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EditInfinite XP in Skyrim
You can attack the Jarl of Whiterun, and gain infinite xp without any consequences. This has only been tested for the one-handed, two handed, and sneak skills. All you have to do is go to Dragonsreach, and attack the Jarl. For sneak, crouch behind the Jarl, once he looks away from you, attack him. If you space out your attacks by a few seconds, depending on how mad he is, you won't get in trouble for this. He is immortal so, you can keep doing it indefinitely. If you attack him continuously, then you will get a bounty and attacked by they people in the room.
Helpful Suggestion: Using Healing Hands as well can speed up reset and level Restoration at the same time. I used Bound Sword while Sneaking and using Healing Hands to heal the Jarl after each hit. The result was Sneak, One-Handed, Restoration, and Conjuration, all leveled just as fast as when I did it without on my warrior-type. Buying these spell books was worth the gold for sure.
There is a similar method using Shadowmere, the video below explains it.
EditUpdate: Infinite XP
With the new patch the book can only be used twice on the bookshelf, after that it locks up your shelf.
That being said, however, it's been found that you can use the chest inside your house to achieve the same effect. Much like the bookshelf, you open the chest menu, go into your books and read the Oghma Infinium, select your path, and exit. Then, without closing the chest menu, store the book and exit out. Open the chest back up, retrieve the book, and then repeat the entire process all over again.
Unlike the bookshelf, it doesn't prompt or ask if you want to read the book since you're picking it up in the chest. If your chest is completely empty, then it really is the fastest way to level up.
Video Explaining (note that you have to use a chest instead of a book shelf)
EditGet a house and all house upgrades for free
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EditArmor Duplication
This is a little glitch in the game which allows you to duplicated your pieces of armor with the use of mannequins. To get your own mannequins, buy the house in Solitude (25,000 gold) and furnish it enough until your mannequins appear. Then you simply place what armor you want onto the mannequin. Before exiting the menu, take all of the armor that you just put on off. Walk out of the house then walk back in, and the armor should still be on the mannequin and you should also have a set in your inventory!
EditPC Cheats
Hit Tilde(~) to bring up the developer console, and enter these codes for the desired effect. Note: certain cheats you can enter a second time to toggle off the effect. Achievements are disabled when you enter cheats. Some cheats can cause bugs later on, or cause situations which may "break" certain quests. Adding items (except quest items) is almost always safe, as are commands that display information (debug text, attribute values). If you're unsure, don't save your game after using the command & DISABLE the autosaving features, or simply be sure to delete the affected saves when you're finished experimenting.
EditList of PC Cheats
Many of the cheats which worked in Oblivion and Fallout 3 will work in Skyrim as well. Remember to check the Item Codes list for the Add Item cheat.
- tgm - Toggles God mode (Invincibility, infinite carry weight)
- tcl - Toggles No-clip mode (Fly, walk through walls)
- coc "Location" - Teleports you to that location, An all item room is coc QASmoke.
- psb - Give all spells to player
- player.advlevel - Force a Level Up (No perk points added)
- caqs - Complete all Quest Stages
- tmm,1 - Toggle Map Markers
- tfc - Free camera
- saq - Start all quests (Warning: Not a good idea!)
- qqq - Quit the game
- coc qasmoke - Testing hall (You'll have your items, enchanted items may crash game)
- tai - Toggle Artificial Intelligence (Freezes enemies)
- tcai - Toggle Combat Artificial Intelligence (Freezes enemies)
- tg - Toggle grass
- tm - Toggle menus, HUD
- tfow - Toggle FOW
- kill - Kill targeted thing
- resurrect - Resurrects targeted thing
- unlock - Unlocks targeted locked thing
- lock X - Lock targeted chests, doors or people, where X is the difficulty level of the lock (0 - 100)
- killall - Kill all nearby enemies
- removeallitems - Removes all items of targeted NPC
- movetoqt - Teleport to quest target
- enableplayercontrols - Enable controls during cinematics
- tdetect - Toggle AI Detection (Avoid getting caught stealing)
- setownership - Changes ownership of target so you can steal it
- duplicateallitems - Duplicate items (Target container or NPC and copy the RefID)
- fov XXX - Change field of view.
- advancepclevel - Increase your Level
- advancepcskill (skillname) X - Increase skill level
- advskill [skill] XXX - Increase targeted skill by XXX amount
- setpcfame - Set targeted character's fame
- setpcinfamy - Set targeted character's infamy
- player.modav [attribute name] [amount] - Apply modifier (+ or -) to the named attribute or skill. Skills are entered as they appear in-game, without spaces or quotes, except for Speech and Archery, which are "speechcraft" and "marksman" respectively. Attributes are things like "health" or "carryweight", again without spaces or quotes. NOTE: Using the modav command will cause attributes modified by it to always appear in green, as the game thinks they've been buffed. You can try "setav" instead (untested), but in other Bethesda games this has sometimes led to permanent problems.
- player.modav carryweight X - Set Carry Weight
- player.modav burden X - Increase Burden by X
- player.modav Dragonsouls X - Add Dragon's Souls to your pool, allowing you to improve your shouts.
- player.setav speedmult X - Increase movement speed, where X is a multiplier (percentage)
- player.setav Stamina X - Set Stamina
- player.setav Health X - Set health
- player.setcrimegold X - Set to 0 if you want it to be free
- player.setav Magicka X - Set Magicka
- player.setlevel X - Set Level
- player.placeatme X - Spawns an NPC at your location, where X is NPC ID
- player.setscale X - Change scale of player, where X=1 is normal
- player.IncPCS [Skill Name] - Increase the level of targeted Skill by one.
- showracemenu - Brings up the race selection/character customization menu. NOTE: This will reset your character to level 1 and all your skills to their initial base values.
- [target].getavinfo [attribute] - This will display a short list of information about the given attribute (health, skills, etc.) of the specified target. You can omit "[target]." if you first click on the target with the mouse, or you can replace it with "player." if you want the info on your character. For example:[br/]player.getavinfo lightarmor
- player.additem XXXXXXXX "###"- Adds items based on Item Codes, where XXXXXXXX is the item code, and ### is the amount you want.
- player.additem 0000000f "999" - Add 999 Gold
- player.additem 0000000a "100" - Add 100 Lockpicks
- player.addperk XXXXXXXX - add perks based on perk codes, i.e. player.addperk 000c44b8 would add the adept alteration perk, found on the Item Codes page. Make sure your skill level is high enough to have the perk before you enable it or it may not work properly and that you add any multi-tier perks in order.
- help - List console commands
- help keyword X - Search by the keyword, number is search mode, listed in "help" commands
EditVideo of TCL (No-Clip) Fly Mode
Editvideos of the "player.placeatme" command
EditTraining Exploit
There are two ways that you can get free training. If you have a companion that can train you, buy his training. After you pay for the training, look in his inventory. All of the gold that you paid for the training with is now in the companions inventory. You can take it back out and use it to buy even more training. You can also similarly do this without a companion, but you pick their pockets to get your gold back.
EditInvincible Dog Companion
Go to Falkreath and find the smith called Lod. He will ask you to find his dog. You can find the dog Barbas outside of the village and it will take you to the Shrine of Clavicus Vile. Once you speak with the Daedra Lord, the dog will accompany you until you finish the "A Daedra's Best Friend" quest. The dog is technically a quest item and so can't be destroyed. It will automatically attack enemies who approach you and since he can't lose any health, he is THE BEST TANK EVER. Note: you may take another companion in addition to the dog.
EditMax Out Destruction Skill
When you join the Fighter's Guild, you will be prompted to go outside and duel with one of the members. When you are outside, switch over to destruction magic and use it against that person repeatedly. He will keep telling you to use a sword, but you WILL gain experience -- and he won't die. You can do this for as long as you wish to rake up easy XP for magic.
EditFast Horse Swimming
If you're going through water deep enough that your horse can swim, dismount and mount the horse to go faster -- you'll actually "run" in deep water. Here's a video showing the glitch and what it looks like:
EditExtra Ore When Mining
If you mine until you get your first piece of ore, then cancel the action, mine again (again until you get one piece of ore) and then cancel once more you can get 1 extra piece of ore by mining once more.
EditEasy leveling of most skills
- For Block, one-handed/two-handed, spells, and archery. Buy a horse, set the level of gameplay to master, slice away, burn, or bash with a shield, Before the horse dies, rest for an hour to restore it's hp, rinse and repeat.
- For sneaking, go to the High Hrothgar. Find the monk meditating/praying in the hall, hide in the shadows come up on him and sneak attack him. Wait for him to reset (He sits back down) and.. rinse and repeat. If you Attack him without killing him, repeatedly, He'll attack you and you'll permanently be made into a popsicle by his non stop ice shout. (This can also be done to other quest specific NPC's, Mercer, etc.)
- For Speech, go to the Black-Briar meadery. Speak to Ungrien at the counter, and choose the option, "Tell me about Maven Black-Briar", then click the persuade option. Repeat as needed. For a combined Speech, Smithing and Enchanting see Enchanting below.
- Alchemy, Eat everything, It's simpler then mixing potions and poisons. You can also sit next to an area with ingredients that respawn, pick them, eat them, and rest until they respawn.
- Restoration, Alteration, Illusion, and Conjuration. Continuously use spells on yourself when you have them available. For conjuration, summon a creature from the plains of oblivion repeatedly. Rest for an hour after magicka depletes, repeat.
For restoration, look for crystal traps or fire pressure plate traps for a constant flow of damage to heal.
- Lock picking, just pick everything you can, its about the only way aside from the trainers available. Also, if you do the thieves guild main quests, you'll obtain the skeleton key, before returning it, you can leave with it and use it repeatedly, until you max out your picking. So you're not wasting gilder on picks. then return the key later and finish that nightinggale/thieves guild quest.
- Pickpocketing, pay someone to teach you, turn around and pickpocket your funds back from them. once you can no longer train in it, just have fun emptying people of their belongings.
- Light/Heavy armor, once you're a high enough in level, find some lower level or weaker opponents, sit there and let them wail on you. So your health doesn't deplete extremely fast, set the game level to novice and heal when neccessary.
- Smithing,the easiest and cheapest way to master smithing is by obtaining leather and leather strips at every opportunity you can. With the leather and leather strips, forge leather bracers. They only take one leather and three leather strips. It's the cheapest way because any animal you kill that drops a hide/fur/pelt is giving you free leather/leather strips. Buying leather and leather strips is also very affordable and every smith and gerneral goods merchant will have bundles of it.
- Easier way to master Smithing: Go to Whitehall and start the mage college quest, and eventually you'll be sent to a Dwemer lair. You'll know when you get there cause youll be attacked by these little robots things. Every time you kill one, pick up the struts and stuff left over. Also, search the dungeon thouroughly and empty it of any and all things labeled "Dwemer" also, make sure to bring a pick cause there's a ton of ore in there to. Once you make it through the dungeon, if you don't have a horse outside, it's a long trek back to a town. Once you get to a town, go to a smelter and use the Dwemer metal you picked up to make Dwarven ingots. You'll have a ton (I had like 450). As long as you have the dwarven armour skill bought, you'll rocket up in levels. Make Dwarven bows ten at a time, then improve them to legendary on a grinding wheel. It's also good to have a ring, gloves, armour, and helm enchanted with a smithing bonus. If you start to run out of supplies, just fast forward 48 hours and get all the iron youll need from the blacksmith. If your speech is around 50 you'll sell the legendary bows at over 100 a piece. Since it takes 300 Dwarven ingots to make 100 Legendary Dwarven bows, you'll also make about 20,000. I spent all of mine buying up every smithing supply in the town of Whiterun over and over again to get my level up even faster. Once you have enough skill points, definitely purchase the dragon armour crafting ability. You'll never need money again.
- Enchanting - Enchanting can be done at the same time as smithing. This method requires some gold to start (to buy ingots, leather strips and filled soul gems) and it requires disenchanting at least one item (to learn the enchantment). After you make as many Iron Daggers as possible (see Smithing above) go to some of the magical vendors around (such as Farengar Secret-Fire in Whiterun's Dragonreach) to buy filled soul gems. Use an enchanting table to create enchanted Iron Daggers. The more powerful the enchantment the more you can use this method as your Iron Daggers will be worth more in trade. Higher level spells make for better enchanted items and thus can sell higher. This method should increase Smithing, Enchanting and Speech if you continually build, enchant and sell.
EditStacking Dragon Mask Effects
A small turoial on how to wear all the Dragon Priest Masks, at the same time, while sacrficing your characters "personality".
First find someone rich and kill them. take his gold and then got to user commandsthen click on the dead rich guy so his little code comes up and then type 'resurrect' he will comeback to life with all his belongings he had before you killed him so you can just keep doing that to get as much gold as you want. and if you want to increase sneak and pickpocket then just sneak and then take his gold and then kill him. Hope i helped you.
XBOX Godmode
Any Xbox player knows that there are no console commands that can allow godmode on their Xbox. However, using some of the existing exploits you can craft a set of armour with unlimited enchantments. You are still bound by the number of enchantments you can place on your armor but those enchantments will not have any ceiling. All you need is 1) a stack (50+) of salt pile, cyrodilic spadetail and abecean longfins; 2) Some fortify alchemy gear and 3) perks in the Enchanting and Alchemy trees (I can make this work with maxed out Enchanting tree up the middle branch and just one perk in Alchemy). Now use your fortify alchemy gear and start mixing fortfiy restoration potions. After making a potion (I suggest one Abecean / Cyrodylic and one salt) drink the potion and unequip / re-equip the fortify alchemy equipment. Each time you drink a potion and unequip/re-equip your fortify alchemy gear the fortify alchemy enchantment will grow stronger. This process is sped up using stronger starting enchantments and the extra enchanted gear glitch (Falmer Helmet + Circlets, Gloves, Ring and Necklace for 5x fortify alchemy enchantments). At the end of this process create fortify echanting potions (Hagraven Claw + Snowberries) with massive boosts. You can now double enchant each piece of armor with a maximum enchantment.
As a tip for what enchantments to use I suggest for the best results - unlimited regenerate health, unlimited stamina, zero magic school cost x 5 (unlimited magica works as well however with zero magic school cost your enchanted weapons will not use up any of their charge), unlimited carry weight, maxed out resist magic (85% cap), fortify barter (necklace only). You will have enchanting slots free for other enchantments but you will not need them (you are now unstoppable) or you may notice that other enchentments don't work so well (when passing 100% in some fortify skills such as sneak or pickpocket the bonus turns negative making it impossible to sneak / pickpocket). If you do not want to be overpowered I suggest you keep your health / health regenration and weapon bonuses to below 150% and your difficulty level high as you will otherwise lack any sense of danger in the game. Alternatively just set your dificulty to easy as the result is the same, I just did this out of curiosity. Added bonus - this is by far the fastest way to level alchemy with your last fortify restoration potion being able to max out your alchemy in one go because of the exponential increase in price.
EditDragon Priest Mask Cheat
If you are wearing a Dragon Priest mask, you can also equip a Falmer helmet at the same time. This works with all Dragon Priest masks, including Miraak from the Dragonborn expansion.


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1. Here is the obituary for Tyron Garner, who died on Monday of meningitis. We remember the name of the man with whom he was arrested for violating the Texas Homosexual Conduct Law, because it is John G. Lawrence's name that is memorialized in the case name Lawrence v. Texas. The obituary tells the story of the arrest this way:
Shortly before 10:30, an unidentified man called the Harris County Sheriff's Department and told the dispatcher that "a black male was going crazy in the apartment and he was armed with a gun."Garner is described repeatedly as very quiet and unassuming. R.I.P.
The caller turned out to be Mr. Eubanks, who told deputies he was jealous of Mr. Garner, with whom he argued that evening and had fought physically in the past.
Mr. Garner and Mr. Lawrence were then alone together in the apartment, fueling Mr. Eubanks's rage.
Mr. Eubanks stood at the door when the police arrived and directed them to go inside, where, he said, a man was threatening neighbors with a gun. No gun was found, but the police entered with trepidation. Inside, a still-mysterious man on a telephone directed them to a bedroom in the back.
They shouted out several times and entered the bedroom. They said Mr. Garner and Mr. Lawrence were engaged in sex. One deputy said they continued obliviously for as long as a minute. Another deputy said they stopped immediately.
Why the deputies enforced the sodomy law, a rarity, is unclear, wrote Mr. Carpenter, who said he doubted that the officers actually saw any sex. He dismissed widespread speculation that the event was staged as a vehicle to test the law, saying that among other reasons, the men were too inarticulate for appearances in the news media.
2. Here's a story about the "revival" of activism against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (datelined Madison, Wisconsin):
In August the gay rights group Soulforce opened a national campaign by recruiting openly gay people, including the three young men in Madison, who would have enlisted in the military if not for "don't ask, don't tell." [As part of that campaign, two young people who were rejected as applicants on Tuesday at a recruitment center in Chicago returned there on Wednesday and engaged in a sit-in. They were arrested but later released without charges.]Republicans, Republicans... spare me. The Democrats aren't gay rights heroes on this. There are 201 of them in the House, and you know they have constituents who are more likely to want the policy changed, so it's less politically risky for them. I'm not impressed by either party on this issue. [ADDED: Captain Ed links to the NYT article and states his strong support for allowing gays people to serve in the military.]
The move to change the policy faces stiff resistance from the Pentagon and Republicans in Congress, who, in a time of war during a tough election year, have no longing for another contentious debate about gay troops. The House bill, introduced last year by Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Massachusetts, has picked up 119 supporters, but only five of them Republicans.
3. Next, "Is This Campus Gay-Friendly?" A few days ago, I heard a street preacher try to alarm the passing students with the news that Madison is the "Capital of Lesbianism," but nevertheless, my campus is not mentioned in the article. The article reports on the book "The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students," and I wonder how well the book does at really finding the places that are truly friendly to gay people:
Jeremy Marshall, a 20-year-old junior at Duke University and the president of Duke Allies, a student organization for those who support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, said he was surprised Duke was listed among the top 20 friendliest schools.Googling, I see that UW did end up somewhere near #20 on the Advocate's list. I think we'd be much higher if it weren't for some issues at the state law level, which must have affected how we were scored on the 20-factor checklist.
"I don't think Duke has warranted that position yet," he said. "We were ranked one of the most homophobic schools in 1999," by Princeton Review.
Mr. Marshall said he believes tolerance will improve eventually, but he was unhappy with the funding to Duke Allies this year and said that homophobic slurs can still be heard on campus.
The school has several gay awareness programs that make it look "good on paper," Mr. Marshall said, yet "the real challenge is changing the hearts and minds of students."
4. This isn't directly a gay story, but it's on my list of things I found interesting, from one of the articles in the fashion section: "a men's suit of heavy blue shirting with an 80-inch-drawstring waist." There's a photo on the second page of the article. Of course, a skinny guy is modeling it, but the text of the article indicates these pants would be useful for a man with some "body flaws" to hide. I can't really picture a fat guy in 80-inch waist drawstring pants that purport to be part of a suit. If there is one thing that hides a man's body flaws, it's the traditional suit, with unobtrusive pants. This thing on a fat guy would not only keep him looking fat, it would make him look crazy.
CORRECTION: Sorry I had 1, 2, 3, 5 on those items all day. There actually was a fifth item on that list I referred to, but it didn't fit the theme and it became the next post. Hence the foolish numbering! That was not some "hidden theme" of innumeracy or some inside joke. Corrected.


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So guess who spends more when shopping with friends?
Women, who love to shop together, because they egg each other on ("Ooh, that looks so cute on you—you have to get it!").
Men, who rarely shop in groups, but get competitive when they're with a pal. ("Actually, the $4,000 rider-mower is more my speed.")
Who studies this stuff anyway?
While the stereotype of women roaming the mall in hordes persists, it turns out that men are the ones more likely to overspend when accompanied by a friend, says Jeffrey Inman, professor of marketing at the University of Pittsburgh business school.
Inman and his colleagues conducted live, in-store studies of men and women in different retail situations. One was a simple assignment to buy batteries. The other was a trip to a mass retailer like Target.
The report will be published this October in the Journal of Marketing Research.
Men spent about 7% more on batteries when they shopped with someone they'd met previously (in this case a confederate, who was part of the experiment) compared to shopping alone—and 56% more at the mass retailer.
Women showed little change in how much they spent when they were accompanied or alone.
"Men tend to spend more because their social expectation is to show off," says Inman. "It didn't matter whether they were with female or male companions."
Of course, researchers weren't able to observe shopping behavior with real friends. If the studies were replicated with people's real friends, we posit that men would still show off, and women would spend more going out to eat.
Air your differences. Do you spend more when you're with a girlfriend?


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|2012-05-18, 01:42
|Link #961
Spinning Lotus
Join Date: Jul 2008
The answer to that is part of the mystery. It is a sequel. The question is why exactly this Earth, which clearly isn't the one we used to know, has Scub and Secrets and Eureka falling from the sky for no apparent reason.
|2012-05-18, 01:52
|Link #962
Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
As to the question of Fleur's treatment of Ao, how kind are 14 year-old girls to 12 year-old boys, generally speaking? I don't find that aspect especially unrealistic.
And I do think she was a bit more cordial to him this time - mostly because she could see from the way Bruno's death impacted him that Ao was a good soul. As I've said in my blog posts, I think the situation is uglier than it appears at GenBleu - and it doesn't appear all that pretty. I think the pilots are well aware that there's a kind of charade going on - they pretend to give the kids normal lives, pretend their lives are the top priority - but kids still die. And she probably feels lousy to see Ao getting drawn into that.
|2012-05-18, 02:07
|Link #963
Not an expert on things
Join Date: Jun 2007
To be honest, though, I don't think their relationship is really that complex or she was being that considerate. He was obviously tired, and she remarked that he wouldn't be too useful for whatever they were trying to do anyway. I do agree that Generation Bleu is definitely fishy though.
Edit: Of course, that probably won't change how shocked everyone will be if they find out Generation Bleu has been operating with an ulterior motive.
|2012-05-18, 02:16
|Link #964
Join Date: Jan 2004
Age: 36
I don't have a problem with how Fleur treats Ao. I mean, why should we expect her to treat him like someone she is familiar with or really knows? He's pretty much a stranger who has just joined the team, and no one really knows much about him. He doesn't factor into how she evaluates situations because there's no reason for her to. If they have gotten along fine without him so far, in an urgent situation I don't see why she would feel he is going to be particularly vital. If she did, it would actually be unrealistic because it shows that she has no self-confidence in being able to operate without the new guy who literally just joined the team, simply because he's the "main character" of the show. That would be bad writing.
|2012-05-18, 02:16
|Link #965
Spherical Cow
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In a vacuum
Age: 29
Rather than their age, I feel that the reason for their treatment of Ao has more to do with their profession- which is somewhat militaristic by nature and involves putting their lives on the line every time they go to work.
We've all seen this before in other shows and in other risky professions; the FNG has to prove himself to the all the Regulars before they accept him into the brotherhood... Or in this case, the sisterhood. Before, Ao was a civilian caught up in the middle of everything, but now that he has voluntarily signed up for this life so they're not going to carry him anymore than they have to.
|2012-05-18, 02:29
|Link #967
Hiding Under Your Bed
Join Date: May 2008
Weren't the Corallians supposed to be moving on at the end of E7? And that whether they showed up again would be dependent on the relationship between Renton and Eureka?
With Eureka showing up on the seemingly real Earth without Renton, perhaps that's why all these Scub and Secrets have started to show up again. Though, didn't Eureka (and Renton) have a big gem in their heads by the end of the series? Or is it assumed that when they vanished, they essentially de-materialized, so Eureka materializing on the real Earth could easily have done so without the gem from before?
I guess it's too early, yet, to be really speculating.
I see that people seem to think that shape changer is another human-form Corrallian. That'd probably be the best guess, for now. I wonder what he's searching for. Maybe it's just, 'Where's Renton?'
|2012-05-18, 02:36
|Link #968
Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
Plus, it doesn't help your point that Ao did an extremely great job in the previous attacks alone, and then nearly soloed this mission.
It would be different if she were just trying to ease him into the team, but she's been acting a bit over-the-top superior by not letting him call her normally and then being willing to cut him out of the loop entirely this episode and going so far as to call him useless. (only to watch him nearly single-handedly beat the bad guys )
|2012-05-18, 02:43
|Link #969
Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
|2012-05-18, 02:43
|Link #970
Spherical Cow
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In a vacuum
Age: 29
While unfair, that's how it works in this profession- If Ao can't handle abit of harsh treatment, how are they suppose to trust him went things get REALLY dicey in the future? Put yourself if their shoes if you're a soldier, could you trust that person to watch your back?
And didn't they agree not to bring him because he needed the rest? Their whole reasoning basically boils down to him not being able to perform if he's tired and hasn't slept in days.
|2012-05-18, 02:44
|Link #971
Join Date: Jan 2004
Age: 36
It doesn't matter how powerful Nirvash is. If Ao is not prepared for a mission, he is not needed. There is no need to wait for him or be concerned that he is not coming along. They've handled missions before without Ao and if they need to they will continue to. If Ao is ready and willing on a mission, you don't see any of the characters rejecting him or getting in his way. Context is everything.
Anyway it's not like they were going out of their way to hurt Ao's feelings. He was the one who couldn't stay awake, and he isn't exactly a regular part of their team at this point anyway. He knows that as well, and he doesn't seem to be surprised that people aren't exactly treating him like God's gift to Generation Bleu.
|2012-05-18, 02:53
|Link #972
Not an expert on things
Join Date: Jun 2007
Edit: Speaking of his place on the team, it kind of bothers me how useful Ao is right off the bat. I can attribute some of it to the Nirvash, but Ao just seems to be way too competent in fighting Secrets. It's just weird that he was able to do what Goldilocks couldn't do so easily considering his lack of experience.
|2012-05-18, 02:53
|Link #973
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 26
Well I decided to watch this series finally today and caught up on all 6 episodes.
3 episodes in I was ready to proclaim the return of the BONES of old, but the next 3 episodes after that were really really poor.
I'm not sure why BONES thinks they need to mess with their setting and cast so much, a tried and true formula of success to make this series. Only kids can pilot these mechas, they should've said only underaged girls can pilot these mechas besides Ao, so subtle .
Elena is ranking right now for worst character of the season. Her only purpose seems to be to cite otaku references and be off kilter. Terribly uninteresting.
I don't know, besides Ao, Naru, and the gramps, and perhaps Gazelle, I'm totally not feeling this new cast whatsoever. Fleur is ok at best.
Not awful, but disappointing stuff episodes 4-6. I really hope this series shapes up but the developments of episode 6 were pretty bad. Team goldilocks should get off the screen too. They're an eye sore.
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Episode seven finally got the ball rolling (a little), so I do think there's going to be more to this story than some boy-in-a-harem.
Edit: woops. It's late. It was actually episode six, so if you're still not thinking the story is going anywhere, oh well.
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|2012-05-18, 03:54
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I think what's harming this show to me the most is simply the pilots besides Ao. Fleur is ok as I said, but Elena is a really awful character. Team Goldilocks just seemed very stupid to me as well. I just kinda miss the adult pilots of E7. More colorful and diverse cast there. In a way this is starting to feel a little bit like Last Exile Fam with its females.
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Though, if you put this Nirvash with all of the versions of from the TV series, I just realized that I believe the Nirvash has activated every power that the Buster Machine mecha had. (From Gunbuster/Aim for the Top!)
I actually did find a relationship between E7 and Gunbuster: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...ple.php?id=264 Miyatake-san, who also works with Kawamori a lot, did a lot of design work on E7 TV and mecha design on Gunbuster. Though I'd assume it's more homage (especially the episode 50 antics), but it's still pretty fun.
Oh, and DAMN, whoever Truth is... he/she/it is going to be a beast of a problem.
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Clearly Ao has the talent to be a formal pilot for Pied Piper; he did very well in his first two battles. And that's before considering he had absolutely no training or experience then. And then this battle happened almost immediately after those first two. It's pretty obvious to anyone how good he'll be when he's refined and battle-hardened He's already shown he's a good pilot, and here he did by himself what two experienced pilots couldn't, so where would any doubt in his skills come from?
The bridge crew agreed on him needing rest; Fleur said he'd be useless anyway.
In the context of this episode, whether or not he needed the rest/was ready or not, my point is that Fleur calling him "useless," especially with Ao's great track record, was harsh and uncalled for.
I'm not sure what Ao not expecting special treatment has to do with Fleur being unnecessarily harsh, either.
Eureka was automatically a gifted pilot as well, especially due to her being a Corallian. So it makes sense that her son would share this.
Of course, how much exactly this series has to do with Coralians is still uknown, but it's perfectly obvious that Ao isn't a normal human (the whole hair-"magically"-returning-to-blue thing) and we know that Eureka (whether she's the original Eureka or an alternate-universe Eureka) is also special in some way, so it's logical to assume her son is special in the same/a similar way.
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Week one is behind me and I found out a few things about myself, one of which is most unflattering. Even though I dropped 2.2 pounds it seems I am now carrying the weight of unconceived children everywhere on my shoulders. Let me explain.
Week one is behind me and I found out a few things about myself, one of which is most unflattering. Even though I dropped 2.2 pounds it seems I am now carrying the weight of unconceived children everywhere on my shoulders. Let me explain.
I received a fan email the other day for my first article. If laughter could help a person lose weight, I would have lost 20 pounds. I will not mention who sent the fan email to me, just that she is a wonderful lady with a great sense of humor. A lady I consider to be a good friend, kind person, and all around good egg. Her email read as follows:
Hi Guy,
Happy New Year to you and your daughters.
Read your article on weight loss - THANKS for the night mares (not the ones eating hay).
You are funny and I wish you well on this weight loss program. I know you will do just fine.
Speedo???? What the f#*% are you trying to do, cause blood clots to form? If you didn't have two beautiful daughters, I would say you could be a good model for "birth control" in a speedo.
Not that I have ever seen you in one, just saying.
Any way I enjoy reading your articles and wish you well on the weight loss, Michelle also.
Take care,
(Name omitted to protect the truth teller.)
With friends like this, I am not needing enemas!
Truth be told, it this kind of humor and honesty that is needed in the world today. The very thought of me in a Speedo is enough to make me have nightmares. I can not imagine what it is doing to the minds of ordinary citizens who read our paper.
The fact remains however, at one point in my life when I was over 280 pounds. If it ever occurred to anyone to say, "Hey, you should lose some weight. You are a heart attack waiting to happen." They never did.
People sugar coat things and this does not help matters. It only strengthens the lies we are living. Whether it be weight, dress, personality, attitude or whatever. Maybe if more people really said what needed to be said, the world would be a better place. I doubt it though, people do not want to hear the truth. They want pretty little lies instead of the plain old ugly truth.
The ugly truth is, I am overweight and I intend to do something about it even if it kills me. While Michelle had a great first week, we both no from past experience, it gets harder. Now we need to hang on and simply strive to lose one or two pounds per week by following a healthy diet and increasing our activity levels. No magic pills, no fad diets. Just the ugly truth of knowing we have a long road to travel. Plus, we are going to stretch this Speedo joke as far as we can.
Next week, the truth about spaghetti squash.


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Incited by JuanTwoThree's recent transgression (so blame him, not me), I submit the following even woerfully off topic finding. At the end I will endeavour to tie it to another of our digressive threads.
There is a chick little where le ménu, thoughtfully translated, offers, among other delights, the following spécialités:
"The place of reference in Lyon since nearly 6 years, COFFEE Perl is attended by all the in love ones of comfort and calm.
EXTREMELY and SMOKING
the taste of the coffee opens a parallel between the culture and the habits. A broad selection of the best coffees in the world will open the doors of news flavors. Of course if you are attached to your good old man "small black", come to taste it whenever you want. Il will be always hot and smoking.
At the interior of COFFEE Perl, the environment is made of heat and discretion. Drink enamelled and light software, ones feels at home and absolutely relaxed. Many seats are available, armchairs or chairs… according to préferences. The COFFEE Perl is the place of in love or travellers in evil of bliss…
If not there is the chart the every day.
let us croûtons
eggs of lompe
Pinions of pines
Crunch mister
Brain of silk worker
Here are the softnesses:
Chocolate foam
Melting with the chocolate, cream-coloured English
Baba with rum"
Admittedly, in order to understand how they got there, for many of those you'd have to recognize the jumping-off place. Some of the humour comes from the translation into English equivalents of dishes we retain the French (or Italian I guess) name for: cafe, mousse, fondue, and in Quebec, croque monsieur.
The dish I want to bring to your attention is Brain of silk worker. I trying to come up with the original for that one. It turns out to be a literal translation of a cheese dip called cervelle de canut. According to , the silk workers of 19th century Lyons were called canuts. The cervelle is slang for 'brain', and as the diminutive 'little brain', is supposedly a class-based slur.
But here on the Eggcorn Forum, we know that that is not the end of the story. The is very dear to us. We have long since learned to not be swayed by the cervelle de canut, however. If I can turn up any further information on the connection of silk workers and canuts, I'll let you know.
Certain elements of this menu recall described on the Language Log.
Blessings on you. You have warned me about a politically incorrect condiment before I ever had a chance to encounter/eat/utter/mispronounce it.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
It turns out that the pejorative term canut is attached to a lot of interesting French social history. I'll restrict myself to the parts referring only to the name: those alone also threaten to be long and you may be excused for not wading in.
In the early 1830s, a journal called took up the issue of the sobriquet canut used familiarly to designate silk workers in Lyons. The journal's stated goal was to "improve the social and cultural situation of, and provide encouragement to, the proletarian class". In 1832 a contest was announced to try to find a new "simple, euphonious term to designate the class of workers or fabricants of silk" that was not an insult.
The submissions in the first round began with "Férandiniers" and "séricariens". Ferrandine was a woven fabric which owed its name to a certain Ferrand who developed it in 1630; its warp was wool, and woof, silk. Pepys mentions 'ferrandin waiste-coate' in his diary. A folk etymology arose associating the name of the fabric with horses of a "iron-grey" colour, also called ferrands. 'Férandinier' was rejected as too fusty and unfashionable, like the fabric itself.
Sericariens was suggested by reference to Latin texts that used 'sericarius' in referring to workers with silk. This root gave birth to its own virtual industry of seric submissions: « sericarieur », « sericareur », « sericariste », « sericariniste », « sériciphante », « séricicophante », « séritextore », and « séritexteur ». These were all rejected for "defaults of harmony", along with « textoricarien », « textorycien », « armuratisseur », « armatisseur », « cotisseur », « artisseur », « textorien », « bombytexteur », « bombytextorien », and « bombitissorien ». Three other rejects were discarded for length (and dullness): « master silk weaver »,
« silk weaver », and « master fabricant of silk stuff ».
Interestingly for our story, two other submissions were rejected out of hand. These tried to make the case for the retention of canut. Here is one of the defenders of the canut (my translation follows): « J'ai cru, Monsieur, que c'était une plaisanterie que votre concours ouvert pour trouver un nom euphonique, dites-vous, à la classe générale des ouvriers en soie. Je vois avec peine que vous y persistez : pourquoi donc, enfants ingrats, rougirions-nous du nom que nos pères nous ont laissé ! Pourquoi cette susceptibilité, pour mieux dire, cette pruderie ? Qu'a donc de déshonorant le nom de canut ? Qu'importe que ce soit par raillerie ou autrement qu'on nous le donne ? Par lui-même un mot n'a rien de fâcheux.
Appelons-nous canuts et soyons citoyens.
Votre concours à mon avis est inutile, et son but est oiseux ; ce n'est pas de trouver un nom à notre profession qu'il faut vous enquérir, permettez-moi de vous le dire, mais bien des améliorations à notre état social. »
Translation: I thought, sir, that it was a joke, your open competition to find a euphonious name, you say, for the general class of silk workers. I am sorry to see that you persist: why, ungrateful children, should we be ashamed of the name our fathers left us! Why this sensitivity, not to say, this prudery? What therefore is so dishonorable in the name canut? No matter whether in jest or otherwise that others give it us? In itself a word has nothing untoward.
Call us canuts and let's be citizens.
Your contest is useless in my opinion, and its purpose is idle; it is not for a name for our profession that you must seek, let me tell you, but rather, improvements to our social state.
Those were just the first round rejects. Here were the finalists: « tissericien », « tisseur », « tissoie », « arachnéen », « polymithe », « tissutier », « tissoyer », « bombixier », « tissoyen », « tissoierien », « pamphilarien », « bombitisseur », « soerinier », « soierineur », « soieriniste », « seritisseur », « bombicinaire », and « omnitisseur ». The announcement of these finalists elicited new submissions: « étoffier », « étoffiste », « soiefèvre », « sérifèvre », « fabrissoie », « fabriséricien », and « tissufacteur.» Tisseur in English would be weaver, and _étoffier_ transliterates as stuffer. Bombyx is the genus name of the silk moth.
Not to be outdone, a member of the academy weighed in with a longwinded discourse that completely misunderstood the problem with "canut" but ended with a suggestion that acknowledged the resentment that silk workers held for the term. He suggested that the root word be kept but camouflaged as « canneuriens » or « cannetatiens ». Delicious.
The anticlimax is that the journal folded before a winner was chosen. One of the later letter writers suspected that this was in its own way a decision. I do remark that Google Translate, in going from French to English, changes canut to "weaver".
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That stuff is seriously out of date, kem!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .


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Xavier beats No. 19 Memphis 64-62, ends streak
CINCINNATI (AP) -- No. 19 Memphis ran off one of the nation's longest winning streaks by dominating Conference USA. It couldn't survive a late out-of-league game.
Brad Redford hit a long 3-pointer that put Xavier back ahead after wasting a 13-point lead, and the short-handed Musketeers beat the Tigers 64-62 on Tuesday night, ending their 18-game winning streak.
From start to finish, it was something for Memphis (24-4) to forget fast.
''It was out of character,'' said Geron Johnson, who led the second-half comeback and scored 14 points. ''We had no intensity. We came in here thinking they'll roll over and we'll get our 19th straight win. It's not like that.''
The sluggish Tigers scored only 20 points in the first half - their lowest-scoring half of the season - and got dominated on the boards, ending a couple of notable streaks. Their 18-game winning streak was tied with Akron for longest in the nation.
Memphis also was the only Division I school that hadn't lost a road game this season. The Tigers had won 11 straight on the road overall, the nation's longest active streak.
''Eighteen in a row is not easy to do,'' said Josh Pastner, who was hoping for his 100th win as the Tigers' coach. ''You don't take it for granted. Long winning streaks, conference championships - those aren't birthrights.''
Xavier (16-11) made good on its second straight chance to beat a ranked team at home. The Musketeers blew a 17-point lead before losing to then-No. 24 VCU on Saturday.
Xavier pulled it out despite missing point guard Dee Davis, who was recovering from a head injury suffered against VCU.
Travis Taylor had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Xavier, whose 45-36 advantage in rebounds led to 18 second-chance points.
By contrast, Memphis managed only four points off rebounds the entire game.
''We knew how big and physical they were,'' Taylor said. ''Coach (Chris Mack) made it a big challenge to give them no second chances.''
Johnson made three 3s that helped the Tigers overcome that 13-point deficit in the second half. D.J. Stephens made the first of his two free throws with seven-tenths of a second left, but failed to hit the rim while purposely missing the second shot, clinching it for Xavier.
Davis left the 75-71 loss to VCU with 13:35 to play after bumping foreheads with a VCU player.
Davis was still suffering effects of the collision and didn't suit up, leaving Xavier without a proven ball handler. Shooting guard Semaj Christon - a freshman who leads the Musketeers with 15 points per game - had to handle the ball after Davis got hurt against VCU and finished with 10 turnovers. He had only one on Tuesday.
The home-court advantage helped as well. Xavier hasn't lost two straight home games since 2005-06.
Taylor set the tone early, helping Xavier take a 19-10 lead. He had 11 points and six rebounds in the first 12 minutes.
Christon's jumper pushed the lead to 27-15, taking advantage of Memphis' stretch of 5:35 without a point. The Musketeers lost another player during the stretch - forward Isaiah Philmore got hit in the face and went to the bench with a bloody nose.
Philmore got back in the game with gauze shoved into his nostrils and made two free throws that helped close out a 31-20 halftime lead. The Tigers shot only 33 percent from the field and were outrebounded 26-15. They managed only four free throws and missed all of them.
''I believe in energy, and our energy in the first half stunk, which is full credit to Xavier,'' Pastner said. ''They kicked our butts.''
Xavier pushed the lead to 13 points before Memphis started trapping, got a little energy on defense and got back into the game. Tarik Black had a putback - Memphis' first points off a rebound - and Johnson had a steal that led to a three-point play and cut the lead to 37-31.
The Tigers finally found their shooting touch, hitting four straight 3s to erase the rest of a 13-point deficit and tie it 45-all with 7:46 left. Johnson hit a fall-away 3-pointer for the Tigers' first lead, 50-49, with 6:26 to go.
There were four lead changes, with Redford's long 3-pointer putting Xavier ahead to stay 58-57. Redford was fouled and made two free throws with 14.4 seconds to go for a 63-59 lead.
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Tottenham celebrated the New Year in style as they moved up to third place in the Premier League with a hard-fought 3-1 over Reading at White Hart Lane.
The visitors took a shock lead in the fourth minute through Pavel Pogrebnyak's header but Spurs levelled five minutes later as captain Michael Dawson glanced the ball in from a corner.
Andre Villas-Boas' side completely dominated the game and sealed the result in the second-half through an Emmanuel Adebayor header and a deflected strike from substitute Clint Dempsey.
It was a victory that rewarded Tottenham's patience as they extended their excellent run to seven wins in their last nine matches as they target a top four finish, while Reading remain second from bottom in the table.
Spurs made one change to the side that beat Sunderland as Gylfi Sigurdsson replaced the suspended Gareth Bale, while Reading named an unchanged line-up for the third successive game.
Reading arrived in north London having lost eight out of their 10 previous away matches this season, but the visitors took a shock lead in the fourth minute as Pogrebnyak scored his fourth league goal of the campaign.
It was the simplest of finishes for the Russian as he responded quicker than the Spurs defenders to head into an empty net after Ian Harte's wonderful curling free-kick crashed off the underside of the crossbar.
The lead did not last long, however, and five minutes later Spurs were level. Gylfi Sigurdsson whipped in a vicious inswinging corner and Dawson got in front of the Reading defenders to glance his header into the far corner.
From that moment, Spurs dominated possession and territory but struggled to break down Reading's well organised defence as space narrowed and gaps closed in the final third.
Andre Villas-Boas side were largely restricted to shots from range, with Mousa Dembele firing just wide from 30 yards before Jermain Defoe's powerful strike skipped just past the post with Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici well beaten.
But Reading's resistance could only last until five minutes after the restart. Aaron Lennon skipped past Harte on the right side of the penalty area and stood up an excellent cross for Adebayor to head in from seven yards for just his second league goal of the season.
Spurs pressed for a third goal but could not find a route to the Reading goal before the visitors served a warning of the fragility of a one-goal advantage when Pogrebnyak forced Hugo Lloris into a smart save and then headed the rebound wide.
It seemed to inject some life into Brian McDermott's side, who again nearly equalised when Alex Pearce's header from a corner was cleared off the line by Dawson.
Yet the Royals were swiftly punished as Dempsey sealed the result with a shot from 25 yards that deflected off Mikele Leigertwood and looped over Federici and into the net.
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What is it? All parent company Electronic Arts has to say is "BioWare teases its next major project, stay tuned for more." We're going to go out on a limb and guess that not only will guns feature in the game, players will also be able to shoot them.
Saints Row 3, Batman: Arkham City and Guillermo del Toro's "Lovecraftian" game are all also due to be shown off in some form at the 2010 VGAs. Last year's awards ceremony saw a wide spread of video game announcements and trailer debuts.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, adapted from the book by Jeffrey Lane with Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek, based on the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning. Directed by Michelle Perez, Music Director Joe Rice. Performances: October 3-25, 2014.
It's stylish, sexy, irreverent and "Broadway musical comedy heaven." Based on the popular Steve Martin and Michael Caine comic film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a hilarious battle between two con men who make a bet to be the first to swindle a woman out of $50,000.
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A group of pastors Tuesday declared their support for the re-election of Meridian Mayor Cheri Barry.
Meridian Clergy for Mayor Cheri Barry held a news conference outside Wechsler School. Several ministers voiced their endorsements of Barry.
The group said it credits Barry for putting the city's finances in order, showing a commitment to infrastructure improvements, and building a better future for all residents.
"She has positioned herself and has demonstrated that she manages the city finances well," said Bishop William C. Brown. "And has positioned herself to grow this economy, which is important for all sectors of Meridian."
Brown says he believes crime grows from poverty and that Barry is the right leadership to turn things around.
Barry faces a primary challenge from William Compton, Jr.
Two Democrats, Rod Amos and Percy Bland, are vying for the office. Two independents are also in the race, Wally Hudnall and Walter Patton.
The city of Meridian says Independent Doug Nichols did not have enough signatures on his petition to qualify to run. Democrat Randle Jennings was not certified by the party to run for the office.


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Events in the new year could include the biggest airline merger ever. For months, a deal between American Airlines and U.S. Airways has been talked about. The new year is also likely to bring slightly higher domestic ticket prices and some new planes.
What's In Store For The Airline Industry In 2013?
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by Zenitha Prince
Special to the AFRO.
Tea Party figurehead U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the keynote speaker at an awards dinner that kicked off the Coalition of African American Pastors' 8th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., this week.
"Senator Paul is one of the most prominent leaders in Washington because he understands issues that affect all Americans and is willing to offer solutions that will make their lives better. We are proud to have him featured at our Awards Dinner," said the Rev. Bill Owens, president of CAAP, in a statement. "The 8th Annual Leadership Conference will serve as a forum for those willing to stand up and speak out for many in the disenfranchised black communities of America.
With the help of strong leaders like Senator Paul, these are goals that CAAP is certain can be achieved."
Despite that glowing praise, a list of other invited guests that includes Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and the conference's co-sponsorship by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in the District, Owens insisted the group is a nonpartisan one that does not endorse "anybody."
"Senator Paul will be here to discuss inequities in education and the prison system—that's all he can talk about," the 74-year-old retired pastor, who participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Memphis, Tenn., during the 1950s and '60s, told the AFROin an interview before the event.
"We are not for any political group. We deal with the issues Blacks face every day, [so] if the Democrats are not addressing [those] issues we go at them; if the Republicans are not doing right, we will go at them."
For example, said Owens, many CAAP members voted for President Obama, but they now find themselves at odds with the administration's stance on several issues, particularly same-sex marriage, abortion and more.
CAAP describes itself as "a grass-roots movement of Christians who believe in traditional family values such as supporting the role of religion in American public life, protecting the lives of the unborn, and defending the sacred institution of marriage." The group surged into the national spotlight in May 2012 when Owens and other members took to the airwaves to rail against President Obama's changed stance on gay marriage and the fact that religious groups were being forced to recognize such unions. The group has become the "Black face" of the anti-gay marriage movement and is backed financially and otherwise by right-leaning conservative groups like the Family Research Council, American Family Association and the American Principles Project, according to an August 2012 USA Today report.
Bishop Aubrey Shines, a CAAP member and senior pastor of Glory to Glory Ministries in Tampa, Fla., said many Black pastors were "broken" and experienced "buyer's remorse" after Obama announced his support for gay marriage and have become more open to GOP ideas.
"The Black clergy is not a monolithic group. We're not married to any political party, and for the first time conservatives are capturing the ear of Black clergy because of the religious liberties that are being violated by this administration," he said. "If Hillary Clinton thinks she is going to ride into office on the coattails of the failed policies of this administration she is mistaken. It's not going to happen.
"Black and Hispanic clergy have awakened," Shines continued. "We will not be bamboozled by this political agenda."
CAAP's leadership conference will convene under the theme, "Rebuilding our Families and Reclaiming the Peace and Prosperity of our Cities," and will tackle issues such as the breakdown of the Black family, waning Black wealth and entrepreneurship, school choice and Christian education, and justice and prison reform.
"We're not going to sugarcoat anything [and] we're going to make some strong statements," Owens said. "Black people are suffering more than anybody in this country and somebody has to stand up for the little guy."
The leadership conference will also allow CAAP to better organize itself and to establish its policy advocacy agenda. According to Shines, that will include rallying support to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, more colloquially known as "Obamacare."
"We need to rethink this entitlement, socialist idea as it comes to medicine…. It doesn't work," Shines told the AFRO. "This country is being thrust into something that it is not ready for."
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Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in employment unless the employer can establish what's called a BFOQ or "Bona Fide Occupational Qualification." The EEOC Guidelines do allow intentional sex discrimination in hiring an actor or actress where the sex-specific roles are necessary for the "purpose of authenticity or genuineness," see 29 C.F.R. § 1604.2(a)(2). But there is no way that the producers could establish that sex was a BFOQ for being host of "The Price is Right."I know. The idea of lawsuits over such things seems ridiculous. But exactly why is it ridiculous?
The same conclusion probably holds true for hosting "The View." The thought that only women could host a talk show would be difficult to square with existing case law. Probably a dozen different hosts have been employed by The View. They have all been female. There is little doubt that the producers of that show discriminate on the basis of sex in hiring.
Indeed, even John Travolta's portrayal of Edna in the movie Hairspray raises a non-trivial BFOQ question. Travolta, like all of his predecessors, is male. But it's hard to say that casting a man for the part is necessary for "authenticity or genuineness" -- especially when the whole point of his portrayal is that Travolta (unlike Divine) is playing it straight.
Personally, I feel insulted by what the networks put on TV during the day. The whole line-up makes the statement: This is what we think women are. Or: This is what we think nonworking women are. Not that I wish I could sue. I'm just offended.


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In 2004, Jim McGreevey was the governor of New Jersey and a rising political star. That was until he admitted his homosexuality, and an improper relationship with a male staff member. What happened next is the subject of the new HBO documentary, Fall To Grace. Host Michel Martin speaks with McGreevy and filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi.


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The 2012 Dodge Challenger is the kind of car that can bring a smile to the face of even the most jaded car enthusiast. Try as you might, it's impossible to escape the considerable charm of this ultimate modern-day boulevard cruiser.
The Challenger's classic muscle car styling will draw you in, but its refined ride and handling and spacious interior make this big coupe appealing to drive.
We tested two versions of the Challenger: a V-6 version with an as-tested price of $33,590 and the high-performance SRT8 with a sticker price of $48,320.
Styling consequences
The Challenger is a rolling homage to the original coupe, which was produced in the early 1970s. It takes many of the original's design cues -- hood slits, a rectangular grille and pronounced rear haunches -- and incorporates them in a modern way. To Dodge's credit, the result is a coupe that both recalls the past and looks contemporary. That's not an easy feat.
There are reasons why cars no longer look like they did in the '70s, and the modern-day Challenger showcases one of them with its poor visibility. A big C-pillar and tall trunk make it hard to check your right-side blind spot. It's also difficult to see curbs when pulling into the street, as they're lost behind the car's huge hood. Plus, the roofline makes it hard to see overhead stoplights when you're first in line at intersections. Still, the Challenger doesn't compromise visibility as much as another retro muscle car: the Chevrolet Camaro coupe.
Going and stopping
The standard 305-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-6 engine is smooth and refined, but it doesn't have a lot of grunt from a standing start. It comes alive at midrange engine speeds, which leads to more eager acceleration, but it lacks the SRT8 V-8's appealing exhaust burble that goes so well with the Challenger's whole outlook. The V-6 gets an EPA-estimated 18/27 mpg city/highway.
Like an NFL linebacker, the Challenger SRT8 possesses a quickness that's unexpected in something so big and heavy (its curb weight is around two tons). Dodge pegs the Challenger SRT8's zero-to-60-mph acceleration time in the high 4-second range, and the 470-hp, 6.4-liter V-8 always pulls strongly, whether you're cruising in the city or accelerating on the highway. A burbling exhaust note is your constant soundtrack, and it erupts into a howl when you floor the gas pedal.
Driven aggressively, the SRT8 is a monster of a car with a knack for intimidation. Slow down, though, and it turns into a docile cruiser. The rumbly exhaust remains, hinting at its performance potential, but a progressive gas pedal and smooth-shifting five-speed automatic transmission make for low-drama driving. Be prepared for frequent fill-ups, though, as the SRT8 is rated 14/23 mpg. Premium gas is recommended.
Getting an automatic SRT8 was a little disappointing initially, as Dodge also offers a six-speed manual, and I like to change gears myself when driving a performance car, but I grew to like the automatic in the big muscle car that is the Challenger.
The transmission is responsive, making quick part-throttle downshifts or full-throttle kickdowns when you press the gas pedal. Steering-wheel-mounted shift paddles, which are new for 2012, let you control gear changes, and despite only a slight shift delay after pressing one of the paddles, I preferred to leave the transmission in Drive and let it do the work -- it always seemed to be in the right gear.
Both the V-6 Challenger I tested, which had an optional performance brake package with front and rear vented discs, and the SRT8, with its Brembo-brand brakes, have some of the best brake-pedal feel around. The pedal yields linear, predictable response, and there's none of the hesitation and jerkiness that plague some cars.
Ride and handling
The V-6 Challenger is available with an optional performance-tuned suspension. It includes larger front and rear stabilizer bars and higher-rate shocks. In terms of firmness, the setup is similar to the SRT8's standard adaptive suspension; it's decidedly firm, but it doesn't punish you the way some performance cars can.
As another editor noted, the V-6 Challenger's nose feels lighter than the SRT8's, and the car is a little more nimble overall. A more balanced weight distribution with fewer pounds over the front wheels deserves some of the credit. The change doesn't transform the V-6 Challenger into a sporty performer like the Mustang, but it does make it a little more engaging.
The Challenger SRT8 rides well. The coupe floats easily over dips and bumps without becoming unsettled, and its highway stability is impressive. It's a setup equally well-suited to driving across town or across the country.
The SRT8 also corners better than you'd expect. There's minimal body roll, and the bolstered sport seats help keep you situated in the cockpit.
The two-mode adaptive suspension, which is new for 2012, contributes to the SRT8's ride and handling. The Sport mode sets damper compression and rebound to a more aggressive setting without compromising ride comfort too much.
The SRT8 will play along if you aim it down a winding stretch of road, but it doesn't take long to figure out this isn't what it was made to do. It's built for the open road -- whether that's a highway or a wide boulevard.
The coupe's steering tuning drives this point home. The SRT8's leather-wrapped steering wheel is big and meaty, and it feels good in your hands, but there's minimal steering feedback. It's not any better if you get the V-6.
The inside
Compared with the Mustang's or Camaro's interior, the Challenger's cabin looks plain despite the use of nice materials overall. Both the Ford and Chevrolet have much stronger retro cues than the Challenger, and those cues drive the distinctiveness of those cars' interiors. The Challenger's controls, though, are easy to use and logically placed, and that wins it points.
The SRT8's front bucket seats are appropriately bolstered and wide. The seatbacks, however, are overstuffed. The cushioning presses forward, as if someone ratcheted up the lumbar support when you weren't looking. The bucket seats in the V-6 Challenger aren't as form-fitting as the SRT8's -- especially in terms of lateral support -- but the cushy, overstuffed feel remains.
For a coupe, backseat comfort is pretty good for adult passengers. Headroom is passable, and the seat provides decent support. The limiting factor is legroom, but it's workable if the person in front is willing to share.
Less appealing is the lack of visibility that backseat passengers suffer; they won't see much out the sides because of those big C-pillars. Our test car's all-black interior also contributed to the backseat's cave-like vibe.
As of publication, the Challenger hadn't been crash-tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Nor had it been subjected to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's new crash-test program for 2011 and newer cars.
Standard safety features include required equipment like antilock brakes and an electronic stability system. Also standard are side-impact airbags for the front seats, side curtain airbags and active front head restraints. The Standard Equipment & Options page at Cars.com lists more safety features.
Challenger in the market
Of the modern-day muscle cars, the Challenger -- especially in SRT8 form -- holds closest to the original formula of blistering straight-line speed matched with hulking road presence. Both the Mustang and Camaro have retro styling cues, but they're decidedly more modern overall compared with the Challenger's look.
Even though there's a modern car underneath the Challenger's throwback sheet metal, the design's close adherence to the past will be too much for some shoppers. If you're a muscle-car fan looking to relive your youth, though, the Dodge Challenger is the purest thing available from a new-car showroom.
Starting MSRP $24,995--$43,995
MPG City: 14 -- 18 Highway: 23 -- 27Available Engines 372-hp, 5.7-liter V-8 (regular gas)305-hp, 3.6-liter V-6 (regular gas)376-hp, 5.7-liter V-8 (premium)470-hp, 6.4-liter V-8 (premium)
Transmissions6-speed manual w/OD5-speed automatic w/OD and auto-manual
New or NotableDramatic retro stylingV-6 or V-8Manual or automaticThree available suspensionsHigh-performance 470-hp SRT8 version
What We LikeSRT8's powerV-8 exhaust soundResponsive automatic transmissionComposed ride, highway stabilityBackseat room
What We Don'tRetro styling limits visibilityV-6 lacks low-end powerMinimal steering feedbackOverstuffed front seatbacks
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A journey through the hands of a maker of magical items, discovering not only the secrets of Sacred art, but also the history and preservation of disappearing forms of Artisan work.
Spinning, And The Energy Of Handmade Items
Hand Spindle With Handspun Yarn And Wool Rovings
In many cultures, spinning has a place on myth, worship and magic, and thus deserve a very special place on this Magical Craft blog of mine. Goddesses that spin wool or other fibres are not difficult to find on Pagan iconography, and spindles and/or spinning wheels often equal magical items in legends and lore – one of the examples everyone knows is the poisoned spinning wheel of the Sleeping Beauty story, which shows how much the magic of spinning has woven (no pun intended) itself into popular culture.
Spinning is the act of turning a fibre (animal or plant based) into a thread, by twirling it and later fixing the twirl using several methods. The hand spindle or the spinning wheel help with the twirling and storing of the thread in the bobbins, which is later formed into hanks that are washed, dyed, set to dry and then winded into balls to be used for knitting, weaving, braiding, etc.
Handspun Yarn And Crocheted Amulet Bags
If you have never spun wool or other fibres, you simply cannot imagine how time consuming it is. Making the yarn for one single sweater can take many days, more if you are working with wool as it comes from the animal, as the wool needs to be thoroughly soaked and washed, cleansed of debris, combed and set into the rovings that you will use for spinning later. And then, there's the dyeing, and then there's the knitting/crocheting/weaving. It certainly gives you a lot of perspective into our modern world, where you can purchase a sweater for next to nothing and throw it away next winter because it got a small hole or because it's out of fashion. If you had washed, combed and prepared the wool, if you had spun the yarn for days, dyed and wound the yarn into balls, and then knitted the sweater from start to finish, you would treat it as the treasure it is, and would learn to mend it and keep it in good shape for as long as possible. If you had to repeat that sequence every single year as your children grow and do not fit in the sweaters any more, you would teach them to take care of them under threats of death :).
This perspective of the value of a simple, every day item, is invaluable to Pagans of all paths in my opinion. As a seller of handmade items, I have heard from many so-called "earth worshippers" nasty comments about the price of handspun, handknit/crocheted items, and while they do not offend me because I am quite aware of the real value of such items, it saddens my heart to know how people who are supposed to be connected with the Earth are so blind to the effort that creating a handmade items entails. While I am not against the ways modern production (because the problem does not lie in the existence of machinery, but in the capitalist way of exploiting the maker to benefit the factory owner), you cannot compare a garment made by a slave labour factory, using synthetic thread and exploitative measures of selling and distributing, from the handmade garment an artisan has created with his/her hands, and that sells directly from the hands that created it. And that's where magic and energy come to the front of the discussion – and there is where Pagans should always try to make a difference, because someone who calls himself/herself a Pagan, no matter from which Path, should always be aware of the energies we surround ourselves with.
Hat Made With Handspun, Hand-dyed Artisan Yarn
Absolutely every item around us has its own energy, some from its very nature and essence, and some gathered from its surroundings. When you pay for cheap items, you pay for cheap energy too, and if you think that doesn't affect your mood, your life and your spiritual connection, let me suggest you that you try wearing an entirely handmade item for just one day, and then compare results. Simple as that. Although I completely understand we are going through very difficult times and often we have to choose price over quality, I strongly believe it is better to save a little and purchase something of quality that will last a lifetime, than paying little today to get an item that will be in the landfill next year. Or even better, learn to make it yourself and pass that knowledge into the next generation.
Spinning yarn for hours is a strongly meditative activity, even more when the artisan is skilled and the muscle memory needed for the task is long acquired not needing much conscious thinking to do while crafting. Well, as someone who both spins wool and crafts spells, I can tell you without the slightest doubt that the energy gathered during spinning is incredibly powerful for grounding, concentrating, visualizing and then manifesting reality – and that, as you obviously know, is a process you could apply to making a spell.
Spinning, as many crafts, can also alleviate many physical, spiritual and psychological ailments like some forms of dyslexia, difficulty to concentrate, anxiety, depression, and of course spiritual disconnection. Spinning only has one downside – it is incredibly addictive.
Spinning Wheel, created from scratch by my husband and painted by me.
Note - all the images in this post are from our own work.
Saturday, 02 March 2013
Ooooh, your wheel is gorgeous! It's true: people do not appreciate the time and energy that goes into handspun yarn, or hand crafts of any variety. Spinning is magic, meditation and art for me all rolled into one--and it isn't just the spinning but the time it takes to prepare the fiber (since I mostly work from raw fleece); I love starting out with raw materials and using my own hands to craft something beautiful and powerful from them. This the magic of creation, and there is no greater power we can have.
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
I loved this article. I am just learning to spin with a hand spindle and would love to have a spinning wheel.... All of the places I've looked have prices I cannot afford. Do you have any suggestions as to where to look for a used spinning wheel...or directions on how to build your own? Thank you.
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
Marti, we had to build both hand spindles and the spinning wheel because where we live (Canary Islands) there were none available, and purchasing one online was something we could not afford. My husband found the instructions for the spinning wheel here - although we made some modifications, and the article is in spanish, but the diagram should help you:
Wednesday, 06 March 2013
My grandmother was a master weaver and also did some spinning. I inherited her spinning wheel when she died, and hope to learn to use it soon. There are two fiber addicts in my coven, and we are planning a spinning night at the end of the month as a way to connect with each other and all the women who ever spun, down through the centuries.
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DS got weighed on the 16th of august and weighed at the dietician's on the 23rd and he was up 5 oz! I was so happy, I was practically dancing on the spot while redressing him :cheer.
But the dietician compared this weight check to the weight check done at the Ped's office and said that he was only gaining 9g/day when he should be at a bare minimum of 15g/day. I said to her "But he just had a 26g weight gain in a week". All she said to me was 28oz wasn't enough in a day for him and he needed to be at a minimum of 32oz. She mentioned to me about putting formula in his bottles to up the amount. I told her that I would rather just increase the breast milk to 5oz bottles, if she thought that he wasn't quite getting enough. She said to do that for a week and I bring him back in on the 3rd for yet another check.
She wants me to continue charting and I don't want to anymore. I've been charting now for 3 weeks and I want to rip these papers to shreds. Watching the clock when feeding is one thing but to chart EVERYTHING, it's not feeling natural anymore. Then sometimes I forget to chart a few bottles and then try and remember what he had when. When the numbers are low I think that can't be right. Then he has a high day the next day. AHHHHHHHHHH :angrypin
Next question. I've been trying to build up my supply so that when I go for surgery on the 20th there is a full day's worth of bottles. I just broke my 4th pump (I was using the mi double pump. I've bout 2 between the two pregnancies but also have had 2 replacements sent to me from the company). I just bought the Medela mini electric just to get me threw until surgery, and because funds are low right now :(. I'm struggling right now and what I pump in the day is gone that same day. So if I pump and store everything I pump for a day I would have more then enough. But if I pump at my usual times and nurse him in between pumping sessions, will that be enough for him? Hopefully that makes sense lol


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I recently put out the call to ExtraCredit readers to submit nominations for a Teen Face profile. The response was outstanding. It'd be great to see the same outpouring of good ideas for my upcoming volunteer profile. Per the them of ExtraCredit, please limit nominations to those volunteers who work in schools.
Please send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com outlining why your volunteer stands out: What they do, where they work, their name and how to contact them. I'd also like to know how to contact you so please include that.
By the way, Matthew Mulligan of Piner High was the subject of my Teen Face profile. Read his story here: http://bit.ly/TSko2d. And as always, all ideas that were not used were forwarded on to our Teen Face editor so perhaps another reporter can tackle it.