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I do not usually write reviews but felt compelled to this time. I have used this company in the past to send gifts and the recipients have always been thrilled. This time I had a gift of wine sent to a close friend and I inadvertently had it sent to the wrong address. The customer service representative was absolutely wonderful and immediately sent out a new basket to the correct address even though the error was on my part. Thank you so much for saving the day for me!! By the way the recipient absolutely loved it! You will definitely be my go to company for all future gift sending occasions.
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Well my gift was to be delivered on Jan. 9th, which it was and a note was left, stating they would be back on a certain day between certain hours--never happened!!Arrangements were made for the gift to be re-delivered on a certain day and time--never delivered!!I called Wine country Gifts and spoke to someone after the first issue and the person on the phone was not nice (Jose) kept telling me that there could have not been a time or day given for delivery.My friends Birthday was on Jan. 10th, the gift has been paid for, and still the gift has not been received and it is now Jan. 19th!!!!! Needless to say, I am not happy and will not use Country Wine Baskets again!!!!
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I've sent wine twice now & im very pleased w/the service.
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Good quality of wine
By Mike
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My son said the quality was good, and it arrived on time. Was very happy with the gift.
My Godson and Wife loved it
By Glo
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Wine was delivered on time and they called tosay how good it was. Since I discovered WineCountry Gift Baskets, every one I've sent a gifttoo have been thrilled. So thank you for thequality of your products and the reliabilityof the shipments.
By Chloe
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Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Birthday gift for my son-in-law
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My total experience was just what I expected!
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Great gift!
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Perfect Christmas gift. Easy, ontime delivery.
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As usual the product was above average and it arrived on time. My sister shared her wine gift with her dinner guests and everyone at the dinner enjoyed the product.
Great gift for any occasion
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My friend was so surprised and enjoyed the gift tremendously. Arrived day before and customer service was very helpful.
Well Received!
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Happiness! Recipient loved it.Extremely easy to do business with your company and all the gifts are exceptional. Thank you for providing quality products that are always well received.


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For me it was the Box + Sub + CS. It is a principle kinda thing. I know ALL subscription games now have cash shops, but it just seems wrong to me. I long for the days when my box + sub got me everything that was in the game. Oh, well...
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No open world, lobby end game, bad PvP.
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I'm enjoying it.
The atmosphere is great - at times really-why-am-I-playing-this-with-the-lights-off-oh-sh*t-whats-that-noise-behind-me spooky.
The skill wheel, and the possible combinations, are brilliant. Anyone who is askign for specific builds for isntance runs, frankly, doesn't understand the game.
There is really no need to have trifecta - that's just EZ mode for those who can't be bothered to think (Sure, you can do DPS/Heal/Tank for isntance runs. But you really don't have to).
Resetting your skills would be almost completely pointless - I suppose if you really really tried you could buy a set of skills that made the game near-impossible to progress, but you can go back to the start, use your gimped skills for a few hours, and have a whole new set of skills (Read: 2 new inner circles) to play with.
Can't speak to end-game, as I'm having way too much fun enjoying the quests, which are the best, best thought-out I've played in an MMO since...well, ever. They are at Oblivion-level of quality, which is what I've always wanted in an MMO and never found.
Grouping is straightforward and useful, if often short-term. The flaw I have found is that content generally does assume you are solo, so when you group, you can blow through it too fast. Which is a real shame, as you can miss the mission nuances.
I find the dialogue generally good, the voice-acting in some cases awesome. My own silence can be a bit odd, but generally works.
Combat is great, generally very motile - but not, unfortunately, in the first Kingsmouth Zone, where it is pretty much stand-your-ground, hit builder 5 times, hit consumer. I can see how people who only play early zones would find combat samey and dull. It's not later, but if you're bored before later that doesn't help.
Instances are challenging, a good duration, with interesting different strategies needed for almost every boss - one reason why Trifecta isn't need, and in fact unhelpful , is you really need to be prepared to change your skill sets around for many bosses. You *can* cookie-cutter, but IMO you're missing the point if you do.
The major annoyance for me is that the Gear manager (Which should help maintain you different sets of gear) is pretty much borked. Needs to be fixed bad.
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Guild Wars 2 is absolutely Revolutionary!
I played beta for more then 75+ hours, as well as some free weekend trials post launch for an additional 50+ hours.
TSW has an amazing world, the graphics and art for the world are absolutely incredible. Questing in the game is exceptional and fun.
Now Why don't I like TSW?
Character graphics and animation / movement animations / combat animations are incredibly HORRIBLE!!!!!
This was such an issue to so many people before launch that the DEV's replied by saying "these are place holders and that it would improve after launch" - Did they change? Yes, technically they did change. Was it much of an improvement? No, the changes weren't very noticable. If you took the character from TSW and compare the movement / combat animations and such, it isn't much different from late 1990's early 2000's Grand Theft Auto Character Animations / Combat animations.
It nearly feels like the entire character development was an after thought and they didn't put as much detail or work into it compared to the world of TSW.
Now that being said is a HUGE deal for not just a small amount of people, rather quite a large number of people can't get past this. Top that all off with a monthly sub + cash shop = AWWWWWW HELL NO!!!!
125+ hours played, all of which felt so disconnected because I couldn't get my eye off of how bad my character looked and moved yet the world was so amazing, extremely disappointed the entire time because of how my immersion was broken because of this.
on top of all of this I had a group of friends which I convinced to play this game with me, hoping it would make the experience better, and now none of them trust my judgement when it comes to me recommending a video game. Though I recommended another game that recently launched and it redeemed my fault recommending TSW.
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I enjoyed TSW at first, but am currently only subbed because I tried to cancel one day too late, and still haven't played since sometime last month.
I think as I was wrapping up my activities in Egypt I clearly could see what endgame I was heading towards, gear grinding raid progression, which I'm totally not interested in which killed my desire to continue playing.
I can't do this anymore, leveling up characters for no purpose (i.e. no castle sieging, territory control, or strong PVP endgame) seems so pointless, I just can't collect gear to run the next level of PVE content, hence my lack of interest in GW2 as well.
So in the end, TSW had some unique ideas, but by following the standard theme park end game model they lost me as a long term paying customer.
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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Originally posted by Apropo
I never felt TSW's purly cosmetic cash shop with no cash to gold conversion system tugging at my pocket. TSW cash shop is less intrusive than WoW's. Much different than a B2P cash shop.
Sub fee fine, if you don't like subs.
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I think TSW is an amazing game and have no problems at all with the subscription+cash shop. I have lifetime membership for TSW and I am currently subbed to other games as well, and honestly, I think the community in TSW is also the best I have ever seen.
Someone started a thread on the official TSW forums a while ago trying to find out the average age of gamers in TSW and it turned out to be 37 with lots of people responding to the thread well over 40.
That, in my opinion, means the game is enjoyed by an older audience, even if it was not meant to be that way, which also means the game may grow steadily over time, but at a somewhat slow rate.
Personally, I have no problem with this, as the current playerbase seems to be stable and very dedicated, albeit small. Funcom claims the game is profitable right now, and as long as they are committed to adding more content to the game, I think the game will do just fine with its P2P business model, and will continue to attract new players all the time.
To end my post, I will say that even though I wish Funcom gets more people to play the game and increase their profits, I certainly really enjoy the game a lot as is right now, with a small population, and I certainly don't miss the b2p and f2p crowds, especially those in the 15-30 age bracket lol.
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I realy loved the game but a few things turned me off after my 1st month of sub. First off The Secret World was too Secret, go to London, Soul or NY and it just slaps you in the face. The hack and slash youtr way from point A to point B, I swear you can not take 10 steps without haveing to kill something and then there is the Elites that want you to fill out a job application just to join a Raid and not to mention they want to inspect you, almost as worse as the TSA. The PVP was non-exixtent or maybe it was just my bad luck but I never found anymore than two or three people doing PVP at the same time oh and no ingame chat, I know that you can use vent or TS but it is a pain to join a group and then no one can voice chat unless someone has a service then everyone has to either download the service and then enter all the info just to chat in a mission. Don't get me wrong, I liked the game but would rather of had an open world where you could explore and find missions rather than hack and slash and remember a Secret is not a Secreat if you advertise it everywhere.
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The combat is what blew it for me.
It felt like the game wanted to sit on 2 chairs at once, but fell between them instead.
They wanted you to move around a lot in combat, but it felt slow and cumbersome to do so.
Originally posted by Apropo
You played this gane during beta for 125+ Hours and yet all you do is complain, ???
If a game comes out as "extremly dissapointed" you do NOT spend 125 + Hours in such a game...
There is something extremly wrong with this picure..
The betas of today are the "doom" of mmo's....Play the beta, get tired of the game, No sale !! Off to the next beta..
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Love the game, play the game, but can't play for extensive periods of time. The reason being is the combat...it's very dull (when questing) and the mobs take WAYYYY too long to kill....dull combat + long kill times = boredom. If they would just lower the hp's on single dot mobs, I'd play all day...but it's hard to keep running around killing things you don't have patience to kill and ultimately trying to avoid them altogether (which is close to impossible because of the area designs and mob placement).
Game is great though....definitely the best of the year.
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I like the idea behind the game and think it will improve over time much like AoC did. I purchased the LTS not because I love the game now but because I think it could become much better. I played the first three weeks but have not played since. Same reasons as many have mentioned:
1. Boring combet. I sit in one place and spam two skills
2. Poor Char Customization. Most people look the same in the game. i have run into myself several times in my three weeks of play.
3. Lack of content. It doesnt take too long to make it thru everything in the game and then there is nothing to do but repeat missions for more skill points.
This is why I like LT subs, I can pay now and have access to the game here and there until I am ready to play it as my primary or I can simply keep going in and out when I feel like it. When it goes FTP I will get free points each month and can then buy the things I want from the shop for no additional cost.
Originally posted by Randayn
I have a great tip for you...Make a dps build and the fights will not last long at all..Basically ...as little HP as possible and only offensive talismans :)
If you have a build for tanking and/or healing ..well then the fights will take long..
Thats the good part of TSW ..you can alter your characther on the fly
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Originally posted by thark
I do need to do this....this is probably my entire issue....Im running around in tank spec killing things really slowly....this is a big "Duh" moment for me especially since Ive experienced this in other games and have fixed it....doh....I feel exposed. Thanks!
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Originally posted by thark
Topic is: "Why don't you like TSW". He makes a very good post about it, with several good observations. Instead of discussing these points, you attack him. "All you do is complain?", when the TOPIC is "why don't you like TSW", that's just pathetic.
I guess only the people who like the game are allowed to play it for extended periods of time. They're also the only ones allowed to comment, but only if they like it.
Is this somehow about a persons age too? Like how so few bought the game? It's how Funcom isn't untrusted in the MMO market? It's just that all those who dislike your messiah-game are kids and/or haters?
If you don't want to refute his points, then don't bother attacking him either.
Personally, I hate Funcom, I want them gone more than pretty much anything. They actually can beat EA and Cryptic on the "worst company in the world" - race. It'd be close, but doable.
Originally posted by Rawiz
I didnt say anything that would indicate that people can't complain about TSW..I
Just found it odd to be plaýing 125 hours during beta then claim to dislike it..It doesn't make sence at all..If I find a game that I dislike, I will certainly not torture myself with it for 125 hours, I would maybe endure a bad movie for a couple of hours , but thats it.
125 Hours thats almost a full month at work, 8 hours a day !!
Sure , many go to work for a full month and yet they hate it :) But a game isn't suppose to be work..Is it..?
Hes main complain was the animations...and..well the animations must be a Highly subjective reason, I have previously written a post about why players feel the animations and combat are bad, and frankly I got no good answers..
The only thing I can say is that there are games with better animations and worse , I find TSW to be somewhat in the middle of this scale..
So..Go ahead and continue to hate Funcom..:) Don't you have better things to do btw ?
Originally posted by thark
To be fair any discussion of the merits and demerits of an MMO is going to be highly subjective.
There is no absolute reason why TSW's apparent lack of success caused developers to be laid off but according to FunCom's own public statements this was the case.
I don't think there is a single reason for this failure - we are individuals and we all react to MMOs differently.
However those individual choices, taken collectively, did represent "poor word of mouth" and the projection of lower sales than were originally expected in the first 12 months after the launch of the game.
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I find it very interesting that as of the time of this reply the majority of votes (45%) went to "just show me the results"
For me personally: It's definately one of the better MMORPG's that I have played in recent years and I will continue to play on a casual basis.
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Maybe the problem is that nothing about the game stands out enough to attract attention.
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I don't know why you would hover your hand that close to the water. I wonder if he found out then for the first time that those fich have teeth lol.
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Love it !! One for the fish.
Your in my Mind, and in my Sights
Bet that is the place in the Keys where you can feed the tarpon..
Husband and wife own a small bait store. They saved a tarpon with an injured mouth.
They placed the poor guy in a tank and healed him back too health, then released him..
Fish came back with hundreds of his friends looking for food..
Bingo. Instant rich guys.. Tourists flock there too feed the fishes.
Feeding Tarpons at Robbie's
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
LOL, bet he doesnt try that again. That brings noodling to a whole different level. Bet his arm was tore up!
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
Guy was alright, if the chick stopped friggen screaming and relaxed.
When one holds the food down for them, they circle behind the dock and spring up..
Hell most all saltwater fish have teeth.. If they bite, relax.. Open mouth remove thumb. Or, panic pull thumb out and go too the emergency room.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781


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While sitting on her screened-in porch, Julie Hawkins gets exasperated as she watches blurred, different colored vehicles zipping by her Trolley Line Road home.
"Just look at this," said her neighbor and friend Suzanne Rye, as a red truck zoomed by.
The speed limit along the stretch of Trolley Line Road is 35 miles per hour, starting at the YMCA while driving toward Graniteville. Hawkins said she has no doubt that some of those vehicles are passing through at more like 60 to 70 miles per hour.
"The problem with this speed is just out of control," Hawkins said.
Recently, Rye had two-sided signs made that read, "Attention! 35 MPH" and distributed them out to neighbors who don't mind displaying them in their yards. The signs are meant to remind speeders they're going way too fast.
Hawkins has lived at her Trolley Line home for about 14 years. She said speeding along their portion of the road has gotten worse over the years, with new housing developments popping up on both Jefferson Davis Highway and University Parkway, as well as the YMCA that recently opened on Trolley Line.
Hawkins said that one day, a piece of plastic-covered aluminum fell into her yard from a speeding truck.
She put it to use by painting, "We live here. Please slow down," and displayed it in her yard.
Rye, who has lived across the road from Hawkins for about two years, decided to have a few signs made herself. They can be seen in some of her neighbors' yards. Several times, Hawkins and Rye have taken it a few steps further and held the signs up themselves with their family in hopes drivers will pay attention to their speed.
Hawkins said some slow down with a friendly wave but some just keep driving too fast and, at times, just speed up more.
"It's just so frustrating," Rye said.
Hawkins and Rye worry about their children's safety, their pets and especially their elderly neighbors. And, the problem is persisting. On Thursday, a speeding vehicle was pulled over by a deputy in Rye's driveway.
According to the Aiken County Sheriff's Department, 16 traffic tickets, four warnings and two criminal citations were made along Trolley Line Road in 2012. So far this year, there have been five warnings and one traffic ticket issued.
Those numbers only reflect citations issued by the Sheriff's Department and not the S.C. Highway Patrol.
Hawkins wonders what the real solution is to ending the speeding problems on her road. She said she would like to see something done before someone gets hurt, whether it's more patrolling or some sort of traffic mechanism to abate speeding.
"It's just dangerous," Hawkins said shaking her head. "It's terribly dangerous."
Until then, Hawkins, Rye and their neighbors will continue to fight speeders in their own way – through awareness printed on small, white signs.
Rye said that anyone who would like a sign, including residents in other neighborhoods who are experiencing the same problem, can call her at 803-640-2624. The signs are $20 a piece, which covers the cost of making each one, Rye said.
Amy Banton is the County beat reporter for the Aiken Standard and has been with the publication since May 2010. She is originally from Rustburg, Va., and is a graduate of Randolph Macon Woman's College.
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Friday, January 17, 2014. An article published in the journal PLOS One reports the finding of Mehdi Shakibaei of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and colleagues of a chemosensitizing benefit for curcumin, a compound occurring in turmeric, in colon cancer cells resistant to treatment with the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Resistance to 5-FU occurs in as many as 15% of colorectal cancer patients, and the rate of recurrence is estimated to be as great as 50% to 60%, due in part to cancer stem cell survival.
The current study utilized cultures of two high density colorectal cell lines that were sensitive to 5-fluorouracil and cultures of their 5-FU resistant clones. One of the two non-resistant lines and its resistant clone were deficient in their DNA mismatch repair (MMR) systems, which results in genetic instability, increased susceptibility to neoplastic transformation and greater development of chemoresistant cells. Cells were treated with varying concentrations of 5-FU or BCM-95 curcumin, or received pretreatment with curcumin followed by exposure to one of four concentrations of 5-FU.
While 5-FU dose-dependently reduced the proliferation of the non-resistant cell lines, curcumin alone decreased proliferation in all cell lines, showing the most significant effects in the lines that were not MMR-deficient. Pretreatment with curcumin four hours prior to 5-FU administration revealed a benefit in 5-FU sensitive as well as resistant cells after 24 hours. Either treatment or their combination also decreased markers of cancer stem cells in all lines, with the greatest benefit observed in association with combination therapy.
"Our results demonstrate that with curcumin the proliferation of MMR-deficient and proficient colorectal cancer cells as well as their corresponding 5-FU resistant derivatives was suppressed and the effect of 5-FU was potentiated in a dose-dependent manner, thereby reducing the proliferation of colorectal cancer cells significantly," the authors write. "We demonstrate that curcumin potentiated the antitumor effects of 5-FU in the parental as well as the 5-FU resistant derivatives of these cells in a three dimensional high density environment resembling the in vivo situation."
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The light flickers a few times and there is absolute silence in the classroom. Fourteen adults and five young people sit quietly. One little boy plays a game on a cell phone.
The instructor, Terri Gross, moves her hands and everyone in the room responds.
The class begins and continues in silence. This is an ASL class - American Sign Language - and it is a volunteer effort on the part of Gross.
Deaf elementary school children in Dorchester District Two all attend Spann Elementary School, where they are taught in both contained and mainstream classrooms. Currently, there are seven deaf children attending Spann. Gross works for DD2 as an interpreter. "Reading and writing are taught in a contained classroom," she explains, "and the children are mainstreamed for math, science, social studies, fine arts and PE."
"For deaf children," she says, "English is a second language."
Their first language is ASL.
But this class is not for the deaf, it is for the hearing.
It is for anyone working for the district, at Spann or with these students to help them better communicate.
In the class are teachers, staff members, the school nurse Christi Harley, a staff member - Naysha Lucarelli - who has brought her neighbor Janelle Bellomo - who is progressively losing her hearing, Lucarelli and Bellomo's daughters and two bus drivers - Sonya Bailey and Soleita Tyson - who drive the deaf children to Spann. They are all here of their own accord.
Chris Lunnon, an injured veteran, is here for his son, Chris, 9, who is deaf.
"We have our own language," he says, "but I want to learn how to communicate so when he has friends over, I can talk to them."
Chris's grandmother, Rosalind Heyward, is learning too.
The silence in the classroom is broken only by the tap, tap, tap of a marker on the white board as Gross writes categories and words.
There is a sign to indicate "understand" and one for "not understanding."
Gross begins with the concepts of morning, afternoon, and evening. Everyone signs that they understand. Those are relatively simple signs that portray what they are referring to.
Gross continues with "what's wrong?" "Shut the door." "How are you?" - "fine" or "not good."
A few sign they don't understand and Gross repeats the instruction.
She then continues with "look at me," "watch me," "look at that."
These are instructions that would happen in a classroom.
Much of sign language makes sense to the uninitiated. Some seem to have no relationship to what is being said.
For example, "fish" is a hand motion of swimming over waves. "Corn" is the movement of eating an ear of corn. "Carrot" is similar to a cartoon Bugs Bunny eating a carrot and "ice cream" is an obvious licking of a cone.
The sign for eat plus the sign for morning, means breakfast. The same idea for lunch and dinner.
One of the more important signs of the lesson is the one for "try…you can…try."
Participants get up and practice in a silent pantomime, each communicating with the other until they have it mastered.
Even young Chris takes part, although somewhat shy.
Suddenly the class is over. An hour has passed without a word being spoken. People are still quiet as they leave, signing goodbye to Gross.
She washes off the white board and speaks her first words.
"I volunteered to do this class," she says, "so Gale Ryan - the teaching assistant for hearing impaired - and I put it together."
The class is not open to the public but she might, she says, consider doing a public class.
Now, though, she is hurrying home to her husband and children.
We wave goodbye.
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Alvarez is getting scorched.
Alvarez is getting scorched.
What a fight!
Whoever said they would not pay to watch that fight is crazy.
Chandler won on points but Eddie did much more damage.
Would not pay 45 for the PPV.
I socred it a draw...doubt it happens but thats what i saw last round 10-8 for eddie. rounds 1,2 and 4 for chandler
For Eddie's sake, I don't know if a win here is really worth it, since he'd have to fight Chandler again.
He had a good showing tonight and maybe just completely cut and run with a loss and get a clean start with ZUFFA going forward would be best for him.
I have Chandler taking this, but I think Eddie looked better.
Shit, hard to score it for Eddie by the current standards but I think he did win the fight.
The fix is in.
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I always slather on SPF 15 face moisturizer every morning. When I know I'm spending the day enjoying the great outdoors—whether at an outdoor mall or hanging with friends at the park—I put at least SPF 15 sun block all over myself. When I'm active outside or going in and out of water I make sure to reapply many times throughout the day. Even the sun block that says "sport" or "water proof" on the package needs to be reapplied because it does come off!
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The results for the competition that took place on April 14th are as follows: In Junior Compound - Brayden Bailey from Ponotoc took 1st place, Jaden Parson from Pushmataha County got 2nd place, Madison Cook from Pittsburg county took 3rd place, Kyle Free of Pittsburg took 4th, Cole Covington of Bryan County took 5th, Ty Kellett of Pushmataha County took 6th place, Gunnar Parker of Pittsburg County took 7th place, Lane Logan of Ponotoc county took 8th place, Montana Baugman of Pushmataha County took home 9th place and Hunter Doughty of Bryan County took home 10th place.
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Combination Approaches: An Overview of Combination Prevention
HIV Epidemic Appraisals for Assisting in the Design of Effective Prevention Programmes: Shifting the Paradigm Back to Basics
HIV prevention resources are limited, and countries must make strategic decisions on how to allocate funds to result in the highest impact. Two approaches have often been utlized in aiding program planners in making these strategic decisions—the numerical proxy method and the modes of transmission approach. The study examined both approaches in terms of strengths and weaknesses by applying them to diverse epidemics. The study's authors then took the results of each approach to see how it would affect national and district level HIV/AIDS policies. The study used data from six countries and six districts in India to apply in both approaches. The research team also proposed and tested an alternative qualitative approach to addressing HIV prevention goals called the "transmission dynamics epidemic classification." Using data for the six countries, it was found that the two methods (numerical proxy and modes of transmission) generated different results that would affect HIV prevention policies. All three methods were applied to the district level epidemic data. When the numerical proxy and modes of transmission approaches were used, similar results were found in terms of them making different conclusions on what populations were the key drivers of the epidemic. When the transmission dynamics epidemic classification was utilized, it found that all of the districts were defined as concentrated epidemics. The study highlights the limitations of the two predominant approaches that are utilized to help program planners strategize their HIV prevention portfolios. To plan in the long-term, strategies should be based on the local dynamics of an epidemic and its trajectory.
Combination HIV Prevention: Significance, Challenges, and Opportunities
This discussion paper highlights the advantages of combination prevention programs by focusing on specific populations, behavioral drivers, and geographical areas that are sustaining the HIV epidemic. Evidence-based interventions should be chosen for inclusion in combination prevention approaches, and in 2009 the National Institutes of Health initiated the Methods of Prevention Package Program (MP3) to fund research on combination prevention approaches. A second round of grants was provided for studies that focused on different populations than were represented in the first round, and those started in 2011. The intent of the MP3 program was to better understand the risk patterns at the population level in a particular country, district, or community to enable programmers to design and implement the most effective prevention strategy. The design of combination prevention packages should focus on interventions with shown efficacy in reducing transmission or acquisition. The choice of interventions would depend on the target population, the stage of the epidemic, and behavioral drivers. Interventions that have demonstrated success in reducing transmission or acquisition or have shown promise based on single randomized-controlled trails, preliminary data, observation data, or phase-1 or animal studies include prevention of mother-to-child transmission, voluntary medical male circumcision, male condoms, opioid substitution therapy for people who inject drugs, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and needle exchange. Additional strategies such as microbicides, HIV vaccines, and conditional cash transfers are also possibilities. Structural interventions are key to creating an enabling environment by supporting gender equitable laws, supporting risk-reduction polices, and reducing stigma and discrimination. Combination prevention is the next generation for HIV prevention science.
Namibia's Prevention Planning Process: Successful Collaboration for a National Combination HIV Prevention Strategy
Namibia's experience demonstrates the necessity and importance of having an articulated planning approach to design a national combination prevention strategy. This case study describes how Namibia formulated is strategy through a long-term planning and advocacy process. It provides background information on how Namibia decided to invest human resources and finances for the planning process as well as for its technical approach, how the planning process started, and how roles and responsibilities were determined. Successes included increasing national commitment to reorienting the prevention strategy to address the key drivers of the epidemic, performing a situational analysis to determine the epidemiological and contextual factors, initiating and maintaining a participatory process, and having several key documents guide the strategy's development. Several objectives had not been achieved at the time of the case study's completion, such as mapping the ongoing prevention programs to increase regional participation and having a budgeted national prevention action plan. The case study outlines what worked well in the planning process as well as the challenges, future programming, and recommendations.
The Avahan-India AIDS Initiative: Promising Approaches to Combination HIV Prevention Programming in Concentrated Epidemics
The Avahan-India AIDS Initiative has successfully offered a combination prevention program to many of the regions' most-at-risk-populations (MARPs) including sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, migrant populations, and people who inject drugs. At the start of the program in 2003, it covered six regions and provided the traditional mix of activities to MARPs such as peer educators and outreach workers implementing behavior change programs, condom promotion and distribution, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment. The program also added structural elements to prevent harassment and violence from police, and worked to expand national HIV prevention policies to support behavior change and health seeking behavior. The program evolved into a combination prevention program targeted to MARPs by implementing risk-reduction strategies founded on the latest data and evidence. The combination prevention elements included peer outreach to support behavior change, STI treatment, condom promotion and distribution, distribution of clean needles and syringes, community mobilization, and advocacy to reduce structural barriers. The program was highly reliant on peer educators and they were key in the program's success and scale-up. The program's focus on data collection and use was another key achievement. The high reach and effectiveness of the program (e.g., a goal of 80% of MARPs reached with prevention services) has lead to the government agreeing to fully support it financially by 2014.
Prevention of HIV Infection for People Who Inject Drugs: Why Individual, Structural, and Combination Approaches are Needed
This review examines HIV prevention interventions among the population of people who inject drugs (PWID). Articles for inclusion were found through sources such as the Cochrane Library, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews, and drug and global health interventions that prevented HIV among PWID. For structural interventions, searches were conducted in PubMed, Medline, the Cochrane Review Library, and Embase. Reference lists of selected articles were also reviewed. The paper summarizes current findings on needle and syringe programs, opioid substitution treatment, and antiretroviral treatment for HIV-positive PWID. These programs were found to achieve the greatest positive affect on preventing HIV among PWID. These three interventions were also modeled in various combinations, and degrees of coverage, to explore their effects on HIV incidence. It was concluded that no single intervention addressed all of the risk factors of PWID, which suggests that a combination prevention approach is necessary.
Contact with HIV Prevention Services Highest in Gay and Bisexual Men at Greatest Risk: Cross-Sectional Survey in Scotland
The paper explored contact of men who have sex with men with HIV prevention interventions and factors that affected that contact. 1,514 men participated in the anonymous 2008 MRC Gay Men's Survey and provided oral fluid samples. Men were recruited from gay bars and saunas in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The survey questions collected information on demographics, HIV testing history, sexual risk behaviors in the last year, and exposure to HIV prevention activities such as obtaining condoms, picking up sexual health leaflets, and interacting with an outreach worker. It was found that the majority of men had at least one contact with an HIV prevention activity (82.5%), and the predominant activity was obtaining free condoms from a gay venue or over the Internet (73.1%). Other activities included picking up a sexual health leaflet or looking up information on the Internet (51%), talking to an outreach worker (13.5%), and participating in a counseling session (8%). Only 3.6% had exposure to all four activities. Factors that were associated with contact with all four prevention activities included men who frequented the gay establishments most often, received a sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV test in the last 12 months, had 10 or more partners in the last year, and had an STI in the last 12 months. It was found that contact with any of the HIV prevention activities was higher among men with more sexual partners and any risky sexual behaviors. The authors conclude that a combination prevention strategy is required to curb the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in the United Kingdom.
The Alliance-Ukraine: Promising Approaches to Combi¬nation HIV Prevention Programming in Concentrated Epidemics
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine (Alliance-Ukraine) has provided services to most-at-risk-populations (MARPs) since 2004. It is the largest AIDS organization in Ukraine and implements a combination prevention program for people who inject drugs (PWID), sex workers, men who have sex with men, and prisoners. Alliance-Ukraine partners with a number of local nongovernmental organizations and smaller informal groups with growing potential to scale up their activities as well as meet varying regional needs. The program includes a data-driven approach that allows it to change and adapt to local needs, ensures that the affected communities play a central role in the program, provides strong linkages to other governmental and nongovernmental services, and conducts advocacy for supportive policies and regulations. Alliance-Ukraine is able to reach groups of MARPs through innovative and simultaneous approaches including drop-in centers, mobile clinics, partnering with pharmacies, and having a peer-drive response. The program reached an estimated 33% of PWID with harm reduction services and a total of 66% of PWID have had some type of contact with the program since its inception. Challenges remain for the program including the continual work to reduce structural barriers, and coordinating all of the activities of its implementing partners and providing technical support. Recommendations include basing the selection of combination prevention approaches on evidence and the evolving needs of MARPs, and striving to reach all MARPs with quality services. The program has become a technical hub in the region and is offering technical assistance to other countries/programs based on its successful model.
What Mathematical Models Can Tell Us About Prevention Packages
Tim Hallett reviewed how models could aid in the design of HIV prevention portfolios in his presentation during a two-day U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) meeting from November 8 to 9, 2010. The goal of the meeting was to inform the development of a revised PEPFAR HIV prevention guidance document. Hallett's presentation outlined how models can aid programmers in making strategic choices in their prevention portfolios and provided examples of the limitations of the models.
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Five-Year Strategy
This is the guiding document through 2015 for PEPFAR, the largest international HIV/AIDS program of the United States government. The four separate documents consist of the plan and three annexes: Prevention, Care, and Treatment; Global Context of HIV; and PEPFAR's Contributions to the Global Health Initiative. A "new direction" cited as a goal is to transition from emergency responses to "sustainable country programs" that are "country-owned and country-driven." The plan calls for addressing HIV within a broader health and development context; linking HIV to women and children's health; and expanding programs to relieve hunger.
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Five-Year Strategy: Annex: PEPFAR and Prevention, Care, and Treatment
This annex identifies obstacles to successful prevention, care, and treatment programs as well as goals and processes to overcome each obstacle. Special emphasis is placed on combination interventions. A wide range of topics are addressed. These include: blood and injection safety; innovation in prevention; helping governments to support alternatives to prostitution; youth; mobile populations; involvement of people living with HIV; palliative care programs; care of orphans and vulnerable children; targeting treatment; antiretroviral prophylaxis for pregnant women; and expanding efforts to treat people co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV. Links to nine key articles and documents are provided.
Evaluating HIV Prevention Effectiveness: The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good
"Magic bullet thinking" (prioritizing only the well-defined and measurable biomedical interventions) may inhibit understanding of "what works" by leaving out the less measurable social and contextual approaches, as well as the program coverage, uptake, and quality needed for efficacy of all interventions. According to the authors, measuring the impact of combination prevention—the mix of biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions—remains an elusive goal for the HIV prevention community due to the methodological challenges of applying the "gold standard" of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for prevention programming. The authors contend that the use of costly randomized designs with the community as unit of intervention (c-RCT) may not produce valid data due to a number of challenges in measuring change in HIV incidence, including a lack of reliable, easy-to-use tools to measure HIV incidence at a population level, the use of unrealistically large sample sizes, and the unreliability of such intermediate indicators as reported behavior change or sexually transmitted infection rates. The authors suggest that plausibility designs—which do not include randomly selected control groups but instead use triangulation of data sources—may provide important data on impact and help explain why a program may have been effective or ineffective. The authors encourage the use of a program impact pathway, which is a clear description of program components and their potential causal pathways, intermediate outputs, and outcomes leading to HIV incidence reduction. They also encourage the use of mixed methods and modeling as an alternative to probability evidence. They acknowledge that there is a clear need to develop incidence assays; until then, they encourage the use of modeling to produce proxy incidence estimates.


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Google China Music Search (English translation), a service launched last year by Google to better compete in a market dominated by Baidu, is now publicly accessible worldwide and it has a new homepage. The service has been created in partnership with Top100.cn to offer legal MP3 downloads.
"The venture goes directly after Baidu's music search audience, by offering high-quality music files embedded with a digital "watermark" that lets record labels track how often their songs are downloaded. The idea: Better-quality files will draw users away from unlicensed downloads, and give labels and search companies valuable data needed to make money from advertising," explained Wall Street Journal.
While the service is now accessible everywhere, you can only download music if you are in China (or if you use a proxy). Google Music has a large collection of music and there's visual tool that lets you find songs by choosing the tempo, the genre and other characteristics.
Except for this regional service, Google doesn't have any full-fledged music-related product. There's a YouTube category for music videos, a very limited music search engine, a music player and a media server for Google Desktop.
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I had almost reprimanded myself for anticipating civil conflict in the wake of major protests against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Mohamed Morsi remaining in office.
After what apparently was the largest demonstration in the history of humankind on Sunday (30 June, 2013), the army's statement in support of "the people's demands" this afternoon prompted wild festivity on the streets. But at the time of writing (the evening of Monday, 1 July), "clashes" — some of which had begun yesterday evening — are raging, on and off, in Alexandria, Mahalla, Suez, Assyout and Qena as well as the Cairo suburb of 6 October and the Muqattam Hills, where the Guidance Office of the MB is located in Cairo.


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Purported iPhone 5S parts leaks show a steel gray/graphite color... or do they?
The photo above shows two button sets that most likely belong to the iPhone 5s. While the light gold color makes sense, the other middle set I wasn't so sure about. New part leaks this morning appear to show a lighter graphite - or steel gray to keep the metal theme going - colored housing for the iPhone 5s that just happens to match the buttons above. So, what does it mean?
To be clear, the two middle button sets are what we are concentrating on. The exterior two are simply the buttons used in the current iPhone 5 that are added for a good visual comparison. While I don't necessarily think Apple will release four models when it comes to the iPhone 5s, I also am not convinced the casing is a fake either. According to Sonny Dickson, who posted the leaked housing photos in graphite, this color will be available alongside black, white, and gold/champagne. That's where I think he may be wrong.
mendmyi managed to snag the photos of the button sets. They sent me the above image last week before posting their own theory about them. While I don't think black is going anywhere, I could possibly believe that they are altering the current black model.
We have known since the release of the iPhone 5 that Apple has had issues with quality control when it comes to anodizing black, or slate as they call it. Before I'd believe there are four potential models for the iPhone 5s, logic may dictate Apple is altering the current black and slate model. Or, perhaps, experimenting with alternatives.
I don't think we've heard anything about another color until now because it doesn't make sense. Whether or not gray replaces black is hard to say. Black is incredibly popular, but is also incredibly hard to anodize consistently. Apple may keep it, because of its popularity, or they may try to replace it for something that provides a better finished product. Time will tell.
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It actually isn't that hard to anodize black consistently - it just require using type III anodization, like SureFire flashlights. Lighter shades are difficult because the color can change slightly depending on precise timing of the process, which is why natural (OD green) anodized items are difficult to color match.
If they can match champagne well, they should have no trouble with black.
Haven't we seen the graphitte iPhone last year? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NxwD_NhIZ8&feature=player_embedded#t=14
The graphite looks too much like an iPhone 4/4S. I'd take the scuffing on the black one before I choose the graphite.
Woah! - We think the rumors have a good possibility of being true. Where the discrepancy comes into play clearly is what men are going to think of a champagne colored phone - and other lifestyle, image related issues. Either way, it's not a make or break feature/element/asset for the new device. It'll just be interesting to see what we get.


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Alvin Gentry may have found a permanent solution to his team's offensive woes.
The Suns' head coach has experimented with five different starting lineups this season, with the most recent shake-up coming Dec. 12. Since then, the Suns have won four straight games.
"I think coach Gentry likes the starting unit and certainly you'd have to say Jared Dudley and Shannon Brown have responded," Suns' announcer Al McCoy told Arizona Sports 620's Doug & Wolf Friday.
McCoy thinks Gentry will stick with the starting five of Luis Scola, Jared Dudley, Shannon Brown, Goran Dragic and Marcin Gortat going forward.
"I think it's going to last a long time," McCoy said. "[Gentry] said he feels he's set with this lineup for the rest of the season. Certainly the moves have been productive."
Dudley has seen his play improve since changing positions and Brown has thrived in his starting role.
"Jared Dudley is where he belongs, he's a small forward. He really operates in that position very well," McCoy stated. "Shannon Brown who wants to be a starter, he's one of the few players who can create shots on this team, so he's been certainly a great addition and I think that coach Gentry is very, very comfortable with that lineup."
The proof is in the numbers: The Suns have increased their field goal percentage and their three-point shooting since Gentry made the change.
The players seem to be responding well in their new roles but McCoy said they are expected to continue to perform well on a nightly basis.
"The energy level has been there," McCoy stated. "They've done a lot of positive things but as you know in the NBA what's in the past is in the past because there's always another game and these back-to-back games are going to be very important."
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US Reps from Vt. and NY have dairy worker planBy LISA RATHKE
The Associated Press | April 09,2013SOUTH BURLINGTON — With immigration reform heating up in Congress, one congressman from Vermont and two from New York plan to introduce legislation in the U.S. House to expand a guest worker program to thousands of immigrants working illegally on the states' dairy farms.
Right now, dairy farms are ineligible for a temporary visa program aimed at seasonal workers. They say they have a hard time hiring dependable local workers to milk their cows so they rely on immigrants.
The legislation would create a three-year visitor program for those workers, which could be extended another three years, allowing them to be in this country for six, said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who announced the legislation on Tuesday in Vermont with New York Congressman William Owens, a fellow Democrat. Republican New York Rep. Richard Hanna, also is on board, they said.
"You'd take this program out of the shadows and give some security to our dairy farmers who are the hardest working folks in Vermont and some clarity and legal status to the workers who are here working in the barns and getting this extremely important work done," Welch said.
The proposal is based on legislation introduced in the Senate in the past by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who will be key in making sure the farm labor piece is included in immigration reform, Welch said.
"He's at the chokepoint on immigration reform and this is an issue that he has taken to heart," he said.
An immigration bill in the Senate aims to overhaul the country's agriculture worker program to ensure that farmers and growers have a steady supply of labor. Farm workers who are already here would get a quicker path to legal status than other immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, and a possible new visa program would make it easier for foreign workers to come to this country.
On Tuesday, the Vermont Senate sent a bill to the House that would allow foreign workers, many of whom are on rural farms and say they have to rely on employers for rides to the grocery store of doctor, to get driver's licenses in Vermont.
Bringing up the dairy farmworker legislation now in the U.S. House makes it a priority, said Owens, who estimated there are thousands of illegal farm workers on New York farms. In Vermont, estimates put the figure at between 1,500 and 2,000.
"We have many farmers who unfortunately are forced into the position where they are unable to secure legal farm labor. This is a very serious problem," he said.
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Confirmation of suspected clinical diagnosis of Fanconi anemia in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry
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Fanconi anemia is an aplastic anemia that leads to bone marrow failure and myelodysplasia or acute myelogenous leukemia. Physical findings include short stature; upper limb, lower limb, and skeletal malformations; and abnormalities of the eyes and genitourinary tract. The proteins encoded by the genes associated with Fanconi anemia may work together to repair DNA damage.
Mutations in several genes have been associated with Fanconi anemia, although 1 mutation, IVS4(+4)A->T in the FANCC gene has been shown to be common in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. The carrier rate in the Ashkenazi Jewish population is 1/89 and the detection rate for this mutation using this assay is >99%. A second FANCC mutation, 322delG, is overrepresented in patients of Northern European ancestry.
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This test is not recommended as a first-tier test to diagnose Fanconi anemia in individuals of non-Ashkenazi Jewish descent. In the non-Ashkenazi Jewish population, the recommended test is cytogenetic testing in the presence of mitomycin C or diepoxybutane (DEB), which may provide useful diagnostic information.
This assay will not detect all of the mutations that cause Fanconi anemia. Therefore, the absence of a detectable mutation does not rule out the possibility that an individual is a carrier of or affected with this disease.
Test results should be interpreted in the context of clinical findings, family history, and other laboratory data. Errors in our interpretation of results may occur if information given is inaccurate or incomplete.
Rare polymorphisms exist that could lead to false-negative or false-positive results. If results obtained do not match the clinical findings, additional testing should be considered.
In rare cases, DNA alterations of undetermined significance may be identified.
A previous bone marrow transplant from an allogenic donor will interfere with testing. Call Mayo Medical Laboratories for instructions for testing patients who have received a bone marrow transplant.
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1. Gross SJ, Pletcher BA, Monaghan KG; Carrier screening in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Genet Med 2008 Jan;10(1):54-6
2. Kutler DI, Auerbach AD: Fanconi anemia in Ashkenazi Jews. Fam Cancer 2004;3(3-4):241-248


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HAZARD — Road crews were out early Friday morning combating slick roads left over from an overnight snow storm that quickly dumped around three inches in some areas of Perry County.
By 9 a.m. secondary and county roads, and even parts of Highway 80, remained slick and hazardous. Officials urged residents to remain at home unless otherwise necessary.
The snow also forced several cancellations. Classes in both the city and county schools were called off early, as were classes at Hazard Community and Technical College.


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