubes 50 miles. that's a lot of Stan's oozing out the sidewall!
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Just one spot of many
Showing the wear in one particular spot but I have many spots like this on my tire after only 4 weeks of riding.
Mike Nix
Wow, I've never seen a Ron do that. But then again, I am in the midwest.
Kyle K
Eh not my fave
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've had two of these tires on my back rim and should stopped after one. I ride bout 4 times a week and have gone through two in the matter of 2 months, in my experience with this tire I've seen a significant loss of tread within two weeks of riding and the result ends up being a ton of deflection when riding, I wouldn't recommend this tire to anyone I do however love the tread pattern and when it's new it's a great XC tire but the durability isn't worth the cost.
Steve Brain
Weak sidewalls
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Had both this tire, and a nobby nic on my front wheel blow out in the same ride. Less than 100 miles on these tires and they're trash due to multiple sidewall tears. Read the reviews on the snakeskin versions, and went to the local bike store and picked up some today to try - they seem to be a little less paper thin on the sidewalls.
Not satisfied
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I was looking for a lightweight but durable tire to ride at Leadville this year. I tried Rocket Ron. Maybe it's because I weigh 210 pounds or maybe it's because I got some dud tires, but each of the four Rocket Rons I tried flatted -- they flatted early and often. I was running Stans, etc., but it hardly helped. I was tearing the sidewall. Not sure what the deal is. I've since gone to Maxxis. Guess what? No flats! Therefore, unfortunately, I have to pan the Rocket Ron.
Aaron Martin
Different From Last Year's Rocket Ron
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Last year's Rocket Ron had more aggressive corner knobs. This new version has much lower profile corner knobs. I used last generation's tires as a front but this new one is better suited as a rear. I put a Nobby Nic up front and I am very happy with the balance of speed and traction.


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- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 6 beef T-bone steaks (16 ounces each)
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first 11 ingredients; add steaks. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
- Drain and discard marinade. Grill steaks, covered, over medium heat for 6-10 minutes on each side or until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a meat thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°). Yield: 6 servings.
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"This was a cinch to put together at the last minute, I had everything on hand to make a super fresh tasting marinade. It was flavorful without being overpowering-better than plain old steak. I substituted a shallot for the onion because it had been hanging around. I am so glad I signed up for the e-mail recipe a day...I've tried a lot of new things that are "keepers" such as this one. Thanks TOH!"


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