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Hey everyone! So earlier today Dewxp.com was revealed, but thanks to Neogaf member Demoncarnotaur we get to check out what's available for Double XP and MEGA XP from Mountain Dew and Doritos. The post is below.

 

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The Mtn Dew Game Fuel/Halo 4 "Unlock and Load" promotion (the "Promotion") begins October 14, 2012 at 12:00:01 p.m. ET and ends January 31, 2013 at 11:59:59 a.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"). By participation in the Promotion, each individual unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay North America, Inc. ("Sponsors"), whose decisions shall be final and binding in all respects. The computer clock of the Sponsors' webmaster is the official time-keeping device in the promotion.

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Each time an eligible individual ("Participant(s)") logs onto the Website using their e-mail address and enters a Code, the Participant will automatically receive the amount of Double XP (Experience Points) or MEGA XP matches (Double XP and MEGA XP Matches will be collectively referred to as "XP Matches") associated with their Code (as specified below) and will receive one (1) Prize Entry (as described below) good for one (1) entry into one (1) sweepstakes drawing of their choice.

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*Power of 1 Bonus: Buy a participating Mtn Dew product and any bag of participating Doritos and enter the Codes together and you can receive a weekly bonus of Two (2) Double XP Matches. Limit one (1) Power of 1 Bonus per week per Participant.

 

 

For the purposes of these Official Rules, a ‘week' is defined as 12:00:01 p.m. ET, Monday through 11:59:59 a.m. ET the following Monday.

 

**Power of 3 Bonus: Buy a participating Halo® 4 Game from Wal-Mart, a participating Mtn Dew 24 pack and any specially-marked 11.5 oz or 10.5 oz bag of participating Doritos and enter the Codes together and you can receive a one-time bonus of a Twelve (12) Double XP Matches. Limit one (1) Power of 3 Bonus per the life of the promotion.

 

 

 

 

***Dollar General Bonus: Buy a participating Mtn Dew 20 oz. product and any bag of participating Doritos 2 oz. or 3 oz. single serve bags purchased together in the same Point of Sale/Point of Purchase store transaction at participating Dollar General stores and receive a printed receipt that contains a special additional bonus Code worth Two (2) Double XP Matches. Can only receive One (1) special additional bonus code per printed receipt transaction. There are no limits to the number of times a Participant can receive this special Dollar General bonus throughout the life of this promotion.

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Each Code can only be used once, subsequent attempts to re-submit or re-use the same Code, will be void. A maximum of 750 Code entries per person/Account throughout the Promotion Period. Limit one Account per person. A maximum of 200 Matches worth of XP Matches per Gamer ID throughout the Promotion Period. Each person can only enter Codes into one Account under one registration. If a person enters Codes into multiple Accounts, then Sponsors, in their sole discretion, may void any such Codes and Accounts. Total number of Codes distributed by Sponsors throughout the Promotion Period is approximately 1.5 billion based upon an estimated number of game pieces produced at the time of printing of these Official Rules, given away or obtained through one of the methods mentioned above or through the "No Purchase Necessary" method of entry, actual number may vary. Codes, Prize Entries and XP Matches have no cash value. Codes must be entered on the Website before the end of the Promotion Period and any unused Codes after this time shall be void. At the end of the Promotion Period, any unused XP Matches shall be automatically transferred to the Gamer ID on the gaming platform last chosen by the Participant. The "Dashboard" section of the Website will record all transactions and Account history within your Account, including Codes entered, balances, XP Matches and Prize Entries redeemed. Sponsors assume no liability for discrepancies, omissions, inconsistencies or errors in the number of Codes entered or the number of Prize Entries or XP Matches acquired as a result thereof as reported on the Website. If any part of any game piece or Code is counterfeited, or if the game piece or Code comes from other games or promotions, or if any part is illegible, mutilated or tampered with in any way, or if it contains or reflects printing, typographical, mechanical or other errors, the game piece or Code, as applicable, will be rejected and will be deemed void and invalid. Each Participant acknowledges and agrees that the decisions of Sponsors with respect to Code entry, Account balances, Prize Entries or XP transactions are final and binding, including without limitation, determinations regarding the validity of game pieces.

 

 

20oz= 3 matches

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Click photo to Cheap Indianapolis Colts Jerseys On Sale enlargeFILE basketball jerseys cheap - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, Lauren Conrad arrives at the launch party for the video game The Elder Srolls V: Skyrim in Los Angeles. Conrad announced Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, that she is engaged to musician William Tell. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) -- L.C. is getting married. "The Hills" and "Laguna Beach" star Lauren "L.C." Conrad announced Sunday she's engaged to musician William Tell. The 27-year-old reality TV Cheap Indianapolis Colts Jerseys 49ers Jerseys Sale Sale star and fashion designer posted a photo of her engagement ring on her blog and wrote that she was "beyond thrilled." Conrad's dating life was famously cheap jerseys online chronicled on the MTV reality series "Laguna Beach" and then its spin-off "The Hills." After leaving "The Hills" in 2009, Conrad launched a series of young adult novels based on her life in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pre-Fight: Speed – Bradley B+; Marquez B/Post: Same

Pre-Fight: Power – Bradley B-; Marquez B+/Post: Same

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Pre-Fight: Intangibles – Bradley A; Marquez A/Post: SameThe fight was a chess match from jump and could have been scored a number of ways.  The first six rounds could have gone to either man.  What did one like?  Marquez was landing single hard shots.  Bradley was dictating the pace and getting off first more often.  In terms of style clash, it favored Bradley.As noted in the pre-fight report card, Marquez has always struggled (win or lose) with fighters who back off and box him.  He isn’t a natural pressure fighter.  He’s a lethal counter puncher.  Freddie Norwood, Derrick Gainer, Chris John, and Floyd Mayweather all took elements of his game away from him.  In all but Mayweather, he either won or made a case.  There will be some who see it that way tonight.It’s clear though he’s never mastered boxers.  Bradley went disciplined boxer tonight.  The fight was never boring but it wasn’t great either.  It was high-speed chess.The faster man won.  Bradley was rocked hard in Cheap New York Giants Jerseys On Sale the ninth; he wobbled Marquez in the tenth and twelfth.  He also made him miss badly in spots.  It was as complete a performance as he could have had against a great fighter.The question now turns to the future.  The future focuses on Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios.  Let’s just be honest: Bradley is fighting in the Top Rank bracket.  Any thoughts of a Floyd Mayweather showdown are far fetched before we get to whether one thinks it would be competitive or not.If Pacquiao beats Rios, he’s the payday for Bradley.  Bradley would command a bigger purse the second time around, if not purse parity, and have a chance to avenge a “win” that still haunts him.    How Pacquiao looks against Rios, if he can win what should be a dangerous fight, will help to handicap and create interest in the logical rematch.If Rios wins, Bradley could choose him, Wholesale NFL Jerseys a Marquez rematch, or the winner of Ruslan Provodnikov-Mike Alvarado.  Fans win in most of those scenarios.  A Marquez rematch might make the most money of those but, after Saturday, we know it’s unlikely to produce an epic.  The world can live without Bradley-Marquez II.Marquez will have to be rooting big for Rios next month.  If Pacquiao wins, his year of gloating about his Pacquiao win turns into finding himself outside the driver’s seat once again.  If Pacquiao manages to beat Rios and win a Bradley rematch, there is every reason to believe that Marquez’s stance on not wanting a fifth showdown with his arch rival could result in an ironic turn of fortune.       Marquez isn’t done yet.  He’ll factor into the mix with the likes of Rios, Alvarado, and Provodnikov too.  A great fighter, if perpetually a sore loser, Marquez is still heading to Canastota the moment his name is called.  Whether he begins his five-year wait upon retirement a happy man remains to be seen.For this night, the laurels go to Timothy Bradley, a class act and a true professional that can finally have his moment and enjoy it.  He may never be a superstar.He’s definitely earned his recognition as one hell of a fighter.Report Card Picks 2013: 40-24 (including a foolish pick of Cruz over Salido elsewhere on the site; Mea Culpa)Cliff Rold is a member of the Ring Magazine Ratings Advisory Panel, the Yahoo Pound for Pound voting Cheap New York Giants Jerseys Sale panel, and the Boxing Writers Association of America.  He can be reached at Tags: , , ,

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Tennis history was created this week, and it all comes down to money.

el Nadal moved to $10,700,000 (ВЈ6.7m) for the season this week, and it is the first time ever that two players have cracked the eight-figure barrier in the sport.

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The US Tennis Association increased the prize money to record levels this year and the victory boosted wholesale nfl jerseys china 13-time Grand Slam champion Nadal's career total above $60 million, but it also meant Cheap Authentic 49ers Jerseys Wholesale that more money came out of the champion's pockets in taxes.

"At the end, it's a lot of money anyway, but that's not the real prize money,'' Nadal said. ''You have to pay the tax, and in Spain today it is 56 (per cent), I think.

''Anyway, a lot of money. Is more than half. Is more than half less and then is Euros.''

Williams, a 17-time Grand Slam winner and five-time US Open champion, faces a hefty bite from 'Uncle Sam', meanwhile.

''Someone told me today I passed 50 (million), but half of that goes to my Uncle Sam. I love him. I'm always giving him half my money," she said.

''I think my dad got me into tennis because of the money, but me being naive and silly, I never thought about it.''

The amount of money Rafa and Serena have to fork out on taxes may well be galling, but most people would recognise that they are both doing okay for themselves this year.

 

 

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Capital Economics European Economist Ben May expects Italy to remain in recession until mid-2014, adding that any recovery thereafter will be rather subdued.

Around 6,500 Italian companies closed down operations and in the first half of this year, a Custom New York Jets NFL Jerseys 5.9 percent rise from the year-ago period, according to a report released by the Chamber of Commerce of Monza and Brianza. And it’s not just new businesses that have been hit hard by the economic crisis. Between 2008 and 2012, roughly 9,000 firms that had been operating for more than 50 years closed their doors.

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“It is too soon to conclude that the crisis in Italy is nearing an end,” May said.

 

 

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WASHINGTON — In January 2010, just one year into his presidency, President Obama traveled from the White House to Capitol Hill to deliver his first State of the Union address. Health care was being debated, Republican Scott Brown had just been elected senator from Massachusetts, and the economy remained sluggish.

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His first one-on-one meeting with the top Republican in the House, John Boehner, did not come for another year and a half. In nearly five years in office, Obama has met individually with Senate minority authentic jerseys for cheap leader Mitch McConnell two times, according to a review of White House visitor logs, pool reports, and press releases. Obama did initially hold regular meetings with other members of the congressional leadership; after several months those sessions became sporadic.

Obama’s talk of uniting the nation often has not translated into, to use military parlance, “boots on the ground.” He has visited Democrat-leaning “blue” states six times more often than he has visited Republican “red” states. He has staffed much of his administration with people who grew up in blue states. None of his major legislative accomplishments — the stimulus, health care, Authentic Arizona Cardinals Jerseys Sale and financial reforms — received more than six Republican votes.

In sum, one of the biggest failures of Obama’s presidency is that, five years after he took office vowing to close the partisan divide, the capital he now oversees and the country he represents are far more divided than they were before he came.

 

 

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James responded to the news of Hunnam's departure on Twitter on Saturday saying, "I wish Charlie all the best. x"

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Is it difficult to push yourself each day to go to a boring job? If you are looking for a way out, consider how you got there in the first place. It may be that you chose that boring job over a more interesting one because you didn't think alternative jobs would pay you enough for the effort you would put into your work. And if you ultimately choose a new job based on the same criteria you used previously, you may end up just as unsatisfied as you are today. Research by a team of professors shows that people pick boring jobs over stimulating ones intentionally if they focus on pay and perceive that the more appealing job won't compensate them enough for the effort it demands. They "price themselves out of the job market" for a more enjoyable job, said Peter Ubel, marketing professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Ubel, along with assistant professor David Comerford, studied the decisions people make when accepting jobs. They studied several situations. In one, people chose between two short-term jobs at a cultural festival. One job, for an usher, was multifaceted, and participants nfl jerseys online for sale in the study described it as more interesting. It required many activities, including publicizing the event and escorting performers to their venues. The other job was recognized as boring. It involved being a monitor. The job description was simple: "The only task you are expected to perform is to alert a security guard in the highly unlikely event that one is required." And while being on alert for any problems, the monitor specifically was told he or she could not read, listen to Custom New York Giants Jerseys Wholesale music or use a mobile phone. The pay was the same for both jobs. And the researchers found that while over 80 percent of people said they preferred the more interesting job, about 39 percent passed up the job they considered interesting when they didn't think the pay offered was substantial enough to compensate them for all aspects of their effort. They settled on the boring job because they thought the pay fit the simple responsibility. In another study, the researchers cheap nfl jerseys focused on 74 graduate students who were to work on a short film. The students were given Cheap Authentic New York Giants Jerseys Wholesale a choice between working on a puzzle for about five minutes, or being a mere onlooker doing nothing. About 66 percent thought working on the puzzle would be more interesting. But about 18 percent of them balked at doing the more demanding job of working the puzzle rather than being an onlooker for the same pay. "It hurts to feel that the offered wage is lower than normal," the professors said in "Effort Aversion: Job Choice and Compensation Decisions Overweight Effort," which appears in the Journal of Economic Behavior Organization. In other words, people weren't necessarily turning away from a job because they needed more pay. They were turning away from it because they didn't think the pay was fair for the effort they were going to put into the job. The professors called it "effort Custom Arizona Cardinals Jerseys aversion." "Ask someone which of two jobs they like better, and they will often pick the more interesting job, even if it requires more mental or physical effort," Comerford said. "But ask them how much the two jobs should pay, and now that their mind is focused on wages, they often conclude that all that extra effort ought to be rewarded, otherwise they will take the boring job." The researchers acknowledge that in the workplace, people tend to make decisions based on more than pay for short-term assignments. They say that many jobs have investment features such as on-the-job learning, promotion Custom Indianapolis Colts NFL Jerseys prospects and reputation effects. And their study did not explore such options. Yet it does raise questions about whether people in the recent low-wage-growth environment may get antsy about finding new jobs once the job market opens up again. With the finding that people measure whether pay is fair for the effort exerted, they might be questioning, after years of doing more for less, whether to keep doing so. The study also seems to raise questions about a common assumption among human resource professionals that in Custom Arizona Cardinals NFL Jerseys lieu of raises, people will be more satisfied to stay on a job if their managers offer them additional interesting responsibilities. It seems that people do value interesting jobs but also pay close attention to whether they are being paid enough for putting in the effort. ABOUT THE WRITER Gail MarksJarvis is a personal finance Custom Indianapolis Colts Jerseys columnist for the Chicago Tribune and author of "Saving for Retirement Without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery." Readers may send her email at [email protected].

 

 

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