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Dear Editor,
It is beyond my ability to comprehend the logic Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Tim Scott used in voting against expanding background checks for gun purchasers.
Have they each forgotten the incident that occurred in February when a 28-year-old woman attempted to kill and wound school officials and students outside of Ashley Hall School in Charleston? According to police reports, the potential shooter legally purchased the gun a few days prior to going to the school. It is impossible to know how many lives would have been lost or shattered had she succeeded with her plan. It was a trick of fate that her gun failed to discharge into students and administrators that day.
Senator Graham said in the February 14, 2013 edition of the Post and Courier that "The Ashley Hall Incident Shows (a) Broken System." Please explain how, Senator Graham, and you, Senator Scott and the other Senators who voted "nay" intend to fix the nation's "broken system."
On that Monday in February 2013, carnage nearly came to Charleston. Our nearby beautiful city came very close to joining the ranks of the long and growing list of cities and towns tarnished by bloodshed. These senseless deaths and injuries break our hearts all too often.
Most of us push niggling anxieties away. We chide ourselves. Nothing can happen here? Right? We have enough to worry about today.
But, are our children safe at school? Do we accept the risk of attending an informative political rally? Is it possible to enjoy a movie without looking around the theater rather than at the movie screen? Should we choose restaurant seating that lets us observe the people entering? Is it safe to simply walk down the streets of our cities and towns without the possibility of dodging a hail of bullets from a drive-by shooting?
Please share your strategies with the public Senators. And by all means, implement your grand solutions to this bloody impasse before more lives are lost or devastated.
Carole Reno Brier
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Brian C. Anderson is the editor of City Journal, the cultural and political quarterly published by the Manhattan Institute, where he writes extensively on social and political trends. Formerly, he served as senior editor of City Journal and as a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute.
As editor, Anderson has overseen the enormously successful expansion of City Journal's website. His guidance has also helped broaden City Journal's reach and influence with the addition of many new authors. Over his ten years at City Journal, the quarterly continues to be one of the nation's premier public policy magazines.
Anderson's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Dallas News, Commentary, National Review, First Things, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, the Wilson Quarterly, the American Spectator, and dozens of other publications.
Anderson is coauthor of the book, A Manifesto for Media Freedom (2008) and author of Democratic Capitalism and its Discontents (2007), South Park Conservatives (2005), and Raymond Aron: the Recovery of the Political (2005). The New York Times recently described him as one of "the most probing and erudite political essayists of our day."
He is a frequent guest on talk radio.
Anderson has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Ottawa, and an M.A. and B.A. from Boston College. He is married and lives with his wife and two young sons in Westchester County, New York.

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second all-time at Holy Cross with 1,218 career kills and seventh
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to record over 1,000 kills and 900 digs.
2011: Served as a team captain...started all 31 matches and played 103 sets...earned second team All-Patriot League accolades and was named to the Patriot League All-Academic team...received team MVP honors...named Patriot League Player of the Week (11/14), marking only the third time a Holy Cross player had won the award...earned Bryant Invitational MVP and All-Tournament accolades (9/10)...named to the Harvard Invitational All-Tournament team (9/17)...earned AT&T Crusader of the Week (8/29) honors...recorded 405 kills, to place second on the school single-season list...led the Patriot League and ranked 55th nationally with 3.93 kills per set...led the team with a career-best 31 aces and was ninth in the league with 0.30 aces per set...ranked second on the team with 298 digs, and her 2.89 digs per set placed 10th in the conference...tallied double-digit kills in 24 of the 31 matches...either led or tied for the team-lead in kills in 27 matches...tallied 20 double-doubles...posted 19 kills and 15 digs in the win versus Providence (8/31)...tallied 16 kills and 13 digs in the victory over Navy (9/30)...recorded a career-best 34 kills at Bryant (10/5), which tied for the fourth most in Division I in the nation all season...posted 18 kills and 14 digs versus Army (10/8)...tallied 21 kills and 11 digs in the season-ending victory over Colgate (11/12)...member of the Holy Cross Leadership Academy...named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2010: Started in all 33 matches and played all 123 sets…earned second team All-Patriot League accolades…named to the inaugural Patriot League volleyball All-Academic team…selected to the Bryant Invitational All-Tournament team (9/11) and the Brown Invitational All-Tournament team (9/18)…earned AT&T Crusader of the Week honors (9/27)…set a school record with 442 kills...first player in program history to record over 400 kills in a season…led the Patriot League in kills…ranked second on the team with a career-best 388 digs, the fifth-most in program history…ranked fifth in the conference in digs…averaged 3.59 kills per set and 3.15 digs per set…prior to 2010 season, no Patriot League player had averaged over three kills and three digs per set since 2006…was 98th nationally in kills per set…recorded double-digit kills in 26 of the 33 matches...either led or tied for the team-lead in kills in 30 matches…posted 20 double-doubles…ranked fourth on the team with a career-best 31 blocks…tallied 15 kills and 11 digs in the season-opening victory over Boston College (8/27)…posted 21 kills and 16 digs versus Hartford (9/7)…had 21 kills and 13 digs in the win over Boston College (9/10)…tallied 15 kills and 14 digs in the Patriot League season-opening victory over Lafayette (9/24)…recorded 19 kills and 17 digs in the win over Bryant (10/6)…posted a season-best 23 kills and also recorded 19 digs versus Bucknell (10/16)…tallied 14 kills and 20 digs in the victory at Lafayette (10/23)…recorded 18 kills and 17 digs in the win over Navy (11/6)…earned Patriot League Academic Honor Roll accolades.
2009: Started in all 29 matches and played all 105 sets…earned second team All-Patriot League honors to become the first Crusader freshman to receive All-Patriot League accolades...named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week twice (9/28 & 11/9) as she became only the second Crusader to earn that award...named to the Sacred Heart Invitational All-Tournament team (9/5)...was the AT&T Crusader of the Week (10/12)…had 371 kills which are the fourth most at Holy Cross for a single-season and the most ever by a freshman…ranked second in the league in kills and kills per set (3.53)...posted double-digit kills 20 times...either led the team or tied for the team-lead for kills in 25 out of 29 matches…ranked second on the team with 233 digs and 2.22 digs per set…had 23 kills and 19 digs at Brown (9/19)…had 22 kills and nine digs at Harvard (9/22)…tallied 20 kills against Colgate (9/25)…recorded 21 kills and 17 digs against Army (10/13)…had 23 kills in the victory over Bucknell (10/23)...member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Before Holy Cross: Four-year member of the varsity volleyball team at Mendham H.S. for coach Bob Acker...senior captain...earned 2006, 2007 and 2008 first team All-Iron-Hills Conference accolades...named the 2008 Daily Record All-Area Player of the Year...earned 2008 PrepVolleyball.com Highest Honorable Mention All-America honors...member of the 2008 Star-Ledger All-State first team, while she was a member of the 2007 All-State second team...earned 2007 and 2008 Star-Ledger first team All-State-Group 3 accolades, and 2006 second team honors...set the school record for career kills with 875 and the record for career aces with 141...set the single-season kills record with 375 (2008)...also a member of the 2009 TCA club team and the 2006-2008 Atlantic Valley club teams...team competed at the 2006 Junior Olympics...Latin Club Vice President...member of National Honor Society...earned three-time Silver Medalist national Latin honors...volunteered with Projects Abroad Care and Community in Ghana (2008).
Personal: Daughter of Peter and Barbara Lynch...father was a member of the football team at Cornell...has one brother (Timmy)...her uncle Tom Lynch (Class of 1969), cousin Brian Lynch (Class of 1996) and cousin Katie Lynch (Class of 2001) all graduated from Holy Cross...cousin Brian was a member of the Holy Cross men's lacrosse team...cousin Katie played on the Holy Cross volleyball team as she holds the program's single-season digs per game record with 4.57 (1999)...a Psychology major.
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Wayne K. Johnson of Fayston, VT, died on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, after a courageous battle with ALS. Wayne was born December 18, 1947, in Goffstown, NH. He graduated from Hollis High School in 1966. He attended Hesser College for two years before entering the Army where he served his country in Vietnam from December 1968 to December 1969. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1970 receiving a Commendation Medal with V-Device, Oak Leaf Cluster Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Wayne spent most of his career as a truck driver and lived in Fayston, VT, since 1986. When not driving a truck, Wayne could be found down by the river fishing, in the woods hunting, riding his motorcycle, playing a game of pool or sitting in his recliner next to his love, Lynda, watching any New England sports team. Wayne is survived by his beloved wife of 27 years, Lynda; four stepdaughters, Ava Whitcomb and husband Alan of Marshfield, VT, Kara Barker and husband Charlie of Plymouth, NH, Heather Twombly and husband Kevin of South Riding, VA, and Tonya Guyette and husband Scott of Waterbury Center, VT; 10 grandchildren, Alex and Avery Whitcomb, Ian, Ellie and Emily Barker, Ethan, Parker and Nolan Twombly, and Connor and Liam Guyette; two great-grandchildren, Carter and Kamden; one son, Joseph Small of Nashua, NH; a brother, Gary; three sisters, Kathy, Gail and Carol; and a stepbrother, Chip. He was predeceased by his mother Esther Johnson Blanchard, father Lewis Johnson and brother David Johnson.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Bond was set Thursday evening in Moncks Corner for a Summerville Elementary School teacher and her apparent live-in boyfriend who are facing several drug and related charges.
The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office arrested Terri Goldman Wooten, 49, and David Eugene Cauthan, 37, on April 17 at 1024 Douglas Wayne Road, Ladson.
Wooten's bond was set at $79,000. She is charged with distribution of a controlled substance within half a mile mile of a school, possession of LSD aka "acid," possession of a Schedule-4 narcotic (Xanax) and trafficking methamphetamine.
Bond was set at $124,600 for Cauthan. Wooten and Cauthan share a residence in Ladson, where the arrest occurred, according to BCSO.
Cauthan is charged with manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine, distribution of a controlled substance within half a mile of a school, possession of LSD, possession of marijuana and possession of a Schedule-4 narcotic (Xanax).
The BCSO Drug Enforcement Unit conducted a search warrant April 17, according to a BCSO statement issued Thursday afternoon.
Agents located components to manufacture methamphetamine along with about 14 gross grams of a white powdery substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine, approximately 2.3 gross grams of marijuana, 12 dosage units of LSD and 46 Xanax pills.
Wooten is a fourth grade teach at Summerville Elementary School. She was placed on paid administrative leave and another teacher is taking over her classroom, according to Dorchester District 2 Schools Public Information Officer Pat Raynor.
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Despite law, some say 3rd term for Brewer is possible
PHOENIX -- With attention turning toward the 2014 gubernatorial race, much of the discussion revolves around Gov. Jan Brewer's intentions - and whether she's even eligible to run.
Brewer has spoken publicly about the possibility of running for a third term even though the state Constitution limits members of the executive branch to two terms. The language considers a partial term the same as a full term.
In mid-November, Joseph Kanefield, Brewer's former general counsel, wrote in an Arizona Republic guest column that Brewer could seek a court ruling allowing a third term based on what he calls constitutional "ambiguity."
Now a partner with the law firm Ballard Spahr LLP, Kanefield said this ambiguity can be found in the state Constitution's separation of the section dealing with gubernatorial succession from the section dealing with term limits. Arizona voters passed a proposition in 1992 that established term limits for various government positions, including the two-term limit for the governor.
"I don't think the voters were thinking about that situation (gubernatorial succession) when they included that �part of a term' language," he said in an interview.
Governor is the only executive branch position for which there is a constitutionally determined line of succession.
Brewer, then Secretary of State, succeeded Gov. Janet Napolitano in January 2009 when President Barack Obama tapped Napolitano to become Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer then defeated Democrat Terry Goddard in 2010 for a full term.
Fred Solop, a professor of politics and international affairs at Northern Arizona University, said a court can rule based on documentation showing the intent of those who proposed a law. But he added that probably wouldn't apply in this situation.
"Given the absence of documentary materials, it's impossible to infer the intentions of the voters, that the intentions were different than the actual wording of the Constitution," he said.
Secretary of State Ken Bennett, the state's top elections official, told reporters recently that he doesn't think Brewer would be eligible should she decide to attempt a run. A spokesman said Tuesday Bennett wasn't available to comment further.
A spokesman for Brewer said in an email that he didn't have anything to add to the discussion and that the governor is focused on the remaining two years of her term.
Solop said that because Brewer seems to be "testing the waters" with regards to a third term, the lack of other Republicans coming to her defense may play a large part in her eventual decision.
"Given that there isn't any other support coming, outside of her general counsel, I'd be surprised honestly if she does take it to the next level," he said.


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According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriffs Office:
A Beech Island man reported a yellow Dewalt radio was stolen from the back porch of his Pineland Drive home.
Firefighters responded to a vehicle fire on Front Street in Bath on Thursday after a deputy observed smoke coming from the front window and flames in the rear seat and passenger side. The deputy also observed a white male subject run from the vehicle and into a house at the same location. The deputy advised everyone in the house to exit and juvenile investigators were notified of the incident.
A Beech Island woman reported her roommate took 28 oxycodone pills from her purse without her permission at a residence on Beech Island Avenue.
According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
An Aiken man was transported to the hospital on Thursday after he was found bleeding from a cut on his head at the Aiken County Sheriffs Office. The victim only stated that the suspect hit him in the head and that the incident occurred down the street. The victim could not provide his home address and was very intoxicated and uncooperative.
A North Augusta woman reported she left her cellphone at a Richland Avenue Walmart register and, when she returned to collect it, was told a man had picked it up and walked out of the store with it. The man was described as a white male, around 6-feet tall, with a long beard and blonde and gray hair, wearing jeans and a red top.
A juvenile was released to her mother after she reportedly attempted to steal a $69 gold Betsy Johnson watch from Dillards on Thursday.
Officers responded to reports of threats on Thursday against Schofield Middle School. During class, one subject allegedly told a witness he was going to shoot up the school tonight at Night of Arts. The school was put on extra patrol.
Two women were placed on trespass notice and arrested for shoplifting after they reportedly took clothes off the shelves in the Richland Avenue Walmart and stuffed them in a purse. Both suspects had young children with them and had family pick up the children.
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"About" 30 LucasArts games are headed to the digital games site.
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From Maniac Mansion to Monkey Island, Danny takes a look at history of point and click adventure games.
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A Warrensville man turned himself in to police and faces charges of breaking, entering and larceny, as well as possession of stolen goods.
Brian Mark Bove, 32, of Warrensville turned himself in to the Ashe County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 20.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of Bove in response to breaking, entering and larceny crimes committed at a residence in Warrensvile.
The residence was entered illegally and various household items were stolen, including appliances.
This led to the Sheriff's Office's arrest of Adam Campbell, 29, from Warrensville. He was arrested Oct. 6, on similar charges of breaking, entering, and larceny.
According to Sheriff's Capt. Carolyn Gentry, of the Ashe County Sherriff's Office, Bove fled from detectives who were investigating the crime at the residence. It was previously thought that Bove fled into West Virginia.
Bove was released on a $15,000 secured bond and is scheduled for a probable cause hearing.


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Nokia vs Apple lawsuit settled [Updated]
It looks as though Nokia and Apple have finally come to an agreement over the lawsuit they have been involved in since late 2009, with Apple agreeing to pay licensing fees for key Nokia patents. Originally, Nokia claimed that Apple had infringed on almost two dozen of their patents for mobile technologies. Apple argued that Nokia was demanding "unfair" licensing fees and didn't want to pay more than other companies licensing the same technology, then counter sued for UI and computer-related patents. Complaints flew back and forth, and now the end result of the lawsuit was that Apple has to pay Nokia a lump some of of cash on top of royalties for the term of the agreement with Nokia.
The financial structure of the agreement consists of a one-time payment payable by Apple and on-going royalties to be paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement. The specific terms of the contract are confidential.
"We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees," said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia. "This settlement demonstrates Nokia's industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
Apple having to pay Nokia was never really in question. The argument was over how much. Nokia's patents were in a pool that was supposed to be freely and fairly licensed to everyone. Apple felt Nokia was violating the letter and spirit of that by asking more of Apple. Whether or not Apple eventually got the same terms as other licensees, or whether they did have to pay up more, is still a question.
Apple also remains in litigation with the three top Android makers, HTC, Samsung, and Motorola. For now, Nokia is no longer in litigation with anyone.
UPDATE: Apple has issued a statement to the New York Times [NYT]:
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Rumors right now are between $608 million and $715 million lump sum and $11 per phone in ongoing royalties
"We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees"
Wow. That is some Steve Jobs level snark right there. I love it. :)
Yeah, that's pretty awesome
I'm pretty sure quite a few people at Nokia couldn't wait to make that statement just for "salt in the wound" value.
they'll build a spaceship in cupertino, certainly they can pay for that.
This was the only possible outcome. Apple always knew they would have to pay, as Nokia's patents are well established throughout the industry and legal system. The only question was how much. Apple obviously felt Nokia was asking too much (probably cross-licenses of things Apple did not want to license), and the rest of Apple's moves were simple posturing to drive the price down.
Today, we simply reached the day when either Apple felt they had more to lose by saber-rattling, or Nokia was in a weak enough position they needed to accept a lower price. But we were always going to get here, one way or the other.
Yet it seems Apple has no qualms about blatantly stealing IP from other companies while unleashing its junk yard dog lawyers on any one who makes a phone that even vaguely resembles theirs.
This is a company that doesn't play fair. Apple was NOT being asked to do more as the summary stated, they were simply being asked to do what all the other members of the patent pool agreed to.
The day this story broke, seems like years ago, I posted here that Apple was clear in the wrong on this issue.
Of course I was immediately dismissed as a hater (that marvelously juvenile term of derision) on these boards and Rene refused to even post the story for a week or more after I tipped tipb about it.
The amount of the lump sum stays secret because it is huge, but you can't hide that amount of money for long.
Well, now at least Nokia will have some cash to surve a little bit longer... ;)
Nokia patents are mostly for hardware related issues, for antennas, Bluetooth etc radio, and 3G. It was pretty slim possibility that Apple could win this one. So they did sensible decision and paid. Now they can move on.
lump SUM you guys really need a grammar/spelling editor. Heck, if you paid me, I'd do it.
Well apparently you are not paid to open your mouth so shush.
This article would have dictated a "white flag" pic.
I suppose when the rest of the company collapses, Nokia will still have the patent revenues to keep them afloat.
Nokia may not be as dead as the Apple enthusiasts think.
After all, when they start releasing Windows phones in droves they will have Microsoft to help them with marketing. Windows phones may be late to the market, but they will have some leverage from multiple providers, one of which (Nokia) still has a huge following.
There is another story here that indicates that the WinPhone may be the big winner in this settlement.
Nokia has a large, but rapidly shrinking, market share. And no, I do not believe that the move to Windows Phone will do anything but forestall the collapse by a bit.
What's interesting to me is everyone thinks Apple can do know wrong and they never infringe on patents but here they are agreeing to pay licensing fees and to pay a fee. So clearly they are not perfect. Clearly it's possible that they misbehaved and are paying their fair share now. And if they can be wrong here, they can be wrong in other cases like Lodsys or Samsung.
not saying they are. I'm saying i'm not going to assume Apple is always right or has patents for everything. I'm not a fanboy. I'll take the facts as they are for or against apple. If samsung is wrong they should pay if not they shouldn't. If Lodsys owns a valid patent they should be paid If not they shouldn't.
How about Nokia NOT taking on Android, it's too small for that, now. It's main selling point is in Asia anyway. I think that Nokia should have an alliance with Google, I know it's never going to happen, but if they did, they could take over iOS at any time...
Apple has been loosing many lawsuits recently, but they still think that hey are at the top of the world. Android is catching up really fast, so they decided to hurry up and release the 4S, and not to mention the increasingly popular Windows phone, even though I don't like those too much either...
If Nokia started using Android as they're main OS, they have a chance to get back into the US market.


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HSH728 - Health Equity and Human Rights
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Campus: 6 x all day seminars; Cloud (online): there is no requirement for any campus presence, all cloud (online) work can be done at times to suit yourself.
You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin's online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.
This unit aims to develop understandings about health equity and human rights as a coherent frame of action to tackle inequities and to improve health and wellbeing, and to develop a working knowledge of practical approaches for public health and health system actions to address health inequities and rights violations, and to promote social justice. Topics to be addressed in this unit include: health equity debates; conventions and legal frameworks for human rights; strategies of public health, primary health care and health promotion to promote equity and rights, and specific issues such as diversity and difference, mental health and human rights, children's rights and health equity, asylum and refugee health, and HIV/AIDS.
Country report (2000 words) 30%; presentation on country report (10%), project report (3000 words) 60%
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Taket, A (2012) Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights. Abingdon: Routledge
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Bob Botsch's class at USC Aiken has been conducting exit polls during the presidential elections since the 1980s, and this year was no different.
His students interviewed 753 voters from 10 districts across the county. Those voters completed a 39-question survey that asked everything from party affiliation to thoughts on the fiscal cliff.
According to the local exit poll, partisanship was a big factor with Republican candidate Mitt Romney pulling in 98 percent of the votes from the 52 percent who classified themselves as Republican. President Barack Obama won 94 percent of the 32 percent of voters who identified as Democrats.
Romney also won 51 percent of the Independent vote compared to 40 percent for Obama.
While the South has favored Republican in the past, some groups are trending Democrat, including voters under 30, who identified as Democrat at about 40 percent compared to 45 percent who identified as Republican. Those voters made up 16 percent of those interviewed.
Fifty-four percent of single voters were strongly Democrat compared to 29 percent who identified as Republican. Forty-one percent of non-Southerners identified as Democrat compared to 34 percent who identified as Republican.
An explanation for groups trending Democrat was offered by saying they were relatively much more moderate on a range of ethnic and social issues, including, "whether Obama was a Muslim, gay marriage, feeling that blacks, Hispanics, atheists or gays have too much political power, whether to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds and abortion," according to the exit poll.
Support for the tea party movement declined from 2010 when 43 percent of voters supported the movement, compared to 30 percent this year.
The tea party supporters were, according to the study, "overwhelmingly white, conservative and Republican. They tended to be older, wealthier, more likely to be married and more likely to self-identify as religious fundamentalists."
The supposed gender gap also did not play much into voting in Aiken County, but there was a big marriage gap.
Men and women voted similarly in Aiken, but 70 percent of married voters voted for Romney and 28 percent for Obama, compared nationally to 56 percent for Romney and 42 percent for Obama.
Other questions showed that 69 percent of Democrats were pro-choice compared to 40 percent of non-tea party Republicans. Only 8 percent of Democrats believe the country is worse off than it was four years ago compared to 64 percent of Republicans.
More than 85 percent of Democrats and Republicans said they wanted to preserve Social Security, while no group had more than 20 percent say they were pro-life.
Republicans opposed gay marriage at 66 percent compared to 22 percent of Democrats, but only the tea party Republicans were more than 30 percent (38) in agreement that religion was extremely important in their vote choice.
Voters were also asked in the exit poll if they preferred elected leaders who were willing to "compromise with members of the other party" or who stick "by their party principles and refuse to compromise."
The overwhelming majority of voters who had an opinion chose compromise (84 percent) over party principles (16 percent). However, the exit poll did see some partisan difference in that moderate and strong Republicans were about twice as likely to prefer party principles over compromise (21 percent) relative to moderate and strong Democrats. (11 percent), according to the study.
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Erie, PA – Four players recorded double-digits as Penn State Behrend went on to defeat Hilbert College in an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference game January 26th (70-51). Nick Dvorsky, Chris Saltzman and Russ Conley each tallied 12 points in the win while Justin Kovac posted ten of his own to go along with 4 assists and just as many steals. Conley also blocked 4 shots which helped hold the Hawks (6-12, 3-8) to just 37.5 percent shooting from the field.
Sophomore Dan McFarland (Lancaster, NY/St. Mary's) and junior Chris Hoak (Hamburg, NY/St. Francis) {in photo to right} shot the ball well despite the Behrend defensive pressure. The duo each scored 16 points and combined to hit six of Hilbert's 11 triples on the night.
The Lions (15-2, 10-1) connected on six long-range jumpers to take a 36-25 lead after the first twenty minutes of play. The men seemingly broke the Hawks morale coming out of the half on a 15-4 (51-29) run with 13:28 on the clock. With less than nine minutes to play, Hoak connected from behind the arc to begin a surge. Four three-pointers later Hilbert was within ten points and back in the game. The Lions finished the game holding the Hawks to just four points over the next six minutes to secure the win. Behrend shot 60.5 percent from the field and 47 percent from three point-land.
Hilbert hosts Pitt-Greensburg (6-12, 3-9) January 29th for the rematch of the 80-65 defeat down in PA in early December. The game follows the women's contest with a 4pm start time.
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was there a guy on the AK section the other day talking about a glue build?
hell this ain't one of them mall-ninja places where you got to kiss some gurus ass three times a day. here were open to alternative ideas of construction.
gunco is sort of like burger-king in the good old days--"have it your way!"
yea an aluminum weld up could be a good way to go.
matter of fact you could probably make a very good AR-15 lower that way.
sort of like that guys metal strip build only made from thicker pieces of aluminum and welded in critical places--
An AR was what I was thinking the other day. It's basically 2 rectangles, with the magwell being the bigger of the two. Buffer tube ring would have to be a seperate peice that's welded into the rear rectangle.
The ar-180 can be made from a two piece metal stamping with a piece of rectancular tubing at the stock end of the reciever. It can also be made to where the ar-15 parts including magazine will be able to be used for completing the lower. The only problem is that you will have to use longer pins for the FCG.
This is accomplished by cutting out the sheet metal for the sides and inside of the mag well as a single piece and then bending them to shape.
The bottom of the FCG well is then cut out of a different piece so that it can be bent to make the rear of the magwell, the bottom of the FCG pocket, and the rear of the reciever with the two guide rod holes for the upper.
Back a couple years ago I was looking at doing a stamped steel AR lower, and Bellson and someone else were guiding me to information. Someone sent me a huge file with a complete write up on a fairly easy stamped steel AR lower. I have it somewhere, but I printed it out and made a folder/notebook complete with pics. Whoever the original builder was is a smart cookie. Not sure if I would p*ss off whoever sent it to me, or the original builder if I posted this info, or emailed it to someone else to post, but I don't remember who it was, so what the heck.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
hell i have even thought of doing a wood lower sort of like AK furniture--a laminate with 11 layers and probably a little fiber glass too--
and steel connection points for the pins --then just build the stock into the upper --sort of like cav-arms did on their polymer.
it should be pretty damn strong and the steel pin holes shouldn't wear out--
it might have a sheet-metal wear plate added for the FCG pins---LOL
hell there are more than one way to skin an AR---
There is a similar discussion on Weaponsguilddotcom.
I have a Vulcan receiver, broken at the usual place. I am watching both threads hoping to come up with a way to resurrect the lower.
now who was it telling us those plastic er carbon fiber/polymer thingys don't break?--
it broke where the buffer tube extension attaches near the back pin?
maybe you could bond it to a wooden back section?
being a vulcan/hess you might want to add some reinforcements at various stress points --like pins --
there is a way to patch up about any thing if you put time and thought into it--
Sounds like a workable idea.
Let me know if you want to weld one up-the first hit's free. :-)


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Under the spirited direction of Occidental's own Sarah Saulsbury, the Occidental Community Choir will once again mark the advent of the winter season with "Around This Table," a celebration of the season that rejoices in the many ways in which the dark months of the year bring us together to share food, stories, songs, and laughter.
The OCC's 2012 winter concert series opens the choir's 35th year. It will be the first concert series in which all five concerts will be offered exclusively at the choir's home venue, the Occidental Center for the Arts in Occidental.
The opening weekend will feature three shows, with evening performances on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1, and a Sunday, December 2 matinee.
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Six Great (Extinct) Gretsch Basses
Posted: November 5, 2012
Today, Gretsch makes several highly acclaimed bass guitar models prized by players worldwide for their elegant style and seismic sound. When you see a Gretsch bass, it's usually in the hands of a bassist who truly prizes a fine instrument and who truly appreciates the Gretsch name and tradition.
Well before its fine modern-era basses, however, Gretsch made some very, shall we say, interesting forays into the bass guitar world. From its first, shall we say, unusual model in the early 1960s to another, shall we say, distinctive model at the dawn of the 1980s, Gretsch indeed truly went its own, shall we say, unconventional way when it came to anchoring the low end.
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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
A 38-year-old North Augusta woman was detained for shoplifting on Monday after she tried to take two pairs of pants and two bicycle helmets from a store on Richland Avenue without paying.
A 36-year-old Aiken woman was detained for shoplifting on Tuesday after she tried to take several CDs and cellphone accessories from a store on Richland Avenue without paying.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Whiskey Road on Monday. The owner reported a jacket and a handgun missing from the unlocked vehicle.
An additional vehicle break-in was reported on Pine Log Road on Wednesday. The vehicles battery was reported missing.
According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriffs Office:
A Wagener man reported fraud on Tuesday after he realized that someone used his identity to fraudulently obtain financial aid at a college in Augusta.
An 18-year-old Aiken man was detained for criminal domestic violence on Tuesday after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend at her Alpine Drive home.
A burglary was reported at a home on Epona Lane in Aiken on Tuesday. The owner reported shoes, electronics, firearms, ammo and jewelry missing.
Additional burglaries were reported on Blanchard Road in North Augusta, Wagener Road in Aiken, Elton Avenue in North Augusta, Oakcrest Lane in Aiken, Reynolds Pond Road in Aiken, Augusta Road in Beech Island and Apache Drive in Clearwater.
Vehicles were reported stolen from Richland Avenue and Harris Family Road in Trenton.
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Launch Center puts Messages, Facebook, Twitter, a flashlight, more in your iPhone Notification Center
Launch Center, a new shortcuts app for iPhone, aims to make everything from sending messages and mail to posting on Facebook and Twitter, to turning on your LED flashlight, faster and easier via an extremely clever, borderline audacious use of URL schemes and iOS 5's Notification Center.
Produced by David Barnard of App Cubby fame, it boasts an absolutely gorgeous user interface that lets you easily set up which actions you want to appear in your Notification Center from a robust set of shortcut that include Phone, SMS/iMessage, Email, Twitter, Facebook, Flashlight, Google search, and Custom URL schemes. (That last one, for more advanced users especially, should make Launch Center an instant buy.)
Live from Macworld|iWorld 2012, David showed off some of the new features in the recent Launch Center 1.1 update, including scheduled launch actions -- for example if you know you need to SMS your wife every morning or email your boss the report every friday at noon.
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Originally posted by rojo6934
lol are u joking abt the hand holding part, this game has the worst translation of any asian games, the koreans and japanese does the translation soo much better.
so what hand holding is needed when everything is so confusing to the western audience, i played from cbt1 to current and the translation stays the same except for the making money part well that has progress at each patch.
and saying stuff like skills matters is just baseless statements cause everyone knows that with the right OP skill set u gonna pawnface what skills do u need.... good example is goose, players with goose has a HUGE advantage over someone who doesnt, and not forgetting the OP heals/mp.
i'll call a spade a spade, game is fun but the other stuff u need to do is a big turnoff e.g. the inventory time decay stuff, having to rent the cashshop fast horse or u'll have problems doing the school wars, steal script events etc..
decent game run by a money greedy company, and lastly game isnt on par with eve online stop making baseless comparision as eve online combat system is slower and isnt skill based but setup based and the economical aspect is far superior that aow.
after a while u would realised that u can only pvp so much doing the same thing over and over again with no lost except just dieing and respawning nay game good as a filler not a main.
just saying.
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I would have agreed with the op if the title of the thread had been "Not a very fun tutorial". It's a poorly done introduction to the game, no question.
But it's just that - a tutorial. It's there to introduce you to the basic stuff like combat controls, schools, noob crafting and so on, but after that the game opens up and you're on your own.
To claim to have "gotten a decent taste of what the game has potential for and what its lacking" after playing the tutorial for a few hours is absurd (and yes, if you're still doing the tutorial after 10 hours you're doing it wrong). None of the features that makes Wushu unique are in the tutorial - you don't have any flying skills except for the double jump, you don't do any spying or patrolling, kidnapping or even real PvP, you only scratch the surface of crafting, there are no guild activities, you don't participate in any events, and so on.
Mostly you just run between NPCs, click through incomprehensible dialogue and do some boring mob fights, which apparently makes a lot of people think the game is about PvE. It's not. But you'll have to play it to experience the actual features - you won't be a kung fu god the moment you log in and neither will you experience all AoW has to offer in the first few hours. In that way it's similar to most MMOs worth playing - time investment pays off and you have to learn a lot of the systems through trial and error and by interacting with others.
Would you feel qualified to write a review of EVE after finishing the tutorial? That's right, you wouldn't. Why do you think you know anything about AoW after barely seeing what's at the tip of the iceberg?
Originally posted by Elminzter
Yeah, you actualy have to play the game, and make friends, and ask questions. Crazy huh?
Originally posted by Biskop
No yeah i get it, i must play the game enough for you to use the counter "well it must have been good if you played it that long" before i can become critical of the game.
Im not buying this "it was only a tutorial" since i had well past the tutorial part of the game. No tutorials last 12 hours long.
And yes, anyone can write a review on EVE after 12 hours playing, it is legal.
Sorry the game wasnt what i expected, had boring combat mechanics that went beyond the boring quests and tutorial part of the game, and after seeing the live stream of the clanwar pvp...it doesnt seem to get much better.
Not sure why people are so eager to defend this game with such fervor. It was just an honest review, take it or leave it. Anyone who tries the game will have a similair experience i did...and will need to make the decision if this game is right for them.
Originally posted by Crunchy222
Crunchy your review is fine. It's off of limited information though. You say things like you expected to be Fly all around and doing crazy kunfu. Well you can't do that with just the first skill set, the one you get while doing the tutorial. Only to prove, you were still doing the tutorial (i have no idea why it took you so long, you may have got lost along the way) Tell us what it says when you press "L" under the storyline.
No one is arguing with you that the first 2-3 hours of quest giver to quest giver is rough, boarderline boring and unneeded if you don't soak in the history. We get that. EVE sensor tutorial anybody? Yeah it was god awful too.
You also said something like the game was silent. You where asked what school you chose, and where you were at because, for the rest of us, 24/7 there is too much chat to have all your channels open at once.
From you review it seemed like you entered the game on the edge of you set, feeling like gogogo! It just doesn't work like that. It's not your fault, it's just the way it is. This is why I said "The game can't please everyone." You seemed to be in a completely different gear and mindset.
The best thing I can tell you is after you press "L" and find out where you took a wrong turn, STOP questing, unless you just like to quest.
Feel free to pm me about specific questions if you like, but if not good luck to you on your next game
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Originally posted by Crunchy222
No, I just think you should refrain from making sweeping judgments about features that you apparently know nothing about. You're entitled to your opinion of course but it's generally a bad idea to say "this game is not fun" before you've actually played it enough to know what it's about.
I mean sure you can write a "review" of EVE after playing the tutorial but no one would take you seriously unless you really stressed that it's a first impressions piece or something. If you personally feel a few hours are enough to make up your mind that's just fine, but don't try to "review" it in a way that implies you actually played it.
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Joined: 7/24/03
one feature that is so annoying is the invisible boundary where your char doesnt fall off from a higher elevation really not sure why its not fixed cause its just weird that you actually have to jump over that invisible boundary, its damm fricking annoying when it's just part of a higer level pavement.
thats why for me this game is never ever getting a AAA rating, as this should have been fixed ASAP, but it';s left it it's broke state .........
just saying.
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Joined: 12/07/05
The OP hasn't experienced high level combat where it takes more then autoclicking 1-2 skills to win.
And how the hell do you compare a martial arts game from China to a SPACE SIMULATOR like Eve!? WOW!
Originally posted by Elminzter
Yeah this is my biggest irratation. Rough edges of terran. There are lots of lips on edges that you get snagged on when running on rough tops and walls.
I've learned how to work trhough them. I have kinda given it a pass for now knowing that the entire game wrold is playable, from Treetops to the bottom of the ocean, and every building and structure inbetween. It makes me appriciate what Blizzard did with flying in WoW. They had to design actual stuctures, not just pictures like so many mmorpgs we play.
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Joined: 2/16/04
Honestly, my experience was much the same as the OP's. Really, any game that makes you work as much to like it as this one deserves the negativity it gets. I stuck with it out of nothing else except boredom. By the time my 10hrs was up I was curious enough to buy it, I wanted to see a little more. After a day or two I still thought it was pretty mediocre. I play the shit out of it now though.
The PvE SUCKS in this game. The PvE combat sucks right along with it. It's horrible. It's a different deal when you PvP later on. Once you accept that you will be better off. I actually ran around and did quests just like the OP and I was bored as shit. I tried playing it like typical western MMO. But then when I actually UNDERSTOOD what the hell I was supposed to be doing. I didn't do another quest for 3 weeks.
Just a few starter tips to help people get into the game. (if they want to that is).
The quests and the tutorial are bullshit. Just suffer through it and get the following out of it:
Basics of combat, your double jump, how to cultivate your skills and the 3 ways to do it.
Choosing your school (do some research first) , getting your first internal skill and cultivating it, getting your first 2 ability sets from your school (you get 1 more after cultivating your internal to lvl 10). Do the team practice tutorial. Do all the guide quests in the school until you get a quest to spy on all the other schools. Then go finish off your story quest and get the 3 man array.
Now you only have to keep your xp pool stocked. Easy, 2 spy missions a day will do it. No quests required.
Set yourself up with some goals. Like finding out how to make unbound silver, getting new flying skills, building the perfect skill set, finding a good guild, go rob sombody, go start a fight over a silk worm stand and get thrown in jail, go kidnapp someone and start a small war in the middle of town. Go get a bunch of kids drunk and see if their parents get pissed at you. Go explore and look for skill books in treasure chests. Find out how to be a constable, or a dirty constable..lol. Duel everyone, Go piss off GoonSwarm. Find and trigger miracle encounters. Use your imagination. If you arn't having fun in a week, then the game just isn't your thing.
Originally posted by Sybnal
Hey thanks for not flaming or baiting me given you have a different outlook on the game, very rare on this site, where different views are typically insulted.
I fully read your post and am a bit more interested now in the game.
My question to you is: What are you to do in game if PVE is as bad as it had appeared to be in my short play? What (literally) are you doing in game? Just running around ganking people (which is appealing dont get me wrong)? Doing a few spy missions then logging off?
Explain to me in depth what it is exactly that your doing in game if your not participating in any PVE...because yeah the PVE was horrible, and im not sure what ill be doing in game other than running around gathering stuff for the boring crafting (i find crafting boring in all game for the most part so i dont expect or need to like crafting to enjoy a game typically)
From what i saw on the live stream of the viet guys vs goons, the clan based pvp seems right out of a 7 year old game, which isnt a good thing...Perhaps theres a lot more to do pvp wise?
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Forget about PVE. This game is PvP oriented and that doesn't necessarily mean ganking everyone. Find something that interests you. For me it was finding rare ore and selling it. When that gets boring I do some spy or patrol. When that gets boring I explore the world and look for treasure chests and random encounters. And if all that is still not enough for you just log on everyday to do script steal if that's not interesting for you I don't know what is.
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If you want PVE, run instances and mini instances.
If you want PVP, join weekend school wars, daily script protection, stealing event, spy mission, guild escort mission. You actually have to play mini games in order to level your crafting ability. Gathering is boring, requires lots of grind, but hey no pain no gain.
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boundary wont be changed, they made it so people dont cry that they fall from roofs all time etc even more from trees with next "flying" skills
Originally posted by AresPL
Thanks Ares, good to know.
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Originally posted by Crunchy222
Well, right now I'm working on making money, so I can get gear. That's a pretty big goal of mine. There are a bunch of different ways to do it. I'll typically log in, see what's selling in Chengu, maybe duel my poison master a few times. Then I'll go try and find what's selling. That usually leads me to a few places and adventures. I'll always try and kidnap someone, when the opportunity presents itself. All that takes awhile. If I have to spy that day, I'll do it for a few hours. Sometimes I get caught :( sometimes it goes quick. I usually take the instance pvp summons, or a cart robbing summons, or duels if I'm not doing something else. I've been playing for a few weeks now and I'm still only scratching the surface. It seems like I always have TOO much I can do..lol.
I don't have ALL day to play or anything. Which is why this game appeals to me. I can just do what I want when I log in for however long I want. Just think that you are starting from lvl 1 your character sucks you have to go make it better. But you have to go find that shit out. It's not handed to you by a quest chain or at a certain lvl. That' half the fun for me. I just got a skill that lets me run strait up a wall the other day. I'm still happy about that..lol. Getting the skill was just as fun as having it.
You can also hit the "N'' button that shows events and times to take part in script raids, wars and all kinds of stuff I havn't figured out yet. I'm in a small shitty guild right now, so I can't comment on how much more the game opens up that way. But it looks like there is alot of work to do building a guild town and guild wars and such. So I'd recommend finding a good guild too.
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Can you elaborate on those? What are they?
Former xFire user... I only wanted a game tracker and messenger, not a screenshot taker, video recording, broadcasting piece of bloatware.
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Originally posted by fldash
When you reach a certain internal level you will start getting notices requesting your help. They come from the bosses inside the forbidden instances. You and sometimes a couple other players will help the boss fight back whatever team is in there. If you can keep the boss alive for 10 mins, you get a box that has a few decent items like money and skill book pieces.
Cart summons occur during the guild escort event. A 6 man team(with possibly more) takes a cart on a path like a normal escort except that they get rewarded player silver and other things if they succeed. You will get a notice to go raid one and try to damage the cart enough that boxes fall off. You then loot the boxes for some of the treasues. Can be a pretty intense fight depending on how many escorts and raiders you have.
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The tutorial is boring, no question. At least the autopathing make the storyline fetch quests bearable. And the tutorial is also long by necessity since this is a pretty complicated game. I do worry that a lot of folks will be turned off by the tutorial, because this is an amazing game. Art direction is top notch and the animations are great. Combat is very fluid once you understand it (and get a few flying skills). I also love the way that the hits actually move an opponent around. It feels kind of like playing soul caliber a bit. Flying skills make the environment actually matter in pvp fights, i cant think of another mmoprg that has accomplished that. I also love the fact that you don't have to kill mobs in this game, or grind quests. Grinding quests has very little reward which is great because grinding quests sucks.
I'd say combat starts getting fun once you unlock your first school style and get whirlwind step/jump across the clouds (super cheap to buy and easy get as a drop in game) I have yet to see a better combat system in an mmorpg. The feint/overt/block system combined with flying skills has a really great flow to it. Early on, this isn't the case, but it shouldn't take long to get out of clunky and into fun. I like being able to do fun things instead of trying to grind for endgame. The entire game is endgame in age of wushu. PVE isn't great except for i do like how bosses summon players in instances to help them kill the instance group. This is a PVP game though. The PVP is fun so i would recommend trying it even if you don't like PVP.
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Alright i made a new account, rolled shaolin, breezed through the tutorial and first act quests. Took peoples advice given here.
To me, it seems like a game where you manage side skills a majority of the time. Theres really not much reason to kill PVE mobs, other than if you want to skin them ect. The combat on my new school was a lot better, however still very boring mechanically, not sure this is something switching schools will fix.
I dabbled in some pvp, while it was slightly more interesting than PVE, the mechanics of combat in this game are very clunky, full of animation bugs, and just not a whole lot of excitment involved. Yeah its a bit slower combat, with a bit of thought in what skill you use and holding downt he parry rightclick mouse button.
You seem locked into this right click makes you block mode while in combat, which makes repositioning a pain since block puts the brakes on your movement...not that it really matters if your facting your opponent or not. This is part of the combat clunky factor, as well as the buggy nature of your characters seeming to ignore ground objects (occasionally getting stuck on a ledge if your tossed against a short wall)
I like the idea behind combat...however...the combat system in this game is VERY primative in both form and function. Youll notice this during your early tutorial NPC skirmishes, when an NPC gets knocked back onto and object they cant walk on, and the skirmish resets...or the NPC gets automoved ina frozen position behind you 40 feet then slowly moves toward you again with no animation. Same goes for how you react to the smallest of ledges in combat. Theres a false wall on even the smallest of ledges that you must jump to step down on, in the heat of a battle if you get knocked up on one, it can really thow you off, and expecially if you need to rotate the camera, given that button becomes block in combat.
The idea is there, but again, this is an extremely primitive combat system, not in a mechanical sense, just how everything is executed, how buggy the player sync is (especially with mobs) and location detection and the games odd tendancy to want to move NPC's in combat to where they properly should be, despite you chain knockbacked them into a corner.
Its very clunky in both pve and pvp. Really the game has a lot to offer, thers tons on side fluff to keep casusals and hardcore players doing everything imaginable aside from combat. Again combat seems to be an afterthought. A lot went intot he life skill system and crafting system. Combat doesnt seem to matter in a PVE sense, as theres little reason to engage in NPC mobs, and less reward for doing so. PVP might be the shining point, but its still plauged by a very primative combat system that functions as if it was made last decade.
Boring game still if your looking for action and combat, great game to putz around in, play with the crafting, do the life skills, and see what happend when you were offline. Also i should point out that the pvp seems to gravitate towards 3 schools out of 8 with a few schools being poor choices for really anything...i guess they might be better in PVE, but again, PVE combat is nearly non existant.
Needless to say i did try to like it. I can see whats in the game that some may enjoy. There does seem to be a hell of a lot to do in game and a lot happens when your offline. Its just the game lacks combat, and when pvping, lacks good combat. I think ive seen enough with the game and gave it an honest try, it just doesnt seem to include anything im really looking for in a game. The game would be fantastic with a solid combat system and a reason to fight NPC mobs. The kidnap and criminal system deserve a better game imo, as they are fun ideas. The clan pvp system is something you would expect in a decade old game unfotunately, theres a recorded live stream on another thread here if your interested in what that looks like (its a big square and the two clans zerg it up).
The game did leave me yearning for a good martial arts game, i dont think ill find it in wushu unfortunately, its lacking the all important combat, but at least makes up for it with side fluff, and a whole lot of it.


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Lucia is really pretty but I think Charlotte is a little off with it, TBH. Just my opinion. Getting from the ch sound to the sh sound is just a but awkward to me.
Have you thought of something like Raphaella as a middle? Lucia Raphaella is super feminissima and lush and gorgeous. If I were Italian at all I'd totally go for it.
I also like Aria. Marcella is pretty too. And Domenica is incredible. For Lucia I like the nn Lux but I know it's not for everyone.
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My name is Chris, I'm 24 from Port Allegany, Pennsylvania. Having played drums in all sorts of different atmospheres, I have a very eclectic style ranging from jazz to hip hop and back again. Residing now in Pittsburgh, I have been playing with an indie Alternative Rock group by the name of Daily Grind. Slaving away at the sparse local music scene in the steel city, we finally caught a break with extremely hard work with a lot of help from friends and family, as well as our manager. We put the leg work in in hoped of getting our music out of the confines of Pittsburgh and to the country in the only way we know.
Starting March 21st, Daily Grind is embarking on an epic journey of rock and roll. Packing into a van and hitting the road on a 90 day, cross country tour. Hitting cities across each coast, the four of us are going to fly by the seats of our pants in order to do what we love to do. Armed with little more than a well put together basement album funded by Kickstarter, some t-shirts and our rugged good looks, we are literally getting to live the dream.
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The roots of the Energy Charter date back to a political initiative launched in Europe in the early 1990s, at a time when the end of the Cold War offered an unprecedented opportunity to overcome previous economic divisions. Nowhere were the prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation clearer than in the energy sector, and there was a recognised need to ensure that a commonly accepted foundation was established for developing energy cooperation among the states of Eurasia. On the basis of these considerations, the Energy Charter process was born.
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The body of 28-year-old Marquis Deshan Lawson was found at approximately 8 a.m. July 25 in a ditch near his home in the 300 block of Wheeler Road. Capt. Earl Humphries of the Jones County Sheriff's Department said a passer-by saw what he thought was a body off the side of the road and reported it to the sheriff's department.
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So with spring time approaching I thought that we should start getting our wardrobe ready! Who better to take style notes from the girl that ruled the Hills…Lauren Conrad. Oh also, every piece of clothing I am using today comes from Forever 21 so one stop shopping!
Basic black is great for any occasion. You can dress it up or down and it's only $34.80.
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Every one of your polls displays the results without ever letting me vote. This happens in Chrome, Firefox and IE.
Unless I'm mistaken voting in the polls has an unspecified rank requirement. I believe you have to have up to rank 5 (500 points, typically achieved after 100 posts) before you can vote in polls. I presume that's done to keep the polls from getting skewed by spammers.
Ah i thought i have a problem with my browser too.
I was wondering about this too. Thx
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been looking for this answer for a long time, thanks.
Actually it is a ridiculous 1000 points I think or level 10. Either way Its like a huge wall I may never get over. Needs to be dropped to 500. Sorry..can't spend every waking minute of my 24 hour day leaving comments just so I can poll.
Nah, you just have to be level 5 (500 points) to vote in polls. Now if you want to create your own poll then yes you need to be level 10 which is 3,000 points.
Did this change somewhat recently then? I used to vote in the polls and now I cannot. (Or maybe points reset?)
Seriously, I only made an account because I wanted to vote on the current poll of whether or not you like Superman. Gotta show my Superman love, but apparently I'm not worthy :(
For some reason, when logged into the site on my phone, I was able to vote. Odd. And yes, I got a vote in FOR Superman. (Not a fan of anyone who hates on Supes, tbh.)
I've had my account for years and I still can't vote.... but at least this explains why :/