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Mizell Monday
I have "no joy" in saying this----because John Brantley "the 4th" is such
a classy
and gracious young man... Number 12 did "lots of good" as Florida belted
Appalachian State---but
Brantley's "TOTAL junior season"---NOT SO HOT… Gator minds are "on Florida
MY EYES "glance ahead"---to 2011… For "the
greater good," I do NOT think Brantley---next season---should be the No. 1
Florida is "an elite college football program"---but this year "a
Three straight losses AT HOME---first time in 24 seasons... If the "downslide" is not CURTAILED, it
hurt RECRUITING---and "other stuff"…
I think "Brantley---as a senior---should play "only in certain
situations"… I "like" freshman Trey Burton---but he's NOT my choice
for No. 1 quarterback… I think---"for the greater good"---
and "invigorating hope"---
it should be JORDAN REED… he's big---6-3---240…
Reed's running skills "EQUAL to Burton's"---but Jordan is a better passer…
Florida "modified" its offense THIS SEASON---"because of Brantley"…
the "old
Urban Meyer Spread" calls for a QB who can "throw on the run---and EXECUTE
THE OPTION… I say the Gators SHOULD RETURN to the offense
of Tim Tebow… Brantley is "no threat as a RUNNER"---WEAK on
the option---EASY TO SACK… His "THROWING of the football" has
NOT "overcome Brantley's shortfalls"… SO---add up all the
PLUSES and MINUSES---for "the good of an entire team," the
"quarterback of the future" should be the "a 2011 sophomore"---a gifted
kid from
New London, Conn.---JORDAN REED … I'm Hubert Mizell, and
that's what I think.


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They weren't into this idea before… maybe they will reconsider?
This is a known pricing strategy. But just because something works in other marketplaces doesn't necessarily mean it's the right fit for Envato. Personally, I would rather see it at .95, i.e 12.95, 3.95 etc. if they were going to go that route. Fives are easier to deal with than nines imo!
I think a separate logo marketplace could be a good thing. But they would need to sell for a more accurate value, i.e. hundreds of dollars and only be available for sale once. That's how logos should have been handled all along.
I think the extended license is still necessary in some cases. Say I'm a web developer who's creating a template or theme that will be sold multiple times? Normally you would have to pay a fee to use a resource in this manner, whether it's a "tool" or not. Am I wrong in thinking this?
Why not just repackage some of your files into bundles and upload those, but still keep the individual files also? The last I knew you didn't need permission to create bundles, although there are some guidelines you'd need to follow.
Yeah, we're hardy folk and used to the cold weather up here. It's these unseasonably warm conditions that are making us all sick! Feeling it myself this morning. Just in time for Christmas!
Hopefully this isn't all a sign of Global Warming…
Excited that we are finally getting some snow here in Upstate NY! Usually we have our first snowfall by Halloween and more than enough snow to go around for Christmas. But has been surprisingly green this year.
It might be a White Christmas after all!
Seems interesting… looking forward to it!
This is all fine and dandy and I applaud the effort. However I agree that this opens the rating system up to possible abuse. Not to mention it doesn't address the real problem, getting buyers to rate files period! Admins themselves mentioned that the majority of files go unrated. That's the real issue that needs to be addressed imho!
Vast improvement on the buttons! And I already see the new style in place!

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Fantasy Baseball Morning Update: CarGo strains back
How did you celebrate the Fourth of July? If it wasn't by jamming 69 hot dogs down your throat, you didn't try hard enough.
First pitch: The Pirates and Cubs start NL action at 4:05 p.m. ET, while the AL gets underway with a few games at 7:05.
Interleague DH issues: The Mariners are in Cincinnati, where they'll need to bench either Kendrys Morales (not likely) or Justin Smoak (you betcha).
Streaming starters: Dillon Gee's solid outing raised our record to 51-32. The weekend selections are Zack Wheeler (owned in 22.2 percent of FOXSports.com leagues) at Milwaukee on Friday, surprising Dodger Stephen Fife (5.6 percent owned) at San Francisco on Saturday, and recently struggling Indian Corey Kluber (7.2 percent owned) against the Tigers - yes, the Tigers - on Sunday.
On to the news:
- Rockies OF Carlos Gonzalez left Thursday's game after straining his upper back. CarGo said he expects to play today, but manager Walt Weiss called him day-to-day. Stay tuned, daily league owners.
- In related news, blogger John Halpin apparently aggravated a previous back injury by pulling kids in a red wagon to a fireworks show on Thursday evening. Halpin gutted out a blog post on Friday morning, but figures to spend the weekend resting and drinking to dull the pain. FANTASY NEWS Check out the latest
- Has anyone noticed that the recently recalled Tony Campana has led off and stolen a base for the Diamondbacks in each of the last two games? If he plays, he'll run. Pounce now, NL-only owners, and enjoy this ride while it lasts.
- Speaking of really fast guys, Padres SS Everth Cabrera will come off the DL today. Start him if you have him.
- Can someone let me know when Derek Jeter starts his minor-league rehab assignment, instead of telling me for the 20th time that he "feels close?" Thanks.
- Rookie Tyler Skaggs (0.6 percent owned) will be recalled to start tonight for the D-backs. I'm a fan, and would feel comfortable streaming him.
- The Red Sox hope to have SS Stephen Drew (hamstring) back in the lineup on Saturday.
- Two homers last night for Astros 1B/3B Brett Wallace. Interesting.
- We should know later today if Royals OF Alex Gordon has a concussion. His hip injury might keep him out of action for at least part of the weekend, anyway.
- This article looks at Michael Bourn's lower-than-usual stolen base total. Indians manager Terry Francona doesn't seem to mind, but Bourn's fantasy owners do.
- The Mets' website reports that 1B Ike Davis will be recalled from Triple A on Friday. Davis hit well at Las Vegas (.293 BA, 7 HR in 21 games), and according to the story, "the biggest change in his swing during his time in the minors was reducing a slight hitch that evidently impacted his timing." If that's a slight hitch, then Joey Chestnut has a slightly large appetite. FYI, Davis whiffed 18 times in those 21 games at Triple A. I was a big Davis booster in the preseason, but I need to see something before getting back on board.
- We talked yesterday about the Cubs being a soft opponent for Dan Straily, right?
- Orioles SP Wei-Yin Chen figures to come off the DL to start on Tuesday or Wednesday.
- The Rangers dropped SS Elvis Andrus to eighth in their batting order? That makes sense. Have I mentioned how overrated a fantasy player he is?
- Owners of Nationals 2B Anthony Rendon will like this quote from manager Davey Johnson about the still-struggling Danny Espinosa: "I think he's got a misguided opinion that it's okay if you hit .220 and hit 20 home runs." Espinosa is batting .088 at Triple A, with 34 strikeouts in 68 at bats. Seriously.
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Active Engagement: Dollhouse 1.7 - "Echoes"
Being a regular collection of notes, intrusive fragments and episodic memories regarding each installment of the FOX teledrama Dollhouse (J. Whedon, creator).
The Engagement: Josh Fadem goes crazy and runs around a college lab in his socks, because an inhibition-derailing drug has gotten loose on campus. Most of the Dollhouse shows up to try to recover the remainder of the experimental substance for the Rossum Corporation... When the drug proves incredibly transmittable, the entire Dollhouse staff gets really high and freaks out, leaving only the seriously glitching Actives semi-functioning. Flashbacks fill in a directly-linked story of political activist, pre-Echo Caroline breaking into Rossum Labs. Meanwhile, Agent Ballard tries to be a good boyfriend and gets dumped sort of.
CS: Let us leap straight into the nerd trivia here.
Karel Čapek's 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is the source of the word "robot", "Rozum" being Czech for "reason" and "robota" for "labor" (this etymological data courtesy of my Penguin Classics edition, though I see the Ministry of Truth, er, Wikipedia, backs me up). It is also the source of the name for the brain-research facility/"evil" drug company introduced in Dollhouse 1.7, "Echoes". More than s-f history inside joke, the bona fide literary allusion might be useful in unlocking the episode. In R.U.R., the robots are more properly artificially manufactured but nearly biological normal human beings, their body functions simplified and brains sapped of unproductive distractions (the R.U.R. scientists see no purpose in endowing the robots with a "soul", that is, the desire to take leisurely walks and play violin). A majority of its genre descendants would go on to ponder the ethics of creating an artificial intelligence, and/or whether such an invention might be considered "human" -- a fruitfully fanciful but, thus far, entirely silly philosophical dead-end non-debate. But like the tale from the ancestral well, Frankenstein (about the sundry troubles of making our own home-grown people), R.U.R. is really about the problems of allowing industrial forces to manufacture people. Where does "Echoes" fall in this continuum?
... and while you're at it, can you get me a juice box?
JS: As a matter of fact, I can, as my roommate orders 27 APPLE AND EVE juiceboxes every week from FreshDirect. I will crack one open for you without her permission. It contains 100% apple juice (filtered water sufficient to reconstitute apple juice concentrate, apple juice made from fresh whole apples), calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, and ascorbic acid (Vitamin C).
So this was Dollhouse's "Band Candy" episode, ne? Hilarious bacchanal with a serious side, commenting on the power exerted by mysterious corporations when they release their wares among us... whether it's candy, pharma, or something else. Caroline's PETA indignation wore a little thin for me, if only because I feel that animalcentric approaches -- while, yes, putting adorable faces on the issue -- take the focus off the even larger menace of scientific-industrial behemoths, their larger aims and objectives. I think we both -- I won't drop the M-word yet, but you can if you want -- have a dread of power consolidated in the hands of the few, of many individual intelligences and wills soldered together into one institution, one machine, one purpose. All those lab meetings, PowerPoints, assignments, directives, jottings in lab notebooks, day after day, week after week... aggregating toward what? What can stop them, or it? Even if it's not Science, but something else being peddled?
Being pure and fruitful is all part of Apple & Eve's core values. We emphasize honesty, integrity and respect for our fruit growers and employees, and most of all for you, our loyal consumer. We care about the juice and we care about each other. It's the secret ingredient that puts harmonious flavor into all of our juices.
Mmmyum. Okay, sorry. Anyway, at work the theme of our upcoming issue is "Testing," so we've spent a lot of time making a sort of taxonomy of tests. There are the tests of mettle and character -- inquiries into somebody's particular nature, a mapping of a unique personality. They may even be undertaken with a sense of personal risk -- tests of a friend, a lover. Then there's Rossum, which, according to Caroline, "doesn't care about souls, human or animal." Hers I believe is the humanist/materialist (but not necessarily atheist!) spin on "soul" -- she's talking about means, not ends, the arrangements of morals that allow Rossum to act out of pure utility. She's talking primarily about Rossum's soul. She's talking about whatever makes us forget the sovereignty of our fellow creatures, what robs our ability to make space for them, to allow them to grow in their own way, to share a fate with them rather than engineer their fate for them. It's not that monkeys have monkey perches waiting for them in heaven. It's more that every monkey is, uh, a snowflake.
Argh, I'm distracted again: Can you imagine today's busy life without juice boxes? Well, before we introduced the first juice box in 1982, families didn't have an easy, portable way to drink healthy while on the go. Now, for more than 20 years, our 100% juice boxes have been traveling in lunch bags, baby carriages and briefcases around the country...
Unimaginable! I'm sacked out on the couch on a Sunday afternoon, blogging about a teevee show, and there is definitely no baby in my baby carriage. But this brings me around to your question of human-making. These days no one should argue that the only legitimate way to "make" a human is the slot A/tab B way. For example, the longing experienced by infertile parents, translated into the banking of sperm and freezing of eggs and the in-vitro magic, is quite as legitimate to me as the normal M.O. But it seems to me (from a child-free vantage point) that one of the most graceful elements of people-"making" -- which, yes, the Dollhouse does -- is the moment when you cede total power over your creation. Once it's in the world, you voluntarily lay aside control over it and allow it to grow as it will, take its own shape. In the act of creating, you step aside and commit to the wonder and suspense of how this creature will turn out. Topher and Dominic are too stupid to understand this and probably never will. Adelle and Boyd, I think, do understand. And the Rossum Corporation -- run by brilliant people -- certainly understands this, but opts for total power over its subjects/creations, while throwing up a smokescreen of family harmony via cute ads.
The logo, as it appears today, looks very much like the initial design. It reflects our brand values by evoking images of purity and goodness, with just a touch of temptation thrown in to make things interesting. It stands as a symbol of the many fresh and delicious fruit juices we produce. We hope you find our delicious juices a bit tempting and simply irresistible!
Ya still want that juicebox, Chris?
CS: I'm 'a stick with my Garfield mug of coffee, actually.
I think you've gotten close to the bone on Frankenstories: the smart ones know that the crime is not tampering in God's domain, but irresponsible parenting. There are myriad ways in which we play god(s), and we are naturally endowed with the ability to create life. The trouble arises either from ditching your offspring without guidance (Frankenstein), breaching the walls of death (ibid, and Jurassic Park), or trying to hone that baby into a weapon while maintaining absolute control (the Golem story, the first Rambo movie). The Dollhouse has been proven guilty on all counts.
The apple juice logo perhaps brings us right back to two weeks ago and "True Believer"'s allusions to the Eden story, but any creation myth, really. How do the original parents treat the original Actives? And how do the newborns respond? ("God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs..." So, what then?... dinosaurs destroy man. Dinosaurs create God?)
My Garfield mug inexplicably depicts the tomcat mopping up water and sarcastically tossing confetti, caption bemoaning: "being a mom is a party a minute". As Adelle notes partway through her bum trip, "Oh my God, I'm having such a terrible day!" In "Echoes" -- in every Dollhouse -- the 'House's creator mommy and daddy, Topher and Adelle, send their universal robot kids out into the world to live according to godlike dictum that they will spend their brief lives in accordance with a narrow set of behavioral parameters, doing works of labor and service for their creators. Handlers and Security head Mr. Dominic are on duty to guide and reenforce, a chain of command we might compare to Honor Thy Mother and Father, with the implied dictum that the chain stretches back to the gods. The system simply doesn't work very well. Even in a paradigm with omniscient, omnipresent gods, we bump over ten miles of bad road -- why should God make me behave this way? Why doesn't He help? What'd we do to deserve this life? In a possible secular reading (ignore my absurdist hermeneutics if you like), we're sent forth into the world so we can toughen, smarten, fail and scramble and make meaning of ourselves to the point that we outgrow and destroy our need for a creator-god story, repeat it by propagating life, and maybe do a better job than our parent-gods. But the Dollhouse tries to squash that purpose, even if those thoughtful employees Dr. Saunders, Boyd and Adelle DeWitt see the paradox, or feel conflicted at heart. I'm all over the map here. Let me rein it in.
What I'm playing at is that my favorite idea in "Echoes" was that the control-freak parent figures of the Dollhouse are incapacitated and have to rely on the capabilities they have taught their Actives. And it comes to bear, all of it, the special technical talents, the personalities built, the compassion shown, the traumas inflicted. Being a mom is a party a minute.
Young Ms. Caroline seems a little clueless or imagination-impaired. I'm not sure she rails about the caged animals or jarred feti long enough to know much about her conception of a soul; whatever her opinions, she misses the point, that Rossum Corp. "cares" very much about souls, in that they are deeply interested and invested. They are in the soul-making business. They do not "care" about souls in terms of nurturing, looking-after, empathizing, whatever-ing. I'm going nowhere very probing with this, it was just a nicely layered moment, Caroline wailing at the wall of caged animals, but soon she will sign up to join them.
Yes, "Echoes" finds its comedy in some of the same places as BtVS's "Band Candy" in that it gives the cast a chance to act goofy and out-of-character-but-in-character. It has this in common, as well, with the S6 episode "Tabula Rasa" and the Angel S4 episode "Spin the Bottle". Everyone pretending to be stoned is, erm, sort of funny, but it would likely be funnier if we'd had more time with the characters. Surprisingly, the joke is most jarring with regards to Mr. Dominic, because we've never seen him unclench his jaw or anus. Topher already has the perpetual munchies, so no big change, really.
Man, I would've liked to see Dr. Saunders on that wacky-drug. Only Mr. Dominic was inspired to blurt any particularly inappropriate secrets besides the mere fact that they have normal vulnerabilities, appreciate the arts and like junk food. I'm dying to get in that character's brain.
JS: Yes, what does it mean that the far margins of Topher's "loss of impulse control" = raiding the drawer of inappropriate starches, while others go completely batshit? A thoughtful forum post at TwoP pointed out that this is addressed in Topher's opening speech to DeWitt and Ambrose about the range of individual responses to drugs. I actually thought that one of the applications of the Rossum memory drug might be truth serum ("You can't remember where you were that night? Heeere...have a drink.") Storywise, the disinhibiting effects are supposed to show us new facets of every character and expand our mental maps of their personalities -- it's narrative experimentation on live human subjects, conducted for our benefit. But you're right that we don't know everyone well enough to have the richest possible reaction. Boyd plays piano? ...oh. Topher munches... pretty much what we expected (I was hoping for something randier or slyer from him, actually.) I felt that Adelle's antics told me the most about her character, insofar as any of us have a unified "character" to deconstruct. That woman doesn't want to be there. There is somewhere else she'd rather be.
To add another etymology to the pile, I looked up "glitch," and its true meaning is not simply "indeterminate problem" but "voltage surge." In its truest sense, glitching is only a problem for people who would like to keep the waters flowing smoothly, who don't want unexpected spikes of electricity or vitality. Anyone overfull of life or will or unpredictable spazzy energy could technically be said to be "glitching" according to social contracts that require more muted and cooperative behavior. That does raise the unending puzzle, for me, of what Mellie's original personality might be, and whether every Active experience (hers with Paul, Victor's with firefighting) is just percolating in a pool of Everythingexperience -- Active, Doll, free.
When these people wake up, they are going to be pissed.
(Looking back to something I said after episode 1, I'm finally getting a sense of the show's stance on "personhood" and "authenticity." It seems to acknowledge a basic split between being someone's bitch (Actives) and acting on your own power ("listening to yourself" as Alice does when refusing treatment). It assumes there is a core self, a core set of experiences, implicit memory (muscle and procedural memory) that take over even when explicit memory is Wiped, that cannot be purged. Caroline cannot be rooted out. But there's an infinite regression there. Alice/Echo may be "listening" to Caroline, but Caroline isn't some goddess. Caroline is just a woman. Who was she listening to? Who taught her, who programmed and influenced her? Why make war on animal testing rather than Guantánamo? What tripped her guilt switch? There are pre-Carolines, and pre-pre-Carolines... in the end we're all a mixture of influences.)
What about Caroline? I found her flat. I was disappointed, after all this excavation, to find that Echo's predicament may be more interesting than Caroline's.
CS: Yes, Caroline is a bit of a drag. Agree with the politics or not, activist types tend to bore and depress me. As the girls in Ghost World put it, "it's not like these are just groovy, concerned people who actually CARE about humanity... it's like the same as when guys are really into sports!... or computers!" It is interesting that Caroline was already adept at reading blueprints for access tunnels and designing her own recon missions. She was an action-adventure hero before she was contracted by the Dollhouse. The snippet of the Caroline/DeWitt seduction/entrapment scene in the first episode seemed to hint that Caroline had gotten herself in a heap of trouble, that DeWitt had some dirt on her, perhaps Caroline had a life of crime to scrub clean. That scene is vague by design; I wasn't just projecting onto it the forms of Faith Lehane or Angelus Ensouled. Here we learn that Caroline Saw Too Much, was in the Wrong Place and transgressed against the Powers, but all for virtuous cause. Her biggest crime, legally speaking, was probably breaking and entering and trespassing. I can't say I'm too disappointed, but admit an unfortunate predilection for redemption drama.
Hey, re: strictly plot-based developments, I've been poking around fan environs to see what topics of speculation are stirring imaginations, and a popular theory seemed to be that Adelle is an Active (the logic being that the person best qualified, most trustworthy to run the Dollhouse, would be Imprinted as such). Assuming Topher's evaluation of Yellow Drug N-Whatever is correct, "Echoes" indicates that we know the following are not Actives: Dominic, Langton, DeWitt, Brink.
I'm in fundamental agreement that Dollhouse thus far seems to be saying that an implicit Self exists, fights back, finds a way to emerge. This says a funny thing about teledrama, that the notion of continuous character refuses to be suppressed, even on a program supposedly about the flimsy reality of the self. I can't say I agree with Dollhouse, though, and I don't know that this idea will stand. The mechanics of the hundreds of ways Topher is twisting Dolls' minds are thankfully vague enough to leave the metaphor open. Key information we got this week: Actives do get their lives/personalities/memories back after their five-year mission (or... so they say), and it may not be so much that the phalanx of beeping machines can "Wipe" memories/personalities/"souls" as much as "inhibit", repress and "block" them. So maybe Caroline is still there, albeit under some thick concrete flooring... but only because Topher and Adelle ALLOW her to be there? See, if we push literally at this, it problematizes the metaphor; if we don't look at the plot details, it can derail the reading. This tension is what keeps good fantasy from becoming editorial screed. It seems directly related to my favorite impossible puzzle in Buffyverse stories (no, I will never shut up about this), the nebulous rules of vampires, their "evil"-ness, their personalities as related to who they are in life, and the mystery of the nature of a "soul". So Caroline pops up to help out Alice on this side of the looking glass, but Doll!Sierra's rape trauma also emerges to further damage CFDC!Sierra. November glitches into remembering Mellie, regardless of who she may have been before November. I would like to see Caroline freed from the prison of her own chemically walled-in mind, but ideal would be if she can drag along the experience and lessons of her weekly Imprints -- she signed the paper, she does the work, she deserves the rewards.
"Echoes" is largely about how the past is past, inaccessible for alteration or omission, cannot be Wiped because it reverberates into the present. The choices you made in the moment -- the ones Adelle groans about while chomping on crisps -- the ramifications eventually find their way into your hands again. They may give you a map to follow, bear you on swift wings (Echo lucks out this week, thanks to Caroline's misfortune), they may be so heavy a burden you cannot raise your arms (poor Mr. Dominic, it seems, worries about these Dolls far more than he can deal with). History screams back up at us from the memory hole, a sound impossible to push back down to the incinerator. The past echoes.
All right, what do you make of the sad case of Suspended Agent Ballard and Mellie? Is this guy bad at life, or what?
JS: I'd say life is being kinda bad to him. I know we like to razz this guy, but week after week, he persists against what we know to be impossible odds. His rescue-quest mirrors Caroline's own, but there's a patient, dogged, head-down quality to him that there we didn't see in Caroline (or haven't yet. Maybe we will in upcoming flashbacks). It's not the "act" in activism that bothers me -- we all need to figure out a way to act and live on behalf of our principles. It's the "ism," it's the preening. If a phantom Caroline motivates Ballard, it's a phantom Caroline, too, who motivates Caroline... a vision of a better self.
Wait till he finds out his girlfriend's a Doll, though. I wonder if he'd react the way I would -- that is to say, hide in the bathroom and cue the uncontrollable weeping. Nobody on this show has a true friend or confidante. The Echo:Sierra headshake is long in the past. Even the fondness (Boyd:Echo, for example) is one-sided. Intimacy and vulnerability are dead in the water. Even if you go in 100% willing to reveal yourself to someone, there's no one there to respond. Come back, Mellie! And I mean that in every possible sense of the words!
That said...what happens when monsters do escape? The section of Frankenstein (the novel, I haven't yet seen the movies) I still think back to is the monster assimilating all this new sensory information for the first time. He grapples with sounds, he peers into houses, he's plunged in confusion... nothing makes sense to him.
From the preview, I kinda doubt that next week's "awakening" episode will skew this way. Too bad. I almost wish it would.
CS: If/when Paul gets the note that he has no friends who are not robots, my guess is he's used to having his shoelaces tied together and can right himself, collecting some new manly battle scars as the trophy. If anything, relocating his rescue-fetish object onto Mello-tron may strengthen his resolve. We all hate to see a good cowboy become domesticated pet, which is why we love John Wayne walking away from the house at the end of The Searchers.
But hmm, Dollhouse is shaping up to be about finding one's inner strength, developing a workable sense of self, navigating and negotiating without sacrificing your power, free will and humanity. All three prior Mutant Enemy programs have been concerned with these problems, but part of that negotiation equation is the -- how do I put this without sounding like a cornish game hen? -- value of friends, found families, community. How, indeed, is anyone to find friends in the Dollhouse?
I missed the trailer for next week because my DVR thing was full of Antiques Roadshow and Judge Judy, so I had to watch DH on Hulu. Let me go lookit the commercial.
[Watches episode 8 commercial.]
What happens when your monster babies escape is that they haven't been nurtured and they lash out. Frankenstein's creature is even more as newborn than, say, remote-Wiped Echo in "Gray Hour", or anyone in Doll-state. The Creature is pre-lingual, and it goes through swiftly portrayed psychological development without hands-on parenting. I know it is a weird reference point, but the Rambo movie First Blood grapples with the consequences of honing and brainwashing a perfect warrior, then asking him to rejoin society, and the torment it causes to the thing-person you have made. These monsters either learn to resent their parents or hit a roadblock where they have not been taught how to love.
Looks like next episode the Dolls are waking up as their own previous adult selves, and in a prison environment where their basic needs are being tended (er, most of the time). So, like Neo yanked out of his bio-pod, first you freak out. Then you get royally pissed off.
JS: And then you begin the most difficult post-liberation work of all: constructing a world with its own foundation, its own integrity. Not just a refuge for the Dollhouse-wounded, a place to cower, but a place to put down roots.
Although, damn...I'd miss those massages too.
CS: Though I am not enamored of the character, some of the nicest "echoes" in this episode are the dramatic irony of Caroline shifting from activist to Active, and the attendant opportunities she may have to right social and political wrongs at her new job; free-thinker indeed may do more good while free of will. Campus hippie Caroline would not have been able to bring down Jonas Sparrow's cult, and indeed failed to stop Rossum Corp. where Alice/Echo/Caroline were able to at least curb the spread of their latest poison. The ultimate guinea pig is going to be one who learns to open her own cage.


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FIrst, off. Congratulations on winning the first round of NGMT! The voters seemed to choose well this round :P This meets the themes standards perfectly. I'm not sure if you were going for one color or no color, but to met it sounds like there was no color, if you went for that, then nice work! You pretty much touch up on everything in your description that needs to be changed. The violins are a bit cheesy, they are a bit high-pitched at times as well... I would have liked to hear my variation in the piece though. The piece isn't repetitive note-wise, but conceptually it is. Just message me if you don't get what I mean, I can explain further DX Maybe it would have been cool to hear some piano take the lead melody and the violin take a break, that may have helped tone down the cheesy-ness a bit. But anyways, this was an awesome piece and was well worthy of winning this round! Great work!
I think I get exactly what you mean. Thankyou very much for the feedback, it helps significantly!
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It was a strong piece, really liked it.
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Man that was so beautiful! Awesome job! Good luck and I hope you win! :D
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Good to see some more awesomeness coming out :) fantastic work as always man!
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Nice song! The violin at the start reminds me of Fallout New Vegas music lol.


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Huge parties or a one arm bandit?
I love creating lots of characters in games…and it seems these days you have to go solo to play a new, whiz-bang, bells and whistles blazing CRPG. It's fine and all, but I like parties of 6-8 characters! What do you think…do you even care?
In my opinion, creating one charachter, and focussing on making that one characther the "Ultimate" is the best. That is why I only have 1 character in WoW, and I focus everything on him. When making several chars, I always have the feeling that I give more attention to only one of them.
Uh, I like both? Having trusty companions as Iolo, Shamino and Dupre at times, at others being the nameless hero…
…"I don't care" doesn't work for me, as I DO care. But I rather like pre-generated characters to join my character. ToEE and the old EoB games were great party romps, but not stellar rpgs.
Huge parties. I like the game to be more of a tactical combat experience with a group of highly specialized warriors that Ive raised fom simple noobs
Solo or small parties like KotOR.
I like 4 character parties, ala Might and Magic or Ultima, especially if the skills balance themselves out. I never really enjoyed having more than that. However I do enjoy single character games, ala Gothic and The Elder Scrolls.
Depends on the style of the game. With TB type combat, I want a self created party (think Wiz 8), while with RT, I want solo only; I hate NPC's who rush into the middle of my just cast fireball and get themselves killed!! :)
Definitely prefer solo. Even if you have a lot of control over your party, I sometimes hate it to depend on AI (artificial idiocy :D ). Especially in games like KotOR where you need to pay rather close attention to what the party members are doing so they don't get themselves or everyone in the party into trouble. If I wanted to play a babysitting simulator, then I'm sure that EA has a fitting Sims expansion pack for me if I really cared but I don't need that crap in an RPG :D .
By myself, or with one companion, like the quests in G1 were u faught along side Gorn, Lester and Diego.
Another Lone Ranger here. Even Tonto would be one too many. I'm busy enough taking care of myself in games.
I like it when the game offers you a choice. Being possible to finish the game both when going solo , or as a group. When it comes to DnD based games, I like having large groups (4-8), as that is what DnD is balanced for. NWN never really cut it for me, and having an idiotic henchman you couldnt control was one of the reasons, thats why I can't wait for NWN2. I have heard rumors on the official site that you can in your own modules, open up for controlling as many party members as you could possibly want at the same time.
Ehm, well, gotta stop myself before I go too far off-topic. :)
NWN really comes into its own when you play online with others, preferably in a DM'd campaign!! If you combine that with Skype for voice while playing, as some of us here do, then it's a fantastic, fun experience. We're waiting with great anticipation to do that with NWN2 as well!!
I like large party. Like in the Fire Emblem games on the GBA. There is nothing like having a team of 20+ characters so you could shift them around.
It all depends on the game - things like Fire Emblem work for a reason … same is true with Icewind Dale with 6 or KotOR / NWN with 2 or 3. I got into the habit of solo-ing NWN, but then they started having non-useless henchmen ;)
I love playing solo like in Gothic or Divine divinity,
although the Kotor was team combat, that was the only team battle I ever liked.
Rather give me a good sword or axe, or even 2. or combined with a good shield and let me become an uberwarrior who just likes to go between a group of enemeies and try to slaughter them all at once
I find that no matter what role I feel like playing (be it stealth, caster, melee or whatever) I never use npcs. If I can control them, sure, I'll bring em along. But mostly I prefer to do things on my own since the computer, in every single game known to man, thinks that getting in my way or rushing large groups of enemies is helpful.
I prefer 4-8 characters. I don't mind the odd single character RPG ala Gothic, but in those games I kind of find you are really just playing a representation of yourself (or who would like to be)- like when I am playing Gothic, I like to think of myself as being the nameless hero…
Party or no party system, if the RPG part is well done I don't care all that much. There are moments when I'd prefer a single character - but a party has it's advantages just as well.
However, what I'd like to see in a RPG is the actual possibility to realistically choose between a party or a single character. I've yet to see a game where that's part of the game play decisions - like choosing combat over diplomacy or stealth over magic. For instance, certain quests could be solved by a party only - fighting multiple strong enemies or having to be at different places at the same time. Other quests wouldn't be available for a party at all - e. g. stealth missions where are party can be more a burden than help.
Sure, we can play through Baldur's Gate 2 as a single character, or through NWN, but that's obviously not intended. The only exception I can think of is Fallout and Fallout 2, but all in all it doesn't make much of a difference there as it only influences how hard combat can be.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released $250 million dollars worth of economic aid to Egypt on Sunday after a weekend of meetings in Cairo. Calling it a "good faith effort," Kerry pledged to deliver more cash if President Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood comes through with broad political and economic reforms.
In a written statement released following the meeting Kerry stated that Egypt needs help but must show progress in order to sway the U.S. congress to release more:
[box type="bio"] "When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support."[/box]
Another condition is that Morsy obtain a loan package from the International Monetary Fund at which point the U.S. would contribute another $190 million to the Egyptian government budget and another $60 million in support for whats being referred to as an Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund geared toward Egypt's entrepreneurs to help citizens earn undergraduate degrees and homegrown reforms which "put Egypt on the path to establishing a firm economic foundation and allow it to chart its own course." Egyptian Finance Minister Almorsy Hegazi said Sunday that he expects an agreement between Egypt and the IMF to be clinched prior to parliamentary elections in April.
The above mentioned funds are part of President Barack Obama's $1 billion 2011 pledge to assist Egypt after the uprising that took place there which uprooted long time Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
[box type="bio"] "It is clear that more hard work and compromise will be required to restore unity, political stability and economic health to Egypt," Kerry said. "The upcoming parliamentary elections are a particularly critical step in Egypt's democratic transition."[/box]
It's unclear when officials will begin hard work and compromise restoring unity, political stability and economic health here in the U.S. It's suspected, however, that sending huge crates of cash overseas is detrimental to the economic health of the U.S. – especially during a time in which Washington can't manage to come up with it's own mortgage payment and beer money.
According to TOPIX.com this is what $250 million in cash looks like (this pile was from a Mexican drug bust, but you get the idea)


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Last week, this blog looked at the various schools available for the European and Indian children in Kenya Colony. But what about education for the tribal Africans: the Kikuyu, the Wakamba and others? In Jade del Cameron's second mystery adventure: Stalking Ivory, she has taken on the education of a young Kikuyu named Jelani, teaching him to read and write in English so that he might become more than a hired workers on someone's farm.
But in general, this task was left mainly to the various missions. According to the South and East African Yearbook and Guide for 1922, no less than twelve Missionary Societies oversaw 99 mission schools in the Kenya Colony. These were not the same type of schools as those for the more privileged Europeans or even the Indians. There was no goal of matriculating to University. Rather, the emphasis was on a technical education with some thought to "literary education."
One of those technical schools was at Machako. It "was established for the training of carpenters, masons, and bricklayers. A certain number of teachers and technical instructors are also trained." A similar school was started in May, 1920 at Waa. Assisted Mission Technical Schools were located at Maseno, Kaloleni, Kakamega, Kikuyu, and Tumu Tumu. Normal schools were situated at Kikuyu, Mombasa, and Maseno. It was estimated that another 30,000 children attended "unassisted Mission Schools" in the colony.
Finally, agricultural education was provided for "both Europeans and natives" at the Kebete experimental farm.
Next week: More from the African manuals: Advice on Sleeping Sickness
NOTE: These blogs are meant to give some insight into the life and times of my fictional character, Jade del Cameron. Jade's mystery adventures take place in post WWI Africa. To date they are: Mark of the Lion, Stalking Ivory, and The Serpent's Daughter, and The Leopard's Prey, all available in trade paperback. TREASURE OF THE GOLDEN CHEETAH is available in hardcover. THE CROCODILE'S LAST EMBRACE will be released Sept. 7, 2010. An excerpt and information on ordering signed copies is available at the website: www.suzannearruda.com. Follow short updates on http://twitter.com/SuzanneArruda
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Tucson zoo officials are coping with a water line break that has left the facility without running water.
The Reid Park zoo posted on its Facebook page today that keepers are working hard to get water to its animals and that people should stay away from the attraction today and tomorrow.
"The only functioning restroom is at the Conservation Learning Center (hooray for reclaimed water toilets!)," the Facebook post reads.
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Valid for following frames: SGT5-4000F (V94.3A), SGT6-4000F (V84.3A), SGT5-2000E (V94.2)
The performance enhancement feature of the Hydraulic Clearance Optimization upgrade (HCO) is achieved by shifting the rotor against flow direction to optimize turbine clearances during steady state operation. The axial shift of the rotor is performed automatically by hydraulic pistons behind the compressor thrust bearing. The gain in power and efficiency due to the conical shape of the turbine is expected to be higher than the potential losses on the compressor side. The Hydraulic Clearance Optimization upgrade is implemented after an one hour warm-up period, i.e., when differential thermal expansions of rotor and casing components have equalized. Should a loss of hydraulic pressure occur, the system is designed for the rotor to move back to its original position automatically in a "fail-safe" manner.
The Hydraulic Clearance Optimization provides significant performance advantages and offers attractive financial payback options.
The Hydraulic Clearance Optimization upgrade offers you a clearly technical and monetary quantifiable benefit and can be a cost-effective means to help you improve the overall performance of your gas turbine plant.
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The HCO upgrade can be combined with other modernizations such as the Compressor Mass Flow Increase or the Turn Down upgrade.
The Hydraulic Clearance Optimization is state-of-the-art for new Siemens gas turbines of the SGT5-4000F (V94.3A) since July 2005.
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Since 2003 (first time application) more than 160 units of frame types SGT5-4000F (V94.3A), SGT6-4000F (V84.3A) and SGT5-2000E (V94.2) are in operation worldwide with the Hydraulic Clearance Optimization upgrade and have logged more than 3,000,000 equivalent operating hours (EOH) *.
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Firehouse Bookcase
I would have loved to possess such a fun bookcase as a child. Alas, I'm too old and so are my children. It will be for the next generation ! The yellow bell, the garage as a secret place, the bright colors, everything is lovely in this bookcase. It only wait for books like "Richard Scarry's a day at the fire station" or "Lois Lenski's the Little Fire Engine" and, of course, "Norman Bridwell's Clifford the Firehouse Dog".


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Which size engine?
Hi Folks,
I'm getting ready to resolve my lack of engine in my 1/2 ton chevy pick up. what size would be best 350, 383, or 400?
I already have a eldebrock intake and 750 carb (off my 350). It also has a fresh th350 trans, 4.11 rear end with detroit lockers. My expired engine (350) has 487 heads. Should I just look for a 350 block or try to find a 400. talk to me folks, you expertise would be much appreciated. This will be my first full rebuild.
350 is probably the best, good power, good prices. 400's are getting spendy and 305's don't have the power.
hey i would go with a 383 stoker motor that is me peronaly my favorite motor and it has more power then most people need to have for a street truck
Steve hit it right on. If you want a ton of torque, a stroked 350 is the only way to go especially in a pick-up. IMHO, 400s are dogs in both torque and HP. You will not be disappointed with a 383 and mild cam.
thanks for the advice folks. Is there anything about a 383 that will be above the technical skill of myself to pull it off (first engine rebuild, but I'll get a book and can follow directions)?
I've been pricing out a list of materials for both a 350 and a 383. here's what i'm considering for the rotating Assembly if I went with the 383. does anything sound overkill, or is there any bad items listed? I'll probably use the 487 heads I have now or if $$ permits pop for a set of new heads (AFR or Edelbrock, unless a cheaper equal quality alternative is recommended)
scat Forged 4340 H-Beam Rods with ARP 8740 Rod Bolts
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*400s are dogs in both torque and HP* this is probably the most ignorant statement I have heard for a while. 400 small blocks are great engines as long as you build them right. In the 383 you have shrowding of the valves because of the smaller bores and seeing how you are running 4:10's low end torque shouldn't be as much of a concern.I agree with bob in that a 350 is probably the best way to go.
400's are dogs? Anytime your in my area I'll take you for a full throttle run in my Camaro. I'ts 400 will change your mind about 383's.
so you folks are saying either a 350 or a 383, but definitely not a 400? I need to track down a good block and get started one way or the other.
What are negative qualities about a 400?
If you aren't going to build it over 500 hp there is no downside. Just revise the cooling passages like Fel Pro says to with their 1014 head gasket. You drill an extra cooling hole in the center of the deck surface. I never have any cooling problems. The 2 bolt main blocks are a little better but 4 bolt mains are just fine. My block is a 4 bolt main.
The 400 will have a better idle quality with the same parts that the 350 would. You don't have to wind a 400 up as much to get the same amount of power and torque. The more RPMs you run at the more chance of something breaking.
There is never going to be any substitute for cubic inches. You can force induction to compensate, but whatever you added to the smaller engine would have made that much more power on the bigger engine. You can't change the laws of physics.
X rods will do but if you can 4340 are tough , I find the old 492 casting ia exelent head for it also , Shoot for 10 to 1 or lower
and a 750 min to 1000 cfm carb you can expect between 450 to 600 hp and 500 to 600 ftlbs tq iv built the 383s and I can make more horse and torque from a 400 (406) cui when done 30 over
than any 383 and it cost's less ,,
hmmm. 3 options, everyone picked a different one. Can a 350 head bolt on to a 400?
If it makes any difference the truck will see driving on the highway and on the weekends some play in the mud. plan on running 33" tires and 38" when it's time to play in the mud. rear end is a (4.11).
could someone list the pro's and cons of each (350,383,400)
*** I apologize ***. Stupid statement on my part.
You guys are right. You can build a 400 to high horsepower, but do you want to? The articles I have read about 400 buildup talk alot about middle cylinders overheat. Why wasn't the 400 as popular block as the 350?
383 shrouding? Small mod to combustion chamber eliminates exhaust valve shrouding. That is not a biggie.
400 vs 350 (383)
There are by far more 350 blocks than 400 blocks which plays a part in 350's being more popular, chevy made the 400 for its larger cars and never seriously built it for performance which made it unpopular.
Years ago I built a few 350s and one 383, helped my brother build a 400.
My brothers 400 hands down out performed the engines I had built.
400 cubic inches out of the chevy small block is pushing the limits of the design, there for when building a 400 you have to do some extra research and build them the way a 400 need to be built, such as making sure your heads have steam holes, a larger radiator, and in my opinion 5.7 rods.
It had been about 15 years since I had built an engine when I started researching what engine I was going to build for a chevelle I bought.
I read lots of books, spent weeks on the internet (thats when I found hotrodders.com), talked with many engine builders and racers in my area, and ran several engine combinations through a few different software packages.
The conclusion I came up with is as many have said before, there is no replacement for more cubic inches.
I am in the process of building a 406, which IMHO is the best bang for the buck, all my research showed that for about the same money the 406 out performs the 383.
I am no expert, my statements are from my own 6 months of research.
Snowicki the 383 and 406 are both great engines to build for lots of HP and torque, the 350 is just much easier to find.
When I am finished building the 406 I am building a 383 for a 78 camaro that I just bought, the reason I am building a 383 for it is very simple, I have a two 350s sitting in my garage.
Best of luck with whichever build you go with you will be happy with either one.
thanks for the advice guys. Maybe block availability will be the deciding factor for me. I may get lucky and the 350 block I have here will still be usable, but my guess is that it's already .060 over. I have a micrometer on order and that should clear up any guess work.
When I start calling around to junk yards is there any special block numbers which would be preferable for the 350 and 400? I am familiar with the 010 350 block, but what are the other "top choices" or more importantly which block may I want to aviod.
One last question. can the 350 heads I have now also be used on the 400 block?
Yes they can. Just drill the steam holes in them. Check the Knowledge base for how it is done. I just did it with a protractor and a hand drill. Half of the holes are drilled at a 30o angle. Just be carefull.
If you find a 400 this is a killer kit for it. This is the one I used in my engine.
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If you haven't played The Fullbright Company's Gone Home yet, you need to do so. Now. Seriously. It's that important. Go buy it on Steam. I'll wait.It's downloading? Good. Now, read this.It really is a good time to be a gamer, especially if you care about good storytelling. The last few years have seen a number of important titles likeThe Binding of Isaac, Dear Esther, and Bioshock: Infinite that have pushed players and developers alike to broaden their understandings of how games tell … [Read more...]
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Is "Hookup Culture" Really a Myth?
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Breast cancer awareness, panel kick off October
Breast Cancer Screening
Did you know that breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women of all races? If you're a woman over age 40, don't neglect having a mammogram every 1 to 2 years or according to your doctor's recommendation. Breast screening can often detect breast cancer in its early stages when there's a good chance for a cure. This October during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, encourage the women you love to get a mammogram if they have been putting it off. To learn more about the breast cancer screening in your community, visit ENMMC.com.
Federal Employees
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees will be meeting Thursday, Oct.4, at 11:30 a.m. at Peppers Grill & Bar, 500 N. Main St. Any federal employee or retiree is welcome to attend. For more information, call Loris DeKay at 622-8492.
Breast Cancer Panel
Come find out why you don't need to leave town for breast cancer treatment! Senior Circle's Healthsense at noon Thursday, Oct. 4, will host a breast cancer panel at its facility in the Wilshire Center, 2801 N. Main St., next door to Family Dollar. On the panel will be Dr. Akbar Ali, surgeon specializing in breast cancer; Dr. Lubna Skally, radiation oncologist; Mag Martinez, director of radiation oncology; and Terry Anderson, director of radiology. A light lunch will be served. For more information, call 623-2311. Healthsense is open to the public of all ages.
NMMI Lyceum
The New Mexico Military Institute Lyceum Program returns to Pearson Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. with a presentation by Dr. W.C. "Rusty" Riese on ethics and the societal and leadership responsibilities related to organizational responses to oil spills. The Lyceum is free and open to the public. Seating in Pearson Auditorium is limited and patrons should arrive early to be assured of a seat.
Discovery Tour
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge will host a Refuge Discovery Tour on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 9 a.m., to begin at the Joseph R. Skeen Visitor Center. Tour will last two hours. This is an opportunity to see closed areas of the refuge and learn how the refuge maintains and improves [auth] habitat for threatened and endangered plants and animals. The tour will include light walking. For additional information and to reserve a place on the tour, call the visitor center at 625-4011 or 625-4009 from 8 a.m.- 4p.m.
Golf Tournament
The Eastern New Mexico University- Roswell Foundation's Tenth Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament will be Saturday, Oct. 6, at the New Mexico Military Institute Golf Course. Tee times are 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. The cost for the four-person team scramble tournament is $75 per player. Teams should have a minimum total handicap of 40. The fee includes breakfast, lunch, golf towels, and other items; awards for the top teams, the longest drive, and closest to the pin. Additional prize drawings will also be held with donated items from a number of local businesses. Proceeds from the golf tournament will benefit the Foundation's General Excellence Fund. Event ($2,500), Corporate ($600), and Hole ($150) sponsorships are also available. Team entry and sponsorship forms are posted at roswell.enmu.edu by clicking on the golf tournament slide from the home page. Players and sponsors can also call Craig Collins at 624-7304. Payments can be sent to: ENMU-Roswell Foundation, P.O. Box 6000, Roswell, N.M., 88202-6000.
Art Festival
Celebrate New Mexico's Centennial and the Roswell Museum and Art Center's 75th birthday during the Art Block Party & Chalk Art Festival, Saturday, Oct. 6. Art block party is from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; chalk art festival is 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Along with art activities and artist booths, this year's event will feature the Watermelon Mountain Jug Band, Michael Francis & Friends, and Puppets Revenge. At 10 a.m., gather for a short performance by the Texas Tenors and the unveiling of the painting, "Cattle Kings of the Pecos." At 12:30 p.m., birthday cake and ice cream will be served. Call 624-6744 for more information or to register to be a chalk artist.
Patty Toss
There will be a bison and steer patty toss competition held on Richardson Avenue and 11th Street and the bridge Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., as part of the Art Block Party & Chalk Art Festival. A certificate of participation will be given and a gift certificate to Pepper's Grill and Bar will be awarded to the person who earns the most points. For more information about the patty toss, call Rita Kane-Doerhoefer at 626-6563.
This month's Emmaus meeting will be Saturday, Oct. 6, at Aldersgate Methodist Church. Potluck will begin at 6 p.m, please bring a covered dish. Worship will follow at 7 p.m. Kelly Casselles will be giving the fourth day talk. Also if there is any Agape you would like to bring for the upcoming walk(s) please do so, there are several people working the upcoming walk(s) and can get the Agape to the walk(s) for you.
Texas Tenors
The Roswell Symphony Orchestra presents The Texas Tenors on Saturday, Oct. 6, in Pearson Auditorium on the New Mexico Military Institute campus at 7:30 p.m. This talented trio first gained acclaim when appearing as finalists on "America's Got Talent" and was awarded 2009's Vocal Group of the Year. The tenors, J.C. Fisher, Marcus Collins and John Hagen are true Texans and offer an outstanding program of pop, country, classical and Broadway music. Tickets vary in price from $25 to $60. For more information, call the RSO at 623-5882 or log on to roswellsymphony.org.
Appleseed Clinic
The Revolutionary War Veterans Association and the Roswell Gun Club will host an appleseed riflemen clinic Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7, at the Roswell Gun Club range.The Appleseed Project is a nationwide two-day rifle marksmanship clinic run by the RWVA, a nonprofit, insured organization that is staffed by volunteer, certified instructors dedicated to reconnecting the modern-day rifle owners and new shooters with the heritage of the American rifleman. This is a family-friendly event and adaptive for those with physical limitations. Beginners and experts alike will find useful skills. Ladies, persons under 21, active duty military, law enforcement/first responders, and elected officials attend free. For more information or to preregister, visit Appleseedinfo.org.
Animal Blessing
The blessing of the animals and memorial service will be held Sunday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m. at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on the corner of Fifth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Small animals will be blessed in the church; large animals, in the driveway. Donations will be taken for the Roswell Humane Society. All are welcome.
Pro-life Event
Sunday, Oct. 7, is National Life Chain Sunday. Life Chain is a peaceful event where participants, in prayerful silence, hold pro-life signs provided by Citizens for Life. Prayers are offered to end abortion-on-demand and for all those affected by the tragedy of abortion. The public is invited to gather from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Pioneer Plaza on North Main Street. Feel free to bring a folding chair. For more information, call 623-5836.
Political Rally
The gifted classes at Washington Avenue Elementary are sponsoring a political rally Monday, Ot. 8, at 1:30 p.m. in the school's auditorium. Parents, neighbors and the public are invited. We will have someone from the County Clerk's office to register adults who still need to register. The purpose of the rally is:
• To register adults who are not yet registered
• To present a summary of each major Party's platform
• To hear guest speakers from each Party.
We want to inform students, parents and the town of Roswell about each side and some of the key issues. No debates will be held, but there will be questions from the student body only for our guest speakers. For more information call the school at 637-3625.
Veggie Tales Live
The Veggie Tales "God Made You Special Tour" comes to Grace Community Church, 935 W Mescalero Rd., Monday, Oct. 8. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the show will be from 5:30-7 p.m. Tickets are available by calling Grace Community Church, 623-5438. Children 2 and under can attend free. Don't miss this exciting night of ministry, song and dance geared specifically for you and your little ones. Call 505-379-2054 for more information regarding the show.
Woodmen of the World
The Woodmen of the World Fraternal Society—Adult Lodge 006 and Ranger Lodge 413 will meet Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6:30 pm at Kwan Restaurant, 1000 W. 2nd St. The Woodmen of the World fraternal group donates many flags to nonprofit organizations. If you belong to such a group and need indoor or outdoor flags, please contact us. For general information, call 347-2628.
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NDSolve is really slow in version 8 but not 7
Hi All,
I'm using NDSolve to solve a set of roughly 40 first order differential equations. It takes about 10 seconds in version 7 but more like 850 in version 8. Does anyone know why this might be and how I can speed things up?
Also for one scenario I'm getting the error
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A series of bomb-threats called in to Edmonds Community College Thursday morning turned out to be the ruse of a 16-year-old student who wanted to get out of going to school.
The student was arrested at his parents' home in Lynnwood Thursday, but not before the college was shut down for three hours while police combed the campus library for explosives and found nothing.
The college received the calls starting around 8 a.m. The caller talked about the Virginia Tech shootings earlier this week and said a bomb would go off in the library at 11 a.m., said Shannon Sessions, a spokeswoman for the Lynnwood Police Department.
When questioned by Lynnwood police, the student said he made that reference because he wanted to be taken seriously, she said. He also revealed that he had a co-conspirator -- a person in England who he met on the Internet.
Police are still investigating whether that is true, Sessions said. The student was taken to the Lynnwood Jail Thursday afternoon, and police had made plans to transport him to Denny Youth Center later in the day.
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4011: Educating Psychiatric Nurses: Appreciative Methods that Avoid Stigma
Research indicates that negative emotions narrow thoughts while positive emotions inspire creativity and acceptance, two essential components needed to avoid stigma. The language we choose affects our students motivation and ability to function as professionals who help others. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) builds on skills PMH nurses already learn and teaches how to recognize and replace negative or judgmental phrases.
Speaker: Rebecca Harmon, PhD, RN, PMHCNS, BC
Disclosures: This presenter has no conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Session Length: 45 minutes
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They say they've been demoted because of their ethnicity and age. Four employees of the St. Augustine parish in Gainesville have filed state and federal complaints saying the church has discriminated against them. And a long-time parishioner has chosen to get involved.
Between July and October St. Augustine Church went through what the Diocese of Saint Augustine in Jacksonville call a reorganization, in order to solve their financial troubles. But some of the affected employees complained to the federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions. Now an investigation into their claims is underway.
George Harth said, "It seems unusual that almost all the pain went on Hispanics and other protected minorities."
Harth is a long time parishioner of the church and a tax attorney. He said when he realized most of the employees significantly affected by the staff reorganization were minorities, he felt compelled to be their voice. Especially since church rules prevent them from speaking to the media.
He said, "One of the people was demoted from full time with benefits to five hours a week. One of the people was demoted from a managerial position to a entry level position with a drop in pay and other benefits. One of the people had their hours cut and their job almost doubled."
Before these changes the employees said the diocese requested a list of employees with the information age and race from the parish. Harth said, "It concerns me that they would want the race and age and then next thing would happen would be all the people let go would be elderly or minorities."
But Diocese spokesperson Kathleen Bagg said there was no special request for the information because it is already available to the diocese as a part of each employee's file and that reorganization was for financial reasons.
Bagg said, "The decisions that were made by Father Ruchinski and a select committee that he put together of parish lay leaders they made decisions based on the needs of the parish and they were not influenced by race, sex or age."
However Harth and his clients don't believe that's true. Harth said although this is a painful process, it has to be made right somehow. By legal means if necessary. He said, "What I'm hoping is it will settle and my people will get back their jobs and be taken care of before that."
The Diocese of St. Augustine encompasses 17 counties of Northeast and North Central Florida. According to their 2010 financial statement, they had a gain of $8 million last year.
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KITTANNING — The Armstrong County District Attorney's Office will host their 12th Annual ARMNET (Drug Task Force) Golf Outing Fundraiser Friday, July 12, at the Kittanning Country Club.
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The threats of the late 2010s will be qualitatively different.
That was a qualitatively different thing, and I opposed it from the start.
These qualitatively different reactions are called presentations (Vorstellungen).
But qualitatively, the tendency is for men to become what society expects.
The responsive reaction of a kitten under gentle caressing strokes must be qualitatively different from that of a blow.
Any pleasure is qualitatively unique, being precisely the harmony of one set of conditions with its appropriate activity.
Furthermore, it is thus limited not only qualitatively but also quantitatively.
On the Internet, we come closer to what emerges as a qualitatively new form of human interaction.
The venom of different species appears to differ not only quantitatively but qualitatively.
qualitatively, these psychological states are different, as those who have experienced both will know.
early 15c., "that produces a (physical) quality," from Medieval Latin qualitativus "relating to quality," from stem of Latin qualitas "a quality, property, nature" (see quality). Meaning "concerned with quality" is from c.1600 in English, from French qualitatif or Medieval Latin qualitativus. Related: Qualitatively.


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Beyonce Being Sued by Fans?
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King Bey is being sued by two members of the Beyhive! According to Bossip, two long-time fans of the singer are saying that they were trampled by a mob at the United Center in Chicago. The two girl were waiting at the front of the line for the gates to open and once the gates were, Bey's fans flooded into the center, knocking each other down, racing to be as close to the stage as possible. The two girls were both knocked unconscious, suffered broken bones, and other injuries. Wow! Now the girls are saying they were not told the admission would be like this and they are suing the singer! Seems like they can't be real fans because everyone knows that concerts can get hectic like this. It's not okay the girls were injured but is that really Bey's fault?


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not only yours ! The licence agreement don't allow this
Prohibited uses
j. authorize acess to Product other than to Licensee. This includes,
but is not limited to, access through public internet sites
this application server is simply illegal !
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> > understood it, webMathematica does not make possible the interactive use
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> > Therefore, I think, it could be interesting, that I built a system,
> > which makes the interactive use of Mathematica over the Internet
> > possible. My system is an application server, and can be accessed from
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> At first glance, this appears to pose an intellectual property rights issue.
> I respectfully suggest that you pose this to Wolfram Inc. and get an opinion
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> > My application is in the status of a non-commercial pilot project.
> The non-commercial status of the project won't matter if visitors to the
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Are you frustrated with dry skin, cracked lips, or dull hair? A supplement could possibly be the answer. But while there's no shortage of pills on the market, not all of them are created equally. Find out which nutrients have the power to give you younger-looking skin, shinier strands, and stronger nails. Just make sure to check with a doctor before adding any of these supplements to your routine.Biotin
Found in foods like peanut butter and bananas, biotin is a B vitamin that supports your skin, nerves, digestive tract, and metabolism. Supplements can be used to help reduce hair loss and encourage nail growth. "Individuals with type 2 diabetes should also look into taking a biotin supplement," says David Bank, MD, director of the Center for Dermatology in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. "Consuming biotin in combination with chromium picolinate [a mineral found in certain foods] may help improve blood sugar levels." The recommended daily intake of biotin is 35 micrograms a day, which you may already be getting in your diet, Bank says.
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"Without iron, your hair can become dull, thin, and dry," Bank says. "[And] without iron, your nails could become brittle and break easily." Iron, found in foods including spinach, oysters, and cashews, also helps make your skin glow by activating B vitamins. Soheil Simzar, MD, a clinical instructor of dermatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a dermatologist in Santa Monica, Calif., recommends iron supplements only to patients with an iron deficiency. A doctor can do a simple blood test to find out if you're deficient and help you decide how much iron you need to take. However, "Too much iron can cause free radical damage to skin structures," warns Simzar.
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Omega-3s found in fatty fish like salmon, sardines, and mackerel, regulate oil production and help keep your skin moist. "They also delay the skin's aging process to prevent wrinkles," Bank says. One 2005 study found that EPA, a type of omega-3 found primarily in fish oil, helps block the release of ultraviolet-induced enzymes that eat away at your skin's collagen, causing lines and sagging skin. What's more, omega-3s can boost your hair's shine, prevent your strands from drying out, and keep your scalp from flaking. "The recommended dose to reap the benefits is 600 mg of DHA per day," Simzar says. However, if you have a history of mood disorders, fish allergies, diabetes, or high blood pressure, check with your doctor first, he advises.
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"Vitamin C can improve hair growth, fight dandruff, stop hair loss, and lead to thicker hair," while a deficiency can cause split ends, says Bank. A 2013 study found that people who took a vitamin E and C supplement appeared to have less dryness and tighter, brighter skin after four months. When it comes to supplements, how much you should take depends on your gender. Women 19 and older should take 75 mg a day, while men 19 and up should take 19 mg a day, Bank says. "Vitamin C increases the amount of iron that gets absorbed, which can be a problem for people with hemochromatosis, an iron-overload disease," he explains.
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"Vitamin E, like Vitamin C, is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight free-radical damage that leads to fine lines," Simzar says. A 2010 study also found that men who took vitamin E supplements grew more hair than those given a placebo. It's best to take in gel cap form, since vitamin E is fat-soluble, Simzar says. Just be careful: High doses can cause bruising. "I recommend my patients take it as recommended by their primary physicians," advises Simzar, who notes that the recommended dose for adults is 30IU. Add it to your diet by eating vitamin E-rich foods like avocado, olive oil, and wheat germ. "Most or all of this can usually be obtained from your diet," Simzar says
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Life can get rough every now and then, and it's no wonder that we lose hope, get discouraged and can't figure out why we do what we do. r
we seem to forget that what productive people – those who work each day to achieve what they want and have hacked so many areas of their life – do before they go to bed is as important. r
Procrastination is one of the things we all have in common.
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Comfort zones are really just self-imposed limits that we put on ourselves.
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In his book, The Power of Purpose, author Richard J. Leider offers readers an insightful story for finding one's purpose through action: r