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Thats what I did when I submitted. That's why I'm seeing the deans office on weds That's why I might have to retain legal council to sue these jerks.

I find it weird that this even got to a legal state; as I recall you'd mentioned that your grades were wrong on the transcript which should easily be sorted out by the teachers involved. And if they're not available the dept. chair or dean. IIRC schools are obligated to require their teachers - for accreditation - to have 7 years (or is it 5) of grade books in case disputes arise. The grade was changed... however the termination and probations that the grade caused were not rescinded. Basically the answer I got was that they won't rescind the fact that I was terminated, or on probation, because that's how the grades worked out at the time, and even though the grades were wrong, that's my problem not theirs. Exact words were The LAS Academic Standards Committee cannot "change history" regarding the academic record, and so the dismissal notation will remain there.

So, it turns out I do have a leg to stand on legally to sue the school if they don't sort out and fix the issue they caused. But that'll come at the end of everything I can possibly do within the bounds of the school to fix this... and then I'd have to find a lawyer who'd be willing to consider taking on the school itself. Joy of joys.

Except that I am. I'm saying I am working that much, but I'm not even allowed weekends to recoup.

BF3 is one of those games, for me, that only works when I'm really in the mood for it. BF4, from what I've looked at, just seems to be BF3 but with extra levels that can be blown up further. Effectively it'd be like they just added another one of the x-packs to the system rather than actually updating the game, but I haven't played it personally. Hopefully this time they won't cross their hearts and say "we totally had single player in mind for this!" given their last effort in BF3 was just a massive pile of bugs, confusion, and failure that attempted to ape CoD's famous "FEEL TERRIBLE THAT THIS THING HAPPENED" plot twists.

I'm about ready to either punch somebody or just stop trying to live beyond the essentials. I've just gotten done with a four day stint where I worked for about 30 hours overall (maybe more). Lucrative yes, but between that, and the fact that we'd gone out dancing on friday (and my add got kicked into high gear by being overwhelmed by the noises) I'm a zombie. Went to class this morning, then tried to go see student legal aid but got asked to come back two hours later. Then when I check my email my group that's been procrastinating has decided that three hours after my appointment with the Lawyer, they wanna meet to finally work on this project/debate. I'm trying to get them to do it earlier so I actually have some time to be at home and sack out today, but I somehow doubt I'm gonna ever be able to go home and have a stretch of 5 hours alone between the hours of 8 AM in the morning and 8 pm at night until my mind breaks into little itty bitty pieces and I'm left in an acute psych ward to pull myself together Again.

I can't hear you over the sound of Novgorod burning at Ivan's order.

Hey I only spent about 10-20 minutes putting that in while Octavian tried to munch on the phone. I'll expand it further when I get some more free time.

Yeahhh... Posting this from my phone in bed so bear with me... Just a story idea/scene that's been rattling in my head. The fires crackled, spotting and hissing their disapproval of the damp logs the storm had created. With each pop a small group of children in the corner of the inn would jump and look wild eyed around the great room. Everyone could feel the tension between the Germanic auxilia "peacekeepers" and the four traders in the opposite corner. The serving girl couldn't even get the newcomers their orders because the Auxilia were demanding her attention any time she went near that table. "Even Augustus on his throne would be faster!" Yelled one of the drunken Germans, trying and failing to stifle a giggle as she brought out the same plate of lamb for the sixth time. As she passed their table one hand reached out and caught the back of her dress, tearing the worn materIal with ease and causing her to drop the try while laughs boomed from the "peacekeepers". The entire rest of the den went silent as the naked girl turned and fled back to the safety of the kitchen. "Lass! You fergot yer-" The rest of the se tangs was lost as a knife thud-d-d-ded into the table before the molester. Across the room one of the traders was still holding his position as if he had been crystallized in time with his throw. Two of the others looked at him with only an eyebrow raised at his actions while the last pressed back deeper into the shadows. Nervous shuffling accompanied a general evacuation of patrons with only a few brave ones remaining to peek over their counter, table, or window to watch the fight they new was coming. Auxilia were the law, nobody fought Rome's law and won.

God dammit, I can't decide wether to joke about gay driving style or straight roads. More seriously, did you have a fair for 6 straight hours, or many packed in together? Just my hourly rate and the better chance of higher tips. Got a twenty today. And now I am back to having that feeling where I don't want to have to fight anymore. Octavian disagrees but that's because he doesn't have to really right anything. Just impotently flail and munch on things.

whee 9 hour day, 6 of it driving almost straight!

Due to the fact that my school is pouring money into science and tech and only hitting liberal arts/humanities enough to cover the gen ed requirements? I kinda shotgun the entire history department to get my degree. I've taken upper division courses in everything from the Civil Rights battles in the US to Roman Porn "poetry" involving sending forth "white force into [her] golden locks". And a history of science course that's mostly just a comparison between the East and West parts of Europe (which is where I got a lot of what I've posted here) because the guy who teaches it is a published professor in the field of Russian history.

I'm a history major

Do you need me to pretend to be your huge Samoan attorney? Nope... I'm just gonna see if I can get a proper attorney to deal with the school because this is just flat out stupid and criminal.

And the school won't remove my academic termination from my record even though I shouldn't have been terminated.

Again your wet Eurocentric fantasies. Look at this - this is Petersburg of Peter 1 Obviously Petersburg of Peter 1 have own Russian style of architecture instead of Western European. I'm sure you know what this is. And there's my point in a nutshell. And it doesn't help that Russia didn't even have a navy or shipbuilding capacity until Peter went and stole from the rest of Europe. Nice try son. But you think these things were limited to Britannia solely? At least the Kings of Europe didn't consider themselves the Savior worthy of worship, unlike the Tsars (at one point, Alexander II said that he had to negociate with Napoleon on a river to keep the sin from the "Antichrist" washing away). And then there were the Gulags, and continued serfdom (meaning that the Brits may be selling their wives in your fantasy Europe which has bombastic drums every time a single russian shows up, but the Russian civilians couldn't leave their land without recieving permission from the owner of the land).

Russia of Peter of Great yet causing butthurt for you? From 15 century Moscovian principality become one of most progressive state in the world. Russian Regular army appeared in 1550, in England regular army appeared only in 1685, Artillery as separate military branch appeared in Moscovy in 1550, firstly in world, in Europe similar field artillery appeared only in times of Gustavus Adolphus after 1611, calibre standarts and serial production of canons appeared in 1480 in Moscovy, similar thing appeared in Europe only after two centuries etc. Best European scienists just wanted leave own retarded states and emigrate into high tech Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Nartov No actually, Peter proves my point spectacularly. He had to leave his own nation, and go to western Europe to find innovation and technology. He didn't exactly have anything to work with in Russia. And he's the one who laid down St. Petersburg in the WESTERN EUROPEAN style because he wanted to be like Western Europe and progress rather than sit in a corner and do nothing. And you know what? Nobody in Russia were as good at integrating Cannon into their armies as the Japanese were during the era. In 1660 Japan was arguably the best and most advanced nation militarily, but because A) they were on the other side of the world and B) the Shogunate just shut down any progress culturally and developmentally,they quickly fell by the way side due to their isolationist tenancies And in 200 AD China was FAR more advanced than Rome in terms of military tactics and administration, but because they would end up isolating themselves and not quite understanding the world around them they fell behind by the time the Qing dynasty rolled around, which led to Mao's rise.

From what I understand, GTA Online is basically gonna be "find a crew, do some jobs, pull a heist with friends". Been playing WoW, Rome 2, and GTA V. I'm doing another GTA V story run to pick up all the crew members I can BEFORE the heists begin. Apparently Packie is one of the possible recruits. I do wish that they'd stuck with Michael as the only protagonist instead of this flipping BS. Trevor is just to outright insane for me personally (I'll gleefully torture somebody, then be their best friend!), and Franklin... is way to much of the standard archtype of a young man from "the hood" that gets bumped up to "major deals!". Michael is the only one that feels like he could resonate more easily with the players, and could have been a fresh paradigm for the entire game. But he feels like they put the least amount of time into him overall (I spent far more time with Trevor and Franklin because they had more missions) so I'm stuck not playing my choice character. I suppose htat's also why I love Ballad of Gay Tony over everything else... beause the player character wasn't a street hood who was trying to become the king of crime in the town. He was the muscle part of a business partnership and just trying to survive in the climate he was thrust into.

Technically you don't need to RTS anything.... it's just that you can easily win over the AI opponent when the game says you'd lose sometimes.

Sooo... did Meh on my Poly Sci test, and am fighting with my college to get the fact that I was academically terminated stricken from my record. And cat is being "mysterious" at the moment, yelling at me about nothing and trying to eat my stuff.

Got a pay raise that my boss has been fighting for (full dollar... meaning my base pay is now higher than it was at McD's and I still get tips!) And I think my cat needs something to teeth on because he's been whining a lot in the morning and attempting to chomp on anything . Also Tom Clancy past away today.

But you don't show your proofs for this statement. you did that for me skippy. With Russian Empire being an example of that and how other Eurasian cultures that dominated the entire rest of the world without the British culture getting outside it's own borders (effectively). Actually British Empire had been retarded, primarily agrarian despoty with non-educated, medieval populace - If consider British Empire not only as Buckingham Palace, but include all British territories. And yet you don't see people pining to be Russian boyars, tsars or commies. They all want to be kings, knights, and Templars. Both for good and for bad. And there's a reason that everyone has English accents to be representative of the upper classes. I mean you could argue that japan, circa 1886, had succeeded better than Russia at "keeping foreign culture out" but were so far behind that they barely understood repeating rifles and proper cannons. And technically Russia was built into a regional power by idolizing the west. Peter the great set up St. Petersburg deliberately as a western city and was constructing an upper level of schools by actively recruiting German, French, Dutch, and British scientists to teach his possible intellectuals how to be properly scientific. At the same time most of the scientific and technological advances came from the west and very slowly trickled east. So, beta patch three looks like it'll be fantastic. But there is an issue with it where there are armies/units that will cause you to ctd if they get into a directly controlled fight. But the radius mod makes things much better, and the 2 turns per year makes things much more rewarding because it keeps your generals and agents around for much much longer.

Netflix will basically keep you in TV shows until you cry uncle and give up. Including Burn Notice which is a PHENOMINAL tv show.

Lol, Britain constantly dominated Culturally and Technologically by France, Netherlands and Germany. Entire world now used French International System of Units, only "progressive" UK and US continue use obsolete measurement systems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems "Rest of Europe" includes France, the Dutch and Germany idiot. Or are you deliberately not reading the fact that I mention "Rest of Europe" in all my posts as being the ones who were culturally and technologically ahead of Russia? With Britains Empire being an example of that and how other European cultures that dominated the entire rest of the world without the Russian culture getting outside it's own borders (effectively). Gorth: I don't consider the Mongols to be Russian per-se, because they were a nomadic tribe closer to China than Moscow. They may have originated from the same direction as the Moscovite Boyars, but they were a distinct ethnic group compared to the Russians. JFS: It's getting better as they adjust via patches. The issue is that they often give smaller states (Numidia is a good example) an income bonus to make up for the fact that they're in a bad start (which is why cathage dies pretty quick) in my current game as pontus (I abandoned carthage because I just got gutted totally by a magical civil war), Suebei made a confederation and held from the Urals to the Rhine. Egypt is holding almost the entirety of Egypt, and Athens is making an attempt to conquor all of greece, but attacked my pet state so they're gonna be wiped out soon. Thinking about it, I feel like they need to include some triggers in the game for certain things. So that the Selucides will eventually break up their satrapies. Or that the Gallic, Germanic and Britannic tribes confederate properly instead of all the infighting. And they need to give more warning for the Civil war. Telling you that people are disappearing and that there are rumblings so that you're not caught off guard entirely when 9 armies pop up and your food province. Would mean that in the late game you'd have your enemies consolidating while also preventing the ambush of a civil war while your armies are on the other side of the world.

What... War and Peace (which is an incredibly bias account against several major russian military commanders because they snubbed Tolstoy). Technically not in the rain, but "the so-called 'recruit uniforms quickly disintegrated when worn by soldiers on campaign." These were uniforms that were constructed to last a Russian infantry man one full year until the industry could actually support them. Due to the inability of the Russian industries to keep up with the war gearing in 1810-1811 ("Russia against Napoleon" Leiven page 106, Penguin Books 2009). Similar issues happened with musketry. What's being said is that Culturally and Technologically Russia was 30 years behind the entire rest of Europe. And England managed to dominate culturally because it's empire spanned each of the continents and thus the language and other trappings of english society were spread to those points as well. The American domination of Nato etc only added to the level of dominence found for English (and American) culture. The British navy were the strongest things on the planet. To the point that Napoleon could only stop British Trade by forcing Continental European monarchs to refuse to do business with British traders (Including Alexander II of Russia) And why are you bringing up the Seven Years War and saying that it was Awesome for the fact that Russia and Prussia were snuggle buddies? That decision cost Peter III his life, and placed Catherine on the throne because of how unpopular it was with the Russian population. English is the second most spoken language because the Brits created an empire that spanned every single continent, while the Russians stuck to their contiguous Ice ball. Hong Kong, Austrailia, America, India, Pakistan, and South Africa, all spoke primarily English because of British Imperialism. But the dominance of the USA industrially and economically basically converted many 3rd world nations into English countries (Nigeria, for example, has the primary language of English, even though most of the tribes speak their own tongue). Russia's influence was limited to the Baltic States and the 'stans. And for the record, I have no idea wtf you're saying about the 7 years war because you're illegible grammar.