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It goes without saying that Harrisburg football has done a lot for the community over the years with continued success.
Now, the Bulldogs are looking to do even more.
On Sept. 20 when the Bulldogs host West Frankfort at Taylor Field, Harrisburg will wear special jerseys in the game, honoring those that have either battled cancer and won or lost their lives to the uncontrolled disease.
The jerseys themselves can be sponsored by someone who has fought cancer and survived or by a family member who has lost a loved one.
The Bulldogs will wear purple jerseys with pink numbers and pink lettering and for those who sponsor a jersey, that name will go on the back.
Harrisburg head coach Jason Roper said that while the color pink is usually paying homage to breast cancer, this particular event is for those who have lost anyone battling any kind of cancer.
"We have 104 kids in our football program, we're going to dress all 104 next week against West Frankfort, giving people in the community the opportunity to purchase a jersey honoring someone who has fought cancer and won or lost a battle to cancer," Roper said.
The cost of sponsoring a jersey is $50 and the deadline for sponsoring will be Friday.
Those interested in doing so can bring money or a check made out to "HHS Football" to the high school athletic office. Those interested can also search out Brenda Winter or Jay Thompson at Friday night's home game against Marion.
"It's our intent to have the jerseys by Thursday, where we will pass them out to players," Roper said. "They will then wear the jersey to school on Friday. After the game, we will announce the names of those who fought cancer and won or battled and lost. A jersey exchange will be held after the game, where they will announce the person's name and the player will give the jersey to a family member of the victim or who won their battle with cancer."
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Gloucester welcome back England wing Charlie Sharples for their Amlin Challenge Cup opener against Mont de Marsan in France.
Gloucester welcome back England wing Charlie Sharples for their Amlin Challenge Cup opener against Mont de Marsan in France.
Sharples has been sidelined with a shoulder injury suffered during the Aviva Premiership victory over London Irish last month.
Head coach Nigel Davies has rung the changes with Mike Tindall leading the side, while wing Ian Clark and hooker Koree Britton make their European debuts.
There are also opportunities for the likes of full-back Martyn Thomas, fly-half Tim Taylor and flanker Matt Cox, with Jimmy Cowan set for a second successive start from the bench.
"Momentum is very important. To continue winning and developing and building our game is really important. We've rotated the squad in the Premiership fixtures already, but it is important that we give an opportunity to some others," said Gloucester head coach Nigel Davies.
"And we are expecting no less from these guys. They have to step up to the plate and they have to take our game forward."
Mont de Marsan are currently propping up the French Top 14 with just a solitary point so far this season.
But they will be buoyed at having picked up their first point of the campaign, against Stade Francais Paris last Saturday, and have the vast experience of former Scotland international Scott Murray to help prepare for the challenge at Stade Guy Boniface.
The pool also includes London Irish and Bordeaux-Begles.
The teams:
Mont de Marsan: 15 Jean Baptiste Claverie, 14 Jordan Beaulavon, 13 Christofer Baegert, 12 Tamaz Mchedlidze, 11 Jean Baptiste Dubié, 10 Alexandre Douvesy, 9 Julien Cabannes, 8 Aldric Lescure 7 Sebastian De Chaves, 6 Yann Brethous,5 Vickus Liebenberg,4 Scott Murray,3 Mathieu Giudicelli, 2 Thomas Bordes, 1 Pierre Correia.
Replacements: 16 Ephraïm Taukafa, 17 Morgan Phelipponneau, 18 Eric Dos Santos, 19 Vincent Farre, 20 Laurent Magnaval, 21 Thibault Duvallet, 22 Yohann Durquet, 23 Sebastien Ormaechea.
Gloucester: 15 Martyn Thomas, 14 Charlie Sharples, 13 Tim Molenaar, 12 Mike Tindall, 11 Ian Clark, 10 Tim Taylor, 9 Dave Lewis, 8 Sione Kalafamoni,7 Andy Hazell, 6 Matt Cox, 5 Will James,4 Peter Buxton, 3 Shaun Knight,2 Koree Britton, 1 Yann Thomas.
Replacements: 16 Tommaso D'Apice, 17 Nick Wood, 18 Dario Chistolini, 19 Elliot Stooke, 20 Gareth Evans, 21 Jimmy Cowan, 22 Henry Trinder, 23 Billy Twelvetrees.
Date: Thursday, October 11
Venue: Stade Guy Boniface
Referee: Neil Hennessy (Wales)
Assistant referees: James Jones (Wales), Martyn Lewis (Wales)
Television match official: Gareth Simmonds (Wales)

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Tony Stewart will miss the final 13 races of the Sprint Cup season with a broken right leg, but the three-time champion received a sliver of good news Monday.
His first choice for a replacement will drive his No. 14 Chevrolet for 12 of the final 13 races this season.
Starting with Saturday night's Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Mark Martin will be behind the wheel of the Stewart-Haas Racing ride in place of Stewart, who already has missed the past two races since suffering a broken right tibia and fibula in a sprint car crash Aug. 5.
Martin will leave Michael Waltrip Racing to spend the rest of the season in the No. 14 aside from the Oct. 20 race at Talladega Superspeedway, where the driver will be Austin Dillon (who finished 14th Sunday in place of Stewart at Michigan International Speedway).
DILLON: Shaky start, solid finish at Michigan
"He was obviously the best option," SHR director of competition Greg Zipadelli said of Martin. "A lot of people reached out to us, and we're very thankful for obviously everybody wanting to have that opportunity. But Mark just seemed to be the fit. Him and Tony, they've got a bond. Tony was very excited about it. That was his first choice, so that's what we went after."
Stewart and Martin have been expressing mutual admiration for several years, notably during their duel for the 2002 championship, which was Stewart's first.
"Sometimes I have a hard time understanding how Tony could possibly feel that way toward me when the guy is so amazing, the modern-day A.J. Foyt," Martin said during a conference call with reporters. " When I was growing up, A.J. drove anything and everything and was fast and won in everything he drove. And Tony is the guy today that really does that and is successful at it.
"So it's hard for me to comprehend that we've been good friends for quite some time with amazing respect. It's an honor to be in the situation where we're able to do this."
ANALYSIS: Martin a good fit for No. 14 Chevrolet
"Obviously, I'm disappointed to be out of the Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevy for so long, but the team is in very good hands with Mark Martin and Austin Dillon," Stewart said in a statement. "Mark is someone I've looked up to my entire career and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. Austin is a great young talent, and he showed that Sunday at Michigan. This isn't a situation anyone wanted, but we're going to make the best of it. In the meantime, my focus is on getting healthy and getting back into my Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevy."
Stewart-Haas Racing said Stewart is expected to return for 2014 preseason testing, which usually kicks off the first week of January at Daytona International Speedway.
"We expect a full recovery by Daytona or close to it," Zipadelli said. "It may be able to be done earlier, it's just not worth it. It's a bad break to the leg, and he needs time to go through the process of healing, rehabilitation. With Mark coming on board, I think it gives us the window to go to the end of the year."
STEWART: Doctors order bed rest, leg elevation
Stewart's No. 14 is ranked 13th in the owners points standings, tied with Martin Truex Jr.'s No. 56 Toyota at 653 points. By virtue of Stewart's victory at Dover, the car could qualify for one of the two Chase for the Sprint Cup wild card berths in the race for the owners title (which is separate from the drivers championship).
PHOTOS: Tony Stewart through the years
Martin, 54, is a five-time runner-up for the championship in NASCAR's premier series. Winning an owner's title could be a fitting end to a Cup career that started in 1981. The Batesville, Ark., native hasn't announced any plan for next season and said Monday "and I don't want to think about 2014 at all right now" when asked if this might be his last year.
FUTURE: Could Kurt Busch join SHR in 2014?
The veteran has enjoyed a renaissance after initially tabbing 2005 as his final full year in Sprint Cup. He returned to run the 2006 season with Roush Fenway Racing, then raced partial schedules with Ginn Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. in 2007-08. He returned full time for a three-season stint at Hendrick Motorsports (making the Chase for the Sprint Cup and leading the circuit with five wins in 2009) before moving to a part-time role at Michael Waltrip Racing last year.
"I never dreamed of what would take place from 2007 on," he said. "It's been a really great experience to have the opportunity to work with so many great people (and) teams; learn from so many people and make so many good friends throughout the time. It's really been a rewarding experience to have the opportunity to work with Hendrick Motorsports, DEI and MWR and now Stewart-Haas. I'm excited about an opportunity to get inside the organization.
"One of my goals is that I want to be able to bring something to the organization in stability, and hopefully we can turn the car back over to Tony an even stronger organization than what it was when he got injured."
He is tempering expectations for Bristol, though, noting that it was a challenge to hop into injured Denny Hamlin's No. 11 Toyota earlier this season at Martinsville Speedway (he finished 10th).
BY THE NUMBERS: Mark Martin's career statistics
"The first thing we've got to do is put it together really quickly," said Martin, a two-time winner at Bristol with a series-best nine poles, 16 top-five finishes, 23 top 10s and 1,200 laps led in 46 starts. "I've driven for a lot of different teams, and I've worked with a lot of different people, but when you do something like the 11 car at Martinsville on four days' notice or going into Bristol with this short of notice, it is like jumping into ice-cold water.
"It's going to be challenging, and challenges are good for me. They drive me hard, and I will do everything I can to step up to the plate."
The move effectively ends Martin's tenure driving the No. 55 Toyota for MWR. Brian Vickers, who was announced last week as the full-time driver of the ride starting next year, will handle the final nine races slated for Martin along with three he already was slated to run. Team owner Michael Waltrip will drive the car at Talladega.
VICKERS: Will drive full time for MWR in 2014
Waltrip credited Martin with making his team "stronger, better and more confident and more focused than the day he showed up."
Waltrip later made a lighthearted reference on Twitter to the Aaron's commercial they star in together.
In 24 starts last season, Martin notched four pole positions, four top fives and 10 top 10s.
"It's been such an incredible experience," Martin said of MWR. "The working environment that they have there is so great. It is the least uptight and the least tense of any place I've ever been. I really have enjoyed being a part of it. I've felt really warm and welcome there, and I really love the people in that organization.
"A lot of the people there I've worked with before at other places or known, and it was a very comfortable situation. And people can say what they want, but I have had very little to do with the progression of that organization. I stepped in at a good time when the organization was on an upswing, and it was just starting to show on the racetrack before I arrived there, and when I stepped in, everything was just in place and clicking."
Martin has 40 victories, 56 pole positions, 271 top fives and 452 top 10s. He has 21 wins at the 11 tracks where he will race for SHR.
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Coming off a pair of double-digit wins against what were thought to be very good football teams, the 10th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners seemingly catch a break with this week's visit from the Kansas Jayhawks.
Kansas has just one win in six opportunities to this point, with that victory coming against FCS foe South Dakota State (31-17) in the season opener. Since that time, the Jayhawks have lost five straight, the most recent of which being a 20-14 setback at home to Oklahoma State last weekend. Following this bout, KU will close out the season against Texas, Baylor, Texas Tech, Iowa State and West Virginia, which means securing that first win against a fellow FBS team isn't going to be easy.
Since suffering a 24-19 loss to visiting Kansas State on Sept. 22, Oklahoma beat up on both Texas Tech (41-20) and Texas (63-21), the win over the Longhorns in Dallas last Saturday being the second straight rout by the Sooners in the annual Red River Rivalry matchup following last year's 55-17 triumph. After this week's game, OU will play host to undefeated Notre Dame before returning to Big 12 action the rest of way against the likes of Iowa State, Baylor, West Virginia, Oklahoma State and TCU.
Oklahoma owns a commanding 69-27-6 lead in the all-time series with Kansas, and the Sooner have won the last seven meetings.
The Kansas offense is the least productive of the 10 teams currently calling the Big 12 Conference home, averaging a mere 19.0 ppg behind typical outputs of 179.3 ypg rushing and 198.3 ypg passing. The team boasts three players who have run for more than 300 yards on the season, with James Sims and his 344 yards leading the way. The trio, which also includes Taylor Cox and Tony Pierson, have combined for eight of the club's nine rushing TDs. Notre Dame transfer Dayne Crist has been relatively ineffective under center this year, completing a paltry 49.4 percent of his passes for 1,088 yards with three TDs and seven interceptions. A total of four guys have double-digit receptions on the year, with Daymond Patterson pacing the unit with 19 grabs, while Kale Pick has a team-high 248 receiving yards.
As for the Jayhawks defense, it yields 28.0 points and 433.7 total yards per contest, with their effort against the run being especially worrisome as foes grind out 200.8 ypg which ranks the team ninth in the conference. The pass defense permits a middling 232.8 ypg, although that number would be significantly better if there was more pressure at the point of attack, the team logging a mere six sacks through the first half dozen games. Ben Heeney and Bradley McDougald have 50 tackles apiece, and they have combined for seven of the team's 28 TFL.
Despite a 138-yard, one-TD effort by Sims, Kansas failed to muster much in the way of offensive production last week against Oklahoma State, that was until the fourth quarter when it finally put some points on the board. The team generated 398 total yards before it was all said and done, although Crist went a dismal 10-of-22 for 136 yards. Backup Michael Cummings hit 5-of-10 pass attempts for 75 yards, tossing a 21-yard scoring strike to Jimmy Mundine. Pick finished with four catches for 74 yards.
Defensively, the Jayhawks held their own against the Big 12's top scoring team, allowing the Cowboys just 116 rushing yards and a total of 371 for the day. McDougald and Jake Love each logged a dozen tackles, with the latter making three of his stops behind the line of scrimmage.
First-year head coach Charlie Weis praised the effort put forth by his defense.
"I thought that [the defense] was very solid today. They stopped the run pretty well. We gave up a couple of chunks but they really kept us alive into the fourth quarter and gave us a chance to win. I'm really proud of their performance today."
Oklahoma possesses the third-best rushing offense in the Big 12, churning out 221 ypg and scoring 18 TDs on the ground. The passing game accounts for 285.4 ypg, and veteran QB Landry Jones has completed 62 percent of his attempts with nine TDs against three interceptions. Kenny Stills is the top receiver with 32 grabs for 381 yards and three scores, while the OU run game is paced by Damien Williams and his 508 yards and six TDs. All that production leads to a scoring average of 43.2 ppg, which in the wide-open Big 12 has the Sooners ranked fourth coming into action this week.
For the most part, the Oklahoma defense has performed well this year, with the opposition averaging just 17 points and 300.2 total yards per game. The effort against the pass has been top-notch, with those same foes airing it out for only 171.4 ypg and a mere three TDs. The Sooners are giving up 128.8 ypg on the ground, with only four rushing scores, and they have allowed the fewest first downs (74) of any team in the league. Tony Jefferson currently sits atop the team's tackles list with 37, while both Javon Harris and Aaron Colvin have a pair on interceptions.
Oklahoma scored early and often in last week's showdown with Texas, the Sooners finishing with whopping 677 yards of total offense, compared to just 289 for the Longhorns. Williams rumbled his way for 167 yards and a TD, while Blake Bell made the most of his limited carries (11) by scoring four TDs. As for Jones, he connected on 21-of-37 passes for 321 yards with two TDs and one pick, hitting Trey Millard five times for 119 yards and a score. Justin Brown had five grabs as well, taking them for 73 yards and a TD.
The Sooners defense did a solid nice job keeping the Longhorns at bay, holding them to 74 net rushing yards while coming up with three turnovers in less than 23 minutes of game time on the field. Jefferson led the way with seven stops, and he had one of the interceptions.
Not surprisingly, Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops was proud of the way his team played against a formidable opponent.
"I'll just start by complimenting our players just for their really excellent play today and their assistant coaches for really having a good plan and having them prepared to play. I was really quite pleased to play so well in every facet of the game."


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Pacific Blue Expands In The Pacific31/10/2005
Tonga And Rarotonga Take Off Today!
Virgin Blue's international airline Pacific Blue^ is launching two new routes over the next two days. The inaugural Auckland to Tonga flight takes off at 7am on Monday 31 October and the first Auckland to Rarotonga flight takes off at 6.45pm on Tuesday 1 November.
Auckland to Tonga is a new destination for Pacific Blue and the airline will initially offer three direct flights a week as well as two direct weekly flights between Tonga and Sydney. Pacific Blue is the first low cost carrier to service the Tongan community and its introduction will stimulate tourism by providing travellers with a cost effective option.
Pacific Blue CEO, Tony Marks said, "We are really looking forward to expanding our network to include Tonga. On Monday, Pacific Blue will be the first airline to make Tonga an affordable destination. While we are the first low cost carrier to this market, the effect Pacific Blue have had on prices is already evident, with our competition rushing to copy our lead. That's the kind of impact Pacific Blue has on a market."
To complement the new destination, Pacific Blue is also flying their first Auckland to Rarotonga service beginning on Tuesday 01 November. The Auckland to Rarotonga service will depart Auckland twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Pacific Blue CEO, Tony Marks said, "We have had great feedback from the special sale fares we put into the market on both the new Island routes, and this has been reflected in the bookings. We hope this enthusiasm will continue and know that this can only help generate further tourism opportunities for the region.
"Our commitment to the South Pacific region is clear with the introduction of Pacific Blue flights from Auckland to Rarotonga and Tonga. We are confident our exceptional levels of service and everyday low fares will prove attractive to Pacific Islanders and New Zealanders alike."
^ International flights to New Zealand operated by Pacific Blue Airlines (N.Z.) Ltd. International flights to Fiji and the Cook Islands offered by Pacific Blue Airlines (Aust) Pty. Ltd. and operated by Pacific Blue Airlines (N.Z.) Ltd.


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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. - UPDATE, 9/13/2013, 11:50 a.m.: Officials tell us the fire was started when one of the residents of the building fell asleep in a recliner while smoking a cigarette. She was also on oxygen, which contributed to the blaze.
That woman suffered serious burns and was taken to Vanderbilt hospital. She is currently in critical condition, but we're told she is stable and conscious.
We'll have more details for you as they're available.
The Elizabethton Fire Department is investigating the cause of a fire which sent two people to the hospital Thursday night.
It started at an apartment building on West H. Street a little before ten o'clock, but the fire department was able to extinguish those flames fairly quickly.
Elizabethton City Manager Jerome Kitchens tells News 5, two people were taken to the hospital. One suffered a broken leg after, authorities say, they jumped from a window to escape. Another person has second degree burns.
Kitchens tells us four families are without a home and the Red Cross is helping provide them with a place to stay.
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Skip to comments.Phone unlocking ban could could hit you in the wallet
Posted on 01/28/2013 10:07:36 AM PST by J05h
As of Saturday, your options for owning an unlocked phone become far more limited. You can ask your carrier to unlock itand good luck with thator you can pay a premium to manufacturers like Apple or Google for a new unlocked phone. You just cant unlock your phone yourselfat least, not legally.
That decision was made not by voters, the courts, or even Congress. It was made by one man, 83-year-old Congressional Librarian James Hadley Billington, who is responsible for interpreting the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Billington decided last October that unlocking your phone yourself is a violation of the Act, which was originally written to prevent digital piracy.
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Another example of too much power in hands of unelected bureaucrats.
Can someone explain this to me? Surely, they don't mean just turning it on....Sorry, I'm old and this new fangled day technology is confusing to me...
When you buy your phone you are locked to that carrier!
To switch carriers it has to be unlocked!
From the end of the article:
Hays says that when LTE phones become more common, the issue of unlocking becomes even more important. Today, when you unlock an AT&T (GSM) phone, your only real option is to go to T-Mobile, which uses the same cellular technology. But when all carriers have converted over to the new LTE networks, the owner of an unlocked LTE phone has a choice of four major carriers and a number of regional ones.
Hays says the carriers may have worked hard to get an unlocking ban to protect themselves against widespread unlocking and massive churn in the (LTE) future.
Cell phones are usually sold locked to one network. You can unlock that phone and use it on another network with the same technology, or sell it, or use it on a trip overseas and not pay international roaming. Right now in the US that mostly just means using a ATT phone on T-mobile or vice versa. But you can get cheap Sprint and Verizon phones, unlock them and use them on their cheaper prepaid networks.
Thats now supposedly illegal. In some countrys its illegal for the phone company to sell cell phones locked to one carrier.
Doesn't really effect me. I absolutely refuse to do business with Verizon (long story), AT&T has horrific customer ratings. Sprint is about the only reliable signal I can get here in the hills of MA and they've treated me right. Plus unlimited everything on my Galaxy S3.
BS. I was in the Philippines in October and went to the market areas and they had multiple tables where they can unlock your Iphone, Droid and Samsung phones as I piggybacked on the local carrier. It was around $5 equivalent and the same to put it all back together.
These guys were pros. Once I got back stateside, I went to Verizon for separate app issue, these clowns had no clue it was unlocked in the first place.
I had a retail and wholesale business selling phones.
The unlocking will continue to be available and will occur no matter what this law says. It's impossible to enforce because people can learn to unlock their phones via the web and dealer stores (non-corporate stores) will continue to do it in backrooms for $50 or $100 now that it is illegal.
Before this law, unlocking was prohibited in dealer contracts for dealers, but customers had no restrictions.
Go back to who this benefits: carriers not named AT&T.
99% of my customers who wanted a phone unlocked were those who wanted to unlock the iPhone to use on T-Mobile. AT&T is trying to prevent loss of subscribers.
Another aspect of this is the large scale sale of iPhones to the Chinese market by people/companies other than Apple and AT&T. I shipped at least some 50,000 unlocked iPhones to Hong Kong. There was no law or dealer agreement prohibiting my doing this. The iPhones were bought by legitimate customers of Apple or AT&T, sold to me legally because I paid a good price, then I sold them legally to the Hong Kong market at a markup of $135/unit.
How did you think iPhones got into the Asian markets?
I'll take my chances, I need the practice on ignoring federal law for when the new gun laws go into effect....
Think of it like this:
You buy a new vehicle at the dealership. They give you a significant discount (25% - 50%) because you sign a two-year contract to have your vehicle serviced and repaired at only that dealership. They're gonna make lots of money on your service and repairs. (The service & repairs aren't free to you.) To enforce this contract, they install a lock within the engine that only they can unlock when they service or repair the vehicle. Optionally, you can well above MSRP for the vehicle with a lock and have it serviced where you want. You opt for the discount and service contract.
So later, when your two-year service contract is up (or you pay a gigantic fee to break your contract early), you decide that you want to have your car serviced and repaired somewhere else. Maybe you weren't happy with their service or you can have the same work done for much less elsewhere.
You ask the dealership to unlock the engine. They ask, "Why?" You tell them that your contract is up and you want go elsewhere for service and repairs. The dealership says, "No." You argue that it's your vehicle; you paid for it. They say, "It's our lock and it's copyrighted." You pay an independent mechanic to remove the lock. You then have your vehicle serviced and repaired wherever you want.
Under this new interpretation of the law, it's now illegal for you to hire that independent mechanic to remove that lock. You can sell your vehicle, but the buyer can't have the engine unlocked either. He has to have it serviced and repaired at that same dealership.
If you're a customer in good standing with the dealership, they may or may not take off the lock. It's their decision not yours.
Agreed. I am a very happy 17-year Sprint customer. They treat me right and go the extra mile if I am ever displeased in any way whatsoever.
I only purchase unsubsized unlocked phones. My lastest two are a Galaxy Nexus direct from Google and a Sony Xperia P for work.
Folks, you are much better off financially paying $299/$349 to Google for an unlocked phone like a Nexus 4 and then signing up for Straight Talk ($45 per month unlimited talk/text & 2 GB data) or some other prepaid plan. The wife and I did just that two year ago and we've saved thousands....certainly more than enough to justify the upfront purchase of the phone.
The phone company has the right to sell locked or unlocked phones, and to charge more or less for each as it wishes. The government has no right to tell a company how it must do business.
(The government has taken the right; but that doesn't mean that it has the right.)
Aha! So this is all your fault.
(Kidding. I'm totally kidding.)
Whoops. Optionally, you can pay well above MSRP for the vehicle without a lock and have it serviced where you want.
Talking about the LTE Network, I wonder if this is another proprietary network like CDMA that is not hardly used worldwide. I know GSM is the standard elsewhere. I picked up an unlocked iPhone for the reason to use when I travel overseas.
Thank you FRiends for the explanations. You are why I love FR!
That money went to a good cause, like my new reproduction model 1873 Colt.
I should have included you in my #19 thank you. I appreciate my FRiendly lessons! ;-)
Plain old phones had a similar issue if you wanted to move and keep your number or switch local carriers. Then they made "local number portability" the law .
I'm sure the new Consumer Protection Czar will ride to the rescue and fix everything.
lucky you- new Colt!
Well yes it did. Carry on!
You did and you're welcome.
No, you can just pay the regular price for that phone and be done with it. Talk about getting things bass-ackwards!
If you think you can get that $500 phone for $0.99 with no strings attached...well, think again.
Sounds like the guy in charge of ritual at Gormenghast castle in Mervyn Peake's classic fantasy...IIRC an ambitious young man put himself in virtual charge of the castle by taking that job over and using it to his own ends. Makes you wonder.....Not that this affects me - I neither have nor want a smart phone - but it is yet another freedom gone to socialism.
the rule change doesn't really affect my wife and I much because we don't switch carriers or get a new phone very often. Our phones are all several years old and we have been with the same carrier for longer than that. But I do have a story that can illustrate a little closer what I think that the real issue is. Ten years ago we were using the same carrier that we had our land lines with for our cellular service. We were satisfied with the price and service up until they sold of their cell towers to Sprint.
They said that this would improve their coverage, but the Sprint towers we were now using gave first priority to Sprint customers. Even after several months most of our calls were dropped within a couple of minutes. It was explained to me that whenever all of the spots in the cell tower nearest our phones were filled up our calls would be dropped to make way for Sprint customers just coming on line.
We were quite happy with the expensive Motorola handsets that we had paid hundreds of dollars a piece for. We are careful with the things we own so they were in perfect condition and we had also purchased hands free adapters and external antenna connectors for our cars, along with extra batteries and cradle charges. We were out of contract... so after six months of frustration we decided to switch to Sprint. I assumed that we would be able to use our premium handsets that were already using the Sprint network.
No dice! Sprint forced us to buy new handsets. They did not offer the same type we had so we could use all of the accessories we had for them. We ended up getting phones that were twice the size of the ones we already had, but at least the problem with dropped calls went away. I almost decided to go with a different carrier, but we were already paying significantly more per month than we had been and I knew the towers worked where we lived... which can be a problem when you are in an outlying area.
I still have those expensive phones in a drawer along with a few others. Of course they are expensive paper weights if no carrier will let you use them. It bothers me that I cannot use products that I purchased for the use they were intended. This is actually about control. The contract carriers don't want you to be able to use even one of their older phones with one of the no-contract carriers. I am getting very tired of it and am about ready to give Sprint the boot.
Sorry to hear you got stuck with an uncooperative provider.
Not to point out the obvious, but did you try to just use your new Sprint SIM cards with your previous phones?
I'm not aware that the cell net would be able to discriminate between the phone devices if a valid SIM card is recognized.
Sim cards are used only on GSM networks. Sprint is CDMA. From what I have read this ruling affects Sprint customers who want to use their older Sprint phones on Cricket, Boost Mobile or other pay as you go providers using CDMA networks. To me it appears to be a typical government one size fits all solution to what is basically a non-problem.
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Skip to comments.ObamaCare's Broken Promises: Every one of the law's main claims turning out to be false.
Posted on 02/01/2013 9:11:11 AM PST by rhema
As the federal government moves forward to implement President Obama's Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services is slated to spend millions of dollars promoting the unpopular legislation. In the face of this publicity blitz, it is worth remembering that the law was originally sold largely on four groundsall of which have become increasingly implausible.
Lower health-care costs. One key talking point for ObamaCare was that it would reduce the cost of insurance, especially for non-group insurance. The president, citing the work of several health-policy experts, claimed that improved care coordination, investments in information technology, and more efficient marketing through exchanges would save the typical family $2,500 per year.
That was then. Now, even advocates for the law acknowledge that premiums are going up. In analyses conducted for the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado, Jonathan Gruber of MIT forecasts that premiums in the non-group market will rise by 19% to 30% due to the law. Other estimates are even higher. The actuarial firm Milliman predicts that non-group premiums in Ohio will rise by 55%-85%. Maine, Oregon and Nevada have sponsored their own studies, all of which reach essentially the same conclusion.
Some champions of the law argue that this misses the point, because once the law's new subsidies are taken into account, the net price of insurance will be lower. This argument is misleading. It fails to consider that the money for the subsidies has to come from somewhere. Although debt-financed transfer payments may make insurance look cheaper, they do not change its true social cost.
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What else could possibly be expected from the LIAR in chief and his minions?
Drudge has a story up that by 2016 the cheapest family policy available will cost $20K.
The fine for not buying one is $2400.
You can see where this is going.
All lies. But we told them so.
This is "turning out to FALSE" only to those who were foolish/stupid enough to believe it in the first place.
Those who, like me, knew this was a load of crap from the get-go, have merely been waiting for this to come out.
The sad thing is, it truly STINKS to be proven right, doesn't it?
Remember the 'Government Rule of 10' : Every government estimate will be off by a factor of 10.
If they predict something will gost A Billion Dollars, it will end up costing 10 Billion.
If they say it will take one year, it will be done in 10 years.
Obamacare is just more Cloward-Piven strategery written by the insurance lobby to whip the slaves (american taxpayers)
Is there ANYTHING in that law that is not more cynical or more insincere than any similar measure in the past?
Even the very name is a study in oxymorons. The patients are not protected, and the care, where any is made available at all, is far less than affordable. Mostly, the law depends on denial of services, and applying taxes where none existed before.
But we have it on good authority that this measure, being about taxes and not about delivery of medical care, is therefore Constitutional.
How can a couple with three children making $120,000 a year afford to spend $20,000 on healthcare insurance (the Bronze policy) each year? How do they save for retirement, save for their kids' education, pay their bills, pay their taxes?
What kind of life is that?
Why don't the gutless creeps in congress just refuse to fund the damn thing???
I know some liberals who really truly believe that ObamaCare is 'FREE' and think that when 2016 gets here all they have to do is show up at the doctor's office and it will cast them NOTHING!
I've tried to dispel their ignorance with facts, but they tell me I don't have a clue..............
That was intentionally implied if not stated,
and there was definitely not an effort to disabuse anyone of this belief.
When a leftist is pushing any policy that does not accomplish or solve the problem that they say they are trying to solve,
the agenda is different than what they are proposing.
I can't wait to see the look on their ignorant little faces when the reality finally hits them in it.............
In 2010 the IMF told Greece that one condition of getting a bailout was to privatize the Greek health care system.
I seriously think we won't make it to 2016...
The economy will totally crash before then.
Misleading five years of the Obama norm.
The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: "I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30," she said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success."
"Very good," said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next:
"I sold magazines," she said, "I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events."
"Very good, Jenny," said the teacher.
Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn. The teacher held her breath...
Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk. "$2,467" he said."$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?"
"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.
"Toothbrushes!" echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?"
"I found the busiest corner in town," said Little Johnny, "I set up a Chip & Dip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample. They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog crap!"
Then I would say, "It is dog crap. Wanna buy a toothbrush? I used the government approach of giving you something shitty for free, and then making you pay to get the taste out of your mouth."
I can see a thriving underground economy.
In the last 5 years only one person had the courage to speak the truth. That was the guy who told Obama. "YOU LIE".
Until lies are called what they are and people are taken to the woodshed for lies, things will keep going downhill.
This misleading, or He misspoke claptrap, is a cowardly way to point out a bald faced lie.
I see in the future a shortage in taxi drivers.
All those doctors from foreign countries who came here and couldnt find a job will be lining up to remove your gallbladder.
I'm with you but I guess I was holding out hope that I was just being a paranoid conservative.
Sucks to be right!
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
It doesnt matter to leftists. INTENTIONS are all that matter, results do not.
it is hard to imagine amore stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell
What we're not going to hear from Obama guard dog Fx News about Obamacare is the following. Regardless that Chief Justice Roberts found Obamacare constitutional with respect to Congresss power to lay taxes, perhaps you will find it disturbing, as I have, that the Court had previously clarified that the states have never granted Congress the constitutional authority to address intrastate public healthcare issues.
More specifically, regardless that Justice Roberts referenced the Gibbons v. Ogden case in the Obamacare opinion, he seemingly ignored two key statements in the Gibbons opinion which clearly indicate, imo, that Congress has no constitutional authority to make legislation of any kind regulating public healthcare.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, Congress cannot make laws to lay taxes or establish penalties in the name of intrastate public healthcare any more than it can make laws regulating 1st Amendment protected religious expression and freedom of press imo.
Here's two more excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions which likewise indicate that Congress has no constitutional authority to make laws regulating intrastate healthcare. Note that Justice Barbour referenced the above excerpt from Gibbons in New York v. Miln, expanding it as follows.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
And before Constitution-ignoring FDR nuked the Supreme Court with activist justices, Constitution-respecting justices had again emphasized that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into intrastate medical practice.
Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously (emphasis added) beyond the power of Congress. Linder v. United States, 1925.
My gallbladder is already gone, but doctors who sit behind computers waiting for bureaucrats to decide whether I get care for my cough, scare me. If you are over 70, you get the hospice chute!
This exactly what they planned. They're moving toward totally government healthcare. Everyone will be going to the VA.
"The sad thing is, it truly STINKS to be proven right, doesnt it?"
I could write an essay or maybe even a book on that! I have been wrong many times about many things over many years but I am almost never wrong when I want to be wrong, I would have loved to be proven wrong about the results of the 2008 election but I knew all along it would never happen. When it is gut wrenching to be right I am never wrong. I am still unable to comprehend why so many Americans cannot, as my mother used to say, "See past the end of their noses."
"Even the very name is a study in oxymorons."
Yes, in a sane world it would exist only in a comic book land like "BIZARRO WORLD" and would be known as The UNaffordable Health Disregard Act.
"Ive tried to dispel their ignorance with facts, but they tell me I dont have a clue.............."
An exercise in futility if there ever was one. What other hobbies do you enjoy? Maybe carrying moonbeams home in a jar, herding cats, arm wrestling with power lifters? These people are able to believe anything as long as it makes no sense at all. They can even believe two contradictory statements at once as long as neither one makes any sort of sense. They are totally incapable of believing truth that is as obvious to you as the sunrise. They are the living definition of what was meant by the old line I used to hear so often before South Carolinians all started trying to sound like normal people, "If you put his brain in a Jaybird, he'd fly backwards." Or, one of my other old favorites which is no longer heard, "He ain't got the sense to pour water out of a boot if the directions was printed on the heel."
And the low-information voters will eat it up, blame Repubs, and the "media" will turn their soft-glow "halo" lights on Zero from above while he beatifies himself and spews venom on conservatives.
This stuff is too easy to predict.
If we could somehow return to the true meaning of the constitution people would be amazed how little government would remain. Perhaps ninety percent of it is in truth a violation of the constitution but little by little over the years judges have proclaimed most of these atrocities to somehow be covered by the commerce clause, the welfare clause or the unwritten just beclause.
Now that was funny. I don't care who you are, it's funny!
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You've probably heard about the Twilight book (for ages 12 and up) and movie series. But for those of you who are as caught up in the Twilight series as I am, you probably know that New Moon (PG-13), the second movie of the Twilight series is hitting theaters on November 20th.
Where to start?! If you haven't checked out the Twilight books or movies, I highly recommend it. The series follows Bella, a normal teenage girl living in the dreary Pacific Northwest town of Forks, and Edward a vampire who is trying his best to be normal by abstaining from drinking human blood. Throw in Jacob, Bella's friend who also happens to be a werewolf, and see what happens. In the second book and movie, we find Edward and the Cullens have left Forks for Bella's own good. But Bella is (understandably) heartbroken and falls into a pit of reckless despair. Enter Jacob. Her friend takes her under his wing, but she still can't get Edward out of her mind. She starts doing reckless things to hear Edward's voice in her head. But when an old vampire comes back to town to avenge a death, things take a turn for the worse.
This second movie and book feature a bigger role for werewolf character Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner. And . . . we just happened to score a HUGE interview with him exclusively for all you Ink Splotters! (It's a tradition to bring you exclusive Twilight interviews, you know, like the interview with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson before the first Twilight movie!)
Without further ado, check out Taylor's interview!
Q: I love the trailer clips that show you transforming. Tell us about that.
Taylor: Yeah, it was really cool to observe the process of that. Because one second I'm a human and the next I'm a complete CGI [computer generated imagery] wolf. So in that shot in the trailer what I'll do is I'll be harnessed up, I'll start running, I'll take a few steps and then I'll jump ten feet in the air and the wires will stop me mid-air, so I'll come to a jolting stop so then they can take my body and transform it into a wolf. It was really cool to observe that process.
[Ratha: You mean you're not a real werewolf?]
Q: Did you study Native American history to play Jacob?
Taylor: When I found out I was going to be playing Jacob Black who's Quileute Indian, I had the opportunity to meet with several Quileute Indians, and ask them questions and just learn about them so that I could portray Jacob Black correctly.
Q: What questions did you ask them?
Taylor: I wanted to know what the teenage boys like to do in their free time, to have fun. And I was thinking I was going to hear some answer that was really different, but I found a teenage boy who was very close to my age and I asked, "What do you like to do in your free time to relax and have fun?" And he was like, "Oh I like to play basketball, I like to go to the beach." So what I actually learned the most was that the kids are just like me. So it was a surprise, but very interesting.
[Ratha: That's so cool! Hmm…I wonder if Robert Pattison (Edward) had to do some research by interviewing real vampires. . . ]
Q: Are you similar or different in any ways to Jacob?
Taylor: I hope if you were to ask my close friends, they would say that I am more similar to Jacob's pre-transformation side! But I would not hope to be similar to his werewolf side, because he all of a sudden becomes more angry and fierce.
[Ratha: That's true. I wouldn't want to meet Jacob in a dark alley, especially if he missed his last meal.]
Q: Did you do any research on werewolves?
Taylor: I would honestly say the best research was through the [Twilight] books. Because that's what Stephenie Meyer created, and what we're trying to bring alive. The books are so specific, and she's an amazing author. And it provides so much detail about each and every character. The way to go to study your role to the fullest is through the books.
Q: Did Stephenie Meyer ever come on to the set?
Taylor: Yeah she did, which was really cool. At the beginning she chooses which scenes are her favorites and when she wants to come up and visit so she can watch those scenes being filmed.
Q: What scene for you did she come to see specifically?
Taylor: I know she was there during Emily's house. Emily has this really cool house and I remember we were at the location, and Stephenie was there. So it's always cool to have her around, because if you have any questions, you have the best person to ask right there.
[Ratha: Emily was Sam the werewolf's fiancée. I'll have to look for that scene to see if it feels especially authentic since Stephenie Meyer herself was there!]
Q: Which scene in New Moon was the most fun to shoot?
Taylor: I really liked the dirt bike scenes. I didn't do much dirt bike riding at all before, so I had to do some practices in rehearsals so it looked like I could actually ride a dirt bike! So that was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the action scenes. . . and some intense scenes with Kristen.
[Ratha: Hmm, I wonder what Taylor Swift will think of those scenes. . .]
Taylor: There's a scene right after Jacob transforms into a werewolf and it's the first time Bella discovers this and it's a really emotional scene, because Jacob's just realizing that he may not be the best friend possible for Bella.
Q: You used your karate background and stunts for New Moon. How did you first get started studying karate?
Taylor: When I was younger I did wrestling, football, baseball, martial arts, basketball, and everything. As I got older I realized I had to narrow things down and focus on one or two. So I narrowed it down and I started focusing on martial arts. . . and football and baseball. I did it for about eight years and I traveled around the country. I had a tournament in a different state every single month and it was a lot of fun. It was really competitive though.
[Ratha: Sounds like he started training early to kick some vampire butt!]
Q: Did your martial arts training help prepare you for your role of Jacob?
Taylor: Not necessarily. I think the only thing that's similar is before Jacob transforms into a werewolf, he's a kid. He's clumsy, but as soon as he transforms into a wolf he all of a sudden becomes very agile. So I think it helped with that aspect, the simple agility of Jacob Black, but that was about it.
Q: Did you do most of your own stunts?
Taylor: Yeah, I had the opportunity to do all of my stunts except for one, so it was a lot of fun. I got to dirt bike ride; I got to jump off a lot of cool things, so the stunts were definitely one of my favorite parts.
Q: Do you like to read?
Taylor: I wasn't the biggest reader until the Twilight series. I'd have to say that those are some of my favorite books. I think the story's great and I love all the characters.
Q: Besides the Twilight series, if you could recommend three books, what would you recommend?
Taylor: When I was younger I really enjoyed The Hardy Boys books, and there was also something kind of similar. They're called the Three Investigators. Oh and The Island of the Blue Dolphins.
[Ratha: I love that one too! I just did a book review on it a few months ago!]
Q: You have an 11 year old sister. Does she come to you for advice?
Taylor: When she's doing her homework she'll definitely come to me for help. So I'll help her with her homework sometimes. I think she's kind of in the stage where we have a really good relationship. We're really close, but I guess I'm going to have to watch out for boys coming up here soon.
[Ratha: As long as they don't have fangs keep company with a group of people called the Volturi, right?!]
Q: What's the funniest or sweetest fan story that you could tell us?
Taylor: Well, when we do autograph signings or meet fans, our fans are very passionate and dedicated which is awesome, because that's the reason we're here today. But we see criers a lot, so you see a lot of people crying so you always feel bad for them. And you're like, "It's okay! Come here! It's gonna be alright." But I remember one time we actually had a girl faint and that was kind of scary. You feel so bad, because you're like, "It's all right. I'm not gonna hurt you. We're not going to bite." It's a little different, but we're so thankful for our extremely passionate fans.
[Ratha: I was about to laugh but then realized I might be one of the fainters too.]
So there you have it! How psyched are you for New Moon? How obsessed are you with the Twilight series? Leave a Comment and let's discuss!
—Ratha, STACKS Writer
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My friend Buddy used to say that "if you ask my dad what time it is, he'll tell you how to build a clock". For some people the experience of storytelling involves relatively meaningless details and "fluff", which drives those of us who just want the facts crazy. No nonsense means more productivity. That same philosophy is important when it comes to designing and conducting a research project. Our fourth guiding principle is "Keep it simple, keep it short". We want our students to design, conduct, analyze, and report results from a research project in one or two semesters. No chasing bunnies allowed!
Ideally, our students would join us in research projects in their sophomore year and we would work together for three years delving deeper and deeper into solving a research problem. However, in practicality it very rarely works that way. A huge chunk of our students are athletes or work 20+ hours weekly in addition to their courses. Many go home for the summer to work, go on mission trips, etc. So it is a rare student who has the opportunity and motivation to participate in uninterrupted research for three years. For this reason, we find that our typical research student is a senior taking the capstone course. Faculty and students must work creatively to find projects that are manageable in a finite amount of available time and require little learning curve or prolonged experiments. For this reason, the projects often center on use of skills learned in courses already taken to address research problems with which students are somewhat familiar. It is a blending of student interests with instructor guidance and insight to create a project that is simple and short. We believe more is gained by short-term projects of student design than from short-term involvement of students in projects of faculty design. After all, we are trying to train the next generation of leaders and professionals rather than the next generation of workers and technicians! We have a choice to be average or exceptional, and we choose to make our students exceptional!


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A journey into the life of French society of the reign of Louis XVI during the Bourbon Restoration regime awaits you.
Magnificent collections not to be missed
The Museum of Decorative Arts (1775-1825) presents a prestigious and unique collection of exotic-style clocks (1795-1815), but also some exceptional French gilded bronze porcelain, earthenware, gold plate, engraving, jewellery (including a precious ensemble of cameos) and extremely rare never before seen objects that ooze charm.
Another highlight is the magnificent evocation of the Napoleonic saga and the "Great Discoveries".
Two stars in the Michelin Guide
The François Duesberg Museum is the only tourist site in the city, along with the Saint-Waudru Collegial Church to have 2 stars in the prestigious Michelin Guide.
Guided visits by reservation to baron F. Duesberg.
Children under the age of 12: free of charge.
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By Paul Jones/Special to the Journal
STARKVILLE – Four quarters was not enough for Starkville and West Point to decide the Class 5A North championship.
Starkville senior Gabe Myles made sure it wasn't decided in a second overtime.
On fourth-and-goal from the 15-yard line, Myles threw a touchdown pass to Kentrell Spencer and then ran in for the game-winning two-point conversion. That last play gave the Jackets a 29-28 win over West Point and a return ticket to the Class 5A championship game.
"Just make something happen and this was the two best teams in the north state going after it," said Myles, a Mississippi State commitment. "We just had to make the big plays when they were there to be made.
"I kept praying all season we would get back," to the Class 5A title game, he added, "and I kept on praying tonight."
Starkville won its 10th straight game and moved to 11-3 while West Point ended the season at 11-3.
West Point took a 28-21 lead in overtime on Aeris Williams' fourth touchdown of the night. And the Jackets decided on their possession there would not be a second overtime, one way or the other.
"There are absolutely no words to describe that," said Starkville head coach Jamie Mitchell. "I felt like we missed on so many plays but in the end we made a few more plays. When it went into overtime I knew this bunch isn't one you want to be in overtime with. We knew very early if we scored we were going for 2, because West Point is impossible to stop from 10 yards away."
After a scoreless first quarter, the Jackets took advantage of good field position and a long drive to build a 14-0 lead in the second quarter. Jacquez Horsley capped off a 12-play, 87-yard drive with a six-yard scoring run on the first play of the second quarter.
Then the Jackets needed one play – a 47-yard touchdown sprint by Preston Baker – with just over five minutes left in the half to increase their lead to 14-0.
Wave's gamble
But on their final possession of the half, West Point head coach Chris Chambless took a gamble and it paid off. From his own 18-yard line, the Green Wave faked a punt and picked up the first down. West Point made it count, too, when Tez Lane connected with Williams from 18 yards out with just seven ticks left in the first half.
Williams scored two more touchdowns in the second half and finished the night with 29 carries for 108 yards and three touchdowns rushing.
"We had chances, they had chances and they made the last play," said Chambless. "Our kids played their hearts out and it was anybody's game. It hurts and my job is to keep the team together and come back and fight again."


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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition includes more than 500 pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read or listened to The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are hearing The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.
©1978 Stephen King (P)2012 Random House
"A master storyteller." (Los Angeles Times)
"[The Stand] has everything. Adventure. Romance. Prophecy. Allegory. Satire. Fantasy. Realism. Apocalypse. Great!" (The New York Times Book Review)
"As brilliant a dark dream as has ever been dreamed in this century." (Palm Beach Post)
"My First Completed Stephen King Novel"
Before I get into my review, I have to say I've been terribly disappointed in a lot of the reviews of this book. The book is almost 48 hours long, yet most people barely have two sentences to say about it. I know most people have read this edition before, but for people like me, there aren't that many helpful reviews.
I've read many many books in my time, but nothing has ever captured my attention the way The Stand did. It starts off with a sick man plowing into a gas station and spreading the disease to about 3 or 4 people there. However, what intrigued me the most was not the characters themselves, but how they changed and grew. There are some obviously "Good" people, and there are some "Bad" ones. However, I felt like King also put some in the middle. He left room for people to change. The story, for me, was not predictable or dull, and by my experience, most 48 hour long books do get dull somewhere. This one never did. The narrator was fantastic. I thought he did a fabulous job. I can't recommend this book enough. I'm glad I started it, but I will warn you, you won't want to put it down. I finished it in 6 days if that tells you anything. Thank you audible for giving me the opportunity to enjoy this masterpiece. I will definitely be revisiting it again.
"Worth the wait!"
From what I've listened to so far the narrator (Grover Gardner) does a great job! He pulled me into the story with no distracting affectation that you get from so many other recorded books of the horror/fantasy genre. However, the daunting 48 hour listen may have me augmenting the audio edition with my paperback.
Grant's Pass - by Amanda PIller. A post-apocalyptic anthology, well written and very fun to read. At times I felt that this collection was the 'lost chapters' of The Stand.
Swan's Song - A very good read in the same vein, Robert McGammon is another of my favorites (unrelated but other great books by him: Boy's Life and Going South)
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy. Grittier and darker than The Stand but evocative (the book is better than the movie and I liked the movie)
Gosh, so many! - the tunnel, the...hey, I'm not gonna spoil this for first timers! Read it and love it! Once everyone is up to speed, I may update this.
To all those folks who won't read this just because it's by Stephen King - please do yourself a favor and get this book. Although is has some 'horrific' scenes, the character development and story arc are some of the best I've ever read. Don't be put off by his reputation as Master of Horror - he's also a Master Storyteller; remember, this is the same author who gave us Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption.
Now, if we can just get Peter Jackson to take a peak at this little book....
"A Post-Apocaltyptical Brain Vacation"
Unlike many diehard King Fans, I never read The Stand as a teen. In fact, I only got into King after appreciating much of his later work, like Duma Key, Under the Dome and 11-22-63. This completely unabridged reworking of the original, with many previously cut passages re-added by he author, is a gem. A vacation for the brain. Normally, I view a book this long (48 full hours!) as a mountain to scale. But King turns long works into something more like a wave that is ridden. I listened to the whole thing at normal speed, with complete and utter enjoyment. The characters in this book are both lovable and despicable. There's no waste or self-indulgence here. Just damn good storytelling. More. Please.
"It's finally here! Complete and uncut!"
I've read this complete and uncut novel before, as it was available via the National Library Service for the Blind. But alas, it was just available for rent. But now, some 22 or so years since it was released in its entirety, I couldn't help buying it. It was actually the first thing I did when waking up on Feb 14th since audible gave me the heads up concerning it arriving on audio.
Don't pass this title up. Most of King's fans say that it is his best work ever. Well, for me it ties with It and The Dark Tower series.
Having read both versions-- this uncut doorstop of a novel, and the dinky little 800 someodd pager published in the late 70's... I prefer the one you're hopefully about to download or have already downloaded. I wouldn't have purchased the original edited edition if Random House had released it. So don't let the title confuse you, folks. It is indeed the complete and uncut edition, and well it should be. King himself says he can't abide abridged audio books. Well spoken, wordslinger! And we all say thank ya.
My opinion of said novel? C'mon, it's Stephen King. And it is one of my all time favorites which I at long last own. It's a post apocalyptic epic featuring one of the best villains of all time. It's got romance, horror, etc. Just use a credit and buy it already! Now to submit this and take care of this bothersome stuffy nose and cough of mine.
I believe a reviewer should finish a book before submitting a review. What do you think?
"I'm a Fan"
I can't say that this is my very favorite SK book ever, but I did really love it. I liked the characters so much. Nick who couldn't hear or speak yet he had so much to say and many people followed him. I have had dreams like this where we are all beginning again and SK makes it all come alive in his book. Grover Gardner is one of my favorite narrators ever, what talent!!!!! Yea this is a good one for sure.
It's simple really, I am just a guy looking to enjoy the writing and reading talents of others while raising my family the best I can, just Like most everyone else!!!
"Downloaded at 2 am on the 14th"
I downloaded this just as soon as it showed up and so far I can tell you a couple of things:
#1. The reader is doing his part and his style fits what I was expecting!
#2. The story, for those that don't know what it is about, is classic King but with an apocalyptic type of plot. The character building is huge and wonderful here but don't worry your self as it DOES NOT SLOW DOWN THIS BOOK at all. King gives us maybe the biggest and best set of characters that he has ever had published and I'm not kidding about that!!!
#3. The overall feel of this classic is ....well it's just classic! It got me from the first few minutes on and carried me on a journey that somehow leaves no doubt that I learned a few things that are useful in life, but I'm biased when it comes to The Stand as it has had a place in my heart for years. If you are looking to get into a very long book that will teach, scare, bring sadness and joy as well as new memorable characters into your thoughts then you have found a classic for sure!
Just keep that in mind that many of us readers are revisiting this book in it's new form and are only looking for word that the reader has delivered what Stephen King wrote for us many years ago so all the reviews may not be what a new reader is looking for. I hope I was able to give you a review that will help in some way.
One of the absolute best.
Why don't you ask which of my kids I like better?! One thing that sticks out are the snippets of random people's fate, such as a little boy falling down a well while wandering alone after his family died.
I heard the previous version he did of The Stand, which was a library cassette audiobook. The sound quality was awful but he did a good job. I wish he put a bit more emotion in his voice but for the most part I think he is a great narrator.
That isn't even possible. There literally aren't enough hours in the day. I did fall asleep several times listening to it because I couldn't put it down.
I would definitely say this is worth your credit. I'm glad they didn't make it a two credit book like some of the other really long books.
One of my favorite books of all time. I'm sure I've read it a dozen times over the years. I am so happy to have the audio version finally. I don't think I need to critique or review the book much more than to say if you're a Stephen King fan, you know this is one of his best books. And if you're NOT a King fan necessarily, this is one of his novels like the recent JFK assassination novel that you might find accessible. One of the classic post-apocalyptic books of the genre. THANK YOU AUDIBLE!
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"One of my favorite books, ever."
This is difficult for me to accurately judge. The story is a favorite of mine, and has been since it's original release. I have read the book several times. The audio part of it was good, not exceptional, I don't feel like the audio enhanced my perceptions of the story, but it was enjoyable. There are books I have listened to in audio, that I hadn't read first, which were a more enjoyable/satisfying experience.
Stu of course. And Frannie, though this narration makes her sound a bit like a twit. I like Stu's stoicism and resolve, how he is fragile but strong, and his character grows through out the story. I like that he gains confidence in himself, and their path, while retaining the ability to question his motives. Frannie, as read in the book, seems real, like someone I know, or perhaps even a part of me, as a daughter, a young adult and an impeding mother. I identified with her because most of her decisions are ones i think I would have made in the same circumstances. SPOILER Except I would have spoken up about Harold. The end of the world is no play to worry about hurting someones feelings.
I didn't like the performance. At most times it was only tolerable, others it was irritating. He delivered the majority of the narration is a strange monotone, only occasionally injecting some life into the words. His accents made all the men sound like "Oklahoma sod-busters" and the women like whiny and helpless, or hard. I found myself practicing lines out loud as I listened. The story is so rich and multilayered, it deserved an exceptional narrator, not mediocre one it received. Harsh, I know, but the truth in my opinion. If I hadn't known the story, I doubt I would have finished all 48 hours. That is looooong time to listen to a voice you do not enjoy.
No. And at 48 hours, it would have been impossible.
Mr. King... please make an effort to find better narrators for your work. I have listened to two books, one narrated by yourself and this one. On narration alone, I cannot recommend eithr, though you did a better job than Mr. Gardner.
"A very long ride to I'm not sure where"
Not his best, not his worst. Good vs. Evil on the blank page of post-apocalyptic America. King is one of the great story tellers, his characters rich and believable, the setting as tangible as can be imagined. I wanted more from this, more about the human condition, the deep personal struggles that can only occur when the bottom has fallen out, when the imagination is bested by the stark reality, where every decision, no matter how small, could end a life or the course of civilization. I wanted more.
11.22.63 was a better book, but this is pretty darn good.
One cannot compare King to all the others as he is simply in a class by himself.
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Thermal energy storage (TES) is a method by which energy is produced and stored at one time period for use during a different time period. The most common application in the U.S. is for cooling and entails making chilled water or ice during off-peak times (at night) and storing it for use during peak demand (the next day). By shifting energy use, a thermal storage system can lower operation and maintenance costs and reduce equipment size.
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The electricity you buy during the hottest part of the day can cost nearly three times as much as the power you could buy in the middle of the night, says John S. Andrepont, president and founder of thermal storage consulting firm The Cool Solutions Company.
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Giuseppe Zanotti Leather Gladiator Sandal
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This past weekend Lexington Avenue in Asheville came alive with art, music, costumes, impromptu performance art and quirky good fun. Arts 2 People has brought this free end of summer festival to Asheville for 10 years. They are a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the role of the arts as an integral part of our culture, supporting artists and exposing the public to the transformational power of creative expression. This year they extended the festival to two days with 3 sound stages and numerous smaller venues for music. You could find lots of local food, art, one of a kind clothing and gifts, not to mention events you won't find at just any street fair, like bicycle jousting matches!
Everyone dresses up in their most creative and unique style including the fair-goers. A silver statue of a woman with urn in hand suddenly walks down the street. A veiled creature with black material where a face should be pushes a baby carriage full of stuffed toys. A car that has been transformed into a dissertation on heaven and hell is proudly displayed by the artist. Cirque de solei style performers roam the street. It is truly a quintessential Asheville event. Lexington Avenue is known for its artsy and funky shops even without the fair. It's also home to some wonderful restaurants, like Bouchon and Boca. We took advantage of the front window table at Boca to enjoy lunch and the very best people-watching at the fair. It was on the second day of the fair and a brief deluge from the outskirts of tropical depression Lee sent fair goers scurrying for cover. In no time the soaked and costumed crowd accepted their fate and children splashed in the river flowing down Lexington Street.
A thoroughly wet and dripping man on stilts in nautical dress peered down at us, dry inside the window. Once the storm was over the booths flung open their flaps and the festivities resumed as is if nothing had happened. The living statues took up their stations and wet musicians played again.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly two months after publicly disclosing a massive data breach at the South Carolina Department of Revenue, state officials are unsure just what kind of weaknesses exist in state agencies' cyber security.
The State Budget and Control Board — the five-member board that oversees the state's administrative agency as well as state financial decisions — took the first step to find out Wednesday when it authorized hiring a consultant to craft a bid for a firm to assess the state's security and develop a statewide cyber security firm.
The board also approved a $20.1 million loan to the Revenue Department to handle some of the state's response to the hacking.
"Us moving fast after this crisis was very, very important," Gov. Nikki Haley told the board. "Every other agency is still getting pinged at this point. We are not exempt from this. Waiting on the legislative session to decide on an RFP (request for proposal) is allowing more risk."
Marcia Adams, executive director of the State Budget and Control Board, said the vendor selected to help create a statewide cyber security plan first will look at each agency to assess its security.
"We really don't know what we have in the state," Adams said of cyber security at each agency.
EARLIER: Lack of security policy cited in breach
State Inspector General Patrick Maley told the panel about his report on the status of cyber security among agencies, which relied on opinions of 18 chief information officers, officials with the state's Division of Information Technology and others to conclude the overall security for the state is "less than adequate."
Maley has said his investigation into the hacking shows that many state agency chief information officers, the officials who run agency computer networks, believe the state's cyber security posture is poor.
He recommends that the state create a cyber security program, establish the position of chief information security officer, and create an entity to accept responsibility for the security program and the authority to create policies.
About 100 agencies, commissions, boards, colleges and universities operate computers in state government, but there is no centralized control of their security and operations.
Seeking an expert
State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a member of the board, said he wants to be sure that expertise was used in finding the right firm to assess agencies and develop a statewide plan.
EARLIER: S.C. data breach latest in hacker onslaught
Since the breach was disclosed by Haley on Oct. 26, the Department of Revenue has moved to fix its primary vulnerabilities, encrypting all its data and installing a dual-password system. In addition, the agency is now using a computer network monitoring system offered for free by the Information Technology office.
The hacking exposed 3.8 million Social Security numbers, 3.3 million bank account numbers and information from almost 700,000 businesses.
The first intrusion into the Revenue Department's computers began in August, unnoticed by any officials operating its computer system.
It wasn't until Oct. 10 that the computer crimes office of the U.S. Secret Service discovered that a foreign hacker had taken a database from the department's computers, exposing taxpayers' Social Security numbers and credit and debit card numbers. It was one of the largest computer breaches in the state or nation.
Three more breaches followed — the first, another "browse" on Sept. 3, and then two more, concluding with the data theft on Sept. 13, said James Etter, former director of the Department of Revenue.
A Secret Service agent, Mike Williams, said the agency's computer crimes office first uncovered the intrusion and notified state authorities.
Although the U.S. Secret Service and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division have been investigating the hacking since Oct. 10, no arrests have been announced.
The $20.1 million loan to the Department of Revenue will come from the state Insurance Reserve Fund and is to be repaid by next October.
Among the expenses the $20.1 million loan to the Department of Revenue will cover are a $12 million contract with Experian, which is providing credit monitoring for a year; $5.6 million for encryption and dual passwords at the Department of Revenue; and $20,000 for the electronic searching of taxpayers living outside South Carolina.


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If you go wild for wedges, you'll love the Envy Grub. This espadrille sandal is the perfect neutral choice to pair with your pop colors.
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August 06, 2013
So comfy!
"I am not a person that normally wears heels. I live in flats and sneakers. I bought these for a wedding and I wore them for a total of 6 hrs and they are so comfortable! My feet did not hurt at all. I would definitely recommend these to everyone"
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So cute!!
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April 12, 2013
Comfy and Cute
"What more could you possibly want in a shoe? Super comfortable. I have a wide foot and it totally fit! It does run long--so make sure to order smaller--I didn't but loved them too much to return (bought in black and natural) so now I just wear with moleskin."
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April 09, 2013
unique wedge
"I picked this up in black and in my size 9 (I know many reco going smaller but I never buy anything but 9). Fits nice and looks great!"
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A perfect boat shoe for all seasons, the Down Islander slip-on from Margaritaville is a sure bet! This classic boat shoe is great for casual outings and goes with just about everything.
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